skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you have to open a free business bank account (but most companies need one anyway) and then you apply for the payment processing. I should have added a link to the platform in my initial post. [1]

It might not be as easy to use as the Stripe API, but it offers you many more payment options. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that this will put Stripe out of business, I'm just saying there seems to be a change in the payment processor landscape and in a few years, people might take these simple online payment platforms for granted.

[1] https://docs.aciworldwide.com/
Tech Billionaires Award $25M in Breakthrough Prizes to Top Scientists
But I can buy a coffee with my credit card without having to wait weeks or months to get it. This works because people have faith in the system, faith which in turn is built on identity information and legal systems. You could probably achieve the same thing on top of Bitcoin, but at that point why bother with Bitcoin (and the cost is nontrivial)?
Not to put too fine a point on things here but sadly the current animus against immigrants is directed at people that look a certain way, not enterprising Irish lads or nice looking Slovenians.
which I always assume is at least partly implicit in these ambitious projects

No serious researcher is even contemplating that problem yet, except as a thought experiment. These projects are more about working out how to work out what questions to ask to direct research which might lead to more generalised AI.
hmm... thanks for making me take another look around. I'm trying rstudio+python and rodeo tonight to see if I like them better.

(Right now I use jupyter for some things, ipython gui for others, and pycharm for "real coding" tasks. Tried Spyder, but something about it makes it neither a good IDE nor a good notes/documentation system... though I can understand its appeal for Matlab folks).
> It’s the only mesh kit we tested that is fully configurable and usable without an Internet connection, and it’s also the only one that provides the full, deep feature set that technical users expect from a high-end router, including plenty of Ethernet ports on both units.

I'm amazed... "and usable" implies some of these kits will go down if you lose your internet connection. Not just that they won't be configurable?
On the other hand, Ubiquiti has been violating the GPL since at least 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquiti_Networks#U-Boot_confi...
Docker: Windows Containers on Windows Host – Step by Step
> x86 CPUs guarantee that all reads/writes on from std::atomic are indeed, atomic

... for sizeof(T) <= 64 bits on amd64.

128 bit is technically supported (thanks to the availability DCAS) but stores and especially loads are significantly more expensive (as there are no native atomic 128 bit load and store), even in relaxed modes. Also, as even loads perform write cycles, they can't be used on read-only memory.

Anything larger uses, IIRC, a spinlock pool and is not lock-free.

/pedantic
This is true, but some are more complex, which is also due to the choice of tool. For example, [1], made by Chris King, using Adobe Premiere. This is a time-lapse of the process that he used to make parts of [2]. Notice the pattern that emerges when sequential images start lining up.

[1] https://youtu.be/M7Hr83OI-rs

[2] https://youtu.be/1-rFV_d6RH8
Trump transition team vice-chair says ISPs should take ‘fake news’ sites offline
I am a power user and I still want the 5 minutes after a quick download, the two aren't exclusive and there is too much (IMO) pride in the 'this is difficult to use so I'm special for knowing how to use it'.

I spend way too much time bashing heads with the rest of the software ecosystem these days.
No, it doesn't. But there are some that add functionality. They're listed in the article.
Uber asks to track your location even when you’re not using the app
Yes, in that case I have been deceived. The equivalent of this concept of 'fake news'.

That raises more questions still:

- were those donuts in the health aisle or the bakery?

- was I able to easily test the vitamin C content by comparing with other products?

- why was I trusting this unknown brand of malformed donuts with cheap packaging and flavors like 'purple' for my source of nutrients?

Or is the truth that I just wanted to eat donuts and so sought out the brand that made me feel good about doing so?
I'd argue that it's not really meant for developing software. It's meant for data analysis. When I do my analysis, I am not really concerned with developing the script/algorithm. I am mainly concerned with manipulating or visualizing the data. In my opinion, anything that takes more than an hour to process in the notebook should probably be done outside the notebook as an independent script.

The only thing that's really missing for me is a more persistent data store in between kernel restarts. If it took more than 5 minutes to run something to transform or process my data, I don't want to have to redo it when I restart the kernel. I think there are a couple of plugins that handle this for you, but it would really be nice if it was implemented natively. The solution right now just seems to be producing a bunch of intermediate files that you reload when you restart the kernel.
The ancient place where history began
Lots of Rails developers. I made a conscious decision to introduce CoffeeScript at me work some years ago, because my experience had been that when back-end programmers dabble in Javascript ("The front-ender is busy, but hey, this seems simple enough. I'll just do it myself"), they make horrible messes because they are unfamiliar with all off vanilla JS's quirks and design mistakes (implicit global, to name one). CoffeeScript protects them from making these kind of mistakes/
I did, and dad uses this to share files with friends, privately (I had eventually built a tiny Flask app that does access checks and serves same files over HTTP). It's just a network-connected external drive to him.
Lost Teespring Shirts. Any New Campaigns?
Actively looking to spend granddad's Christmas money on teespring hoodies or shirts, can any users supply links for some cool clothes to buy (1,2)?
Introduction to Statistical Learning – James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani
I don't think so because the article discusses sharding cross multiple processes (and therefore CPU cores) - Running in parallel.

You can handle multiple concurrent connections/requests on a single CPU core; but that would not classify as parallel processing. So the term 'parallel' is more specific than 'concurrent'.

The paragraph under 'Introduction' here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_computing seems to give a pretty good definition.
As far as I understand the article was written by:

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

Yes, he is not a technology writer. But it's also obvious that the technology specialists weren't the target audience of this article.

It is surely not easy read for us who expect to read the technical info, and who already know most of the context.
Does it matter? Weapons are where you find them.

The Nice attacker used no firearms and killed eighty-six people. The DC attacker used a firearm and killed no one. Is it possible that firearms aren't really the problem here?
Yeah, this wasn't written for the nerds.

Original Link

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/how-bill-marczak-spyw...
What if we don't separate them, just let the video play?

I'm talking about just a good player with nice features (easy playlist manipulation, pre-buffering for next video, queuing up videos, etc.).
I was just going to say the same. The intel.com page does not have pricing information and just states that it's free for up to 15 passwords, whereas the True Key site [1] provides pricing information ($19.99 a year for unlimited passwords) and also has links to the mobile apps.

[1]: https://www.truekey.com/
I gladly pay $100/year to never ever ever EVER have to hear my wife complaining about me losing the pictures of us and the kids. You can't put a price on that my friend. :)

Same reason I pay for iCloud storage on our family account. Peace of mind.

Could I wire up some rsync contraption, sure maybe - would I sleep peacefully? No.
> background song when individual factions reach the Factory ...

I'm sure you'll find something here: http://sovmusic.ru

[p.s. english: http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/index.php]
So much of this!
I'm surprised something like this doesn't already exist (that I know of). It's getting more difficult to avoid the sprawling list of InBev beers, so hopefully this speeds up discovery to drinking new beers.
Religious Beliefs Activate Neural Reward Circuits in Same Way as Sex and Drugs
In case it's not obvious, DeepMind is Google:

>> "DeepMind was founded in London in 2010 and backed by some of the most successful technology entrepreneurs in the world. Having been acquired by Google in 2014, we are now part of the Alphabet group. We continue to be based in our hometown of London, alongside some of the country's leading academic, cultural and scientific organisations in the King's Cross Knowledge Quarter."
Run the web search in an incognito window.
It's interesting that many people consider lock-free algorithms to be appropriate for real-time programming, but by the formal definitions, lock-free doesn't guarantee that a particular thread won't be starved or that an operation would finish by a certain amount of time. Maybe in these cases, wait-free would be more appropriate...
A great(fun!) book.

I wonder if it can take any credit for the resurgence of lisps! (especially Clojure)

It certainly was an influence on the student writen 'Realm of Racket'.
> Inner cities consistently have higher poverty rates than rural or suburban areas.

Citation needed. Urban areas consistently have more millionaires than rural areas.

As to poverty rates, in the US, they are definitely higher in rural areas. For a citation, from the abstract of [1]:

> Although a larger portion of the poor population resides in urban areas, poverty rates are higher and more persistent in rural areas, and research suggests poverty rates increase as rural areas become increasingly remote.

Basically, urban areas have more poor people, but really they have more of all classes of people. If you go to Figure 1, you'll even see that the rate of poverty in category 0 (most urban) is lower than the rate of poverty in all rural categories (4-9)[1].

[1] https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/2942
Google photos is better for that.
Extract News in Three Words Using Triples
Yes, and contrary to the article it has a google maps display, too. Try "./dump1090 --net --interactive" and open localhost:8080. Would be neat if it could query some API to find out the flight's origin and destination, etc (flightradar24 maybe? do they have an API?)
I think post Activation Lock and similar features on smartphone platforms, thieves usually sell stolen devices to those who rip them apart to get to specific parts that they can resell. That will continue until the phone makers figure out how to disable the display, digitizer, battery and other parts that have value even in a "bricked" phone.
Designing asynchronous event systems with AWS IoT and SAM
i wasn't aware of that.

talk about digging your own PC grave.
Yes, but internet is still decentralised and a pretty NEUTRAL technology. Facebook has a board of directors.
I did something similar( with two other people) for my work hackathon, the difference was that my program analyzed news and matched the subject of that news article to a traded stock, and then predicted from the sentiment of the news article whether the stock is gonna go down or up. Very simple, and it worked most times, but could be improved on a lot
No, I think we could have dismissed that one as ridiculous even back at the time.

What power users need to always remember is how important usability by the uninitiated is when adopting solutions. This is why the market for security products is such a problem - they nearly always necessarily either put a barrier in front of common operations, or expose the user to the risk of losing their data by error, or hand all the difficult bits over to a commercial third party.
Heck I'm an engineer and I wouldn't want to setup a SFTP server to replace my Google Drive account
Just… what? Do you have some kind of baffling misunderstanding of what was going on here?

It's perfectly possible to build systems such that they can be tested 'in production'. Indeed, in many cases I'd argue it's far more useful to informing the result of tests.

I completely reject the notion that 'health and safety' and 'box ticking' is responsible for the disaster at Chernobyl, when it's quite clearly the opposite: a lack of rigorous safety procedures, and those procedures which do existing not being followed.
That is a totally valid point and one worthy of meaty discussion. It is also unrelated to dismissing military spending wholecloth as nothing but a waste of resources.
That is exactly what I'm describing though. The corporation could edit the page to do what they want. To claim otherwise is foolish and really makes me question proton's understanding of security.
I agree. Having them take care of backups has a lot of worth in my book also
That only works with JavaScript though or am I overlooking something?
So long as Google decides to keep the service operating, maybe.
How to Get Verified on Twitter
3 years later, it is still lethal.
Funnily enough, I wrote a "one-way sync your OneDrive to external disk" tool for my wife to avoid the opposite problem: loss of data due to failures of the paid-for sync solution.
Every time this topic comes up, which is reasonably often, I like to link to this: http://www.michaelrwolfe.com/2013/10/19/why-is-dropbox-more-...
Google tracks you everywhere. See it with Maps.
Breakthrough Prizes 2017 (Peter Woit/Not Even Wrong Blog)
How I hope this will come to be
This is just getting more stupid everday. Facebook is no and never was a news platform. It is a crappy social network and only reflects your inner friend circle.

Why anyone and especially facebook should care about fake news is beyond me.
The proof of zero-knowledgeness using the time machine still doesn't make sense to me.

What if the Verifier says, "the information extracted will only be deemed 'useful' if I can be satisfied with a reasonable certainty that google has indeed found a solution."

In other words... yeah we could trick my Verifier with a time machine but forget all of the information extracted on a cheat run. Can we indeed not gather information only from the successful runs?
Maybe it's paid for. Who the heck knows?
U.K.’s “World-Leading” Investigatory Powers Bill
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> We chose to punish (spank/"bad dog"/shake an empty soda can with pennies inside it) for only two things: pottying in the house, and chasing/herding the cats.

No need to hit your dog to accomplish this. Also during your training, unless you caught the dog in the act of potty in the house he might not even be able to connect the dots between potty and punishment given the time between the 2 acts and from his mind you might be arbitrarily spanking him.

If the dog pottys in the house the only one at fault is the human (assuming its not medical related) for not letting him out enough.

How can you be sure than your hitting was the the reason the dog stopping going inside and not his development of routine for "this is where I go potty" and the puppy's natural ability to develop their bladder to hold it longer?

We rescue huskies (no longer puppies). God love em, but they are not known for their intelligence or trainability. We are just proactive when house training, know that accidents happen, reflect on why they happened ("oops ya.. I did forget about them" or "OK I guess we arent ready to leave them alone for x hours yet"), and keep at the routine.

RE your "less intelligent" comment I agree. We kept them on leashes until they did their business and then rewarded on the spot. Afterwards they were let loose to run wild in the yard or go back inside.
If you're primarily a Swift or Objective C developer and just want to try out Python or use it for a specific component or small project, would you still advise switching to an entirely new unfamiliar IDE for it?
Working with Azure Storage Blobs is pretty straightforward - you can use the cross platform azure CLI application or use the Azure Storage Explorer application (which appears to be cross-platform as well in its latest form):

http://storageexplorer.com/
Nutritional information is one of those areas dominated by "fake news", or at least overhyped dietary advice in the popular press. See e.g. http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/

I wouldn't blame people for giving up trying to make sense of what foods are currently considered beneficial or harmful.
Help me HN: I've become obsessed with buying 8 bit computers
When I was a kid in the late 1970s we could not afford a home computer. I spent all my time dreaming about them and reading computer mags.

Now in my 40's I can't stop buying the damn things even though I can't really afford to. I'm still seeking that ultimate high of finding a classic machine with all the optional extras in mint condition.

I dream of getting the time to sit down for a few months and program them in assembler and he the programmer I always wanted to be when I was a kid.

Argh! I seem to be obsessed with the past but in a strange way I find these old 8 bit machines just as interesting as the latest in software development technology.

So many machines. My house is filling with boxes. They arrive and I don't even open them to have a look... I just accumulate and want more.
> without any concrete benefit to balance these problems

Except for, you know, being able to have a domain in your naive script, which some of the billions of speakers of languages with non-Latin orthographies might like to do.
Guide for screening Android developers
Bjarne Stroustrup – Keynote Meeting C++ 2016
Show HN: Chromecast C# SDK
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WordPress will change significantly in 2017
Is it possible to share them publically, without the need for a Microsoft account for the user?
I get that many techies can live without Dropbox and it's ilk (myself included), but NOBODY should ever be advocating FTP. It's insure (no encryption - unless you're talking about FTP(E)S, but that introduces it's own issues), it's broken by design (no clear client/server relationship which can cause issues for NATing and filewalls (particularly if running with TLS), output specs depend on the host OS (eg directory listings), no automatic way of differentiating between text and binary data so modern FTP clients have to guess from file extensions (picking the wrong mode will break your files)). ?FTP is outdated - from a bygone era we no longer compute in and thus by modern standard it's become horrible in every conceivable way.

Thankfully we have SFTP which natively supports chroot (not all FTP servers do), key-based logins (more secure) as well as passwords, compression, and no fuzzy callback ports like in FTP. Also sshfs is pretty handy too.

If one needs "anonymous FTP" then you can also throw HTTPS into the list of better solutions: TLS encryption, compression, smarter handling of MIME types, and again no stupid fuzzy callback ports.

I don't often say things this strongly, but FTP should die.
Interesting that the most used emojis are generally positive, regardless of the sub.
The README is really good for users of the library. I was looking for a description of the algorithm, though,
and I couldn't find any. Does anyone know what algorithm this library implements? (e.g. a literature reference would be helpful). I'm familiar with a couple of PQ implementations based on skip-lists: Sundell & Tsigas and Linden & Jonsson--but this library doesn't seem to be based on any of them.
I'm not aware that we have such storage and I'm very sure that we have not tested such storage for long-term stability.
I think the first question to ask is, what is a "legitimate news source"?
> Do you have any examples?

https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/languages-a...

https://www.quora.com/What-is-Lambda-Calculus-in-laymans-ter...

I wrote about some aspects of this mutual... hmm... let's call it skepticism here: https://pressron.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/what-we-talk-about...
Any similar studies/pictures for Fukushima's 4 nuclear cores?

I assume they also melt down completely, true?
Growing up under an authoritian government I learned the subtle difference between rule of law, where everyone has to obey the laws we enact in our society, and rule by law, whereby the powers that be enact laws that allow them to do whatever they want. It seems that in the US the distinction is quickly eroding, if it ever existed in the first place. And of course the establishment will call it rule of law. The law is convenient in this case. If it were not they'd just ignore it. The numerous leaks that came out within the past decade demonstrate this.
The Slashdot takedown wasn't naivety, it was CmdrTaco's honest opinion of the iPod. It's absurd the way he's portrayed to be making some sort of market prediction.
LEO, the world's first business computer, commemorated with a plaque in London
We are about 3-4 days (due the 7th) away from having our first child and this article is a terrifying reminder of what is to come.

I have a rather good temperament and equanimity (ironic given the above) but my wife despite being brilliant sadly does not (in all other things she is superior to me).

Luckily we have a very good behavioral therapist and or already familiar with the psychology of punishment/reward. That being said my wife's biggest fear is having a child with the same temperament as she does.
the problem is having it posted to Hackernews. who here reads vanity fair ? :P

but let the normies have their day in the sun! not all hipsters are bad and i guess someone out there did enjoy the readup. i'd really wish these things weren't posted to HN though.
I also don't trust humans to handle nuclear power safely.

But the types of grids and storage systems needed for renewables are not quite on the horizon, and right now the alternative is fossil fuels which have a far worse track record than nuclear. Nuclear worst case is a localized area is poisoned for generations. Fossil fuels best case is the whole planet becomes a struggle for human life. Can't we hedge our bets?
In the mean time coal power plants kill more people than Chernobyl disaster every year.

"A United Nations study estimates the final total of premature deaths associated with the disaster will be around 4000, mostly from an estimated 3% increase in cancers which are already common causes of death in the region." - http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/)

"Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/12/european...

[Edit] I just took top results from Google, without much research. My point is that even though I fear nuclear disasters too, we should try and compare numbers and trade-offs.
The problem with mailtrain is according to them it's not viable to use in production. There's also no tests and very little documentation.

I can get around that but the main thing preventing me from using it is there's no success stories associated to the application.

Sendy has dozens of unbiased blog posts, and even some posts where people are sending millions of e-mails without issues. That instills a lot of confidence in using it.

You would have to be a madman to trust an untrusted application with managing your email subscribers.
Yes, but Dropbox isn't even profitable yet.
Wow! Magnets made out of lead! Oh... Slightly disappointed.
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The moderators want to de-escalate the political clickbait stories (since the upsurge with Trump's victory) for a week of political detox.
He doesn't miss it, it's right there after the first (mail.ru) block.
Liberal arts major doesn't excuse you for this garbage