skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This just strikes me as post modernist / relativist bullshit. You're claiming that the real problem is not a population largely persuaded to vote against it's own interests inside a voting system which fundamentally empowers party insiders at the expense of the population.

No the problem is ALL OF US, we're just as emotional as these manipulated people!!11 Stop worrying about the broken voting system, the owned press and mislead population. Instead worry about your own emotionally driven mind.

It appears like a wise argument against HN hubris but you're really trying to derail people from a clear view of a problem and instead move the debate into introspection.
You beautifully illustrate Bertrand's point. Of course we can think geeks is better. We've got a ton of data to look at.
If you actually understood the words you were saying, you'd realize that the topic of this thread is that users are the product even though they've paid for the software.

The solution to this problem is software that is free as in freedom, not snarky comments in support of MS.
There is a bit of a selection bias at play. The selection of ancient Greece and Rome are in a large part due to those dark-age intelligentsia; they and their successors picked those books to be the basis of knowledge.
What? I have a legit install of 7, and it never bloody stops nagging me to accept a free upgrade to 10.
Asynchronous values as first-class citizens in Swift
Hey LinkedIn, I Really Like You But
I can only suggest you file a bug.
I learned how to program on a C64, an A500 and a A1200.

When Commodore went bankrupt I was so heart broken I considered quitting programming.

According to this article, Irvine Gould had a lot to do with this.

Not sure what to feel for the man.

Edit: grammar.
>> emergence of the rule of law made the modern economy as we know it possible

The world has had laws since the beginning of man's time on this planet. What made the last 100-200 years different for the US and for the world has been free market economy, not laws alone.

>> It did - social progress has made institutions like democracy and ideas like liberty and rationalism more popular than it has ever been in history.

Democracy by itself fails. The most successful partial Democracy has been the US which is a Democratic Republic, not a true Democracy or Republic, the strength lies in the constant struggle of both.

>> that the modern society is a stable scientific one

Societal stability has nothing to do with science and everything to do with the choices people make every day and the military that defends a free world.

>> Even in the most democratic countries of the world, fascism is only just around the corner.

[Even in the most democratic countries of the world, Communism is only just around the corner.]
This article is just ridiculous, the author is going out of their way to attack microsoft instead of just reporting the facts. Terrible journalism.

>We already knew Windows 10 Threshold deleted third-party data monitoring tools and cleanup tools, including stalwarts like Spybot and CCleaner. It even disabled Cisco’s VPN software. Just a bug, said Microsoft.

>Two bugs would be a puzzling coincidence

What makes the existence of software bugs "puzzling"?

> The data that DiagTrack collected was typical of a spyware programme

So credit cards, passwords, etc... right?

>Examples of data we collect include your name, email address, preferences and interests; browsing, search and file history; phone call and SMS data; device configuration and sensor data; and application usage.

I guess not?

> The only way you knew you were being monitored was by eyeballing the list of running processes in Task Manager.

That doesn't sound very spyware-esque, you'd probably want to be hiding yourself from the task manager.
Great point.

It's why the Elon Musk's, Larry Page's and Bill Gates of the tech world retreat into their own private dreamlands as far away from the politics of the real world as possible, cause they know they don't stand a chance against the rhetorical snake charmers that are Bush, Obama, Clinton and now Trump.

I'll leave here, Matt Taibbi's more modern take on this that blames the media or what I like to call the rhetoric amplification industry.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/america-is-too-dum...

The solutions are complex but eventually we'll have to start looking at China. Cause no one else seems to be working on alternatives to what the media has become today.
Just one level above editing raw html. I manually put the deals in a yaml file, and then have a ruby script render the static HTML whenever I push updates to the git repository.
Great, now they can commit terror with better internet speeds.
Oh joy.

https://youtu.be/iciOjrY_dF8
Do you know what wavelength you were receiving? I would expect to see some clouds. Northern Scandinavia was a bit cloudy today.

http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/IMAGERY/IR039/BW/WE...
What do you mean you don't want it? Just look at the long list of features mentioned in this thread that you will get if you upgrade!
Yes, it is rough, and your feedback will help with that. In fact, at start, I was looking to do this in ReactDom but I didn't find the right hooks for it. I'll contact you soon see what can be done about all those issues.
Play Chess on @Twitter feature added
> I would never quote Sweden as an example of democracy.

Yeah. It's a monarchy.
I am sure it must be possible, otherwise windows would become completely unsuitable for any enterprise environment.

Quite frankly, if I was the CIO of a large company, it would take a lot of explaining from Microsoft representatives after reading an article like that, to convince myself that my confidential data is not going to leak in mass. Just by the name of a file opened you can tell an M&A transaction.

But enterprises have the staff and the budget to look at these things. But they are not the only ones handling very sensitive data. What about journalists, doctors or lawyers? They don't use enterprise licenses.
I would very much like to have this data :)
I think you are projecting the narriative of Progres (TM) onto the accurate facts you are presenting.

i.e. the Catholic Church did not invent checks and balances. They used to have those in the Old Republic, but those were abandoned after the Roman Civilization reached the appex of its, let's call it cultural vitality. I see the authoritarism of the Caesars as a symptom of Rome having run out of fresh ideas, they "jumped the shark" if you will.

I agree the Middle Ages were not some sort of dystopian hell. There was a Dark age after (or more precisely, around) the time when Rome fell. Those were hungry and dangerous times, and the people that survived were more impoverished (both in the material and the intelectual sense) than their forefathers, but survive they did. The Middle Ages is what resulted when the survivors rebuilt society out of the wreckage.

I agree that many former Roman institutions were repurposed during those times, but I do not see this as a way of purposeful progress. Rather, those obsolete institutions were salvaged and repurposed by the new Medieval society for its own needs. Superficially they look like a continuation of the same, but they were successful because they had a different cultural sensitivity, they had fresh ideas now, with their own new values and their own expectations of how things should be. And they pushed those in directions that no old Roman philosopher would've been able to imagine.

I think people tend to conflate Middle Ages with "Dark age" because the Middle Ages ended in a relatively mild collapse. The (Christian) Reformation and the Enlightenment allowed much of the cultural treasures of the past age to be preserved, but also caused warfare, famine, dislocation of whole nations, etc. Again, hungry and dangerous times, and again the survivors picked up the pieces and build the world we know today.

Our world looks superficialy like a continuation of the Renaissance, but it is not. The Renaissance is the apex of the cultural vitality of the Middle Ages, and our own World's foundations rest upon many of its repurposed ideas and institutions. But it had ideas and values of our own, and our forefathers took that in directions that no Scholastic monk would have ever imagined.

So, you can see, we are no closer to a future of endless joy, anymore than any other society that inhabited this planet ever did. We are going our own way around the cycle, and clearly we have ran out of fresh ideas ourselves.

I will not pretend to be subtle, our times will be on the down slope and depending on how fast this proceeds we ourselves or our children may end up in one of those dark ages (no uppercase, thank you very much) where hungry and dangerous is the norm. And then others will come and pick up the pieces. I guess what I expect to acomplish in life is to leave behind some cultural artifacts in good working order; and I hope that, one or two centuries from now, some smart guy will pick those up and push them in directions that I'd never be able to imagine.
You can`t have a pet in London?
Implementing a Python SOAP Client with Suds
Two Things to Do After Every Meeting
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spdy-indicato...
My kid loves the PBS show "cat in a hat". There is an episode about the Tardigrade (#207):

> Synopsis: Nick and Sally are trying to guess what animal is the toughest one — is it a lion? Oh no, it must be the enormous elephant! Why not at all, says The Cat. The toughest of all is a teeny tiny Waterbear. Huh?

> Educational Objective: How TARDIGRADES (also known as Waterbears) survive extreme heat, cold and even being a trip into space.
>The only way out is probably strict technocracy run by benevolent AIs - but it's not one that anyone is going to be willing to accept, as by doing so one loses much of what it is to be human.

This is along the lines of Plato's philosopher kings, who he insisted were the only hope. This is fascist crap. Benevolent Philosopher kings don't exist, and neither do benevolent AIs.

There was, in fact, rule by philosopher kings in Plato's generation, by a gang of thirty who learned from Socrates. Unsurprisingly, they were brutal fascists. An AI regime would be the same.

This is because there is only one way to ensure human needs are met, and it isn't technocratic anything. It is to ask people and empower them to get what they need directly. I.e. democracy, in as direct and total a form as we can manage efficiently.
Zerg collecting the "essence". Nice.
Theoretically, sure, but practically the amount of turbulence experienced by a supersonic rocket (all of them, except those that blow up in the first 10-30 seconds after lift off) is just insane. Any sort of errors that you would have in the calculation describing the initial explosion (already largely unknown because it's an uncharacterized/unstudied catastrophic failure) would only compound over and over again for minutes until they hit the earth. Most rocket pieces are very dense, like all of the high pressure & cold temperature fuel storage and distribution, and those that don't vaporize tend to have a very high terminal velocity, some even supersonic themselves, adding more turbulence to the calculation. Most catastrophic failures also happen with a decent amount of propellant so there's now a low pressure (less than 1 atm) explosion fueled by literally tons of volatile high pressure liquid which creates even more uncertainty. Oh and hey, since the rocket carries all of its own oxidizer, the explosion usually isn't limited by the availability of atmospheric oxygen.

Simply put, every step in this chain of events is mind bogglingly chaotic and nondeterministic. You can create boundaries for how far the pieces could have possibly traveled using assumptions based on the laws of physics, but even at an altitude of 10km, perfect GPS pre-failure, and subsonic speeds we're talking about an area tens of kilometers in radius before you account for ocean currents that quickly expands to an area that is hundreds of kilometers in radius. All of this happens before the first search ship is even in the area (fastest boat is about 100km/h and that's a racing yacht incapable of search and recovery). This truly is an intractable problem until we have radar covering every cubic kilometer of the earth, and even then it'll still be really difficult.
If it wasn't heard then it didn't fall.
Flight teams prepare for LISA Pathfinder liftoff
More likely there will be LESS terrorism as young guys spend their time watching pron and playing xbox.
This page does not reference Anton 2 (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2683599), there's also a really technical presentation here on the hardware if you're into that (http://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc26/...)
"Coding had actually been my hobby the last couple of years..."

And that's almost certainly why it's worked out well. Someone who is interested in coding enough to actually learn it in their spare time, even if it's only enough to understand the concepts, is immediately ahead of someone who joins a bootcamp because there are "$$$ Companies looking for developers now! $$$" adverts around. To be a developer you have to have a desire to write software; otherwise you're very likely to get bored and give up because, frankly, quite a lot of software development is dull. That's why developers like to automate as many things as possible - to get move the boring stuff out of the way so we can do more of the fun things.

I'd rather hire someone fresh out of a course who writes code in their spare time before I'd hire someone experienced who was only interested in the pay check at the end of the month. Being interested in making things counts for so much in development.
I've always thought a good comparison is to view computer languages as natural spoken languages. Some people are very quick to become fluent, while others, it can take years.
When does a computer become defined as massively parallel? 100+ cores?
Yeah, I'm learning just as much as a hired front end developer as I did at my bootcamp. More narrow focus, which gets you deeper into the subjects.
Study: Rich are less generous when they think there’s high economic inequality
This is an interesting idea - a kind of "goat server", one you feed the stuff the others have already turned down. This could be the one you outfit with the really heavy NewRelic instrumentation and let get bogged down a bit, because there are no users hitting this server.

It could be an interesting addition to the web farm, along with the "canary servers" - web servers identical to your others, taking live traffic, but with fewer compute resources - to catch performance and garbage collection issues before they impact the large boxen.
And 4GB of flash on SoC, also apparently some direct support for LiPO batteries. Not that I really understand it but makes the $9,$8 fair compared to the $5 pizero.
"And bingo! I get to press the button again, woohoo!"

Wonder what the other button does...

On the bright side, they bucked the trend and cited Terry Winograd's research from the 1970s instead of pretending they made this idea all up by themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU
Creative 404 pages of popular design websites
The cheap ones off Aliexpress have fairly inaccurate crystals - they're 100 ppm or more off, which you can compensate for to a certain extent but that's another step. By comparison, the rtl-sdr.com one looks particularly spiffy: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/
228 comments are below the article, that speaks volumes. Most people are very angry about how Microsoft acts. The phone home spyware in recent updates for Win7/8 and Win10 is pretty creepy and probably illegal in several countries. It also speaks volumes how some MS employees defend their company with rather ridiculous comments. Since the MS Build event many MS employees are on HN: if you are one, instead of downvoting try to read the angry comments from consumers below the article.

@Dang / HN admin: who flag such news? Or why is it already on the second page? Can you investigate if there are some voting/flagging-ring/bots active?
Why... So... Visible?
Thanks, I think so as well. Being truly interested in the field makes all the difference. At least is has for me.
I know of a tiny language called Z: http://chrisdone.com/z/
Quizzes and games are not what's fun in education. It's applicability of what
one has learned. You can't solve that with technology, it's a thing on the
side of curriculum.

The fun also comes from exploring an interesting domain, but student needs to
like the domain already to have fun learning, and it's hard to control that.

I know that if all you have is hamme^H^H^H^H^Htechnology, everything looks
like a nai^H^H^Htechnology problem, but it's not the case.

> The truth is , alot if not most or all of the material taught in traditional colleges today can be learnt free of charge on the internet.

Yes, one can find material to learn from on the internet. But for any more
advanced field, beginners won't know what to look for and where to start to get
to the point where they can learn on their own. They'll still need a guide of
a teacher.

External motivation to learn (to get a grade) also plays a big role in
education. Only the most determined can learn their way through without such
thing.

> This would be a really interesting experiment to create if we could get the rich people (people with money) and governments to fund this idea.

You mean, to create competition for Coursera and other MOOC
platforms/services? If all you seek is to have an experiment, try looking at
their results, you don't need to wait.
20 of Buddhas best quotes about life
"Ancient Rome was not a particularly "civilized" place if you look at it by, say, medieval English standards."

One of the odd things about the fascination with Greece and Rome as the basis of all civilization (ahem) is the failure to understand how alien those civilizations were.
Dasani was launched in the UK in the mid-2000s. Was a bit of a marketing disaster and then was found to be contaminated and had to be recalled.
> According to a recent study by Course Report, 36 percent of academy attendees are female, and women who graduate from academies actually earn higher average salaries than men.

Can we please put to rest that women can't make it in this industry?
On HN you're probably expected to be able to change file associations when you don't like them.
We store the .p12 files in git with a fairly long password. Using CircleCI we are able to put the password in as an environment variable which is non-readable through the admin UI once it's set.
Scientists just caught a black hole swallowing a star
Why the Price of Oil Is Doomed
I disagree with almost everything you said. I don't get too involved with group social events but people develop great friendships through this. Hanging out with coworkers outside of work is a good way to see each other as people and not just competition. And getting married for the reasons you described is absolutely horrible advice.
The writings of Plato and Aristotle, in particular, are still widely read among the "well-educated" and continue to exert enormous influence on the world. It is perhaps true that they are not now important of the "normally educated", but this is something that has happened only in last twenty or thirty years, as trend of college educations becomes more and more "vocational".

I don't know what a previous poster meant by mentioning Augustine and Aqunas and then saying "the morality developed during that period" (Augustine 4th century BC, Aquinas 13th century). The truth is that Augustine was especially heavily influenced by Plato and Aquinas' entire philosophy was mostly an attempt to synthesize Aristotle with Christianity. There is a tendency by some Christians to think morality somehow can't exist without God, but the truth is otherwise. The Greeks certainly had well-developed modern morality, along with brilliant moral theory. And the reality is that most of the important advancements in morality have come from "liberal", often secular, thinkers, while Christianity (and other religions) get pulled upward from old barbarisms only while kicking and screaming.
EasySize
I really like the integrated wifi of this one.
If everyone thinks they aren't the ones being misled, and the problem is with other people, how are you going to help them realise what's really going on?

The best type of leading is leading by example. Encouraging introspection by doing it, regardless of whether you think the problem is with you or not, is more likely to bring in good habits faster than telling people they're wrong.
I can see the value of that when someone engages in the designs, but I think the engaging thing there is the choice, not the designs themselves. I'd be curious to know if you could create the same effect with cards that are exactly the same, but simply with different background colors.
It's a classic, but I do think there's more to it than stupidity versus intelligence. It's also about conviction versus cowardice.

In my experience bullying and persecution are very often more about fear and insecurity. If you're persecuting and blaming someone else, you're not being persecuted and blamed yourself. It's a way to deflect hostility and responsibility away from yourself and on to other people. It seems to me most of the people Russel was writing about may not even have been going along with the mainstream because they genuinely thought Jews, Communists etc were a real threat, but because if everyone is having a go at them they're not having a go at me. If I join in then I become one of the team and can buy safety and security for myself that way. In the uncertain and dangerous times Germany had been through, any route to personal security and safety must have looked very attractive.

How is this relevant today? Clearly Putin is using this sort of response to great effect by using conflict and rivalry with foreigners to deflect criticism away from his abysmal record at actually achieving anything of value for the Russian people. Even having a Russian jet shot down by Turkey plays to his advantage in that respect.

For us the question is, how to treat Muslim minorities in the West, and what to do about the Syrian refugee crisis. The refugees didn't create this crisis and are the primary victims. The vast majority of Muslims in the west are against ISIS and deplore it's tactics. But blaming 'The Muslims' for all of this and using excuses such as that terrorists will infiltrate the west disguised as refugees are blinkered and cowardly. What are we going to do? Drive millions of refugees back into the Mediterranean sea?

It's going to take determination and perseverance to do the right thing. Take as many refugees as we can. Build bridges with Muslim communities in the West. Confront IS and it's backers militarily and economically. There will be further attacks. Integrating so many refugees is going to be expensive, hard work and there are going to be negative consequences and mistakes made. It's not going o go smoothly. But we still have to do it not because we are 'Intelligent' but because we have courage.
I don't think it's saying Americans were not stupid. To me it reads more as Americans were not (at that time, in his assessment) allowing stupidity to triumph to nearly the same degree.
It's genius that he convinced journalists that a shell script can move cups from cupboards and milk from refrigerators. Or maybe it's a vending machine latte, which at least explain why the guy is full of rage.
I'll just add that I found the author's story of how he started working at Atari in the first place[1] far more interesting than the present article.

[1] - http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=987