skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The issue is that I don't consider that the morality of forcing my will on other people depends at all on whether their current behavior is advantageous or disadvantageous to me.

Why on earth would I believe anyone who says this? I don't think humans are capable of such abstractness. It's not a matter of wanting to, biology itself is at odds with this mindset.

But also, there are many markets which are not effectively free markets. Insurance is a good one, and health service is an especially good one. In these cases, it's very dangerous to start agreeing that insurance agencies can start to pay "pass the puck" with human life.
>In the U.S. news presenters use hyperbolic language and an upset tone about everything.

What? No they don't. You may be confusing news presenters with some parody of the same, or with people like Bill O'Reilly, who are not news presenters, but commentators.

American news presenters, like news presenters almost everywhere, are trained to avoid hyperbole and emotional tone. Although admittedly, the line between news and commentary is getting purposely blurred because news is boring and opinion is engaging.

Now North Korea - they do "hyperbolic language and an upset tone about everything."
I really don't get it either. They killed the car project as well...
HTTPS always makes sense from both a performance and privacy standpoint. HTTPS/2 is significantly faster than http/1.1 and cant easily be eavesdropped on.
This is sad. I loved Apple routers and hoped for an upgrade anytime soon.

I know there is enough hate towards Apple here and I will probably still buy their new 15" Macbook, but I'm hoping for either Apple to get back to what they did before, or some other company stepping in and taking over the things Apple stopped doing.

Looking at Google for example: Started building high-end phones (iPhone), released a pretty good router (Airport), actively pushing chromecast (AppleTV). What if Google were to make a powerhouse of a laptop that's not running ChromeOS? Could that be viable?

The next Macbook I buy will hopefully last another 5-6 years, or hopefully longer. So for me 5-6 years for Apple to build something truly impressive. Who knows? Maybe Apple really does have a broader vision that we just don't see yet.
Not to mention security. Wireless is fundamentally less secure than wired and things like smart TV's are rarely patched.
Your points about it being only 24 individuals are fair.

But even 2 million individuals is not "a large chunk of the US population" -- being less than 1% -- and that's assuming that all employees of the US DoD need to maintain a valid security clearance (which I'll just grant you for the sake of argument, although it seems unlikely to me).
> James Randi famously starts out talks swallowing an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills.

And that's exactly why I posted my comment, because it's wildly irresponsible to post comments leading people to believe that they can do the same thing and come away unharmed. The fact is that if you chug a bottle of 3x diluted poison ivy oil then you're almost certainly going to die. And not because it wasn't diluted properly, because it had other ingredients, etc.

Most homeopathic treatments on the market today are highly diluted. But not all. And since historically there was more of an even split between high dilutionists and low dilutionists, it's not unlikely that in the future even more low dilution homeopathic products will come on the market. So when you post shit that's going to come up in Google for the next twenty years that's implicitly encouraging folks to try some stunt that could easily get them killed, don't expect to not get called out on it.
Daily.

I tether for internet access and backup the device.
I have between 2500 and 40,000 SSH login attempts on a server on my home broadband in Denmark, usually around 30,000. That's one every 90 seconds or so.

Wow.

I don't know about other ports, other than HTTP I don't have any open.

A server on slow home broadband in the UK is only receiving 100-300 attempts per day. It's almost identical to the one in Denmark, except the broadband is terrible.

Several servers in a university's IP space has about 5000-10000 attempts per day.
Pretty often when I'm in a coffeeshop or using tether mode, in order to keep the phone battery charged from the much beefier laptop battery.

That can be solved with an external battery, but using a short USB-Lightning cable has been easy and great. Now we'll just need to make sure we buy yet a different cable if we use a new-new laptop, which isn't that upsetting.
Can't tell if sarcasm or real.
Let me suggest Classless Themes[1][2] and its approach to theming that only switches a CSS file to transform the same HTML into multiple different themes. It's ideal for setups like that, where your user want themes, but you can't allow him to touch the HTML templates.

[1]: https://websitesfortrello.github.io/classless/
[2]: https://github.com/websitesfortrello/classless
Yeah, honestly, I think I got anxious for the engineers just watching it. If any of that unfurling just hits one minor snag, it's 8.7 billion up in smoke.

Does anyone with more information about the telescope know how they are able to keep such tight tolerances given how the telescope deploys? For example, I remember the original Hubble telescope had a spherical aberration that amounted to less than the width of a human hair. Surely the way the side mirrors deploy, and the way the front mirror unfolds into place, can't have tolerances that tight. How does the telescope account for that potential variance?
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> You claim regarding battery life is unsubstantiated. Simple timers like that take up very little processor time as long as you don't do superfluous DOM updates in every invocation.

That seems intuitively plausible, but for modern CPUs, it is very wrong. To give a specific example: modern Intel CPUs have a wide range of power levels including idle states called C-states. C-states are very low power, but somewhat expensive to enter and leave; while in a C-state, a CPU core can't really do anything besides wake up to a higher state. A frequent timer, even if it does almost nothing, stops the CPU from being idle long enough to stay in a C state profitably. Thus, frequent timers that do almost nothing can hurt your battery life more than sharp but very infrequent spikes in CPU usage.

My claim to expertise: I was heavily involved in optimizing Safari and WebKit for battery life. Most of what we had to do was not reducing average CPU usage, but rather preventing gratuitous wake from idle, or where not possible, coalescing repeated wakeups so they happened at exactly the same time instead of slightly offset. We actually measured this and it is a major effect. In fact, tuning this way is one of the major reasons that browsing in Safari delivers longer battery life than browsing with Chrome on the same hardware. I am going to bet you did not measure and your claim is based on speculation.

On mobile devices it's somewhat different. The screen and radio are a much bigger portion of the total power envelope so the CPU doesn't matter quite as much. But as mobile CPUs continue to get more powerful, maintaining good idle hygiene will become more important there too.

Short version, and something all web developers (and native developers should know) should know: idle timers are extremely costly in terms of battery life, when your app or webpage seems looks idle, it should actually be idle!

> Secondly, if you think that your typical events always updates the page graphics at 60FPS, you are mistaken.
> But most importantly, you really don't want to update a control like this 60 times per second, because you would be wasting CPU cycles on re-calculating values that no human will ever notice.

When the process driving the progress bar is making material progress, it is both feasible and desirable to update the progress bar within one frame.
FWIW, I don't think your comment deserved to get killed and I don't entirely disagree with it but I'm skeptical that the percentage is as high as you imagine and it's not obvious to me that environmentalism is strictly worse than religion (the environmental extremists seem less dangerous than the religious ones for example).
On the other hand Google translate is (was?) a clear example that word by word translations aren't intelligent or even decidable. So he's got a point, but far from a general proof.
Why Volkswagen TDI Owners Are Pissed About the Dieselgate Buyback Process
They are giving an audience what they want.

The people reading and commenting on their articles aren't doing anything more than reinforcing their current beliefs.
Hubble design was designed to be compatible to some extent with military spy satellite. Perhaps here it is again the case ?
Or someone else will come around to do the same. I really think we need a very solid and paid-for desktop Linux OS.

Something that is well designed and innovative. I for one would pay for one.
That seems like it might be a difficult sell for a company that considers itself a security company for the benefit of a relatively niche use case.
Yeah until I really see some practical applications written in Eve I don't think I'm ever going to really get it. It's nothing against Eve, it might be great, but nothing I've seen about it so far as really captured my imagination and I'm wondering if I'm just missing something.
Succession is the long term solution to a short term problem. The irony of California wanting to be segregated from opposing opinions alone should be alarming enough to send everyones hypocricy meter into a tizzy. These people are exactly who SNL was addressing in their Bubble skit. https://youtu.be/vKOb-kmOgpI
I have found that, while I do encounter the occasional bug on Edge, the battery life / ram improvements more than make up for it on my windows environment, compared to ff/chrome. (If you're plugged in all day, or have 32 gb ram, then not likely a difference maker, but I have two 8gb laptops that combined get >12 battery hours of use / day so it makes a measurable difference).
> If you went back in time even a few hundred years and handed the most brilliant thinkers of the day a piece of paper containing just one paragraph about general relativity, how many of those slips of paper would survive Occam's razor?

I'm pretty confident Newton would get it. He could've verified the speed of light against observations of the moons of Jupiter. He knew about some puzzling aspects of magnets, and was theorising about magnetism while working on optics.

Of course, much better than telling people the answer is telling them which threads to pull, which of the many confusing phenomena in the world bears more investigation.
It's funny how our attitudes change depending on the location. In Japan a vibrating bed is seen as technological sophistication, in America it's old and tacky.
This robot teach can teach you how to code by climbing on walls
I totally support this. Take Oregon and Washington, too.
I can assure you that there is very little design commonality between JWST and surveillance satellites. JWST is a very unique mission that is completely different from that of spysats.
If your experience of ARM emulation of x86 is qemu, especially the full-system variant, you're getting something much slower than emulation needs to be:

- Anything floating point or SIMD is generally done with a big mass of C helper functions rather than fully inline, and it's always unrolled rather than translated into native SIMD. You can blame qemu's choice to use an architecture neutral IR, but even with that design it could be a lot smarter than it is. In any case, a JIT designed for a specific guest/native architecture combo should be able to produce much more efficient instruction sequences.

- In system mode, qemu has to emulate page tables, which it does by translating every load/store to call a stub that maps the given virtual address to a "physical" one before loading. This is quite slow. User-mode qemu (where qemu is a host-arch Linux process pretending to be a single target-arch Linux process) is faster because it doesn't need to perform any translation itself (the host page tables provided by the native kernel do the job). Here too qemu could be improved - it's possible to use host page tables for full system emulation, though in some cases at the expense of hardware accuracy - but AFAIK Microsoft's emulator is user-mode, so this too isn't an issue.

- Those are only the big issues; I think there are a lot of small cases where there's room to do better than qemu, either in general or by optimizing for a specific architecture pair.

Also, I'm not sure how much this matters, but translating x86->ARM64 has some small builtin advantages over other pairs due to the nature of the ISAs. x86 has few general-purpose registers, while ARM64 has 32, so you can map each x86 register to an ARM register throughout the emulation; going the other way around you need to be constantly shuffling registers to and from memory. And a small one: ret on x86 requires the use of the stack pointer and memory, while ARM64 ret just takes an arbitrary register argument. (In both cases, the visible semantics are the same as a regular indirect jump, but the instructions are optimized to quickly return to the corresponding call instruction using a shadow stack in hardware.) All indirect jumps, including returns, have some emulation overhead because you need to translate the host code address to a native one; it's a bit easier when the host instructions are more flexible.
The demoscene doesn't really much care for these distinctions, if it has at least a display, the scene will try to get a cube rotating on it, or some copper bars, or something.
Humio: Log Aggregation Made to Scale
http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/11/21/breaking-fec-rocks-do...

presented as "BREAKING: FEC Rocks Donald Trump With BIG Fraudulent Donation Scandal (DETAILS)"

you can find loads of this shit from both sides, see
http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/
You're missing the fundamental part about empirical testing.

In the slightly paraphrased words of Dara O'Briain: "Science knows it doesn't know everything, but that doesn't mean you can just 'fill in the gaps' with whatever comes to mind". Claiming that we couldn't recognise an advanced description of our world doesn't mean you can then jump in and say "... and so it's this!".

Likewise, if you were to hand Isaac Newton a paragraph explaining general relativity, something beyond his ability to measure even if he could conceptualise it, there would be no point applying Occam's Razor, because it's not describing something he can detect in the first place.
What's it like to be a cyborg? (Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas)
Many of the social media manipulation techniques used to spread disinformation right now, are things I experimented with in the early days of social media that I proudly discussed in public forums widely and were reproduced by others...

I feel as though the tech industry is collectively to blame for the global power grab that is taking place right now. I've devoted a significant amount of my time to trying to correct this, but it is so far beyond the capabilities of any single person or group at this point.. like a wildfire burning out of control and all I can do is sit and stare as it consumes everything around me
Why does the BSD implementation compare with copies of the data outside the original array? Is there a performance benefit to doing this?
If California secedes, it will no longer be in the US' best interest to give them water for free. Who knows what the price will be!
Not going to happen. Can't secede. See "American Civil War".

But read "Ecotopia" and "Ecotopia Emerging".
>"buy a ton of network capacity in multiple locations around the world"

There are estimates that the Dyn attack was 1.2Tbps. What provider do you work for that can absorb that?

>"scrub the traffic using using some expensive fancy appliances(*)"

Does scrubbing work with a bunch of randomized source ports and source address? How do you find the "signature" in that to scrub? It was my understanding that the traffic in the Dyn attacks was indistinguishable from legitimate traffic. Can you explain how traffic scrubbing works in such scenarios? Or do you just drop stuff on the floor?
the stuff was junk science in Asia too. It just masks itself in the cloak of tradition.
Well, I would just use EQL.

If you want to use Haskell, use Haskell. Common Lisp works differently.
Don't you first have to make a wired connection to enable this?
If you can believe it, the classic Japanese x68000 machines still don't have a completely working port of the game.
Funny thing is that these people were making fun of Texas' efforts a while back.
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Counting Whale Sharks with DNA in a Bucket of Water
[Eve member]

Out of curiosity, what would you classify as a practical application? We're looking for some interesting examples to build to help show Eve to folks.

EDIT:

For instance, one of the examples we're throwing together now is an app that a food truck owner could use to put up their menu, manage a queue of orders (in person and online), alert people when their order is ready, accept payments, and post to social media. We picked this because it's an app trucks could actually use and it has lots of "real" functionality in it - from stripe integration to social media posting. Also, who doesn't love food trucks? :)
You know I was about to mock this as ridiculous and not worth any media attention, but then I stopped to realize I mocked the notion of a Trump presidency as ridiculous too.

I don't think there is any policitcal scenario that can be deemed far-fetched anymore in this alternate timeline we branched into.
You may not be able to do the kinds of science that will test the hypotheses you want to evaluate. We could build a lot of Zero Gradient Synchrotrons for what the Large Hadron Collider cost, but the ZGS isn't anywhere close to being powerful enough to measure the properties of the Higgs boson. Another example: For less than USD 500 an individual may outfit themselves with an optical telescope more accurate, more precise, and more powerful than anything available to Galileo or Kepler or Newton, but such a "cheap and repeatable" device will never be capable of sensing the gravitational waves detected by the LIGO and Virgo laser interferometers. Also, that $500 Celestron is only possible because of all of the one-off telescopes that came before it. You have to start somewhere, and NASA is that somewhere for space science.
> Here in Uruguay banks have 40 to 50% annual interest rate

The article mentions 30% weekly interest rates. That would compound quickly and overtake 40-50% annual rates pretty easily.
well, you can't put a price tag on knowledge and discovery :)
Referring to Tim Cook as an "administrator" or "bureaucrat" betrays a stunning level of ignorance of his achievements. His significant optimizations of Apple's massively complex supply chain is the reason the company has been able to sell over one billion iPhones (and countless other devices) to date. So he has plenty of innovations under his belt. They are just operational innovations, so most techies tend to either not be aware of them or take them for granted (since it's not their domain of expertise).

What made Steve Jobs different was that he was a product guy and an incredible visionary to boot. He had the rare ability to care about details of individual products while also having a solid grasp of the big picture in terms of how those products should come together to form an ecosystem. I think Tim Cook tries to delegate those things to people who just aren't as good as Steve Jobs (naturally), which explains the questionable decisions Apple has made recently regarding their products.
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Google has lock in, it's just less obvious. Other search engines might not be as good because they don't have access to my search history* and email data for instance.

* This has actually been annoying for me lately. The results favor the things I've already clicked on which is often exactly not what I'm after.
Check out airtable- I use it for a similar purpose for long term things.
The solution has been, is and will be to free the market for smaller ISPs to compete without being regulated to death; and this will not change until economies are no longer a thing due to human extinction and/or reaching the singularity; certainly it will not be because AT&T, Comcast et al grew a conscience.

During 8 years of Obama the only thing in the table was more regulation. Now your only hope is for a Trump administration that pushes for more competition; which given his policy on healthcare I'd say that's a battle worth fighting for.
A colorful Andrew Jackson quote. The Bank War was a little more complex and Jackson himself was no innocent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_War

He also said:

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!
This.

A company, that advertised here on the last "Who's Hiring" sent me a code project.

Wasn't quite enough to be 'you're doing a sprint item for us', but merited decent effort:

- write a log monitoring console program that consumes an actively written to file

- parse out specific parts of the log and aggregate them every 15s, display summary data

- generate 'alert' notification when log messages/second (over the last two minutes rolling average) exceeds a threshold

- remove notification when fall back under this limit

- continue to generate stats while doing so

- develop some unit tests to demonstrate alert logic

This is, at least to me, _several_ hours of decent work. Certainly was nearly 500 lines of code.

Submitted.

"Thanks for this. We'll review."

Last I ever heard.

Thanks.
And if you were at the top of an eleven story building, you'd find yourself without 10 stories to support you!
OVH don't expose OpenStack APIs so don't expect that to work.
"These two youngs"? "Youngs" is not a word. Please update the title. The title of the article is: "The stories, headlines and bylines are fake. But the money pouring in is very real".
Hmm, since there is currently a great Airport with 802.11ac support out there, what would Apple develop right now? Might it be that they'll come out with a new product when 802.11ax is due to ship, which might be a few years down the road?

For the rest, I'll repeat what everyone says. The Airport is an essential part of the Apple ecosystem. It just works. I'd be surprised if they actually drop the product.
Why not both? At least they're pushing them to the Pro version [1], as Microsoft seems to be trying to turn it into a more expensive "Home Premium", leaving professionals with only the most expensive Enterprise version as an option [2].

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/3101947/microsoft-windows/m...

[2] http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/28/microsoft-removes-policies-...
"Ate astronomy" means it costs more than all the proposed big ground-based telescopes combined. The Overwhelming Large Telescope was considered too expensive at $1.5bn.

It's the F-35 of astronomy.
Flynn offers a UI installer that works with Digital Ocean.

1. Login to DO and get your API keys

2. Select what images you want and how many instances

3. Click install and Flynn will setup your load-balanced environment.

4. Push apps like Heroku

I've been evaluating dokku, Flynn and Deis. Just rancherOS left to do.
That's the beauty of it though. If you want something slick and powerful, there are options. If you want a $250 piece of shit laptop, there are options. If you want to build a workstation taylored to your workload, there are hundreds of companies making parts you can incorporate into your build.

You have backup plans for your hardware, and your software. If either one starts to reek, you can replace it without losing the other.