skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amusing how the article compares Theranos to Moderna (who are working on a new class of RNA therapies), and then states that "focus" is the main difference. Nevermind the fact that Moderna is trying to solve a real problem (make new cures for rare diseases), while Theranos is trying (and failing) to build a product that only solves the problem of the founder's bloodtest phobia.
Why does this guy seem to have jobs where he either does nothing or where he works every waking moment? Seems to me like he should read up on work-life balance.
I love Terrence Davis. (<- comments!)

Besides that, good job. What I really dislike about this is the people who paid to get their data decrypted, even though this software was designed badly on purpose. It didn't bring much value since people were actually hurt by this (financially). Additionally, that this project was 'open source' made it even easier for the script kiddies to develop the malware.
Q&A isn't necessarily Q&A, it really depends on the audience you target. If you attended an advanced mathematics course would you really be surprised if the lecturer refuses to answer a basic question you are just supposed to know the answer to as a prerequisite? Yes, it comes across as rude but there is a tradeoff because answering it wastes the time of everybody else in the room.

I was pretty active in the first years of SO but over time essentially stopped answering questions and that mostly because the question became less and less interesting. Questions you couldn't easily find an answer to got more and more replaced with questions that are easily answered by just reading the manual of whatever you are trying to use or learning to code to begin with. Another factor is that I got more knowledgeable over the years and previously interesting problems now seem trivial but I am pretty sure this is not the main contributing factor.

Now it depends on what you want SO to be or what it is supposed to be. A source of solutions for non-trivial problems or a copy of or link to the manual of everything out there plus an introduction to software development? I thought of SO as a source of information that you couldn't easily get from manuals, now it looks to me more and more like a collection of manuals, so I lost interest.
Wikipedia says it had no effect on cranial volume, for what that's worth.
So, are you going to determine for us what people are allowed to put on their websites?
Actually the systemd guys looked at upstart for redhat in the beginning, but choose to rewrite it anyway. That had nothing to do with the Canonical entanglement though.

Though I dislike Unity and Mir, I think RedHats understanding of "Open" Source is a lot more disturbing..
https://lwn.net/Articles/432012
> Business owners within 500 feet of one of Hamtramck’s four mosques can’t obtain a liquor license, she complained

Isn't that an illegal violation of the separation of church and state?
You can't look at it in a binary way. Of course it's a bad idea to prescribe people their needs. I wouldn't want someone telling me what I am to have for dinner. But there are also needs that are obviously better left unmet. For instance I may feel a need to take possession of your property. It's not a kind of freedom you'd want to grant to me.
Also, I've recently bought a USB Bluray drive, and I'm really surprised at how hard they made it to play a freaking Bluray movie on a PC. Even the proprietary and expensive software like PowerDVD is crap (does not play every movie). How can they make things this annoying knowing that there's a free alternative (BitTorrent) that always just works?
It's not "censorship" if media outlets won't carry messages they disagree with. It's actually pretty fundamental to freedom of speech that they're not obliged to.

It's a lot easier to find radical and controversial material than at any other period in history, including in the parts of the world where people actually do have to search for "how to set up proxy" before viewing hitherto nonexistent detailed written criticisms of their government.
Just like dry counties or final call?
...until you get addicted to answering questions
Is it? The ultimate reason behind it might be religious, but it's not enshrining religion in law.

I would imagine that it's fine for a county to, say, ban non-halal meat (if they had the power to do so). But it wouldn't be fine to legally mandate daily prayers.
This is an OCR-resistant font designed in 2012:

http://www.z-x-x.org/
What New York Could Look Like in 2020
And Blue Sundays (but final call I'm not so sure)

Also the noise violations for the prayer call

Meanwhile Saudi Arabia condemns atheists to death
and yet despite not having "fixed the SO problem" it's still the most useful programming resource on the internet by a long long way, basically indispensible
As a Kenyan I use it for many transactions, its really nice. The next frontier though is banks adopting the M-Pesa model.
Equity bank, one of the largest and most popular bank in Kenya is issuing sim-cards (it's an MVNO) which can be connected to it's bank accounts, as opposed to M-Pesa where a mobile service provider(Safaricom) is holding the money. This allows more flexibility for both the bank and the customer.
The mobile money landscape is changing rapidly.
I can confirm. This is the case in the whole "Eastern Block". Most people do no work and are perfectly fine with that. At the same time they complain about their low salaries and shitty countries.
As someone who implemented git over SSH in Go recently, I found that page helpful but frustratingly high-level of an overview. It didn't answer some lower-level questions I had.
At Mozilla we are running a program to teach Web Literacy and new digital skills called "Mozilla Clubs" [1] it is based on hands-on activities that are participatory in nature. Basically a group of people that meets regularly to learn and teach about the web in an inclusive and fun way.

Here is our activity aimed to teach about fact checking and credibility:

http://mozilla.github.io/mozilla-club-activity-kraken-the-co...

Be aware that this is aimed at a young crowd but it works with any group. It is a very simple activity but it has all the basis needed to understand that not all the stuff online is gold.

This is just one activity in our "Web Basics I" curriculum. This set of activities aim to teach the basics of Web/Internet understanding and mechanics.

[1]: more info about Mozilla Clubs at: http://teach.mozilla.org/clubs
What's even worse is that even today Belgium fails to realize what a great cultural heritage they have in Paul Otlet's work. The remainders of his collection are dumped in a museum in the city of Mons which completely misses the chance to explain the originality and reach of Otlet's work and ideas.
"We envisage increasing competition between energy resources," he said. "This will likely result in increased competition in the energy market and disruption for the incumbent." - speaking of clean energy sources.

Making the scenario competitive is the only way indeed, responsibility assignation like Kyoto protocol are meh.
Cultivating mushrooms at commercial levels have been, and still is, incredibly difficult. Many of the most desirable mushrooms are still so poorly understood that cultivation involves "get things mostly right, spread spores, wait, try again, and maybe you get lucky".

E.g. chantarelle mushrooms are an example that is tricky [1] and where commercial cultivation is just in its very early infancy despite being an extremely attractive goal for people to cultivate because of its price.

I've not tried the ones mentioned, but I've picked maybe a couple dozen different types and their taste and texture varies so wildly that I'd not be surprised at all if some of them get close. I've tried smaller puffball varieties, and they're in any case nice.

They're also "easy" ones to learn as there's very few poisonous varieties and I believe only a few similar mushrooms you might mistake for puffballs (but if you want to pick them - or any type of mushrooms - check local advice on what to look for; a common problem with picking mushrooms given the sheer variety, is if you pick somewhere new and don't realise there are poisonous varieties you're unfamiliar with that look similar to the ones you're picking - always familiarise yourself not just with what the mushrooms you want to pick look like, but also specifically how they differ from similar poisonous ones in the area)

[1] http://www.gardenguides.com/127093-grow-chanterelle-mushroom...
The unicorn had a meaning similar to "rare/holy grail" long before it started being used for startups.
A little off topic but is iMessage encrypted in China? I couldn't find an answer in a quick search.
Well lets hope that someone somewhere in that government has a clue about what is supposed to be the future of employment anyway.

I don't /want/ to be employed by a company. I did it for many years, and I'm sick of politics and mental sclerosis. I want to be a mercenary. I'm a great engineer (no really, been doing that 30 years, and I've loved every bit of it) and I want to do /just that/.
As a contractor, I can do that. I take the risks with it too, I can be out of work, or even leave a project I don't like if I feel like it. Yes I make more money, but there's /risk/ involved. Oh, and I do pay taxes, I'm quite happy about it too. I'm not googleapplezon!

And the thing is, my clients don't need me full time. They'd don't need to, once the development and design phase are done, well, I can go and do something else -- so they pay me more, but it's a fixed cost, not an ongoing one.

So common .gov, stop fscking with us!
Those apply to everyone in the jurisdiction at least, though blue laws are often widely acknowledged as being religious laws that have fallen through the cracks (even though, oddly, Christianity doesn't have any prohibitions on drinking that I know of). Still, they don't say "you can't eat bacon if you live close to a Jew and they tell you to stop." That's insane that a law is in place that says people of a certain religion can tell you what to do simply by virtue of being near you.
Is unfortunate how she mixes racism and sexism in this essay, which makes the subject too broad, specially when bringing things like "only 30% of google is female", firstly because such companies are the ones making the "internet dream" die, so you are asking diversity by the "enemy", also when the "internet dream started" it was a lot less diverse than now, the steryotype of lonely male teenager messing with computers is silly but it IS based on real life mostly because men are more likely to be loners who seek refuegee in things like tech, D&D and such "hobbies". And nobody would care for diversity if this particula hobby (tech) weren't the one shaping the world.
I read this article as quasi-racist fearmongering, jumping on the Trump bandwagon for circulation figures. Shameful yellow journalism, in other words.

Imagine how this article would read if for "muslim" you substituted "hispanic" or "jew" or "african-american". Alarmist? Racist? Hostile? Got it in one. Now how is structuring the narrative around muslims any different?

(There's a classic saying in newsroom culture: "if it bleeds, it leads" -- which is why for the past week our news has been saturated with the muslims are coming! Be afraid! rhetoric. It doesn't sell newspapers to point out that there are around 2 billion muslims world-wide, of whom maybe 20,000 are active jihadis in AQ and Da'esh; the rest are just ordinary folks who are happy to get along, and overall they've killed vastly fewer people on American or European soil than home-grown terrorists over the past five decades.)

NB: expecting downvotes, because nothing triggers a witch-hunt like a media panic over [insert terrifying incomprehensible foreign threat here].
The weird reason is that customers are totally fine with buying and using crap. Until that changes, there will be no incentive for doing good development.
Simple Routing with Redux and React
I think that you could make a good-faith effort to get rid of as many as possible, for instance by grepping the code tree for the word "Canonical" (with a capital C) and manually scanning all images. Then if Canonical find something you missed you can promptly remove it. At that point any infringement is de minimis and not something they can build a case on.
The Asian financial crisis kicked off because Thailand tried to maintain a fixed exchange rate and then was unable to because too many people were trying to change Bhat into foreign currency and they'd run out so let the Bhat half in value in a panic. Then people who had foreign debt and had counted on changing Bhat to make the repayments couldn't and defaulted. Had they floated a bit earlier before things got hairy they might have been ok.
As someone who is outside of the security research community, the repeated assertion that "telegram is broken" is rather hard to accept without an example exploit. I would really appreciate if someone with the knowledge of how to break something like this took the time they would spend writing a blog post about it being broken and instead demonstrated an attack.

Having relatively low security requirements (I simply don't want to see ads based on my conversations), I'll continue using it to talk with my friends and family until someone demonstrates an exploit.
There is also the "reader view" of Firefox. This is present on all Firefox browsers so it works on Mac OS X, Linux, Windows and Android.

More info at: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...

PS: This is not the pocket thing.
As I understand it Fedora is where RHEL comes from is it not? So Redhat replace in their own branding just like everyone else.
They're not devoid of nutrition, just not equivalent to meat. And most people in the developed world where most meat is consumed don't have a problem with getting enough calories, but getting too much.
GNU/Linux is considerably easier to use for non-professional administrators. Especially well battle-tested distributions like Debian and derivatives.

For example, if you want to deploy a Rails application, you can find working ‘init’ files for Debian & Co. easily. If you use FreeBSD, you have to write your own init files. It’s not hard but might be one or two hours of work for someone familiar with *BSD before you get them to work correctly.

Then you have docker on linux. FreeBSD added docker support in June 2015 and according to their website is not production ready. OpenBSD doesn’t support docker. For small dev teams supporting their products or for bigger teams which work with micro-services docker is heaven-sent. It allows you to run the exact same configuration on the server, out of the box by just mapping a few ports.

Likewise, there are many tutorials, howto’s, etc. which make it trivial to setup a HA-Proxy under Linux. But if you need to setup CARP+HAST under FreeBSD you have to go through the official documentation - which is top quality material - and find your way from there. It’s not a 10-minute copy/paste thing.

Add to that a rather elitist culture e.g. BSD is designed, Linux is grown - roughly translated as ‘we are engineers, you are hackers’ which in many cases is not far from the truth and you have an explosive mixture which renders BSDs obsolete.

That said, I find strange the fact that so many corporations choose to support GNU/Linux over BSD in terms of driver development or funding, given that the BSD license is way more permissive. This was the reason Linux picked-up early on and became way more popular than BSD among hacker, but when corporations jumped-in, they didn’t choose BSD, they went with linux. I am not sure if this was a data-driven decision or it was just a matter of technical people in decision-making positions have a lot more sympathy for Linux than BSD.

At this point in time, GNU/Linux has clearly won the race. However, if someone would ask me to setup a ‘secure’ mail-server, file-server, whatever without specific requirements (e.g. docker, LVM, etc.) I’d probably go with BSD.
>India itself is a big importer of horns and I think much bigger then China

That's not true at all. In fact India has two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhino population in the Kaziranga National Park.

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

There are armed guards protecting the rhinos and they've even shot and killed poachers, though poaching still happens due to demand from Southeast Asia.

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/3-poachers-killed-by-forest-g...

As per the article below, Vietnam is the country that is driving the current demand for rhino horns.

http://qz.com/82302/theres-a-country-that-will-pay-300000-pe...
Yeah. My Chromebook cannot handle 720p60 on Youtube, but it is a rather low power one with its Celeron N2840.
MP3 is the only audio format that works across all browsers. Vorbis and Opus only work on Firefox, Chrome and Opera.

Aside from that, your comment could really be stated in a less harsh way.
Yes, yes it is. There can't be a (serious) doubt here.
Imagine this same article but substituting it for startup hipsters. Jacking up the rent driving their illegal startup buses. I would argue most of the people who are for these immigrant communities are also against the kind of gentrification happening in the bay.
How did they get so far in the press? I mean they had some of the biggest names in journalism salivating all over them.

How did it get so out of hand?
Most anti-depressants are harmful too (and there are tons of studies about this).

Just because a doctor prescribes them doesn't make them magically healthy long-term.
At work: Tesoro Durandal (brown switches)

At home on desktop: Blank Das silent (also brown switches)

But most of the time outside of work I use my Macbook Air and its standard keyboard.
Not the only reason though. Its exciting because it turns a word into a reasonably sized vector. After that the vector can be fed into neural networks (nueral networks take vectors for input) or operations can be performed. Like Paris - France ~= Beijing - China.
Your starred comment beautifully allowed you to knock down your own strawman. Nicely done. :D

It is worth looking at his comment with the "red" filters removed. The point is that every game has winners and losers. You actually can't have one without the other, by definition. One creates the other.

The real question is just how far do you want to tilt the board before all of the pieces fall off? Money is just a representation of material and effort. Do you really want to leave the decision about where all material and effort are spent up to those who figured out how to win this game? To some degree that's fair, but to what degree?

Remember: there are no self-made men. Anyone who thinks this is deluding themselves. We exist in an interconnected net, where everything is related. There is not one thing sitting within arms reach of you right now that you made completely by your own hand. You are standing, at all times, on the shoulders of others. Hopefully this is a true circle, where those at the top allow those on the bottom to stand on their shoulders.
Show HN: Screenlog.js – use console.log without opening the console
I think that's far from decided.

It's not like the market economy is some distinctive, separate force from humanity; it's made up of people. And perhaps frustratingly, it's made up of all of those who participate, and not by diktat.

I think what maddens some is that masses of people sometimes make decisions we don't necessarily agree with, and often with information we don't think they have. We want change /now/, and that's just not possible with massive systems of people.

So we may look at issues of inequality today and issues of budgets and austerity and whatnot, and assume that we're all heading for the end. But as you insinuate in your earlier comment, man has steadily increased their economic output for centuries. The quality and longevity of life, over time, has increased inexorably. We can't confuse the turbulence of a decade with a scope over centuries.

But all of this I feel is somewhat moot. Because for as many calls as there had been for greater control over market forces, be it mercantilism of the 18th and 19th centuries, or socialism and communism in the 20th, we find that we're still, wherever freely possible, conducting business by barter and exchange, gathering wealth, and acting in our own interests. We do this because it's natural, because it requires no direction from elsewhere, or guidelines to follow that someone else sets. Place a person in whatever place and she or he will try to make themselves a profit.

We can only be frustrated to a point with the way things are, because to go further is to refute who we are. Freedom is desired naturally, be it in rule or economics. Best to help things remain open and fair, and not try and set a direction. People will find the best one for themselves.
Collective intelligence vs. collective stupidity
As a citizen of a country with many such cities[0], I would advise the people of this city to relax, nothing bad is going to happen. The only real issue most Muslims have with any non-Muslim country is that it is a general perception that they're Muslim first[1](just one reference but I can get more). For e.g. in India, most Muslims hate Israel[2] even though Palestine has nothing to do with India's foreign policy objectives except at the UN (which is its own story).
As for the liquor ban, that kind of thing happens in many places. For e.g. in India an Indian state (Maharashtra), banned beef, even though it is only the cow that is sacred in Hinduism and one can slaughter buffaloes.
I am not Muslim and I don't like religion as a concept, but as long as the act of violence is not perpetrated, I don't see what the residents of Hamtramck, MI have to worry about.
[0] http://islamicpopulation.blogspot.se/2010/07/indian-cities-w...
[1] http://baltimorechronicle.com/muslimsfirst_nov02.shtml
[2] http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2010/01/...
Software and hardware are sufficiently complex that the user has only the vaguest idea of what they actually bought. They cannot possibly make a fully informed decision and have to go on partial information.

I don't think it's sensible to say that customers "wanted" VW cars with "defeat devices". In that case, it's not even clear how much of the vendor company knew what was in the product.
Great article. Independent video stores were/are interesting places to visit, it's a shame they're struggling to survive.

I also feel the same about music shops and games arcades. The human element is a big part of what makes the experience compelling. I especially miss games arcades, they gave me some of my fondest childhood memories.
There's no sense of ownership when I flick through and partially watch a dozen movies before settling on The Hunger Games on a boring Monday night.
>The typical size of paper used to carry one dose is 1/4" square. Cutting that into 10 equal sized pieces would be relatively tedious.

Is that considering "tedious" nowadays?
Click through the list of solar power plants, In particular I found this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Pr...

> Melting about 70,000,000 pounds (32,000,000 kg) of salt takes two months.
I'm not sure we're social enough though.

Content industries have killed themselves by selling content as objects-you-own (or rent briefly.) Even Netflix etc work on this model. And torrents are just objects-you-steal.

If the content industries had done more to sell content as an element in a social network - share with friends/family, meet strangers, enjoy relationships of all kinds - they wouldn't be so threatened by P2P. The breakout franchises - Star Trek, Harry Potter, Star Wars - all have this personal and social element. Direct-to-DVD crap movies totally lack it.

Ironically - or maybe not - P2P provides more of that social element. People make requests, comment on uploads, build reputations, and sometimes organise private sharing clubs.

I'm sure torrenting wouldn't have become as popular without that social sharing element.
Are dry counties a violation, then?