skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While 99% latency provides a good measure of QoS, it does not tell me the scale at which it is operating. I may have a service that renders some static content, say a hundred times a day. My 99th percentile latency is < 50ms. Now my observed throughput is literally non-existent. If 99% latency was < 100ms at 10k requests/s throughput, now we are talking!
I strongly suspect that it was anything but "accidental", but was rather related to just how much you could draw down the diameter of a wire in one step without breaking it.

If you can make a B&S Gauge X+1 wire from a B&S Gauge X wire in one drawing step, while making a metric size N wire from a size M wire requires two drawing steps, that actually matters.

The article alludes to this, but doesn't actually explicitly state it.
i worked in fraud analytics and the consensus was that fraudulent activity weighted higher from certain networks than from others. i wasn't in the position to question the decision regarding threats where i was, i just implemented the risk level rating in software.
Yes! This one is important. Error rates are very important to track too
>>If you have to hand pick people who are corruption resistant, it means you have low confidence that a random pick from the larger organization could yield you a corruption resistant candidate.

I'm sorry, but is that not what we are discussing here? The person I was originally responding to said that no organization seems to be fully immune to corruption, and I responded saying that it is possible to form such organizations. You just have to hand-pick each and every individual based on the criteria of "untouchableness."
Mouse HIPAA wants to have words with you, apathy! What about mouse privacy?! Despicable, that's what it all is, despicable!!! :D ;) :)
Hostility was exactly what I read in your comment about Hoare logic.
Hong Kong has something like this in the city center and it works well. The entrance to many malls and buildings is on the pedestrian level, above street level.

On the other hand in residential areas they just share the streets - the streets are small with lots of bends so it artificially limits the speed at which you can drive.
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This. R vs. Python is a very stupid debate. Especially for speed. For example pandas is slower than data.table. There are plenty of ways to have performant models in R. If you are worried about performance in deployment, run H2O, for example, there are plenty others. There is also flashr, if you want to write your own algorithms, which swaps R's basic operators and data management with C++.

Also google is doing to R what they did to javqscript with v8. Expect GA next year.
The derivation isn't all that interesting; the use is. Everybody who cares already knows what 12 ga. wire is.

People in general don't give a [ expletive deleted ] about the source code; they just want the answer.
Indeed. Error rates, latency distribution,max latencies, percentiles (as a special case of distribution) and throughput give a good picture of how a system is working
I dream of a world where device manufacturers are required to hand the firmware signing keys over to the public X years after product going to market. I have a growing collection of no longer supported but perfectly capable electronics which are just collecting dust because they're locked down. The Vita is a prominent example of this - the hardware is amazing, but the titles are just not appealing and I'd much rather play some SNES or homebrew on it. Instead it sits collecting dust, neither providing any value to me, nor any revenue to Sony.
FYI not a single month is Stockholm warmer than Detroit...
Dark matter, by definition, does not interact with light. Therefore, it cannot cause the dimming.
3/8 is half between 1/4 and 1/2. 5/16 is half between 4/8 ( 1/2 ) and 3/8.
That's a really high standard. Let's settle for making 10,000 and worry about the price later. There are plenty of people that will pay extra for batteries with better energy density.
"Dude, where is my car?"
Right. This doesn't need iridium, and may be more cost-effective.

The MIT paper has more useful info. The materials used were only lithium, cobalt, iron, and potassium. All of those are abundant. They claim the battery is stable during overcharging, and only loses 1-2% of capacity in 130 cycles.

If this is real, it's a big deal.
For some value of "nice round number". What really matters with most wires is the current carrying capacity, which largely depends on the cross-sectional area, not the diameter. Equally-spaced diameters don't give you equally-spaced areas.
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And going the other way, 2 * 3/8 = 3/4, and 2 * 5/16 = 5/8, both of which are also standard sizes.
I am not familiar with the early days of BitFinex, and I hope the conclusion the two articles point to may not be true.

How come so many people managed to trust BitFinex that appears to have such opaque management?

If it's an insider job by the founder, why did (s)he not withdraw 100% of the assets in the exchange? Probably to make it look more likely to be done by an outsider(s)?
> After all, winning the lottery is a lot less impressive if you've bought a few million tickets

I don't know, I'd still be impressed, wouldn't you? Buying a few million lottery tickets is impressive by itself, both logistically and financially. And even still, odds. It's a lot of risk for anybody to dangle.

Shit, buying every ticket is even more impressive. (I grant your point, you just posed a funny metaphor as comparison.)
Note: I believe "un-fork" in this context means the Tor browser being able to use the latest version of Firefox (instead of an old fork), by Mozilla merging-in some of the privacy enhancements made in the Tor Browser, for ordinary clearnet use (likely as default-off options).

It does not mean making Firefox into the Tor Browser.

It's a great way to make the efforts of both teams available to both groups of users. I'm very glad this effort is happening!
Before the invention of the transistor, people also thought that classical computers would require layers of error correction to function reliably. From [1]:

> The practical problems that concerned von Neumann and the designers of the EDVAC in 1945 were the reliability of vacuum tubes and the main memory stored with mercury delay lines. [...] The invention of the transistor, integrated circuit, and error-correcting codes make von Neumann's concerns seem quaint today.

1: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2756508
Reminds me of what I've heard about a game called Robot Odyssey (came out in 1984 for TRS-80, Apple II, and DOS).
Most people never use units smaller than can be accounted for by fractional inches and ounces in their daily lives, and never did. The only people who ever used grains were pharmacists, jewelers, and the like. The only people who ever had to resort to thous were precision machinists and the like.
Can it diff remote locations?
sftp://user@host/path
It's real weird watching everyone attack Assange. I did not expect the Intercept to be doing it.
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Back in the day the idea of Firefox was to provide a simple browser that is easily extended. So I'd say that it's by design that you can't do those things easily without extensions. I use NoScript and Cookie Monster to selectively block scripts and cokkies and it works really well.
Like TinyURL for your car is kind of weak, but it seems super cool. Great use of an old android phone too!
See also this comment further up in the bug:

"Mozilla leadership has already decided to help Tor move toward being able to build off a Release Firefox rather than an ESR--it's safer for our users. I don't know if we'll get to the point where they can just ship a re-packaged bundle with some pref flips and add-ons, but the more of their patches we incorporate into mozilla-central the easier it will be for them to apply their remaining patches each release." (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173199#c16)
Modern CSS frameworks try to be modular, aided by some form of css preprocessor. As a result, you can typically import only the parts your site uses.

Also, as the sibling comment points out, minification + gzip will take that even further.
https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/

http://kingline.speechocean.com/

http://deeplearning.net/datasets/

http://www.elra.info/en/
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Ask HN: Help needed with my career move(India)
Hi HN,

I am from India and studied at one of second tier college country(ie NITs). I had pretty decent grades(8/10) and have been working in a service based company as Software Developer(Backend mainly) with 7lpa and that has now increased to 9lpa after a year and 2 months. I was unhappy with both the growth and money they gave even after proving myself so much there. I finally am getting a offer of 7lpa + 1 Lakh retention and 1 Lakh worth of ESOPs. Also since my tech stack does not match of theirs so they are asking me to start with testing and then gradually they will evaluate. The startup according to me is nice and will grow for sure. Am I making a mistake if I plan to join them? My friends and family are totally against it though I think I will be able to prove myself and plan to grow them but they are of the perspective that what happens if you want to leave? and also compare with my friends with much higher salary and who are not even from 3rd-tier colleges and if I compare myself to them I am sureshot better. I want real honest feedback on this from you. To be honest I want you guys to influence me to join the startup but if I am really doing wrong plz stop me. I am confused and cannot decide. Am I undervaluing myself? Is it that you guys or anyone else for that matter should not give opinion because this could be really specific to me and only I should decide
It is what I learnt. They didn't really teach me. I may have got stuff wrong too. But, we have all sorts of cases with China. We have pretty bad products that do not last and we also have some of the best ones. Apple phones that the world trusts so much is manufactured in China. But, regardless of the manufacturing, the digital medium where quality is not usually shrouded by looks, China has created examples in India by overtaking some of the established Indian businesses.
Nice. Thanks for the explanation.
Eh, it's a tool. Some are useful, some less so. I imagine this would be a tier two kind of thing. It's an unusual case, what suggestions does the robot have? Maybe something obscure and easy to forget.
"Dude, there's your car!"
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Microsoft has granted a patent license for FAT patents for anyone implementing stuff required for UEFI.
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In some cases the definitions are different, but aren't they usually used to describe the same concept at different levels of granularity. Which do you think is correct terminology in this context? And which is appropriate for the example in Little's paper of how long an average bottle remains in the wine cellar?

And why do you feel it's esoteric? I was trying to argue that the knowing the relationship between latency, throughput, and concurrency/parallelism is essential for proper design of just about any situation where performance is a concern. Rather than esoteric, I see it as fundamental --- although I suppose that depends on what one is trying to do.
Shift ciphers are cool and all... but are there any learning tools like this to teach people, say, AES, or Diffie-Hellman(-Merkle)?
Tor browser uses the latest version of Firefox that they can verify their patches on. The developers need to verify the correctness of all patches and that there are no new ones needed.

"Un-fork" in this context means "upstream", or get the patches that Tor browser uses into mainstream Firefox.

The developers of Tor Browser will still always need to check that Firefox isn't doing anything improper and that privacy is maintained – but upstreaming the patches will make it a lot easier.
Can't agree with you more! One Dr. Kalbag, a man I respected a lot but couldn't meet, created a curriculum for school dropouts. His school in the Pabal Village in Maharashtra showed what the genius in school drops could produce. The local manufacturing in India is massive. I do not agree with those who say India is a service economy only. However, the last of literature and knowledge in local languages limits many such genius.
Quantum is different.

Classical computers are constantly snapping physicals signal to discrete states. This snapping is itself a kind of error correction, and is almost the only when we use when processing (as opposed to storing or transmitting) information.

Quantum is different. Even if a computers' states are discrete, we work on superspositions, which are continuous. Just like with an analgue computer, these errors keep growing no matter how good the individual gates get.

Theorists tell us that the way around this is to have ancillary qubits that you "snap" as you go along. Done correctly, using proper ECC algorithms, this can clean up the real computational qubits. But that means advanced ECC is a fundemantal part of the processing.
AFAIK Chrome starts up a background process after your computer has booted up, which then helps it start faster. So, if you just told your OS to start up Firefox on boot and then didn't close it afterwards, that should have pretty much the same effect.

I agree, though, that having an option for this in Firefox would be good.
What is the annual revenue from Mac vs. Windows apps?
How do Mac and Windows compare in terms of the annual revenue they generate for all app developers?

For this purpose, it doesn't matter whether the app is sold on the app store or on the developer's web site.

I'm thinking of developing a PC app, and trying to figure out whether to build it on Mac or Windows.
> most people don't care about
> their privacy online

Apple are betting they will do, and I think that's prescient. Only need a few more Ashley Madisons to see a sea change in this area, and a browser that's been ahead of the curve for a long time has a lot to gain.
We're any of these _brutal_ truths?
So basically, "no". Citrus seems like the algo, not the glue code or total source, if you will. And the data isn't published freely. :(
So is it expected that they'll open this up eventually (like AWS) or keep it to themselves?
A lot more sources than Telesur but you have to look beyond Western news media. I hope the Venezuelan military does take control away from the US backed gusanos who are withholding food from the poor in an economic war to sabotage the Bolivarian Revolution. US orchestrated attacks can also be seen with the USAID fake 'Twitter' in Cuba to destabilize the government. ABC News even reported Peace Corps volunteers and a Fulbright scholar were asked by a U.S. Embassy official in Bolivia "to basically spy" on Cubans and Venezuelans in the country, according to the Peace Corps personnel and the Fulbright scholar involved. US interests can be seen with Brazilian vassel elites tied to US, orchestrating the impeachment of Brazil's Dilma Rousseff after NSA spied on Rousseff and discounting the 54 million-plus Brazilians who reelected her. You can see how the West respects Latin America with how Bolivia's Evo Morales had his government plane force landed and he was detained in Vienna. You can also look at how Venezuela's President Chavez, Honduras' President Zelaya, or Haiti's President Aristide were all kidnapped with Washington's blessings. Former covert agent John Stockwell says U.S. has killed 6 million in covert operations in the Third World. All this information does not come out of Telesur, and if you were half honest you would see a pattern here.
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If you have a BGP feed, you can use that to go from IP -> ASN, otherwise, there are public bgp dumps [1]. Many networks renting servers are pretty simple to flag this way.

[1] One source is http://www.routeviews.org/
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lol. nice.
>There is no one in any position of power in Ukraine celebrating any of these things you have brought up.

that is one big lie. Until of course you're trying to say that awarding the highest official national title of "Hero" to, building monuments to and naming streets after a person doesn't mean the celebration of the mass atrocities systematically committed by and under command of that person. Imagine how stupid that argument would sound if say Munich would have decided to have a Hitler-strasse today just to celebrate the great autobahn network construction performed by Hitler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera#Commemoration
The comments and debates are overwhelming. I do not disagree with the debates about teaching English and Hindi as a wider languages than one's mother tongue that limits one to their village or community. But, English is also a choice. With the choice being there, we still have many literates "not" in English. More than half kids who join schools, drop out before they complete primary education and yet, they are literate. If they study in English only, they do not reach a stage where they can be comfortable with the language. Whereas, if they are literate in their mother tongue, they read for the rest of their lives. They read newspapers, magazines and also sources that can satisfy their curiosity with knowledge. Language does help in trade. But, knowledge helps in creation. Innovators usually do not get limited by language but can easily get limited by lack of access to knowledge. Most non English countries (Japan, Russia, China, Germany, Taiwan and many others) do not have anything much in English and yet, do business with the rest of the world.
I think the clear path is launching a new browser (eg Firefox NT) based on Servo engine (coded in Rust) with an HTML UI and an compatibility layer to support legacy plugins from Firefox era (at least the simpler newer API). With great multi process support and rendering done on the GPU.
What made you choose Firejail over alternatives like Docker?
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That was actually Microsoft’s original design, but they changed it to a realistic gun almost a week ago: https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/04/microsoft-new-real-gun-e...

Also, I would not call one single vendor “in great company”; before Apple, Microsoft was the only vendor showing anything else than a normal modern handgun (except Android, which in 4.4 had what seems to be an old blunderbuss pistol: http://emojipedia.org/google/android-4.4/pistol/ but Android changed it back to a revolver in Android 5.0).
Yes that was my point when i said we can't declare functions inside struct

We can have methods which work on objects on structs but never a function like class's method
Hi, I bought a copy of IDA when I was 18 expressly for the purpose of reverse-engineering old games.

To be fair, I used my university E-mail, and they thought they were licensing it to my university until I tried to transfer it to my personal E-mail upon graduating....
Yeah, horrible name.
PersistIQ (YC S14) is hiring customer facing roles with direct input on product
This is great! Now I'm wondering why it didn't strike me :D
I love printed books, have built an entire library at my home. Nor a single ebook. Don't own a kindle.

But for programming books i prefer online
engrish?
Ask HN: Which REST API  framework are you using right now? (Node)
While both sails and trails are not in active development, seems there is no great framework anymore in Javascript world.
> Actual problem is that you can't really buy it at all if you're not well-known expert or AV company employee.

I was able to purchase a license for IDA Pro, I'm not an expert in the field and my job is not even remotely related to reverse engineering.
No TLS anywhere on the site, manually forcing it returns a cert for sni.dreamhost.com.... have you considered (1) ditching dreamhost and (2) getting basic security? This looks really cool but lack of security in handling my location data makes me really nervous to send it all off to you. If this could be self hosted, on the other hand...
Or maybe even more appropriate: AppArmor (or SELinux).
I get rendering issues after waking the notebook from sleep in Win7 as well. Also I get rendering issues in a Remote Desktop session.

If the PC is running for days Firefox crashes automatically after some days.

Firefox crashes (whole browser) more often than other browsers. It's annoying that the multi process implementation that so many years to implement and will still break plugin compatibility.
>Vehicle VIN

Don't you mean Vehicle VIN Number? :P

(actually though, the V in VIN stands for Vehicle so Vehicle VIN is redundant)
Thanks for your feedback and I agree with you. I just wanted to know what could happen with the post, and it looks like it's not the right target audience. Anyway, I will post next month a demo on Show HN to see what happens :)
It's a double sword. The true issue with frequent password change is people really don't want to be creative. They ended up either changing one letter, or adding an extra letter. At least do a quick distance check and deny password at 90% similarity.
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Yeah. 12 is quite silly. It should be at least, arbitrarily, 45 chars max. I mean, 45 chars would be enough for a passphrase...
I have slightly different parsers for each family of journals. I use the DOI to get the metadata where possible. Then I reformat to show title, authors and journal consistently. I also create a direct link to the PDF where possible because I prefer to get at the paper with a single click.
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> At least for large country like US. It's comparable to cost of having professional, efficient and treason-resistant army, counted per one officer/soldier. But you need much more police officers than soldiers.

You could certainly argue that there ought to be more policy officers than soldiers, but the military is currently quite a bit larger. The projected number of active duty military members is 1,301,300, with an additional 811,000 in the reserves [1]. The sources for the number of policy officers were around 800,000-900,00. Wikipedia has it pegged at 809,308 for 2008 [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
If that's what you have to tell yourself, I guess.
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Yes, I think there's a failure to understand on the "flyover" side as well.
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Why doesn't telesur say anything about the massive corruption of the government officials that have dilapidated more than $50billion dollars as admitted by chavista ex-ministers? Or the fact that most of the former productive lands and industries that were confiscated by Chavez are now broke and don't produce anything?

Look for the cases of Agroisleña, Fama de América, Sidor,the sugar factories all in govt hands, the formerly productive lands in Sur del Lago and a looong line of etceteras. Formerly productive industries that Chavez confiscated, put under supervision of corrupt military command that now don't produce anything.

Look for all the corruption in CADIVI, the agency in charge of the currency exchange that gave out billions of dollars to the military and their buddies The thousands of tons of food imported by the government for PDVAL left to rot in the ports of the country because once the food was bought and imported it didn't matter if it actually got to the stores.

Seriously, it gets tiring when someone that does not have the tiniest idea of what is actually going on in the country brings out the tired old argument that everything is the USA's fault.