skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's something to the idea of "consensual communication". It's odd that we don't allow people to shove food into your mouth without asking but we surely allow people to shovel words into your brain without asking. "Safe spacers" just want a generalization of an ad blocker, and I for one support their right to it (even the ones that go way too far, because determining that is not up to me.)
He's a supernatural being children are assured is real and encouraged to believe in, and give offerings to like a household god, and who is supposedly rewarding or punishing their behavior based on his infallible moral authority and omniscience.

It's probably not religion in the sense that anyone actually worships Santa, but he does qualify as a religious figure.
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The safe space and microaggression movement is primarily a left/liberal/progressive movement. That is objective.
To summarize, there exists at least one person who wants to write their own tools, or at least use open source tools.

For at least this one person, downloading closed source software from the chip manufacturer is not satisfactory.

The comments also add that these downloads can be on the order of 8-20GB.

Has anyone ever wondered what is in those large binaries?

Does someone think the larger size somehow offers potentially more IP protection?

Does the FPGA utilities world have anything like teensy_loader_cli? It's about 28k. Not limited to MS Windows. Works with both BSD and Linux.
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Ask HN: Would you attend a conference as a robot?
There's a conference in your field of work halfway across the country. You'd really like to go, check out the talks and network with a few people. But the plane ticket will be $500, you'll need to pay for hotels for 3 days, as well as eating out since you won't be cooking. Plus your boss isn't so sure about giving you a week off.

But there's another option. The conference is giving you the option to log into a "telepresence robot" which has two way video/audio and can be driven around the conference. You can basically attend the conference from your laptop at a fixed rate of $X/hr.

Example robots:

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/technology/technology/2014/05/140501_TECH_TelepresenceRobot_Prod.jpg.CROP.promovar-medium2.jpg

http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/1589146

What do you think, would this be a viable option for you to attend a conference? Why or why not? Are there any particular robot features you'd want?
Did you overwrite the App Store installed version or did you just download from scratch and install? I overwrote the MAS version and it came up.
A couple of things I don't like about clothing startups is that they don't go after my demographic that has a problem, the cost of the products are way too high and they have an assumption that people have fashion sense.

For example my problem is that I have not-so-lovely male gyno and I produce sweat stains on my T-shirts at a particularly high rate (such that when I find a shirt that fits and looks right its ruined in a couple of months). Thus I like the idea of customizing a piece of clothing but I just can't see how you could make it cost effective given I want to use different materials and cuts. Not to mention I want you to pick a good fashion for my body type.

If the company went after a particular niche.. like shirts for ugly dudes to make ugly dudes look better instead of rich good looking young hipsters.. I might be interested :)
I feel the same way. And it's funny how many people think along similar lines and then go straight to their iPhone without a second thought. It's as if because it's always been that way with the iPhone (no external apps) that it makes it ok.
Lots of downvotes, not much in the way of reasoned response though.
The subject of the sermon to which the student objected was 1 Corinthians 13, about "love."

It would be helpful to know what the student was actually claiming made her/him feel victimized, because given the nature of the university it's easy to imagine how the talk might have included at least some implicit comment about sexuality.

http://www.okwu.edu/blog/2015/11/pat-campbell-and-dr-piper-o...

EDIT: Point being that the story as told by the president is likely to differ from the reality. Could the student have simply come forward to say, hey look there are in fact LGBT students here, I don't agree with this interpretation of scripture, just want to make it known.
The concept has definitely been affected by religions, even having some roots there, but nowadays it's as religious as Easter Bunny. Saint Nicholas is God's earthly avatar: rewarding those who live by his rules and punishing the rest.
Does this fail for anyone else if you are bloocking Google Analytics? (I am using NoScript, I allowed the JS for the site)
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Freedom of speech 2.0, it's like freedom of speech except you go in a sound proof room and scream at the wall. Yay "democracy".
Shouldn't the FPGA do a validation step before loading the bitstream? Or maybe the vendor can give you a validation tool that you have to run before loading the code and if the tool says "this will damage your board", you're liable for all damages?
Hmm... ok... I won't flag for that reason then... but I'm not going to sign up to ft.com just to read their articles, either...
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I would switch if I could find a good open source RAW image editor to rival Photoshop.
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The power of bash (from a newbye viewpoint)
Is amazing what you do with bash. I am learning it and here is an example of what I could gather looking into the man page of the commands to collect the frequencies of comments in HN.

a() {

# frequencies of comments by minutes or hours

# arguments $1 is the id number of the news, $2 can be minutes, hours or days

curl -ks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=$1 | grep -Po "\d+ $2 ago" | sed "s/$2 ago//" | sort -n | uniq -c |awk 'BEGIN {print "$2 \t freq"} {print $2,"\t", $1}'
}

Surely, this could be improved, I would like to see some improvements from bash hackers. But for me is a good and effective example of the power of bash in the realm of small scripts, where I think it is king.
It varies with different games on Steam. Steam doesn't require its DRM, so some games have no DRM, even when installed by Steam, which is great. More critically, though, Steam also doesn't require its DRM be exclusive so some games are protected both by Steam's DRM and something else, where that something else may have its own weird requirements before launching a game.
I'm not sure I follow -- this is what comes up from a random commercial project (I don't believe it's a debug build): http://i.imgur.com/OhdNC5A.png

What part would you refer to as "method variable name"?
We might be arguing for different things. I don't believe in a blanket safe-spacer type. I think we all sometimes desire a place where our thoughts and beliefs are not challenged. For most, that is their family or a close circle of friends. I don't think it's appropriate to allow every venue to be a safe space.
Great writeup - I recently had the opportunity to join a startup as an early employee and ended up turning it down (by way of asking for "too much equity"). Every time I read comments like this, it only reinforces my decision.
> owever, results reported by the NCVS are consistently lower than studies using other methodologies, and researchers have charged that the question wording, context, and sampling methodology used on the NCVS leads a systematic underestimate of the incidence of rape and sexual assault.[5][14][15] A recent assessment of the NCVS methodology conducted by the National Research Council pointed to four flaws in the NCSV approach: the use of a sampling methodology that was inefficient in measuring low-incidence events like rape and sexual assault; the ambiguous wording questions related to sexual violence; the criminal justice definitions of assault; and the lack of privacy offered to survey respondents (phone interview vs. completely anonymous survey). The authors concluded that these flaws make it "highly likely that the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is underestimating rape and sexual assault."[5] The NCVS also differs from other studies by including off campus students among its statistics. Since the risk of assault is higher for students living on campus, the 0.6% reported assault rate is lower than rates reported for campus environments.
The "store" was really great for small/solo developers to release an application. It's really expensive to setup your own server to distribute an application. It's also really annoying to have to patch your apps without a store.

What's changed is that there are lots of open source options for distribution and patching, so developers need a "store" less and less.
> There's a conference in your field of work halfway across the country. You'd really like to go, check out the talks and network with a few people. But the plane ticket will be $500, you'll need to pay for hotels for 3 days, as well as eating out since you won't be cooking. Plus your boss isn't so sure about giving you a week off.

If there is a conference in my field and my boss can't plunk down $1000 for me to go, I'd probably pay out of my own pocket to go—and then try to find a new boss at the conference.

Besides, if I can't get a few days off for the conference I'll not be able to attend as a robot either, would I?
I used to have an app in the MAS but recently removed it and is using Paddle instead.

There are so many things wrong with the MAS.

Sandbox is the biggest complaint I have. I can understand it with the iOS to some degree. At least there they are constantly providing new features and hardware changes to help apps keep being innovative.

To give an example of the Sandbox issue.

We are using AppleScript for some of our logic in the background. Because of the Sandbox every time AS is used a little gear pops up in the top menu of OSX.

This started with Yosemite. But worse than that. The implimentation of this security measure was completely sloppy. The gear didn't just appear it also rearranged the top bar icons and I of course got a horde of users complaining. We tried many things to solve this but had to finally give up and just offer MAS users to switch to our non-MAS version.

You would think that at least people would be able to turn off such a thing with apps they knew were ok. But no.

Furthermore reviews can really make you or break you. For a long time we had good reviews because I spent a lot of time making sure people understood why the spinning gear was there. But after a while one star reviews started appearing and we had no way of mitigating that or contact the user and tell them they could switch to the non MAS app if they had that issue.

And so I finally realized that if you want to actually do any innovation with your apps and built a proper business MAS is not for you.

I am beginning to wonder if there is room for an alternate App Store based on the the Developer Certificate or some security setup open sourced.

Anyway. My next product wont even be going on the MAS. It's simply not worth it. It's just a distribution channel for Apple to show their latest features (the only way you get featured)
Google Killing 32 Bit Chrome
If you used The Unarchiver, Pathfinder or Keka to unzip it, try using OSX's Archive Utility
Why I attend conferences
Elasticsearch with CloudWatch Logs in AWS
> and send it to the other party

Probably that part.
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this is a claim according to the Indian government. Not necessarily true. A related year old article on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Indias-GDP-growth-rate-of-7-0-f...
I switched to KMail around the time when Mozilla announced that they stopped active development of Thunderbird. Lack of any desktop integration in KDE (like new mail icon in notification area) contributed to that.
I would love to take Space Gremlin away from the mac app store. I've had to do some pretty wonky workarounds to offer people a "pro" version to escape the sandbox and it's a constant support headache. I'm just not sure if managing the payment network, licensing and distribution support is going to be even more of a headache.

I'm genuinely surprised that nobody as set up a 3rd party app store that can compete with apple and microsoft and offer a cross platform solution. Get a big company like Adobe to anchor it and I would jump over in a heartbeat.
I'm saying in a time where you are taking the experiences of your father and attributing it to all white/asian middle class people, that isn't necessarily great.
As an adult games are what really flexes my mental capacity. Work and life are kind of on auto pilot since I had years to perfect my system.
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c. 1890

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Sweatshop-189...
Have you even tried Telegram on the Web? It's clearly superior and yes, WhatsApp's solution feels like a nasty hack when compared to it. Also, didn't get that mention to iMessage.
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What do you mean by external / internal?

Do you mean physical / spiritual?
> In a few years the all new HTML Firefox will come out. My bet is that it will suck. It will lack a TON of features that the existing Firefox has, but hey, it's all HTML!

> As much as people complain about XUL not looking native, wait for HTML Firefox, it will take them forever to get where XUL was years ago.

And isn't Mozilla/Netscape literally the poster child for how to destroy your product with a rewrite? They only regained their market share because Microsoft let IE stagnate to a ridiculous degree.

> But now they know that only 10 million or even 1 million people use that feature, and they're only interested in 100 million user features! If Google Chrome doesn't have it, it must not be important!

I've pretty much only stuck with Firefox because of its extensions and the quirky little features it has. The more they focus on aping Chrome, the more they decrease the friction for switching away to it.
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KMail is rather good, though I find settings UI to be non intuitive and poorly organized. Hopefully KF5 based version will address some of that.
The easiest way I can think of would be to render the boat first, then render an invisible depth-only polygon at the top of the boat (that, together with the boat hull, encloses the displaced water volume), and then render the water. This doesn't add much complexity. You already have to draw the water in a pass after the boat because the water is translucent when the view angle is steep enough.
> "There are already cross-platform toolkits that can deliver everything a browser engine can, faster and safely."

Nothing with the reach of web technologies. The closest I can think of is Qt, but there are issues with deploying Qt apps on some platforms.
I don't think Apple would ever allow something of that nature, unfortunately.
The Rust compiler is written in Rust.
This is IMO one of the greatest dangers of leaving those huge corporations like Facebook, Google, Amazon etc. unchecked - they're starting to attack competition by leveraging their primary products (Amazon blocking Chromecasts, Facebook censoring links and pages about their lawsuits are two latest cases) and are working deliberately against interests of greater public (and capitalism itself if we can stretch that :) )

I think it's slowly high time the anti-monopolistic regulation looks into their business practices and starts considering cutting them up into discrete companies per market.
So this is LuaJIT's ffi with some bastardized syntax that immediately becomes incompatible with any other Lua syntax parser, because "pretty."

Just no.
>>Great ideas aren't Eureka moments that come from nothing and suddenly appear in front of us.

Furthermore, many great companies (and one great idea) aren't Eureka moments, but the accumulation of hundreds of smaller, good ideas, brought about by great people, combining to become what appears to be one simple, grand idea to outsiders.
Ask HN: Where can I find a white hat hacker
We run a small startup with very sensitive data. We've done a lot to secure it, but I'd love to get input from a white hat and do some deeper security testing. How do I find a white hat hacker / security expert I can trust and bring into the fold for a security audit?
So, it's basically a re-education (indoctrination) camp disguised as an educational institution and therefore I concur with that "prof" in his plea with that student to beat it and get the heck out of there ASAP and leave this wonderful Christian madrassa and its faculty alone pondering over extremely important theological questions.
Yes and yes. I'm using those features since I migrated my mail there from personally hosting an all forwarding config.
I'm opportunistically supporting more secure messengers by "digital osmosis".

Next to WhatsApp I also have installed:

1. Signal

2. Threema

3. Telegram

And I will use those (in described order) if possible.

Threema seems to be comparatively popular in Germany, while Telegram is at least not among my peers and Signal (the one recommended by Schneier and Snowden) is only used by my gf (b/c I installed it for her).
I did formal debate in high school and university, and agree with wfo - formal debate is possibly one of the worst things to teach if your goal is understanding and critical thinking about topics.

Keep in mind that in a typical formal debate you don't get to pick your sides - you are assigned a position on an issue and must successfully argue in favor of that position. Formal debate is about the art of rhetoric, and explicitly part of the expectation - and the skill taught - is the deliberate distortion/reframing of fact in order to support your case. Anyone who's done formal debates will have learned this, since you're frequently asked to argue positions you personally disagree with.

Formal debate is a craft of being convincing, not of being right.

Not to mention the structure of formal debates means there is a winner and a loser, and so compromise is impossible. The goal isn't to reach an understanding or middle ground, but to completely obliterate your opponent rhetorically. This fits poorly with real life.
Ask HN: Does Google Build Things Like Santa Tracker or Contract Them Out?
> It's honestly baffling because I am sure there are hundreds of very smart people there who must realize this

Everyone attends this school voluntarily, so it's not like someone was hit in the face their first day with the fact that it's a Christian-based curriculum.
> Are you thinking of this thread?

With regard to you admitting bias? I don't recall specifically, we discussed it in depth a few times, so it could very well have been a feeling I left with and not a specific statement (and I'll fully admit I might have been projecting).

> I would doubt anyone who claimed to be unbiased with his history

What I meant was that was that anyone who has a complicated past where they feel misrepresented and that they were treated unfairly is bound to be biased in some way, and to claim otherwise would show a lack of introspection. It wasn't meant to be insulting, or something I thought you should feel the need to defend, it's more a general worldview of mine. Bias is hard to overcome and harder to eliminate. There's plenty of things I would like to think I'm unbiased about, but in reality I'm probably not.

I'm getting a strong feeling of Deja Vu. I think we may have had this discussion or one like it previously.
There are a lot of loopholes companies can use to avoid the minimum salary. See the link below. The minimum hourly rate is $41.00 for Exempt computer software professionals according to that link:

http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Glossary.asp?Button1=E#employee%2...
I think one reason is that you use your Mac to create/develop, whereas you use your iPhone to consume (I'm obviously generalizing). You need more flexibility and control with tools that you use to create/develop.
Looks gorgeous. But ...

I have no idea what this is for, or why I should bother clicking or hovering anywhere.

There is no hook, no narrative, no promise of a reveal.

Closed.
Interesting that WhatsApp didn't bother to update anything that much lately but they took their time to censor Telegram. Cool stuff.
Android 6.0 Doze mode actually distrupts it, I should have perhaps been clearer.
> I'm genuinely surprised that nobody as set up a 3rd party app store that can compete with apple and microsoft and offer a cross platform solution.

Interestingly, the only option I can think of is Steam. They also sell non-game software, but mostly creative tools.
I hadn't taken notice of Telegram until now. I've just told all my friends who are very heavy Facebook chat users about it.

A migration has begun.