skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, Twitter is alerting about 'attacks' by nation states

May I talk about something that's been irking me?

I often read people talking about "nation states" when they are actually just talking about states.

As far as I know, Twitter will still alert you if the state that's attacking is not a nation, like say Canada or the UK. Or for a more likely attacker, China describes itself as a multi-national state.
Meta: What's with the bizarre downvoting of non-anti-car comments in this thread? It's like anything that isn't 100% in favor of a shared-everything-screw-the-rurals-and-introverts economy is anathema or something. Maybe instead of downvoting, why don't you (whoever "you" may be) try to figure out why people have a different opinion than you? Maybe you'll find that the world is a heck of a lot bigger than you imagined and people exist who really do have different experiences and needs.
I have no idea what you mean. Doctors have been recommending flossing one's butt since forever. Bi-weekly at the least.
I went as far as pulling the node_modules directory from production and perfectly matching the node version on my local machine. Linux -> linux and the app won't run locally. I think it's because the node-gyp influenced deps need to be built locally and linked to the right libs.

I then spent a few hours downgrading each version to isolate the issue...found a few libraries that were hard-deprecated (which was nice), found some breaking changes in the node version I'm using and then I just gave up.
This is surprising news to me. An analog with the microprocessor market would be Intel buying AMD!

I love Microchip's application notes. My first controller was a PIC16F877A and apart from the architecture quirks (and mediocre C compiler support) it is a good processor for beginners. In that sense, this acquisition nicely complements MT's own strengths.

I'm still not sure how I feel about the monopolization of the uC though.
Random data point: There were 342 cars registered per 1000 citizens in Berlin in 2014 [0]. Same in other (large) cities I have lived in in Europe.

Typically, using the public transport in Berlin will be much quicker than taking the car.

[0] Sorry, article in German (and BZ..): http://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/immer-mehr-autobesitzer-aber-...
I haven't seen the disappearing libraries from registry.

I did find a few libraries that have been completely abandoned...like 2/3 of the libraries I used.
No, in fact neighborhood groups generally get upset if new housing goes up without parking as it is believed the new residents will put additional pressure on public parking spots.
Minor point: "open source" is not open source because you have the source. It's open source because it's licensed that way. Adding a public domain or cc-0 license to the page would achieve the same effect.
China Mulls Answer to Bitcoin with Digital Currency Study
The man enjoys making things die by his own hands.

He eagerly looks forward to being able to do it again.

He doesn't get the full entertainment value in it doing it from a car.
> The test for spawning threads is fine when I run it under 'sudo dtruss test/spawn', but as soon as it's not under dtruss, it fails to spawn the thread.

Ah, the fated Heisenbug.

I skipped over all of the calls in my dtruss example in this post, but I recall dtruss listing itself making a few syscalls. I wonder if a missing signal handler is to blame?

Also, thanks for pointing out Apple's pthread implementation! Great idea!
> Planet X is at aphelion, difficult to find with the Milky Way as a (stunning) backdrop.

I would have assumed that planets are easier to detect when they have a backdrop? That the light can be blocked, partially blocked, bent, .. Isn't that the case?
Ah, that was way too subtle for me - the number of hn posters who argue weird (imo) positions means that I need a sarcasm tag to know someone's not serious.
I have restarted using Twitter recently; after not using it for years.

The content you see depends entirely on who you choose to follow. I only follow the people who regularly publish awesome content, initiate discussions, and have a positive outlook on things. Also some credible news sources, and add a few personal idols like Elon Musk.

I did see some people become toxic, start bullying and so on, I unfollow them, or make another decision, depending on the circumstances.

It feels like you make your own community on Twitter. You need to moderate it too.
"Sometimes the parked cars are a nice buffer between the street and pedestrians."

Sure, but the current design of the sidewalk has to accommodate a car door opening at any point, as someone could park anywhere. When roads are no longer used for parking, sidewalks could be lined with a narrow strip of trees or something, with a gap every 100m for cars to load/unload passengers.
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The latter might take awhile. See Florida v Harris (2013) [0]

> Harris ... challenge[d] the dog's reliability, backed by data that asserts that on average, up to 80% of a dog's alerts are wrong.

> The Court unanimously held that if a bona fide organization has certified a dog after testing his reliability in a controlled setting, or if the dog has recently and successfully completed a training program that evaluated his proficiency, a court can presume (subject to any conflicting evidence offered) that the dog's alert provides probable cause to search, using a "totality-of-the-circumstances" approach.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Harris
I found flights to Shanghai on flychecker at € 459
This is the reason why I love HN - again, a comment that shines more light on a question than the original post itself.
Comprehensive sex education and access to contraception generally decreases rates of teen pregnancy. People still object to those two things in the name of avoiding teen pregnancy.
No single passive adversary gets all three. The information moves from the phones to *.whispersystems.org, then in a big fat stream to Google, then from Google to the recipient phones.
Yes, I've also seen those issues with dtruss -- it seems to work better when you run it separately in another terminal:

sudo dtruss -n myprocname

It doesn't seem to trace itself, and now your program can run as a regular user. And in my case, it even catches the failure for bsdthread_create, although it drops some of the arguments, and the ones it does show seem identical enough. (And no, it's not the sudo that's making it work.)
An appeal to end the suffering in Syria: UNICEF
Good framework, and easy to use. I think this is a good choice to build a small website
So that people who need a 3-cent button use the service, are impressed by it and become higher margin customers later on.
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...the ATF comes knocking at the buyer's door.

I think you meant the seller's door there.
Most vendors on AliExpress only sell such low-cost items in lots, so you could, for example, only buy these buttons by the dozen. Although that still means you end up with a margin that is ridiculously instead of ludicrously small.
> most UK banks won't send any of my documents to a foreign address

Try Barclays, they send me documents to Lithuania (hi from across the border!).
And that's right. What US needs here is not only softer laws, it's a whole mindset of flexibility with the law, like we have in more latin or corrupt countries: Tolerance with driving rules, tolerance with income tax workarounds, tolerance with violence on the street. I had a friend in France drop a complaint for fondling of his daughter by a teenager, the cop said the agressor was going to be merely told off in a meeting at the station, nothing more. I'm not saying this is the right middle-ground, but it implies a forgiving law framework.
The FDCPA doesn't apply to debts owed by businesses.
Ninth Planet May Exist Beyond Pluto, Scientists Report
Because HN is full of urban hipsters whose viewport is limited to their city.
The Randle Cycle – How Fats and Carbs Compete for Oxidation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)

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

One implies genetics; the other environment.
Well, I can change the pin for my Polish cards on my bank's online page, so I guess the pin must be validated with the bank's servers before allowing any transaction.

There's a screenshot of what it looks like on the website:

http://i.imgur.com/p19315R.png

The third button from the top is "change pin"
Generally all 'in-depth' political analysis is terrible propaganda. The best Afghanistan content I've seen has been documentaries such as Armadillo. I'll pay to watch that (through Netflix for example).

"Unless we find a way to pay people to do these jobs, we'll be eating the writings of people hired by those with money and vested interests."

I suspect it may have been the point of your comment but that's exactly what we are already doing.

I have another example. The Irish Times (one of Ireland's leading broadsheet newspapers) bought myhome.ie for €50m euros in 2007. The Irish Times had a huge daily property section at the time and was profiting greatly, riding on the crest of the wave of the property bubble. They also received uncountable millions from the banks to advertise the ridiculous 110% mortgages etc within the pages of their daily paper. I'll let you guess how much content that was critical of the property boom was published within their pages and how long it took for them to do any investigative journalism into the fraudulent behaviour of the banks whose ad budgets were sustaining them.

Capitalism and the truth are not compatible. Too many vested interests everywhere. War journalists can't be critical because they will lose access. Everyone is tip-toeing about scared to set a foot wrong incase it dries up their income supply (or at least removes the circumstances which allows them to earn a living). We've hit saturation point and all this disruption through internet and automation is a godsend in the long run but will cause much suffering in the short term.
This is an example of an approach to social problems I sometimes see that I'm going to call "sink or swim". It is a form of proposal framed in terms like "Well, if we do this, it will force $group to either $do_what_we_want or $something_really_unpleasant" and then assumes that everyone in the group will just choose to do what the proposer wants them to do, because the alternative is unthinkable and possible horrific.

It is in fact the case that if you take your child and toss them into the middle of the pool, you do force them to either sink or swim. But that isn't the same thing as actually getting them to swim.
An Android 2.x phone. Android 4.x+ replaced the MSD protocol they spoke with MTP which nobody seems to get right so you have FUSE filesystems like jmtpfs, mtpfs-simple etc to deal with your particular brand of breakage.
I urge you to just lookup the schedules using something like http://www.shipmentlink.com/ or http://www.linescape.com/. For one, 25 knots is a ridiculously high speed. At the same time, 12 knots is way too low. Any shipping line will sail a bit quicker on the main haul (=direction where most full containers go to). So China->Europe is usually quicker than the other way around.

But the huge mistake you're making is that a container vessel will make additional stops and it does not connect every possible port to every other possible port. If you have uncommon combinations, the container will usually be moved from one vessel to another. This adds additional time (days).

Hong Kong -> Fos Sur Mer is like 31+ days.
I believe the reason for "nation states" is to avoid confusion with US states. I am from Europe, for the record.
That isn't the case for me. I have my OS and Chrome set to English [0], but when, in Incognito mode, I go to http://maps.google.com/ it redirects me to https://www.google.it/maps/ and displays everything in Italian (I'm in Italy at the moment).

[0] http://headers.cloxy.net/request.php says my browser is sending "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8"
I don't mean to troll, but having ideas is nothing. Of course projects start with ideas but if the creator of the idea didn't pursue given concept - neither should you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c&feature=youtu.be...
That sounds more like an exception than the rule. Everything I order from AliExpress of DHGate ends up at my door. We do have a very dedicated PostNL delivery guy here though.
Looks like Campus Co-Living no longer exists.
Why would it be so hard to drop the car seat requirement? Taxis are exempt from them, the security benefits are questionable already (more so once you factor that an autonomous car would probably have a different cabin and safety features), buses and trains don't need them...

Not to mention that a society that gets away from being car centric would also grant more independency to children from their parents. In Japan, kids are used to go to school by themselves at age 5. In Berlin I see kids seemlingly from elementary school going around alone in the U-Bahn. Looks like parents not having to be kids' chauffeurs would be a net gain.
Yes my experience has been the same. It's definitely better now (i.e. maintainers seem to be caring about backwards and forward compatibility), but even 5 years ago there were a lot of popular gems that have now been abandoned.

It's still better than JavaScript, where whatever popular build tool you use today will be replaced in 6 months :D
I find it difficult to believe that compared to cities of similar size and population density that New York citizens have a greater need for cars. The other similarly sized/populous cities all rely far more heavily on mass transit than New Yorkers appear to, many of the cities that are more populated/larger than New York also are far more mass-transit focused. (Not to say that cars/congestion issues do no exist in said cities, it's just that a greater % of the population rides instead of drives)

What about New York makes it so different that driving is an absolute necessity as opposed to say, London? And what creates the need for ownership as opposed to a fleet of automated cars handling the movement around the city? I can envision how a car might be important for occasional living errands, like groceries, etc., but car ownership as a need? Could not the majority of New Yorker needs be filled by either street services like Car2Go/Zipcar or by a fleet of summonable self-driving cars?
So I am asian (where the allele is more common) and i definitely have dry ear wax, and i have always used q-tips to remove ear wax, and always thought it was silly that people got all worked up that q-tips for ear wax removal was 'dangerous' to the ear. But years ago (molecular biologist, ahead of the curve on some of these discoveries) when I learned about the different types I finally got it, it really is dangerous if you have wet ear wax.
Amazing. Thanks for sharing this. Next time someone appeals to nature, I'll drop this little tidbit to remind them that life out there isn't all roses and butterflies.
Police don't get reprimanded in America. They just get paid vacation at worst. Shoot a handcuffed guy in the back of your squad car? "Oh, he must have had a gun we just didn't find when we searched him." Right. Right.
Is there really any vendor loyalty on a site like AliExpress though? It just doesn't seem that likely to pay off. On the other hand, I assume the amount the vendor is losing on a transaction like this is also minuscule, so maybe it would.
Eugh... best of luck :D
Wiredcraft Is Now in Berlin: Wunderbar
Personal historical favorite:

MIT Lisp Machine screenshots from 1980:

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/symbolics/L...
How many of the "leadership" / "management", ie: the people raking the profits from this organization are coders? http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/leadership
So... nothing's ideal yet?

How does cooperation work with org-mode, taskwarrior or hnb (mentioned below)? Are you describing a more general problem with local productivity software?

A simple sharing service, version control or rsyncing the files to a simple webserver at regular intervals would be an option for sharing. Not something I'll have to deal with for now though.

If you've checked out the files I'm not sure how you conclude that one would lose compatibility any time soon either.

What do you use?
And rightly so. But are poor people not allowed or entitled to have the same level of safety and benefits for their family like everyone else, or is it ok to associate and tar an entire socioeconomic group with crime and drugs as some seem to do and leave them to their fate? How is this an egalitarian, equal or democratic society that discriminates against kids even before they are born?

Poor people have no choice but to live with it while the more resourceful can afford to isolate and protect themselves but that's not an equal society or one that aspires to be one. No one can advocate that one should not try to get the best for themselves and their children but the if the bare basics of education, healthcare and safety are reliant on socio economic background that there is little incentive for those in power who are always from a privileged socioeconomic background to actually provide meaningful equality beyond posturing.

I think there is a danger of an exclusionary way of thinking that encourages ghettos and the kind of entitled thinking often seen here itself on hacker news that presumes in spite of all these disadvantages somehow all these children should compete fairly and succeed with their more privileged counterparts and if they don't and get stuck in a cycle of poverty they only have themselves to blame.

This kind of thinking leads to a bigoted society, and you then can't complain when you or your children are similarly excluded by those from a higher social-economic background in neighborhoods and other aspects of life, when not possible legally by financial or social means. This doesn't produce an enlightened and egalitarian society, you reap what you sow.
Innocent suspect indemnisation might lead to every pull-over resulting in a charge.
You'd have your own private autonomous car. You could keep the car seats, clutter, etc in it.

It would drive you to work, then it would drive itself home and park there (or at an out-of-town free space) instead of parking in the city.

Later, it drives itself back to your office to pick you up.

No shared car required, no parking space either.
Wonder how effective that turned out to be in preventig accidents. I don't drive so I really have no clue but a stop sign seems like something that wouldn't influence me much - then again that's mostly why I don't want to learn how to drive :)
as established here: (HSPH site)

Item 1: no link to study or data sources stated there, but data is at least 11 years old

Item 2: data well over 20 years old

Item 3: data 18-27 years old

Item 4: data 12-14 years old, and guns in circulation have more than doubled since then

And, ironically, all of this dates from when the Feinstein bans were still in effect.
They (or Amsterdam at least) also have amazing bike lanes everywhere. I actually lived and commuted by bike in Ghent, Belgium for a few months, which is very similar. I did indeed get soaked on the way to work fairly frequently, but was able to shower there. I also felt very safe doing so, as bike lanes are everywhere.
Why founding a startup in your 40s beats doing it earlier
> "Eventually, most of these connections will likely become wireless." ... I have my doubts.

Eventually. Not tomorrow. Not next year. But it will come. If you include the full quote, it becomes in my opinion clearer what he thinks:

> Eventually, most of these connections will likely become wireless, but given the need for power and the expected challenges around delivering wireless power to many devices, it’s clear variations on USB Type-C, particularly Thunderbolt 3.0 and later iterations, will be around for some time to come.

While there are physical limitations to what wireless can do, over the last decades we've had groundbreaking research which repeatedly has increased the BW available to wireless systems by orders of magnitudes.

Why do you think we've hit the peak now and it can't happen again?

> The proliferation of USB Type-C clearly marks the dawn of a great new era of connectivity for our devices, but it may require a bit of homework on your part to fully enjoy it.

Fully agreed on this. In my head USB Type-C was ... just USB Type-C until I read this article.
I also have itchiness. It only triggers occasionally, always in the left ear, but when it does it's sometimes so annoying it stops me from sleeping well. Could you solve your itchiness? How?
Here are a couple that raise some interesting ideas on a couple topics that often come up here on HN.

The Dead Past: http://www.rednovels.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27323.html

"In a Good Cause-": http://www.rednovels.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27354.html

The first concerns issues of privacy, surveillance, and government control of information flow. It also was the starting point for an article by Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on how the scope of the 4th Amendment is determined by what society considers acceptable and how we are greatly reducing that scope by the way we are voluntarily giving up so much privacy online [1].

(Read the Asimov story before reading Kozinski's article, because Kozinski opens with major spoilers for the story).

The second story concerns idealism vs. pragmatism, pacifism vs. militarism.

For those new to Asimov, don't try to infer Asimov's beliefs from either of these stories. He personally would have been on the sides that ultimately were shown to be wrong in both of these stories. I believe I read somewhere that in the case of "In a Good Cause-" he deliberately set out to write a story whose point was opposite of his beliefs.

[1] http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/privacy-paradox/dead...
Wrong. It's a big part of it, but many enjoy the power. Many want an opportunity to just steal from you personally. Many want to get their numbers up and be the officer with the most stops/arrests/citations. We need to put solid limitations, nationally, on what they can and can't do.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is no longer a billionaire as of today
Understanding the functional revolution in front-end applications