skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who is fairly obsessed with cooking and eating good food I've probably gone deeper into this area than the average consumer. There are plenty of authentic, "artisanal" (??? I don't even know what the fuck that means) small-batch food suppliers out there who provide a vastly superior product. I'm friends with some of these people in my area and they are obsessed with their craft and obsessed with putting out the best product. It borderlines on OCD and often leads to a deeply technical knowledge to go along with their sensory skills. I also know a couple frauds who've adopted the trappings of an expert and bluff their way to success. Same as any industry.

At the end of the day, most people aren't capable of tasting the difference anyways. It takes a while to develop the palate required to discern great from good. Most people eat their daily food quickly and don't really pay attention to the flavours of the ingredients. They just want something salty, sweet, crispy and fatty. That sounds condescending but its true and I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Lots of people let the radio or pitchfork tell them what music to listen to and don't care enough to expend the time refining their tastes. Their enjoyment of music is no less valid or real than anyone else's.
you caught me
Universal grammar is a theory about how the human mind processes language. AI and ML don't bear on it at all.
Israel is not really a good yardstick for anything, though:

Fire/bomb/attack drills are practiced by children starting at first grade, and go all the way through school. Most 18 year olds go into the army, and get (at least) basic training in weapons, hand to hand combat, first aid, "operating and taking orders under stress" -- both boys and girls. The entire country conducts a large scale drill of some sort approximately once a year.

It's very hard to tell if any of them is useful or useless, if they stand alone or only together, and essentially how effective they are.

I don't know what you regard as "our societies", but when I was working in the city of london, there was a fire drill every month (and one month, every wednesday - I don't remember why). I couldn't find anyone who knew the history, but the prevailing thought among the people I inquired with was that this goes back either to world war 2 or the great fire of london (1666).
How Being Named the 'Best New Restaurant in America' Hurt My Business
The good drivers that brick clone chips on purpose? http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftd...
Ask HN: Good causes to Donate to?
I have around $250 in Bitcoins (remaining) that I want to donate. So far I have donated to Wikipedia, Tor, FreeBSD and Internet Archive. I'm looking to donate to any other cause that can help technology or freedom progress.

I wanted to donate to EFF but they require "registration" which I'm not interested in.

So basically, I'm looking to donate to:

1. Anything. As long as it benefits people/humanity in a non-profit way.

2. Accepts Bitcoins.

3. Has a simple donation process. Preferably just their Bitcoin address to donate to.

Any suggestions?
tl;dr we don't know what it is, or even if its a real signal.

But glad to see more content-free coverage of this news...
For a beautiful visual explanation, see Toby Schachman's Shadershop videos: http://tobyschachman.com/Shadershop/
it's like gambling. click on 10 articles get 5 not worth reading, a couple that are interesting and might be useful later, and once in a while you get something you can use now.
Do you mean... "Looking at HN" or do you mean "Reading and commenting on HN and getting into arguments with people and checking your karma and replies and upvoting / downvoting / flagging posts and making observations about the correlation between username and karma and generally not even bothering to read TFA or the front page and just trolling the comments section for interesting things to respond to like this"

It probably doesn't make a difference, so cheers.
(Noka isn't the Mast Brothers, in case anyone is confused, but an earlier boutique chocolate seller who was employing the same basic scam.)

That is an impressively thorough and readable set of posts by Scott. I don't care that much about chocolate, but it's still a fascinating takedown.
This totally reminds me of another 'scandal' maybe 10 years ago. Basically same thing. Snippets I remember from an industry insider was.

1. Making consistent batches of high quality chocolate is really hard. And there are only a small number of companies that do that.

2. There absolutely nothing wrong with a company buying chocolate from one of the above and gussying it up by adding ingredients and remolding it. This is called a Chocolatier.

3. There is something wrong with claiming you are making chocolate from scratch. Because seriously you aren't
Would you mind listing the Google Cloud Platform services that have been "taken away"? I'm honestly curious to know if the decision of shutting down services such as Reader impacts your perception towards Google's Cloud offerings.

Disclaimer: I work at Google.
Even with Breivik and the Bataclan attack the US still tops the charts: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/...
> You hustle and cut corners to prove your MVP.

This does not include lying to your customers.
The question I would have is more: what is the value-added of your own compiler here? Could the same think be done with some C++ operator overloading, and a template library, and the runtime?
You're 100% correct and I want to add that most people haven't trained themselves to taste well-enough to tell the difference. Taste is a trainable sense just like eyesight and hearing: a good painter must learn to "see" and a good musician must learn to "hear".

Your second point is dead-on though. Only food obsessives would really notice or care that Mast Bros are frauds.
So are Power Macs
Python-slimta 3.0.0 Release
Also, once you have murder on your mind, every other unlawful deed is free, including the procuring of weapons. I did not follow closely, but IIRC the San Bernardino murderers built their own bombs.

Gun control might be useful, but it is not the panacea that the media and politicians are describing. FYI, access to firearms in Israel and Switzerland is actually easier than in the US, and yet there are fewer (essentially no) mass shootings[0] -- and Paris has much stricter gun control than the either. It's not as simple as recent political speeches make it.

[0] I'm ignoring anything related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - that one's a war, shooting is to be expected, unfortunately.
RE: https://duck.co/help/company/advertising-and-affiliates I think it would be cool if it was possible to do ads direct with DDG.
that looks amazing, but I kinda wish that certain ligatures were optional (which they might be, need to look at the CSS docs again for atom)

I (personally) don't exactly want == to look too similar to a single =, after all!
That's true, but hot polemics don't really belong on HN, and the unz.com URL is still here for anyone who wants to peruse it.
The TSA employs less than 50k people across the country. Around 40 million Americans live at or below the poverty line.

If it was some work program to prevent revolt, it fails at that just as hard as it does at securing the skies.
Evolution. In the distant past, some humans were able to accurately estimate schedules. Since they knew the true difficulty of any task, they didn't bother.

So only the cockeyed optimists reproduced. That's why we can't estimate schedules today.
What's the difference between a food obsessive and somebody that has trained their sense of taste?
If Puerto Rico really wants to play hard ball with creditors, they can declare independence and repudiate the debt.
Probably just "hello world" for an fpga :>
You're not my supervisor!
I disagree. There are perfectly reasonable reasons for Facebook's messenger app to request access to my photos (so I can send them). If I don't use that feature though, there's no reason they should be able to secretly upload all my photos - which they could if they got the permission at install.
By the way, the title you originally submitted ("Reporters at NYT Try Not to Crack Case of Who Owns Their Newspaper") breaks the HN guidelines, which ask you not to rewrite titles unless they are misleading or linkbait.

Using HN titles to editorialize is something we specifically ask people not to do, so please don't do that.
I can't speak to the ultimate legality of your idea, but I would guess that one would be arrested and it would be up to your lawyer to demonstrate that you were acting within the bounds of the law (if you were).

To your first question, I think it's fair to say that both NJ and NYC (and because of NYC, NY to a lesser extent) are generally perceived as being hostile towards firearms and general weapons ownership. If I were to predict states that restricted possession of an inoperable or antique firearm, NJ and NY would be at the top of my list, in that order.

To your second question, the appearance of the object has no bearing on it's legal status as a firearm (laws prohibiting look-alike objects notwithstanding). A pistol frame or lower receiver, incapable of being anything but a paperweight without all the other parts, is a firearm for legal purposes and would get one busted in the same manner as if it were a completely operational firearm.

Weapons laws are nuanced, pedantic, and frustrating. Frequently, they make no rational sense.
I think that the real value is in forcing people to think about optimistic vs worst case estimates - in my experience the initial estimate is almost always actually the optimistic number and when they start to think about risks people tend to become much more conservative.
I agree, and I also think science should be done on something closer to a wiki than a PDF.

Unfortunately, there is no switch to flip that can make this happen. Making the change would require a cultural shift across a majority of scientific disciplines, and the cultural leaders are the ones who are being accused of benefiting from the status quo.
Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly affected how you think?
Mine (they were read in this order, and I have left off many that weren't as good):
Zero to One, Poor Charlie's Almanack, Snowball, The Outsiders (8 CEOs, not the fiction novel), Sapiens, Principles by Ray Dalio, Overcoming the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, The Road to Character
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpIJVWXsBBI
The timing is random.

The comment is trying to convert this thread into the most well-rehearsed flamewar of the last several years. That's not just off topic, it's arson. The HN guidelines explicitly ask you not to do such things on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Also, please stop posting inflammatory rhetoric to HN generally. That's not what this site is for.
This was the first Linux I ever used.
Probably not, but I would guess that the difference is well within the error margin of the original estimates.
It's not in alpha like ReactOS. In my experience, most simple apps work well and many older games run perfectly. If there's something you want to run, check the app DB. It's complete and well maintained.

https://appdb.winehq.org/
Art of the Deal
Amen, the ribbon is the worst thing to happen to MS office.
> The implication is "we choose this as our adjective, because we care more about our ideology than the quality of your user experience".

So how does your implication theory explain the fact that TDF is currently hiring a UX mentor and having a tender to develop and incorporate usability metrics collection for LibreOffice?

They didn't just rename the project for fun - Oracle held on to the OpenOffice trademark and the forkers had to think of something to replace it.
I agree that the oracle of hindsight can often lead us astray.

However, in 2007, it wasn't just known that you could implement a backdoor, but how to do so. This of course means that any constants generated after this point could not be given the benefit of the doubt since anyone could launch this attack (and I think you'll grant me that all major intelligence services knew how to create and use a similar backdoor after 2007). And while USG did not acknowledge a backdoor, there was real, public doubt about the constants: Schneier's article in Wired was titled (notwithstanding Betteridge) "Did NSA put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?"

Those in the standard were of unknown status, but even 2007 Schneier had the appropriately conservative cryptographer response and recommended "not to use Dual_EC_DRBG under any circumstances."

The pieces were there in 2012 for anyone that noticed a new Dual EC dependency being added, but I agree that the knowledge was not well-known enough (though it saddens me that a VPN manufacturer didn't know to avoid it 5 years later).

I still hold to the statement that rekeying Dual EC in 2012 is not a smoking gun on the standard, but more suggestive of an opportunistic attacker using the known mechanism for how to embed such a backdoor. If detected, it's obvious it's a backdoor, but that's not an indictment on the standard's constants (in fact, if you could otherwise attribute the attack to NSA, it's a tiny bit of evidence that either there is no standard backdoor or that USG don't want to use it in this case).

Here's a statement that I think we might disagree on: I believe that no one in 2012 that knew why the provenance of the constants could be a problem would have allowed Dual EC in the codebase in any form. This is why I believe the incremental chance of detection from changing the constants was small and why it'd be worth it to avoid attribution.

That said, I've stated my positions and see no need to continuing pressing legitimate points of disagreement. I just wanted to understand your position.
If you have, say, a 2011-vintage tower, you can do quite a bit to upgrade it: add more RAM (4GB to 12GB or 16GB); add an SSD to replace the HD; add or upgrade the graphics card; add ports via an expansion card etc.

Each upgrade can make a significant difference, and you don't necessarily waste anything, unless you change the graphics card. (If you go from 4GB to 16GB, you waste 2*2GB sodimms.)

Seems to me this was also true of earlier eras, too, only with smaller numbers.
It improves the probability of you getting your stuff, of course, but it isn't an absolute guarantee - see, e.g. http://www.bbc.com/news/10536793
Technically inexperienced
Ulix – a Literate Unix
There was a security update in November : http://www.androidcentral.com/androids-november-security-pat...

And from that link:

> Google also states the "most severe of these issues is a Critical security vulnerability that could enable remote code execution on an affected device through multiple methods such as email, web browsing, and MMS when processing media files,"

Sounds pretty relevant and severe to me.
They don't. The == variant is has double the width.
Is that standard SQL?
We have a local chocolate company where I live (Boston area). Its mexican chocolate. They give tours. Chocolate is a odd thing to make. The machinery was strange. They roast/stone grind beans there.

The chocolate while tasty is remarkably gritty. The bars are decent, but where they do best is the chocolate covered nuts. They're doing well and their chocolate is everywhere. I thought it was pricey, but not so much anymore.

They have a video showing some production (including fitting a stone grinder to modern equipment which is a decent hack)

https://player.vimeo.com/video/33380451

http://www.tazachocolate.com/pages/about-taza
So? Use an automatic layout algorithm that can deal with that. Users will want different font sizes for your labels, too.
The Expert (functional specifications gathering comedy sketch)
Well it was a literate response to a mother asking Einstein for tips. Surely it can be interpreted your way too.
A strong imagination is linked with creativity anyways, which is good for 'hackers' to have. In my honest opinion imagination is useful for everyone.
“Star Wars” products unboxing
The Button Formerly Known as “Mute”
A nitpick, the MGP distillery that produces most (if not all?) of the rye whiskey in question comes from their Indiana plant.
Warburg hypothesis
In hindsight, this was probably a candidate for the basis of OS X before they decided to buy NeXT and go with that
Really, you describe a script which has been around at least three thousand years and is currently being used by over a billion people as "worked well for a while"? What's your basis for saying it "isn't likely to survive the next thousand years"?
"Small barrels also harm the maturation..."

Just to be clear, I agree that I prefer whiskey aged in traditional sized barrels, but it's just a preference.

The whiskey isn't "harmed". I know several people with well trained palates that like or even prefer small barrel whiskey. Same for heat aged, press aged etc.
That's valid, but you want to keep in mind that SQL Server has ONE tempdb that is used across all databases. TempDB is used for temp tables, but TempDB is used for a raft of other features (like snapshot isolation). You need to ensure you don't start getting tempdb contention.
Really cool, but what, if any, are the plans to get it working with Vim? It's the universal editor you're likely to find everywhere.
> Every time the data model changes, you've got to go through manually and find all the places the code needs changed, and hope you didn't miss anything.

Isn't that what tests are for?
Not really the page I linked had ~10 people age 40+:

age 36 SEPT. 28, 2012 Andrew Engeldinger 6 killed, 2 injured
age 43 APRIL 2, 2012 7 killed, 3 injured: Oakland
age 41 OCT. 12, 2011 Scott Dekraai, 8 killed, 1 injured: Seal Beach, Calif.
age 34 AUG. 3, 2010 Omar S. Thornton, 6 killed, 11 injured: Tucson, Ariz.
age 45 FEB. 12, 2010 Amy Bishop 45: 3 killed, 3 wounded: Huntsville, Ala.
age 39 November 5, 2009 Nidal Malik Hasan: fatally shooting 13 people and injuring more than 30

Sure, you could say it's mostly 14-45 but that's true for most criminals and not that useful. And even just on that page there is Gian Luigi Ferri, age 55 JULY 1, 1993
Survives to this day, as the OSF Mach sources in MkLinux were the alleged basis for Mach kernel module emulation in the NextBSD project. This according to Kip Macy's testimony over IRC, at least.
How U.S. Marshals used Redskins tickets to bust fugitives in 1985 sting
So, from the comment at the bottom of the article I played around with the article itself a little more.

If you separate the word innkeeper into two words you can get the following:

89 years
263 of
201 undeciphered
500 words
337 inside
480 numbers

You Win.
Not only are they making more than 200k, they are making WAY more than 200k.
I've specified "agencies" since my first comment, not the CBO. In the US, those are separate branches - executive vs legislative respectively - and use different approaches to build their "baselines."

CBO assumes the government continues current operations and applies the effects of new laws to create their baseline.

Agencies include discretionary spending to create their baseline.

All of this is noted on the Wikipedia page.
It's amazing that none of the commenters so far seem to acknowledge that competition for prestige is one of the forces that fuels research. Take that away people will be less aggressive about pursuing and investing their time in valuable areas of inquiry.

There are downsides to competition but there are considerable upsides also. The bet we make in our culture is that the upsides outweigh the downsides, and based on history it seems to be true.
We took out a 36 sqm billboard in London designed in MSPaint
No it's not. The manpower wasted on active shooter drills are not worth the time spent versus relative risk of an active shooter incident, which are incredibly rare.
The goal is not to secure the luggage; its used as tamper evidence.
This whole conversation is about pay at tech companies, where developers are the primary revenue generator, as opposed to other industries where developers are generally considered a cost center.
Technological utopianism is a great thing and we should have more of it as a thread in the great global conversion. It has a very interesting history if you're prepared to go chase it down, something in every decade from the late 1800s on. Cosmism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism), Bernal's The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (https://www.marxists.org/archive/bernal/works/1920s/soul/ind...), and the more recent paradise engineering of the Hedonistic Imperative (http://hedweb.org/) spring to mind among many, many others.

People like the author of this article have a way of looking at the early transhumanists and saying "well, then the ugly parts of the 20th century happened," and somehow then discarding the original point, the goal, the wonder of the possible. The point still stands, however: that we can in principle engineer utopia, build technologies to eliminate pain, suffering, and death, and create wonders of macroscale engineering along the way. As a species we continue to move in that direction. Despite the intervening mass upheavals and deaths in the past 100 years, isn't 2015 so very much better to live in than 1915? And the 160 million people who died due to war in the 20th century are a small fraction of the ~3 billion (very approximately) who died in total. War is not a big part of the problem, for all that Serious Thinkers seem ponder little else.

More people should be for technological utopianism, with eyes open. It shouldn't be remarkable to sit up and say "we can and should do more to stop suffering and death, and there is no point in stopping until it is all gone." Perhaps it would go faster if it wasn't just the science fiction authors, scientists, and philosophers who gave a little time to appreciate the bounds of the possible.
I'm so used to using and reading the "AS" syntax for aliasing that if I came across this it'd throw me off.

It seems to me that sticking everything in CTEs would be equally as jarring. Writing SQL or reading and understanding someone else's SQL is almost always a non-linear process, not least of all because the processing order by the database engine isn't top-to-bottom.
I'm frequently surprised that wine just works even with the most obscure and odd programs, e.g. exe packed Flash SWFs and programs with weird custom GUIs.
If he had something to gain from voting he would have, but he can use the excuse that he is campaigning (even though that's not much of an excuse).
Being worked on as in it won't make it into 9.5? Or being worked on as in they are working out the kinks still
I wouldn't call it "content-free," since it gives arguments for why it can't be a heavier version of the Higgs, describes multiple hypotheses that will be tested, as well as a timeframe for testing them.
No, that's what types are for. Types are exactly for this. They're far less verbose than tests, they prevent compilation completely on error, they're integrated with your code, they're 100% comprehensive, and they don't contain bugs. Contrarily, tests don't work at all for model changes because the test still retains the old model anyway.
That is an impressive piece of writing - the link in the grandparent post about Noka chocolates leads to an article spread over 10 pages of 500 or more words each, so fairly long form, and I learned a lot about chocolate and the way good quality bulk chocolate is sold to people who make chocolates.

I'm not into chocolate that much myself, but I might get some single origin bars for the choco-holics around me. I suspect they might find the lower sugar / milk content off-putting...
Nice! I'm excited to try out the 64bit support on OSX. Thank you to everyone that works on this!
I think making publications anonymous when initially published and add names later would work.
9.5 is frozen. They are just fixing bugs now. 9.6 at the earliest.
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