skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are you two disagreeing about?

I think we are both supporters of Lovecraft, but I just wanted to say that sometimes when his racism shows it isn't insignificant: to understand the fear he is applying the reader needs to know what racist people of that time feared (ex: voodo).

EDIT: To be clear, I am not trying to say ALL of his fear-invoking was through racism. In some stories during some of the buildup of terror, the reader might miss out if unaware.
He also became the first U.S. president to deal with "Islamic terrorism":

> Jefferson and John Adams ... went to call on Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman. They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves in this way. As Jefferson later reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:

> The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_wor...

It wouldn't be out of place for someone from ISIS to say the exact same thing today.
This is easy to do in this case, as the source is on github: https://github.com/Crypton/statusapp. Also, you can run your own server if you like.
Show HN: Lero – Open group chat
Anyone know the ramifications of this? Is this going to be disruptive, a minor new innovation, or something that has already been around for a while?
Looks like they repurposed snow making machines and put it on a remote controlled mini-caterpiler.

Snow making machines pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=snow+making+machine&tbm=isch
Yeah, Android < 5 is a PITA as there is no secure storage. I almost wish I could make this app require Android 5.
In short: no. This is a political problem that must be solved by laws that people push for. People have been supporting surveillance state or apathetic. Hence, it's winning and their combo of police power + secrecy + immunity is stronger than crypto.
I provided more details on the case, see update :)
I was proposing normal OV SHA1 certs, the key being to restrict to manual issuance to reduce risk and to discourage use. The RapidSSL MD5 collision attack was against automated DV cert issuing and would be obvious to people manually processing CSRs.
For those asking about exporting saved articles, I just found an "Export Stories" link on the web in the profile drop-down menu.
Could someone pretty please explain what dotfiles are and their uses? Google says they're just hidden files :S
>Mathematica is a proprietary software

Nothing wrong with that.

>influenced by the earlier computer algebra systems Macsyma (of which Wolfram was a user) and Schoonschip (whose code Wolfram studied).

Not much wrong with that either.

Even if it was just a clone of those systems when it came out, being the successful clone is enough to make it have merit.

But of course since then it's 1000 times the code size of the initial systems, and 100 times the capabilities.

>It would be the same to defend William Henry "Bill" Gates III, by stating that MS-DOS is significant, while MS-DOS was a renamed form of 86-DOS

Again, MS-DOS is significant. Whether it was innovative (it wasn't) is another thing, but it sure has been historically significant.

Sorry, but it's not always the first product that comes out that defines an era and a market. And copying happens all the time too, and can even evolve into something that the original never was.
Here’s what Obama said in his Sunday night address: An annotated transcript
I think TheOtherHobbes is referring to Google Maps and Waze, not Streetview. Google Maps and Waze, by collecting GPS movements from users, absolutely will learn about light timings, which roundabouts are congested and when, etc. with enough of a sample.
A moat is a competitive advantage that's hard for competitors reproduce or otherwise overcome. Coke's moat is its near universal brand awareness and affinity. Comcast's moat is its infrastructure and political clout. Crossing a moat in any conventional way is very resource intensive and often leaves the challenger vulnerable.
And we are spending another trillion dollars on this?!
Really enjoyed the humble approach to describing the engineering mindset.

Also a great look into how awesome Google management is for letting their software engineers explore spontaneous interests.
Sweeping U.S. education law adds computer science to “well-rounded” subjects
I wonder how many people using UUIDs still write a conditional to verify uniqueness against the previously generated ones.

Edit: not implying there aren't perfectly good reasons to make the check that are unrelated to the probabilities of a collision in the ideal case. Just an idle musing.
Fascinating. But the site damn near killed my Firefox.
How to Switch from the Imperative Mindset
I appreciate the cross referencing / browsing / documentation capabilities of a good IDE. (especially if it has a vim plugin so my fingers know what to do)

If I uncharitably assume that grunt work means "redundant boilerplate", that sounds like more of a language issue than a tool issue. This said as a Java programmer who has been doing a lot of JavaScript this last year, and REALLY appreciates the brevity. Even if your IDE can generate it, that doesn't mean I want to read it.

Java: the language that has to wear a paper bag over its face while it's screwin' ya. :-)

(think of all those Eclipse plugins to visualize fugly XML bogo-DSLs and other cruft for The Enterprise -- sure, there are worse languages out there, but not in common use now)
Wow, so I think you must have really set up a really flammable strawman for me, really tried to read into what I said, or mistaken me for someone else.

All I was trying to say is his racism is occasionally (story-dependent) not insignificant because for a reader to fully appreciate the fears Lovecraft is invoking, the reader needs the capability to understand the fears racists had (such as voodoo).

You are trying to make me sound like I am saying Lovecraft was some sort of propaganda machine for the KKK; I am not. Lovecraft is about the slowly creeping rise of terror and horror in his stories; to miss a step along the way is to miss a subtle piece that makes his works enjoyable.

I am suggesting the very thing you are accusing me of not doing: saying readers need to put aside their own cultural mores of their own society to view a very different society from another time and place.
That's not the same thing though. All those GPU cards have to talk to their memory through a memory bus. I'm talking about a system where memory is divided up among the cores and they all communicate with one another by message passing. This is analogous to the architecture of the human brain.
This exists in the US too for a handful of products. Raisins are the ones I remember (NPR's Planet Money did a story recently that is almost like this one but about raisins).
Absolutely. Further down in the write up I mention that, via Google, I find only 2 schools that have reported notable damage. Damage is a function of other variables, such as the school's building quality and the composition of earth. So this map is meant to show where damage is most likely to have occurred, based on intensity measurements.
Washington freed his slaves upon his death. Jefferson, who had children with slave girl(s), did not grant any freedom after his death. Him being near broke could be a reason, but let us not forget that the Children of an American president and most possibly Grand Children lived in slavery till civil war.
FWIW react components are alerting :)
"Warning: Failed propType: Invalid prop `value` of type `string` supplied to `DropDownMenu`, expected `object`. Check the render method of `SelectField`."

The app is beautiful. The most important you hit right on target is the perspective. Visually this perspective allows the best understanding.
It seems an accurate summary would be, "Another Facebook user discovers that their paying too high a price to use the service."

People often don't think of it in those terms, "In exchange for letting you know everything about me, I will be able to share information with my friends online." But the alternative is paying the costs of running such a service with subscription fees, and well nobody wants to do that either.

One of the more interesting things I hope develops about the Internet with the current "kids" generation is the understanding that the Internet has never been, and never will be "free", and that once that is understood, it will enable companies to be created that provide services payed for by subscription fees rather than influence and data.
I must warn against running only Sync server and relying on Mozilla-hosted Firefox Accounts as there is a way for Mozilla or whoever has access to their servers (served with NSL or whatever force they can't resist) to figure out your plaintext password when you log in to the service.

The issue is, Firefox Accounts login page is served from the network, and you can only blindly trust that the password you type is only passed to a secure JavaScript KDF and not sent anywhere. I really don't know why Mozilla implemented it this way and login UI is not a part of the browser itself.

---

Shameless plug follows.

I didn't like how Mozilla implemented this (a mess of languages and servers, way too complicated to my tastes) and started my own project (Python/Django) that tries to implement standalone Accounts and Sync services in a single package, as small and as simple as it's possible.

It's not usable yet - I didn't have time to work on this any seriously, and over the last year had only spent a few weekends. I can't vouch for its security - on the contrary, it looks somewhat fragile to me and whoever decides to try it must proceed with extreme caution. But I have Accounts part working and some parts of Sync too, so, I guess, someone may consider at least some pieces code useful: https://bitbucket.org/drdaeman/firesync
Sorry, how did you go from finite hard drives (all of those that have been produced) to unlimited storage capacity?
>> It's devastating that this is the kind of work that people deride now for its length and verbose cadence.

Do they? Not being snarky, but longform journalism is incredibly popular at the moment, to the point where some claim that it's the most shared form of content on social media.[1]

[1] http://buzzsumo.com/blog/buzzfeeds-most-shared-content-forma...
'I want to join the NSA. What do you think of that?' by Cory Doctorow
Its not a big issue collect open proxies, and this tool is generate public report.
We accept checking open proxies only because the reports is public opened.

we not collect this proxies because we don`t need public opened proxies - because they useless.
Given the whole point of streaming, as a watcher, is to share the streamers experience, I can't see this being a problem based on my interpretation of the docs, especially if you stream in good faith rather than just showing a slideshow of spoilers!

This of course comes with the caveat that I'm not part of Starfighter, it's simply my interpretation of what they've said.
Much caddy in this one.
+1 btw for the punks
and i added warning
"Don`t check private proxies becouse the reports is public opened and may indexed by Search engines like Google"
Sorry for not finding a name, but there's an early hominid (divergent from us, but not an ancestor) that ate C4 grasses and had the jaw shape for it. They are now extinct. Point being that we can't extrapolate from other species (apes) even if we share an ancestor.

Early humans were probably mostly scavengers anyway until fairly close to the agricultural period. Its unlikely they ate much meat.
Worth a read is the story of Karen Silkwood:

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

Also worth a watch is the film Silkwood based on her time at Kerr McGee:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086312/
In this context, it's referring to various configuration and settings files, which traditionally on Unix platforms are saved in your home directory, either directly as hidden files or within hidden directories (for when there are multiple files needed).

Some examples would include .bashrc for running commands automatically when bash starts, .vimrc for vim preferences, .ssh/ for storing SSH keys and settings, etc.
Suicidal behavior.
How Y Combinator Brings Hardware Startups to Life
Also a great look into how awesome Google management is for letting their software engineers explore spontaneous interests+.

+ at 2am at home :)
I absolutely love the parallels between this story of Ada and Babbage and modern startup dynamics.

Early on, "Babbage was slightly distracted in 1824 by the prospect of joining a life insurance startup". Later, Ada "proposed to take on the role of CEO, with Babbage becoming CTO", where the CTO in this case had a personality that "pushed others away" and the CEO was a "Steve-Jobs-like figure who would lead the vision of the Analytical Engine".

My favourite excerpt from this piece, though, hits home for us programmers who prefer to automate annoying tasks. I found it hilarious, and will probably use this quote in my next commit message: Babbage is said to have exclaimed, “I wish to God these tables had been made by steam!”—and began his lifelong effort to mechanize the production of tables.
"...what they need to do for their family."

Exactly.
The problem is that more recently, long-form journalism has become commoditized. I get the feeling that in the past, you wouldn't see long-form journalism unless the writer could actually do it well. I love this piece of writing, but with modern long-form on the web, too often I've had this feeling that the "long form" is just turgid padding, and there isn't really the understanding of theme, or how the whole is really supposed to exceed the sum of its parts.
Underwater Ejection
Academic B.S. as artificial barriers to entry
You can revert changes to individual files or subtrees in git.
Intellij with vim plugin :-)

I like how you can use command keys to quickly toggle on and off the project file and current-file's-components browsers, leaving the "distraction free" * editor window for much of your work.

* yeah, there's a mode with this name that auto-wacks ALL the supplemental panels, AND the window frame. I don't usually go that far, but it does show that they "get it" as far as what many of us IDE resisters disliked.
My system somehow lost all the original installation files for my programs. Now whenever I try to update a program, it fails on the "removing previous version" step. Insane.
Trying to help you guys with a massive perception problem here and this is what I get back.

I'm not anti AGW. I cannot say I am convinced myself although I work in renewables(need to find and sit down with the numbers some day I fear, none of the AGW proponents seem to care about sharing those though although many care to rubber stamp and label.) But just because I am not convinced myself I hope that doesn't prevent me from pointing out obvious problems that is seen by anyone but that nobody in the party seems to care about?
Also the Digital Ocean API is pretty awesome, although I wish they would return the public key when you make a new droplet. I've had to resort to stuffing one onto the server during a server creation script.
They're configuration files for different *nix programs. For example .vimrc for vim. Or .bashrc for bash. In those dotfiles you can customize how things look or add custom commands etc.

This post is about how you can automated some of that so you can easily replicate the environment you're used to everywhere.
Jefferson did free all his slaves that were his children -- Sally Hemings children (I have never heard of any evidence that he slept with any other). Most likely he did not free the rest of his slaves because he was in a great deal of debt when he died and didn't want that debt to burden his children.
I don't understand your only. Absent a cartel, why can't Warren Buffett (or anyone with a big fun pile of money) buy during high production years, store the syrup and then sell it in low production years?

I totally agree it will be more profitable with the coordination, but that is a big part of why there are frequently laws against coordination.
What exactly is going on? Are we all tripping?
Brotli includes a built-in dictionary that contains a lot of English words, HTML tags, etc. so it will give better compression for that kind of input.
My company lets me spend 66% of my time on whatever I want.
there's also survivorship bias, cabbies that don't use GPS and suck at it don't survive. And also confirmation bias or broken windows - you don't necessarily know what the route could have been... Finally GPS can provide information that knowing a good route can never do - up-to-date traffic.
Yes, exactly this. Across the border in the US, farmers are starting to produce a lot more maple syrup. And there is no cartel here.

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21677990...

As the article points out: "keeping maple syrup expensive limits demand and encourages substitution" (of corn syrup). Meanwhile, "production is outpacing what the Federation can sell. Its “strategic reserve” has swollen to 25m litres of syrup—almost a year’s worth of sales. As America’s output grows, the organisation will have to cut its members’ quotas, stockpile ever more of Quebec’s harvest, or allow prices to fall."
Winston Churchill and Islam
Is it presentable in court? Depends on your jurisdiction.

Can they use it as I can - to translate SSIDs into locations? https://wigle.net/
FaceDirector: Continuous Control of Facial Performance in Video
Black Cab drivers have zero incentive to prolong a route to increase the fare. The pickup fee premium (the charge for simply stepping in the cab) means they want to edecute the route as fast as possible so thry can do more pickups.

A black cab drivers ideal life would be a non stop series of 100 yard journeys.
What if they support Sharia law in place of American law?
I mean wouldn't it be even better to replace that experience with Uber? drive uber for a few years while going to classes for the knowledge, so that you can make money while doing exactly the reinforcement you need to upgrade to the black cabs?
In Alistair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe, there are mentions of the "Americano era", which was an earlier attempt to settle star systems in the way you describe. The Americano civilication crashed in one generation because growing up without parents, a higher percentage (I think ~2-3%) of people became murdering psychopaths. That such people would be off their rockers is a plausible hypothesis, but fortunately no-one's tested it.
Exact dupe of article posted less than an hour ago and still on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10723640

Earlier discussion of a related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722228
I thought this was a wonderfully written account of Ada and Babbage's role in modern computing. It was delightful to see how someone from Victorian society would express the frustration of debugging:

I am in much dismay at having got into so amazing a quagmire & botheration with these Numbers, that I cannot possibly get the thing done today. …. I am now going out on horseback. Tant mieux

Stephen Wolfram does add a few self-congratulatory remarks, but by and large it didn't really bother me for this article. Perhaps this is all part of some grand scheme to inflate his own work, but I learned a lot of history reading the article that I might not otherwise have by researching it myself. I think this piece was well-written enough to be taken at face value.
I notice modern long-form means, "Here's what happened to me when I met this person, in 1,200 words."

Pieces like Frank Sinatra Has a Cold swathe you in the life of the subject, and the writer takes a back seat. You literally will not find the words "I" or "me" used in reference to the writer once in this article. Modern day long form are vanity pieces; little more than well-written diaries or blog posts. So I definitely know where you're coming from, but I think it's simply a lack of discipline of the writers to take themselves out of the story. It's part of the reason I can't stand the Serial series.
And yet he is more productive than 90% of developers. And it's no surprise.

Walking through a standard tech office you find half the people on random websites like hn instead of working.

The remaining half have dozens of apps open with the devs rapidly switching between them, as if cycling between 5 chat windows, 10 browser tabs, a couple of text editors, a work email client, a personal email client, and an IDE every couple of mins is productive.
At least 33,480 former nuclear workers who received compensation are dead

Yes, and 100% of US soldiers who were shot at in the first world war are dead, even if none of the bullets ever hit them!

Counting deaths makes sense for a short-term event (e.g., X residents of Hiroshima died within a week of the bomb being dropped) but when you're looking at deaths over the course of 70 years, you need to either adjust for the number of individuals who would have died from natural causes or (much better) estimate how many QALYs were lost compared to their natural lifespan.

I have no doubt that there were real health and safety problems with the production and maintenance of the US nuclear arsenal -- particularly in the early days when the issues were poorly understood -- but statistics like the above do nothing to inform and a great deal to mislead, and should be avoided whenever possible.
Plutonium 238 is something we need a lot more of for deep space flight.

http://kumar.party/2015/07/04/nasa-needs-plutonium%E2%80%8A-...
As long as they are white and christian, yes. This week I learned on this very forum the US opened up to non-EU immigrants only after 1965?

That is what they are referring to, right?
Stallman has always been pretty anachronistic. Sometimes I think he's trolling us:
http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/

"For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I
also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I
send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me.
It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time."
That is a good observation, but it does scale with the supply/demand ratio. If the demand is slack, and getting 100 yard journeys would be difficult, then this is not necessarily true anymore.
What i do after a fresh Mac OS X install
That's from the same researchers, but is a different project. Note that this is 3D.

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/timelapse/

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/timelapse3d/
We still have no clue about the architecture of the human brain. Even if we did, it's not clear we need to replicate it.

My point is - even if we had, say, a million times more flops, and a million times more memory than the largest supercomputer today, we would still have no clue what to do with it. The problem is lack of algorithms, lack of theory, not lack of hardware.
>when they got their education, it was possible to earn enough money working in a summer to cover their tuition and living expenses for the rest of the year. Or that it used to be possible to earn a middle-class income with no education beyond high school.

Talking about the US or EU, I guess?

Any idea why it was that way, back then (also, when was "then"?) and not so now?
Germany just fired up a machine that could revolutionize the way we use energy