skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, you're right that it's restricted to Chrome-only for now. We have tested it in other browsers and there are in some cases issues that would lead to a poor experience - not the sort of experience we want people to have. I do appreciated your suggestion of opening it up anyway though, and as we get closer to fully supporting other browsers this may be exactly what we do. Cheers.
> Exactly, that's why the password shouldn't be on the server, but having to type it in every time is inconvenient. Nothing I've been able to think about is secure

That’s what I said to a friend of mine when we had numerous servers with encrypted disks and frequent power outages requiring us to type in passwords. He then suggested many different schemes to fix this, each of which I shot down as being insecure. Then he came up with something which I couldn’t shoot down, and he made a first proof-of-concept implementation, which is how Mandos¹ got started. This was many years ago; Mandos has since become available in Debian and Ubuntu; just do "apt-get install mandos".

① https://www.recompile.se/mandos
That's the thing. If you want to put full sentences, even paragraphs on a slide, PPT does that.

It's only low resolution when used that way.

I do understand "wants to be low res" though. Thanks!
I'm guessing it's advertising / marketing related. Maybe they aren't doing anything yet with the data, but I'm sure the terms and conditions allow them to do whatever they want with it in the future. Being able to stalk your friends is how they make people willing to give them the data.
There were a few slides with numbers and detailed performance graphs in Andrew's preceding talk. See http://talks.golang.org/2015/state-of-go-may.slide#10 and nearby slides.
It'll be the top post ever in /r/soccer in no time, it's already fourth and was only submitted four hours ago.

I truly hope that Blatter is ousted, the Qatar decision is reversed and given to a nation that with a less-appalling human rights record and some actual interest in football. I can't name a single Qatari club or player and know nothing of their league (other than Gabriel Batistuta played there for a year at the end of his career), and I'd consider myself to be someone who knowns a fair bit about football.
Dave Beazley gave a talk showing this. See https://twitter.com/renfredxh/status/586653125970386945
This is why I ended up in London - to me it's the next best thing. Being an EU citizen I have equal rights here and employers can't lowball my salary, because they have no such leverage like they do in US with H1-B visa. There's nothing immigration-related looming over my head and working hours are better than in US (from what I hear), so I have plenty of time for starting my own gig on the side initially when I'm ready for it.

The irony is that you can get to US if you have a million to invest (if that hasn't changed yet), but if you have already made it this far, going to US kind of defeats the purpose - "If I can make it there, I'm gonna make it anywhere".
I think you got lucky. Most people that I knew who were on H-1b were getting much less than green card holders of US citizens. I don't have a substantial amount of data on this of course.
How does a strong network look like? And why? K-cores decomposition helps
your FB friends are supposedly people you know in real life and trust

If the FB developers think that's generally true, I'd say they are pretty incompetent. Even my parents, with just a couple dozen friends, have FB friends they have never met, let alone my teenage brother and his friends, who have hundreds of FB friends each.

This is usually not a problem, since they don't post sensitive information on their timeline, only in the chat to specific people.
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What's the benefit (to both parties) for the example he gave?
The result of your sample would typically be anything between 30% and 100%.

Whereas, if you instead take a sample of 1000, you typically get results between 61% and 69%.

Source: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=binomial%2810%2C0.65%29...

You can't take an "unbiased" sample in the sense that you mean here.

There's only one way you can take a completely unbiased sample: if you know exactly how everyone will vote in advance and select them carefully on that basis. But if you already know how everyone will vote in advance, then sampling is a fruitless exercise.
If I'm not mistaken, these graphs refer to the speed of the code generated with the compiler, not of the compiler itself.
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I always say do your own benchmarking for your own use case.

The risk of a colored benchmark is quite high when benchmark is done by owner of product or by "fan" of product. With the exception of a well explained, clear benchmark that everyone can understand and reproduce easily.
Also a discussion on HN about Japanese balloon bombs a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8922927
In my experience, the database is the best place to perform optimizations, not in the code. I guess a lot depends on what you are doing.
Well, in theory, in the example you site, "the risk is exactly zero". However, it's not always this way, because there is also gambling, err speculation, err market making, err ...

Not everything is always perfectly hedged. And when it's not, there are mark to market issues. And, the market isn't always liquid. Levine is in fact writing about a market that "froze up".

One of my favorite anecdotes (pg 212) from The Big Short involves Deutsche. It was perhaps embellished a bit for the book. It involved credit default swaps:

In early July, Morgan Stanley received its first
wake-up call. It came from ... Deutsche Bank ...
the CDS (sold to) Deutsche Bank had moved in
Deutsche Bank's favor

Deutsche: Triple-A-rated subprime CDOs ... were
now worth ... 70 cents on the dollar

Morgan: Our model says they're worth ninety-five

Deutsche: our model say's they're worth seventy

Morgan: Well, our model says they are worth
ninety-five, repeated the Morgan Stanley person

Deutsche: Dude, fuck your model. I'll make you a
market. They are seventy---seventy-seven. You have
three choices. You can sell them back to me at
seventy. You can buy some more at seventy-seven.
Or you can give me my fuckimg one point two
billion dollars.

That's exactly what happens at just the wrong point in time when there is stress in the markets. This isn't something from ancient history, this all happened less than 10 years ago.

So, while 72 trillion is indeed a "meaningless" number, quite often the "residual risks" you mention will greatly exceed the equity in the big investment banks. Notably, Deutsche has in the past been considered to be very over-leveraged.

The banks smartly foisted off some of their "residual risks" onto muppets and companies like AIG, who stupidly accepted the business. But AIG wasn't liquid enough to pay off. If the Fed hadn't bailed out AIG, who then bailed out their counter-parties, the fallout would have utterly destroyed the world's financial system.

As it was, we came pretty close to everything crashing down. IIRC at one point the Fed had to provide liquidity to e.g. Verizon, because the banks weren't willing to. Sheesh.
The point is, it doesn't matter. It's none of your business why someone lies.
Have a Google to gouffre de Jardel too.
> Benchmarking programming languages got better.

I wish we got this kind of benchmark for the altjs solutions.
> The investigation into Blazer’s tax affairs turned up some choice claims about his lifestyle - including the revelation that Concacaf paid $18,000 a month for his Trump Towers apartment, and another $6,000 a month for a second Trump Towers flat, used mainly by his cats.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2015/may/27/fifa-of...
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I'd say the entire history of Apple products compared to any other popular product that is a 'computing device' indicates that you're wrong. They've consistently made traditionally complex things easy enough for mainstream adoption and perhaps more importantly, enjoyment.

Sure, they make mistakes. Probably quite a number of them. Nobody is perfect. But I'd say their mistakes are insignificant compared to their achievements.

Plus, sometimes they're not mistakes; they just don't target power users. A single-button mouse is an example of that. And to some extent choosing aesthetics over usability can be an example of this too. A non-tech person might prefer a pretty mouse and keyboard because he only checks his email occasionally and he's not a great typist anyways.

(mind, I do realize Apple often did not 'invent' these things. They just were clever enough to polish these things up and productize them, which rather bafflingly few companies did before them)
> "with a liberal bias"

Vox is basically Fox News for liberals. Half troll, half entertaining articles.
>In countries where there is 98% piracy it's impossible to start a purely software company

Most modern tech companies are trying to create/sell services, even Microsoft is going to the cloud and just letting the client piracy "slide" because it's a losing battle (AFAIK they said they will upgrade pirated versions of Win 8 -> Win 10). There are plenty of Chineese software giants. So it's not impossible at all.
One of the worst offenders is Brazil. When living there, it was common to hear "I'm on my way" (to an agreed meeting point at a specific time) but that could mean they actually are on their way or that they've just got up from the couch and will go take a shower, choose what to wear, maybe have a bite to eat and then think about transportation.

Knowing this, the trick was either to not take specific times seriously or to give a fake meeting time (earlier than the actual one) so the person gets there on time.
I believe the YAGNI version of this is:

3. Do plan for replacing any part of the code, but don't try to guess upfront which one it will be.
Some city is doing this stunning effort at mass-educating programming (instead of "using Microsoft Office" that we see in almost every Western state) at a state level and your only response is complaining about intellectual property rights?
Hopefully Facebook doesn't treat you differently based on this article. Good luck with your internship!
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I'm a college dropout and I did a startup which is failed miserably. I used to work with various US based early stage startup as a freelance developer. Unfortunately none of them haven't shown any green signs.

Should I finish my degree here or should I start applying to Universities in US? I was also planning to apply for internship in valley startups.

> you can always just keep applying for the Green Card lottery

Unfortunately, my country is not eligible for Greencard lottery.
Based on their definition of vulnerable the Ubuntu 12.04LTS installation image is also vulnerable. I think this is only news to anyone that hasn't setup a fresh install of Windows. I remember some presentation from the Honeynet project circa 1999 about how a new win98 installation, without updating service packs, took less than N (N<24) hours until compromise. Still I guess it is worth reminding people to not trust official containers without first applying security updates, and maybe never trusting unofficial containers, depending on your project
It's strange how hard US goes after other countries' criminals yet drags its feet when it comes to its own (e.g., Wall Street).

My guess is that this has nothing to do with Qatar (2020) but Russia (2018). I think Obama is still sore that Russia gave Snowden a safe harbor. The poor sap is probably still butthurt he was duped by Assange that Snowden was on Morales' plane, too.
I believe rand334 is referring to the video below, regarding US government connections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGdWsxHJlM
Let's not forget to praise MESS, MAME's little brother which emulates old computers and was merged back into MAME a little while ago. This allowed me to revive my old 8-bit games I wrote as a kid in the 80's for an obscure East-German home computer line, and even put the demos on my web page (reminds me that I should try to update them to a newer MESS and emscripten version) :)

(http://www.flohofwoe.net/history.html)
Which of those problems do you think doesn't already have a solution? If not, which of those do you think isn't a perpetual problem which has been around in some form or another since the dawn of human civilization?

Reorganizing the world's economy away from physical works to intellectual ones is an entirely new problem and will be on the scale of the industrial revolution.
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did you just read the headline? the article talks about MESS
End of the the 90's dreamed of moving to US and even got a possibility. By the time I was ready to it the first dot com bubble bursted.

To be quite honest I only knew US from the movies. Following news and recent developments I'm quite hesitant to move over there. Cops shooting people, riots, NSA tracking,...

My romantic view when I just started working in the dot com boom of US that bubble bursted. This doesn't mean I don't like the US. There are many good things also. In any country there are good and bad things. But I think there are other places maybe as good as the US which are worth exploring.
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Also worth noting that unexploded bombs from the Second World War still turn up in London every now and again, e.g. 21 May in Wembley [0], 14 May in Bromley [1], 23 March in Bermondsey [2], 20 February in New Malden [3].

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/22/bomb-found-20...

[1] http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/pensioner-finds-unexpl...

[2] http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/police-called-in-after...

[3] http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/police-investigate-une...
nice to hear that!
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Because you'd still hit dense air at the top with 2.5km/s. You would need to go a about as high as the blackbird could fly to exit the tube with some sort of grace. (Or maybe even higher.)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Com...
The tragedy of the aerial bombardment of WWII is that bombing was not precise enough to hit specific buildings or landmarks. The targets was on the level of a whole city. This is part of the reason the number of civilian casualties in WWII were so huge compared to previous wars. All parties in the war did this, but the allied were simply more effective due to air superiority, especially towards the end of the war. This is why cities in Germany where totally destroyed while London was not.
At least with a public benchmark, people can point out flaws. With something rolled out internally, you're still likely to get flaws, but no one will point out that you misconfigured Postgres or set up Mongo the wrong way, or any of the other errors you are just as likely to make by doing it yourself.

Perhaps, once you've winnowed the choices down to just a few, it might make more sense, but I think good public benchmarks can be a helpful thing for that selection process.
Good. I don't care how egoistic, petty or jealous their motivation; if this gets Blatter to face justice, I'm all for it. Go USA!
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From the linked benchmark:

> In RethinDB, you have to create databases and tables manually and it will raise an exception if they already exist. Compared to MongoDB that could be an inconvenience for some(and me) - one of the things I find appealing in MongoDB is the fluid interaction with databases

... well at least now I don't feel so bad about having some old MySQL stuff still in production. MySQL already has too much "fluidity" in dealing with my data...
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Nice! The Web Clipper is really useful BTW.
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From "Why Wasn't Big Ben Bombed During World War II?" [0]: "Luck. Sheer luck. At the time of the Blitz, the Germans, like every air power, did not have the ability to specifically target key buildings through high-altitude bombing raids..."

[0] http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2015/05/25/world_war_ii_why...
Yes it's font lingo for sure :)

Basically for fonts to look good when placed on a square grid (pixels) there is a method called hinting which as the name implies gives hints to the font renderer on how the fonts should be drawn across this grid in order to best preserve the intended look of the font and be readable, this has the greatest impact when you are using a very limited size grid such as in small font sizes.
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When people make this lie, what they are really saying is: "Stop whatever you are doing and be ready and waiting for when I finally arrive".

The negative consequences fall on the person receiving the lie. It's not a courtesy. It has long-term consequences to your credibility and trustworthiness.

It is far better to tell the truth in this case.
"The technology of deployment does not change 'minutes or hours' into 'days or months'"

I wouldn't say that's true. We're transitioning into multiple languages, and want to have an environment that will allow future languages to be added as required. Building a generic infrastructure to run containers lets us run everything on the same base platform. Otherwise, we'd need to tailor the images and configuration for the individual language type. When a new language is introduced, it can take 'days or months' to get everything working well.

That's not to say Docker doesn't require the same attention to security as other options. This seems to me akin to running a downloaded base VM image without first doing updates.
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There was an interesting report two days ago on the Belgium "information" channel, Telefacts.

It mentioned adding slavery to Russian laws for building the stadiuims ( the FIFA law - http://www.ituc-csi.org/new-fifa-laws-strip-world-cup?lang=e... ) , the president who only wanted to use someone's "name" for "cleaning up FIFA from the inside" ( she quitted her fictional job), the return of someone who has been trialed for bribery, bribery from Qatar and Russia for holding FIFA, people/women who have been threathened for accusing the FIFA of "actions against human rights"
The fatals were my main gripe as well. And to make matters worse, the crash report would be unreadable because it would dump in ncurses mode (which would also break my command prompt too)
golang.org offers two types of downloads for Linux: a source tarball and a pre-compiled tarball. If you download the pre-compiled tarball, you just have to extract it somewhere and set some environment variables (all explained in detail on golang.org).

If you really want to install Go via your package manager, you can install the golang package from the Ubuntu repositories. However, this package is naturally on an outdated version of Go. Also worth mentioning is godeb[1] which can generate and install a .deb of any version of Go for you.

[1]: http://blog.labix.org/2013/06/15/in-flight-deb-packages-of-g...
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The FIFA Law – Requiring Slavery in Russia for the Fifa World Cup 2018
Only constant for certain values of "constant". ;)

(https://gist.github.com/Jach/1208215 works in Python 3 too.)
I agree, public benchmarks do have their uses as i noted in my reply:
"With the exception of a well explained, clear benchmark that everyone can understand and reproduce easily"

An internal benchmark indeed requires knowledge on the subject, but most of the times people at the mailinglists are quite helpful when you explain what you are trying to do. Especially when you post a benchmark which is not in favorite of their product.
The story and pictures were intriguing, but then at the end: "There’s a true story for you, FOX News." Wat? That's jarringly out of place w.r.t. the rest of the article, and leaves an unpleasant political aftertaste for something that would have been fine without it.
> Benchmarking is hard and a lot of reports are bogus. However they are still very useful for a lot of developers.

In this case we were presented with a benchmark setup that failed to perform the task it supposedly benchmarked. That's not hard to avoid, and it makes the benchmark completely useless and misleading.

I don't think that this problem can be generalized in the sense you do here, since the problem with benchmarks usually isn't a complete failure to perform the task to be benchmarked, but things like finding a set of tests that give a fair representation of what you'd typically use the subjects for, or performing the tasks in idiomatic and optimal ways.
Is the logical extension of this that anyone who's written a standard C library was in violation of Kernighan & Ritchie's copyright?
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Google Hangouts solves this problem in a much more sane way -- Whenever my girlfriend sends me "where are you?" on hangouts, the application prompts me to send a map pin.

This solution probably isn't particularly novel, but it's probably better than carte blanche location access, in the opinion of most people.
I'm somewhat bemused by this. It's standard in embedded systems of any type always to audit every write to file to make sure the file isn't growing too large. I wonder what sort of vetting this software went through before being deployed.

Does anyone know more about this project, and the process it went through before launch?
There was an interesting documentary/research episode two days ago on the Belgium "information" channel, Telefacts.

It mentioned adding slavery to Russian laws for building the stadiums ( the FIFA law - http://www.ituc-csi.org/new-fifa-laws-strip-world-cup ) , Fifa - who only wanted to use someone's "name" for "cleaning up FIFA from the inside" ( she quitted her fictional job at Fifa), the return of someone who has been trialed for bribery - he laughed with it in an interview, bribery from Qatar and Russia for holding FIFA, people/women who have been threathened for accusing the FIFA of "actions against human rights", ... The list is long :)

Blatter, the president of the FIFA, likes to brag. He said: "i'm the only person who can travel without official notification, who gets received by the president of that country."
> extract it somewhere and set some environment variables

That's exactly the problems package would solve, well, plus easy update capabilities.
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> hundreds of migrant workers dying and injured because of the insane conditions they're working under to prepare the stadiums

Thousands even, and the sad thing is the number of slavery condition migrant workers have been very high in Qatar and the Emirates since the start of this golden age.

Let's hope some things improve for those who suffer the most. And fuck FIFA.
In what sense does Qatar have "no infrastructure"?
The Wikipedia mentions 1 milibar (1/1000 of atm). From a structural standpoint that's a complete vacuum.
It depends on the culture. When I hear "I'll be late 5 minutes" that usually means 10 or 15, "10 minutes late" means an actual 20 or 30 minutes, while everything higher than 20 minutes could mean an actual hour. I live in Romania.
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After “import ctypes”, all bets are off.