skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The confounding problem here is that there is plenty of US-self-targeted propaganda, pushing and teasing in a million different directions without any central authority. How much of the race baiting is FoxNews doing because they know their viewers want it? My guess is most. US corporate propaganda is definitely living well right now, but what about self-targeted government propaganda? Are all those top-voted posts with the soldiers returning home to be greeted by their dog really occurring without any outside push?

On the other hand, how much of the race baiting on the alt news sites is organic? How much of it would still be around if it wasn't the hot topic that everyone is being forced to pay attention to via the media?

Finally, what is the real long term strategic goal of these propaganda campaigns? It's hard to see foreign propaganda ever being successful enough to deliver a geopolitical victory.
The impression I got was that its a matter of development convenience.

The Tesla UI is a big screen. If i was given the problem of "We don't have much experience building car interfaces, and its likely something we'll want to change once we get more experience; what should we do?" the thought of throwing in a big screen that you can auto-update does start to sound pretty appealing.

Having said that, as a driver, the practice of having this style of interface just so the company can produce the cars faster and easier...i find less appealing.

This video shows how to open the sun roof (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5a3n-vTtuU), the fact that this button is more than 1 layer into the UI is pretty insane(Normally the radio is in the place you see the roof in this video, so you're pushing a button just to get to the sun roof slider). I often find myself making this kind of adjustment while driving. Having it in this part of the UI, i found to be a bit distracting and hard to use while performing my test drive.
XP is a solid enough system for limited use cases. Keep it behind a firewall and don't ever touch a browser, it will run forever without a glitch. I wouldn't call it "inferior". There may be things it can't do but if you're not going to use those features, so what? Upgrading a system just for the sake of upgrading is a waste of money.

It's not just software tying a machine to XP but the hardware. A particular card may not have a 7 compatible driver. A penny-pinching executive will look at the very long number that is the cost of upgrading and decide to stay on XP and just replace parts (hard drive, monitor, etc.) as they break. Which may not be the smartest thing in the long run.

I can see 7 lasting longer than XP as it's the last OS built primarily for traditional Win32 (Desktop) applications. 8 and 10 are transitioning to an OS for managed code and virtualization. If you have a legacy application you'll get the best experience on 7 (or XP, or Server 200X). All of the improvements to Windows are meant to make C# based programs work better. There isn't much to gain by upgrading an older codebase to the new OS.

Of course people whose primary business is creating software think nothing of upgrading. To everyone else, writing new software is an expense. If the software you have does everything you need it to do, you're not going to rewrite it unless there is something to gain.
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You can actually already do this with current cameras, using 2 exposures per frame, works for most types of action.

Red Epic does this with HDR-X and hacked Canon cameras with Magic Lantern with Dual ISO
Tianjin explosion was ~21 tons of TNT. Tsar Bomba was 50M
It was my understanding that DSL was at or around its theoretical maximum anyways in most places.
> Remember when Palin got hacked?

I remember people of a certain bent celebrating the fact that she got hacked, completely oblivious to the concept that something malicious / illegal had taken place.
This is an interesting social class issue. 3 years ago, Mitt Romney said he wanted to defund PBS.

Today we see a show on public broadcast selling the exclusivity rights to HBO. Kids whose parents pay for HBO now get to see sesame street before the kids who cant afford it. In fact, those kids may even be too old by the time the episodes they would want to see get widely distributed.

Today's episode brought to you by the letters H B and O and PAYING viewers like you.
If you look at the contents of the .app, you can edit main.scpt in AppleScript Editor, but it's really just doing two things, creating the VM if necessary:

docker-machine create -d virtualbox --virtualbox-memory 2048 default

and populating environment variables for docker:

eval $(docker-machine env default)

Passing --shell zsh to docker-machine env doesn't seem to change its output. Does zsh understand commands like the following?

export DOCKER_MACHINE_NAME="default"
Crashbox was another one. HBO is no stranger to kid's shows.
It's a matter of types vs representation. A compiler could represent (with or without promising to do so) optional strings as a nullable pointer to a char array. Without additional help from the compiler to distinguish between Maybe String and String, then things are as you say.

Incidentally, while Maybe String can be a nullable char pointer, Maybe (Maybe String) needs a different representation. This is where "nullable" in C# breaks down compared to a real option type - but only because they conflate type and representation.
Jim Henson was central to the creation of Fraggle Rock and a branch of his media company was wholly responsible for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle_Rock

Sesame Street is a bit different, I believe he was invited to add the Muppets to the show and that these segments were very popular. Still, he wasn't responsible for the show as a whole and didn't have the same role as he and his company had in Fraggle Rock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street
How much time it took them to get it vs the time it takes to learn the somewhat more elaborate incantations you need to spell a loop in Go? I recall that dealing with parse errors, the easiest error for experienced programmers, was REALLY depressing at 17.
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But the bees didn't reveal the cannabis farm. The Brooklyn DA used the bee incident as a pretext to search the farm and plant twice, while accompanying another agency, and used a third-hand 6-year-old tip to find where a hidden staircase was.

And the rest of this story is so tragic.
The concerns of the general populace bear only superficial correlation with what actually matters for the thriving of an enlightened society.
From the Shareholder letter:

"Total Q2 gross margin was 23.4% on a non-GAAP basis and 22.3% on a GAAP basis."

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/522530778...
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> very good alternatives

GIMP is to Photoshop what mspaint is to GIMP.
In addition to the comments others have provided. Take a reasonable complex problem and solve it. Now refactor it. Not sure what refactoring is, read Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin fowler.

Show your code to others and seek feedback. Always assume that your code can be improved.
>> improving the efficiency of an unjust process makes it less just

Your right here, but fighting the tools that improve efficiency also doesn't solve the systematic problem, only puts focus on those tools.

>> don't think anyone can argue that actually enforcing all those arrest warrants would improve the situation - does it really make sense to lock up 3/4 of a town? No, obviously not.

Enforcement is left to the officer/department/prosecutor. The tools merely provide the officer with additional means of conducting their work in the field.

>> But then they sit there ready to be used as justification for other police action.

Comes off as quite bitter, but there's an actual point here. There is a consistent need to be "hard on crime", and provided your point that there is "average of more than one outstanding 'warrant' per person" in Ferguson suggests that finding additional means to identify those with warrants is a good thing - to, again, be "hard on crime". However, the fact is that if a person has a warrant, then even a simple license plate/ID check will return the same information. In an 'active' system, the officer would need to manually take a photo to return any matches - this is not much different than the ID check.

Though in a 'passive' system the officer would be notified of the individual's warrants as they pass by. This system is clearly the most invasive and feared amongst HN readers, and while a warrant can be issued for innocuous things like missing child support payments, the same system could also be used to identify those who are suspected of more serious crimes. I don't necessarily agree with locking up someone because they missed a payment or two (your "unjust process"), but I'd much rather fight those issues separately rather than condemn a piece of technology.
> The gestures for swiping between full screen apps are the same on the mac and iPad. They're both 4 fingers.

Not sure about iPad, but on OSX, it's three fingers for the track pad and two for the magic mouse: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204895
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Modern day Lava Lamp. Very nice!
We also set up regulations to make building truly dense affordable housing impossible. Where it is possible, it offers lower returns than low density luxury housing.
non-trivial percentages of the planet in solar panels.

0.1% of the earth's surface area to match current total energy requirements. Which sounds tiny. Or the same area as Spain, which sounds huge.
I think they should definitely have the freedom to treat their private info loosely, but I think that the decision itself should be an Opt-in rather than an Opt-out affair. We shouldn't have to build our own tools to turn this off.
Ask HN: Options for fast Internet in rural areas?
I live in a rural location and my job requires 100% of my work to be done over the internet. I am curious what the best options are for fast internet that are not outrageously expensive and if possible are not data limited.
I think they should just go a-la-carte on broadcast channels.

My mother-in-law lives in a small city where she can pick up the big networks + PBS and some minor networks (CW, ion) with just rabbit ears.

With an $80 antenna, I get 11 channels from a city that is 50 miles away. All I had to do is nail a bracket onto the edge of my roof.

I am missing CBS and ABC, but I am planning to fill those in with a VHF antenna that points to another city.

The difference in picture quality between the HD broadcast vs the compressed "HD" offered by TWC is night and day.

It seems to me there is no value in getting a degraded copy of local broadcast TV on cable, so you should be able to opt out of it, or maybe just get broadcast stations that don't come in with your antenna.
I would go after the client for those fees. You did work for the client directly, they should pay you. The contract is not your concern. Let the client and recruiter hash it out over what's left.
You're not being unfair at all, IMO. The instance he hosts says secure, yet it includes lots of 3rd party resources, and of course you're still trusting his server every time you run it.
OSX only does for Spotlight & Safari search, but you can disable it (and it actually disables it). Details here: https://fix-macosx.com
"Exceptions include the Silicon Valley area in California, where homeowners and renters each devote 42 percent of income to housing costs."

Single engineers and DINKs in the SF area should be buying if they're expecting to stay any real length of time. Price corrections when the housing market collapsed may not have helped SF like it did in other areas of the country but mortgage rates are dirt cheap and rent versus own pricing is at parity.
Yeah, but their coverage is poor. Comcast has Boston completely strangled.
looking at your post history, I see your previous post also mentioned the same company. If you are affiliated with them, please add a disclaimer at the bottom.
OS X is even worse. Up until Mountain Lion I could easily left my Mac on for weeks without needing to reboot (except for crucial updates). Since Mavericks and even more so Yosemite it has gotten out of hand. I need to reboot at least once a week, WiFi is broken and Finder regularly hangs up on me.
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Yes, but this is a further step to the "cableization" of internet tv. It's really getting to the point where it's not much different than cable. Each network has exclusive shows, so they are not competing on customer experience of the streaming service (such as interface, recommendations, etc.), but on content. This is not necessarily a problem, but it dilutes what some expected from cord-cutting. Now if I want a breadth of content, I need to subscribe to Netflix, HBO, Hulu and possibly some smaller services. That adds up and isn't really as "a la carte" as we wanted, considering the small number of competitors in the space.

Again, it's not bad, per se, but it's not a smorgasbord of content in one service with one interface.
How not to use Windows 10? Well if you need to use Windows then stick with 7 or 8.1 (and disable installation of the recent telemetry updates pushed with Windows Update recently).

If you don't need Windows but want support options then OS X is a fantastic platform too.

Or if you are comfortable using an enterprise class OS but are ok with looking after yourself in terms of support then you have many excellent options with Linux such as Ubuntu and its spin-offs as well as Debian or Fedora both of which I have superb experiences with on modern desktops and laptops.
I disagree. If I am a dirt-shoveler with a v1.0 shovel, and I can make a hole with volume of 8 cubic yards in 8 hours, that sets the business expectation for how much a typical dirt-shoveler can do, and how much it costs to dig an additional cubic yard of holes. Namely, it costs one hour of dirt-shoveler labor.

If the v2.0 shovel allows me to dig a hole with volume of 10 cubic yards in 8 hours, that reduces the marginal cost of digging an additional cubic yard of holes. It now costs 0.8 hours of dirt-shoveler labor.

In the short term, the demand for new holes is unchanged, but the demand for shoveler labor has shifted left, as its supply is unchanged. In the long term, the marginal dirt-shovelers--especially those without v2.0 shovels--exit the market. The supply curve for shoveler labor shifts left, and price goes back up, as quantity decreases.

Deserving doesn't enter into it. If dirt-shoveler pay per hour does not go up to reflect the increase in productivity, some shovelers will stop digging for their living and go do something else (or remain unemployed), because they will get paid zero for the holes that they are no longer able to dig. The ones who survive the cull will only be able to demand more pay when someone wants a hole dug, but can't get anyone to do it at the offered rate.

The cost of a v2.0 shovel is now a barrier to entry to the profitable region of the dirt-shoveler business. Now extrapolate to mechanized earth-moving equipment. If you need to excavate a basement for a new building, you hire one guy with the $100000 v46.3 shovel, rather than 20 guys with 20 v3.1 shovels. At this point, just owning the shovel is profitable, because that guy can just rent it out to people who know how to dig holes, but lack the necessary accumulated capital to be competitive in the business.

But those 20 guys you didn't hire to dig your basement are still out there, and they're getting hungry. And they're looking at their crappy v3.1 shovels and thinking, "If I sharpened this edge a bit, it would make a decent weapon, and I could take that v46.3 shovel by force."

There are many possible solutions, because the problem is making multiple economic variables (aka human motivations and desires) balance. A change in the taxation regime is only one, and not necessarily the best one.
I agree with the observations. On a more technical level:

I find it astonishing how bad AirDrop is. I am typing this on a brand new MacBook Pro, and I can't send files to my equally brand new iPhone 6. I tried, multiple times, it simply doesn't work. Googling the issues tells me I'm not alone.

Not a huge issue, but there was a time when this would have been unthinkable. Also, iTunes. Just give it the bullet. Please. Oh, and Finder - kill it with fire will ya? Windows Explorer is still better, which is embarrassing.
MySQL RDS instance - don't remember the specific size, but large - multiple processors, high bandwidth, high disk. I was gonna put some automated load on it to show the boss performance would be comparable to our dedicated server at Rackspace, and just forgot to turn it off.

The boss is happy with Rackspace and regardless of price, options, features, etc... he doesn't want to leave. I can only do, what the boss allows me to do. I don't hate Rackspace, I use them for other projects, but their service has gone down in recent years IMO.
Four fingers also work.
Say again?

They are writing expert's statements, but certainly not opinions of the court.
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They will if your parents are wealthy.
See my top-level comment. I did just that--created a PowerShell script.
Saent seems cool - I definitely lose a lot of time to web distractions.

I think I'm learning that people tend to plan further out (a few days to a week) in the face of external deadlines (i.e. exam season at school, sometimes end-of-quarter in business, etc). Adhoc time blocking occurs more when the motivation to be productive is self-imposed. Does that jive with your experience?
I haven't seen this particular topic come up but I may have just missed it. I like where you are coming from though.

I would like to take a look at the entertainment business in comparison to engineering positions for a moment. You are absolutely right there is an excess supply of positions and an insufficient demand for those positions. However, that is a general statement that can be narrowed down I believe.

While in the entertainment industry there is a very small supply of jobs for high dollar actors and actresses, there is a excess supply of positions for small walk on, non-speaking characters with insufficient demand for those positions. People don't want small, low paying, non-speaking, uncredited acting positions. They are willing to pay an agent to try to get them the small supply of high paying acting positions that they want.

I still think your difference holds true though. I am not trying to set up a straw man here. I fully admit that I can walk out today, talk to 20 businesses in a relatively short period of time, and land a new high paying gig. I could also walk out and talk to a dozen recruiting firms and accomplish the same thing. It's easier for me than it is for an actor in the entertainment industry.

But I still see that there are a significant number of engineers who are willing to pay an agent to keep up these relationships for them. What would make it worthwhile to the Agent? 10% of 20 engineers who make on average $150,000 a year? Is there not room in the industry for that type of service?
Up1 uses client-side crypto, so in this instance it is. No real point here though, but I use ShareX with it, and it's nice to be able to deliver screenshots and stuff like this privately.
"If all the electric features are making the car already expensive... maybe the market would not react well to another 10k in price to add some luxury features like ventilated seats."

That may indeed be the case, but there should at least be options. There should be an option for super-adjusto-21way-seats. There should be an option for ventilated and massage seats.[1]

Actually, now that I think about it, the missing features all largely have to do with the seats...

[1] A common feature on S/7/A8
Sure, you can try with any contract -- and go to trial.

But I have seen worse contracts and the companies are coming threw with it most of the time, but maybe in your country the juristic system is better and not the size of the company or the number of lawyers are important.

I for my side, would not bet on winning a trial against Microsoft in such a case.
We had a few programmers back at a previous job that used the "grasp" editor because it highlighted not just loops but control structures. I would occasionally use it to help make sense of some complex legacy code, but as day to day editor I found it lacking. I do like the concept.

The editor appears to live on as "jgrasp"

http://www.jgrasp.org/csd.html
No issue at all. Kids are born every day; pick up watching Sesame Street at essentially random points. It makes no difference when you begin watching. If HBO 'leads' free TV, the kids will never know and never suffer any disadvantage.
Ah yes, so they can put that we have attended demonstrations into "our file" which will be trotted out against us if we ever decide to run for office. Also, they can easily tag us for arrest because we attended a protest, then pick us up at some point in the future, avoiding messy riots or icky looking violent arrests.

What a great time we are being set up for. I wonder if the anti-recognition camo patches are done yet?
Hear Hear.

My previous employer is in the field of network and application performance management. Even with unit-test, integration-test, and some functional-test, we can't be 100% sure we've covered everything (e.g.: different network setup) due to the domain complexity.

Having said that, "testing" has always been the biggest issue for any shop that call themselves "Agile" and it's also my screening test when interviewing with any company that claim themselves "agile": "let's talk about automation test..." :)
I don't think there is anyway the technology doesn't get used. The only option is going to be transparency and openness in the data collected so it becomes harder to hide abuse. Privacy will be what dies.
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In the post-Snowden era, USA tech corporations, like Microsoft, felt the downturn on trust from non-USA companies and citizens in their online offerings. With Microsoft betting more and more on their cloud services, I find it strange (or maybe it isn't strange, but let's be naive for a minute here) that Microsoft goes against this and actually gives people _more_ reasons to not trust them than less.

As if they're thinking we all don't give a shit. But if we all didn't, why the downturn in trust in USA tech corporations post-Snowden?

I can't help but think that this is either massively naive from their part (people/companies won't care, they will buy our stuff and services regardless) or very short-sighted (as it will hurt their cloud services offerings in the long run, the more they hammer down the trust from their own users in MS' wares.)
It will happen :) Xhyve is pretty new (and only works on pretty recent OSX installs), but we are also feeling the pain of the default vbox install and really want to fix it.
Only the people doing it know the goal. I can speculate of course. It could just be standard 'fog of war' type stuff, or related to softening US public support for interventions against Russian actions in places like Ukraine. It could also have really specific goals you'd never guess without insider knowledge.

I completely agree about there being more than one actor here. I just suspect Russia has a non-trivial role in the phenomenon I mention in my OP. The bottom line is that today's Internet is loaded with bullshit and propaganda and as time goes on seems to become less and less trustworthy as a source of information. That's a big problem.
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