skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shame about Channels, but I see the logic in not including it. Django is pretty awesome as a backend, and while it's not a 'cool' framework anymore (I feel old!) it's amazing for writing back-office applications.

I use it as an API backend with Django-rest-framework. The advantage is you get ridiculous amounts of packages that all integrate with Django that does pretty much anything you want. Also the ORM doesn't suck now so that's a bonus.
Fair point, thanks for mentioning it.
Hello will be discontinued from Firefox 49
When I was a fresh junior programmer (a few years before the book was written), making my first independently designed and significant change to the system I worked on, I tripped over a "select is broken" kind of bug - specifically, mmap() was broken on AIX 3.2.5, in certain cases. It was weird and wonderful, because my code worked in the test environment, but not the production environment.

The response of the senior engineers was "What's really wrong with your code?" Ultimately, I was able to prove an OS bug with IBM, but it required extraordinary proof.

And you know what? If some smart junior programmer came to me and said "I think there's a bug with a low-level OS call", my response would be "What's really wrong with your code?" As it should be. Heck, if a lead engineer said that, I'd have the same response. If I said it, that would be my response to myself.

That's because select is very rarely broken. The exceptions just prove the rule.
I'll just explain the searchable part. I'm an amateur cryto enthusiast, though.

Basically, you'd think to search through an encrypted database, you'd have to decrypt it first. That's a pain in the ass if your DB is in some place outside of your complete control. You can't give them your key and tell them to decrypt it, because your DB host will decrypt and know all your secret information. The other way is to download the entire DB, which is impossible for obvious reasons. Even if you controlled your own DB, with traditional encryption you'd have to decrypt each entry and figure out if your thing matches the entry. (You could compare ciphertext, though, which I don't know why this isn't the accepted standard)

Basically this scheme is proposing a way to do it even on DB's controlled by a hostile actor. Pretty neat.
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He talks about it in the paper. Basically, depending on your assumptions about nongaussianity of the primordial perturbations, there were at least a few stars simply by accident in the early universe.
Fraud is illegal.

Now prove it was fraud.
He made a pretty good case on the first conference call that buying SolarCity out right is the best way to prevent future conflicts of interest. Partnerships between the two companies as independent entities would mean continuous scrutiny over which party would be receiving a favorable conflict of interest.

Is the Powerwall just was an optional accessory to upsell to Tesla automobile customers? If so, then the SolarCity deal is bad for both parties. I am inclined to believe not.

If the purpose of Tesla is to transition humans from fossil fuels to solar then it would appear that this makes sense from multiple points of view. Presumably Tesla can do a better job at doing this faster and quicker than SolarCity could on its own. This is a really, really big task and making some comparisons about how SolarCity may capture a greater amount of future profits by itself is underestimating the future competitive environment and likelihood of a positive outcome.

The thing for investors to look at critically going forward is how Tesla advances in manufacturing capability relative to the competition. The attempt at raw materials in, finished goods out, at a very high rate of speed, speaks strongly for how Tesla is trying to achieve their underlying mission.

Perhaps in 5 years many companies will be able to accomplish this. If so, further shareholder dilution is a big problem. Tesla could be wildly overvalued. Other car companies are producing good electric cars and they will be self-driving soon. Doing an ok job of those two things alone can't justify Tesla's value or survival. Uber's transportation network effects combined with the huge drop in auto sales from vehicle sharing will gut any plausible profits.

Value investors beware. Also a good exercise in why just doing traditional balance sheet & income statements combined with a linear evaluation of the business results in tech companies always looking way overvalued (Facebook being wildly overvalued since Mark Zuckerberg turned down the $1b offer from Yahoo.)
If you try this at home, don't forget to clean your environment afterward:

(mkunbound '*p1*)
The IOC was created by the athletes, originally. It has been captured by non-athlete corrupt bureaucrats.

That's the tragedy here. Not that athletes want to take money from the IOC, but that the IOC has been taken from the athletes.
We're in the middle of an election cycle - any connections to one candidate or the other are "newsworthy". That aside it's a convenient reminder, for those who didn't know who he was before.

Unlike after the election where we will all conveniently forget who supported who and who said or promised what.
That still requires 2 transactions for every (user, site) pair. On a network that can do 10 transaction/second total. It might be usable for certain classes of micropayment, but certainly not for a "every website I visit" scenario.
Thanks! Here's a copy on archive.is as well: http://archive.is/gjgYx
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I mean hey, if I'm writing code for a machine that might kill somebody if a hardware interlock is removed, I'm going to perform a software check for a valid state before I take the potentially fatal action, and if that's a problem for the organization that's paying me to write that code, I'm going to resign and find work elsewhere, because that outcome strikes me as strictly preferable to having someone's death on my conscience. I suppose it's arguable either way, though.
>What law makes it illegal to not understand the terms of the contract that you are signing?

Interesting the US law already does this. The law is literally the terms of living in the USA and we prosecute people for not understanding them all the time.

You can also easily prosecute people that did not understand the terms of a contract. Happens all the time, though I'm too lazy to look for an example right now =)
> L1. There are gaps out there.

I had a similar experience. At one point I decided that I wanted to understand, step by step, how Ada Lovelace's Bernoulli program works[1]. There was a few steps that didn't seem right to me but I was sure if there were any bugs in there they would be well-known and mentioned somewhere I could find. This being one of the most iconic and historically significant programs ever written. Indeed I found more than one person claiming that the program was known to be correct.

It took a long time before I could believe that it wasn't just me not getting it, there were indeed a few things out of place and apparently there was just no mention of it anywhere on the web or in any of the research into the analytical engine I could get my hands on.

[1]: http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/12/bernoulli.html
It is visually appealing and I like its attempt to bringing exposure to something general public has little understanding of. This topic definitely deserves more than just a publicity piece, especially for something as complicated as financial industry.
I just have an argument with your fantasy: Elder Races would capitalist, it's just simply a good way to designate effort towards different resources. http://www.americanteeth.org/2015/06/21/why-i-m-a-capitalist...
An LBO of a home is called "getting a mortgage." And yet, one's car or home isn't exactly a share-issuing company. You can form a company to own it – but that's not private equity.

Are you familiar with what "private equity" is? Note that "private equity" is distinct from "private" "equity."
Venture capital ups ante in Orange County: $1.4B in 12 months
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12192509
Yes, and they take a 15% cut for doing so.

(Bitcoin was supposed to support disintermediation, but it hasn't worked out that way. So was the Internet, yet now half of all traffic goes through Google or Facebook.)
The cypher you describe sounds like a weaker version of a Vignère cypher, which resisted cryptanalysis until 1863, after nearly three hundred years of use. The Wikipedia page has a decent description of how to cryptanalyse that sort of polyalphabetic cypher.
This seems to be a protocol to coalesce multiple payments between a single sender and receiver, provided that the sender is willing to commit money up front. It does nothing for the case where a single sender wants to send one-time payments to multiple receivers, nor the case where many individual senders want to send to one receiver. In those cases it would only add overhead.

In the case of Brave it doesn't help them much since there is no real-time requirement, so they could accomplish the same by increasing the time between payouts. With some engineering they should be able to support literally thousands of users before they need to take everything off-chain.
It's a timeless book. I read it and Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained at around the same time, and they completely changed my way of thinking about software development. The only other book that shook my foundations so hard was the classic K&R The C Programming Language.
Learn to speed-read by learning from a couple of speed-reading books. I recommend the Evelyn Wood system to get you started.
You know we invented airplanes a while ago, right?
because of the irony.
Edit: looks like this is now the 2nd to last release to support Python2.

Original: It doesn't mention it on this page, but this is also planned to be the last Django release to support python2. Django 2 will require python3.
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s/"a good chance"/"a remote possibility"
I wonder why this release didn't include the class-based auth views (https://github.com/django/django/blob/1.10/django/contrib/au... vs https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/...)
We could also quote Blindsight by Peter Watts: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
Search for "Once there were three tribes." and read 10 paragraphs :) The key quote is:

> Equidistant to the other two tribes sat the Historians. They didn't have too many thoughts on the probable prevalence of intelligent, spacefaring extraterrestrials— but if there are any, they said, they're not just going to be smart. They're going to be mean.
Is my attention worth nothing? Are my contributions in the form of comments without value? Regardless I never agreed to view ads in trade for access to content and to be completely fair it was not offered to me in this way.

The usual offer is along the lines of "hey click this link you will like what you find there." This is a far cry from, "view these ads and we will provided you with content."
No, that's 1.11 (a LTS release)
> My understanding is that current life developed about as quickly as it possibly could have, at least on a geological scale.

This is commonly quoted, but actually not at all implied by the data, at least as long as you allow for the very real possibility that the road from inert matter to conscious observers required multiple improbable steps. For counter-intuitive probabilistic reasons, you can't infer the "improbableness" of a step from the amount of time it took to occur when several such steps occur.

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Exactly – this is both easier to implement and has the advantage of not incentivizing people to use something like a VPN to get more bandwidth at the expense of everyone else.
I always disable the "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web forgeries" protections in the settings... I don't need my browsing history to be sent to yet someone else...
Of course, if you're running Windows 10 and trying to avoid spyware, it's already too late.
Is there a forum or a place where all you dad-hackers share and talk about your projects? I'm curious :)
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I used Stripe's Java API for my website. I wouldn't say it was awful - it got the job done, and exception handling was well thought out. But it wasn't idiomatic Java. It felt like it had been put together by someone who knew a language other than Java really well.
The general industry is in fact starting to care about static typing; I've seen it happening lately. The last batch of hot languages included a lot of untyped languages like Python, Ruby, and JS. But the latest batch of rising star languages are typed, eg Go, Rust, Scala. And C/C++, C#, and Java are still all going strong.

People are no longer buying the myth that the benefits of static typing can only be gained at the expense of heaps of boilerplate. The gospel is slowly spreading.
Flowtype 0.30 adds support for Windows
A little meta-civility goes a long way, too. If one is inclined to call people jerks, bozos and assholes, perhaps one is not understanding people very well.

It’s much more effective to work learn about people, their predilections, biases and experiences. No one is a “checkbox” asshole. Much better to focus on specific behaviors, instead of writing off a person as a type.

When I see a company describe its “no assholes” rule, I see a company inclined toward calling people assholes.
Scratch 1.4 is still the best version: Why? Because it was the last version of scratch built on MIT Squeak. There is nothing quite like discovering shift-click r, and seeing the code that built your environment for the first time.

Also, check out Snap! the Scratch 2.0 successor to BYOB that is essentially a stealth Scheme.
While I'm all about involved parenting, I think that this headline is hyperbole. I read the documentation and watched the video and I didn't get the impression that they were actually promoting child neglect. Furthermore, the whole thesis of this post is based on an argument from silence that relies upon the premise that parents are "habitually" absent. In fact, in many of the scenes the parents are present and there to receive and applaud the child after she'd done something on her own. Additionally, the author's definition of neglect is quite aggressive and, as above, based on missing information from the project and not on the information provided.

While I appreciate and understand the author's desire to protect children, the post itself seems overly alarmist and based more on opinion than fact.
'Pokémon GO' Used Struggle, It's Not Very Effective
A reactive Flux inspired Backbone.js view with a focus on template designers
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Are the videos available on Youtube?
Blythe's company, Digital Asset Holdings, is focused on securities settlement (different use case). R3 is a consortium - they do not have a product that they sell to banks.

Ripple is the only company in the blockchain space that has an enterprise-ready product that banks can deploy for cross border payments.
if you can screw your old migrations it's not a big deal.
Spark 2.0.0 Released
epsilon log(r) is the "shielding". I suspect that the field inside will be attenuated by a factor of 1/(epsilon log(r)).
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> Intuitively, sinusoidal oscillation in one direction corresponds to exponential decay in the direction at right angles in the complex plane. A contour integral estimate of Fourier coefficients exploits this decay to prove exponential accuracy.

I couldn't get past this part. What is the author saying here?
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I don't really agree with the conclusion that lack of tracking will kill usage --- also I do think that feature will be back in some form eventually.
I see it as just more checks and balances. Hardware blocks and software blocks have vastly different failure scenarios which complement each other well.
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If anything, Solar City is a (the?) money-making engine for Tesla now. You're correct that your investment is undervalued in the stock split. Contact a good attorney and begin a lawsuit (avoid class-action) against Tesla for this bargain-sale buyout. Makes me wish I had bought SCTY stock for the opportunity to file on my own.
The most common implementation of this appears to be from a company called Bytemobile which also injects some pretty buggy JavaScript into HTML content.

The good news is that you can disable all of their degradation by adding "no-transform" to your Cache-Control headers:

https://kornel.ski/en/proxies

“The standard HTTP header Cache-Control: no-transform which tells proxies not to modify responses was respected by all proxies I've encountered. This is amazing! It wins an award in the "Best Supported Obscure Header" category.”