skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be intrinsically hard. The one time I installed Cyanogenmod, I rooted the phone thanks to a misconfiguration resulting in local privilege escalation. Now, if only the phone manufacturer or the carrier cared to close this vuln with an OTA... Cyanogen could find themselves in a security arms race, where they are the attackers. I don't even know if that wouldn't make it illegal to sell their kits in some countries.
You have a few typos there. The singular is "visa" and the plural is "visas". Don't be discouraged, your English is already quite good. You'll get there.
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One way to reduce the cost of cross CPU synchronization is to use sloppy reference counters:

"An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores" (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/linux:osdi10.pdf)
To prevent these and similar "what abouts", here's an implementation of a guaranteed finite linked list in Java.

class LinkedList<T> {
public final T value;
public final LinkedList<T> next;
public LinkedList(T value, LinkedList<T> next) {
this.value = value;
this.next = next;
}
}

Here's how you construct it:

LinkedList<String> myList =
new LinkedList("Hello",
new LinkedList("World", null));

Here's how you iterate over it in constant space:

while (myList != null) {
System.out.println(myList.value);
myList = myList.next;
}
It's easy to imagine the simplest stack that can serve the core features of any service, and that is well served by a single box. What's missing from the picture is the infrastructure to replicate this 500 times by separate teams, monitoring all of it, backup, auditing, aggregating customer and business metrics, back-office systems, and more. Plus the fact that these things always grow organically and embed a host of imperfect decisions - the imaginary system will always be better designed.
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That's the case if there are dozens of different client implementations each maintained by a separate independent team. If there is just one client and no people qualified enough to fork it and maintain we end up with a centralization. The only team can make whatever changes they wish.
Your comment describes an environment that doesn't exist (unmanned self-driving cars, self-refueling, cheaper hydrogen) all to get to parity with the convenience of plugging in your car at night when you get home.

It's very reasonable to say in the current technology state, they are much worse.
Thank you for this. In my city we're fighting a slow battle against bylaws that make bee keeping illegal for very stupid reasons.

People need to calm down. You're more likely to die of lightning strike than bee sting in the US.
That's cool! Any repo where it can be checked out, or is it just for personal use?
Ask HN: Access AWS from Heroku?
Currently trying to get access from a heroku app to an AWS instance, and wondering how to setup the security group to allow this? I realise Heroku doesn't use static IPs, but is there any (free) way to get around this without using 0.0.0.0/0?
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Microaggressions and the Rise of Victimhood Culture
thanks a lot for this link, google didnt reveal it (for me at last) :D <3
The value added as I perceive it by gatsby is instant page changes on link click. Is it possible to make phenomic preload at least some of the pages, as I really don't see what benefit it can provide otherwise?
A "concrete sign" in the form a a virtual graph showing some obscure figure (PMI or purchasing managers index) produced by some obscure group (Markit) has dropped.
It's not that grotty. It looks more like TeX2page, from the navigation style in particular (like the online SICP and How to Design Programs).
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I don't think his usage of these terms is sloppy at all.

The main point of his argument is that R² compares to observed mean and not into true model behind the data.

Terms "true model", "true distribution" and "true population" are well defined concepts in statistics – unless Jorma Rissanen is nearby.
At the end of the day there's no such thing as a perfect place to work, even in regards to ethics of the company. You need to spend time seriously thinking about the company's behavior and your own personal values (and also judging the company's behavior fairly and not necessarily too harshly, no individual person is perfect and company's are imperfect as well), questioning why you feel a certain way, whether it's justified, and how much it's justified. And then you need to make a decision on your own, keeping in mind that you do have the freedom to choose where to work. And also remembering that the work you do is much more valuable than the compensation you receive, so when you work for a company you are making a very serious and very significant contribution to them, you're supporting them, and by extension you are supporting what they do. If you feel that your employer is acting in a way that you cannot support, then you need to go somewhere else.

It's very easy to see ourselves as swept along by the tide of history, moved by bigger forces all around us. But we are those forces. Every action we take every day is like a drop in the ocean of history, and maybe sometimes our drops end up adding together to make something great, or maybe they make something that is hurtful. Whether or not we can individually turn back a tide that might be perpetuating or creating hurt or evil we can decide whether or not to contribute to it ourselves, and that makes a difference to our lives and incrementally to the world at large as well.
> If that's all so, could the PoGo devs simply enforce some type of device authentication to 'shut down' these APIs, or otherwise take different steps to make unofficial APIs less compatible/more difficult/effectively impossible?

I sincerely hope that they don't do that, or at least not 'shut it down' completely. The reason is that there are some use cases for this API which don't involve cheating, for example the many different Pokemon Go server status pages including one that I built myself [1].

1 - https://pokemongostatus.org/
> Also nothing in here about using less energy.

I think we will require a lot more energy than ever before. To produce clean water - possibly from ocean water (desalination) - and to add more and more A/C, possibly using different technologies than today (but they'll still require energy input). Water and heat are becoming more and more of a problem for vast regions. The Middle East already is next to unlivable, setting new temperature records (which will probably be broken again and again in the foreseeable future). We can move hundreds of millions or even billions of people to more livable climate regions, we can let them die, or we can use technology - and energy, plenty of it, on a huge scale.
This is absolutely right, it has been pointed out before that a hydrogen based energy world could give countries in the Middle East and North Africa a chance to still continue making money with energy after their oil is gone by producing and shipping solar hydrogen from the desert.
No. "true model", "true distribution" and "true population" is what generates the data.
the whole paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4825054/
Copperhead OS is a fine alternative for Nexus devices.
I just went to my local S-Market and looked around a bit. The big soft drink bottles were all 1.5L (as noinsight said). Milk is available in 1.5L cartons too, but no plastic bottles of any kind. Of course, I do live in a pretty remote corner of the country, so maybe the selection isn't what it is in Helsinki.
I can relate to that - we used to have two related systems which couldn't talk to each other. So the solution was to print out (landscape, tiny font) 1000's of lines from one system, then sit with a ruler and highlighter pen re-typing it into the other. Day in, day out.

A newer system which replaced some of the functionality and cost many millions of dollars will only export as .xls and only import from .csv (no API offered). Better than typing it in by hand, but it still pains me every day :-/
Almost 13 years in Perl's case: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/4b5190b5321b9b9e2e...
I'm not casting any evaluation or judgment on the work you cite at all, but it's a lot easier to get a paper on the arXiv than into a non-trash journal. If the subject is too controversial to appear on the arXiv, most journal editors will bench reject it.
Fully agree with harigov.

It would be recommended to charge for Cyanogenmod instead of giving away the operating system for free.

Further it would be recommended from a revenue point of view to support the Android devices with the biggest user base. Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi. These devices should be super easy to upgrade.

Smartphone market share
http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-market-share.jsp
That's seem an advantage for R²: if R² go down when you add more data, you know your model doesn't fit the data any more.
> What can be done here?

File a law suit in Switzerland? If there was a significant conflict of interest, all this does not seem legal to me.
None as far as I can tell. There's OpenMage, which accepts contributions. But the problem is that Magento Enterprise is shit, and the Community Edition is shit with the functional bits removed.

Magento is very much open-core in all practical terms.
Floppy Discs Still Used in Nuclear Bases
Which part is terrible, important to know to have a discussion about it.
If they do find a way to predict space and gravity from quantum mechanics it probably will have testable predictions. They don't seem to have cracked it yet though. (Disclaimer - didn't read the paper.)

I've long thought this would be a good way to go for research. I once had a crack at understanding Feynman's arguments that you could get general relativity from spin-2 particle theory in the book Lectures on Gravitation based on his 1965 lectures with the intention of writing a simplified version for Wikipedia. I failed - too hard - maybe someone else can do a laymans version? As far as I know there hasn't been very much progress since Feynman's attempts which were not renormalizable.
Wait, is this suggesting gravity is really entanglement writ large?
"... Ther are no rules except what groups of peple have agreed to enforce. This should not be surprising. If this is,well, welcome to the world..."
Twitter : Emin Gun Sirer 2012 - 07 - 22
Clickbait mostly discussing how enamored the author of the article is with open source, but without any command line examples of what is actually possible with this technology on Windows 10. I'm sorry for the bandwidth I wasted.
Judge Orders Yahoo to Explain How It Recovered ‘Deleted’ Emails in Drugs Case
Ouch, well I'm new to android, feel free to recommend any other android OS that doesn't depend on the manufacturer to update them. (A lot don't do this).
TypeScript 2 milestone on github shows it's pretty far from a release (imho). I liked Facebook's Flow language more, but it seems to be less popular.
I think it is more complicated than that, newspapers have the problem that they are hemorrhaging cash, but also that the format of a newspaper article is not well suited to convey information. It is just long enough to give the impression of information, but too short to actually establish an argument. And third, especially on QA, the best newspapers get beaten by the best blogs, it is just something fundamentally different if Bruce Schneier writes about crypto, or if someone who aced his math lecture during undergrad studies writes about crypto.
Software Transmitted Disease
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> What other system has enabled by default the following security mitigations

HardenedBSD already ticks off most points and is actively working on the rest.
In the example, log(x) is the true model. It is generally unknown.
Linux Game Porting and Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Not sure about TS, but a good type system would not mean you know the structure of dynamic JSON. It would just guarantee that before accessing some field, you would define in some way your code path what to do in case there is that field and in case there isn't. So, at the end, even if you missed the structure, you would have a clearly-defined error reporting logic (or whatever is necessary) at your runtime.
> Facebook originally tried to do that, then discovered that, as they grew, friends weren't local.

Interesting. Do you have a link on that?
IANAL but I thought the compatibility was only one way. I.e., you can use MIT code in a GLP project but you can't do the reverse. My understanding is if you use GPL code in an MIT project, you have to make your entire project GPL.
Keynote Berlin: Scala's Road Ahead by Martin Odersky 22 Juil. 2016
Here's the report: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-696T

Information Technology:
Federal Agencies Need to Address
Aging Legacy Systems
GAO-16-696T:
Published: May 25, 2016.
Publicly Released: May 25, 2016.

That was submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11771147

The story has been submitted many times from many sources, and the stories and commentary in the is different in many cases. The submission that got the discussion is this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11772966 (77 comments)

Oh, and this got a little as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11776631 (9 comments)

There got the occasional largely content-free comment, but most were ignored:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11785773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11785644

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11785596

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11784701

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11781730

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11779854

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11777594

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11771469
Facebook and Twitter are the new trash TV, people should turn it off after 9pm
"Yet that's what has to work well to beat the competition, which is taxi dispatchers with paper maps, phones, and radios."

In some part (maybe even a large part) of the world, yes. But in markets where taxis are from different companies (or in other ways make ordering one in advance more common) already has fairly sophisticated technology. Let's not promote the myth of startup exceptionalism. Uber has modern (but not futuristic) technology, but the real difference is in the business model.
There are actually proposals to do something like that, however it's more likely to be wood, not corn.

But this has all kinds of potential issues. The likely biggest one is that whatever you want to bury needs to be grown somewhere. It needs space where things can grow, that means space and soil that can't be used otherwise to grow food. If you cut down existing trees you're likely causing more emissions than you bury. If you create even stronger competition around fertile land you also create more carbon emissions through indirect landuse changes.

So yes, this is a potential option, but it needs to be carefully weighted against potential downsides.
From the article:

> A Boltzmann brain is a hypothesized self aware entity which arises due to random fluctuations out of a state of chaos.

This is really strange. Years ago I wrote a short story about a similar topic, without ever having read about the Boltzmann brain:

"History of Everything"

https://njh.eu/history
Ask HN : Advise for new SysAd
Hey HN!

So I just started my career as a web operations engineer and I'd love to get some advise about it. I have compiled something till now at http://www.oswalpalash.com/2016/07/must-knows-for-new-sysadmins-blog.html and would love to append to the list.

Thanks :)
(Question of the type "how do I do <x> with programming language/framework/platform <y>?" are better answered on stackoverflow.)

The https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/proximo, https://elements.heroku.com/addons/quotaguardstatic, https://elements.heroku.com/addons/fixie are addons which provide a tunnel and static IP. They charge by requests though, making it possibly expensive (but of course people use Heroku for that kind of convenience).

If you decide to setup your own tunnel/VPN, I was recently happy with https://privatepackets.io/. They setup a digital ocean machine for a fixed $5 (and you incur the usual running costs). Now you have one more system which requires maintaining and securing.
http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm

is one - for sharing ideas and getting feedback. I've read a few interesting threads and advice and results there. Also, their site design and appearance are interesting (though a side point).

I guess ProductHunt too, though haven't checked that a lot (yet).
Prosecuted for what? The woman in the story wired her money to a scammer, and somehow it's the bank's fault?
You know, as a parent I'd heard many things about "Common Core" from the media, other parents, and even family members. When my son got to kindergarten I was a bit worried about overbearing tests and the lack of a tried and true teaching method. Well, what we got were concepts. In kindergarten, my son learned things that I recognized as basic number theory...almost as if it came straight out of Andrew's book of the same title. Nothing advanced, but the concepts were covered quite well. What he missed though was the ability to calculate quickly...this I had to get him to do at home, and it came in time. That being said, I think we need to divorce the common core from the testing standards. Pulling out of the teaching space, any good manager can tell you that applying a one size fits all approach to every person results in a lot of miss-match. Lets stop vilifying the common core, but rethink the way we're forcing teachers to apply it and the tests that states mandate to go with it.

One wonderful point that the author makes is something I've been saying for years (as have many people):

What is called “the achievement gap” is actually an “opportunity gap.”

The opportunity gap is many things. It's lack of a safe, low-stress home environment. It's a lack of time from overworked parents. It's lack of an environment that promotes kids social skills. Things like the boys & girls club provide some help in neighborhoods that have them, but there needs to be much more. I'm extremely pessimistic on this point. I don't think the willpower exists within our current generation of political power brokers (although I do have some hope) to do anything about the common core to all of our problems. Likely spending $1.59m per cruise missile is part of it, and the other part what we seem to value in society....locking people up vs. fixing the core issues (http://money.cnn.com/infographic/economy/education-vs-prison...). We should not have to eat war to exist (almost quoted disturbed vs. bad religion...but BR fit better).
>This gap in coverage led me not to be able get my prescriptions filled //

I'm in the UK, on prescription with a fixed dose. When the tablets run out I'm responsible for renewal. Part of the problem with my "condition(s)" is memory troubles, my short term memory is terrible. I also have anxiety on communicating using the telephone.

The system is fine if one can manage oneself; I can't do that sufficiently.

What I don't understand is why, as the Doctor has prescribed a long-term regime of tablets and the dose is fixed, why there's no system to order my medication and then notify me. Now I realise that not re-ordering if it's not needed is an efficiency but if I've not reordered and the Doctor hasn't OK-ed it then something is going wrong in my life that medical authorities need to know to treat me: like I've been hospitalised, or I'm suffering flu-like symptoms (withdrawal) and starting to get encroaching thoughts of self-harm and suicide.

Last time I collected my medication the pharmacy (not physically connected to the doctor's clinic) told me I had to call the doctor for a in-person review. Took me a month to drum up the courage to phone them, first available appointment was 3 weeks away.

Now, I consider myself to be quite healthy, generally capable, not really that ill. There doesn't seem to be anything in place to allow this system (of review and medication acquisition) to take account of how my condition disables me from using the system. If I had severe memory loss I don't see how I'd manage at all - I presume I'd be treated differently and that I'm just falling through the gaps a little because my condition is not so severe.

TL;DR observations on impact of mental health on using UK health services.
"destroy the economy", "terrifying chart"
turns out to be a bit of a blip.

Could just as easily be random variation, due to campaign lies on both sides or nicer weather, as marking anything notable.
The fundamental problem is the US habit of funding schools out of property taxes. Then being actually surprised when schools in rich areas are good and schools in poor areas are terrible. Gosh! How could this have happened?

This is not a problem that more tests are going to solve.
The author says that E2 is "generally unmeasurable". Indeed, the true model will be unknown in most cases.

In my opinion, it is not about using E2 or other alternative measure to R2, but about being aware of the significance and validity of R2 and not blindly assuming that a higher value always means a better fit.
Aliens and Volcanoes: Life on other planets may rely on plate tectonics (2014)
What about Iron fertilization of the upper ocean to stimulate a phytoplankton bloom?
Someone please make a Pokemon Go app that doesnt suck
I'm curious, what would be the most effective way to sequester carbon?
Note that "private blockchain" means "gives you a Merkle tree", which you literally get just putting all transactions into git. I suspect the "private blockchain" products that actually exist (and aren't just vapour) are git underneath.
It probably could be more simplistic. It seems like with enough engineers every company I've ever worked at eventually ends up using every technology they can because of the one thing it does well.
You should not drink red wine to reduce your risk of cancer.

If you're worried about cancer you should reduce your alcohol consumption to less than about one drink per day.

The definition of "one drink" is a bit confusing.

There are other things that are more important: stop smoking and be careful in the sun are the two obvious ones.
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How Does This Garden Grow? To the Ceiling