skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technology Is Biased Too. How Do We Fix It? – FiveThirtyEight
There are already around ~2000 native Esperanto speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers Actually, there even exist third generation native Esperantistas already: http://blogs.transparent.com/esperanto/3rd-gen-native-espera...
I think this is only partially true. When I saw the image I was actually confused by why the outlines were wrong. In real life though I wouldn't be presented with a single image, but rather high res video.
The girlfriend and I wanted a cheap experience in South Beach, Miami. We found a reasonably priced one bedroom (queen bed and a pullout couch) apartment a block from the beach with tons of restaurants and bars nearby. If we got a room in any of the hotels down the street, it would have cost double to triple the rate. We used some of the money we saved from not getting a hotel for a rental car and were able to get groceries and tour the rest of Miami on our own. We were pretty lucky to find the apartment that we did, it was recently renovated, was spotless, and the owner was the nicest person ever. The major selling point was just the price and the ability to have our own kitchen, something you usually don't get unless you upgrade to a huge room. We could have easily split the cost with another couple and saved even more but the place was just right for us. I would get the same place again if we ever go back. My parents are a fan of the hotel experience, they have the money to afford it. We could have too but we valued the "living" experience more than the "visiting" experience.
Because East German citizens had so much privacy.
To be honest I think this was pretty obvious to anyone living outside the US, especially after 9/11. And unfortunately for the rest of the world, it's nothing US exclusive, scaring people into obedience is the oldest trick in the book. Fear has been always one of the main selling point for politicians, ever since the beginning of time. When faced with a common threat (real or not) people tend to unite under a leader who they hope will protect them, and it's any totalitarian ruler's wet dream. Frightened people are easier to control and far more likely too look the other way on whatever irregularity or injustice, as it will always seem unimportant compared to the threat and fear they feel.
They haven't realized it's an existential threat yet.

And to be fair, at scale, given that most people are idiots and don't know astroturf reviews exist, it might never be for them.

But they are definitely in danger of losing the people who told everyone else about "that Amazon thing."
CNN's Trump/Russia coverage has been ridiculous, theyre running that story 33% of the time 24 hours a day, and nobody has or will be fired for that. Unless their ratings sink so far that upper management needs to be changed.
That's crazy. I imagine that's not the only crazy thing going on around us that most of us will never know about unless it's published in a magazine. And for every story that's uncovered, there's probably many more that will never be. Just imagine all the drug networks and such that must be operating in the United States, and to think that's in a developed country - what about all the lesser developed countries? There's crime everywhere that most of us will never see.

It's unfortunate that such crime exists, and it's also fascinating that we can operate as a civilization with such crime going on. It's also unfortunate that such criminals will most likely adopt cryptocurrencies. Criminals are innovative, but that doesn't mean all innovations come from criminals or are used for criminal activities. Just like criminals use cash; that doesn't mean all cash is used for crime, and if criminals use cryptocurrencies, that doesn't mean all cryptocurrency is used for crime.

I suppose that's a conundrum that crypto creators face: knowing that criminals will use your work to protect their criminal activities. For some people, something should be avoided if it allows for even one single instance of the smallest crime. Other people understand that if you want something good, you have to accept that some people will use it for evil. Like the First and Second Amendments of the US Constitution; Free Speech and the right to bear arms can both be used for good and bad.

Thank you for sharing the link, that was a very interesting read.
https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/doc...
Take a look at Nix[1], it has the advantage of being able to express dependencies to native libraries together with the Elixir dependencies.

[1] https://nixos.org/nix
> Development on top of ethereum platform is in it's infancy.

Oh please, a lot of people keep saying this, but the reality is that Ethereum and Solidity devs simply didn't do enough research. There's a long history of smart contract platforms that are both safer and more robust, and the problems inherent to the choices Solidity made were obvious right when it was first introduced:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5003
Thank you, Netflix, for saving my son’s brain from ads
> When a smart contract goes wrong, there are no fallbacks.

Like others have suggested, there is a fallback just like in other systems, it's just not formalized - yet. The difference is that in government there must always be a fallback , while smart contracts leave open a possibility that in the future, with an ideally unhackable contract, the fallback can potentially be removed.
A few months back, we've reached out to HN community with Material Design for Bootstrap - a framework taking best out of these two worlds.

It seems that you have really enjoyed our work, yet there were many questions about Angular integration.

It was pretty clear for us what we need to deliver.

The MDB for Angular is still a fresh framework and requires a lot of work, so we humbly ask for your feedback and suggestions.

Thanks!
Thanks for your comment.

Agree, not all ibor indexes are defined in Quantlib, so now just euribors can be used for forward rates.

About Euribor 365:

Euribor rate adjusted for the mismatch between the actual/360 convention used for Euribor and the actual/365 convention previously used by a few pre-EUR currencies

I'm not sure what you mean with self discounting curves, but you can use different curves for discount and forward rates. I will add OIS discounting too in the future, if that is what you mean.
Have you tried Feedly?
Do you not think that covering the (admitted!) collusion between a presidential candidate and a foreign power warrants that coverage?
Dangers of Public Wifi
Python 3.6 on SourceLair
paint on windows 3.1 had more features. for example, it had the ability to erase one color to another color. I was a bit shocked when I opened paint in '98
I feel really sorry for you and your friends who spend your lives doing what you don't enjoy for the sake of some 0's on your bank account. Also, I'm not saying go pick flowers for a living. But you should at least enjoy what you do, which fosters continual growth (to become an expert, you must grow).
Lightning talks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ntRZ1ySWBfhRZj3BDOr...
Show HN: Colleagues built free Tableau connector for Adobe Analytics, FB and more
Off topic but I just picked up those shoe deodorizers for $10 at the container store and they have actually knocked down the stench emanating from my hiking shoes.
> they may have some worthy criticisms at first, but to be worthy to be on their show everything they air must have a huge slant they can fight against, or else they won't talk about it.

They call themselves "media analysts" so by definition they only talk about whatever nonsense the media is spewing this week.

By that very nature they focus on the things you mention. That's they're goal.
You mean the leftists who demand that white people should be eliminated?

Or the ones who say not wanting to date trans people makes you a racist?

The right has its crazies, but I'll also stay far away from the leftist ideologies, thank you very much. I'd rather be "unreasonable".
Gotta get more people to make noises really.

It tough now since the web space is very competitive.

Before that it's just PHP (well it displaced Perl) and then RoR pop out to give it a real competition. For a while you'd think Ruby was going to over take PHP for web dev but it eventually converge to a steady state the growth rate isn't increasing at all. If you look at tiobe index and red monk's for language popularity Ruby have either stayed teh same and move down a few spot. Javascript just sky rocketed after nodejs (this is relative I remember the first year or so where it was slow in term of growth, hype, and adoption).

There are so many web dev pie out there for each language to take a chunk. After RoR was nodejs, this is on top of the other smaller player groovy, python django, java stuff, etc.. a least major players within the startups that I've experiences.

I believe Elixir and Erlang is a very great language for web dev. Unfortunately it comes into a time where the market is very competitive with many alternative out there staking a claim for this field.

At this point the web industry is really really hype imo. And people eat this up like candy.

I can say for sure Elixir is a better concurrency model and better language than NodeJS will ever be for web development. And the hype if there is any is real for Elixir.
Hello,

My colleagues built what we think is the first free Tableau Connector that integrates Adobe Analytics, AdWords, Facebook Ads, FB Pages, Bing Ads and Kochava data inside Tableau dashboards.

We're also getting ready to roll out a bunch of new features this week, including data blocks, preview, custom calendars, and a Youtube connector.

Would you mind giving us your thoughts and/or feedback on it?
There is no such thing as "objectively easy." Languages are easy or difficult in the degree to which they share common features and vocabulary with a language you already know. If you speak Spanish as a native language then English is much easier to learn than Japanese, but if you speak Korean as a native language the opposite is true.

You might well answer that, in that case, being truly neutral seems more or less impossible. Maybe so, and maybe you do need to just pick something. But then we get away from the idea of removing political dominance from the equation.
Indeed, getting that network of speakers is the number one challenge a constructed language faces, so simply appealing to people is vastly more important for an constructed language than it may seem at first glance.

https://xkcd.com/191/
I wonder if there could be similar exploits on AMD processors, which have a TrustZone implementation.
I would love to see these 2 year old performance benchmarks updated where Elixir scaled to 2m connection on a single node.

http://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-w...
would you consider open sourcing this?
The Conjoined Triangles of Success. They're taught at Business schools haha.
Active Desktop was on by default in Windows 98 and had channels from content partners that pushed to the desktop.
That's because you're missing the point. MS isn't competing against Postgres or MySQL, they're competing against Oracle, DB2, and Hana. All of which have a variant that runs on Linux. They need to be just as flexible as their real competition if they want to continue to expand market share.
getting the information from a tightly regulated bank could be a different story to getting it from an anonymous service on Tor though. They probably don't even store it.
Ionic Framework – 2017 Developer Survey
Curious why have postgres and SQL server?
EuroClojure Sketchnotes
I haven't had this tingly feeling since when I first used Ruby/Rails 2. Elixir is growing and setting the bar of what "developer ux" means.

mix test
mix docs
Genserver
Pattern matching

The list goes on, you find yourself in The Zone more often.
I think it's a good thing we try to defend our language. With no international reach it would slowly be replaced by English even at home in some given fields (graduate studies, for example).

That said, promoting French should not be equated with replacing other languages (like it was done with regional languages): it is a non-zero-sum game as people can learn multiples languages. So we should not only promote French as a second language for international communication but also work harder to learn foreign languages. In this framework, nor English nor Esperanto development are ennemies of French use.
Smarter Snap-Fit Design Using FEA
Simply by looking at a product will build a user profile. It's not about making this sale, but maybe about the next 100 sales.
No, things will improve when Amazon gives >0 fucks and cracks down on the practice.
Complication: anything you are good at you will want to practice to improve. And deliberate practice is by definition frequently uncomfortable (not enjoyable).
I can confirm this anecdotally. I bought some thyme just last week and seeing the spice shelf restocked made me very happy.
Ask HN: For people who develop browsers, what is your stance on target=“_blank”?
A semi consistent conversation we, as developers, at my company discuss is something along the lines of "should we open links in new tabs" regarding webpage buildout. Lots of anecdotes and links are shared, but really curious if the people who actually work on Safari/Chrome/Firefox/etc have an opinion about this and what the typical pros and cons of the discussion are.
Oh, good to know. Thank you!
https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon#readme

"What can we do? We can detect hosts in our networks sending or receiving large volumes of packets/bytes/flows per second. We can call an external script to notify you, switch off a server, or blackhole the client.

…

Why did we write this? Because we can't find any software for solving this problem in the open source world!

What is a "flow" in FastNetMon terms? It's one or multiple UDP, TCP, or ICMP connections with unique src IP, dst IP, src port, dst port, and protocol."
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> Why is Firefox's CSS styling engine not already "in" the browser?

It is, Firefox can do CSS and styles just now. Stylo is a replacement for that.

> To me it seems like Stylo is just a parallelized replacement for the old system, Servo. What am I missing here?

Servo isn’t the old system. Servo is a research project to build a layout engine (analogous to Gecko which Firefox currently uses) in Rust, of which Stylo is a part.

> Also, why are you celebrating an alternative for WebKit? Isn't it already supported by most major browsers?

It sounds like you’re confused about what WebKit is. WebKit and its forks are used by a number of browsers (Chrome, Safari etc.).

EdgeHTML, Gecko and WebKit are, broadly speaking, competitors which attempt to implement certain standards and frequently disagree about how to do so.
It’s important that there be alternatives to WebKit with significant market share because otherwise how WebKit implements a feature becomes the de facto reference implementation.
I think you're referring to Chris Wallace and Shep Smith. Not Brett Baier.
I have very much the same feelings, I've only really been using it the last few weeks but it's been an absolute pleasure to work with.

Massive thanks to the devs who work on it.
Servo is a complete (although WIP) browser engine in Rust. Stylo is a project to plug the style parts of Servo into Firefox, which currently uses the Gecko browser engine. This is part of Mozilla's ongoing efforts to modernize Firefox by gradually rewriting it in Rust.

WebKit is technically only used by Safari. Chrome uses a WebKit fork called Blink, and MS Edge uses its own engine called Chakra.

I assume the above commenter was expressing relief that someone besides Google is making a fast, modern web browser these days.
Crisis Response
What makes you think that the languages sounded more similar in a time when communication was much slower and regional dialects could develop easily without outside influence?
Where's the link? Specifically, how come this blog page doesn't link to the app in the app store?

Anyway, I agree that MS Paint needs to be built-in to Windows. It's like Notepad for images. Something that's reliable that we know that works and how to use.
Beauty isn't really the goal here.
>Those documents are often released to tell investors and taxpayers "here is how we view the situation and why"

Indeed these tend to be more data oriented but they are still not without their great faults.

Case and point: the echo chamber of 2008 that culminated from the reports of the ratings agencies, academics, financial analysts, government regulators et al who were all pushing the same false narrative to the detriment of the investors and tax payers
I'm calling shenanigans on this one, there are too many flags even for a cursory look at this story.

1) there is no code for this project that I was able to find;

2) blogger /personality CEO;

3) no report on the transactions (txHash) that would show the "theft";

4) https://steemit.com/money/@financialcritic/analysis-of-the-v...

5) https://steemit.com/veritaseum/@deobrands/is-veritaseum-a-sc...

Finally, and this is subjective but still "feels" odd: The Veritaseum project is built on top of Bitcoin but it was Ether that was taken? If it was a smart contract then number 3 on the my list is even more important because we can replay it as many times as needed until we find the bug or exploit used, if any.

PS: Ethereum = refers to the project, the network and the foundation name; Ether = currency issued by the Ethereum network.
Aren't micro-benchmarks kind of pointless if they don't reflect real-world behavior?

The fact is that javascript execution (not networking behavior but javascript performance) on many web apps differs by orders of magnitude between Firefox and Chrome. There are a handful of sites that I find literally unusable in Firefox on a new Macbook Pro because even after loading, sitting in the background doing nothing, they make the entire computer unresponsive due to high CPU usage. These same sites work just fine in Chrome and Safari.
One main paramount of security is to reduce your attack surface. One of the first steps to that is to uninstall/remove things that don't belong or that you will not use. An ad-riddled(with ads likely served by a relatively insecure ad network) game is not something that belongs in a corporate network.

Try removing CandyCrushSaga and Facebook, and XBoxIdentityProvider(among many others)...they come right back after the next round of updates.

If you're going allow Windows Store with all of its junk(that you have very little control over), might as well allow Bonzai Buddy, Ask Toolbar, and Super PC Cleaner 2017 Premium Edition Recommended Microsoft!

And the argument that Windows Store apps are more secure so even if a ad or application is malicious the damage is limited doesn't hold water. A quick google will bring up tons of examples of code escaping sandboxes, even entire virtual machines. Any environment, no matter how secure, will always benefit from a reduction in attack surface area.
FastNetMon does not implement DOTS yet. Instead, we support API for scrubbing centres/boxes directly.
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Thanks for your comment. Not thought as a commercial product. As you said lot of work to do
Mssql has a lot of cool and valuable entry level features bundled with it, as an added bonus to the transactional relational database.

Like the business intelligence features

Datawarehouse functionality
Machine learning capabilities within the warehouse suite

Mdx (which enables things like power pivot / power query)

Myself I am a Postgres guys, but man those extras are really enticing to me as a problem solver.
Guide on How to Setup MetaTrader on Raspberry Pi for Forex Trading
I've noticed something quite similar in San Francisco - http://sf-planning.org/privately-owned-public-open-space-and... (most in SF seem to be clearly marked as private spaces for public use though)
Open Source CTF plateform
for more details check "https://github.com/chmodxxx/CTF_plateforme"
What is questionable, imo, is this worldview which you and another have mentioned.

What a sad way to live, fulfilling other peoples needs in exchange for 0's, instead of trying to fulfil your needs for intellectual growth, joy, etc. while _also_ supplying an end product or service of some sort.

You realize you can enjoy what you do, love what you do even, and still exchange a product/service for money? In fact, you'll likely do better as people will sense your _passion_ about what you are selling, as opposed to seeing you chase the 0's
One good deal was topping up on Amazon credit. There was a $5 Prime Day bonus, plus the other $10 for topping up $100. 15% for free can cover for prices that aren't necessarily the cheapest, especially when prime shipping fees are considered.
> Therefore, there is no possibility of 'higher level abstractions' that will permit only legitimate contracts to be written (even if the abstractions are limited in their power, an attacker can make use of the full power of the underlying system.)

What?

Wouldn't "choose one of these 10 contracts which have been proven correct, and also choose the parameter for said contract" be using a higher level abstraction?

And if the 10 contract are proven correct+secure, then this would be secure, right?

I don't understand what you meant by "an attacker can make use of the full power of the underlying system" such that it is compatible with the security of the abstraction I described.
Seattle startup Convoy raises $62 million in funding led by Y Combinator
He "just wants to complain".
Yes, someday. It would probably take me 15 or 20 hours to get something published on GitHub. I'll get around to it eventually!
bet365 is major.
It's slightly different thing. For our install script we have this short introduction: https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/doc...

I think we definitely need some guide for Quick Start :)
Alibaba said to lead $500m funding round for Indonesia’s Tokopedia
There are over 3,000,000 Namecoin domains registered[0], but nobody uses it. Not a worthwhile metric IMO.

[0]https://namecoin.webbtc.com/stats
You might want to review the scheduled tasks. My system had "OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration" set to run every hour. It only pops up for an instant, but it would grab input focus and thus do bad things to my blood pressure.
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Popcoin – Let's get you paid
Have you written any Rust NIFs? What's the dev experience like?
> There's something to be about not being invested in your work and, essentially, not making your work the focus of your life.

Sure but you spend a good chunk of your life at work, so it's difficult not to want it to be meaningful.
Increasingly it feels like, at least to me, the last group it is socially acceptable to harshly generalize is rural Americans.
Yes, people committing crimes like buying illegal weapons and drugs ARE criminals. Why are you claiming otherwise? Buying illegal goods safely is a legitimate use of bitcoin to you? No one at any point here said EVERYONE using bitcoin and tor are criminals or buying illegal goods.

I fell to government propaganda? Which government's? American? Mine? I dislike both. Did the owner of Bitmixer fall to government propaganda too? They could see what their service was used for and decided there was too much sketchy stuff.

I support vpn, tor, bitcoin, etc. on principle but I have no idea (and it doesn't change my level of support no matter what the answer is) how much of it is used for legal or illegal but moral (China, dictatorships, etc.) stuff and how much for just crime (guns, drugs, hitmen, fraud, etc.) and I'm pretty sure you don't either.

Perhaps you fell to Kool Aid instead and are blind to all the abuse these enabled too?
If you've received VC money, I suppose you're getting a salary - if you want to include that as making money.