skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wrote:

Another question missed to date by those looking at this article is that if the Chinese and the Russians have cracked this archive of data how come the United States is still in the dark about what exactly was taken (which they've admitted they do not know) and that they implicitly claim to have a full copy of the archive in readable form as well (otherwise the UK government could not make the claims they're making here).

I'm merely pointing out that the UK retrieved a subset of the archive when they detained Miranda. Therefore, the US/UK don't necessarily need "a full copy of the archive in readable form" to be able to come to the conclusion that the full archive contains information that would compromise ongoing operations. If the 58,000 documents they got from Miranda contain any such information, it inevitably follows that the full archive must too.
The first 80 or so slides of this deck go into detail regarding "async I/O": https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-....

> He argued that context switching and memory foot prints are just theoretical stuff.

What? Can you cite your source?
American Planned to 'Utterly Destroy' Muslims in New York Town
Show HN: Contextable – Wikipedia snippets as you speak
Looking forward to this. Do you have any videos contrasting Keyboardio vs. the tradition keyboard, or do I need to wait until the campaign goes live tomorrow?
Was the go to guy for networking for the local boys for some years. I may still have a few 10baseT and 10base2 devices sitting around somewhere.

Craziest i manage to set up was a combo of baseT and base2 that got extended in real time as more people piled in for the weekend.
Right on. The way I always saw it was that the NSA were the thieves, collecting data they did not own. Snowden, while accused of stealing secrets, actually set them free.
> Also, try to read more than one study.

Even if I had the time to read several studies and expertise to understand them, I couldn't afford it. Out of curiosity I just went to the Journal of Nutrition (I know nothing about it, picked that journal randomly) and tried to download one random issue. It was $273. Going to multiple original sources isn't practical for most of us.

I doubt that the typical mainstream journalist writing a popular story on a scientific subject could justify this expense to her boss either.
Why would you flag the political stories? I'm tired of Javascript articles, should I flag those?
I find it better to eliminate Win key and remap Alt to Capslock.
Right now SLAAC (Stateless address autoconfiguration) needs at least a /64 to work properly, thus only giving the customer a /64 means they can't run autoconfig on more than one broadcast segment.
What’s new for designers, June 2015
and here we are, exciting scientific news and you've spent over an hour discussing a shirt that unfortunately got posted to the Internet, whether it made the wearer's co-workers uncomfortable or not, whether it fits the wearer's environment culture or not, nobody knows, but a whole lot of people sure like any excuse for being outraged.
In other words, one might feel uncomfortable being the only person in the coffee shop using a foot pedal because you don't want to break the mold? Seems a poor reason when the foot pedal could boost your productivity and/or prevent injury without adversely affecting your coffee shop neighbors.
Ask HN: Would you still recommend a new learner to start from an old language?
I have a friend that understands programming. He wrote a little in C over a decade ago. He now wants to get back in development. He asked me if he should start back from C/Java or jump in with the new languages Ruby/Go? And if that will make his job hunting tougher if he did go with the new languages.

What would you recommend?
A similar work was done for Super Mario on NES (along with other NES games): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCurBYI_gY
If you need regular access to the scientific literature you have or make an arrangement with an institution. You don't pay per article or issue. It is a real problem for unaffiliated or freelance folks, though.
Thank you! Added MIT license.
Midazolam (100mg) + Fentanyl (100mg) = definitely end of life. A rhino couldn't survive it. Additionally, there would literally be no discussion about the effectiveness of it to cause death without pain. It would be nearly instantaneous and completely painless.

Am I the only person who finds it ironic that there is a humanitarian debate around the most effective drugs used to kill someone? Following contemporary humanitarian paradigm, the death by the state should be outlawed anyway.
I remember the demonstrations, but they didn't stop it.
"Unicode has to strike a balance between what's most 'correct' and how the real world actually uses it."

That train left Unicode station a very long time ago. They have chosen correctness over convenience too many times to switch tactics now.
When your startup turns to an Emotional Nightmare
Decisions by companies listed at the stock exchange have to be seen from that perspective. Software business is an asset business. Software licences are not apples. For some strange reasons some analysts do believe that a certain kind of asset is more profitable - selling licences lead to a higher turnover. That's how software is seen from the investor's perspective.

Software is craftsmanship + plus 'copy' from the distribution perspective.

That's why open source really provides good results. Open source is free because there is no barter involved. There is no real declining marginal utility. Every technology that was in the position to grow a reputation busts exactly the moment the last user installed a copy ...

The marginal utility has to be introduced by design :). Then you get money ... because you have a price.
Yikes. The writer should probably learn about "noalloc", else those calls to C are going to be very slow. Also he should have a look at the Bigarray module and the implementation of the ocaml-bitstring primitives.

http://camltastic.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/tip-calling-c-funct...

https://code.google.com/p/bitstring/

Edit: I'm also dubious about the purpose of this exercise. What's wrong with binding an existing C library? The C library likely represents man-years of work (I know HTTP/2 is new, but still), and will be far less buggy than anything you can write in OCaml in a reasonable time, and those benefits keep on accruing to the C implementation in future. And OCaml makes it real easy to write efficient bindings to C, including direct calls - see link above - and manipulating C pointers directly.
Its an Open Source project and, while it could use more developers I'm sure (most OSS projects could), it is definitely not only being worked on by one developer.

Once you start writing in it you realize how much the syntax often reads like an English sentence. And the brackets make perfect sense when you begin to understand blocks. And besides; its no more than curly braces in C and definitely fewer than parentheses in Lisp.
Snowden files 'read by Russia and China': 5 questions for UK government
Same note, at first I was like "another video I won't watch watch because I'm only curious about one point of the talking" then I saw the menu. Very cool feature, greatly optimize user experience in a simple way
My takeaway is you can always sell people something they want to buy.
not sure I even wanna know the difference between a cam girl and a 'stream hunny' O.o
It can be useful to help prevent fraud. Such as Google ads not accepting clicks from headless browsers etc.
> 0 investment in the interaction from the start is the only real way to play the game.

even after you start dating, if you emotionally invest yourself in any one person too fast, it's extremely unattractive.
No I haven't seen videos. Honestly I'm just impressed by the level of iteration from prototype to prototype that Jesse has blogged about extensively for some time, leading up to http://blog.fsck.com/2013/12/model-00.html .
I suspect it is the fashion angle.

Supposedly people with little disposable income will use that on clothes, cars or anything else that others will see.

This in some reflexive attempt at giving themselves a measure of "class".

I wish i could relocate the source of the anecdote, as it was interesting not just in relation to fashion and copying but also in the social interactions.

Basically a young lady had landed a job, and went out shopping to celebrate her paycheck. She finds a market vendor with a display of handbags, and starts haggling.

This by demonstrating how much she knows about the brands "on display" by pointing out flaws in the copies being offered.

Then the vendor would excuse himself, bring another copy from the back room, and they would start over. This until the lady had gotten a bag of a level of quality she could afford.

Thing is, she knew it was a copy, she knew it would not last as long as the real deal, but she considered it a holdover until she had climbed the corporate ladder high enough to actually afford a real model.

In essence it came down to giving a social signal that she was a person that was "going places".
Ah, so when it's antiSnowden it's ok to clarify Intel misquotes, but if it's proSnowden, any one from the IC pointing out that he is a spy is shouted down.
Great news. The linked BBC video "What is 67P? In 60 seconds" was very informative as I had little knowledge about 67P :) http://emp.bbc.co.uk/emp/embed/smpEmbed.html?playlist=http%3...
Abstract: "New software tools and methodologies make claims that managers often believe intuitively without evidence. Many unsupported claims have been made about object-oriented programming. However, without scientific evidence, it is impossible to accept these claims as valid. Although experimentation has been done in the past, most of the research is very recent and the most relevant research has serious drawbacks. This paper describes an experiment which compares the maintainability of two functionally equivalent systems, in order to explore the claim that systems developed with object-oriented languages are more easily maintained than those programmed with procedural languages. We found supporting evidence that programmers produce more maintainable code with an object-oriented language than with a standard procedural language."
"In Emacs, there are several modifier keys you can use, each with its own character:"

======== =========
Modifier Full Name
======== =========
``C-`` Control
``M-`` Meta ("Alt" on most keyboards)
``S-`` Shift
======== =========

That list is sorted incorrectly. It should be Esacape, Meta, Alt, Control, and Shift.
I used to have a Happy Hacker keyboard and write Java (and other languages) in a customize emacs environment. These days I use a regular mac keyboard (so I can easily transition between my macbook and desktop setups) and run IntelliJ. And I feel like I'm a whole lot faster writing production-quality code. There are definitely a few annoyances when using the IntelliJ emacs key binds, but this is more than compensated by being able to do things like automatically download and jump to referenced packages and having the IDE suggest code improvements ("I've noticed that you could be using the Java 8 lambda syntax here..." / "Do you want to remove these unused imports" / "This value may be undefined"). And now I can't write Java without IntelliJ, and I'm going to fail my next whiteboard interview ;)
IMO a culture is not just a set of protocols or rules written down by some chronist/sociologist. To me culture is more about how people live in a certain place, their routines, their customs.

Again, I'm not particularly talking about Muslim population, but since you continue with them, I will do the same :) (I guess it's an easy example since they are really a big community all around EU)

Now take any East London borough with a high % of Muslim. If you compare it with how it was let's say in the 80's you will probably see several differences in: the language most people talk to each other in, the way kids are educated at home, the way people interact with their local store owners, the food people eat, dress codes, etc.

If a person from a distant remote place visits that same borough in the 80's and today he will see two culturally different places. That's because the inhabitants of the place, make the culture. That's my view!

This reply is just intended to challenge your view that big numbers of immigrants has no influence on the culture of a country/city/place/population. I'm not implying that borough was better in the 80's than now!

>>Mosques are very underrepresented, considering the number of muslim, and they have to fight for every single one.

I really don't know where you draw the "fair representation" line. E.g. Greater London has 650k Muslims, and around 411 mosques. That's roughly 1400 Muslims/mosque. What would be a fair representation in your opinion? In contrast there are 450k Hindus in Greater London, and I couldn't find the number of temples in any source, but I'd guess it's around a few tens. Maybe this is an unfair comparison since a temple is much more of a requirement for Muslims than for Hindus, I really don't know that.

>> They don't make anyone else follow their rules, in any case.

They raise their kids with "their" rules, which is not even theirs, it's basically dictated by some kind of dogma. These kids will be the future generation of that place.
Buy those:
http://gcpm.rutgers.edu/books.html

and this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0486409163/?tag=stackoverfl08-20
If you want a more precise statement, a man should act independent, dominant and strong. A woman should act happy, somewhat submissive, and caring.

Just find some genuine interests and a passion or two...

Ok, Magic the Gathering and Star Trek are my genuine interests and passions. Think that'll work for me?
I'd hope that news outlets covering any kind of science pay for access to at least some major journals as a matter of course. The subscription prices are probably much lower per issue than the price to buy an issue individually.

Most journals also show you abstracts for free, which are overviews of what each paper says. If you find a paper that you want to read in full, email the author - most scientists are very happy to know that people are interested in their work, so they'll give out copies to anyone who asks.

This isn't to defend the paywalls - I think open access is important. But I don't think the paywalls are a valid excuse for journalists.
It may be a poor reason for anyone used to thinking causes, effects and objective effectiveness.

But in the end humans are social animals. Thus peer approval, even if we don't know them by name etc, carry mental weight.
Secret's collapse shows the traditional VC funding model is broken
We already have that kind of rent control (where you're already living in an apartment) in all of Germany and it works reasonably well. The new rule is supposed to slow down rent increases in new contracts.
He did not find that "journal peer review is non-existent". He targeted a low-quality journal that does not send out papers for review to make sure he could claim that the research was "published" when sending out his press releases. That's explicit in the article, which you might find an interesting read
What's a "normal contraction"?

The mainstream view is that English "don't" is just a word, the negative form of "do". The apostrophe is a historical accident. The author of this piece gives one argument for this view in the comments, pointing out that "don't" can appear in contexts where "do not" is ungrammatical.

A "clitic" in linguistics refers to an item which is (1) a word in the sense of having its own dictionary entry (which I might call "at the lexical level"), but (2) not a word at the phonological level -- clitics depend for their pronunciation on the word(s) (usually just one word) next to them. So, for example, the 's of "the man's about to jump" is lexically a form of the verb is, but it's been reduced down to zero syllables. The indefinite article (a/an) is another English clitic, and you can observe its pronunciation changing according to the word that follows it in the sentence pair:

1. A cow trampled me.

2. An elephant trampled me.

Traditionally, the definite article ("the") is also clitic, with one pronunciation before consonants and a different pronunciation before vowels. The before-consonants pronunciation is in the process of becoming universal.

Languages differ in whether clitics are written together with the words they attach to phonologically or not. Ancient Greek clitics are traditionally separated with orthographic spaces (we know they're still clitics because they affect the placement of word accents). Latin clitics are written as part of the same word: "felis canisque" (="the cat and the dog", where -que means "and"). English uses both approaches.

SUMMARY, about the specific example you chose: "don't" and the "man's" of "the man's about to jump" are not in the same class, because "don't" is just a word with no internal structure, and that "man's" is two words which are realized in speech as a single syllable. That "man's" might be thought of as a "normal contraction", a term of no meaning that I know, but linguistically is a full word ("man") with a clitic ("'s") attached. However, clitics in general are not necessarily zero syllables long.
There is not enough popcorn in the world for this right now.
This is a very important point though personally I formulate it the other way around:

you only (proactively) fix what you measure, and you only measure what you think is important.

This is of course sensible (you know weaknesses/risks/scale points in your design and so you monitor them).

But end users do unexpected things and it's worth looking, since at the end of the day it's all about the end users, else you don't have revenue! Sometimes, as the article notes, there's nothing you can do. But trust end users to find your blind spots for you.
I don't think it makes sense to start this endeavour by choosing a programming language.

I think he should choose something he wants to develop, and then choose the programming language as a technology choice in the development of that project.

If he wants to do web, Python/Ruby would be good choices. If he wants to do a native iPhone or OSX app, he should probably start by brushing up on his C then learn Objective-C.

When you're programming, the biggest motivator for me isn't to learn a new programming language, it's to work on a new project, and being motivated is important. I always choose language as a tech choice of the project. YMMV
> that journal peer review is non-existent

This isn't about peer review, because the paper was knowingly submitted only to journals known not to conduct peer review. Quoting from the article:

> We needed to get our study published pronto, but since it was such bad science, we needed to skip peer review altogether. Conveniently, there are lists of fake journal publishers.

And later:

> The new publisher’s CEO, Carlos Vasquez, emailed Johannes to let him know that we had produced an “outstanding manuscript,” and that for just 600 Euros it “could be accepted directly in our premier journal.”

This is really more about science journalism than about science.

These kinds of journals are difficult for a lay person to tell apart from actual, scientific journals, but distinguishing between the two is exactly the kind of job a competent science journalist would do. Inept science journalists, on the other hand, give these fake journals a reason to exist by citing them unchallenged.
I really don't think a company is going to give you the maximum salary possible for your job. They will probably give you the average market rate at best.

If a used car salesman told me there was 'no negotiation', I would immediately leave and go elsewhere (which actually happened last weekend to me and I went somewhere else to get my car).

It's not in the best interest of any company to pay you more money for the same value, so why am I to suddenly believe that this is the case with Reddit?

It will also reduce their workforce to the people that have lower skill sets and market rates because the people that can earn more, will go to other companies.

What if the automotive companies suddenly told the unions that there would be 'no more salary negotiations'??

Taking away power from the individual is not a good thing.
For fucks sake spit the hook.
...something, something,...the nice thing about having n standards is now having n+1 standards...something.
Closures: Elixir vs. Ruby vs. JavaScript
Sexism row scientist: 'I was hung out to dry', says Sir Tim Hunt
Doesn't airodump-ng do this by default?
I already made that joke later on in the book.
"Enabling old-style numerals (lowercase numbers) [in LaTeX] is easy enough, right up until you want to only enable them in some parts your book."

I've seen people say that before, but I've never been able to get lowercase numbers myself. And in the past I've futzed with LaTeX a lot.

I give: how do you do it?
RTGs don't have to be heavy and big. Sure one to power a car sized rover like Curiosity with large motors, science equipment, lasers, etc will be big. But one to power a little probe with 24 watts would be tiny. In the 70s there were actually nuclear powered pace makers implanted inside people, so the technology can definitely scale down: https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/Miscellaneous/pacemaker....
You set Numbers to OldStyle in \setmainfont, for instance. This assumes your font supports numerals.
Occam's razor isn't an excuse to just presume your biases.
I replied to @bayesianhorse about this similar topic, above. :)
you are primarily concerned with the exploitation of dire poverty in third world countries for mutual gain.

Fixed that for you. FYI, I'm an American working for an Indian company. So according to your theory, I'm the one being happily exploited by global trade.

By the way, according to your github profile, you live in Singapore. You were born there (Colm O'connor sounds like a very Singaporean name) and never plan to leave, right? Or is this a situation of "restrict their freedom to move, but not mine"?
A Tale of Two Narratives
This is my biggest gripe with golang; I want to be able to write functional extensions for the blessed generic types (slice, map etc.), but can't. Until we can do things like this, or implement our own generic types, golang will be a niche language.
How All New Yorkers Killed Kalief Browder
A livestream from a comet, with a 24W power budget?
Great comment, and worth noting that many technologies go through this cycle. Those old enough to remember might note that once upon a time, Java was going to "change the world". Anyone who got their start in technology after 2000 really cannot appreciate how head over heels the tech world was over Java. Fast forward to today and the concept seems inconceivable. Java, a game changer? Oh yeah, majorly.

If you stick around long enough, you see this play out over and over again. You learn not to get too worried over a lull in attention paid to your tools of choice.
Price controls lead to shortages. Economics 101.
And again, no proof was presented to indicate that this is the case. But who needs proof when anonymous quotes are all that's needed anyway. For all you know the 'journalist' (for want of a better word) could have sucked this whole story out of his left thumb and you still wouldn't know the difference.
Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS
And we evolve! :) Eg., it's been acceptable for some time to operate an iPad with an external keyboard at the local hipster coffee shops. I'd argue that anyone using a foot pedal at all is an early adopter - who knows what Starbucks' digital denizens will be using in a couple years? But we will arrive there faster if some of us eschew the lowest common denominator, even if we look funny doing so and have to haul around a peripheral or two or three.
I remember those large yellow coax cables from back in the day. I never knew they were vampire tapped.
Are We Really in Control of Our Outrage? The Case of Social Media and Tim Hunt