skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the '90s, when smartcards were supposedly about to revolutionize our personal data storage. Imagine, your MasterCard, American Express, ATM, stored-value, medical card (and history!), passport, loyalty cards... ALL IN ONE!

Here we are in the U.S. 20 years later, and we can't even get the credit-card portion right. We still have separate cards for everything, and somehow the card vendors in the U.S. are too stupid to implement chip-&-PIN, which the rest of the planet has understood for ages.

So now our transactions take longer, and we're STILL SIGNING for our card transactions with not a PIN in sight.

And given the results of the latest election, things aren't going to get better anytime soon.
WebOS, how I miss you.
The "How it works" page has been updated to remove this reference until we include the FreeBSD image.
It was announced here https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-changes/

and confirmed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12490241
They also don't make their own laptops. Their Bonobo top-end model is a Sager/Clevo.

I've never had it explained to me why buying from System76 instead of Sager or Clevo makes sense, but there you go.
I feel the animation doesn't really capture bosch. I grew up with his painting around our house, my dad was a big fan! When we lived in Europe for a few years we would go to all kinds places just to see one his paintings.

However, I feel the animation is trying to be "weird" like bosch rather than "symbolic" like bosch.
Not really. http://diamondssuck.com/

Moissanite generally works better as a diamond stone than actual diamond for 1/10 the price.
Explain "fake paper votes". I'm not sure that this is a real problem with normal auditing -- record all voters that come into a precinct, what time they appear, and compare to the number of received ballots. Comparing signatures of voters to the file signature is common for absentee voting. It's just far harder and riskier to mess around with compromising paper ballots than a mistake (or "mistake") in a line of code.
Not as fast as asking random people on Youtube for help
Thank you. This BS about the US sanctioning Venezuela is false. They are sanctioning the leadership: those who are involved in corruption, drug traficking and human rights violations. Not Venezuela as a country.
WebOS was far ahead of its time, and the shitty hardware all but killed it. FFOS seemed to be what WebOS was, but that didn't go anywhere, either.

I think the big problem a new OS will have is compatibility with existing iOS/Android software stacks. You need to be able to run one or the other until you get market share for your own applications, because the majority of the populace wants their bread-and-butter Facebook, Snapchat, et al and these companies will not give your upstart OS any love until you have users.
Intel itself was once a risky company to join, as the whole concept of a microprocessor seemed both stupid and crazy at the same time. Their 4004 series calculator controller was a useless toy compared to more serious computer hardware at the time and their 8008 was marginally less toy-like but equally useless for enterprise computing.

We're in the 8088 stage of AI right now.
'suicide' and 'non-constructive' in a submission makes Jack a dull boy. 'suicide' and 'non-constructive' in a submission makes Jack a dull boy. 'suicide' and 'non-constructive' in a submission makes Jack a dull boy. 'suicide' and 'non-constructive' in a submission makes Jack a dull boy.
I'm coming to the same conclusion. Despite being a happy Sony Xperia for years now, I think my next phone is an iPhone.

Which kind of sucks, because I don't want to spend eight trillion dollars on a phone, but...
'suicide' and 'non-constructive' in a submission makes Jack a dull boy. × 4

Your comment here is an example of the type of comment users are often trying to prevent.
Some details besides ad-hominem might actually be helpful. When you make statements like this it just looks like trolling.
bug/feature whatever. CASSANDRA-6123 is exactly addressing row level consistency. but here maybe they found another case.
Might be easier for people to rise up against the government if guns weren't banned in Venezuela!
And yet all of the Android devices I own have all passed that test and then some. I have Android devices that are over 4 years old that still work extremely well. Granted, I'm not a flash junkie that needs to continually flash their devices with the latest daily ROM built by some script kiddie.
In software or in hardware? The Pixel is a beautiful device, but the security and demographics of Android vs. iOS speaks for itself in how much an Android 0day goes for vs. an iOS 0day. Android is simply not hardened or built with much security in mind, and now they are trying to catch up on that; the problem is that the Android ecosystem is brutally fragmented.
In SF I keep seeing flyers titled "Can The Bolivarian Revolution be saved?", and I think to myself probably not.
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No, what this check means is that the recently introduced multiprocess-features of Firefox won't be blocked by Tab Mix Plus. You'll get much better performance, if you have no extensions which block that.

The guy seems to be confusing things here, too.

But while this doesn't confirm it, it neither confirms the opposite. So, it is very much still possible thst Tab Mix Plus gets ported to WebExtensions before the old add-ons get shut off, i.e. you might very well be able to use it still then, there's just currently no way to know yet.

And as far as I can tell, the developer seems to have accepted porting it to WebExtensions and will most likely do it: http://tabmixplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19282
If the police is inquiring about your wellbeing you "feel better" real quick ;)

Look, I made my point, what you do with it is up to you.
Edit: Driving just one mile further to work is significantly more energy than a huge monitor and nobody thinks a 11 mile commute is vastly worse than a 10 mile one.

Modern monitors are very low energy usage. The lights above you likely use more power than two 27" LED monitors, especially as overhead lights are often on more than your ~25-50w monitors are. Note, monitor brightness does impact usage.

PS: 27 inch 4k monitors start pushing 75+w, but that's higher end than the average office setup. ex: https://www.energystar.gov/productfinder/most-efficient/me-c...
I push engineering methods for software. It really is hard for systems of significant complexity. Just a 32-bit adder takes 4 billion tests to know it will always work. The kind of formal methods that can show heap safety took a few decades to develop. They just did an OS kernel and basic app a few years ago. Each project took significant resources for developing the methods then applying them. Many failed where the new methods could handle some things but not others. Hardware is a precautionary tale where it has fewer states plus an automatable logic. They still have errata in CPU's with tons of verification.

So, it's definitely not easy. The people that pull it off are usually quite bright, well paid, have at least one specialist, and are given time to complete the task. The introduction of regulations might make this a baseline with lots of reusable solutions. We'd loose a lot of functionality that's too complex for full verification with slower development and equipment, though. Market would fight that.
What would you need?
I don't think that better languages will fix all the security problems. (One can, after all, create a CPU simulator to execute compiled C programs in any reasonably powerful "safe" language.) I just think that C and C++ are specifically unsuitable for building secure systems, and we won't make much meaningful progress as long as we're dependent on enormously complex software written in languages that don't at least have some degree of memory safety as a basic feature.
Article says it has full-size QWERTY. In what sense is that, umm, not normal?
QED, in memory of Ian Murdock (you are sooooo stupid!).
happened to me before, and it rocked me because i had finally found and started to implement an idea of mine that i thought was really what had passion for, and i thiught it was unique. later on i found that there was something similar, but not exactly the same, and it depressed and destroyed my motivation all in one fell swoop because this company had been around for 2 years already in the market, but after awhile, i realized that this is not necessarily a bad thing, it totally validates that there's a market for this, so i got back on my proverbial horse and started back on my passion wave!

look at the iphone, at the time blackberry and nokia were in the market for years and dominant players, did it mean that they should give up? granted apple had the funds and resources to go big on iphone, but you're up against a kickstarter product, not exactly rim or nokia of that time :)
This is better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bSZslEDUl0
Lived in a country with a similar effect albeit very very much lighter.

> but how does that turn into no one being able to buy milk (or other essentials)?

The problem is that these countries come with price controls for basic food. The food can be available on black market. The problem, it's much more expensive to produce than the current price tag on the controlled government market.

So there are two possibilities:

1. The industry goes bankrupt because of the laws. And I witnessed this first hand. I saw people and farmer throw away milk on the street. It makes no economical sense to produce at all.

2. Sell it on the Black market, or smuggle it outside of the country. This will depend on how strong is the local government on controlling borders and commerce.
I see this as a basic misunderstanding of how LWT works. If you want to ensure serializable operations, then you need to use LWT with preconditions that ensure serializable operations.

Even better, stop trying to emulate the old and tired distributed lock methods that have been proven over and over again to be insufficient.
For what it's worth, git add, git checkout, and git reset all take the -p (or --patch) option, which allows selection of sub-sections of files to stage, discard, or unstage, respectively.
The piece of software was fine. It was done for Ariane 4 and worked as expected.

They re-used it for ariane 5 without checking/adapting it for work in the different environment (more acceleration & thrust). I don't even know what's the name for that kind of mistake. ^^

> See my other post, they effectively have sent something random ("diagnostics" instead of the data).

The software failed. It doesn't matter what it returned at this point. There is nothing to do but to fix the bug in the software.

If it returned "last number" instead of what it did, it would be considered a bug in the exact same way.

For R2, I suppose that they reused the tests from Ariane4 as well :D
It maybe beautiful to use, but that thing is pig ugly
Datastax seems to think that it is a good idea: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/consensus-on-cassandra
In France you have a lot of "local" fast food in downtown areas already. There's the consistency argument for going to a chain, but there's also a decent amount of competition.

People are walking around more, taking mass transit, so foot traffic alone can be enough to get some clients. Whereas in the US, everyone's driving by your restaurant, so without those Golden Arches out front, you get about 2 seconds to convince someone to stop.

This is just an informed guess, though.
> Yep, you can recount fake paper votes, but how you will distinguish fake votes from real ones?

You already have a log of who showed up to vote. Compare the number of shows S with the number of ballots V which must be <= S due to poorly marked/unreadable ballots. Simple.

Edit: and this all statistically correlates with exit polls. It's very, very hard to fake all three of these in order to rig an election.
Is the data encrypted using the customer password (which you don't have)?

Do you have any background task (not initiated by a browser session) that you need to execute for your SaaS to work?

Will this encryption deny you critical data required in your background task (think cron/ mailing/ etc..) ?

What happens when the customer forgets their password, and need to reset it? Do they lose all their data in your DB?

Just some questions to think about
Depends on the glasses. These days, I always ride with glasses, but they're cheap safety glasses, not corrective lenses of any kind. Safety glasses are made specifically to protect your eyes from flying debris, so theoretically they're safer if a big rock flies into your eye or something. But they also are shaped to fit closer to your face, so I don't have any problems with the wind-tunnel effect you complain about. Best of all, they keep the wind out of my eyes, which is a problem at speed.

Now if I could just find something comfortable to block out all the wind noise.
The ones controlling the import of goods at the official exchange rate are multi-millionaire by now, mostly military.

Before getting dollars at the official rate for importing, your company needs to get approved and jump through all kinds of burocratic stuff that could take ages and never get approved. Here in my state there was a huge cartel of military officers involved in the sale of pre-approved companies for importing. It was like buying companies off the shelf.

A bunch of people bought these companies at a very high price, but the returns were huge. You bought one company for say $50k, but then you imported at the official rate. There are 20 year old kids that are now living in Miami with $15-20 million dollars in their accounts, money they made through these companies. They had a small office with 5 or 6 assistants, one for each company doing all the paperwork for the constant fake importing of goods.

This is just one of the ways the country has lost more than $50 billion dollars to corruption in just two years, according to one of Chavez's former ministers, Giordani.
awesome work spez, you're now liable for everything your users do on your site due to your actions.

have fun dealing with the outcome of this. I don't envy you, but this was your decision.
Printing Bolivars isn't profitable enough ...
Black Friday ads prime consumers for aggression: study
>With regards to your question, I can't say for sure but my impression is that interest in chess has declined a lot.

It hasn't, in the slightest. The fact that computers playing at full strength can beat top humans makes no difference in the enjoyability of the game for people.
That's why they invented "safety glasses". They're specifically designed to protect against stuff like that, probably better than your expensive corrective lenses, and they're dirt cheap. They're required wear in any hazardous environment (factory, workshop, etc.).
> Even after adding 15 uMatrix rules I couldn't get it to work (whitelisted everything that wasn't tracking i.e. Google Analytics, Segment, ShareThis).

Wouldn't it just be easier to disable uMatrix temporarily for his site? That being said the site just brings up an error page for me too.
To add a bit more perspective, the US is also an outlier amongst developed nations, who are almost all under 2.0. That 3.9 is not 'normal' (though it is something of an improvement on previous rates).
Not sure why you're getting downvoted.

I was a Palm Pre user from day 1. I loved everything about WebOS. I still do. I agree with your points completely.
That piece was written in 2014, which was a different time ;)

Plus, if we were to take the vendor words at face value, we'd all be using Docker and MongoDB in production.
This title is wrong: the footnote is explicit in stating that the letter is only the opinion o the heterodox academy executive committee, and that the membership were not consulted in the drafting or content of the message.
You're exaggerating a little. Everybody prints money. It's what central banks do, it's what gold mines do. It's not a bad thing, it's how economies are managed. (completely free markets are a bad thing and anyone that tells you they aren't either doesn't have understanding of economics or is an extremist or both)

You can run a tightly managed economy successfully but it's hard. Very hard. Completely free markets are cruel but corrupt tightly managed economies are moreso. It also becomes difficult to determine the difference between a completely free economy and a corrupt managed economy because without regulation the former tends to concentrate power until it becomes effectively or actually the latter.

Sometimes the only thing for a collapsing economy to do _is_ print money. It's what a failing state will do to prevent itself from becoming a failed state. It's not sustainable but it's like falling off a mountain, you have to do _something_ and devaluing your currency to keep your economy somewhat functional can be the "right" thing to do for a while.
You are arguing that they shouldn't print money to pay their obligations. You are right, but Venezuela still can print money to do that if they want to and that is precisely what they are doing now.
100,000 nodes on Apple and 2,500 nodes on Netflix would like to have a word with you.
I've always found focus-follows-mouse to be a detriment rather than a boon. If I'm going to mouse over a window, it's trivial for me to just click the window, but using your mouse cursor to change window focus seems vastly less efficient than using the keyboard.

What time savings do you find that you can't key with keyboard shortcuts?
Opposed to Bush's course, which only let Russia start one war. Plus,saying Russia started the Syrian war is a huge stretch, the US had already been involved for years.
You only have to look at any socialist country in the last 80 years to understand what is going on. This is how Eastern Europe survived for decades. The diaspora kept everyone back home alive while those in Government became rich.

How did it work out for Russia, 80 years of communism and everyone had to line up for a loaf of bread and bar of soap. Venezuela managed to do it in a few short years...
What It Takes to Provide Thanksgiving Dinner for the US Military: By the Numbers
It sounds like a totally hipster thing to do. Completely pointless and idiotic.
> my impression is that interest in chess has declined a lot.

I don't think it has. Much like horseback riding has not made olympic races obsolete, human competition remained fascinating. I for one very much followed the rise of Magnus Carlsen.
Here's some risks:

1. Your system might be hacked if connected to a hostile network. Avoid that by default.

2. If connected, use a VPN and/or deterministic protocols for the connections. Include ability to update these. No insecure protocols listening by default. Sane configuration.

3. Certain languages or tools allow easy code injection. Avoid them where possible.

4. Hackers like to rootkit the firmware, OS, or application to maintain persistence. Use an architecture that prevents that or just boot from ROM w/ signed firmware if you cant.

5. DDOS detection, rate-limiting, and/or shutdown at ISP level. Penalties for customers that let it happen too often like how insurance does with wrecks.

That's not a big list even though it covers quite a lot of hacks. I'm with the other commenter thinking all the unknowns may not be causing our current problems.
> They aren't in the same category, the Iraq ones were so much worse. They cost trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives. The death toll is still rising more than a decade on.

What? Am I missing something? I mean what exactly is the press supposed to do when the pentagon and the whitehouse are reporting on WMDs? There was conflicting information and it was terrible that they lied about that shit, but is that CNNs fault?

Seriously though, what would you have them do? How would you have them verify that information ahead of time?

And why do you think it's on the same level as completely false information that's easily refutable?
DevOps: Before/As it happens (Monitoring)
Order at the counter, no table service.
Thank you, and that's a really interesting question.

There are really two concepts in there: the idea of "sea level", and the idea of "altitude", which we generally understand to be height above or below sea-level, but in some circumstances is only tangentially related to sea-level.

Most current geospatial representations use the WGS84 projection, which is the projection used by the original USA GPS system called Navstar.

WGS does get revised every now and again. The last revision was in 2004. However, the concept of WGS is built around an imaginary idealised ellipsoid that represents the shape of the Earth's surface and the Earth's gravitational field, so a change in sea-level wouldn't necessarily change the definition of WGS, and if it were to be updated, it would be slow to update.

That said, GPS is notoriously bad at reporting altitude, so tools tend not to rely on GPS for altitude measurements anyway.

A good example is in aviation. Altitude isn't measured using GPS, it's measured using barometric pressure against one of three references: either the recorded barometric pressure at a particular airfield (QFE), the corresponding barometric pressure at sea-level (QNH) or a global idealised standard barometric pressure (1013mb). During take-off or landing, the altimeter is calibrated to the airfield's barometric pressure, to accurately report the altitude above the airfield. During transition to cruising altitude, many aircraft use QNH. During general flight, altimeters are calibrated to the global standard of 1013mb, so that each aircraft maintains consistent vertical separation. Commercial aircraft flying at "Flight Level" use that standard barometric pressure to calculate altitude. For that use-case, it doesn't matter whether the reported altitude is the height above the ground, the height above mean sea-level, or the height above some arbitrary reference point: what's important is that everyone is communicating using the same reference, which is why the mean atmospheric pressure of 1013mb was adopted.

If (when?) sea-level rises, then small changes will be seen. Nautical charts will be updated with new high-water/low-water marks, maps will eventually be updated, etc. Widely-used references such as WGS84 will take a long time to update, and may not even be updated at all (because an altitude difference of 1 or 2 meters isn't hugely significant). Other reference points, such as the barometric pressure of 1013mb are unlikely to change, partly because they have a long legacy, and partly because the accuracy of the value is to a large part irrelevant.
You might want to take a look at a book entitled "The Quants" by Scott Patterson. He talks extensively about Medallion. Inception, speech recognition people, etc.
Apple no longer uses Cassandra.
Just like the Democrats had a field day with Trump: Great entertainment, but the outcome wasn't all that fun. Bush would have been less fun, but he would have lost.
Guns are only banned for normal citizens. The para-military forces that support the government are very well armed.

This is one of the reasons you don't see people in the poorer areas protesting. They are scared of these groups.
New method for harnessing wind power
I think there's an interesting parallel between this and debugging. For example, change all your test data numbers into pairs except for one. Now all impair sums will include that number.

Though I have to say I'm a bit confused about the sphere example here. A sphere is a sphere is a sphere right? What's the classified bit that they're trying to hid? The exact dimensions?
I'd be more worried if there wasn't anyone else doing it. That probably means that other people tried and failed and there's something very tricky about this idea or market that makes it hard to do.

You will always have competition. Uniqueness is not required for hairdressers, why is it required for startups?