skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The first movie that I care about to break the fourth wall, have tons of R-rated jokes, etc,

What he probably meant to say. So often we forget that literally everything is an "overdone trope" at this point, unless you do it well.
The government is still scared. Currently the gates of military bases and entrance to the parliament is closed with tractors and construction vehicles. They think that a second wave can occur at any moment.

Today Erdoğan declared that he has a surprise tomorrow. https://eksisozluk.com/20-temmuz-2016-rtenin-aciklayacagi-bu...
Pretty sure Singapore gives the death penalty to drug dealers. Maybe even drug users, but I do know at some point the minimum punishment for any drug dealing was death.
I have latent dyslexia which seems to emerge after too many hours at a computer screen. I've come back from a good nights rest to find variable names that are just slightly misspelled, recursive loops that are unreachable, and functions that are incomplete because I was distracted by a bug hunt.
Ok. I interpreted the remark differently but I think both interpretations are credible.
This would be freaking awesome. I've always wanted to know how the physics in that game work.
Colorado wins
as a tradeoff for security? Ok..

I mean, using a VPN is slower than not, but tons of people use them
The answer is: it depends. They will silently bend the "TRC" a little if there is a business case for releasing something now and not later.

But most of the requirements center around nitpicks of software polish: Specific words and phrases used to discuss the device, loading screens must not just be a black screen, the game should not crash if the user mashes the optical eject button, etc. These things add a level of consistency but aren't the same as "solid 60hz" or "no input lag". The latter sort of issues can be shipped most of the time, they just impact the experience everywhere.
Gosh, that sounds a really terrible place to live.

So glad the US isn't like that...
Looks like they don't have a cert on their status page. http://status.aws.amazon.com/ works fine, though.
> power failures, earthquakes, sloppy maintenance

Which could cause you to lose room-temperature storage too.

Take advantage of the density and put your data into 6 data centers instead of 3. It'll survive fine.
Wow, what's going on with the Netherlands
The setup at https://usesthis.com/ What do people use to get stuff done
Everyone came out against this coup because they either thought it was orchestrated by the other islamist faction, or thought it would fail.

If a secular military coup looked likely to be successful, the west would be ecstatic.
It's not an https page: http://status.aws.amazon.com/
> they gave him a pass on Poland

Um, the invasion of Poland was what caused England to declare war, and ask France to do the same.
> For example, if I’m in the mood to think about shapes— and I often am— I might imagine a triangle inside a rectangular box. I wonder how much of the box the triangle takes up? Two-thirds maybe? The important thing to understand is that I’m not talking about this drawing of a triangle in a box. Nor am I talking about some metal triangle forming part of a girder system for a bridge. There’s no ulterior practical purpose here. I’m just playing. That’s what math is— wondering, playing, amusing yourself with your imagination.

http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/mnewman/LockhartsLament.pdf
Kind of piggy backing on the business model, you may not be thinking about how to monetize your business today, but investors want to see you have a theory around it. If not, you won't get their attention. We're in Techstars right now and it's something we're hearing constantly. We know we don't want to worry about monetizing the platform for the next 18-24 months, but we have to show a path to get there. Whether it's for the individual developer or small dev shops, we had to come up with some sort of answer that shows we're thinking about it today. Super helpful and it should be included in this blog post. Otherwise, spot on post!
Most of them seem to be mismatched.
Except that he did check the certs and they're doing exactly that.

13. In looking around at the certificates that they support, I was not surprised to find that they accepted no other certificates as valid – only their own. That means it would be trivial to man in the middle any outbound HTTPS connection, so even if they do allow outbound access to Google’s JSON location API it wouldn’t help, because the connection and contents can be monitored by them. Likewise, no other governments can man in the middle any connections that the North Koreans have (I’m saying that with a bit of tongue in cheek, because of course they can according to Wikileaks docs, but this probably makes the DPRK feel better — and more importantly they probably don’t know how to do it in the same way as the NSA does, so they have to rely on draconian Internet breaking concepts like this).
It would make the initial frame smaller, but the difference on following frames should be negligible yes.
I think maybe web technologies are now everywhere and where it once took a systems programmer to do certain types of things, now you're expected to do that because "JavaScript is everywhere".

The language does not make the difficult problems easy to solve.

More:
http://medium.com/@velmu/on-ubiquitous-javascript-and-the-un...
Do you live in NYC? I don't expect these ports to last longer than 3 weeks. Wifi sure, but USB, charging stations are the exact opposite of what I want on a commuter train.
the UK will have to renegotiate a trade agreement with the US, but part of the brexit argument is that the UK will be able to separately pursue a trade agreement with India, which has been held up for a decade or so in the EU. The EU is notoriously slow and has relatively few trade agreements (compared to other 'developed' entities) so, outside of the eurocentric perspective, i.e. looking toward the broader world like china, japan, india, africa, south america, being out of the EU is potentially a better choice for the UK.

One can imagine having favorable trade and immigration deals with India could be really great for IT in the UK.
Could you please expand on this? I tried to find more info of a Tor relay running mixing, but couldn't find anything. I would like to turn it on for my servers if possible.
Some languages are better than others at certain things. By default, C is better than anything at low-level systems programming. Fortran can crunch numbers like nothing else. COBOL and BASIC are easy for novices, and BASIC is relatively simple to implement on low-end hardware, making it a natural choice for the early micros. Java is better than anything else at... well, no, Java sucks. And XML is even worse. Steve Yegge once noted that somehow, Ant and Jelly were less verbose than Java. And honestly, I'd believe it.
How a data scientist went from codingcamp to defending the earth from meteorites
> When I first saw an image of the browser I was awe-struck to see that it made a request to an adddress (http://10.76.1.11/) upon first run.

...

> Here’s where things start to go off the rails: what this means is that all of the DPRK’s national network is non-routable IP space. [emphasis mine]

That's quite an unsupported leap. He found some software that uses non-routable IPs, that doesn't mean the entire country's network only uses them.
Seriously! I wish I'd rather done an analysis of countries' shapes, and a measure of their rectagularity, viewed by hundreds of thousands/millions of people online than made this comment, where all I do is agree with you against the annoying snarkiness of the grandparent!

On a different note, agree with one of the higher level comments. Egypt doesn't look as rectangular as other countries: perhaps it's the country whose concavity and convexity are best cancelled?

Edit: Co-incidentally, the comment I was referring to was yours, parent post. I was unaware when originally posting.
Farmers demand right to fix their own tractors
True.

But at that time, the US had both India and Iran as friends. Having Pakistan as a friend to plug the gap between them seems like a less important goal, especially if it comes at the price of alienating India.

The thinking may have been something like: India isn't going to go into the Communist orbit even if we offend it, because of their border trouble with China. But Pakistan might. So it's more important that we keep Pakistan as a friend than to keep China.
She should of course be who ever she wants and deserves a normal life, but her own definition on her medium profile basically says the same thing she quotes in the post as an example on how she's seen: "Former Intelligence Analyst. Trans Woman. Prisoner."

Well I guess and hope that's just outdated :)
The Netherlands have two islands in the Caribbean that is technically no different than any other "county" of the Netherlands.
Now the high-frequency trading people will have to build accelerators and detectors so they can transmit in a straight line through the earth. They could knock off an entire millisecond or two between London and New York and beat everybody else.
Something doesn't seem right about this algorithm you used to draw the rectangles. If you used a similar algorithm to define circles, I feel like you would get a artificially high amount of circularness for countries that are not that circular.
I'm guessing low resolution in whatever dataset was used.
Easily forgotten but Turkey is occupying an EU members land.
They are very conservative with writing software in aerospace. One of my first jobs out of school was working as a controls engineer for satellites, where I tested the controls and data handling subsystems. For a new satellite, my department determined either we needed to put a single minus sign in our standard code or the structures group needed to design some exotic assembly for some antennas and sensors. They sent me, the new guy, to the systems engineering meeting to discuss this - because it was a given they would NOT try to update the code when there was another solution, however complicated it was.
Call me old fashioned, but I still think the best way to learn Vim is vimtutor. Then just google whatever you might need or consult :help.
The first one, "What do you do?", should potentially be renamed "What do you do for your customers?". It took me a while to realize the importance of the distinction when pitching.

Using the Google example from the article, the bad one answers "What does Google do?" and the good one answers "What does Google do for its customers?".
I blame Pokémon Go. Somehow or another I'm sure it's to blame.
> first mainstream movie to break the fourth wall

What's it all about, Alfie?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_(1966_film)#Reception
Having little influence and choosing not to use it is not generally preferable to using whatever little influence you have to most local populations acting as local sources of power in pursuit of their own local economic interests.

Concretely, I think you're advocating for a series of deeply sub-optimal locally protectionist local regimes. I'm having a hard time grasping how this is supposed to be better for everyone.
Show HN: A chrome extension to help with code review on GitHub
This tool is for finding common mistakes in code that can get to code review without being picked up or lines containing debug or profanity.

It works off a single json file using regex and simple pattern matching
The extension comes with a simple example json file example included but this can (and should be) edited to match your own code problems. You can edit it in the 'Files changed' window of your pr

A basic readme is available here: https://github.com/whatever555/git_helper#github-code-review-helper

and the extension can be found here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-helper-code-review/aboioehhpmdocefcoofhpogffkdmdmga?hl=en

thanks for checking it out
Howler.js v2.0.0 Released
Global Outage?: http://downdetector.com/status/pokemon-go/map/
I might be harsh to say it, but current vulkan/spir-v tooling is more like a toy than production ready. If one need to convert HLSL to GLSL then one probably will use something like https://github.com/James-Jones/HLSLCrossCompiler
and IIRC one place just used advanced macros magic to make HLSL and GLSL from the same source code :)
The measure is how much overlap there is with a rectangle of the same area, which means that a narrow but deep deviation is weighted the same as a shallow but long deviation along the border. I'd think that an intuitive notion of "rectangulareness" (rectanglosity? rectangularity?) would better match some sort of RMS measurement, where the penalty for a mismatch is proportional to the square of its distance from the ideal rectangle. It would be really interesting to see what changes with that sort of measurement.

Regarding Nauru, I think that's just poor resolution in the source data. It's only a couple of miles across, and the plot looks like it attempted to approximate the coastline with points roughly 1 mile (maybe 2km?) apart.
“And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union,” he added, “it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”

Wow, that is just shocking. Originally, I thought he was just another racist like Nixon. But for a Jewish holocaust survivor to make a comment like that... he seems to fit the textbook definition of a psychopath.
Another example is Saskatchewan, Canada. Like Colorado, its borders, on all four sides, are defined by latitudes and longitudes.
Oh, only co-routines? So you've implemented callcc already?
You could do something like that with C++ lambdas and explicit capture.

int a,b,c;
// ...
[a, &b]() {
// do stuff
}();
As open source code spreads, so do components with security flaws
Just got through to the AWS Console. Finally can get back to work.
> ensure that knowledge workers (who are willing to tow the line)

If you're a semi-meritocratic secular authoritarian state like China that isn't too difficult. If you're a religious conservative authoritarian state, that's close to impossible. Knowledge workers are willing to live with authoritarianism as long as it doesn't overly restrict their personal lives and interactions, and religious conservatism is all about restricting personal lives and interactions.
Interesting. So, if I'm understanding this correctly - Truffle allows a language designer to specify a certain logical layout for data structures, along with hints for how this will get converted to a physical memory layout. Language implementors also get the full power of Graal for lowering their AST to machine code and other compiler tasks. On cross-language boundaries, it generates automatic accessors for other languages to access that data, using the logical layout to identify how particular fields need to be pulled out and manipulated, but not requiring that the full data structure be converted across the foreign-call boundary. One consequence of this is that nesting & embedding of data structures may require an explicit conversion, since if an object is a hashtable in Javascript but a packed series of fields in C, it's obviously not going to fit.

Sorta like SWIG++? If you could do SWIG but never require that an end-user write a typemap or debug a crash themself, there'd probably be a big market for that.
I wonder how many of those are due to pairs or rivers or mountain ranges that tend to lie parallel to each other, or to rivers that tend to be at right angles to a coastline?
And the war for Pokemon GO server monitors has started...DataDog released something similar a few hours ago. http://ispokemongodownornot.com/
It looks like a similar thing happened with the USA, except worse because whatever Pacific territories it included got attached to the east side, making it take the long way around.
United States Digital Service vs. Lobbyists
If secularists take the streets it will eventually turn into a Syria situation. If they do nothing Turkey will become the new Iran.
Shots fired!
Seems to be effecting everything but I have some running instances that seem fine. https://cloudstatus.eu/status/aws

Edit: Does seem to be recovering now
Urrgh. This just reminds me of why I gave up on android app development, and the JVM ecosystem as a whole: it tests my ability to put up with bullshit.
I highly doubt that. And there was no tea party back then.
FB cannot afford to lose its Brazilian Whatsapp market share, I am guesstimating over 50% of its users in South America are from Brazil? Furthermore, integrations of Whatsapp to businesses (with or without a legal API) are already happening so there is high pressure to rollout a business oriented API and make the billions back, I am sure Brazilian numbers are key in the projected revenue stream. Given this, I dare to predict FB will just lift encryption for Brazilian users and blame it on their legal system. In the end, the average internet user couldn't care less about privacy; in fact, in developing countries users are much more concerned with saving money with free SMS and calls.
2016 Climate Trends Continue to Break Records
What!?! vim is the most unintuitive application I have ever used. Having to understand that y means yank (and then what yank means) is one of the very reasons it is not intuitive. it's like the masonic editor, don't know the right handshake or password you don't gain entrance to productivity.
Good catch, seems they're using low-resolution outlines for small countries like San Marino, Nauru, Vatican...

Actual outlines:

Nauru: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Nauru_ma...

San Marino: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/San_Mari...

Vatican: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Vatican_...
link to extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-helper-code...

and readme: https://github.com/whatever555/git_helper#github-code-review...
I would love to see how this could be realistically done. I recall this being attempted with WSDLs, but there was still a ton of man hours required to integrate with an endpoint.

There is still always an impedance mismatch between the server representation and what the client representation that needs to be fixed.

Like ORMs, such integration automation will always be, at best, a leaky abstraction that makes the easy bits easier, and the hard bits harder.
The game felt like a pretty thorough exploration of the time-rewind mechanic, and Blow was obviously careful that each puzzle served a unique purpose. I doubt he feels like he has anything interesting to put in a Braid II that wasn't already in the first game.
I feel sad for a lonely grandma somewhere; her grandchildren never visit, but they bought her an Alexa to talk to that Amazon couldn't keep online.
I was kind of disappointed that this post isn't about artificial borders that look like straight latitudinal or longitudinal lines.

Those kinds of borders are quite common and I've always thought they say a lot about a country and its past.
2016 climate trends continue to break records
Yes no HTTPS.
Most people are not tier-1 entrepreneurs. That's the equivalent of 'alien of extraordinary ability' in the US. For the rest of us, the hoops are total pain in the ass. Even with 50k pounds set aside for me waiting to be paid out, and a PhD in chemistry, they wouldn't let me in (I took a job in the US instead). Moreover, the immigrations system is outsourced to a single web entity that takes a commission for every application, so there is a significant incentive for the web company to obfuscate the process and double- or triple- dip into their take from a single applicant.
Microsoft Earnings Release FY16 Q4
Ah ok, it was confusing because Facebook has its own messaging app called Messenger, that also includes end-to-end encryption since a few days.
You mean xkcd hasn't covered this already?
Protect against HTML-extraction
One issue here is that recaptcha's traffic signature allows for a passive attacker. So instead of needing to modify the website a user visits, or trick them into going to a domain you control, you are able to just look at the traffic logs and identify them without them knowing.

I'm not too sure about what defines the "distinctive" signature of recaptcha, but I expect timing of when packets of certain sizes were sent (e.g. loading 9 images in quick succession will generate larger packets, and then you often get the incremental couple images with human-length delays between them).
Of course. I'm talking more about cases where exceptional products are born out of early failure. There's usually a transition phase in between failure and success that doesn't involve tangible work. Sometimes it takes months just to figure out where to go next.

It's much easier to refine an idea when you've been immersed in a particular problem space. Longer time frames also allow for taking a step back to think and reflect—both of which are hard to do when your head is down and you're constantly working.
Care to cite that source? Is this in recent memory or a poll done at the height of ad campaigns being run trying to assuage folks one way or the other?

To help you out, here's what the latest June 2016 polling says about Democrats and that ACA: "16 percent of Democrats report an unfavorable opinion, down from 25 percent in April." (http://kff.org/global-health-policy/poll-finding/kaiser-heal...)
What do they say?
If the USB ports at the Staten Island Ferry can still work (well, barely work, but work nonetheless) then I have faith these USB ports will last at least a few months. Although I don't see what that should have to do with me wanting to have them.
I love vim, but it really is the anti-thesis of intuitive design. I think that's actually it's strength, in a weird way.
Totally agree with your comment. Literally my first thought when I read the slack reference
Yea sure, there is definitely a learning curve but simple once you know what to look out for.
Love to see a world map tessalated this way!
Streamlining the pitch process benefits everyone, because both investors and startups seeking funding have a lot of pitch sessions to wade through. Fund-raising is a long matching process, and the more you can make it like speed dating for the first pass, the better.

GPA and Google on your resume is good for VCs who want to cover their butt, but it probably isn't a compelling argument for the VCs you want on your side.
Or probably just any kind of polygon from triangle to whatever you choose to find. The common property is probably rather convex shape than rectangularness or anything arbitrary like that. Maybe because convex borders are easier to protect or less threatening to neighbors or something like that?
The dirt secret about nuclear war is that Russia and the USA were much more willing to engage in a limited war where each side nuked the hell out of the allies of the other but without directly attacking each other.

There is no way Russia launches a nuclear strike on America on the behalf of Armenia. It would be suicide.
Chinese MIG28 drone flying at night
I agree. Problem is the general public is even less informed than the people commenting on this article. They'll probably just think it's a waste of money.
Erdogan targets more than 50,000 in purge after failed Turkish coup
edit: styling

I also found it interesting that Facebook's lawyers (which appears to be from https://www.zwillgen.com/) asked for:

> If possible, please provide responses in English as that will significantly improve our ability to analyze and process your request in a timely manner.

> 1. Is this a criminal matter?

> 2. What organization is conducting the investigation (Federal Police, Civil Police, Prosecutor’s Office)?

> 3. What is the nature of the crime being investigated (corruption, drug trafficking, gun violence/homicide, child exploitation, terrorism, etc.)?

> 4. What are the specific WhatsApp accounts that are the target of this legal process (including all applicable country codes)?
>
> 5. What data are you requesting for each of the targets listed above?

I wonder if this was only to keep internal statistics.