skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a long history (no attachment to an ideal based on childhood experience that many others seem to have) with Star Wars and I liked it, even though I thought some of it was really strange. That said, I'm no movie critic, and am fairly easy to please.

At first I was surprised that it's as divisive as it is. But I think it's a franchise fraught with very personal and specific expectations from long-time fans and when that's the case, the reviews will tend to be more polarized, especially when anything new is tried.

The humorous moments were sometimes a nice touch but maybe a bit overdone. I really preferred the darker/religious type of scenes (Jedi books, the underground mirror/darkness, etc). I'm still a bit torn about the whole mind-linking thing and the Leia-space moment (trying to be vague here). But again, for me these are nitpicks, whereas they may be deal-breakers for others.
Twitter is committing a slow suicide. Maybe @jack is just bored with it at this point...
Interesting that there are tunnels around Hatton Garden which is a large center of the jewellery trade. No doubt some great heist plot material there!
Covering Bitcoin while owning Bitcoin
Have you looked at Xcode Server: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/ID... ?
>apparently engineers who work in the industry such as OEMs are not really "tech" from what I read in the media, shrug

And if someone works at one of the right companies which happen to use software, they're considered to be working in "tech" even if they don't know how to use their own computer.

"Tech" is a business vertical when it's convenient to steal goodwill from the enabling nature of software. It's a job disciple when it's convenient to dump the baggage of that virtical's business decisions onto those damn nerds.
> How can you misplace 11k rape kits in a way that doesn't disrupt trust in the chain of custody?

if they went into some warehouse properly tagged, and were still sealed and in the warehouse N years later, that's generally going to be good enough.

if the defense wants to raise some objection, they're welcome to, but they'd need to come up with some actual reason the chain was broken. like, records that the warehouse was broken in to during the time that sample was stored, or, the EV tape was cut and not resealed by some testing tech, etc.
Blockchain for elections and voting
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll link up the Wire and ODI ones now too - they’re both really heavily open source so we can show what we do for them.

And yes - totally agree!
Reminds me of all articles attempting to explain how simple monads are
Relocate.me, jobs with relocation packages
>If you're having to fix stuff with -f, you're going to run into trouble; try to avoid -f ever.

I disagree. I don't have much experience using git with big teams, but at least for small team where a developer usually owns a feature branch, force pushing to the branch to take into account criticism on commits can be helpful. Of course, in that case, feature branches are considered non shared.

Git own "next" branch is actually force pushed to all the time, to remove patches which didn't make the cut for example.
> Fugitive

That's interesting. I switched back from emacs to vim (neovim), and fugitive was recommended. it just looked like :commands for the normal git cli... maybe I missed something.

So even though I edit in vim, I jump back to emacs for magit for bigger commits or multiple smaller commits (where I need to see diffs to be sure I capture my changes).

I have desired something as useful in vim, but I didn't think there was anything. I'll take another look at fugitive.
>I’d be more concerned about water TBH. Most of us carry a fair amount of fat, enough to survive several weeks without eating.

They used to call it "the law of twos" - you can live two minutes without air, two days without water, and two weeks without food.

So yeah, water is the big concern. Two weeks without food is the low end, but electrolyte imbalances can kill you even if you still retain plenty of stored calories.
At some level, this is marketing hype. They have NOT "solved" quantum computing in the sense that a layman would expect: room temperature quantum integrated circuit able to give exponential speedup over classical algorithms.

I would say the biggest innovation here is that they have made a silicon based integrated circuit with fault-tolerant qbits (using error-correction codes they invented).
Thanks for the feedback. If we assume the server is compromised then it's true that a MITM attack is trivial. However it seems to me this would be the case for any web-based e2e chat application, all of which must use a server by definition.

Regardless, it's easy enough to spin up your own instance of Darkwire (`docker compose`) and operate the server yourself if so inclined.
For what little it's worth, my iPhone SE has held up remarkably well, and the audio output is, while not perfect, typically good enough for headphones (even more expensive IEM headphones).

And the audio output is a standard 3.5mm jack.
Do you have any strategies for winning hackathons?
> the only way to is shell out and scrape the output of ps

Why couldn't you just read /proc/self/status and /proc/self/smaps in process? Would be like an order of magnitude less expensive.
Is Bitcoin the Answer?
There has been some slow but noticeable progress in building quantum computers using semiconductors. Researchers at Princeton were recently able to implement a two-qubit quantum gate in silicon [0].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.03530.pdf
I'm not sure what your point is here? 4th or 5th is not very close to being largest (especially amongst cities which tend to have exponential curves in population - e.g. it's not surprising the 1st most populous city to be 3-5x the next largest)
Stocks are definitely speculative, but just not nearly to the same degree. They are speculating on what will happen in the meatspace. Telsa's valued because people are betting they'll become a major car company. And stocks like Tesla are outliers.

Bitcoin speculation is now just speculation based on price alone. Why is bitcoin going up? Because people think it will go up. That is a nasty feedback loop, that right now is causing it to have insane growth. The higher the price the more demand, the more demand, the more price goes up, etc.

But the opposite can (and will) happen. The demand for bitcoin drops because the price drops, the demand drops cause the price to drop further. etc.

Since the stock market is based on meatspace demand, if Tesla started to spiral for no reason, someone would buy it just to make a cash profit from it. People like Warren Buffet buy companies they think are undervalued to capture the profit.

>Bitcoin has A LOT value to people in countries that are on the brink of economic collapse due to inflation. Even in the United States, the FED prints over $200 billion a month. So in theory Bitcoin should hold value over the long term better than the US dollar.

They'd be better off buying property, securities, or even just USDs.

Bitcoin has gone up over 10 times this year. There is a huge risk it'll go back down to 1/10th. I wouldn't put any significant amount of money in such a volitile "asset."
For clarification for other readers, the authors of the paper here do not make any claim towards that. They assume a setup where

> the complete structure is maintained at cryogenic temperatures (∼1 K or less) inside an electron spin resonance (ESR) system, which will be used to apply qubit control pulses.
Maybe the aliens ARE the "carbon-rich gunk"?
You don't mention whether this needs to be on prem or if it is OK if it runs somewhere else. Visual Studio Team Services work great for me. They also have hosted Mac instances that you can run on. It is very flexible. You can also install agents on your own machines to run on instead.

I've also used Bitrise in the past, it also has Mac OS and Linux machines where you can run your builds on.
It becomes a legal proceeding. Like any legal proceeding, your trauma now has to be relived over the course of a criminal trial, with you having to go up on a stand and recount the entire experience and be called a liar in a public forum by opposing counsel and have all your neighbors (and the world) know more about you than you'd like and fashion all manner of horrible opinions of you.

Nobody wants to go through that.

Not to mention when your attacker is someone you know, and you wrestle with whether or not you might have implied consent will result in absolutely ruining someone else's life with the mere allegation.

It's not a light matter. Most cases actually aren't performed at gunpoint in an alley.
It doesn't look like TypeScript bindings work on this, but it'd be nice to see the overhead of @types/ packages.
Politifacts is funded by the guys who fund hillary :/
Your comment reminds me of http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove and http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html. In your books, either I agree with you, or I am an evil person.

But if I take my clothing to a drycleaner, and my clothing comes back torn due to their incompetence, I'm not expected to pay for the drycleaning. Ditto if the valet damages my car.

The fact that someone put time in does not entitle them to my money. If I receive something of value, I give something of value. If this makes me a person that you do not wish to know, then I'm happy that I don't know you because you sound like an unpleasant person for me to be around.
Ask HN: Recommended Products for Home Office? – Dec 2017
My business had a good year and I have some extra budget I'd like to spend to upgrade my home office and to help reduce taxes. Any suggestions on what to spend it on?

1) Sit-to-stand desk?

2) Monitors for MacBook Pros? Boom arms?

3) Shared storage solution (e.g. a NAS with RAID 5)? What types of hard drives should I put into it?

4) ~55"-65" that I can easily use as a projector for metrics? Should I get an Apple TV? ChromeCast? Something else?

5) What are some other great gadgets to improve a home office?
It's about emerging markets.
Here's the citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm

You do need to update yourself. There are standard gates, complete computation theories, and algorithms for lots of interesting problems. Those aren't even new.
There's a git GUI??

Seriously though, I'm somewhat new to git and any problem I come across (which are many as a new learner) are solved with command line options. I'm not even familiar with the best GUI options out there and have been trying to learn what seemed to be the "standard" way of git'ing.
Do it in Vim (or emacs for those weirdos out there) and you're done before you would've even reached the mouse :)
Saying we need less comments of some sort does not equate to saying "screw them!"

I can't DV, so you all can create an aggressive environment on HN if you want, but it won't help you IRL if you say this. If you want to create a toxic environment for discussion, that is up to dang.
You know what's a worse problem? Not having any customers, because nobody wants to get scammed and have no recourse.
I was a junior developer on a heavily used utility that was frequently pirated. The company tried a few strategies to deal with this but one of the best was incredibly sneaky.

This was before validating license keys over the internet was really possible so a lot of people just used our application with a key from a public cracking site. Of course, we also knew about this list of cracked keys and our application would pretend to accept them. But if you actually tried to use the application, it would appear to be doing something for several minutes but fail with a mysterious error inviting the user to submit a log file to support.

Of course, the log file was secretly marked to indicate that it had come from a pirated copy and the customer would get a polite call from the sales team.

It worked out pretty well, a lot of customers didn't know they were using pirated software (or so they claimed; somewhat plausible given the nature of the utility) and were happy to pay and the sales team got a lot of solid leads. Evil vanquished, good prevailed, and I got paid.
that's interesting, ive heard that epic is better than cerner and others, but most of my physician friends still dont like it

out of curiousity, what kind of physicians were these, in terms of specialty as well as employment status (hospital employed, hospital affiliated, part of med group, independent)?

most of the physician surveys ive seen express negative views about EMRs, but a sizable portion of physicians say that EMRs help make some things easier and more efficient. cant locate the surveys offhand
Check out http://git.liw.fi/ick2/
Support for linux was added recently.

You can the info here

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-Pro-Dr...

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-PRO-SS...
Only point is the parent was

a) Wrong on the population in the year given

b) Choose the incorrect decade for peak population with respect to the size of other cities in the US.

c) Gave a snide remark to the user to use Wikipedia while unable to do so themselves...

[Edit rate limited reply] Well I guess you learn something new everyday, but the parent insinuated the poster did not know this to be the case with the BTW, so you can read it however you'd like
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://boingboing.net/2017/12/18/11341-abandoned-rape-kits-....
Well, I certainly don't want to do it alone, if I want to do it in the first place.

It sounds an awful lot like you are complaining, but about what, I am not sure.

I don't see how I am not letting you be, either. Creating a new system does not involve you at all, until you find a personal interest in that system, or its development.
I don't have much experience in ruby profiling, but what you're saying doesn't make sense.

> the only way to is shell out and scrape the output of ps

All `ps` is doing is reading files in proc. The memory info it prints is in `/proc/$pid/status`. Ruby can trivially read `/proc/self/status` to get that very naive view of how much memory it's using.

That isn't a useful amount of memory because, well, it doesn't actually show where object allocations go.

> Copy on write does definitely help here, only for Ruby > 2.0.

I believe she meant the operating system's copy-on-write of memory. Forking a copy of a process is actually very cheap because it's copy-on-write. That has nothing to do with ruby or its version and has been true in linux for as long as linux has existed.

I really don't understand what you're trying to say or why you mention ps at all.
Yeah, another dumb try of applying timestamping (blockchain) to something
totally unrelated and ill-suited. Ever heard of digital voting protocols and
the list of their necessary properties? No? Then go learn properly
cryptography first.
Allocate 20+% more memory that you could ever need. Use cgroups, lxc, systemd to constrain applications and containers to specific amounts of memory, cpu, etc. Properly engineered systems will have enough memory for everything else under the hood beyond the application. VM and container abstraction does not negate the requirement to calculate this.
Given the order-of-magnitude increase in speed (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/18/d_wave_demystifies_...) combined with the assumption that the price of these chips will go down as commercialization becomes more viable, isn't it naive to even consider the viability of cryptocurrency?
I mean, if the core underlying value of this "asset class" is the fact that there is a scarcity of numbers (like collector baseball cards) combined with ease and anonymity of transactions (like diamonds), then unlimited computing power will demolish the value of cryptocurrencies as much as alchemy would diminish the value of Au.
Sure, but are you wearing IEMs while running? Sound isolation isn’t a virtue in that case.
You’re carbon-rich gunk.
Looks like a bulky version of quick-scope (maybe inspired by?): https://github.com/unblevable/quick-scope
Bigelow is a billionaire. The contract was for $22 million, chump change -- not just for Bigelow, but for almost anything. Hang around Wall St and government for even a little bit and you'll realize how small 22 million is. The money is a non story.
"People are often obsessed with needing to write original ideas. Forget it."

I hate him. Idiot! Fuck this guy
The first choke point is the ISP. You are completely dependent on the ISP or mobile provider to get on the network. Once on the network there are multiple choke points around IP addresses, dns, ca authorities, registries and more.

As long as you are dependent on anyone to get on the network it by definition can't be decentralized. Consumer wireless tech is heavily regulated and governments are extremely paranoid about communication channels they don't control and can't monitor.

This is unlikely to change because there are no incentives to develop technology that truly empowers individuals, there is no profit in it, it's a social good. If developed it will be demonized and made illegal, and limited to minority dissenters, the general population is unlikely to go through hoops to get on a network.
I'll add: both Spring and Tomcat exemplify this quality that a lot of earlier (2000-era) Java frameworks have (others: Hibernate, actually literally anything that embraces XML...), of being "extensible mostly in name only". You can, in theory, implement modules that tie into various parts of their functionality -- and in practice I've found myself doing it occasionally -- but it's almost always regrettable.

Anything you figure out how to do in these will itself just become un-figure-outable for the next engineer who handles it.

(One of the most frustrating tasks in my engineering career involved trying to debug why Spring beans loaded by a Spring-Tomcat integration layer, in the initialization of a Tomcat container, weren't discovering XML files loaded at another stage of initialization. When I look back on that year I think I might have indirectly changed jobs because of it. Hah.)
Ensure Transparent Huge Pages are disabled. There is a known bug/leak. The only fix is to set to madvise or disable it all together.
The Samsung Galaxy S8+ still has a headphone jack. I'm with you it's ridiculous to remove them. I'm not sure who is making these decisions but I really feel like someone needs to wake them up.
Which is completely normal.
> all those people seem to want to do is to constantly complain about it.

Why are you taking those complaints so personally?

You don't need us to be content with the status quo. If all we are doing is complaining, we really aren't doing anything to you.
Investors Rebel Over Kin’s Move Away from Ethereum
From their very own README:

> Ick2 will become a CI system. It is not there yet. It is not even ALPHA level yet.

It doesn't even have a website, just a repository browser.
Here‘s what I do for a native app:

Small dependencies are checked in the repository in source form, and compiled with the app.

For big dependencies (eg. OpenSSL), I have a script that downloads and builds them, and then I check in the built object files into version control.

This means that as soon as you check out the repo, you can immediately build my app, and build times are really short since big dependencies are already compiled.

The downside is that I need to update dependencies manually, which is one of the reasons why I keep dependencies to an absolute minimum.
Ask HN: Any suggestion for a former Java dev returning to work?
I'm a former Java 5 developer and now returning to work and need to learn Java 7/8/9. My idea is to develop some project/website using concurrency and multithreading, but I'm short on ideas. Does anybody have any suggestion?

I'd use most of the new features of Java 8 to keep up to date.
How AWS Service Teams Use Automated Reasoning for Security
> I've just checked my emails - last time I took this train (albeit from NY to Washington), in March 2013, it was $498 for 2 tickets - $249 each.

That price is far from typical for this service. The prices I quoted are what I just pulled off amtrak.com for a Friday NY-DC train on 12JAN18. A couple months ago I purchased a ticket from Fredericksburg (south of DC) to NY with only a few days in advance for only $130. Thee ten-trip option my sibling poster mentioned gives you the same flexibility you mention there. Please do not base your idea of the cost of rail travel in the NE US based on one very overpriced trip.

Edit:

Just saw your screenshot. That $295 is for the Acela (which is premium service). I just ran the same search, and midday trains are running about $152 for the NER and $168 for the Acela. The one you chose is literally the most expensive non-first class ticket you could book tomorrow.
I watch a lot of true stories about how crimes are solved and this does happen though not a lot.

Sometimes police tail a suspect and wait until they leave their DNA somewhere, like if they drop a cigarette butt on the ground or if they throw a drink cup away.
There’s a few Carnegie libraries around Ireland too [0] and as a child I fully benefitted from my local one. In fact I obtained my first Linux distro from there all the way back in 1997 when I was supposed to be studying for my high school finals .. it was a pivotal moment in my career

[0] http://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-hist...
Seems reminiscent to the dot com bubble where just adding "e-" to your companies name could increase your market cap.
Funny I never heard of him until today.
But OpenEMR is already built, is in working form, is certified for Meaningful Use in the US, and most importantly is open source.

Epic and Cerner and other proprietary systems are too expensive for many practices in the US and have simply placed both a huge financial burden on the medical system and a productivity burden on the physicians.

Physicians need to take back their EMRs and their productivity and OpenEMR is a great route to do this. For example, a practicing ophthalmologist, whom is also a software developer, developed an eye module in OpenEMR with the goal of the physician maintaining productivity (ie. not to spend time entering meaningless data in an awkward and distracting fashion), which he succeeded at. Can read about the project here: http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Eye_Exam

And right now OpenEMR needs more volunteers, physicians, developers, and donations to keep progressing. And what is so great about an open source project like this is that if OpenEMR keeps doing great things in the US, then these achievements are essentially multiplied by 1000 as low resource areas throughout the globe get free access to this same open source fully functional EMR.
F# type provider could be.
If they're contributing to or creating an atmosphere Twitter doesn't want on their service, then yes, why not?
Try:

gcloud beta clusters get-credentials cluster-1 --region europe-west3

You need the beta command, and you need to set the region flag instead of the zone flag. Looks like there are some documentation and UX gaps, I'm opening tickets to get them fixed (I work for Google).
A Response to REST Is the New SOAP
I'm getting tired of the Marxification of America!
It’s Way Too Hard to Buy an Electric Car in Canada – 5 Times Harder Than the US
> That's very nontrivial task

I imagine so.

And?
You absolutely can, in a boxing ring for example. It's not unconstrained violence if it takes place within a framework of rules - i.e. it's a sport. NFL tackles being the same thing.

A Twitter feed showing _only_ illegal violent NFL tackles? Well, that might just get banned now.
If only there was a way for society to go cashless, but not to rely on central authorities to decide who has money and who doesn't... Oh, wait.

Joke aside, you just described why blockchain ideologists hope the future will be a global, decentralized system. So no one can unilaterally deny access to your money.
See second part. The power that be don't have your interests at hand. It is fight time.