skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is being run by a cabal of scared, mostly old (average age is 64, one woman in the politbureau) men. They're using every trick in the book to hold on to their power while trying to appease the crowds with shiny new trinkets. The question is if they can manage to consolidate before the crowds realize they don't actually need the old men and that the old men are still the biggest brake on their development.

That's why you get things like what the article discusses and why you get the great firewall. It's all about crowd control on a very large scale and it is driven by fear of what that crowd could do once it realizes there are no chains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Communist_Par...
How is this article news? Everyone knows that VR is still a work in progress. Another article pointing out the current flaws is not bring anything to the table.
Approach the problem not in terms of the hours they are working but in terms of the outcomes (whether that's not completing tasks, or lack of availability to clients, or something else).

For example, if they aren't delivering what they should:
Have the conversation with them, explaining that they aren't completing the work they should be. They need to do something about this and one solution might be to spend more time it.

Note that this is also the early stage of what in the UK would be the normal process of dealing with under-performing employees, that might eventually result in termination.
It's spectrum licensing that's obsolete. We know how to make smart radios. It's time to enable people to use as much spectrum as they need, not as much as we are willing to pay to rent.
Also have a look at metalsmith-react:

https://github.com/coodoo/metalsmith-reactjs
That is some very basic trolling. Not sure why HN crowd is biting, or why this article is on HN at all.
Riddled with spelling mistakes, and falling into the same trap that all "OMG I redesigned Wikipedia!!" things do: Show gorgeous, huge imagery, when that is probably the least important and sought-after part of Wikipedia. Let's see the Founch page on that 142857 number currently on the HN frontpage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/142857_%28number%29
I’d noticed before that ssh was rather aggressive about offering public keys to servers, but I didn't know Github published my public keys, and so this totally surprised me.
I ran adblock+noscript for many years for the same reason. Thats why I am suprised you would want to deal with two extensions when you could just use umatrix. What "flow" does adblock fix?

Like I said, I have had a similar setup for probably a decade now. So no, I don't think that it is a sad state of affairs that adblock/noscript/umartix are necessary. Did the "state of sexual intercourse" need to degrade to a certain level in order for condoms to be necessary?
Not so much any more (and getting cheaper), and orbital has huge advantages. You can have square kilometers of collectors in orbit, with no ecological impact statements to file, or eminent domain issues to solve, or annoyed neighbors. You can grow an orbital farm essentially without bound, without buying any expensive real estate. You can beam the energy where its needed instead of having to consume it locally.
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Sport hunting changes lion social behavior, as per: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320710... I don't have an Elsevier account, so only read the abstract, which states that lions are seeking denser cover.

Some conjecture:

Do Zimbabwe villagers live in denser cover? If so, maybe sport hunting increase the threat by forcing lions closer to villagers? That would add a bit of irony to the situation.
The paragraph before the one you just quoted:

"We Zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than about African people."

And the paragraph directly after:

"And please, don’t offer me condolences about Cecil unless you’re also willing to offer me condolences for villagers killed or left hungry by his brethren, by political violence, or by hunger."

"Please don't care about the animals in my country more than you care about me and my countrymen" is a reasonable request. I don't see anything terrible about it. I'm not sure why you dropped the surrounding context.
Yes, but users don't normally 'scan' a scene, they point, focus and click. So if you want to have this work without the 'scanning' element you'll need two offset sensors.
I don't think there are many people who are upset about Cecil's killing that would not also mourn someone killed by a lion. The author's insinuation that we don't care about something we were never given the opportunity to care about is the worst kind of moral fallacy, and is entirely unfair.
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For all we know they were bribed to make it go through. There is absolutely no accountability or democracy in the EU.
Looks fairly interesting for some of my more casual use, I might give it a download.

Any big gotchas that you have come across or any tricks using it (special plugins, etc)?
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It's an excellent platform. They also developed the WWE Network, which has been fairly rock solid since it went on air last year.
RPL has been the one killer feature for my choice of Racket. I wanted to learn Functional programming and do a few scripts. Just after reading a book and a half and trying to get a few things done I really liked Racket when I went through a MOG on Programming Languages on Coursera. It went from ML to Racket and it just clicked for me.
Red herring. Serious bugs have been found in lots of respect worthy software and service efforts. It just needs to be fixed. You are holding a toddler up to the standards of a pre-teen (which is the highest I'd put Google).

The question here is whether this is a respect worthy effort at privacy protection.

EDIT: Flaws or holes have been found in Tor. Does that mean we reject the Tor effort outright? If anything, the holes found in Tor are more serious and fundamental, because they raise doubts about Tor's approach and whether their goal can ever be achieved. An HTML injection hole in Hulbee is simply an issue of incomplete execution of their vision, which may or may not be forgivable depending on the technical and non-technical circumstances (which none of us here know yet).
If you're hitting the paywall, go incognito.
Passive-aggressive much? Sometimes a simple quip requires a long response to accurately address multiple potential issues. In speaking about forward-looking government regulation, bringing up how forward-looking government regulation failed in other cases is pretty relevant. And never was the idea mentioned that these things should not be governed at all, which is you throwing out a strawman. Simply that the nature of modern regulation is to restrict possible outcomes, and that also has negative externalities. "Good" advancements can be just as restricted as "bad" advancements, and it's extremely difficult to tell the difference years or even decades before they happen.
To be truthful, we've laughed about idiots killed by lions, when those idiots ignored fences and signs in a zoo. So its entirely situational.
I like the idea of React. However, Mixing HTML in your javascript is a very bad thing. You are mixing presentation with logic, and i always try to prevent that. Keep your logic away from your templates. I think its doable with react, but most people dont do it... Can somebody explain me why?

+ return (
+ <html>
+ <head>
+ <title>{this.props.title}</title>
+ </head>
+ <body>
+ {this.props.children}
+ {script}
+ </body>
+ </html>
+ );

https://github.com/jlongster/blog/blob/master/src/components...
It will solve itself. In Ireland most immigrants left after crisis and market collapsed.
If every woman has a smartphone imagine all the empowered people
http://images.cdn.stuff.tv/sites/stuff.tv/files/styles/flexs...

Looks significantly better than Quake, even when maximized to fullscreen (except for the JPEG artifacts)!

edit:

far cry 4 640x480 filetype:png

http://www.picmygame.com/wp-content/uploads/ktz/yQq6DDQq-m2a...

http://www.picmygame.com/wp-content/uploads/ktz/Z7ptQrAC-m1n...

The text isn't great and the last image is hard to look at, but that's probably post processing.
Down again.
> People living in rural village are terrorized by lions and it has a serious impact on their way of life.

Isn't this due to the explosion of human population levels though? We're encroaching more and more on the natural habitat of pretty much every species on the planet except for those in the deep ocean and even they are affected by us in other ways.
I think the author makes a lot of good points, but misses a key point. We're not shuffling off into walled gardens because Google and Facebook want to "own" their users -- they do, of course, but users aren't just being herded like cattle by Facebook. Users are getting into walled gardens because walled gardens offer users a lot of advantages right now.

1) Internet users are becoming less technical as the number of Internet users increases, and they want things to just work. They don't want to know whether their mail server is POP or IMAP, they just want to send and receive e-mail. They don't want to have to try and figure out which IRC server to get on to get a decent ping or to avoid a netsplit, they just want to chat. Zero setup, zero installation, just go to a webapp and all those details are handled for you.

2) Internet users are becoming increasingly mobile, and most of our pre-HTTP Internet protocols scale poorly over mobile. Mobile devices are power and bandwidth constrained in ways that protocols didn't envision. Chat applications not written with mobile in mind are giant battery hogs.

3) The open web is a dumpster fire. SEO makes a lot of Google search results difficult if not impossible to wade through (try searching for information on a particular printer or lawnmower and see how many results you can find about anything other than someone who wants to sell you one). An article with pictures that measures under half a megabyte comes with four megabytes of ads and trackers. If you peek behind the spam filters, something like 90% of the e-mail anyone gets is best described as junk. Some of it's malicious junk at that. Most open forums quickly degenerate into a showcase of the worst humanity has to offer -- go check the comments on a newspaper or TV news website if you don't believe me.

4) Nobody can make any money except through advertising, and even that's becoming problematic. The problem with things like subscriptions is that they reduce the value of the hyperlink towards zero. And you can say, "for just the price of a cup of coffee you can keep this website open," but having to buy 50 to 100 cups of coffee every month to support all the websites you like to visit at some point during a month quickly becomes untenable. And so advertising comes to dominate the web in increasingly perverse ways (which explains about half of point three). Walled gardens are one way to offer a respite from the worst abuses of advertising -- Facebook doesn't need to send you 5mb of JavaScript to track you, they can do a much better job of tracking you with a lot less overhead than third-party trackers can.

If you want to fight walled gardens, you need to find ways to solve these problems in ways that don't involve walled gardens or offer ordinary users (users who don't share this community's convictions that open is inherently better) benefits that a walled garden doesn't or can't.
Which is why it is a bit problematic that you can still legally hunt mountain lions in several states (bears & wolves too). I think part of his point is that it is a bit disingenuous for us to criticize this kind of hunting in Zimbabwe when it is allowed in the US.
You sound like the kind of person who also thought everyone would voluntarily move to IPv6 in a timely manner.
> That's on point.

Aid provided to Zimbabwe is not reaching the people because of Zimbabwe's government, not because it's not being sent.
>the issue

There are several issues. Not just one.
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Because being a simple provider of infrastructure removes any added value from your product and opens you to a price race to the bottom. Of course there will not be a slew of new ISPs given the cost of the infrastructure but it is never a good feeling when you know that people can simply ditch your service and go elsewhere without any cost.

This is what happened to the mobile market, to the PC market, is currently (somewhat) happening in small scale public transportation and (at least in Europe) has happened to food producers.
Several of our writers have been selling on Tindie for years. Leading up to this I talked to as many people with Tindie stores as I could and everyone had great thing to say. This is huge for getting more people into Open Hardware!
As a JS-y type dev, Typescript still looks better than Haxe to me. But then when you go the Haxe web site and discover its compilation targets (JS, C++, C#, Java, Python) you see the real utility.

IMO Haxe is something very, very different to Typescript, and is a lot more powerful.
I would say that the locals dont understand the issue any further than how it affects their own personal bubble.

They dont own the Lions, the Lions happen to live within the same lines drawn on a map as they do. The Lions neither know about or care about these lines. That in no way makes these Lions the propery of people from Zimbabwe.

In the same way that the rainforest destruction is everyones problem, not just a problem for those living in the rainforest.
...or, build more affordable housing? Its not a zero-sum game. Change the rules!
I admire their efforts, but serious efforts need to start with the fundamentals.
Free Music Player for Android has got a big update
MDPlayer is an exclusive music player developed by MobiDev and given away for free to every music fan around the world. Now it has become more polished and stable, and has unveiled a couple of new features.
- support for Android Auto;
- a full-fledged application for Android Wear;
- support for Cue Sheet.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=biz.mobidev.mdplayer&hl=ru
I sincerely believe that people would rather humans die than animals. Its really bizarre and should be studied. Is that people see other people as a competition for resources? It's really fascinating the stir over the death(or murder) of 1 animal vs death(or murder) of hundreds or even thousands of people per day.
I wrote this article a while back but I never posted it to the Hacker News community. I would love to get feedback on the article.
Rapidly moving goalposts in tech are often completely legitimate.

3 years ago, people were breathless about oculus. They're not anymore. They're breathless about the next things that are building on what oculus demonstrated was possible with synced stereoscopic viewing and head tracking 3 years ago (with steady improvements always coming).

If he had pointed to people still being breathless about Oculus today, I'd consider the argument much more compelling. The hype absolutely deserves skepticism, but he is trying to argue from a place of authority that I don't grant him.

(I also nitpick his view of predicted market time frames. Affordable niche is not mass market is not mainstream is not ubiquitous. Smartphones are already to basically ubiquitous. I haven't seen many predictions for when VR of any particular variety will reach ubiquity).
AKA if you must meddle, at least do it smartly.
The eyelets in a fence are much larger than your average camera lens. If you can go right up to the fence, the problem is solved.

Reflections from glass are minimized by also sticking the camera lens right up to the glass, and providing some shading around it. A simple lens skirt could be developed for this purpose (if such a thing doesn't exist already).

Possible design: cone-shaped coil spring encased in opaque cloth, with rubber o-ring gaskets fitted on both ends. One gasket (narrow end) goes on the camera/phone around the lens, the flared end gasket goes onto the glass.
> A billion little unmemorable functions with symbolic names

Pretty much. If you though Common Lisp was bad, this is much worse. And that makes for a major (re-)learning curve every time you stop programming in Haskell for a couple of months.
Federal courts were striking down state laws for violating the federal constitution while the founders were still politically active; most notably for intruding on Congress's Commerce clause authority.

They might have been disquieted by the kind of restrictions on the state that emerged later based on the civil war amendments, especially the 14th, but then, many modern Americans would be disquieted by the founders acceptance of slavery while speaking of equality popular sovereignty.

The founders weren't gods, but men taking some controversial--even among each other--steps forward for the political context of their day.
Generally I agree with this thinking, but a number of the idioms in this repo (respond_to? rather than begin/rescue) do have a fairly significant perf benefit and are easier to read. And some of the other lessons, like "don't use method_missing if you can define a method instead", are well worth considering as well.
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I agree. Especially when those "cute" animals have long ceased to have any significant role in their ecosystem due to their reduced numbers. I think conservation efforts should primarily focus on the ecosystem not single species. In fact it is not uncommon for environmentalist organizations to follow this approach, to the apparent detriment of the ability to stir up any interest among the wider public. Biological corridors? Mangrove forests? Too many humans take this as faceless abstract technical entities, even when their face is more often than not also a human face.
Here's a good answer to your question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/2uvz0x/whats_so...
> I think there is a BIG reason why Haskell has not grown in popularity in language usage and is beat by Scheme and almost beat out by ML.

Is it? I would think there is easily WAY more Haskell currently in use in both industry and academia than Scheme. Certainly the mindshare is much, much larger. I have no idea where ML is, but it seems like it should be roughly on the same order as Haskell, and surely beating Scheme.
Among other things, this interview illuminates Paul's "make something a few people love" advice with stories from before the launch of gmail.
In fact the walled internet gardens remind me more than a little of the walled communities in Snowcrash. In that story the USA has been 'Balkanized' across commercial lines, marginalizing the federal government in favor of security and stability.

Folks use the part of the internet that works for them. Its the largest crowdsourced community-building experiment of all time.
It is even a part of a plot for some action movie (can't remember which movie though). The cars can be unlocked with social engineering skills.
It's not as clear cut as that. I'm not sure if you've seen: https://fullfact.org/factchecks/immigrantion_house_prices-28..., but there isn't a clear correlation between immigration rates and house prices.

Some reports even suggest the opposite, that increases in immigration can REDUCE house prices: "The University of Cambridge study concluded that an immigration inflow equal to 1% of the local initial population leads to a reduction of 1.6% in house prices".
nice find, however the perl command is unnecessary.

<IMG SRC=http://kt-media.knowtechie.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/hacker1.jpg>

works as well. the server isn't executing perl, it's just not escaping client input allowing you to add html tags to the result page.

edit: i should say - it's absurd that anyone can launch a website with this kind of vulnerability in 2015. every html rendering framework i've ever used/read about automatically sanitizes user input when generating the html. the only accidental way i can imagine someone doing this is building html from string concatenations...

edit2: for a simple challenge, try to embed other tags. like A or SCRIPT
If anyone is interested here is the part 2: https://medium.com/@Go_Soroush/do-13-year-old-s-even-know-wh...
Adding object file persistence for faster compiles on Linux and OS X may cause some issues with developers current configurations, so I'd be happy to here of any issues either here, or via the projects github issues https://github.com/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/RuntimeCompiledC...
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>> We take all cyber matters seriously

Because nothing says serious security like using the word "cyber" twice in your statement.
English link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=biz.mobidev.md...
So all people in Zimbabwe do not think exactly the same? And might even have differences of opinion? Mind blown...

Not really sure how Cecil the Lion fits into HN, oh well.
>"Please don't care about the animals in my country more than you care about me and my countrymen" is a reasonable request.

the animals are defenseless objects of our actions. While people get the life they've built, and specifically what i understand about the Zimbabwe situation - a lot of the issues there are recent (couple decades) self-inflicted by the government upon their people with support of the people. Should US change the government there?
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Please make a citation that it is explicitly EU migration that is the cause of the housing shortage.
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And this is why South Africa will become another basket case, just like its neighbour Zimbabwe :(
The Wii was a fad. Most people ended up just playing Wii Sports until they got bored. Remember how well games like Guitaro Hero sold? Does anybody even play them anymore?
+1 for old ThinkPads, as my ThinkPad R60 still (~8 years old) still works perfectly with Lubuntu!
Big win for Open Hardware on this one. You have Tindie with a huge network of small-run (and sometimes not so small) hardware manufacturing and the Hackaday community always looking for unique and interesting stuff to get their hands on.

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Learning the secrets to a trick and learning how to perform a trick are two very different things. Looking through the videos it appears to be oriented around teaching you how to perform a trick (how to shuffle, use of flourish, etc) which is definitely geared towards learning to be an artist.

Most people who want the spoilers won't be interested in all this extra stuff, nor would they pay for it.
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Its a different perspective from an actual African. Who are you to say he is more ignorant than you are? Ultimately, the human experience is about survival. And that experience will vary and form your perspective.
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I know what you mean but it really on extends to certain animals and only at certain times and only in certain cultures.

I think human life in general is held in higher regard than animal life by the majority of the humans on the planet if you really stop and think about it.
Collaboration with surveillance authorities in the US is neither voluntary ("national security letter") nor beneficial.

The enforcement that goes with the surveillance is much less intrusive, almost invisible, but that doesn't mean we should ignore it.
The MEPs are elected. The commissioners are appointed by democratic governments (and have to be individually accepted by the EP!). The two councils (no use in trying to distinguish them) consist of the democratic goverments in the EU.

European Directives have to be passed by the EP. You can't create European Law without directly elected MEPs.
Anthropocentrism at its purest.
Reminds me of someone on BBC talking about "shark infested waters of South Africa".