skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow, it ates all the free memory available in the system regardless how much it is.
That's really intriguing. The fees you're describing are the same in Australia (2.9% on AmEx) and don't seem particularly evil at all. A few stores do charge a credit card surcharge here, but the majority of retailers don't anymore.

As a near-annual visitor to Germany, it drives me nuts that I can't use my Australian credit card everywhere (especially at Saturn). I would LOVE to have an EC card, but it seems there's no way easy way for a visitor to Germany to get one. Seems you need a bank account, and there doesn't seem to be a way to get one without a residency permit. It's not like Australia where a visitor can at least buy a pre-paid reloadable Visa Debit card in any post office.

[If I'm wrong about the EC Cards and bank accounts, please let me know, I'd love to use an EC Card like a proper German whenever I visit.]
Tilting, sinking San Francisco high-rise raises alarm
Where to by samy kamkar's usb driveby?
About the same as for the USA backdoors in every day hardware.
Sounds like you had a gigantic malloc and used too much memory and let Linux kill it.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16693677/why-isnt-varnish...

If you really need a large malloc, I highly recommend running Varnish on FreeBSD instead of Linux as the Linux kernels VM system is horrible when memory is overcommitted.
Redirect is the cleanest solution.

Most frameworks provide some form of storage (whether server-side or client-side) that is tied to a specific session, so you can use that to remember the fact that the current session recently used a valid password-reset token for user ID 123.

Or you could use a similar mechanism to put the token in a hidden <input> after redirection, so that it gets submitted again when the user types in their new password.
> Put down exactly what the percentage is.

That statement makes no sense at all! There have been proven cases (headlines about people freed from death row more than once in the last few years; and no, that's not a sign that "the system works", quite the opposite), so there is no question that they exist. Asking the obviously impossible and completely unconnected question "how many exactly" makes no sense, what would that achieve, even if it were possible?

One person is one person too many!

I am all for weighing risk or cost vs. benefit, but what would be the benefit of killing people, apart from "revenge feeling"? Also paart from costs, because the death penalty AFAIK is very costly to the US taxpayer and I've read actually more expensive than life in prison.

So zero benefit against killing even one innocent person.

I'm not even someone who is dead set against killing.
Look into the "shy tory factor". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shy_Tory_Factor

People are more likely to lie about their voting intentions when the media create a climate of moral stigma around their candidate. I am sure this is going to happen in the uk too. The Democrats have run the wrong campaign.
The EU Commission announced this at the beginning of October
http://www.euractiv.com/section/innovation-industry/news/com...
New cars tend to be leased, but more often than not (at least in the price ranges "family sedan" and up) this is formally a company car, even if it is not used for business purposes at all. This is primarily driven by a full set of smoke and mirrors on the taxation level, that probably grew because it's what keeps the domestic market going for German car giants.

In the case of "formally a company car", leasing is not perceived as personal debt at all but just as a car that is much nicer than what you would buy on your own and that you happen to loose when you quit your job.

Privately held new cars are the realm of those who can easily afford to pay up front (e.g. a large fraction of those are bought by are retirees in burn those savings as long as you can mode) and those who are at the same time in the top percentiles of both madness for cars and willingness to go into debt (these people certainly do exist, just in slightly but noticeably lower numbers than elsewhere).
Yes. Battery life is about 1/4 as good as on OSX.

It also has issues waking up from sleep.

It also has issues going to sleep. I've pulled a hot laptop out of my backpack many times.
Show HN: Kill Analytics
I've heard this from many sources but do you have anything to back up the assertion?
Why would people need to lie to the professional pollsters, though? If the election were held today and Trump won, it would be way outside of the margin of error on the polls.
In China. I'm comparing what it would cost to buy this versus a Macbook, in China.
So he took a whole bunch of data, and found coefficients which correctly determine 5 data points?

Um, okay.
I can pay for my house--over time. Which is fine because I'm also living in my house over time.
> To say "If the percentage of people wrongly convicted is > 0% then we can never have a death penalty" is too idealistic.

Is it? It is exactly the view I hold.

I propose that if you are willing to accept a higher rate, then on each conviction let us make it equally likely that the jury and prosecutor gets executed instead. 5% chance of killing an innocent? Only fair that the prosecutor and jury faces the same odds. Let's see how many are willing to take that risk if their own life is on the line.
It's the first primary. It's in our state constitution.
Trump supporters are right to be quiet about it, after all of the violence and vandalism that liberals have thrown at them in this election. I think this has been the most violent election in recent history. [1][2]

Even yard signs, as you note, have been getting stolen so often that people are actually discussing fun ways of booby-trapping theirs. [3]

[1] http://www.projectveritasaction.com/video/rigging-election-v...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/us/north-carolina-gop-buil...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/54y5px/man_elec...

EDIT: if you're going to downvote me, refute what I'm saying. I have seen no evidence that the right has done anything nearly as ugly as the left has in this election. It's downright disgusting.
Not even carbon nanotubes are strong enough to make a space elevator on Earth. Individual CNTs (the molecules) are just barely strong enough, but you cannot make a macroscale fabric out of them that's just as strong as the individual molecules. And even if you did, there's no safety margin.

It's never going to happen on Earth.

However we could make an elevator today on the Moon or Mars with already existing fabrics like Kevlar.
It's 2016, everyone has JS enabled.

The ones that don't are most likely bots (now even that's changing thanks to projects like phantomjs).
There might be a naming clash here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_event
Actually, Vue has one way binding by default when dealing with Components, in that way, it's very similar to React:
http://vuejs.org/guide/components.html#One-Way-Data-Flow
If you are in a state with subsidies you are in pretty good shape.

Also, you're numbers are a bit inflated if my experience is anything to go by. I have insurance through my company but my wife is on an Obamacare plan (because it was cheaper and better than what my company offers through a national HR company) for herself and our three children. We pay about $6000 per year for normal deductibles and a plan comparable with what she had working for the state of Texas (really good) before she went back to school. My only complaint is that this insurance company (Humana, I think) is very particular about the prescriptions it allows but I think you get that with any insurance company.
Yeah, that example should be changed - the "before" version isn't code anyone would write on purpose, and which JSHint/JSLint would flag as a bug.
Anti-patterns and Malpractices in Modern Software Development (2015)
Whoops, misread Google. :) I bet that's why then; it's "untarnished" by previous primaries.
If your data is only eventually consistent, then DB node A can have your bank balance at $x for some time still, while it is already $0 at on node B. Then, if some operation (say withdrawal) is checking the balance with node A, then you have a problem.
use google chrome and click the link in incognito mode
> My theory, many people are actually voting for Trump, for whatever reason it may be, but they will not tell others. Polls, friends, community, etc.

I know quite a few in this camp.

> It seems many communities, including SV, have tried to ostracize those with opposing viewpoints. Trump's strength is built on that, whether an individual will be public about it or not. I read somewhere (sorry no source) that this election has seen the fewest bumped stickers/yard signs in recent history.

I'd believe that. It'd be a combination of people not actually liking Clinton enough to want to show support and people being scared of actively showing support for Trump. The Clinton camp has done a decent job of bucketing all Trump supporters as racists assholes so it naturally makes it uncomfortable for people to voice their support. I'm pretty sure that's working as intended.
Most of the benefit goes to the wealthy (at least, the portion of the population with the highest incomes; I'm not interested in arguing about whether households earning $200,000+ in high expense areas are wealthy or not).

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/model-estimates/individual-in...

For someone earning $500,000 a year, a $5,000 tax break is a $5,000 tax break, it isn't going to do much of anything to their behavior.

Considering that mortgages usually require a down payment, you could also make the argument that the benefit overwhelmingly accrues to the financially stable. People that can't get the down payment together aren't going to be stabilized by a benefit they can't access.
If that were true, then down-ticket Republicans wouldn't be seeing as much of a sag in their support. And that wouldn't account for the narrow margins in states where the Republicans usually have stronger positions. And, there's still a fairly high level of undecideds and 3rd-party voters who might switch late (as usually happens)--polls seem to be indicating that these are swinging favorably to Clinton, and not to Trump.
That's the Brexit Theory. We'll see if it applies to Trump.
The exact same thing has been said about 2008 in regards to Obama's popularity in popular media and the idea that it was socially unacceptable to oppose him. It was wrong then and the final outcome closely resembled the polls leading up to the election [0]. I suspect this theory is wrong in this case as well.

[0] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/natio...
Ask HN: What is the intnded way 2 participate in nodeknockout or othr hackathns?
Node knockout is coming, and I have my graduate applications due, but I want to participate.

Now I havent participated in a hackathon before, so what is the idea, I mean do I need to have learned and created the basic setup of node before and when the hackathon starts, just go ahead and implement my idea on the day?? Or do I need to go in blank and learn on the day by creating and running into problems.

If I go in blank, then I think I might not get a chance to win. But preparing before hand would mean giving it a lot of time which I dont have.

Anyhow what is the intended way to participate anyway, has anyone organized one before. What do you expect people to do, come in with the knowledge or learn on the day..

What I want out of the hackathon is, ofcourse to get a feel for nodejs.

my background: I have developed a few live websites using django.
PHK has argued that the SSL/TLS libraries we have is a nightmare when it comes security design. He rather favor "jailing" these processes as a separate process. So if hell breaks lose, like with Heartbleed, your Varnish process should still be "safe".
Mistry’s elephant
Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
I'll start --- I once spent a couple days on a summer job looking through industrial incidents related to the Great Boston Molasses Flood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood). Wikipedia is definitely full of very interesting rabbit holes.
Same as it is on slower speeds.

Analytics, debugging, security monitoring, ...

Of course you're going to try to avoid storing all traffic, but to decide what's interesting it has at least to be captured first. And on big sites, 40 Gb/s is still only an already random-sampled or pre-filtered subset of all traffic.
* Take a look at this blog post [0]. That can cover a lot of different security scenarios. The next step would be linking in an external system (database, API, etc) to better track more complex security policies.

* Standard Varnish usecase, nothing extra needed.

* https://github.com/varnish/varnish-modules vsthrottle

[0] https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/using-varnish-cache-s...
Wouldn't this be the sort of indirect, gut level factor that betting markets would capture better than anything else? And they have Trump winning at around 15-20%.
Keybase to OpenPGP to OpenSSH
You'd never know what the Chinese government is up to until we get a major Chinese wikileaks dump.
Beyond Benchmarks: DynamoDB vs. Aerospike
Here the scary chart in question: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/wp-content/pl...

The last 2 years where it can be seen the level never returned under 400 ppm: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/wp-content/pl...
Tar is not a compressed format.

This is why it's usually paired with gzip or xz.
Same. A recurrent issue with WSJ articles.
I don't think it's so simple.

Before generating the PW reset link, someone might try to login first. So they'd enter bob@example.com into the login form and then when that failed, it's not uncommon to redirect with error-msg-in-session to /login?email=bob@example.com . So you'd leak the email first.
Sounds like you are proposing something similar to the Bradley Effect. From wiki, it was suggested that "white voters give inaccurate polling responses for fear that, by stating their true preference, they will open themselves to criticism of racial motivation. Members of the public may feel under pressure to provide an answer that is deemed to be more publicly acceptable, or 'politically correct'. The reluctance to give accurate polling answers has sometimes extended to post-election exit polls as well."

It's not a white/black choice this time around but the social exclusion in some circles of people who support Trump might see something similar in play. That said, it would need to be a pretty big effect to make a difference if the gap is really 6 or 7 points.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect
Well it's still influenced by the Iowa caucus, which they ignore.
Samsung is hoping to rekindle Note brand name next year
Prior to the vote, the polls were at a dead-heat meaning the outcome was within margin of error.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/06/britain...
Using SQLite in a NativeScript Angular 2 Mobile App
>Is it?

Yes, but not in the silly example showed.

Consider something like :

zip(fooArray, barArray, bazArray).map(([foo, bar, baz]) => foo + bar + baz)
zip(fooArray, barArray, bazArray).map((arr) => arr[0] + arr[1] + arr[2]);
Frankly this goes to show how Hackernews urgently needs some proper product/ux/ui person to overhaul it. This type of comment shows up like clockwork for every single WSJ link. The web shortcut is clearly not visible/understood.

Why not highlight it for known domains like wsj.com and others
Mirror:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161024140001/https://hello-kil...
I don't think the media was colluding against McCain the way they are against Trump. There's a real stigma being created about supporting Trump.
Amnesty international has done a good bit of research into this and found numerous cases of innocent people being convicted and executed. Why would you not research this before taking such a strong stance in favor of taking another's life? This is one of the things everyone should research before picking a side.
I think, in the US, the credit card "tax" is even higher for new businesses. As much as 6% I've been told. (Nice if someone could verify). You can use PayPal instead, they take a smaller cut, still 2%.
I don't think any model has accounted for how personally distasteful Trump is. Regardless of his politics (which I find abhorrent as well, but that's another matter), there are a lot of Republicans who refuse to support him simply because he has shown himself to be unqualified to lead ANYTHING.

Even if you're an ardent Trump supporter, you have to admit that Hillary showed how easily manipulated he is in the 3 debates. She just poked at his soft spots and tried to get a reaction, and it worked.

None of this is about electing Hillary; it's entirely about keeping a petulant child out of the most powerful job in the country. Is she in bed with special interests? Definitely. Was she trying to avoid FOIA documentation requirements with a private e-mail server? Of course she was. Are the American people sick of elitist political dynasties like the Clintons and Bushes? Absolutely. These things are all true of most politicians.

But in contrast to Trump, Hillary is an adult. I trust Hillary to be able to put aside her ego and do what's right for the country. I don't feel the same about Trump; and I don't want to get involved in World War 3 because some world leader made a comment about Trump's hair.

The GOP should have won this election handily -- but they've painted themselves into an untenable platform that simultaneously is built on racism and diversity. No candidate could form a cohesive vision out of the nonsensical platform they put forward (limited government + legislating morality; business-friendly + anti-immigration; guns should be legal but not drugs; etc.) so they ended up with a nonsensical candidate and a disaster of a party. The party is so fractured over Trump that even if the GOP can retain a majority in the house and senate, the Democrats will likely be able to find enough Republicans to break ranks to get legislation passed.

But this election isn't about politics. It's about whether we are angry enough at the whole system to burn it all down. This should serve as a wake-up call that over 40% of the country thinks things are so bad that they're willing to elect a would-be dictator.
Thanks for this. I've seen the "CONS should not CONS" paper somewhere, but skimming over it never really got me anywhere even close to this explanation. I always thought it was some in-jokey reference to US politics, but I couldn't connect the MTA concept.
If Trump had been a normal candidate, he would have beat Clinton. No tawdry sex scandals, crazy public fights with Ms Universe, gold star parents, leading members of his own party. If he had raised money on the same scale as Romney or established a ground game and analytics like Clinton. Based solely on primary data, yes, he probably would win.
Munich might be the most expensive city on average but other German cities, even way smaller ones, also have comparable high rent prices in some of their more centrally located districts.
Weird.. it works easily on my iPad.
Thanks for the additional thought process here; just a minor question, what's an HMAC token?
That would be security by obscurity. Especially in this case, we shouldn't rely on it.
The path to reducing emissions is much clearer than the path to efficiently scrub CO2 from the atmosphere. Also, scrubbing CO2 from the atmosphere gets harder and harder as CO2 emissions grow. There is some research to sequester CO2, but I don't think we have an ideas that are better than planting trees.
Webcams used to attack Reddit and Twitter recalled
Compile the JVM to asm.js.
abusing kids is one extreme, opposite of it are spoiled kids who are allowed to do anything without consequences. I've seen quite a few kids where parents are clueless about proper parenting, and will do/grant/provide anything just to stop kid from annoying them and leave them alone. not surprisingly, those kids end up as proper aholes in school, not sure what comes after school years (but probably rarely something good).

I personally believe in middle ground (well, not exactly in the middle) - accidents/mistakes should be explained and discussed, lessons learned etc.

Intentional evil doing should be punished, ie by taking away phone/laptop/extra house chores/whatever, consequence adequate the action.

In this kind of logic it makes sense to punish criminals, since it's believed some sort of pavlovian reflex would kick in (do bad -> go to jail). it ignores the complexity of reality, ie jail creates criminals even from good people, and practically never the opposite.

But then again, you have serial killers, pedophiles, rapists etc in all kinds of horrible combinations. i don't believe these can be 'repaired', only made 'dormant'. What to do with these... people kill other people for no good reason all the time. I guess I somehow ceased to care in order to not go crazy from daily news
Sometimes the "web" link works. Sometimes it doesn't.
We've been with Pingdom for a while and it's an outstandingly affordable service but their new features seem riddled with bugs (tagging checks as an example), and their API is slow and unusable from Australia (ignores query limit params) - It seems like they're no longer innovating and when I tried to share my concerns there was a bit of a 'who cares' attitude. It's great to see transparencey about this issue, but it could've come the other day when they 'paused' checks for unaffected clients.
Pipes, Content and Mutual Funds
Software Quality, Energy Awareness, and More [pdf]
Andrew Tanenbaum (creator of MINIX) and historian Christopher Bates comment on this:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2016/Pres/Maps/Oct23.html#i...
You mean every person on here that's doing the usual whining about computers being hard fits that description? Seems to me there's just a lot of complaints just aimed at a specific OS for reasons.

Also, I'm fairly certain drivers and anti-virus is not exclusive to the corporate environment.
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We release it because it allows us to produce energy (burn something). To remove it from atmosphere would require to put it some higher energy state so that we can store it and that require again some source of energy. Pumping pure CO2 in some mine will probably not do the job.

In reality, we will try to just reduce temperature without removing CO2, but CO2 causes problems other than tempterature rise. See ocean acidification.

There seems to not be any good solution really.
Let's dig into the inner workings of facebook/react
My sanity check alarms started going off here:

> For the record, the Primary Model, with slight modifications, has correctly predicted the winner of the popular vote in all five presidential elections since it was introduced in 1996 ... Also note that for all elections from 1912 to 2012 the Primary Model picks the winner, albeit retroactively, every time except in 1960.

It can't be true that this model correctly predicts both the election winner and the popular vote winner, since Bush won one and lost the other in 2000.

I am extremely skeptical of this model, partly because I find the idea that voters pay attention to the primaries, but not to anything that happens later, very implausible. But much more importantly, it has a huge overfitting problem. There are tons of degrees of freedom, not just in the model weights but in the choice of which primaries to consider.

The authors picked NH in previous elections, and this year fairly arbitrarily decided to include SC as well. It's no surprise that you can make good retroactive predictions when you have many effective model parameters to play with.
Netflix bloat is what is sometimes wrong with Netflix. Scenes are sometimes a little bit too long in a lot of series. For example, unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's second season was weaker than the first because the original was made for TV but the second was made for Netflix. This led to the same number of jokes being placed in a longer block of time, and therefore a decrease in the #ofJokes/minute.