skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the system updates difficulty in the way Bitcoin does, they'd get a week's worth of coins quickly, then the difficulty would climb to compensate. That's not a big problem.
imo the browser is just a better navigation model for a wide range of apps than typical OS GUI shells. so it's natural that either native apps get hosted in the browser (the plugin model) which has gone out of fashion, or APIs to do whatever an native app wants to do get added to the standard web API.
A subterranean city won't protect your from a GRB.
Cybersecurity is a mess, but Obama can learn a few things from Estonia
I've already asked them this question. Slack is native.
OCaml has, IMHO, strong syntactic advantages over Haskell which have a major impact on readability:

- the way you access records (which also means it's not going to clutter your namespace)

- named arguments

- default values

- not an OCaml-the-language property, but there is much less of a race in the OCaml ecosystem to write the shortest variable name possible and accumulate the most ASCII operators

Also, the great module system, with easy abstract types or "public" types with private constructors. By contrast, having to export accessors (if using a lens library) is embarrassing.
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BTW, up here (Finland, northern Europe) new construction code for so-called zero-energy houses mandates energy saving structures that almost make houses Faraday cages. Walls are to have aluminum foil in them to reflect radiation and keep heat in. The foil also reflects or blocks radiation from communication devices. Also windows have layers that try to block radiation, except for visible light.

So combating climate change shows up in cell phones and modems not connecting, or having poor coverage. People have to go out or keep a window open to make a call. The impact is particularly strong with higher frequencies, so generally, the newer the technology, the worse it is.

House owners have started to install repeaters, but FICORA (local equivalent of FCC) says those are illegal. I haven’t heard of solution proposals for this catch-22, government agencies each work in their own silos.
I've been thinking for some time about the environmentalists. I'm relatively young, but I recall in the '90s and a bit in the '00s, the environmentalists were portrayed in media (sometimes older media) as bleeding-heart liberals, people who chained themselves to trees, vegans like PETA, ecoterrorists like Greenpeace, etc.

Today, the stodgiest, most conservative industries have email footers reading "Save a tree -- think before printing."

I can't find anything else to explain that other than "awareness". And I usually am one to believe in the power of protests, but this particular change baffles me... yet it still happened.
Estonia to hold novel Cyberolympics for students
​The Origins of Life Could Be Buried on the Moon​
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Rubies:

> The price you can get for your ruby depends on its quality characteristics, but there is one thing you should remember: It is unlikely that you will be able to sell a ruby gemstone for an amount that is even close to its retail price, especially if you are selling to jewelry stores. In fact, depending on who buys your stone, you may even get less than 50% of what you bought the ruby for.

Source: http://www.jewelrynotes.com/how-can-you-sell-your-ruby-jewel...

Other gems in general:

> Jewelers often sell stones for 2-3 (or more!) times their cost, but they are unlikely to buy stones from the general public for more than half their normal wholesale cost (i.e., they may buy a stone at a regular wholesale cost of $100, sell it at retail for $200-300, but only buy it back from an individual for $50)

Source: http://www.tradeshop.com/gems/invest.html
Yes. Model View Culture, which is as good a sample of tech feminism as any, published this good piece on exactly the subject:

https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-myth-of-the-non-tech...
Here is an interesting article: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-t...
for those that wish to read a little bit more on the topic from an objective point of view.
Id adds one hop (our appliance) to the path. It tries to increase performance of your path by taking non-standard BGP metrics into account: congestion and latency
I tend to agree, but I can't find details on how it works. Quickly reading the site I had the impression that

- its for attorneys only

- it won't be entirely free, as published are promised compensation for their "premium content"
If the Universe is too dangerous for life to exist elsewhere, what are the chances that it's not too dangerous to exist here? Not very high.

Either there is an abundance of life out there, or we are most likely just experiencing a brief period of lucky safety in a tiny corner of the Universe.
Men tend to take care of their home bathrooms (when sharing it with a SO) a bit better than a public restroom.

Do you get out much? Honestly as a guy I'd never want to sit down in a men's public restroom (unless it is an extremely well kept place).
Next free housing for all.
Greg Egan's fantastic Disaspora begins with a GRB hitting earth. It isn't pretty. Hence the title. Best scifi I've ever read.
I'm a software engineer. I have a voice among software engineers, and not so much among electricians. I'll focus on the change that I have half a chance of making some progress on. I don't think this means that I don't really care about improving women's lives, any more than how, as a Linux user, me not writing Windows tutorials means I don't really care about improving user's lives.

Why aren't there analogous articles written by electricians? You'd have to ask the electricians.
>The point you're still missing is that if an activity is only worth $5 to you, then a $10 penalty will make you stop.

Only if you accept that immediate relative dollar values are a person's (in this case a non-physical, corporate entity's) only motivation. This view is cynical and likely not true in all cases.

I think your point is contradictory,

First you claim that income vs. penalty is the only concern, but at the end of your post you appear to claim that there is a threshold at which income and/or perceived value of the original activity ceases to be a concern.

>... regardless of your income or how much you valued the original activity.

I'm willing to accept that the actual persons that determine Marriott's policies, and therefore physical activities in the real-world (through the policy-makers' and/or their subordinates' actions), are motivated purely by the actions' perceived ability to extract currency from other people. However, that is all the more reason to consider the totality of the organization and its income in any judgement about the organization. As a matter of cost-benefit analysis, the organization may judge that they can absorb a particular fine, but will continue its "evil" behavior, in the sole pursuit of profit, by attempting to hide or disguise the offending behavior. We've seen this pattern play out over and over throughout history and even in very recent history in many industries, including mining, banking, manufacturing, political influencing, etc. Marriott itself even began going down that path by attempting to legitimize its interference through obscure (at least to most of the people affected by the interference) political means.
I interpret it as a sort of CYA policy. The 747 is the obvious fit for the requirement, but they need to ensure that they tried other possibilities, as otherwise it might look like simply giving money to Boeing.
He is looking at human behavior, sure. He is trying to copy some of the specifics of that behavior in his systems (like "pose" represented by columns of neurons. However, it still seems that he treats human brain as a black box, and he's not trying to understand the mechanisms of computation and information processing in the real brains - and I'm not talking about low level stuff like ion channels, I'm talking things like prediction, anomaly detection, or knowledge representation.

If you believe that the best way to build AI is to model human brain, then we need to look inside the brain, and Hinton does not do that.

If you are interested in the intersection of neuroscience and AI, Jeff Hawkins' HTM theory is the best we got so far. Unfortunately, most people talking about it can't be bothered to actually learn it. Just read HTM white paper [1], and decide for yourself.

[1] http://numenta.org/htm-white-paper.html
You can determine a lot more about a computation described only in terms of an applicative functor as you can from a monadic one, without running any of its effects (i.e. "statically").

It's easy to see why when you consider the opaqueness of the function in the right-hand side of a bind. Check out http://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2012-12-01-static_analysis_with_ap... for an example.
FTC Says Unlimited Data with Throttling Doesn’t Count as Unlimited
You just need to learn some background. I recommend this hands-on resource: http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/
Welcome to The Matrix, Neo.
"Moral relativism is the view that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint (for instance, that of a culture or a historical period) and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others."

So "Follow the local Law" seems to me to be the very definition of moral relativism.
Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Banned Function Calls
You can start with:

http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/

And this book (work in progress):

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/dlbook/
You cannot do graceful failovers with Route 53. This is, because DNS is a system of many dependend caching layers and the TTL value is not realiable.
Yes we could have gone with either one. It would have worked for having both.

RabbitMQ is very reliable (At the cost of performance). It persists the data on disk. Even if the RabbitMQ server goes down, we can attach the disk onto a new instance ant it would restore to the previous state. We needed this for task queues. They should work no matter what.

Redis is much more performant (at the cost of reliability). Because, by default, everything happens in-memory. Without additional settings for persistence (Which will bring down performance), if the Redis instance goes down, then all data is lost. We needed the performance for quickest delivery of notifications. milli-seconds matter.

Plus, now we can scale tasks and notifications independent of each other.
It will certainly be non-blocking. But the primary libraries that we use to scan the apps is written in python. And we love python. So we went to python.
Microsoft uses its Acompli acquisition to bring Outlook to iOS and Android
And once you decide that being offended > killing those who offend you, we see how truly horrible certain mindsets can be. It is disgusting in my opinion.
Slack is down?
It has been down for me and some others the whole day. Checking downorjustme or status.slack.com still returns "it's up", so weird.
Is it down for you guys?
> It makes an incorrect presumption;

It does no such thing. Your objections are in fact a possible answer to the "why" posed by the Fermi Paradox, but they are pure guesswork.

The entire point of the paradox is to illustrate that the common (at the time it was formulated) ideas about the likelihood of life elsewhere were clearly wrong in some way or other, but we don't know what we got wrong.

We still don't know what's wrong with them.
That's a bit misleading. Reverse engineering has, on the face, little to do with assembler of any sort; it's about understanding your target and choosing the best angle of attack to learn more about it. That often depends on how the target was produced in the first place. If it's written in C or C++, sure, go to the assembler. If it's some Adobe Air program that is really just a launcher for a SWF, well, you're not going to have much luck. Similarly, the application logic in a program like EVE Online is almost entirely written in Python; you wouldn't exactly know it from the outside, because they've wrapped all the native things they need. But then you won't learn much either just looking at the assembly of what are various layers and layers of wrappers.
Not something I've used myself yet, but is there any particular reason Julia isn't on that list?
Next step: Engineer built on top of IBM's Watson.
Next next step: Engineer built on top of IBM's Watson to replace Watson development team. :)
An ironically verbose language given the origin :-)
I'm part of the group that thought "what the hell?" when I first saw the React syntax - but seeing this has completely changed my mind and I'm really looking forward to picking up React as soon as possible.

If this delivers on its promises (no reason to assume it won't, seeing as it's already being used in large apps) then it's going to change the mobile development landscape.

It sounded like they may even be hinting at in-browser testing the way they were knocking on provisioning profiles and perhaps maybe even some sort of live-reload development tool? I'm really interested in seeing what kind of tools Facebook will make available along side the core React Native project. Mind you, this is a huge gift even if they don't have any fancy tools to go along with it.

Really excited, thanks FBOS team.
Anil Dash has a nice article talking about Indian-American culture that comes off as much less racist because he's reflecting on his own culture (which, incidentally, happens to be my own, and I can confirm anecdotally lots of what he says).

https://medium.com/message/the-tech-diversity-story-thats-no...

(To be overly clear, I don't think the claim that all the H1-Bs are importing sexism is defensible, as phrased, and I certainly don't think Indian culture bears the majority of the responsibility here, compared to American culture. I'm just trying to offer a better and relevant claim.)
They already are. Law dropped in 2008 recession and hasn't recovered. Law school applicants are down 1/3 or something like that, and it's causing much stir [1].

[1] http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwhiteboard/2014/10/wha...
Well, it isn't, but p.c. proponents certainly seem to make it seem that way. :-)
No "hurtful" words or images can ever be equivalent to killing another human being.
Jing said there's full binding and easy access to any native service
That's as much of a token gesture/joke as Pol Pot's Cambodia calling itself 'Democratic', or the first amendment in the US.

Argentina's constitution says they own the Falkland Islands, yet they don't either. The US constitution guarantees freedom of speech, protection from unlawful searches and surveillance, probable cause for any search, and separation of church and state, yet the actual reality is almost the direct opposite of all of those.

As such, Turkey going "hey, look, we're secular" is worthless when they act like a psychotic dictatorship.
You're right that it's possible to get really, really close, but the effort required is very large and best avoided if possible. Not to mention, there will always be subtle differences between your UX and native, and it sucks to be in a position where you have to defend that difference to, say, your CEO who's asking why "it just feels different." Or worse, he can put his finger on exactly why it feels different and it's some tiny glitch that's out of your control but ruins the "polish" of the app in his opinion. It puts you in the position of either busting your ass to achieve the impossible or defending mediocrity.
the TTL value is not realiable.

How is the TTL not reliable?

In my personal experience DNS cut-overs have never been a problem. Is there any major OS or ISP doing DNS wrong?
That's only true in the most trivial Turing Tarpit sense, though. Ease of use and defaults matter in practice.

E.g. you can do compile-time exhaustiveness-checked pattern matching using the visitor pattern in Java/C++, but try doing that in practice and the amount of boilerplate just becomes unbearable -- and actually obscures (rather than illuminate) the essence of the data structure.

There's also the lack of higher-kinded types. (Or just plain syntactic pain of using HKTs e.g. in Scala.)
There is always an underground. When subcultures are appropriated by the mainstream, there will be people who continue to operate in opposition to that state of affairs.
Look man, like my nan used to say - 'when you're in a hole, stop digging'.

"There can certainly be fair use arguments made for transmitting torrent piece sized copies of protected works."

How is that not 'sending part of a work makes it fair use' ? Yes yes you're using 'argument could be made' weasel words, but that doesn't mean you're not saying it. Here's a Godwin'ing analogy for good measure: 'arguments could be made that the Holocaust was justified. Of course I'm no nazi, I'm just saying that they could be made'. Yeah sure, good luck going on the record saying that and not (justifiably!) be classified as a nazi sympathizer.

Anyway:

"I said that there are fair uses that involve sending parts of a work"

No you didn't, you made some connection between 'the bittorrent technology, which sends pieces of data, and fair use of parts of works'. A connection that is non-existent. The criteria for fair use are wholly orthogonal to the concept of 'cutting up' a work as it is done in a bittorrent transfer. No (reasonable) argument can be made otherwise. There has been litigation on copyright infringement via bittorrent for about a decade now, if this line of reasoning stood any chance, wouldn't you think it had been used by now?

"that proving a single or small number of pieces were transmitted between parties is not ipso facto evidence of infringement"

Yes it is when there is no fair use involved, and there is no fair use claim just because bittorrent sends stuff in pieces.
They are far ahead of the employees though. Employees have no claims on assets (except for unpaid, contractual provisions such as earned wages) in event of a liquidation.

Dividends are a cost to the organization. They are resources that will never be recovered. However, from the point of view of the shareholder it is personal income. If dividends are not a cost to the organization, what are they?
Yep I read this, but it looks strange because the instances have 250GB of RAM... more than one order of magnitude more of what Redis needs to store the same amount of data. So maybe there is something more about that? No idea.
Will the talk dealing with Relay and GraphQL also be uploaded?
That's interesting, but what are the rates for regular data and phone calls? I won't carry an extra phone for each messenger ;-) The site only lists the price for legacy MMS. Also, which country prefix will the phone number have, or do you get multiple numbers? People are usually hesitant to call numbers from other countries.

Edit: I would definitely pay 10 EUR for something like this on top of my current plan. In the spirit of net neutrality, it shouldn't be tied to a single service, though. Instead, they could just sell a low rate data connection.
We have seen providers set the TTL value to 300 seconds no matter what. Chrome has been caching names forever while running...just two examples
What's it USP?
Does that mean all traffic passes through your appliance?

Where is it physically located, what about congestion of the appliance itself, what are your peerings?
Ask HN: Best keyboard layout for programming
I usually use nordic layout, but it seems like some of the special characters is more convenient on a US layout.
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From the FAQ at http://www.whatsim.com/en/faq:

Can I make calls, send text messages or surf the Internet?

No, WhatSim only allows you to chat with WhatsApp.
The burst lasts as long as it takes the stuff (radiation) get past the planet. That is only a few seconds. That radiation is travelling at light speed so given our present knowledge an early warning system is unthinkable. However for a star big enough to go supernova, expected life expectancy and spectral analysis can give you some estimate rounded to the 10s or 100s of millions of years.
Someone buy this man a beer.
Kamcord is looking for a Lead Back end Engineer
HTML 5, Flash or Silverlight?

http://www.xul.fr/en/html5/html5-flash-silverlight.php
Ember Problems: Connecting Ember-CLI to a Rails API
> I won't carry an extra phone for each messenger

Then you're probably not part of the target market. In a lot of developing countries (India etc), WhatsApp is the primary reason to get a phone.
sadly it is hard to get US layout keyboard on a laptop, when you live in a Scandinavian country
> On numbers, they said they are not going to play the numbers game anymore (i.e. will not tell us)

So, that bad, huh?
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Is this legitimate? They do not even use SSL in the purchase page http://www.whatsim.com/en/buy-now.
Traffic passes the appliance at the edge of the hosting provider. It takes congestion at all links and the appliance itself into account and re-routes accordingly.
Depending on the characteristics of the location, at least three very unsimilar transit connections are used.
Only a few times have I watched a full three movies in a day, and I found it exhausting. I think having to watch movies all day every day would be much harder than it first sounds.
True that Dampier. I wish I could edit it :(
A friend of mine is getting one, as she doesn't want to get roaming charges during her vacation, but still wants to talk to people on WhatsApp. Seems to solve this problem quite well. :)
So it will be IBM vs IBM

IBM wins of course. And the lawyers
$1000 doesn't sound expensive to me, for the first request. Somebody has to think about the question whether there is confidential or copyrighted information in there, somebody has to to write a decent disclaimer, think about any security implications, etc.

Having said that, a government nowadays should have an open data policy. You shouldn't need to make a freedom of information request for 'bureacratic' data.

Also, any 'for the people' government should allow the free download of such information, and 'the people' should realize that that costs some money. That, I think, is a problem in the USA, from both sides.
Seems fine for me too.
> Firefox hello is a website that implements webRTC based video conferencing in a browser agnostic way.

It's very misleading. The page is full of quotes like these:

"All you need is Firefox"

"Get Firefox to get started"

"Want to start using Hello? All you need is Firefox"

"Get Firefox and start your first conversation"
Why is this being downvoted? It's a perfectly reasonable comment.
And getting your picture taken at the same time. I think that's the key...
I wonder why it is such a big of a deal of not having DOM API:s on the WebWorker thread? I think the discussion from Browser vendors is that there is no use case or benefit of having them there.

And not having the "native feel" or performance. I think browser vendors are on the verge on closing this gap totally. If not browser vendors, hardware will do it.
Assuming you're in the US, has your friend considered T-Mobile's Simple Choice plans? Text and (throttled) data roaming is free in dozens of countries, and voice is only 20c/min. Skype and FaceTime Audio is perfectly fine on the throttled data, too.
ACCA F4 past paper 2008
I can see the practical value of this, but the net neutrality side worries me. Will this lead to specific SIM cards for Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc? On the other hand, this is a nice piece of evidence (along with Kindle 3G) that it is actually possible to negotiate reasonable deals with mobile operators globally. Hopefully someone soon does just that to give us a SIM card that allows for reasonably priced open mobile Internet. In Europe, I'm hoping the new EU regulation soon allows me to use all of the Internet with a reasonable price internationally.
KevinDDR Is the First Tetris Grand Master 3 TGM3 Outside of Japan
They were targeting an already existing runtime for on older in-house functional language, and the runtime only supported strict evaluation.
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