skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have but I'd say that SQLite is not intended for use in that scenario. It's an in-process library for persisting data to disk in a generally relational format with a SQL interface. It starts to degrade under highly concurrent read and write workloads that you can experience in client-server applications. At that point, a typical RDBMS with more robust concurrency support starts to be a better choice. I experienced that when using SQLite and we eventually moved the application to a full RDBMS which was more complex but also performed and scaled much better.

Note that this is very much in line with their recommendations from the docs (http://sqlite.org/whentouse.html):

>>SQLite is not directly comparable to client/server SQL database engines such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server since SQLite is trying to solve a different problem.

Client/server SQL database engines strive to implement a shared repository of enterprise data. They emphasize scalability, concurrency, centralization, and control. SQLite strives to provide local data storage for individual applications and devices. SQLite emphasizes economy, efficiency, reliability, independence, and simplicity.

SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen().<<

It's worth noting that when considered as competition to fopen(), SQLite is quite good.
I was hoping that is was an action that would put pressure on North Korea. North Korea has been trying to use Cryptocurrencies to circumvent sanctions.
Banned Books Week – Advocacy, Legislation
Peer review isn't a panacea. It's totally possible that the NSA knows of a vulnerability or class of vulnerabilities that the rest of the peer review community doesn't. The cipher could be bad but still pass peer review (or it could be better than publicly known, like DES was).

In any case, it seems like the NSA was dragging its feet in trying to fully explain the designs (from the OP):

> Finally, at a March 2017 meeting in Hamilton, New Zealand, the Americans distributed a 22-page explanation of its design and a summary of attempts to break them - the sort of paper that formed part of what delegates had been seeking since 2014.

Given they're more recent history, I'd be mistrustful. It seems to me that the design of a good cipher should be done totally in the open, so any vulnerabilities are inadvertent. This includes explaining the design and the decisions and trade-offs that brought you there.
OpenStack Swift (it's S3-like service) uses SQLite to store account and bucket metadata.
Great misunderstanding of what I said, this is two in a row when considering the above, bravo.

What is wrong with your first comment is:

1. zenlikethat's comment obviously talks about base images in general, not about a specific base image ("...most base images...")

2. Your reply which disagrees with that is based on a very basic fallacy (there is a one base image which contains ssl so zenlikethat's claim is false!?)

3. Your example is a base image which you're a maintainer of

Considering (1) is obvious and (2) is a very basic fallacy nobody here should fall for, your comment seems like an intentional and unwarranted plug for "phusion/baseimage" instead of a valid and honest disagreement to zenlikethat's comment. (extra points for unwarranted plug of your domain expertise in immediate parent comment)
>settled in 3 seconds

*subject to chargeback/reversal for up to n months.
New FinFisher surveillance campaigns: Are internet providers involved?
You got it, you're right, and I agree.

I rarely go into Settings to disable WiFi, but it seems like I'll have to start doing that now.
someone pls tell me that this vulnerability at least requires the computer to be physically attached to a network.
If you haven't already you might want to look into Sony phones, they've made good smaller phones in the past. I don't know if they've got anything new out but I've got an Xperia Z5 Compact and it has always been quite capable of doing whatever I want it to do.
This thread could use this link:

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

Basically, it is an SDR for multiple users and an online interface. It's RX only, of course. More options are available at websdr.org but the above is my favorite.

Caution, it can be a huge time sink.
January 31, 2018, for the July 5 Primary ballot.

http://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/Fil...
>Do we really want to see Twitter gone?

Can we have RSS back? I mainly use Twitter as an ersatz RSS substitute, because most publishers killed off RSS in favour of social media.
I think the point is that they rely on foreign lending to help fuel economic growth by flooding institutions with money, a practice that is unsustainable in the long term, and that their rating is being downgraded because their growth numbers are artificially inflated in this way.
You mean Chinese debt is held in their own currency?
The first autonomous drone delivery network will fly above Switzerland
looks useful but it breaks my stylish dark theme so im going to have to pass on this extension
Believe it or not, there are some folk who abhor all violence, for whom there is literally no situation where a weapon of arms sector level sophistication could be used for good. In this case, there's simply no justification for the arms sector's existence.
later today probably
I thought the amount at which they're doing so was a drop in the bucket worthy of nothing more than a headline?
Slavery was a 19th century issue.

Cultural globalisation was favored by the left during the 1970's and lost favor during the 1980's and later.

Is slavery and Cultural globalisation a fair comparison?
Build more housing. (Or rather, permit it to be built.)
Keeping it 100%.
I agree. While I understand the OP's point that it's a valuable experience for the team, a glimpse into solving real problems, it's not a finished product, etc., I still think ArcelorMittal captures the bulk of the value here.

They had 70 teams competing. The team in the article had 5 members working for 36 hours, with 3 hours of sleep. Let's say the team members would fetch $150k/year. $75/hr. 5 people, 33 hours. $12,375. And there were 70 teams competing for $10k + snacks.

On the flip side, how much does ArcelorMittal lose on a single failed weld? I would venture a guess it's well north of $10k.
:set sarcasm

Hey, That's unfair to C! If an OS is reckless enough to give a process memory when it asks for it, it should have no business worrying about what the process does with the allocation!

In all seriousness though, the language can't be held responsible for poor programming practices.

For any insecurities resulting from c code, blame the compiler!

:)
The trick is believing.

Expect to fall asleep as soon as you are on the plane, eat before boarding and avoid coffee. I could never do it until I could. Now I start yawning at the gate.
I am? Lifelong vegetarian, but once in a while have real meat, so know what it tastes like.

I actively avoid burger joints that only serve your mashed vegetable cakes (aka garden burger). The point of a burger is lost.

There are plenty alternatives besides Impossible Burger that have robust flavor and texture. Several burger bars have let me bring examples, tried them, and started stocking.

To be fair, none of those alternatives were trying to bleed.
In other words now it's a race to the botttom for President. Or we have already reached the point where there is absolutely nothing left to lose. Serious question: would you vote for Kim Kardashian or Trump in the next election if it came to that?
That's interesting. I was under the impression they became read-only not completely inaccessible.
The Lossy Image Quality Survey
I really don't understand why majority of websites use mysql or even postgres for that matter. The vast majority of websites would run perfectly fine on sqlite.

Not only would you get rid of network latency, you would also vastly reduce your dependencies.

I have a side project to try to see if I can build a minimal micro-blogging type server application on sqlite and try to test how many requests it can handle per second (reads and writes).

I have a hunch it will be able to handle quite a lot. Specially if the server code is written in a fast language that compiles to native code (e.g. D) with some caching of the most commonly requested items in memory.
Node.js Performance Monitoring – Part 3: Diagnosing the Event Loop
where does someone find government contracts to bid on? you could be like the guys from War Dogs but instead of guns and ammo you trade code.

How does anyone knows there's something to bid on or do they only tell IBM? In that case it's hardly IBM's fault is it.
You can be wrong at any level if you start extrapolating details.
"Egregious" implies that it's unreasonable. Can you say more on that?
From a consumer privacy standpoint, Apple has the advantage over Google that they are not beholden to advertisers for any significant portion of their revenue.
Even Bitcon has become surprisingly centralized due to ASIC miners. The simple truth is coins are 100% zero sum, so without utility they are limited to pyramid schemes.

So, yes in theory you could make a useful currency. But, nobody seems to be focused on low cost, ultra high transaction rates, anonymous transactions, etc. It's all pump and dump.
> I don't think self-perception and outside-perception align very often for anybody

Yeah, that's true, but for more conventional identities the possible misalignments are not as extreme and basic.
Definitely. I love markets; they can do amazing stuff. But we're talking an invisible hand, not an invisible magic sparkle unicorn.

I look at a market as a machine that we can deploy. It does a specific thing, but only with the right inputs and working conditions. Here, we are not Equifax's customers. Harm to us is a negative externality, which is a classic kind of market failure:

http://www.economicsonline.co.uk/Market_failures/Types_of_ma...

So markets don't fix this even in theory.

Personally, I'd like to see this problem turned over to an institution something like the Smithsonian: not a regular part of government, but a trust with a specific purpose. I'd be even happier with it if it had directly elected privacy commissioners, so that it was more accountable to the people whose data it safeguards.

We're only going to end up with more data that's about people, even if it's not generated or held by those people. Having a home for that data, one with a public purpose and public accountability, seems way better to me than leaving it for a private, profit-making corporation to exploit.
Smartphone Heart Monitor Beats Doctors at Diagnosing Atrial Fibrillation
See e.g. for a list of applications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Qt_market

Of course it depends on where your interests lie but here's some examples: VLC, Spotify (Linux), old Opera, Krita, Google Earth, Tesla Model S in-car UI, webOS, SailfishOS, AMD's Radeon Software Crimson driver tool, and many others including what's already mentioned, Battle.net.
Yes, indeed even LLVM 4 already improved its AVX-512 support.

http://releases.llvm.org/4.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

Really impressive how many new things came to LLVM this year!
Really? I joined a few groups but couldn't figure out how to post, and there was an emoji drawer eating up 1/3 of the screen, and was unable to be hidden. I consider myself a smart enough person to write an app that performs the role of Telegram, I shouldn't have trouble learning to use it.
The Search for Better Search at Reddit (Lucene Revolution 2017)
This is especially problematic because stores track your movements via wifi [1], even if you haven't connected to any networks. Now I have to go to Settings to actually turn off wifi and defeat this type of tracking. Terrible.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/attention-shopper...
THANK YOU. Intel is not Facebook or Google or Microsoft. They do not run software botnets, search engines, or social networks. They do not have political directives or dreams of changing the world. People with those objectives infiltrate other industries where they can actually influence something.
The example isn't using Promise.reduce.
Tracing metaballs in two dimensions: an interactive explanation
OPM recently demonstrated how well the government can protect the data it collects.
There has been discussion of this idea. https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673
Clkscrew: Exposing the perils of security-oblivious energy management
I can understand about being suspicious of the NSA after the whole Dual_EC_DRBG fiasco. However these designs are not unknown throughout the industry (ARX having gotten some heat lately from the Keccak people). Is there some technical reasons these designs should be disallowed aside from "We don't like the NSA".
So I am not one of those people that says that the government is bad and terrible and evil and can't be trusted to ever do anything. But a government agency that has all the info about all my accounts, and is a reputation agency which basically hands down major decision factors that will affect my life (can I get a car loan? a mortgage?) seems ripe for abuse. Think of how well no fly lists currently work: if your name is on that list, you are fucked. If you end up there by mistake, which apparently happens with some frequency, you have to prove that you aren't a terrorist. If your name matches the name of someone on that list, you can be fucked. I just don't have faith in a system like this.

I don't have a good solution for the recommendation system like this. Maybe we wouldn't need it in the first place if we didn't do so much debt financing of stuff. Or maybe it needs to be less centralized: applying for one loan, you need to show payment history on a few other loans, etc. But I just don't see a centralized government run agency as the solution.
There's a difference between charisma and being overly offensive to all senses.
If it's in typescript or has type definitions available you can convert those type definitions with ts2kt. Failing that, you can use the dynamic type.

ts2kt - https://github.com/kotlin/ts2kt

type definitions for many libraries - http://definitelytyped.org/

dynamic type - https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/dynamic-type.html
Check #3 & #4 on his submissions.

Btw, hackers accessing this info could possibly explain something I tweeted to them about 10 days ago:

https://twitter.com/jeffallen6767/status/907171360769662976
They are working on it. Currently several OEMs including Moto, Xiaomi, and Sharp are making AndroidOne phones. Project Treble further streamlines both AndroidOne and every OEM's porting.

Absorbing significant market share from OEM partners isn't going to happen on the basis of a another couple of Pixel phones. It may come from rationalizing the platforms and porting requirements for Android.
Can you care to point where Apple was user hostile from a privacy point of view?

It can be arguable why Apple limited the user iPhone wise. Actually, limiting the user not only affected performance but also privacy since Apps are jailed and can't easily "hack" your phone/data.

It be great to differentiate between two guys: 1. Who cares about freedom and performance and 2. Who cares about freedom only. I'd like to think that Apple is number 1. They care about freedom as long as it doesn't affect the performance vector.
> Be aware of this - we all know advertising is abused, and has tired users - but it's tricky to find a vendor of hardware being the gate keeper of such stance.

Advertising is abused. End of story. People are starting to realize they can let it affect their life, or prefer products that respect it.

Someone is gonna have access at some point to that information, there is no way around it. You seem to be on the side of letting anybody get access to it. Others do not want that and think they can trust Apple to guard it. It's their choice, it is not the advertiser's. The worst that can happen is Apple fails to honor its promise, and then well be back where we started.

I don't know why, maybe you are part of the ad industry, maybe you just like to have no privacy, but your emotional appeal to a dark Apple-owned future full of zombies is cartoonish at best.
Commodities, emerging markets, property, angel investing... lots of choices. Or charity.
Maybe cops should go 3 months without pay if they discharge their weapon regardless of if they are in the right or not. so they have a vested interest in keeping us alive. since 9 times out of 10 they DO NOT get convicted. I understand its a callous way to handle it. But if it cost a cop 15-20k to shoot at someone and the possibility of going to jail if they truly were in the wrong, maybe they would more hesitation at firing a weapon.
I hadn't heard of whitening before: sounds like it's a simple change of the plaintext prior to full encryption, in the example at Wikipedia it's an XOR operation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_whitening

Presumably something like rot13 would count as whitening? Also, assuming the name comes from analogy with "white noise", ie reducing signal quickly, cheaply?
Try convincing a Tesla owner to give it up for a Yugo before trying to convince a classic ThinkPad zealot -- someone with a six year old ThinkPad T420s, who kept it because of the superior keyboard -- to give it up for some random keyboard and no TrackPoint.
It's almost like German politician don't care about the problems of "Germans" or as some prefer to call them "People who have lived here for a longer time"
He was either complicit with Russia or completely ignorant.
Richard Stallman's Programming Tips
Have you ever worked in a regulated industry? My experience is that regulators add accountability to bureaucracy. Bureaucracies brush off harm to customers pretty well. But when a regulator can fuck their shit up, they listen.
download still not available at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk9... ...although it does say scheduled for release on 9/21
Fro docs:

YAML 1 is an example of a hierarchical data storage format which is much more readable than XML. The problem with YAML is that it was designed as a “data serialization language” and thus to map the data constructs usually found in programming languages. That makes it too complex for the simple task of storing plain lists of items.

I dont see how this is true. Provided sample with books is almost identical in yaml.

The main benefit over yaml looks like more control of individial fields but again, yaml based db app could do that too.
Personal Safety in a p2p Social Network
And "Zcash partners with JP Morgan" doesn't exactly scream anonymity to me.

https://www.coindesk.com/jpmorgan-partners-zcash-team-add-en...
Easy there, this is someone's personal project- you aren't being forced to use, evaluate, contribute to, or provide a review. You should focus on your own goals and excuse yourself from topics of discussion you don't care for. Someone on the project is likely reading this and -not- feeling good about your needlessly hateful comments. Next time just keep it to yourself and move on.
Not on desktop, however. Safari for macOS is introducing the same functionality
Great job!!!
That would remove any way that you had to run a server on your home machines - trade one freedom for another?
It’s the end of the world and we know it
The jobs act allows smaller fundraisers from non-accredited investors.. but it’s not very popular. Why?
If they listen to you, maybe they'll quit. If you lose their friendship, you can make new ones who don't work for evil companies.

This is what I meant by "Don't try to control your friends."

If you don't let your friends have radically different beliefs from your own, you're just making an echo chamber for yourself.
If that was true, we wouldn't have poor jobless people living in the city centres - why be poor and jobless in a city centre, if if you can be jobless and slightly less poor outside of the city, surely there is no functional difference? But humans are not automatons, they don't follow perfect logic.
SQLite does not work smoothly in many languages (like python) in regards to concurrent access. Without a controlling process (or thread) it's synchronisation possibilities are limited, so it can never scale too far.

Nonetheless I think it's a great idea to build your own single-threaded layer over SQLite and scale that, using a message bus or whatever.

But it's _not_ a drop-in replacement for MySQL based apps.
Great hack. Really enjoyed reading this! Noob question: the weld as shown in the AR video looks really detailed (fissures, deformations etc). Was that rendered by you using the heightmap data alone or did you have access to top and bottom images of the welds as part of the training data?
I really really had hoped that somehow, magically, Jobs' death wouldn't hurt Apple's trajectory, but things don't seem to be playing out that way.
Hi, I don't know about job listings, but you might be interested in Benefit Corporations[0] or B Corporations[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation#Difference...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_Corporation_(certification)
While the simulation is really cool, I doubt it represents the reality (assuming the Moon blew up).

Why I think so: the planets have formed out of space debris, they didn't all fall into the star.

> Pairwise collisions between bodies – most of the collisions are approximated as elastic.

Yeah, that's one reason why.

> A static mass at the origin of a 2D co-ordinate system – this is Earth

Why not simulate the Earth too?
Scalajs easily
Thank you! I'm happy to be corrected. :-)
Timing is key, as China party leadership head into their fall meeting. Expect some face-saving "reset" rather than outright default. But still, very bullish for dollar vs emerging markets. And adding to already deflationary picture for global macroeconomy.

Kyle Bass' original analysis of the China credit bubble is also worth revisiting.

The $34 Trillion Experiment: China’s Banking System and the World’s Largest Macro Imbalance

http://im.ft-static.com/content/images/42972ca8-d72e-11e5-88...
>> I mean, as I understand it, it hasn't been publicly released yet.

> Not sure what you mean by this. iOS 11 was released on 09-19-2017, so not sure what you're saying is still awaiting a public release?

I meant that I thought it hadn't but wasn't sure -- I haven't been following it closely.
The image showing the size of the Matternet drone compared to a human was informative. The drone is much bigger than I envisioned it would be. Since the drones are approved to fly over dense urban Swiss cities, one intuitively anticipates a drone that large falling out of the sky to cause more damage than a smaller one.

Curious now what types of safety and redundancy mechanisms are in place for the Matternet drones.
In what ways is EDGAR elegant?
I like the idea of Arrow, I thought it was unique but thinking of it just like a regular in-memory database (sqllite h2 HSQLDB derby) it doesn't seem so special. Still excited though - if I can only persuade the rest of the team to adapt. :)
CoopCycle: an open-source meal delivery platform
It's not necessarily realistic for you, but flying charter is a whole different experience. If, say, a half dozen of you would be going, and traveling first class, it isn't much more expensive. You skip TSA and can often just head to the hanger and skip the lobby entirely.

I'm also fortunate in that I know lots of people with planes. Plane ownership is fairly common in my area. One of my friends even has a timeshare, except it is for a plane and not a condo. I had no idea such things existed, but they do.

It really does improve the whole flying experience. The additional expense is worth it to avoid the TSA and not be treated like cattle. If I'm flying internationally, I'll just drive into Canada and fly out from there. That's how I used to get to go to Cuba, before it was legal.
As an Amateur Extra I've used a Pi to transmit WSPR 24/7 and was once heard in New Zealand from Ohio. No amplifiers even...