skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to see this stuff (seems like they should have had this earlier) but to me the real market shifting is less about performance and much more about preformance/watt and unit pricing. If you can push the boundaries on those two areas and still make it easy to hack then I think you have something that could push innovation to a new level. Still it is great to see this!
Something about their own diagram bugs me: it’s clear that Xamarin covers a wide variety of targets all by itself so (on the surface) it already seems to have an architecture that handles new APIs well. Shouldn’t the logical course be to extend Xamarin and encourage developers to migrate to that?

Given Xamarin code that works on Macs, iOS and Android, no one would call Microsoft’s layer of peanut butter the API to “rule them all” except Microsoft.
That actually doesn't sound much like SCSH to me. SCSH was really just a library for posix integration, as well as some common shell idioms that came with it. And a damned good one, too. It was originally designed for situations in which you might write (notoriously unmaintainable) shell scripts, but it's so good that some of its APIs have become almost de-facto standard. In particular, SRE and the AWK macro really caught on.
Good post, but the author needs to read this article. I interpret the tone in some places to be condescending.

https://css-tricks.com/words-avoid-educational-writing/
I'm sure they'd survive a lot better sans-tusk because of a mutation than because of a bullet and a hacksaw.
It has been solved already so I guess people do know why. Title was a bit clickbait-y
Are those museum pieces, or are there some insane industries still using actual Teletypes?
Wait, they're proposing four story, wooden multiple-occupancy buildings? Would those meet fire safety standards anywhere in the developed world? I doubt their example photo (sheltered accommodation for the elderly in the UK) is wood, since we don't generally build that way, and from what I can tell it cost substantially more than their budget despite being built somewhere with low land costs.

I also notice that their photos of how six-story buildings would look are actually mostly four stories or less - and even at that height, they're starting to look pretty crowded in and dark. That's the trouble with dense high-rise buildings - you rapidly run out of light and privacy. This has two nasty effects on their proposals: it limits the density at which you can manage to cram them in and puts a lower cap on the minimum size.
Probably there will be no more elephants in 25 years, except for small numbers in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries in developed countries.

At the rate it is going, African wildlife will largely disappear even as the human population explodes. Already there are over 1.2 billion humans on the continent, and not enough food, not enough stability or prosperity. Bush meat is popular and can be bought anywhere, which of course means people are hunting and eating protected species.

There are a couple hundred thousand chimpanzees left in Africa; there were once millions. There are maybe 20,000 lions, down from half a million. There were once millions of African elephants; now they're down to half a million and still dropping. Many other species are facing similar fates.

We humans are like a blight on this planet. Maybe we should quickly develop extraterrestrial colonization technologies, get the population off world, and preserve the Earth as a giant animal sanctuary.
Yes, they had DoD and DoE assets. They are very specific about who can go in there.
Ask HN: How to best manage multilingual content
I was wondering if anyone had any tips about how to manage content written in different languages.

We currently have two sites for English and Japanese users and the back-end is set up such that there are unique pages for the English and Japanese sites.

More recently, we have been moving towards more dynamic pages using Angular and part of that has allowed us to essentially create content once that can exist on both sites but be rendered in the target language of the site. Similarly, users can toggle languages for the content on both sites.

Right now, we are transitioning to include support for more languages (German, French, and Spanish) and what I want to see is if there are other people that have experience with managing content in multiple languages.
>The problem is that invoking subprocesses can be quite verbose.

Which is why SCSH is kickass.
>> With widely used software such as an operating system or productivity suite, deploying those patches can cost as much as $1 million, the researchers say.

That is part of why so many people dislike Microsoft's attitude. Who cares that it costs 1m to deploy a patch. Corporate customers are going to be spending far more than a million installing that patch. Just think about how many customers are out there who have to test and apply this patch. Fixing a vulnerability prior to release is worth billions of dollars to millions of customers. That should be the math, not how much MS must spend every other Tuesday.
I think that was found out about 20 minutes after this HN post.
If we want to deal in over-simplifications, from the toroid simplification of the human body the microbiome is entirely external to it and the energy it extracts is way more important than the energy in "food".

I think at this point we both have very different views of who is being pedantic and I don't think we are going to convince each other of anything.
Capitalists coordinating together to not make money?

Not sure that is possible.
There are well established processes to vet someone who might be handling sensitive information. There are security clearances that can be obtained. The fact that someone is from a foreign country should not be the basis of discriminating against them.

Secondly if Palantir works on highly sensitive data it probably requires applicants to be US citizens. So essentially it is probably discriminating against Asian Americans and not citizens of other countries.
You can, with e.g. ThinApp, but with some issues. That was the reason of my question: if Docker could increase compatibility in that regard.
Deco is great! We'd love to get Exponent and Deco playing well together, we've discussed it with their team but haven't had the time yet -- it'll happen one day.
No. Dishwasher uses less energy, less water and less detergent. [0]

Of course things depend on your use case - if you really have just that one cup and spoon, then handwashing may be better, at least if you are happy with some grease left in the dishes.

[0] http://www.treehugger.com/kitchen-design/dishwasher-vs-handw...
Alooma pricing varies greatly. Our customers are paying anywhere between $1000 and $15000 per month. Because the variance is so big, we prefer to have a conversation before providing a quote. There is a two weeks free trial though, to test things out.
I think we're confounding a few different facts here:

* Effect of 3rd-degree price discrimination on total surplus can be positive or negative, and that was the point I was trying to make

* We both agree that price discrimination transfers surplus from consumers as a whole towards the producer

* However, it's easy to show that at least in the simple case of perfect 3rd-degree price discrimination, the 'poor' consumer is either indifferent or is made better off when the producer can price discriminate

Sketch of a proof: In a 3rd-degree price discriminated market, let P1 and P2 be the reserve prices of 'poor' and 'rich' consumers, respectively. Now let's get rid of price discrimination -- what's the new profit-maximizing price for the producer?

It's easy to show that it cannot be less than P1 or more than P2, so the new price P* lies in [P1, P2].

In that case, all the 'poor' consumers that were paying P1 must now pay P* or not transact at all, so they are all now worse off.

Note that you have been emphasizing the transfer of wealth from consumer to producer, but classical microeconomics focuses most of its attention towards total surplus, which includes producer profit. This is because you can always find ways to divvy up surplus once it's been created to make things more fair (e.g. by taxing the producer or by distributing equity around), but you can never recover deadweight losses.
I saw the mention of "Curated and pre-tested Helm chart", I am curious if anyone is running databases on Kubernetes?
Well, real conses would be nice, for a start...
Mylan's EpiPen profit was 60% higher than what the CEO told Congress
A poor man's version is to draw it onto a canvas and save the canvas, e.g.:

var svg = '<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="100" width="100"><circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" stroke="black" stroke-width="3" fill="red" /></svg>';
i = new Image();
var cnv = document.createElement('canvas');
var ctx = cnv.getContext('2d');
i.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(i, 0, 0);
console.log(cnv.toDataURL());
}
i.src = 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,'+ btoa(svg);
A Doctor Trying to Stop Heart Attacks
Without support for native modules, is it at all possible to use something like card.io with Exponent? Also, are there any plans to allow plugins that make use of native modules in the way the core SDK uses them?
"Hopefully over time" will leave us with the tech and not the elephants. There's no reason not to both attack demand, and supply at the same time. Even if the result is less than perfect, delay at this point will allow for that tech you mentioned.
Looks like a Linux kernel issue with huge pages on AMD at the moment, not a Rust problem at all.
Thanks for the reply. As coincidence would have it, this appeared on HN just a couple hours after, referencing the same paper:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12581420

Appears to be fundamentally 2D, but the interpolation between orientations gives it a sort of meta 3D aspect.
>In fact if every CA could take a full code security audit and provide complete certificate transparency in the manner proposed

Given the risks that screwups have to their business, I would think CAs would VOLUNTARILY do this.
I think this is a youtube upload of one of the animations from http://www.hpdz.net/ -- there's a ton others on there too.

They go into the techniques a bit on the site under the "technical" section.
Here's what you said:

> The war happened overwhelmingly _because_ slavery was going to be abolished.

That's not the same as "working toward abolition."

> this exact language is leading people to believe that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery

[citation needed]

> Just because it hadn't yet happened does not mean it can be an important, or even primary motivator.

I said that a desire to keep the institution of slavery was the primary motivation. That is not the same as them reacting to abolition, which would violate causality.

Please try to be more civil rather than slinging around insults and accusations.
I thought this was gonna be a post about cooking, I'm still not sure what this is
It's worse even than that, because a substantial portion of their customer base will need to renew during the year, and will switch to new CAs. Not only do they forgo a year of revenue, but they also begin the next year with a substantially reduced customer base.
And isn't fuzzing the software of the people who make beer a worthy thing? I'd be upset if any l33t haxors interfered with my supply of beer...
I came from python and take the opposite view: it's nice to be able to look at a call to a function, and at least have a reasonable clue at where it's going.
This seems to be the case in every country today.

Basically the definition of 'comfort' underwent a huge upgrade without a equivalent upgrade in the perception of costs that would go to afford them. This is largely happening because people are using the term 'working-class' and 'middle-class' to measure to make different measurements in different times.
I think your first statement answers your question.
Tl;dr: Linux transparent hugepages at fault:

> # echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled helped, it is fast even on AMD now.
I like and am at the same time annoyed that it is so simple.

One the one hand I have a doze features I'd like to have. On the other I know those are mostly time wastes.
What other industries do you have in mind? It almost feels like every industry has been impacted by a startup in the past few years.
Wow, this would be devastating if they actually went through with revoking their root certificate.

StartCom is (well, was) the only competition to Let's Encrypt in the free certificate space. It is far and away the cheapest direct provider of wildcard certificates (which are impossible to get for free), unless you move into reseller territory. And even their free certificates last four times as long, and don't require the use of certbot.

Certainly, Let's Encrypt works great for a lot of peoples' needs. But for those it doesn't (and there's more of them than you might think), this is seriously bad news.

It's easy to get onboard wanting to punish WoSign/StartCom here, but keep in mind that this has the potential to screw over all of their innocent customers as well. (Future customers with the first action; all customers if the second action comes to pass and they revoke the root CA.) And screwing them could likely mean they abandon HTTPS completely instead.

Note that I am not advocating for Mozilla to give them a pass; far from it. If anything, this is just one more indictment on the long list of reasons why the entire CA system is completely broken.

I actually just recently purchased a certificate, and had my choices narrowed down to StartSSL or AlphaSSL. I am really glad I went with the latter right about now. I can't tell you how absolutely livid I would become if Mozilla ended up revoking my root CA after dropping over $100 on my certificate.
Or deeper than you >can< understand it without probing, because documentation is simplistic, wrong or non-existent.
I love it! Doesn't get much more minimal than that.

Here's my relatively bloated pomodoro tracker: http://alexose.github.io/pomodoro/
From the thread, it seems that the AMD/Intel difference wasn't actually a factor.

The two machines in question were apparently configured differently in their handling of transparent huge pages. So the following solved the problem:

echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
Maybe I'm just naive, but I have trouble believing that one group of US citizens as a whole has more "loyalty" issues than another. Is it a concern about spies? Racially biased hiring practices seems like an overly broad way of trying to address focused espionage.

If it's about hiring non-citizens, then I think there's a legitimate procedural issue around employees needing clearance levels, but I'd find it hard to believe that there would be a lawsuit over racial biases if it's driven by clearance requirements making non-citizens ineligible.
The board SoC quality is very good. However, it can not compete with e.g. the CHIP SoC board [1], which costs just 9 USD + shipping with similar specs (I have two CHIP running 24/7 without any additional cooling, running rock solid -even in summer, at 35-40º C indoor-).

The only thing that would make me consider buying the BeagleBone Black Wireless is the two built-in microcontrollers ("PRU" processors [2]), for real-time I/O usage.

[1] https://getchip.com/

[2] http://beagleboard.org/pru

P.S. I'm not related to CHIP product, just a happy user :-)
The cited example was interns.

Who doesn't favor employee referrals for interns? You can be encrusted in diamonds and you're going to get put in the back of the line behind the known quantities and get-in-so-and-so's-good-graces hires for an intern position. There's also the fact that people start to favor/discriminate schools based on history. Had a great intern from Stanford? Hire another Stanford kid. Had a terrible intern from Texas Tech? Scratch all the TT kids who apply for a few years.

We'll see how this pans out, but like most of the other people in this thread, I'm inclined to give Palantir the benefit of the doubt at the moment.
I'm not in a position to shorten that time by, say, pitching a Y-Combinator start-up proposal to buy some military grade drones with thermal imaging systems and deploy these over areas with vulnerable elephant tribes, but you're welcome to try.

People will Kickstarter some pretty crazy things, so maybe theres's a business to be had here. If the local authorities permit selling of naming rights, who knows how high the bidding could get.
Seems like its failing to import contacts and groups from my phone? Anyone else having this problem? I can provide debug logs if that would be helpful.
Do they actually make 'millions' in ad revenue though? Even if this lawsuit is successful, another site(s) will just replace it.

Taking audio from a youtube video is pretty simple code wise and it'd be a good idea to open source that maybe as a browser extension if someone hasn't already done it.
There's this http://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm which runs FreeBSD quite well and has gigabit/etc plus the ability to add wireless
I second this. The STM32 discovery series boards are really great for messing around with!
I think that is an overly simplistic view. There are plenty of people who live in a given city, or a given neighborhood in a city, because it was a good fit for the kind of place they wanted to live.

In many non-tech fields jobs aren't concentrated so heavily in just a couple of cities. You can decide what you are looking for in terms of climate, commute, recreation, culture, transportation, and so on, find a city and neighborhood that has that, and then go there and find a job.

These people often pick a place to live, with the intent of staying there for the rest of their working life, and raising their families there.

It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with greed when they oppose changes to the factors that led them to be there in the first place, especially when the people who want that change are people who came there not because they particularly wanted to live there but rather because some company they wanted to work for requires its employees to live there, and those people have no intention of staying long term.

Next time I move, I'm going to be looking for a place with reasonably dark sky, good bicycling, a climate that is warm enough that I mostly don't need to turn on the heat, low enough density that if I want to listen to music or watch a movie at 3 AM I won't be bothering my neighbors (and vice versa), a decent chess within 60 miles, and good internet access. You can bet afterwards I'll vote against change that would change any of those, even if the proposed changes would raise the value of my property, because I'd be buying the property as a home, not as an investment that I can incidentally live in.
s/queues/topics
They don't; Finland is in between as a buffer. Traditionally, Finland had stronger land forces and guerilla warfare capacity, Sweden had stronger navy and air force. That's pretty much gone now.

Sweden is btw considering to bring back the draft (conscription), and now it would be both for men and women.
Wrong people. The shooters are just poor kids who are doing this to earn a meager living. Their "employers" care less about them than the elephants. They will simply find some other poor hungry kids and pay them to kill the elephants. What they need to do is catch the recruiters / middle men and shoot them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8g-lugXGBQ
Learn Ruby: Free Course
The thoughtful solutions on this forum remind me of this xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/538/

I am Kenyan. A conveniently left out truth when discussing the poaching menace here is that the big bad poacher in the story is non other than the president's mother. Your intelligence in this case will be no match for the force of sheer impunity backed by state resources
We published this because there are lots of legacy tools that approach this problem with two specific weaknesses:

* Many tools just scan a text file where you declare your dependencies, which misses transitive dependencies and won't tell you exactly which versions are in use

* They use incomplete datasets for vulnerabilities, like CVE. Most OSS projects don't create CVEs for vulnerabilities, so it is a mostly useless datasource.

Besides having a complete view of the dependencies, we have a research team that is finding and disclosing new vulnerabilities all the time, which you can see here:
https://www.sourceclear.com/registry/explore
I was trying to write a tutorial about how to setup Kubernetes on bare metal. I have created etcd cluster of 5 nodes that checks certificates of clients that communicate with it for security. Sadly I found that at least one command in Kubernetes is either not using provided certificates or I am doing something wrong. I can see that entries get created in etcd, so certificates are definitely correct, but kubectl get cs shows that etcd cluster is not healthy. Given that I see some parts of Kubernetes talk with etcd fine, but I am not able to tell the scope of correctness I am kind of blocked. I don't know whether this is something being worked on, or maybe should I look into it and possibly fix. Tried to ask on Kubernetes Slack, but nobody seemed too interested in this. I am guessing everyone is running etcd without checking certificate validity? Because I was able to run it this way, but that kind of feels wrong. I also wanted to check if problem exists with Kubernetes 1.4, but I couldn't find any migration guides. Maybe I'll just start again...

Said article:

https://medium.com/@elcct/kubernetes-on-bare-metal-part-5-ku...

and the ticket:

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/29330
Right?? Did they even look at our "About Us" or "Careers" page?

-person on the 'careers' page
The profit CEO Heather Bresch told Congress about was calculated after factoring in the 37.5% U.S. tax rate, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission first reported by the Wall Street Journal. That tax rate is more than five times the overall tax rate the company actually paid last year and is much higher than its actual U.S. tax rate, which tax specialists have pegged at close to zero.

Is Bresch now at risk of prosecution for making false or misleading statements in her Congressional testimony?[1]

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/07/what-happens-if-you-lie-to-co...
Absolutely. But then the seller has their money tied into the property for potentially years and you're now in business with this complete stranger (e.g. if they stop payments you're responsible for chasing that down, if the property burns down they may just run off into the sunset, etc).

Unfortunately some people are forced into that arrangement simply because otherwise they'll never be able to offload it. It is something to keep in mind when getting into these types of property.

PS - Keep in mind that if you receive cash for this property you could use it as a downpayment on another, without getting all of the cash up-front you'll have to take out a bigger mortgage against your next property which will cost you money in interest over the life of the loan. So even ignoring the administrative hassle of seller financing, you're now also out of pocket.
It's not necessarily 1:1 file:module.

`#lang foo ....` in name.rkt is (in part) a shorthand for `(module name foo ....)`.

A single Racket file can have 1 or more modules.

Each module can also have sub-modules.

Modules generalize runtime vs. compile-time to many kinds of time, including but not limited to "test time", "doc time", etc. Also they enable reproducible compiles by clarifying what "compile-time" actually means relative to other modules. It's more than "paste these s-expressions at the top-level prompt and auto-prefix some names."

Racket has a wonderful module system and sometimes I miss that in Clojure, although I enjoy Clojure very much in other respects.
Can it be that those prices are imaginary until there's stock? It seems like a nice board (I have a old BBB, with ethernet, and it's solid), but the CHIP [1] gets you wifi and BT for $9...

1: https://getchip.com/pages/chip