skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an abuse of FDE. If you're moving archives from one OS to another, use userland file-level encryption. There are a bunch of reasons for this: you'll get better crypto primitives, you get cryptographic integrity protection (XTS can't offer that), and the crypto code you'll be using will be simpler and thus easier to audit.
Sure, but the GBP169(!) Solo's (not tried the full sized Beats) really don't sound good (I used a pair for an afternoon and was hugely disappointed by them), they are truly the epitome of a high performance car body wrapped around a lawn mower engine. I mentioned this in another comment, my 15 quid Sennheiser CX300 buds sounded way better than these overpriced fashion statements.

I agree that sound quality isn't objective when it comes to hearing what passes through one's ear holes, but the sound reproduction that passed into my ears from these Solos was noticeably and objectively bad. I don't need a fancy graphs to tell me that.

I should add that I did actually like the construction and build of the Solos.
If I remember correctly, the AP already tried to eliminate the CS courses because the lack of diversity was making them look bad.
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To be fair - I went to one of the top high schools in the country, albeit in Alabama. We didn't have too many White or Indian males taking the exam either.

The course/exam itself was quite awful when I took it - a bunch of outdated Java if I remember correctly.
At my sci-tech magnet high school, there was only one girl in our AP CS class. This was a place where everyone took multiple AP classes, and a sizeable fraction of the class took AP Calc BC in the junior year. Interestingly, there was a pretty even gender representation in BC Calc (40-45% girls), which makes the underrepresentation in CS even more baffling.
Embedding Li-ions in your walls -- it's safer than embedding gasoline tanks in your walls. It's still far from a good idea, though.
By my understanding, fallout is less a function of the explosion being nuclear and more of how the bomb is detonated. The Tsar Bomba was an air-burst. By keeping the fireball in the air, less vaporized material from the ground is kicked up into the debris cloud from the blast. Both air bursts and ground bursts generate fallout, but a ground burst will generate nastier, localized fallout, and more of it.

This is my speculation, but I suspect another reason for the relative lack of fallout from the Tsar Bomba was related to its yeild. To get a particularly large yeild from the materials available, the bomb is going to have to be as efficient as you can get it. All things equal, a more efficient system generates less waste.

Or the design the article could simply be referring the bomb's parachute system, which helped keep the blast in the air.
And hardly anyone takes this exam because it's useless – what do you get in return for an AP CS score? All AP is useful for is getting out of general requirements in college, and no one has general requirements for CS. If you major in an area then AP seldom matters, as most departments don't care about how you got through the early courses so long as you take the more advanced courses.
>HTML and CSS, whose only advantage at the present is the number of developers familiar with it

Given the sheer number of people familiar with it, I'd say this is a pretty huge advantage.
Why do you use '中华人民共和国' instead of China?
Well consider the following question, is it crazy to call Nuclear Weapons one of the biggest peace-keeping phenomena of all time?

It appears that because of MAD, sovereignty between Nuclear armed countries is pretty much ensured.

I mean I'm scared to death by Nuclear weapons (intellectually scared, similar to say Global Warming being a gigantic threat), but I can't help but wonder if these things don't prevent a WW3, and force conflicts to be resolved diplomatically, through economic sanctions, cyberwar, through export of ideology or comparatively smaller 'cold war' type conflicts.

e.g. Yemen today is essentially Iran fighting Saudi Arabia for a bit of regional influence in a way without Iran & ally Russia/China actually fighting with Saudi & ally US/West. Conflicts that are all preferable in scale to an all out WW3, which wouldn't happen (on paper) because of MAD due to Nuclear Weapons.
Agree-am sure that learning the hard stuff pays dividends years later.
However, 30 of Tenn females can be attributed to a girls only school that offers AP CS A.

Why isn't this a story? Is there any research into this? Is there an effect here that we should be looking for?
German comma detected above.
Here in Italy there's not even an admission process. You just sign up basically. This leads to a definite decrease in the quality level of teaching, around 80% of my class failed discrete mathematics and calculus and that's with a very short curriculum and fairly easy exams. Professors then have to slow down because no one is following and it just gets worse.
There is an intent to make rasterization native http://pixelscommander.com/en/javascript/state-of-html-conte...
Did you just time-travel here from the 1930s?

Our consumer culture (good and bad) goes all the way back to the post-war boom.

Tell ya what, I'll get off your lawn if you get off mine... :-)
It can build for Android (aka you can make Android apps with it); it does not have a version running on Android. And yes, I use tablets and phones to code on, but nothing production yet. Cannot say it's that much less productive than on desktop though for what I do.

Edit: is iOS/Android building Xamarin or?

Edit2: Yep , this is Xamarin.
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'Codes' is the way some academics talk about programs and programming languages, so it might be more academic than it is ignorant.
Yeah, that's right on top of the post but you comment it like you came up with it yourself...
It seems there's an overlap with your site and the React Components site which pretty much does the same thing and has been around for a while. It scrapes all packages published on npm with the "react-component" keyword. Not sure how many components are available on that site but npm's website returns 7531 results when searching "react-component".

[0] http://react-components.com
This is fantastic...great initiative!

I would love to see this in Product Hunt format...where people can at least hold a discussion, report bugs, request features, etc.
Well, it's written to disk either way. You're right that if you do the "once in a while" setup, you can lose some data in a power failure.

At a previous job people started using Redis thinking it was a fast in-memory data store. It turned out we had accumulated tens of thousands of records.

I haven't measured, but I doubt it's much faster than Postgres. It does have other nice features. I like using the expiring records for caching.
CPU is MV78460;
2MB L2 cache

doc: https://origin-www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-xp...
MIT study on MOOCs provides new insights on an evolving space
This is why it's important for cyclists to use the road network. Streets designated as bike routes are actually pretty great: quiet, easy to share, and connected to the road network. Bike lanes are more important on more arterial roads.
I'm guessing you're overly restricting your definition of social group. "Americans" is a group. So are "men" and "women".
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It's just a 3-d subspace of the continuous (infinite dimensional) input space. If you start in the em frequency domain (which is the only sensible thing to do) nothing is cyclic, so it is not customary to call them Fourier coefficients - but I think you got the concept.
I don't have any inside knowledge, but I don't think there's any cloak-and-dagger stuff here. I think he just didn't want to maintain it anymore (for whatever reason), and he wanted to warn people away from using unmaintained software.

Again, this is just my perception.
Do you think it would be feasible to provide a bare-metal cloud made of cheap ARM or Atom servers while giving each server its own independent SSD?
Thank you. It's annoying to see the privileged sit justice over a program that they deem unnecessary, without even spending a second to consider whether their experience is universal.
FYI: the data this article is based is discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7052547

Also note that the article itself is from January 2014.
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Most Windows 7 versions (Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium and Professional) don't support full disk encryption.
This is an enjoyable and effective way for getting used to Ruby syntax and some basic
TDD concepts. The important point to keep in mind, however, is to try to reflect
on each modification that you make, so that you can also learn the language
semantics, and make the practice more than just "filling in the blanks".

See also the previous posts of rubykoans:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1623619

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9308684
I consider test coverage analysis pretty basic development nowadays, which is not covered by the community edition.
I think the "you" here is both the customer, and the reasonable person who thinks you should make money buy selling the best product for the best price possible.

Beats has more money than you (probably) and me (definitely), and for some people, that's what's important. Not the "how" or "why" or "should", but "can".
If a person random person on the internet looks at it naively, it doesn't provide much information. A person who knows about the US educational system there are anomalies.

Compare IL to PA or MD to FL and NY.

Use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_state_population as reference.
Well, this is simply false. Residential users can buy 10 gigabit service in Minneapolis if you happen to live in a neighborhood that US Internet provides service.
It leans heavily left but prints propaganda for the right wing UK gov and the (right wing compared to UK) US gov?
How do you work on professional development?
I'm trying to gauge the norm in the industry here. I find it overwhelming if I am expected to perform duties on the job full time, and then spend more time at home working on skills I am lacking in my full time job.

Am I simply not as passionate as most people in the industry, or do many people have jobs that allow them time to experiment with technologies in the down time?

It can be debilitating at times, feeling like I am not keeping up with my peers and I am going to eventually end up in the jobs that no one else will take.
The second parenthetical of this sentence sums it up, I'd say.

> He learned how latex condoms are made (by dipping phallic molds into vats of liquid latex, which is peeled off after it dries), and how they are regulated (the Food and Drug Administration considers condoms medical devices and dictates how they are manufactured and labeled).

edit: Main points seem to be that the FDA

- encourages latex, through labeling and testing requirements

- limits the range of sizes of condoms

- tests only vaginal intercourse, there can be no anal-sex specific condoms
Upgrade, or switch. Doesn't every version of Win8 support it?
VS2015 seemed to be pretty much the same as VS2013, although my experience was limited to the enhanced project support for Apache Cordova.

Findings:

- There's a very bad (known) bug that renders the entire IDE unusable. If you attempt to modify the markup of certain databound elements (possibly others), an error message will pop up and the IDE will cease to function in a predictable manner

- The VS Android Emulator is great, but it needs a bit more work. For example, it modifies you network settings without notifying you (installs Virtual adapters). Now if something else modifies those settings, the Emulator will refuse to start. You have to poke around a bit with the Hyper-V manager to get things working again. They should have a "restore default settings" option. (My Emulator refuses to work now even after I removed and reinstalled it).

- The VS emulator would be better if it had a default "Shared" folder that could be used to transfer files between the device and host.

- You can't specify the port you want to run Ripple on. I believe they are planning on fixing this, but it's a big problem at the moment as VS will just choose randomly from 40 different ports, each time creating a new folder and recreating your local databases. This makes it hard to track down bugs, or continuing from a known state.

- Build support is very limited. You have to muck about with the project settings to do trivial things like redirecting output based on Project configuration

- The Javascript debugger needs work. It will sometimes break whenever a new Javascript file is loaded. Or it will break on lines where no breakpoints have been set, even though no (visible) error occurred.

Other than that the IDE seems more-or-less the same as what I'm used to in VS2013.
Yeah, it feels like we're slowly approaching what we could do with native programs 20 years ago.
>if you care about getting minorities into STEM //

Surely, what you should care about is giving all people the opportunity to enter the subject area of their choosing without unnecessary discrimination (eg based on unrelated factors). Just because there are students of a particular race that you want to take a subject to achieve your notion of perfect balance doesn't mean they should be unduly pressed towards that subject.

These figures probably give no useful information about equality of opportunity.
out of curiosity then, what would you use? I've been trying to figure out an alternative.
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Ask HN: Would a Markov Model be appropriate in this situation?
I am trying to predict bandwidth usage for organizations to create a plan for when organizations should get their bandwidth "turned up" (e.g. 25Mbps to 50Mbps). Would some sort of a Markov Model be appropriate or is there a better alternative?
Well, with a single 25Mt ground burst in New York and the wind in the right direction Boston would be getting 1000 rads/hour - which is not going to be good if you are not in some kind of protected area.

Mind you, although the Soviets did have 25Mt warheads on ICBMs they were targeted on key bunkers - Cheyenne Mountain, Raven Rock Mountain etc.
As a marketer, this allows me to manage social accounts like Instagram and Vine from the desktop env. In fact, we have those two working for our team now:

https://medium.com/@seanmdixon/run-android-apps-in-chrome-78...
http://tealsk12.org looks really cool and seems to be making solid progress. As far as the AP for CS goes, I am NOT a fan of java. Based on the questions I have seen, many of the question are about quirky gotchas of the java language and have nothing to do with writing useful code. Python or Ruby would be a way better choice in my opinion.
I've read them, and I've yet to see anything other than a bunch of people saying "nuh uh! you're wrong!" to paraphrase. They might be smart folks, but the fact that people can't point out obvious mistakes and must simply say "it's not right" is really unfortunate.

In a lot of science there are right and wrong answers and the math (and experiments) make it obvious which is which. Here it seems to be a lot more opinions rather than facts.
Compare the s3 alternative with runabove:

https://www.runabove.com/storage/object-storage.xml
Why is American entrepreneurship is obsessed with chasing the next “unicorn”?
This interview with the Founder of Endeavor,Linda Rotternberg intrigued me of how much a bubble Silicon Valley is(http://founderdating.com/linda-rotternber-on-the-future-of-social-entrepreneurship/ ):

"One of the problems I'm seeing with American entrepreneurship–it's always about chasing the next "unicorn."

Where is this obsession com from? And how can we change it?
The majority of the Visual Studio code is still C++. The shell was rewritten to use WPF and MEF. So, I wouldn't exactly call it a WPF app. More like it uses some WPF.
Compare how easy it is to make web pages with just HTML+CSS+JS, especially for a beginner, with any other framework, native code or no. The separation of structured markup, display theming, and custom logic is remarkably powerful, and everyone saying otherwise is just plain wrong if you look at history.

Once you start doing anything outside of your simple page with a simple view (which was what, incidentally?), your engine starts to accrue features that move it in "bloat" towards a modern web browser.

The link mentions "Hey, this is really useful on mobile"--and I would consider that a failing of the mobile vendors browser teams, not a problem with the web.

This looks really flashy for the sort of static content + basic animations + interactions the author is showing off, but once you start handling further interaction--like, you know, building a virtual dom to render to the webgl texture, all you're doing is reinventing the facilities the browser already gives you, but instead behind one more layer of abstraction.

tl,dr; web developers never learn.
To be fair, it's impossible to get anything close to resembling the NRW Ticket (flat fee for unlimited use of regional public transit in all of North-Rhine Westphalia) as a non-student.

The closest equivalents are either offered by the local public transit unions (which are limited to the region covered by that public transit union, of which there are a ton in NRW) or the BahnCard 100 (which covers all of Germany -- but not necessarily all local public transit -- and is ridiculously expensive).
Cool, thanks for the link!

Do you know the latency numbers?

Edit: found this https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/integriertesysteme/emuco/file... (slide 17)
There's actually a lot of interesting facts about the origin/manufacturing of condoms and of the regulatory process/history. I submitted the article because I thought the lead anecdote of the man taking it upon himself to improve it was interesting and inspiring, as it's so often the case that we just tolerate everyday things that could be better...but condoms are an everyday thing tied so closely to love/intimacy as well as having a critical impact on health.
>It really depends what is meant by "math".

To my own amusement, I've discovered that I tend to categorize as "math" those areas of mathematics which I struggled with, or am ignorant. Statistics? Differential equations? Math. Doing a DFS walk over a parse tree in order to do code-transformation optimizations? No math involved! Just some code.
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There are nearly half a million public school students in MS. [1] Given MS's minority demographics [2], the fact that only one person took it speaks to the issue of access.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Education_in_Mississipp...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Mississippi#De...
Confusing UI, that makes sense I suppose. But why is the logo using Google's colors?
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what do you get in return for an AP CS score?

The same thing you get in return for any AP class, an extra point for GPA calculations. It's a pretty big deal.

The fact that so few people selected AP CS in these states deserves serious investigation.
Looks like all the microsoft catalog
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/def...
It's confusing because when Microsoft has put prior splashy pages announcing VS2010, VS2012, and VS2013, the actual RTM downloadable iso images were available the same day.

Therefore, it's not unreasonable to read their verbage of the first sentence [with interpretation in brackets] as:

>Introducing the newly announced Visual Studio 2015 product line [so go and download the new RTM iso image that's in the link below], including the all-new Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN, Visual Studio Professional with MSDN, and the free Visual Studio Community edition.

... instead of reading it like Microsoft intends:

>Introducing the newly announced Visual Studio 2015 product line [and you've already got the latest beta version last week so don't go looking for the RTM until summer], including the all-new Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN, Visual Studio Professional with MSDN, and the free Visual Studio Community edition.

A bit of Pavlov's conditioning based on the last 3 VS releases makes the bold headlines a little confusing. The fact that it's on HN's front page makes it seem like a more newsworthy announcement than it actually is. The expected summer RTM would be more typical of rising to the HN front page(1). This announcement of reshuffling SKU editions doesn't seem to warrant the hype of being voted to the front page -- unless -- people misunderstand what Microsoft is actually announcing. :-)

(1) it was #2 on the front page before I wrote this post. In the 5 minutes it took to write this post and save it, it's now #236. I suppose an moderator pushed it down into oblivion as a service to HN readers.
What chilling effect?

Github is up and running after all. Both targeted projects are online:

https://github.com/greatfire
https://github.com/cn-nytimes

Looks like if you want to mess with China then all you have to do is put your material on Github. You think that is the lesson China wanted to teach the world?
> In Europe it is very common that you order your car they way you like it and do not buy the one that dealer has in its parking lot. You order to your specification and the option lists are huge compared to the one from Tesla.

I can confirm, I bought a Mercedes and they had 10-20 options, which I could customize however I wanted.
Ah, crap. To be honest, we didn't know React Components existed, even if our goal is to (for now) catalog only React Native.

We do have a few ideas about how to catalog mainline React components too (which in the end means we too will end up either querying npm or taking submissions directly from the community). Thanks for bringing this to our attention, though. We obviously don't want to step on anyone's toes :-)
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The pricing for Visual Studio kind of blows my mind. I happen to think it's a great product and I don't mind paying for software (as a developer I want people to pay for software, or at least value it highly) but it creates a pretty high barrier to entry for developing Windows software.

Although maybe I'm wrong: I don't know exactly how restricted the free Community edition is. Also, Resharper apparently works with the free Community edition so that's a huge plus.
The ones on stack overflow looking for some on to give them the "codes" for their home work assignments.

Though I suspect its some liberal arts BBC type who don't grok the usage of code in the industry.
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> not using a browser to access a website has been construed as hacking.

Huh? I haven't heard that one before?

The whole 'hacking tools' thing is just ignorance. As if wireshark and port scanners have no legitimate use. "We don't understand these things therefore they are scary"