skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is much more recent than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9017761 ( TC, TAI, and Unix time (1997) by djb ) and more convenient for most of common use cases.

In short, UTC with leap seconds is no problem at all, as long as exactly 86400 seconds exist in every day (1) for the common calendar calculations and the leap second is "smoothed" by the computer time synchronization code. Google already used this approach (and blogged about it while not crediting Kuhn, as far as I understood).

The common operating systems should just use UTC-SLS for the calendar-related time. Who needs the "real honest atomic seconds" already uses TAI.

More details also here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9018367

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1) POSIX already specifies that every day has exactly 86400 seconds for "Seconds Since the Epoch" and the current code relies on that:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_...
This guys version of “Chandelier” left me speechless
There was a big kertuffle a few years back where Mozilla made it clear they weren't going to support anything like native client (and they then put a bunch of resources into asm.js).

I don't know if that has changed or not, I don't pay close attention. I only mentioned it because of the "Docker for the client" line, that it already exists is a pretty emphatic yes.
What Is Markdown? Great Overview
Pittsburgh's Gulf Tower is turning into an Instagram mood ring
Although this comment seems to be more focused on baiting, rather than constructive criticism, it points out that I have failed to justify my comments about Docker registry being overly complex, though I addressed this in another comment [1]. Either way, thanks for taking time to give your thoughts.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9015752
Harvard is offering an online class just about Albert Einstein
Another fascinating thing about them was their technology. Their subs, guns (stg44 first assault rifle) rockets (v2 first effective rocket) and airplanes (me262 first jet airplane) were considered decades ahead of allied technology.

We invested in the bomb and the computer instead. Without vonn braun we never would have gotten to the moon.
Have you seen Bountysource?

https://www.bountysource.com/
That's not a sandbox by the same definition has Chrome.

Sandbox = CPU sandbox, not just cookie isolation.

To achieve that in Firefox will require massive re-writing of lots of code to basically do all the stuff Chrome was built to do. Chrome doesn't allow the CPU process running the webpage to access any OS services or hardware. All access to those are in other processes that do tons of validation that what the page is asking for it should be allowed to access. That way, even if there's a code execution bug it's unlikely to be able do any damage.
Cubesats etc. are going to lead to a whole lot of new records that don't mean anything over the next bit of time. FWIW, Orb-1 was an ISS resupply, so you could argue that it didn't really deploy those satellites, just shipped them up to the ISS. However, a Dnepr launch back in June carried 37 satellites and deployed them in to orbit (11 of those belonged to my employer, Planet Labs). http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/06/19/dnepr-launches-37-sat...

I just glanced at the PSLV wikipedia page, and it looks like it's mostly for polar orbits. That's pretty cool, as it's quite different from the ISS' 55 degree inclination orbit that the commercial resupplies can get you, and changing inclination is expensive in terms of fuel.

As a guy with vested interest in getting more satellites up in orbit, this is great news!
"In an email, a spokeswoman for Leidos would only say that “the Leidos system was delivered on time, on-scope and is fully functioning.”" I can't imagine saying that with a straight face.
If you're just trying to get JSON out (for a simple query to REST api, or in a node.js environment), have you considered converting the record/recordset to json in the subquery?

The json functions in 9.3+ are pretty handy for that sort of thing. Andrew (core developer who wrote most of that functionality) and I decided to keep the api pretty lightweight, as its easy to also add your own functions to suit your needs.
> I only mentioned it because of the "Docker for the client" line,

You're right. I corrected the original comment to make it clearer I'm talking about Firefox. The point was to call out the sandbox argument a bit, since I'm not so sure it's actually safe to run malware in it.
Caught in a landslide, no escape to reality
The Hollywood blacklist was established by studio executives, not the government.
>What is "average" profitability supposed to mean? Comparing several ISPs and finding their profitability similar and therefore all "average"? You obviously can't reasonably compare them to tech startups or family owned restaurants or the like.

>But they're making billions of dollars.

S&P500 average maybe. You can use a bunch of different ways, but they are pretty average by any measure.

So what if they make billions, they have hundreds of billions of dollar of capital invested.

Do you honestly think we should measure profits in nominal dollars?

>Still not sure how billions of dollars is possibly considered "a low amount."

Are you running a low IQ shtick or something?

>Netflix is also paying to license (or produce) its content and it delivers it with no commercials for $9/month.

Zero day license v. 6-9months after release.
Not sure about this particular case, but this will happen if you're using the HTML5 version of Youtube and the video is inside an iframe that doesn't have the allowfullscreen attribute.

However in this case, the fullscreen button appeared for me after I clicked play.
> But they're making billions of dollars.

This is a willfully obtuse argument. The reference to cable companies being insanely profitable is usually in the context of their being monopolies or in the context of some argument about how they could invest more in networks, or charge their customers less. But Target makes billions of dollars--that doesn't mean they're not in a competitive market or could charge their customers a lot less.

Investors look at rate of return per dollar invested. That number doesn't look very good when it comes to the wireline industry, which is a problem because it requires a lot of dollars to be invested.
Gidole Free Typefaces
Because intellectuals like the idea of central planning?

That can't be it, because fascism and nazism both involve massive central planning and State intervention. For example, the plan for the NSDAP[1] included such points as "We want all very big corporations to be owned by the government", "Big industrial companies should share their profits with the workers", "We also want a law to take over land if the country needs it, without the government having to pay for it; to abolish ground rent; and to prohibit land speculation", "The State must protect health standards by making a law for compulsory gymnastics and sports", etc.

Likewise, if you read Mussolini's and Franco's speeches and writings, they're both very critical of capitalism and markets in general (which were often connoted with the Jewish people) and defended the creation of State-run or at least State-sanctioned monopolist corporations to take control of certain sectors of the economy.

[1] http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSDAP_25_points_manifesto
The Next Century According to Ray Kurzweil
Doesn't make sense. Smart money getting out will drive prices down, not up. It may be that dumb money is replacing smart money, but you have to be beyong "dumb" to think smart moneyn getting out is a good reason to get in.
>>>> It was a thing in modern science since the 1940s.

The reason it took so long was that scientists couldn't agree whether the Earth was cooling or warming. In the 1960's and 70's they were sure it was cooling.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060812025725/http://time-proxy....

"when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."

Another interesting video from the Leonard Nimoy series "In Search Of" about the coming Ice Age:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK0RswGQZRw

By the 1990's apparently all the evidence suddenly shifted and then it was then shown the Earth was warming.

It would seem the scientific community can't seem to get one consensus as to whether it is cooling or warming.
Lol, no. If every web browser said "no DRM in video, freedom or death!" then the movie studios would say ..... OK. We'll ask users to download an app instead. Or use Apple TV/Xbox/PlayStation to watch things rather than their browsers. And consumers would. End of story.

Browser makers don't have some crippling monopoly power over how computers work that they can use to force submission on an entire industry (thank god).

The idea that the movie industry will give up on something they view as a fundamental requirement for them to earn money, just because browser makers throw a hissy fit, is not reasonable. The movie industry will find a way because they believe their industry must, or else it will wither and die.
Your passionate, hand-crafted response gives me an indefinable but good feeling about you, tankenmate, and I'm on board with your approach! Also, I've learned from experience that people who use the phrase "voodoo psychology" are deeply analytical as well as trustworthy.
IBM Magstar MP 3570
IMO that is a lot of should have known, and maybe that is true.

But there is a reason the Jews didn't really fight back. They had no idea at the scale of death going on. They figured they were really being resettled in the east.

The reports of extermination camps were considered just rumor or propaganda.
Finding an extra hour a day isn't difficult if it's important to you.

6 am wake up, finish work out around 7, get to work by 8, get off work at 6 pm meets all your requirements and is very reasonable.

You can squeeze that hour in by preparing food in advance 2-3 times a week to cut down on cooking time, taking a few hours on the weekend to do cleaning / grocery shopping so you don't need to during the week, etc. There are infinite ways to optimize your time to squeeze an extra hour a day for a workout.

No excuses if you want it.
I don't quite see ConEd getting into Bitcoin mining :) However, it's possible for an entrepreneur to get discount off electricity during non-peak times.
This reminds me of a throw-away comment a lecturer made once while discussing the maintenance of telecommunications equipment. He dryly observed that, “Burning technicians don’t smell very nice.”
Mozilla has a loooooong history of not doing the right thing.

Mozilla is made of google money and advertising money.

Doing the right thing means doing it regardless of market share and piles of money.
Also the UK still invokes compulsory sterilisation, there was a case this past week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31128969
Please have a native English speaker edit this book before distributing it. It'd be a shame to have such substantial work dismissed due to awkward use of language.
Yeah, given the end result I can't imagine what they're thinking by saying that. To their credit, the auditors said this was their first negative review of the company:

"Charles Collins Jr., the lead author of the MTG report, said in an interview that the consulting group had encountered SAIC in the past. He said he believed this to be MTG’s first critical report on the contractor."

Their review of another department (Division of Statewide Services) was particularly damning though:

"In the December 2013 “organizational review” of the Division of Statewide Services, also conducted by MTG Consulting Group, auditors found evidence of what they called “a seriously dysfunctional IT support organization.” The review found that the division lacked governance and communication, its benefits to other divisions and departments were unclear, and there was a serious aversion to risk or change."

Sounds like the place was being run by Mordac: http://goo.gl/o7JRvr
"Rule A C and C++ are different, don’t mix them and don’t mix them up." :D
Platforms Are Eating the World
There are 24 hours in a day. Assume you don't have kids.

sleep: 7-8, eat/shower/shit: 2, commute to work: 1, chores/shopping/errands: 2, work: 9 ... you still have 2-3 hours left.

That ought to give you 45 minutes or an hour 3 times a week easy. +Weekends. You can work at your business even more (if you can manage that..but if you aren't really working, why?) and still make the time for fitness.

The point is... fitness generally isn't a time issue. It's a time management/motivation issue. Maybe cut out some video games or screwing around on the internet? Oh, and watch what you eat.
Would Blippy Work in 2015? A 30x20 Debrief and Throwback Tribute
Not exactly. Currently (2015-02-09), end-to-end encryption aka protocol 2.0 is enabled between android clients using the latest version. Note: only message contents are e2e encrypted, metadata remains accessible to WhatsApp servers.

Other clients (iOS etc) still use the old WhatsApp protocol, for now.
Co. – Work together
Show HN: RallyTally – Vote to choose a venue through text message
I wonder what other things are sitting on the bottom of the Thames.
It's completely based on precedent (i.e. court rulings). According to Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy] one appeals court has ruled that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy for e-mail, but that is something that the Supreme Court can overrule or not depending on what the Justices' personal take on the situation is.
for me i've noticed they only show up on embedded videos on 3rd party sites
Why Learn Multiple Programming Languages?
About a year ago I was told Kickstarter didn't allow medical projects. It wasn't my project, but somebody I know was consulting for a medical startup. Unless they've changed since then you can't use them. I've heard some medical projects have had success on indiegogo, however I do not have first hand knowledge of this.
Also Google Now (for devices that are always listening for the "trigger word"), where your phone will make a very distinctive noise and pop up a screen to indicate that it's listening.
I bought and read the book a few months back. About half the book is about businesses (mainly large corporations), while the other half is about banking and the stock market. I think this disappointed readers who were expecting a directly applicable "how-to" book on business.

Here's a run-down of the book by chapter, with the chapters ostensibly related to business marked by asterisks:

1. The Fluctuation -- on stock market volatility

2. *The Fate of the Edsel* -- how Ford failed to find a product-market fit.

3. The Federal Income Tax -- self-explanatory.

4. A Reasonable Amount of Time -- on insider trader.

5. *Xerox Xerox Xerox Xerox* -- read this online.

6. Making the Customers Whole -- about how a large investment firm crumbled
when a single large speculative investment fell through, and how the
stock exchange stepped in to repay the firm's customers.

7. *The Impacted Philosophers* -- on an anti-trust investigation of General
Electric (perhaps Gates related personally to this).

8. The Last Great Corner -- about stock price manipulation

9. A Second Sort of Life -- about David Lilienthal, who went transitioned from
a career in government to investment banking.

10. *Stockholder Season* -- on what it's like, as an individual stockholder,
to attend a stockholder meeting.

11. *One Free Bite* -- on intellectual property and non-compete agreements.

12. In Defense of Sterling -- about how the central banks of the world
cooperate to maintain stability across currencies.

Many of these stories would be particularly relevant if you ran a multinational corporation or were one of the world's wealthiest investors. I think it's no accident that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet enjoyed this book so much.

I happened to enjoy the parts about Wall Street, so I enjoyed the book. The comparisons to Michael Lewis are apt. It was most interesting for me to see how many of the same economic issues being discussed today (income inequality, intellectual property, corporate misconduct, the extraordinary power and influence of the banking industry, etc.) were discussed in nearly the exact same terms 50+ years ago. It doesn't give you the sense that great progress has been made on these fronts, and perhaps we'll still be complaining about the exact same things in 2065.
> But it shares storage with Google Drive

Not really.

> Google Drive photos are accessible from Photos

Only one way, read only. If you want to make changes like autoawesome or using the editor, you need to copy the album to G+.
This looks awesome, I haven't had the need to become more proficient at C since having learned (the basics of ) it as my first language, but this gives me some motivation to learn more about it.

I also really like that the book can be read by people of varying levels of experience, with sections devoted to different groups.
The overheads of the existing financial industry aren't really things for physical security at Fort Knox. They are:

• All the employees, regulators and effort put into the auditing and compliance needed to make fractional reserve lending slightly less risky

• The leakage and losses due to carding fraud which goes unfixed because banks have little incentive to fix it

• The mind-blowing resource misallocations that result from misguided but well intentioned economic interventions, like the Spanish housing estates that were built then knocked down without ever being occupied ...

and so on.

Yes, Bitcoin mining is pretty wasteful today. It's a misallocation of resources caused by monetary inflation - the fact that you get to print money by solving SHA256 preimage puzzles diverts lots of energy and effort into doing so even though it makes no real sense. But Satoshi knew inflation caused harmful resource misallocation which is why he scheduled it to halve every four years (some inflation at the start is needed to actually issue the currency into existence, of course).

Now think about the wastefulness of mining, but on a massively larger scale, and without any end in sight. That's other currencies.
Google Fiber isn't meant to be profitable, it's just meant to be enough of a threat to keep the other ISPs honest enough for Google's core businesses to be safe. Net neutrality regulations accomplish that purpose for Google. That leaves them no motivation for Google Fiber except enabling access to new Google services that don't exist yet, and Google's not good enough at long-range planning to have something like that up their sleeve.
Strong AI, utilitarianism and our limited minds
First Robot-Staffed Hotel Will Open in July (in Japan)
Postgres/Oracle supports such constructs.

And Revenj has been using it for years: https://github.com/ngs-doo/revenj

And yes, Revenj now comes with an offline compiler ;)
Your clients will need to grok the ideas behind open source. Try asking potential clients what they believe the open source community will get out of it if you take on the job. Their answer will probably tell you if they understand what they're getting into.

Take a good look at the ecosystem of your open source project. Does it have a large user community? Are there companies involved in funding some of its developers? Will the project still be alive in a couple of years?

If you contribute to widely used open source projects you should be able to find paid jobs doing consulting (troubleshooting bugs and other problems, helping companies who are transitioning to using the software), training users who rely on your project to do their job (this might involve a good amount of travelling), and coding (but to a lesser degree). Coding activities are often taken for granted even by commercial users since "it's free software" as in "saving costs". I am rarely being paid for coding directly, and mostly work on code during off peak periods where not much consulting/support/training is going on.

Unless you start a project of your own, there's a non-trivial amount of time to invest before you become enough of an expert in a project to be taken seriously by potential clients. I was lucky enough to be on paid student job to do just that for several years and now I'm freelancing too (URL to my offering can be found on my HN user page).

Showing a strong and productive presence in user support forums will also help raising your profile, but again is a lot of time invested up front.

If you end up persuing paid open source work in earnest I'd be interested to hear how you're getting on. Feel free to contact me any time.

Good luck!
Agreed. Telling the world I'm online on WhatsApp is little more than telling them I've got a mobile phone. This proof of concept doesn't know who I'm talking with, what I'm saying, my location or any other personal information, so I don't really care.

I'm a law-abiding middle-class white Western male, so I don't want to assume that my flippancy should be shared by everyone. So, who should be worried by what the OP is saying?
Unfortunately Chrome is a google product. I'm not using chrome ever, why would I voluntarily install spyware ? One that bundles itself with many freeware.

Firefox sucks a lot (no usable UI integration, missing many basic modern features, changes stripping user of choice, and more) but chrome sucks to infinity and is automatically disqualified, I would consider Iron but not chrome. Now my hopes are for vivaldi, I'm waiting for it to get out of tech preview.
JSON functions do look pretty helpful and go a long way, even if not first class. As you can tell from syntax I'm stuck in the MySQL/MariaDB world, so not up with everything in PostgreSQL. This and the features in the slideshare are an eye opener to me. Thanks!
This is what I believed as well, and the theory is actually included on the Wikipedia page, but only for the double-stroke dollar sign[1].

I read Atlas Shrugged as a teenager and that's where I got it from.

[1] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#From_.22U.S..22
I can't help thinking of that for me most unexpected aspect of Wheeler's announcement: that wireless will be subject to the same net neutrality rules as wired. Could that have something to do with it?
In the comments section of the article, someone claimed that in their Spanish-speaking country $ was used to refer to pesos, but with two bars it meant USD. So maybe the two bars in the USD was introduced to separate it from the peso when they were both common currencies.
My company is an open source company and we just got funded. Needless to say, I'll pay for work on the project, http://github.com/amark/gun - it is an in memory database with push notifications and graph storage. If you're interested send me an email: mark@gunDB.io
AMD vs. NVidia – Results of a Six Year Experiment
The cities here the Kansas City suburbs banded together and told the state to stuff their ban of Sunday liquor sales. I believe that law may still be on the books, but the KS AG may not be enforcing it.
I don't disagree; the piracy firehose is already on and this is all a moot point. But if you want the distributors to play ball with web standards instead of sticking to Flash, you have to address their concerns.
Show HN: Konch – Configure your Python shell
I'll be honest, I find this math very confusing (as I am self taught using flakey internet resources similar to the one we're discussing :)). But my understanding is that there is a 2x factor somewhere that affects Shannon limit calculations. I think it might relate to the "negative frequency" mirrored half of the fourier transform at baseband. Or maybe I'm just doing the math wrong.

In any case, the underlying concept is correct: a 2x2 or 3x3 MIMO radio can exceed the Shannon limit calculated for a single channel.
how can you do that with postgres ? a simple example / documentation link ?