skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand. This article is essentially a veneration of someone who's proposing a virtually identical copy of the Withings Activite. Does Withings really have no patent or copyright protection here? Did the article author purposely ignore the fact that what's being proposed not only is not new, but already exists in a well-regarded product?
127.0.0.1, but I do get quite a few false positives.
wow, where do you live?
What I'm trying to say is that I don't think it furthers their goal.

It isn't like some terrorist act occurred which would've been uncovered with Section 215 still active. This happened on their watch and under the so-called protection of the Patriot Act. To me, it seems like just another example of the Patriot Act not protecting people.
I'd have to wonder at the product we'd get if we swapped out Comcast and let the Federal Government take over their business.

I think it would cost net twice as much (total expenditures out of the consumer pocket via taxation, the plans wouldn't cost more), be about as reliable, about as fast, lose lots of money and still be completely unaccountable to its customers. The system / infrastructure upgrades would be slow, bureaucratic, always vastly over-budget, and a constant funding fight in Congress.

(I say this understanding fully that few advocate for a federal system, but rather local muni connectivity)
They have paid plans which are quite pricey compared to the cost of data.

A repository isn't likely to cross the 1 gb threshold easily. They also email you if it does.

According to A16Z's podcast or something somewhere they have been profitable since inception so it was not much of a problem.

Keep in mind traffic and storage are cheap, and cheaper still in bulker quantities. 1 TB of data is about $30 a month on S3. If each repository averaged 50 mb one user's $7 a month subscription could support nearly 5,000 repos. 50mb is also quite large for a repository btw.

If each was about 5mb that's nearly 50,000 repositories that could be supported cost wise with their cheapest $7 micro plan.
If you are using Agesen-style CPA, then it is more of a global analysis (type recovery) then type inference. I would be a bit worried about scaling, but if you've put 50kloc through it, maybe you've figured it out? I'm working on my own type-less type inference system that I'll share more about soon.
The Tools of Tradecraft: The CIA's Historic Spy Kit
What you describe is something any rich lower-taxed non-american can do to the usa effectively. That is a thing of money, not of corporations.
Comcast doesn't face typical market competition; it is uncommon for it's customers to have good alternatives. That's not a good representation of the efficiency and quality the private sector produces.
Wouldn't they prefer to release the news before the vote?
What mode would you suggest using? XTS isn't exactly a good option but it seems like the best option here.
You're right on both counts, but keep in mind how few people are going to understand that.

The media is going to report it as "rabble rabble rabble Chinese hackers because patriot act expired".
Remember water? How you used to drink it? So tedious right? You have to gulp so many times and sometimes it dribbles down to your chin ruining your shirt. Don't you wish you could just snort water? I mean now you can! One line of water is equivalent to drinking 3 cups of water. Why waste time drinking water like an idiot when you can snort it and get the same amount? I mean it's a no brainer honestly if you think about it. Obviously, this level of ingenuity comes at a price. What? Of course it's more expensive than water you can get anywhere, because you can snort it.
CyberBuyan. could webrtc be Google,Facebook and Twitter killa?
imagine using webrtc to end google's, facebook's, twitter's privacy killing data sucking rampage
first rock thrown :-D
http://nikolamandic.me/?p=137
Hummm...

I do agree that Haskell will be faster and less memory intensive than erlang, but this benchmark is not really significant...

I am not going to use erlang to write a mandelbrot...
Look into secure scuttlebutt
First thing I did was open inspector tools and delete that background attribute.

Yes, it's an attribute - not a CSS property. We're talkin' early space age stuff here, remember.
20 cents wont get you a serving of oats? Oats are like 80 cents a pound, dry! A quarter pound of dry oats is plenty of food for breakfast...
Yes, Maybe (Optional) is the way to go. The difference is, with nil you basically make every type optional allowing it to have nil as a value.
Very Important Pussy
What if this incident caused you to switch to another ISP prior to said bill. Based on my experiences good luck getting that $5.
According to a comment in the source, the page seems to be from 2001, when people didn't know better. Also look at that tell-tale footer!
Do this. Much of what the ACA is intended to do (we can debate its effect another day) is address low-income scenarios. Also, consider COBRA (and related state programs) as an intermediate step if available and necessary[1]. Dont' get a part-time job just for insurance...that's a distraction which will sap your energy and focus.

[1] http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq-consumer-cobra.html
The big difference I'd point out is that breakpoints can be added and removed at runtime. Sounds like what you're describing is a situation where you have to modify your source code to add a breakpoint (similar to a "debugger" statement in JavaScript or C#). To me, the big value of an IDE is that it lets you set/unset breakpoints, step, inspect arbitrary data, and modify application state, all at runtime. Now, I still typically work in VIM and pop open an IDE/debugger only when I hit a hairy problem, but I still find them really useful in those cases.
Level3's VP disagrees:

http://blog.level3.com/level-3-network/a-flawed-study-of-cdn...

"Open DNS is provided by companies like OpenDNS, Google and Level 3. You can use it wherever you are on the Internet with no restrictions or authentication required."
These comparisons are rarely informative, because they're based on arbitrary municipal lines in the sand, rather than at a steady place on the CBD -> Urban -> Inner Suburban -> Outer Suburban -> Exurban -> Rural spectrum

A more informative 1-dimensional 1-variable consideration, though imperfect, might be to take every person in the municipality and ask 'How many other people live within 1km of this person?', and take the median of that distribution.
Yes. There are many other laws where that is the case. Part of the idea is that if you do something wrong because you think it's legal... well you still should have known it was wrong.

With this law, the actual "wrong thing" is trying to avoid the reporting requirement. If you just happen to need $8000 every week, then you aren't trying to avoid the reporting requirement, so you haven't violated the law.
but a lot of other sites and systems weren't -- even when
accessing by IP. So it wasn't really a DNS issue.

That's just an intermittent issue that Comcast customers deal with--I experienced that in Indiana a couple of months ago.

I believe that it relates to them re-jiggering routers such that the appropriate default gateway for your modem changes, but because your modem is already up, it doesn't get notified of the change. So the modem doesn't send the message to the correct router, and the router it sends it to may or may not know how to get it to the destination.
This is a descendant of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeOTFE
It's a GetShitDone language.
The biggest difference with hubot and other bot is that you don't need to setup a server, install, update the bot. It's a saas bot.
So it's damn easy to add it to your current Slack team.
Man, how about a startup that just teaches people how to cook. How about an app that teaches you to cook with and while on a date?
IANAL, but note that you need to specifically state you are invoking your right to not talk to them. There have been several cases where just silence was interpreted as incriminating.
I didn't particularly notice the background pattern but cycling through that story was really a great read. To put yourself in those shoes really had me going. Absolutely amazing what these young men did.
> That's not a good representation of the efficiency and quality the private sector produces.

It's a good representation of the danger in the common quasi-religious belief that hasty privatization necessarily entails a marketplace with healthy competition.
Dry noodles just require hydration and cooking. Soaking and then stir frying takes care of each respectively.
World's Last Tribes on Collision Course with Modern Society
Imagine you have a series S=[[datetime1,amount1], [datetime2,amount], ..., [datetimek,amountk]] of withdrawals in which the amounts are lower than 10 000 dollars. From there, it should be possible to define the predicate function isCrime(S)=yes/no for any such S. The way in which they wrote their so-called law, however, makes it obviously impossible to implement such isCrime() predicate function unambiguously. In other words, what we can learn from this, is that there exists a set of people who are pretentious enough that they insist that they can write laws, but who are obviously too stupid to do that properly. They are also dangerous because these people use violence in order to impose their stupidity onto others.
I typically have logs streaming through terminal windows from several servers and multitask online -- I notice even brief transient network issues. FWIW what you're describing hasn't been a problem for me (though I don't doubt it is for lots of customers), and the San Jose outage was definitely out of the ordinary.

Anyway, I wish Sacramento was a bigger network hub, is all.
I have to disagree with you on this.

A language should be expressive enough that it can easily support correct concurrent programming, and readily expose runtimes (OTP is a great example) that have support for concurrency and distributed programming.

However, patterns like message passing instead of shared memory are not a panacea. Deadlocks and non-deterministic behavior can still happen in such systems if programmers do something stupid.

Enforcing these patterns at the language level smells of the old "let's make a language that doesn't allow programmers to write bugs!" trap.
You got today's memo from the Clinton campaign?
It's all about punishment. Sad too. Not only is it cruel policy in many scenarios, it's expensive.

Oregon does not strip the right to vote, thankfully.
NOW it makes sense.

I was writing up a tutorial which involves working with subdomains. I was QAing the tutorial by following the tutorial along but the DNS changes wouldn't work. I know it worked before but not this time.
And meanwhile I was able to visit the websites that I usually visit.

After seeing the Comcast letter, I'm concluding that the DNS changes weren't working because of Comcast's issue. I was still able to visit websites because my home DNS server had cached DNS names.

Oh well.
Well, in Crystal Nil is a separate type that can be combined with others. But, say, a String is always a String, it doesn't implicitly have the Nil type. Same goes with every other type.

Maybe you are thinking of Java/C#, where reference types can also be null, but this is not true in Crystal. It's also in a way similar (but not quite) to Swift, where optional types are different than types that can't be null.
NYC Man Robbed at Gunpoint  for Bitcoins
Maximum food stamp benefit is $189/month. Soylent subscription is $255/4 weeks.
If my recent experiences with them in regards to DNS is any indicator, their DNS infrastructure is a colossal joke. 4 days to get a reverse DNS entry done? Really?

I wont even mention the typos in some of their SOA records.
I'm comparing Doxygen and Sphinx for a new project; what things do you like about Doxygen over Sphinx? (also, does anyone know why OpenCV switched?)
What options are superior to XTS? As I understand it XTS does have some weaknesses, but is still the superior option versus LRW & CBC w/ secret IVs. I'm not aware of any other well supported block cipher modes other than those major three?
You may want to consider a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), which generally offer lower monthly premiums for a higher deductible. This reduces your monthly cost but should something happen, would require more paid out of pocket before insurance contributes. The main benefit is a safety net in case something serious happens.

Additionally, with an HDHP you may be eligible for a Health Savings Account (HSA), which are tax advantaged savings for medical coverage, reducing your cost of care.

If you're interested in HSA's I have blogged on their benefits[1] and wrote a web app to track your HSA spending[2].

[1] http://www.hsaedge.com/
[2] http://www.trackhsa.com
Convice me life is worth when all and everything you deal with is shit
So much hatred and negativity is surrounding me.
Skin color matters a lot especially if you are in United States.
Being not attractive matters a lot.
That's a truth.
Github data is not "gargantuan". They have 9 million users. They put limit to repository size to 1GB. My estimate would be that most repo don't even get to 10% of this. Plus this is mostly source code and text files that compresses very nicely. Given this information, I would estimate that Github data can fit in under ~5000 2TB hard drives. Cost of hosting data would be around $5 million per year. I bet their employee cost is much larger than this (my estimate is $50M).
Ah, the seventeenth century. A fuckfest before the word existed.
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I wish there were more consumer routers that came with Google DNS as a default backup.
I find the distinction important as it allows to establish a contract without falling into defensive programming. Null pointer analysis is great, I admit, but how it would help to write a library function without checking explicitly if its parameter is nil?
Definitely as far back as Slashdot circa 1998. And almost certainly somewhere else before then.
>It boggles my mind that Apple isn't using all these money for something better. What prevents them from, say, hiring up or luring away all the great CS/hardware PhDs, build a giant lab for robotics, build new space exploration company, new sustainable for-profit tech company, start massive search engine efforts, start giant initiative for for-profit cancer research and so on and on and on.

That they know that money isn't everything when it comes to engineering, and just "getting the best" and "throwing tons of money" at a problem doesn't necessarily result in a good outcome? Especially if it's something outside their core expertise.

Apple, for example, consistently failed with their social attemps (Ping?), and their online apps (mail, docs, etc) which are also-run. Microsoft poured a lot of money into Bing, and it's still something nobody would use willingly (except a couple outliers who would respond to this comment as if nobody means "no one at all" in casual conversation).

And then there's the canonical example, Chandler:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software)
http://www.dreamingincode.com/

Or let's take another company who is "all over the place". For all of Google's efforts in PR-driven research, what has it given us that was a success? The Glass was a huge failure, their attempt at social (Google+) too, GAE is an also-run, Dart got top talent but never got anywhere, and same with several other attempts that linger on or have closed down. Judging from their revenue report, it's all about ads still. (Sure, there's the self-driving car, that might be marketable someday, but for that Apple is said to have a team working on it too)

They also know that the company made all these money by having focus.

Finding a new area to explore is OK. Being all over the place is a recipe for failure. And Apple they ain't gonna do it just because it's a geek's dream e.g. ("space exploration company").
It's pretty typical for Hacker News to be a forum for talking about whatever.
"Switch to another ISP"? That's a funny joke.
Huh, that's interesting. As an organization, there's no public info on the availability of those servers.

Last year they showed ads for failed DNS requests for non-customers. http://james.bertelson.me/blog/2014/01/level-3-are-now-hijac...
I'm not sure if $5 adequately compensates for the productivity (and in some cases entertainment) loss encountered. I guess that equates to roughly a day's credit depending on what your plan is like. Plus I don't see why they require us to file a compensation claim, when they could just credit every account that was in the affected areas.

I wonder if they would be compensating more if the Internet and TV went down during a big event like the NBA Finals yesterday.
And to be honest, (T | Nil) is pretty difficult to distinguish from (Maybe a = a + 1). Complaints feel difficult to motivate to me anyway.
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Best practice and it's required to make certain more advanced type features work.

It's the same with Crystal. Their generics require type annotations.
It's not inherently bad, but choice for choice's sake is generally not a good thing for security software in my view.

Saying you support more features in non-security software might be a great thing but saying you support more ciphers, encryption algorithms, etc... than the competition just means a higher probability you're supporting weak/broken security algorithms and/or that the implementations are not well audited.

That, and the overwhelming majority of users are going to have no idea what the actual difference is between all the options nor are going to take the time to investigate what exactly is the difference between RIPEMD-320 & SHA-512. Nor should they have to for that matter.

The goal here is to implement high quality security software. The more features you support, the more code is in your product, and the harder it is to ensure that your code is in fact delivering the security you're aiming for.
Indeed! I've asked this a couple of places and got no answer. If it is functionally equivalent to dragging the address to a bookmark-bar folder called Pocket I become very suspicious of motives.
seems like something you could sell alot during holloween?
If Linux was only used inside phones or set-top boxes as embedded software, yes, it would be as insignificant as QNX.

There would be some embedded software programmers employed, to write the set-top box or the phone OS, and that's it.

The same way that before phones had "app platforms" nobody cared what OS an Ericsson, or a Nokia or a Motorola phone run, and the number of people who worked on them was insignificant (basically employees of said companies).

What makes Linux important for millions of people is that it's used in servers, corporate and home desktops, phones, consoles, etc, that have active application platforms, it gives jobs to sys-admins, web apps, pages and services are written in it, etc.

It's not just that an "auto mechanic" doesn't care what OS runs on his set-top box, it's that unless that OS also provides a platform that lots of people work on nobody else does either (except of the "coders of propriterary embedded-ware" that wrote it and those competing for jobs with them in a quite small market).

A commenter lower down says it more succintly:

">who cares about sim cards? If SIM cards were to run on Fortran (for some strange reason), would you argue that Fortran is the wave of the future?.
If you allow car racing, why not drug racing?
I didn't say Android phones don't use SIM cards. I'm a European, I have an Android and an iPhone with SIM cards both.

I replied to the statement that "in Africa they don't use Android phones", not that in Africa they don't use SIM cards.
If you have 20 c# devs, why not code it in c#?
The Affordable Care Act is working pretty well for me as a lone wolf consultant.

Premiums for a bronze plan are about 35% less than I was paying previously (and I don't qualify for subsidies), with somewhat better coverage for prescriptions and office visits.

The selection of physicians is not great and deductibles are high, but that was true of my previous plan, too.

Lots of horrible issues with healthcare in general and the ACA in particular, but for me it's been a moderate improvement in quality along with a big reduction in cost.
That's only done when you have a meet between two TBMs coming from opposite directions, and there's no way to get them out. Only for very long tunnels is that necessary. For most TBM jobs, you get the TBM back when it breaks though at the end of the job. After refurbishing, they're good for another job.

Go to TunnelTalk.com for the best deals on used TBMs.[1]

[1] http://www.tunneltalk.com/Equipment-Sales.php
Google did well being all over the place as well... Youtube, maps, gmail, android, chrome.
If they'd just stuck to search, where would they be now? And for that matter, where would we be now?
Gifts of nominal value are allowed--to give and to accept them--in the ethical system of every Western business of which I am aware. Saying "thank you" and making small talk also have an effect... adding a token of trivial value to the equation isn't a poison pill.
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Virtually no one outside the tech world thinks twice about javascript. They have other things to think about. They're still users of the product, and they will never start tweaking it, because their lives are already full of other things.
It's been an ongoing research to get a new standard going:

>"The GSM Association, an organization of wireless telephone operators including AT&T Inc., plans to replace the removable SIM card connecting handsets to networks with a system integrated in the devices."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-11-18/gsma-explo...

Apple then made a first move adding a "programmable SIM card" -- which is a first step towards software-only SIM:

>"Some of Apple’s latest iPads have a new type of SIM card that lets users switch easily between operators without replacing the card. This could seriously weaken the operators’ grip on their market, especially if Apple were to follow up by putting the new SIMs in iPhones or replacing them with software"

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21633870-moves-reinve...

>"As others have pointed out, as of right now the Apple SIM isn’t a huge threat to the existing smartphone sales model – contract subsidies are too attractive to customers. But ultimately, Apple is almost certainly hoping to replace the physical Apple SIM with a software solution built directly into devices; in fact, it was working on such a plan back in 2010, before that was axed by opposition from a coalition of European carriers in particular."

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/16/apple-sim-details-and-poten...
And you think people read those descriptions when they follow the latest tutorial (in the syle of http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2710/firefox_disable_the_down...) to make their firefox 25000% faster?
How generous of them to offer this for anyone who happens to learn about it in the limited time window they are offering it for... (/s)

Also: $5 is half of the $10/month modem rental fee (that I assume is commonly paid by a lot of their customers who don't know any better) on a ~$70 modem (probably much cheaper at the scale they buy them at) that has probably been paid for in rental fees 5 times over already.
Writing Modern JavaScript
As a consumer service is there even an SLA!? I mean stuff goes wrong, if your home internet connection is so important then multi-home leased lines is what you need..
SQL is not a wire protocol, it is a language/grammar/loose-set-of-language-conventions. The wire protocol is up to the server and driver to agree upon.

I'll posit that most non-relational stores resist supporting any SQL because it would so quickly make plain how handicapped are their query and set-based capabilities.
The UK is currently having great difficulty trying to ban "legal highs", which is obviously impossible to define.