skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swift is slower in the debug mode and faster with full optimizations. I don't know either language, but I think NSArray cannot store primitive types, so he used NSNumber object wrapper.
If we could show that comets have available surface water ice in the right form, then their gravity is low enough that you could plan to drill it off and melt it to be fed into water-ion thrusters. That would let you at the very least launch a mission which could study one comet, refuel, then slingshot away to a different target.
That's because Google is a intermediary CA[1], pretty much all large institutions that use certificates for authentication are. For example, a good number universities use internet2 as a backbone and issue themselves certs under an umbrella intermediary called InCommon.

Becoming an intermediary is hard and expensive because we want the CA system to be as secure as possible. And some security measures and auditing takes money

[1] https://pki.google.com/
Not my door-lock !
In this case, it was a Ford Escape. It has proximity sensors all around -- it'll also tell you when someone is in your blind spot in a neighboring lane.
He seems to have a suitable name. :-)
Dopamine regulates the motivation to act, study shows (2013)
Rackspace London is completely down
Nah, man, you've got it all wrong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_suit
If you think you need to use an ORM, think some more
Also, the TC article mentions that Lyft made an acquihire a while ago of Rover and the Rover team has been working on this feature. So it sounds to me like Uber got wind of Lyft pushing out this feature and stole their thunder with a beta signup page.
In all honesty, if the SSLLabs is too technical for you, you should not be running a site that requires HTTPS.
> Throughout history, technology has been a job creator—not a job destroyer

This is one argument that I have always really disagreed with. Technology doesn't inherently create jobs. Rather it makes people able to be more productive and efficient. I think that will longer stand the test of time.

Hopefully someday soon we will go beyond this need for everybody to have jobs so that they can pay for food and rent. Instead we will be able to do human things. Do projects, cool hacks, make art and music, explore the universe. Why spend all our time compensating for scarcity when robotics can do it for us?

That however is going to be a long transition. Especially one for the people in the US, who have such a heavy burdened work culture (i.e. if you aren't working you aren't valuable to society). Also shameless plug here for basic/guaranteed annual income.
In the US at least, perpetual copyright is explicitly unconstitutional [0] as copyrights are to be granted for a limited term [1].
I quote Mary Bono speaking on behalf of the Copyright Term Extension act:

> Actually, Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever. I am informed by staff that such a change would violate the Constitution. ... As you know, there is also [then-MPAA president] Jack Valenti's proposal for term to last forever less one day. Perhaps the Committee may look at that next Congress.

Sources:
[0] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1998-10-07/pdf/CREC-1998-1...
[1] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, (the Copyright Clause)
LGPL isn't compatible with app stores since the user can't relink. So you need a commercial license.

As well, the licensing cost of the enterprise license is $200 a month, that's so cheap compared to a developers salary there isn't a lot of reason not to get it.

Then you can do a static link and make your application a lot smaller (depending on what parts of Qt you actually use) and make installation simpler.

I really like Qt, but I don't use it for a lot of my simple commandline apps because it would turn what could be a <500KB single .exe into a .exe that requires a few MB of DLLs.
If you'd like to test how the latest Mozjpeg performs check us out at https://kraken.io/web-interface and choose "lossless".
I had the opportunity to meet him a few years back. Very nice dude.
There barely are any "native" controls on Windows either.
Cars. I'd like to turn on the AC afar remotely 15 minutes or half hour before get into the car on a hot day, or heat it up remotely on a freezing day. Some might already be doing it (Tesla).

Watering system. It can look up the season/weather and adjust the amount of water to sprinkle.

Battery. So that it can send out a signal when it's low on power. I know it's probably impractical but we are talking about ideas for the future.

Credit card/smart cash card. Yes, I want to look up balance/transactions, transfer money, and be alerted on charges on the card itself with the screen and network on it.
http://store.y-3.com/us/y3store/cardigan_cod39402247tg.html

Same price, now that it's "50% off".
Same C&Cs. :)
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+50

For both a great lesson and hilarious yet, a very applicable list of ideas.

I've been saying this for years. Obviously, we all want to progress in our careers, learn new things, and become the best we can be. Having a vision for where you want to end up is extremely important for getting there, otherwise a dream is just a pipe dream.

BUT, if you can wake up every day and do things like are stated above, you are going to be wildly happier in even the worst of situations and in turn, make others around you happier, even if this is only a small stop along the long road.

Just the other day, I wanted to try the new Dunkin Donuts breakfast burrito. If you've seen the commercial where the two guys are sitting down with goggles on because it is "exploding with flavor". I sat down in our kitchen, with goggles on at 8:30am when everyone was coming into the office. It made me laugh and a ton of others.

Happy Wednesday!
My daughter loves drawing cartoons and comics. But she's not going to build something as ambitious as an entire graphic novel, because that would (a) turn her enjoyable hobby into work --- an often unpleasant expenditure of energy performed in the service of a long-term goal and (b) consume more time than she has available to her.

And so it is with fanfiction. The fanfiction process isn't going to generate _The Sound and the Fury_ or even _The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress_. At least, that isn't going to happen the way fanfiction is constituted now.

I respect any hobby that involves huge amounts of creative writing. But there's a difference between a hobby and a profession.

Meanwhile: if you don't believe that society benefits by having an economic framework wherein JK Rowling and Thomas Pynchon can dedicate all their productive hours to writing, and that instead we should do away with commercial publishing and switch entirely to the fruits of people's hours after they get home from their real jobs, you can have that. Today. Just don't read commercially published books. There is, as you point out, a lot of fanfiction out there, and a lot of it is probably quite good.
Leaks are a reasonable explanation, but it's probably worth remembering they're not the only one. When you've got reasonably smart people working on solving problems and developing products/services in the same space, a certain amount of convergence is going to be natural.

I don't work for either and this is one of several ideas I considered while thinking about that space, and everybody here has probably had the experience of watching a startup build something around an idea they had but never really shared.
I would love for my breaker panel to be smart. Knowing the power draw of different breakers and being able to trend those. Analytics could alert me to a slowly failing compressor on my fridge or a burnt out element in my hot water tank.

Lots of other cool features that could come with a smart panel a well.
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A big neon sign that says "I am on the Internet of Things" that would flash every time it gets an ICMP ping and do nothing else. This would capture nicely the essence and general usefulness of an average IoT device :)
No.

It is in fact best to store the local time and the location (i.e., not "+01:00", but for example "Europe/Amsterdam"). Not UTC with or without time zone. For example, if you have an appointment in the future, and the time zone or daylight savings time rules change, this is the only way that the appointment can still be at the correct moment. And time zone rules do change.

And this way you can still represent absolute UTC time if you wish. With another representation, you cannot represent human-society time, which is often what you actually want.
Nothing but my computers. I don't want anything that affects my real, physical life to be open to trickery. Imagine having someone checking what is in your mailbox, what your waking hours are, how much weight you've gained, where you drove last night — it's not worth it to gain a little convenience.
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I didn't--I just went with the default recommendations based on my designated interests.

I just tried searching for "dating websites" and it returned:
Modern reliquaries & New Commodore 64, Sexy beast & Ben Kingsley, Pretty Mouth And Green My Eyes & Raymond Carver

While I do like Raymond Carver, I'm not sure if I find these connections intuitive...do you suggest search terms that are more abstract?

Also out of curiosity, what did Brian Eno say? :)
One of the first things they teach you in high-school philosophy and reason is that it's exceedingly difficult to prove a negative. (Maybe it was a Jesuit school.)

If you can prove that God does not exist to satisfy a crowd of people, then you are indeed a powerful philosophizer. But for me to show that God does exist, all I have to do is show you all God once. It should be much easier for me, right? So why don't you get off your armchair if you know so much and find the requisite one example to show, since you say that none of his work is original it should be easy.
It is amazing how defensive (perhaps necessarily) the Intel crowd are, especially around the problems caused by the ISA. If the ISA really is insignificant to power consumption then why exactly have x86 devices struggled against ARM, especially on the same manufacturing process? They've been saying, literally, for years that they're going to sort it with the next batch but it just isn't happening. As the rest of the industry has narrowed the process gap the squeeze has got worse, forcing them into premature advances in order to stay competitive.

It's tempting to start drawing comparisons between Intel of today and IBM or Motorola of 2005. It's bizarre how much of the tech media seem to think PowerPC to Intel somehow lacked any of the problems an Intel to ARM transition might have, when Apple's frankly amazing execution of it made it look remarkably simple. The reality is a lot of the so called problems, especially around software, not only have theoretical solutions, but solutions the same company has used for almost exactly the same purpose in the not too distant past.
From cel phone street vendor to Bolivar owner to Sprint CEO
That's "under review"...
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And if you're in Ruby or Python or whatever, and the language is a bad fit for the problem, use a different language for that problem.
The improvement effect might be smaller but perhaps persisting in game playing would keep those pathways from atrophying.

Plus, I imagine by the time the first video game cohort (today's late 30s?) are in their 70s that the way we interact with and play computer games may not be anywhere near the same physical experience.

If by 2050 I don't have a holodeck I'm going to be pissed.
You forgot about the Decembrist revolt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt
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If you like this kinda stuff be sure to watch this:

http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/
Hipster San Francisco burritos :)
>> there are thousands of researchers from the pharma industry and academia who spent huge parts of their adult lives just synthesizing a few of these compounds who often receive zero attribution for their life's work

Similarly to Nursie, I'm interested in knowing where you learned this piece of information.

I have been researching Sasha's work for months now, reading PiHKAL, interviewing his wife, attending his memorial, talking to his supporters etc... And not once have I heard mention of this. Yes, Shulgin is the GODFATHER of Psychedelics because MDMA was originally synthesized in 1912. But Timothy Leary himself called Sasha one of the century's most important scientists. Dozens of respected scientists and academics attended his memorial in support of his work. I don't believe that his role in introducing psychedelics to the wider world is "overly attributed" at all.

Check NYTimes Mag profile on the guy http://nyti.ms/WG8wFS

"Shulgin has been credited with jump-starting today's therapeutic research, but he prefers to play down his role. While heartened by the MDMA studies and happy to play psychedelic elder statesman, he insists that he is not a healer or a shaman but a researcher. Asked why he does what he does, he replies, ''I'm curious!'' He is most animated when describing the feeling that accompanies the discovery of a new compound, no matter what its properties. Sometimes he compares the moment to that of artistic creation (''The pleasure of composing a new painting or piece of music''), and sometimes it sounds more like a close encounter of the third kind (''You're meeting something you don't know, and it's meeting something it doesn't know. And so you have this exchange of properties and ideas'')."
This is a bit beyond food. You can analyze food and deem it safe or not safe. Simple. The FDA does a good job of this.

Tech. That is a different ball game. Any part of the device could be vulnerable. The components, the software, or the entire system. That being said, it is very difficult to analyze. When it is difficult to analyze you put your self at massive risk to lose diplomatic strategy, military secrets, financial secrets, and far beyond. Is it worth the risk? Nope.
Meta: Another good example of a title change being less descriptive. Original title was much better.
Can a monkey, which normally has no rights under the law, hold copyright without it being assigned by someone who does have rights under law?

I would argue NO, from a common sense standpoint, but the law isn't really about common sense.
I was also against not doing native controls for quite long time, mainly because I thought using native controls was the only way to give the system (Windows for example) ability to read the text and other data (screen readers, automation, etc.)

It turns out that's not the case. There is an ACCESSIBILITY api which Qt implements that allows the OS (Windows) to "read" text and control the GUI in the non-native widgets.

This, and the fact that it's much more simpler to do things by subclassing the C++ way.

I also have wxWidgets experience, and here is my summary: Lots of Leaky Abstraction. For example - try to get the current line of a text-edit control - internally what wxWidgets does (or was doing time ago) was to send message to the control, but if the control did not support the message, it had to reparse the whole text, and based on your byte-position count how many CR-LF were there and give that information to you.

e.g. it was hard to predict which operation is going to take this and that much of time.

Qt is not without pitfalls, and missing features - Visual Studio Docking like windows for example that supports multiple monitors, but other than that it was much easier for our team to use it, rather than MFC or the Win32 API, and even wxWidgets.
You certainly don't lose copyright protection of a photo you took because you were told not to do so. You just risk being thrown out of the venue or other legal trouble.
My front door, the buzzer, and maybe the door to my room and the lights. It would be nice if UPS ringing my doorbell sent an SMS to my phone so I could remotely unlock it. That way they can put the package inside my gate or front door, and I'll relock both after departure (which I can verify via webcam). No more arriving at 7:00 AM so I can leave at 3:00 PM to pick up a package.
Looks really nice and simple in an elegant way; I'll be interested in trying this.
I can't think of a good reason other than "I don't want to compare C-style sort with Swift because I want to talk about Objective-C". This is an incredibly poor benchmark in my opinion, since if you were dealing with a ton of ints in an Objective-C program you'd probably be dropping down to C or (in the case of ObjC++), C++. Back when Swift was slower and losing, I suppose it was eye opening that despite all this ObjC was still winning.

That's not to say that there isn't any insight here, I just think the much more powerful argument would be "look, in Swift we can get C-like speed without having to use icky primitive arrays". Which is actually a pretty powerful selling point (if its true, which we don't know, since C-style sorts aren't compared here).
I scored 1 in beginner Minesweeper. (And 2,3,4,5 etc) It was clearly very lucky. I think it involved something like the initial click and 2-3 others. It was a really fortunate board.

I just checked Minesweeper records and the best they have is 3. Why is my name not up there in lights?http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/World_Record_History#Offici...
Burritos in San Francisco.
Well, the cynic in me says that when something is in closed beta to a nonspecific limited pool of individuals, it might not be as fully baked as a blog post might suggest.

I'm not suggesting malice, of course, but perhaps Uber heard that Lyft was planning to announce this, and rushed their own announcement ahead of time, then delay the actual implementation until they're ready.
Why would you give Uber more credit than Lyft, when Uber's offering is currently just a beta signup?
> I find it a little weird that you would be using a bittorrent client on an enterprise Linux solution.

If you've ever had to run an instance of bitcoind in the
cloud (as any web exchange/wallet/etc. product will have to do), you end up either getting your nodes to torrent a copy of the blockchain, or burning it into your AMI. A twenty-hour download/verification step every time you scale up new instances is just impractical.
All devices that contain time of day displays. I live in 800 square feet and with appliances, clocks, etc. There can be 4 minutes difference across 25 feet.
Airports involve a ton of extra regulatory hassle.
Seems like Uber rushed out their vaporware announcement of UberPool to steal Lyft's thunder of launching a concrete feature. The fact that people are now giving Lyft a hard time shows the value of PR.
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But when Thiel says "I will not do business with people who dress in a suit, no matter what their idea is" the response from entrepreneurs will be always dressing in hoodies. Now that Thiel said this, in fact the non-conformists are the ones dressing in suits. Otherwise, they're just conforming to Thiel's preferred aesthetic in order to pass his bogus filter.
Could you not keep statistics on the values that went into each bucket, and use those to redistribute the contents of the bucket when the buckets needed to be resized?

Sure, it's an estimate so you'd have some error term but you could pass that on to the new buckets. If the total error is small enough in practice it wouldn't be a problem.
He, quite reasonably I think, doesn't want to see loads more Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. Because they won't be created by Bill Watterson. They'll be created by PepsiCo to sell sugar water.
NoScript is a good solution while browser vendors are taking their time getting their shit together.
My plants, so they can tell me when they're thirsty, need more sun, need less sun, hungry (i.e. minerals + water), whether they have a bug, whether the room is too hot, too cold, or whether the room is too humid, or not humid enough.
> Where is the line between optimizing an ad pipeline and violating privacy?

Right at the start.

Of course, the allegation was that Facebook broke privacy laws, and not just that they violated people's privacy, so your response is a total non sequitur: you're talking about how it's good business to violate privacy, which doesn't address at all whether it's good business to break the law, nor whether these laws draw a meaningful boundary.

Unless you meant that anything which is in the business' interest to do shouldn't be illegal for it...?
Reading the article and others, Wikipedia is not saying that the monkey owns the copyright, but that the photographer does not own the copyright. They are saying that under the circumstances in which the photo was taken, the image falls under public domain.
It probably only wanted mysql-client (the API library), not the whole server. At least on debian that's the case.

If the distro is not taking care of splitting the packages in "dev" (headers and .a files), "client" (.so files), "server", etc. then it'll have such problems.

I doubt having few extra kb of client is such a big deal, especially if you decide to use Qt.

Also in debian (I think) the Qt sql part is also optional.
From my stay and travels in Russia I can confirm that Russian hospitality is incredible. Plus they all have cats.
Calvin and Hobbes isn't used to promote toys and junk food.
Jurisdiction is a complex question, and one I can't answer, but people should think about the jurisdictional consequences of using ccTLDs in particular. You are at the mercy of whomever's higher in the DNS hierarchy - that's why the root control is such a big deal and needs to come out of the US into some sort of non-governmental or international treaty org.

However, certainly DANE 2 & 3 are way better than nothing, and DANE 0 & 1 let you limit the subset of "people who can spoof your site" from "people who have pwned any CA they want trusted by a major browser, including intermediates" (do we even know how many intermediates are out there? Answer: No, we don't!! It's an open research question to scan to try to find out: please save us, Certificate Transparency!) to "people who have pwned the correct CA, or the government with the most obvious jurisdiction over my site".

If that isn't enough for you, and I can understand why it may not, then you need to be considering using Tor or something similar to meet your threat model...
Hi! (I work at Stripe.)

While our webhooks are perfect for building things like receipts, we want to make the seller experience for the most common use case as nice as possible.

We do encourage folks to use our webhooks to build receipts for more complex use cases (e.g. if you want to include maps, images, or just in general need a more complex receipt structure for your particular business), but the simplest case is one we can and should provide well for :).
I've not seen significant ( > ~1%) improvement over jpegoptim.
Not sure how you can edit the fact Billy Mitchell is an arrogant douche canoe.
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Because otherwise nation-state adversaries can see everything you read.

IETF position on this is pretty clear after the technical plenary last year.
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Counterexample: If you want it to be anonymous, you need TLS (and Tor!).