skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For location-timezone, try http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database

For country-currency, scrape Wikipedia?
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Perhaps it is not a quarrel with the WSJ policies, but with the upvoting of an item people may not care to read.
Currently dealing with that double-clicking issue. Is there any work-around, or is replacement the only solution?
The Wacko in the Morning Show 09/03 by the Wacko Network
think of Bell or the oil companies of the early 20th century.
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additionally the K810 is backlit, which this does not appear to be, the backlit function is fantastic.
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Here's a dumbed down explanation. This actually isn't systems programming, this is compiler technology.

It is an effort to prove that the LLVM compiler framework (or at least parts of it) work correctly. Proving here means formal verification, not too dissimilar from making a mathematical proof that something holds.

Basically the idea is to look at the optimizations that the LLVM compiler performs and verify that the program after the optimization does the same thing as before optimization.

It is easy to write compilers that emit fast code, but a lot harder to write compilers that emit fast and correct code.
Another anecdotal evidence, I am typing on a Logitech Deluxe 250 keyboard from 2008, which has been used every workday for the past 6 years.

So, they can make long lasting keyboards or at least used to.
Uh... yes? Obese people as well. And alcoholics. It works with cars, why wouldn't it work with humans?
I use a Yubikey with a generated key.

This is only half of my password; the first part is a password I can remember easily with numbers and letters, the second is the generated key.

This means that even I don't really know my password and if someone found my Yubikey then it's useless to them without the other half that only I know.

(I do have a printout in a safe place of the key and also a backup Yubikey)

I use this password for my computer as well as my 1password vault which is generally filled with randomly generated keys for each website.

Might sound a bit overkill but if you can; why not?
good reason to learn: lisp allow hot code reloading that can make only erlang, forth as I know...
Open source chicken? The greatest success of the open source movement
It is the same in Georgia, as well, for used cars purchased after the law changed. Rather than paying an annual ad valorem tax on the value of the used car, a value added tax is paid when the title is transferred and the car registered to the new owner. As a Georgia resident, I prefer the new law to the old, with the exception of the loopholes for new car dealers.
Country/currency is available from http://www.currency-iso.org/en/home/tables/table-a1.html . See also ISO 4217 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217 . I found them by a Google search for "country currency database". The second hit was http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9392740/database-currenci... which links to various resources.

For timezones you likely want the tz database, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database . I found it by a Google search for "timezone database". The first hit was to http://www.iana.org/time-zones .
I still don't see the benefits of 1Password from a cost perspective, regardless of a trust perspective.

I can spend $40-80 and buy a bunch of 1Password license packages, or I can use KeePass and place the database in my Dropbox folder. Yes, 1Password has a more aesthetic interface, but otherwise it basically does the exact same thing.
Is there a creativity deficit in science?
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Science thinking at art school: how Condoleezza Rice and Quine can help
If time travel exists, then it cannot be a simple rewind of the universe's tape. Because if that was the case, then rewinding the tape to a time that your father was not born would mean that you will also not be born, and thus there wouldn't be any time travel, since neither you nor anyone else would be able to witness it.

Thus, in order for time travel to work, it means to rewind the tape and add yourself to the tape at a moment you did not exist before. Thus, if you killed your father, your replica wouldn't be born, but you wouldn't stop to exist.

Therefore, the whole 'grandfather paradox' is not a paradox at all: if time travel exists, then you would simply exist in a universe where a replica of you will exist or not, depending on how events play out.
There is a farm in the middle of the M62 over here, though contrary to popular tail it was left that way more for geographical reasons than because the owner of the land didn't want to sell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M62_motorway#Stott_Hall_Farm

Why the road splits to go around both sides instead of just one I'm not sure though.
Maybe at least they will be capable of finishing the CLR version? It would be awesome to have a C-friendly and functional-friendly language that runs on both VMs.
>> What happened to free market economy?

Too strong of a political instrument not to use for manipulation.
The Economic Freedom Index is an index created by the Heritage Foundation itself, not some law of nature. As such it's basically political opinion - how is the organization's political leanings/bias exempt from scrutiny in this case?

Edit: from Wikipedia:

> An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.

Note that "irrelevant fact" does not really apply here since the political biases of an organization publishing a political index are very much relevant to the discussion.

For example:
http://www.heritage.org/index/government-spending

The position that more government spending always means less freedom is a political one, as is their choice of growth curve.

> The scale for scoring government spending is non-linear, which means that government spending that is close to zero is lightly penalized, while levels of government spending that exceed 30 percent of GDP lead to much worse scores in a quadratic fashion (for example, doubling spending yields four times less freedom). Only extraordinarily large levels of government spending—for example, over 58 percent of GDP—receive a score of zero.

Let's take a look at labor freedom: http://www.heritage.org/index/labor-freedom and http://www.doingbusiness.org/methodology/employing-workers

Now we see that that economic freedom in this case actually means freedom for employers to exploit their workers, with negative factors like "rigidity of hours" being determined by paid vacation days. Yet nowhere are factors like regulations on non-compete and no-moonlighting employment clauses factored in. So again a political opinion on what freedom of labor means - the freedom to exploit labor rather than the freedom of labor to seek work or change jobs.
Actors, Green Threads and CSP on the JVM
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Inside Apple's spin machine
Those at the top have more enemies than those at the bottom. When you're on the highest rung of the ladder, everyone below you will plot to depose you and take your place. At the bottom of the ladder it's easy to live in chaos, sometimes the chaos is even your friend, as it can propel you up the ladder. When you're close to top, you have too much enemies to deal with, so you need to create structural solutions that will let you focus on doing something else than just not getting shot down.

This applies equally to companies and to revolutions.

(and this makes me wonder how will the life of Frank Underwood fare in the third season of House of Cards)
Nokia's basic cellphones live on at Microsoft
It made me sad to see that too. I'm just hoping it will work like any other bluetooth keyboard for linux because there doesn't seem to be any reason it shouldn't.
Unix is amazing, and C certainly rode along with Unix. But I do think C being closer to the metal is what made it popular. Unix has become widespread, but PC's spread faster sooner (giving Linux a place to land), and what made PC's spread was software. Writing C was easier and faster than writing assembler, while still being close enough to the metal to be a substitute.
The only gripe I have with using bluetooth keyboards for my desktop is that batteries seem to drain much faster than the models using proprietary dongles.

What is your experience with the K810 ?
There is - sadly - a hierarchy of insight which privileges self, then family (sometimes), then friends, then associates and coworkers (more or less), then local community, then country, then other countries, then species, then planet and ecosystem.

The basic problem is that economics rewards smart choices for the earlier items on the list and punishes smart choices for the later ones.

So it's 'not efficient' to think about them.

One hypothetical solution is to make distant pain points personal. If you're directly, immediately impacted by someone else's misfortunes you're going to want to do something about them.

It's possible technology could help with this. But it may have to do it in some unexpected and new ways.
I think there is some truth in it though; that and the inertia it currently has.

If you're picking up a framework, do you use the default database or try to do something non-default on top of what you're already learning?
DB is the worst banking and customer experience I've had in my life. They have a high tolerance for incompetence, in every corner of their business.
Ah, that's a good point, I've had that issue before.
Why 61% of Companies Are Looking at Recruiting All Wrong
It looks cool, but that round switch isn't as useful as it seems. It would've been better if they simply put three buttons up there - switching between devices would be easier (push of a button instead having to move your hand to the far left and turn a knob) and faster (switching from device 3 to device 1).
On Android - I agree it is worrisome.

On Java 8 - it's not just because of the purpose of interoperability, but also for the runtime improvements. Things like invokeDynamic, ConstantCallSite and others are not in Java 6. Upgrading the requirement means opening the door to performance improvements and is a real concern of many. How much it can be achieved in Scala I don't know, but these improvements in the JVM have made a dramatic difference for other JVM languages.

Going back to Android - it's not right for Android to hold back the Java ecosystem. I've been rooting for Google in their lawsuit with Oracle, but they should also get their act together and improve Android's runtime and toolchain to keep it up to date with the latest Java.

As this is not going to be a problem just for Scala developers - this is going to be a problem for the whole ecosystem, as Java libraries will eventually have good reasons to upgrade from Java 6 too. For example value classes are coming and possibly generic specialization for those value classes in the next versions (like 9 or 10, so it will happen, it's on the roadmap) and there are libraries that desperately want to avoid boxing. So what then? Will we stay with Java 6?

In fact I think this upgrade to Java 8 is sort of anti-enterprise. How many companies have you see with projects running on anything newer than Java 6? There are still companies running with Java 1.4 for that matter. Java 8 is bleeding edge and it will remain to be bleeding edge in 2016.
Drones are just helicopters or planes without pilots. There is nothing requiring them to have multiple rotors or look like a quadrocopter.

Here is the existing unmanned heavy-lifter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaman_K-MAX#Unmanned_remote_con...

Can carry 6,000 lbs and the cost of $1,000 per flight hour total isn't a terrible price, it's far more expensive than just putting the vehicle on a truck for delivery of course.

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/kmax.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukogay1TwAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qqUdfSRFXw

The way those rotors cross are insane.

The BlackHawk unmanned system has been in testing for several years also.
If they can't afford to fix their windshield wipers (15 EUR at most for new rubber blades), then there's no way they can afford to drive in Germany on a regular basis. 12 gallons of gasoline is around 75 EUR, or $100.

And TÜV costs about 70 or 80 EUR - not to mention the annual car registration fees.

So, yes, if you cannot manage to fix your windshield wipers, your car should not be on the road. Take the bus.
I agree that very often it is attitudes (willingness to learn, enthusiasm, diligence etc.) that can set people apart over their skills.

The thing I've found when job hunting is that descriptions, especially from job boards are missing items like the name of the company who will be employing you, or where exactly they are based. I believe that this increases the number of people who either don't apply because they believe they are not a good fit for the role.

People apply for jobs in different ways of course, and for those who apply for jobs directly (responding to a job posting on a company website) more than likely does give you enough information to make an informed choice.

Where I think there's a disparity is on job boards (Monster and the like) who often consume feeds of available jobs. Here is where I find there are issues. Mainly caused by the fact that these specifications are often written by third parties who are vying to hire for the same job. It is in their interest to be vague so that candidates do not apply directly to the company they are recruiting for.

In my opinion, there has to be a better way.
I think you are rough on the author -- the author doesn't know they're complaining that the underclass is unexploitable -- they actually believe that 'entrepeneurs' can help the 'underclass' by selling them the right products, if only they'd try harder.

The author diagnoses the disease, but their prescription, 'innovating' new things to sell to the underclass (whether in the first or third world) -- will never cure it.
> May I tell you something: As a graduate student I have so much work to do that I hardly have any time for entertainment. Thus rather little money is spent on it. Could this be a hint for curbing the expenses for this kind of people?

No, it is a hint that you are making the wrong choices in life.
Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming (2009) [pdf]
In C, a pointer can point to any old memory address, including core elements of the machine's BIOS and operating system. In Pascal, an array is an array, not necessarily tied to anything in the machine.

I think that's the great strength and great weakness of each language.
I've been using the same Logitech mouse for about 6 years with zero build quality issues. ymmv?
How well do companies support the women who work for them? Rate Your Company
Pairing designers to for nice sites that convert aswell
170 KB to a few hundred KB for typical applications. That's will full optimizations which take a few seconds to apply.

The fast dev cycle version weighs between 1 and 2.5 MB.
Multitasking in a single screen is not a good idea. Multitasking in three screens can only make it worse.

Very nice productivity killer though.
Yeah, it's sadly true.

I would also like to add that most of the publications are very highly priced which make them not easily accessible.

I had to buy a few of them and an account on OSA for a few hundreds dollars.
They are relevant because they control a large part of Congress.
Symbolics sold quite a few Lisp Machines to Japan. Also running Symbolics Prolog.
No it's an index with data that you can double check along with their methodology: http://www.heritage.org/index/book/methodology

You are lazily dismissing their data and workings by attacking their character (politically bias) - the very essence of an Ad-hominem fallacy.

Economic freedom is a great predictor of GDP per capita. So there is some law of (human) nature down in there somewhere: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dX5-CL7Zaac/TZfhtnxCz0I/AAAAAAAAAa...
Thousands of gamers sign plea for tolerance
The built in query stats is similar to Performance Schema in MySQL. The statistics are quite fine grained, and with a set of views on top (https://github.com/MarkLeith/mysql-sys) are very useful for observability.
Hi and welcome to HN. HN is not just about news but also generally things that its community considers worth reading/looking at. If you are only interested in news, I would suggest you either find yourself a suitable news website or execute the mental strength to skip over content you are not interested in. Have a nice day!
You've just listed several groups of people who are discriminated against. I certainly feel for these people.

However, this appears orthogonal to the issue of whether YouTube (a public forum) requires posters to use their actual name, and not a fake name.

I mean, think about it - is a public forum the sort of place that you would want to be posting private content you don't want linked to you?

If I was an oppressed person, and wanted to talk to somebody - friends, family, counsellor - there are other mediums available. I mean, gosh, I could meet up in person? Or I could pick up a telephone? (Assuming my enemies weren't the NSA.) I could write them a letter? I could send them an encrypted email. The list goes on.

What benefit do I possibly gain from publicly outing myself on a public forum, fake name or not? Why not use a private forum?

If I was an oppressed person, and I wanted to vent in my own community - there are private gated ways I could do this. There are real life meetups. We could meet in a coffee shop. There are private discussion forums, where you control the servers. There are Usenet groups etc.

I really don't get people's obsession with posting everything publicly by default. It's like people posting every time they do a poo on their Twitter feed - why?

Or let's look at one of your examples - people with embarrassing diseases. Is this where people with symptoms refuse to see a doctor, but would rather post on a online forum, so that anybody can chime in with their opinion? Have you seen some of the idiocy that's spouted in these forums? shakes head. Dude, go see your doctor, seriously. Firstly, it's guaranteed to be confidential, and secondly, this is somebody you're paying for their professional opinion, as opposed to some guy in their mum's basement having watched too many episodes of House M.D., and posting under the alias Dr_John_Hopkin_MD.

Or say you were filing a victim's report. The police aren't exactly going to say to you - oh, you need to file a police report? Gosh, you should do it in a...YouTube comment! You will go into a police station, and fill in a paper report.

The world would be a better place if people learnt to live a little less online, and didn't default to public-view on everything.

....

I don't see how this is related

If it's public, it's public. Eventually, it will probably be linked back to you.

If they want to talk among their communiti
What's the advantage to this over simply using 1password?
I'm impressed by the number of commenters who didn't realise the author is a woman.

>There are no end of problems to solve in the world, but only a very few of them are profitably solved.

They're (not) profitably solved because the economic and political systems have been designed to make them unprofitable.

The basic problem is a feedback system which rewards certain activities as 'profitable' and punishes others as 'unprofitable'.

Nothing about this is impossible to change. It's a political choice, not a scientific law.
That usage of the word 'enlightened' is giving me the howling fantods.
Relevant portion of original link:

Ad hominem circumstantial points out that someone is in circumstances such that they are disposed to take a particular position. Ad hominem circumstantial constitutes an attack on the bias of a source. This is fallacious because a disposition to make a certain argument does not make the argument false;

Essentially, you can't discount everything a particular entity says because you or others perceive them as biased. If you disagree with their position, attack the position, not the person.
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This is a good example of the marketplace being so huge and varied that one guys requirements make no sense to someone else.

My Soekris box is my home PBX asterisk server, and its killer feature is being "directly" connected to a 12 volt deep cycle battery directly, it can run the entire system (cable modem, the soekris box (also acting as firewall) and a couple of the phones and LAN switches. The battery capacity is around 100 aH and it could run the phones for at least two days although I've never had to run more than 24 hours. One of those, if I'm going to work at home, its going to be reliable things.

The electrical wiring is exactly what ham radio guys would use, it is exactly what I do use for my own ham radio gear, including power pole distribution/fuse panels and automatic chargers although instead of powering a 2M rig its running my networking gear.

Some of the networking gear is powered by DC-DC converters, "around 12 in" and 5 volts out.

The aesthetics of the case was not a major design decision. I almost used those "useless" extra ethernet ports to plug my phones in directly, eliminating the need for powering an ethernet hub, but I have too many phones.

I don't really use my landline much anymore, which begins to make the whole topic irrelevant.
Better have fun now then!
I agree that a future where millions live in poverty, working insane hours for minimal wages is repulsive and definitely the sort of thing that the next generation of web services might bring closer.

But this future is going to come anyway, in the near future automation and centralization of production are only going to increase, leading to much increased joblessness.

The only way we can combat that is if more wealth leaks down from the top, be it through labor services or social government.
Currently?

Fiction:

* The Hollows series by Kim Harrison: https://www.goodreads.com/series/40628-the-hollows

* Discworld series by Terry Pratchett: https://www.goodreads.com/series/40650-discworld

* Dresden FIles by Jim Butcher: https://www.goodreads.com/series/40346-the-dresden-files

* Wiz by Rick Cook: https://www.goodreads.com/series/43084-wiz

Non-Fiction:

* Programming Google App Engine with Python: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033219.do

* The latest additions to the Lean Series: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/series/lean.do

* Think Stats: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034094.do
Create a food ordering app like JustEat with AngularJS
Contracts with Minors in the Tech World
I periodically check if there are new installments, and grumble a bit.
If you're interested in the generalization ability of neural networks I can recommend the following paper:
"Intriguing properties of neural networks" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6199v4.pdf

TLDR: The authors create adversarial examples, i.e., they slightly modify the original images, which look exactly the same to humans but neural networks can't classify the images correctly anymore. What does that imply on the ability to generalize? :)

On a more general note: NN are always treated as something magic. I think a "sober view" is that NN are a special way to parameterize non-liner functions. This is neither good nor bad but it's easy to see when you look at, for example, a 2 layer NN:

$f(x) = w_2^T \sigma(W_1 \sigma (W_0 x))$
That sounds secure, but help me understand:
Is it the same password everywhere? How do you manage the different passwords for different services?
How do you enter your password to login on an ipad, or on your phone?

My biggest problem with the Apple's password policy is that I'm required to enter it periodically on an ipad or iphone - meaning I can't keep it lastpass and that complex alphanumeric passwords are even harder to enter.