skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how anyone makes use of Ubuntu for even just 'web work' with just 2GB RAM. The browsers are becoming ever more bloated; I know I had swap issues on my non-SSD laptop before I upgraded from 4 to 8. Right now it uses 3.3 with 9 Chrome tabs open, an IM client, gedit and terminal.

It's unfortunate, of course, because 4GB of older DDR1/DDR2 memory would be much more tough to find/expensive than 2.
Firefox Developer Edition 38: 64-bits and more
Uber Launches Print Magazine
I had this same insight a few years ago. That human beings with the exactly same brain capacity than ours existed 100,000 years ago. And we normally think about knowledge and realizations and things happening from 10,000 years ago at the most.

This openned my mind to realise the importance of some things we take for granted: learning tools and institutions, diversity (in depth and breadth), register of history and culture.
Message me @ usedforprinting123@gmail.com if I'm missing any sources/articles and I can add them to this.
Artistic merit and commercial appeal are orthogonal. As Half Life and Portal showed, great storytelling can be profitable, but great multiplayer battles and addictive digital hat markets are not necessarily artistic.
Actually. he rarely has comics in reserve. He has a notebook of ideas and sketches, and each day a few hours before a comic is set to go up, he picks one and draws and inks it. I've watched the process firsthand, and I was surprised as to how little lead time there is.

When he knows he'll be busy he gets a few in the hopper, but it isn't his standard SOP (at least it didn't used to be).
I'd be curious as to how this compares to https://github.com/SmileWide/main, in terms of maturity and ability to run in a distributed mode.
I don't know if there's a more recent version of this document, but pages 16-17 of http://www.sfgov3.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4... claim that 61 percent of SF homeless were living and working in SF before becoming homeless. An additional 15 % are from nearby counties (Marin, Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa), so at most a quarter of the homeless population could be said to be attracted there. Only 13 percent of those who moved to SF claim they did so because of the services there.

While undoubtedly, people move to places that are better for them, this is a minor effect, as the homeless tend not to have the resources to move around a lot and most people prefer to stay places they are familiar with. Either way, it's a shitty argument to make... homeless services should be provided regardless of whether or not it attracts people because it's the right thing to do. Perhaps the argument that should be made is that less of the financial burden should be placed on the city (i.e. more money from federal and state sources).
The Nasdaq is back to its dot-com bubble peak
Well, that's also true.

But apparently there is no better thing to do.

There is always a disconnect between what you mean and what you say. It happens all the time and the risk is not going to go away. People who work with proof assistants understand this risk better and most of them are pretty happy that the risk is sufficiently small for their purposes.
WP is a perfectly fine tool for many scenarios. There's something nice about having a blogging platform that's easy to install and use. The problem I see if that this blogging platform gets shoe-horned into a CMS-like role with half-assed extensions and modifications, many of which are written by amateurs running a freemium-style model and often have little to no community source code review. I find popular extensions are okay, its just when you start looking at more obscure stuff because now your WP needs to be Drupal-light and SugarCRM-like that you run into trouble. WP is pretty much a victim of its own success. Lots of people have made sure the Wrong Way to do things is easy in the WP ecosystem and that hurts the core product.

I'm really surprised to see a site that gets as much traffic as Wired using WP. I could see Drupal taking this role. Drupal, of course, is not without its faults. I've been part of a few Drupal roll-outs and have done development on it, and my god, there's an ugly learning curve here. If money is an issue, you can get a decent WP dev a lot less a Drupal shop would charge you. I imagine Wired, being a print magazine in the age of dying print, probably didn't have a big budget.

Personally, I'd love to see something as solid as Drupal but with the ease of WP. Maybe this middle ground is impossible, but it would be nice to whip up a Drupal instance and have certain roles or templates ready to go, like WP does. Instead, stock Drupal is pretty much nothing out of the box and the dollars/time involved to make it something usable and finished can be significant.

>an average of four cookies for every visit (which messes with some caching attempts)

That's a trivial fix in Varnish. I run Varnish in front of WP for my own personal blog.

>, I can tell just from your headers that you're running on Apache 2.4.6, on PHP 5.6.6, and using Varnish 4

If that's the worst sin they've committed, then I'd say they're doing pretty well. Securing WP isn't that tough. I find most LAMP apps are security nightmares and WP is just the posterboy for this and because of its popularity gets all the attention. If you're not running an IDS/IPS and locking down WP, securing permissions on your server, running SELinux, etc then you're just asking for trouble.

I used to feel pretty confident about Drupal from a security POV until SA-2014-003. Considering how bad that was, it scared me a bit and makes me wonder why no one can make a CMS without major security issues in this day and age. I need to do the same amount of locking down with Drupal as I do WP. From a server admin role, there's not much difference between the two. I still need to do all that security stuff and admins who say, "Oh Drupal is secure I dont need to do that stuff" are the ones who are going to continue to get burned.
It doesn't matter tho since he did.
> it might be better to have all your stuff going through one provider you trust than through several providers of varying trustworthiness.

On the other hand, it only takes one subpoena to get everything about you.

>but they have taken steps to encrypt your information going between data centers in order to prevent NSA snooping.

True, but that doesn't help if someone is worried about Google's snooping?
To make matters worse, much of Google's Knowledge Graph -- their database of facts -- is taken from Wikipedia. There are many problems with this approach. Wikipedia facts are often unreliable. They are easy to vandalize. Many pages are unchanged for years because editor numbers are rapidly declining. Pages are also easy to game, both by external forces (spammers) and internal forces (bias seekers).

Wikipedia editors are now working as Google's unpaid fact checkers. It's true that people edit Wikipedia for a variety of reasons, but for many contributors the site was supposed to be a free resource: contributed to for free with the promise that the content would be free to the reader and free of advertising. Instead it is being used to further Google's profit.
It seems you can bypass the WSJ paywall by Googling the article name:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Google+confirms+plans+to+o...
If the long term goal is to actually roll out their own network (and I don't know if that's true), launching as an MVNO would be the obvious next step towards that.
These same people are writing the code that fetches user data from the databases, renders it, handles events and so forth.

Trusting those people with access to user data doesn't seem like a huge stretch.

My experience from being heavily isolated from live data at Microsoft was that we were slow to respond to customer issues. We didn't touch people; we had to have special permission to get blinded historical data, much less anything live. Yet I was at least partially responsible for writing the systems that kept PII private.

It's easy to freak out about stuff you don't understand.
The old Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia had different
facts for different countries. In the US edition, Thomas
Edison invented the light bulb, while the British version
said it was Sir Joseph Swan.

If you search for "lightbulb inventor" on Google [1] it currently shows three "lightbulb inventors": Thomas Edison, Hiram Maxim, and Joseph Swan.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=lightbulb%20inventor
The best introduction to neural networks is called "Hackers Guide to Neural Networks":

http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/

The best thing about this article is how he breaks down the math. The main idea: slightly tweak an argument to a function to get the output slightly closer to your desired output. He then presents a couple of ways to achieve this...
Imagine walking into an interview or phone screening and being hit on by the person who gets to decide if you are hired. After being dismissed for rejecting the creep's advances you will probably want to stop by HR on your way out. Actually HR might have been the appropriate move instead of a shame site.
Not all cities are in such a position. Fixing crushing debt is not an Internet problem, it's a governance problem.
So you use Yahoo.com which itself uses Bing.com.

DuckDuchGo (DDG) is a meta search engine that relies on the Yahoo & Yandex search API (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search_BOSS) and adds some related Wikipedia/Yelp/Yummly/etc. snips.

So if Bing.com implements a similar rank algorithms your DDG/Yahoo results will too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
He owned 13.9% of the shares post-IPO. That's equivalent to about $104B at today's prices.
A couple of reasons like inadvertent patent violation, to prevent clones, more closer to customer. The problem with this method is it requires lots of sales and support staff and they all want to focus on the big customers with huge run rates. So if you are a someone with a big pocketbook they will wait on you hand and foot. Anyone else is just not worth the time.
Programming Paradigms – Imperative vs. Declarative
I hate it when people post HN articles behind a paywall. It feels oddly familiar of Borat's catchphrase, "You will never get this! You will never get this!"
Great points, but I would (and have - news.ycombinator.com/item?id=911252) argue that prices are not cheap, at least relative to costs. They are spending to develop some great services over top, but the perception that they are charging anywhere close to their marginal costs is purely successful PR.

Also, subtle point but I would add that any firing would be for moves perceived as customer-hostile. Just looking into the EC2 Reserved Instances and the supposed secondary marketplace I see some less-than-consumer-friendly practices that seem to be just fine so long as nobody takes note.
Active, aggressive democratic government across a highly diverse political, cultural and social environment is as tyrannical as any other political arrangement, perhaps worse due to the implied legitimacy of the governments actions ("We" bombed iraq, "we" tortured terrorist suspects.)

The only humane option is secessionism, which has been poisoned in american political discourse by its historical association with slavery. Why Alabama and California should have anything more than, perhaps, a mutual defense pact, at this point, is beyond me.
I am concerned with energy consumption of this device. Pentium 4 class computer consumes 40 watts while idle. ARM cpu would work just as fine (Ubuntu).

I think this devices should not be called green, unless they disclose power efficiency rating.
Hey! I do this.

I'm still using a 10 inch netbook running Ubuntu for my typical web work (waiting for a retina macbook air).

You can't really watch videos or use flash without feeling the slowdown. As long as you stay under 10-20 tabs you're fine.

Running an IDE is out of the question, but sublime text does fine (probably more of a CPU limitation).

AMA I guess?
Like!! It took me a while to chew through signals and FT back in school (before the web) so I really appreciate how this is bringing browser-based animations to the general public. It's a lot easier to understand that way.
oooh. awesome, thank you! I probably should have checked the actual link. I think my Chrome build has a bug where "show url on hover" gets disabled after some time. I guess I can blame my confusion on that ;)
Five truly insane UX/interface trends
It seems similar, but try to buy from ebay/craigslist anything in a reasonable volume, clean it, test it, ship it for less.
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I've worked on complex sites for digital agencies (30+ templates, 25+ plugins), as well as on smaller sites for small businesses/individuals (10 templates, 10 plugins). References available.

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Or they believe the attacker likely accessed the information in the gist from several IP addresses; they want more trails to follow if the one bit of data (we are aware of) that they have proves cold. It's a sensible reason to subpoena, and it's also a fishing expedition so it's sensible for Github to not hand the data over without a court order.

Which is why we have courts.
There's a lot of money to be lost in transactional costs when crossing country borders vis-a-vie state borders.
My Chrome build has a bug that doesn't show the URL when hovering over links. I didn't even realize that it was not pointed directly at xkcd. Doh!
You don't have any evidence about that. And like I said, he expressed all kinds of libertarian ideas, so chances are he is.
Is cloud computing secure enough for spies? CIA bets on Amazon
Re silting. If you split the pool into two or three, when one was empty (at low tide) you could use the water from a full one to flush the silt out. There is a system similar to this where I live, they use a tidal pool to flush the harbor.
Hmm, so BCD seems closer to what I was roughly imagining (though, I haven't really thought this issue through deeply or anything), but you mention it has shortcomings as well. I guess I'll just have to trust that other people have thought about this, and have determined this to be the best solution, even with its flaws.
OOP is a fine way to model many kinds of systems.

It's not the only way, and it's not always the best way. But I think you do a disservice to the English major you are replying to by suggesting he or she is learning something "harmful" to their future development.

I'm not saying your point is invalid or incorrect. I just think someone new to programming will be best served by learning how to write useful programs in one paradigm, before exploring multiple paradigms, or worrying about whether they are using the "right" one.

I would say the same thing to someone being taught the functional paradigm as a beginner. It will make more sense to compare with other paradigms in the future, once you have some mastery of one paradigm.
It's meta-searchengine-ness is exactly why I personally use it. A `!` away from any search engine I need.
I actually feel really good about this. I like Bill. I think he tries hard to figure out the right way to spend his fortune. Glad to see he's back on top.
IKEA furniture can wirelessly charge your mobile device
QWAZR is a new MVC Service: GitHub + Cassandra/JavaScript/Freemarker = QWAZR
Multiple pools. When the silted one is empty at low tide, use the water from the other pools to wash the silt out.
good for you to be such a fan, for one I am not, although owning their devices.

Overpriced products, some botched updates (yes, most companies screw up more than once, but that's not an excuse), not really caring that much for customers (cases oficially usable under water were only included in Hero 3, which is roughly +-5th generation, till then they were just waterproof & completely out of focus).

Image quality is a joke compared to recent cell phones. Price wise their top model is ridiculously expensive, without delivering anything special (ie better picture quality).

Battery life is bad, and no sign of improvement (apart from PR talk every single release). THis is exactly the type of device needing long battery life, since it's often in environments where switching battery is impossible/very hard, and often being exposed to cold.

They are chasing 4K video and ridiculous frame rates, but picture quality was never paramount (problem is, competition is worse). This is niche interest, most people don't need nor want 1080p / 120 fps. For nice slow-mo movies, you need anyway much higher framerate (at least 240 fps).

They have good marketing, no doubts. As for products, not so much. I repeatedly end up with sundown images/videos being one ugly orange-oversaturated mess, that cannot be fully corrected in post processing (and why the hell should I? Even my 4 year old phone can cope with it automatically).

I was recently considering whether to go for top of the line GoPro or buy small but good camera. Usages - underwater, climbing & mountaineering side camera.
GoPro lost on all but small form factor, and I bought Canon S110 with underwater housing. It costed me same, picture quality is completely differetn level, and form factor is sometimes actually better with Canon.

If you look around, there is quite a lot of people disappointed in them. But as I said, they have good marketing.
Rather than engage in outright histrionics, the author makes sensible points backed up by historical facts. However I think the author ignores that idea that sensible design alternatives exist to a lot of the perceived gridlock. We're a country of designers who find elegant solutions to problems. The perceived entrenched powers that doom us can be unravelled with sensible fixes. Our prison system can be reformed by sensible legalization/de-regulation coupled with how we prosecute crimes and fund prisons, no need for a revolution there. Regulation of rogue energy and financial institutions can be strengthened, we can make sure our regulators don't become enablers and we reform what we regulate to not strangle innovation, no need for a revolution there. Every day viable alternatives pop up to our toxic media, and Jon Stewart proved you can de-legitimize an entire network, not with violence, but with a sustained nightly attack of satire, no need for a revolution there.

In truth, this article engages in a sort of fallacy, we're only doomed if we think doom is the only outcome that's possible. There's another version of this article that could happen called "American democracy can be fixed with sensible design".
Quite an irritatingly-simplistic/tired headline. I choked that down and read, but there's quite a bit of "what if"-ing going on. We get it, all of this executive action after failed attempts to gain consensus is "a bad thing", but the writer's attempts to predict the future as far ahead as he is ("sometime before runaway climate change forces us to seek a new life in outer-space colonies") leave him an awful lot of leeway to wax on about what could happen, at the same time providing no ideas for what could fix things (beyond a coup that causes us to re-evaluate the constitution).
Because: expensive, no money to spend on it, and a suboptimal use of funds. It might be hard for high-income message board nerds like us to see this, but cities are straining to provide basic city services: making sure roads are drivable, clearing alleys and policing vacant lots and condemned apartment buildings, getting kids to school safely, keeping the heat on at those schools.

There is probably not in fact a huge demand for fiber Internet in North Lawndale or Fountain Park or Joyland.

That's actually part of Rayiner's argument. Build-out requirements are seized on by activists and politicians as chits, not because residents want fiber Internet (they won't get it regardless!), but as a political weapon to wield against rich neighborhoods whose residents want to pay premium rates for fiber Internet.
>> To organize attack on US soil you need to traffic people trough the border, make them get supplies inside US and deal with the generally more aggressive corp sec in US than in EU.

It's been done before.
I don't doubt this is true due to higher cost-of-living, improved services (and therefore more accurate counts... homelessness is severely undercounted in many places) and the trend that more liberal cities tend not to have the suburbs within city limits (or conversely, cities without suburbs within city limits are more liberal...)
No more or less pointless than many other interview questions. The answer will depend more on social factors than on technical ability, good answers will be tailored to reflect the interviewer's non-verbal cues. Bad answers won't tell the interviewer what the interviewer wants to hear.

Example:

Scene I:
Interviewer: "Sell me this MacBook Air."
(Sales position candidate picks up laptop,
walks out of office, and goes home.)

Scene II:
(Some time Later, Interviewer is on telephone).
Interviewer: "I want my laptop back."
(Cut to candidate on phone)
Candidate: "The MacBook Air retails for $999."
You could fund a lot of curiosity rovers with that money.
I guess this would also be useful for non-computer artists who like to play with typography.
> I think for us operations types IPv6 is still too complicated. I mean when someone says "hey, what's the IP of that web server?", saying "192.168.13.129" is easy.

There's a cure for that, it's called DNS.
But seriously, building IPv6 networks feels strage for a few hours, after that you just wish IPv4 would disappear because it's clumsy and ambiguous in comparison.

IPv6 leaves so much room to logically arrange your (and the world's) whole network in one namespace without any RFC1918, making routing and firewall configuration really easy and elegant. Soon you will be able to know a system's VLAN/function/location just by looking at certain parts of the address.
I like the confirmation model. And mbta.ninja is a cool domain name, though why besmirch it with a needless www?
Darpa wants to use Unmanned Surveillance system to monitor the Arctic
I love how much faster the new site feels. Seems like before I'd load it up and some content would take 30+ seconds to load but everything I touch on the page all but leaps out to respond to my click. It's pretty wonderful and a welcome change.

Not sure if I like the idea of a dynamic news feed. It's one of my least favorite "features" of Facebook given that I have a harder time filtering what I have or haven't read. Seems to be the way the modern web is heading though. At least looking forward to see how Wired's implementation of it works out.
If I understand everything correctly, this issue is handled by Apple's "retina" technology. They basically combine every 4 pixel square into one sharp composite pixel. That way you get a crisp view that's readable while getting only a quarter of the workspace. You can scale your picture up to full resolution if you don't mind the small text/icons.