skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention the people who could use it legally but refuse to subscribe to Amazon.
He's extremely real; one of the three founders of NetBSD and the founder of OpenBSD. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt
It'll be interesting to see how Amazon respond to the inevitable complaints when Clarkson does a "Clarkson". The BBC used to fall over themselves to apologise and give him another final warning - you'd have to assume this was discussed by both parties. Personally I hope Amazon just stay out of their way and let them get on with it.
”Something happened”

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2952507/windows/windows-10-la...
Machines without "subjective experience" or "semantic content" can still fire guns.
I know more about Racket (that is very similar to Scheme). The compiler does a very aggressive optimizations and inlines many of the lambdas. You can write nice understandable code with lambdas, but under the hood many of them are removed and the actual running code is similar to the imperative version.

In Haskell there are a lot of abstractions, the compiler is also very aggressive, but I don't know the details.

Anyway, in the "Computer Language Benchmarks Game", most of the programs in Haskell and Racket are much faster (> 10x) than Python. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/compare.php?lang... http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/compare.php?lang...

(But I like the saying: There are lies, dammed lies, statistics and microbenchmarks.)
Yep. I live in the UK, have a Prime subscription, yet I'm probably just going to get it off the Pirate Bay because their software is such an ass to use.
Clarkson made an allusion to the racism in the original rhyme by mumbling something vague, and then got punished by people who didn't distinguish the difference between referring to racism and actual racism.

The 'slopes' thing was racist though.
In this particular case it's the underlying VM which provides domain-specific semantics, not the language itself. If you could retarget Lua or JS to run on top of this peculiar VM - fine, but building a new language is easier.
Should we support IE8 and if so, to what extent?
Focus on the demographic of the people who need this tool.

For example get in with colleges and universities particularly those in areas where public transit is not accessible.
I think the main producer is with them, do they probably will.
I hadn't heard of it before, and it does look potentially very powerful.

My only initial concern from reading the quick start (http://www.sikulix.com/quickstart.html) is the apparent requirements to use the "SikuliX IDE" for scripting...
In the same way as House of Cards isn't exclusive to Netflix, "Top Gear 2.0" will be sold to multiple broadcasters and distributors all over the world.

Top Gear was worth about $80m a year to the BBC in selling the series globally.
The notion of a programmable programming language is an implementation of the mathematics of computation. It's as ideological as addition. COBOL allowed self rewriting code...probably because all software is [when we're at the right level of abstraction] is a mechanism for a computer to rewrite its instruction set.

A programming language that does not allow self rewriting code can only come about in one of two ways: a lack of cleverness on the part of its designer or a willful decision to disallow certain types of computations. Willful decisions are driven by systems of beliefs and values. One person's beliefs are an ideology to someone who doesn't hold them.

In my opinion, Python's practicality stems from its library ecosystem and that ecosystem is an accidental artifact of the epoch in which it was born and grew. The internet and open source made sharing of libraries practical. The idea that Java would be the one true language in enterprise and the economics of MatLab in academia and the public failure of Lisp as a startup in the 1980's, all helped.

But "Python" is fungible with "Javascript" in any it-just-lets-me-get-things-done argument without too much problem. More people use Javascript to just get shit done than any other language.
I think it would cost about $1 a month to collect $1 a month. Also I think people in finance companies can afford more than $1 a month.
Autism gets lumped in with mental illness because brains.

So you tend to see the group of people who treat mental illness also treat autism, and learning disabilities, and dementia, and etc. This is probably a result of our previous lack of knowledge and slow-changing institutional cultures.

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Autism/Pages/Autismoverview.aspx

> Autism is a lifelong developmental disability. On its own, autism is not a learning disability or a mental health problem. But some people with autism have an accompanying learning disability, learning difficulty or mental health problem.

This site provides a nice counter - that people wanting to get distance from "mental health problem" are possibly using stigmatising views of mental illness. "This isn't in his head. It's real!"

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-practice/200807/dear...

The difference with autism and mental illness is that you are born with autism. That's probably not the case for eg schizophrenia or bi-polar, although there's probably genetic factors pre-disposing people to these illnesses for many cases.
I'm not too surprised at this. Recreational drug users have been doing this for years. I'd guess they are likely getting any number of not yet illegal stimulants like this too.
Not sure if the BFI releases are region free... for those in the U.S., The Criterion Collection has also released the War Trilogy.
Hmm. Interesting way of looking at it ("term rewriting passes"). I'll have to think about it, thanks.
Maybe stuff like "inability to focus" is not the fault of the person but of the task. What if there are truly boring tasks that one would be better discarding than forcing themselves to focus on?

Maybe there really are people with whom you can't have a well-adjust relationship. Maybe it's not your fault you can't empathize with what that person is feeling. Maybe it's their fault for getting bent out of shape over stupid stuff.

What if it's okay to get angry in bad situations and is not an anti-social disorder of some kind? What if, when someone screws you over, it's completely legitimate to yell at them and not trust them again?

Who got to decide that not wanting to work on boring work, not wanting to socialize with vapid people, not wanting to be nice to awful people, equaled mental disorders?

Especially when it comes to work, our culture sees it as "more normal" to bottle up your emotions at work and act them out in self-destructive ways at home. Yes, we criticize such people--as Mitch Hedberg pointed out, alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only disease that you can get yelled at for having--but we don't criticize them anywhere near as much as we criticize the people who quit their toxic jobs to become artists or to travel the world.

Maybe it's the world that is sick. Maybe it's the world that belongs in a mental institution.
They did, they seemed to have ruled it out. It doesnt support all their platforms yet, and development is fairly slow (small community, but growing). NetBSD (which supports clang or gcc because portability and choice) supports it but it cannot yet compile all the kernel for any architecture, so bits are marked to be compiled with gcc if you select pcc. It would be nice if all of kernel plus (non C++) userspace worked...
I always thought in HN land you got a certain amount of leeway to complain about how X needed to be better and it was OK. But then at some point -- because we recognize how the world actually works -- if you see that X can be better and nobody else can, the onus is on you to actually do X better and prove it.

In the business world this is a startup.

In comedy, I guess that means being a comedian.

From what I can tell it's about the same as startup-land, there's a power law distribution where a few comedians get really wealthy, a bunch of people get by, and tons of folks fail outright.

Given the very long road that folks travel to become widely known and "successful" I'd guess that the jokes they tell are in some way reflective of society's preferences.

But hey if you know better than all these folks, have at it!
> there are people who argue against it

These are the people who don't know any better, arguing out of ignorance, not from some valid ground.

> Python tries to find a middle ground, conservatively.

How exactly? I do not see any extensibility features in Python, none at all. Some dirty hacks with rewriting the compiled bytecode in runtime do not count.
What do you have against parsec?
Thanks, I've bookmarked that link. It's actually very interesting, and I'm surprised is hasn't been more widely discussed, or used as an example.

Another link (from that article) straight from the IMF, with some more info: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2011/Surveyart...
It helps that Haskell was based on Miranda and the committee deferred to Miranda whenever they could not agree on something. This is opposed to the typical committee solution of adding both ideas or a sub-par compromise.
I use CocoonJS: https://www.ludei.com/cocoonjs/ . You just upload the archive with your HTML5 project and it compiles it for you and gives back .apk and iOS files.
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You can still do a timing attack against that. Suppose the password is "password". You do a timing attack to find the correct length, then you start trying "aaaaaaaa", "bbbbbbbb", "cccccccc", ... The ones that take less time on average are the ones that contain a letter from the password. You can go from there. Ever played mastermind?

It's a mitigation but it doesn't prevent the attack.

Not to mention: how exactly will you check that you've compared them all?
Now if only they'd fix their apps so A) could easily find shows they offer B) won't play a video and just shows a spinning circle if the app sits idle for 5 minutes or just finished playing another video and going to the next episode (always have to restart the app to fix it, happens on PS3/4 and Roku). I have a great experience with Netflix, YouTube, even CrunchyRoll (for my anime watching kid) and every other video platform.

I want to use their app more, I even buy seasons of shows off of it, but the persistent problems make me hesitant to buy more.
This has the potential to speed up updates within a company's internal network. Unless you configure WSUS, your external link could get seriously compromised if all PCs tried to update at the same time.
Well Gallium-Arsenide, Indium-Phosphide and all kinds of other semi-conductors. But thing is, Silicon is well entrenched and there are work-arounds for all the different shortcomings of silicone and really a lot of experience working with Si. So the theoretical advantage of different substances where never able to overcome the momentum Si has.
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I often see people ridiculing diversity recognition among human beings as "this political correctness is going too far". But i think is kind of ridiculous assuming that 7 billion are essentially the same.

I know now that I am a neurotypical heterossexual cis white male (and I hope to learn more ways in which my characteristics differ between humans). And it is important for me to recognize this in me and others.

Recognize is the keyword here. I am not sayingn what is right ir wrong in actions after this recognition (like affirmative policy and etc). This is to be debated as a society. Also, not all these characteristics are the same. Some of these, like gender and race, should affect our interactions less than they currently do. Others, like sexual orientation and identification and mental model , should affect our interactions more than they currently do (imo of course).

But, as individuals, we should all recognize our diversity. And spend some time reflecting about this should or should not affect our interpersonal relations.
I would say that https://getmagicnow.com/ could also be considered as a kind of paid natural language search engine (limited to paid product or services).
Congrats! I think this is a cool idea! It looks like you're pretty much committed to a 20 year target but would it have been possible to allow the user to set that target themselves (within a given range, of course)? Instead of 20 years being the default, they could specify 25, or 15, or whatever.
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> drones will likely be under much less scrutiny than passenger aircraft - $10,000 metal fatigue scanning may make sense on a $3M aircraft, but on a $10,000 drone?

I'd like to think that the cost of a passenger aircraft isn't the only reason why they come under more safety and regulatory scrutiny than a motor car. I'd hope that it's because they have an additional severe failure mode that cars don't called falling out of the sky.

I realise that I might be going on about this and I'm a layman, but it seems a bit overlooked that any object that is airborne and needs to be made safe surely starts at a large handicap compared to objects on the ground.
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El peligro de hablar con el smartphone y tener el wifi conectado
post a copy of your hosts.conf?
Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10: Yes, it shares your keys; no, you shouldn’t be scared
I've been working on my own at https://getneutrino.com I built it for myself for the exact same reasons and then decided to open it up. It doesn't have e-mail integration or git/GitHub yet but both are being worked on and will probably be rolled out this weekend or next. I'll admit it's still a bit raw as it's still transitioning from "little project I built for myself" to a product.
I was going to say exactly this - Word had very little competition, whereas GitHub has many equivalent competitors. I'm a fan of BitBucket - they allow free private repos, but the company as a whole offers multiple other enterprise solutions above and beyond what GitHub provides.
Where is the information being scraped from?

I looked at the source but I'm hardly a JS/Web expert.

Seems to be from here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream

but only found a list of weird addresses: https://github.com/hatnote/listen-to-wikipedia/search?utf8=%...
The brain (the tissue) is not the "hardware", with it's "contents" being the software. I'd say that the analogy makes no sense. Whatever you can "emulate", you're emulating because you've got the "hardware" to do it.

To illustrate my point: we can't emulate perceiving time at a much slower pace or viewing a wider spectrum of light. Okay, that's a wrong example since we're limited by our eyes - the peripherals/sensing devices. Perhaps try emulating interpreting visible light as a color blind person would.

The separation between hardware (brain) and software (soul?) is practically non-existent. It's closer to a state-machine.
Coincidentally, right now there isn't a single post asking for rock stars on the jobs page. They are like "X Is Hiring Ruby Developers".
> Considering how many banks and credit unions exist there is little excuse for not finding one that provides the services you want with a fee structure you accept.

While it'd be great if that were true, it's by no means guaranteed. We have a choice in wireless carrier here in the US but still most folks aren't terribly pleased with theirs.

Just because there are a lot of players it does not follow that you'll find one you like. There can be many players but other forces which prevent what you want from existing at all. Government regulations, "generally accepted practices", uncreative management, etc.
MH370: aircraft debris in Réunion almost certainly from a Boeing 777
The BFI releases tend to be region locked to region 2 or region B.

http://shop.bfi.org.uk/war-trilogy-the.html#.Vbof4XXd-Rs

The additional info says

"Blu-ray region	B".
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How do you know that it's only a minority of users that are deploying some way of blocking advertisement in their browsers?

I'm genuinely interested and I'm raising the question as you stated it as a matter of fact.

Even if you never installed an adblocker, "Adblock Plus" has been downloaded over 19.5 million times for Firefox, "NoScript" has been downloaded over 2 million times for Firefox.

Sufficient to say, there's an increasing amount of web sites and newspapers that have "adblocking detection" and suggest/beg that you disable it these days.

[1] Full disclosure, I block ads because a lot of site owners go too far. I have no hard feelings about it. Sucks to be them, but what can I do. I whitelist sites that behave and have decent/good content.
I've been a happy Android user for a long time, but mobile ads are so bad that I'm seriously considering switching to iOS just for the adblocking.
but that is the point of the website!
Just so people have a idea what 'shelling $$$' means, pricing available here: https://goo.gl/GYeMsH
The amount of companies that are providing some form of tracking or advanced analytics based on traditional mobile advertising is pretty huge.

This could eventually be an event significant enough to kill a number of companies.
Here's a link to the actual journal article in Nature: http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.149 (unfortunately probably pay-walled)
I don't know, they stopped selling the confederate flag stuff, but they used to be renowned for selling books regardless of controversy of the content. So it could fall down either way.

Both incidents the BBC have him for he was coerced into situations (singing a song he didn't want to sing because he only knew the racist version from when he grew up and didn't want to say the word, then being kept up for 24 hours, and made to drink profusely as part of a show stunt) he wasn't comfortable with. They were looking for reasons to cancel such a popular show because it had such a disparate budget from the rest of their shows and that was upsetting parties within the BBC.
Currently doing a fair bit of both Python and Go.
Python:
A decent packaging system.
Lots of packages.
A debugger!

Go:
Go-routines and channels are quick, easy to use concurrency.
Compiles down to single distributable binary.
Lousy packaging.
Debugger somewhere between primitive and none.

In Go we're consistently writing more lines of code than in Python, fighting to get third-party package versioning correct, and reverting to Printf as primary debugging technique.

On the other hand, Go's general binary distribution is much simpler, running the compiler is like running lint on your code, concurrency is relatively easy.

At the moment, we're moving from a primarily Python environment to an environment to where we use Python for all user-facing web applications and Go for web service APIs. Your milage may vary.
One of the differences is that Lisp became relevant quickly at least in part because the digital universe was so much smaller and correspondingly so was the community of digerati. Python lived in relative obscurity throughout the 1990's and early oughts before becoming an overnight success. The same could be said for Ruby.
I use adblocking on Android for years. Have you tried this? https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway
The overall article is of good quality but it reeks of Apple bias I personally find distasteful.

>>> User experience is what Apple puts above pretty much everything else, and they’ve decided that they don’t like it the experience available through the ad-supported web, and so they’re going to do something about it.

The reason Apple does this is to push content creators away from the Web and into native apps. Apple gets a cut on any money made from apps but not from Web ads. It's a strategic move that's not fueled by wanting better UX for users. I'll bet Apple won't consider "Install from Apple Store" type messages as ads.

>>>That also plays into Apple’s other general message, about how it doesn’t track what you do when you’re using its products

Bullshit. They have their own advertising network they want to push. That's the whole reason they're allowing Web ads to be blocked. So you'll see more of iAds. Nothing to do about "caring for your privacy".
Cstore_fdw 1.3 released (a columnar store for PostgreSQL)
> a good reason, but I'd love to have read why not Scala/Clojure/etc.

The CTO is familiar with .NET, and realized it's good enough to get the job done. The goal is to deliver a product or service, not argue over which technology stack is better.
Good. The 2015 web sucks for mobile. Advertising is out of control and there's never going to be regulation to control.

Thank you Apple!

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9940202
Well, yes you can change your behavior, and no, this is not a good idea.

We worked in biometrics like 4 years ago or so. It is trivial to defeat this "security mechanism".

We had snake oil people trying to convince us to invest in this(we are a software company), so we made a bet: If we could defeat their marvelous thing on a test they will pay all of our tester team a dinner(and go away and don't bother us again).

It was as easy as creating a prototype trainer. You record a person typing with a webcam. You make some statistics and then in 10 minutes you could train ANYBODY to copy the same behavior signature.

It took us like 2 hours to create the prototype trainer. After testing it we realized the webcam WAS NOT EVEN NEEDED, the microphone is enough.

So we used a single hidden microphone to record the people chosen by the snake oil team and ALL OF US(10 people) were able to defeat the system. Really fun for us, extremely humiliating for the snake oil people.

BTW: This man is proposing a complete keylogger of all your actions in the computer, what could go wrong?
Looks like I inadvertently trolled a troll :)

No, none of those are bullshit. The idea that they are new is complete bullshit, and the idea that throwing those terms around justifies something is also so.
Why not use Firefox and an Ad-Blocking plugin?
Bookmarked it. Ad pops up every time you get a new video. Deleted bookmark.
There is adblocking on Android.
"Put another way... do you guys have some kick ass technology that you want to change the world, or don't you?"

At the right time they might have had just that. I do hate Lucent's lawyers for the roadblocks.

Who actually owns the copyright on Plan 9 these days?
I know it's not really the same, but Flattr has been around for a long time - trying to help monetizing (freely accessed mostly) web content.
> How do you know that it's only a minority of users

> "Adblock Plus" has been downloaded over 19.5 million times for Firefox, "NoScript" has been downloaded over 2 million times for Firefox.

Facebook has a billion users.

Ad block use is about 2%?
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As expected this is going to have a negative affect on ad revenues but what people forget is that publishers won't just accept lower revenues.

They're going innovate. The easiest thing to implement would be a paywall but after the paywall we are going to see a rise in microtransactions for content.

That being said there are advantages to the subscription model. Maybe, publishers will stop posting click-baity headlines and misleading content if they know they've got users locked down and dont have to worry about them going to other sources as much.

But, on the other hand microtransactions are going to make content even more click-baity in order to convince users to pay for the content based on a headline and abstract.
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Feeling half and half on this... Good cause the lads are back... Bad because its Amazon Prime... I'm an Amazon Prime customer, but live in Ireland... Which means i can get stuff delivered (with the help of a UK address) for free, but i cant stream content... Keeps telling me about "Licensing issues". So, VPN will need to be used then...