skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for android you could best-app-market is pretty good. Also xyo and appolearning look interesting.
Absolutely this. The lowest end Yaesu handhelds, for example, can be had for under $100 USD, provide better reliability with none of that QRM, and a high resale value. Stay away from the Woxuns or Baofengs, unless you want to just piss everyone off.
How can one party be a "jackass" if both cars are autonomous?
Needless USAF losses:

Using a WWII era formation in the jet age. This alone reduced their air combat power to 1/4th of the Navy's, and exacerbating the manpower problem. In general a tremendous amount of institutional butthurt from being forced to use Navy planes and missiles appears to have prevented them from updating their tactics and otherwise following the Navy.

Dependence on their own ineffective missiles such as the AIM-4 Falcon (only in theory useful for knocking out big bombers) and their own versions of the Navy's Sidewinder.

Totally inadequate training, especially for replacement pilots as they rotated the first set out. The Navy was "lucky" that the single most difficult thing you can do in an airplane is generally considered to be landing on a carrier so they couldn't drop standards, but they also e.g. set up the Top Gun school.

Inability to learn, to for example realize the above meant their pilots were firing their missiles out of envelope too much. Or that their rough handing of missiles prior to putting them on planes resulted in many more of them failing. Not (hardly as much) a problem with the Navy.

Unlike the Navy, they were unable to provide good real time guidance to their pilots (when close to the shore, their pilots could benefit from the Navy's assets). They also found it difficult to impossible to put together a working system to get real time warnings to pilots from intercepted North Vietnamese transmissions.

Those are just the big ones off the top of my head, air combat focused, there's lots more.

As for the 150,000 man Army, what they most critically did with smart bombs plus massively better constraints (or lack thereof) from the White House (LBJ -> Nixon) was to destroy the logistics supporting it. Yeah, air strikes further south were very nasty, but without fuel etc. a mechanized army withers on the vine and is less able to deal with close in threats ... e.g. easier to hit an armored vehicle if it's run out of fuel....
Mikrotik does this. Though their OS is not open source.
Jonathan Rees's 1995 paper "A Security Kernel Based on the Lambda Calculus" was enlightening. Not only was it capability-based security in Scheme -- but capabilities are lambdas!

http://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/secureos/
+1 Service Stack. Greatness.
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India to NYC (fly)

NYC to Northampton, MA (train)
http://www.amtrak.com/vermonter-train

Northampton to Hampshire College (taxi)
I really liked Webservices in ASP.net when they were new, really easy to set up and you just had to add an attribute to the methods you wanted to expose. With WCF they went too far in covering all enterprise scenarios.

It would have been better if they kept and maintained a streamlined alternative. Forcing everyone to deal with the complexities of WCF isn't developer friendly.

This is a common anti-pattern in frameworks where they grow until they are a kitchen sink monster instead of splitting of into different frameworks streamlined for different purposes.
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On android there are plenty of app discovery apps. But considering the fact that most users only download a fixed set of 10-20 apps , i wonder if most users care about app discovery or is it just a developer problem, at least in the short term.

Maybe there's no need. Or maybe the real problem isn't app discovery - but a problem of managing more than 20 apps on a phone and remembering to use them in the right context.
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I think the only real advantage Bitcoin has is as a proxy currency for illegal online financial transactions - ones where you'd like to obtain some measure of anonymity. Of particular note, the darknet markets such as Silk Road and its ilk. Of course it requires the other side of Bitcoin, the hype and speculation, so users can easily convert to and from real money.
The only good thing about WCF is you can easily add a service reference in Visual Studio. Which lets you immediately proxy it to JSON with Web API: https://github.com/jpsingleton/Huxley :)

Web API is great but actually came out of WCF despite being more like MVC (https://wcf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WCF%20Web%20API%20is...). Older versions used to serialise dates in a weird way but the latest version uses JSON.NET which is awesome.

I used to use ServiceStack and it was great although I hear even StackExchange are moving away from it now (https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/05/stack-exchange-podcas...). BTW use the StackExchange Redis client over the ServiceStack one as it's not properly thread safe.
Your theory is just damn racist. You make a huge jump from correlation to causation that isn't warranted from the data you present -- it's that (I stress, obnoxiously unsubstantiated) jump that's damn racist.

Ex: "Melanin is positively correlated with crime. <Insert some unsubstantiated purely conjectural causal explanation about how melanin effects the psyche>" is exactly the same argument, and is (I hope obviously) damn racist.

The study cited also doesn't say what you think it does, and your misreading is obnoxiously wilful, to the point that it's clear you're looking for evidence to back something you believe a priori. But someone else has already taken that on.

Anyway, the bar for these sorts of claims is high for a reason: people have made these "black men just have medical differences that make them more susceptible to violence/rape/murder/crime" arguments since the existence of modern medicine. The evidence behind these claims has always been pure bullshit racism masquerading as science.
>They are well made, full featured, and still half the cost of your average Yaesu or Icom radio.

They may not have the most features, but the Yaesu FT-252's are 5W, 2M handhelds for under $100. Plenty suitable for repeater work.
I should have specified a little more, perhaps. Don't think of it as a null-terminated + length-prefixed string. It's effectively a purely length-prefixed string. There just happens to always be a null one byte after the end of the string.

The length prefix is the only thing you use, ordinarily. The only time the null comes into play is if you've already had a bug.

Think of it like a stack protector.
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Confirmed. I'm in insurance too - variable annuities specifically - and it's the most perfect problem for parallelization. In practice everyone maintains their own in-house grid (which is massively expensive and idle 90% of the time), and the technical staff lacks any serious chops to tackle GPUs. In practice the only way we've found to solve this is to go around corporate IT, so we do things like buying GPU cards and jamming them into boxes ourselves.
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This is the Grauniad. Competence and accuracy are not their forte.

Note that the article also describes Coinbase as a "bitcoin bank".
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WebGL Fluid experiment (click and drag to make it go)
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that's amazing. I would love to see an example team's document.
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If you look closer at all the jobs being created, they're mostly part-time and for the elderly. The US government is lying. The economy is not recovering.

The FED can't raise rates without sending the economy back into recession. QE 4 will soon be here.
My criticism is of no-fault used today.

From a futurist perspective, I imagine there might be scenarios of people taking manual control and causing an accident or manufacturers writing bad software. Imagine if Toyota's newest update causes 10x as many crashes. Why should I subsidize their incompetence via my personal insurance premiums?

If autonomy happens, ideally, the car companies should be paying insurance. The same way they pay for warranty. Its all in their control and its an incentive to keep them honest and care about making cars that don't crash.
Since you mention it:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/lotterie...
I'm not sure that your example makes sense. Suppose a scenario in which there are three miners with equal hash rates and a protocol which emits 3600 coins per difficulty period. The division of coins will be approximately 1/3 per miner when everyone is running. You're a miner and decide to enact your strategy.

What happens is that in higher difficulty periods your competitors who keep running constantly are making 1800 coins each. When the hash rate drops and you come on everyone gets 1200 coins each. Your expected revenue becomes 600 coins/period. The result of your strategy relative to just running constantly is halving revenue.

The only variance introduced is the speed at which new blocks are generated in each period.
If I remember right, they redesigned Akka logo and website twice last year and almost same for Play. It seems someone in (ex-)Typesafe is strongly encouraged about rebrandings.
I've also been using Qt for a long time and I've seen it go from Qt 1 to Qt 5. KDE is desktop of choice and would look very different today without Qt. If there was no Qt, there'd probably be no KDE and hence no GNOME and GTK.

Using Qt in a FRP fashion would indeed be wonderful. My (slightly uninformed) vote goes to a binding of Reflex (i.e. Haskell) to Qt.
Food is more expensive in Norway because costs (wages) are higher. Your comparison to Sweden is irrelevant without taking that into account. Also please do remember all the young Swedish people who flock to Norway for work because of a much higher salary.

You can also compare meat prices to Denmark, which is much lower than Norway. But then please look at some photos of how pig farming is done in Denmark. Or stats about bacterias in the meat.

I do however agree with you that there are big problems with these semi-monopolies in production and that selection, creativity and quality has suffered from it. Likewise with distribution and retail.
Are you aware the US criminal justice system is oriented towards profiteering on incarceration and hardly or not at all oriented toward rehabilitation? The percent of GDP that the criminal justice system takes up compared to other OECD nations is the smoking gun. Its modern "American-style" slavery.
> Containers are not virtualizing anything, and that is the entire point.

What is it when a process sees a different process tree, different filesystem tree, different network then the host?

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/namespaces.7.html
"The drug war is a symptom of something more basic: Americans lack compassion."

Really?

http://www.nptrust.org/philanthropic-resources/charitable-gi...
I get downvoted all the time, I do not feel as if the downvoters have shut me out of a discussion. I continue to post in the same threads, and usually I get more upvotes than downvotes. Over time the downvoted comments typically get upvoted to 0 or 1 or so.

Downvotes are nothing more than another kind of participation in the discussion and should be treated as such.
Author here - as mentioned I was not expecting this to get posted but I am happy to answer any questions or elaborate further. For so long as I can stay awake at least. :)

Some other shots worth looking at:

Some terrain I quickly whipped up based on this method, using Voxel Quest's actual generated map:
https://twitter.com/gavanw/status/589499986854838272

Screenshot of the test scene, with median filter:
https://twitter.com/gavanw/status/590895532509265920

Here is a short vid showing that it is in fact volumetric:
https://twitter.com/gavanw/status/590903499342229504

A few basic tricks I use:

A "macro" pass that ignores small, expensive to compute details.

A "micro" pass that avoids texture reads but produces complex algorithmic textures (texture reads will KILL your performance in many cases because of cache invalidation).

Supercover lines used for raymarching to precisely march through each cell.

http://lifc.univ-fcomte.fr/home/~ededu/projects/bresenham/
"Euclideon Makes World’s Most Realistic Graphics"

Yeah, honest and humble as always. I wonder how the people who actually developed the algorithms and procedures they used about this.
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The ServiceStack.Redis client uses pooled ThreadSafe Client Managers by design: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Redis#redis-cli...

Which works very much like a DB Connection, where the Connection Factory is thread-safe (and what's used to resolve connections) whilst the DB Connection instance it returns are not.
Generally, you just don't expose your Lisp evaluator to untrusted users. Lisp macros are a powerful language feature, and to allow your user to evaluate arbitrary code is exactly as dangerous as with any other system.

Emacs is not meant to be secure against user scripts. You could even say that's an integral part of its whole philosophy: the user can do whatever she likes, and her scripts too.

It does have some rudimentary safety. For example, color themes by default can't run Lisp code. They are written as Lisp data structures, but they aren't run through the evaluator unless the user explicitly allows it.
Bob Greifeld, Nasdaq’s chief executive, said: “Utilising the
blockchain is a natural digital evolution for managing
physical securities. Once you cut the apron strings of need
for the physical, the opportunities we can envision
blockchain providing stand to benefit not only our clients,
but the broader global capital markets.”

What?
LinkedIn has some niche competition. I've seen at least two oil-oriented ones based out of Houston, and a few others elsewhere
> This kind of intellectual forgery is why the left (and it's prescriptions) are increasingly viewed with suspicion

Tautology. "The left" isn't a thing, other than when viewed with suspicion by "the right".

> Bring yourself to be honest with your words and assessments.

Implying that it's dishonest to use terms like "minority" and "people of color" is a leap that you need to back up to have credibility.
FYI: http://www.ada2012.org
"From the way in which it designs custom circuit boards to exactly meet its expectations rather than rely on off-the-shelf components from tier one automotive suppliers to its innovative mall-based Tesla Stores and post-purchase over-the-air software updates, Tesla Motors is known for thinking outside the box."

That is one mess of an opener.
> overdesigned XML backend written in Java nine years ago that uses an alternate canonicalization for digitally-signed XML and requires a slightly-deviant form of SOAP authentication

I think you've found your problem.

I'm pretty sure everyone has had to deal with alien legacy systems at some point in their lives. It just goes with the territory. I have yet to come across a technology to that can handle all exceptions and edge cases.
And it still doesn't allow >2048-bit parameters
I gather that PayPal's secret to success is strong anti-fraud measures (and not caring about false positives), and one of them is freezing accounts that get a flood of money all at once. That also is a pattern you see in events and charities set up for a new disaster.
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Thank you for the reminder. I genuinely am not trying to suffocate discourse and I am interested in engaging in conversation, but I have no qualms about pointing out disingenuous or deceptive pseudo-discourse when I see it. Posting a link to a study that mentions testosterone in a different medical context, and using it to justify to racist institutions is, IMO, inflammatory and dishonest to say the least.
In many ways, the USA is a much safer place in which to solo-travel than India is. Don't be fearful, see this opportunity as an adventure. Be confident and brave! You'll learn so much from traveling alone.

I just hope you find a way to finance it.
Exactly! This sounds to me like way back when Galileo Galilei was criticized for writing in Italian instead of Latin...
AdAway is the only way I've found to do this with any sort of reliability, though it seems a bit funny (to me anyway) that hosts file editing is still the way to go.

I have to ask though, what do you mean by "app data"? Do cell carriers really have a way to figure out that apps are sending out the data, or is it just charging more for websites and such?
Absolutely. Ill clarify here and state that I think what the US government was doing was wrong, and that by uncovering the illegal (in my mind, though there is some debate about this point) activities of our spy agencies the world is better off. Of course, leaking the information could not have happened if the original programs had never existed, but the leaks were the proximate cause for the damage to the U.S. geopolitically.

However, that doesn't negate the fact that by having their dirty laundry aired the U.S. has gotten a tarnished reputation. Its given ammunition to anti-US groups, lent legitimacy to other state actors acting poorly when it comes to cyber-intelligence/warfare, and damaged the economic interests of U.S. tech companies trying to have a presence internationally. I will leave it up to you to pass your own judgement as to whether this damage to the U.S. was appropriate/justified/legitimate/deserved, but I think we can agree that it has happened.

Now, to expand on my comment that there are elements of carelessness and narcissism. I think - and this is just my opinion - that Snowden has demonstrated an enjoyment of the limelight, and has started to model himself as a digital champion. I don't say this to condemn him, merely to point out that he is a human who has an ego, and isnt so selfless angel. Second, the carelessness that I refer to is things I have heard regarding failures in redacting information[1]. This doesn't necessarily mean that such failures aren't a cost that is negated by the public gain of knowing about these surveillance programs, but it is still a cost that must be recognized.

[1]https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140128/08542126021/new-y...
> The United States has 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s prisoners.

This sums it up for me.

Here in the United States, we do have issues with the justice and penal systems. But these number alone do not paint the full picture.

In other countries, if you're convicted of a crime you may have a body part cut off. You may be executed. Or you may simply "disappear". In any of these cases, you're not considered a prisoner.
I wasn't suggesting there would be any disintegration. Just that off substrate memory will be reintroduced in-addition to HBM.

If you need a point of reference take a look at L2 cache. It was originally chips on the motherboard, then with the PII it was put on a Processor Card, then with the PIII it was eventually integrated into the Die.

The exact same thing happened with L3 cache.
Have you used WCF talking to non-WCF WS-* things, or just WCF to WCF? My experience was that the latter (mostly) just worked but interop was somewhat of a nightmare, making the whole WS-* thing somewhat pointless. It wasn't really WCF's fault; just that no two WS-* implementations actually implemented things identically.
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What an absolutely amazing program! I have never heard of it until your post, and I have to thank you for pointing it out. I have to show my son!

Looking at the FAQ [1] it looks like they would really like to discuss both your financial and travel arrangements with you. They seem quite open to helping in all areas. I would reach out to them directly and maybe even suggest a skype call with one of their faculty and your parents. Go for it! This could be a life defining experience.

[1] http://www.hcssim.org/faq.html
Or you can use uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android and never look back.
Looking forward to playing with the API and building my own worlds/demos/games :-)

I'm hoping your license terms let folks initially play with it for free like the UT4/Unity licenses.
Funny thought you brought that up. I say that because currently there is a "The Death Of Bitcoin" submission on the front page of HN.
Yet more abuse of $_POST in PHP. The language should taint user supplied data by default so this wouldn't even run without throwing an exception, at the very least.

Why does eval() exist in so many programming languages, and when is using it not the worst possible option?
As long as we're accumulating anecdotes: I run the website for an organization that puts on shows every month. We sell tickets through Paypal and have never had a problem. We're talking hundreds of $s rather than thousands, though.
Some subfields of computer science are indisputably engineering. The line between being an engineer and a code monkey is a thin one anyway.
I went to Cancun and came back without eating anything similar to what I once got at Chipotle. Unfortunately.
The target isn't the same as the difficulty. The target is what is limited to a factor of 4, not difficulty.

Mining "more bitcoin" or mining "more efficiently" don't matter. What matters is the speed at which 2016 blocks are produced network-wide.
Looking forward to a full breakdown on this :)
This brings to mind the most famous quote from America's Greatest Poet:

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."
It is common for successful quant traders to be partners (have equity) in their firms, which means they are "trading for their own account" to some extent.
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"Will this happen to Bitcoin? I don’t know."

Crap title.
By "elephant in the room" you mean "black people" right?

If you're going to be racist might as well own it.

You were doing a better job of that in some of your other racist comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8970505

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8472737

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8468011

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8468451
What has moved the needle for you?

We had a dev relations contact and got featured worldwide with Hexiled, then a smaller feature later when we added more language support. I argue with my dev partner about press - I think the best tactic is more decent apps in the store trying to get a home-run feature by honing the app style, rather than begging little app reviewers for coverage.

I think if your feature gives your virality a launch pad, that's the best bet. We had the feature, but at the time our app was flawed and we had not yet introduced a couple of sharing functions.
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The same way everyone in any industry takes credit for work done by other people.

And it's just product marketing. Most of the world aren't engineers. Boring them with technologies and specifics isn't how you sell products.
In the Economist:

Fighting the secret plot to make the world richer
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21649613-america...
Interesting.

I think, boiled down, that it's purely the exalted tone at TED talks that really grates on me (and it seems a good number of others). Intellectual talks may not have always been cool, but they rarely used to sound like preaching.