skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'm beginning to understand why vaporwave is a thing. It harks back to a simpler time when we all looked forward to jacking into cyberspace with our Ono-Sendai decks, but the Mac (or Windows 3.x/9x PC for true pedestrians) on our desk with NCSA Mosaic and a 28.8kbps modem brought us close enough. Before trolls (unless you hung out on USENET), before 4chan, before everyone tried to sell you an app, and sell your data to some advertiser.
No nothing I posted about has anything to do with VPN.

The user wasn't able to connect to our guest 802.1X (EAP, 802.11n) wireless network using their Ubuntu laptop. MacOS clients and Windows clients have no issue (it is a guest network, non-employees use it often).
Apple could give it a secondary function as a tea kettle... Then the design would finally serve some purpose. Just needs a samovar-style tap.
Part of my problem was definitely what I was asking it to do. Going after blink so fast left me open to faster all ins like 2rax/2gate, 6 pools, etc. Being slightly slower than a 4gate and with more tech investment puts you even further behind if you can't do damage with the push. A better way to phrase it might be that the build worked, just not in the context of the metagame at the time.

I had to look it up again to be sure, but 2 on minerals 3 on gas haha: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/140055-scientif...
On Debian:

apt-get install sysvinit-core systemd-sysv-
reboot

To prevent it from coming back, create the file /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-systemd.pref containing:

Package: systemd-sysv
Pin: origin *
Pin-Priority: -1

This works great on servers and lightweight desktops. However, GNOME has a dependency on systemd-as-PID1. In theory you can install systemd-shim to emulate the needed functionality, but I don't know how well it works.
Right place at the right time. That's half the battle.
Congrats on the release !

this actually reminded me of a startup which lets you create a native app using API documentation ( swagger ).

Edit : If I can find the bookmark, I will the link to that startup here.
I'm not in sales, however in my current role I get to talk to a lot of sales people and it seems that most of them don't (and don't have time to) use any fancy tools at all, especially the successful ones.

Also the last two companies I worked with were in the process of switching from SF to MS Dynamics. Not exactly sure to why, but seemed like one of those cases where the people at the top made the 'deal' and later people who actually had to use realized it didn't work for them.
> You really think that's true for everyone, or are you just looking at a subset of complaints?

That is true for the group of people that nearly derailed CETA in Austria (green party and the right wings party). I don't think I wrote everybody.
Microsoft brings back the traveling salesman with new WeWork partnership
I still find sequence diagrams to be a useful conversation tool.
Came here to tell you that us non-Americans down in New Zealand are doing a great job in the five eyes, but don't have a constitution. It turns out we do, just not in one document. You prompted me to learn something. https://gg.govt.nz/role/constofnz.htm
Thanks! I think the best way to see is to actually jump in and try it out. I tried my best to make the onboarding as seamless as possible, so normally it should take like 20 seconds from download to having the app on your phone (assuming you already have latest XCode installed)

It does handle switching back and forth and everything else you would expect from a native app, because it is native (and not an emulation) :)
You forgot the sentence just before the last one. The weird thing is that they call the 5×10^(-22) seconds "stable for a period of time", but the 10 minutes "very unstable".

>four neutrons together can form a resonance, a structure stable for a period of time before decaying.
> let's be more aware of subtle ways in which technological advances may augment internal dissonance

Seems like a testable hypothesis.
How to contribute to an open source project on GitHub
> They already have to handle the node disappearing. The only difference is that you can sever the connection from particular handles via the process containing the node/socket, if it chooses to. Otherwise, there is no difference.

Logically, these are two different events. Let's say connections are sockets, which any party on that socket can close. Then there are now two failure states which behave differently. Let's say the node disappears. Presumably this only happens if the service itself shuts down for some reason (peripheral unplugged, network connection lost, etc). In any case, this is not an error your client can recover from. Or somebody closes your socket. There are several ways in which this can happen, most of them undesirable.

You can, for instance, pass your socket to another process and it can (maliciously) close it. So you can't really pass your own sockets around, you need some protocol to obtain a new socket. Will this new socket be closed automatically if your parent closes the socket? What's the right thing to do here?

Second this is not necessarily an error you cannot recover from, since you might hold multiple connections to the same service (through different peers). In the Bus1 model this ... is just not necessary, but in the socket model it can happen.

More importantly, this is an error which can happen purely on the client side. You don't need to compromise the node itself, you just need to compromise some peer between the client you wish to attack and the node. This is a larger attack surface and potentially allows you to force a reconnect and other bad things.

> What particular guarantee is that? The whole point of the post was that you have the same guarantees, from a security perspective, with file descriptors.

The guarantee you have in an object capability system is that you can only communicate with a node if you have obtained its address (the capability to communicate) beforehand. If you spawn a new process it has a priori no capabilities except the ones you explicitly grant it. This makes sandboxing the default and makes it very easy to enforce security guarantees and to reason about your system as a whole.

Building this on top of file descriptors and unix domain sockets is probably possible, but only if you add authentication code to every single client and run some kind of "capability-transfer" protocol in each client (which involves a handshake with the node, etc). I think this is essentially what sandstorm does, but it involves rewriting the source code of each application they want to host.

> So you build a whole new, Linux-only, IPC mechanism because it might be important to have global ordering, even though no-one's been able to identify a use case in which it matters?

No, what I mean is that if you are designing a new IPC mechanism, then this is a sensible design decision. E.g. in the design of distributed systems you don't have any consistent ordering between events, and this causes a lot of pain in the design of distributed algorithms (and gives you some impossibility results). Why would you want to have an IPC system with the problems?
I have seen that on Windows when dragging between monitors, but only if they are different resolutions. At work I use 3 monitors all 4k and they work flawlessly.

But yes some windows apps still leave a lot desired on 4k if they haven't been updated.
I don't understand what problem you have with the combination of threshold + scaling factor (and what would be a better solution). There are no perfect default values for those parameters, as it really depends on workload patterns.

The truth that on most systems you have four types of tables - (large,small) x (frequently modified, static). And usually there are only a few large, frequently modified tables, while the rest is either small or static (or both). At least that's what I see on the multi-TB databases we manage.

There are two approaches:

1) tune the defaults to be aggressive enough even for the large+updated tables (which works because the small small / infrequently modified don't really require that much maintenance, compared to the first category)

2) keep defaults that are fine for majority of tables, and then use ALTER TABLE to override the parameters for the few tables that require more aggressive maintenance

Which is exactly what the blog post is about.

If you have better idea, I'd like to hear it (and I mean that seriously).
Well, imo the statement holds true with any of the UML -> Agile/Scrum(especially True Scrum, when it is your fault when it not works) and Lean/Kanban substitutions.

I wonder whether they are the same people selling bullets in different shades of silver though the ages, or it could be that the SW business is big enough that we can witness different species develop the same survival strategy of going from host to host and sucking their money out in different niches?
Actually what the parent comment said would be correct. Time dilation and length contraction do not arbitrarily change the proper distances that particles travel at near light speeds.

As observers, the detectors would see precisely what we expect if we calculate the distance using the detector's proper time when compared with the distance we experimentally measure.
JS that automatically adds commas to numbers
Very simple way to add commas to numbers (even dynamically):

1. Include the js script in your HTML
2. Wrap the number in a tag with the class="add-commas"

...and that's it

Check it out!

https://github.com/harmankang/commas.js
I take back everything I said including my explanation of why and how so many people use salesforce.

You are an awesome human being and thinking that because you don't see someone using something it must mean that no one uses it is a perfectly valid way of thinking.

Good on you and have a great day.
‘Bots’ step up for 2016 election news coverage
And much more precisely via wifi - the local mall offers its shop very specific information on shopper browsing habits this way.
You get data in the latter.
This isn't like a long crackpot screed. It is a couple paragraphs... Why downvotes without explanation? Where did I go wrong (I see some typos at the bottom "78 generations separated" should be "7000", but that shouldn't be a huge deal)?
Developing a Functional Android Application in Under 5 Minutes
What are their roots? I really didn't enjoy my experiences with R, but I also was forced to take it and have little interest in learning how to be a statistician.
What are the good open source alternatives to CRM, or to ESP (ExactTarget)?
There are several projects moving toward this. Matrix is probably the most well-known project, but its crypto isn't actually operational yet, AFAIK.

Tox works now, but for all their talk of trying to be user-friendly, asking users to exchange long alphanumeric sequences inherently isn't.

Psyc, maybe?
The real takeaway should be that if you want to make a point about the topic of discussion you really cannot use real world examples. Nothing is black and white, everything is nuanced, and online someone will argue anything (including the connotations associated with the word "is" in this very thread).

It should be no surprise that if you make a post trying to talk about the meta of controversial topics, that if you start directly citing said topics the discussion ends up being a debate about the controversy rather than the original intent.
All it proves is when you have a name, whatever you create, it lingers but it's not of much use to anybody.
Reminds me of the Steve Jackson RPG Toon

http://www.sjgames.com/toon/
The 3 actually useful diagrams that I have seen in the last 10 years are:

- Sequence

- Entity relationship

- State chart

All 3 are useful for communicating protocols, schemas and state charts.

Sequence diagrams are probably the most ubiquitous, and very useful in explaining protocols. Even RFC-s have them.

Relationship diagrams are often (ab)used to visualize relationships between tables in SQL databases. While it's not very useful for designing, I have actually used them for understanding and simplifying a complicated database schema.
I actually believe every API documentation should start with an abstract entity relationship diagram. Abstract in the sense that it should not necessarily represent physical tables, but give an overview of the underlying structure to the first time user. Doesn't even have to complete or correct.

State charts are occasionally useful for obvious reasons. Try explaining TCP without one.

I think it's worth noting that the above 3 existed before UML and UML merely tried to formalize them, so while I don't think anyone uses "UML" anymore,
being able to comprehend the above 3 charts is as basic of a skill as being able to read pseudo-code, and saying they are not is use would also be false.

Edit: formatting
What about using something like the Microsoft Bot Framework(1)?

I am not too familiar with it but its open source and it looks like it works with Skype, Slack, Facebook Messenger, Kik, Office 365, etc.

(1) https://dev.botframework.com/
Can you explain how it doesn't? I immediately think of embedding an interpreter in this thing for real, general application development.

Congrats on shipping. This thing is cool.
* Windows has free OS updates

* Precision Touchpads are equally well supported in Windows.

* HiDPI is better on the Mac

* I don't know much about this.

* Are you referring to Wacom style tablets? Not sure about that, but if tablets in general, OSX tablets don't even exist, so it's irrelevant.

* Windows Audio APIs are as good as Core Audio now.

* This really isn't that big a deal. In Windows it leads to different benefits, where my mouse could be anywhere, ubt I could still scroll the page I was reading.

* Cortana is better than Spotlight now. I didn't know that Cortana would be completely disabled in countries that aren't supported. That sucks.

* Windows has had file tagging since Win 7.

There really isn't that much of a difference. There are places where Mac OS is better, and there are places where Windows is better.
What about Push Notifications? Are they supported somehow?

Great project, by the way!
> Before the days of doze mode & other battery optimizations, you could just listen & block on a socket, then let the phone go to sleep. Incoming 3G packets would wake up the phone, you grab a wakelock, then start doing things. From what I remember, at least a while ago Facebook Messenger did this using MQTT. But this is not possible any more.

It's not a coincidence that the Facebook app was known for being an absolute battery killer. Go to any android forum post about battery life from a year or more ago and you'll see that the first suggestion is always "have you tried removing Facebook?"
This is true. I was on the higher end of the SC2 ladder (diamond 1v1) and still couldn't execute it consistently. One of many reasons I'm not a pro :)
That's unrelated (off-topic) to Signal and what the blog post discusses, isn't it?
I believe CABAC in h265/HEVC should be faster than CABAC in h264/AVC. If you produced CABAC for h264 and h265 with all things being equal you should actually gain in decoding speed moving to h265.
Where did you pick up the phrase "strong opinions, weakly held"?
Nope. Al's business was short lived and he did not remain in command
>Are there young people out there who think modern pocket computing is just plain wrong?

In high school I was the only cell phone holdout.[0] I finally got one at the very very tail end of my senior year. (Like, a week away from graduation.) What ultimately changed my mind was:

1. I was tired of not being able to keep track of friends or access the (frankly really friggen cool) telepathic communication network we call SMS.

2. Realistically, yes the NSA is tracking you and they know wherever you are. On the other hand, so do emergency medical professionals and your parents and anybody else you might want who is now just a convenient phone call away. This has saved me from a night of being homeless in a large city more than once. Mundane emergencies turn out to be a way bigger deal than passive government surveillance.

3. Having the web wherever you go really is like magic. Yes yes I know you've gotten used to google and being able to look things up but it takes on a whole new dimension once you can do it anywhere at any time.

That having been said, I'm still not on Facebook. I have no plans to ever be on Facebook. I'm still not on any of the 'big' social media services like snapchat or instagram. I only really use SMS, I don't play mobile games, and I think the addictive little helper most people seem to have created in their pocket is really disturbing and implies a really painful social backlash that's going to come against the people who put this stuff in the environment.

It's increasingly clear to me that smartphones are comparable in their addiction risk to pharmaceuticals, and we're going to see a huge PR hit against tech companies when this becomes the consensus view:

http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-technolog...

[0]: I'm currently 20, FWIW.
What is irrational about this?
Any example about a topic with a lot of emotions is going to do that. Be it static Be static typing, free trade vs protectionism. Etc.
If you don't understand something well, then any opinion you might claim to have on it is not actually on it, but rather on what you currently understand it to be. In that case, why not just say that you simply don't know enough to have an informed opinion?
Do you draw your curtains? Close doors? Close the toilet door? Do you wear clothes on a hot day? Do you leave bank statements out when friends are coming? Do you have performance appraisals publicly? Do you mind if everyone sees every email/text you ever sent? Would you be happy if your doctor saw you and treated you in the waiting room? Humans have an inherent desire for privacy a lot of the time where I am.
I have some friends in an encrypted riot room right now. The olm could use a real good audit, but otherwise it is working right now. Federation is working, bridges are working, voice and video are working, it has Android and iOS clients. The only problem is the encryption doesn't apply to the voice / video or shared files yet, but they have made huge progress this last year from basically nothing so far.
Nobody actually exchanges the initial words to avoid mitm. Hence, zrtp is actually no that secure in practice.
Any service that owns valuable user data is going to get compromised eventually, whether they do it themselves, or are the victims of an attack. I feel like the only way to not get swept up in the surveillance state is to never put your data on one of these services at all.
- Lack of federation

Use a federated secure protocol. Oh wait, there are none. Because if a problem appears you just can't fix it without breaking all federated clients. And then they will whine.

- Dependency on Google Cloud Messaging

Fair enough

- Your contact list is not private

Fair enough

- The RedPhone server is not open-source

While it would be nice that it was Open sourced I can understand them not releasing it (might be for IP issues)

tl,dr: "Signal does not work the way I wanted"
Seems too good to be true. Can someone put this into perspective? Is it promising?
I doubt you'd want to use it if it didn't use your contacts, though. Not many people are prepared to deal with a whole separate set of contact ids for the sake of a small amount of arguable extra privacy.
Like Tom Cruise in Oblivion, without the ensuing events.
Your comment would be immensely better without the personal attack at the beginning. The personal attack is totally unnecessary. It is also why you are being down voted.
You're adding context to "a period of time" that's not there. 1 ns, 1ms, 1 day, and 1 millennia are all "periods of time." As for stable vs unstable you have to contrast lifetimes across other particles.
I've always wondered why there isnt a secure site which will ask for some portion of your SSN/all your SSN (and handle it securely, encrypted ONLY to verify uniqueness of the entry) which would then ask you simply which candidate you voted for so as to keep a "checksum" of sorts of what % of voters voted for whom.

So if that system - with ensured unique entries was way off what the national results show, we would know that there was a problem, Houston.

Heck - just make it a mobile app actually that just takes a picture of your ballot and DOESNT ID you - but you take a pick of the ballot in the booth and it reads it and tracks your entry.
What is encapsulation in any language? Put simply, we encapsulate mainly to prevent mistakingly altering data. For example, private methods and variables.

Class Foo:
def __init__(self):
self.__im_private()

def bar(self):
print('baz')

def __im_private(self):
print('back off, I can only be called by the class')
I consulted (extremely briefly) with a startup whilst they were going through a Salesforce integration. I believe the end goal was to be able to get accurate data about... stuff... from which to generate reports, though this was never entirely clear. What it mostly seemed to involve was several developers writing vast swathes of code to map from the existing system to various fields in Salesforce via some sort of horrendous SOAP API, and a business analyst spending a lot of time deciding what those fields were. It seems absolutely impossible, to me, that the benefits gained from all of this in any way outweighed the amount of work and expense it took to do it (I left before they finished, if, indeed, they ever finished).

Based mostly on this story, I have successfully dissuaded several startups since from going anywhere near Salesforce, though in one case the exorbitant costs Salesforce quoted did a good job too.
I've found it very difficult to write/argue gray-ish about any topic.

Either it's positive or it's negative.

The way between is full of self-contradictions and footnotes. That makes a difficult read/conversation.
The Real 'Hacksaw Ridge' Soldier Saved 75 Souls Without Ever Carrying a Gun
Wire (http://wire.com) has worked well on iOS for encrypted text/files/audio/video. Open-source client, no contact sharing neeeded. No phone number needed, you can register with email by using a desktop browser at http://app.wire.com, then logging into the mobile app. Group chat for text only. Timed/ephemeral messages for 1:1 text/files. Feature matrix, https://wire.com/privacy/. Could use more documentation (e.g. on retention of encrypted data) but a lot of questions are answered on Twitter or Github issues.
With HEVC Advance's fees targeting 0.5% of content owner revenue

IANAL but doesn't that mean it's still free for non-commercial use (i.e. revenue is 0)? If so, it may turn into a situation where only those who can bear the cost and those who are giving away free content will use it.
Of course Google also throws up annoy-popups every time you go to their site from a non-Chrome browser.
This is valid answer. This spec published by W3 have no practical value and only reflect some people political aspirations that were crushed when HTML5 won over XHTML2. In fact whole this W3 vs whatwg is harmful for the web.

If W3 want to be useful they should either design new standard or contribute back to HTML5. Currently they hijack other people work and claim for their own.

Expression I used "ass pain" is very clumsy translation of "ból dupy" and maybe better It would be to say butthurt.
That's still the case now, just for different reasons.
Do you think I didn't answer parent's question? I thought I had, but if you disagree, you should address that more directly. As to the agenda you think I'm pushing: I'm sorry I didn't adequately allude to my sarcasm. I guess I just thought it was too hyperbolic to be taken any other way.
What I want to know is how did CSIS and the Justice Department utilize the information they have. Was someone wrongly convicted, was a reporter stopped from publishing something? Evidence that gives the general public a concrete example is what is needed to spur any real action here, and unfortunately I think that will be the hardest part.