skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can confirm: developers here that work with foreign companies are almost all on Macs.

Windows still reigns absolutely supreme in native companies, though.
> It took 15 years for a "production ready" Perl 6 interpreter to be finished

More like it took 14 years for the first attempt (Parrot) to be abandoned, and about a year for the second attempt (MoarVM) to be somewhat usable, but still not really production ready.

To the OP it's quite simple - Perl 6 isn't done yet, it's still in development.
I tend to agree. I don't really see the magic sauce that goes into Slack and cannot be replicated by any other, well placed, company. It's well loved, true, but most adopters so far tend be tech lovers, I believe, and they can easily switch, or be forced to switch, once the entire company goes Microsoft (or something else).
Up for me (T+16 minutes) - I also Tweeted successfully 24 minutes ago (T-8 minutes). Huh.
You can ignore things like "Not advertised to any peer" in looking glass output, just a function of a router being used as the looking glass server and not participating in routing.
The Machine That Won the War (1961) [pdf]
UTC, yes, but that doesn't resolve the problem of establishing office hours. At least when you do explain those you don't need to constantly convert.

"Here we work from 17h to 23h" is a lot easier to understand "Here we work from 9 to 5, but we're in summer time, so that's actually an hour off of the usual thing but...oh, wait, you're on summer time now too, so I guess it's the usual plus six hours, no wait, minus six..."

One planet, one time-zone, and everyone can keep their local customs for waking/sleeping, working, and whatever else.
Read the Conclusion section of the article. He uses Chromebooks as an example, to argue - quite convincingly - that we could have both security and freedom to tinker.
Exactly. Memorize the incident, what you want to convey about it, and how to emphasise your angle on it. Don't rote-learn a single telling, and don't blow it off and think "ok I'd talk about that time I saved the orphans, next!"so that in the interview you're all "I was on my way back from preventing a bank robbery...wait no, it was a mugging...and i went past the orphanage on 5th Ave, or 6th, you know the one?"
Just dig(1)
Pac NW here, #worksonmybox
The problems in set 1 are a little different, though. You get the important hint (which the author was missing) to use letter frequencies for a fitness function. But the cryptopals set 1 ciphers have tiny keyspaces that are easily searched exhaustively - a substitution cipher in general doesn't. To solve the author's problem you need to re-invent something like stochastic hill climbing.
+1. Fantastic read.
same here http://www.langulearn.com
Abstraction is a Federal crime:

https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-801-em...
- This looks good

- this looks bad

- this looks extremely bad

- this is dangerous, I imagine you can exploit this

- You can easily exploit this code with attached example

A free scale if you need to convey degree of good/badness for attached code. CC0 license.

This is a bit snarky, but I do think that a bit of effort can be made to describe code as being bad without declaring that the author's mother should have aborted them.
It'd be nice if info about the questions are added on FAQ. Currently I have no idea how they're asked.
Yes, seems so. Giving issues for me for past 15 minutes.
Also these two sites show, several people have reported issues:
http://downdetector.com/status/twitter

http://downrightnow.com/twitter

How, I wish, that we move to Federated social media. Good to see this other HN thread on the same:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12888287
> But instead with the status quo, we need to add this extra line of logic:

> if twelveHour == 0 then twelveHour = 12

That's because humans naturally begin counting from 1, not 0. Mainly because we are counting objects, not adding an array index to a pointer.
Free security is the only security that really works
Not parent, but I too am paying for email for years and am very happy with FastMail. You can see a lot of work is going into it lately now that they're independent again. Can't recommend them enough.
There have been polling stations reported with multi hour queues. I'm pretty sure California does not guarantee you the right to vote in person, because it doesn't say you must be given as many hours as you need. But it's ok, because california allows vote by mail.
I think the point being made is that America made harsher pollution laws to fix pollution internally, with the side effect that pollution was exported to factories that did the manufacturing (and polluting) in other nations.

Until very recently (in historic terms), America was the consumer of a large share of goods produced in those markets.

So I don't think you can say technology improvements are a prime reason for mfg pollution dropping in America. It is A reason, but not the only.
Metric is universal but for a few stubborn hold-outs.
Instead you came to hacker news? May be "hackers" don't know enough about this place to want to DDoS it.
Or.. don't? Maybe post what's happening when it is happening. Especially when it is a freak and unusual occurrence. And if it's not news worthy it will sort itself out an hour later.
> It's like that everywhere in Europe. Nobody says 'see you at fifteen'.

And, as always, trying to generalize over a whole continent doesn't work out. It's perfectly fine in German or Polish to say "see you at fifteen".
The 'alignment of the planets' is known in certain industries as the Swiss cheese model[1].

[1]https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Swiss_cheese_model
Twitter is unreachable again
You live in LA, one of the more southern-most cities in the US. Just imagine what it's like for Anchorage.
Updates from outages list:

Update 1:

Looks like their networks are not announced anymore. From 4 providers,
we don't see any network matching 104.244.42.1, 104.244.42.65,
104.244.42.129 or 104.244.42.193 (A records for twitter.com)

Update 2:

show ip bgp 104.244.42.0/24
% Network not in table
No routes present...

Update 3: (3 mins ago)

Networks are back now, but quite some packet loss. Also, Comcast in
norcal goes via Level3 to Twitter in London. They are also announcing
direct to NTT which seems to get served locally. So, they're not quite
out of the woods yet.
Just curious. Why is this post flagged?
I found this super interesting and great 'hacker news' - any idea why it was flagged?
Maybe not... Intermittent on all three at this point.
The product itself doesn't matter here. The way it was marketed, distributed, developed matters. MS did some bad stuff on all fronts, regardless of which software was involved. IE, Windows, Office, consoles all had their bad days because someone decided to force or bundle software in questionable ways. On the other hand there were some amazing projects done by MS teams: Singularity, security research (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/research-area/secur...), and many others.

Being pro/anti whole MS without exceptions is silly.

(also even new Office has a lot of "vestiges of the past")
These are private emails. Why don't you go 'open source' with your email account?
Make Twitter great again!
Hey Guys, love the idea... since I have the "not invented here" syndrome I am building my own version for quite some time now :) (http://www.langulearn.com)

Next step to implement would be nlp, if you need help or just want to talk -> hello@langulearn.com
That they're multiple choice and timed? We may be adding more hands-on coding problems later depending mainly on the feedback from Hackernews.
Up for me over the last half hour (US/CA) - not even slow. Still getting fresh Tweets, able to Tweet and Retweet.
It's amusing how instead of admitting there's a problem and moving on, you start distracting people by pointing a finger and saying "see, it's worse there!".

That doesn't help anything. Both things aren't problems, you bringing up another country's problems doesn't make your country look better.

It's like saying "Our country has illegal loan sharking? Well, your country has immoral bankers, so there!". Just muddying the waters is what you're doing.
Perl 5 is better than Perl 6, so why would I change?
Time zones make cross-geographical communication far easier. This is important in the age of the internet.
Not profitable at the least. You need to think like the average consumer: "Why should I pay $800 for this ugly 'open source' phone (whatever that means) when this nice, attractive looking Samsung phone is only $50 plus $20 a month?"
The recursive (more correctly: inductive) argument is that there is no effect. It's like saying that no matter how many times you subtract 0 from a positive integer, the result will still be a positive integer - because subtracting 0 has no effect on the functioning of the system (the two are "the same" - not just similar but exactly the same). Subtracting epsilon (an arbitrarily small number) is similar but the recursive argument breaks - if you do it enough times it's no longer a positive integer.

The fact that your brain is already wired somewhat differently than since starting to read this comment doesn't have much to do with this argument.

To break the inductive argument and prove that mechanical birds are impossible, what you would have to show is that there is some bone or ligament or muscle or feather or something else, where if you replaced it with a plastic/mechanical/etc version with the exact same properties and behavior, the flying system w=could no longer function "the same". In other words, that there is some bone or muscle or other mechanical thing that even in hundred thousand years, science could not replace with a non-biological version without making some change to the behavior of the whole system - that it could never be made "the same" even in theory. (I say "in theory" because it is quite likely that we could never do so with a neuron - the whole switching back and forth example is very far-fetched.)

So it is only a thought experiment/inductive argument: not a practical statement about biology.

One thing that is interesting to point out is that no birds have the carrying capacity of modern planes, but we haven't reproduced mechanical birds that function the same way birds do. Science doesn't really have a strong incentive to try to exactly copy the mechanics of a pigeon with plastic components and plastic feathers and ligaments and some kind of muscles, and trying to get it to be composed exactly the same way. Other than a novelty, it doesn't really "get us" anything.

In perhaps the same way, science may not have any strong incentive to exactly copy humans into a virtual reality, setting up neural networks that are wired the exact same way, and feeding the virtual neural nets outputs exactly like a child would hear and see around them, etc. Even though very large server farms like Amazon's today have more memory and do more calculation than the human brains' neural connections imply (given our estimate of what actually does the computation), so that they're like "jets" and the human brain is like a "bird" -- still, there is no clear incentive to copy humans in a way that leaves the simulation conscious.

What does a conscious simulation get us? What does a mechanical pigeon get us?

So for this reason there is at least some reason to think that we are not about to build a conscious machine - we don't need it.
Now only twitter is out. 4chan and wikileaks seem fine.
There is a disconnect in ownership between roads and sidewalks that makes it all very political: "Sidewalks in front of homes can be a source of puzzlement over just who or what owns them. Generally, each state sets its own laws about ownership of property, including sidewalks in front of homes and buildings. Certain states say that sidewalks are owned by the cities, towns or other municipalities having jurisdiction. In California, for example, sidewalks in front of homes and businesses are owned by their municipalities, but their upkeep is to be handled by those homes and businesses."

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/sidewalks-considered-homeowners...
پکیج تورهای مشهد ورود ۲۱ آبان – تور مشهد آبان ۹۵
Isn't a typical mortgage rate fixed? If I have a fixed rate that is withing my budget and I like the place, I can keep paying for decades, and the market ups and downs become purely virtual to me in the long run.
That is an interesting way to describe "defense in depth" to non-technical people that ought to be easy to understand. Thank you.
>...the majority chooses the first.

Does it? If it were up to a popular vote today, I'm not so sure DST camp would win out.
Payload aside, SSL is identifiable as SSL. The host name is transmitted in clear text (SNI) as well as the protocol version and cipher negotiation.

Just because the traffic is encrypted, it doesn't mean the connection type isn't identifiable.
I wouldn't recommend that. AMD's software quality is horrible, and I'm saying that as an iMac user stuck with them on Windows. Whatever you think of nVidia, it's a breath of fresh air to see such polished auxiliary tools -- and yes, I think GeForce Experience is good... why? Living with AMD crap for years.

And if you think nVidia treats customers/users badly, just watch AMD's treatment of Apple hardware. They added artificial blocks preventing the "normal" driver from installing there (even though it is fully functional) and you have to use a special Bootcamp driver, which is incredibly outdated and buggy as hell in modern games. Their support is about as useful as you expect in a big corporation, and then some. It's so bad that enthusiasts are re-packaging AMD's drivers to have something: https://www.mxdriver.com
Depends if the network your on is state level and/or corporate ownership of device level MitM or not.
Hey! Good question.

I was thinking about that too: would it be enough to show what questions influenced the results most?

Because in the end, they ALL influence the results.
The zoning in the Sunset is outrageous. If you take the N Judah, almost the whole neighborhood (except for a few tiny bits) is zoned for very low density residential.

Look at all the light yellow on the zoning map: http://default.sfplanning.org/zoning/zoning_map.pdf

Upzoning a significant percentage of the Sunset and providing faster public transit from there to other parts of town is in my opinion one of the best things SF could do for local housing prices.
Not true.

India's average education attainment is worse than that of Libya and even contemporary Iraq; unlike most countries there exist no path for prosperity via education for the majority of Indians, since it is a de-facto linguistic apartheid state.

Its per-capita incomes too are lower than Libya, and on comparable terms with Iraq and Syria. This, achieved, in about 70 years of peace, without colonial blood-sucking.

By every definition, India is a failed state.

Some will try to wriggle away from this by claiming, education is not important, or that money is not important, or by pointing to the outsourcing businesses (which I hear are smaller than the Yoga industry in the US), but these are parochial status-quoists, or silly romantics. There far too many of the latter.

The rape issue is complicated - the incidents are indeed ISIS like barbarity, from a civilization that has historically valued women (before the Islamic and Victorian invaders, and their now celebrated cruelty).

The stats might show indeed that the numbers are smaller per-capita than developed nations (even after accounting for under-reporting), but for some reason those who commit rape tend to be extremely sadistic and cruel.
SHUT.

IT.

DOWN.
>Toshiba has been my go to maker for the last 10 years or so because virtually everything they make "just works" on Linux.

This is honestly a pretty shocking statement for me, because Toshiba has long been my go-to example for the worst-case scenario of installing Linux on laptops. I have never once had a Toshiba laptop that "just worked" out of the box with Linux. Whether it was power management, display drivers, or wifi, there was always something that was broken out of the box and needed to be fixed. Heck, I have a Toshiba A305 for which Linux still doesn't have proper power management drivers, even though the laptop is about a decade old.

When people ask me about Linux on laptops, I say that they should go with either Lenovos or (more lately) the new Dell XPS models. Never Sony, never Toshiba. I've never heard of anyone having a good experience installing Linux on laptops made by those two manufacturers.
Has anyone tried GNURoot? As I understand it's a Linux chroot without needing your device to be rooted:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gnuroot.de...
Japan is more active around smartphones rather than laptops and desktops, since you can use them on trains, the preferred way of transport. People spend some considerable amount of time on trains.

Small spaces make desktops not a very good choice.
> the most damning ones..

It doesn't really seem so, or at least they seem no better or worse than what's been released already.

Trump supporters have been waiting months for the Wikileaks bombshell, October^H^H^H^H^H^H^H, errr.. November surprise, that will destroy Hillary and put her behind bars, implicating her in arms sales, pay for play access to the government, treason and if you follow the crazies, pedophile child trafficking and satanic cults.

Each time, the next batch is going to be the one with the damning information that brings her down, and each batch it's more of the same.

Sure, the contents don't speak well of Hillary, her team, or the media (and I think based on her actions she probably shouldn't be allowed near any sort of classified information again), but these are not the damning bombshells people have been fantasizing about, and those bombshells likely don't exist, because if they did, they would have been released well before millions of people had already voted, and not on the eve of the election.
I disagree, and I identify with the parent's comment quite a bit. The parent to your comment wrote a cogent "unifying theory" for explaining how humans are simply poor at situational awareness in general. Whether it's parking your shopping cart in an inconvenient place for passerby while you pick out a few oranges or driving significantly more slowly than you're expected to in the fast lane, the parent's narrative is compelling for connecting these behaviors.

Now, "unifying theories" tend to be rather simplistic, and the parent did exactly publish a replicable study, but you didn't really rebut the thrust of the argument. Instead, you claimed the parent is the problem for expressing the argument in the first place. Even if the behaviors are not comparable in final effect (and I agree with you, they aren't), they are comparable in cause. On the face of it, there do appear to be strong, outward similarities in the frustrating obliviousness (or willful apathy) of people who inconvenience others while walking and people who inconvenience others while driving. One might result in death and the other might not, but that's really just a matter of nuance. The behaviors are fully comparable, it just happens that one takes place in an environment which is fundamentally more lethal.

As an aside, I find my reactions are comparable as well. One of the most bloody frustrating things I frequently encounter is someone who suddenly stops their shopping cart in such a way that it blocks traffic, then walks away from it to roam for produce.
> The mcirowaves have built in toast oven in one unit, and it works amazingly well

I had one in my apartment outside Nagoya in 1996. Still can't believe I have never seen one in the states. I wonder if they just can't justify the potential marketing friction.
For the new post-Sony US-market Vaio laptops, they're apparently "inspected" in Japan, but the manufacturing is now finally taking place in China -- like pretty much everyone else.
The short answer boils down to, "It might be dangerous, you go first." Moving to a brand new language (which is what Perl 6 is, despite its long incubation and its vestigal name) has real costs - the libraries you have come to depend on aren't there, new libraries to replace them aren't all written yet, some might never be, the ones that exist aren't as feature-complete and battle-tested. For a new language to get adoption, someone needs to go in there and start doing those things, and deliver a value proposition. If a language wants to get followers, at least in the beginning it's better to have one "does it better than anyone else" area than to be a jack of all trades, too.
It has been over a decade since Torvalds rejected GPLv3 licensing for Linux (https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/25/273) and it turns out that Stallman was right.
You read this part:

> turned it into a beautiful, easy-to-read language.

and got annoyed (presumably?) that Python wasn't mentioned, but you completely ignored:

> it took a lot of the underlying philosophies from Perl

Ruby is a lot closer to Perl than Python is, which is what the draw would be for people migrating away from Perl.
The picture you linked is by no means a "small street" by Japanese standards. Small streets in Japan don't have a line in the middle, and most of them aren't large enough to have two cars crossing each other without effort.
Private emails... From political parties, public representatives and lobbyists. These are VERY PUBLIC people. IMO, these people should not enjoy having a private life in the first place, because, as the Podesta emails show, they end up using their political career as a way to get more money and power, NOT to serve the People.
The fact that it's still front page suggests mods are keeping it up.
There's a reason that Japanese has a convenient word for "working oneself to death": karoshi.
> The level of entitlement expressed on this forum is off the charts.

This is ridiculous. Expecting the maintainer who hasn't contributed for over a year (hasn't given any life signs or shown any interest) to give admin rights to someone who genuinely cares about the project isn't entitlement. It's the absolute minimum he could do to keep the project alive at the expense of other peoples time and effort.
El wifi y el cáncer (estudios asociados)
There's a spectrum of people and opinions in any discussion. Why would you think it doesn't happen?

Second, your use of charged language (amoral, appalling, shameless) demonstrates why rational discussions can be difficult on sensitive topics.

Just talking about talking about them you are already sounding rather judgmental.
One of these (or a cheaper version) would work even better than a clock for every city you care about... https://www.geochron.com/
Whether it is 5, 15 or 50 years hence, peak oil demand will surely come. Technological innovations will see to that. The question I have is what will that mean for all our friends in OPEC nations? Venezuela is in most estimates already a failed state and thats simply due to mismanagement. What happens when structured demand erosion starts to take hold and no amount of state level management can stop it? For those who say poverty breeds desperation breeds terrorism (which I don't ascribe to) we'll no doublet be in for a few volatile decades indeed until it all gets sorted.
Sounds like Numenta's HTM algorithm. What are the differences?
It's curious but IRC servers also seem to have that limit (for a total message payload size).

I can't seem to track down a /reason/ for this common limit. Systems were a lot smaller back in the day, but 512 is fairly easy to hit and I'd honestly expect something in the range of 1-8 KB to be the actual limit.
Do you mean in California or somewhere else? If California, how do you explain the fact that Sacramento has considered this many times, most recently two months ago, and always decides to keep things the way they are?

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essenti...

There are two possibilities: California's representatives are representing the will of the people, or they're not. Occam's Razor would point toward the former, but if you have evidence of the latter, what is it?