skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terrorism is probably the best ally western governments have found to advance their authoritarian agenda. The sad thing is people are actually falling for it. You just have to look at the way the UK Government complained that they didn't have a backdoor to whatsapp's infrastructure because the "terrorist" was able to plan his attack using their service. What is it going to be next ? "London Horrified after Uber Driver blows up his car in Leicester Square. Theresa May to force Uber to share user's personal data with the government". I hate to sound Alex Jones-y but you've got to admit that there's a pattern here.
Please do not compare all of the UK's immigration services with the way one customs agent handled their bad day.
could this be used to roll your own uber?
Can you back up these recommendations with actual studies or research papers? Or are you just making up your security strategy by gut instinct here?
If you have difficulty in assembling IKEA furniture, I suspect you have trouble being a productive member of society.
Coinbase changes conversion fee calculation
Any clue as to what these signify? Close I think I know.
NIST doesn't "Advise Against Periodically Changing Passwords". There is no issue with periodically changing passwords in and of itself.

NIST is acknowledging that the typical user when faced with a password policy that requires a regular password change will choose a weaker password. NIST is advising against imposing a requirement to periodically reset passwords.

Maybe I'm nitpicking but the title as it currently stands is misleading in my opinion.
With IPhone's market share of just 9% in China, WeChat should drop support for the IPhone.
MalwareTech is being harassed by UK tabloid media
Implementation of naivechain by Crystal
This is what's changed on the fee support page: https://gist.github.com/charlieegan3/dc7d3ee49d8a2b8c16d02fe... (Comparing today against the 29th of April.)

A simple example is that buying £1 of BTC used to cost me £1.02, now it costs £1.76.
Yep. Location based assignments and live order tracking are two of our most popular use-cases.
Ironically her father's former home church is now signed up to the Inclusive Church movement, a progressive, tolerant movement which is the opposite of her xenophobic conservatism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Church
A CFO’s Roadmap to AWS Cloud Cost Forecasting and Budgeting
Prelude to PP, Part 3: Visualising Interactions with Feynman Diagrams
Pricing looks way too expensive to me even for small to medium scale usage. And if my business cross the medium scale , then why wouldn't i really build it inhouse. Seem like a classic case of product looking for problem.
Ai, because is the future. Everything will be at an certain point controlled or work with ai.
Yes, black holes and other compact objects have pretty much been ruled out as candidates for dark matter. The issue is that they would produce gravitational microlensing signals which are not observed. In brief, when the black hole passes in front of a star, its gravitational field magnifies the light from the star in a characteristic way. By analyzing the shape of the light curve, you can figure out pretty much everything about the system like the masses and the distances. Systematic surveys for these microlensing events like OGLE have not observed black hole microlensing events at the rate that would be needed for black holes to constitute most of the dark matter out there. They do observe quite a few planetary microlensing events, though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdered_eggs
Experiments with prepledge
Why do you think it's silly? There are only two reasons to change a password:

1. The cover time (expected duration of secrecy) is about to expire, either due to advances in technology or because it was too small to begin with; or

2. The password was compromised and is no longer secret.

If a password has not been compromised and is sufficiently strong as to not be crackable without a server farm and hundreds of thousands of years, it doesn't make sense to change it.
I know very little about this - but casual Googling suggests helicopters aren't necessarily better.

This Quora answer from 2015 [0], suggests $6m for the Augusta 109 [1], that has range of 982 km but has a speed of 285 km/h.

So that is 3x the price for half the speed?

[0]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-private-helicopter-to...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgustaWestland_AW109
What is "absolute truth" here? The manichean opposition that is proposed between "promote the general welfare of all citizens" and "give capitalists the opportunity to make as much money as they can"?

This is what I was addressing and I'm still considering as a very manipulating rhetoric that does not leave any place for nuance and balance.
It is not. Dark matter is not some smooth distribution that could be explained by adjusting the formula for gravity. There are places where it is, and places where it isn't. Not only that, but it has its own mass and inertia.

Not only that but dark matter is missing in a host of other ways that can't be explained by the laws of gravity being more complex. Microwave background radiation is 30x more powerful than can be explained by visible matter, but matches exactly if you add in dark matter and dark energy. The ratio of hydrogen to deuterium is inconsistent with visible matter, but matches perfectly if you add dark matter.

Galaxy clusters collide and we can literally see dark matter pass through the collision since it doesn't interact.

Dark matter is as well proven as the atom was when we made the bombs. We just don't know what it's made of yet. You simply don't know enough about it.
I see now, makes sense.
Corporation and business are not synonymous. You can own and run a business that is not incorporated, thus there are no shareholders. In fact, most businesses are not incorporated.
"The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is no longer recommending people periodically change their passwords as part of the organization’s new draft of its Digital Identity Guidelines."

Untrue, misleading, and possibly harmful.

NIST isn't recommending USERS stop changing their passwords. That would be insane. They are recommending that services stop enforcing periodic password changes on users because it ends up hurting the user in the long run. (Ie, passwords should be easy for users and hard for attackers).
Tesla retroactively extends free unlimited Supercharging to all current vehicles
I enjoy GoT too, but it's not close to being in the same league as The Wire. GoT is ultimately nothing other than escapism. The Wire is so much more than that.
I disagree. In principle, every time a password is changed is a point of failure - it's additional overhead that has the opportunity to go wrong. If a password does not need to be changed, don't change it. Set it and forget it.

If you generate strong passwords, store them securely in a password manager and use different passwords for each account, you shouldn't need to force a password change unless the password is compromised or technology evolves to make it insecure.
How do we regulate in a way that limits the power of the big five without also hurting small businesses? Otherwise, the end result will almost certainly be to bolster Google and Facebook.
And what I'm saying is that the thing they are comparing it to is something which has optimised 8086 assembly code for the compression. zopfli doesn't, which would make a timing comparison pointless.
that plot of "the sweet spot of getting to the ikea effect" is a mediocre visualazation... it implicitly puts "contribution" and "value" on the same axis with no way to decouple them.

my biggest question that isn't answered is "how do you define contribution?". It's not a lot of work (because that's effort), and it's not how much it's worth in the end (because that's value). So... what quantity are we talking about, exactly.

edit: remove extra words
Arrays and the Common Language Runtime – A Very Special Relationship
For those who don't immediately know what JFA stands for:

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~tants/jfa.html
Yeah, he also thinks that UFOs exist. He's a nutjob
A freeway has no tolls.
@aaron-lebo: How will liquidation work for tokens offered during ICO at forums like CoinList? Will the concept same as 1. shutdown 2. M&A 3. IPO of offering companies ?
I use Evernote for this - every time I figure out how to do something I drop it in a note. I create 4-5 notes a day. It's incredibly useful - I find myself referring back to some notes months after the fact.

My team also do standups on Slack, and I've got into the habit of writing detailed Slack stand up bullet points with links to commits, documents I've created and so on - almost a semi-public developer diary. I don't check back to these very often myself, but they do spark some useful conversations.

I've also gotten into the habit of writing extremely details commit messages - often multiple paragraphs for a few lines of code change - that record the background and reasoning that lead me to the change. I do most of my code reading through the GitHub web interface, frequently referring to blame and history, so the more context I can find for historical commits the better.
I would rate Six Feet Under higher. The Shield probably a bit higher. Spartacus as well, but people really get mad when I bring that up haha.

Also, not american, but Ping-Pong: The Animation. Maybe throw in Utopia there too. Thick of It also.
US citizens should contact their representatives to indicate that this is not ok:

Facebook.com/townhall

If you'd like a bit of boilerplate, here's a message I sent to my senator in Georgia:

"Senator Perdue. I came across a troubling proposal by our U.K. allies to censor internet communications. This reminds me of our own net neutrality debate here in the US. What is your stance on regulating the internet?

For your reference: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

I'm also open to any constructive comments that could make this message more effective.
It's a disease apparently particular to Home Secretaries. Something about the Home Office seems to have a way of 'radicalising' politicians into authoritarians (not sure if I've got the cause and effect the right way around there but that's certainly what it looks like).

The trouble is, if there's a toxic authoritarian culture in the higher levels of the civil service, there's really no way of ousting it. "Whoever you elect, the government gets in".
Bitcoin at $2000
I do keep a dev diary. It helps me a lot in organizing and coding. I encourage it. For me writing down my current affairs and coding endeavours, keep me in sync with my plans. My journal is a simple md file that I edit with Atom.
Well, terrorists are winning. But the goal of terrorists is not to make "everyone's life to be worse", it is to force political changes.

In the case of the Islamic terrorism, their goal is to spread the authority of Islam.

So, for example, since the Charlie Hebdo attack, nobody will publish any image of Mohammed. We are now all following that part of Islamic blasphemy law, because we're afraid of their enforcement squads. So in that spot they succeeded.
Similar to the transgressive image of Oreos being twisted apart in order to eat them properly. "You don't have to let The Man decide how you eat this."
I'm also French, and moved to the US with similar aspirations right when Obama got elected. These days, I am starting to have the same disillusions as you; I feel like these tendencies have been present throughout the western world at large over the past few years.

I am wondering where in the world I could move to and have good public services (healthcare, education, transportation, etc), a government that seems to be truly serving the interests of the people at large, and a rich culture open to differences & innovation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You could possibly find some savings by using materials on Mars to either build your colony or sustain it, and things like gravity which are expensive to produce in space are free.
Even as someone who would rather MOND be true than dark matter, I have to admit that dark matter is internally consistent in ways that MOND is not.

By comparison to the theories of planetary movement (since you seem to love comparing dark matter to them so much), MOND is rather like the Copernican model and dark matter rather like Kepler's model. It's well-known that the traditional equations are off. MOND provides a fix that starts off looking better, but the more precise you do the measurements, the more you need to add the fudge factors in to make the numbers come out right, and it ends up being just as bad as the original--which is a reasonable description of the evolution of the Copernican model. By contrast, both Kepler's model and dark matter provide a much more accurate picture with a somewhat more complex addendum to the original non-fudged equations. But they also both lack mechanistic explanations for their origin: Kepler's model ruined the traditional explanation of how planets moved and inherited the stellar parallax death-knell from Copernicus's theory.

In the case of planetary motion, it took the development of Newton's Law of Gravitation and the derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion from said theory to provide a sound mechanistic basis. We lack that mechanistic basis for dark matter, but that doesn't really mean that dark matter is inherently wrong.
People complain about having no opposition now but Tony Blair and New Labour's agenda was very similar to the Tory one and equally authoritarian. Now we actually have some ideological differences between the parties
What's your selling point to advertisers though? That you're a worse-targeted version of the big guys? You could say you're more user-friendly, but I don't think that's a premium most advertisers are willing to subsidize.

If this were a good opportunity for an ad network, then we wouldn't need any regulation to force it.
Hyperlink from this post: https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/display/PDAC1/Developer+D...
each of those companies/CEO's you listed control a subset of sites on the internet.

May wants to control the entirety of sites on the internet.

if you can't see the difference, than I don't know what to say to you.
> If elected, Theresa May will "take steps to protect the reliability and objectivity of information that is essential to our democracy"

> The plans will allow Britain to become "the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet", the manifesto claims.

> The manifesto also proposes that internet companies will have to pay a levy, like the one currently paid by gambling firms. Just like with gambling, that money will be used to pay for advertising schemes to tell people about the dangers of the internet, in particular being used to "support awareness and preventative activity to counter internet harms", according to the manifesto.
What kind of datasets? There are a number of websites that sell all kinds of data.
>This subthread deals with the completely different issue, it's about bad logic. No matter how well Milgrom and/or his theory could be discredited, that doesn't change the fact we can dismiss something prior to fully understand it

It's not bad logic, it only seems like it is because you're approaching it from an Aristotlean view of logic. These things can't be proven, so dismissing them is never an option in science.
We have several large scale businesses that are paid customers and find it cheaper to use us, than build it in-house. It's about the cost of an engineer, and that's a fraction of what they will incur, ongoing operating costs notwithstanding
I expect the performance here to be blazingly fast...is that an accurate assumption?
Whatever ends up killing Google, if anything, won't be an alternative search engine where you type something in a textbox and get results.

Something like Alexa, or other voice assistants, are probably closer to what that Google killer would end up looking like. Good thing that Google got in there early.
The point was about distasteful things! I think that expression worked perfectly.
Google Code was there for a while too. Also, self hosted systems like "Trac" for Python were popular.
Unfortunately, all but the last item on your list have no or negative revenue potential. No one (save perhaps a few lefty billionaires) will pay you for the environmental stuff you mentioned, preventing a nuclear war, or preventing a large asteroid collision. I suppose there might be a small NASA contract in there for the asteroid issue, but the current budget for even tracking asteroids, much less stopping them, is small.
I personally think the market of add-on or web browser's extension.

Why? Because, web browser is second most software used after operating system by a normal computer users. If you are developer you use editor and web browser, if you are writer you use world processor and web browser, if you are market person you use trading software and web browser and so on. I mean web browser is something used by everyone.

We have written applications ( for computer and mobile device ) for most useful sotware - operating system to reach out our users. Now, it is time to target next software used by everyone. You might create a website but it will only be there until user do not close that tab. But, with extension, you will be in constant connection with user.

Currently thid market is uder estimate as many developer consider that it is not something that consider as programming. But, I think every website specific limit to connect users. and at that situation, add-ons will come to rescue.
Do you work for Hypertrack?
I do agree that people have pride associated with their work, but I think this needs more rigorous testing. Anecdotally, I value everything I make with IKEA much less because I have no pride in my mechanical skills.
From my side, you are very welcome to move to Spain, e.g. pick Barcelona for nice weather, good services, and many tech companies. You can work with just English in most mid/large companies. Salaries are lower than the US and the UK, but que quality of life is quite nice :-)
Global growth rate is dropping... whether it's sublinear depends on where you want to start the clock and what resolution you want to consider, I think.

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#growthrate
They only implemented a decompressor.
The title is bad, because it lacks the eloquence that befits a journalist.

Milgrom has provided an alternative to Dark Matter.

He isn't on a street corner shouting it doesn't exist. He didn't set out to disprove the theory. He took some evidence and reinterpreted it.
This is one reason why I oppose multiculturalism.

Incompatible cultures in close proximity inevitably create civil conflict (e.g. terrorism, etc). This gives authorities an excuse to take more and more control over individuals' interactions with the excuse of trying to prevent that conflict.

In a culturally-unified Britain, May would have no excuse at all to try this Orwellian crap. See also: Patriot Act.

>"The plans are in keeping with the Tories' commitment that the online world must be regulated as strongly as the offline one, and that the same rules should apply in both."

I agree! It should be regulated the same way. Since the online world is pure speech, it should barely be regulated at all aside from direct threats and incitement to violence.
In an interview during the Nuremberg war crimes trials, Hermann Goering, the founder of the Nazi Gestapo, was discussing whether normal people ever want to go to war. He answered that obviously they do not, but that the leaders make the decisions and can drag the people along with them. When the interviewer suggested that in democracies the people have a say through their elected representatives, Goering countered that "The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them that they are in danger of being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." Sadly, it appears that little has changed in the intervening 70 or so years.
Do we have pictures of Air Force 1 dining?
I think Germany is doing pretty well lately.
He wasn't denied entry to the US at the border. He was denied a visa while in India. This is not being stuck in an airport or in detention.

See [1]

[1] http://lawandborder.com/proving-nonimmigrant-intent/#2_The_R...
Kotlin is the same jvm crap like Java. Please do not dare to compare it to Swift with its amazing llvm complier. True programs runs on true machine specific bytecode, not on stupid virtual machines that consumers every available cpu and memory (which leaks like hell). Please new programmers, syntax is BS. Learn to compare by looking at internals and advanced feature set and capabilities. Kotlin is a fad!
You seem to be saying the equivalent of "Businesses are acting shitty, so individuals have to be shitty to compete".

That's how you end up in a society that no one wants to live in. We should find ways to bring the standards of business up, not bring the standards of individuals down.
Ask HN: Trustworthy performance comparisons between C++ and Rust?
Hey HN,

I'm looking for strong benchmarks or comparisons between Rust and C++. I'm skeptical of a lot of benchmarks that are posted here as I know they can be gamed, so I'd appreciate it if folks in the Rust and C++ community who have reasonable expertise could post interesting demonstrations or research that compare the two languages for high performance computing.

I also would be interested in hearing from the community which features either language offers that are better than the other for performance (i.e. not security or library support).

Thanks!
I keep daily status logs to remind myself of the work that I have done because that's the only way I can put a stop to the nagging anxiety that I haven't done enough.

A nice side effect is that weekly status meetings are easy.

A simple markdown formatted file is more than enough.
> If you go into an electronics store (a demographic that you would think responds stronger than average to the Ikea effect) most items are absolutely fully assembled. There is nothing to snap on, pull off, a sticker to apply, a thumb screw to screw in or unscrew, nothing.

I've had to connect the monitor stand to the monitor for many/most of my monitors, and pretty much everything at least needs to be plugged in eventually. Unless the batteries are permanently installed, those are often separate too. To say nothing about building your own Desktop...
Can't be black holes. For one thing they would start becoming visible through Hawking radiation if they were small enough to be homogenous like dark matter. Secondly baryon acoustic oscillations set a limit on how many black holes there can be.

For your second part, the constant velocity is very well explained. The dark matter is just very broadly distributed. That's a natural consequence of not interacting with anything. It clumps up much less.
The laws would also force technology companies to delete anything that a person posted when they were under 18.

What? I can't believe this thinking finds some voters! Don't they see how impossible that is to achieve?
I think there is a clear distinction to make, sure, you should be frighteningly ambitious if you want to have an impact. But the initial idea should not be frighteningly ambitious, in fact it should be the exact opposite, and should be something simple to execute with the minimum amount of capital to be able to test it in the wild.
As discussed earlier, your body is not destroyed during sleep, while it is with destructive teleportation (by definition).
"So the trick is to extract the gas without any of it slipping out."

Why should we expect energy companies to be capable of this, given their environmental track records for other fuels?