skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i milanesi hanno percorso in media 18,6 miglia
> in bici per andare al lavoro...
> velocità media a Milano 14,8 miglia all’ora

"The Milanese cyclist averages 18.7 miles per day to go to work... at an average speed of 14.8 mph". Is my translation okay? That seems improbable [time & distance, not speed]: the _average_ Milanese cyclo-commuter takes over an hour each way? Currently 36C/97F in Milan.

Or is this per week? Is it current to talk in "miglia" in modern Italian? (though even km would be high IMHO).
I'm a fan of Emin Gün Sirer and I don't like Bancor's approach in this response, especially in criticizing his informal tone (who cares?), but it does seem that they're right that he's misunderstood two main points: (1) Bancor tokens are automatically created and destroyed as needed and (2) the pool is collectively owned by all the token holders and not the issuing company.

Disclaimer: I don't know whether this makes Bancor great.
Because you have to have a supply of lactase pills always readily available on you.

I often forget my pills and thus rely on lactose free products, e.g. Lactose free cappuccino... which by the way is much easier to get in Germany than in the states (for whatever reason)
Another very interesting response to another critique they received: https://blog.bancor.network/response-to-bancor-unchained-cdb...
If you are open to videos, you might be interested in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc&index=1&list=PLZ...
Author here - thanks for sharing :)
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Elastic could acquire a better support for their "cloud" offering. That would be nice. 48h on a critical ticket, still no intervention. Luckily, it's only the production cluster.
You don't cite a single source for any of these propositions.

Frequently sit unused? Brief spikes and big dropoffs? How do you know? I'll bet your local department of transportation is conducting traffic counts though. I know mine does.

"poorly thought out physically separated bike lines made intersections more dangerous"? You really need a cite on that because this study--conducted in Canada--says the opposite: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2012.3...

"Bikes are dramatically more dangerous to both cyclists and pedestrians" Really? How many pedestrians were killed by cyclists in your city last year? How many by motor vehicles?
Tools like buildah and cri-o really give us some hope on the backend. I want rock solid components that do one thing well and fail in predictable ways.
What does PIP mean in this context?

Thanks for the advice, gives me something to think about as I was preparing to study for a few months to get into a big 4.
Why? It's pretty universal that smaller crap yeild to bigger crap. Forklifts yield to service trucks. Service trucks yield to heavy equipment. Heavy equipment yields to bigger heavy equipment. Big heavy equipment yields to trains. Trains yield to ships.
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It took just 81 days for this chip maker to die after Apple dropped it
NASA Calls Bullshit on Goop's $120 'Bio-Frequency Healing' Sticker Packs
Abstract algebra is an old field so plenty of good options.I would recommend Abstract Algebra by Dummit and Foote. Clear theory, great examples and good writing:

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471433349...
Gangs of killer whales are shaking down Alaska fishing boats for their fish
Orion might work a little better, but it's still not objectively good. It's been over a year since the beta was released and still no final version. I don't think we are ever getting a working Leap Motion, as the company has said they aren't building consumer devices anymore and only focused on partnerships with headset vendors for integrated solutions.
The Well-Known Mobile App Development Elements
A number of companies are practising mobile app development today by utilizing the well-known functionalities. In order to remain ahead among these competitors, it is important to follow the following suggestions.
how's flutter's interop with java/kotlin/swift/etc? Would I be able to use existing libraries from those lang.s?
The Oslo city bike system costs 249 NOK/3 beers for a year and has 3 gears. More gears could likely be implemented if needed for not much more.

I don't see why city biking would be any different than other biking.
Performance Improvement Plan (?). It means he was about to get fired.
> "C++ still remains mostly a superset of C"

I think this notion is out-of-date. Have a look at this slide: https://youtu.be/_wzc7a3McOs?t=21m37s It shows how C++ has evolved away from just "C with Classes".

I agree that many C++ programmers over-abstract things.
> they used to be proud to talk about it just a couple of years ago

There hasn't been much reason to be proud in many years. Yes, the technology is cool, but the market approach has been off from the beginning. Working for a company that consistently breaks the law as part of the business model is rarely something to be proud of.
For comparison, the entire JVM for Desktop, including Swing, AWT, Themes, JavaFX, the entire stdlib, three separate optimizing JITs, profilers, graphical tracers, etc, combined, is below 64MB.

The entire Android OS, every part of it, including all toolings required to build apps, is still below 200MiB. This includes libraries, default apps, UI, compilers, tools, stdlib, firmware, etc.
Hi tophattom, I'm happy that you like our platform, and thanks for your feedback :)

1) With the new version of Opbeat which will be based on Elasticsearch, you have the ability to perform any custom query you like. That should hopefully take care of that part

2+3) I'm not 100% sure what the app development plan is. But I'll make sure to tell the right people :)
But Github is doubling down on Electron with their next github client on Mac/Windows etc. Also how would they write blogs about performance if it is plain old native text editor.
http://tessellation.herokuapp.com/news/2017/06/22/couple-use...
I am not sure if they use any special legal construct, but last time I played around with Ada, the full Ada standard was available for free. The actual standard, not some revised draft. On top of that the rationale document which explains many of the design decisions was also available for free.

(It's been a while, but I found these rationale documents fascinating reading.)
Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund
If you are referring to Bretton-Woods Conference, it is not obscure at all. It is probably the most important monetary event in modern history and probably everyone with economics background knows about it. Also it was during WWII. But you are right that parts of it (like the international clearing union and its implications) are just mentioned in passing in economic courses and rarely acknowledged nowadays.
> Gideon sighs. “Violation of civil rights. Habitability. It’s all bullshit. They’d shit on the floor and take a picture of it. I had a guy who glued bologna sandwiches to his wall and sued me because his room had roaches.”

> “I’d close my eyes, and my mind wouldn’t stop all night long. I don’t mean not sleeping. I mean not sleeping. You go to bed and you’re up all night. And then, the next day, you go to work…”

> I think Gideon’s answer to that last question reveals some narcissism

> I appreciate Gideon’s candor, but our conversation demonstrates just how contemptuous San Francisco entrepreneurs can feel about the residents who aren’t rich or hipsters or tech workers.

This bit stood out to me because it's like... you're asking for empathy in the same breath as showing very little yourself. It shouldn't be this hard for this reporter to see how a guy can be without much empathy for people he dislikes. After all, he's doing it right there.
The "miles per day" would suggest 9.35miles each way, so ~40 minutes each way, which seems more likely.
Let me guess, you're a web dev?
I listen to the SANS Internet StormCast ("daily 5-10 minute information security threat updates") every morning:
https://isc.sans.edu/podcast.html

Many of my other favorites have already been mentioned, but I also listen to:

Twenty Thousand Hertz ("stories behind the world's most
recognizable and interesting sounds")
https://www.20k.org

and have started listening to this new NPR podcast:

Wow in the World ("a new way for families to connect, look up and discover the wonders in the world around them. Every episode, hosts Mindy and Guy guide curious kids and their grown-ups away from their screens and on a journey. Through a combination of careful scientific research and fun, we'll go inside our brains, out into space, and deep into the coolest new stories in science and technology")
http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510321/wow-in-the-world
If you do that for three colors separately that is around 25MP.
Banksy identity 'accidentally revealed by Goldie' during interview
One of our users open sourced a PHP integration he made to our API. But it only supports error monitoring unfortunately. Not our performance monitoring: https://opbeat.com/docs/articles/error-logging-in-php/
Unprotected Redis Instances in the Wild
It was my understanding that major car arteries in the Netherlands usually had adjacent bike paths that were slightly set apart from the road, ala: https://www.google.de/maps/@52.1084742,5.0647,3a,75y,172.64h...

> Here in the netherlands, cyclist paradise, we don't even have a painted bike lane on nearly every street.

With narrow streets and low speeds, cyclists and cars can effectively mix. It's just that in the US, politically that's an even harder sell than protected bike lanes, most of the time.
Use an obscure format with a code execution vulnerability in imagemagick to run the generator.
Amsterdam has figured it out for sure. They even have parking garages for bikes only and they're full. The city is a great reference for others looking to go a similar route. Painting lines on streets can showcase demand, which is smart because you need to validate your product/project with minimal cost. Long term, dedicated lanes are needed, for safety, and someone has to pay for them.
Or just incentivize electric by discounting public transit passes for people with electric mopeds, etc and let attrition of old stuff run its course.
It's more than buries the lede. It starts with a cold open, which is plays up and up... and it turns out it was a borderline entrapment scheme, where a criminal on a plea deal offered to burn the place down while wearing a wire.

So, a big fat pile of nothing, plus a narration of the (very real) inter-ethnic and inter-class tensions in the Mission intended to make the story sound more plausible.

Also, can I just add how irresponsible David Campos's role has been in all this?

> “I’m not saying there is arson,” he said. “The fire department tells me there isn’t. They haven’t found evidence of arson.”

> “Have you come across any clues?” I asked.

> “Nothing’s come up,” he said.

> “Are there rumors?”

> “There are comments,” he said. “Like with that fire that happened at the car-repair place.”

> He meant the Rolling Stock tire-shop fire of November 8, 2015. It destroyed the shop and two adjacent apartment buildings, displacing 21 people. Fire investigators ruled this one an accident as well, most likely started by an electrical fault or, again, discarded smoking materials.

> “The owner [James Albera] was sort of, ‘Hey! Now I guess we can go and build condos,’ ” Campos continued. “It was an odd comment that fed into the speculation.”

> Later, I found Albera’s verbatim comments to the media: “It’s terrible. It’s been in the family since 1960.” And then, when asked what he planned to do next: “I’d like to go residential, with stores on the bottom.”

> I e-mailed Albera several times to ask him about what Campos told me. Personally, I didn’t find his response to the fire suspicious. Even so, he didn’t reply.
Most competitive programming is done in C++. It probably will be in near forseeable future. This is because of speed and STL.
Also some not-very-low-end computers still ship with 4GB of soldered on RAM, like the $1000 model of the new Surface Pro or the €1399 model of the Matebook X.
I’d like to report a few issues with the docker containers you provide – currently they don’t run at all, because they claim to require privileged access to several things? It’s not ideal (I’m trying to run GitLab CE on kubernetes, but I’ll likely have to modify it myself anyway to add OIDC login)
Let's see...

Can't increase supply because NYMBY? Check. Can't increase rent because rent control? Check. Removing tenants next to impossible? Ok, this is true anywhere.

Gee, I wonder why the incentives are all screwed up?
Not sure what you are referring to here. The benefit of Qt for me is that it wraps more APIs on more OS's than anything else I have come across. You can run your app on Qnx even Windows CE. It's incredible. You write your view in QML and logic in C++ with libraries that are so much saner than e.g. Boost. Then communicate between the two with signals and slots which integrate seamlessly with the dataflow property system. It couldn't be neater from my point of view and I have used a lot of gui frameworks.
Facebook Thinks Selling Ads Will Save Jobs
offtopic: I always wondered why people don't do more internet sharing these days and screw over comcast? If you live in a multi-unit apartment and you get 100mps down and your neighbor does too - why on earth is everyone paying $60 permonth just for internet? In college (as a broke person) we all shared internet. But now in multi-unit apartment's everyone removes guest wifis and pays $60 each for internet. Sure you might be the %1 that does hardcore gaming, and you shouldn't share with other hulu types, but the old lady down the hallway who uses AOL mail doesn't need 500mps down -- and you both should cut costs --- and fuck over comcast.
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Cars yield to (much smaller) pedestrians, though. Clearly this model needs some work.
> The Linux version is 20MB, seems relatively heavy

I don't think 20 MB is heavy and don't think it makes sense to spend time on reducing this size. It's much more important for the project to focus on eg. better onboarding and/or still missing basic features.

The Win version is an online installer. That's why it's 1 MB.

> What in particular do you see as most innovative in fman

Integration of features from Sublime Text, like Ctrl+P for quickly jumping to directories or the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) for quickly discovering and invoking all features.

> I hit enter assuming they were defaulted and it instead changed directory.

That's very good feedback. You're right I should change this. Thanks!

> Also, why ctrl+p

That's the shortcut which Sublime Text uses.

> Installing plugins one at a time gets slow quickly

Sure but you don't have to do it very often. You're right it would be useful to be able to install several plugins at once; But there are bigger fish to fry atm.

> On restarting it says "press A button" [...] I pressed <A> and nothing happened.

It purposely requires you to use the mouse to make the nag screen a little more annoying, so you will get a license [1]

Thanks for the feedback,
M

[1]: https://fman.io/buy
Chrome is faster on a real website, however slower on my Hello World React app with 1000 hello-world components.

Literally unbrowsable.
> The NSA hoards vulnerabilities for the same reason the military has guns. Because other countries have guns too.

The key difference is that we can't make the enemies guns ineffective by accumulating even more guns. The NSA could weaken the enemy's vulnerability stockpile by aggressively chasing and releasing vulnerability information to vendors.
Algorithmia raises $10.5M from Google’s new AI fund and others
> Has neutrino-based signalling been achieved or is it still a research topic?

An accelerator- or reactor-based neutrino experiment can detect whether the source is on or off, so in principle you can send binary information. This has been demonstrated using NuMI/MINERvA [1]. It's more of a novelty than anything practical.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847
If you are unfamiliar with basic statistical concepts it is hard to believe you will be able to provide any compelling contributions to making the internet faster.
> I mean if they manage to turn electron into a true native cross platform app framework

…then you’ll end up back where you started with the JVM.
Also known as CV driven development.

I use TortoiseGit and IDEs to access Github.
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It shows how C++ has evolved away from just "C with Classes".

I meant that C code, with few modifications, will basically work fine when compiled with a C++ compiler.
Nice read, are you the author?
This is how it's done in my area of the US, but I can tell you American drivers almost universally ignore where you're supposed to stop at a T junction, especially when turning right. It's maddening, multiple times I've had to leave the bike lane into traffic to get around a vehicle that isn't where it's supposed to be. I've never seen anyone get pulled over for this either because cycling isn't recognized as a "real" thing police need to take care of.

In short: The issue in the US anyway I think has a lot more to do with culture than with road safety and structure. If people gave a shit we'd make it work, but few here do (at least around where I live, northern midwest.)
I would argue that it's more likely that they'll kill that too. Evidence you stated suggested they already killed one OS
Not necessarily. Very often we extract some invariants from data and embed them in code because it makes code much cleaner, easier to write, etc.. The problem is that some things that we assume (sometimes explicitly, sometimes by mistake) to be invariants are not necessarily invariants after all. Very, very unlikely to change, but not invariants nevertheless.

I guess rather well-known real world example is systems starting to show weird behaviour when database resultset ordering changes (e.g. changes in indexing) and someone relies on correct entry being first/last.

Assumed invariant here is resultset ordering and code is written with this particular invariant in mind. If not enough ordering clauses are used, resultset ordering is not invariant, even though it worked for years already :)
That sounds sounds like a problem perfect for a startup to tackle.
My friend who is a highway engineer would disagree with you. He says that roads will last a very long time as long as the shear limit of the road is not exceeded, but that once the maximum shear is exceeded the road will deteriorate. So, semis that do not exceed their weight limit are not a problem, but hauling a bulldozer around on a flatbed with four axles when it should have six will really do damage. It makes sense to me because my experience has been that when anything is operated within it's design limits it can last a very long time. So, unless the cars you are talking about have very narrow tires, I don't think they will be the problem you propose.
It looks fantastic, but with Google I always wonder about their long term commitment to stuff like this.
iPlan perhaps doesn't even use it's own fiber, apparently there are more companies offering it. But it's legal to call your company FiberTel in Argentina and then sell cable not fiber, so the situation is pretty opaque to me.

The full price is 1200 pesos, around 75 bucks. So not cheap. But to have something that works reliably up and down it's peanuts, the cheaper options are not as reliable and have asymmetric speeds. Stable videoconferencing is a must.
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He is active on a variety of social media and uses discussions on Twitter as evidence in the article in question.

His views on contemporary American political discourse are mainly shaped by these interactions on social media.

Unfortunately, the rest of the media is also on social media, so you can't really find a journalist or blogger who is in touch with reality.

Just to clarify, Twitter is as close to reality as World of Warcraft. At least with an MMORPG the players realize it is a game. Funny enough, more people are dying from playing video games like WoW than from alt-right/SJW altercations.
It is true that Ethereum has a more powerful scripting language. The real question, however, is if that feature has practical value.

I think the jury is still out on that question but I personally lean towards no. If and when there are profitable applications of this technology, ones that wouldn't have been possible without ethereum scripts then I will be glad to change my mind.
Well, it's not how most Linux distros do it. If your update has breaking changes, it's not a security update.

There is no good reason to excuse Microsoft for maliciously disguising updates as security patches in order to manipulate the non tech-savvy into switching to their new unprecedentedly invasive OS. Especially when, as you said, the UI is worse.

The entire UX of Windows 10 is worse, every time I have to use it for something I get physical anxiety from claustrophobia.

I really don't like that I have to install untrusted 3rd party software on my computer in order to prevent my operating system from automatically ruining my user experience and spying on me.
George Clooney sells his tequila company for up to $1bn
> Gee, I wonder why the incentives are all screwed up?

Just a guess, but maybe it's all the douchebag millennials who programmatically remove other's choices.
I had the same issue, but I got a metal pill keychain holder from Ebay for $2 that helped a lot.

I also think this is quite different since it's an order process, where the candy naturally stays at home except when you bring it somewhere, and then it's not too hard to remember to also bring some enzymes, versus randomly discovering an appealing lactose product when you're out.
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I've done this exact thing before -- writing a Monte Carlo simulation where stats and algebra would have given me the same answer. I think it was less phobia and more that I'm completely out of practice with math and stats by hand, but spend enough time in code to be comfortable with it.

I knew my code would give me the right answer and I lacked the confidence in math, where even if I did do it by hand, I would have written the code to check it. The less time-risk way won.
Depends where you are. The city in Asia where I am at the moment turning cars pretty clearly don't yield to pedestrians walk signs notwithstanding.
Are there any modern crypto algorithms that are, by design, immune from an attack such as this? Would not having any key-dependent code paths be sufficient to prevent this attack?

If it is possible to be immune by design to power analysis, timing and tempest attacks, is there a list of such algorithms somewhere that I can look it up? My google-fu hasn't returned anything useful.
Not mentioned: their product is incomprehensibly simpler than FB.
Besides having 100 times less features, they probably skipped all the a11n, i18n, multitasking, etc...

They mention not doing A/B testing and that sort of things because it's "their philosophy".
Obviously for their size it doesn't make sense to spend a week A/B testing to possibly increase usage by 0.5%, but for FB any change like this represents millions of USD.
It's not like Uber was paying a generous wage in the first place.