skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a sad end to a line of good news services in the US.

My ex gf and I used to be regular viewers of Newsworld International. They showed excellent international news programs and a lot of broadcasts from CBC. We were disappointed when Current took over and watched the switchover as NWI's cast signed off the last time and Current started.

Current turned out to be pretty interesting. They were aiming for a younger demographic and were among the first cable networks to really integrate an online presence. It wasn't the same as NWI but had good things going on and we enjoyed watching. When I moved to SF I even worked there for a short period and got to experience the energy of the team at the time.

We used to watch Al Jazeera online too. They've always had really good journalism and frequently would have better coverage of American issues than any mainstream news media here.

When AJ bought Current, it didn't really make a lot of sense to me as a product. I think AJ wanted to make a move into American cable news, but the department responsible for that wasn't the ones handling their existing online English content. They wanted Current for the cable tv slot, in much the same way Current wanted the slot from NWI. I don't know a lot about the industry, but I think this is something like limited numbers of liquor licenses and taxi medallions in cities.

So Al Jazeera shut down the Current office here in SF and opened a news room in DC. They didn't do anything with the online presence Current and AJ already had, and actually made it harder to get the old English content here.

Now they're shutting down and so ends a line of good international news in the US.
RCE Vuln in FingerTec Biometric Access Control Devices
Bipolar business owner here. Staying centered and level in the face of business ups and downs has been difficult. Very difficult at times. My reactions to stress and difficult situations, to successes too, are often imbalanced. Still I've remained successful. Here's how:

Talk therapy. I see a therapist weekly to keep the window's clean. To validate that what I believe isn't exaggerated by my varying states.

Medication. Very low does Lithium every night.

Sleep. I make sure I get it.

Exercise has been tough to execute on, but is proven - as much as meds - to help with bipolar and GAD.

Meditation I try to do once a week as part of yoga. I find it helps.

Family and friends who understand and can be supportive also are a huge help... but are often in the minority of people I know.
Composting toilets don't need water either.

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

Alternatively, just try to divert urine so it never mixes in the first place:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine-diverting_dry_toilets

Both of these seem on first glance to be easier to maintain.
Kind of like how Fox News has news in its name but it's not news.
Can the malicious video file be an actual mp4 file? We're accepting video and running it through ffmpeg, however we first verify the file is an mp4 using https://golang.org/src/net/http/sniff.go
>The last line stands out the most because it presumes there could be a winner. How can that be if you're the one who's making the rules?

Reminds me of a quote from Stargate SG-1: "The only way to win is to deny the battle."
Actually Apple already had a bunch of Core-isms:

* Core Animation

* Core Audio

* Core Data

* etc

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

It forms the bedrock of iOS and OSX.
Ask HN: Saw a Gif and made a webapp, what do you think?
A few days ago i saw this gif http://giphy.com/gifs/girlfriend-imgur-photographer-iTINKy9VS1bGM

Love how it looks, i knew the photos where from Instagram so i looked for some tool that can make that, didn't find any so i made one, turns out pretty good so i decided to go all way through and publish it, here it is http://instagfy.com/ try any public Instagram profile and it will make a gif with the top 15 photos from the last 130 published, would you use it?, any feedback will help.

Btw, my version of the gif i saw is here http://instagfy.com/muradosmann
It might be a good target for a municipal service. Effectively an overland sewer that gets to use existing infrastructure (the roads).
And if word gets out and employees make it known their company does this, they are liable to face a backlash.
So if Intel discovers a bug in their chip that needs to be patched with a microcode update then Libreboot users are just SOL? That can't be right.
One Doctor's Work on a Radical New AIDS Vaccine
clickable link please?
Yeah make sure you click the "breakdown" link on the left for an overview of a bunch of other tests, machines, and other stuff.
I totally loved this place. I could have stayed the entire day if the rest of my family would have let me.

If you swivel 180 degrees, note the locker with the multi-colored doors. Inside each door is a charging cable for a type of camera or smartphone. You can stand there and get a quick refill of your device, or put €1 in the slot and leave it for a while.

It's the neatest thing I've ever seen in a tourist attraction. Haven't seen it much of anywhere else.
Good! now I can live stream the international al jazerra broadcast. They shut that down for US after the launch of this american channel
> in a completely benign way that you might expect of a real human being, not a slave or serf.

No reasonable person can advocate in good faith that employees should actively ignore workplace policies and rules, because they're "real human beings"... and further, that there should be no consequences for these deliberate actions.
> everyone else also has the freedom to control what your machine runs.

> Giving everyone control of your machine

like... [citation needed]

Coreboot giving everyone access? The entire point of the project is so you know and can verify there’s no backdoor to your CPU. How do you turn it around 180°…? This is so dishonest.
Ask HN: Can you help me beta test my new soccer/football videos app?
One of the things that a fan of soccer/football usually do it to watch videos of match's key moments.

Recently I started learning iOS programming and I thought to myself that I could create an app could aim to solely play videos. The main objectives were: display a good list of videos (preferably curated), the videos would load fast (auto-play being a must and needlessness of going fullscreen mode) and the ability to share them.

I've just finished the first version and I submitted a mvp of this ideia to App Store (currently waiting to review by Apple).

Site: http://freekick-app.netlify.com/

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/gallery/P1sRf/new

ps: It's the first version. There are plenty of features to add and things to enhance (and probably bugs), looking forward to receive feedback :) Who wants to enter the private beta?
great work, very helpful, what do you think?
Yeah, from western Canada, i'd go biking, or go for a run, but I don't think I've ever said, I'm going to go for a bike. I'd say "I'm going for a bike ride".
> RT is propaganda run by a government that has propaganda as its modus operendi; I wouldn't trust their weather reports.

So like NBC nightly news? The US is full of what can only be described as US government propaganda, 60 minutes is a prime example. CBS and NBC are no better than RT unfortunately, they just often tell Americans what they want to hear so nobody bats an eyelid.

AJ and BBC have their biases but at least they try.

PS - I moved to the US from abroad and was genuinely shocked not by the obviously ridiculous cable news (CNN, MSNBC, Fox News) but by the "news" pretending to be unbiased while in reality being a US government mouthpiece.
I'm genuinely curious which projects you are thinking of when you mention Apple. Shedding GPLv3 and refusing to (for example) update Bash because they do not want to use anything licensed under GPLv3 is pretty.... I dunno, I'm just curious what projects you're thinking of when you say that. The walls of that garden are pretty high.
So,

My late father recently developed a waterless toilet which is significantly simpler and likely cheaper than this one.

http://www.dry-flush.com/videos/
Connecticut has been very anti-business since governor Malloy came into office. GE moving will be a huge loss to the local economy.
HN readers rate? What now?
Doesn't it? People typically use the currency symbol for their country.
Considered Harmful
Yeah, this toilet isn't for rural use. It is for places that should have sewers but don't and that probably never will get sewers. It is for dirty cities in the third world.
To clarify, in this case you can (should?) use Objective-C++ wrappers to create an interface for Swift.
Wikipedia is not written for programmers only.
Yep but the data in the cookie was provided by the server, which had to already auth you via some means. Like a password, or a client side SSL cert.
I wonder what the counter was at on their main page before this posting.

All of the interleaving of people and their different companies makes it appear as if they are trying to obscure the true structure of their company and what it does. That's not a good way to gain confidence and trust when they are in a business that is all about each of those.

Also, the logo is pretty bad and clashes with their stylish, likely prefab, website template.
I think it's not so much "open source is our future" as it is "if you can't beat them, join them". I'm sure there are plenty of folks at Microsoft who realize that sticking with Windows in Cloud puts them at a competitive disadvantage vs eg Amazon or Google. There are things that _have to_ use Windows (Azure AD, MS SQL, Exchange, Sharepoint), but everything else is only harmed by it. So the litmus test is going to be whether they actually move their major backend systems to Linux in the coming 2-3 years. If they do not, all these Linux ports will remain second class citizens compared to Windows versions, with lower performance, fewer features, and more bugs. Which is probably why Microsoft is releasing them in the first place: if you want the real deal, come to papa.
Awesome npm resources and tips
submitted half hour earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10896670
Thenmap: A repository for historical borders to create historical maps
Yes, I'm the lead moderator of HN. Sorry that wasn't clear.
You can, privately within the module.
Maybe it's just because I was raised in the "don't use your real name on the internet" era, but I still am not quite comfortable asking a perfect stranger to meet just right off the bat like that.
Indeed.

That’s the content of consciousness, and it’s no longer a
fundamental mystery. It’s information, and we know how to build
computers that process information.

The fundamental error here is trying to explain consciousness through the concept of information. The thing is, information can't be explained except by reference to consciousness. A physical entity X (e.g., a radio signal) might hold information for a conscious agent Y, but X doesn't intrinsically hold information in the absence of an agent.

I know there's a growing trend in modern physics to treat information as a real physical property, akin to matter or energy, but I hold that this is a category error, akin to treating "risk" as something you measure in the world, rather than a measurement of your own uncertainty about a situation. They're both examples of the Mind Projection Fallacy, projecting properties properly belonging to the mind out into the world.

Dualism gets a bad rap, but you can posit a non-religious form of dualism, whereby matter & consciousness are both natural elements of the universe, but possessing different properties. Perhaps future science will be able to explain their relationship in more detail.

Attempting to dismiss consciousness, on the other hand, by taking monist reductionism as axiomatic (everything is matter, consciousness isn't real), end up with the proponents attributing properties of consciousness to matter, and ultimately flopping back over into monist idealism (everything is consciousness) and precisely the mysticism they were trying to avoid.
The interaction of humans with computers.
Edit: while I could remove this comment in 'shame' over posting it before reading the article (written by the cofounder of, uh, The Correspondent), I'll just leave it up...

I agree that low-quality journalism will have difficulty applying the subscription model, but personally I won't mourn their disappearance. I stopped actively reading most main-stream newspapers a long time ago.

The Correspondent, on the other hand, a Dutch online newspaper, is doing pretty well with subscriptions. Their approach (and tagline/motto) is to go 'beyond the whims/delusion of the day' by only publishing a few good articles a day, instead of the deluge of articles, often rewritten Reuters/AP items giving you piecemeal, context-less updates on different issues.

Their approach is about having a number of correspondents, each in charge of a theme that the staff considers important, or that the readers have suggested (https://decorrespondent.nl/correspondenten for a list, google translate should give you an impression of the various themes). Quite often pieces by guest writers are published too, but usually still under one of these themes.

Quite often they'll publish a series of articles, diving into one topic, or write an article as a response to reader feedback (one example being the Operation Easy Chair, which they also published in English and as an eBook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789987).

So far they seem to be doing pretty well, which is amazing considering that it's (almost) entirely in Dutch, and entirely reader-supported. I think they're working on an English version as well.

One could argue that it only works because their audience mostly consists of educated readers with a decent income, but I'd argue that 'non-educated' readers would often be better of with little to no news instead of the crap they're presented with through the low-quality papers. And if demand for such news is large enough, people will end up willing to pay for it when it's gone. Finally, there's acceptable news coverage provided on public broadcast as well.

This will suck for many journalists, but I wouldn't be surprised if the decent ones will be happy with whatever alternatives pop up. Most decent journalists I know are miserable at the papers they work for, for various reasons. The Wire's last season, while perhaps a bit too slanted against mainstream newspapers, does a pretty decent job outlining many of the problems.
Thanks for the heads up; I totally missed the date. Geeze.

He also didn't mention the ACA, which should have been a yellow flag.

I have a relative in the pain management business -- and I do mean business. He's an internal medicine doc, making over a million a year, probably substantially more in fact, by focusing on a lucrative niche of people with whiplash, back aches, etc. The trick is to process them through as quickly as possible. He gets 40-60 patients a day, and each billing between $60 and $800 depending on the condition. If you puncture someone, e.g. shot for sciatic pain, the billable is $800 to $1200. Pain pills might be worth $100. With enough numbers, and keep the personnel costs down by using medical assistants, and you've got a really lucrative practice.
Good riddance.

If it was closing because of government intervention, censorship, or anything else like that, I would be fighting it, of course. But since it the main reason for the fact that it's closing is sincere audience disinterest, I'm pretty glad.
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A lot of small medical and dental practices operate on one or two PCs. Windows doing things like uploading your calendar and address books could end up being a HIPAA violation.

Enterprise customers are fine because they have controls for everything, but small offices running Windows 10 Pro aren't so lucky.
Ask HN: Custom clothing from picture direct to consumer?
Is there any service where I could send a few photos of clothing and have the clothing made overseas custom to within say 90% of the look of the photo?

I recently read about the Wish app, and was thinking if a good amount of clothing is made in China, there must be some companies that could do the direct to consumer type setup.

Does anything like this exist?
The collection rate for these sort of ads is much higher than something like a banner ad, for instance. So they might know it negatively effects the experience, but they must consider the payoff worth it.
Swift comes to mind.
To a degree. But it would be silly to think Lotto would avoid marketing to a higher income demographic if they thought there was a chance they could get the same return from it. (Especially since the higher income demographic would have more money to spend).
I watched my sister die when I was 5, it's never easy, you just learn to deal with it.
I'd love to run OpenBSD on my laptop computers, but last time I tried (5.7), the fan on my Dell Latitude 6410 was permanently on, while on FreeBSD with performance_cx_lowest="Cmax" the fan barely runs at all.

As much as I love OpenBSD, this is a knock-out criterium to me. Has the situation improved significantly since 5.7?
lol, a company that has to meet the demand of people lining up out the door across the world everytime they release a new product, doesn't know how to manage a supply chain...
This is your life, and it is ending one minute at a time
Yep! You really did summarize a great deal of the concept, and particularly well with the groups which seem to have the most frequent need (desire?) to utilize code switching. I've got several different modes based on personal or professional situations (definitely privilege), and I think it really started to click as a 'tool' about the time I got fluent in French language and culture. Very eye opening, and has been useful when getting to know and be collegiate with folks from minority or disenfranchised backgrounds.
Actual run begins at 16:00.
Blendle does this, and is now expanding to Germany. They seem to be doing pretty well. http://www.blendle.com.
> I expected some Islamic propaganda, but it was shockingly progressive

The Islamist/conservative propaganda is reserved for the Arabic speaking channels such as their main channel AJN. They usually adopt editorial policies and fit their narrative based on the target market and Qatari foreign government policy goals. So, in the Arabic-speaking market, they push reactionary and backward messages to accommodate their conservative Islamist audience beside helping Qatar achieve goals like the wars in Yemen, Syria or Iraq (Sectarian and Sunni dominant militant propaganda) while for its English-speaking channels like AJE, they adopt softer stance on those issue and cater more for the Western liberal viewer with local relevant stories and progressive takes on current affairs.

> They would also mention their campaign to free investigative journalists jailed by the Muslim Brotherhood run government in Egypt.

Sisi the military dictator who staged the coup in 2013 not the MB who jailed those 3 journalists and then reluctantly freed them after much fanfare.
> Are you a sockpuppet?

Accusations of astroturfing, sockpuppetry, and shillage are not allowed in HN arguments unless you have evidence. Someone disagreeing with your view doesn't count as evidence. So please don't do this.

If you want to understand our thinking on this, I've posted about it many times, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9277068 and the links back from there.
Those men look like their bodies have been trying to die for a while now.
Windows is just unsupported. It’s not “forbidden.” Coreboot has SeaBIOS and UEFI implementation as payloads that are os-independent. So Windows might work. Or not.

You shouldn’t want to run Windows on a privacy sensitive workstation though. Compartmentalization and all that.
On all versions of Windows 10 you can disable OneDrive, and thus it will not upload locally stored calendars or address books.
One of the biggest names in tech changed the branding for a service in certain markets where the English title translated into profanity. It's the responsible move if you're operating globally.

Apologies for ambiguity, but this is a case where I can't be any more specific.
"low cost, rural use" are two phrases that don't appear in the article. This is for relatively affluent people (living on $5 a day not $1) in cities in the third world.
You seem to be factually mistaken about an important point. Nobody, not even Richard Stallman or the FSF, uses the word "free" to mean "copyleft". The two are distinct concepts.

For example the MIT license is free, but not copyleft. GPL is free and copyleft. Copyleft ensures that all the derived works (AND those derived from the derived etc.) must also be distributed with a free license.

In practice licenses that people call "open source" are almost always considered "free" by the FSF's terms. I wouldn't say it's a very very specific brand of freedom. It's all necessary to have the user in control. But I agree that "free software" is not a good name, due to misunderstandings about price. It could also be called "user-freedom-respecting software" or "user-controlled software" or "the-users-have-the-final-say-in-how-their-computing-is-done-and-not-the-developer software", but it would be too long.
This got more traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10896670 (97 points, 1 hour ago, 69 comments)
Was that really an original backdoor put in there by Shigeru? That's awesome
One of the most important things I learned from my EE prof was that pi is 3. The square root of 10 is also 3. If you need more exact calculations, you should do it algebraically and then plug in numbers to a calculator, but for quick feasibility/sanity checks, approximate mental math is a very useful tool.
I haven't used a "naked" VS for a few versions, how long has it had proper giro type/file/symbol navigation?
That's all very well, but no good if everyone you want to talk to already uses Telegram, which is proving to be quite popular.
So DNA didn't store any information until a conscious human learned how to read it?

Information is indeed a physical property that is independent of consciousness. Otherwise, how could consciousness have evolved in the first place?
My first intuitive reaction was "How many other cities is Citi Bike operating in, I thought they only operated in New York?"
If it is upon employer equipment and time, then it is reasonable for the employer to expect it to be work related. In this case the chap blurred those lines and even using a personal account for work related stuff is going to violate and respectable data policies a company may have and indeed many a work contract alone.

The headline does make it sound a bit oft when you read the article and not the best choice when you read it is not as clear cut as the headline portrays.

Still never mix business with pleasure being the moral on this one and not a mass panic my private emails can be demanded by HR.
Run away unless you want to experience the business equivalent of being uhh... touched inappropriately.
I've got MSDN, can I do this? Necessitating the signin really pissed me off.
I've never tried OpenBSD, but it seems to have better laptop/desktop support. Maybe I'll fire up an instance in a VM tonight and play around a bit.

Is there anything significantly different right off the bat from someone coming from the FreeBSD world?
You can ensure there's no backdoor in the machine as shipped from the manufacturer. That's extremely important and a good thing to have, and I'm not disputing that.

What you'd like to do is make sure that there are no further backdoors, via bootkits, evil maid attacks, whatever. If I can reflash the firmware or insert myself into the boot process, who else can?
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