skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I guess some people wonder why people are using ready software when you can achieve the exact same thing with a text editor and a compiler.
I worked at JPL in 2007 as an intern in the planetary sciences group. Dysfunctional software to say the least.

TL;DR ... if you hear the words 'IDL' Run!

All of the analysis was done using IDL (interactive data language) which was a bit similar to matlab ... but seemed to be written by non computer scientists ... a big issue I seem to remember is a bunch of weird state accruing in your program (lots of global variables). It was also used to construct GUIs (think java widgets).

What was icing on the cake though was the licensing. Each version had major incompatibilities, and the software was privatized a while back ... and sold back to NASA in the form of a network license (per version!) w only so many seats. So people's workflow would be to come into the office, see if they get a network license, and if not 'do other stuff' (unclear what that might be since the primary work was analysis). Then people were 'supposed to' give up their network licenses for lunch for a reshuffle. (So if you missed the morning window ... you'd work a bit into lunch to try and get a license for the afternoon). Craziness.

When I learned about all of this madness, I found a way to get a student license / compile what I needed for mac os. (Which was still recently *nix based at the time). As a result ... I actually got something done that summer, which seemed to amaze my PIs.

Since I surmounted one impossible feat, they asked for another. A 'competing' research group had data they wanted, but in an unknown proprietary binary format. They asked if I could crack it.

If the mountain of evidence hadn't convinced me before then, that really convinced me that these folks were really getting hindered by their use of technology (and bureacracy! and the political forces being grant writing!)

The thing that tickled me about that ask was they didn't understand how difficult it could be. And the thing that made me giggle was that it seemed like the cherry on top was there was likely to be a different 'endian-ness' btw their sparc servers and my mac.

Oh!

And heaven help the poor soul who was 'the IDL person' in the department. They never made eye contact in the cafeteria and seemed to eat really quickly. Everyone wanted some of his time. I ran across several heavily curse laden comments in the codebase from this person. That was probably their only salve. Also made me giggle though ... they were funny ... and probably on every person's computer in the dept though I doubt any of them had read the code enough to spot them.
This whitepaper is the first overview of updated Filecoin protocol. More details about specific components of Filecoin (like Proof-of-Replication, Proof-of-Spacetime) will be released in future in their own publications.

It is also accompanied by an announcement of the Filecoin Token Sale: https://protocol.ai/blog/ann-filecoin-token-sale-and-new-pap... which will begin on July 27th.
On the other hand you could start experiencing imposter's syndrome. In any case, it's not easy to get that golden ticket for such circles, let alone maintain your rep once there!
Because Fortran was purpose-built for manipulating array-based data while C++ is a general-purpose programming language. That means Fortran is optimized for this problem domain starting at the _grammar of the language_ while C++ can provide at best access to a locally optimized set of libraries. Those libraries might be quite good, but the comparative experience is still like trying to drive a Phillips-head screw using a flat-head screwdriver.
I don't understand...

Do you believe the EV process is easily subverted, and certificates issued without adequate proof of identity?

Or do you believe that doing business with someone whose identity is certain is just as risky as doing business with someone who only proved control of the domain's DNS?
Do you guys own the rooms or are you renting them out, then subleasing them to people at a higher cost per head? There might be some legal issues in this case?
The Scientific Method vs. The Mad Scientific Method
Not included in these numbers are installs of Trisquel's Abrowser and The Tor Project's TorBrowser. Both are rebadged Firefox and neither one is downloaded from or phones home to Mozilla. I don't suggest that this would make much difference to the numbers.
This is only because we live in imperfect bodies that can die before the discussion can be finished. This is not an argument against free speech, this is an argument about the speed of human communication.
I just said that it's correct. Which it is. If you don't like it, great.
runC is the tool that fits the OCI spec. It spawns containers on your host OS. runV is another tool that fits the OCI spec - it spawns container on hypervisors (type 2 AND 1).

runC is the most commonly used - it is used by containerd (which is docker's wrapper), garden (which is cloudfoundry's wrapper), and CRI-O (which is kubernete's wrapper).

rkt is another container company, whose wrapper is (afaik) just called rkt, and whose runC equivalent is systemd-nspawn, which does not meet OCI spec last time I checked.
Yeah.

Although there's something to be said for Twilio for straight up SIP too if you've got awkward fucking hardware. The Gigaset N300 is great, but the dialplan options are embarrassingly limited.

Twilio offer their own hosted Node.js (Twilio Functions - BETA) and TwiML Bins (free super-basic TwiML hosting with basic moustache templates for simple variable insertion.)

Pretty sure the whole project in the OP could have been done quicker and easier using Twilio Functions, but I get that it's more of a learning tutorial and example.

I use a combination of TwiML Bins, Functions and Twimlets to quickly chain together powerful functionality. And to work around the N300 dialplan limitations!

Edit:
https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/230878368-How-t...

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/115007737928-Bu...

https://www.twilio.com/labs/twimlets
Agreed it could be done cheaper over long term, just wanted to share about an actual prod system. This also had 3x replication via Kafka to avoid stampedes etc if anything failed and keep going with an at-least-once guarantee.

In my opinion tho, even that price point is pretty accessible to keep tabs on all citizens with that resolution which was my hypothetical case.
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NBC News launches a twice-daily Snapchat news broadcast
I love Firefox Focus on iOS. It's a stripped-down browser that has ad-blocking built-in and forgets your history with every new session.

It's perfect for doing web searches that you don't want associated with your device. If you're on your home wifi, you can probably still be tracked, but if you're on cellular I imagine it's pretty anon.

In the first version you were stuck with Yahoo! search (which is surprisingly bad), but now you can use Google.
So it's a tool which other SaaS' can embed so their users can pay to get video-chat assistance from freelancers?
The company holds a lease on a small apartment complex
Could also potentially monetize it by charging beyond X fills/mo using the browser version (tracked by IP so you group together offices).

Lots of small law offices, insurance agencies, etc. that I bet you could get using it.

Would also recommend lowering the free # of API usages to ~100 or something :)
And yet - it can be used as one. "If you actually tried using it" is a wholly inappropriate thing to say to someone you don't know. We used it in a large application indexing & faceting millions of documents, and it works just fine for the practical purpose of querying & retrieving those documents. Of course, we did mate it with Postgres to build the full app. Each tool to its strength.

There's no need for the vitriol.
I mean, the issue is that you're not going to find the specifications for the PHY stuff anywhere. There's no model numbers to clone. It's literally things like how do you etch out capacitors in the fab's process? What's the electrical properties of their different dopants? There's not really any models to clone without cloning the whole fab.

Our best option IMO is to wait until Moore's law hits more of a standstill, when fabs become more of a commodity and they're less secretive about the underlying process rules.
Older thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7949995
Honestly I think that containers are a transitionary technology. Lambda and its ilk are the future of application development. Those systems will likely run on top of container based infrastructure so you can have a variety of lambda environments but not something the application dev worries about directly. Managing the full operating system stack is just not something application developers should have to worry about.
re: "Apple will not make Macs forever": you may be right, but I would guess that the Mac product line will be profitable enough to last a long time. That said, I now only use my Mac while coding, and all other reading, research, and writing is done on one of my iOS devices.

What I want is a powerful phone that air docs to screens, keyboards, etc. as needed. I use Dropbox, iDrive, Google Drive, and OneDrive - I like them all (especially for multiple backup targets) but I would really one phone-like device with sharable peripherals both at home and in public places.
Carbon nanotubes as true random number generators
There is no either or. Key continuity combined with CAs is better than either alone. CAs for the first use, and key continuity for most of the rest.

Another interesting option is called triangulation IIRC. The idea is to randomly query some other clients for their key-continuity info on first use.
though the boundaries of what's acceptable are tough to define.

After denying it, you just explained why it's a difficult spot.

By the way, website are in fact not legally responsible for that traffic, under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act[1], which the courts have upheld against sites like eBay, Google, Craigslist, Backpage and MySpace.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
What is the difference with a hostel or a pension? For what I understand this is just that but with a fancy name
Yeah me too - and even the last three(perf/mem, extension breakage, and OS support) are partially questionable - FF has essentially always been better behaved in low-memory scenarios that chrome; and desktop OS support is (again, to this day) better that chrome's. Even XP still has FF 52 ESR support up to june 2018, and v52 isn't that old yet.
My experience with it under Linux was limited to the vesa driver only, as the GMA500 driver was incomplete and buggy. As such, it wasn't a great platform for media consumption, but if all you needed was a terminal it was fine.
I think he means he's not blaming Google for the behavior of other website owners.
Maybe Firefox is slow on Linux but on Windows I don't notice a difference between it and Chrome. If anything FF starts faster on my Win10 box. The UI is just as snappy and I vastly prefer FFs settings dialogs to the kid gloves one in Chrome.

Also can't remember the last time FF crashed on me (and I usually have hundreds of tabs open for weeks/months on end).

Dev tools are a toss up but I tend to use the ones in FF more than Chrome, probably simply out of habit.

Once servo becomes mainline (and assuming it delivers on its promise) I can't see why anyone would choose anything other than FF.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ works for me

Edit: I'm not big on extensions but do have a few installed: session manager, foxyproxy, one tab and fireshot.
Yeah, but you also get paid shit. Ad agencies can't afford anyone worth their salt.
Yeah, I think we're basically in agreement then. Although I'd note that Let's Encrypt's model is no different than the paid DV certificates that came before–they're just giving those away for free. You were always able to get such a certificate without proof of identity, for something around $100/y.
Graph reconstruction from space-time event data goes far beyond the above in terms of capability. You can infer relationships between people that never co-travel, infer that people have been places that are not in the event data, etc by stitching together large numbers of orthogonal event streams over long periods of time. It is straightforward to distinguish between various modes of transit analytically. The "metadata" that simply indicates an event in space-time is far more valuable analytically than the data because it is possible to reconstruct so much with it that isn't contained within the data per se.

I was doing all of this five years ago, the capability has been around for a while.
I am running Firefox 56 (Nightly) and it is very fast due to project Quantum. Even faster than Firefox 54 which also got a big boost due to e10s.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/#night...

If Firefox 54 is still slow for you, I would be interested if multiprocess is enabled (look at about:support). Also, what does about:performance say?

If still slow you might want to do a Refresh: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a...
> Little known fact: The addition of `exec`-with-parenthesis actually long predates Python 3. Python 3 just removed the old, braceless version.

That's not really true, although the syntactic compatibility does make for conveniently trivial cross-compatible code, Python 3 did not "remove the old, braceless version" it converted exec from a keyword (which could accept a single tuple parameter) to a builtin function (which takes up to 3 parameters). Which had the side-effect of requiring parenthesis.

Incidentally, the print-tuple-trick is cute, I hadn't considered it.
Breadwallet puts users in control with node tethering
Clara Labs (YC S14) Raises $7.3M Series A with Basis Set, Slack, Sequoia
I still go back to this paper for questions about decentralized storage:

http://blog.dshr.org/2017/07/is-decentralized-storage-sustai...
I've heard Blizzard does the same thing for valuable random drops (like legendary drops in Hearthstone and Diablo 3): instead of being random, there's a proc rate so you can't get screwed by chance.
>Imposter's syndrome

To be fair, there's about sixteen million articles on how to eliminate this.

>it's not easy to get that golden ticket for such circles

Not sure I agree. I want to remember the book I read this in but I can't, but in this case the dude just rented in an super expensive apartment complex. I guess he was able to do that because he had a job, sure, but the point was he rented higher than he was comfortable doing, yet it paid off in the end.

Most of the ways I'm thinking of involve money (get VIP badges at conferences, clubs, whatever), but a simple and free way is to go to shitloads of meetups and other "people gathering" events, being gregarious and meeting everyone you can. No reason you couldn't bump into a high falutin CEO at a motorcycle ride day or on the Frisbee golf course or something.
The BBC’s top male star is paid 4 times as much as its top female star
> it is, let's face it, really unlike that there's a backdoor expressed in the permutation of universal mathematical constants used in any cryptographic standard.

Why? I mean, there's plenty of reasons to be skeptical of backdoors in standards in the first place, but why do you consider it especially unlikely for any hypothetical backdoor to hide in the details of "nothing up my sleeve" numbers?
Hm. Lots of information is cached, like facebook messages. And Whatsapp is located on the phone itself. Honestly, it's still pretty bad no matter how you look at it.
Can someone explain to me why there is such a large discrepancy for the different sides for math.random()? seems fairly large
Baltimore Cop Plays Himself by Seemingly Planting Drugs in Front of Body Cam
Yup, I fear for the future of tree style tabs. So much so, I am developing an alternative browser that embeds Chromium but has a tree-style tab interface from Qt [0] (disclaimer, nowhere near ready yet).

0 - https://github.com/cretz/doogie
Is the cardiotoxicity worse than the side effects of the drugs they would replace?

I'm not sure there is an ethical way to find out.
Not to sound facetious, but data on a "remote server" could be accessed through a (legal or non-legal) backdoor. So this amendment is little relief.
Public Evidence from Secret Ballots [pdf]
Reaching a larger audience isn't a minimum viable product. Especially, like I said, if you're fighting with the abstraction to achieve your minimum viable feature set.

Sure, use a library if it papers over deficiencies or adds features your app needs to be viable. That's always a technical debt : developer time call. But, especially with the amount of iteration on the native mobile platforms, I haven't heard of that very often.
Thailand's a notoriously conservative country despite its international reputation.

Far more likely to get chatted up in the West than there.
Clubhouse: Project Management for Software Teams
I work on a "devops" team and this is similar to what we do. We have a "reinstall the whole damn image" flag but using it by default would just cause unnecessary downtime for us, especially in our non-production environments.
A good way to show how the "Randomness is not what we expect" phenomenon manifests is the following.

Given a fair coin that outputs Heads (H) or Tails (T), which of the following sequences is more or less probable

HHTHTT
or
HHHHHH

Answer: Both are equally probable strings to be generated by the fair coin and each should occur once in every 64 sequences (~1.56%)
French moms aren’t superior parents–they just have it easier
This sounds more like a comment about Bitcoin and not blockchain. What makes you think blockchain is a fail concept? Blockchain verifiably works. And that's not to say that Any Other Blockchain™ needs to use the same expensive computation for consensus as Bitcoin does.
I like the font. Is is possible/legal to use the SF Pro Text webfont?

PS I know the desktop font is available for download at the apple developer site ... but I'm talking about the web font
Does an EV cert play any role in SEO?
The world’s plastic problem, in two charts
Hey folks - happy to answer questions here
Intro to Hoodie and React
Yeah, I guess that's true for app devs. I suppose you're right in that they make a lot more sense for infrastructure developers (who I ironically always forget about oops).
My personal impression is that you're right: there's quite a lot of women cryptographers (thinking of "attendees of crypto conferences", but of "top figures in the field"), but these women are disproportionally from a mathematics background.
Intentional hardware backdoors are hopefully small and made by somewhat competent people. Hardware vendors already can't be trusted with writing code that does something useful there is no need to have any additional attack surface in code that provides almost no valuable functionality.
Is that really illegal or just a cliche?
I have no intention of contradicting that, but if so, that makes it all the more disturbing the organizations where this if not only standard operating procedure but just one tool among many similar ones.
not true, anything even remotely considered anti-hillary or pro-trump gets you banned on r/politics, it's just as extreme as TD.
USB has an actual PHY hardware spec for exactly that reason. And I'm not sure I buy your GPIO argument, not a hardware engineer but I've known several who all swear never to use fab-supplied GPIO blocks.

It may well be that DRAM's analog requirements are fab-specific (though I'd be a little surprised if it were that bad: these are full swing classic bus signals), but nonetheless most of the complexity in these controllers is in the logic side: clocking, refresh, bank mapping, ECC, etc... That's all stuff we could (and should) be writing in open source HDL.
Does this actually happen? I recently installed the big Windows 10 "Creators update" and my default browser remained exactly the same (Chrome), or is this something that depends on what "tier" of Windows 10 you have?

I remember this unfortunately happening on Windows 7/8 upgrades to 10, but I've yet to encounter it on my personal machine in a Win 10 point release, at least as far as I can recall.
I think shard asked about regenerative breaking.
Thank you! I hand-coded this from scratch a couple of years ago.
Used to be Zapier, but now I'm pretty good myself. Going to need Shopify help pretty soon making sure a data feed is clean.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, you're exactly right on all points. This is one of the few situations where moving to Linux doesn't improve support for a non-Windows-supported device. The PowerVR GMA500 never worked well under Linux from day one. I've had two netbooks with this CPU/GPU combo, even under Windows 7 performance was terrible and the driver was buggy.
Several years ago I used to use a music service that had a bunch of sliders, something like:

Favorites: Normal <----------> Very Frequently

Artist: Liked only <-----------> Wide variety

Prefer: Old <----Balanced----> New

Popularity: Hits only <--------> Fringe

It was great to be able to customize stations. I don't remember what service it was, but I think it did get purchased and folded into something else.

This was a great way of tweaking the "randomization", and really gets into understanding what people want to hear. In my case, I had different stations/playlists customized in different ways.
Im not sure it is contractual when death is the alternative. It isn't like they can just walk to an empty piece of land and build a cabin and farm on it to live. Or wander the wilds foraging and hunting. Work, or the capital to purchase other people's work, is a requirement to live here. That is why I support stronger minimum wages and eliminating work 'benefits' in favor of paying that money directly to employees. If they want to buy into a company insurance plan, so be it, but it should be entirely optional and payed into out of their bank account, not drawn out before the employee even knows what it is worth. Companies are using benefits to hide employee's actual wages from them so it is harder to even value your own income and compare it to others or other companies.
Would like to pm you. Can you please put your contact info in your profile or email me (in my profile)
Seems like a great service!
I wouldn't expect a different container tech to have the same bumps, but of course it's gonna have them too.
I don't use Firefox that much because I'm mostly on macOS, but every time I use Windows and I open Firefox it seems more snappy again. I am making sure nobody in my family uses Chrome because it's a resource hog and effectively helps the same kind of monopoly we had with Internet Explorer.
'Secondary Drug Industry' Booming Amid Opioid Epidemic
How Checkers Was Solved
Hey zapperdapper

I'm so glad you posted. I'm a 57-year-old tech writer (UK-based) who followed a similar pattern to you for 10 years.

Then I got sick of static daily rates and now work as a permie (2 days in Birmingham, 3 days from home) for a US based tech company.

My first contract rate in 2004 was £350 a day, and now I'd probably struggle to make that again. Maybe £400, but above that, I'd need some special USPs. And from where I live, it's £50 a day to get to London, not to mention the extra 4 hour journey times!

Great to know you've found a perfect formula!

PS: Topping was also on my agenda until I reached 50.
Here is a view of browser market share with detectable bot traffic removed.

https://truemarketshare.com

Firefox is dropping, but not collapsing. And my opinion as to the primary reason why is the Yahoo default search.
DistroKid Review: It’s about what I expected
Chrome custom tabs have nothing at all to do with the Tasks from the activity model. Chromer doesn't do what the tabs in recent option does.

Supporting being a provider for Custom Tabs has nothing to do with being able to have your tabs show up in Recents. Are you an Android Dev?