skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm astounded at the lauded idea that these guys are radicalized or it is some unfortunate circumstance of Western (white) oppression. In all its wonderful building of the multicultural fabric, the west continues to paint with the wide stroke that all cultures are great and morally equivalent. Thus, when there is an attack from these 'poor disenfranchised' individuals upon our freedoms and people, the west is quick to attack everything but the true problem, which is Islam. I mean all we have to do is look at Mohammed to understand what it means to be a truly honest, moral and exemplary Muslim.

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9:29. Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
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It'd be HUGE if they can recover this rocket a second time. The data from a rocket that has flown twice would be priceless.
What catch-phrase applies to Microsoft's creation of Linux Subsystem for Windows? "Embrace, Emulate, Extend, Extinguish"!?
The way the screenshot is cropped is misleading. The actual page makes it clear this feature is opt-in.

If you're logged into a Google account and haven't already made a choice on the page you can see it at http://www.google.com/settings/ads.
I have little problem with protection for how MIPS handles unaligned loads; I have a huge problem with the mere existence of that patent making it financially untenable for Lexra to defend an implementation of the same instructions with a trap, something that I hope we can all agree is unfortunate.
The definition of quote is broken. I personally explained it to John McCarthy. He agreed.
Ask HN: Moving from hand-waving about software development to empirical data?
"The Mythical-Man Month" recently came up in a conversation and I realized that a 40 year old tome is still one of mainstream development's primary references. Despite this, the software industry is dominated by fads, trends and cargo cults, without any way of measuring the value they add, if any. Consultants are especially likely to push change for its own sake. Is it possible to define and measure improvement? How?
Reminds me, my brother in law's dad was in the appraisal/real estate business. Mentioned once trying to figure out what to do about a guy in one of the houses he had paper on. He apparently had shot the windows of the house out from the inside. He was obviously armed, crazy and paranoid. In a city the police would have to do something about that guy. In rural Alaska, they can wait.
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I'd be surprised if any insurer would touch the first few re-uses of a first stage, considering how risk averse they are... For the largest commercial market segment which is geostationary telecom satellites in the 1900 to 6000 kilogram size range, they only insure well known and proven launch vehicles. I could see the first stage re-use being used for a government launch of a geostationary weather satellite or similar, or perhaps a NASA funded development project like launching a spare TDRS-type satellite, but I'd be surprised to see a commercial client like Intelsat, AsiaSat, Eutelsat, Arabsat, etc.
> Companies can have trade secrets but they can't sue each other over them.

Slight nit-pick: they actually can, when a company acquires knowledge of another's trade secrets through underhanded means.
Wasn't Opera sold to a unknown company?
Maybe they should have obliterated their brand and gone into other chemical research and manufacturing.
I want more people to own homes.

Yet

my distates for homeowners

and

Home owning is passing the buck around.

I don't really follow your argument.
Qutebrowser.
The screenshots look actually very good.
You can tell Google not to save your chrome browsing info at myactivity.google.com in the Activity Controls tab.
The idea of the hassle of shipping a computer back and forth plus fritzing around with it? I'd just buy my dad a new computer and call it a day. Plus I'd tell him this is his mulligan :)
Where I live, it's a buyer's market. We have plenty of choice. I can live with not making money on my investment, or even losing a bit, as long as it means losing less than I'd have lost renting.

EDIT: Wow. I have just used the NYT's calculator with numbers to the best of my knowledge (assuming 0% house price growth). Per them, I should rent. I'm paying $840 in mortgage plus about $180-200 in utilities etc. Their estimate is that I should rent if I can rent a house for less than $1800 a month. That's definitely possible here. Way to make me rethink my investment!

If I assume a 3% growth in house prices, I should definitely buy, by a 300$ margin.
Chromium is mostly unencumbered by Google bloatware, honestly it's the version most people should be using.
And is in the process of being sold to a chinese consortium. So probably not a better option for long :/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/1-2bn-opera-takeover-gets-go-ah...
Autohinting is hard, especially for ideographs.
My hinter even used differential evolution to calculate how strokes should be placed. (link: github.com/be5invis/sfdhanautohint)
See, this looks to be the work that their religious mentor should be doing.
I think summingbird and scalding introduced, for me, the notion of having functional types that make it easier to combine things together for distributed computing/big data.

I've never read that paper before, it's really good. I like how the author's objective is to formalize map-side aggregations. But I'm wondering if that's a natural extension of map-reduce itself? ie. don't move data if it's not required given that's the constraint?

Do you have more of such papers handy?
So you rather give your data to Chinese gov than to Google
Affixing numbers to specific units of fuel is actually pretty much precisely what happened under US Interior Secretary Harold Ickes and the "certificates of clearance" oil production quota system implemented by DOI and the Texas Railroad Commission (it confusingly neither regulated railroads nor was called by the sensible acronym, it's referred to as the TRO). This system was in place from 1933 until 1972, and effectively regulated the global price and supply of oil over that period. Absent some initial hiccups and a slightly market disruption known as World War II, the result was a phenomenally stable price and match of oil to global demand from 1945 - 1973.

Daniel Yergin covers this in detail in chapter 13 of his truly epic history of oil, The Prize (1992).

https://www.worldcat.org/title/prize-the-epic-quest-for-oil-...

Also:

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/mlc03

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/715f

And a good, concise overview of the history here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/29/us-usa-crude-stock...
I sympathize with your situation. It sounds very similar to chronic pain issues I've suffered for most of my life. I know how despondent it can make you feel, I've been there. Being able to enjoy physical activity is very important to one's mental and physical well being.

However, in recent years my condition improved dramatically. I believe I've an autoimmune disorder. Here's some suggestions that helped me figure it out and reverse it's progression:

Try high dose magnesium (Mg) for short while. 600-900mg of magnesium citrate daily is best I think. It's not to correct a deficiency. It's for the effect it has on the bowels. At a high does the bowels loosen and the microbiome quickly changes. This alters how new immune cells develop, hopefully positively as it did for me.

I wouldn't recommend taking Mg like this long term though. The best way to positively improve the balance of components of the microbiome is to consume a lot more fiber of various sorts and sources than is common in the western diet. The usual advice on diet is to be recommended. Cut down on highly processed simple carbohydrates. Some meat is ok but not a lot. Same for alcohol. If you want to eliminate meat that's ok as long as your diet is still varied and includes probiotic and fermented foods. And generally eat a lot more plants.

To sum up I believe the immune system is groomed in the gut and the microbiome is an essential part of that process. A malfunctioning and misdirected immune system is responsible for many illnesses from those well known like arthritis to ones we probably don't even have a name for yet.

Whether this helps you or not don't give up and keep looking with an open mind.
SoftBank poised to take UK’s Arm for £23.4bn
It is more meaningful and powerful when it comes sincerely from the party that wronged you, with some form of redress.

I am not a fan of religion. I am a fan of social psychology and peace studies. I think religion was the world's earliest attempts to record social wisdom, before it could be properly studied.
I heard a similar story about Polaroid having their own digital camera. Not sure about the details.
I always wondered, if you're an executive with perfect foresight and your analysis shows that you could either cling to your legacy technology and make a billion dollars for 10 years and then zero dollars after that as the inevitable disruption happened or go all in on self-disruption and make 100 million dollars until the end of time, which would really be the better choice?

Given that disrupting yourself would have a 100 year payoff period, it seems far better to try and squash any attempts at change, both internally and externally until progress becomes inevitable. Look at the music industry for example, even a few extra years of CD dominance would exceed the profits of all digital music sales ever.

Of course, if you go this route, your incentive is to play clueless and out of touch since even giving credence to the disruptive idea hastens it's arrival. I'm sure there were a lot of executives who were genuinely clueless but this at least shows how otherwise intelligent executives would have a strong incentive to act clueless.
After that where did the disbanded engineers went? Intel?
problem: in language L there is no word with meaning M

solution: propose/coin new word W in language L with meaning M
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What are the practical differences? (Most of my searches come up with 2014ish stuff..)
Go's GC has been precise for heap-allocated data since go1.1 (released 3 years ago) and precise for heap and stack-allocated data since go1.3 (released 2 years ago), completely fixing any GC problems with values that look like pointers.

I agree that the statement about avoiding large numbers was farcical, but it was not made by "Golang" but rather by someone on the go-nuts mailing list. Your sentence makes it sound like this was general advice for people programming in go from the go team, but to the best of my knowledge this is not true.
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Minolta had rather astonishingly good lenses, actually. They had a number of oddballs, from an STF lens (great bokeh) to a tiny 500mm autofocus mirror lens (with very good image quality -- not the reputation mirror lenses have), and many others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo#Tokyo_subway_sar...
I'm not convinced it's opt-in. I just visited that page, and everything was switched on. I can't profess to having a perfect memory, but I can say that opting in would have been pretty out of character thing for me to do.
Agreed. Subconscious reasoning is the worst.
"Features that communicate with Google made available through the compilation of code in Chromium are subject to the Google Privacy Policy."

from https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy
At work we use chef to deploy our credentials via KML flat files on the servers that require them. Works rather well.
If you ever want a directory of every sketchy unsafe third world airline on the planet, here it is:

"List of airlines banned from EU airspace"

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/air/safety/air-ban/doc/l...
From an outsider's viewpoint, the entire US tax system is idiotic, fragmented, hard to understand, and predisoposed to creating conflict.
Correct. He's asking me to defend a claim completely opposite from what I actually said.
And lots of extra info and discussion at https://spacexstats.com/live and the SpaceX subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4t2umd/rspacex_spac...
I don't recall ever enabling this but this is enabled already for me.

(note that not recalling doesn't mean I never enabled it, however it would have had to have been fairly inconspicuously for me to "opt-in")
I use a community darkroom about a mile from my home: http://pcnw.org

They have three film sinks, including one specifically designed for tray-based large format black and white film processing.

They also have 18 enlargers, including a monstrous 8x10" enlarger: http://pcnw.org/facilities/black-and-white-darkroom/

I bought Tetenal's C-41 kit last night with the Portra, and plan on developing there, as they also have filtered water, film dryers, and Photo-flo :)
From the article / advisory:

> An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could disable code integrity checks, allowing test-signed executables and drivers to be loaded on a target device. In addition, an attacker could bypass the Secure Boot Integrity Validation for BitLocker and the Device Encryption security features.

So if Microsoft didn't patch this, you could equally accuse them of leaving bad security flaws in Windows 8.1.

Damned if they do...
So they're just following orders?
It is, if you don't sign the browser into Google, disable all telemetry and prediction options, and use a non-Google search engine.
Echoing other comments, my problem is with the framing of it.

Your and their concerns, while reasonable, aren't the entirely of the DDG defenses here. I'm not even sure they're the majority.
Sourcecode has just been released to github. https://github.com/bluewhale/couchdrop
Vivaldi interface is horrible. At least in linux.
I suggest you read up on stuff like the League of Nations.
I think the best definition of class is "functional" -- what category of function do you have in the society. I see four big categories (from the top): own the society (nobility, big capitalists), administrate the society for the owners (lawyers, teachers, bureaucrats, computer programmers etc), move objects around (carpenters, forklift drivers, janitors), do criminal stuff for the society (prostitutes, drug dealers, hit men). There are different levels of skill within each, which can make a big difference in the life of the person.
Ask HN: Interested in live code+design of 3 apps in 3 months?
> I'm not convinced it's opt-in. I just visited that page, and everything was switched on. I can't profess to having a perfect memory, but I can say that opting in would have been pretty out of character thing for me to do.

I in fact explicitly remember clicking no to a prompt similar to this one, so I'm very puzzled how I got auto-opted in anyways..
If you look at historic trends, the housing burst and the drop and raise in home prices was specifically atypical -- you can pretty clearly see it on a graph. This abnormal behavior is why we have specifically given a name for it and why you and I both know exactly which housing burst we're talking about, otherwise it would just be the normal background trend.

The normal background trend is for home prices to rise at about the rate of inflation. We don't really have a special name for this other than "appreciating asset".
Buy a house if you want. It can be much better than being a tenant for practical reasons - less moving around to keep getting a good deal, not having to constantly play games with your landlord and brokers for new leases, basic repairs and the like, getting the mortgage interest tax deduction and all the rest.

Just don't kid yourself that it's an 'investment', don't sink in more money than you need to.

Remember, we are all born with short position of one residence, and buying a single residence takes us back to being flat. Buying any more than we need to is going long on housing as an asset class, which may not be the best idea.
A lot more people have died of terrorism in Japan than Denmark. And in both Japan and Scandinavia most terrorism has been committed by members of the ethnic majority.
Are you sure that's really the hiring process you want?

Junior devs were more recently in school, which is the last time such knowledge is needed. If you have actual technical challenges relevant to your work, why not take that hint and shift the interview to something that might possibly come up on the job and that isn't trivial for a junior dev?

Instead of finding out what that candidate was good at, you just found out which academic trivia he doesn't remember, and that he has a low tolerance for irrelevant bullshit.
I would be designing and developing the apps using React Native, React, Node, Glazed.io, MongoDB, Mongoose, Android/iOS simulators, adhering to https://github.com/niftylettuce/rapid-mvp-standards and the thoughts shared at http://glazed.io.
Ironically, the bland suburbs that surround most cities are caused precisely by very strict zoning laws that mandate very low building density, large setbacks, large yards, high bathroom to bedroom ratios, low kitchen to bedroom ratios, etc.

This is the major factor that makes rents so insane in prewar parts of cities, where the few remaining dense old neighborhoods in city cores are targets for gentrification. People want to live there -- and demand is rising as large numbers of millenials reject the suburbs -- but there cannot be any new supply built due to zoning laws.

For example, almost all of the expensive dense old Boston inner suburb of Somerville would be illegal to build today under its present zoning laws: http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/
Active vs. Passive Investing
Germany doesn't allow dual citizenship either, unless you acquire dual citizenship at birth (perhaps you were born in the US but your mother is German).
In all other cases one either loses their German citizenship (or surrenders their foreign citizenship) immediately upon acquiring the other citizenship. If you are under 18, you get to wait until you turn 18 to make your choice (in some cases until 23).

After some research it turns out that Germany allows people to acquire a foreign citizenship without losing their German citizenship in special circumstances. You need their explicit permission before beginning the citizenship process of another country. The application is free form.

I just went through this a few months ago and Germany approved my request with no issues. Soon I'll be a German and US citizen.
Actually it's more the reverse: the insurance market is pretty competitive, and most GEO comsats are purchased by a small number of companies that launch a lot. That leaves a lot of room for pressure on an insurer.
Kind of interesting but I think installing fail2ban will reduce the severity quite a bit. However it still allows an attacker to figure out if a username is valid or not (just not mass enumerate all the users).

I guess this is just information leakage due to a timing attack.
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What blows my mind is it only takes one engine to land the thing out of like the 9(?) it has.
I prefer credstash (https://github.com/fugue/credstash) which uses KMS and stores encrypted values in dynamodb. It has built in ansible support via lookups too!
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Oh man, you brought back some memories for me - I mainly referred to the printers by their internal codenames so thinking back through and connecting the model numbers to codenames really took me back.

There was a few years there where demand really outstripped supply. We were the only place in the world that made the media for Kodak at the time and I'd say 2002-2006ish the kiosks were really doing well and we just couldn't keep up (good or bad Kodak didn't seem able to predict the market for it's products). They added on and doubled our capacity somewhere around 2005 and then added on another manufacturing center in Rochester towards the end.

It's interesting to hear your experience with printer breakdowns - I always thought of them as real workhorse machines. But then again I was surrounded by dozens and dozens of each model (except the ML 500, we only had 4-5 of those) and there was a full staff of mechanics running around and a handful of them fixed the printers in addition to the other industrial machines / electronics around.

The 6800/6805 was my favorite - we used to take it out to local events and print off 1000s of free 4x6s for people (we'd take some digital cameras too and set up some sort of "scene" for people). Even running non-stop in the 90 degree sun I only had one overheat on me a couple times.
I would also like to read more about this.
Your dad is Bryce Bayer?
What I've read is that the brain learns what the sight picture of a ball coming right to you should look like. When we run to catch a ball, what we're trying to do is line up with that sight picture.
Note that primary residences in the US also have very preferential treatment as far as taxation of capital gains goes. That means that owning a house is a lot better than owning pretty much any other asset that only appreciate at the inflation rate.
Firefox has a “tracking protection” setting which blocks these types of third party trackers.
Why would tax decrease linearly with the prices of the property? The residential property taxes I've seen are just a flat percentage of assessed value.
A lock-based stack can be O(M) in number of threads accessing it. Judging by the abstract (haven't read the paper) this is O(N) in the size of the stack.
The problem with these calculators is that they're predicated on some guess future interest rates, rents, and property values. One can definitely make guesses using values from the past, but in practical terms, buying a property is a bit of a gamble. It's quite likely to either drop in value, or double in value. Long-term averages are interesting, but not at all representative of a particular individual.
I'm sure if they got enough linuxers on their azure platform they'd love to tighten the rope again. This is all still in the embrace phase, but it's likely to stay there - MS has nothing to loose but also not that much opportunity to win. Amazon and Google are just too far ahead IMO.
At work we use Clojure, and I find it much better than Ruby, but not because it has more features. Actually because it has fewer features, namely fewer "magic" features which were meant as a convenience, but really end up just making almost all Ruby code very convoluted, e.g. having tons of unnecessary implicit indirection. That plus immutability makes Clojure code much easier to keep clean over a long period of time. And being able to edit s-expressions is actually easier and quicker for me than editing line-based code now that my muscles have memorized paredit.
SpaceX has chosen a rocket for first-ever relaunch
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There is a fantastic short (scifi) story about consumption/attention economies taken to their logical conclusion on SomethingAwful (I think), but I can't find it right now.
Because BGP is complicated compared to intradomain routing protocols.
I'm not sure if you've looked into Fuji's digital camera offerings as of late, but their doing much better there IMO than Canon/Nikon. Fuji has been innovating in sensor tech with their X-Trans sensor and their X series mirror-less cameras are very very well liked. Not only are the bodies innovative control-wise, they've hearkened back to older manual dial style cameras that are really simple to use, but the lenses are of top-notch quality.