skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LibreOffice is original OO, in terms of continuity of development, more so than AOO is.
Is Linode safe?
Why doesn't he just hire people, I am sure lot of people will be willing to do so.
I must say this is a remarkably cogent and thorough treatment of parallelism for performance gains in Javascript especially. Well done!
Gang of gas giants may have tilted distant planet system
What's wrong with regular soap? It worked fine for decades.

You don't need to kill the bacteria. Just remove it.
SpaceX is benefiting from NASA figuring out what works and what doesn't work. I don't think they could be as cheap as they are without that knowledge.

But the space program would certainly look differently. the Space Shuttle would have looked much different too.
Everything you say is true. I just think you value your privacy far more than the general public does. People seem to be willing to surrender an astonishing amount of data to get very little in return.

I personally have changed from being that guy who always used cash, who responded to every privacy notice that was mailed to me, who never signed up for loyalty programs, to really not caring about it anymore. For me, I see tangible benefits and only theoretical harm.
I know about InfluxDB but I was interested in the implementation of the data structure. I'll check the git, thanks

-- edit --

Oh, that's shitty! The git is not the code of Kerf, is some documentation and examples :(
> The NiN architecture used spatial MLP layers after each convolution, in order to better combine features before another layer. Again one can think the 1x1 convolutions are against the original principles of LeNet

Why would it be against the original principles of LeNet?
Pretty sure I ran all my tests using nfs.
Triclosan is in anti-plaque toothpastes, but dentists say it actually has the opposite effect and actually causes more plaque to form.
That's exactly right. When I'm God Emperor Dictator, we invert the taxation rates at the federal and local levels.
So some peoples fee-fees got hurt and they whined on twitter, got it.
Doesn't justify the 30 day limit, though. That there needs to be some limit is clear, but I don't see a justification for it being only 30 days.
It's not violent to disallow me to sell you some random substances. You're being hyperbolic to the extreme.
Show HN: Depth of field effect for the web
Often times its better to write them all inline - - if they are small of course. At least with http.

Http2 is different story.
The article mentions free DV certs from Heroku alongside offerings from Let’s Encrypt and CloudFlare. But Heroku don’t offer certificates for your domain like LE / CloudFlare, only ones for *.herokuapp.com. You have to obtain a certificate yourself.
it looks truly beautiful while an A380 looks like it just got punched in the stomach.

I read the opinion of an aeronautical engineer that the 747 gets its grace from physics, while the A380 goes a little against physics. Apparently, its wings are a little too short for its heft, but the engineers made it work. This is why it costs 50% more to operate per nautical mile, while having 700 nm less range. (Than the 747-8I)
Exactly.

And it should receive the exact same treatment.

(And, yes, browsers are finally fixing this by warning on plaintext pages. About time.)
> For a reason which, standing on a train station platform as I was, I failed to note in my prior comment: anonymous, untraceable money transfer not only makes it easier to conceal crime, but acts as a uniquely powerful inducement to same. Making it possible to contract a murder, for example, in perfect forward secrecy, removes a significant deterrent against doing so at all. One may hasten to argue that such things are already possible today. They are. They are also quite difficult to achieve, which need not be the case with effectively anonymized cryptocurrencies.

There's overwhelming evidence at this point that deterrents have little-to-no effect in crime prevention, so this argument falls flat before it can begin.

> Further, that which facilitates the contravention of a nation's laws, in a way which renders detection and prosecution of the crime effectively impossible, is of its nature a direct attack on that nation's sovereignty. No government which wishes to maintain its power intact can long suffer such an infraction.

This is a ridiculous assertion. Anonymous money doesn't defeat armies, or redraw borders, or overturn laws. Cash has existed for literally thousands of years and many sovereign nations have risen and fallen during those times.
I wouldn't really call it stupidity, more like lack of information.

If I'm never told that antibacterial soap can harm the environment, then I might just show up at the store, see that one seems to be "better" and grab that one.

And I shouldn't have to spend an hour researching every item I find on my grocery store shelf. If we've done enough studies on an ingredient to know it's harmful, I'd rather there just be a law to not allow that ingredient.
Hand sanitizers are generally alcohol-based. The scientific consensus is that bacteria can't evolve resistance to alcohol any more than they can evolve resistance to (say) chlorine bleach. We just can't use it internally in effective concentrations, because at such concentrations it's also poisinous to the patient.
Try any one of a pine tar soap, Dettol, a tea tree oil based wash or an alcohol cleanser.
> Not sterilizing your hands all the time is actually good (in most cases) because it allows your body to sample the latest and greatest baddies and keep immunity up-to-date.

The other reason people shouldn't be using harsh chemicals on their hands is because it damages the skin, and thus creates a better environment for bacterial contamination.

The CDC was saying this years ago. Here's one good article that summarises the evidence in 2001. http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/2/70-0225_article

> Issues regarding hand hygiene practices among health-care professionals have been widely discussed and may be even more complicated than those in the general public. Unless patient care involves invasive procedures or extensive contact with blood and body fluids, current guidelines recommend plain soap for handwashing (38,39); however, infection rates in adult or neonatal intensive care units or surgery may be further reduced when antiseptic products are used (40-42).
Location: Moscow, Russia

Remote: Yes, for the right team and project

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I am a front-end developer with 11+ years experience of javascript programming.
The author got Gate's wife's name wrong. Not sure what else they got wrong.
Yes, and the reliable sources contradict what he's said. Which makes me think that solipsism was not out of line to call him out for making stuff up.

For example from WebMD:

>The federal government is now funding new research into BPA risks. We don't know the results of these studies yet. Recommendations about BPA could change in the next few years.

>For now, there are no restrictions on the use of BPA in products. The Food and Drug Administration does recommend taking "reasonable steps" to reduce human exposure to BPA in the food supply. The FDA has also expressed support for manufacturers who have stopped using BPA in products for babies and for companies working to develop alternatives to the BPA in canned foods.

http://www.webmd.com/children/environmental-exposure-head2to...

Or the top .gov hit (for me):

>There are data showing that exposure to BPA,
as well as other endocrine disrupting chemicals with estrogenic activity, may have e ects on obesity and diabetes. These data, while preliminary and only in animals, indicate the potential for endocrine disrupting agents to have e ects on other endocrine systems not yet fully examined.

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/materials/endocrine_disrupt...

So in summary it seems that the FDA is acting appropriately, not out of the ordinary. They are studying the issue, but there's not yet documented harm.
Can somebody explain me how we deal with the increasing size of a blockchain? I get moore's law etc., but other than that? I mean, it's trillions of transactions we are talking about. Federated servers? We break the chain in some way?
For non-CA certs, you either manually verify hashes or install the self-signed root cert. So no, the attacker would have to at minimum find a SHA1 hash collision, otherwise the client will know they're being MitM'ed.
Collection of 65 Android Libraries for Developers
Online K-12 School Fights Attempt to Check If Students Really Show Up
I have a bunch of earplugs I got (on sale) that are "detectable" - they have a small steel rivet in them; the idea being that if you are manufacturing food on an industrial scale, you don't want some poor bastard finding your lost earplug in her "Hungry Man" dinner, so they just run 'em through a metal detector on the way out as part of the QC process.

I bet you could do the same thing with fresh food, but I'm not sure it would be worth it. If nothing else, I don't think your typical metal detector is going to detect copper.

For my money, I'd like my local food-serving establishment to put the effort into hygiene.
Just a small nit:

> Another scenario, say you are working on 3D game, you have some trick physics math where you need to crunch numbers, maybe adding realistic building physics to Minecraft. But separate threads are already handling procedural generation of new chunks, rendering, networking, and player input. If these are keeping most of the system’s cores busy, then parallelizing your physics code isn’t going to help overall.

Generally game engines have been migrating towards work-stealing based tasks architectures. Having monolithic thread based systems(one per physics, rendering, gameplay, etc) were great for migrating from the single-threaded games of old, however it leads quite often to idle threads.

This was even more critical in the PS3 era where you had SPUs with just ~256kb of RAM. Overall it leads to an architecture that scales well to whatever platform you end up targeting since the CPU/compute capabilities of various platforms can be pretty disparate.
> Should we allow smoking in most public places?

I'm a non smoker but people do love smoking, willing to sacrifice health and $10 a pack so yeah, I would say that's okay.

It's an interesting example you used because smoking is a vice enjoyed by many lower income individuals. Would you feel that day drinking ala brunch should be banned? I'm from NYC and I have to regularly dodge drunk young adults every Sunday. Surely there are plenty of negative side effects to those individuals and those around them.
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I am reading Ben Bova's 1985 Privateers novel, where the Soviet Union controls all access to space, and a private American company is trying to find a niche. Almost all his other solar-system novels were written after the fall of the USSR, and I think nowadays he excludes Privateers from the series (a retrospective reboot). But perhaps it was prescient after all!

Btw it is a pretty fun book. It does feel a bit like Atlas Shrugged in Space, with a good 80s struggle between Freedom and Communism, but if that doesn't bother you, it is a fun read and gives some food for thought about how an off-Earth economy might get started.
MongoDB (NYC, Palo Alto, or Dublin)

We are seeking staff level site reliability engineer to focus on architecting solutions around our new DBaaS service offering, Atlas. A good fit for this role is someone that understands linux resource management (we are currently digging into Cgroups)as well as a strong background in software engineering. One of the tasks we are working on is being able to run larger multi-tenant database servers.

Containers are just one of the challenges though. We would also like to build out a centralized logging system from scratch, as well as build new process around how we are handling both user management + error handling.

Interview process is one technical phone screen and one on-site interview.

Please apply at http://grnh.se/kmplc8
or email Tom at thomas.cirri@mongodb.com
hmm, wiki mentiones that private copies are actually usually allowed in the EU, with the exception of the UK, and a regular reason given for blank media levies many countries have. But that's rather different from online distribution of one's copies.

I think they have some notion of "commercial scale" filesharing to prosecute things like pirate bay, not sure how that works legally. But that too is a different matter, as they don't even share any copies of anything, just metadata, and lately not even that, but merely links.

The real question is whether any of this has any relevance for "pirated" media streaming or downloading being actually legal; not tolerated or thought too minor to warrant the privacy violation of revealing the person behind the IP or any loophole like that, but actually legal.

Honestly, I'd love to hear more about this.
Most of the chain can be dropped/collapsed. All you need to keep are the final hashes. The white paper discusses this.
Everything Wrong With Java, the example:

try {
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(
System.getenv("windir") + "\\system32\\tasklist.exe");

BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
String line = null;

while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
//If line describes a correct process,
//reformat the string to get your information out here.
}
input.close();

} catch (IOException ioe) {
ioe.printStackTrace();
}

This should read:

println( System.exec( "tasklist.exe" ) );

Yes, there should be a stream interface to the output, yes there should be a more complicated mechanism for working with processes in an object oriented manner, but c'mon guys: most of us just want to execute a command and screw with the string output.
But people spend millions on this product every year? Surely they get some benefit. You can argue that the benefits of drug use are actually a mirage since it's linked to so many other problems, health and social.
I think the problem there is that you are, literally, one of the AOO developers who spent his time commenting on blogs and forum sites, flaming people who were pointing out the Emperor's new security policy - while not lifting a finger to actually stop distributing security holes to your own users. It is possible you don't have the moral high ground here. Dab hand at flaming people, though, well done.
Neither one of these is compelling to me as you have to prove that this was the only prediction you made and you aren't cherry picking the correct ones.
How many people will be willing to work for an employer that can have them executed based on how poorly his morning bowel went?
Microsoft's new business model for Windows 10: Pay to play
They're trying to build a train system in my town (Seattle.) I live in the middle of the city in a major neighborhood. If there are no cost overruns (hah) or schedule slips (anyone want to bet on that?) then I will have access to one train stop, about a mile away by foot down an extremely steep hill. That station will, admittedly, connect me to interesting places I can go in the city, after two transfers and about an hour's travel time.

I will have this station, at the cost of $54 billion, in _nineteen years_. If everything goes exactly as planned.

Uber can get me anywhere I want to go, for $8 or so, in fifteen minutes, today.

I don't like cars much either, and because of the calculus above, traffic is only getting worse. But you want to know why we don't have trains? Because America can no longer build infrastructure. In any sane country we could do this in five years at a tenth of the price, but for whatever reason, we can't. This is the only reason Uber exists at the scale it does: because it's a workaround for the fact we can no longer build anything requiring fixed infrastructure.

(By the way, talk about an industry ripe for disruption. What I wouldn't give for a good construction startup.)
Ironically, https://haveibeenpwned.com certificate is signed by StarCom, which is the same as WoSign https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12411870 which means it basically trusts a known scammer to provide its security and one should not be giving this site any information you don't want to see in public.
They need some cheap housing for the servants though.
Those are some very elaborate strawmen you are constructing there. Is that what you're referring to?

How come whenever someone, like me, reveals a factual, truthful, and well-argued opinion, they are criticized by people like you?

Do you see what I'm getting at here?
Imagine you're boiling potatoes.

Get rid of the water. Replace the pot with a metal grill. Replace the potatoes with meat. Pretty much that.
An alternative to look at is the Couchbase Mobile stack. The stack in includes the Couchbase Lite database (NoSQL), Sync Gateway, which enables syncing and more, and Couchbase Server. All open source. It's pretty easy to run all yourself, or on something like AWS. The db runs on many platforms, both mobile and desktop.

Disclaimer: I work for Couchbase.
Maybe you should stop and understand the science before you continue on your road of assumptions.
Development of OpenOffice continued after it landed at Apache, notably in the form of a large IBM donation of code from Symfony. It is only recently that maintaining the project has become an issue, and as the OP illustrates, the remaining community is engaged and grappling with how to deal with that.
When we are talking about cheap shared hosting providers, the only competition is price and it's driven extremely low.

Competition can only kick in when browsers go crazy about plain text etc.
> I have a hard time with that. How can merely aggregating a bunch of people together create a moral justification that doesn't exist otherwise? What's the basis for saying that this is so?

I tried to provide an explanation in my comment, but it must not have been very clear.

The answer will depend on one's reason for thinking that individual action was immoral. Often, an otherwise immoral act can nonetheless be justified through extrinsic circumstances. For example, assume that killing is generally wrong. But it can be justified if you have the proper level of confidence that the victim himself is a so-far-unpunished murderer and if killing him after a public trial in which his crime is exposed would send a morally important message. (I think these are fairly representative of the purported justifications for the death penalty.) But there is a problem: an individual acting alone is virtually never in a position to satisfy these criteria. It takes a lot of people acting together to satisfy them--a government.
This was a good write-up about Ohm. Really cool stuff.

https://www.pubnub.com/blog/2016-08-30-javascript-parser-ohm...
Not sure how it works in the country in which you reside, but homeopathy and ineffective alternative "medicines" are pretty much legal in the US. I would prefer not to go to some government agency to determine whether I can use a product unless it has grave dangers. I don't think antibacterial soap passes this bar. You could disagree
I frequent several private FB groups that cover a wide range of topics. Like technology, politics, and cars. I find that if you seek out specific groups of enthusiastic people who share your passions (but not neccesarily your perspective) the discussion is usually more insightful and respectful. You basically need to get off of main street and step into a little coffee shop to hear the gossip behind the gossip. Where else would these populist punchlines be coming from if not from passionate groups of people who actually put thought into things and talk about them.
Of course, but I don't think they're using a generic LB / terminator and while they could move to one, it'd still take a long time to migrate on their scale
> tldr; this whole breakthru in technology called the blockchain isn't a new idea at all

I haven't read the article, and I been tired of blockchain hype for multiple years, but if this is an accurate tldr of the article, it isn't true at all. Blockchains are far more than simple shared ledgers. They're trustless shared ledgers, which is a huge leap forward from simple shared ledgers, and a pretty big deal for financial institutions, for whom dealing with trust issues is a major headache.
Basically, yeah. Some stuff is necessarily distinct. But an awful lot of it is not. And given the way this tech is advancing, and the cost of retrofitting, most of the stuff people will first encounter and install will fall under the umbrella of "not distinct".

(e.g. people are going to buy an Echo or a Dropcam long before they refit their house for smart switches/outlets/bulbs/appliances.)
The best theory I could found is that everybody just starts trusting an old enough snapshot of the chain, and its end becomes the chain's beginning. Then everybody just throws the older transactions away.

I can imagine this working in a low volume chain. I do really doubt it would ever work on current Bitcoin chain or anything bigger.
Okay, what happens if I try to sell you random substances and the authorities dispatch police officers to stop me and I do not comply because I want to exercise my right to trade with you? I can tell you. Violence.

If you disagree with me again, I am going to punch you, but it's not violence because I'm not doing it if you don't do it again ;)
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Who Is Generation X?
In this article's case, the "blockchain" isn't duplicated by everyone. It's just duplicated among parties in the need to know.
I am pretty sure everyone agrees Texas is a different country. ;-)

TBH I've heard Texas has a pleasingly libertarian vibe about many personal choices, but you are required to love HS football.
Kratom:opiates
::
coffee:stimulants
Nope. It would be correct if it said 'For each estimate of the mean, Mean shift defines a window around it and computes the mean of the data points within the window, then repeats the process with this new estimate.'

Suppose we had 500 data points. Daveguy's process calculates a separate mean for a window around each data point. Now we have 500 means...and?
maybe it's the groups that I run in, but I know several people among my friends (with an admittedly small sample size since I don't often accompany them on shopping trips) who specifically avoid antibacterial soap, myself included.
Because unlike recreational drugs^, antibacterials re-enter the water supply, change the biology of your neighbors and farm animals, and cause existing strains of bacteria to become more antibiotic-resistant.

It is possible that within a decade or two, penicillin will be lose its usefulness, and we'll be back to the stage of history where cuts and scrapes could become life-threatening.

^ a related problem is the flushing of non-consumed, non-recreational antibiotic drugs, incidentally

[update] just after leaving this thread, I saw an article about a new comic book that is specifically about a post-antibiotic future, so here's a possibly more entertaining rundown: http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-horrifying-comic-book-future-where-...
Why does Open/LibreOffice matter anymore?

This is a sincere question. I'm well aware of why OO was a big deal circa 2000 when I was using it (if I'm getting the dates right). I cannot figure out why it matters anymore, or why it will matter in 10 years.

Back when every year was going to be the year of "Linux on the desktop" the linchpin was MS Office. That's because we didn't have the million different SaaS products we have today, products tailor made for jobs only Office would be considered for.

Basically MS Office was a hammer and everything was a nail. This is not the world today.

Today there are a number of viable alternatives and there continues to be innovation around the jobs MS Office was traditionally used for.

Someone is going to bring up: vendor lock in, Freedom, etc... I don't get those arguments any more.