skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think mentioning race makes the topic unnecessarily politicized. There are much simpler cases where we don't want to use machine learning algorithms for maximum efficiency gains.

For example, take health insurance. No matter if it's voluntary or mandatory, at root it's a system where healthy people pay for sick people. If you're healthy today, you still pay because you might get sick tomorrow. But if sickness were 100% knowable in advance, then healthy people would have no incentive to participate, or even to set up such a system in the first place! The system only works due to a lack of knowledge, and advanced machine learning algorithms could easily break it.

The root of the problem is that the market-efficient way to redistribute resources is not the way that leads to the most happiness. (The technical term is "diminishing marginal utility of money".) We need to give free stuff to those who are statistically less likely to win it in competition. If our machine learning algorithms disagree, that just means they're optimizing for the wrong criteria.
Trademarks are free, you just start putting ™ after it and using it like a trademark. Registered trademarks ® cost money, but even then it's only a few hundred depending on which filing option you choose. Just the same, the file system guys don't seem to treat it as a trademark, so it's not an issue here.
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Mysql uses TMPDIR for sorting, multiple large tempfiles indicates heavy queries that should be optimised and/or missing indexes.

Deleting those files while the server runs is an awesome way to "f@ck s*it up"! Do you really trust Mysql to behave nicely in that situation?

Add more disk space and point TMPDIR somewhere else than /tmp, /var/tmp or /usr/tmp!
Is it really necessary for a non-technical founder to understand the differences between node.js and C#/.NET?
I can see even school sports teams using these for player video tracking - imagine being able to analyse every player individually even as an amateur.

Although that would probably require some nifty software to make the 16-odd hours of footage resulting from a single football match useful...

Also that's a lot of DSLRs.
This is an odd one, though. I can not remember seeing/hearing any real issues with Unsafe. For the most part, people don't use it. There are a few that do, to ridiculous benefit. As things stand right now, without it, you can not get anything close to the performance people are seeing with it.

So, what many of us are seeing here is someone is upset with basically the shape of an API. They have no evidence that I have seen of trouble caused by it. Only a desire that such things not exist. This feels almost puritanical in how it is being exercised. Which is just plain silly for a technical debate.
Impartial algorithms fail to confirm the biases of those with political agendas.
That is why I said write a brief answer to the question and then put the full detail in the blog post. After 6 months you will be up at the top for searches of that keyword and StackOverflow can do what they want.
Not necessarily more developers, but different developers, I suspect.
They should understand the customer and never stop learning about the customer.

The best way to do this is to talk to lots of prospects and customers.

Knowing why you are building is more important than knowing how or what...thoae two stem from knowing why.

Im non technical but knowing the customer is the foundation for everything you are doing.
Sorry, it doesn't look like it!

I did find the same presentation but from another event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6pU4C4PVoY

However, I cannot recall whether this was a subject of the talk or whether I asked it in Q&A. I think it was the latter.
If this is the indented use case what purpose the coffee shop have to add one? If in most cases it'll only discourage customer attendance.

To be a member of the queue of an establishment can carry some of the social status of that establishment itself. This is a primative notion yes, but fairly ingrained culturally. As businesses often judge their prestige by the length of the queue to enter.
Are the course notes online?
I'm an EE by degree but I've been getting more interested in the programming side of the house and I'm looking for a "teaching os".

The other option is the perennial favorite, Minix, but I've realized about computing is that there are a lot of thoughts on how to do things correctly and seeing only one way may make you blind.

As an aside, it looks like we've hugged the site to death.
They use a custom-made system for payments based on Stripe. I was working on a SaaS product where you could generate unique links either manually or via API for taking payments for SMS-based systems.

Drop me an email (it's in my profile) if you'd be interested in that and tell me what you would pay a month
You can also get entire rooms wired for this as well. I recently helped design one of our presentation rooms where the system (with the help of a lot of array mics) processes who is speaking and if the speaker puts the room into Q&A mode it will focus on / boost whoever is speaking. The intent was to get rid of the "could you repeat the question" issue (anyone who has ever been to a NYTM knows this one :)) or awkward pauses as an entire room waits for someone with a mic to walk over. It helps make recordings of Q&A much more natural and fluid.
That's why you have flying military drones with guns to protect stuff :)
The scope is much broader than that, actually.

The scope would cover any software they use to provide these services.
1. Have the maintainers of Storm, Cassandra, etc. said whether they architecturally need Unsafe in its current form, and whether the replacement APIs under development will fulfill their needs?

There's a lot of software out there that uses MD5 or DES right now. Saying that the software needs MD5 or DES is a different claim entirely.
There should be some argument made that the use by these companies is causing trouble, as well. DOS had real identifiable reasons not to use it. The rhetoric used so far just has Unsafe upsetting some engineers for existing.
Yes, I was arguing against the complaint about the UX.
Off topic, but the term "layoff" seems like a euphemism for "fired". I always thought that a true layoff meant the employer intended to re-hire the workers after the company's financial position improved. I wonder if labor law makes this distinction?
I think this is one of the best use cases outside of the sports market. I really dislike sitting behind a lens for lots of subtle experiences with kids, but at the same time I want a nice recording of it afterwards. It seems like this would help with that situation.
Line 34 here:

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/compo...

> Public API Documentation: http://getpocket.com/developer/
As I just indicated above, they should do so because the support revenue stemming from applets is surely outweighed by the damage to their brand overall.

However, given that Oracle still pushes the Ask.com toolbar in their consumer-facing installer, it does seem clear that they are not yet concerned about that calculus.

Perhaps if Microsoft's open-source, cross-platform changes to .NET makes them a more significant threat in a few years... or if maybe some newer emerging non-JVM language starts to gain traction in the enterprise... then Oracle will be pressed to drop its complacency. That is indeed a very slow-moving world, but Oracle practically radiates a "We Couldn't Care Less" vibe, and that would seem to make it vulnerable to disruption at some point.
>> "After adding Density, we saw as much as a 950% increase in site traffic to supported locations. Our users love it." - Darren Buckner, Workfrom CEO

When I use google maps, it shows me how busy various roads are and it also chooses the fastest route based on how fluid the traffic is.
Seems like google maps is just observing the world and making decisions based on those observations.

Now I was wondering, what if all the drivers used google maps at the same time ?

Wouldn't it mean that google maps is influencing and even creating the traffic patterns ?

Same here - just measuring the 'density' has the effect of actually influencing it which is an interesting outcome and resembles quantum mechanics voodoo stuff :).
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We're using infrared sensors to detect ingresses and egresses from locations.
sales. Be good at it, your team will thank you.
If only they could solve that 200 year old problem of having a website that you can actually scroll through.
It'd be unusably slow. "sun.misc.Unsafe" compiles in the instruction stream. JNI implementation would need to go through a complicated calling mechanism. I think it'd be up to 100x slower.
What are your thoughts on Zest Finance (http://www.zestfinance.com) ?
It was just here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9877911
Today I Googled: GCM - Google Cloud Messaging

It looks like this is a demo using GCM to only to resurrect a polling background service on an Android phone, since GCM-only can be too slow.
BGP and DNS - I can't believe we're still using them. Other pieces of software and protocols definitely have their share of problems, but it's amazing that the two protocols that are so central to the Internet infrastructure are so deeply broken on the conceptual level.

I'm really excited about Snow and CJDNS. (https://github.com/zrm/snow , https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns)
> the Lovecraftian universe fits extremely well with the universe as understood by geeks. It's a fundementally science-driven place, where all magic is indeed just sufficiently advanced technology.

Call of the Cthulu starts with a shared dream, so where's the technology? Several other stories involve dreaming too. Lovecraft is more about programming (programming people and peoples programming) than science. Most Lovecraft characters are introverts much like the geeks, and selfie takers of our auspicious era (meh).
"Now, my impression would be that this means you can't sue Amazon (or their partners/customers/etc) over IP violations BY THE AWS PRODUCT ITSELF. In other word, if you use AWS you can't then later sue Amazon or their customers saying that AWS itself violates your patent on using a computer remotely (or whatever ridiculous patent you may hold). With this interpretation it is an extremely reasonable provision and should not concern any company involved in normal business."

The amount of bad armchair lawyering here is saddening :)

Why do people need to go on impressions?

The agreement "govern(s) your access to and use of the Service Offerings (as defined below)". Hey, looks like they define Service Offerings, below.

So rather than guess or have an impression as to what it means, why don't we look at the definition of service offerings, a defined term in the contract.

“Service Offerings” means the Services (including associated APIs),
the AWS Content, the AWS Marks, the AWS Site, and any other product
or service provided by us under this Agreement.
Service Offerings do not include Third Party Content.

“Service” means each of the web services made available by us
or our affiliates, including those web services described in the Service Terms.

So there you go, no need to guess or have an impression of what it covers.
That is what it covers when it means service offerings.

As for it's okayness -- i'm actually generally in favor of these kinds of clauses. However, this one is a bit too broad.
I hope you aren't an open source project who uses AWS, and who AWS uses to provide services in some fashion. Because if you are, congrats, Amazon can do what they want with your software and you can't stop them (ie violate the GPL, whatever).
Bug report: In Firefox, when on this page [1], clicking on the Density logo in the top left takes me to http://www.density.io/undefined

Looks like you've got a JS issue in there somewhere.

[1] http://www.density.io/?ref=hn
> OpenH264 IS open source. Firefox downloads a pre-built binary (that happens to have a patent license included), just like it'll do if you update, for example, Debian Iceweasel.

Sure, I can download the source. And I can patch firefox to restrict the auto-downloading and instead use a locally bundled version. But at that point I'm forking firefox to get a full-featured version built from source.

I can see arguments either way, but a lot of people, myself included, would not consider this fully open-source code.

Again, I am in no way claiming that the majority of people have a problem with this. But there is a group of tech people, who have historically been very pro-mozilla, who are now more on the fence or actively dislike moves like this.

> It still is, but only the people who are willing to be reasonable and listen to arguments. Demanding that a browser in 2015 does not support H264 is not realistic.

I would prefer you respond to the arguments made rather than resorting to strawmen. Nowhere in my post did I demand that H264 not be supported. I voiced an objection to the way it was included. You are free to disagree. If H264 really needed to be supported, I would have preferred this be done through exposing the OS video codecs, leaving firefox out of the whole thing.

> I mean, there's people arguing here that the current Sync system is a sell-out because it uses passwords instead of the old randomly generated keys.

And were any of those people me? Please, stop with the strawmen. This has nothing to do with the H264 discussion.

> If I see that, and the H264 argument, then I think there's two kinds of "open source communities": the ones that try to build usable products and a big circklejerk that is happy to have a solution only for themselves. If you follow the discussions about ANY kind of open source project that tries to help the mainstream, you'll often see the same pattern. (GNOME and systemd are some easy examples)

Just like we have different makes of car, most of them targeting the average consumer and some of them targeting niches and people who enjoy driving for its own sake. What's the problem, exactly, with making a product for a niche market? Why can't we have a browser made for techies?

When did scratching ones own itch become a bad thing in the open source community? For the record, I have contributed to browser development in the past, both mozilla and other projects. All of those contributions were to solve issues for me. Others have benefited from that. That's how a large chunk of the open source code we use every day got started.
About #2: there are many internal changes even between minor releases and if you relying on those internals, your code is NOT portable.
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She actually tried the junior college route when she lived in a college town to finish her degree. Hated it (not to mention the financial burden).

I'm frustrated with myself because I'm out of ideas. I know I can't be her internal fire and I can't tell her what to do. But she's such a good person. If I could just help her get exposure to something she enjoyed, I know she'd run with it and have the security she needs.
Yeah, it's an odd stat. For instance, if someone new enters the phone market, and spends a ton of money and loses a LOT of money, the total profits for the industry go down, and if Apple makes the same dollar profit as the year before, their profit share number goes up. If the next year, that new competitor goes out of business, their loss is not included in the total profits of the industry, and Apple's share of the profits goes down.

So you could make a pretty convincing argument that this profit percentage number is kinda meaningless. Why not just look at gross profit? Dollars compare to dollars pretty well.
Thank you! Fixing it now.
1. it's quite likely that the Unsafe classes will be accessible with a flag, so for this kind of projects it's not really a big problem, as they provide the shell scripts for launching the jvm with all the necessary parameters.
That's the symptom, not the cause.
Great product and great team. Congrats everyone!
I think "unfair" implies prejudice and bias. Do you take it as axiomatic that a system that produces different outcome for different racial groups is "unfair"?
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Night bus coverage out to the limits of the tube is pretty good (e.g. I used to live on the Harringay ladder and the N29 runs direct from central London; honestly I'm not sure the night tube would make getting there at night any quicker, since it's right where St Ann's Road (Green Lanes) station on the Picadilly line isn't. The night bus to where I currently live goes all the way out to Enfield.
Reality is political though.
I assume those "quantum oscillation" measurements were electron cyclotron resonance measurements[1].

Also there is an other type of non-conventional insulator which is considered to be well understood: the Mott-insulator[2]. It really doesn't fit in here as a candidate since one wouldn't expect cyclotron resonance from this model in the insulating regime. However it's a good learning example of strongly correlated electrons in materials.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_cyclotron_resonance#I...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott_insulator
I wasn't involved in the study on this. I watched a presentation summarizing the study.

User research isn't my field, but my understanding is that the study asked a random sample of people if they noticed the feature, if they found it useful, how they used it, and so forth.
Yup, HN needs to work on allowing re-submissions. Sometimes the first submission of important issues don't get any attention because of random chance/bad titles/bad timing/etc.
If only websites trying to be trendy could stop using eye popping font size 70 text that cause me to roll my chair back 10 feet to read the web page.
Why libraries need Unsafe, after all? What problems does it solve for them?
In my experience with running bug bounties it will be cheaper in terms of time (and probably in terms of money) and more effective to hire an application security consultant to look at the projects first.

Bug bounties require a lot of time to keep on top of the submissions (essential in providing a good experience for researchers) and to filter out the noise of invalid and working-as-intended bugs.

Having a consultant come through will mean that your bugs will be the exception rather than the rule. Instead of every form field and parameter having a cross site scripting bug only that deprecated status page that you'd forgotten about will be vulnerable. A good consultant will also be able to help you fix the bugs and avoid them in the future.

Getting the low hanging fruit out of the way before launching This difference can easily pay for the consultant, since each XSS can be worth >$500 (or thousands in the case of the bounty programs I've worked on) so getting the low hanging fruit out of the way before launching is definitely worth it.
I have family members who had it, so I did the 23&me screening for it (negative on genetic mutation thankfully). Have you done that yet?
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Such a tired, tired argument.

More cores != better usable specs.

If you prefer security and privacy, there's a strong case for iOS.

If you prefer day-of-release software updates, there's a strong case for iOS.

If you prefer robust photography solutions, there's a strong case for Apple's camera hardware and software.

If you want to create audio, there's a strong case for the low latency of Apple's stack.
Gorgeous web design, kudos.
Where did you get the idea that Go's syntax is inspired by Python ? I don't think I ever saw that claim before.
in my view, it's user growth. get more users consuming from your platform, then they can consume it across all their media and devices and on some of those transmission platforms or devices you can monetize.
Snowcrash and a bunch of Ted Chiang's works seem to be in a similar but possibly unrelated vein.
How do these talk with the outside world? Do you need to attach them to your own internal WiFi?
The reality is if you are not concerned about trust, openness etc Chrome/Webkit is currently going to give you a better end user experience. With Mozilla losing the moral high ground, my reasons for using it over Chrome and especially Firefox OS over Android(or Firefox in Android) diminish greatly.
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Indeed so.

I feel a follow-up piece coming on entitled

"Ia, ia, Google fthagn..."
Uhh... you now how we handle drift? We manage the update repository ourselves. New packages don't get released until we are ready to release them....

You don't need to limit ssh to help handle state drift. Article writer doesn't seem to understand the difference between user access, and software deployment.
Huh, interesting point - I'd not considered the horrific element of Snowcrash in the same light.
"(Trendy teaching) as (confusing (science) for (engineering))"

Better?
I think Google is more interested in Dart as a cross platform language.

See the Sky project https://github.com/domokit/sky_sdk/ which uses Dart as the UI framework. Currently runs on Android- but I believe the intent is to have it run on iOS as well.

From my perspective, Dart makes a lot more sense as an application language when compared to Go.
Does this use PIR out of curiosity, or are you using an emitter, receiver in one package.
I've never been happy with search engine integration with any browser, but that's been a dead horse for well over a decade now. Besides, I can remove those services from Firefox and substitute any search engine I want, or none at all. I can't change Firefox's choice of "read later" providers because it's hard coded to Pocket. They chose for me, and don't allow me to alter that choice. With search engines at least I can control the service provider.
All of the above + auto-playing videos.
Yeah. Currently we piggy-back on a locations wifi. Relatively low upstream data (37kb / 90secs).

We've considered things like Helium. Eventually centralizing the network will be good but for now, wifi's cheap and available.
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Yeah, you can see in the js file that the API endpoint /firefox/save is used, which is not covered in the public api documentation.

A Mozilla employee opened a ticket for this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179699
>Have the maintainers of Storm, Cassandra, etc. said whether they architecturally need Unsafe in its current form [...] ?

As there is no alternative to unsafe serialization in terms of performance. It goes without saying.

>There's a lot of software out there that uses MD5 or DES right now. Saying that the software needs MD5 or DES is a different claim entirely.

I agree, but you are putting the trees before the forest.

Saying implementation X is flawed is one thing. Saying We are removing implementation X and offering no alternatives is another. While there are plan to offer an alternative, they are simply plans not an immidate alternative, thus a problem. When DES/MD5 were removed it was clear that they were already inferior implementations, and superior alternatives existed. That isn't true for java.
Why not use bluetooth low-energy for this stuff? Or would you need to have three beacons to triangulate?
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What I quoted is Pocket's Terms of Service[1], as explicitly stated in the article

Which quite obviously don't apply to Firefox in their entirety. The quoted section specifically doesn't apply, and I hope it's obvious to see why.

You can decide whatever you want, but given that you specifically quoted that section as the reason earlier, it's obviously not based on sane reasoning but on self-justification.
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Yep, typo, 16 not 26.