skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, it's not like Assange is chained to a pipe inside the Ecuatorian embassy, he has been free to get a flight to Sweden for YEARS.

His continual refusal to do so is not a very convincing reason to concede to his demands, to quote Green:

"It is not for any person accused of rape and sexual assault to dictate the terms on which he is investigated, whether it be Assange or otherwise."

Some of the complications that have arisen, providing assurances that cannot be given under Swedish law, might well have been foreseen as part of the near futility of the entire attempt to get access to Assange.

Also, we can be fairly sure that Assange has no credible evidence for an extradition to the US being planned, as else he would have shared it as soon as it came in his possession.
So this is essentially what is meant by the "deBroglie-Bohm" interpretation. There is an underlying definite configuration of all matter, but it is "guided" deterministically by the wavefunction psi. This avoids issues associated with wave function collapse, but by no means does it rid us of all the "weird effects". In particular, the pilot wave is explicitly non-local, in that for a Bell-type experiment the choice of measurement in one location will (instantaneously) affect the physical state of affairs in the other location.
"Most disabilities that I am asked to accommodate seem to be unspecified and are remedied by providing the students with a separate, quiet location and an extra 30 minutes to take an exam."

This is where the prof can actually start to pull some numbers out to back up his observations. Measuring the number of disabilities that are assuaged by having an unfair advantage over the class curve and comparing that to GPA may actually change things. Until then, expect the prof to continue to bitch.
The point here is to stop junkware authors (who operate pretend-legally) from trivially installing extensions into Firefox. Right now, this type of software commonly injects javascript into all web-pages a user visits which do things like add adverts or redirect searches.

If you allow a tick box to disable this, then how do you stop the junkware authors from simply checking that box on behalf of the user? Because that's what would happen, the user would click "next" on some random installer (which the junkware authors argue grants them expressed permission to install), and the junkware will claim they tick the unknown sources box to fix a "backwards compatibility issue."

What they're trying to do is make the option to disable the check SO niche that it really isn't a valid option for the junkware authors to use anyway (since most consumers won't have it, only corp. networks which are a hard target for junkware for other reasons).
The post fails to mention that WeChat is protected from competition against other major global apps. If Google, Facebook, et al, were allowed to operate freely in China, WeChat would get picked apart.

Yes, there are a lot of cool things about WeChat and certain features that it arguably does better than its foreign counterparts, but it is still a mess. It is slow, cluttered, bloated, and full of crimes against design. The lack of competitive pressure really shows.

I imagine that if and when some real competition shows up, WeChat will evolve into a full-blown mobile OS.
We're currently waiting for well over 2 months now for an add-on update to get released -.-

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/07/22/add-ons-update-68...
The theme is the problem I'm referring to.
That's what leasing is for.
Law Students at a proper Law School /= "University Students"

Law students are both sensitive and not. I remember many times students crying while we discussed cases of rape, child murder and domestic violence. As one prof pointed out: "We have over 100 people in the room. Statistically speaking we must have many rape victims, and more than a few perpetrators."

Students cried, but they certainly did not suggest that topics not be taught. Students at professional schools (law/medicine etc) have committed to a profession with a known body of knowledge developed over hundreds, arguably thousands of years. They would not want that very expensive education to be curtailed for the very modern concept that is political correctness.
>Sometimes very small, very loud groups can be perceived by outsiders to be more influential than they actually are.

In my very personal experience, their volume gives them enough influence to cause trouble, regardless of their size. "Reactionary politics" are a way of life now, thanks to instant global communication.
Hadn't seen the second talk, which is (no surprise) technically interesting as well as highly entertaining. Thanks!
It seems like pinker has been conclusively refuted given recent events.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Dm2ZYeA6U
The review is mostly done by volunteers. Sorry for the delay, I feel your pain. Will check here if we can try to get more people onboard to help review stuff.
People have different understandings of words, so I'm not claiming there is one, universal meaning of "software reverse engineering." However, here is the definition some researchers came up with: "Reverse engineering is the process of analyzing a subject system to create representations of the system at a higher level of abstraction. It can also be seen as "going backwards through the development cycle." (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering#Reverse_en... , original publication: http://win.ua.ac.be/~lore/Research/Chikofsky1990-Taxonomy.pd... )

edit: I just wanted to explain to you which definition I was using earlier, so that you could understand what I meant better.
>The problem with giving "both sides" of an issue equal time is that it can legitimize completely indefensible positions

And here's the comedy sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGArqoF0TpQ
> The first 3 dot points read more like a case of a broken condom than exceeding the scope of consent.

Whether or not it was a broken condom or he ripped it on purpose is a red herring. If the allegations are true, he was trying to have sex with a woman he just met while holding her arms down and trying to force her legs open. That's attempted rape.
Would archive.org typically honor a robots.txt for a resource it already retrieved? I never understood the intent of a robots.txt to be retroactive.
There are options though.

You can move towards a more teaching/"team lead"/"architect" role to get away from a lot of the day-to-day cycles.

You can move to a company where people actually sick around for 10+ years (Google, etc) and get very specific domain expertise, but maybe only in one company's systems.

You can try to start your own projects/companies/platforms, but that is much more hit-or-miss than lower risk employment. An easy place to start is just walk around a town, find inefficient processes (lots of manual interventions or paperwork) and try to help them with computers.

HN has a pretty distorted view of an overall life trajectory anyway. HN expects you to be come a millionaire by 22-25 and a billionaire by 28-30 or you're marked a failure. Most people in the real world can't imagine such a life and really don't care about "success" that much. But, with HN being so SF-focused, you need to be a millionaire to afford a stable place to live—and trying to "save up" doesn't work when you're competing against 1,000 new startup millionaires every year for the same limited housing supply.

For the price of a studio condo in SF, you could buy a mansion in another city and probably reduce stress a lot by not needing to keep up with the social media jonses.
The JSONB 9.5 operators have been backported to 9.4 and are available here:

https://github.com/erthalion/jsonbx
Isn't it just users with QQ numbers pick a slim version (which is more adapted to mobile use cases) of QQ on mobile devices? QQ number is something almost everyone on internet owns back in early 2000s in China. The number became the utility. As long as one has internet connection, one does not need a phone number to get connected.

I don't like WeChat. But that's what you have to use since that's where everyone you know are. MSN once had the chance to complete with QQ, but it gave up. And everybody had no better choice but picked up their old QQ number.

From another perspective, it's also accompanied with the rise of local business, which shifted the attitude towards local society recognition.

Money makes then ugly now pretty.
Best way to DDoS a company's website
Be google and create a company with the same name.

http://www.alphabet.com/
A Tediously Accurate Map of the Solar System
It's not that big a deal. Try "man mesg", which works by fiddling with the world-write bit on your TTY. All that an attacker can do write text to a victim's terminal (and mess up said terminal using interesting escape codes).
I completely disagree with this. Despite being a fast typist when I first started high school from years of computer use, I still consider my typing class to be one of the best bang-for-the-buck classes I took in terms of what I have gotten out of it since graduating.

My form was not perfect before taking the class. I would often do something slightly weird with my right hand where my it would "walk" to slightly incorrect positions to reach keys that my other hand should be hitting.

My typing teacher put covers over the keyboard so we couldn't see our hands and then had us do typing drills. She would strictly enforce that we maintain our hands on the correct home-row position, wrist positioning, etc.

After a semester of this class, despite an initial drop in my speed, I can now touch type correctly and my speed is now faster than ever.

I work with professional programmers who hunt and peck and it drives me crazy. For something that you interact with daily and is the instrument of your profession, taking an hour a day for a few months is a no brainer to perfect your form.
The usual bogeyman, "terrorism":

https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/07/us-southkorea-chi...
>They nap in the library or in the hallway of academic buildings during normal work hours

As a student: "They (working people) nap in their beds or on the couch during crunch-time and study-hours!"

And while I don't do it myself ot that degree, I also wouldn't call lax-personal care during finals laziness. It's just a different social convention which doesn't hurt anyone.
Building Postgres from source for testing is relatively simple - at least on Ubuntu / Debian.

useradd --home-dir /home/postgres \
--create-home --shell /bin/bash \
--user-group postgres

apt-get install -y build-essential libkrb5-dev \
libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev \
libossp-uuid-dev uuid python-dev \
libreadline6 libreadline-dev

./configure --disable-debug --enable-thread-safety \
--with-gssapi --with-openssl \
--with-libxml --with-libxslt \
--with-ossp-uuid --with-python \
--without-bonjour

make world && make install
sudo su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /home/postgres/cluster -E UTF8"
Ora who?
> If he was innocent why did he argue against going to Sweden?

Because if he was innocent, why should some random person in Sweden, in office or not, be allowed to mess up his travel schedule, just because they want him for "questioning"?

If St. Kitts and Nevis were to file an Interpol Red Notice tomorrow, seeking a person going by the alias "youngtaff" on hackernews: would you drop everything and fly there to sort out whatever mess they've made?
Maybe we have overcorrected but things were pretty shitty back in the author's day. In the 90's, awful comments against gays and Asian people appeared often as "jokes" in mainstream media. And media guides how people act.

I don't like the term micro-aggressions. It should just be called tactlessness or rudeness. For example, coworkers at my last job made jokes about cops pulling over and harassing in front of black employees. Best case that's insensitive. Worst case that's some dogwhistle bullshit.

On the flip side, people got reported to HR for saying the "s" word. Yes, shit. I think the line is somewhere in the middle. All of us need to be a little bit more aware and a little bit less touchy.
Selling machine language code and asking people not to understand it is like selling books and asking people not to read them.

"This cookbook is to be read by your personal chef only; if you read it and understand it yourself, you're breaking the book's license agreement."

If you pay for some string of bits, you have a right to look at them. Period.
Chances are you can't, though. These sorts of tiny offers often include the assumption of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of debt.

Same with buying $1 Detroit houses - they often come with back taxes worth well over what the house/land is.
I may be talking out of my ass here, but I think college educated people don't have lots of kids by accident.

The challenge is purely self-inflicted, so it's natural to assume they get something out of it, and status is the most obvious motivation.

Then again, they might be one of those weird mutants who actually like children.
D3 Hand Drawn Circles
Interactive graphics for high-dimensional genetic data
Real Chart Rules to Follow
IIRC, the ejabberd server will wait until you are "present". Only then it will send you all messages so far received for you.
> just my being a "white NT cishet male" is offensive to some people

No, it isn't. They are offended by something else about you.
Why You Don’t Make a Mindlessly Beautiful Visualization of a Horrific Event
Ji (戟) is a Swift wrapper on libxml2 for parsing XML/HTML
We've got 3 major ones in the Netherlands. There's over a dozen carriers but they all use one of these networks.

Not super familiar with the rest of Europe but the larger countries have 4 operators as far as I know, like the UK, Germany, Spain, France... but there's also plenty of smaller countries that have four, like say Greece. Sweden afaik has even 5, and the Ukraine iirc has 6.

Anyway it probably has to do with density. I was flabbergasted when I studied in Canada and ended up seeing phone bills that were like 3x my own back home where we have only 3 operators. But it's pretty easy to cover the size of the Netherlands cheaply, as for Canada or say the US... different story. (although in Canada regulation also played a big role, it wasn't a very competitive market)
Caltech crushes Harvard, MIT, and all the rest
Glasseye: bringing together markdown, D3 and the Tufte layout
D3: A Flowing Area Chart with Thresholds
On the Road Again? 7 Ways to Maximize Work Travel
Probably because of the TLC stronghold in Lower Manhattan. I think it goes without saying that most of the hottest, quickest fares can be made on the island. If Uber can penetrate those fares, the slope would be more dramatic.

Time will tell is my guess.
Apollonius’ Problem II: compute the circle that's tangent to three given circles
From the aptly named https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plants_in_space

"The first organisms in space were "specially developed strains of seeds" launched to 134 km on July 9, 1946 on a U.S. launched V-2 rocket. These samples were not recovered."
Oh give me a break, it's probably one of the most well corroborated pieces of research in that tradition.
Why Google's Alphabet shakeup makes sense
The original post discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039202
Exactly, in Holland there is law "artikel 45m" http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0001886/geldigheidsdatum_30-04... which states, and I will try to translate. Main message: reverse engineering is allowed for interoperability reasons.

"It is not considered infringement of the copyright in a work referred to in Article 10, first paragraph, under 12°, if a copy is made of that work and the code is translated, in the case that these acts are indispensable to obtain the information which is necessary in order to achieve the interoperability of an independently manufactured computer program with other computer programs, provided that:

a. these acts are performed by a person who has gained access to lawfully obtained copy of the computer program or by a third person authorized by him;

b. the data that are necessary in order to achieve the interoperability, are not alreadyquickly and readily available to the persons referred to in point a;

c. these operations are confined to the parts of the original computer program which are necessary to achieve interoperability."

Repairing errors is part of another "artikel", http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0001886/geldigheidsdatum_30-04...,

"Unless otherwise agreed, is not considered an infringement of the copyright in a work referred to in Article 10, first paragraph, under 12°, to reproduce the work ​by a lawful acquirer of aforementioned work with its intended use. The reproduction referred to in the first sentence, which takes place in the context of starting up, visualizing something, or correcting errors, can not be prohibited by contract."

That correcting errors by the customer cannot be prohibited by an EULA is something Oracle probably won't like. :-)
Daily+Protein+Games:+Destroy+the+Village
I never used an ad blocker until the last month or so. Ive made money with content and ads before and I know it's hard to do. Sadly, things have gotten absurd lately. Chrome basically slowed my computer to a halt on an almost daily basis. The performance improvement from using an ad blocker has been tremendous. So much difference I have a hard time believing it.

As a side bonus I also don't have to deal with auto playing video ads and popover boxes asking me to subscribe to content I haven't yet had a chance to see if I like.
you don't need to fork. There are four versions without requirement: nightly, dev edition, unbranded stable and unbranded beta. What more do you want?
Vending machines in the US only take coins, like a post-apocalyptic stone age world. So ahead of time...
There are plenty of people who prefer the city or the suburbs. Don't make the mistake of projecting your own preferences on everyone else.
Daily+Protein+Games:+Ars+Tactica+Prelude
a_bonobo wrote "Maybe it didn't use to be a trauma - but in the time of more and more focus on grades and GPAs, forced student competition, "career days", CV polishing courses, mandatory unpaid internships, i.e., ageneral shift from the university as a place that creates politically mature citizens to a place that churns out better trained cogs for companies, education may have become trauma."

While mandatory unpaid internships seems to be a new development, pretty much everything else existed in the 70's and 80's when I did my 8-year gig. All of the Pre-XXX students were totally grade oriented, with some engaging in lab sabotage to drag down the competition. Parents during HS recruiting were told the majors with the highest GPA for the Pre-Laws. The only advantage of all those bloody Pre-XXX students were that the courses not on their tracks were quite small and TA'ing paid the bills for grad school.

Boomer parents are (properly?) criticized for cocooning their kids. Maybe this makes them less able to handle the "toss into the deep end" that college can represent. I figured it out, with the more-senior undergrads being fonts of wisdom (in non-major classes, dorm RA's and just those on the halls).

I wasn't that amazing or rare. I did well in some courses, got slaughtered in others. Science majors were <3.0 departmental averages so my 2.87 didn't look so bad, what with all those advanced/small courses. I also learned by my 4th year that if I studied Su-Th I could goof off F-Sa with a clear conscience. And man, was I pissed at the non-science folks who had half the hours/week in classes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Dm2ZYeA6U , "Statistics of Violence as Special Case of Fat Tails", there's been a ton of commentary on this back and forth, but not one of them thinks "Pinker is correct" if you've been paying attention. I need to start collecting resources related to this.
More of a composition model instead of sub/super classes.:

* Alphabet has-one Google
* Google belongs-to Alphabet
* YouTube belongs-to Google
* Google X belongs-to Alphabet
We went from the "static" newspaper/TV ads, that didn't know about what you did with them, to "dynamic" web/mobile apps, that know exactly if you watched them, clicked on them AND eventually bought something coming from that ad. Also, which ad from the same ad-network you watched before, what apps/websites you used before etc.

Advertisement got much more power on the Internet and got much more predictable for advertisers.

But we also switched from turning pages or switching channels, if we don't like the ads, to blocking whole advertising companies with the help of software. We can now even prevent the ad from being "overseen" at all, because it doesn't even get shown to us in the first place. newspaper adds always hit your subconsciousness.

Both sides stepped up their game. Don't see any problem with this.
Tim Cook, Eric Schmidt, YC Invest in Nebia
More of a loophole maybe than hiding. Like perhaps being one big company in the US, but somehow being "separate" companies that "don't collaborate" in the EU?

There's other suggestions as to why, either to prevent experiments from tarnishing Google's brand, or to ensure Google's separate products can survive the eventual failure of the ad market.
Here's an old critique of XMPP by author of PSYC protocol:
http://about.psyc.eu/XMPP

I think it showed how its complexity vs value delivered tradeoff isnt so good. Decided against trying to implement the protocol.
> to the tune of $1.5 x 10^8 USD

Was it really necessary to type it like that?
But what if he's right about the risk of being extradited from Sweden to the US? If that happens, the US will surely be far more brutal and punish him for Wikileaks things. We've seen them to it to Manning and threaten it to Snowden.
I'm being quite specific, saying that this extradition order for these specific charges should be ignored, because USA.

If they had solid evidence that he was dragging women off the streets and threatening them with a knife then this is all reasonable. No-one is alleging anything like that.

I'm also throwing in an uninformed opinion that people are throwing 'sexual assault' and 'rape' around expecting a strong reaction, but I don't see the justification for getting worked up here. Setting aside any STDs (basically, assuming Assange doesn't have aids), the issue is that he did something that didn't hurt anyone, doesn't appear calculated to humiliate, was in circumstances where he might have misunderstood as having consent (given he was already having sex with these women), and can be rectified in 24 hours with drugs and a doctors visit. This would be grounds to discipline him, but not grounds to get worked up.
This video does a pretty good job of explaining consent for those that don't think AA's description sounds like rape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8 (Tea Consent)
Yeah?
You at the very least forgot to obtain the source code first somehow. What about build-dependencies, because ./mach bootstrap does not fully handle that?

Now please tell me how to do a Windows release-build with all release features enabled (except for official branding), aka. a ton of configure switches, and also please do it for my language using the official de locale, because neither the source tar.bz2 nor the hg you'd normally clone contains that. I'm starting from scratch of course.
And suddenly it is less easy and trivial..
Remember the classic Can't Break It, Can't Break In campaign several years ago. It yielded a bunch of new bunch and exploits in Oracle SW in a few days. They seem not to have learned.
"Wow, this file is really popular! It might be unavailable until the crowd clears. Try again."

Surely Google's infrastructure can manage to serve a spreadsheet!
Exactly. I'm 30, and I'm heartened by the idea of the next generation coming up with a culture that's more compassionate towards people who are different from them in various ways. For people in the HN demographic, behaving with compassion is clearly an inconvenience.
How did you get your hands on Oracle code? The blog post made it pretty clear they won't let you read it.