skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And who wants vendor lock-in with "proprietary argon gas capsules".
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As an aside, this is sort of a strange pattern:

var ctor = "Collator"; // or the others
var instance = new Intl[ctor](locales, options);

What's the purpose "ctor" here? i.e. Why not just do "new Intl.Collator(locales, options)"? Is it just to demonstrate the other constructors have the same arguments?
If it's any consolation, you can build and install FirefoxOS on a Nexus 5. Note, we are still working on Lollipop support.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Preparing_for...
It's for unrelated 3D stuff :) node-webkit is just there as our desktop shell.
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I assume they have a patent on it so it's unlikely that we will see any generic equivalent for a while.
Super, thank you for the heads up
$11 per proprietary argon capsule. Each capsule can pour 75oz, or about 3 standard wine bottles. Not too bad, if you're serving high end wines.
Of course no one can now right now, it's not one of these things that can be solved by theoretical work alone. At some point - assuming we don't go extinct before reaching it - we will know.

But it's still open to useful speculation, as there might be something we still need to consider in order to avoid said extinction.

The Fermi Paradox is one of the more thought-provoking signs that something might be amiss (at least in our part of the galaxy), and especially because our culture is predisposed to not take anything happening on the interstellar stage very seriously this provides an impetus for reflection that would otherwise not happen.

One of the most benign (but ultimately depressing) possibilities is that biogenesis is somehow extremely unlikely. There is no reason to assume this is true, given that we know even the more complex building blocks of life are actually very prevalent throughout the universe - but it may still be statistically unlikely that cells form from them. On the footsteps of that possibility follows the hypothesis that technological intelligence is rare. Again, that's not exactly in line with what we can observe on Earth, but it might still be the case.

Most of the other options should be positively troubling, though.
unordered_map pretty much has to have linked buckets due to its interface and complexity requirements.
I also don't have a lot of need for scientific computing; Julia has the potential to be a really compelling replacement for Python for general purpose scripting.
Yeah, it only makes sense for bottles costing upwards of 100$
If bitcoin mining hardware gets more energy efficient, it is more efficient for the attackers too. The symmetrical costs are the problem here.
It allows for arbitrary rules. For instance, you could make some currency that has the concept of grain and wood, and then you could make a transaction that converts one of each into roads. I'm not sure why that would be useful, but it's something that could be done, that couldn't be done in bitcoin.
I wonder if there will be a grey / black market for non-original capsules. Seems promising since, as far as I know, argon is not _that_ expensive to buy.
The Computer History Museum is one of my favorite places. When I lived in Mountain View (which is where it is located), it was the one place I would always take any family or friends who were visiting, and they always enjoyed it, no matter how technically inclined they were.

Hearing about the technology from the people who built it, is amazing, and it's an opportunity we won't have much longer in the case of these original systems. The guy who built the first computer game (Space War), and helped restore the PDP/1 on which it runs, presented it on a couple of the occasions when I went there. They have docents that can tell you, with deep personal experience, about the Cray supercomputer, the PDP/1, PDP/8, UNIX, IBM mainframes, etc. But, they're all getting up there in age, and many of the founders of our field have passed away in the past couple of decades.

As for being spoonfed, I don't believe that's true. The depth of knowledge required to truly innovate is much higher than ever. Making the early steps of learning about technology easier doesn't make working with the vastly more complex systems any easier. I feel overwhelmed pretty much every day, when I try to stay ahead of the curve in my field and try to stay at least abreast of what's happening in other fields. Things are moving faster than ever, and it's always going to require being at the front edge of that to actually innovate.

The people building the future today don't have it any easier than the people who built the future we're living in now.

That's not to say we shouldn't teach kids about what came before. I believe the Computer History Museum is really important in that regard. This is the most amazing time in history to be alive, and it's because of the things a few hundred people built 30-50 years ago. I just watched the American Experience film on Silicon Valley (which chronicles the earliest days of the integrated circuit). It's really incredible how far we've come in such a short time. Seeing people who are still alive today telling the stories of the inventions that have re-shaped our entire world in unbelievable ways is inspiring and intimidating.
And version 1, if anyone wants to compare the nearly 1:1 python version - https://github.com/shish/context
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Thanks, but I wasn't commenting on that really, just the point I asked about.
Jola Venture with ties between Boston and Cameroon is working on bringing modern innovations to rural and impoverished communities. They haven't scaled like a "Startup," but they operate like one. http://jolaventure.com
What are you talking about? JSON is a standard -- it doesn't matter which implementation you use as long as it conforms. (Indeed, that is the point of JSON.)

Of course being written in C, this implementation isn't likely to be able to handle arbitrary-precision numbers, but then neither do jansson nor json-c AFAIK.
a baccalaureate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies

Happily all you need to know about this article, is in the first line.
Perhaps they have.
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I think I remember Turbo Pascal's container library using a similar approach.
Driptech - http://www.driptech.com/

ultra low-cost irrigation systems
The failure modes of canaries are safe because they die, the fragility is the whole point.

Once dead they tend to stay dead. If you then prop up the canary afterwards and say it wasn't really dead, we just forgot to feed it for three weeks you're risking credibility at a minimum.

So either the operator is incompetent (which makes them a bad choice for trusting them with critical data) or the canary is now potentially under control of another party.

The problem I have with the whole setup is less one of whether or not this is a 'fixable' issue and we should redefine warrant canaries and give them a re-incarnation option, it's that if you think the chances of getting slapped with a NSL or warrant are large enough to have a canary system to begin with that you're dealing with customers that are - or should be - paranoid enough that any tampering with the system other than behavior as explicitly stated up-front should be un-acceptable.

Otherwise it becomes a question of where do we draw the line? A few weeks, a month or a year, what point is there to feed the canary at all if you can revive it at some arbitrary point in the future. After all the canary is a channel with very specific conditions attached to it, it now seems as though you are trying to redefine those conditions after the fact and that is the one property a thing like a warrant canary does not have.

If silent circle would have stated up front we will feed the canary weekly + a potential month in which we will take a holiday and everything is fine, otherwise we have been served with a warrant then you could call this operating within allowed parameters.

But I don't think you should be able to tack on such a clause afterwards.
That's the problem: merge-mining means there's zero cost to attacking a sidechain. Of course, people like to invoke economic incentives here and say there's opportunity cost with the idea that the sidechain will pay ongoing fees or something. But this is a very untested idea to put it charitably - keeping Bitcoin itself secure with only fees is widely considered to be an unsolved problem, and that problem doesn't have a reward in the form of a bunch of 2-way-pegged Bitcoins waiting to be stolen.

Ultimately I think media coverage of this is really misunderstanding how sidechains are very far from a proven idea, except in the centralized model where you trust someone to maintain the sidechain. Equally it's pretty clear that they have a high risk of making the incentives behind Bitcoin mining even further tilted towards centralization of hashing power.
i love this puzzle. here are some theories:

1. simulation argument

2. civilizations have a high or inevitable chance to self destruct after <1M years of language

3. civilizations transcend our observable universe after <1m years [1]

4. due to the single observer problem, humans fail to grok some very important feature of larger scale space that prevents detection/increases isolation

[1] http://accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis.html
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Is search platform (as a service) for e-commerce websites to boost on-line sales through a complete and manageable integration. We are providing Amazon search experience for small/medium e-commerce web site. With advanced UI components and analytics.

The company is base in Riga, Latvia
I'm preparing for my campus placements and I feel so frustrated by having to solve algorithmic puzzles because that's all that companies ask in interviews, everything else is secondary. I have so much interest in OS and networks but so few companies are there that offer challenging or exciting jobs in these fields in India. Most of the work is testing and validation and all the design and architecture work is done in the US division of the companies.
This leaves students with no other option but to study what is required for the interviews and get trapped in the eternal interview-study-promotion-interview loop. The lucky ones go to US.
Maybe, but I doubt it - machines using inert gas to preserve and pour wine have been around since Enomatic in the '70s. The only thing new here is the cheap price point.
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Actually, if you look back via the web archive, at the time when Retina appeared, a lot of people complained about it.

Doesn’t really bring any advantage, takes too much processing power, people can’t see that sharp anyway, "too sharp images hurt my eyes", etc.

It was exactly the same as with 3D or CGI, even though it is definitely useful.
The real innovation here is they've invented an even more irritating and powerful way of breaking the back button.
Seems like a great way of injecting poison into an unopened bottle of wine. I'll have to look into this for my next job.
>>. It feels nowadays so much is spoonfed, there just isn't that same opportunity.

I concur. I was in college during the 90's and the changes just in the five years I was there was pretty amazing. Several of my EEE roommates were tried and true hackers, cyberpunks and phreakers. The stuff they showed me just blew me away.

So many incredible things happened in the 90's. In just three years, I went from using BBS's, to scanning newsgroups on distant colleges and downloading entire research papers, to seeing the internet in full bloom. It never occurred to me at the time how fast things were changing, or how so many of us were standing at the threshold of a brave new world.

You're not getting old and crotchety, you want the same thing I do. For people to recognize our contributions to what is now completely taken for granted. Even hearing stories from my Dad, I have to tell myself, "And you have to remember, there was no internet, no Google back in the 60's, information got around in a totally different manner." And those stories seem all the more fantastic when you take it into account. To a degree, it's the same with our generation, we saw how information flowed before, and then after the Internet.

I do often get saudade about those times. Such an amazing amazing few decades, and went by so fast.
Would you consider the Beatles' "I'm Looking Through You" to be a counterexample? Its bridge is performed twice.
Indeed. I have the Flame as well and I'd love to use it... but the truth is, as an operating system, Firefox OS is just so worthless. I tried sending UX reports to the team but it really feels hopeless at this point :(

Wish them luck though. Congrats on the release.
Pangea (http://gopangea.com) is looking to help the underserved communities send money. Generally, remittances are from high GDP to low GDP countries.

Pangea was part of the first class of Impact Engine (http://theimpactengine.com/), a for-profit social venture accelerator originally run by Chuck Templeton (found of Open Table).
when the question is: "where are they?" and the answer is: "there is nobody here." then all long living civilisations must have left. so we should answer the question "why did they leave?"
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Surprisingly sexy looking thing, except for the home button.

Conspicuous lack of information about screen resolution, and a ridiculously high price given the specs relative to equivalent Androids and Windows devices.

I'm a (fairly loud) FF OS detractor, and this flailing around looking for a niche (apparently this time Japanese web dev geeks that will prize ideology over function) betrays a complete lack of market demand for it. Google's Android 5.0 screw up is causing there to be the biggest opportunity for a mobile OS land grab in years, but you're not going to progress with an even more extreme version of the ultra-thin-client model.
+1 for Propranolol. As parent says, it does not affect your cognition! It doesn't make you sleepy or slow or happy or numb or relaxed or lightheaded or anything like that. It affects only your autonomic systems, eliminating the high heart rate and blood pressure, shaky hands, dry mouth, etc. These physical effects often push your normal performance anxiety over the edge, creating a cascading effect. Talk to your doctor if you think it could help, it might change your life -- it did mine, allowing me to become an influential voice at my company with an influential position to match. There's no reason you should allow a biological particularity put you at a career disadvantage compared to others. And it's important to realize anxiety is very often biological in origin, and non-pharmaceutical methods are often not enough.

While many people feel that other type of drugs, like benzodiazepines (e.g. Valium, Xanax) cause them to become somewhat of a different person, beta blockers like propranolol can better be described as making you a rock-solid version of yourself.
Not a lot of changes, but it's been a while and it was not getting the love it deserved. I fixed a lot of bugs, added T&C and a proper privacy policy etc. Added a help desk with FAQ etc.
Altcoins also have one important advantage over sidechains: they exist.
Spain is just an entry point. Nobody is going to stay there (or e.g. in Italy)... Even Spaniards are leaving Spain for Northern Europe.

As for "sovereignty" - Europe sucked goods from Africa for hundreds of years... Now it is Europe's turn to be sucked...
How can they tell i'm not a cultural fit from an online assessment test?

Unless theres some racism going on since they can see my picture. Thats the only way they can differentiate between 2 people who have the same score.
I might be a potential target of your SaaS for one of my not yet fully localized web based applications.

But there is just no way that I can src="" your .js directly into my web application and therefore access to the DOM.

Could I still use your service somehow?
Or very limited vintages. I have a few bottles that were $35-50 when bought, but only had 150-300 cases made. No way to get another of that same kind and same year...
The mining efficiency - hashes per Joule - is unimportant. The important quantity is power consumption over hardware price and I admittedly just eyeballed that from the linked mining hardware list [1].

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
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At present:

* Bitcoin is doing badly in terms of electricity cost versus block rewards. If it keeps going down, the miners are going to switch off.

* All altcoins are doing worse.

Because the altcoins are basically alternatives to Bitcoin, but their value has gone down even more than Bitcoin's.

(I could be wrong - are there any that haven't, which have non-negligible exchangeability and/or trading volume?)
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She was also one hell of a social engineering hacker.

One of the last chapters in Cyberpunk, she's in an office of some big corporate big wigs and asked to demonstrate her hacking skills. Within ten minutes she had the system passwords for their network.
> Yeah, then it stands to reason that if a canary gets updated, things are fine.

I don't think that conclusion is warranted. If the canary gets updated it could be any one of a number of things, one of which is that things are fine. But saying that the canary being updated is the same as you being compelled to lie misses out on a few critical options:

- presumably you set the time interval between updates short enough that your key or passphrase could not be compromised in that timeframe, so any interval longer may indicate a compromised private key

- it's only fine if the canary specs as defined up-front have not been violated (which in this case they have)

- canaries may be useless as a concept anyway because lawyers are human and hence fallible.

(That last one is a stretch, but with stuff like this it's either 1 or 0, not something in between and I don't see an iron clad guarantee there, merely an informed opinion.)
"I don't understand this comment."

A content-delivery-network using HTTPS is a MITM. Decryption occurs at the CDN, and everything is in the clear inside the CDN's operation. That's a good place for interception, lawful and otherwise, because so much can be captured there.

It's a scaling problem. If you only use HTTPS for crucial items such as logins and credit cards, the load is small enough that you don't need a content delivery network for those pages. A small number of high-security machines can handle the important stuff. The non-secure pages can go through a CDN, which can cache them.

With HTTPS Everywhere, if you're big enough to need a CDN, and use the same CDN for both secure and non-secure pages, you've exposed everyone's credentials inside the CDN. How much do you trust your CDN? Are you feeling lucky?

What we really need is less SSL and more page signing. There's a W3C proposal for attaching the secure hash of a page to its URL, and validating that in the browser. That guarantees the page you asked for is the one you get, while allowing caching. The caching operation can't change anything without the browser rejecting it. This catches tampering at the router level, the cache level, and the ISP (we're looking at you, Comcast) level. So you can have the performance gains of distributed caching without the risk of tampering.
This phenomenon (career advancement = promotion to middle management) is also the case at the client companies, which is part of the reason why outsourcing is tempting to them in the first place. The never ending desire to commoditize their inputs.
He is very clear about Poettering's NIH syndrome. There are many established c libraries out there but he feels he needs to implement everything himself.
There are known causes of failure in software projects many of which overlap with project failure in general. As there are two companies involved, a post-mortem of failed projects must include problems on both sides.

On the purchaser side:

- poor specification is a major project for both internal and external projects

- abdication of responsibility for resource appropriateness. Yes, you are responsible for ensuring the vendor's engineers are a good fit for your project.

- failure to manage the project. PM of external resources is a specialized PM skill.

- changing objectives: this flows from poor specs, and results in changing targets

- communication failures: nuff said

- no QA: Yes, you must quality check work of external vendors. It's amazing how often this basic step is skipped.

On the vendor side:

- everything above, plus

- failure to include specification as a line item in budget

- poor estimation

- failure to align resources to task at hand

- underbidding

- inexperience in problem domain
> Google's Android 5.0 screw up

Care to elaborate?
This article does a good job of covering a lot of different ideas on this paradox. I have a problem with the idea of "big numbers" in it though, like where it implies 500 billion billion is nearly infinite, or that one-in-a-billion is a freak occurrence. There is a saying that if enough monkeys pound on a keyboard, one will type Hamlet. This would take a lot of monkeys. If we take the odds of hitting one character to be 1 in 40 (which doesn't account for properly hitting the shift key to make a capital), factoring in the 130,000 letters in Hamlet (according to Wikipedia), we get the odds of a monkey typing it at 6x10^208267. This number comes from 40 keys and 130,000 letters. How about when we start taking molecular numbers of items (6x10^23) and start raising that to a large power? I don't think it is a given that the number of planets out there infer there should be other life.
"Nollaig chridheil agus bliadhna mhath ùr" from Scotland.
This is my understanding too. Real canaries die in the wild for reasons unrelated to the signal it intends to send. The canary in this case is basically a date of claim.
I'm a comp eng new grad with a bit of H/W exp. All I see when I look for entry positions are software?
Playing with hexagonal controllers and sails.js
Localize.js requires adding our Javascript library to your page (like you do with Google Analytics, Optimizely, Mixpanel, etc). If you don't mind me asking, what is preventing you from adding a line of js code to your website?
Sounds like http://flipboard.com.
I've used this a couple of times. It's good to test whether you want to drink the wine at a certain; they had some problems with breaking bottles but according to them it was a problem with the bottle.

I lost my faith in >$100/bottle wines though, so I don't care of this any more.
Or we just haven't observed them yet because we aren't technologically advanced enough? What if they don't use radio?
http://www.gramvaani.org/

GramVaani provides crowdsourced news and other ICT4D services to the underserved.
I've used the Pek Preservino system for years. Their argon comes in the same little cartridges as N2O or CO2 for siphons. In fact, I just started using N2O since it works well enough for just a couple days.
There are clearly ways in which agricultural production differs from other kinds of production. Whether you call it "not industry" depends on what lines you've chosen to draw, which is why I said "arguably a different thing". If you don't want to draw those lines, fine - but the economy of the US South in that time was clearly dominated specifically by agriculture.
Not if the text of the canary is "we have NEVER received." That is the point. Otherwise intra-period of updating you wouldn't know either.
The cork should be on its way out, but if it is, it will be really slow. The better technologies (screw tops, bag in a box) are associated with cheap wines. It will be a long time before any substantial number of $20+ wines use them as a result. The wine makers would quite rather 10% of their product go bad and have to be refunded than have it be thought of as Franzia. (I have seen a lot more synthetic corks popping up, and this product might work with those.)

It's the same with beer and cans.