skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Billings? Really? It gets a bad wrap out here in Montana (unfairly, I will add). Missoula and Bozeman are the 'cool' cities. Billings is just a big oil town. They do have some nice bouldering though.
Google Spanner uses GPS for database syncing. Maybe a cheap clone of it could use a Pi for that part. Indirectly, temporarily boost the RPi sales if it takes off.
Well, Islam gave the concept of 3 days fasting every month 1500 years ago and called "Ayyam Beez" and many Muslims have been practising it in every generation.

Glad to know that science also discovered it.
I am curious the effect this would have on people with HIV/AIDS.
> And this is newsworthy why?

Because we were pro Wiki Leaks when it helped Sanders. We are now anti Wiki Leaks because it helps Trump. It boils down to that.
Fair enough. I was taking it more as extreme sports, adventure guides, etc.
Pointing the finger at buffer overflows (scroll down after the quotes)
I think she meant to not pass the strings but assign them to constants and then pass those.
Star Trek50: Inspiring Discovery and Innovation
If I'm reading this proposal correctly, locks will still be needed within multithreaded guilds to guard mutations against complex object graphs.

Here's my reasoning. Since the GVL is insufficient to guard against data races on Ruby 2, under the guild system, locks would be needed to guard against concurrency issues if multiple threads are present.

It would seem like the intention would be to replace usages of Thread with Guild to avoid the concurrency issues inherent with threaded code. Will there be API support to create a Guild that only allows a single thread?
Worse: They're having fun in ways someone doesn't like.
Apple quietly made it cheaper to replace a cracked iPhone screen
It's even better if UBI is funded by a nationwide land value tax, which would discourage both NIMBYism in low density, high value communities and using real estate as a store of wealth (instead of as a productive investment).
List of resources to learn deep learning
This rehashed clickbait appears occasionally in slightly different form. Blurry photos followed by half-baked claims resurface as lazy copy and paste "news".

It's no surprise that BBC and ABC have jumped on this rubbish and push it with the obligatory wink-wink "isn't this fun" journalism plaguing these media outlets.

There is no widespread belief in the existence of this animal. Human activity has sent many a creature packing its bags from this world. The thylacine is just one on a long list.
https://blockstack.org/docs/how-blockstack-works has some interesting info.

I'm on board with the idea of a DNS replacement using a distributed hash table but I'm not clear on why Bitcoin specifically or a blockchain generally need to be involved.
> The CS term for those kind of constraints are "invariants", and asserts are a way to be notified if those invariants are violated.

An “invariant” is a function of the process state whose value remains constant (hence “invariant”) in spite of changes to the process state. Perhaps you meant “precondition” or “postcondition”?

> Only there are no assurances for that. If the invariants in your program were somehow guaranteed to be "real"

Guaranteeing that preconditions, postconditions and invariants hold when they're supposed to hold is your job, not the computer's.

> then you wouldn't need asserts.

I absolutely don't need asserts. An assert merely describes what you want, but that's useless to me, unless you establish a relation between what you want and what your program actually does - with proof.

> Asserts are there because whether you tried to make your invariants "become real" or not, you'll still miss things, have bugs,

It will become patently clear when the proof doesn't go through.

> have unexpected interactions with code/systems outside your control etc.

What happened to sanitizing input at system boundaries?

> Assertions are not expected to "magically become true"

Of course. Assertions are expected to always be true.
he probably meant not using string literals / ints outside of top-level declarations, so you would instead assign all these parameters to "constants" at top level and then use those constants in function calls, hence avoiding this error.
You don't think a direct attack against the customer would be better spent energy than hitting Linodes APIs?
> Programmers don't expect automatic "recovery" from assertions,

Users don't expect failed asserts at all.

> Captain Obvious?

Apparently not obvious enough for JonnieCache, who said: “If you have the process quit it definitely stops them from being false though.”
Military spending resembles insurance to some extent--sure, the returns are normally terrible, but unexpected events that the spending covers are even more terrible.
It strikes me as absurd to say that Assange is pro-Trump, unless you think anti-HRC and pro-Trump are identical positions.
I'm not a neuroscientist, but I have noticed in my life that there's certainly times where stress and internal drive form a loop which interferes with sleep. Crunch time, changes in employment, or trying to get something new off the ground with issues you don't yet know how to solve all adds up.

Fight-or-Flight is a valuable response to actual life-and-death danger, but for some the brain turns too many innocuous things into saber tooth tigers.
We use them for a customer facing display with a barcode scanner to register visits within our system and to give instructions based on capacity (wait for call or proceed). Not one of them failed us since the installation one year ago. And when it happens, we have a complete backup Pi ready to replace the broken one at every site because they are so damn cheap. Before the Pi ~$500 "mini" PCs where used.
Switch base to use private LibreSSL libaries (DragonFly BSD)
Yep! But, like I mentioned, linter can catch this too.
Same here, same (minor) problems. The human interaction part is pretty much covered when I used yourorg@mail.my-name.tld for registration, but the more provocative variation yourorg@spam.my-name.tld occasionally raises some eyebrows.

The nasty part is replying with the main address as the sender. I'd really love to have email clients with reasonable support for this usage pattern for the platforms I use, but maybe then the pattern might become popular enough to lose some of its advantages.
Packages built in the same shitty way as always. I expected nothing less from
you guys.
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How the blockchain could save journalism – for free
I think for a lot of people, it is hard to find employment in small cities in their field of work. If you want to have a finance career or software career, you need to be in a big city.

How many software engineers does Billings, Montana hire with comfortable compensation?
ElixirConf Slides, What Keeps You from Using Using Elixir and Asynchronous Tasks
It's magic of transferring membership. I omitted details on slides.
There is a link in the blogpost, where you can play around: https://myapp-7175.restdb.io/public/index

You can also get the code from Github here and set it up yourself: https://github.com/RestDB/clientexamples/tree/master/Auth0%2...
How one couple saved $1M in 4 years to retire by age 43
Sadly, when saving cycles vs. the risk to the customer, the customs always carries the risk.

> I'm no fan of lawyers or litigation, but it's high time that someone defined "buffer overflow" as being equal to "gross criminal negligence".

> I have been told that one of the reasons for the longevity of the Roman bridges is that their designers had to stand under them when they were first used. It may be time to put a similar discipline into the software field.
My mistake and ignorance on the 'from relative obscurity' part, but the strategy works nonetheless. I'm not knocking the method. If it works, it works. It was just an observation.
I agree. The eBay hand-me-down market is strong for high-performance gear in this range. I've also seen FPGA kits and SGI Altix servers at similar price. Nothing wrong with new products at various price points but lets not kid ourselves on their relative value.
That also has to do with line-wrapping of word characters.
We'll be doing comparisons against Kairos and OpenTSDB in the coming months. We just get asked about Cassandra specifically quite a bit.
The mods will tend to see questions in threads on the main page, but the way to contact them directly is hn@ycombinator.com. (From the guidelines, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Can you elaborate? Specifically who 'we' are and how Sanders and Trump were helped.
1. That wasn't the argument.

2. No, it still wouldn't make sense to reject existing email addresses if there is a method to figure out whether the email address you are being presented with actually exists instead of divining validity using some unreliable proxy. There is just absolutely no reason to ever reject an email address that you can successfully send emails to.
On Being a Black Female Math Whiz During the Space Race
It's just that they failed to mitigate the obvious risk factors in their marketing plan.

The justified ridicule about the removal of the audio jack started already months before the release so to many people selecting courage as the leading word portrays Apple's willful ignorance regarding the issues they cause.
If they offered or emphasized their solutions for wired earphones their marketing wouldn't have had to take such a beating.

On the other hand, if they succeed in impressing their fans with the remaining features the audience will find a interpret the topic name in a positive light. For instance, it's the courage to move away towards the more comfortable wireless ear/headphones.
Just scroll down and you'll see various people describing that they support the design since they themselves don't really need those old-style earphones. Psychologically predictable behavior.
Basic Patterns for Mobile Navigation (UI and UX)
I don't understand this benchmark at all. It says performance of a 1000 node cluster, but then shows 100k inserts per second in Cassandra. Then later follow up comments say that this test was on a single machine. Without seeing the schema, 100k inserts / sec is reasonable for a single machine. For 1000 machines it would mean there is a pretty massive configuration issue.

If you are going to benchmark a distributed system, you really need to set up more than 1 server.

(Disclaimer - work at Datastax)
So, in effect, with word-wrapping on in the terminal, this scenario effectively produces a "Shlemiel the painter's algorithm" [0] in that for every character output on the same line (when it exceeds the line length), you have go backtracking in vain to find a place to break - where this is none - so outputting N characters on a line is basically an O(N^2) operation.

0. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html
Give it a month or two. Someone will ship a dual adapter.
A collection of good resources to wrap your heads around Web RTC
I don't have a problem with the removal if the headphone jack, as I never listening with the phone connected to power at the same time.

Why crappy lightning headphones? What makes them crappy?
This is probably because the state of Montana has a 90.6% white population and a 6.2% American Indian population.

There are only 2,700 [1] black people living in the state, it looks to me like they're exactly showing the racial diversity of the state. Sure, they could have a single black person so the numbers are correct but then someone will just complain about them including a single, token black person.

The Billing specific census information is a little bit older but has the same 0.3% figure for black people [2] - that puts their total black population at 270/95,220.

[1] http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/data/montana/demographic...
[2] http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/data/montana/billings/
I think that was something different than franchise fatigue, as those were cases of a very slight variation of the same thing being released over and over. I think franchise fatigue is more about new stuff being released in the same setting and people being tired of the setting. People were still very excited about Episode 1 when it came out (not so much after), so I think that points to it being less of a franchise fatigue problem than an overexposure of a few movies (at that time, at least).
Heh, reminds me of a bug I ran into a couple of weeks ago. Users on Wikipedia were complaining that typing into the editor <textarea> on certain pages was sluggish. I eventually narrowed it down to the presence or absence of an invisible left-to-right or right-to-left mark control characters elsewhere in the page. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296050 for the gory details.
I remember in the 90s you could walk into into an interview and they would say "You are a smart guy, you'll learn it". I got a C++ job based on the fact that I was really good with PL/1 and FORTRAN. No way you could do this today.

People wouldn't switch jobs that much if they actually saw a path forward inside the company. Just give them a some raises and actually reward seniority. From my managers I sometimes get the sense that anybody who has worked under them for a few years is spoiled goods and needs to be replaced with fresh outside blood.
Kind of reminds me of CAN BUS.
The content of his leaks is irrelevant. What matters is the intent behind releasing them.

Assange being alt-right and the fact that he is going out of his way to leak material that improves the chances of the standard-bearer of the alt-right, Donald Trump, becoming head of state of the most powerful country on Earth are absolutely 100% linked together, and those links should be investigated.

Some information should not be public for a reason.
"as those who have shut themselves in their homes for at least seven years accounted for about 35 percent of the total"

The US measure of severe phobia is one thing, but the cutoffs being used for the phenomenon in Japan are way stricter.
Update: Only 2 left.
Obligatory old man rant/question... why does software development need to be delightful? I just need it to work and not get in my way. I have other things I can do in my life that are delightful, like reading a good book or watching my kid's first steps.

Edit: I'm sorry, that came off with a lot extra snark and not nearly as much joking as I was intending. I'm happy that people find working with cookies delightful.
We're happy to take PRs. Seems everyone has opinions on packaging and you know what it's like when everyone has opinions, right? :)
Benjamin, the last thylacine in captivity, died of exposure because his keepers omitted to unlock his sleeping quarters overnight. Even for an extinction event, that is pretty sad.
Interesting, why isn't it as popular as Ramadan? I could barely find anything about it online.
> 'Innocent until proven guilty' concerns the court system, but not the rest of civil society.

To be a truly civil society, we have a moral obligation to raise ourselves to this standard.
This is actually a severe problem that I have. I'd really like to work remote, so that I could live anywhere. At the same time, however, what if my company goes under, I get laid off, &c., I'm essentially stuck in a sub-optimal position.

I really wish remote were more frequent a benefit.
What about these?
https://www.browserleaks.com/firefox
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=863246
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903959
How much time every day do you spend on learning German?
"1 GB RAM"
"experiment". Do you really think our evolving ancestors ate every single day, regularly, on schedule? The only experiment here is a modern world that eats every day, regularly.
How does that affect /dev/random?
> Why is that? Feels like AWS and Azure are bad for pretty much every aspect of their business. Genuinely curious.

I'm an outsider, but not all industries can use the 'real' cloud (AWS and Azure) for legal reasons (think banking, finance & health). VMWare + EMC storage can be part of a compelling self-hosted/hybrid 'cloud' solution.
Does sending audio through a cable really take that much power that a USB-compliant port won't also charge at the same time? Sounds like a problem with the car, not with the port. Just because it's running over the same cable doesn't mean it's automatically half the bandwidth.
Many real world sites have strategic/marketing partners who ask to add analytics scripts so that they can capture metrics for their partnerships with you/your real world site...And if your site has been optimized, but their servers (which serve up these 3rd-party/analytics scripts) aren't as optimized, guess where the slow down comes from? And senior leaders don't always enforce these partners to confirm to internal performance standards. So, yes, unfortunately real world sites DO have - or at least are forced to have - stuff like that.
>At a point in time, I truly believed Assange's goals were justice and transparency, now I am beginning to feel like he has his own political agenda, and is making sophomoric attempts to affect political change.

He has always very openly had a political agenda. You just don't like the new flavor of his Koolaid.
Scientific study proves (and sometimes doesn't) thing we take as common sense. Recently there was a study that dogs understood us more than was previously thought. Which wasn't a shocker but you have a camp of folks saying dogs understand nothing and another camp that continuously speak to their dogs. The scientific study just adds empirical proof.
What's the YCombinator co?
Upvotes mean nothing, displays of gratitude mean a lot. Not my quote, but I'm glad you liked it!
That's how it typically works with e-mail. I see this as an indication that perhaps someone who received the e-mail opened it (since it was part of the leak and not removed by a spam filter). This is why you probably you shouldn't run your own e-mail server if you clearly have no clue. Hiring the correct people does help keep your reputation intact.

[edit: down voting for actually answering a question factually - I would love for the open the attachment not to spread viruses - even anti-virus makers don't catch them all]
You're being unfair there, Marvel Studios movies have pretty decent stories and a lot of comedic value even disregarding all the action. There is a reason they never get panned like a lot of the DC ones.
Multi-Purpose Android Music Machine
So the Yuppie Nuremberg Defense, then?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427944/quotes?item=qt0418062
Unless I'm using a string more than once or its meaning is unclear, I always use the literal. In most cases, I find it more legible than having to go look up a constant's definition.

Then yes, I rely on the linter and testing.
Not just IB. I'm in digital media and many managers/analysts have comparable skills. Really we are just looking at different metrics. Lots of the same data munging and modeling.

A lot of what he was doing wasn't even that fancy, just lots of holding ctrl to navigate cell ranges quickly and pasting of formulas and such. I'm surprised he didn't format his data more nicely though, but if this is just for his own personal use I get it. Color formatting for inputs vs calculated metrics are really helpful though.
Well, if that's the only complaint you have, then I think Influx have done a stellar job :-)
They occasionally deliver. The second Captain America movie was a fairly good spy thriller, IMO.
The Product Manager’s RuleBook
Maybe, but we get asked all the time about Cassandra vs. us. Both in terms of feature set and performance. And performance only makes sense for our potential users if we're trying to replicate the features on Cassandra.
Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts
Makes me think of Hero Protagonist from Snow Crash living in a storage lockup on the edge of LAX.
I was on a strict diet/exercise regime for seven years before I tried fasting.
How to invest in water like Dr. Michael Burry from The Big Short
There are other reasons to live in a city besides a job. I imagine that as we move toward a "jobless" future cultural and scientific output will increase, and you'll still want to be around the people who are doing the "cool stuff."
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As a New Mexican with family in Libby (near Kalispell), Missoula is the one of the three that interests me. But I'm not a big outdoors buff.
There's a difference between thinking something and saying it. You're entitled to think he is a rapist, you're not entitled to say it (in public, without some kind of qualification like "alleged").

It's especially bad form to make libellous comments on someone else's website, as you are making more work for the mods who now have to delete it.
Elizabeth Warren of all people has focused on this as a problem in the US also.

The move from single-income to double-income families produced far less than a doubled standard of living, but it drove housing prices sky high. It's an interesting natural experiment for what we might see with UBI programs (which act a lot like adding a 'free' wage-earner to each household).
It's not that simple--if you express negative emotion such as sadness and melancholy, it's easy to find support here. However if you use that negative emotion as a springboard for resentment, grudges, and generalized hate, as OP has, you won't find a good reception.
It could be argued that if it "just works" and is not in your way that it feels delightful to program with :)
The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM
Any chance you have a writeup or blog post about the boat system? I'd be interested to read about the setup.
I think its a great play by Nintendo to use mobile as a new conversion/user acquisition channel. I don't think we've seen any changes in the way Nintendo has been acquiring/marketing to new (non-previously-Nintendo-platform-owning) customers in the past 5 years. Putting their base IPs on popular mobile platforms is what appears to be their first modern approach at customer acquisition and will likely serve as a good upsell strategy to their hardware platforms.
God is even better than killer robots.

God says...
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the CIA gets executed in the new world order.

38 Then fire from the Lord came down and burned the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the ground around the altar. It also dried up the water in the ditch. 39 When all the people saw this, they fell down to the ground, crying, “The Lord is God! The Lord is God!”

40 Then Elijah said, “Capture the prophets of Baal! Don’t let any of them run away!” The people captured all the prophets. Then Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley, where he killed them.