skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Prices are much higher though."

Not that much higher ... maybe double ?

Remember, the digital signage displays are often used in arrays of 12 or 18 or 24 displays, so they have to be somewhat cost-competitive - otherwise an airport or hotel lobby or mall couldn't stitch 24 of them together.

I always chime in on these discussions to urge folks to buy a digital signage / commercial display (probably from NEC). Not only are they as dumb as dumb gets, but they are also very, very high performance displays.
Good answer :)
> a fundamental 1.2x performance penalty on Rust's part

We don't believe such a thing exists.
I know for a fact this isn't necessarily true.
Are you suggesting that if the boards were written in PHP they'd still be alive or that they'd have been shut down long ago?
I would find such a thing useful, if it worked on Linux. I don't even know how many academic papers (and datasheets, and other PDFs) I have - but it's a ton, and increasing all the time.

Ideally, it would be nice if the app could do a search across a drive (or NAS, or whatever) for PDFs, pull out a summary and title, and then use that for naming/search/etc. Maybe your app already does this?

To be honest - what I wish I had was a personal Google Search appliance spidering all of my data on my NAS, which was also linked to normal Google, with priority of search results given to local information.

Maybe something like that already exists - I've found open-source solutions that come close, but all for the search/spidering typically required a machine waaaay better than my desktop...
Exactly, score voting is just as vulnerable to tactical voting as any other method for that reason.

For example, if the scoring range is 1-10, it's better for me to use the full range even if none of the options on offer is really a 1 or 10. Using the full range gives my opinion more weight in the result.

I strongly suspect score voting tends towards ranked voting when people vote tactically, which they always will, just with extra noise and randomness. (I don't know of any studies on this, though.)
I think you're incorrect, but happy to hear arguments against.

The phrase I quoted says that the big companies allow you to use their service free of any caps, but if you want to use a 3rd parites same service you are going to be capped. Therefore it's not neutral. The 3rd parties can pay to have cap removed, which puts it into the non-neutral territory.
The IRS hasn't had a budget in many years now. Congress passes emergency reauthorizations every year that's just enough to keep the lights on, but does not allow for any kind of long-term planning or upgrades. I'd imagine that, if they do have crazy systems like this, they'd love to get rid of them but can't.
That they'd still be alive. Mainly because maintenance, and equally important, new features, would be easier.

The poor reputation of PHP is from bad PHP by bad programmers, use a good programmer (as he seems to be) and the "boost" you get from using PHP would lead to much easier to maintain code.

i.e. the same boost that lets a bad programmer get something running in PHP can take a good programmer and make him even better.

Perl is a powerful language, but it's not well suited for making web pages.
So, a blue dog democrat.
Yes I wish I had known (well I sort of did) that a smart TV would be so bad just the laggy apps, opt-in after each firmware upgrade. And each upgrade seems to make the apps run slower and slower.

I got my dad a Roku but he didn't want it so I took it thinking I would return it but for Netflix and YouTube it's far faster than the same Samsung apps.

My plan to build a Pi 3 media box was set aside for now.

But yes wow such crap and mind games in these smart TVs when all I want is to see my video signal!
> In addition, we show that the new v1 replication protocol has multiple bugs, allowing data loss in all versions up to MongoDB 3.2.11 and 3.4.0-rc4. While the v0 protocol remains broken, patches for v1 are available in MongoDB 3.2.12 and 3.4.0, and now pass the expanded Jepsen test suite.

Wait, it is me not understanding what the abstract is trying to say?
You just nailed it! I work for a very large HFT and my portfolio for my 401k and extra retirement (in the market) is primarily low cost / fee vanguard index funds. You really can't beat a FPGA with tick to trade times in the milliseconds. Your optical nerve likely hasn't even processed a number changing yet.
Struggling to summon up any sympathy for the NSA here.
I had a look at the sources for that post and couldn't find anything showing small banks growing up to 2008. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/US1NUM (from exploring citation #4 in the post) was the closest I could find and that shows that over the long term small banks have been in decline since the 80's.
So what is the implication from the fact that it is impossible to block porn for people who are not "an adult that has a fully formed identity and personality"?
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It's really good. I feel like a lot of security consulting shops could benefit from it as well.
This is admittedly an old article so hopefully the engineering has improved since then, but to the best of my knowledge it's still an issue. Maybe they made significant improvements to the battery pack in the P100 though.

http://insideevs.com/expected-tesla-model-s-fails-lap-nurbur...

edit: a quick Google of forums and articles suggests the car has a problem overheating when you drive it above ~100 MPH

http://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-s-formula-1-racing-circ...

https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/p90d-overheating
Which every single HFT firm that isn't a pure market maker (such as Virtu Financial, my previous employer) does already and has done for years. That is my point. Here's a great example of Citadel talking about how they use Hashicorp nomad to spin up 100,000 cpu research jobs on AWS.

What do you think their 100k cpu jobs are doing? Machine learning and quantative analysis, what else?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRtRwhL5lwM
Nightwatch-Cucumber https://github.com/mucsi96/nightwatch-cucumber is a killer combo for me.

Lately, I was playing with it. Here is a starter project: https://github.com/jumasheff/nightwatch-cucumber-e2e-testing...
I think the question is still valid though: Why these sites?

There are sooo many porn sites out there, that blocking just a couple seems like a waste of time.
It's my understanding that the Privacy Badger Chrome extension from the EFF also nullifies this ability:
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
This is utterly irrelevant to the topic of Russia blocking porn sites.
> I think that this really shows how mature of a Database MongoDB is.

Or that it took this long for them to pass basic proficiency tests. How do other database systems fare with these tests?
It includes "production" cars, which are vehicles offered for sale to the public, legally able to drive on public roads, and typically mass-produced identical items rather than one-offs for each customer (though this may be only a few dozen vehicles).

It does not include dragsters or other custom vehicles, which may be equipped with nitrous injectors, non-street-legal equipment, or other major concessions to daily driving.

This was apparent in Friday's episode of <strike>Top Gear</strike> Grand Tour where Hammond raced a Porsche 918 hybrid supercar against the Bugatti Veyron, and then against "some old Nissan van." Which (as you may have guessed, sorry for the spoilers ahead) happened to be souped up with a 1900 HP engine, and easily beat the supercar.

It's also apparent when looking at this electric project car: https://phys.org/news/2016-06-electric-car-world.html which, at 1.5 seconds, seems likely to approach the limit of wheeled vehicles.
Getting back to candidates within 48 hours with either next steps or ending the process.
It was 7 years ago. We have all new patrol police, new government services, etc. Of course corruption still here, but things are changing. Hope you will visit this year's PyCon to ensure
I can only think that the article was a bit late and the new MongoDB version has the last word. Beyond this, the article is extremely valuable and it is mandatory to upgrade your MongoDB.
It's saying it was fixed in the final 3.4.0 release (or, maybe, that there's at least a patch available) for the v1 protocol, but that the v0 protocol is unfixable - so, 3.4.0 + V1 protocol and it's solid.

Giving aphyr some money to do this makes me think much more of Mongo now; I wouldn't previously have considered it for serious use but this is an excellent demonstration of intent.
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It is called "parenting", people should do more of it.
Don't assume the there's a local attacker with root.

Employees are often required to install local certs (or applications/scripts that do that) - that doesn't mean the host is entirely compromised.
Another blow to the utility of AntiVirus.

I hate the AV industry in infosec. It does not work well and in most cases, refundes security. Unbelievable that it's still required for a lot of compliance veers.
>...rather than giving random payouts as required by regulation in most jurisdictions.

Sort of random since it's pseudo random number generator but there is a specific payback percentage chosen. It's like PRNG up to a point then it's not otherwise how can you give out 96% over 10 million spins if it's truly random.

I'm a slot tech but I don't work with PAR sheets we're purposely kept at arms length for a reason.
> I think you took a negative tone to my post when it was not meant that way. A number of the things you pointed out are just facts of living in America vs Europe. I have to drive a car because everything is spread out. European cities were built over many centuries before cars were a thing.

Well, I do think the potential salary difference is not worth it; and the reasons are what I've stated in my reply.

> I think it's safe to say tech workers are well compensated in both places, which was my point.

They are, agreed.

> The OP was acting very arrogant as if American tech workers didn't have healthcare, vacations, etc.

Well, they rarely have healthcare at the same level you can get in Canada, Spain, UK, etc - which is given to any worker in those countries. That is my point :)

They rarely have paid vacation, too.

> I think you're deluding yourself. No offense, but I don't need to justify my gun ownership through the guise of "hunting" like you do in Germany or other European countries. I don't shoot animals, only paper and steel. I like guns so I own them. Also you would be outmatched in gun competitions such as 3 gun races simply because you are not allowed to purchase modern firearms like AR15s. You will just tire out faster than the guy carrying a 5LB AR15.

You play gun sports, I told you can play gun sports in Europe too. It's a thing - not just "hunting" (seriously?:)). Good for you if you like to shoot AR15s.

> Agreed. Let's see how well your system copes with the refugee crisis.

Funnily enough, the US is not part of the refugee crisis yet your government is freaking out more than anyone. Food for thought.

> I'm eager to see if "those who can" can really feed the mouths of all the refugees.

It is possible. It has been proven in Germany of all places.

Funnily enough, the US used to be the receiver of refugees. Germans, Italians, Irish, Polish, Hungarians, Cubans, ... And it worked well.

> A number of important litmus tests for our modern society are taking place in Europe as we speak. A positive outcome might tip the scales here in America.

And we will prevail.
Supposedly they had a contract for support purposes; but whether Oracle intended for wholesale copying and redistribution (if that is even what happened,) is an exercise for contract nitpicking - obviously this is all speculation [[ stares longingly into the vacuum that was Groklaw... ]]

It could have come down to simply an aggressive/abusive crawler affecting other customers?
Unfortunately not—it's not really a design tool per-se, it's more of a visual workspace for combining images and text :)
Google passing your search queries in the referral URL was always a privacy issue. The TLS/SSL issue was an easy excuse to get rid of it.
Note it’s not really “The Jepsen Test” as the tests are all a bit custom and different. Sometimes they’re looking to validate different claims.

For example, Kyle integrated some serializability tests into the VoltDB Jepsen testing that wouldn’t apply to Mongo.
> It's easy for the admin to bypass

If it involves patching and recompiling the browser it wouldn't be that trivial for your average sysadmin. Besides I don't see why the admin would be hostile to the users being aware that they're being monitored. As you point out companies generally disclose that anyway.
Yes, I see it too, terrible timing since we just launched. Anyone have more information about this?
It depends, Picasso is smallest but doesn't support GIFs. Glid is larger and does support GIFs. Fresco is larger again but has more advanced memory management and better transition handling.
Short answer: NO. Not for free.

Long answer: sorry, you should pay for a more articulated advice. (Yes, this is the first lesson).
It was published a day after the Mail article was, and that so it's not unreasonable to assume that readers are aware of its content - ie, that such a whistleblower exists.
It's great that they're serious and committing resources to passing these tests. They just did, though, after nearly a decade of development. Which is terrific but it doesn't really show the 'how mature of a database MongoDB is'.
Hootsuite acquires AdEspresso as it moves into paid content, social ads
Not in terms of features, but this article might give you some idea of what we're trying to do differently to Evernote: https://medium.com/milanote/why-using-evernote-is-making-you...
"But last year, a federal district court in Nevada found a defendant guilty under both the California and Nevada state computer crime statutes for nothing more than that—violating Oracle’s website’s terms of use."

That's insane. The terms of service is essentially a contract that you are agreeing to to use the website/software/service. Failure to adhere to it is a breach of contract, not a violation of law.

If you break an NDA, for example, you don't wind up in jail or have a criminal history. The other party takes you to court to enforce the penalty listed out in the contract for the breach.
From the article...

>The Tesla does not hold the advantage forever, though, because higher speeds give the advantage to horsepower over instant torque. The Ferrari LaFerrari hits 70 mph a tenth of a second quicker; the Porsche 918 and McLaren P1 pull ahead at 80 mph, and these hypercars all continue to pull away at higher speeds.
Although I agree with most of your point, I do take issue with this:

> If you start to debate the merits or costs of porn to the human psyche, you've already lost.

I think there is huge value in analyzing the pro's and con's of anything, out of which debates will naturally arise.
I thought it was odd that he says the cool kids were using Perl. I taught myself Perl from a book in the late 90s and couldn't find any kind of welcoming community on the internet, while PHP was the complete opposite. Since it was made for the web it flourished there; PHP even had user comments on its own documentation!
This is great news. Historically I've accepted the risk of data loss and coded checks when needed. I will never rely on my database, regardless of which one I am using for complete data consistency. It is, however, nice to see strides being made towards even better robustness. Go MongoDB!
> dossiers on people who have never even used or consented to using Facebook

I think you misread the comment. These are people that already don't use Facebook.
That is literally the idea of a nanny state.
You're actually closer than you realize :)

It's a government worker union thing. They don't have a contract for being called at 4am when the website breaks, so you better shut it off at 5pm.

If you think this is the stupidest thing in government you should ensure you never have to work in that environment over your lifetime :)
MongoDB receives a fair amount of criticism here but the company is a fantastic place to work. I'm proud that I was able to learn and grow as a developer alongside all of those who have been trying (and succeeding) to make a great database.

The team at MongoDB really cares a lot about making the best database product possible. I knew it when I was there and still think so after I've left.
I agree with you but there are a lot of things that people consume too much of to deleterious effect. Video games, sugars, alcohol, religion,etc.
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British Gas Response to Bowie Twitter Storm
It was a Nissan Patrol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Patrol

A lot of the mods used to increase power considerably also decrease the MTBF of many components within vehicles.
Nothing too important.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/faq/faq5.html.d...
The output isn't the problem; it's that "class" is also a keyword in the JSX input. I admit, though, I'm not intimately familiar with the JSX transpiler and am just guessing as to their motives.
Why would it not be okay to just ban people from your service "because you feel like it"? Given that you usually don't have any info on them which can be used as the basis of discrimination (and thereby sued over) what's left to worry about?
>" Trading is among one of the few industries out there where you don't need to have anything like a customer."

Trading yes but a hedge fund or any fund really implies customers no?
black bar, please?
Also that for whatever reason pancreatic cancer tends to be very aggressive. One-year relative survival rate is 20%, and the five-year rate is 7%

Compare with most thyroid cancer. Stage IV 5 year survival rate 50%.
I'd like to read that book. cstross? Gibson?
Could you explain what you mean by that?
Counterpoint—

There's an old expression around the speed shop that fits here:

"People buy power, but they drive torque."

And its electric FTW in a big way if you believe in that koan.
Individual employers can't fix this by themselves. They can -- and should -- minimize their contribution to the wage gap, but ultimately political change is needed as well.

There are many studies on how to close the wage gap. For example see: http://www.epi.org/publication/closing-the-pay-gap-and-beyon...
Do you honestly think that will be enforced?
The 'manipulation' is a revision in light of better data, and it does not affect the conclusions reached.
The IRS has 79,890 employees. $12B annual budget. So...

edit: Another comment linked to a good explanation as to why the site isn't up 24/7. TL;DR legacy COBOL that everyone is terrified of touching. Just in case the Secretary of Treasury is reading this: I, for one, would gladly have my tax dollars go to modernizing irs.gov. Oh wait, I just remembered healthcare.gov. Nevermind.
not exactly - but your used to be able to more-or-less count on it being owned/operated by a non-profit of some kind
British Telecom. Most of the infra was laid down when it was a government owned monopoly. When it was privatized and the ownership went into (mostly) private hands, it was required to lease out access to competing networks. I understand several other European countries have similar arrangements. In the UK we have the same for electricity and other utility provision as well. It's not ideal, but seems to work ok and has genuinely driven down prices for consumers a lot.
I wouldn't claim to be a good programmer, but I would point out that back then my exposure to PHP was PHP version 3, and version 4 was only just getting established.
Usually, we describe unsafe rust as a superset of safe Rust. that is, unsafe Rust is exactly like safe Rust, but gives you extra things.
1 & 3. You are supposed to ship the waf script with the code. It's 100kb so it's not a huge burden to check it into your repo. I'm very sure it is explained in the waf book: https://waf.io/book/

2. Either run "chmod +x waf ./waf build" or "python waf build" Adding directories to $PATH isn't necessary.

4. I think the use case for configuring and building with the same tool is very compelling. Like:

def configure(ctx):
ctx.check_cfg(package='gtk+-2.0',
args='--cflags --libs',
uselib_store = 'GTK-2.0')
def build(ctx):
ctx.program(source = 'blah.c',
target = 'blah',
use = 'GTK-2.0')

This will add a configure check using pkg-config ensuring that gtk+ is installed. Then due to the use declaration in the call to the program() method, the correct compile and link flags will be added.

Because it is all in one tool, it is very easy. Other build systems complicates it by keeping configure and build separate.

5. True, but I prefer more power over less.

6. Tomas Nagy published some benchmarks here: http://www.freehackers.org/~tnagy/bench.txt Waf was 12 times faster than SCons and about 20% slower than make.
Do you need full access or just simple web hosting? I run a few VPS' on OVH and never had any problems.
My dad liked to go to work at 5 AM. (Official start time was 7:30). He'd get a couple hours of no distractions, being able to really get stuff done. Then he'd be there when other people needed to interact with him.
That doesn't mean they need to upgrade the wire going into the house then.
Twitter rolls out changes to silence abuse on its service
Use an `enum` like Cow[1] that allows passing around static strings along with dynamic strings, as well as interior pointers: the compiler can check that things don't get invalidated and the enum makes it trivial to deallocate things correctly (in fact, it's all done automatically by the compiler), so a more aggressive design can be used, no need to defensively copy the strings.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/borrow/enum.Cow.html
Well, sysadmins have a way simpler solution: just tell their users to use a different browser. This would have to be coordinated between browsers to have any effect at all.
Right. But, what I'm saying is, generics does not make Rust unique. There are many other good languages that I think may be a better choice.
My favorite video of his is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo.
Why should hard be secure enough? Information and non-invertibility
Right, but the reason that happened is that the FTC, FCC and others approved all these mergers. Comcast would never have organically captured all these customers. The same thing happened with the banks. They were getting insane concerns and used that money to buy more banks to speculate on that money too, rinse and repeat. The customer at Sante Fe Trust (e.g.) wouldn't have likely chosen to move to Bank of America or Wells Fargo but he didn't get a say.

The challenge with capitalism is these rollups of the small players are great for efficiency but once they get past a certain size it will become a defacto monopoly without regulation.
- Watson, quick, find me all the legal loopholes so I can pay as little tax as possible.
- I'm afraid I can't do that Dave
You can check out the other databases he has tested here: http://jepsen.io/analyses

That being said, none of the big players in sql are there, so you can't size it up against postgres or mysql.
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Who is going to be the hero that converts FBI FOIA emails into automated faxes and offers it as a service?