skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bottle is usually about 4 glasses (which is consistent with my experience, not sure how you made your calculation), so when shared, that's one to drink with the meal and one to share over conversation after. I'm far from a teetotaler, but it doesn't seem terribly excessive when phrased that way.

It may depend on your upbringing. In the modern US, particularly the more puritan regions, any alcohol at all is usually considered a luxury reserved for celebration, but in some parts of the world, wine or beer is just the drink you drink with a meal, and there's less of a stigma about it. If it's not your thing, it's not your thing, but applying the label "excess" is a pretty specifically cultural decision.
Google's strength lies in (and always has been in) the tail and ambiguous queries. Everyone can get the query "facebook" right; try the query "how to disassemble tile" on Google[1] and Yahoo[2] or Bing[3]. Google knows the difference between "tile" (the gadget) and "tiles".

[1] https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=how+to+disassemble+tile

[2] https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=how+to+disassemble+tile&fr...

[3] http://www.bing.com/search?q=how+to+disassemble+tile
How was LambdaConf, by the way? I wasn't able to make it this year but I'd like to go next year.
that's 2 glasses a day. i don't think many would call that "excessive".
It's because the entire experience of SSL sucks. Want to deal with some random, annoying and recurring issues? Deploy SSL on your app and then try and figure out which arcane cert issue is causing verification to fail.
Is there an API in iOS to get information about other apps? How is Twitter doing it? I thought all apps were 'sandboxed' in iOS.
The problem with all these proofs is that it'd take someone who already has a Math PhD several years of full-time effort to understand the proof.

Because these famous problems were solved, there is now increased demand for Math PhDs with that specialty.

How do you know if the proof is valid, or if they're just scratching each others' backs and pretending they're all brilliant? You might say "Wait, a fraud that big couldn't happen." Just like one of the biggest investment funds couldn't be a Ponzi Scam? (Madoff)

I.e., the few Mathematicians who know enough to be able to check the full proof might be doing the equivalent of this guy:

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/05/how-a-grad-student-unco...
Good advice from Thomas but I think any disease especially like cancer should be taken as indication to stop for a moment and reflect on our lifestyle. Remember we need to reflect, transform but not to worry about the disease, job and other stuff. I strongly recommend that curious readers must read [0] – a book on practical wisdom to live a healthy life with virtually no disease. The knowledge elucidated is not random by any stretch but back by science of ages and wisdom of Rishis. Only if you humble enough to open yourself and dare to explore dimensions you never thought existed.

0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Wellness-Sense-practical-emotional...
As a connoisseur of cheap red wine (about 5 bottles a week split much like mentioned in the article), as well as an occasional drinker of fine red Napa wines, I'd like to argue that one should try the suggestion, however there are two key caveats.

Much like most things in life, there are plenty of bad cheap wines just like there are acceptable or even good cheap wines.

Which leads nicely to the second point: find a few wines that you like and enjoy them. Everybody has different tastes and there are so many varietals and vintners that it's really impossible to say one trumps another in all respects.

That said, there are still some key differences that will affect taste of wine that can drive up the cost, such as barrel aging in fine oak barrels, and if you enjoy the taste that imparts then you are naturally going to be paying more for your wine no matter who bottles it (same for organic wine, fair trade, some varietals and special vintages, etc.)

More info on that breakdown in price is available here:
http://winefolly.com/tutorial/truth-cheap-vs-expensive-wine/
and here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/dining/why-wine-costs-what...

Just don't let anyone tell you what wine to drink, discover it for yourself!
A fun look at the cost to produe wine. How does wine get to $100 / bottle at retail: http://www.coffaro.com/BrendansTruth.html

Pretty accurate based on what I see price wise as a hobby winemaker. You can make good wine for $5 per bottle in your garage (assuming your time and garage are free!)
I am all for evidence-based medicine... this link is arguing that terminally-ill patients should not have the right to try various experimental treatments, which I find appalling..."those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."
I disagree, Google constantly gives developers free resources and run a very powerful and cheap cloud network. I think they are at least on par with Microsoft. I am a developer and I don't use any ms products, but I use quite a few of the ones Google offers. Google's cloud is significantly cheaper than Azure as well (actually GCN is about on par with most others, its just Azure is very expensive), I have compared many times. About Apple, I love their products, but they aren't very developer friendly. Their eco system is very closed, they don't support many tools other than the ones used to developer directly to their platform. Their eco system is just very profitable, so we put up with it. I have always seen it as, Google is the developer's company, Microsoft's the enterprise company, and Apple's the consumer's company.

A few examples

>AngularJS

>AOSP

>Google Maps

>GCN

>Chrome Dev Tools

>Polymer and Material Design

>Go

>Dart
Have you done any blind tastings?
They make it sound a lot sexier than it is. When Blekko was serving up search pages we had over 200,000 machines at any given time identified as botnet/fraud sources. Perhaps it was because we were providing search results to "tier n" search portals that we got to see more of the folks trying to scam the advertisers but we got really really good at not serving up ads or counting clicks on robots. Something ad publishers really appreciated.

If you're serving up SERPs there are lots of interesting things you can do, like make white space clickable but not go anywhere, (humans click on the ads, bots click on the giant click box.) Serve up an invisible "first ad" on the top left, center, and right of the page. Tons of these robots just click the top ad they think they find. When IP's in europe, brazil, mexico and the Ukraine all search for the exact same english string and always click on the third ad down, well you can just put all of that addresses in the equivalent of an Ad "virtual kingdom" (they think they click but they don't go anywhere useful).

Lots of funny stories, my favorite was sending Google traffic to Google ads and having Google tell us it was fraudulent traffic. That was pretty funny.
from the historical record I'm pretty sure that the USA gov has caused/allowed more drugs/chemicals/radiation/weapons to cause more harm/deaths to innocent/civilian people than Ross ever has. I don't see any US President or Senator, etc., in jail, because of that.

example: drop tons of Agent Orange on the lands/people of Vietnam? Just an oopsie! and they move on, wipe their hands clean. People dead and children deformed. Oopsie! Our mistake. Next meeting.
Soc security has a shortfall?? Congress SPENT the money in the fund. They're paying back the fund with "interest" from the general fund year-to-year.

Had the funds been INVESTED and not STOLEN by our beloved congressweasels, soc security would be superstylin.
Stop sugar.
Cancer feeds on sugar. Stop sugar for win the fight man.
Good luck.
> ...Which is why I said "over a secure connection".

... and how do you set up a secure connection without a pre-existing password?

Your solution has a chicken-and-egg problem.
“Disease is natures’s effort to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws of health."

He should follow that up with: "I am basing this on absolutely nothing"
I started (and put aside) quite some times ago something with the similar approach, i.e using syntax extension but to actually write "real" html, in a template-language flavor

https://github.com/allan-simon/rust-http-template

I first wanted it to be used with Iron, but unfortunately I lost motivation when I saw that syntax extension will not be part of 1.0 . if people are interested I can revive it.
Note that the responses here are universally in favor of you getting covered and getting treatment.

I have a second recommendation that comes with some unjustified stigma: seek counseling.

Any healthy person can/will feel depression or even guilt about this diagnosis. You might be able to manage those emotions, but they might also sneak up on you when you're not expecting it. And these strong (and natural) responses can help you focus your priorities, but they're not a great asset to help you navigate all of these major decisions that impact you and your loved ones.

Imagine you're about to take a massive exam, but just went through some major emotional trauma (a divorce, the loss of a parent). You are given the option of having a TA check your math as you take the exam, pointing out where you should go over your reasoning or proofs one more time. You're smart, studied, and maybe you'll be fine. Even so, why would you ever say no to that option?

So, look for reliable objective support, not to replace, just to supplement your decisionmaking. (Like you're sort of doing here, and HN can be great, but a professional will be there next week too...)
Security of software repositories (yum, maven, npm, cpan, etc.)
As background, over the last couple of weeks I re-watched an old-favorite, Austin Powers (I was once Dr. Evil for Halloween) and I read A.I. Apocalypse (http://aiapocalypse.com/) by William Hertling, which involves malicious viruses taking over millions of computers and them becoming self-aware.

This got me thinking about how an evil genius (or government agency) might try and infect or control millions of machines for nefarious purposes which led me to wonder about all the software that auto-updates or auto-fetches whether through yum, maven, npm, cpan or even chrome and firefox.

So my question is, how secure are those mechanisms? Would it be possible to install malicious versions of popular open source libraries? I understand there is signing and such, but what about getting something in the build before signing happens (e.g., alter the checked out code). Like, say blackmailing a build engineer or hijacking a build system?

I'm asking because I've been using these systems for years and never really considered how to know if library X is actually 'clean'. I suspect many software developers are like this - just running 'apt get' or 'npm install' or 'yum update' or 'mvn' or 'brew install' or ... what have you.

Have other developers wondered about this? Do the security heads at these repositories lose sleep over this?

P.S. I'm not an evil genius or government agency.

P.P.S. Of course, who would admit to being an evil genius or from a government agency?
Sorry, no. Technology is a two sided coin, mostly unable to be ethical or unethical. The people using technology, however, are surely able to fall somewhere in the spectrum. The OP is using this technology for (imo obviously) unethical reasons and is capable of being judged by that decision.
Playboy has good articles...
What the F* is wrong these big money makers?
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The guy he tried to kill was a corrupt law enforcement officer who was stealing from him. If the same trick were deliberately pulled by law enforcement surely the defense could argue entrapment. It's ironic at minimum.
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How would you know if someone else is hellbanned?
Yes actually! They're fun, have done one in EU and here in California. I'm not a wine judge though, just a consumer. To further my point above, I found that there were good wines from all price points. It's all about finding what you love and enjoying it.
Odd that laws allow for killing to prevent a robbery, but taking a life as punishment is unthinkable.

I wonder: If the money had been gained legally then stolen, what steps could the victim legally take to recover it?
I would love to see some evidence of this, as my subjective experience has been the opposite.
Good article, though I wasn't sure of his conclusion. He says they will be exhausted and give up, however will the justice-system be willing to give up the gravy-train of the death-penalty?
Yeah..how is it a graph? Isn't it just an unordered list of data points?
It's hilarious how these guys have spent billions looking for the lost city of targeted advertising and all they've done is invent new ways of scaring away customers.

How about telling us what's on sale at nearby grocery or hardware stores?
Do you know what a court martial is? It's typically where you end up after executing prisoners.
Excellent article. Having lived in the Czech Republic for 6 years I agree with Ondrej that Prague is awesome. And I agree it's important for founders coming here to focus on their greatest strengths. The Czechs are super creative and outstanding at engineering. And Rami's right--Finns know how to build. I've worked with many Mexicans and Peruvians--very hard workers who create a great esprit de corps.
Perhaps I should have said "popularized by Java". It's also not something that couldn't have been done in C++ by creating classes which consist purely of abstract functions, since C++ allows for multiple inheritance.
My guess is, given the scale, and amount of money on the line, the attacks against Google are far more sophisticated than just bots blindly clicking on ads.
This isn't really a comparable example. We are talking about the most famous recent piece of math that made headlines all over the world first when the proof was published, again when issues were found with the proof, and again when those issues were addressed. Vs a "world famous in Poland" study in what not even barely qualifies as a science.

No one in bleeding edge science can fully grasp bleeding edge work outside their specialty, but high profIle stuff like this gets a lot of attention.
Drink cheap wine, enjoy buzzfeed, don't worry about reading the classics, fuck Mozart because you know best. Even without even remotely investigating the subject. Just like all programmers are geeks, there is no beauty or art in programming. Because you know best. No need to investigate.
It's difficult to imagine the shock and stress your must be carrying on you shoulders at the moment.

- Keep doing whatever you are doing, normally. Nothing changes in the routine.

- Change only things that will affect your mental and physical health positively. Seek professional counseling and familial moral support.

- Will to live. I cannot stress how important this one is. One of my acquaintances, given 15 - 30 days by doctors in his early 40s, survived 25 years, married off his children, retired from government job at 58, and lived peaceful later years. I personally think his will to live was the primary factor.

- Solitude has healing properties, but don't isolate yourself generally. Try to stay in the company of people who make you happy and calm and stay away from people who constantly keep talking about your predicament in a way that will bring your mood down.

- Start treatment, as soon as possible.

My prayers with you!
> Why do certain foods harm some people and help others? How come the same weight loss program shows different results on different individuals? And, why do some people fall sick more often than others? Answers to these questions and many more lie in Ayurveda where your body is not just looked upon a holder of flesh and bones but the finest vehicle of experiencing all pleasures and sorrows.

This sounds like a book about an interesting philosophical approach to examining one's life, but claiming that "practical wisdom" is all that's needed to "live a healthy life with virtually no disease" is absolute, equivocated nonsense completely divorced from the experience that OP is facing IN REAL LIFE. The guy has cancer, and you're telling him to read a book featuring the "science of ages," based on the "wisdom" of people who were written about hundreds of years before the rise of the concept of a spherical earth.

Normally it's totally cool with me that people believe whatever silliness makes them feel more in control of their lives, but there's a person with an actual, real problem, and I had to speak up against spreading this garbage.
The author claims that being able to distinguish expensive wines from cheap ones simply means that a person has developed an arbitrary preference drive by the wine industry. They article even explicitly states "wine is not art".

I don't buy this at all. Almost everyone can relate to some field where they have more sophisticated tastes than the average person, whether it's music, art, food or wine (EDIT: how could I forget coffee). By the author's logic, we should all eat McDonalds or Panda Express.

I'm not claiming that expensive wine is objectively better, but rather that people with experience and knowledge have a different taste to the average person, and this difference isn't just arbitrary, but reflects a deeper understanding and appreciation.
$13000 stolen even with 2FA
Just to put a slightly different spin on this... The U.S. penal system has a fundamental problem: it's for-profit nature. Prisons create money and jobs, which create lobby groups and, occasionally, bribes for crooked judges (e.g. the "Kids for Cash" scandal). The incentives for this system are all messed up. For example, a prison that effectively rehabilitates 100% of its inmates would get fewer repeat "clients".

If the death penalty offers no deterrence and costs more, instead of less, why is anyone still using it? It seems like something certain lobbyists would like, but which actually runs against the public interest.
They would tell you not to run that business because it's illegal. There are legitimate ways to protest a bad law and running an illegal business isn't one of them.
A bottle is 750mL, or ~26oz. Five bottles, then divide by two, then by 7, and you're on average drinking 267 mL each, or 9 ounces per day. That's just under 2 'standard' drinks here. In some restaurants that's a single pour.

Anyhow, that sort of consumption is pretty average in many parts of the world, Europe for example. And far from excessive.
It was great. Definitely looking forward to 2016.
Why do you consider execution so different from killing people in combat?
> Most retail workers I know say their company keeps staff too low to get the job done while having way too many managers with micromanagement.

This is definitely not a problem limited to retail. I see it all the time in software development.
This is kind of silly. Drink wine that you like to drink. I would certainly not recommend avoiding a wine because of its price but for any widely distributed bottles generally places like CostCo seem to be consistently priced reasonably. And if you like it, buy a case, if you don't don't. The thing about most wines is that if they aren't a blend they don't taste the same harvest to harvest.
if you write a syntax extension, you can use if and any other rust keywords / operator / token (see the template language i started which use if directly)
The testbenches in that directory are supposedly too basic to have been used for development (a few directed test cases per module). I wonder why they wouldn't release the proper testbenches?
My experience is that iPhone 6 GPU can be up to 50-70 times faster than the CPU - for single precision floating point (i.e. Swift running on the CPU, and Metal on the GPU). See http://memkite.com/blog/2014/12/18/gpgpu-performance-of-swif... for an example (comparison with Accelerate framework)
The content may be more relevant to the people involved. The content may be relevant to whether this is retaliatory.

ETA: Also, you highlight my omission of the mention of the dismissal, as if that's relevant. Why?
I read it as "Bear Detection Algorithms" and was similarly excited for the wrong reasons.
> How many engineers work on, say, the Unreal Engine. The linux kernel? Windows?

So you just provided me examples where developers tend to be highly skilled just to get a foot in the door.

Yet, the CVE list gets updated regularly with memory corruption exploits for them.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=double+free

Or if you prefer, just for Linux

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=linux+doubl...

> Do you think any of that stuff would work even marginally well running on the JVM (assuming the JVM had native driver support)?

Actually, are you aware that some military weapon systems are being driven with JVMs?

Anyway automatic memory management doesn't mean automatically a JVM, there are quite a few other ways.

Another fun fact, Unreal Engine and Windows are written mostly in C++. A language considered too bloated and slow to be usable for anything serious by mainstream developers in the early 90's.

Also both use automatic memory management on their systems. Unreal has a kind of GC library. Windows nowadays has COM almost everywhere with reference counting.

> I don't quite follow your claims, nor do I put any stock in the tenure of your programming career.

Apparently some well known Fortune 100 companies and research institutes had another opinion.

> As for the off-shoring point, off-shoring is going to create questionable quality code regardless of the programming language.

The point being that those projects tend to go for cheap developers, so no, not everyone can deal with manual memory management.
> If you’re not interested in a tailored experience you can adjust your preferences at any time

I don't mean to nitpick language, but does this sound incredibly condescending to anyone else? They might as well have written "If you're a paranoid loser I guess you can have the shitty experience where we don't try to ham-fistedly guess at your interests"

The funny thing is I think if they just didn't speak in idiotic PR-speak people probably wouldn't care. Sometimes I'm more annoyed that companies aren't just direct. The direct case isn't even that bad: "Hey, so we have to sell ads to make our business work and feed our families. It's better for you and the advertiser if we can try to give you ads that you might like so we can waste less of your time and the advertisers bandwidth. There's nothing in it for us to mess with your important private info, and a world of legal and PR downside. We're just asking to take a peek at your interests so we can guess at what you might like."

You'd still be justified in saying "nope", but at least you'd feel like you were treated like not an idiot.
Just to clarify: there is value in mainstream medicine, but there is also danger. I believe in evidence-based medicine, but I also believe that human greed is very active in the pharmaceutical industry, and that greed causes all kinds of lucrative drugs to be put on the market, even when they are totally ineffective and even harmful.