skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the GP was referring to the train arrival and other dynamic signage, rather than the static signage that exists now.

Bang for the buck, it feels like getting wifi (and cellular data) into all stations is way more useful and future-proof than a bunch of displays that are going to look quaint and outdated a year after we spend billions getting them installed.

If you want to know which track is downtown, or what the stops are on the express, the existing maps and signage will get you there. If you want to know about service interruptions and arrival information (or potentially connecting train information or more detailed trip estimates based on subway traffic in the future), then unless you can understand the static coming out of the loudspeakers, you're out of luck.

It's taken them more than 10 years to get arrival signs into the stations, and (as above) they already seem very outdated, with insufficient information many times (because three display lines is not enough lines for busy stations when you're waiting for a 6). Plus most stations still don't have them, which seems absurd given that every other subway system in the world has them.
Wikipedia. I will often get there looking for something specific, and end up following multiple links, opening dozens of tabs and spending several hours reading about various topics.
Measure Java performance by how Android works is not a good measure.

Dalvik is well known on Java world for having a JIT and GC implementations that worse than what most commercial embedded JVM are capable of.

Things have improved with ART, but even there there are quite a few performance improvements that Google could eventually do.

Soft real time Java GCs for embedded devices are being used in ground station controls of missiles and a couple of US Navy weapon systems. They surely don't want GC glitches in battle situations.

The Android team seems to only bother with "good enough" in what concerns Android performance.

As a side note, just check how many Android releases are they going through and yet real-audio support isn't quite there. Even Windows Phone has better support for it, and they do have WinRT and .NET on them.
Actually, many do.

The current crop of those running the country worship him. H. Clinton was on the line to him whenever she needed to figure something out.
True, and some of these use cases are very interesting.

jcrites does not mention them, though. I realize now that his comment does not preclude them, either, but still this example would be more convincing if automated clients were emphasized, because that is what most people are actually building and care about.
For me it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics

I'm an engineer by schooling but I've worked as a quant for the past 10 years. This means that I know a whole lot of "applied" math but will get tripped up by the formal terminology used.

This usually means I google a term and end up on wikipedia, where learning that term leads me to realized I need to look up the formal definition of another term, rinse and repeat.

As an example from my browser history, I was just reading

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

for fun which lead to:

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

which lead to:

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

which lead to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrarily_large
preaching to the choir, it was other people that thought my spot on observations were an insult to their aspirations
#pokemon-go
I am against. No way I am going to confirm that I am me.

If you want to confirm that, go to my website where there is a link to my twitter profile
Ask HN: Should I migrate my MongoDB to a more reliable DB before launch?
I have a few months before I launch an app I've been working on for the past year. I started with mongo because in the beginning I did not plan to have that much sensitive data and it was ~80% read. Now that I've come close to my MVP I've included data that needs to be more secure and stable. The majority of my backend is a basic CRUD architecture with heavy reads so migration shouldn't take me more than a week. Will I thank myself later if I switch now to something like sqlite or PostgreSQL? I've read some pretty bad horror stories on here regarding MongoDB as of late and I'd like to save myself a headache.
If I didn't know anything about software engineering, I'd assume it worked something like what you just described.

Compared to what it is in reality, it's a little disappointing, and it's not surprising a lot of people question the title engineer for the majority of developers. I've written semi-critical parts of large businesses and didn't do half of what you described.

I know the trade off between getting things done vs. doing it right, and we wouldn't have our current abundance (in tech) if we took the latter, but the security breaches, the lack of care for performance, the errors, crashes and deaths (more to come as we depend on self-driving cars, IoT, etc.) makes it questionable sometimes.
Indeed, but that's what awaits them. Hell will freeze before the UK gets the EU perks without the costs, if only because the EU leaders are adamantly determined to set an example to flush any "let's leave the EU" incentives in other countries. For better or worse the UK will serve as an example that other nationalists will turn to and say "hell no we don't want this after all". The deal the UK will get will not be something to be looking forward to.

I for one am fully in support of putting them in the same position as Norway, and that's probably more than EU politicians will be happy to accept. That is: UK pays EU fees without the discounts they've negotiated for years on end, complies with EU laws, and gets free market access in exchange for freedom of movement. And without voting rights. There has been no shortage of walking on eggs since the UK has been around in the EU. And the voters were still unhappy, so if anything, good riddance. Then again EU leaders aren't very open to this idea insofar as I understood, because it's a great deal.

Another scenario would be to give them the same deal as Canada: apply EU laws just like Norway, and pay into the EU, without any vote. Oh wait! Yeah, voters will not be happy. But hey, they're the ones accepting that their politicians lie to them.

Yet another scenario is that the UK does not leave the EU. It might happen, after all. Will that be democratic? No. But it will be "constitutional", if one can use that word for a country that has none. Yet it certainly might be the lesser of all evils.

Truth is we don't know, and "tough sell" is not part of the equation. The UK is not in much of a position to negotiate. Especially with the quack they put at the top of their Foreign Office - who somehow managed to insult just about every foreign nation out there before even getting his new job. Credit to the new PM in this respect: she's making the chap own it.
MaidSafe Dev Update 19th July 2016
Or, he knows the history and thus doesn't respect mainland China.
For what it's worth the official Turkish position is 4) "Military coup was well planned and very nearly succeeded, say Turkish officials" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/18/military-coup-...
Truffle+Graal could actually easily implement all of those things, LuaTruffle is just one of the less developed ports. JRuby+Truffle has highly efficient analogues of most of the things you mention.
You're right of course wrt to Google serving reCAPTCHA, in this case you'd just be providing plausible deniability if Google and Mallory-ISP were to collude to exploit this.

Tor users on google fiber take note.
You make it sound like anyone at the oil company cares what they're buying. They want to tick a box. As long as they buy something that has the legal weight of biodiesel, and isn't expensive to get rid of, they're happy. One set of books, no distributed conspiracy.

Or they could never even bother to ship the gallons. That's not a 'scheme' of any sort at the oil company, it's just the business focusing on the part where it makes a profit and dealing with the regulation of buying biodiesel in the most minimal way possible.
Can you explain why that is true? If a superior judges keep striking the order down, doesn't a precedent get set that prevents a lower court judge from issuing a similar ruling again?
XPIR: Private Information Retrieval for Everyone
I liked Parrot, but it didn't move in the right direction. No useful AOT and JIT from the start kind of turned me down.
Importance of Following Community-Oriented Principles in GPL Enforcement Work
On a more lighthearted note, I've given more time to slither.io than I would like to admit...
Server-Side Web Components
Speaking of vim, just a reminder that @antirez made a terminal based text editor in pure C with no dependencies, not even ncurses, in under 1000 lines of code, complete with search feature, and customizable syntax highlighting for variable number of languages.

https://github.com/antirez/kilo

Lots of people have forked it and are actively making it their very own editor. Sure, none of them may ever take off and become a new emacs or vim competitor. Or maybe they will. Let's not discount innovation.

Plus it's amazing to me that to make a full fledged terminal editor, almost all you really need is the ability to read from stdin and write to stdout. Only a tiny little bit of glue C code is needed (for handling signals like SIGWINCH, or for setting or unsetting raw mode in the terminal), but almost the entire rest of it can be written in, say, Lua.
https://www.quora.com/
probably related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123883
350k after taxes and you couldn't retire? Do you mean in one year of work? You can live on 50k after taxes no problem even in SV. Also, why stay in SV if you're not working there? If you can maintain revenue for 5 years you can buy a house in cash no problem.
>...and most repulsive things to waste my precious spare time.

Really? Repulsive?

> [1] Obviously this is much easier when both I and my friends know that I could "afford"[2] to buy a similar car than they, I just have chosen not to.

So, you ... care ... what people think of you.
> ... and didn't start or escalate a military conflict.

So all those killings that took place in South America were not military conflicts.
It works without common memory layout between Truffle languages. It even simplifies the ability to use diverse physical memory layouts within the same language. The programmer specifies the logical layout based on the semantics of a language. The runtime decides how to map this logical layout onto the physical hardware. It can take into account the trade-offs the programmer decided to choose.
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?DougMerritt used to be (not that particular page, even though it could)
Is he re-releasing this or something? Curious why he's going back through the code.
What was the alternative to participating? Are you suggesting that abandoning Europe to its own devices in the late 40s would have been in the interests of the US?
I should. At the time, you got your stock option, if you were like me, just out of school, you really didn't have the resources to make moves like Cuban.
Remember, they all lead to philosophy.
>You do understand that hardware development has been shaped by C being the defacto standard low-level language?

No, I don't understand that, and honestly have no clue what you're talking about. C is about as simple as things come, and it doesn't necessarily make strange demands on the hardware. It may seem that I'm contradicting my previous statement, but C working well with hardware doesn't necessarily mean it is a force for shaping modern hardware.

Three operand register-based load / store machines make too much sense from a variety of angles for many (any?) other configurations to touch them, that's why they're everywhere.

Stack machines are inherently less efficient, and you only see a bunch of designs (mostly as amateur soft cores) to this day because they are almost trivial to for enthusiasts to implement, not because they kick ass.
http://lesswrong.com
http://www.semanticscholar.org

And more recently, the homepage of some researchers, including:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~rsalakhu/publications.html

http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/josh.html

http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/

So much good stuff
http://tvtropes.org/ As an fiction writer wannabe, this site is both inspirational and disheartening. There are no new ideas under the sun but the variety and potential for new combinations is dizzying!

https://boardgamegeek.com/ All the information about boardgames you could consume in about four thousand lifetimes.
Wish you and the team at Brightwork well Josh. Good luck on the launch.

Don't want to be negative but I will say the landing page wasn't as polished as expected. So important in terms of confidence especially as I'd be paying you to own lots of my apps' back end. Case in point is the use of images with text in them rather than an image with text underneath.
9.2×10^29 bacteria beg to differ... [1]

1: http://www.nature.com/news/there-are-fewer-microbes-out-ther...
Interesting. What happens if the native memory layout doesn't support a feature that the extension code requires? For example, what if a JRuby+Truffle script calls into a C library, which allocates a struct and invokes a Ruby callback with it, which then wants to access the fields via reflection? C doesn't normally include type information with its structs, so how would the Ruby code know the memory layout of the object?

What if it's not the C extension in your project that does the allocation, but a closed-source third-party library that your C code calls into? Do you need to recompile all source code to generate the appropriate typemaps?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6232240
> More gains than the stockmarket

Sorry, but this can't possibly be true. Since the 2008 crash the Dow Jones for example tripled in value while the San Francisco housing market gained 40%.

It is very rare that the real estate market outperforms the stock market.
I for one mourn the fact the forces that be in my city are intent on pulling us back to 1960 transport wise.

We are poised to break 1M within the next decade, and some have been floating some form of light rail to serve the quickly growing city. Unfortunately, looking at the ten year plan published recently shows that what made it in from those discussions were...widening roads.

Good on NYC for attempting to put somewhere in the US on parity with other first world metropolises.
Amazon Login Service is Down, and has been down for the past 30 minutes
A precedent upper decision doesn't prevent a lower judge from issuing a similar ruling again until it becomes law. Brazil's legal system is based on the civil law principle, not on common law as in the US and some other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
Matt Levine's Money Stuff: The further down the link stack you go the weirder it gets.

Slate Star Codex: A bit out of the mainstream, and he clearly has much more contact with people far, far outside of it.
It's bizarre that this article is critical of Cloudflare. If TOR can't stand up to a recaptcha without leaking PII, then it sounds like TOR ultimately needs to be fixed.

I stand by Cloudflare. So much malicious traffic comes through Tor that administrators need to do a lot to protect themselves from it.
+1 for shortcutfoo.com

been using it since beta. has grown to cover quite a bit more since then.
Really? Because, how could quality assurance, software testing, and formal verification have existed before some hipster buzzword for a particular approach to it came about?
How Startup Can Grow Email List by Engaging Brand Advocates
Same with ECR too
Most American cities I've visited take an indifferent and/or actively hostile attitude towards people with mental illness.

It's actually kind of scary.
> What people want ... end of story

I do want what's described in the article. So clearly your claim is not entirely accurate.
Seriously, move along.... Go watch the quality of the video/audio and the content of any of @wesbos' free courses. You'll understand why he charges for it and why I happily pay the price he's asking. Yes. I bought ALL his paid courses and they are fantastic.
Internet Archive's texts collection.
Easy Refactoring with Source Making
POST /users/{id}/avatar

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What additional guidance would you expect?
"Democracy is like a tram. You use it to get to you destination, and then you get off" - Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The West was seriously duped by this guy. I remember The Economist's self-deluded/deceitful decade-long, apologetic editorial line, never letting a mention of the islamist AKP go unqualified with the adjective "mildly" (read: "market friendly"), and it is ironic that one of the most effective Brexit camp scare tactics was Turkish EU accession, when it was Britain under Blair and Cameron who were the most vociferous advocates of the policy in the first place.

The fix is in. This "coup" is a transparent manipulation by Erdogan so that he might grab absolute power. Who knows what havoc he will now wreak in the region, and in Europe, with it.
Didn't the UK already have the benefit of a floating currency since they use the pound instead of the euro?
With respect, I think there's a fundamental error in this reply. You're making a dogmatic statement about what interpretability is taken to mean, which assumes of course that the vast body of work, both in academia, journalism, and business meetings, holds a consistent view. The point of this paper, however, in part, is to point out that this view is mistaken.
Well can't we just use another language for JVM (e.g. Kotlin or Scala)
> Most, if not all, of the major European Nations actively support these same policies

That's because they're vassal states. Our foreign policy is their foreign policy. Their leaders don't have much of a choice in the matter. Either they play along or we find a way to get rid of them.
I find this really interesting. I think what most people seem to be missing is the wider social context. Think about this. If you exclude white collar financial crime, pre-meditated murder, and organised crime - most other crimes are committed by the socially disadvantaged. So, if the algorithm identifies an area where crime is more likely to be committed, instead of being narrow minded and just putting more police there to arrest people, why not instead try to institute programs to raise the socioeconomic status of the area?

People are just concentrating on the crime aspect, but most crime is just a symptom of social inequality.
This is a particularly bad sign, and one that seems to support the worst fears about the future of Turkey. Ousting judges and other powerful figures in the government and military makes a certain ruthless sense, but intellectual purges seem to always be the ultimate canary in the social coalmine.
+1, to complete the editor love, people should also give the
https://github.com/google/xi-editor a look.

"The xi editor project is an attempt to build a high quality text editor, using modern software engineering techniques. It is initially built for Mac OS X, using Cocoa for the user interface, but other targets are planned."
This is the correct answer. It is not discount or catalogue that is making Flipkart bleed, it is the customer service provided by their competitior. Amazon commitment to keeping customers happy is praise worthy. Many people do not buy very costly items from flipkart (namely phones, TVs, etc) because they are not really sure whether the return policy will hold and when will they get refund where as on the other hand, faith in Amazon is unshaken and people generally prefer it's platform for buying. Less I talk about Snapdeal, better it is. Snapdeal is not going to survive this war, Flipkart might. Almost nobody I know buys from Snapdeal because of their subpar customer service, though I agree that the sample set is not very large here.
> No, I don't understand that, and honestly have no clue what you're talking about.

Clearly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine#End_of_the_Lisp_m...
Who decides whether it's objective?
> (One more thing. I do have above average salary in my country. Obviously that makes things a bit easier.)

Most of us here can easily say the same thing. Most of us could also say that we are above average intelligence and we, too, could just as easily have a sense of our finances. However, we choose to keep track of everything a little more accurately than that.
I'm saying that countries do act this way. I'm also saying that countries which don't tend to lose out to those that do. That's not the same as saying that countries must act this way, it merely explains why they all do.
Oh, thank goodness that he doesn't fundamentally misunderstand the concept or anything! moans
Asking?

Also, I didn't know about this, but I guess I should be prepared for even more of it:

> President Recep Tayyip Erdogan clashed with academics earlier this year, when more than 1,000 of them signed a petition calling for peace in the southeast and criticizing the government’s handling of the state’s long-running battle with its Kurdish population centered there. Many ended up on trial, while others lost their jobs.
This view seems utterly at odds with what I've read of history. The individuals making the decisions about the actions of states take action for moral reasons all the time. Look at, I don't know, all the wars the UK got into in the 19th century through trying to stop the slave trade, half the decision making of the powers getting into World War I, the US's conspicuous failure to annex the territory it captured in WWII or countless other things. I certainly wouldn't say that any country is entirely selfless, that doesn't happen either. And there's a wide range of how different factors affect a country's balance between the two. But even Nazi Germany and Japan did things for racist, anti-communist, and (in Japan's case) anti-colonialist things at times that weren't in the interest of furthering the power of their states.
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If you can maintain revenue, yes, get decent cash flow on a rental property, sure you can make it work
Not that anyone was under any illusions about recruiters, but this is how they show they don't give a shit about putting the right person in the right position. Just butts in seats and cashing checks.
"The Tor design doesn't try to protect against an attacker who can see or measure both traffic going into the Tor network and also traffic coming out of the Tor network. That's because if you can see both flows, some simple statistics let you decide whether they match up."

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/one-cell-enough

Work on a client to try and mitigate the risk of timing attacks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9585466
"Plomo o plata" is still technically a choice you're "asking" someone to make, and I don't get the sense that protection against coercion is a big thing right now for old Recep.
Making the next page opaque as you said is a good thing also because limit and offset will often become unstable or incorrect if the dataset is changing without a proper timestamp. That is you may get more or less records then you are expecting which maybe important if you need to allocate size.

Almost all of my rest services I require sending a timestamp for batch processing (that is only records created/updated/removed before given timestamp are shown).
I don't know, I'm not a professional statesman, but I don't believe Machiavelli and Sun Tzu have to define the terms of our existence nowadays.
Sorry guys, I knew I shouldn't have started my 4 instances at once.
Punish the smartest of your population and good luck creating an economy that is built on any form of scientific progress. Utter sadness to watch a man destroy a country so he can consolidate power while destroying that which he wants power over.
Maybe doing a sequel or using the tech as a base for a new game?