skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my organization AppDynamics' reputation couldn't be worse, they could never deliver on their promises even after months of consultancy, never ending back and forth with support to fix what ended up being a network issue on their side, in the case of my team they caused 2 P1 production incidents with their buggy agents. And that's without mentioning their slow UI. Wouldn't recommend this to anyone, we hacked together in a few weeks a solution with graphite/grafana that runs circles around it. Perhaps they have more value for client facing systems because otherwise I cannot understand how they are still in business.
> Within two days of Trump assuming power, White House
> officials have found themselves embroiled in a
> scandal over “alternative facts”.

Those weren't alternative facts, those were lies.

Actual alternative facts do exist because we often select the facts we represent based on our tribal affiliations.

I won't be able to reclaim the term now that is smeared. But I wish people could point out when somebody is lying (or misleading) without trying to smear the existence of counterzeitgeist truth.

Aside: why didn't anybody in the Trump administration respond by pointing out that Washington, D.C. is majority democrat, and that Bush's inauguration might have been a better comparison? Quite embarrassing that they would lie when deflating the authority of the comparison would have probably been more effective...
Switched to Safari, happier than ever.
Is this in perpetuity? Deals made today will impact profits in 10 years time!
Out of the existing tech, no. But within a couple of years the Model S will probably transition to the new 2170 cell [0]. I belive production has already started at the Gigafactory, though the Model 3 will probably have priority.

It may require some dimensional changes to the Model S though, as the cells are longer. So it may not be compatible with the existing versions of the Model S.

[0]: https://electrek.co/2016/11/02/tesla-panasonic-2170-battery-...
Fixed link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty,_or_give_me_de...
My guess there is quite a lot of this low-hanging fruit improvements. Electric cars its a young technology than can go through tons of incremental changes that will add up.

E.g. compare gas cars over decades. There were tons of improvements that allow much better fuel efficiency.
Do you not believe grigori Perelman's proof of the poincare conjecture? Do you believe in arsenic life? The first is still not peer reviewed, and the second very much was so.

These are some more well known cases. Having been there I'd say probably about 40% of peer reviewed material in chemistry and biology is seriously flawed.

We really have this problem where peer review is held up as a scientific standard. It shouldn't be. The scientific standards are independent replication and confirmation through prediction of a derivative result.

That is not to say all scientific peer review is flawed. If it appears in the journal organic syntheses I'll believe it, every time. (In order to get published an editor has to repeat the experiment in their lab, there are often liner notes)
> people who are fundamentalist capitalists

Who?

> Who can't even quietly consider other approaches that might work just fine in particular circumstances.

I explained how it might not work.

You are attacking me but not my reasoning.

I am just criticizing communal ownership since it does not work.

> I have no idea why people find that so threatening.

Who?
http://flask-aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ;)
It's a dog-whistle term. Politically neutral persons think it is a typo, but it is recognised by the anonymous poster's fellow associates, and marks the poster as someone they should upvote, endorse and agree with.
That's really helpful. Can you make an example which doesn't require making the my_handler function 'async'? For cases when you don't want to make an entire async stack, you just want to slot some async code into your existing code.

If the answer is "to get some async goodness, just use this easy code, plus rewrite your entire project to use a different framework and set of libraries", then we are only fooling ourselves.
Seriously, is this just all hot air? Or is this stuff really happening as reported?

I'd be demanding a revolution to overthrow the US government if any one of a few things I've heard about recently happened... but it's a steady stream of unbelievable stuff and the narrative seems to be: This is happening. The End.

Sure, there have been protests, but is that it? Is there no legal challenge? Has the great American democracy, with its checks and balances, decided to lie down and die?

Disclaimer: I'm not in the US so have limited knowledge but the whole thing seems bizarre looking on from abroad.
I don't want to specially handle my car every day. The car is good for in-city usage, but if you're travelling a lot and live in Europe, it's still long from being usable.

EDIT: an explanation of the downvotes would be nice.
Cisco snaps up AppDynamics for $3.7B
It's fun for a dozen or two clicks, and who knows what might come out of it. Nice job.
Cleveland Clinic is also one of several institutions that jumped at the chance to form a strategic alliance with Theranos:

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2016/05/clevela...
In most cases I would agree, and I get your point about the language not helping the case the poster is trying to make, but is there anything inaccurate in saying he is lying, corrupt or a racist? You'd have a hard time arguing against any of the accusations.
Tails 2.10 is out
It's completely intentional, and very effective. Mix big lies and small lies with truths and half truths. Lie about friends and enemies, and that's what the media will focus on. So much misinformation that nobody knows was what is truth.
RIP Flux.
Thanks for this thoughtful answer.
Don't know if it has effects on sleep, though anecdotally I sleep very well. However before using f.lux I experienced headaches from time to time after long days in front of various screens. It wasn't a regular occurrence but I'm pretty sure it was related to those long hours.

Since I started using f.lux all day (not just at night) several years ago those headaches have a been a thing of the past - it basically doesn't happen anymore.

I know f.lux is intended to be used in dark environments but since I rarely do color-sensitive work and prefer the lush, warmer color temperature (3800K for me), I see no reason to change my all-day use.
You should also read "Propaganda" by Edward Berneys.
For loops are yet another of these useless abstractions introduced by the academia, this time straight from the design-by-committee language ALGOL 60.

We all know real programmers used gotos.
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Not true: freezing EPA funds, censoring EPA twitter, replacing web pages on climate change with fossile fuel propaganda, and disputing truth on live television

We need to act, and we need to act now. Science is what got this man elected (twitter, television), now it needs to fight for the very basic principles.
Were you using the built in web server? I've been wondering about its performance in real world loads.
That's not true, my local german bakery simply doesnt accept big euro bills with the premise it could be fake money, which is nonsense as the smaller bills get faked more often, shit like this can't happen with bitcoin.

They also dont accept debit cards so u can be screwed if u have only a 100 eur bill with you..
Same in my case, but 99% when I'm able to respond during business hours, I'm sitting in front of a computer. If it's an emergency, a phone call is more suitable anyways. Sure there was this one time when I had to use Slack from my phone browser (set to desktop mode), but it's a small sacrifice.
My understanding is that those languages rely on cooperative scheduling within a thread, meaning that the running code has to relinquish control to the scheduler. Threads themselves are prescheduled at the OS layer but OS threads are much heavier and limited in how many can be running. A Java thread is 1024kb for example, compared to an Erlang process that's 0.5kb.
Nice! Maybe people will stop comparing the current state of things to 1984, when they actually read it...
I find it really difficult to trust a service that doesn't show clearly their pricing before sign-up.
Some Windows programs use the Internet Explorer API to display local HTML content or to provide an in-app browser. Gecko is used by the part of Wine that provides this API.
Show HN: Hangprinter, 3D print big at low cost with a string driven RepRap
It depends on termsheet, but in most cases liquidation preference only hits when final price is low. Otherwise investors will pick the percentage.
I think the heart of it is that "using my resources in the background" needs to be 100% opt-in. All webpages should be frozen and use 0 CPU/RAM unless the user grants them permission. I can think of only a handful of sites I would grant this permission to - mainly "apps" such as Google Inbox, Slack etc.
The 4 Major Ways to Do String Formatting in Python
>The world has gotten better in almost every way including the rapid fall in poverty rates, more reliable sources of food and medicine, and better access to technology for even the poorest folk

Cool story. Have your own people seen equal (or equal-enough) growth in their respective living standards?

Better yet, has the brand of politician your particular subculture supports done enough to make sure that everyone in your Union has benefited enough to see your version (right or wrong) of the bigger picture?
You know, where the solution to their job-loss problems isn't simply "abandon your own subculture, move to the city where there's work"?
Where the solution to unemployment isn't simply "here's some unemployment benefits, now go try to find self-worth in a society that doesn't need you any more"?

Because the results of that failure are pretty clear.
Something is happening where most places not in the Northeast or Southwest urban sprawl are getting hit hard economically- the absence of a similar pinch in those urban areas is striking, to say the least.
Turns out that eliminating jobs that the people there used to be doing is only really good policy in places that can sustain themselves with another industry, which the service industry does quite handily but only in dense enough areas.
Combine that with a lack of (misplaced?) social responsibility from industry leaders (and union management), and these cities that are still doing well start to accumulate political debt simply as a result of that inequality.

Remember, every time you need to pull the country in a given direction, you need to spend some political capital.
Compromises must be made when a given problem affects one side more than it does the other (as you have to convince those who aren't in agreement for whatever reason- thinking that being objectively right has ever mattered is mistake #1, which is why "alternate fact" is even a valid turn of phrase).

And currently the side of Progress(tm) has no capital left- it was spent on creating the above inequality and frivolities like social justice. Even though climate change is really the priority the Left claims it is, the Left will first have to actually deal with the inequality in the country it claims to despise before the Right will even bother listening. This is going to be the real challenge.

And until that time, telling your jobless neighbor that his life has no more worth than someone in a third-world country might be technically true, but telling him that, or that third-world countries come first, is not doing your cause any favors.
Iterators in C#: yield, IEnumerable and IEnumerator
They have effectively wiped out all Ash trees around central Ohio. Once these beautiful trees were 20 - 25% of our forest, tree lines, and even shade for parking lots. Now they are all gone. You can really notice it in areas where they haven't been removed by tree services. We have an abundance of woodpeckers now because of all of the dead standing trees around us. I wonder what they'll make baseball bats out of when the lumber supply runs out?
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13477258 (237 comments)
Time Management Secrets of an Efficient Engineer
YouTube: Then and Now
Then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oJdD2oUHXc

Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MopkTrQMx1A
or you can prove some false statements
Twist it however you want, it's still about abortion.
Here's a more in-depth record of some things that have been inaccurately and widely reported[0], and interestingly enough, from a right-wing magazine that refused to support Trump's nomination.

[0] http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/23/mainstream-media-still-b...
Think of embedded webviews in some applications. On real Windows, you use the activeX webview component, on wine you get gecko.

Please correct me if I am wrong.
Since everyone is recommending alternatives: I'm using kid3 for that purpose, and it works for me just fine.
>A fact is generally considered to be a proposition that is true. The problem is, science doesn't deal in what's true. Science deals in what's falsifiable.

That's the epistemology of Popper. Not necessarily how science works. See e.g. Fayerabends arguments in "Against Method".
You could setup a free instance on AWS for 1 year then create a new account the following year.
Package Managers All the Way Down
Can you please elaborate on this?

A major tenant of third wave feminism is intersectionallity, which is pretty much exactly the opposite of what your just said.
Pycket: A Tracing JIT for a Functional Language [pdf]
If SCOTUS were to rule for the plaintiffs in this case, the Congress would be in a much more difficult spot. Right now they can dismiss it all as "he said she said" and "not really illegal". But if there's a SCOTUS ruling that the president is in violation of the Constitution, and they don't impeach, they'd basically be saying that either they don't care about the Constitution, or they don't care about SCOTUS. Either would cause a major constitutional crisis with unclear consequences.
That's a bit oversimplified and a different story -- I might agree, however, that there is inspiration from the UdSSR -- but again, different story.
Welcome to Brazil.
The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions-
> Science is what got this man elected (twitter, television), now it needs to fight for the very basic principles.

The word "science" seems to mean almost everything nowadays.

Twitter and television are not science. They are social constructs built around the works of engineering, which itself was based on some established scientific knowledge.
Or maybe this is all fake news. I have read the article and I have found the two "magic words" of the globalists: media and ecology.

So, calm down and let's see if this is real or not. Keep in mind they ( the media in particular ) are trying to demonize Trump as much as possible ( no, there is no plurality of information, afterall all the media are in the hands of only 5 corporations ).
It's basic epistemology.
90% of what I do when I program is try to figure out what the heck the business people meant. Ambiguous and conflicting requirements, vague ideas, and best guesses as to the direction to take the product(s) are going to be hard to overcome. Throw in a "we don't know what is possible" problem, and I think we are still a long, long ways off from an AI that can replace us.
'Perhaps, but in my view not compared to "They all disappeared," which suggests proactive agency (did they run away?) rather than passive fate'

Ah, I see your point. Sadly I think a generation or two of teachers maniacally chastising their students for ever using the passive form could have something to do with this.

Even in this forum, you'll find plenty of people saying that all writing need be direct, simple, and brief. There's virtue in that for quick memoranda, but to say that there's no place in the world for complex, abstract writing or the expression of nuance in careful word choice (as you describe) is a real shame. Too often I've been corrected by people who say "you mean 'I wish I _was_' because the subject is singular".

There's some evidence that language is what makes abstract thought even possible. Perhaps we're leaving our minds unable to comprehend abstractions when we reduce that available in our language. More discussion is at https://neuroanthropology.net/2010/07/21/life-without-langua....

Or maybe I just need to get over it. I overcame my violent aversion to starting sentences with "or" and "and", after all.
Protests take time to organize and legal challenges take time to go through the courts. Meanwhile Trump is machine gun firing executive orders. As far as checks and balances are concerned, both the executive branch and both chambers of the legislative branch are Republican. So it falls to the judicial branch to provide those checks and balances and as I said earlier, legal challenges take time. The biggest mistake we can make at this time is to give up hope and become apathetic in fighting for our ideals. We need to remember it's darkest before the dawn.
Those lies were not immediately able to be proven wrong. This is different because not only did they lie about something that could be checked but the continued to lie even after being called out on it. Further the president repeated the lie and continues to repeat the lie. O bet both George W. Bush and Tony Blair would agree that there were no WMDs in Iraq if you asked them today, if you also Trump, today or in 10 years, about the turnout for his inauguration he would repeat the same lies.
From TFA:

> We test individually each one of the 150 VPN apps under
consideration.

> Two people executed a total of 5,340 tests manually for three months and connected to all end-points mentioned in the GUI of a given VPN app.

Okay, that's brilliant, but I'd love to see the actual data as well. Even if it's impractical to include the data in an appendix (page number limitations in the published work, et cetera), hosting it online and linking to it in the article would be great.

I'm a scientist and geek. Show me the data!
The Buzzfeed article has an excerpt from the memo, as follows:

"Starting immediately and until further notice, ARS will not release any public-facing documents. This includes, but is not limited to, news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds, and social media content."

It's been reversed, but yes, that's a ban on sharing research.
@tristanj 10 hours ago:

Title appears to be clickbait. The original AP story [1] says this restriction applies to the agency's social media accounts. It does not say this restriction applies to employee's personal social media accounts, as thehill.com implies. This is the relevant section from the AP article:

> Emails sent to EPA staff and reviewed by The Associated Press also detailed specific prohibitions banning press releases, blog updates or posts to the agency's social media accounts.

[1] https://www.apnews.com/5ada25fc57b44a0989e681d6dc2a3daf/Trum...
Cancer scientist discovers widespread research fraud
Because this would require making a comparison to others.
> Should the IRS have authority to make financial-services companies turn over millions of customer records when they suspect a handful of customers could be evading taxes? Most people would respond with an emphatic no.

Really? Seriously?

As somebody who pays tax towards the upkeep of his country, I'm all for complete financial accountability to the appropriate authority. Generally speaking, I think if they thought about it, most other taxpayers would agree. Authorities like the IRS and HMRC are investigating where people hide their income and savings.

Why do I care about that? Up to 45% of that money rightfully belongs to my country. If they're not paying, it means I'm actually paying more than I need to (or we're crashing further into deficit, which my family is paying for).

Of all the "freedoms" we sacrifice to governments, financial privacy is the one I care least about because it can hurt everybody and the people who would owe most are best placed to abuse it. Lower middle classes suffer most.

Edit: Just read the comments and a few articles around reason.com and I can see my way of thinking isn't the same as theirs. I hope I never hate my country and the people in it as much as they do.
Nginx v1.11.9 Released
*) Bugfix: nginx might hog CPU when using the stream module; the bug had
appeared in 1.11.5.

*) Bugfix: EXTERNAL authentication mechanism in mail proxy was accepted
even if it was not enabled in the configuration.

*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if the
"ssl_verify_client" directive of the stream module was used.

*) Bugfix: the "ssl_verify_client" directive of the stream module might
not work.

*) Bugfix: closing keepalive connections due to no free worker
connections might be too aggressive.
Thanks to Joel Cunningham.

*) Bugfix: an incorrect response might be returned when using the
"sendfile" directive on FreeBSD and macOS; the bug had appeared in
1.7.8.

*) Bugfix: a truncated response might be stored in cache when using the
"aio_write" directive.

*) Bugfix: a socket leak might occur when using the "aio_write"
directive.
Freezing EPA funds is not mentioned in the article. The rest is media talk, but not science. Trump is not a scientist.

Still looking for the facts in this article...
It's definitely not perfect, though ultimately most trade-offs in Python come down to readability. I once went down the rabbit hole (3 library iterations) of overloading operators to enable a very shell and pipe oriented syntax, only to later realize how much harder my 6-month old code was to read even for me. So I've come to appreciate Guido's experience for the trade-off between expressive power and readability.

For instance in the things you suggest, reduce used in its most straightforward manner is readable, but it can also be used to enable some of nastiest, most head scratching one liners. Lambda is useful for small things like callbacks, but readability should lead you to a real function with a descriptive name sooner rather than later.
Ok, will prepare that reply over weekend, since it's nuanced: but as replied below, I don't know if it represents most brexiters, I only know the reasons for a few other brexiters.
The Electoral College Blind Spot
Enjoyed the reading still couldn't find a strong bond between hygiene and antimicrobial resistance. It's more likely overtaking antimicrobial medicine being the cause.
They say the eyes are the window into the soul, but really we're just looking at each other's brains!
You site is beautiful, very much like HN in the sense of showing lots of information vs following design trends: https://cryptowat.ch/
Sadly this doesn't work:

https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=play+noughts+and+cr...
They are bennies with cat ears called pussy hats, not "clit hats". They were made in response to the "grab me by the pussy" remark The Donald made.

Also AFAB people have a right to destigmatize their reproductive organs. (Think about how many times a day middle school boys draw penises on things)

Now that being said, I think the pussy hats are problematic because they are trans exclusionary, which is totally unrelated to your imagined feminist hypocrisy.
>Twitter and television are not science. They are social constructs built around the works of engineering, which itself was based on some established scientific knowledge.

I admit it's a long causality chain, but without the scientific methods, those things would not exist. Thus, those methods are what we need to preserve in order to advance, and this is very openly threatened by the current administration.
Human capital is wealth. Indeed, it's some of the most valuable stuff around, though notoriously illiquid.
"In individuals with schizophrenia and other psychoses,
a history of cannabis use may be linked to better
performance on learning and memory tasks."

Well At least once you're crazy you can improve your learning!