skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoops, yep, that is incorrect. Should be more time, as you said.

1) That causes massive problems for people (like me) who use passphrases. (I use diceware passwords for anything I don't use a password manager for. So things like "corn umpire khaki dow heave hiatt sis steal". That's ~103 bits of entropy (massive overkill for most things), and yet is a whole lot easier to remember than, say, "FlyaJdqJW6kvyUQeE" - which is ~101 bits of entropy (17 random upper/lower/digit characters).

It also assumes that the machine doesn't short-circuit, as you say.

And, again, you're assuming that the compiler doesn't undo it. Just because it won't be undone by optimizations on current machines doesn't mean it won't be undone by optimizations on future ones. On a RISC architecture, for instance, a 64-bit compare may not even exist - it may be implemented by 8-bit compares. Or 16, or 32. Whatever.

2) Ever heard of the german tank problem? That will not drown out the comparison, not at all. I can defeat your example (10x noise as comparison time) with >90% accuracy with 100 samples. (Just take samples, and take the mean of the sample minimum and maximum.)

3) Without leaking other people's passwords every time you generate a password for someone?

I find this sort of conversation intriguing. I want things to be more secure, I just don't know of a good way to do so.
> whether they were really permanent residents

I think it's pretty strange not to think of somebody as a permanent resident of the place they've lived since birth.
I think he means state-owned in the sense that the IC can easily watch the traffic going to and leaving the exit node, and with many exit nodes leveraging this into a passive attack on the network.

If this is true, if ToR is to stick to a goal of establishing truly anonymous browsing, ToR needs to establish links through a diverse number of jurisdictions.
Australis wasn't necessary at all, though. It broke my ability to keep tabs on the bottom, it forced the refresh button into my URL bar (the opposite end of my other navigation buttons ... making it much more annoying to use), it killed my stop button, it took the bookmark icon out of my URL bar, and it broke my ability to see full page titles.

None of this enhanced anyone's productivity: it was change for the sake of change. That sort of thing is fine, but you should always offer a simulation of the behavior people are used to when you have millions of users. And if you don't have the manpower, then maybe reconsider making unnecessary changes in the first place ... nobody was abandoning Firefox because its UI stayed the same. Microsoft understood this at least until Windows 7, which you could easily make look and feel very much like Windows 95. But sadly the new trend in tech is to constantly force superfluous UI redesigns on users all the time with no opt-out. You see it with Google Mail, Skype, Windows, iOS, Android, Firefox, Gnome 3, on and on.

It's not just people hating change: there are people with disabilities that learn how to use this software, and changing things because some designer decided the UI "needed a refresh" can really destroy someone's entire workflow.

It would have even been okay if they had made it a bit more flexible in configuration, but they didn't. We lost a lot of control over how the UI operates. And so now I have to use yet another extension (Classic Theme Restorer), which is a bit buggy and might be discontinued at any point in the future.

And thanks for the correction on the DRM. But I wouldn't say they lost, I'd say they caved in. They weren't forced to support it, they chose to for the sake of their market share.
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As an employee at Amazon, having seen a few acquisitions, they tend to not gut them, they tend to incorporate them into the fold. They seem to assimilate in the employees fairly gracefully.
http://assignment.uspto.gov/#/search?q=7460731
Here is the most recent public assignment of that patent family. It from Flixor, Inc. to Big Tent Entertainment, LLC.
http://www.bigtent.tv/
FWIW, the audit happened directly in the middle of a dev cycle, without any of the normal internal review of that code first. The audit report describes those circumstances in the first few pages. Scheduling audits is hard work!
What do inexperienced users do in such a case? Usually they find a more advanced user to help. Proprietary software stays in business because it works most of the time for the average use cases. But when it fails it doesn't matter much how experienced you are. You still have to wait for a patch or look for an alternative.
Maybe not in the same category, but the University of Illinois system has a site where you can look up anyone's salary.
The NSA isn't really global, though. For example, if enough ToR traffic were routed via Asia or South America, I imagine they would not be able to perform much traffic analysis on it.
The number of naysayers here is saddening, if not surprising. At the risk of sounding like RMS, you simply cannot say in the same breath that you honestly value the FSF and then go onto declare that you still buy into Windows.

Although many of you use GNU/Linux daily, it seems that most have failed to truly understand the value, the very significant importance, that the GNU project and the FSF represent in our world.

In fact, if more people actually internalized what computing freedom means, and what the technology landscape could one day look like, then GNU/Hurd would already be finished, it would look like Windows 10, and there would be far fewer proprietary software apologists on Hacker News, dismissing this post.
"Because that's how it's always been" is rarely a sound argument.
I came here to ask that EXACT question - fighting the good fight
Nice one pal.
Not true. The applicant must be disclosed during the application process, but the owner can be legally change without notifying the PTO or updating ownership records. Assignments can be registered, but you don't have to register assignments. So Big Tent could theoretically sell the patents to another party and never register the sale with the PTO.
And Philadelphia. And Portland ME. Even Burlington VT. The list goes on. All of these places have lower costs of living than NY, SF and Boston.
I think all universities might be required to publish employee salary but I might be wrong.
A planned feature is "export all data"
Avoiding revenue does seem to be a good way to "grow" sans headcount growth, but that seems like a rare exception to the rule rather than a reason to believe that valuation growth doesn't generally correlate with employee count.
in practice, it is set very high to cover all conversions and future capital needs and then some. however, it can be increased if needed, with a sharedholder vote.
> The Pocket and Hello case could at least have a disable option

I really don't think burying an opt-out option justifies these things.

This is the same tactic used to push malware in installers, Ubuntu's farming your search results to Amazon, and many of the new Windows 10 privacy intrusions. "You can opt-out (if you know you need to (and you know where to look (and you know about the gotchas like it only applying to enterprise customers)))"

If they were honest, these things would be opt-in. But they're not, because that wouldn't make them their money. (and if you really believe someone at Mozilla isn't getting paid for Pocket integration, then I have a bridge to sell you.)
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If you'd prefer that we demote the post until the material is more ready, I think it's reasonable to offer an author that prerogative.
There is a clear moral distinction to be drawn between people who use Windows 10 knowing that it might be sharing some data with Microsoft, so its algorithms can streamline certain everyday tasks and those who maliciously upload their exes' sex tapes to the Internet without their consent.

There are huge differences here on at least three crucial dimensions: intent of the sharer, the audience with whom it is shared, and the sensitivity of the data shared.
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A big reason you should stop as a human, and obey other traffic laws, even when there's no traffic, is to keep the habit. Otherwise, when you're tired or distracted, you'll be more likely to miss that stop sign or forget your turn signal.
If you're not getting to phone screens, your resume needs work. It really is that simple.

Most developers I know don't maintain an active Github. They're not "rockstars" or "ninjas" - they work 8 hours/day, go home, and watch Netflix.

I find that the HN crowd is usually happy to provide resume feedback, you should consider posting it.
Disclaimer: I am only a young person in Germany, but used the 0.facebook.com service (facebook for free) here for almost 10 years.

Result: Yes, some internet is better than no internet.

Nowadays, where I stopped using facebook mostly, I just buy like the tiniest data package my provider supports, wait for it to throttle to 64kbps, and just use IRC, the web without JS, etc.
See Tim Draper's proposal for splitting California into 6 separate states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Californias
Nope, I used Firefox LTS 24 as long as I could. But by LTS 31 (which wasn't very long), we were back to Australis.

And Firefox 24 is missing a whole lot of really critical functionality.

You really have no choice but to trust the random third-party developer of Classic Theme Restorer not to do anything malicious, and pray that he doesn't ever quit.
Not necessarily. In chemistry, an organic compound is (with certain notable exceptions) any compound that contains carbon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound
Project Gutenberg.
(Belated reply, but I only just saw this.)

Yes, I do think about that; I try not to call people aggressors and flamewar starters, but only to make statements about content. I don't always get that right, though.

If you want to continue discussing this, emailing hn@ycombinator.com would be best, since we don't see everything posted here.
This is honestly really cool and I was thinking only weeks ago how I wished there was a resource like this. I am not often a fiction reader because I find the characters frustratingly stupid or the situations unrealistically easy in pretty much every fantasy book. Wheel of Time is full of characters making decisions so rash and stupid that it's hard to imagine someone in real life ever doing it. The main character is thrusted into greatness and power without any effort and continues to do great things with little effort. This is a common trait in most fantasy books.

When I read fantasy, I want something inventive and clever in a setting I find interesting. HPMOR had a fair share of silly parts and the author seems a bit full of himself, but it was overwhelmingly the most intelligent fantasy writing I've ever read (an admittedly small sample size). It's sad that my favorite piece of fiction writing was a Harry Potter fanfiction.
What has happened in Theoretical Machine Learning in the past 5 years?
Ah .. well there's that related Antitrust Lawsuit Microsoft lost in 2001.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Ironically, I think all government agencies have open pay scales and everyone knows exactly how much everyone else makes.
I've seen a few chem agent and inert gas systems, but only when someone realized cost of equipment + loss from downtime > cost fire suppression system, which is less often than it should be.

dry pipe systems are probably the most common though.
U of Md. College Park published all employee salaries every year. I always was entertained looking up bad profs. and seeing how much (or little) they made.
What a great idea for a library. Thanks for sharing.
Why don't we have affordable symmetric internet connections yet?
VPS only gets you a server. If you were to install apps (gitlab or wordpress or a wiki) on your server, you need to take care of keeping the server updated, the apps updated, backing up the apps, configuring dns, installing certs. etc. In addition, each of the apps need authentication as well.

This is the pain we intend to solve - you can install apps from our App Store. We take care of backups, updates, dns, certs etc. You can install apps using the same set of credentials / single Sign On. You can read more at https://cloudron.io/features.html.

Think of this as a 'smart server', a server intended to be used by anyone without deep technical knowledge (or doesn't want to put in the effort of self-hosting).

There's also a video on the landing page, please check it out.
I apologize to ask this, but what is Rust's end game or claim to fame? It seems to a beginners eyes as if it is a new, far more complex c++.
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While your name and phone number are public, the list of people who have your phone number saved is not public. These companies can effectively map who you associate with only by looking at other people's phones. They can profile you by association, and that is very wrong.

At some point privacy is no longer a choice, not a real choice anyway. You get to chose between participating in society or keeping your privacy. It shouldn't have to be this way, but it is.
Hi sandworm, nice to speak with a fellow lawyer. We're not providing legal advice with Ironclad, on the site and in the article I think it's pretty clear that we're not trying to replace lawyers. What we are trying to do is give companies tools to keep better legal records, which is currently the domain of a bunch of fragmented software systems. Our goal is to tie those together.

So to answer your question, we use Ironclad to keep our legal records in order, and we use a lawyer for legal advice.
You didn't quote Jonas' or roc's responses to that specific claim.
Thank you for your work on APSW, it's a fantastic library. I'm the author of the peewee ORM[1] and I've included an APSW backend[2] for folks who want to use peewee with APSW. Being able to write extension modules in Python is such a cool feature! I also made a demo that exposes Redis as a SQLite table[3].

[1] http://docs.peewee-orm.com/

[2] http://docs.peewee-orm.com/en/latest/peewee/playhouse.html#a...

[3] https://github.com/coleifer/peewee/blob/master/examples/redi...
Easily missed gems:

And superconducting DC cable requires even smaller rights-of-way than does HVDC with traditional cables.

Some of the biggest obstacles to ensuring grid stability are rights-of-way fights. There's abundant power just north of NYC in Canada, and NYC has one of the most fragile grids in the US. A major project to implement the obvious solution was tanked because of NIMBY fights all along the corridor. The compromise was to try to build a buried line (under a lake!) at about a tenth the capacity (essentially not helping) at about ten times the cost. Now Albany is fighting against the buried line plan too. HVDC doesn't make these problems disappear, but when you finally get anyone to agree to one thin line, at least you can transmit a lot of power over it.

* * *

Although [supercooled transmission lines] do need to be cooled to liquid-nitrogen temperatures—below 77 kelvins—the losses from refrigeration and other sources are less than half those of conventional AC and DC overhead transmission lines.

Moving power around the country through frozen ice lines, it's like magic in some unbelievable fantasy novel (ie, the best kind of science).

* * *

China, which is now the world leader in the development and deployment of grid technology, in particular HVDC.

* * *

The cost of the generated power with the HVDC supergrid would almost certainly be much lower than what’s available today because operators would be able to buy electricity from the least expensive source.

* * *

...governments and grid operators will need to agree on the rules for free trade in electricity. Electricity trading through a wholesale market, perhaps broken up into regions, would enable the kind of efficient power flows a global supergrid would offer.

While baking in strong protections against ENRON-style disasters.

* * *

Not mentioned: DC converting stations serve as a firewall for blackouts. Post-Fukushima, the southern part of Japan's grid was unaffected. It operates on 50 Hz, because it was mostly built on German tech, while the northern grid operates at 60 Hz, because it was mostly built up on American tech. There's a massive AC-DC-AC conversion system in the middle. Problems with balance or shortages don't infect the other part of the system.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/07/19/reference/japans...
Use the database Luke
Anybody heard anything about SQLite4?
Yep, getting the same issue:

[foo@chef-solo ~]$ mycli
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/mycli", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2655, in <module>
working_set.require(__requires__)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 648, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 546, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: six>=1.8

Running sudo python install did the trick. I'm not sure I can really recommending anyone check this out without a working install from a package manager though.
I once heard a story that Disney spent twenty years and several billion dollars on developing Celebration and made about as much money as one of their third tier animated movies...something in the 100 million dollar range. Which may or may not be true, but it does accurately portray the long time horizons of real-estate (e.g. thirty year mortgages) and the relatively low returns compared to startups.

For a VC firm the real-estate market and rising rents have a limited effect on the success of their investment portfolio and the returns from real-estate don't justify investing money that could otherwise be put into their core business of investing in startups. A $100,000,000 can fund a lot of startups. It's not going to buy a sound diversified portfolio of San Francisco office properties.
generally you would have a double trigger, so as long as you stay with the acquirer you would fully vest over time, which is a fair proposition. depending on the terms of the deal and acquirer's stock you may have no optionality (all cash), some optionality (some stock, but low growth), or a lot more optionality (acquirer has a better growth story). there have been cases from the days of the 2000's bubble where gains post-acquisition were 10x. Much less likely today, but certanly possible.
Make it work without JavaScript:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
No, Google Chrome people rebelled against the overhead of a cross-language-engine garbage cycle collector. Are you aware of the technical details?

Before this, before Blink forked WebKit, Apple rejected naive DartVM pre-integration changes for the same reason:

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...

Whining for the poor Google-Goliath, blaming little Mozilla-David, is rich. No comment on the Pocket deal or other recent Mozilla changes. On this tangent about Dart, I'm happy that Chrome people prevailed.
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Of course, but I was countering the OP's point that "If you can comfortably occupy the same amount of space for 2+ years, you're not a startup, you're a small business."

I agree with pg's definition of a startup as being about growth (in the eponymous essay). In users, not headcount, in revenue, not funding. Even if there are many cases where one drives the other, targeting headcount growth and fundraise amounts as success KPIs is an instance of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect.
They have to fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders

And those shareholders get priority over EVERYONE else in the chain. What the investors want, the investors get.
See Feist vs. Rural Telephone Company for an example case of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....

For all intents and purposes it states that factual information by itself cannot be copyrighted.
100 year old technology for NYC subway infrastructure
Is there any official declare about this new feature?
> I'm suggesting that liberals who don't temper their empathy with practical realities risked being dismissed as holier-than-thou dreamers.

Okay, but why should they here? Does the US really need to maintain global dominance for any reason beyond the pursuit of power?
They already get all the data they want.
Wind is often < Coal, even some solar can beat coal. (EX: Hawaii) So, they needed a new focus.
I wrote up a quick blog post describing how to build the new FTS5 search extension, which was included in the 3.8.11.1 release:

http://charlesleifer.com/blog/building-the-sqlite-fts5-searc...
How to get MAC address of remote mobile device(mobile phone, tablet and so on)
For iphone, as far as I know, after IOS 7, can't get MAC address via SDK. For Android device, it seems I can get MAC address via API. But both of above need install a APP on device, and send the MAC back to server.

Is there any other method to get MAC address of remote device which can deploy easy?
It seems source mac and destination mac both in Ethernet frame. Is there any method to get them out?
To anyone else who spots the switched around 'b' and 'c' on the repr(rust) page: don't bother, I've already created a PR.
> 4. replace the whole "economic growth" philosophy with something else that is consistent and reconcilable with planetary ecological limits

Sadly Capitalism and the ideology that Americans and now it seems the entire world has bought into won't allow that.

I agree with Jimmy Carter: "The U.S. Is an "Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery"[1]

See also Yes, We’re Corrupt”: A List of Politicians Admitting That Money Controls Politics[2]

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[1] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/30/jimmy-carter-u...

[2] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/30/politicians-ad...
It's really a matter of taste. I understand that you feel it wasn't necessary, and so the change was annoying.

But other people felt the look was dated, and well over-due for a refresh. I guess the Firefox developers were in that group.
Or, their ancestors had the good sense to move. Or the good sense to not land there in the first place.
I like CW too :)
Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWTtlwJKXXU
> This is not going to fly with business customers.

If businesses fall too far behind adopting modern software/features their employees are familiar with using on personal devices they will have to accept reduced productivity.
Wind is cheaper than safe nuclear power, so spending a lot on R&D for a more expensive version of Nuclear seems pointless. Nuclear can work well for huge boats and subs, but on land it's extremely expencive and only gained traction through huge subsides.
Because logistical barriers often became lazy justification for distant/absent parenting?

Sure, 'millennials' father may not be the kind of dads they want to be - but, hell, at least they WANT to be active parents to their kids. That falls on the positive side of the line for me as it will add emphasis on normalizing paternity leave (for one example) as a legitimate work/life demand.
I totally agree. It doesn't feel like the writers block I used to get with college essays, but an over-abundance of choice.

When working from home, I talk these problems through with my cat. By the time I have finished explaining things to him, I usually know what I need to do next.
The REIT's that own Class A space are conservative. This reflects the investment goals of the institutional investors whose money they hold. Real-estate time horizons are long term in order to span across market cycles and because of the underlying nature of the asset. Real property really is different.
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