skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most web interactions are: your client sends a request to a server, the server sends back a response. That's kinda the model of php: single execution, no need to manage memory or resources because the world is destroyed once you've send your response. So php is a good fit for webdev.

Until you start playing with sockets or things like kafka then you really want languages which are made for long lived processes. But if you're just making a REST API, blog or anything which is not an app with sockets php is a good choice. Especially since 7.0, composer and the current leading frameworks Laravel and Symfony changed the landscape.
pin-bypass is pain.
until people are all moved to just be chip/pin or even just pin then the only way is to add a bunch of prompts to hopefully force the staff to check for signature or to add delays/confirmations to make the process too annoying and force the customer to change.
Firstly, the paper separates languages into compiled languages and interpreted languages to begin with. So I was expecting it would follow this pattern correctly.

Secondly, why would you compare the performance of C and Ruby, for example? Ruby is bound to be slower for design reasons. Doing it to say "Look, C is fast!" doesn't mean anything. There are different reasons one would compare C and Rust, or C and Ruby. The way the results are displayed and what it tries to convey is very important.

If you're not making a baseline, or being very clear, etc. then it's just misleading to have a benchmark portraying Javascript as faster than Ruby, Python and Lua. Either you put those into their correct classifications clearly, or you compare it with LuaJIT, PyPy, Julia etc.
I agree with most of what you say, except your first sentence.

The FUD here is that the implication is that now text and images will be DRM'ed. EME only allows DRM'ing video and audio. Facts matter, and making stuff up to 'support' the point does not help. His post literally starts with "the fear is..." and then provides no facts to support it.

It may be so that they signed the death of the open web. But it seems to me that if this is your definition of the death of the open web, the open web has been dead since the broad support and use of the <object> or <embed> tags with RealPlayer, Flash and Silverlight - and very dead since broad adoption of EME before the W3C had any standards on it. Signing that death after all this time does not add anything except for some symbolism.
I don't know what are use cases for that. Nowadays, if you are coding in assembly, you are probably doing some kernel things, embedding asm in C/C++ (for SIMD or something like that and not because compilers generate bad code), embedded code for microcontrollers or retro computers (i.e. ZX Spectrum).

But Visual Studio-like IDE for making x86 application software, with GUI editor seems weird.
I've been using currying (via http://ramdajs.com/) in my projects for a while now and this is rarely a problem(yay for anecdotal evidence).

One reason for that is that my curried functions and their derivatives are usually named in a way that says exactly what they do.
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I'm looking for a digital watch that has functionality like an hourly chime, alarm clock, and reminders. When looking purely at functionality, I have no trouble finding this, but there are some aspects of regular watches that I don't want to give up either.

Functionality-wise: I want to hold on to the long battery life of regular watches. It doesn't need to last a year on a charge, but longer than a month would be nice.

In terms of style: a lot of the watches are designed to look expensive. I'm talking about things like glossy screens, fancy modern designs, and metallic bodies. These are things I want to avoid. I like the retro designs of the watches listed here[1], for example, with black, plastic bodies, and low-resolution screens.

Basically, I'm looking for a computer watch, which was the precursor to smartwatches. Is anything akin in that vein still being produced?

1. https://www.pcmag.com/feature/265834/12-ultra-nerdy-watches-of-yore
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Here's the stats page:

http://www.imcdb.org/stats.php?type=makes&subject=2&limit=25
Decimal itself is just a bizarre choice, most likely due to
humans having literally ten digits.

I think that's probably a myth and there's little reason to think it's related to the number of fingers on our hands. People who count using body parts to keep track of multiples don't just use their fingers, but their knuckles, too, and sometimes other body parts. Lest you think that would naturally give rise to a power of 10, some extant systems only use the 12 knuckles of your four fingers--index, middle, ring, and pinky.

The 10 fingers explanation seems obvious only because of confirmation bias, representativeness bias, etc. Even a cursory survey of appendage-based counting systems makes the number 10 much less likely than we naturally think. Include all historic numeral systems and base 10 disappears into the mix altogether.

We get base-10 from the Hindus. Perhaps some ancient Hindu philosopher actually choose 10 because of our 10 fingers. But there's nothing obvious about it. As you amply point out, there's plenty of reasons to choose some other base, and plenty of civilizations did just that.
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I'm thinking internally if all this buzz on drug decriminalization isn't just the visible part of darwinian process that will naturally eliminate the stupids and the mentally weak from humanity gene pool.
On the other hand, it further "gamifies" war instruments and removes military personnel from their actions.
From https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shibboleth :

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I generally invest in the hope that the company will remain profitable, or become more profitable, and in doing so increase dividends to me. Capital increase would be nice too, but it's not the intended source of profit to me.
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Also don't forget about the Internet Movie Firearms database

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page

Crazy to see that there are custom made guns in movies, like this one:

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Bourne_Supremacy,_The#Keppeler_.26...
The weak point of the elite controller(and I do have one) is the micro-usb port. I imagine it's completely unacceptable on a submarine that you suddenly lose control of the periscope because the cable is a bit dodgy and doesn't sit in the port properly. Wired X360 controllers have a major advantage here. Also if you drop the Elite controller the dpad and the analog sticks will fly in all directions because they are held by magnets.
The normal (not the "EME-free" ones) builds download the Widevine CDM from Google shortly after being run. The EME-free builds have a boolean pref pre-flipped, so that it doesn't download the Widevine CDM unless you manually flip the pref the other way. If you download a non-"EME-free" build and flip the pref, Firefox deletes the Widevine CDM if it already downloaded it.

In summary, if you already have Firefox, you don't need to go download a separate build to opt out of DRM. You can just uncheck the "Play DRM-controlled content" checkbox in the prefs to get to the same configuration.
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That's literally a salary of 2 upper-grade engineers for a year (for a piece).

There's literally _no way_ it had been done in the most efficient manner.
wouldn't you need acquire/release barriers around your load and stores of your token (or alternatively acq/rel load/stores)? Otherwise your other operations won't be ordered with regard the epoch marked by the token.
One interesting direction would be to see if you could use various parts of an email as input features.

You could likely probabilistically guess gender or age from many addresses, and I'm sure domain (yahoo, gmail) changes the distribution as well.
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I start e-mail messages to VCs with a very short pitch that explains the problem I'm solving, the market it is in, why there's a good shot at 1 billion devoted users, why my work is the first good solution, etc. Darned short.

I've never explained the problem I'm solving in public -- not yet. When I have an open beta, then it will be obvious, but I want to keep that much detail non-public until my beta and going live.

Sometimes I stop there. Sometimes I include some more of what I gave above. I never include as much technical information as above -- that is for an HN audience.

I wrote the above for the HN audience to explain what I can that HN could understand.

For the list of "accomplishments", some VCs, including SUSA, claim that they like to see such.

My main point is, in conflict with the OP and with SUSA's remarks on their Web site and in this thread, VCs including SUSA don't respond anything like they claim to. I wasted HUGE time contacting VCs, sent them dozens of highly polished e-mail messages, e.g., including very carefully written PDF foil decks, some with only 10 or so foils and only 250 words in total, and the response was essentially always the same -- silence. Could call, get an assistant, give her (always a female) a heads up about the e-mail, could leave phone messages, could send e-mail follow ups, etc., and in all cases, nothing significant.

My conclusions: Flatly, VCs essentially never take unsolicited e-mail messages seriously, no matter what the content, short, medium, long, highly polished, formal, informal, technical, non-technical, etc. Nothing, not even zip, zilch, zero -- phone calls, e-mail -- unsolicited counts.

Point: Don't waste your time. About all that counts is traction and publicity enough that VCs hear about the company NOT from the company. Maybe "warm introductions" count, but an entrepreneur like me just doesn't know the same people as VCs. We just don't know the same people. I know some very high up people that know me well, but those people don't know VCs.

The "warm introduction" idea is a bad joke on the VCs because the people they would really like to meet don't have the same associates as VCs.

To VCs, everything from the company unsolicited is "from over the transom" and regarded with contempt.

Now with the much lower prices of computing and Internet data rate and lots of free infrastructure software, etc., it's a new day: A sole, solo founder can bring the company to good traction alone. Then a solo founder can have such a low burn rate that by the time a VC firm wants to write a check, the founder will no longer need or want the check -- because such a check has the BoD with all the power in the company and has the founder essentially again an at-will employee.

I can rewrite my pitch anyway I want, and I can promise you that from the 100 top US information technology VCs, an unsolicited, "over the transom" e-mail contact will get a significant response from at most 2 firms but very likely none. It's just an unspoken secret of Sand Hill Road: VCs ignore unsolicited e-mail messages, no matter what is in them.
I am from India and work for one of the Big 4's, my work hours fluctuate from 45-80 hours a week
IMO Python is way easier to read though..

def foo(bar):
a = bar + 1

vs

foo = (bar) ->
a = bar + 1
I am currently working on an opensource analytics and reporting dashboard for Mailgun:

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does anyone know how will banks and accounts work in such a system ? because funds will be held by individuals and not banks.

will banks become the authoritative proof-of-stake entities ?
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Are government-backed privacy tools really going to protect us from Trump?
Get us anywhere? That is research, small pieces to the larger puzzle. Biology is complex, a lot of molecules doing different things. We don't have perfect tools to study those molecules or their interactions. Genomics and statistics offer one path to their study, and they complement already existing methods.
What part of the US Constitution would make it illegal?
Companies should not have this kind of power. Internet is a basic need now, it's where we (as a race) create and share knowledge.
If it is immoral to put restrictions on book consumptions, why should be moral to put restrictions on media consumption?
And I'm not referring to access. You can buy a book on a store, and after that that book is yours you can lend to anyone else, and everyone can read the same pages on this same physical book.
It the right to use the information after that you paid for it.
I am using assembly language for all my programming tasks.

And most of they are application programming (Fresh IDE itself and many closed source projects in my work) or even web programming (https://board.asm32.info).

That is why I needed a powerful IDE, suitable for rapid programming of relatively big projects (500Kloc or higher).
How is it that loud? It's not tolerable even on minimum settings on my iMac.
As someone involved in publishing (but on the literary side) I've always made the point that if we reduce the value that we provide to something mechanical, we will eventually become dispensable.

The key to that kind of publishing (and I believe this story illustrates that it matters in academic publishing also) is providing a framework for the best to come to the top. That means supporting, encouraging and publishing good authors.

The JMLR has the great unspoken advantage that all of the people involved in its production have a job that allows (or encourages) them to pursue this project also. That won't always be the case. Often the key people involved will have to have salaries if the enterprise is to thrive. But the point remains the same: if you measure your value by the bureaucratic production aspect then eventually people will simply say: what do we need these guys for?
A third of an hour is 20 minutes, which we talk about all the time. We just don’t call it “third of an hour”…
Those "fluorescent-lit warehouse full of cheap crap that will be thrown away in a couple of months after it's bought" still exist, they're Amazon warehouses now, though.
Yes, composite numbers have many advantages. Working in base 60 = 2^2 * 5 * 3, has advantages of working in base 2, base 5, and base 3.

In base 10, you can quickly spot multiples of 2, 5, and ten (or alternatively, reduce any number module 2, 5, or 10).
remote truck stops in some countries have been doing gprs transactions for years (maybe not for credit cards but certainly for fuel cards. )
The functionality is available for testing on Android beta version 2.17.340.
Not OP, but my workplace computer is a Dell notebook with a Core i5 CPU underclocked to 750Mhz. I also use an X220i with a Core i3 CPU underclocked to 800MHz (because it will not run at lower speeds). Both offer excellent performance for everything I do. I never use the touchpad, both screens are fine IMO.

Things I do: small-scale data analysis and statistical modelling with Klong and Scheme, plotting graphs, compiling C programs, typesetting with Troff, browsing the Web with Javascript off.
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> That said, of course if it was possible to buy and download movies for permanent offline viewing, similar to music purchases

There's actually quite a few systems which do exactly that. Funnily enough, all use DRM.
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I just looked out the window of our office and took a quick sample of the traffic. There's no bus route on our road, mind. Out of 10 vehicles, 2 looked private (no livery at least - one Mercedes S-class possibly chauffeured, the other could be Uber but wasn't a Prius so maybe not), 3 were black cabs, 3 were delivery vans and 2 were trade vans.

Eliminate 70% of that traffic, and something will break. Kill taxis and business will suffer. Kill trade vans and basic utilities will be out of action for longer. Kill deliveries and the pace of economic activity will slow down. Deliveries are the best candidate for reduction, but don't forget use of delivery vans is directly related to public transport use - people who use public transport can't carry lots of stuff around, or trek out to centralized pickup hubs, so they need delivery vans instead.
I'm strongly in favor of legalization, but I still believe Cannabis is dangerous (just like alcohol, tobacco and countless other legal drugs are).

It's a well known fact that it can trigger psychosis in susceptible persons and I have even witnessed it happen to a close friend.

It also had hugely detrimental effects on some of my weed-smoking friends, to the point that I no longer want to spend time with them since it affected their personality. I also know people who smoke it daily without any (visible) negative effects whatsoever..
Why is it bad?
Cool, I'm searching Gopher, and it works :) Nice and quick, no tracking, no ads, just need something to consume, anyone want to help me whip up an HN > Gopher widget ;)
It would be interesting to create sets from auto-generated passwords that these tools provide (like LastPass, 1Password, KeyPass) and browser generated passwords.
I'm stuck in the billable hour purgatory as well. It seems to be a trend that becomes more and more pervasive.

For my next job I'll move to an inhouse position, hopefully things will be better in a setting like that.
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Hi! I have implement a complete payment terminal application with magstripe, chip and contactless capabilities.

I have also designed security protocols to keep the data and keys from the bad guys, including things like Key Injection Facility, loading and exchange protocols, etc.

These things (terminals, cards, HSMs) can be extremely safe. Not only there are protocols available that in my knowledge have never been breached but also the devices themselves are built in secure manner to prevent any physical attacks. The entire infrastructure can be made so that no single employee can get hold of any secret material.

The truth is, that there is a range of solutions and the secure ones cost. It costs to set them up and use correctly. It costs to produce chip card that can dynamically sign and encrypt the data. It is up to the issuer (bank) how much they pay for the security of their card and typically banks are not too eager to overpay. Rather, they take calculated risk.

Another problem is that North America is particularly behind in security standards. I remember, while working on this application (10 years ago) there was much more leniency for US users (issuers, acquirers) than the rest of the world.
Title should contain "in JavaScript".
The default in Firefox depends on which build, which operating system, which distributor. It's a boolean pref that you can flip the other way if you don't like the default you got.
Signal is built on top of the phone number system (ie. falling back to SMS, phone numbers as ids). Telephony is pretty clearly a federated system - somebody on one carrier can talk to another; even internationally.

I find it so ironic that he doesn't "support federated systems" when the Signal is tied to one.
I suppose this is a good place to ask this question.

How much truth is there to the fairly famous XKCD comic "correct horse battery staple" in this scenario. Isn't it possible that random word combinations, if they were common in passwords, could be guessed relatively early in a password hash brute force attack?

Especially considering we are talking about apparently billions of attempts per second.

Second question, is it true that placing restrictions on the password such as that it must include a capital letter, a special character, and be 8 characters long. Also reduces the time it takes to crack because the algorithm can simply dump a huge amount of possible answers?
Which repo contains the server part and the JS frontend?
Can't you just deny the permissions?
For the first time ever, CCleaner 5.33.1612 is offered to immediately update, without begging you to upgrade, or trying to show you a video, or anything. The new version is 5.34.6207. The claim is that only the 32-bit version was affected. See http://www.piriform.com/news/release-announcements/2017/9/18...

At least I hope that's what happened.
The Babylonians already used a composite-ish system for numbers < 60: They had a different symbol for 10. However, smaller numbers were represented by repeating the unit symbol (which is not very clever).

I guess that the least confusing transcript to modern notation would be something like
7, 24

to represent 7 * 60 + 24 = 444
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Warped reality. They actually think ads are "helping" people, so the idea that no one wants ads doesn't cross their minds.
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Spinning up asteroids can't be done. The speed you'd need for significant gravity would rip the asteroid apart.
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Probably from some online brand monitoring service. I've used https://brand24.com/ and it was quite powerful.
it definitely should be used in moderation.

regarding psychosis - if you compare weed consumption with number of schizophrenic diagnoses then the idea that weed causes schizophrenia can be easily falsified.

but - of course - any psycho active substance can and will impair the mind of somebody consuming it irresponsibly.

a lot of people micro dose weed - less than 0.05g per consumption unit - that's not going to cause any issues.
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Eagle has a free licence version, If you're ok with 2 layer pcb's and fairly small boards, which would suit quite a lot of hobbyists. KiCad was in need of some UX love back when I looked at it 2 years ago, the feature set is definitely impressive though, maybe time to revisit it in the near future.
There is a similar technique using markov chain. The author don't seem to be aware.