skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reddit is known for doing orders of magnitude better coverage of pretty much everything than mainstream media

This is just farcially false. Reddit has good coverage in some areas and bad coverage in other areas. There are a few places where it's gives you the absolute best coverage but, as a counterexample, if Reddit was your only source for news you might think America's #1 problem was an epidemic of false-rape complaints.

Reddit is about where Wikipedia was 5 years in, a sometimes great resource and at the same time a constant punchline about not being a great resource. It has the potential to grow into something as useful or moreso but the jury is still out.
Audi did make a diesel race car. It was quite famous actually.

That said, the main issue with diesel is that while they have a much better torque curve, diesel engines have a much lower RPM limit. This plus the emissions issues make for pretty big compromises.
Edit: I see your point, that mythology by definition implies the supernatural.

At the same time, we have events that had elements attributed to the supernatural, which did take place, and are historically documented. The two need not be mutually exclusive.
I don't see the problem. A friend request is hardly that threatening. If you don't accept his/her fb request, how can he/she bother you?
> If you're a person at risk due to many of the issues described here, you don't belong on Facebook.

Including the "issues" of: being a "Native American...using traditional Irish and Scottish names...[being a] LGBTQ [Facebook] user"? Including the "issue" of just having an unusual name, like Violet Blue?

This is online. We shouldn't HAVE the same tragedies of discrimination as someone buying beer. We definitely shouldn't be promoting requirements that increase the likelihood of those tragedies.
Ask HN: Hackintosh vs Mac Mini
I would like to have a desktop running OSX.

I already have a MBA and the main reason for liking Macs is OSX, machine build quality and the trackpad. As the latter two are not relevant to desktops, I have considered a PC running OSX.

I'm not too interested in having to do too much sysadmin on it - how are Hackintosh systems and can anyone recommend one?
What about reducing bugs through code reuse, in the form of libraries and frameworks? Because they have more users, more bugs have been found, reported and fixed. e.g. using standard libraries instead of writing your own.
What is the price I pay for not participating in Facebook?
3D stacking doesn't answer, strictly speaking, the issues with Moore's Law limits. It instead addresses the very real problem of getting data to/from the processor to external memory. Pins are expensive and the signal speeds aren't keeping up with processor speeds.
There was absolutely no testimony from Carl Mark Force or Shawn Bridges during the trial... Everyone involved (Judge, Defense, Prosecution) knew that charges against the two corrupt agents were coming down the line but they were directed to not mention it since the judge deemed that DEA completed their investigation completely independently of evidence gathered by the two. This is one of the reasons Ulbricht's lawyer kept expressing his outrage and promising a retrial.

This is also why they only accused Ross of 5 hits instead of 6 (The 6th was the one setup by the corrupt agents).
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if you do not include the namespace separator, and you import a namespace with the same name defined, you'll have a not-so-pleasant surprise. e.g.:you use "Exception" to catch all exceptions, and someone defines "SQL\Exception", then you import "SQL", and now all your catch blocks stop working. But don't worry. This is business as usual in the PHP world.
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What about the people who do live single life, who do want their real-life relationships to follow them on-line? Why should we bow down and twist our system for the unfortunate minority that has a stalker problem?

There are ways to deal with those that don't involve designing the entire experience around the special cases. So someone has a restraining order against a stalker. Then it should be enough for them to be able to send a scan of this order to Facebook to mark themselves exempt from real-name policy. There is need for such a problem to influence the way most people experience the service.

Besides, what good does changing profile name do anyway? Even if you'd have a pseudonymous account, you still probably have your real-life friends added on Facebook. Any stalker worth the name will quickly find you by just browsing through friendlists of your friends (if you have a restraining order against him, it means he interacted with you enough to know some of your real-life friends).

You can't solve this problem by changing the service mechanics without ruining it for everyone. This is a kind of matter the police is supposed to deal with, and this in fact is an argument for more cooperation between Facebook and law enforcement.
As much as I hope this is wrong, I think the logical consequence would be a transition from an imbalanced one-to-all surveillance society to an all-to-all surveillance society, i.e. everyone knows everyone else's secret. If we can't take the surveillance part back, all we can do is to equalize it. I don't know myself if this is dystopian or not. I'd just feel very uncomfortable, but maybe that's what a society really is.
The email address is used to send you the link where the results for your domain are shown. If you keep track of this URL yourself, feel free to enter a bogus email.

(domain verification is not related to the email address)
Caps lock master race, reporting in. It's amazing how well-suited Caps lock is to act as the Ctrl key. Go through the pain of remapping for a day, feel great using your new, anatomic Ctrl for the rest of your life.

Seriously, do it now. In two days, you'll thank me.
> On a laptop, I can trivially install a new OS on it, right from the OS vendor.

What rot. Driver problems are not exclusive to phones, nor are custom terrible drivers. This is a problem that exists throughout the spectrum of products.
> or if it's locked down, try to sneak onto their friends list and then gossip

You can't 'sneak' into a friend's list. If you're paranoid enough not to use your real name, you can be paranoid enough to hide your name in searches and lock down your posts; it's not hard.
Isn't "Do the right thing" actually more affirmative?

I recall that "Don't be evil" was criticized for being passive and morally neutral; Alphabet's new motto addresses that.
Posted 5 minutes earlier with a clean URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10335721
I remapped jj to esc, for what it's worth, so I don't have to reach for anything. I'm one of the Capslock-as-ctrl people as well, and a vim user.
Does it now? By Wi-Fi tracking I'm thinking of SSID matching (which are public information), not pinging devices inside a single network.

Your data point about on-but-not-connected Wi-Fi supports both geotracking and SSID tracking. We need more data!
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I'm wondering specifically about keeping the servers on. Server costs are much less than the cost of "keeping the lights on".
> I'm not constantly bombarded by fake friend requests like I am on Twitter, Skype, or any other platform which allows random usernames.

Really? I constantly get Facebook friend requests from pretty women in skimpy clothes with 6 to 10 friends.
If history is any guide, you've got the surveillance directionality mixed up here.

Most fallen regimes that we have good records for - e.g. the Khmer Rouge, the Nazis, and (kind of) the East Germans had various factions competing overtly or covertly for power. Each faction had an intelligence service constructing dossiers on/blackmailing the chiefs and other interesting people associated with other factions. The nominal chief executives were spied on by everyone except their own ultraloyal people.

I don't see any reason to expect different outcomes in America, so most likely the NSA would be closely watching Nixon and everyone else, while Nixon's people tried to do the same.

And of course this isn't a special property of Nixon - it would be very naive to believe there aren't various dossiers on Obama floating around the Virginia/Maryland suburbs.
I don't do this, for some reason. And it makes some sense, because in the case of underscored names on US layout at least, I'm going to be doing shifting inside it anyway, and I'll have to time it right or I'll get uncapitalized letters on either side of the underscores. So I just hold shift the whole way through, switching which hand is shifting if needed.

Maybe I'd use a "shift lock" that's cancelable by holding shift, but since I've recently mapped Caps Lock to Esc and want to keep that, I guess I'd have to make the Esc key into shift lock. Esc is kind of distant, but maybe worth it to avoid RSI typing 10+ character-long sequences holding shift the whole time...
“nah” is a funny way to say “yes, and”
They are doing good job on scaling it but are actually applying all the tourism practices to Makkah and ruining the essence of Hajj. They have commercialized everything which is completely opposite of what Hajj is supposed to be.
Absolutely, (writing off the lost sales).
Java is a fairly ugly OO system, basically. It's purely my opinion, of course, but not an uncommon one.

Since I don't have to use PHP I'm not too upset. I was really just lamenting the state of the world.
A top aide to the CEO sounds like exactly the kind of person who would be the fall guy in a scandal like this. Important enough for the regulators to be happy, but not someone who has actual power in the company.
> Both men developed an international reputation as engineers, said Ferdinand Dudenhöffer head of the Center of Automotive Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

> “It will be difficult for Volkswagen to replace them,” he said.

Genuinely legendary engineers, and allegedly with the balls to cheat (but not quite the balls to stand on principle). It will indeed be hard to find that combination among the remaining legends.
[2013].

Also, skip back up the thread a bit and read the sub-thread where Linus and Sarah continue the discussion. It's a lot more congenial than the click-bait headline suggests, and there's quite a bit of philosophical discussion where Linus explains why he berates people for bad patches. (tl;dr: It saves time for everyone when he is crystal clear about what is likely to make it into the kernel and what is not, and he does nobody any favors when he accepts a lower standard of work than they're capable of.)
[Disclaimer: I'm founder of a competitor (https://circleci.com, which offers CI/CD for iOS and Android as well as web apps, open source, etc).]

I don't know why it shut down, but my guess: customers didn't want to use one CI system for their iOS builds and another for their server-side builds. This was one factor in CircleCI acquiring distiller.io (which was a ship.io competitor) last year.

The history here is very interesting:

The original ship.io product was built by CISimple, and the assets were sold to Electric Cloud after CISimple shut down in 2013.

Electric Cloud is a ~13 year old VC-backed startup that sells a C/C++ build distribution service (think distcc, but much faster and better). (Interesting side-note: EC was founded by prolific HN contributor jgrahamc, and by John Ousterhout, who created TCL and coined the term "scripting language".)

EC's customers are mostly very big embedded systems makers, so it's a very enterprisy market. This market was good but AIUI their revenue growth flattened out sometime after hitting $10m/yr in revenue many years ago

A few years ago EC branched out into the Continuous Delivery space to rekindle that growth. Their continuous delivery products are AFAIK being sold in the same enterprisy top-down fashion as EC, as opposed to the bottom-up developery approach that CircleCI, GitHub, New Relic, Heroku, etc, use.

Ship.io was, I think, the first of EC's products to be sold bottom-up, and that was aimed directly at developers. I believe this is the best way to sell into this market, so it seems ship.io was going in the right direction. In fact, I believe it even operated somewhat autonomously from Electric Cloud, with a separate team based in SF instead of Silicon Valley.

I would guess they shut down because they didn't get product market fit (which would be true if their customers wanted server-side CI in the same product). But it's also possible (pure conjecture here) that the bottom-up autonomous feel of ship.io didn't gel with the top-down enterprisy culture of the mothership.
>This is why they only accused Ross of 5 hits instead of 6 (The 6th was the one setup by the corrupt agents).

man, we're in different Universes. They dropped 5 charges out of 6 and the 6th has made it only as far as an indictment (in Maryland) completely based on the Force's testimony. And that indictment was used as the reason to deny bail and poisoned the rest of the trial.
At the very least you should be aware that these counts usually count cores with hyperthreading twice - and hyperthreading does indeed provide opportunity for increased parallelism but it is noticeably worse than having another separate physical core.
Surveillance technologies themselves is also a tool, dangerous one. It's only bad when wielded by bad characters.

The problem, I feel, is lack of transparency, what exactly is the government collecting, and how they are being used, etc.

Once those information are made public, then we can allow the judiciary system to decide on a case by case level what is allowed and what is not.
You do know that for some years you could find people by phone number, even if they were hiding their profile from search?

And for Facebook’s Caller ID this API endpoint is still existing.
The folks at genode.org are also relying on capabilities for the system. Maybe they have some ideas on how to relate it to application/service programming, and more importantly, how to get from current reality to "good enough"?

I think the last two paragraphs of "Conclusions" are the most interesting part of the thesis.
"Other customers who purchased Nickelback also liked..."
code reuse is actually dangerous though. It's possible to use a library, have an expectation on how it will work, and then forget about that assumption, upgrade/fix something in the library, and proceed to break your assumption. It's a pretty common problem.

Often the time saved using a library is worth the small risk, but if we're talking about "how to write correct software" you'll want to be weary of code reuse.
Ha. Thanks for the note. I'm reading on Mobile Safari, so without it, I would have thought Dorsey's message was just a single, ambiguous tweet.
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> People who are trying to disconnect their Facebook identity from their real world identity are not using Facebook the way it's meant to be used and should probably just leave it.

The way Facebook is "meant" to be used is to maximize their revenue from data mining.

This is clearly not something we, the users, should be caring about.

> That being said, Facebook could definitely do a better job of making it easier for people to prove that a name is their everyday name even when it's not their legal name.

How is that even possible? There's no authority for "proving" nicknames, and I highly doubt Facebook is going to bother hiring judges to evaluate non-standard evidence. Not when it's easier, and more profitable, just to demand everyone's legal name.

> but I'd love to hear an argument over why access to Facebook is a right

Why not flip it around, and ask why Facebook has the right to demand our real names? In some countries, at least, it's seeming that it doesn't. <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/29/germany-fi...
If you have the FB app installed it has access to your contacts.
Yes I know quiet few people from the pre internet days and I remember their handles but not their real names.
So are we actually there yet? I was under the impression that, while face recognition has evolved to the point that face matching against a limited group of people (say, your Facebook friends) is feasible, we're still a long ways off from being able to put a face-scanner in a crowd in NYC and have it spot the 1 suspect among 10 million without a totally ridiculous rate of false positives.
Unless you have a very uncommon name, or live in a smaller city. I live in a 280k city and everyone with my last name in the phonebook is related to me, and on Facebook only me, my sister, my uncle and my cousin have an account.

My full name exists less than a dozen times on Facebook in all of Germany, and the name does not occur anywhere in the world outside of northern Germany.

This is quite an issue.
A little early to freak out, don't you think, EFF? Sure, there was some nasty crap in the leaked text, but what's going to actually be debated and potentially passed as law is the text that was agreed in the wee hours of the morning and isn't available yet. Some things in the negotiations seem to have actually gone against the U.S. IP approach, e.g. biologics protection term. To me it seems wiser to wait until the final text is out before deciding whether/in what ways to oppose it.
Oceania versus Eastasia. Does it really matter?
They are (/were). Not on the executive board of the Volkswagen Group, but on the executive board of the VW/Audi/Porsche brands.
Depends on the language used in the spec, but "CPUs available for scheduling" seems like the definition most software should use. However, I suspect most software is built using an interface that returns the total CPU count for the machine.
Just $3.75 per week for the basic level access.

However that was a little high for me since I don't read them religiously. I'd probably go for $100/year but twice that is a bit too much.

Currently I have firefox set to open them in a private browsing tab.
No, he didn't.

As much as he'd like to make it like we don't fix bugs, our public bug tracker is one click away and shows that out of the 25 open issues and the 493 closed issues, none mentions even remotely a pending crash that he is experiencing. He does have some feature requests and bugs though, with many handled already, so it seems that he does knows where to find it when he needs to.

As for his concerns, yes he did tell me, he sent me 16 mails yesterday, including the one with the trace. Unfortunately, he sent it past midnight, at about the same time he made it public because he just couldn't wait until morning to disclose.
Yeah, they have the time period off. It wasn't so much us Baby Boomers as the prior gen, after the War, that experienced that in 46-72 time period. When too many of us Boomers tried to follow their lead, it didn't work out so well. The prosperous era of 82-07 was far less egalitarian than 46-72.
What would cost millions of dollars? Please cut the drama out already and limit yourself to arguments. You're finally starting to display understanding of the patent clause.

Companies wouldn't adopt things under "GPLv3", but they wouldn't a permit GPLv2 either. Or LPGL. Or Apache 2. Or MIT, or BSD, or any license. They permit nothing short of contributors assigning them copyright and the patents, just them (see eg. Webkit's and Chromium's copyright notices and CLAs). And yet, libpng is under a license. So yeah, I agree they'd write their own library - out of their selfishness. Let them.

With the "adopting a web standard" thing you're attempting to further move goal posts. But you fail, and not because your implication that standard bodies would accept permissive licenses is wrong - which it is, because they're exclusively public domain + patent clause (oh and the people building browsers still contribute somehow). You fail because you're mixing apples and oranges again; programs are not parts of standards. Standards describe file formats, and prescribe behavior of programs that process them. They are not concerned with implementations' licenses.

The spec can become a public domain standard, and all would still be well with the library under (L)GPLv3+. Free software should have the edge.
Colors in iOS: Same Value, Different Tonality
I like to make those things too. I also like getting paid for doing something I like.

And like I said, not everyone is lucky enough to where they can give away a lot of their labor.
I can't imagine these companies will be allowed to exist in the wild west for much longer. They are either going to need some strong regulations or they are going to be killed politically. It makes me wonder if the media rush they both started at the beginning of this football season was a preemptive move of desperation to cash in as much as possible before the hammer came down.
Why? Small children have no concept of social signalling by having nice new things, it's wasted on them.
There are phones for which that may not be true.
Or alternatively, run all the major data transformations necessary to get from data to VDOM from the render function, passing as much as possible of the original data to the bottom-most components.
Then people won't use it.

But knowing the internet, people will claim up and down that it doesn't have any value, while still using it. And then call the person greedy for wanting to feed their family.
Trans-Pacific Partnership intellectual property provisions
Cached link for anyone in the UK (FFS BBC): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zd6VUP...
> In real life its fairly easy (and I would say healthy) to have multiple "identities", say your workday exquisitely professional identity and weekend identity which enjoys goofy antics with friends.

I think Facebook primarily targets the second one. Though personally, I find the whole concept of this type of multiple identities weird. Why should I present a different identity at work than I do in personal affairs?

And if your boss objects to your weekend parties, then (unless we're talking PR-heavy industry, you being in the spotlight) you should consider changing jobs. Caring about such issues is as sign of serious problems in the company.
"Questionable people" is hardly a concrete descriptor, nor is it something immediately obvious.

Let's say I meet a guy at a party. Facial scanners detect me with him. He seems like a nice guy, but he is currently on trial for a number of white collar offenses -- I know none of this. "The machine" does and will now assume I hang around questionable people.
A team from UNSW has built a quantum logic gate in silicon for the first time
It does seem quite click-baity. He's not avocating "physical intimidation and violence" at all. He's just saying that you shouldn't be a doormat.

I don't think you even need to "shout" at people. You can reject changes in a civil manner, which I think works better.
Let me rephrase, I don't want it to have access to my contacts and did not realize that it does. Now that I know it likely does, I am discomforted.
So...profiler guided optimization lol.
That has seemed to me like the reasonable approach for a good while now.