skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in Norway twice during the crisis and my preferred brand was available in the first shop I went to, both times. But my preferred brand is expensive organic butter ("rørossmør", FWIW).

Maybe I just happened to visit the shop on the right two days. Or maybe the crisis wasn't severe enough to make people buy the more expensive alternative.
The Linux 4.0 Kernel Currently Has an EXT4 Corruption Issue
It was actually really bad, as most Christmas cakes require a lot of butter. It felt quite ridiculous that the shops were suddenly rationing butter to a pack per customer in December. You would have thought it was war times. Some friends abroad even gave me butter for Christmas, which was supposed to be a joke but was actually really useful haha.
What about CyanogenMod?
'TED is propaganda. Propaganda of high form.'

Could you elaborate on what you mean here? E.g. propaganda trying to convince people what?
Go to a rocky desert, there are huge ones out there (albeit nothing compared to Mars), and tell me if you find parts of it that make you want to set up life in tank or if it all looks the same.

We evolved to be interested in the things that keep us alive or can kill us - other flora and fauna and water are the top of that list. We find variations of that endlessly interesting. Rock formations, not so much.

Man wants to conquer Mars but I don't to see the pitiful existence of those poor few fools who sacrifice themselves for our collective egos. Especially the first settlers who can't come back and beg for their lives over the video link constantly.
Japan is currently in the middle of one of these due to a hot summer last year. It is not as bad as the Norwegian one, however it is not the only one in recent memory, either - there was a butter shortage in Japan in (IIRC) 2008 as well.
Damm you, there goes my productivity level for the next few days.
Frankly, it feels like we've had butter shortage for the past 5 years. It's ridiculous...
Your mom was a kan-kan!
I believe that, even though some of the code is so old, Automattic is doing a great job moving the game forward.

Take the Jetpack plugin for example.
It is a super-great plugin with many features that are good and low on memory in the system.

If you take a look at the Jetpack code you'll see some improvements over there.

It will take time to rewrite the whole wordpress code without breaking chances, but for now I can't praise the WP community enough, and Automattic too, for such easy to use product.

The whole wp.com integration (with automatic upgrades and so on) also makes everything much better.

BTW you can also customize wordpress with no code, but you'll have to use a theme for that (Thesis is a great example, if you want to try it).

Also, yes, Drupal might be better from a code perspect, but I always got the feeling that the whole experience was not as good as wordpress.

HN is a developer-community, so I understand here it's just ok to think about how good the code is, but I don't think we should ignore the whole experience, because in the end that's what pays off.
Wordpress created a seamless experience from installation to use.
Yes, it might be a bit old-style, but it works so beautifully you just enjoy it.
Whenever I got a look at Drupal/Joomla administrations I always feel a bit lost, maybe it's just me, but I believe that is the key difference (together with simplicity and plugins) of the wordpress adoption.
> The scary part is, it's possible that the leadership in Russia really is stupid enough to do it.

Putin is many things, but stupid is not one of them.
Back in Nokia times, there were lots of Russian engineers working on Maemo and other Linux-based OSes for Nokia phones.

It's natural that Jolla kept some of these people on board and that they used their cultural ties to look for Russian state money.
I don't know about the 'mainly' part. North of the Alps, the grass only grows in the summer, south of the Alps, it only grows in spring and fall. If their cows fed only or mainly on grass, dairy pastures could only support small herds, and dairy would be a very expensive luxury item.
Based on the name of the website I thought it might cover the recent news about the reverse affirmative action toward Asians at Harvard. I find it amusing that white are now also benefiting from affirmative action.

(I like affirmative action - to bring diversity)
Reminds me a bit of this skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JLWQEuz2gA ("Did You Read It?")

I've started noticing more and more that a shockingly large amount of conversations are little more than continuous references to things both me and my conversational partner have read, seen or heard. With my brothers it's Reddit. With my fellow coders it's HN. With my college friends it's a grab-bag of New Yorker, NYTimes, Instapaper / Longreads articles, and our national 'top publications'. Whichever one has recently published a particularly thoughtful (or really, viral) article.

Sometimes I find myself in a conversation like this with multiple, and it makes me feel like I'm in a Family Guy episode (even weirder: referring to a family guy joke that is itself only funny because it's a reference).

I've started avoiding these conversations, because it's just too easy to get stuck in a 'small-talk loop' that just goes on and on. I think that says something about the subject matter, because I noticed that when discussing, say, a book we've read or a lengthy documentary, we inevitably end up in a fascinating conversation about the subject matter.

(another solution, I've found, is to pretend that I didn't also read/watch x, and get someone to explain and reason about it.)
Can't agree more. This has nothing to do with "reducing Russian reliance on foreign technology," but rather with plain old corruption and theft.
I think you're wrong. Everything in history to date with semis has been focused towards integrating more on chip, or at the very worst, on package. This puts the memory as close as it can get to the chip without driving the chip's cost up astronomically. There's absolutely nothing to suggest they'll de-integrate moving forward.

The biggest problem after this is how much the GPU and CPU have to fight over main system memory, which really brings us to the end game of GPUs altogether. Sooner or later there won't be room enough for both in the picture, your single heterogeneous core or MCM will have both a CPU and GPU on it (and probably a half a dozen or more application-specific accelerators).
Hyperloop test track will be built in California
My favorite:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
I haven't watched that in a long time. Was the laugh track always so obvious?

Sentence. Ha ha guffaw ha ha! Sentence. Ha ha guffaw ha ha! Sentence. Ha ha guffaw ha ha! Sentence. Ha ha guffaw ha ha!

It's like trying to watch the Mary Tyler Moore show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihLJrcS8lsg
As a swede I remember this, some entrepreneurial swedes smuggled truckloads of butter over the border and sold through craigslist-esque resale markets for massive profits (we're talking 10-50x the Swedish price). According to Norwegian customs it's illegal to import diary products into Norway, thus rendering the butter smuggling illegal but highly profitable.

Swedish newspapers wrote a lot of articles about this bizarre situation and selling butter to Norwegians became a rather common joke in Sweden during this time and the following year.
One of the numbers missing between the subway and the bus are the waiting times, the transit times and bus cancellations. What is the use of bus having more routes if it takes much longer to get there.

Nevertheless, interesting use of data.
>New tanks in the age of unmaned drones and high precision veapons,

well, it would be only half bad if there were new tanks. In reality it were "concept-tanks" and giving the most optimistic plans and cost - first deliveries in 2018 at $8M/piece (the price projected today, it will grow significantly by then) - it means that Russia will be living through 202x and into 203x with the main body of the tank force being whatever remains by then of the current 5000 total of drivable T-72/80/90 - these old tanks already are and will be even more "lame sitting ducks" for the high-precision smart AGMs of today and tomorrow and the likes.
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It might not be a powerhouse but it's fairly stable/good.
There's at least one major player (SAP) there's plenty of companies in future fields (Metaio for AR for example) and there's a lot of in house stuff. There's also sort of an "alternative OS" tradition (Suse, yellowTAB).
There's also more of a focus on business software (SAP influence might shine through) imo (the difference between Wirtschaftsinformatik and Information Systems has been discussed at length in journals)

Berlin is one of the better non-SV startup locations from what I hear.
The most funny thing about this butter crisis, is that the producer actually fucked up a batch of 60 tons of butter in August. Sure they were quick to blame external factors, when the truth was that they fucked up.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=no&tl=en&u=h...
I strongly believe in 'Audi alteram partem', and like to understand rather than believe. Hence my question.

For all I know, a few extra bits parameter length can make the NFS just as infeasible as generating own parameters.

Edit: re-reading my earlier comment I understand your reply better. I've expanded my question to 'even with larger group sizes', as it indeed is clear that it is a problem with smaller groups.
Seriously?

Try googling a popular UK site e.g. "millennials site:www.bbc.co.uk" and you'll there's been plenty of articles over the years.

Time to join the internet generation :)

(although you'll also see generational articles in the UK's dead tree news)
I discovered Ada 2012 last year, and ended up doing a chunky writeup on it: http://cowlark.com/2014-04-27-ada/index.html

It's a seriously nice language --- it feels like a mature, well-thought-out C++ without a lot of the craziness and ancient edge cases. There are moments of sheer brilliance: the pointer scoping semantics mean that it's actually _syntactically invalid_ to leak pointers from an inner stack frame to an outer one. Its tasking and concurrency support is amazingly good. Having proper nested functions are amazing. The type system, while no Haskell, is easily good enough to say things like 'bounded array of tagged unions with length not known at compile time', with both compile and run-time error detection. And all this produces code that performs on a par with a modern C++ compiler!

Here's a multithreaded Mandelbrot renderer what I wrote: http://ideone.com/a1ky4l Note that each thread is a scoped object nested inside a function, communicating with each other via strongly typed and named messages --- startup and shutdown synchronisation happens automatically...

That's not to say there aren't warts; the OO system is pretty painful, with some annoying hidden requirements (e.g. you have to define a class' methods adjacent to the class structure itself, otherwise the compiler gets confused; if this is a requirement there should be explicit syntax for it). Having case insensitive identifiers is a complete failure. Exceptions are just plain clunky. There are a number of syntactic weirdnesses where the language got expanded beyond the original syntax' ability to cope. But the big omission is that there's no garbage collector, even though the language was obviously designed to have one. It would be so, so much nicer to write real code in if it had one.

Ada really deserves to be better known than it is.
Kerrygold is a huge Irish export of grassfed butter which can be found in Costco.
Unless I am not getting something, are the developers expected to manually compile everything that isn't in a bundle?

And then recompile again whenever a bundle gets updated?
Does Google Maps have transit coverage of NYC?

I used to know the tube map by heart, but I'm starting to forget - checking Google every time is faster and more reliable (since it takes into account e.g. engineering closures).
Because mechanical parts (and the way they are controlled) sometimes are built to compensate for gravity, so the absence of it might change the way it functions.
Top seed, early and later stage investors you should know
The Pernicious Effect of Dilution in SaaS
Takes me back to the heady days of the 1970s UK sugar crisis

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/jul/09/archive-r...

It's when a lot of people stopped having sugar in their tea. Probably improved UK health and dental health no end.
That report does not say how those people became millionaires. You seem to be assuming that those 600,000 millionaires became so due to working, but that figure must include people whose property value increased, inherited money, had legal payouts, or indeed won money through gambling.

Even if we assume most of those did become millionaires through "hard work", you can't say that becoming a millionaire is just down to the odds. If you already have $900,000 then your odds of becoming a millionaire next year are vastly greater than if you have $5.
I say this as a Java developer who thinks Java is on the whole pretty decent: Java is way behind browser vendors when it comes to adding new ciphers and dropping broken ciphers.

Between the infrequent releases, the slavish devotion to maintaining backwards-compatibility, the sluggish release distribution, and the general conservative nature of some Java shops when it comes to upgrading, it's just not reasonable to expect the average non-java-using organisation to wait for Java before dropping broken crypto.

If you're running the latest LTS release of Ubuntu you'll get Firefox 37.0.2, released May 2015. But you'll still get Java 7, despite the fact Java 8 was released in March 2014. Giving you cutting-edge TLS1.0 and CBC ciphers [1]. And least Java 7 looks good compared to Java 6 [2] which has no SNI support, a stack of weak ciphers, and only supports the most obscure ciphers. And I know some people who are still running Java 6 in production systems.

If you wait for every last Java 6 holdout before deploying a secure configuration, you'll be waiting forever. Leave us behind, we'll only slow you down [3].

[1] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewClient.html?name=Java&ve...
[2] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewClient.html?name=Java&ve...
[3] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IWillOnlySlowYouD...
I'm not the OP you're responding to, but that's the link I often see referenced in regards to the REST API.
Sony just made a new step of combining light and sound
A list of PL-related Summer Schools in 2015
They usually harvest and conserve grass for use in the seasons when it doesn't grow.
Did the price of cream also skyrocket? Would it have been cheaper to make your own butter?
In some world views, going around legislation ("smuggling") for financial profit makes you a criminal, not an entrepreneurial, person.
I'm almost of the mindset that just having userspace apps as lxc containers with everything an app needs may be better for the most-used applications...

Given how relatively cheap even fairly big SSDs are, is it really worth the storage savings for your browser to share a couple .so files with your mp3 player?

I actually like how PC-BSD pbi packages work... given the number of times solutions have been made to work around the issue and reduce space... I'm not sure it's always worth it. At least not in the desktop space.
It's not like HN goes stale that fast. That's simple. have a script that fetches HN along with linked sites hourly. When you want to browse HN, look at the latest snapshot.

Quick server-side interactivity would not work I guess, but there are enough sites without that to keep you busy a lifetime on mars.

6 min ping is acceptable for posting comments.
Growing up in British Columbia in the 90s, it was a pretty common thing in college to cross the border at Blaine (there was a Grocery Store right on the other side of the border, and was one of the few American places that took Canadian currency without blinking), and we always brought back lots of milk and butter.

BC, of course, had fairly strict dairy quotas. So, in a province with abundant farmland, Milk/Butter/Cheese were expensive enough that was worth a trip across the border to stock up.
> not repeating the target variable improves readability and avoids errors

The reasoning was to replace an idiom as an incremental change for convenience (for loops, as an example). It's possible to write x = 3+x but the idiom IS
x = x+3 for readability. The reason we continue to see it in languages, is mimicry. There's no specific evidence that it's a good idea one way or the other.
An index of others also online at: http://www.websdr.org
If it is of any relevance, I am the original poster and I have no objection to Richard Green's article being the one referenced. He has clearly credited me as his source, and very few people would have seen my piece if he hadn't written his. Also his piece is clearly much more digestible in summarising the points of interest, while mine was more of a puzzle (the solution page is the one being referenced) followed by a loose account of my investigation into the problem.

I'm just pleased that it seems to have captured the imagination in the way it has.
Journalist asks Oracle why they still install Ask Toolbar
Looks cool. There's a mistake on the learn more page though that you should fix.
“Now any time you have your phone your new garage door opener is too.”
I agree with you. Our agency (25-30 staff, New Zealand based) recently moved to Wagtail as our preferred CMS. We had contemplated cloud-based solutions (Contentful, Prismic), but a key requirement for many of our clients is to run the solution on their own infrastructure.

The response from our customers (both editors and I.T. teams) has been really positive. For us, Wagtail strikes a nice balance of editor happiness and developer pragmatism.

Since making the move mid-2014, we've implemented Wagtail websites for a bank, an NGO, and some of our private-sector customers. We've built a directory of wagtail websites and developers over at http://madewithwagtail.org/.

It's worth noting that the community is very helpful, and the module ecosystem is growing. There's an API, a static site generator, and a bunch of third-party field types for the editor. Torchbox, Wagtail's developers, are generous with their time and expertise, and we've been able to contribute back to the platform in meaningful ways. A big +1 from me.
As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow
A will?
My father died recently and he did not make a will and it would have been quite useless, but we're a very simple family: no divorce, and none of us are poor..
So YMMV.
I help run one for the VHF/UHF Radio Bands, located in Surrey, UK.

http://websdr.suws.org.uk/
The original article, by Thomas Oléron Evans [0], does something similar. I made a graph of it here. It's a heuristic estimate of the expected number of integers that satisfy the property for bases (2..b), as a function of b.

https://i.imgur.com/3h8GSIp.png

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9f71926313e6ee5c595c

As the author writes, for b <= 4, the expected number diverges to +infinity. For b = 5, the expected number is less than one, and quickly decreases. So, the conjecture is that there is no satisfying solution for b >= 6.

[0] http://www.mathistopheles.co.uk/maths/covering-all-the-bases...
They should talk about the 2014-2015 butter crisis in Japan, where the butter completely ran out from the shelves because of stupid local JA (Japan Agriculture Mafia) restrictions imposed on imports and even inland, across-region exchanges of butter. Pure market control madness at work, resulting in people being unable to get their hands on butter for several months.
Yes I searched for it and there seems to be plenty of stuff for specific manufacturers or models but I didn't find anything that is universally useful and converts everything to a unified JSON or XML format.
Sorry if that wasn't clear. And like I said I don't own a car :D
Remind me "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" from Philip K. Dick. Selected (clever) people are sent as settlers on Mars, but everybody know it's crappy as hell and that people are surviving thanks to drugs which allow them to remind theirselves what Earth's like. People try to get crazy on Earth to fail tests and avoid being sent there.
Anecdotal: seems to continue even after turning 40.

I'm making plans to test out how far this goes, will try to report back.
Relevant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9153832
From https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn#slinks:

"Where is it appropriate to post a subscriber link?
Almost anywhere. Private mail, messages to project mailing lists, and blog entries are all appropriate. As long as people do not use subscriber links as a way to defeat our attempts to gain subscribers, we are happy to see them shared."
Glad you mentioned it - I had a comment about that as well before reading yours. And the butter is crazy expensive in Japan on top of that (just like fruits vegetables and everything else produced locally, I guess...).
This clause would be invalid in Germany. It even could void the contract entirely making any use of the customer data illegal.

Changing contracts needs explicitly expressed consent here.
The newly disclosed research clearly demonstrates that the common parameters enable "precompute just once, attack fast everywhere" whereas when everybody simply generates their own values that approach becomes impossible. The difference is between the days of computation versus the seconds in their example.

The difference is many orders of magnitude, it is if everybody everywhere can be attacked anytime or just somebody sometimes somewhere.

Moreover, the main reason why it should be done is that the expected browser updates won't block the sites with 1024 bits. So all the sites which for whatever reason still use 1024 bits won't be so vulnerable if they had their own parameters.

The practice of using the common parameters already now worsens the current state. The bad effects of the really bad move already exist. The common parameters are now provably bad and it won't change in the future. Just don't use the common parameters. Generate the new ones everywhere.

And, of course, "minimum 2048 bits, please."

Edit: audi alteram... means "listen to the other side." Which side is the other side here? The stale information is not "the other side" it's just stale.
This is Kara Swisher. It's hard to imagine who might have more of an understanding of this industry. She's been up on stage intelligently interviewing the various luminaries of the startup industry, both at AllThingsD, and now Re/Code.

What she's communicating, is that "VC machinations" are inherently unknowable, and anyone who claims otherwise in general is spinning a line. For this situation, it's going to require fairly detailed reporting - which she goes on to do, by reproducing the letter sent out to the LPs and SV companies.
Who says that you can't be an entrepreneurial criminal?
I wouldn't see them as contradicting terms.
Well I guess it depends if you're an optimist or a pessimist about the thought of living in a remote, hostile place, doing science and research that may have extraordinary repercussions for the entire species.
Not having much land to cultivate grain has some upsides.
Success for the IT startup for Italians with autism
Major Lazer feat. MØ – Lean on [Girl in park cover]
That's great, thanks! Does anyone know anything like this for the N64 port?
For those running IIS, I'd suggest looking at IIS Crypto [1]. NOTE: you will need a reboot after the change, and you may see issues with ancient browers (IE8, Android 2, etc).

[1] https://www.nartac.com/Products/IISCrypto/
Well this has probably halved my productivity for the day, my attempts to hide laughter are getting me some funny looks as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_with_fraudulen... I like very much