skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably about reducing maintenance costs. The public API is implemented by software which calls internal Netflix services/APIs. Over time, those services accrue technical debt and need to be refactored or rewritten. Every system that uses those internal services needs to be updated to match.

A published API makes this more difficult. The behavior of published APIs, particularly those that are in wide use, can not change in any way without raising the ire of developers. This restricts the internal refactoring you can do and makes the whole exercise (already complicated enough) even more challenging.

Working with a small, curated list of apps means that they can coordinate with developers on API changes rather than worrying about maintaining compatibility. This lowers their maintenance costs and increases their architectural agility.
It's reassuring to hear someone who's definitely a high-profile industry insider say this, thanks for taking the time to respond. Seems obvious to me as an outsider, but it's probably easy to be blinded by the status quo.
What's are those familiar shapes fluttering across the screen of the old Mac in the background??! It's out of focus in the shot, but it looks to me like over all those years, they took great care to save its screen with flying toasters!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_(software)
The point is not weather people are fine with it or not, the point was if they aren't they should have that choice to control the things they share. you dont always know what will come and bite you in the ass after a while. In my country, there has been an active targeted killing going on of a particular sect of the mainstream religion, We don't know who is involved, but in conditions like this, even information such trivial can be vital for your security.
And here are the IRS's own standards for e-mail: http://www.irs.gov/irm/part1/irm_01-010-003.html

of note: section 1.10.3.2.3 (07-08-2011) Emails as Possible Federal Records

5. Please note that maintaining a copy of an email or its attachments within the IRS email MS Outlook application does not meet the requirements of maintaining an official record. Therefore, print and file email and its attachments if they are either permanent records or if they relate to a specific case.

[edit] a video of a committee meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax6QGmKhRwo&feature=youtu.be
Lots of downloads, yes - but I don't know what kind of person could turn down $50,000/day, which is what a lot of people have claimed flappy birds was making when it was pulled off the AppStore.
I don't think so. In energy storage, pumped-storage hydroelectricity(PSH) is still the undisputed king. It currently represents >99% of installed capacity, and has a quite good efficiency. As I understand, Vanadium redox battery is not more efficient than PSH. And no energy storage system is proven to scale to PSH scale.

About the only problem with PSH is need for a reservoir and hence site selection. In Europe, it is said that Norway, which has lots of good sites for PSH, alone, can support entire energy storage demand of Europe. As I understand it is more problematic in US.
e^(i * pi) + 1 = 0
The problem with mining is rock rarely contains only one metal. The ore is crushed, the desired metal is extracted, and slag filled with heavy metal is deposited on the ground, where rain leaches poisonous metals into the water supply.
Isn't keeping the key not on the client more secure. If the encrypted data is on the client then the key would have to be on the client at some point to decrypt it. If my phone is jailbroken it wouldn't be too hard to extract the key and depending on the security of the app it may be likely that this key is used for every client.
A related mathematical concept is that of algebraic independence. Two numbers x and y are algebraically dependent (over the rationals) if there is a rational bivariate polynomial p such that p(x,y) = 0. As far as I know, pi and e are not known to be algebraically independent, though I guess most people would expect them to be.

On the other hand, it is true that there must be some (actually infinitely many) infinite series in x with rational coefficients such that plugging x = pi gives e in the limit, but in itself, that's a trivial statement (just build the coefficients of the series in such a way that you force an approximation of e). It is also not a very interesting statement, because e is the limit of a series more or less by definition (what I mean here is that plugging 1 into the series that defines the exponential function).

A much more interesting relationship is Euler's identity, e^(i pi) = -1. There are many more formulas in which e and pi appear together in more or less interesting ways once you start going deeper into mathematics, but they tend to be not of the form discussed in this submission (I'm partial to Stirling's approximation as the "next" step after Euler's identity).
Steve Gibson has also made the TrueCryptⓇ Final Release Repository at https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm

I had to use this mirror recently as there are already bad copies floating about; it is a trusted hosting for the last ungimped version for windows and linux. check the hashes n' sigs!
GLFLUSH(); GOTO METAL;
There is also libTrash.so, that when loaded replaces rm entirely.

Yet, I've lost interest since I got a nice backup routine.
The stars would have to align for it to be genuinely a good idea. Which... well... stars align, sometimes. Moreover, people make mistakes and think stars have aligned.

The threat here is that a single group has the capability to produce 51% of the hashes, possibly reliably (we can't know whether scaling back was deliberate or happenstance). It doesn't matter whether they are persistently using that capability.
> You should educate yourself about how the Tender Years Doctrine works as well as how custody is awarded to unwed parents if you think custody is not automatically awarded to the mother.

You should educate yourself about the fact that the tender years doctrine has both been legislatively replaced in most states starting in the 1970s and also struck down by various courts as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the federal Constitution and similar provisions of various state Constitution if you think it is relevant now, rather than historically, to policy on child custody.

Unwed parents are a somewhat different case (because the legal presumption of paternity, and the implicit assumption of stable cohabitation, doesn't exist outside of marriage.) Yes, in the case of unmarried parents, the mother has automatic custody, and the father must both establish paternity and make an active claim for custody.
IsRoot?
Conjecture:
TrueCrypt was developed by mainly by one person. This person did write TrueCrypt to encrypt his WinXP Laptop/PC, but does not need it anymore now, because he can now use Bitlocker.

TrueCrypt is a consumer facing Open Source project. Those rarely have a large developer community and seldom get patches. Most successful ones are backed by corporate interests (Firefox, Eclipse, VirtualBox, ...).

Having no need of TrueCrypt himself, no other developer in the community to whom he could entrust the project and faced with drudgery the like he probably also has at his job (except he gets payed there), he probably did not want to continue developing and improving TrueCrypt (e.g. EFI support).

At this point. Since it is a critical security product there is no other option then to warn of all users. If there is a fork, it has to earn its reputation first.

I view truecrypt.ch as a bad development, since a) TrueCrypt is trademarked by the developer and b) the TrueCrypt license explicitly says that you cannot fork the project without renaming it to something other than TrueCrypt.

See https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm "And then the TrueCrypt developers were heard from . . ."
Thunks in Haskell
Why the downvotes? Do you mean natural numbers?
Yes, good point, That would be traumatising to handle, all i am saying is, its a debate we need to have, and this cannot be left in the dark corners of modern web. This is just a proposal which imho covers all the bases, what we choose to do with it may change according to local geographical conditions and mindsets.
There may be an obvious reason, but if using another machine is fair game as he did in one of the examples, then why did OP not just copy ls/chmod/etc from another machine to poke around?
Two Giant Planets X?
Yep, did that in 2007. Let it run for minutes because I wasn't at my Mac. By the time I got back, I had a lot of free disk space and the stubborn '~' folder was still there since it was outside my home directory. Since then I used Time Machine or now CrashPlan to ensure I don't ever lose local files, accidentally deleted, again.
It was discredited. Mission accomplished!
I tell the founders in every batch that we invest in people, so if they are not taking care of their health, they are harming our investment :)

Successful companies take many years to build. If founders burn out after a few years, they will never be a big success.
just to reiterate, i am saying to change the mindset we handle the privacy, They can have you in a hundred different ways without you noticing. all i am saying is we (as users) make them care enough to be on our side and not collect info without telling us in the best ux possible.
>Such arguments as "human eye can't make a difference" don't really apply here, wouldn't you agree?

"Can you see a difference?" is literally the only thing to care about in a screen. If you can't see a difference it's useless to go any further.
My quick look at this shows that unless you cython wrap the call -- this is going to be slower than using pandas' to_datetime on anything with an array layout.

I've never really spent much time looking at pandas' to_datetime but I believe it has to handle a lot of variety in what you pass to it, which probably cause a bit of a perf hit. (Lists, arrays, Series)

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14988785/ciso8601_compari...
Wow! Thanks for your nice comment.

About your PowerPoint question.. I don't know how to put this, but I think just the fact that you ask, means that my message did not come across clearly. Or do you know the answer and just want to say that I need to make this more obvious? :)

To answer the questions:

It is not better than a PowerPoint PDF export, but tries to solve the problem of doing many PowerPoint PDF exports while changing the content of the document on each export. This is doable by just sending a template document and some keys and values to be replaced.

The main pain it solved for me was that I don't need to do layout changes for my customers if they are using some of my software and want to change the layout of lets say a report or proforma.

Does this make sense?

About the targeting to sys-admin types. This is correct. Perhaps I should split the page into 'marketing' and 'read if you can code'. I will think about that.

Thanks!
That was more or less the premise behind 0x10c http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c
Swifter – A Twitter Framework written in Swift
Wow, as someone who is studying math I'm surprised to hear that that isn't known. Wikipedia even says that it's not known whether e + pi is irrational.
The other classic rm: "rm * .o"

That's what taught me the importance of backups.
Photoshop for Designers
Agree. If I were Dell I'd be spending my R&D dollars on preventing laptop fires.
Things do get better. Being gay used to be a major crime (and thus had to be hidden). Now gay marriage is becoming legal in much of the western world. I'm optimistic that we can continue building a more open and tolerant society.
I was about to mention the holidays. Excellent, perhaps they will be back for more. A bit of reasoning and verbal gymnastics might actually help cognitive development!
Twitter based social scores for the FIFA World Cup
To what extent could you pressurize the water to restrict the volume? I can imagine an egg timer style device with heavy pressurised immiscible liquids and some turbine in the middle that you turn over physically instead of pumping.

someone has already had the idea:

http://www.myfreeinventions.com/electricity-generation/porta...

oh here's another one - might be interesting to strap two of these together:

http://fivegallonideas.com/hydroelectric-generator/
That's true. But in this case the ISP isn't even making a good-faith effort to provide X Mbps worth of transport across their own network.

I get that once the traffic hits the broader 'net that all bets are off. That's true and nothing can be done about it.

But in this case the ISPs aren't even making a "best effort" on their own network. They're deliberately not upgrading congested links where their peering counterparties are willing to upgrade. That is not a "best effort" class of service.
"There's no possible downside in letting recruiters email you."

Totally agree. Over the years I've seen many variations of this. "serious inquiries only" used to be a staple of some classifieds back when people did classified. Essentially people that don't want to be bothered because all they are thinking about is today and what their own needs are. (Of course I don't like to be bothered either and draw the line at certain things as well in some cases of course - I guess it's just where the line is).

One thing I picked up in "this business" back in the 90's was that seemingly important people (VC's for example) wanted to talk to everybody and anybody since they never knew going forward who might be the next star out of the newbies.
With Linux, I seem to recall grepping the disk under /dev/ for the contents of the deleted file. It's actually why I still religiously put the name of the file at the top of the file, even though git has kept me from accidentally deleting anything in recent years.
D3.js is Not a Graphing Library, Let's Design a Line Graph
While that scenario is certainly better for American consumers, it's not better for Netflix. Both companies will have to innovate and compete in America, but Braziliflix will essentially get the Brazilian market for free.
My issue with the fork is the two guys who threw together the site to get "FIRST!!" dibs don't actually seem like developers capable or willing to continue the fork themselves. They just want credit for the work they want others to do for them.
That's bullshit, though. Mass gatherings of any kind are a public safety issue, and an organized nation-wide protest with anarchist overtones is hardly the least likely to result in violence and property damage. For police to not gather and share information on what to expect would be stupid.

You may get tons of warm fuzzies thinking about OWS, but it still involved thousands of angry people gathering in one place, which is not something any reasonable person expects the police to be wholly ignorant of.

See Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Oakland#Protestor_conduc...
Good Talks about Developing
I'm looking for good developer talks; any language, any system, as long as you like it and think people should listen to it
Mozilla under fire: Beyond JavaScript, 3 ways that Eich changed the Web
I wasn't saying it was, merely reporting the facts! S3 targets four nines uptime; which is really good but not infallible. For most apps though, I think it's reasonable to accept that if S3 is offline, the app is offline also.
Beyond the fact that humans have lived in small groups for almost the entirety of our existence, even in the brief flicker of time where that hasn't been the case, people who can afford to do so have hired domestic workers. In a world with a 1.25 billion Facebook users it's hard to pretend that being unknown is a huge human priority in and of itself.

Generally, the core problem that the more thoughtful people who are concerned about privacy point to is how certain actors (governments, corporations, doxing mobs) are being empowered at the expense of individuals. If that is one's concern it might make sense to get to the root of the problem and work towards limit the power of these actors directly.

Power imbalance is something that social animals designed to live in small groups would seem to care about deeply.
I'm just starting C, what should I be using instead?
It is worth being clear that TrueCrypt is not an 'Open Source project'. The source is available, but it is under a proprietary license designed to discourage forks and reuse and allowing the original authors to sue you. The one-off TrueCrypt license means that TrueCrypt code can not be utilized under any OSI-recognized open source licenses as it is incompatible with them. The FSF, Ubuntu, etc all agree that TrueCrypt can't be considered open source. The source is available, but it's difficult for you to use it other than to analyze it.
Whenever I remember, I add ones I enjoyed to a YouTube playlist, so check it out, it's about 35 talks I've enjoyed in the last year or so: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGt3gNR-AoFmYmai5cx0p...
Not really relevant to the discussion, but O(10) doesn't mean "approximately 10".

O(f(x)) denotes a function that is bounded by a constant multiple of f(x), and really only makes sense in the context of a dependent variable x. (e.g. O(2^x) denotes an exponential-bounded relationship with x).

So O(10) in the above context effectively means your apartment uses some unknown number of kWh.
Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly != freedom to be completely ignored until you do something wrong.

I'll inline my other comment: Mass gatherings of any kind are a public safety issue, and an organized nation-wide protest with anarchist overtones is hardly the least likely to result in violence and property damage. For police to not gather and share information on what to expect would be stupid.

You may get tons of warm fuzzies thinking about OWS, but it still involved thousands of angry people gathering in one place, which is not something any reasonable person expects the police to be wholly ignorant of.

See Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Oakland#Protestor_conduc...
Now while my intuition would certainly say that autocorrelation is a good candidate property to be used in (lossless) audio compression, I remain sceptical.

It is certainly not a recently discovered or difficult concept to grasp, so if it was that useful I would think that it was already included in things like FLAC...
Show HN: How I get free digital products each week (legally)
I found this service called wildfree that is pretty much just an email service that send out a weekly email with links to software, plugins etc for free.
I got a few ebooks that were around $5 each normally, haha so yeah im impressed anyway.
Happy Freeebies fellow hackers!
http://wildfree.wildfiree.com/
Are there any companies using this strategy for hiring?
Well, air compresses better. People are trying to store energy in compressed air. I found LightSail Energy to be interesting.

http://www.lightsail.com/
I'm not sure S3 has changed nearly as much as the rest of AWS, which is probably why it is so stable. Regardless, the point is that outages can happen to S3 as well, and have; just because it hasn't happened for a few years doesn't mean than 99.99% = 100%.
> Wow! Thanks for your nice comment.

NP - happy to help.

> About your PowerPoint question ... do you know the answer
> and just want to say that I need to make this more obvious? :)

I know an answer, but I think you could make your selling point clearer. Someone who doesn't read it as carefully as I might think this offers no real value over what they already do. To me, if someone creates lots of PDFs, broadly in bulk, broadly the same, this can offer huge advantages. That's implicit in your copy, but you need to make it more obvious to people.

> ... many PowerPoint PDF exports while changing the content
> of the document on each export ... just sending a template
> document and some keys and values to be replaced.

Exactly - needs to be more obvious from the site.

> The main pain it solved for me was that I don't need to do
> layout changes for my customers if they are using some of
> my software and want to change the layout ...

Again, write-up a more detailed specific use case and link to it somewhere.

> About the targeting to sys-admin types. This is correct.

And difficult to solve. The people doing the work will know its value, the people with the money will need convincing. You need to hand the sys-admin types a convincing case to pass on to the people with the money.

Hope that helps. Be warned, anything I say could easily be wrong. You should test, test, test, test my assertions. Some things appear obvious, but are wrong. Take nothing for granted, and pursue it relentlessly.
How do you justify the claim of it being the fastest when at least some benchmarks put Akka at over twice as fast in terms of messages per second? Do you have your own comparisons that you're basing that on?

http://uberblo.gs/2011/12/scala-akka-and-erlang-actor-benchm...
Cool!
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_coincidence
How are you proposing he copy it from another machine? There's no file transfer program, client or server, remaining. Nor is there a way to mount an external filesystem. The whole point of the exercise is to bootstrap up from the few remaining resources to the point where you can "just" copy stuff in from another machine.
Intrestingly, the third thread is the least popular. It seems like once a week is too frequent. But maybe I'm missing something. Is there any other reason?
It's weird, I always get downvoted on HN for saying I love Elon, and analysing what he's doing. Something similar used to happen with Apple posts.
a single test case hardly means "beating" FLAC. indeed, if you just wanted to encode a sine wave at one frequency for 30 seconds, your encoder would encode this as a couple of bytes - for any general compression codec there will be a problem class for which it will not be optimal.

that said, this approach may obviously be applied more generally, but it remains to be seen if it will perform so well. self-similarity seems so obvious as a compression technique that i would be.. surprised if this sort of compression wasn't attempted before.
Math Genius Ramanujan's biopic movie ( in his native language Tamil )
Isn't this just RADAR applied at higher resolutions and indoors? I'm sure they've done some really interesting stuff if you dig deep but this doesn't seem like "Wireless" as much as it's transmitting and observing radio reflections[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar
Scrutinize your code in style
Graf.ly is not bad
really, the issue is, if you want a fixed bitwidth data type, use the types in unistd.h - uint64_t or uint32_t.
Swift Playground with UIKit
Who is going to complain if someone uses TrueCrypt's name? Can anonymous people retain copy rights over their work?
Are you arguing that our social environment hasn't changed since the 1970's or that our obviously dramatically changed social environment has had no effect on male-female relationships?

Either way, your advice is more of the same feel-good nonsense that we feed our young men, hand-waving away the outcomes of divorce and custody law, and pushing them towards a statistically likely devastating outcome.

It may feel good to preach the traditional loving family of your grandparents, but the data shows that they are the outlier. A much more likely outcome is a split family and emotional and financial devastation for the husband.
the stuff he talks about applies to C and C++ - i think we can forgive that faux pas :)
For more details, here's my answer in a Quuora thread from 2 years ago...
http://qr.ae/sjteB
Is it a cultural reference? Found it in bestcomments, so looks like many people do get it, but I don't. Genuinely interested having English as a second language.