skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's high definition audio setting somewhere in preferences, although that might be just higher bitrate
Both Digicert and Trustico were trying to compete for the former Symantec customers. Both sent customers a replacement key for their soon-to-be broken Symantec keys (with Digicert's needing to be renewed directly with them, and Trustico (via Comodo) with them).

This MIGHT have been a misguided attempt by Trustico to sow mistrust between Digicert and Trustico's own customers. If Trustico can convince people that Digicert (who purchased Symantec) wasn't to be trusted and this mass revocation was their fault, then Trustico might get more renews.

It also discontinues any relationship Digicert and Trustico's customers have with one another, since they'd all get nice shiny Comodo certs.

You can see Trustico's statement here:

https://www.trustico.com/news/2018/symantec-revocation/certi...

Only problem with Trustico's plan is that they shouldn't have even had over 20K's worth of private keys in cold storage. And while it was to their advantage in that they forced Digicert's hand, it also may have irreparably damaged Trustico's reputation.
Given that they have access to private keys they shouldn't, should Comodo (their new CA partner) then think about stopping them from reselling? Obviously, they've already terminated their relationship with Symantec...
It's possible other users were happy and this one user was going over the top.
open in incognito mode
I find it easier to use C and assembly on very constrained devices becauee I know what the output will be; with C++ it is less clear. If you write code that has to fit in 24kb, you need to think about what every instruction looks like after compilation and that just is far easier with C and (obviously) asm in my experience.
Google Express now lets you add NFC-enabled cards with a tap
https://buymeacoff.ee/pikdum

I like it. I've been thinking about setting up a donation system to help cover hosting costs for a few sites, but never got around to it. This was painless to get set up and hooked up with an existing PayPal account, and easy enough to use that my users might actually chip in (doubt they would bother with platforms like Patreon or making new accounts). Definitely enjoying how simple and clean the UX is.
At Sweden 80% all revenue are now from streaming http://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-music-streaming-statis...
as this article says, based on the amount recovered (ignoring opportunity cost), people are getting much more than cents on the dollar back. It would seem that on average they've gotten around 2/3 of their principal back.
History would be repeating itself. This was one of the factors in the burning down of much of the south Bronx in the 1970s. The city was broke and asked RAND Corporation to scientifically determine the least necessary firehouses to close.

Their methods were in retrospect biased and just plain inaccurate, as firehouses and police precincts in poor neighborhoods were closed just as crime and fires were spiking, creating some sick sort of positive feedback loop. There are zip codes in the south Bronx that lost 90%+ of their housing. It's incredible.

Beware of those who would use the word "science" to justify their preferences without explaining in detail.
I had an ISP once where the connection had to be down for an entire 24 hour period before you could get a refund.

It it came up for even 1 minute during the day, you wouldn't get a refund.
Personally, I would probably have just played a simple, diceless RPG, like Archipelago: https://norwegianstyle.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/archipelago-...
If you think I'm wrong, there's a [flag] button for a reason. I do agree it was an overreaction to what I perceived as whataboutism, though, and I'm sorry for that.
Microsoft Quantum Simulator Goes to Linux and Mac
Farms that will change africa (campaign)
I love Allo and all but it still seems like entirely ripping out the android code base of Hangouts and replacing it with Allo's style would've been better.

The cost of fragmentation isn't worth simply not writing the new code base, I'd think.
Or by ruling that it is illegal to buy, sell or own bitcoin.

While bitcoin might continue, most citizens will stop bothering at that point because buying or selling bitcoin shows up in tax audits.

The government can also make it illegal to operate a bitcoin node or transmit bitcoin transactions, including for ISPs, which would get the protocol quickly blocked.

Additionally they could rule Bitcoin to be an illegal form of monetary exchange which would mean that anything you buy via bitcoin would get you in hot water in addition to the tax problems if you can't prove you used a legal monetary method.

Of course, some people might use Tor and somehow manage to get money extracted from the Tax system so they can buy bitcoin without their local tax office knowing... but how many of the Mr. Normal population are able and willing to do that for bitcoin?

I think you severely underestimate the power of the government.
Ask HN: Why choose Vue over React?
I'm a dev ignorant of frontend development. Since the React license issue has been resolved, I'm wondering if there are any more reason to choose Vue?
The plural of anecdote is anecdotes. Anecdatum does not exist.
Turning test frameworks into problems solvers
Cosmic distance ladder
Ok, but do those listeners earn you any significant money? Maybe compared to a traditional album sold on Bandcamp?
Could you please give a concrete example? The majority of Haskell expressions have what is called a "principal type". The type of such an expression is independent of its subexpressions or super- expressions.
The concept seems really interesting and I've signed up to try and improve on my Spanish. I currently live in Amsterdam though, and there's no option in the drop-down for learning Dutch. Is it likely to make it onto your list?
That is not entirely correct. One can sort packets by their type and make sure those that require expedient delivery (VOIP calls, streamed video, gaming calls) get out first. Smart profiling at this level would certainly speed up the overall experience; some consumer-grade routers have settings exactly for this kind of thing. It's not much different that different kind of mail handled by postal services. And while postal services probably cannot easily speed up the average delivery time for all their mail, they can certainly deliver certain mail much faster than the rest of it. For a price.
I’m extremely skeptical of your estimates; they’re considerably higher than I’ve heard of in London.
Could you please not use uppercase for emphasis, regardless of how much build systems annoy you? It's basically yelling, and the site guidelines ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
‘We batter them with kindness’: schools that reject super-strict values
Ackman's fund got to where it did, because he actually produced a string of great returns across a decade and a few monster hits (such as Canadian Pacific). Investors would have never given him that level of capital otherwise.

The fact is, Pershing stomped the S&P 500 across a decade, from Q1 2004 to Q1 2014 (without anything from Valeant contributing). Which very few fund managers ever manage to do. Most are lucky to beat the S&P 500 at any point. You can call it luck, which it could be obviously, across a decade that's quite an unusual string of luck.

2004: 42.6% return; 2005: 39.9% return; 2006: 22.5% return; 2007: 22% return; 2008: -13% return; 2009: 40.6% return; 2010: 29.7% return; 2011: -1.1% return; 2012: 13.3% return; 2013: 9.7% return; 2014: 36.9% return; 2015: down the ship goes with VRX

More likely, based on his actual track record over time (including spotting the mess with MBIA years before anybody else), Ackman is a decent investor. His seeming arrogance and stubbornness appears to be the culprit more than lack of skill. He refused to throw in his cards early when losing hands came up. It's what separates decent investors from great investors like a Buffett, who will typically cut an investment the moment he realizes the business is a dog (that his instigation thesis was wrong), rather than stubbornly fight the tide. Ackman likes to fight, and has an immense ego, that's what got him on VRX and Herbalife. Can he learn from those mistakes and become a better investor? He'll have to, or most of the money he'll be managing will be his own.
The main one I know of is https://www.bountysource.com/
Even just the English names for the letters helps “thorn” and “eth”

IIRC welsh uses a doubled d for the eth sound, hence I once had a coworker whose name was Dydd (pronounced deathe to rhyme with breathe) shortened from Meredydd (usually rendered as Meredith in English)
Just to provide an opposite case: tried Spotify, did not click with me. Happy with the Apple music now (and iTunes Match).
Never understood the complaints about the music app.
I don't think it's just that that's our baseline, I think it's a ceiling. I think they're saying "if you're not destitute, more stuff won't make you happier". Overall, in the long term.
I get the sense the physicists are a different breed of thinker.. it’s like normal
people are like “nice I have a car that can get me to work and back..” and physicists are like “imagine an atom was a car and you wanted to go to the edge of the universe..” or like “nice a carrot grew in my garden!” And they are like “how could you get a carrot to grow to the size of the earth..”..

I see a low res 2d picture and apparently they see cold particles that are around 3x the mass of protons and the structure of the universe.. kinda nuts..
Time to start lobbying Arm. For instance, I think we already missed a big opportunity to have Arm develop its Firmware-M in Rust. That firmware is going to be used by billions of IoT devices in the future. Although I'm sure Arm is trying to make the C code as safe as possible, at that scale there will be plenty of bugs, especially since OEMs will get to use customized versions of it, too.

https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/platform-sec...
the last thing the world needs is more censorship
Can't really compare the two. while the US struggles on voter turn out. In Malta during elections there is a rabid and more than 90%+ of eligible voters vote. But its all tribal and pointless..

Some examples -> https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Malta+mass+meeting&tbm=is...
Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth
Show HN: Socially Impactful Fashion with a Touch of Satire
Norvig didn't really seem to address the "collecting butterflies" part. At least, not sufficiently such I noticed.

Sure, science/engineering are fine with allowing for numerous failures and dead ends. Yeah that tracks with history, but is that a good justification?

And what about the economy? Doesn't this imply investment into these models is going to be of diminishing value sooner than later?

This is Chomsky. Not hard to see it as a tacit indictment of corporate investment these days as well. Corporate is not above manipulation curriculum for their gains. Chomsky is a hardcore proponent of academic freedom.

Are we investing a lot of time and money on the wrong efforts? Would we easily acknowledge if we were?
I still love my N9 and I still reminds how fluid is UI was, especially at the time of slow Android...
in which case, you get to put your kids in a great position.
Makes the interesting case that the age of really big ideas is gone - the sort of ideas that in the first half of the last century, were responsible for so much of our progress. The entire notion of ideas, in fact has been greatly devalued - unless they can be instantly monetized.

I think this is also partly because of the pervasive VC mindset that says "ideas are a dime a dozen, execution is everything...". We need big, bold ideas today more than ever before.
You don't need subsidiaries for that.

GDPR would apply if an EU company would track people in China (Article 3 section 1); it would apply if an multinational company tracks people in EU when offering goods or services to them (Article 3 section 2); but it wouldn't apply when that same multinational company tracks people in China.

I.e. Facebook can be fully GDPR compliant if it applies the privacy requirements only to people in EU and gratuitously violates the privacy of everyone else.

Furthermore, if China has a legal requirement for intense tracking of customers (I'm not sure what their legal requirements are), then GDPR would allow an EU company to do that without consent. (Article 6, 1c : "Processing shall be lawful [..] if ... processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject")
Dear Twitter Please Stop Using WOEID
C++ extra object copies can sometimes be pretty difficult to see without checking disassembler listing.
Practo Engineering Blog talking about how they build  Practo
> A row in a relational database, for example, is not a file, even in unix.

Says who? Nothing stops you from creating an interface that maps that row to a file.

That's the whole point of Unix.

Heck, look at the /proc filesystem tree. Even cpu sensor data is available as a file.
You might want to check out https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.h..., it goes into other types of concurrency in Rust, some probably more interesting to embedded devs than the general dynamic allocation stuff. The key takeaway is that the borrow checker isn't only good for dynamic memory allocation in GCless environments (in general even the stack allocated variables which we have in embedded profit from the borrow checker).

The other thing is that Rust offers a lot of very useful abstractions (e.g. enums with data) and a strong type system, which is sorely lacking for C.

The embedded systems industry is one of the slowest industries to adopt to new technologies, so I'm not holding my breath, but I think everything is there in Rust to make it a good embedded language.
> What possible technical breakthroughs could justify the deaths of millions?

The kind of technical breakthrough that saves billions?

I'm not especially a fan of this approach, but the absolutist stance that you've taken seems obviously falsifiable.

None of this is justification to start a war, nor would our ethics largely permit us to proceed towards uncertain success contingent upon the sacrifice of many lives.

That said - for example the American Civil War was potentially a 'justifiable' war, costing many lives to improve lives; there is little reason to think that a technical breakthrough could not justify a war.

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NB: Besides - the GP talked about the 'technical breakthroughs outweighing the direct deaths'.

It's certainly plausible that we've saved more lives since WW1/2 than we lost in WW1/2 on account of technology developed for the war.

This has probably been studied and proven right/wrong, so it's entirely plausible to check (and to be curious about).

That's not a justification to start a war necessarily, but that's not at all GP's phrasing.
On a side note they have a shady business model. When it comes to using certificates regularly they withhold funds if you don't buy enough certificates from them until you top up with 200 USD again. That means funds just get stuck. They won't return them even if you cancel the account.
Eh. The explanation they offered that they were hiring a large mass of moderators and some of them made mistakes is more than plausible. When they add that many people it's really inevitable that someone would get over-eager or misread the message of a video.
We've seen a rise in "zero tolerance" and "no exceptions" styles in UK schools.

These feel to me to be incompatible with a school's legal duties to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act.

And they seem to ignore stuff that's going on in the child's life.

So it's pleasing that there are schools that try to avoid it.
Your team is not too small
From my experience, it already works somewhat. Atleast, whenever I overwrote the file in Nextcloud and my desktop pulled the update, it would merge the changes automatically.
Can confirm, C++ has some nice features which I'd even like without malloc. OTOH I'm already horrified at the code quality problems pretty much every embedded shop faces. C++ would only make this matter worse.

As a software inclined embedded guy I also often think of what would be possible if we switched to C++. But then I think of what's probable.
They're two conspiracy-theory scumbags who should be booted off YouTube. It's a private company, not a common carrier.
Physicists work closely with philosophers for a reason. It's philosophers who are masters of such thought experiments.
How MTN abuses its power in Uganda
A Versatile Sharded Counter for Google App Engine Data Store in PHP
I had a 4.x Android tablet that I had bought to watch downloaded Amazon prime video episodes while at the gym and such, only to find it useless for that (it actually wouldn't work for files on SD storage until 5.0). The manufacturer wouldn't supply upgrades.

So, I tried to root it to upgrade it. I bricked it in the process.
Sure.. will add the command log
If somebody robbed a bank and gave you the money, there would be an expectation that you would have to return that money, 'possession of stolen property' and all that. The fact that the money was given in the form of investment returns doesn't change that.

I think we can all agree that each investor should get their principal investment back. I don't think there's a good argument for letting people keep the impossibly high returns on that principal.
Most countries refer to their arms spending as ‘defense spending’. Japan seems to go through further contortions but it’s not like everyone else is that different.
In that case, it doesn't help much. For Plan 9 mk, there's a way to use a custom condition to decide if the action should be executed:

rule:P check_query.rc: prereq rules
doaction

Where check_query may be a small shell script:

#!/bin/rc

# redirect stdin/stdout to /mnt/sql/ctl
<> /mnt/sql/ctl {
# send the query to the DB
echo query
# print the response, check it for
# your condition.
cat `{sed 1q} | awk '$2 != "condition"{exit(1)}'
}

But I'm not familiar with an alternative using Make. You'd have to do something like:

.PHONY: rule
rule: prereq rules
check_query.sh && doaction
The last time I used ARM supplied drivers they were nice to get things started quickly, but they were of terrible quality (at least for the smaller Cortex M microcontrollers).
In KPXC, simply open the database settings, switch into the security window and select Encryption method and KDF. Then save your database. Done.
dough is colloquialism for money, which makes the quote funnier due to the double entendre.
So basically they’re simulating analog circuits with pulse density modulation.
>Many people I have talked with about happiness are really talking about non-anxiety.

This sums up pretty much.

It is not the Money ($) i need. But what I think is rather basic things to live.

A place called Home. It doesn't have to be free, it could be even be rented that I dont own it. But it should be affordable, without being anxious about Landlord kicking you out, or hike the rent to a ridiculous level so you cant continue to live. It shouldn't take your entire working life, 25 - 30 years of continuously working and giving 40% of your salary, what if you are sick in between this 30 years? What if you were fired? This whole living burden is what causes people anxious, and hence do not risk into taking another higher paid job and move up the ladder. The stagnation of wages.

I dont need a house, just a small flat, 150 Square Feet will do, with an open kitchen and a small toilet and shower. The whole flat is probably the size of many Americans's houses bath room. Hopefully along with Water pipes that doesn't include heavy metal like lead poisoning, hot water system that could shower longer then 3 min in Winter. Is that too much to ask for? I am not calling for free housing, but one that is affordable.

Food is Cheap, I used to live in UK with less then 1.5 pound budget per day. Good Quality clothes are actually not expensive in terms of production cost, most are rent, labour and marketing. And Medical is affordable if you have insurance.

So Food, Medical and Clothes are actually easily affordable in most developed countries. ( Name be one place that it isn't ) As long as you have a job. Any job in fact, even labour intensive job or lower end jobs could easily afford all of these.

So out of all the basic needs in Maslow thoery, shelter is the most expensive, most unaffordable, and also most anti competitive. But all government are very happy with that, as it is basically modern slavery.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25792 is the more interesting article, I think, as it describes the experimental measurement that forms the basis for the claim about early-universe gas temperature.

Being the skeptic I am, I suspect that it's more likely that there is some systematic error that is being underestimated or overlooked rather than new physics. Fortunately the experiment is simple enough that it can be reproduced elsewhere relatively easily.

Interestingly, the region around 75 MHz is between two ITU broadcasting allocations. They claim to rule out the FM band as the source of the higher spectral edge through several possible channels, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was some way to get excess power in those bands in some way they hadn't considered (although I guess any strange propagation mechanisms would probably be time-dependent).
It never hurts to point out the hypocrisy of those actually in charge.
> Sometimes things in workflows are sending/retrieving data over a network. It may be turning on a light. It could be changing a database. Make has no way of recognizing those events

Why should Make violate basic software design rules and fundamental Unix principles? Do you want your build system to tweak lights? Setup a file interface and add it to your makefile. Do you want your build system to receive data through a network? Well, just go get it. Hell, the whole point of REST is to access data as a glorified file.
Very good info thanks. You should not been downvoted.

As far as I remember through reading Madoff depositions, some of his clients knew he is running ponzi, so previous post's claim that its a secret don't always apply.
I can't tell if coolso was being serious or not. I imagined it was a clever pun and got a good chuckle out of it, but it did drag on a bit, so it could go either way.
DBMS migration in LibreOffice: HSQLDB binary import
The problem is that that private company is so big it's basically entangled with most (younger) peoples lifes.

Edit: Talking in general about censorship. Not about those 2 specific conspiracy theorists...

Edit 2: Ok good, calm down. I guess we should censor everyone that doesn't agree with us. Even if "us" is some private company that somehow got control of your kids. Got it :)
It is quite fast and Python is a nice language for specifying the build, but I found waf to be difficult to extend.

I had some tests that needed a binary file. That binary file was generated from a text file by a utility program. That utility program had to be built from source.

After a week of trying to get that correctly specified, I gave up. I thought I'd found the right way of doing it several times, but each time I discovered the dependency chain was broken in some way. I looked into how official modules that dealt with generated files were implemented, but I found them to be surprisingly complex.

By comparison, it was only mildly annoying to do that sort of thing in CMake (the build system I moved to after a year or two with waf). The relative simplicity of CMake was what convinced me to switch.

That being said, it's been several years since I last used waf. It may have improved during that time.