skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Marketing is a Crime against Humanity.

Oh brother, get off your high horse. Do you know how hard it is to get people using a better mousetrap in an already crowded marketplace? Because many a great product have failed when the marketing strategy was trash. There's an art to great marketing, and it certainly doesn't have to be evil to succeed.
"All malware, no matter the details of its code, authorship, or execution, must consume power. And, as PFP has found, the signature of malware’s power usage looks very different from the baseline power draw of a chip’s standard operations."

I stopped right there because I smell assumptions that any number of things might violate: background tasks, VMs, VPN software, background P2P networking software (e.g. belonging to a Kad network), auto-updaters, debuggers, system profilers, management software for IT asset control, etc.

That and malware authors would immediately set about working to make their power profiles more typical. What they've found is that current malware produced with no attention to obfuscating this aspect often looks different from current typical application code.

Can't see this being robust at all. Sounds like a whole pile of false positives too. I suppose something like this could be used as part of an array of detection methods deployed to devices to help monitor for suspicious changes in baseline activity that could then be investigated.
I'm not sure how they will make these stacked modular structures safe in an earthquake, but I'm looking forward to what they come up with.
> Is there some reason for this?

Pixel density of desktop displays has been increasing pretty much forever, but web standards don't take that into account. A 16px font today subtends about the same angle of your eyeball as 12px text did ten years ago once you take typical displays sizes and resolutions into account.

Retina mobile displays further this, though there the browser does apply some scaling to take the greater pixel density into account.
"More research is needed to see whether the reversal is permanent, say experts."

A single small trial isn't something to base medical advice around.
I just have to quote the meat of the matter:

> My parents had a large circle of friends, and just about every weekend, throughout my childhood, they had cocktail parties, which rotated from house to house. I loved it when the party was at our house. Dozens of cars filled our driveway and lined the narrow dirt road we lived on, and dozens of couples poured into the house—the men in suits and ties, the women in dresses and heels, everybody talking, shouting, laughing, eating hors d’oeuvres, smoking, heading to the lineup of bottles on the kitchen counter to pour another drink.

> My sister and brothers and I would lurk on the edges of the party, watching the show, until we got noticed and sent off to bed. But we didn’t go to sleep; we’d sneak back and peek into the smoke-clouded living room to watch as the party got more boisterous, the sound rising to a joyous roar. Sometimes the partyers sang, pounding on our upright piano and belting out popular songs, or parody songs they wrote, sometimes on the spot. They’d give each other elaborate gag gifts, and sometimes put on skits or little musical shows, complete with costumes. They held theme parties—charades parties, talent show parties, parties involving scavenger hunts. They’d hire a dancing instructor to teach them the mambo, the cha-cha, the twist, whatever was popular. The parties would go late into the night; the next morning, the living room would be littered with empty drink glasses, loaded ashtrays and, occasionally, a partyer or two snoring on the sofa.

I honestly can't imagine what it must be like to live in a society like that. It sounds wonderful, much better than the mass fragmentation I think we all live in now.
Nothing but FUD.

This is a huge win for consumers.
The amount of retweets by whatever company owns that account now completely drowned out his actual tweets, so the first three pages are just click-harvesting now:

https://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy

Would've been much more respectful to set up a second account that retweets whatever messages go that way, and retweet one tweet pointing there.
GitHub Streaking for Fun and Profit
It is highly unlikely that this will make a non-trivial performance difference in any real code. Please don't go micro-optimizing your code for this, it's unlikely to be worth any loss in readability or maintainability. And it's platform dependent, may behave entirely differently in JRuby, or in future versions of MRI.
Poll: The definitive dress color poll
White and gold
Blue and black
What dress?
Ask HN: What features are missing from the English language?
For instance, in Chinese, you can flip the sentence structure from Subject-Verb-Object to Subject-Object-Verb with 把 (ba3). So you can say "I scolded him" 《我骂他了》 or "I him scolded" 《我把他骂了》。 Either are valid.

I'm curious about the expressiveness of English versus other languages.
I'd think of it more as a binary search. Big jumps first, small jumps when you're honing in on something that works.
All regions have a minimum of 3 zones, but the client doesn't always see all of them. Sydney has 3 AZs, but you only get to see 2, for example.
Torvalds is a complete ass. That is a fact. He is unprofessional and a control freak.
I don't find it hard. The webadmin module lets you configure everything via a web interface if you're inclined to.
New Ronald Reagan Book Highlights His Unique Character
Same for sports. You'll improve extremely quickly in the beginning, then you'll hit a plateau and you have to train much longer and harder to improve.
One of the immediate benefits for consumers is that companies can no longer block tethering apps on your phone or make you pay an additional fee for it. Sprint wanted me to pay an extra $30/mo when I was with them to be able to tether. Of course, I just rooted my phone and tethered anyway. (now I have Ting -- so much better)
Complete and utter mistake.

That tweet, those words, sigh, words to etch into you consciousness and meditate on daily.
Would you mind supporting your statement by explaining how this actually applies here? It comes across as generic anti-regulation-no-matter-what astroturfing, but would be more interesting if the details of your argument were fleshed out.
I had a similar-ish problem just last night. Spent over an hour crawling through some code trying to figure out why it wasn't working like it was supposed to. I ended up doing the divide-and-conquer approach with "console debugging". I was cursing wildly by the end of it.

All to find in the end that I had used ( ) instead of [ ] (or maybe it was the other way 'round?) in a thick spot of code, and Javascript was happy to try to do that without throwing any kind of error.

That sort of thing happens in all languages to some extent, but debugging in Javascript is unmitigated hell.
The “Unstealable Bike” to Begin Shipping in September
Why do people see it different ways? Interesting (but dealt with quite thoroughly when it blew up yesterday).

Why did this get so big, so fast? Potentially interesting.

What percentage of people on a relatively small news sight see it each way? Thoroughly uninteresting.
New C++11/14 driver for MongoDB
An alternative introduction to Rust
> Prop 13 limits property tax to the value of the house when you bought it

No, it restricts increases in the basis value to which the tax rate is applied to a maximum of the value after purchase (or other qualifying event) + 2% per annum.

> unlike most places where you pay property tax on the current value.

A number of other states have Prop 13 like limits to the annual increase in tax basis value, and some others do full market valuation but split the increases over a several year period so that the tax basis value lags the increase, and other places just have fairly infrequent reassessment except at purchase (which, in effect, also causes tax basis value to, on average, trail behind increases.)
Does this mean if someone turns the phone camera midway through the video to a different orientation, VLC will autorotate the recorded video at that time?

Or is it only the initial orientation?
Google unveils plans for futuristic new headquarters
Previous discussion from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9093211
For what it’s worth, I live on the east coast, am not particularly keyed in to the Silicon Valley world like most HN readers, and knew (assumed) immediately that MTV = Mountain View based on the context of the article and the comment. I think it’s pretty obvious given the overall context here.
Lint Like It's 2015
Not that it necessarily matters but I believe this is only the "appified" version for WinRT and "Metro" apps. The regular version that would be the analogue of the OSX version still looks like the classic, barebones VLC of yore.
I doubt it will ever be required for the broader software field, but I could imagine a PE being required to write software for medical devices that can harm people, or power plants, or cars, etc.
Author here: I was able to access employee settings for Uber Technologies, not just employee driver settings.
The author makes a valid point but I have a grater complaint. And maybe it's mostly me, never the less I feel that although professional journalists (studied journalism and got a job in journalism) are good writers, they lack rigor. That's to say they are quite good at relating the news, putting forth a story, but quite bad at analysis.

There are lots of inferences, playing loose with numbers, citing of questionable sources, etc.

Now, I don't mind opinion. But please base the opinion on something more than feeling, zeitgeist, claims, etc. I'm not demanding scientific rigor, I'm only asking them to use the critical thinking tools we were taught to use in high school or college....

Alas, it seems I'm expecting too much.
I want to make sure that you understand why i wrote that post. I saw you mentioning that the docs need to be better. I actually KNOW the problem, since we have it in Perl too, and i made a site for it. ( perl-tutorial.org )

However, your first two lines were still:

> the implied semicolon isn't the problem.

> The problem is [...] the code [...]

Which is simply not an acceptable thing to say. The first thing to do is admitting that the language is the problem, not the coders or their code. The second thing is, now they're listening instead of being disgusted at you, to tell them solutions.
yielding in a method without an explicit block parameter is actually my favourite design decision in all of ruby. it basically means every method gets a "free" optional block passable to it at call time, which in turn means that the language highly encourages (syntactically) code designs where a method implements some pattern and then yields to the calling code to fill in the details. compare ruby's "File#open" with common lisp's "with-open-file" - it was just the natural thing to do in ruby, versus having to implement something specifically for the open-file case in lisp.
I think you mis-understand how banks work. There is no bank that will lend money speculatively to fund a new product. If you have collateral, they will lend against that, but that means they aren't taking a risk on the product.

A bank is nothing like a VC.
It's certainly a strange place for that caption. It's not mentioned at all in the article. But what I think it's referring to is the recent Parliament Hill shootings in late 2014. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_H...
does that mean camera have seen it as blue?
I think this ( the place in the Ice Hockey World Cup A Series) went to the unified team first?
It's always important to keep in mind that these things can be double-edged swords. There may be a tradeoff between plasticity and things like depth of focus on single subjects or the wide-ranging associations that characterize "wisdom."

Absolutely not saying we shouldn't play with this stuff, just that the fact that systems are full of trade-offs should be remembered.
I think we may be talking to the same ends and getting our signals crossed. The underlying sentiment of my point is expressed well I feel in this piece:

"It is more important that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world, that all of them cannot be punished.... when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, 'it is immaterial to me whether I behave well or ill, for virtue itself is no security.' And if such a sentiment as this were to take hold in the mind of the subject that would be the end of all security whatsoever."

If you want people to behave virtuously, then you need a system where if they're punished, or accused of something, their virtue is a defence. And where that which is malign to the virtues you're attempting to foster is punished (though as Adams suggests, I would suspect that the balance of this should be more towards the former than the latter.) Else there will be little reason for anyone to do so, it will just be a faster way for their life to be worse.

Therefore, if your system has no influence upon the risks and rewards for behaving virtuously or otherwise, I believe it is more a CYA policy than anything else. Like companies that twattle on about their culture and then you ask them "Can you give an example of something you've done in the last year to encourage X?" And you see their gears spin and know they're selling something that doesn't exist.
New Google Mountain View Campus Design
I wonder how long it'll take for the general public to actually recognise those as valid things they can type into their browser.

There was a sports event on TV recently and you could see a billboard ad in the background for a while with <location>.travel as main focus/ text on it, can't remember the exact one.

I asked my sister - who is fairly adept in basic pc use - if she knew that this was a URL. She didn't and replied "without .at? or .com? That's confusing."
The 11 people you meet on (nearly) every open source project
PayPal cuts off payments to Mega file locker, citing unique encryption
Introduction to Computer Architecture
Holy crap.

Ok, sign me up for the new Google Domed City with integrated weather, parks, transportation (self-driving cars), housing, office space, entertainment, and local governance. Would like one here here in Ft. Worth, it is snowing a lot today.

https://beta.googledomedcity.com not resolving, darn.

When is the Beta launching near me.

Couple of feature requests: don't forget to include greywater recycling guys. And voting.
Spock and the Collective Consciousness
That's a valuable point. That said, let's not underestimate the capabilities nature built in us; our hands didn't evolve to play piano or guitar either.

I won't ask people to grow internal and external skills as refined as actual musicianship, but with proper understanding of human memory and tactile sense, I'm sure one can find an interaction paradigm that will turn a tablet into another kind of bicycle for the mind.
The language used right at the beginning is uncalled for and off-putting. Please consider your audience.

There is no need to write "Not the sexiest title for a blog post, I know." when there are equally valid constructions that eschew the sexual.
Manual labor is exactly "a person does it", with no assumptions made on the skills or ability required to do "it".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_labour
Your claim is utter absurdity. I stated the absence of something, and you demand that I prove the absence of it? Grow up.

My "approach" is to call out a bullshit, partisan, zero content article. If you don't like it, well bully for you. And FWIW, I succeeded in short circuiting some bullshit, taking many well worth it downvotes in the process (from imbeciles who are growing in ranks), angry idiots desperate that they can't ply their partisan bickery.
If I remember well, Japanese has a very neat implementation of the relative clause. Japanese relative clauses are formed by placing the modifying clause immediately in front of the noun it modifies, without any relative pronouns. You can even nest them!
I just checked on my Mac (Latest OSX) and VLC 2.1.4 and it's working (I was 1 version behind it looks like)
GRPC looks a lot like Google's internal Stubby, which is the main thing I am thinking of when I say "traditional RPC system" on this page:

https://capnproto.org/rpc.html
I use Linode, Rackspace and AWS pretty heavily. Overall I recommend Linode the highest. Good prices, decent server-monitoring built in, and I love how much bandwidth they give you for each server.

AWS kills me on the bandwidth charges. The cost-calculators are practically worthless unless you're really good at estimating your potential bandwidth usage.
So actual reality is "drumming a rhetoric of fear" now? Reality reported on by a fairly left news organization?

Fascinating.
Expanded Number Theory Meets the Riemann Hypothesis
Huh. Is it standard in interpreted language land to avoid optimizations in case for the debugger use case? Seems like that would rule out a ton of potential optimizations...
Not that I've ever taken it, because that would be illegal and wrong because drugs are bad and wrong, but if I did, it's pretty miserable at 500mg/day for multiple days.

It's like suffering through a bad flu. Hot, sweaty, lethargic, gastrointestinal upset…it's unpleasant. The worst thing is the insomnia brought on by the night sweats. I live in a cold, cold Midwestern city, and I was sleeping with the windows open.

But, 15 pounds down in 2 weeks. While eating like 2200cal/day.
This is like saying I coded a website that looks like Facebook, so therefore it is as valuable as Facebook.

This has been cured too many times in too many ways in animals even by myself: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21816276

We have to move past being impressed by this type of information onto making a REAL Facebook and not just a site that looks like it.
Nordstrom's robots.txt
Ericsson sues Apple for patent infringement to defend fair licensing system
I've had a "reseller" account with httpme.com for at least 10 years. Signed up with them back when the original owner was very active on WebHostingTalk (if I remember correctly, user "Aussie Bob"). Prior to them I bounced around at least 5 different shared providers and had my own servers colocated for a while. I've had minor problems that were all quickly resolved (one of my friend's sites I was hosting had a script that began to eat up too many resources, and they killed it).

The interface is standard WHM/cPanel. No SSH.
Trying to organise teachers to strike indefinitely is basically impossible as no teacher wants to damage the chances of their students. So a replay of the miners' strike of the mid 1980s will not happen (and I'm sort of glad about that given the permanent polarisation that action caused in the communities most affected). In the modern UK, an indefinite school teachers' strike would cause significant disruption as most families have both parents working.

My colleagues might manage a token one day strike now and again, but basically that is your lot. What is termed 'action short of a strike' can actually be more effective in certain circumstances. Cutting off the flow of data really bothers the management but the everyday work of the institution continues; students continue to be taught, to have work marked and to receive feedback designed to improve their understanding of the material.
Yes. But only when you actually need it (for example to store/pass it).
I guess all the Events weren't showing up yet because now I have 6 / 19 instances going down for a reboot.
> it was just the natural thing to do in ruby, versus having to implement something specifically for the open-file case in lisp.

Uh what?

1. File#open is a special implementation, the canonical opening of a file is File#new

2. with-open-file is just a wrapper macro around unwind-protect/open/close
i worked in offices, cubes, and now in the south facing open space with bad AC and lightning (result of a very expensive with all the latest fads remodel). I am at the state of office nirvana - i know it just can't get worse than that, so whatever "rethinking" is going to happen in the office space - let them, i don't care.
These superconductors are just getting warmed up
Yes I think you're on the exact right track. You'll still have to jump through the hoops of coding-tests, etc for certain companies, but you'll have demonstrated enough proficiency to get your foot in the door.
Looks like the current form means re-adjusting seat height each time. Seems like there's probably a better way of doing this that avoids that--a telescoping down tube with four hinges, perhaps.

Alternatively, there could be an sliding ring on on the seat post that sets the height, so it slides smoothly into the seat tube until hitting the ring.

But anything to deter bike thieves. This is a good idea. If it takes off, I'm sure future iterations will improve upon it.

As a side note, the video shows her locking it to a ~10cm tree. You know what's really easy to cut? small pieces of wood. :-p
Sometimes it's best to do the math before claiming stuff. Now, using thermal radiation from a metal puts your emission spectrum at blackbody radiation around or below 2000 Kelvin, and in that band around 50% of your emitted energy will be absorbed by the atmosphere (thus will not leave earth). Your heat pump going from 293 K to 2000 K will have a laughably low Carnot efficiency (the highest efficiency allowed by thermodynamics): for every Joule of heat you pump from the earth to the sphere, you have to use more than 20 Joules from our magical unicorns. Of these 20 Joules, 10 will be absorbed by the atmosphere and heat the earth. But you have only removed one Joule of heat from the earth. Thus your apparatus is not able to cool the earth, in fact it will be heating the earth by a lot.
What to Expect During Apple's March 9 Media Event
Is there empirical evidence that licensed engineers actually take advantage of their moral agency and refuse to perform unethical acts more than the so-called software engineers?

In 2008, in the US, almost 30% of the workforce had a professional license, up from less than 10% in the 70s. Has there been a similar increase in the moral agency and ethical standards in the country?

Replacing a wage-fixing elite with another is not my idea of a solution, to be frank.
You could join #archiveteam-bs on efnet and talk about it? Also if you want to send me a copy, my email is in my profile :)
Bah. You're absolutely right, of course, that's why strict mode won't help.

Now I find myself wishing there was a stricter mode. <script type="text/sensible-javascript">, perhaps...
Option 5. Screw it, we're The Google -- we are going to build our own mini-Domed Cities.
Google proposes sci-fi design for movable new headquarters
I was using MS-DOS back then. It had a command for changing the "code page", which would determine the appearance of special characters. (I imagine it was technically switching between preset character sets on the video card's character generator.)

So when you wanted to do word processing, you would first switch to the code page that has the Nordic characters. For programming, you'd switch to the US code page.

I don't know how real operating systems handled it :)
You're right, he's comparing the cost for that very simple case. Do anything remotely complex and it quickly becomes just noise.
Move along. No discernible point made here, philosophical or otherwise.
It doesn't rule them out, you just need a more sophisticated implementation, using things like JIT compilation.
I would click all three of those.