skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, but his middle sentence is comparing apples to oranges.
Type into the search screen on your iPhone. I believe that is the Siri backend. If not completely implemented, that's where it should be.
Have you tried carrying 10 shopping bags a couple of miles with screaming toddlers and young kids?
My 11-year-old son auditioned at Juilliard, learned how top performers practice
> Peter was annoyed. An energetic young fellow — he faced a pretty serious problem: people weren’t even willing to try his company’s analytics product. Even though it was (in 2012) a very immature market — and the current offerings lacked a lot of what customers wanted. Why? ... So Peter and his team build middleware to make it easy to switch between SaaS providers (maybe then people might try his system).

This is a gross misrepresentation of the whole situation. It reads as if Peter was a biz guy who was having trouble selling the analytics software because of the involved "switching costs". Peter and his team, in their own admission, were trying too hard to build a product without a focus on what they were solving. Analytics space is too broad and complex to be attacked all at once. It's not wise to build a GA competitor but several analytics companies with a clear focus have succeeded in the past.

Segment wasn't trying to build a "middleware to switch between companies". The product was almost an accident of a building a small library for themselves to avoid mantaining code for multiple APIs.
This accounts for trial lawyers reputed aversion to engineers during jury selection: not easily manipulated by emotional appeals, too likely to think about where that $50 million came from and will go to. I've been on the voter rolls for 35 years, and not once called in.
That is one purple headline. I am trying to visualize this. It is not pretty.
Mz is clearly referring to urban (civilized) areas.

The closest WalMart to me (checking...) is 13 miles away.
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One describes Apple in general, while the other points to a specific exceptional case.
Depending on how long the river has been dammed up, tearing it down can have reverse ecological consequences now. It only takes about a decade for the downstream to adapt to the limited water flow (or the alternative interpretation is everything dies off within a decade) but after that to reintroduce the full flow would destroy new life that has settled the new environment produced.
I'm not sure I understand what you two mean.

1) How does not having SHR makes it easier to audit?

2) how are sha-3 implementations actually using SHR not making the parent's comment moot?
Kubernetes vs. Openshift vs. Tectonic
Another possibility is that development slows when you're spending Trillion dollars[1] on endless wars abroad instead of investing in infrastructure at home:

[1] http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic
No what the commenter was saying was that there are some pretty obvious differences between Spanish and Portuguese (not even remotely comparable to the differences between the mainline variants of English). See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility
I don't think he's talking about Islam in general, he's talking about Wahhabism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
I can't explain the difference, but I bet that infrastructure costs have gone up drastically there as well.
As a nitpick, deuterium actually is toxic. The hydrogen bonding in molecules that substitute deuterium for light hydrogen is affected, such that if you drink enough heavy water, you will experience symptoms similar to radiation poisoning. It interferes with how your chromosomes line up during cell division.

Presumably, if you inhale enough dideuterium monoxide vapor, you may experience a similar effect. It would not be acutely toxic, though--more like an occupational exposure level of hazard. Deuterium gas is likely as harmless as light hydrogen gas.

If a retcon is necessary to preserve one's enjoyment of the show, Riker may have already been aware of the hazard level for humans, but was asking for a more informed opinion from the chief engineer, who has presumably read and memorized all the MSDS sheets, for the benefit of any nonhuman organisms on board. Vulcans and Romulans, for instance, experience an anaesthetic effect from TLTDH, similar to the effect of NO2 on humans. It would not be out of character for Star Trek to invent a bizarre species-specific toxicity if the plot demanded one.
Only a minority of the country lives without children where a car is necessary. And who's rich enough to live in an urban centre with 2 children? More importantly who would!
I see your point, but in that case I certainly wouldn't say it mishandles ascii. Defining some undefined behavior is very different from changing existing behavior.

Plus that's a different scale of change because it's going from fixed width 7-bit to a variable width scheme.
So over the past 6 years average daily time spent on mobile devices went from <30 minutes --> 3+ hours a day while laptop/desktop/other connected devices remained flat.

That's almost 20% of a waking day. Staggering. I wonder if it actually replaced anything or if it's predominantly multitasking, like watching tv became tv + phone, or people listening to Spotify/Pandora/podcasts instead of the radio.
Counterpoints:

* Slowdowns, sure, but many drivers also exceed the limit, and the walking:driving ratio is still massively lopsided.

* Pedestrians are not immune to red lights.

* While there are certainly pedestrian shortcuts that are faster than driving, this is definitely not the case for most combinations of start and end points. Far more often, while the pedestrian might gain distance, the car is still literally 10x faster.

* In fact, unless you live in an extremely dense city, it's highly unlikely that there will be a grocery shop, book store, electronics retailer, Italian restaurant, furniture store, etc. less than 5km from your house. Plus all of the people who you might want to visit, your school, place of work, and so on.

* A bike is not walking. Most bikes are for one person, so if you're in a group they're not much use.

* Carrying purchases home is a pain. I should know, I did this for two years.
The BrightScript API for Roku app development is freely available, and any Roku set-top box or Roku TV can be put in developer mode where you can sideload your own channel. You can also upload private channels where users can install your content via a weblink -- they have to go through certification to be in the on-device Roku Channel Store. All developer docs and samplers are all on GitHub, see https://github.com/rokudev
One of the biggest advancements due to this kind of tech has actually been throughput for radios. By using more sophisticated / denser encodings, we can scale the same 4G tech to even higher speeds. Think 1gbit/s speeds for mid-market phones. This is effectively enabled due to the smaller node sizes also being more power efficient, which is required for mobile phones.

The advances are less in your face, but still there.
Everyone on the planet could weep in unison about the continued existence of cars and it wouldn't improve a thing. If this is a problem you sincerely want to solve, create real-world solutions, not angry Internet rants.
Good guess, but I'm Dutch :) Let's see what weirdness I can come up with.

A thing that's often noted about German and Dutch is how you can string words together without spaces (kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamhedenplan).

In Dutch we have the "g" or "sch" sound that almost noone else can pronounce. As you can see, "g" and "ch" are sometimes pronounced the same.

In Dutch it's quite a problem for some people to determine if the perfect tense of a verb should end with "d" or "t".

A common mistake (do mistakes count?) is to use the possessive "hun" (their) in places where you should say "hen" or "ze" (they).

Some articles online remark on the large number of consonants that can be grouped together in a single word (e.g. "angstschreeuw").

There are no clear rules on whether nouns should be preceded by "de" or "het" (the or it), for example you say "het huis" (it house) but "de fiets" (the bike). Confusing these is a hallmark of beginner speech.

Whether a word goes with "de" or "het" also determines how you should spell adjectives ("deze fiets" but "dit huis").

Another article (1) noted that the two parts of a separable verb can be very far apart in a sentence:

“I _want to go_ to the park tomorrow” becomes “Ik _wil_ morgen naar het park _gaan_“

Although I'm not quite sure how strange this is.

(1) https://novemberfive.co/blog/learning-dutch/
It's only fair that I got nitpicked in my nitpicking. :D The quality of beans is definitely a factor, but the difference in acidity from the different preparations is a big factor for me. Especially since I've developed some gastritis, having a less-acidic caffeine delivery system is important.
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I'd love to bike to work; my commute isn't that long for it, actually. But for most of the year, it would be brutal. And my work doesn't have showers.

I live in Phoenix.

/right now it's 101 F / 38 C outside...relatively a cool day!
dick/deg for 10 is also cognate with french dix, digits(10 fingers), greek Δεκά (decimal...), persian 𐏓 dah 𐎭𐎠 ده, sanskrit dasa १०...
Siri works much better on my watch than on my phone. I refuse to even use it(her?) on my phone.
Nope, you missread my numbers.

I assume it takes one person 2 weeks to fully analyze an app (we are after all looking for well hidden malware, possibly downloaded from network after some use). Times 2.2 million apps. Times an average of 3 updates during its life time.

There are not enough apple employees to pull what you calim. Hence approval is semi automatic, just like Google.

Edit: 1 billion changed to 2.2 million, my bad.
Here's my fav old school site: http://www.bionic-systems.com/archive/portfolio2001/
> The author had a pretty tough job in trying to explain some of what's going on to a lay audience and (likely) do it inside a word limit.

The author would have had an easier time staying within a word limit if they didn't say the same thing multiple times in a row everywhere. Honestly, it looks like they had exactly the opposite problem of what you're suggesting and were trying to fill more space without understanding the subject. Much of the article is just parroting redundant PR soundbites.
> You have seven months until the NPP is released, and all of the documentation you need to use to write services that make these APIs available to apps has already been released.

Anyone know where to find the API Docs?
I still play Minecraft with my kids
https://github.com/tylerdmace/chipotlejs Submit a bug report.
> A transfer from Mars to Earth is never going to line up with an instant return transfer window back to Mars.

The whole point of the Hermes spacecraft as used in The Martian, though, is that it has a high specific impulse, low thrust ion drive, that runs continually during the entire orbit (using power from a reactor to do so). Andy Weir, the author, is a programmer, and he actually wrote a physics simulator to calculate the required orbit; see here: http://www.galactanet.com/martian/hermes.mp4

So it's definitely not a Hohmann transfer orbit since there is thrust applied throughout, and you are consequently reaching your destination faster than such a transfer would arrive. It ends up being a low thrust brachistochrone orbit.

So anyway, the point is that, since you're continuously applying thrust anyway, you don't need perfect alignment, it just takes you longer if the alignment isn't correct. Andy Weir is a serious hard science fiction nerd, to the point that you can download the data that he simulated for these orbits and verify for yourself that they are in fact correct for the stated specifications of Hermes' ion drive.

Totally agree with you that the Engineer plugin is absolutely essential for playing KSP, though. The game is so frustrating without that because there's so much trial and error with randomly flipping craft thanks to the new aero model if the TWR is off for any of your stages (and it will be until you've played awhile and developed an intuitive sense of what kind of rocket is reasonable -- a proficiency you won't likely reach if you didn't have Engineer from the beginning to help get you there).
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It is most definitely possible to achieve great results, including performance, with Unity. It requires creating the game from the ground up with code, though -- and that does not seem to be the audience that Unity markets towards the most.

That said, it's not easy though it is certainly doable; it basically means you're using Unity largely as a "rendering pipeline" which may or may not be overkill, depending on the use case/game in question.
Radiation is a real problem for people on Mars, but death after few weeks or months is overstating it. Increased cancer risk, for sure.

https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1...
Not even Python works well on Windows.

I was constantly having to tweak and install things to make libraries compile without error. The second I went to OS X or Ubuntu, everything worked out of the box.
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Haskell is an ML variant, that basically extends ML with higher-kinded types, which are used -- among other things -- to constrain effects monadically.
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exchange bitcoins for unused gift cards

Received a $539 Nordstroms prepaid gift card as a birthday present, would like to exchange for BTC. Never used one of these cards, but I understand I can link it to my paypal. As much as I hate paypal+BTC, any offers? my email is hn username at google gmail service
So much compliance, that's the problem.
Exactly! I said the exact same thing not long ago and it's a spot on assessment!
As with many others, "Eeny, meeny ..." was for selection. I remember using the School House Rock lyrics/rhyme for counting by 5 for counting (Who's not ready, holler I) during "Hide and Seek".
Beautiful, educational and clever. I love it.

On the subject of fireflies and emergent patterns, RadioLab did a wonderful podcast on the subject as well a few years ago: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91500-emergence/
This piece very much reminded me of that.
There was a serious attempt to do that in the 1950s, although it didn't have great impact. It is, however, why IBM corporate headquarters moved from Manhattan to Armonk, NY.
Earth density: 5.51 g/cm³, escape velocity: 11.2 km/s

Jupiter density: 1.33 g/cm³, escape velocity: 59.5 km/sec

I think it's more than just density.
Baby steps. Also -- hopefully jets become electric at some point. No reason for them not to.
Speaking for myself, Verizon went to unlimited data and I went to 100% Spotify for music. 2 hours+ daily, up from basically zero.

Face time sessions are fairly frequent for the kids, 30 minutes at a shot.
The US is seriously blundering by using contractors for military operations, and instead needs to hire more military personnel and civilian employees. This fixation on not having more government staff (and on funneling money to private sector contractors) is endangering the US government's operation.

In-house staff aren't a panacea, but in-housing critical capabilities has always been the prudent decision.

Of course, much the same can be said about contractors and off-shoring in the private sector as well.

At this point, the US is cannibalizing its future for short-term gains. Of course, the people making the decisions generally won't bear the costs, and have convinced much of the populace that such a strategy will benefit them through wishes and pixie dust.
I recall a distinct lack of spaghettification.
I remember Felipe saying that he regrets not being aware of other game engines out there back when Unity was picked.
We said: "eeny, meany, miny, mo; catch a nigger by his (its?) toe; if it squeals let it go; eeny, meany, miny, mo" sometimes adding things like "O, U, T, spells out".

FWIW I had no idea "nigger" could refer to a person and certainly didn't use it in that way. But then no non-Europeans lived in our British village.

For some reason I recollect thinking it was about catching stickleback. Maybe the only thing I could conceive catching by its 'toe' (ie end), as you have to avoid the spines when catching them down in the sluice.

Having kids now, I find it interesting that at a disparate area of the UK they have very similar rhymes, but with notable differences.
It's pretty straight forward.

SHA-2 works by, after padding the message and appending the message's length, breaking the message into chunks. It sets up an initial state, and then sequentially iterates over the chunks updating the state as it goes. At the end, your state is your hash.

In other words:

state = INITIAL_STATE
for chunk in chunks:
state = SHA2 (state, chunk)

hash = state

So it's easy to see that an attacker can take that hash and keep running iterations after the fact.

Truncated SHA-2 variants are immune because attackers aren't given state, they're given only a piece of state. They have no way of knowing the rest of state, so they can't continue iterating.
There are several recent studies that have attempted to quantify the costs. I don't have the time to locate and paste them here, but the TL;DR is that 1) yes, common law countries have much higher litigation costs; 2) the U.S. is the highest of all; but 3) while significant the differences are nowhere near enough to explain the enormous differences in infrastructure costs.

As for direct liability costs, I can't remember if I've read any recent studies of those. But I went to law school (I'm not an attorney, though) and several of my family members are tort lawyers, and I can tell you from everything I know and have learned that liability costs are overblown. The fact of the matter is that every society will force negligent businesses to internalize the costs of their negligence. Some countries (esp. common law countries) emphasize the ability of individuals to seek compensation for actual damages. Other countries emphasize prevention and enforce a much stricter regulatory regime. Either way the costs can be considerable, but in any event the U.S. doesn't stand out among developed countries AFAIK.

I just watched the Wizard of Oz this past weekend and in one of the opening scenes Miss Gulch, who was bitten by Toto, threatens to sue Dorothy's Aunt & Uncle for everything they have, taking away their farm. Point being, Americans have always had a somewhat irrational fear of litigation. It's a cultural thing. That same fear existed back in a time when building big infrastructure projects was cheap.
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I still don't understand the desire to have any sort of electronics constantly listening for commands. In the balance between convenience and privacy, to me, devices like this don't seem to add enough value to draw me in.
You're not wrong. Type this into Terminal:

openssl speed sha512 sha256
> "SaaS based CRM"

SaaS isn't a type of software or solution, it's a delivery model. You don't use "SaaS" for sales, you use a CRM that is accessed to you through a SaaS delivery model. So it's "low-code application development platform" is still delivered to you via a SaaS model.
Too much compliance and suing by lawyers/everyone.
When I have spoken at conferences, usually the pass is for the whole event, and you are right that this could sometimes be multiple thousands of dollars, so it is a good way for me to get to these conferences and hear other speakers without my employer having to pay a lot for my personal development. And, usually, there will be a speakers dinner or after-party during the conference, which is a great way to meet and talk with other like minded people in your field. But, it can be hard work - even for a 5-minute lightning talk, the amount of preparation is vastly out of proportion to the 'live' time in front of an audience, however it is definitely worth it.

At the beginning of my career I would never have thought it would be something I would be doing, but if your work is interesting then it should be interesting and informative to tell people about it, which is all one of these talks really is, at base...
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> So basically, they are people willing to do work that is needed and doing it responsibly. The work you are not willing to do and doing it without throwing temper tantrum over being too good for the work.

Basically there are people who are willing to drag your organizations failure to build a reasonable system into the future to keep you business.

I suppose you probably do want a team like that if you're the owner.
It seems like only harm is that "implementations have to explain themselves" and one Chromium bug.
>> If a large number of people all have to go in the same direction at a similar time, isn't that what public transit is for?

Public transit only works when people live in high density areas. It makes no sense to have a transit stop where very few people live in walking distance of it. People with cars don't really want to drive to the bus stop and then catch a ride downtown, though some do. But most companies are spread out just as much as peoples homes, so business isn't even high enough density to warrant public transit in most cases.
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"The worst is when you have the same white 5 males talking about diversity."

That's what they said. In the context of talking about seeing the same speakers at conferences over and over.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Tell literally any third-party Apple developer that app review is automatic and you'll be laughed out of the room. Your math is way off.
Politics it is.

On the opposite side, consider the many "dialects" of Chinese: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, etc. Someone who only understands one of these will be pretty much entirely unable to understand the others. Yet we give the Chinese a nod and let them consider all these different languages to be just dialects.
Siri has an API: https://developer.apple.com/sirikit/

Not sure why Spotify isn't using it.
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Same, but "Racing car number 9, losing petrol all the time, how many miles did he go?" but we didn't put "spuds in" for that, just pointed. The person on "go" would say a number, you'd count on to find the person who was out, it, or whatever.
KSP is in my top five videogames of all time. I'd suspect it's similar for many of the other game's diehard fans. Like Civilization, it's a game that scratches a unique itch, and if you have that itch, it's irresistible. So I and many others are absolutely willing to pay more money for improvements and more content. I'd love to start with first class improved graphics built into the base game itself. I run some graphical improvement mods, but they don't work 100% of the time, they're always getting broken by patches to the base game, and they're somewhat unstable.
Reminds me of the first time I played Kings Quest from a RAM drive. I first played the game from a floppy disk, and it ways really nice to have everything load instantly!
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probably better off looking at

http://word.bitly.com/post/33232969144/nsq

http://nsq.io/
'easy win' = the people in the area die more slowly rather than in the initial blast? Apart from the now-radioactive work centers (that are the wealth of your country), take out your city centers and industry, and you also take out your transportation network. Hello, famine.
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Didn't knew that!!