skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[dead] doesn't indicate admin action either, at least not directly. It happens when either (a) a lot of users flagged the submission; (b) the site is banned; (c) the submitter is banned.
Ah I think that was me! Sorry about that. Email alerts are working now, and I'll never send anything else to there anymore.
Will we see laws that allow governments to suppress stories automatically? Seems likely.

"Any forum / website must expose some API for the suppression of fake news to the central authorities."

They already have read access (PRISM, Snowden, etc), now they will get delete access.
I bet legal experts could speak to this very well. At what point is someone breaking in?
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You can't control cars other than yours. On the bright side, if the car behind you is also a Tesla with AutoPilot 8.0+ with latest radar sensors, then you should be just fine :)
Agreed, got my current remote gig through an HN "Who's Hiring" post.
E.g. compare C++ std::map vs std::unordered_map on strings. You can find some benchmarks here:

https://github.com/faragon/libsrt/blob/master/doc/benchmarks...
(for 16 and 64 byte strings: cxx_map_s16, cxx_umap_s16, cxx_map_s64, cxx_umap_s64)
> Digital authentication for purchasing is moving towards non-transferable biometrics ( i cant divulge my thumbprint like i can my pin )

Yes you can. In fact, it's a lot easier for you to do so involuntarily.

EDIT: And, it should be noted, once it has been "divulged" or otherwise compromised, it's a lot more painful to change your thumbprint than a PIN or other non-biometric password.
Suspect the source is http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/8963177... or similar.
Ah, that's very interesting. Thanks.
Also, here's the getting started blog post with an introduction to working with the available Dengue data:
http://blog.drivendata.org/2016/12/23/dengue-benchmark/
the author of this article refuses to state if they used a Samsung EVO or PRO (or something like the Crucial MX series.)

Those TLC drives have SLC emulation and will slow down after a certain sustained write time. That is by design. If you dont want that characteristic, dont buy a TLC drive, stick to the PRO etc.

>Second, oh my does the performance drop off. This is no longer an “SSD”: especially as it goes over the write cliff – which is still there – it’s merely a fast HDD, at about 220 IOPS. Writing NAND is slow!

That is a pretty disingenuous conclusion if you dont specify whether the NAND is TLC or MLC.
You're right, it's fully automated. It tries to save people time having to search all the big traditional (non remote) job boards for remote jobs.
C++ – Enumerated types
Read the section "Conclusion" at the end, if nothing else. It is extremely well written. The author throws out some potentially controversial ideas, but he (like many people I have seen) are all hoping for a common outcome - dramatically "rethinking" the concept of the OS and programming language, but really embracing ideas that are as old as time. I'll highlight one section:

"Most of all, let’s rethink the received wisdom that you should teach your computer to do things in a programming language and run the resulting program on an operating system. A righteous operating system should be a programming language. And for goodness’ sake, let’s not use the entire network stack just to talk to another process on the same machine which is responsible for managing a database using the filesystem stack. At least let’s use shared memory (with transactional semantics, naturally – which Intel’s latest CPUs support in hardware). But if we believe in the future – if we believe in ourselves – let’s dare to ask why, anyway, does the operating system give you this “filesystem” thing that’s no good as a database and expect you to just accept that “stuff on computers goes in folders, lah”? Any decent software environment ought to have a fully featured database, built in, and no need for a 'filesystem'."
Especially for React. The decision to decouple the component layer from the rendering layer makes it amazingly easy to create new renderers!

I reckon in 2017 we'll see both React and JavaScript a lot more places than before.
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From what I can tell, Robigalia appears to be what he calls the "user space" component of an operating system based on the sel4 kernel, written in Rust. Sel4 is a "the world's first operating-system kernel with an end-to-end proof of implementation correctness and security enforcement".

Robigalia was a festival of propitation for the god Robigus, or Robigo (the gender of the god is ambiguous), a personification-type deity of crop disease. A thematic colour was of the festival is red, and Robigo was also the name at the time for what we call "wheat rust"[0], a potentially devistating crop disease.

So we have both the prevention of disease (Sel4) and the thematic presence of Rust.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_leaf_rust
According to the US Fish & Wildlife service, wind turbine deaths are tiny compared with many other human causes.

https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds....
Well, I'm saying the attitude of "be liberal in what you accept" is to blame for the fact that malformed documents are being emitted in the first place. A huge number of people will just hack away at something until it works rather than implementing their emitters to spec, so accepting malformed documents is training people to emit malformed documents.

That is unrelated to well-formed documents in incompatible formats, though.
Wind is there to show potential for wind energy collection from wind farms.
Okay, so you're advocating for some sort of direct democracy. It sounds lovely, but I'm not sure it's realistic. We sure as hell don't have it, so how do we go about getting it?

We live in a world where there are huge imbalances in power. We can say it ought not be that way, that it should be another way, but any sensible individual interested in making change must confront political reality and take it into consideration when deciding how they can best effect change.

> Anything that exacerbates the problem of one man having more than one voice is not a step in the right direction.

Some people have no voice at all, while others are hugely influential. This isn't about going from some current equality (1:1) to inequality for some group (1:2). This is about going from out state of gross inequality (100:1) to as close to equality (1:1) as we can get.

I think we're mostly on the same page, just coming at it from different positions.
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Thanks. Fixed mine :-)
https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/overview/contributing
To add to this (as the parent of a toddler), your usage patterns may have to change as well. I love taking videos of my daughter and she loves watching them. So when I pull out my phone to check email or a text, if she sees me do it, suddenly it exists in her world and she wants to watch videos asap.
I'd guess that some of the products were from Amazon whilst others were from third-party vendors.

As for the question of liability, there's usually a proviso for taking legal/criminal action against the perpetrator. Even if the parent wanted to take action against their child, being below the age of criminal responsibility, the parents may be legally responsible in any case.
Sure, I think what a programmer is building may allow for ignorance of performance - a microservice may be so short-lived and its memory usage so small that it all fits into 32k anyway. No point optimizing.

But think about mobile developers. You aim to paint 60 times per second. If Swift doesn't give you any tools for ensuring a specific memory layout - I imagine it does, by having some kind of contiguous array of structs - then how do you optimize those heavily trodden pathways of your app that could really use keeping a certain array within that 32k?

This applies to WebGL developers, too. It seems like I've seen code where folks were using arrays of integers to achieve data locality - using a kind of serialization almost to pack and unpack from this array - alas I can't seem to recall where I saw that.
Yeah I think there should be a limit (which you can override with a password) on how much money you can spend in a certain time period. Make it $10/day or something as default and let the user change it. Works well enough for mobile contracts to prevent over spend IMHO.
In my experience a single reusuable tote bag can carry 8x of a typical grocery store plastic bag. We have bags that are 6 years old and probably been used more than 200 times. They are polypropylene bags which apparently are often made from recycled bags anyway.

As for reusing plastic bags I do that as well as inevitable you will pick up some.

As for washing bags I almost never do because almost everything put in the bag is in some other container.

At least you have the option with reusable bags to clean them and thus could pre remove residues and toxins.

With plastic bags you might be exposed to various toxins (albeit probably at low levels). Just pickup and smell new plastic bags if you don't believe me. Ideally you shouldn't smell anything but I almost always do which means something volatile is being released.

The other issue is plastic bags aren't just bad because they take oil and energy to make... they are pretty awful for wild life. I have actually had to help turtles in the Charles River get out of plastic bags.

Apparently poly bags take 11x what it takes to make a single plastic bag [1]. But this again doesn't take into account how much you can overload a reusable bag with out them breaking and previously mentioned points (as well as being far more comfortable to hold on to... I just love how plastic bags cut off blood supply to fingers).

As for paper bags... they rip and suck in the rain.

[1]: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/are-reusable-bags-worse-for...
As the maker of Nomad List: no, definitely no guarantee and it's not the main purpose of the community at all.

It's just a chat and there's a jobs channel. I know many people found clients etc. through it but it's very informal. Think of it like a bar, not a network event. You might meet the right people, you might not.
Not just a productive programmer, but one who's working on the sorts of problems that involve just writing code nonstop. I've worked on projects where just deciding what lines to write would take half a day, so that sort of raw code output would've been outright impossible.
Ha ha!! They have reinvented the Iowa farm boy!

Only slightly kidding. I learned at a young age the sounds of unhappy machines. This skill has served me well in my engineering career. The "townies" with degrees from fancier schools than mine are often much slower on reaching for e-stop.

This project has huge economic value. Done right it is a game changer.
> Especially when there are some conflicting reports out there i.e. there are many super-awesome libraries that only work with nightly (I think it's called), because many of those maintainers are early adopters that love to try out new features.

This is totally orthogonal to whether or not Rust stable is backward compatible, which it is. People put a lot of work into making sure it is, and this sort of FUD is very frustrating to read.
It honestly depends what your goal is. You can fund research or treatment, both dollars get spent in entirely different ways. You can work with research hospitals like dana farber, the James or programs like St. Judes et al. One of the best things you can do; b/c lets be frank, even if you donated millions you aren't going to make a dent, is to help raise awareness. Most cancers now a days can be stopped, or have much better treatment outcomes by early detection. If you'd like, I'd recommend you look in to Pelotonia or the Pan Mas Challenge if you are on the east coast / midwest. Both are great organizations where 100% of the money raised goes to cancer research. In addition, you help raise awareness by talking to people about a cause you believe in and it helps spread the word that way. Thats where I focus my time , energy and $$.
Yep, or maybe we have smarter or more persistent cats.

Anecdotally, once I had two cats that I "trained" to use a catdoor I had just installed.

Cat #1 learned to use it in like three times I guided him thought the thingy.
Cat #2 simply couldn't grasp the idea and after like 100 attempts I gave up.

Later I heard "boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, tlatlac!", cat #2 never learned to use the catdoor "properly", or maybe he had some vision defect, cannot really say, but he got that it was a way in so it simply went head in on the whole door (from left to right in 15 cm steps) until he got through the cat door.

One way or the other, he got in.
Ch4 is fairly temperary with limited long term effects after 20 years.*

Yes, you see numbers over 0-20 vs 0-100 but things look different at 0-20 vs 20-100.
I think there is a difference between "GUI" in general and Xerox Park GUI specifically. Sketchpad and GRAIL clearly had GUIs of sorts, but Xerox developed UI concepts that were highly generalizable. And just because they became popular doesn't mean they were "obvious". Without Xerox Park all the computers we use right now could have drastically different interfaces.
What is the code trying to do?

Sweep left (food starts falling), wait on average 90 sec (food gone?), sweep right, wait 85ms.

Then does it stop, or repeat the loop (until the outlet timer turns it off)?
I think this accident could've been entirely avoided had the small pink hatchback been a Tesla.

My read on what happened here is that the pink car was making a passing maneuver, and just as the pink car driver checked their right-side mirror/blind-spot and hit the right turn signal to get out of the passing lane, the car ahead abruptly stopped. That explains why the pink car drifted so slowly to the right - it wasn't an avoidance maneuver, it was a simple lane change while unaware of the stopped car ahead. Presumably an autopilot in the pink car would've been able to see the stopped traffic ahead and hit the brakes even while the driver was looking to the right to change lanes.
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Merry Christmas. Sorry, your reply got notification.

Still be merry. Make a fantastic new year!
I think techncially it's possible for certain operations using homomorphic encryption[1], where operations performed on encrypted data result in an appropriate transformation of the plaintext data, but I am fairly certain that's not widely used, and I think Amazon would make a big deal out of it if it were used with the Echo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
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In addition write a letter; handwritten to your reps imploring them to fund this stuff when it comes time for budget votes. Calls get noticed, but letters get the most attention in Washington.
> Why are you laughing? This site gets displayed on the Drudge Report several times a month.

That is a negative indicator for its reliability.

> Millions of people read the site monthly

Yes, partisan propaganda masquerading as news is a thing that has been a problem.for human society for a long time, and for the internet nearly as long as it has been widely used, and Drudge is a well-known and powerful example of that.
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A nice sci-fi trope is that the unpredictability of humanity, and when/how it will "fail" when something better would "succeed", results in the preservation of humanity itself. It's nice to consider in the wake of the elitism.
Yes, DataGrip is the full blown standalone version of the database tool in their various IDEs.
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Remote work is the #1 perk/benefit for employees now. It's no wonder it's hard to land a remote job because everybody wants them.

The focus should be on increasing your skills, making them more unique and super necessary for employers.

And then use the relationships you have already (eg current employer or clients) to start working remotely.
I like the built-in database functionality he describes. Wasn't that a feature of the BeOS file system?
Have you looked at http://aishack.in/
> It's plausible, but plausible isn't the same as "it happened".

I don't entirely disagree but really, in the context of a fairly trivial matter for anyone who isn't the person in question, what's the difference?

For example, I found a 20 euro bill on the ground at the ATM the other day. It makes no difference to you whether that's true - it only makes a difference to me and the person that lost the bill. At best it serves as a cautionary tale to those that don't pay attention to their money at the ATM.

If the story is plausible (that is, possible and not unlikely) and isn't particularly exceptional (such as, "click here to find out about obama's secret slave trading circle"), what's the difference?

That is, what is the concrete difference, to you and anyone commenting here, whether that child really did that or not? It's not unlikely enough that it would not occur. And we've seen a lot of very real stories about children stealing credit cards to spend hundreds or thousands on mobile games. And if you don't believe those either I can give you a personal account: When I was a kid I repeatedly broke the parental phone lock to call expensive numbers on the TV.

This is an iteration of the same thing.
The same is true of any technology. One cannot give an informed opinion without first being informed about the technology in the first place. Technology moves forward because there are many whom are willing to leave the comfort of their boxes into the unknown to try things without being required to be convinced.
I get maybe ~5 responses.
Small amounts, but it's a first step! This could be a bad thing. I might get fat.
Uhm, that was referring to Germany. I know that about the US, it's pretty hard to avoid. But anyway, since what we are telling you about our first-hand experiences with the people we talk to, regularly or occasionally, is dismissed with

> If the two prevailing mindsets were he's a hero and I don't care, then the he's a hero would be making a lot more noise, and the "I don't care" would probably give them half-hearted support just because they don't have a horse in the race and could therefore be easily convinced.

Then what are the prevailing mindsets in Germany? And how much more noise would people be making, what is a "lot"? Can you quantify it? Or are you just making up stuff that sounds reasonable to you, which has no connection with the truth on the ground here?
I'd love to hear feedback about this (even if it's mean).

Based on the notes toward the end of the article on the limitations of a traditional OS with filesystem, I had this thought.

The OS clearly seems to be going in the direction of Smalltalk or a Lisp machine as an environment. What would it look like, or what would be the limitations of a merged OS/programming environment with something like a single SQLite DB as the filesystem?
> So unless you're clever enough to detect the cases where you'd carefully regrow the hash table each time it's "too full"

There's little smart about it, open addressing implementations decide on a filling threshold, keep track of the current fill factor and resize when it's exceeded.

The smart part is deciding on the maximum fill factor, which depend on the probing strategy and the worst case you allow.
Not sure, but it does sound interesting. :)
I was going to say the same thing, except "polyfill for JPEG-2000"
Both full and part time. There are not enough part time gigs to go around. So hoping some full time folks would take a part time guy.
Similarly, compression can be seen as a logical product of Information Theory. But I'm not sure it would go anywhere beyond theory without computers.
To be clear: anyone can contribute a Rust k-nucleotide program that uses a custom hash function, just like those used by other programming languages.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "the car behind didn't show turn signal".

If you're referring to the pink hatchback that ultimately rear-ended the SUV - the pink hatchback seems to be making a lane change to the right after passing. The driver seems to have signaled and looked to the right to clear his/her blindspot at the same moment the SUV ahead slams on the brakes. It really seems like bad luck, that traffic would suddenly stop at the exact moment the driver of the pink hatchback looks to the right to change lanes.
I stopped buying from Gog after that pulled that stunt and "closed down" their site for like 3 days, saying nothing, and making all their customers believe that the products they'd purchased wouldn't be downloadable ever again.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103810-Good-Old-Ga...

Fuck Gog. I don't care about their listing quality.

Not that Steam is significantly better, but at least they never pulled a moronic stunt like that.
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No, my implication is it's (almost) an all-or nothing game. What good does it do me if out of all my friends and family, I'm the only one not using the popular services that track?

So... the 2 hours a day I'm not with a family member or coworker or friend I can't be tracked? And to do so I literally have to disable everything on my phone manually (no more bluetooth streaming in the car, manually turn off the wifi on my phone every time I leave the house, somehow magically prevent the cell towers from tracking me).

If you cannot get the general populous to agree and actively vote for privacy, you're fighting a battle that's already been lost.
That it's sold on AliExpress is also amazing.
Now we're talking. That's a prescription for action. I will agree with this.

Edit: Although I think there is more we do too. :) (Not defending Aaron's particular actions here.)
Please try to avoid making generalisations about entire languages. I don't believe that comments like this have any place (or serve any purpose) in this community. Needless to say, PHP is still widely preferred by a great number of developers (who adhere to common standards) for building APIs and websites.
Identity <> Authentication <> Authority

I deal with this in my industry (telecommunications). Just because you've provided proof of identity (eg your phone number, account number), there are still things you're not allowed to do until you've authenticated your identity--and the system determines your authority, to perform an action. This is accomplished through a password, a PIN, etc.

On a phone, it's an interesting shift because with a PIN, we essentially bypassed the need for identity and used only a password; regardless of who you are, you can get in if you have the right key.

With the move to identity being sufficient to unlock a device, we're saying that just on the basis of identity, the authority that used to come with a password (sans identity) can be granted. It's a 180 degree turn.

I don't see a way on my iPhone 6s to require both Touch ID and PIN; it's one or the other. Very few interactions require both, i.e. after a restart it requires the PIN before Touch ID will work.

edit: to clarify the difference
Democracy doesn't even have to figure into it.

Until the machines take over, if people would just open their eyes and exercise a little discipline, they would realize they can flip that 100:1 around in record time.

Think Bartleby the Scrivener: "I would prefer not to."
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