skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What you describe (compiled files in /etc) are system-global default values. You only need those for multi-user environments.

Well, I work as a systems administrator...

>> I doubt anybody can measure the parsing advantage of a binary format, but the drawbacks are

> The performance advantages are massive.

The advantages over reading a big unsorted chunk of text, maybe measurable in an isolated benchmark - depending on the size of the text. But it's not a good idea to put everything in one place.

With the conventional one-file-per program approach the existing file system (instead of custom binary datastructures) is used to speed up the access.

> The dconf database is just a hashtable which can be directly mmap'ed, so no parsing happens at all.

As an aside, mmap is not necessarily faster, or may even be slower. It's probably not worth bothering except in extreme cases. What matters is caching.

"No parsing happens at all", hardly. A hash table just leads to the information. You still have to interpret it. And I assume dconf can only be queried over dbus? This would mean serialization, deserialization, and lots of context switches.

> This does matter for settings which are read hundreds of times (your current desktop theme, for example).

Not convinced. If most keys were read many times, something was very wrong. No. Most things are read by exactly one program.

The pure act of reading config files is neglibible compared to what other things happen at start-up. A process spawn costs about 1ms. Loading the program code itself is a hell of a lot more expensive than loading a tiny text configuration file. There simply is no performance gain coming from putting everything on one crap pile. But it has serious practical disadvantages.
It's still EM radiation. Takes the same amount of time to propagate between two points in a vacuum. Line of sight optical in space is going to be very difficult. Even relativistic effects need to be considered at very high frequencies as they can cause phase shifts. Managing that on a mesh hurts my head.
Right about that. But if travelers have no preconceived notion one way or the other, this can provide a true notion that they can carry back to friends and family, Tweet about, Instagram, Facebook, etc. etc. The message will get out.
I would prefer Score Voting or maybe even Approval Voting for simplicity, but SRV looks very very good, and addresses concerns about not electing the proverbial "majority winner". Thus SRV may be more politically viable, which counts for a lot.

And it's _certainly_ better than the Instant Runoff Voting system that Maine just adopted.

Clay Shentrup
Co-founder, The Center for Election Science
and when Musk puts into orbit gigantic solar panels beaming down the energy i wonder how the typical anti-solar-energy argument "Sun isn't always shining" would sound then :)
Wow, almost 8 years I spent there after OiNK shut down.

Invaluable community for discovering music (I found SO MANY artists through user's collages and the related artist graphs).

I owe SO much of who I am as a music fan and human being to this site (and OiNK before it), and the community of people there..
Until a government, registry or large ISP decides to take that control from you, which can happen nearly instantly. Or someone uses social engineering to take the domain from you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex.com
> They already have the passwords

Which is a good reason to let them continue collecting them indefinitely?

> Also, Russia doesn't and won't force any company to store users' data exclusively under their jurisdiction, as this would not allow any foreign company to operate in Russia, making your arguments incorrect.

You state this as if it was a fact, but there is great uncertainty among lawyers and businesses if the law requires data to be stored exclusively in Russia or if that's not the case. In any way you'll have to ask for permission which they might never grant you if you are a company like Facebook that's storing very sensitive information.
"President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has not announced a point person dedicated to cyber security policy or staffing in his administration, "

I don't remember Obama doing that either.
Wait.. I remember this. "President Barack Obama is asking Congress to devote $19 billion to cybersecurity and is issuing new executive orders geared at the protection "

And from what I can tell, this guy is still sitting right where he is.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/author/michael-daniel

So what is Venture beat even talking about?
Enabling the advisory mode by default seems like a mistake, at least with the current UI. It is so unobtrusive that it carries a very distinct implication of "we've looked into this for you, and you don't need to worry about it", which is not the case. The iconography of the shield also implies this - it says "Signal is protecting you".

The message probably needs to be more explicit: "Voltairine de Cleyre isn't using the same safety numbers anymore. Probably this contact just has a new phone or reinstalled Signal, but you might want to confirm the new safety numbers with them.". And the accompanying icon should be an ! or ? or something.
JS Real-Time Type Check System for Ocaml/F# Lowers and Other Esthetes ONLY
Hi
I hate to cover my JSON controllers with Type Check System but I have to do it because of security reasons.
So, I tried to trick my brain and make this process enjoyable.
I would like to share the solution with you (https://github.com/askucher/ftjs). if you have same problem and it helps you that my hence my karmic task of helping people will has a little progress.

There are other projects like joi already available (https://github.com/hapijs/joi) but ftjs has own Ocaml/F# like DSL and who likes Discriminated Unions, Syntax Sugar will understand me.
For those that don't understand this comment, intelligence agencies are known for generating fake evidence and allegations to take down targets - and it's well known that intelligence agencies such as the NSA and GCHQ are not charged with missions to track down terrorists.

A very clever sarcastic comment I think will probably go under the radar because the OP omitted a "/s".
Yikes. All the more reason to embrace technologies like the Decentralized Web.

The solution to government surveillance is not laws - we've already seen that laws don't stop secret shadow government entities - the only defense is technology.
What was the nerd?
To some extent we just need something better than https and the various email protocols that we have for securely transmitting data, with built in blinding for sender and reciever. (Only the receiver knows it is a message for them). Stuff should never be in the clear on an intermediary server, and it should be at least resistant to MITM (everything should be signed). It isn't an easy problem. But you can't snoop on and censor what you can't decipher.
You may be interested in the Filecast https://outernet.is/filecast project in that case
And why was that down-vote worthy? Globally available FREE internet means that devices in our homes could bipass our routers to signal home with little ability to oversee and limit that signaling save throwing the device away and a faraday cage. Today the same is also possible with 3/4/5G antennas, true, but the cost of sending data over cellular networks on billable data accounts is probably just too cost prohibitive for IoT device manufacturers to do, so they just do it through your wifi.
Yes, it should. When they get something wrong, they issue a correction. That's a sign of high quality.
Welcome to rentier capitalism.
Is it now a yet another pizza delivery/haircut scheduling app? Really, you should try that. You will make more money than on those "food anthropologist" thingies.

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Ouch, -18? Are you downvoting me with your whole team?
Running OpenBTS with the Nuand BladeRF on Ubuntu
I will try it in French, I've read it in Spanish, English, Italian and Japanese so far (the latter barely) so I think French would be a great addition and I probably will understand it being a Spaniard and all. Thanks for the recommendation
So long as it breaks even, SpaceX comes out ahead, since they're deploying the sats, and learning how to build the sats in a mass produced way.
Ask HN: How have you adapted your writing for executives/non-technical staff?
I work in a department that largely uses technology to accumulate data for compliance and investigations. Recently I had an interview for a promotion where a major concern was that I won't be able to write reports and explain situations in ways that will be easily understood by the recipients (namely executives, outside agencies, and other employees in the office).

I'm absolutely struggling with how to change the way I write to be less complex, when I myself don't recognize it as being verbose or overly complex in structure. In all the past reports I've written, only maybe once or twice has anything been mentioned by management (usually that they wanted me to remove a word because they didn't know what it meant).

Has anyone else experienced this, or have any advice or know of any resources that might be able to help me change the way I write to adhere to different reading comprehension levels?
I'm aware of only two reasonable use cases for goto, both of which could be avoided with extra language features. Namely, breaking out of nested loops (which could be solved with optionally named loops) and error handling (which can be solved by some form of exception flow control).

Not that I think C should add these features, goto does these jobs okay, and there's enough stigma that it's unlikely to be used foolishly. But I think it's worth keeping in mind as we think about future languages.
With Ctrl-V <tab>, it's not possible to determine whether it's spaces or tabs (without cursoring over the /s|/t)

When you're parsing a text file, or streaming lines of text delimited with /n, how do downstream programs know whether it's ASCII or unicode?
After a number of though the support channel and the management feedback channel, they have given me a key for one year of pro use, though I really wanted a refund.

That fact that the limitations are mentioned in the manual is irrelevant, the function of the edition comparison page at point of purchase is to point these differences out, it did not. This amounts to false and misleading advertising at best.
Any one experienced with parallels, is unlikely to read the manual every upgrade.

I actually got mad when support stated that it was a mistake that the standard version had this extra functionality and that update 12.1.0 "fixed" this issue. I'll not deal with any corporation shows shows such disregard for customers that it expects them to pay for corporate mistakes.
You posted a literal wall of text that makes the comment section impossible to read. That's spammy in my book. Five examples would have been more than sufficient; do you really think some masochist was going to click through every single one?
Why You Should Always Guess on the SAT
Thats a great play. Completing the food chain. Udacity started with university courses, then saw demand on more job oriented courses and moved accordingly. Now they are moving to where the current demand from their customers is - actual paid work for the new skills. Who better to connect those dots. Students graduate into Udacity controlled work. Then move on to other jobs which require more resume experience
I worked for a company called Lightsquared that tried to do this. Big problems were faced from lobbyists, maybe SpaceX has more money to protect themselves though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligado_Networks
Because until they are ready to cut their losses and actually burn this bridge with the entrepreneur, they want to be in a good position if the entrepreneur turns things around and all of a sudden the company is a hit. You don't want to finally get rid of a zombie only to find that if u waited 6 months that zombie would have been a hit.
That's unfortunate. Having to "double install" things like that is very inconvenient.

Yep, I use a VM now (a seamlessly integrated one with vmware) but sadly vmware support for Unity mode Linux guests has been dropped and VirtualBox has too many problems to consider using.

Was hoping to eventually change to Windows 10 but it's sounding like I might as well stick with what I have now, despite the bugs and being stuck with a ~4 year old Linux distro because nothing else works.

If Windows can solve the problem of running GUI Linux apps through it, I'd be the happiest developer ever.
Leveraging capital in the stock market using Robinhood Gold
your site has a multi-country select list to get the app via sms, but the button validation only allows American number formats.... argh...
Well people that leave torrents on 24/7 can.
I didn't realize extended attributes were such an obscure feature. I haven't been on windows for years, yet knew about this feature.

I'm on OSX and every now and then see how apps are making interesting use of file attributes (e.g. tags, or remembering the cursor position of a text file when re-opening). So, I'm honestly surprised Windows isn't doing anything with this useful OS feature.
> If someone with deep knowledge of human hand physiology / neuroanatomy were to design a keyboard optimized for efficiency (at the expense of requiring years to properly master)

Per language.
Integer programming is effectively searching the edge of a convex polygon (polytope for higher dimensions) for an optimal value function, defined in terms of the coordinates of the points in space. The inequalities are planes that subdivide the solution space into permitted and non-permitted domains.

Constraint programming generates lots of potential solutions (combinatorially) and prunes the search tree to make the large numbers tractable.

The intuitions behind the two techniques are quite different.
Apple will fix iPhone 6 Plus 'touch disease,' for $149
Since satellites handle most worst-case distance scenarios with respect to fiber, it is reasonable to assume a connection spanning the world (including access to remote areas)
In cities, the fiber, or even some form of local wireless, is much cheaper. However, in more rural areas the satellite system can well end up the cheaper choice.

The interesting part is what building 4425 satellites does to the economics of making satellites. Right now, most satellites are one-offs, or at most made in a series of 10 or so, handmade to exact specifications for maximum reliability and built for 25+ year lifetimes. This fleet is meant to be mass-produced and built to last a much shorter time, 5-10 years at most. I am very interested in just how low can they drive the cost of making a single satellite.
Yes.

For an understanding of what data Apple gives surveillance operations access to, the following list is enumerated in an older Law Enforcement Access document: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12983081

It's also important to understand that the purpose for this surveillance (this following section being informed by the Snowden Disclosures) is not merely for investigative work or for tracking down terrorists. Intelligence work of this kind is used in HUMINT operations (mass propaganda), for industrial espionage, for diplomatic espionage and for signals collections (intelligence used to break into networks).

It is not clear whether Apple shares these concerns with the US government, or whether it shares lesser concerns that show up at a much lower frequency.
I'm not sure how far you want me to go in answering that question, but I'll give you a few layers of it.

So that the media elites aren't out of touch with half the population, and 90% of the land area of the country.

What good will that do?

To some degree, it will make it so that we no longer have "two Americas", where one part feels completely alienated from the other part.

What good will that do?

Hopefully, politics becomes more sane, more connected with what people in the country actually need, and more able to actually solve problems. (Though if this election taught us anything, it ought to have taught us that hope isn't going to come from the government. And if you think hope would have come from the other side winning: Did you really expect hope from Hillary? Or just "not Trump"?)
But a lot of people use it at near full capacity on Sunday evenings when a new episode of Westworld is out.
It's all very clearly spelled out in the document. They are going to operate them in low earth orbit, each satellite covering a small area.
My granddad met Andrew Wyeth and is good friends with his son Jamie, who's also a painter. There were a lot of famous artists involved in NASA's art program in the 70's [0].

> “Why Do Critics Still Hate Andrew Wyeth?”

At least from what I've been told it's because he and his family became really wealthy (I've seen the Ferraris). And he mostly rejected the whole art scene in NYC. Glad that that's pretty consistent with the article.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Wyeth#.22Eyewitness_to_S...
Why doesn't this get talked about more often? That there exists a fundamental VC v/s founder conflict. The VC wants at least one of his startup to go mega, while the founder wants his startup go big enough that his opportunity cost is smaller. There are many decisions that the founder will want to go one way, while the VC the other way.
This even landed Copernicus a spot on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (posthumously) even though he had been a Catholic cleric himself.

Another interesting bit of trivia: far from being a medieval artifact of ignorance and oppression, the Index existed until 1966. Galileo received an apology in 1992, and as far as I'm aware Giordano Bruno remains unpardoned.

But by all means, let's go back to the business of rehabilitating Christianity on the grounds that Bruno was a heretic, Hypatia a pagan, and Galileo an annoying jerk who got what was coming to him.
How is multiracial more accurate when it equally describes someone who's amerindian / chinese as european / african?

If you could propose a more PC term than mulatto (which specifically describes someone with white/black parents), I'd take it - but I don't think there is any.
The frequencies they intend to use limit them to antennas roughly the size of a pizza box, which is a little bit too unwieldy for a backpack...
Playing dumb is a basic negotiating tactic. As is making outrageous demands and statements.
I'm not a lawyer, and I may not be remembering this correctly. That said, I believe that having a really obvious microphone obviates the need to explicitly inform people that you're recording. Maybe someone on a camera crew can chime in?
What is "MDM"? I'm not familiar with such an acronym, and the author of this piece never defines it.
Why not decouple the community and metadata from the content to protect from losses like this?
Gold-nanospheres-confine-light-to-smallest-volume-ever
I always felt so annoyed at the stupidity of the ratio requirements that I do feel some vague satisfaction imaging that it destroyed them (I have no idea what actually happened to cause a shutdown). Everyone buying seedboxes so that they could have fast enough internet to actually earn ratio was ridiculous.

Broadcasthenet still has no ratio requirements at all and is doing fine.
Django

Good solid base for quickly developing something quickly.

Iterating on a database schema has never been easier
since 1.7 the migration tools are built in and the ecosystem of plugins has lots of tools that make development of a prototype extremely easy. It just keeps on getting better, just the other day I found an plugin to automatically generate knockout.js powered AJAX forms without me having to write any of the JavaScript.
Competition makes a big difference. Just over a year ago with Google Fiber rearing up, my ISP offered 150Mbps for $35. This year with Google Fiber downsizing, the big American ISPs are back to their duopoly: 25Mbps for $40 or 10Mbps for $30. Hopefully SpaceX is able to force them to lower rates for everyone.
Django.

The ORM is really usable and simple CRUD apps are pretty easy after you've used it a few times. Django Admin for free is nice too.
Wouldn't it make more sense to use Monero instead of ZCash?

Privacy is compulsory with Monero and also the entire platform is decentralised.

The privacy features in Zcash are optional & very slow / difficult to use -- most users will simply make non-private transactions. Also Zcash requires trust of the founders (Any "private" coin that requires trust of a third party is a fail in my mind).
That was just for illustrative purposes. Your personal files should indeed be under C:\Users\name\
A hurricane unleashes more power than humanity is currently harnessing. I doubt we figure out how to do anything that only works locally.
Errrrr... fixing a design fault should be for free!
unsafe blocks play no role in any kind of security aside from memory safety. You are communicating with extreme disingenuity.
Asteroid strike made 'instant Himalayas'
This might primarily be for their autonomous vehicles. It makes sense for them not to rely on 3rd party for cost/reliability reasons.
Here's the science paper:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6314/878
> Not really for humanity directly...perhaps another Great Dying, though.

It seems hard to believe that such a drastic shock to our planet won't trigger panic and resource wars which have the potential to finish us off.
+ economies of launch scale.
Yeah, while a security conscious user would probably be curious about this and investigate, I think an average user would just ignore it.

I've been talking with people who haven't noticed when I change the disappearing messages on/off, which has the same appearance and displays in the same place as these advisory messages, so clearly some people are already ignoring them.
I would bet most shots at the police aren't because the criminal wants to straight up murder a police officer out of anger in the heat of the moment. Rather because he's scared, wants to flee, and his only option left for that is his gun.

It's a given here in the US that the moment you as much as appear to draw a gun at a cop, you're getting shot. So I don't think criminals even have to think about it to know that it's a "kill first or die" situation, once you're down that route. Now, if the criminal knows that the cop is unarmed, all of that changes: his gun is just leverage. He flees (or expels the cops off his house), which is undesirable; but then's when the situation can be escalated. No more "wild West" situations of "this guy might shoot me any moment, better be prepared to kill him for my life".
Users of iOS don't have any input over Apple policies governing whom may publish what so how are they relevant?

But if you replace "users" with "Apple executives" and the end result is Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera, and anyone who cares to may create an unimpeded browser... then absolutely that voice should carry more weight than "Apple executives" on this occasion.
if Amazon and Netflix get to use high quality metrics, shouldn't the people in a democracy?

What if Amazon or Netflix depended on conventional voting methods to gauge product quality? They'd go out of business.
OP said their team is only three people.
"Happily, DevelopHer has created a fantastic list."

They did? It's blank.

The form to even add yourself is a 404.