skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see that you're able to detect my adblocker. Please feel free to refuse to serve your content to me.

Or STFU.
Holy fuck I am stupid and sexist. I assumed that "penetration test kit" meant something entirely different because it was a hot woman in the photos.
What's your five guys go to? Besides just a lettuce wrap burger?

Yeah my problem with McD's is that the patties themselves aren't all that great and kinda salty.

A good grilled chicken lettuce wrap sandwich would be great.
Cool...now I get to play. Perl does it because it goes out of scope once the sub is run. I am pretty sure you can tell TclOO to do the same thing (play time) if it already doesn't do that.

In the end, they all make trade offs depending on the "whim" of the language designer.
20% time is more or less axed[0].

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-20-percent-time-policy...
There is a perfectly plausible way to implement all the things we want, without all the surveillance. The surveillance is not necessary, and by and large isn't even incidental, to the good parts we want.

And even if you forgo your own personal spy device, all of the other mobile, stationary, and airborne devices will make up for the hole, mostly. Choice doesn't really come into it.
Essentially:

The x spelling is correct in French.
At least some of the article's evidence for the 'x' spelling appears to have arrived in English through French rather than the original Italian.
This is emotional, but if we sort countries by performance 1915-2015, Russia will be either top loser or in company of some really miserable places.
Chinese tech companies hire “cheerleaders” to motivate programmers
The influence of Bernays is correct, and the government has had a longstanding relationship with PR firms in crafting propaganda.
I'm pretty sure all AT&T iPhones pull carrier configurations that set attwifi hotspots as a trusted auto-joined wifi network.

I reset my iPhone the other day without restoring any backup. Later that day I found my phone connected to attwifi without any instructions from me.
Irony...
The link is down right now.

But sure it is very interesting netflix has a great score dealing with complexities and it is a game changer on entertainment field.
Basic editing does take 15 minutes. In 20 minutes you realize that Emacs out-of-the-box is embarrassingly bad relative to modern editors, and to justify using it you'll have to go deeper. A year later, you start to feel like a somewhat proficient user.
If you get this declared copyright violation, there will be very solid precedent for banning all adblockers as well.
Yeah, also, a classic one we had here in Sweden:

Honda released this new small car model named "Honda Fitta", and one of the slogans were something like "small on the outside, large on inside".

In Swedish, "Fitta" is a crude word for female genitalia.

The car was quickly renamed "Honda Jazz".

A link to a Swedish article, translated by Google:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
> Specially when the official tutorial tells new users to move around the file using obscure key combinations

If you're a Mac user, they're actually - in all likelihood - not that obscure; you can use the same exact key combinations in pretty much every OS X application.

The built-in tutorial is indeed exceissively comprehensive, but those "obscure" keybindings are incredibly useful, particularly C-a and C-e (much faster than using "Home" or "End", respectively), which is why they're covered. And really, the Emacs bindings aren't any harder than the CUA bindings; they're just different, and can be easily gleaned (in graphical Emacs installations, at least) by poking around in the menu and looking at the shortcuts for certain commands, like opening/saving files or killing/yanking.

> and even the standard copy/paste/kill key combinations don't work.

This is easily fixable by going to Options -> Use CUA Keys, which enables C-x for kill, C-v for yank, and C-c for copy. OS X users can also just use Command-C/V/X like normal, with or without this option enabled.
Show HN: Easy React Flux App with Step-By-Step Tutorial
That's intentional, see http://wanproxy.org/libuinet.shtml for an example of a layered socket stack and application using it all.
I remember seeing a demo of a very early version of HURD in 2002, and I thought this was the most interesting thing about it. I think in the demo, Marcus Brinkmann showed how in the midst of editing a file in vi in user mode, you could open another file in superuser mode, do an edit there and then go back to the old file in user mode.
Are Entrepreneurs Scared of the Enterprise Market?
Nice, what kind of stack/work?
Air NZ's “Men in Black” Safety Video
It is a significant barrier to entry for everyone else, no doubt. But what are you going to do? There isn't any money in commercial Lisp environments anymore, at least outside certain niches. And the people who like Lisp enough to write an IDE for it already know how to use Emacs.

But you're not everyone else. Individually, it's worth learning for sure! I haven't encountered an environment quite as productive as SLIME/SBCL. I hear Clojure is all the rage these days and it has an IDE, but functional programming with immutable objects is a bit over my head.
How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks
There are parts of south america where vosotros is used, but I think what the parent was getting at is that it is not technically considered a 'tense', but rather a 'person' as in e.g. 'third person'
Building Collapses in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
> That the CIA interfered with things doesn't change the fact that people are still free to do those things.

It certainly does interfere. The propaganda articles displaces other articles and other publications.

Or, for a larger example, do you thing AT&T could be driven out of business because of their cosy relationship with the NSA? Heck no. It's more likely that AT&T's government partners will reward it regulatorily and with more contracts, and with social media astroturfing if a movement to boycott AT&T got going. Shut up and consume.
clickable URL http://www.projectstrap.com/

You should follow the instructions on https://news.ycombinator.com/show to get greater exposure.
I've had the opposite experience, with a code base responsible for millions in revenue each month.

Took less than a day to understand angular from nothing -- taking more than a day just to evaluate flux implementations with react.
Is this a book that someone with no background in the sciences involved can enjoy? Is it for the layman, or requires some knowledge of the facts involved to appreciate enough to read?
I hope so, because that's what we're pursuing. Let the other guys make location-aware social-mobile-geo webgl/webtrc/webasm enabled cat-picture sharing apps or something. Not that I'd rather not have competition or anything... whistles innocently
Finally! There has been talk for what seems months for an upgrade path. I'm so happy that there is finally some clarification.
An old thread on the Eigen list also mentioned that the Blaze folks were a little tricky with their benchmarks. Some of the reported performance numbers with Blaze were for calls out to Intel MKL routines. Eigen also supports MKL as a kernel backend, but the Blaze folks failed to enable this feature for the reported comparisons, if I recall.
It seems that matter usually doesn't fall through the event horizon: due to time dilution it will take infinite time for matter to reach the horizon from our point of view.

That's what I've got on Physics stack exchange. There's those collapsars that look exactly like black holes but are made of matter around the event horizon, infinitely falling in.

Is this right, wrong, or irrelevant?
Vulcan-74 – A 6502 Retro MegaProject
it's almost as if it's a skill game that rewards you with information...
Jesus Christ, you don't even know tcl. Why are you blathering on here? No, tcloo objects are not garbage collected. That's the whole point here.
can you describe how you built your site, what technologies you are using etc..
thanks!
> Not my area of expertise but I'd imagine it's a function of population and interconnectedness of economies.

So the population growth rate of the U.S. is declining, and many developed nations now have negative population growth rate.

> I do see that some nation economies will be hurt and others helped as everything will probably revert to a mean to some degree.

Right, so would you expect the U.S. economy to be helped or hurt by the decline of its economic dominance and a reversion to the mean?

> What evidence is contrary?

No nation, empire, or civilization in history has managed to sustain global economic dominance indefinitely.

There are probably many events that could cause the U.S. economy to contract. But even if the U.S. economy continues to grow, though at a much slower pace than competitors or the global economy, I just don't expect the U.S. markets to continue rising in a meaningful way. People in this thread are claiming that local markets always rise as though they're stating a law of physics, and it's absurd.
Lucky that you (presumably, I'm no doctor) have the healthy neural circuitry necessary to take advantage of those things.
Cool, but some of these are a bit of a stretch. I don't think a slug is actually mimicking a cow.
I think that progressives (especially Chomsky) overstate the role of hard power/money in politics. Or perhaps they understate the role of soft power. E.g. the progressive movement in the West is driven by a relatively small group of academics and journalists. It is notable how many social sciences professors are self-professed Marxists. I don't see this in a conspiratorial way (as some do), of Marxists seeking to push an agenda. But rather, the core of the progressive movement are people who think that both the economic, and also the political and social realm, are characterized by power, domination and oppression. If you don't believe this about economics, it's much harder to believe this about the rest.
At least for me, that's partly because Chrome makes it _so_ easy to "overuse" it. I'm right now writing this comment in a window with 29 tabs open, I have three other chrome windows with 22, 17, and 14 tabs open respectively. It's sitting there at 42.3 in the Energy Impact column and 32.23 in the Avg column - but to be fair it's got a whole bunch of stuff going on (two separate gmail instances and a fair few other javascript-heavy webapps as well). I've probably go more bogomips going on in this one browser window that all the machines I learnt to program on were capable of between them...
The Chilly Freeze for On-Demand Startups
I'd also guess backlight.
If all you want is a remote then SmartRemote is pretty good.
Thanks. Cobra effect often kicks in when someone tries to rig the game positively causing people to recreate the problem to benefit from it.
Ask HN: Etcd or ZooKeeper?
What do you see as the pros and cons of each, and why do you prefer one over the other?
Just to get started. Many people are intimidated by Emacs because there is so much to learn. If it scares you, start off simple then let your knowledge grow organically.
The NSA is nonpartisan and is subject to overview by both parties.

Non-partisan my ass. The NSA is it's own party. And from what we've seen over the past 3 years or so, they are - effectively - under NO oversight whatsoever. They lie to Congress with impunity, get rubber-stamp "warrants" from the FISA courts, and then do whatever the hell they want anyway.
Yes, a little common sense can go along way.
Reason I wouldn't us it:

the domain registration points to Tunesia (Name matches HN user name). The company address on the website, all social links and other contact methods are fake. And I believe "Used by thousands of people" is just a lie.

(I have nothing against Tunesia. It's the fact that I feel being mislead that's bothering me.)
Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?
"We are blind to our blindness." Daniel Khaneman
If you have your phone in your pocket, at the very least your location is probably being tracked in every single room of your house, and there's a fair chance that they can dial up audio of whatever room you happen to be in.

I don't think we're quite so far from Nineteen Eighty-Four as you think.
I didn't understand this point (and I agree with Weird Al). Isn't it simply "café?"
First, you need to stop calling them "probability amplitudes".

Amplitudes are complex numbers, out there in the real world (as far as we understand it). This is quite different from probabilities, who are real numbers between 0 and 1 who exist only as a mental constructs. Simply put, while amplitudes share some mathematical properties with probabilities, they are not probabilities.

Now that we're done turning colloquial words into misleading jargon, we can talk about the theory itself. Namely Everett's many-worlds and decoherence.

We could play the "where's the electron" game, but I'd rather play "where's the photon" instead —it's simpler. So you throw a photon through a half-sieved mirror, to be detected by one of to judiciously placed detectors. Oh, and have one detector linked to a kitten murdering system for good measure.

If you repeat the experiment often enough, you will witness a kitten death half the time, with absolutely no way to predict the outcome in advance. The results are the same if you put the kitten in a box, and open that box after the fact. So it certainly looks like the universe is not deterministic.

The equations on the other hand are definitely deterministic. Future amplitude distributions are perfectly predicted by past amplitude distributions —which by the way you can't fully observe, but that's another issue entirely. So, if you look at the amplitude distribution, you'll see that once the photon hit the mirror, there will be a blob of amplitude for both cases: passing through and being reflected. Going further, there will be a blob of amplitude for each of the detectors being hit. Finally, there will be a blob of amplitude for the living kitten, and another one for the dead kitten. Oh, and the equations also says that the blobs quickly cease to interact —that's decoherence.

Basically, what the equations say is that the universe splits itself in two, generating one version with the dead kitten, and one version with the live kitten. The equations also say that the inhabitants of either version don't get to see the other one (they've ceased to interact).

Now the only question left is why we experimentally find ourselves to be in one version and not in another. But never forget that every time you run that Schrödinger experiment, a cat will die. If not in your universe, then the other.

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The Copenhagen interpretation, which would have the blob of amplitude corresponding to the other universe just collapse into nothingness (that is, set to zero), has no basis in the equations which by now are backed up by mountains of evidence. It is an additional hypothesis layered on top of the equations, conveniently formulated in a way that wouldn't falsify any experiment. On top of that, it violates a number of long standing principles, such as locality.

You could also call those amplitudes "probabilities", but that's just a word trick. It doesn't explain anything.
The NSA doesn't get my email unless it gets a FISA warrant since I'm in the USA

And you're basing this belief on what, exactly? The NSA party-line? I think a lot of evidence shows that they've been scarfing up damn near everything, FISA be damned, by using bogus interpretations of various laws. Are you really confident that the NSA aren't hoovering up your email, web traffic, phone calls, etc?

Just curious, as I see nothing to support such a belief.
Well, catalan people have the ñ letter in their alphabet because they are spaniards, is just that some of them prefer to ignore this for political reasons, and they choose instead to do simple things complicated.

Both systems are a question of convenience, so no one is perfect. You can choose between the useful (and trendy in two or three spanish communities) "ny" or the older "gn" charged of historical context and showing lots of connections with other latin languages like french. Be aware also that "ny" leads easily to a "nll" sound that can be annoying, specially when is placed next to an 'i'.

This is just a personal opinion. Is perfecty ok if you think different, but if you are interested in mastering the second language with more native speakers in the world, I'll suggest to avoid the political experiments of the modern catalan and save yourself a lot of future headaches with grammar and orthography. To replace the 'ñ' by '~n' will work in most of the cases also.
Take home point: "In fact, POWER* is a unitless measure because it is a semi-arbitrary combination of two measures with incompatible units."

*POWER = "Energy Impact."
I dig the gigantic, starship enterprise-like interface. LEDs and buttons, geek nirvana: http://www.technikum29.de/shared/photos/rechnertechnik/dec/p...
Nice! Right when I just decided to start ear training :)

Can someone suggest similar tools for the Android ecosystem? I don't always have an internet connection so having an offline app would be nice.
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Practical question: If I was to get some cheap hardware, like a Chromebook, could I get a Debian GNU/Hurd development environment dual booting on it? What would I have available? I'd at least want a decent shell, tmux and vim and support for the display's full resolution.

I suppose the easier route would be a virtual machine, but I think being immersed in it would be good.

I've wanted to get into kernel or other low-level development for a while and this seems like a perfect entry point. Linux seems too complicating on the surface which is intimidating. And politics suck (see systemd).
I don't think OSX currently supports this out of the box. My suspicion is that the next version will, but in an automagical way that only works with iPhones (probably by marking iPhone tethers as a different kind of connection from regular wifi).
It's a good piece of software. I left it off because EROS, a superior work, was already mentioned. Also QNX for performance/reliability. I was aiming for totally different types of designs where possible. seL4 is cool, though, and being integrated into GenodeOS.
The amount is enough to travel the world for a year. Unless you want to spoil yourself with first class flights and 5 star hotels you'd be hard pressed to even spent it.

How about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro (takes a week), then relax on the beach for a week and give the remaining 15k to a local orphanage?
Lexus Hoverboard: The Science
Tesla owner drives 452 miles on single charge
Didnt know about that. Thanks for the tip. I believe you on the paying for it part, too. ;)
This is not at all, correct.

The most profitable source of income for banks is non-interest bearing checking accounts. On an overnight basis, Fed Fund Rate is 0.25% and Overnight USD LIBOR is at 0.133%. However these checking accounts pay nothing to customers. So, whenever customers deposits any amount of money, banks easily earn at a minimum 13bps out of it.

That is free income for the bank.

Other lucrative source of income for banks are interest bearing checking account and savings account as they pay peanuts to customers compared to what they can lend out to the interbank market.

Disclaimer: I work for a bank in the treasury dept
Let's discuss the difference.

This is as though AT&T printed magazines written by others and advertised in by others, and inserted their own extra advertisements in addition. So they take a 90 page magazine and add an extra 10 pages of ads. Clearly not kosher as they don't have the rights to the articles, ads, or anything. But they're trying to sell it at the AT&T newsstand as though it's the original.

Now suppose that I buy a magazine, and the first thing I do is page through it quickly and rip out all the ads. That's legit right? Once I own it, I can do whatever I want with it. Now suppose I -- after purchasing the magazine -- convince my friend to rip out all the ads for me, before I ever see any of them. Still OK isn't it?

I hope the parallels make it easy to see that what you do with the content once it reaches your computer are very different than what other 3rd parties do to content while it's in transit.
While I don't disagree in the least do you have any other good suggestions?
Even the Flintstones didn't have to batch it all the way. Wonder who Mazda's real competition is?
Right. But that system of using the day to influence instigators is the logical negative way the data can be used. I don't think people have considered that.

It wouldn't be every libdem supporter btw. It would be 300-3000 key actors, or less. That's all you really need to target. Most people stay in line without prompting. I mean that in a statistical, not a critical way.
Why the Restaurant Industry Hates Postmates
I'm currently reading Nick Carr's 'The Shallows'. Enjoying it so far and he makes a fairly strong argument on the neuro changes as our brains adapt.

I've also found it fascinating (yet obvious in hindsight) his discussion of how any technology has an impact on our intellect (it's 'intellectual ethics'). From the invention of clay tablets and papyrus to the typewriter, each has influence on the output and operations of our intellects.
This is really sad. Isn't "competence" a necessary prerequisite for entering into legal contracts?
How to Recover Contacts, SMS from Broken Screen Android Phone/Tablet
Usually it's a staged thing. Robocall -> level 2 operator -> boiler room.

The level 2 people appear very, very bored and are unfazed by you yelling or swearing. They just immediately hang up when they feel you are not a mark.

The boiler room guys are slick as fuck. I once kept one of them on the phone for 10-15 minutes, playing dumb (I told him I was looking for my CC statement). When I hung up, my phone rang immediately. I told him to fuck off and take me off his list. He said "you'll regret this" and hung up. My phone rang immediately and the person at the other end was just yelling. It was someone like me that was redirected to my phone #. I unplugged my phone for 30 minutes.

I googled for the phrases they used ("credit card services") and found a law suit in Texas from the early 2000's. The company was shutdown and fined. There was a lawyer's name on the press release. I called information, found him, dialed the number. He answered. I introduced myself and told him briefly what had happened and he was pretty interested. He lectured me, though, to not get involved. He said they were pretty nasty people. He recommended I call AT&T (my provider at the time) and file a complaint. I started the process, but AT&T made the process so fucking horrible that I abandoned it after putting in an hour or two over a few days. Useless.
Where are you? It is not the same if you are already in Europe, Asia, etc...
Can apps control backlight level? I can't recall using one that's ever tried.
Could there be a more inflammatory click baity title for this?
Fascinating businesses. I bet some smart hacker could totally improve this process, though.
It's a thought experiment. Assuming I haven't travelled in years and may not be able to again. Decadence was not the goal, as is neither spending or wasting all the money unnecessarily. It's the classic pickle, stay in a few places for a long time or barely get to know/appreciate multiple. Honestly looking for ideas I can expand on...
I humbly disagree.
American residing in US
3D printing titanium: Learning to learn from success
Hey all, just posting an update to some older work that I did (and that got posted here by someone else) a few months ago.

tl;dr: It's totally possible to print titanium bicycle parts, but the business model needs a bit more work still.

For reference, this is the thread from my last blog post on the subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9216474

Cheers,
Spencer Wright