skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but they're also being defended constantly by armies of programmers. When a vulnerability is discovered, the four projects you mentioned are all awfully quick to issue and distribute patches.

Think about how Google pressured Microsoft to fix a vulnerability when MS was too slow to respond[1]. That's the kind of crap you see with proprietary development.

Open source is just a flat-out better method of developing software, but especially so when it comes to patching vulnerabilities.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2015/01/02/google-posts-unpatched-m...
> Traditionally an extradition treaty would require the crimes to have occurred on US soil.

No, they wouldn't have. While each extradition treaty is to an extent sui generis—they are individually negotiated, not boilerplate—extradition under such treaties for non-digital, meatspace offer see where the accused's acts at issue are not charged to take place in the physical territory of the extraditing country are often within their scope. In particular, no territorial restriction on the location of the offense eligible for extradition appears, unless I've overlooked it, in the US-Greece extradition treaty, which long predates the digital age.
That's a good explanation, and actually what I thought might be going on (which is why I included that example in my original question). It's interesting, because like date formats, it can sometimes be ambiguous without sufficient context. Thanks for the explanation!
The insane thing to me is that they've barely gotten started on monetising outside the Facebook feed. They've taken that, injected ads and garbage until it's useless for me and almost everyone I know, and billions still use it every day. Me and almost everyone I know use some combination of instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, and they could inject way more ads into all of those. I'd probably end up not using them any more, but that's clearly not representative. It's insane how much un-monetised space they have right now.
> Nowadays something I see very often is people looking for boilerplates when they’re trying to learn a new technology, but, in my opinion, you should avoid boilerplates when you’re starting out.

The top of the top JS Fatigue I've seen, for a while, is Electron React Boilerplate [1]. Just take a look at dev dependencies [2].

I totally agree with the author with not starting with a boilerplate, but as far as I can see, the community thinks the other way around.

1: https://github.com/chentsulin/electron-react-boilerplate

2: https://github.com/chentsulin/electron-react-boilerplate/blo...
They tried again, and in April 1944, pulled off the same stunt, ducking their captors on an unguarded forced march.
This time, Ramotnik and his brother-in-arms got away. A few days later, they heard the news: The Allies had won.

Surely they mean April 1945 if "a few days later" they heard the Allies had won.
have you actually tried the imagenet task yourself?

The reason imagenet is popular is because it has allowed google to claim that they can beat human performance on image recognition by artifically lowering human performance on image recognition.
Barriers have been pretty low for a while now. At IRCAM in the 1980s, visiting composers would typically first be assigned a computer expert to help them, but many of them soon learned to work with e.g. PatchWork or OpenMusic themselves, unassisted (typically programming in Lisp in those days). While I'm happy that this contemporary pianist is able to get the behaviour he wants from his instrument, I don't see how this is particularly knew or innovative when, for example, Philippe Manoury was doing the same three decades ago.
You are part of the reason we have these problems :(

While that's probably never getting allocated at this point, that's also what everyone thought 10-20+ years ago about 1.0.0.0/8 and yet here we are.

When my organisation was allocated from 110.0.0.0/8 a few years back we were constantly seeking out others to remove us from their "bogon" filters blocking unallocated ranges that were static and not being maintained. Including big organisations like Commonwealth Bank of Australia. It was a real pain. Meanwhile the security advantage of this behaviour is highly dubious in my view - just as easy to steal an otherwise valid but un-used (or even used) prefix.

Thanks for reading my rant this far if you did, I'll return you to your regularly scheduled more insightful comments....... now.
Yearly releases combined with a transparent process track for new features and fixes would be nice.
Our leaders have no incentives to solve these problems. Most of the leadership class today get to their positions not by trying to address any such problems. The skills they pick up along the way have nothing to do with what's reqd in these cases.
Try Spark post. Their free plan is good.
A new adaptive accrual failure detector for Akka
Well said, I would only disagree with the treatment of Gilead and pharma in general. The moral outrage is against greed. Even when the cost-benefit relation works to other (similarly overpriced) treatments, their margins are way too excessive from the patients' pov imo, because 1. manufacturing cost next to nothing 2. pharma spends way more on marketing than r&d [1]

[1] http://www.randalolson.com/2015/03/01/design-critique-puttin...
Now that OpenBSD has an optimizing compiler maybe they will notice and fix dataraces in their pthread_mutex_lock implementation. Currently they use broken double-checked locking pattern when mutex is lazy initialized with PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER.
Slightly off topic, but this is a great example of an affiliate site done right. It's comprehensive, unbiased and has some really interesting content.
CloudFormation StackSets: automated cross-account/region deployments
Why Composition Is Harder with Classes
Ask HN: What has been the legal/financial fallout from massive government leaks?
Leaks such as the massive Turkish leak or currently the Swedish one.
Technical question: does the coin/satoshi keep this log, o is it the transaction in the block chain?
Why Does Newton's Third Law Actually Work
> A better question is

Actually, I think my question was the more interesting one, because it led to confirmation that this is expected normal use in at least some instances[1]. That was news to me, and apparently the majority of people that responded since they didn't bring it up in their responses.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14862695
I hope that becomes true one day, but it's certainly not the case now.

Manufacturers currently have no choice but to ship devices running vulnerable application software that communicates with remote devices using vulnerable protocols. This is facilitated by vulnerable operating systems running many vulnerable device drivers communicate with devices that themselves have embedded processors running yet more vulnerable software.

All manufacturers can do is keep patching the morass of code that their offering depends on, but most device manufactures can't even manage that, or if they can they are unable do it fast enough and unwilling to do it for long enough.
All the pop science I've read in the last decade has been saying the same thing: running on roads will screw up my knees, that long distance running is not great for either losing weight or gaining muscle, and that you should do intense running instead.
Incompetence has no nationality
Kilgore. A robot trout!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7busGsuIOU4

Fish code is python: https://github.com/djmips/trout
Ask HN: How did you overcome your fear of death?
I'm not talking about death as an accident but the inevitable thing happens to everyone. I'm 21 and the feeling of being unconscious after death for unlimited time scares the sh*t out of me sometimes. Have you had this feeling , how did you overcome it?

PS : obviously not everyone has this feeling, I'm just asking people who had this feeling.
Social-Media Messages Are Becoming More Complex, and Nobody Knows Why
It's about the attack vector though, right? My dad has passwords written in a notebook, but to compromise that you'd need to break into his house & find it.

If the alternative to not using a password manager is password reuse or enumeration (sup3rMan!_gmail), it becomes for attackers even if they're not explicitly targetting you, as they can run patterns against the whole DB against Gmail/Hotmail/Facebook etc
Anyone that values the perks, vacation days, not having to answer emails/phone calls outside working hours, being able to work remotely without issues, getting software just by issuing a change request given project budgets.
...Excepting of course, Natural Monopolies - which are probably rarer than you might think For example - "Gas" delivery might be considered a natural monopoly - but I know people (in fact, pretty much everyone I know) doesn't care about having a Gas Hookup - they just have someone carry large containers of gas into their kitchen. The things last forever.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
I think your comment's parent was asking about what happens to your regular military pay, during your time as a PoW. That's what I read, anyway.
The only high tech/low construction center is the San Francisco Bay area. Seattle has had a lot of construction over the past few years. Since housing supply isn't perfectly elastic, it can take a few years before supply shifts to meet demand and in the mean time, prices rise. New York is definitely a high tech center but it is also a center for a lot of other things too. I'm not sure if it is high or low construction but there are other factors at play in the high rents there that aren't at play in other tech centers.
Wait, Twitter are paying $200m on employees, bringing in $2.5bn and spending $3bn (draining half a billion)? I assumed their biggest expense would be employees, what are they spending $2.8bn/year on?

At that scale spending 4x what Facebook spent on employees at the same level (assuming 2x as many with 2x salary inflation) barely registers.
Ubuntu does not make the use of ZFS that one sees in the FreeBSD world. An example is TrueOS.

On TrueOS out of the box everything is ZFS, even the root volume, and that has been the case for a while, now. The operating system is in a single ZFS dataset (with things like /usr/ports, /usr/jails, /var/mail, /var/log, /usr/obj, and /usr/home split off into their own datasets). This is used to provide "boot environments".

System upgrade goes like this: The upgrade script makes a clone of the current operating system dataset, mounts it, and runs freebsd-upgrade on it chrooted at the mount point. This results in a new boot environment with the upgraded operating system ready to be rebooted into. ZFS copy-on-write means that an upgrade does not consume twice the disc space; and the separate dataset means that one retains an untouched current boot environment throughout the process.

* https://github.com/trueos/pc-updatemanager
That question is ambiguous. If you only need a single cat to go under the rope at some point, you just add a small arch for the cat to walk through. This requires a length of rope somewhat less than twice the height of the cat.

2 x Pi x Cat would levitate the rope by the height of the cat along the entire circumference of the Earth, allowing a billion cats to go under it simultaneously.

You could even make do with no additional rope if you're allowed to take advantage of terrain.
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Sounds like you know how it is like leaving your country and tranversing the whole European contintent.

Tell us when do you stop fleeing and merely running away from war?
Facebook calls for a more people-centric security industry
It would make for a good Monty Python skit. A calm German officer behind a desk giving "escape receipt" to a giddy British soldier.
Guys, Firstly congrats. The app looks sweet. With all the Coin by Zerodha talk happening, my keyword alert engine has been buzzing. I couldn't keep quiet. :)

About buying mutual funds or anything else in demat form, anyone who has used demat accounts will know is a lot more convenient. Yes, Franklin will come soon, but almost all the others are already there. Setting up SIP without NACH, flexibility to move from one demat to another, single portfolio view across all asset classes, easy inheritance to nominee/dependents and more. But yeah, this is up for debate. :)

My question for you though is a little tricky, and I am asking this to every startup building a business around MF in India -especially the direct MF kinds.

How will the business make money?

For Zerodha, selling MF is not the main business. After getting to 150 crores of AUM in 2.5 months selling direct MF (maybe the fastest any online platform has gotten this much AUM ever in India), I am not sure if there is a viable standalone business model to run this at Rs 50/month or say Rs 30/transaction or even upto Rs 2000/year that some other direct MF platforms are charging. I can run it because MF contributes to less than 0.5% of our business and there is no acquisition cost or running cost since this is extension to how we settle stocks in demat. If cost of acquisition is between Rs 500 to Rs 1000 (considering minimum advertising/salary and doing full KYC), and you take 1 to 2 years or more to just recover that cost. How will the business sustain? Is the plan to sell advisory at a higher fees like others, if yes how much?

Have been in this for 20 years, I can also tell you that when markets starts to trend down, people stop investing. Won't your transaction fees model put stress on your balance sheet then?
(This comment references bodyweight. While not normative, some readers may wish to skip it.)

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I am usually quite critical of misreported findings but I must say the article does seem to support its findings pretty clearly. If they had a plot of it, I would expect to show over this period another effect: "amateur marathon finishers have never weighed more, or been slower." Obviously this is my speculation and if found as I predict it would be a statement that even those who care enough about their health to train for, run, and finish in a marathon, have been weighing more and more.

I say this as a prediction because it is a very strong effect throughout the population. It certainly trumps any other health changes that have affected the population as a whole over the same period.

This data may be possible to estimate retroactively, visually based on photographs and footage of races - telling 15% from 25% from 35% from 40% bodyfat (for both genders) may be possible based on photographs alone. (With low fidelity.)

For comparison, although I couldn't find a chart going to 2017, this article includes weights for Americans as a whole through 2010:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/12/look-...

It is interesting to compare with the data we have just seen.

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EDIT: I have edited this following a downvote. If there are specific objections I can edit it further or remove it.
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I was just about to reply that using only 44.1kHz means at higher frequencies, you're getting hardly any samples per cycle, and representing a high-frequency sine wave with something more like a square wave - ie not an accurate representation, and really harsh.

However! Xiph.org has a video demonstration using oscilloscopes, showing that high-frequencies at 20kHz still are perfectly represented even with just 44.1kHz recording. It's here if anyone is interested, switch the Chapter Selection on the video to the Stairsteps chapter:

https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
I learned programming in Qbasic. My parent's computer had some "menu" launcher, which let you choose between Win 3.1 and DOS. Most games (Doom / Lemmings / Commander Keen) were DOS based. So yeah, do I need to feel old now?
Concerns about the blockchain technology
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You might have noticed a trend in this thread of people claiming to hate facebook but also still using it regularly
Why New York Is Just an Average City
POWs got additional money after the war, on top of their normal pay (somewhat adjusted for the specific conditions they were held in, and with the money taken from captured Axis assets). So no, your pay isn't docked while you are imprisoned.
Why aren’t you happy with MailGun? I’m a customer and I haven’t had any issues with it.
Do you have any more information about your project?
Please note, though, that the snopes link only refutes a specific picture used as evidence, and only gives statistics with respect to Syrian refugees - which are probably the more (perhaps only) deserving of "refugee" status by UN definitions - so it does not, in fact, disprove that "most refugees are single adult males" - and in fact - especially in Sweden - they are.

I quote from [0] which links to primary sources, including the swedish immigration authorities (which I cannot confirm because I can't read swedish):

""" According to Swedish government statistics, as of the end of November, 71 percent of all applicants for asylum to Sweden in 2015 were male. More than 21 percent of all migrants to Sweden were classified as unaccompanied minors, representing more than half of all minor migrants to the country. For accompanied minors, the sex ratio was about 1.16 boys for every one girl. But for unaccompanied minors, the ratio was 11.3 boys for every one girl. In other words, the Swedish case confirms IOM’s statistic that more than 90 percent of unaccompanied minors are male. Indeed, on average, approximately 90 unaccompanied boys entered Sweden every single day in 2015, compared with eight unaccompanied girls. """

[0] http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/europe-refuge...
I'm not sure if I understood you, but 2pi(height of the cat) would allow to make two additional round loops, each sufficient for a very cylindrical cat to go through.
Risks of a Weakened Department of Energy
He writes this way because he wants to, not because he has to:

> "I also tend not to use a bunch of euphemisms nor do I believe in making concessions so that everyone feels nice and comfy even when we don’t agree. I’m very direct and to the point when it comes to technology and I tend to speak in firm absolutes. If this bothers you, then you won’t enjoy your visits here."

When an article gets posted on HN that is written in firm absolutes about bitches and hos and how white people are all like this or like that, then it understandably gets pushback.

This man is not a child. He is not a helpless product of his upbringing.

He's a grown-up who works in the same general industry we all do. I don't have to appreciate his rudeness and arrogance just because he overcame the odds to get to where he is.
If everyone would operate 100 % of the time with their rational mind, this agreement that you are suggesting would be feasable. No. One. Does. Wishful thinking.
The top runners will continue to go to the major races (New York, Chicago, Boston) because they can compete with the best runners in the world, there are appearance fees for elite runners, and they offer better exposure for athletes who depend on sponsorship dollars to make a living.

As for the US Marathon Championships, America's best marathoners usually skip that race (aside from when it serves as the Olympic Trials) because smaller, less prestigious marathons that pay less prize money are often chosen to serve as the US Championship. Why (relatively) smaller marathons? So that your US champion actually wins the race (like they would at the Twin Cities Marathon) instead of finishing somewhere in the top 5 (but not first) at New York.
Agree, your country is not a joke.

It is a whole lot better than a lot of other places and I'd hope it would stay that way.
Are you saying framework proliferation and the "million modules problem" are not a pain in a non-web application?
Re #2, I wonder if the IRS will start asking US citizens to declare eCurrency accounts in FBAR anytime soon.
Just because we know something is, does not mean know why. You make a very broad leap to say that there are only two possibilities - magic and abiogenesis - and that one of those possibilities doesn't exist.

There are three broad classifications of philosophical belief - the universe is all there is and there is no non-physical component, that the universe is and has a non-physical component (it is alive, etc) and that there is a creator who is separate from the universe and that creator made the universe.

Within that context, the three can be split into two variations, the universe (with or without a non-physical component) is eternal (steady state or cyclic) and an eternal creator who has made a finite lifespan universe.

Abiogenesis can arise in one of those three variations, in the other two, either the universe creates life as apart of its functionality (its non-physical attributes) or there is a creator that has designed and set in motion life.

Please note that abiogenesis is a completely different subject to any evolutionary model that people may subscribe to.

You can argue all you like about the variations above but you cannot use science to determine the "truth" of which variety you personally believe in. That is a metaphysical/philosophical/religious debate that is outside of the domain of science.

So, where does that leave us in this discussion? Well, it says that you have not given much thought to your point of view in such a way that you are able to logically argue its merit. In which case, I would suggest that you might like to flesh out your arguments because as they stand, the arguments you present are extremely weak and illogical.
Black skin color is not the only visible minority in the world. Your experiences are not exclusive.
Shocking.
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> In many real world effects, we're not 100% accurate on what the null hypothesis is.

The null hypothesis is the simple negation of the affirmative hypothesis; anything else and you can't use p-values at all.

If you know what the hypothesis you are testing is (and if you don't, you have a fundamental problem), you also know what the null hypothesis is.

The proper affirmative and null hypotheses in the test you propose are “process 1 has a greater measure on the dimension of interest than process 0” and “process 1 has no better measure on the dimension of interest than process 0”. Normal statistics on parallel measures of both processes will give you results which may or may not allow you to reject the null hypothesis at a given p-values, but (except that the smallest p-values you can get goes up with sample size, so that you can't, rightly or wrongly, reject the null hypothesis to certain confidence with too small a sample size) the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis incorrectly does not go up with sample size.
Trillions of tax revenue do the nunbers support it?
Stay away from Sparkpost. They will put your account on hold without any warning (and for no good reason) and then their support team takes ~2 days to reply.
> prefixing variables with "my" to create lexical scope

Some people (such as me), prefer designating variable scope and easily identifying where a variable was defined. By the way, that isn't required by Perl 5. It was decided by the community that it was beneficial in that it solved far more problems debugging than the small bit of extra effort required, so the common refrain to "use strict;" was adopted because with that pragma it then is required.

> Why can't an advanced language like Perl 6 scope variables without littering "my" everywhere?

It could, but the community has decided it's not really beneficial. Have you actually examined why you think it's better?

> obligatory "use v6;" at the top of every script

That's not obligatory. You can omit at your leisure. If you do in include it and your script is accidentally called from a Perl 5 interpreter, you will either get an error, or if supported it will try to load a Perl 6 interpreter to parse the code.
Any cryptocoin exchanger is involved in criminal activity, because criminals have to sell their stolen coins as fast as possible. And you find out that you were a part of criminal activity only afterwards...