skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a question of priority. America is the land of income inequality and we can't secure our borders. We have home grown terrorists, but no mental health resources to help even the most dangerous. Our infrastructure is crumbling. Out debt is measured in trillions. And yet we spend $750 million taking pictures of Pluto. We have serious priorities that need to be addressed. And if it were our personal bank accounts then probably all but Elon Musk would prioritize his expenditures towards more terrestrial pursuits. But when it's public money, there is no accountability. And we spend it on making Pluto the next Planet of the Year.
'Ludicrous Mode'? Tesla Model S adds another power boost
Two questions that I find myself asking:

1. Are proofs effective at judging the security of a protocol? For example many proofs rely on the random oracle model, yet the random oracle model is problematic. How can we construct convincing proofs?

2. Are there better measures of security? For example crypto-contests in which people try to break other peoples algorithms. Very little systems security relies on proofs (systems security is also almost always the weakest link).

My personal belief is:
1=yes,
2=maybe and it is worth it to develop alternative methods since they can be used in tandem with proofs.
Yes, in terms of car design, Germany and Italy are tops, in terms of industrial machinery, (mechanical printing, cloth), the Germans.

But I used to work as a VLSI (computer chip) designer and in that area USA (Silicon Valley) and Israel are tops. After Silicon Valley, Israel has the most computer chip designers in the world, about 20,000. Intel employs 10,000 Israelis in two design centers and two fabs. One of the fabs is a 22 nm node being upgrade to the 10 nm node. It was the Israelis that were in charge of mobile and instigated Intel's change of higher performance from lower clock rates.

Apple looked all over the world for its computer chip design center and chose Israel where it now employs 700 and hiring more. Tim Cook was there in February dedicating a new building. His VP in charge of hardware/computer chip design is an Arab Israeli who has his BS and Masters degrees from Technion, the MIT of Israel.
I know of one plane so crazy that it has to make this list even though it never left the drawing board, the Lippisch P.13A.

We all know the Nazis had crazy ideas, we know that had overambitious ideas, this is one of those crazy AND overambitious ideas that kinda, sorta made sense. It was a delta winged, pyramid shaped, supersonic interceptor powered by a coal-fueled ramjet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippisch_P.13a

It was basically an amalgamation of half-baked construction and propulsion ideas but the aerodynamic principles were fundamentally sound and incredibly advanced for their time. The aero research and data from this program was used with great effect by the US and USSR. It was basically the common ancestor from which all future delta-wing designs evolved.
Splash page is very attractive! Are you two curating stories and aggregating them into a big topical feed, or doing content generation yourselves?

Best of luck on your upcoming launch!
Ask HN: How do you organize teamwork in C?
With OOP it's all about classes, abstractions, interfaces etc. and design patterns. But outside the object oriented programming, how actually is the teamwork organized? Could you please suggest any online articles to read?

I've tried googling it but I failed to find anything.
yeah since when is stuttering and fumbling your way through a presentation considered good?
One simple way, just as a contrived counter-example are gendered questions or questions that assume gendered cultural capital.
Normally, one does not pitch to the masses. So OPs point of using this as an inspiration for your pitch to a VC is misguided.
If anyone knows how to do that reliably on Android (not CyanogenMod), I'm all ears.
That's my point. Everything that went to spam, I flagged as "not spam".
It can be done with a few lines of javascript. You certainly don't need to contact the server to ask them how long ago a certain time was.
Roughly $100k after paying roughly 40% +/- in taxes.

Very rough numbers of course.
excellent, i'm willing to learn swift or obj-C for this, are they API-equal?

(actually i don't know much about M4L, supercollider or those others, but i do have a bunch of HW synths: kurzweil, DSmith, emu, kawai etc
I really hope browser races doesn’t get boiled down to performance, but also things like resource-hogging, which has made it practically impossible for me to use Chrome on my MacBook.

If Edge can be to Windows 10 what Safari is to OS X, I’ll try to do what I can to move my browser workflow to Edge as much as possible.
the only browser choices these days seem to be either from unethical corporations or unethical open source non-profits. anyone know where to turn to get a decent browser with no ads or unethical corporations involved ?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ngothieuqu...
It's a fun thought experiment, but the illusion of self probably didn't just spontaneously arise in humans; it's much more likely to be an adaptation from hundreds of thousands of generations of natural selection for a more intelligent species. Nature selected countless times, through genetic succession, for the more aware species.

> do you think that brain cells are (would be) aware of the fact that we are conscious?

No, a neuron is too simple a system to be capable of awareness by itself. I get what you're getting at, but if we're talking about a higher-level phenomenon, let's not also call it consciousness. In fact, we essentially use "consciousness" as a post-facto description of our own illusion of self, so it essentially makes no sense to ascribe it to a system that didn't arise more or less the same way as we did.
What patience these scientists had! What dedication to their discipline! Imagine losing your brother to a labor camp and still continuing the work he was punished for. Amazing!

And these were not experiments that gave results in just a few months. These guys were laboring for decades!
You can get this easily on Windows 7 anyway without any command line stuff.
Right click on network connection / status / wireless properties
I would not read to much into it. This is a very specialized competition that selected 6 people from an entire country.

Some aspects of soviet education are very conducive to these competitions (e.g. an emphasis on euclidean geometry). Because of this, a top 10% student from a former Soviet country will do much better than a top 10% American if neither have extra training in this sort of competition.

If anyone is interested in discussing women in STEM in general, this article is a very poor place to do it. Eg the US has done extremely poorly up till now compared with similar English speaking country's. There are just so many idiosyncratic features at play.
I'm not sure what that would look like. I mean whatever ornaments are in the word problem, the thing that matters is the math underneath. You seem to think female maths enthusiasts will get distracted by "gendered" ornamentation and find themselves unable to see the math underneath - which itself seems like an oddly sexist idea. Do you honestly think if we printed the tests on pink paper and made all the word problems about stereotypically feminine things, the results would change appreciatively. Isn't it possible that, on average, women are just less likely to be interested in mathematics competitions. Is this necessarily a bad thing so long as those that are are not discriminated against?

Edit: And as for your comment below, I'm unsure of what the particularities of Thai dress and ceremony has to to with the posited inherent sexism of maths tests. And honestly do you really think women avoid maths competitions because they might eventually meet some foreign women in traditional dress?
Laws tend to be derived from attempts at improving the general happiness and survivability of the society but the fact that laws and morality tend to overlap is a coincidence

What defines "happiness" and welfare is itself heavily rooted on morality, so that statement is self-contradictory. Hell, the idea in itself that "happiness" is something to strive for is a moral concept.

And while nobody can agree exactly on the morality of every single action, people do have broad agreements about moral principles: it's what defines most religions.
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I'm surprised the first step wasn't "Download a copy of Windows 10"
if using wpa_supplicant, traditionally there was main config at /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, where passwords to all networks could be held. file would be readable by root and the binary, obviously
Another example of websites leaking private information about their users. The explanation: what readers of Teach Yourself C++ in 10 minutes do with the other 50 minutes. ;)
Show HN: A simple Electron chart application with highcharts and angularjs
Congrats to the team! I'm curious if any of the six team members are reading HN.
More Than 300 People Injured After Train Crash in South Africa
Fortran is the language of high performance computations because it forces programmers to use static memory layout, and has real arrays. It is easier to emit (SSE-)vectorized assembly from Fortran code than from C. You can of course achieve the same effects in C as you can in Fortran, but by default it requires more knowledge. For example not many people are aware of the "restrict" C keyword, which is absolutely necessary to write vectorizable code.

JavaScript is incomparably slower than Fortran. Also, Fortran has been fast since day 0.

Edit: I've just found out that "restrict" has been added in C99. Which means that even in the 90s there was no good support for parallel/vectorized code in the C standard.
Just set up a PC as Wifi hotspot with the same name as the target network and grep the credentials from the devices that try to automatically connect to your PC. ;) PS: should work with any SSID and password auth
Like with power-leveling, it wouldn't surprise me if there's programmers that throw decent code together [for a price] to help crappier programmers get jobs. It would be less noticeable than Rockstar lib at least until the interview. Has anyone seen this kind of thing happening?
"with merit bonuses for those who exceed/excel"

How do you measure that? In most teams I've been involved in, the entirety of the team suffered with the weakest link. My 'merit' was tied to the efficiency of poor team members. A colleague of mine (different company) was on a team with about 15 others in his dept - 60+ folks in all. The daily incompetence he described was rather high, but not surprising when you have non-tech folks making tech decisions. I said "hrm... perhaps people would be motivated to care/do more and improve if they got some sort of profit sharing bonus". He said "WE DO! My bonus continually gets eroded because we've got incompetent do-nothings who continually shoot down progress" (paraphrasing).

I don't particularly want a large/variable portion of my income to be that tied to situations that I have that little control over.
Asset Store: A force for creative good
Nothing like replying hyperbole with more hyperbole. Calling the actor model, which has been around for forty years and has been slowly gaining recognition, a "fad" is frankly ridiculous.
Probably doesn't need to be said here, but I would also add in: Don't neglect computer science.
Actually, that's precisely what I do, except it's called machine language, not assembly. That is because assembly is an intermediate format above machine language (it's symbolic).
Surprising Applications of the Magnus Effect [video]
Lemmings in the Browser
Have been seeing the same thing here as well. With spam messages coming through as normal mail.

I have also been having any messages that are replies to messages I send being diverted to my spam folder randomly. It is happening on both my personal gmail account and on a business account.

It seems lately Google has really been less focused on the core components that made them successful in the first place. I have found their search results seem to be returning more spam sites than before. My vote is to get Matt Cutts to come back and start cleaning up spam again :)
This thread isn't about IE in edge mode it is about the Edge browser shipping with Windows 10 (that replaces IE). IE in edge mode and the Edge browser have different performance characteristics.

I'd be interested to see how your test case performs on the Edge browser.
> a careful process for validation and debiasing

What might something like this look like?
If you were a true rockstar, this would be called rockstar.io/rockstar.js and written in node to make it webscale.
The truth is that gender, sexuality and race are irrelevant if all your employees are 20-something graduates of the same 10 CS programmes.
What is meant here is an ordinary empirical claim that is false, which is unsurprising because it is made independently of any empirical investigation into how we form our notion of space.

Observational studies in developmental psychology--which didn't exist in Poincare's day, much less Kant's--tell us that our notions of space are developed interactively, not observationally. We are not passive recipients of sensation trapped in Plato's cave, but active intervenors in the world who learn about the universe by being causes.

"According to Piaget, the origin of spatial representation coincides with the origin of drawing, language and representational thinking in general. In spite of their common development, drawing soon falls behind the mental conception of space (especially in the case of complex and three-dimensional constructions). Yet, in its simplest and earliest appearances, drawing should be conceived as the representation or even the motor of spatial conception, because—here Piaget quotes his teacher, the philosopher of mathematics Léon Brunschvicg—drawing is not founded on geometry, but on the contrary, geometry is founded on the practice of drawing. If one explains the origins of geometry as arising from drawing, the child’s drawing can indeed be operationalized as a reconstruction apparatus of the psychogenesis of space. If one understands drawing in this way, it does not record an independent process of development, rather it documents and reflects its own developmental conditions—and thereby furthers mental ontogeny. Children’s drawings are able to visualize geometric conceptions because they are one of its main motors. The drawing child constitutes a veritable machine that works on the production of a Euclidean future, because—as Piaget detected in his experiments—it helps to complete and partly to conceal the infant’s older tacit topological knowledge." (emphasis added) -- http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/feature11

I am not in any sense a strict Piagetian, and I realized there has been a lot of work done on this topic since, but I use this as an example simply because his empirical investigations were foundational and should have brought us to the point where everyone recognizes that philosophical imaginings are not a useful way to approach any question whatsoever regarding the development of ideas, even when they are the imaginings of someone as clever as Kant, whom as others here have pointed out, Poincare' was channeling.

The imagination is a terrible guide to what is real: we can imagine all kinds of things that can't exist (the god of the Bible, for example) and can't imagine all kinds of things that do exist (whatever lies behind quantum phenomena, say).

Philosophers (and at times mathematicians) like to sweep away the messy empirical realities that actually give rise to our ideas of geometry and everything else. It's a fun game to play. It just tells us far more about the human imagination than the rest of reality.
Thank you. I'd also like to add that philosophy has a long history of pretty dramatic accomplishments in the real world. You can thank philosophy for science and the various modes of scientific inquiry, and the concept of natural rights and liberal democratic government. On the flip side, the Nazi regime was heavily influenced by late 19th Century philosophy (not all accomplishments are good?). Every discipline has an accompanying branch of philosophy that defines it's modes of inquiry and research methods, and philosophical lines of thought infiltrate every corner of the public discourse. It's just idiotic to say philosophers accomplish nothing in the real world.
That is what happened with coarrays (which was called F-- before), the object-oriented features, however, were not based on existing extensions. For example, neither the Intel compiler, gfortran, nor g95 supported any of those features at the time of the article's writing, and the NAG compiler provided only partial support[0].

[0] http://portalparts.acm.org/1280000/1279941/fm/frontmatter.pd...
> Cassette tapes were bullshit, and I can't believe people can't see it.

Just your typical hipster trendiness nonsense. Anyone who grew up using cassette tapes knows exactly how awful they are, and are glad to be rid of them. At least they didn't try and bring back the 8-track :P

> I dread to think what's next. A floppy disk revival? Long play VHS? Black and white TV?

CEDs, definitely. "The analog nature makes movies so much warmer!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
Gender distribution, yes, that's what stands out. Aside from the gender imbalance, the US team looks pretty much like a typical slice of America, and the top teams are pretty much randomly scattered over the globe.
It's unclear how these additional tests were selected. If the criterium was to find a benchmark where Chrome performs better, then you can't conclude much from this.
I use this a lot. Often times in response to "Hey do you know the wifi password here?" at random coffee.

I only wish there was a way to view this on iOS...
Good points. I'll add that the compiler can have more difficulty understanding what's going to happen with C code compared to Fortran code. This affects how easily and much optimization can happen. Sometimes less is more.
>I have to doubt their decision as a browser engine is a big development effort and they need to be updating it from now to eternity.

I have to doubt his judgement. Microsoft is a huge software companie, the biggest in the world. Much more than Apple or Google.

Not only they can do that, but they also need to be in control of their stack.
No, it shouldn't. WPA2's 4-way handshake allows client/supplicant & access point to prove they both know the PMK without directly disclosing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11i-2004#The_Four-Way...
I was recently looking into getting an album from a Canadian band. They're still playing that BS "import CD" game and wanted $26. The same on vinyl was $13.
An easier way on Mac is to start the built-in Keychain app and search for your Wifi name there.
Democratized management could become a major recruiting advantage
Mad Men's Kodak presentation in season one is one of the best pitches I've seen. If you haven't seen it, and even if you haven't watched the show, you should.

https://youtu.be/suRDUFpsHus
You mean day 1, Fortran uses 1-based array indexing (by default, it is configurable for each array declaration!) ;-)

edit: Variable Length Arrays (VLAs) were also not available until C99 for C, while they were part of Fortran since 1990.
It's a pointlessly baity answer and deserves downvoting.
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Risk of doing business in those locations.
Either one is fine for AudioKit. Swift is still evolving a bit, might want to stick to Objective-C if you're learning.
Can you explain how such a split works? My understanding was that after those things, everyone still has the same percent of the company as before, right? So how does that affect your payout? Forgive me for being naive.
I agree. The simplicity of both made them a major contender for the agent-oriented programming trend that tried to happen in the 90's. If presentation and logic are separated, Tcl/Tk can be seen as a sort of DSL or 4GL for GUI development. That's how I used it.

Now, there's plenty of lightweight, portable, GUI toolkits to use that I can just write a wrapper or code-generator for. Tcl/TK is less necessary than before. Still among simplest, though.
Please just call them bigots, don't let them choose the name we call them.
I'll vote for the Lippisch Aerodyne. Picture here:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--BN7-YDzh...

Arguably an update of the Stipa-Caproni from the 1930s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni
Physics, that is to say natural philosophy :-)

E.g., Newton's "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" (Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica)
Python 2 is for graybeards.
Oh, ok. Didn't know about that, it's some time I tried it. Thanks for teaching me!
Very good ! Thanks.

There is still some problems, on my nexus 9 "make" complain that it doesn't find "/bin/sh" which is normal, is it possible to change this so it can find the provided shell ?
And "ld" from binutils require gcc so it seems that it is not possible to work only with clang ?

Thanks a lot, it is the best solution to develop on my Nexus 9, it really shine again !
Monster tech rally makes five men $19B richer
> It's quick for the same reason JavaScript is quick - a lot of work and money has been spent creating fast compilers.

It's also quick because the language is designed to enable compilers to generate fast code. In indexed (for-style) loops, for example, the loop body cannot change the loop variable, aiding unrolling and/or vectorization.
Is that because the movie or picture are similar enough to the experiences we previously had with our eyes?
There is no pre-made recipe. You define the scope of the project, you split it in a few "modules" with a well defined interface (functions headers in this context) and data structures and you start coding.

You should do some searches to check how big C projects like the Linux kernel (or any of the BSDs kernels) is managed.
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Yes, the didn't power the airplane with it, but my point is the thought it was a good idea to put a nuclear reactor in a plane.

As my Dad said to me a few too many times in my youth: "I'm amazed and appalled - amazed you thought of it and appalled you actually did it"
I doubt Peacekeeper is representative of real Web pages. It primarily benchmarks things that are easy to measure. Peacekeeper also has several bugs:

* It accidentally benchmarks setTimeout clamping. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610077 is a dependency of peacekeeper. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608648 is an example in which setTimeout clamping affects the score a lot.

* Its benchmark of array.splice() is extremely strange: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592786

* Its layout benchmarks do not really stress layout and instead either stress basic painting operations or DOM accessors. Most pages do not sit there calling style.top in a loop over and over.

* It sets MozTransform only in Firefox without setting values in Chrome: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920659

And so on.

There is no reason to think that Peacekeeper's JS benchmarks are particularly better than V8's; in fact, they're probably worse, due to the proliferation of microbenchmarks. You'd get about the same effect by going to jsperf.com and clicking around.