skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced that FPGAs are effective in general purpose computation. FPGAs are quite expensive in terms of power, density and overall cost per function. It's not like this hasn't been tried many times before (Google even bought a company that used FPGAs for a reconfigurable network stack processor, but as far as I can see the product never made it).
Listen - I'm not above accusing LinkedIn of horrible things, but here we are basically taking the word of a call center rep over what we (should) know to be technical limitations of the platform in question.

One of 3 things seems to be possible here:

1) The rep is right and gmail has an XSS vulnerability that LinkedIn is using

2) LinkedIn and Google are in bed and sharing this information based on some fingerprint-foo

3) This guy or his other contacts somehow at some point succumbed to LinkedIn trickery and gave access to his gmail account.

Don't know about you, but #3 seems most likely to me...
I think the latter. According to the decompression instructions in README.md,
"The reads will NOT be in the same order as in the original file".

It sounds like it's meant results of DNA sequencing processes that produce sequences for random small pieces of the molecule.
Bash scripts aren't magically multi-platform either. If you want something to work right on multiple platforms, you have to understand those platforms' proper distribution and packaging methods. Sure it's a pain, but so is writing the mother of all bash scripts to handle every condition on every platform. You won't get it right, just like all the people who tried to do the exact same thing back in the 80s didn't get it right. That approach failed so consistently and so badly that people created package managers to bring some sanity to the situation. They're still the best solution available, even if they're not perfect.

BTW, it's not just about security. It's also about correctness, consistency, repeatability, reversibility, auditability, etc. As a developer, I still build and install actual packages on my test systems not because there's a security issue but so I can be sure that an uninstall/reinstall will work exactly as they should and not pollute my system with untracked changes. I don't know what kind of developer wants to risk checking in changes that don't match what they tested, but not the kind I want to work with.
>That might be what they say, but I think it's to compete with Google.

That's not how ownership works. It's not "what they say". Either they own the company or they don't...
“Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever
From the little I know of Mandarin, its speakers will likely feel at home with concatenated German words.
Yes, it does. But no, it does not seem to make any difference this one time.

In a DNS based amplification attack, you use several DNS servers to take down some other unrelated service, this time it's just a lot of devices in a botnet attacking the DNS servers directly.
Interestingly enough, you can get less radiation from diving in the spent fuel pool than being in open air: https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
I really liked HSLink, since you could both upload and download at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HS/Link
Hi, sorry for not posting links, I believed they were well known devices.
Just do a search on ebay for "h264 dvr 4ch".
Example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/131590806530
Trump outlines plan for first 100 days
It's not just the spoilers, but the fact that you know the game is over that ruins the fun for a lot of people.
Well, to stream some sports online.

Sling.TV has problems with licensing agreements where they can't show certain "in market" games, for instance. (There's other, subtler licensing problems too.)

The way that sports got split between the major networks and exclusivity agreements means that their cabal is essentially impossible to entirely replace via a streaming service for any kind of reasonable price even though I can sometimes get the product for free over the air.

Media licensing is a shitshow. Honestly, at this point, I'm for extending the situations under which a compulsory license is granted, setting up a fixed fee, and just letting people have at it.

We need a new model. Copyright as currently implemented is non-functional.
Found this comparison of Julia, MATLAB, R, Python and C/C++:

http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.5/manual/noteworthy-d...

At the highest level, Julia operates on all of the elements of a matrix for each operation, is 1-based, assigns by reference, is case-sensitive, has the range operator (:) like python, but doesn't allow negative indices to read from the end.

Now for some get off my lawn:

In terms of learnability from easiest to hardest, I would rank them:

Python

MATLAB

Julia

R

I'm still hoping for a pure functional language that operates on matrices and doesn't introduce a lot of non-imperative operators and terminology. For example closures with immutable data gets us a fair part of the way to Clojure, without the learning curve. For the most part I've given up on ever learning Erlang, Haskell, Scala, etc even though I know Scheme. Maybe F#, I dunno. I feel that Rust is one level of abstraction beneath my pain threshold. Swift is too micromanagy when it comes to nulls. Javascript has abandoned its scripting roots to regress back towards C++ and its new syntactic sugar isn't helping things. I really want to like Go but worry it will be superseded by a truly concurrent language running on video cards with automagic error handling. I've given up on CUDA and OpenCL due to their roots in OpenGL, because their metaphors are too cumbersome compared to MATLAB. C++ and PHP are still my most loved and hated languages because they do everything wrong but excel at things like performance and laziness. In the end, these are my primary goals.
I remember receiving a 2400' tape for our VAX 11/750 from Lancaster University (UK) containing a full dump of their Kermit repo. Having pulled off the relevant VAX/VMS, PC and various other program formats, we had a way to transfer files between a number in-house development systems. This would have been about 1983.
Comcast still has content via NBCUniversal.

Comcast didn't try to buy Time Warner, they tried to buy Time Warner Cable. Two different companies (as has been mentioned in probably 1/3 of the comments on this thread).
I really enjoy your writing. Thanks for sharing!
He could whip a thousand hamsters with a single lash
Comcast already bought NBC Universal. Train has left the station.
Tardigrade protein helps human DNA withstand radiation
I think Slepak said he's waiting on Ethereum or blockstack to pick up where namecoin died.
Why would you specifically mention "Chinese made" in the title? The actual article has a different title. Also, why does the fact that this device is made in China says anything about the device itself?
Blowing Off the Grid (2015)
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I disagree. People own property as assets and the point of an asset is that it everything is for sale for the right price. So in that same vein are you saying since you bought a car (property) you should not be allowed to sell or rent it? Or some land that happens to have oil on it: nope, you're unable to harvest those resources. The same goes for, or should, games digital or not, we should be able to buy and sell them.
My nr. 1 tip would be: Don´t say you understand when you don´t. I have had many wonderful experiences with Asian students always fun conversations and every single one I met was quite social from the start. But almost everyone I know has at least one story of a Chinese student doing nothing for days or weeks because they say they know what to do but don´t. I understand the cultural differences but try to be honest about what you know. Personally I consider it a form of strength to know your own weaknesses, I think many people in the west do.
A tale of love, betrayal, social engineering and Whatsapp
It appears that the National Toxicology Program site is blocked as well by specific internet providers:

http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov
It's totally fine to pick one, learn it, and never think about the other. One way is the old way, one way is new. Simple as that. There's never a case where you should use both.
What's with all this bullshit about "design"? They are copies, like a lot of Ikea stuff.

"Japanese designer Noboru Nakamura is the creator of the Poäng." Claims like this make me furious. They should at least give credit, and not pretend about these "designer stories".
Pure speculation, but maybe it's actually the Chinese?

We know it's Chinese equipment, we also know that industry there has strong ties to the Government, see the Huawei investigation as an example ( https://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/... )

Maybe the Chinese Government encouraged their suppliers to pump out unsecured crap, knowing they'd be in a position to flood the market and take advantage of it later?
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Well, you are right that capital has had net outflow

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/kill-sto...
You need radiation shielding on Mars as well.
Unless you live underground, I suppose.
Put the box in another box?
Absolutely! Should have thought of that myself. Added to the blog post now. Thanks.
Still has fees. Unless you use something like Robinhood through a partner.
If I bought a device like this, with the clear amount of skill and effort that went into its functions, I would never plug it into a computer, ever.
The slow loading of the community pictures in the background of the gitlab landing page (about.gitlab.com) gives the impression that it's very slow even if the relevant content on the page loads much faster. At this point Gitlab has a reputation for being slow so fighting this has to also be done at the perception level; not only ttfb level.
The article says this device is used to cheat in Vegas, but I don't see how that would be possible since you have to bring your own cards. It's hard to imagine casinos colluding on this, so I guess they're talking about private games that happen to be in Vegas?
That'a just a normal day in Dwarf Fortress.
Bathing in said runoff is an effective treatment for psoriasis :) https://scholar.google.is/scholar?hl=en&q=blue+lagoon+psoria...
NewWorldHacking and Anonymous behind massive DDoS attack on Dyn DNS service
I suppose these vendors are not major household names like Samsung, so it doesn't make as good of a story. I also wonder if perhaps the general public views attacks as inevitable -- sort of a force of nature -- whereas we view it as a problem that can be greatly reduced with specific actions.

As a software developer in the consumer electronics industry, I am quite concerned about these vulnerabilities and the industry's casual acceptance of them. :(
Note that this book is half-finished and work on it has been discontinued (as of 2 years ago). If you want a good resource on OSdev, start here: http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
Competition without regulation ultimately leads to monopolies. Companies survive because they're better than other companies, and eventually they get big enough to just buy off or crush newer competitors. At this point, the monopoly will either have internal problems resulting in inefficiency, or an external regulator in the form of government.

What's wrong with my logic though?
Half of the entire article is about the difficulties of acquiring the (Chinese!) device, him trying to figure out if this is actually a real device (only made in China!), and eventually going direct to a factory (which is in China!).

Read first, virtue signal second.
Yeah, that is all fine a few decades back. But today we are experiencing huge bubbles caused by central banks.

Stocks are hyper-inflated by QE and near-zero rates. When all that stops it will pop violently. And sooner or later, they will have to stop. This affects bonds even more, of course.
Why do companies with such large amount of machines all over the world not run their own DNS service?
You can certainly plug them in complement style, so that water does not run when it's not switching (except for leaks), and that pressure does not drop from one gate to the other (but you must consider fan-in and fan-out).
This is quite off-topic, but one logical and appropriate thing to do is approach a consultancy firm in Malaysia that specialize in business development/regulation/IT to learn how to talk in their "native language".
Yes, perfect, thank you. Deployed.
I never had any problems running archlinux for 3 years now. Im sure there are other rolling release distro that are more stable.
Probably a culture thing, but social fit is more than getting a partner.
Exactly, and I think people view any educational system that is adaptive as necessarily effective. It may be that this is often true, but of course it depends on the specifics and the way it's used in the classroom.

I think this company's strategy was to grab market share with a free product, then start charging for more and more features. By the time people go to pay, they forget that they never actually checked to see if the free product was actually effective in any way.
I assume there are a lot of games being played in Vegas at far from reputable establishments, where the owners of such places would love to kick the odds in their favor.

You know, the kind of place where your alcohol is mostly water (or floor cleaner) and clothing is optional for the wait staff.
Solution 1 is a committed solution.

Solution 2 is an uncommitted solution.

You can always go from 2 to 1 at a low cost.
Build it where there's the most hunger and avoid the issue completely.

If the discussion is towards feeding more people, then yes move the kitchen. If the discussion is about equality quotas, dismiss it and move on. Almost all race-based charity could be targeted at the poor and actually reach the same people, but it hurts everyone to dwell on that fact.

The real problem with "X" based charity, where X isn't "need", is that they adjust slowly to the changing landscape. And they waste money on the needless question of who to help rather than helping anyone who needs it.
You can't litigate your way to a fix. Lots of those devices will be in parts of the world where your lawsuit can't reach. Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa. We must engineer better solutions.
No, it doesn't have do expressions.
Saving for a Zyxel and get 16800 :)
Lots of good memories for the Elite 2864ID (ISDN) and U-1496E.

I had a project ~15 years ago with several thousand FAX Clients, and interestingly we had problems with every hardware card or modem we used except the (even then quite old) U-1496E which worked without flaw, whatever customer send data.
Ya, I should have phrased my original comment differently. The iPhone was the first phone that effectively made the on-screen keyboard unnecessary. Past devices did without one, but not without a significant loss of functionality.
This from the article:

“As if nature had realised that a
tremendous mistake had been made
and nature was speechless.”
Did any run Android though?
Not recommending the book is not the same as blaming the author.
That's exactly it. Too often, management is judged on short term performance. Risks are often ensured, or taken by daughter company that can be dropped. And even when not, they may believe the risk is so small that it's worth taking.

Especially when margins are low, cutting some corners for a small drop in costs can lead to a large increase in profits. And when the damage done to society as a whole, the lives lost, the radiation released, and the animals drowned in your oil, are not on your balance sheet, they don't directly factor into the decision. Only the money they have to pay as a result does, and that's never enough to undo the damage, and often not even enough to scare other companies from cutting similar corners, because letting those companies really pay, would bankrupt it and costs jobs.

It's perverse incentives all over the place.
Ha, blurry, but still recognisable.
Leh is capital of province in which this happened, it has 30K people. I think it should be possible to just buy new crappy laptop, which is standard procedure for DNs.

> There are no easy ways to get crashed computers or laptops repaired in Leh. There is a large samsung dealer shop in the Leh Main Market.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Leh
Are Netflix (and others) using multiple DNS providers simultaneously? If so, why?
The combination of Comcast and TWC would have been:

infrastructure
+ content
+ infrastructure

allowing the content portion of Comcast to have _more_ infrastructure leverage over competing content providers. Those competing content providers lobbied against the merger. Competing content providers (not already owned by an infrastructure company) may also lobby against this AT&T merger with Warner Bros & HBO.
I don't think the variable-length encoding itself is the author's concern, it's adding additional filters later without an overall version number. Unlike long file names in FAT32, adding additional filters is not backwards compatible. With a version number, it's super clear what can decode a file. Without, your xz file is only decodeable if your decoder implements the same set of filters as the encoder, rather than the much simpler approach of gzip where any gzip decoder can decode any gzip file.
Yeah, a few folks mentioned the hosted version is fine. However, I am not interested in hosting my own instance. That's said, I don't mind paying a small monthly fee if it means getting a faster cloud service on less crowded servers.
It certainly makes me appreciate my eyes.
After yesterday's attach on DynDNS many of us are asking the same thing.

I imagine it's a similar justification for using Cloudflare or another CDN.
Easy Way to View Previously Used Linux Commands in Your Text Editor
The Next Unicorn?
“Interview with film director, Michael G. Kehoe”
It's true, any foreigner in any group will face push back. It's tough, but it's human nature. To be fair, I wouldn't do that because that makes no sense to me personally.
Thanks! Worst practice, actually. Now I'll finishing reading the article, looks exciting! :)
Take from the rich, give to the poor.
The "movie plot" part of my brain loves this theory, but Hanlon's razor suggests otherwise.
This was a product that is sold largely to institutions, so that could be the issue. Big companies go after big markets, and they tend to view accessibility as niche (and therefore not worth their time). While a particular need might be niche (blindness = .1% of children), when you add up all accessibility needs, it's actually a large chunk of the student population (at least 20%) that gets left out.

I think some edtech companies improperly equate accessibility with special education and write it off as a separate (smaller) market. But the point of accommodations, in many cases, is that many kids can be taught alongside their peers in general ed classes—if they get the right accommodations.

For example, a kid with bad eyesight has an accessibility need (glasses, or if he can't afford them large text). He is not someone who needs to go to a separate special education class. Unfortunately, the lack of accessibility in popular edtech solutions means that kids like this are not able to be served in a gen-ed classroom. This leads to stigmatization and lower achievement.
I don't mind pastel colors. Material Design doesn't recommend pastels -- they recommend garish, over-saturated colors.

The docs say:

"Material takes cues from contemporary architecture, road signs, pavement marking tape, and athletic courts. Color should be unexpected and vibrant."

Things like pavement marking tape, road signs, and athletic courts are not aesthetically-pleasing models of design, and it shows in the final result.

Recommended colors like #e91e63 and #ff5722 look terrible on many monitors. Looking away from the monitor leaves a reverse impression of the color in my vision.

These recommended color schemes are distractingly unpleasant: https://material.google.com/style/color.html#color-color-sch...

Many sites these days don't consider that some people get disoriented by animation. If I'm trying to read an article, and parts of the page are animating with parallax effect or growing/shrinking, it pulls my attention away from the content. I don't want components to flip over, bounce, or use other "cute" easings. I sometimes stop using websites just because of that.

> Centered text/content is arguable, I think it depends on the form and can vary.

Centered text is the Comic Sans of page layout. It's one of the tools that people who don't know about design reach for first. Centered text should only be used extremely sparingly, so that the viewer doesn't really notice it. Lately, centered text is becoming the focal point of web pages. Some sites are even creating "pyramids" of focus at the tops of pages, using centered text with a user profile picture on top. It looks really bad.

> As to the text inputs being lines, I actually prefer the material way, it's closer to what you'd see on paper forms

A web page is not paper, because you can't "write" anywhere on a webpage. It should be clear where one can enter text -- a line does not communicate that well.

Also, having the line animate when clicked on does nothing useful except distract. When I click on an input, I will know that it's focused by the existence of a cursor in the text area.

The end result is that multiple areas of a page are animating at the same time. The interfaces become confusing, because animation says "look at this part of the page", but multiple areas are animating without coherent reason.

Meetup.com's new app and color scheme is a recent example of the serious problems with Material Design. Even my group's members are complaining about it.

Basically, Material Design has a very strong personality, and it's the kind of personality that many people are not compatible with. In my opinion, it might be okay for a niche product, but is not a good choice for websites aimed at large audiences.
"But after using JSX I'm never going back to a templating system"

It looks like you can use JSX with Vue: checkout the code for the benchmark mentioned in the article:

https://github.com/chrisvfritz/vue-render-performance-compar...
Trolls are sociopaths. As long as they can get some satisfaction or happiness for themselves they don't really care about other people who are reduced to objects of amusement.

Try to impress on them the concept of other people and out will come a litany of excuses that seek to dehumanise their targets and paint themselves as self appointed arbiters of fanatism, intolerance or 'holders of valid opinions'.

Are other people triggered by trolls or is it the trolls who are triggered merely by others holding opinions they don't agree with?

The dissonance does not even register, because that requires self awareness, self examination and empathy.

There is a context for humour, comedy, satire and deception that outside the context can quickly become cruelty and reflect some sort of sadism in taking pleasure in others pain.
All the cool kids used SModem, which allowed for downloading and chatting at the same time!
Why aren't news in the news? I see no coverage at al
No. A lot of us seek to immerse in a different culture by studying in a foreign country.
Iceland currently generates more electrical power per capita than any other country; they only have about 325k residents.

All that cheap geothermal power is being used for energy intensive industry, like aluminum production. While one borehole of 50 MW is not huge on their scale, each bit of additional energy can go toward their industries.