skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really interesting, thanks for sharing.

I guess my reluctance to raise any hopes here is caused by two things;

a) Unless I'm missing a trick this is a legislative issue, and fighting for privacy isn't on the political agenda (except maybe in Iceland because those folks are phenomenal). What's more, until the ERMAGHERD TERRRRRSM narrative changes it won't get a look in, and even then you'd need to get enough people interested in privacy to make it a fair fight against all the lobby groups who'd want to shut you down.

b) Some of these proposals seem overly privacy-centric to me, which I guess is fair in the early stages of an idea, but it makes me worry that it won't be taken any further. The example that comes to my mind is limiting behavioural data to 90 days. Some insights from behavioural data might take a year or more to come to light. While as a consumer I might shrug at 90 days, as someone trying to understand how people use new types of products I personally would push back against that as being unreasonable (and a hinderance to innnovation).
In High School I read through a lot of Don Hopkins' blog on Pie Menus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu) and also wonder why they continue to be infrequent in usage. The interesting thing is that apparently on Don's watch the proliferated somewhat in NextStep, but never quite made the leap to OS X Cocoa (and subsequently iOS), which seems interesting. Maybe there's an AU out there where OS X and iOS are heavily radial menu driven.
You are nuts. Crime in east oakland is almost entirely "poor people vs poor people".
Honest question, what's the deal here? Are these all weird little slips of the tongue people find amusing, like that person in your life who is unintentionally funny, or are these purposeful little zen koans he comes up with to make you think and laugh?

Or is Berra's appeal that you'll never know if its the former or the latter?
(What I'm writing applies to individuals, not mailing lists.)

I think a bounce would be preferable! Why waste someone's time?

I think it should only hell-ban via a special checkmark. By default it should cause a bounce saying that this person is not receiving email from that address. Then neither sender nor recipient have their time wasted going forward.

I mean for the 0.01% of cases where someone would literally create a new address just to continue harrassing you, yeah, you could then hellban their second address.
In terms of Single Page Application frameworks, Angular is very popular. Comparing it to jQuery doesn't really make sense as jQuery is a utility library and doesn't support all of the features that Angular has.
That's hardly a fair comparison. jQuery is a library and Angular is a framework. IIRC, Angular depends on (at least a subset) of jQuery, so it could only approach usage and never exceed.
ReactiveSocket: Application Protocol with Reactive Streams Semantics
I plan to attend his funeral so he'll attend mine. That's just good manners.
It's the dark side of the freedom to customize. Apple's fascism keeps this stuff mostly off their platform. Windows is comparatively open with OEMs having much more leeway, hence shitware.
It makes me wonder if this is the only way to make a profit in the laptop business then perhaps we have bigger problems.
This is correct. I chose this definition of "stroke" for simplicity. It's meant as a proxy measure for "difficulty of writing the letter". A better measure might be "median time it takes to write each letter at an acceptable level of legibility", but that would require a lot more effort. The numerical results will depend on the measure of effort, but I suspect the general point will be the same.
This entire episode is amazing. How did they think they wouldn't get caught?!
It's not quite as straightforward as that with the Z80 either - it has 16 bit addressing, a few 16-bit registers (which can also be treated as two separate 8-bit registers), and instructions for manipulating 16-bit numbers. The 16-bit operations feel a bit like second-class citizens, which I suppose is why it's still regarded as an 8-bit CPU, but they are there.
There is no way, except for downright mad, that winterkorn would put the fate of his company in jeopardy just to pull out diesels from a market. If they had wanted to pull diesels out, they could have said, they don't sell well, people are asking for electrics instead. That's very unlikely speculation without sound basis.

With regard to engineering titling, this was done in Germany, I don't think any more rigidity would have had an effect on countering fraud. We have fraudulent physicians -having the distinction doesn't prevent that.
I develop on a 13" MBair it's the perfect size.

I would go with a 13" and then connect to a monitor at your main work area when you need side by side displays. I use a 23" Acer monitor from amazon and a rain mStand, wireless trackpad and keyboard, It's a great setup for my main work station. Having a 13" air is great for working in other locations, outside and at a coffee shop.
Clevo, fully compatible with the last Ubuntu LTS, shipping worldwide.
Firefox's Brotli support is already done. Chrome's isn't.

By the way, new features are generally created this way. They are added to browsers way before they are standardized. You see, convincing the other browser vendors isn't easy. You need very compelling arguments.

Take WebP, for example. It provides massive benefits. Especially if you can use lossy RGBA instead of PNG32 (easily 80% smaller). And yet, Mozilla shows little interest in implementing it.
Fudge, I have a lenovo just like the one they are talking about. When superfish came out, I had it and managed to get rid of it with the help of the internet. My question; how do I determine if I have this and how do I then get rid of it?
Before You Learn to Code, Ask Yourself Why
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10262719
How are Microsoft meant to respond when there is no concrete accusations to begin with? It would be like trying to nail jello to the wall, they will say one thing and tons of people will claim that isn't what they're accusing Microsoft, and Microsoft is skirting the topic.

This whole thing started because three things happened at once:

- Cortona got released (with a bunch of privacy options, since they want to support the same functionality as Google Now, so email access, location, etc).

- Microsoft moved tons of privacy settings from previous versions of Windows into one unified location.

- Microsoft is trying to do continuous development so wanted analytics related to how people are using their software (so they know what to focus on).

The ironic thing, to me, is that Microsoft unlike Google/Apple/et al decided to put all of the privacy settings in a single location (the new Privacy category in settings), and it was THAT which really got them into trouble. If they had left the privacy settings scattered all over the place, I doubt we'd be discussing this right now.

Ultimately it is up the accusers to show what Microsoft is doing wrong. It isn't up to Microsoft to respond to vague hand waving and FUD. So far I am yet to see one shred of evidence that they do anything beyond what the privacy settings screens claim.
Volkswagen crisis: chief executive Martin Winterkorn resigns
This is why the mobile web is dying
For comparison, Illumina sequencing with normal viral enrichment might use software like Kraken to perform taxonomic identification of resulting reads. Physical isolation as is described in the article[2] can be a decent way to improve SNR.

1. https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/kraken/

2. http://mbio.asm.org/content/6/5/e01491-15
I have issue with HP PC in my parent's home. Some customer feedback program will run in background non-stop and can't be disable/uninstall.

But Standard Windows/Ubuntu linux/Mac OS install all phone home and "check for security upgrade" everyday too.
Where is this social contract? What are its terms and where is my signature?
I just implemented it on one of my sites, and it's pretty good. Well done!
> If you simply send food from Europe to Africa, it disincentives food production in Africa.

That's already happening.

http://www.ipsnews.net/2007/06/africa-food-for-12-billion-so...

> Jean Ziegler, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, alerted the more than 500 delegates that while 854 million people went without food in the world last year, enough food was produced to feed 12 billion people. "This is why a child that dies from famine is murder," Ziegler said.

> Food is being over-produced in industrialised countries where some 349 billion dollars have been spent on agricultural subsidies for a minority of people. Only 2.5 percent of the French and 4.9 percent of the Swiss population are farmers, said Ziegler.

> "You can go to the Dakar market (in Senegal) and find Spanish, French, German and Italian fruit and vegetables at half or one-third of the local prices. The African farmers work 15 hours a day but they cannot compete with subsidies. This is systematically destroying Africa's agriculture," he pointed out.

> "Nothing is being done about the dumping policy. The Third World is feeding us (Europeans). That is what is keeping this system in place."

> Ziegler called the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the "mercenary organisation of the financial oligarchies that dominate the world".

http://www.theguardian.com/world/poverty-matters/2012/oct/05...

> Löpfe: Why is it that Africa is the continent where most people starve and which imports more than a quarter of its food supply?

> Ziegler: Because the colonial pact is still enforced.

> Löpfe: Isn't this a bit too simple? Colonialism has been over for more than half a century.

> Ziegler: But there still is a small upper class, dependent on rich countries, and extremely corrupt. Again Senegal: The country exports peanuts and at the same time imports three quarters of its food requirements.

> Löpfe: Why?

Ziegler: Because the colonial pact was never broken. The Senegalese farmers are forced to grow and exports peanuts because the revenue serves to pay for foreign debt. At the same time, Europe sells its food surplus at dumping prices on the African markets. How can a small farmer survive under these conditions?

> Löpfe: African farmers are not very productive. Their productivity is less than 10 percent of Europe's agriculture. Are they not just lazy?

> Ziegler: On the contrary. Nobody works harder than farmers in Africa. They just cannot thrive because they are not supported: no irrigation, no seed, no draft animals, no tractors, no fertilizer, nothing.
The best move VW can make now is to announce that they will be moving to 100% electric vehicles* over the next decade, as BMW has announced: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bmw-all-models-electric-within...

*edit: see below comment
NASA Spacecraft Takes GPS to New Heights
Ask HN: What is the best domain registrar with a solid api?
We are looking into domain registrars for our project https://cloudfleet.io.

As we expect to register many domains, we need a registrar with a solid API and reseller friendly prices.

What are your experiences?
Who would you recommend?
Ask HN: Is a GitHub profile or a personal website more important as a portfolio?
You could mailbomb someone by getting spam sent with their address as a from address. Then they'd be hellbanned from the internet and mailbombed at the same time. This could become a problem.
I was with you until the thing about four companies that could wipe out Uber. Which companies and how?
I had years of mechanical drawing in high school, and it wasn't until my junior year that the teacher noticed I am left-handed. He started having me create drawings from the lower-right corner to the upper-left, while the right-handed kids drew from upper-left to lower-right. When I switched, I stopped having smudged drawings caused by dragging my hand across the completed parts of the drawings.

Little things.
According to Berra it was the former.
Class and ability in a 5'7" package. A lot of current players in a lot of sports could learn a lesson or two from him.

He had the ability. He had a year where he hit more home runs than strikeouts as a regular player. Like a lot of good catchers, he went on to manage.
It's amazing how many unsubscribe links, which are mandated by law, are broken or flaky.

I just "report spam" now when that happens, and it totally works. No regrets.
The last thing advertisers want is reliable data-- that would just prove how useless the advertising was!
Or you just give up and code with a baby on your lap. Bigger problem for me is a work/sleep balance.
>which means a lot of unwrapping

.unwrap()

In rust is generally a bad pattern to use. Its basically short hand for

let o :Option< u64 >;

let value :u64 = match o {
Some( t ) => t,
None => panic!()
};

So if you don't met the condition, you explode. When ever you see .unwrap() in Rust just mentally switch it for /TODO add error handling */
Author here. I worked on that project part time for the last months. The backend is completely written in Go (Revel framework). There are a lot of features on my todo list but I thought it would be a good time for release.

If you have any insights or questions I'm happy to answer!
This is the problem with angular. Why are people using it as a square peg with a round hole? Is it because people are stupid or is it because angular is stupid?

Looks to me angular is a round peg disguised as a square one.
Hi there. Im sorry you haven't grasped the concept - thats a failing on our part. We have just entered beta and so there are definitely a few things that need refining. I really appreciate the feedback however, and will take an action to review our messaging. Thanks.
I think it has more to do with the eBook ownership model -- you don't really own a book and you get tied down to a particular service to access the book. So you can't lend a book to friend.And if a particular book becomes disputed for copyright or censorship reasons it can just disappear. If you loose access to a service for some reason you can loose all your books (and thus all your $ investment). On top of that the prices are too high. Why is an eBook as much as a physical hardback? The hardback costs money to print and ship. Storing and transferring an eBook is a fraction of that cost.

Finally eReaders/tablets are still not quite comfortable enough to replace books. They need to be lighter, even a bit flexible and cheap.

There are the things that keep me from diving in. If someone came up with a solution to these issues I think we'd see eBooks really take off.
Bye bye Web Summit... after unsubscribing from your email list several times I get sent your emails time and time again, and your affiliate events, and your newsless announcements, etc. Thank you Google.
How to Get Started with Bitcoin Investing
Thanks for the links! I'll consume them as time allows.

The question then becomes, why couldn't the author use them to help pinpoint the source of his issues?
I'm originally from Chicago and have lived in many American cities including NYC in the 1990s. Can confirm, SF is bizarrely filthy especially given how much money is available and its reputation
it's a neat feature for legit websites not wanting to end up on spam filters, though
Functioning 'mechanical gears' seen in nature for the first time (2013)
Quirky files for bankruptcy, will likely sell its IoT company Wink
Oh, this is so ripe for being gamed. How long before some enterprising person implements a simple Javascript bookmarklet that populates the field with random words and phrases, then erases it all before you type your actual comment?
Yogi Berra Quotes:

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

It ain't over till it's over

It's like déjà vu all over again.

No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
They do when everyone else agrees. They call themselves socialist, other people call them socialist, and their policies match most definitions of socialism.

Tell me again why you think we shouldn't rightfully classify many European parties as socialist?
This seems useful.

Also, the tagline is awesome.
"Apple alone has nearly $200 billion in cash that is doing nothing."

Um, I assume they have it invested in some manner.
Yogi Berra, Yankees Hall of Fame Catcher with a One-Of-a-Kind Wit, Dies at 90
This also might be a problem--we may begin finding out that more people carry benign viral infections than we previously thought (ie, subclinical carriers). The more fishing expeditions that we conduct, as opposed to specific viral tests, the more questions we may have about the definition of "clean" blood.
Idiot Test #6: Target VC Fund Size
Thank you for this. I was wondering why I was getting slow responses from their API Gateway. It's "green" on their status board, but based on what I saw Sunday, the two services are linked.
It used to be called Ecmascript 6 (aka ES6), but the name was changed to help enforce a more frequent update. So, it changed from ES6 to Ecmascript 2015 (aka ES2015).
Evaluating the Utility of Vector Differences for Lexical Relation Learning
> Or is Berra's appeal that you'll never know if its the former or the latter?

That's how I take it (the latter) -- you hear something that on the surface sounds dumb, but on second thought, makes sense.

For those that don't know baseball, the catcher position is arguably the most cerebral in the game. Many good managers were once catchers (as they understand hitting and pitching).
We provide a social commerce platform for small businesses to post promotions to their digital audience - e.g. deals and vouchers that are sent and sold to their network via social media, web and email.
Admittedly, the choice of "stroke" definition is an imperfect measure of the cost to write each letter (see my comment above).

Even if you want readability to weigh more heavily than writability into the optimization, wouldn't you agree that increasing writability, at no cost to readability, would be good (it's a "Pareto improvement")? This is the point of the concluding section, which discusses swapping the meaning of existing letters.
I always took them as intentional and think Yogi's humor has a lot in common with Groucho's [1]. Compare:

"I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER"

"Nobody goes there anymore it's too crowded"

But the charm is, you're not quite sure.

[1]: https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx#Quotes
The effective inspection requirements vary. In rural areas outside of city limits (with the possible exception of really wealthy counties) no remodel is inspected ever. In suburban areas outside of city limits inspection is more likely if plumbing or electricity is involved, but is by no means universal. My impression is that most severe problems are caught by the home inspectors that mortgage lenders require.
and it costs $750 per scan?

seriously though, $1 or $1000, is it priced for insurance or people without insurance
UPDATE: I've made a huge mistake. seduced by the matte black dark side. Avoid all modern Intel CPU/chipsets (post 2006) if you value your privacy and security:

In summary, the Intel Management Engine and its applications are a backdoor with total access to and control over the rest of the PC. The ME is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy, and the libreboot project strongly recommends avoiding it entirely. Since recent versions of it can't be removed, this means avoiding all recent generations of Intel hardware.

http://libreboot.org/faq/#intel

Original comment follows:

Former Thinkpad fan. I love my new Dell Rugged Extreme. I got the 12. This thing is built the way Thinkpads used to be (complete with the price tag of a used car).

The only thing(s) I don't like about it is the missing trackpoint. I really miss that. And the fact that black-box UEFI is built in (but what do we know about modern microcode anyway, might as well get some ostensible security measures for 'free'). Oh, one more: the "QD" connectors do not accept standard straps/slings -- only insanely expensive (and hard to find) Dell brand straps/handles.

Everything else about it is outstanding. This thing is a brick with rounded, rubber edges.

Drive over it with your truck. (watch the video)

Use it as body armor. (no, don't really)

Go scuba diving in the arctic. (Check out the frozen-in-an-ice-block video on Youtube.. while running on battery.)

The screen is incredibly bright, but it also has a slick quick-kill for all the lights. Just the thing for when a warlord is on your tail. The multi-color LED backlit keyboard looks awesome.

It runs Kali Linux (built on Debian Jessie) perfectly. Everything works, including the touch screen and stylus, out of the box.
I think the operative phrase there is 'related to the employer's business' -- the other issue is noncompete / IP assignment clauses will be written to be broad, then they force you to win on merits: you have to prove it doesn't relate to their business, and if you lose (because courts introduce a degree of randomness), it doesn't matter what the protection was.

And of course, that possibility has a chilling effect, which is sort of the point of the overly-broad IP assignment.

(But yes, you're totally right, I was conflating IP assignment and noncompete... I've been tangled up in both.)
They give the path to the app in the article so you could check for that.
We lost an icon today...
> I actually gave up waiting for the Haskell community to abandon pervasive laziness, so just moved to other languages.

I certainly wouldn't hold my breath for Haskell abandoning pervasive laziness. It's a core principle of the language (Haskell is, after all, "being lazy with class"); if it were removed, the result would be Haskell in name only.

If you don't want pervasive laziness then using a different language is absolutely the correct thing to do. That's not a bad thing; it's just a case of having different tools for different jobs. Haskell may be the best fit for some projects but not others.
We have been dealing with a large angular front end and our big problem is really more along the lines of using watchers to take the place of what should be handled by a domain model. I don't think this is a problem with Angular but an issue with JSON. I have yet to find something that can take serialized JSON and hydrate a domain object in javascript.
This is exactly what I needed. Easy to use and you are still in control.
Investing in bitcoin is almost as safe as betting all your chips black on roulette
The "Traitorous Eight" are eight men who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957... including Gordon Moore (creator of Moore's Law). They founded Fairchild Semiconductor, which became an incubator of Silicon Valley, and was directly or indirectly involved in the creation of dozens of corporations such as AMD and Intel.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
Heat assisted is fine for write once but helium filled drives actually leak over time and fail because their molecules are so small.
Ehhh I think HN already directs too much of the discourse. I understand the intent of minimum karma downvoting, for example, but I think that encourages elitism, because if you have to be validated with 500 karma before you can downvote, then the implication is that you're in a class of people that's better than others and you don't feel you have to explain yourself.

EDIT: like how this comment is being silently downvoted now. I would like to think that the HN community has a wicked sense of humor.
What makes the Boston startup scene special?
Web Summit Moves from Dublin to Lisbon
>excess income

I don't think this a problem most small publishers have.
Yes. I end up with loads of useful emails in the Spam folder. Mostly it's stuff like shipping and billing notifications. I check the Spam folder daily, now, since so much useful mail ends up there.
Exactly, "report spam" already serves well as "block" as well as "unsubscribe".