skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still have a Windows mobile device and it has been hard to watch the Hubs eaten up by Twitter, Facebook, and even Skype, because they were such a good idea.

Facebook and Twitter want you using their apps, so they aren't incentivized to play nicely with a concept like Hubs. Towards the end of Windows Phone 8.1 they opened it up to the apps themselves to implement Hub support, rather than Microsoft's team having to keep up to date with the API, but then again Facebook and Twitter don't have any incentive to support the Hubs that well (or even at all) when they really want your eyeballs directly in their own app.

The true death of the Hubs, though was the teams in question being handed over to the Skype brand and new features that would have gone to the hubs going instead to Skype-branded apps. It makes sense for Microsoft to attach a real brand to it, especially if they are making a play to bring more of those features cross-platform (which it sounds like is the goal: the Timeline stuff that's been announced is a differently organized, more app-centric approach to some of the Hubs; the People Hub is now on the Windows 10 taskbar, with deeper Skype integration; etc).

It's sad to see some defining features of Windows Phone 8 get broken up and parceled out into different apps, and there's definitely a question that if those things become way more cross-platform (including iOS and Android support) what becomes of Windows mobile, what is left for its unique and/or flagship features? (Other than maybe being a full Windows PC given the x86 on ARM rumors?)
I've heard that restaurants will spoil food at the end of the day rather than give it to employees to prevent employees from deliberately over-making or mis-making food so they can take it home.
Sure - you deserve more money by virtue of merit if you work for a company that sells people's data to advertisers. I think Adam Smith and Milton Friedman were pretty clear about that.
Basic message is don't expect much from an entry level job. You can't make a living from them even in developing countries, much less in developed countries.
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How easy is it really though to "port a game from native to web" ?? The success is game-dependent - some games require too much processing and can't come to browser without suffering huge drawbacks - drawbacks that would change the games experience too much and gather a negative review - the difficulty here is maintaining great gameplay etc ( or maintaining that which makes the game great ) on web - this challenges the process in ways that are different per ported game - meaning some games are easily ported and others aren't - and if web is just a window with internet and a game inside it - then why deviate from something like Steam? Steam is essentially the same thing - games accessible online in a window - however they have no dependence on the browser - just the network connection and your machines components - this gives space for any game to run at optimum
The new calculator is more useful to me than what came before. It does conversions too, which I use heavily. I like it.
Except that BKK is not a SME, but a company managing transportation in a city with nearly 2 million people. I've done work for similar organizations founded by municipalities (although smaller and not in Hungary), and pretty much all of them involved technically-skipped people in the process.

Perhaps BKK operates in a different way, but well - incompetence is not an excuse. It's a management failure.
FEniCS: A computing platform for solving partial differential equations
Re: "This one is freely available -- and quite good."

All of the chapters/essays in the "Architecture of Open Source Applications" volumes 1 and 2 are freely available, in case that's not clear on the AOSA website: http://www.aosabook.org/en/
Oops This comic strip has been encrypted Cicada Decrypt0r 3.3.0.1
Why net neutrality supporters should hate the regulations they are endorsing
I understand about GA, but currently even MySQL isn't available, which is a big bummer.
OpenMoko: 10 Years After
> I wonder if somebody who finds a flaw in a smart contract can legally just jack all the coins

One way to interpret this legally is to assume that smart contracts are in fact enforceable legal contracts. (Most promises about exchanging stuff are enforceable legal contracts, so this is plausible.) The general first-year-contracts answer is then that it depends on the expressed intent of the parties.

Take two extreme examples:

(1) I put an ether bounty in a smart contract and say anyone who can exploit the contract can have it. Definitely legal to exploit (and I can be held to the promise).

(2) I hire you to review my smart contract for exploitable flaws, and instead you exploit the flaws. Definite breach of contract.

The real situation is neither of those, but you can see how expressed intent matters.

So the question is what's the actual expressed exchange of promises between the parties to a given smart contract? And here I think some of the code-is-contract statements around Etherium tilt things toward my (1) example - the text advertisements for the DAO have a bunch of stuff to set the expectation that whatever the code says, goes. But that would be up for debate in court.

(And then there's lots of non-contract ways to slice this, from computer fraud to gambling law to securities law to...)
You can make lists. This is how I use and manage the various topics I follow across Twitter. I just go to each of my Lists in throughout the day and see what's happening.

Now, Twitter has somewhat made Lists a second class citizen in it's UI, but it's just a couple extra button press to get to it ( on mobile ).
I'm using zeerka.com for exactly that: research projects that are saved as groups of links. And it's browser agnostic.
> At runtime however they are simply passed as interface{} values wrapping the real values since the type soundness already has been proven.

So, this is some sort of limited Java-like generics with type erasure?

As someone who has only dabbled shortly with Go just to find out that he prefers a slightly more complex language, I find this sort of proposals tyring. I'd reconsider using Go if they finally got this thing right, but until then ...

I personnally would find the lack of generics acceptable, if go had (some sort of) algebraic types. But since the go team thinks these are useless either ... In some room in some building this probably makes some sense.
It will come back as a windows store app.
I use HTTPie almost daily, and it is fantastic. Really useful for debugging my APIs.
Humans all having similar reflexes can be advantageous in a line of braking cars. Following a vehicle that can stop much faster than you requires a larger following distance.
Does this mean I'm going to have to wait 10+ seconds for GIMP to open up if I want to work with a screenshot?
A more middle ground solution would be to keep means testing but turn hard cut-offs into smoother ramp-downs. Making a few grand more shouldn't lose you benefits worth much more.
The 'cost of living trap' is due far more to a growing amount of wages (good!) chasing after an essentially-capped housing supply near those jobs. When well-paying manufacturing jobs boomed in Detroit during the 1910s auto boom, its population doubled in a decade, and increased by 50% in the following decade— but its housing stock grew to match!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit#Demographics

On the other hand, the population of Menlo Park has increased around 10% in the midst of a world-historical boom:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_Park,_California
And neighboring Atherton is still well below its peak population:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherton,_California
This is because they've zoned out pretty much all new apartment, or even sometimes 2-story house, construction.

So instead more and more of those rising wages chase after the same houses.
I’m literally any other situation, supply and demand would have taken care of this a decade ago. PA doesn’t allow new construction and then blames a third party for housing costs. It’s asinine.
For simply displaying PDF (and a few other formats), I like SumatraPDF. It is pretty lightweight (compared to the crawling horror that is Adobe Reader), and when you re-open a PDF, opens it at the position you were last time(!!!). The latter feature makes it perfect for viewing reference manuals etc.

EDIT: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html

EDIT²: IrfanView can display many graphic formats and quite a few that are not strictly speaking graphics. Plus, it has some basic image editing capabilities (resize, rotate, ...).
Yeah, I don't get everyone pitching a fit over this when Paint.net is so much better and nearly as lightweight.
I'm interested in such schemes, but I suspect that the best way to implement it would resemble a delegated proof of stake blockchain.
Sorry for the delay in answering back.

This is one example:
https://github.com/bokkypoobah/TokenTrader/blob/master/contr...

Originally asked here: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/12757/detect-or...

You can also check with MyEtherWallet: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/21082/use-mew-f...

The short answer is that you need the contract code and ABI to check if it is a ERC20 compliant token or not but you can use http://testnet.etherscan.io/ (or the live version) to get this information.
Looks really cool! I have been looking for a solution similar to this one. Signed up.

One thing that I miss though is a nice web interface for calendar and contacts. Especially if I want to do some sort of cleanup of data. Is this functionality planned? Or is there some open source web calendaring software that you would recommend?
The Fallacy of the Selfish Miner Strategy in Bitcoin: A Mathematical Critique
Do you believe we live in a meritocracy?

EDIT: I guess this is a bad question since it's really a matter of degrees. Perhaps a better question is: How meritocratic do you feel that our society is?
I would say:

Gitlab
I knew someone who worked at a supermarket many years ago when they were in college. Apparently staff were allowed to take home products that were damaged (crumpled/torn packaging, etc.), rather than just throwing them in the trash.

Apparently chocolate cookies had an unfortunate and inexplicable habit of being crushed under other products and being deemed unfit for sale.

Once the policy changed and staff had to throw damaged products in the garbage compactor, apparently a lot less chocolate cookies were getting damaged.
check out greenshot
Neighboring Atherton has a land use goal of 'preserv[ing] the Town's character as a scenic, rural, thickly wooded residential area with abundant open space.'
See my comment to the grandparent comment on our approach to only including common command strings (which wouldn't include anyone's AWS key). Also, and more importantly, we will only collect known arguments. From the blog post:

> Only known arguments and options will be collected (not arbitrary strings).

We don't want your AWS secret key in this data as much as you do. We have put systematic mitigations in place to ensure that this doesn't happen.
There is a tool called windows ink that lets you do pretty much that
> If you're competent with proofs in Idris, you can write your EVM programs as an Idris DSL.

Yeah, all my formal proof experience is with Coq, which is just a bit too idiosyncratic and difficult for this sort of thing. But I seem to remember that—especially if you're willing to certify specific results, and not necessarily the program in general—you can make your trusted computing base very small indeed.

I mean, if the CompCert C compiler can be as thoroughly verified as it is (http://compcert.inria.fr/compcert-C.html), there's no reason why it shouldn't be possible to verify smart contracts.
10 yanks away calc.exe and replaces it with the metro version. You have to grab an old copy if you want the original back.
Unless it can only become one of the properties at one time
I more or less use the same targets, with one more that I've been using for the past couple years:

- make dev: stops, builds, and runs the code locally in a Docker container.
Ugh, science writing:

> Physicists Just Generated a Particle That Acts as Its Own Antiparticle

[...]

> Physicists now have the next best thing – a particle-like system that behaves just like the kind of matter Majorana predicted
Except in this case there's no "single reliable data source". All of the useful data sources are limited in some way. You need a diverse array of data sources to fill in the gaps of each individual source.

Not to mention that one should always strive to avoid a single point of failure. A "single reliable data source" is - whaddya know - a single point of failure. If that data source stops being "reliable", then you're screwed. When you're screwed in a giant hunk of metal rolling down a highway at 65+ miles per hour, then the only system you have left is to pray to your god(s) for a good afterlife.
Couldn't agree more. It's the only thing I use Twitter for.
Ah, yes. It's the cities' fault. Only the cities'. Not the people piling on top while knowing it's both untenable and unfair to their fellow citizens to piss in the public pool as they are--they're blameless.

You know we can walk and chew gum at the same time, right?
I've been looking a Zimbra [https://www.zimbra.com/] for a while. I like the general idea of the product. Even the free version is feature-filled. My only problem with it is that it seems to be a resource hog. You'd have to get a fairly fat Linode to run it.

I've used garden variety email hosting auto-magically setup on VPS's from such luminaries as GoDaddy without problems for many years. I have never worried about how to setup an email server, just get a cheap VPS, setup email addresses and you are good to go. Given this experience I have to admit to not understanding why Zimbra is so fat.
This is an example of a terrible web app. I think a company that provides a course to learn web development should put in the effort to make their website a shining example of the best techniques and technologies. This looks like it was made by an amateur.
That's true, housing prices will go down as techies move to other areas with better wages like Seattle, Austin, Boston, etc.

But then the low paid techie cafeteria workers will be out of a job. So I'm not sure that's a net win.
It would be interesting to see a left-wing values zombie movie:

"In a world where where a new disease ravages the body and mind of those affected, modern medicine and epidemiological responses isolate and manage the impact. Financial and social assistance is given to those displaced, encouraging social interaction and minimizing crime and suffering."
At some point we have to recognize that service workers must be paid a living wage, or be automated. We cannot, morally or economically, have an entire class of worker that we utterly depend on that lives permanently below the poverty line and we just step on them because "they didn't work hard in school" or whichever narrative you prefer to go with for why people who don't have a degree do work that is essential to our civilization.

The reality is that the fair market isn't perfect, and even jobs that are low on the totem pole but essential must be compensated in such a way where people don't need to work 60 hour weeks to barely afford a shithole home and car.
Introducing Web Sight – Enterprise Attack Surface Enumeration (BH Arsenal 2017)
Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years
Ask HN: What are the activities of information security teams in your company?
In a 5000+ employees stable technology company, what are the typical activities of your information security team?

I am specifically interested in non-run activities (firewall configuration, ...) in a non-catastrophic period. In other words, the day to day activities of a team which is in charge of making sure information is secure (whether in the context of the enterprise itself, or its products).

- I picked the 5000 employees threshold to look at larger companies, which are likely to have a dedicated infosec team in place.
- The "stable" part was to look at companies which have already put in place the appropriate policies and are not busy creating basic infosec practices

Is it architecture reviews with the businesses? Or auditing (either technical or non-technical)? Delivery or preparation of awareness sessions? Side projects?
It was upvoted there. Reader curation.
Oh great. They let people do it in the tiny portion of the market that is normal desktop apps. They still keep a tight leash on the much larger mobile app market.
After some research I'm now able to provide an answer to my own question.

The canvas was partitoned into blocks of 10x10 pixels that was white until sold. You would make a payment for X number of blocks through 2Checkout or PayPal. After transferring the money, you would send an e-mail to Alex Tew with the image, coordinates of wanted blocks, URL and TITLE/ALT text. He would then confirm the payment and upload your banner within 48 hours.

So the entire operation was manual with orders placed by e-mail.
Check out latexmk: it keeps track of having to run bibtex etc, and runs latex "enough times" so that all equation refs etc have stabilised. (Latexmk -pdf to build a pdf, default is dvi.)
If you really want to go there, we can do that, sure.
Imho one of the reasons why Trump won is because nobody took him seriously, democrats underestimated him that's why they focused on him as the potential competition, they figured he would be an easy target to tear down.

Didn't exactly play out that way did it? That's why understanding is important, otherwise reality will just come crashing down on you and you won't even understand why it happened. Just like many democrats are now in denial and increasingly behaving equally childish as Trump, blaming everything and everybody for Trumps win except for themselves and their lackluster candidate.

It's gotten to a point where even when Trump does something sensible, like cutting CIA funding for "moderate rebels" in Syria, he's still vilified as having done it "for Russia" or whatever other reason one could come up with for the sole sake of not saying a single positive thing about the current US administration, which is just childish.
I am aware of everything you are citing. City policy should change. At the same time, the corporate interests that are triggering this should have the social conscience to seek alternate solutions rather than straining the public good to its breaking point. Corporations exist to serve society, not the other way around, and bad actors should be treated as such.
Two lanes for travel in my direction, and two vehicles are in the lane next to me. Sans enough sensors to figure out it's one vehicle...

Perhaps not a crash, but I could see AI avoiding it by hanging behind.
I'd go as far as to argue that such a plan is essential to reproducibility (and it makes your work faster and less error-prone).

My take on the same plan ( "make thesis" ):

It's not pretty, but it works.
https://github.com/4kbt/PlateWash

Unblinding tweet:
https://twitter.com/CharlieHagedorn/status/59565285891105177...

Finished product:
https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773...
Why should they be paid more? If someone is willing to work for that wage then that is what the wage will be set at.
> My current hypothesis on OOP[1] is that it because popular simply because it was the easiest way to get GUIs to work.

Not sure it was the easiest way (see IMGUI), but I agree with you that some early UI frameworks took that approach and it was probably so much better than what came before it, that OOP is still riding that wave of enthusiasm.
Hi there,

I have been through eight years of therapy and though I have not experienced schizophrenia, I have experienced and overcome psychosis.

I am fairly sure I understand its origins through my own internal experience of it and the reading I have done on the space (Dr Winnicott is a must). This understanding helped me overcome it. I was wondering if we could perhaps have a Skype / call / go back and forth a few times via email (whatever you are most comfortable with) to see if it helps.

If you would be interested please email me at eichler(dot)summers(at)gmail(dot)com.

Josh
I would like to see practical example. My concernss are:

* The light source for the fiber optics must have time to fluoresce and de-fluoresce to send a bit of data.

* Then at the end of the optical pipe you need some sort of photovoltaic material to convert the light back to an electrical impulse. That process can be notoriously slow.

* You have to amplification on signal without causing interference. If you do it at the light source then then you take more time to fluoresce and de-fluoresce. If you do at the capture end then your need more equipment process the signal.

* Durability - If you use silicon its expensive and more subject to breaking. If you use plastic then there the heat issue.

Telecom gets await with higher speeds by using thousands, if not million, of strands at a time. You will not have that luxury is an Xbox 2 or PS5.
It seems like your usage of the word "institution" in the general sense is just a group of "committed individuals" perhaps with documentation in place for knowledge transfer as individuals leave and join the group. I think that joining/leaving at points is orthogonal to an individual's commitment while a member of the institution/group.
"Wasn't the question about business applications?"

Define "business application".

To me, it would be defined as "application used in a business" (EDIT: or more precisely: "application upon which a business is built"). Web servers, databases, and (maybe) operating systems definitely qualify. So do web browsers.
Furthermore, there's an assumption that sharing vehicles lowers costs.

Parking is one reason given. Maybe. But if you don't live and/or work in a dense part of a city, parking isn't a big issue. Feel free to argue that people might be better off if there were less parking but today's reality is that a lot of people don't have any parking issues on a day to day basis.

The bigger argument is around improved utilization. But the cost of owning a car is usually more about mileage than time and shared vehicles will actually have to travel more miles because they won't always be transporting a passenger. There are some age-related costs, especially in states where it snows. Yes, some people want the latest and greatest but then they have the option of leasing today.
I love discourse and learnt a hell of a lot from it! It did however lead me to using ember in my open source project ( https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder ) which I rather regret.....
Note this is Verizon Wireless, the cell service company - not Verizon Fios, the home ISP company. They are both under Verizon Communications, but as far as I can tell this "test" only affected wireless customers.
I didn't expect Apache HTTP Server. Was it refactored heavily, like recently? As otherwise the Apache HTTP server code is a mess, how it works & performs appropriately is a miracle.
When tech companies pay out billions and billions more per year in salary which end up in rent or mortgage, we should question why they don't decide to move partly or expand largely elsewhere and save those billions. They must know that a lot of talents will follow them to whichever city that has reasonable living conditions.

My suspicion is that the system serves as a golden handcuff. The elite tech workers feel like they are getting paid a lot more, which they are, but they still cannot retire or pay off mortgage easily. So they need to continue to work diligently at the company for a long time.

This reduces turnover and keeps experienced workers happy and handcuffed.

Downvoters:

Please give your reason why you think the theory is likely wrong. There are many nice, much cheaper areas that these companies can expand to. Many groups can function without always connecting with the headquarters.