skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, if you stick to specialty crops you might have a chance, I assume the long term plan is to pivot to Marijuana as it gets legalized in more states?

At least in Wisconsin & Iowa, I know from family & friends that the smallest plot your gonna make a run at farming with is 500 acres, anything less than that and you should lease your land out to someone who has the scale to make the economics work.

Re: food waste, most isn't occurring at the farm or distribution hubs (Savon, Unified Grocers, etc), its actually the stores where things are going bad & getting yard wasted. Locally sourcing produce doesn't seem to reduce this either, mainly due to the unpredictability of produce sales. Unless you can cut the time to market lag to a few days for the demand response, food waste is not going to be reduced significantly in the US.
Security with android X86?
Hello everybody,

I just installed Android X86 In a Virtual Machine on my 16GB-RAM/SSD/i5 laptop with ubuntu linux. http://www.android-x86.org/ .
I think it is the perfect ending of my neverending quest for convergence.
Fantastic. Now I have all my linux programs AND my phone apps on one device.

Only one problem: I have my paypal app, 2 bank apps and a lot of sensitive data, are there any security concerns about android x86? Is security somehow lowered by me doing this? Just wondering if any sec expert could reassure me or stop me from doing this.

thanks.
Java 7 has introduced a very specific API (java.lang.invoke) to be able to inline reflection calls.

So lookups are quite slow, but invocations are fully inlined.

java.lang.invoke API is fast to the point that for doing faster string concatenation in Java 9, Aleksey Shipilev has used this API instead of introducing a new opcode in the JVM [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/wIyeOaitmWM?list=PL2ekzZZrxVUmBXtrwS7pLabUu...
Pretty much what czinck said.

Python is much more popular in general, which makes it more likely to be popular in any specific subfield, for various reasons:

1. More chance that people who decide to do anything in ML already use Python.

2. There's better existing support for various ML-related tasks in Python.

3. There's a larger audience available for ML-related things in Python, therefore people think it's more worthwhile to code things in it.

etc.
Maduro would be better off telling the truth rather than destroying what trust is left in government via silly lies: Venezuela has relied too heavily on oil exports, and the drop in oil prices is bankrupting the country.
Actually yes. The food shortage is because the government is preventing people offering more money to bring the market into balance.
The permit is for testing purposes only.

So I think if they are charging for the rides they aren't really just testing the system.

There's also a bunch of requirements about formally reporting incidents and so on.
space - impossible to cover everything in 10-12 minute read. sexism can also be non-verbal, which again, is hard to convey.
I guess it is easier to get rid of Windows than it is to get rid of SQL Server.
Sure, those are problems too, but my understanding is the bulk of that happened after oil prices dropped.

Of course, the root cause here is definitely getting dependent on that in the first place.
The linked article's headline,

>ARM extends HPC offering with acquisition of software tools provider Allinea Software

is not editorialized at all. OP, are you a marketing person for ARM?
Wayland has been around for 4 years, When X was 4 years old, it ran on hardware with 5mhz processors and a few MB RAM.
I really get sick of how cavalier people like you are in these threads when talking about homeless/crazy/violent people on SF mass transportation. These people are sketchy as fuck and legitimate criminals in many cases and you're acting like they're just a mild inconvenience. They will yell at you, threaten you, and yes outright attack you. I'm glad that doesn't bother you but it's not unreasonable that it bothers most other people.
It's a good point. We chose to aim this at already practicing web developers and show them the best practice. There are already great HTML, CSS and JS resources over on MDN and we had no intention of competing with them.

The home page needs some work, clearly and we can sort that.
also, when the hostility started, one of the men actually went - "it's like that now, is it ?". As if I had changed my behavior since my incident ( which i hadn't ). I have gotten called hottie, haughty like a supermodel, comments about needing to lose weight, comments about being unmarried, and much worse. These statements were also ALWAYS implied in a conversation, never direct. that's what makes it difficult to identify or confront.
Does anyone knows how can we do ball park calculation to estimate battery-remaining time using inbuilt Activity Monitor app?
I have seen a lot of stuff in porn that I did not thought possible the human body can take/do ... so I guess it has both scientific and (somewhat)useful arts value.
Why not?

It will not work for everyone but I think it will for a lot of people.
nsa shill:everyone should use curve25519
hacker news:downvote to hell anyone who disagrees

that off my chest.

"protocol level" is the order of the bits. for example the octets in the tcp protocol.

"rearranging the payload" in this case is moving around those octets. and while of course it would work, is a bit simplistic. (so yeah, yek not far off)

the "Best" solution imho is to chain more than one cipher together. "like truecrypt does". for example, if you are using a pre shared key, use that key to encrypt the dhe with a symmetric cipher and a nonce. or some other non trivial obfuscation.

but the point is valid, even simple obfuscation requires human intervention, which breaks mass surveillance en mass.
They did have extensive experience with spying in general, and compartmentalization of it. The compartmentalization was not applied to encryption. They also knew that losing an enigma machine to the enemy could compromise it (and did), but they just apparently assumed that no U-boot lost its enigma machine to the enemy.
The belief that trade has killed manufacturing jobs is a cognitive illusion
> the Copyright Clause gives Congress the power to enact a particular kind of legislation and states the broad purpose of such legislation.

The phrasing actually grants Congress the power to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", and restricts the means of doing so to the granting of temporary exclusive rights. This is quite different from something like the Second Amendment, where the explanatory text about "A well regulated Militia" doesn't actually modify the meaning of the clause that has legal effect.
Oldest water in the world found in Ontario by U of T scientists
Guide for Growing Your Startup from 0  to 10k Users in a Month [Free Kindle]
I'd guess that it would be slower on Linux by design, but not in a malicious way. They must be using various win32 apis and might have needed to shim them on Linux. Maybe they had assumptions on NTFS performance, paging behavior etc. All would contribute to a performance difference.
Ah. I guess I was reading 'tasteless' as implying that you had to lack taste yourself to like it rather than 'this thing has no flavour in itself'. Hmmmmmm....
We also know that the NSA hardened crypto against attacks that they knew but were not advertised to the public (DES against differential cryptanalysis, and SHA0). I guess the NSA is too big to be homogeneously the good guy or the bad guy.
> I found it perfect for meetings where I didn't want the client to feel like I was tight on time or rushing things, even if I had to.

It's funny to read that, because in my culture looking at your watch is a sign of "let's finish" or "I'm in a hurry", while briefly looking at the phone is perfectly acceptable.

But I admit, that people with smartwatches confuse me from time to time, when they look at their watch frequently and are not in a hurry :)
It's not as if he started a campaign to get them fired. He said that this is what in his opinion should happen to them and other who plagiarize at this level.
This is nice, but only hardcore Lisp users prefer writing C-in-sexpr's to just writing C.

The "industrial-strength" alternative in the open-source world is just to parse C into an AST; several important projects like the Frama-C analyzer (and, IIRC, the Cocinelle project best-known for "spatch") use CIL (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~necula/cil/), and of course many recently-started projects use the LLVM infrastructure.

sexpr's do make the AST more obvious than relying on an external compiler, but you need to write a lot of macro's before "more-convenient macro's" beat "more-convenient code".
Will be very interesting to see how this affects SAP installations. AFAIK the only database options were SQL Server and Oracle. Granted it's been >5 years since I had to deal with this mess but this could be amazing news for some people on SAP who were pretty much forced to run Windows just for the database.
It's not that easy. Venezuela was blocked from access to the financial market by an US-american Hedgefond together with a private court in the aftermatch of the 2008 crash. Add to that the failing oil price. While Venezuela strived to be a socialist country before, part of what happened later was pure necessity.
I don't want to sound arrogant, but for everyone who used a ridiculously overpowered computer - 90% of people (?) - for surfing and using Word, yes the iPad Pro is fine - or even overpowered.

Using it to develop Python looks intersting, I'd like to know more about what he does (I assume Python works fine, Webpack compile? How is the 'drive'?)
In my experience the situation is the exact opposite. The "city planners" tend to produce perfectly reasonable transit plans, moving the most people for the least money, which then occasionally get derailed and set on fire by city or state politicians who have different interests in mind.

This isn't the fault of city planners:

https://www.propublica.org/article/chris-christies-tunnel-ta...

There are infinitely more examples.
My comment was simply an overview of how the situations are different between both countries.

> What does Internet usage or Population has to do with an economic move

Erm. Demonetization implies that the population either has to stop using the currency or use alternative "cashless" modes for payment. Internet usage has everything to do with it, because only a quarter of the population can realistically stop using cash in case of India.

Population is relevant because there's a physical limit on how soon the cash scarcity is fulfilled.

> India ... is going through a period of robust growth ... 4% is still considered quite a good growth rate.

Citation needed.

> quoting meaningless number without having any clue

Meaningless in which context?

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On the other hand, in my personal opinion, any Govt. policy is flawed if it causes death of a single individual -- no matter what the intentions, what the results be. If the Gov. does not hold enough empathy and liability to consider the effects of its policies on its own population, it has failed. People are not collateral damage that it is acceptable that a couple of hundreds die. [1] [2] [3]

--

> Actually the worst phase of demonetisation is already over. In 30 days everything will be back to normal.

Will it bring back the dead?

[1] http://scroll.in/article/823652/demonetisation-induced-unemp...

[2] http://www.firstpost.com/business/demonetisation-effect-hung...

[3] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/surat/Woman-paid-in-...
I'm continually amazed at the things you can do with three.js. It's such a robust library, and to me, it's the empitome of open source JS done right. Keep up the good work.
If you're asking this question then you shouldn't be using SQL Server.
Well, what else would they spend the coin for? So they could have bigger pizza parties?

Also compare word count.
Thoughts about Spec-Ulation (Rich Hickey)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13085952
The sub killers were waiting at meeting points for the U-boots and their "milk cows" so often that the obvious possibilities were:

1. the allies had enormous numbers of sub killers
2. the allies were incredibly lucky
3. Enigma was broken

Waiting for proof before acting is not a sensible decision.

(Even in WW1, the aviators regularly changed their codes used. They knew they were only good for a few days each.)
May I ask what your launch options are? I've spend hours trying to wire up these two without success...
I can't remember where I read a longer explanation of this but a quick google search got me to this blog entry http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2059 where the topic comes up. I think that for the most part what we civilians know as cryptography is often either a red-herring, a trick, or woefully out of date from the point of view of what the professional state actors know how to do. Anyway you get that impression from declassified documents. Crypto works well enough for commercial and civilian purposes but has no impact on militarized hacking I think. Please correct me if I am wrong but I think this is all by design, even going so far as the NSA putting backdoors in CPUs and suchlike. If they send a company a national security letter that insists on compliance, the company not only has to comply but also can't legally disclose to the public that they complied, so we can't really know the truth here.
Hi Daniel, atleast the one I linked to above, support international merchants. See if their plan suits you.
Kickass Torrent resurrects again
I don't know, I kinda like he took a powerful tablet then added enough hardware to make it more computer-like. Never owned an iPad but this looks somewhat appealing (though overpriced) if I'd have the same use for it as the OP. I don't so I'll likely never buy such thing and rather stick with actual computers but still it looks for it works out well and probably 'will do' just fine.
I had a look at part of that pdf and I don't think the author really gets it. The essence of most nonlocality experiments is that if you send entangled photons off to two separate detectors with polarising filters in front of them then the correlation between the two photons getting through varies dependent on the angle between the two polarisers in a way that can only be explained by photon 1 kind of knowing what the angle of photon 2's polariser is or visa versa. How do they know that when far apart? See Bell's Theorem for more details.
>"So to be clear, you're suggesting that these black market operatives are creating localised artificial scarcity of Bolivars in the form of cash."

Not necessarily in cash alone, but yes I'm suggesting it's in the interest of black market traders to create scarcity in the local economy.

To give an example of how this is possible, imagine you want to create artificial scarcity, where would you start? I'd suggest starting with the food supply, as there's constant demand no matter the cost. Imagine as a rich outside investor I go in and buy up huge volumes of food staples. What have I done by this? Two things:

1. I've reduced the volume of goods in the local market, increasing scarcity, driving prices up.

2. I've acquired goods that are in demand, which I can then sell on the black market at prices that are favourable to me.

The hoarding of Bolivars comes into play as you want to reduce the chances of other people muscling in on this game.

Is this the whole story? No. I'm sure the government's mismanagement of the economy also plays a large role, but I'm suggesting black market traders are by and large not motivated by altruism, and they have had opportunities to tilt the playing field further in their favour.
Hans Rosling doesn’t consider himself an optimist or pessimist but ‘possibilist’
I wasn't thinking about speed benchmarks. I was referring to the whole "ecosystem" of the work, from language to plugins to the editors commonly used to community activity around it, etc.
Yes, we lack of details here. The statement A (sb jump at the defense of a coworker in a team event) does not imply B (this is a display of sexism) necessarily. Could be because she is a self-called very private/introverted person, not because is a woman. All supervisors know that introverted people can score poorly when dealing with "mosh pit like" and argumentative situations.
slightly less editorialized from Top500 news:
https://www.top500.org/news/arm-buys-hpc-software-toolmaker-...
Was Oracle present at the Trump building some days ago?
Reminds me a lot of Nvidia buying Portland Group, although that was probably a better match. I don't really see this making much difference - what AMD needs in HPC is tooling for their GPU/APU that covers a wide range of usecases, is stable and performant. Publications and then sales pretty much follow automatically, but IMO so far the tooling was the missing element. E.g. where's my Fortran API for OpenCL and Nvidia? How do I debug and profile this? What about device memory aware MPI wrappers? BLAS on device? Etc.

Allinea AFAIK only helps with the debugging/profiling part - but first you need a sensible programming model.
Yeah, I think we'll need some examples of that.

There are a whole bunch of food safety regulations. Most of these are good, and it's really pretty awesome that most of us can purchase and eat food from a restaurant without risking sickness. It's virtually certain that without these regulations there would be a race to the bottom.
Well, there's the fact that lists aren't conses, and conses as Lispers would expect them to exist don't. I think conses are pretty useful.

But Clojure has the cons operator anyways. This also means that clojure's `read` violates one of read's important guarantees: the structure you read in will be identical to the structure you wrote out.

Then there's the macro system. Given, it's better than CL's in some respects (it does what you want by default), but there are problems. Like not being able to use macros inside the packages that they're defined it. It's just generally less clean than Scheme's solution, and less versatile than CL's.

And then there's all the things its inherited for Java: and object system that isn't properly OO, a lack of TCO (which would be fine, if it weren't for the fact that the language so very clearly wants to have TCO)

At the end of the day, Clojure's fine. It's not terrible or anything. I just disagree with some of its design decisions, just like with Racket.

But I do object to it being called The One True Lisp for practical use, because that's nonsense. Scheme and CL are both quite practical, and while most Schemes/CLs don't have the Java interop that makes Clojure so full of nice libraries, most of them do have a C FFI. And the C FFIs they have (at least in the Schemes I've seen) are some of the nicest around.
You spend too much time in the r/buttcoin echo chamber. You're getting sloppy with the facts. :) $1000 worth of transaction "spam" would have basically no effect today-- that is only about two blocks worth of transaction fees. Meaning your costly 'disruption' would be unnoticeable against normal block finding variance.

[Come on-- do you really want to be part of the Wikipedia Review of Bitcoin skepticism? I think Bitcoin deserves better critics than that.]
Tsunami warning issued after magnitude 7.9 quake hits east of Papua New Guinea
Okay, so he tells the truth. What should he do next?
Whatever the job is the majority of consumers hire a smartwatch to do is what companies should focus on. Turns out most are interested in hiring a smartwatch to do fitness jobs.
This is impossible to know because you can only lose 4 points and your post is dead.

I have never worried about the posts of mine that have been downvoted to oblivion (these were all snarky and mostly deserved to be downvoted even if they are funny), but the posts I put a lot of effort into that get zero response.
Admittedly commenting without having jumped into the content here, but from what you're describing, it sounds less about how state actors are "breaking so much crypto" and more about how state actors are "breaking so many cryptographic implementations."

This might also explain the possible shift away from compromising algorithms (with perhaps the notable exception of Dual_EC_DRBG): the IC knows well enough that everyone's going to do just enough things wrong in _implementing them_ that it's perhaps more beneficial to promote unweakened ciphers in the grand scheme. Heck they could even promote sound implementation practices and have the confidence to know any one target will gum something up just enough to give them a way in.

But who knows. Odds are still decent that I'm wrong with the compromised algorithms assertion.
In fact, this is not the case.
Actually, besides ORACLE and MS SQL Server you can use also DB2 and other SAP's own DB products(MAXDB, Sybase, HANA).
I am talking about ERP and CRM, the main products.

Anyway, this is a very interesting news. Given the "not so good" relationship between SAP and Oracle, this option will give SQL Server a boost when it comes to SAP Customers, although it may take some time for SAP to fully support the Linux-MSSQL option.
I am not aware of any games not built by Oculus that are permanent Rift exclusives (and those will probably be hacked to work on the Vive anyway and the developers know about it). They'll all end up everywhere eventually. This is going to be commoditized, and just like PC games tend to settle to the level of the consoles in the market around the time of release, that doesn't leave a lot of space for the extra toys of any one. For a similar situation: how many multi-platform games retooled to use the SIXAXIS controller in more than a perfunctory way? (Not many.)
Well, this particlar peace of code does spread like a virus. It is everywhere.
It's really nice to see a project like this crop up after the rail privatisation. In the EU countries that have gone through that transition the situation for the passenger hasn't improved much and since there usually still only is a single provider for most routes the prices tend to only go up without much for it in return. That's not to say it would necessarily have been better to keep it public, just that the promise of privatisation hasn't really delivered, in my experience.

This might not be groundbreaking, it might not even work but I'm really happy to see someone try something new(ish) in this arena.

Also, trains are the best. Choo-choo!
Way more interesting than this is the upcoming plan to liberalize rail transport across the entire EU. This should allow effectively anybody (meeting certain standards) to operate services on common infrastructure, introducing actual competition to the passenger rail market.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20160420IPR2...
I apologize if this is an uninformed question, but are there any popular browser benchmarks out there? I'm sure that JS benchmarks are useful to browser developers and those who want JS to be the next general application platform, but as a user, I'm currently sticking to Safari since things like battery life and scrolling performance on mainly document-oriented pages are still more important to me.
Flouting regulations doesn't mean that you will hurt anybody; you're not necessarily going to cause a large e-coli outbreak if you incorrectly store your meat, for example. But the point is that such risks are increased from a public health perspective – that's what regulations seek to prevent.

Waiting until someone becomes poisoned and using the legal system to fix the issue just seems bafflingly short-sighted.