skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trumpscript will make programming great again
Anyone running old machinery that had DOS drivers would likely have older computers. I remember working on base seeing 386/486s in an aircraft hanger area that were so covered in grime I was astounded they were still used.
surprised there's no discussion of the importance of chivalric values in the French military. French knights were so married to the idea of valor that employing yeoman infantry was seen as dishonorable. Obviously this is directly related to the political context of state security but it's worth considering the cultural factor as well
What should we be teaching the next generation of computer scientists?
I was just beginning to give it a try, it just requires you to type the code that is shown on video. Poor way of teaching something, it seems at first. I sense this course is just to teach me the tools of the trade, not really enabling students to fully understand what they're doing.

On the other hand, some months ago I watched the ML course by Andrew Ng, and I still did not understand how to test a simple linear regression for myself, so I did not really understand it, and stopped watching the course.
NaCl, sorry.
Prime targets in France identified through text mining of jihadist tweets
More like .su
Just for comparison here, I have a 2013 Leaf. In December I drove 920 miles and with my utility prices the cost of electricity to cover those miles was about $28. You still need either an extremely efficient car or quite a bit lower gas prices to beat this. This also does not account for the fact that you can routinely get free electricity for your EV.
The software engineer's guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
Pbd is a Python module to disassemble serialized protocol buffers descriptors (https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/).
Yes, the interface has to actually be good even if it's tough to learn.
Community project to build an open source software+hardware stack for cars
The discrepancy is why I like to have a conversation with my advertisers about the reporting I send them versus the GA activity they track on their website.

My numbers might be slightly higher a than what they see in traffic, but if they're still happy with the activity happening on their site, it is still a successful ad buy.

Edit: should also mention that my ads are priced monthly and not per click.
The article said "24/7".
How Social Media Has Changed Grief
How is this any different from the countless companies that have been doing them for ages?
Advanced Reactors Win New Funding from the U.S. Government
>Right, that's exactly a paradox/error that the Copenhagen critique elucidates: two groups have (basically) the same effect on the world (providing the opportunity to have regular work to do in exchange for money), but you only rebuke one of them, since they're doing it for profit.

I see it as very different. The Copenhagen issue is that if you try to help fix a problem, you are now responsible for the parts you didn't fix. Imagine if you fix a bad code base to remove half of the significant defects, and are now blamed for the other half that already existed because your upgrade didn't fix them.

What is happening in this particular case is different. It is judging entities based not only on their actions or effects, but also their intents. This is quite common, for example intent can be the difference between murder and self defense.
After working as a Windows admin for a few years, I feel that it is one of those things that sound like a great idea at first, but are causing more problems than they prevent.

But years as a Unix user might have made me biased. I am certain people can come up with lots of stories about how a file being opened prevented them from accidentally deleting it or something similar. I am not saying it is a complete misfeature, just a very two-edged sword.
Totally. A lot of industrial/utility type places don't really have robust IT, and they treat computers like industrial equipment. So you may have a factory foreman or operating engineer who is responsible for equipment, who is 100% reliant on a vendor CE for implementing stuff.

What ends up happening is that they'll bolt on some network connectivity for convenience or to take on some new process and not set it up appropriately, or not understand what it means to expose something to the LAN or directly to the internet.

I helped a friend at a municipal utility with something like this when they wanted to provide telemetry to a city-wide operations center. They had a dedicated LAN/WAN for the SCADA stuff, and the only interface was in this case a web browser running over XWindows that had a dashboard and access to some reports. I think they later replaced it with a Windows RDS box with a similar configuration.

Because of the isolation, and professional IT who understood how to isolate the environment, it was advisable to to not be tinkering with updates, as the consequence of failure is risk to health & safety.
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This is the RDF needed for trackback support (and like I said, rel=trackback exists as well):

<!--
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<rdf:Description
rdf:about="https://www.onli-blogging.de/feeds/ei_1522.rdf"
trackback:ping="https://www.onli-blogging.de/comment.php?type=trackback&amp;entry_id=1522"
dc:title="Medieval II: Total War"
dc:identifier="https://www.onli-blogging.de/1522/Medieval-II-Total-War.html" />
</rdf:RDF>
-->

How is that complicated? Where is the link to or the problem with semantics?
Impressive! I made a silly kernel module that 'fakes' your uptime, by patching the kernel.

https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/uptime/
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Are there instructions on how to use it?
I've heard that the goal for many football players is not long term health but to get out there and play while the opportunity is there. Reducing inflammation works so that you feel like you can go out and play again without adequate recovery. When the average football player has only a few months for a few years to make their mark, playing through injury or pain is the goal rather than the proper recovery.
It looks to me like the "can't replace/delete a file that is opened" is one of the factors that causes the malware phenomenon in Windows. That is, you must reboot to affect some software updates. Frequent reboots meant that boot sector viruses were possible.

That policy also means that replacing some critical Windows DLLs means a very special reboot, one that has to complete, otherwise the entire system is hosed.
TorMail hack, FBI surgical operation, or dragnet surveillance?
Previous discussion at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9167781
This one is a start up, which for the sake of this article means something. However it really means absolutely nothing.
Our 5 biggest UX-design mistakes that you should avoid
How quickly we forget that Slack was hacked not more than a year ago.
The Last Days of Target
Idk but maybe this? "But OpenDoor is unique in that it owns all the homes it lists for sale, countering the prevailing trend in Silicon Valley of solely running a marketplace that matches buyers and sellers. As a result, OpenDoor’s strategy is steeped with risk, potentially backfiring if the economy tailspins."
I'm not sure of the difference on the buying side, but their selling side seem to be quite different than the normal approach https://www.opendoor.com/homes
Yes, I thought about that too, but I guess that UPS will not survive 18 years - the battery for sure, the device probably neither. Can you replace one without shutting down the server?
Not sure if devops is right for your company? Look to Etsy and Netflix
Ars Technica had an article a few years back about a machine that was up for 16 years. Had pics, too! http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/epic-u...
Excellent. The theory is that, for most people in the US (perhaps elsewhere?), one's reading / movie watching / tv watching tend to be clustered into specific time periods.

When Friends or Firefly were on, for example, I was watching a lot of TV (like you) because at that stage of my life I was settling into a long-term relationship (early twenties) and we found those to be mutually enjoyable things to watch. Movie watching tends to fall off around the time people start having kids. So far, on my friends-and-family (kids and grandparents alike) polls, it's pretty accurate.

Thanks again for answering :) I may just post my quick and dirty hack when I'm through playing with it.
If you're talking about within the Chrome app on Android then, unless something changed in Marshmallow, you can totally change the default search provider. Chrome > Menu > Settings > Search Engine allows you to change the default search engine in the browser, but you can't add new ones to their list, so it is a limited set of options available.

If you're talking about at the Google Now or Siri then as far as I know that's not possible on either OS.
To play devil's advocate, Airbnb was in business for at least two years already before they got into YC.

Yes, one can argue, times have changed a lot since then as the applicants pool have significantly increased. One other the thing, founders were extremely impressive; so, Airbnb may be an outlier.
Heh, you made me realize I use "Google" as a synonym for search. "Google foo".
Awesome! I'm working on a home automation platform as well! Not close to being done (started last week). I'd love to see some code or examples of what you've come up with!
Sinister or not, that's an awesome logo.
Ask HN: Stock for cloud space, would you do it?
I was thinking what if cloud storage companies traded cloud space for stock. If you were a small team and you were looking for a stop gap for a viral app/website between >$500/mo storage bills and big enough to get funded. It would be a good way for a cloud company to win business/get lock in on potential great future customer. what do you think would you do it if they offered.
It belongs in a museum!
WADL and Swagger United in Apache CXF
Coders Assimilate Donald Trump to a Programming Language
Build modular responsive components with React Container Query
The "art" or "skill" wasn't lost, just not available promptly in battalion-size units.
You might like the book 'data science from scratch' by Joel Grus. He uses Python without ML libraries and explains clearly what's going on.
Is the American diet too salty? Scientists challenge government warning
A history of autism explains why the vaccination scare has taken hold so firmly
The Troubling Story Behind Intel’s Chip Manufacturing Struggles
Thanks -- typo will be fixed on our next push.[1]

There's limits to how open we can be with data, because the service is used for e.g. court opinions that aren't published yet. But for public links we're working on API, Memento endpoints, Internet Archive mirrors, etc. -- it's definitely something we're thinking about.

Re: sustainability (and account limits), as you can tell we're not trying to maximize growth here. Quite the opposite -- we're opening up access only as much as we feel we can support for the long term. It's a free service and there are no promises, but it's run by the Harvard Law School Library and isn't a short term play.

[1] https://github.com/harvard-lil/perma/commit/ca84be28ccccf0f1...
Another game that is "hardcore" on mobile is Hearthstone. While that may not necessarily qualify for comparison to Vainglory/Clash Royale since it's both desktop and mobile, the UI ("physical" board) and game design (short turn limits, automatic resource allocation, RNG vs. manual card selection) are both highly optimized for playing on mobile devices.

Although as a counterpoint, Blizzard is taking atypical monetization strategies with Hearthstone that may be causing problems. It is freemium as most games are nowadays, but very expensive to make a competitive deck with required cards, with zero catchup mechanics (a new feature with freemium games to provide retention). Blizzard is also refusing to balance cards which promote stagnant gameplay, which makes the game incredibly stale. (https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/4207ye/the_we_...)

And let's not get started over the 9 deck slots issue.
Well, I have TI-92 graphing calculator still working OK, since 1995.
For an older example, see [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
What is CS? – a collision between math and philosophy (by: artoftheproblem)
>Giving someone an option they didn't have before makes them strictly better off. They can choose between it and their other options.

Is this always true? Imagine a third world country where children die from lack of food, clean water, and medical care. Now imagine a group that goes in and offers to exploit the children (I'll leave how up to your imagination) in exchange for meeting all their basic needs. Is this group making the children better off... and conversely, are anyone fighting for laws to ban the actions of this group working to make the children worse off? Almost every single person I've brought this up to will say yes for at least some forms of exploitation. If you go with child labor, you'll get a decent number on either side, but if you go with other forms of exploitation the rate who say that offering the choice is harmful jumps to basically 100%. (This is one of those questions that, if I ever make it rich, I would fund official research into, but until then I will admit this is based off of my person anecdotes.)

All that being said, I agree that you shouldn't be responsible for the underlying situation. Even if you are wrong for offering a given bad choice, you are not at fault for the underlying situation.
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When I hear "You may recall...", I don't think of it as asking for permission. I think of it as saying "You might be able to, or maybe not".

Just saying to recall the previous conversation is an indicator that previous context is required.
A simple threshold seems easy to me. You just fire some messenger and if the concentration is high enough (N counts of messenger emitting) it reacts.

Something binds or disassembles the messenger so the system resets after some time.

The details would still be interesting of course.
Some people will always go with lighter systems, see how big Go is getting. And then integrate the subsystems with RPC.

That said, Clojure + Java is a sweet combination, they are pretty complementary IMO.
Show HN: Bash function to run concurrent tasks and display pretty statuses
That would be a highly interesting evaluation. I worked in the Aerospace/Defense industry in the 1980s, and it seemed to me that "we can't change X, X is 'flight certified'" was a huge excuse for not innovating, or maybe a huge roadblock to innovation. So it's big news in 2016, when Boeing is hinting about stopping 747 production, an aircraft that made its first flight in February of 1969, 46 years before. I'm guessing that "flight certification" is the largest factor in keeping airliner technology in the 1960s.
I have a netbook running 12.04 sitting on my nightstand that I use for listening to Podcasts / audiobooks as I go to sleep. I usually wake up after a few hours, put the netbook to sleep, then turn around and go back to sleep.

This means I only update the netbook on rare occasions, because when I go to bed, I want to... sleep, you know, not update my netbook. So currently, that thing has about 180 days of uptime (although it spent most of that time sleeping, of course). I have been meaning to install updates and reboot it for months, but during the day, I forget about it, and only think of it as I go to bed... A vicious cycle... ;-)

With a kernel update, one doesn't have to reboot, technically, it is merely required for the update to take effect.
I think it's strictly worse than Ceylon - less mature, less featureful, and a lot less well designed.[1] And JetBrains have a bad habit of advertising features long before they're actually implemented, as well as talking up Kotlin for about a year and a half before it had any kind of stable release.

[1] And frankly if there's nothing it can do that Scala can't and the design isn't any cleaner than Scala (arguable, but I feel Kotlin is very ad-hoc and will look worse than Scala by the time it reaches the same age) then I'll just stick with Scala - whereas Ceylon can make at least some case for migrating from Scala.
The difficulty I found with Closure Compiler was that there were instances of valid, working JS code that it didn't (and in some cases probably couldn't) reliably process. Consequently, you had to follow stricter conventions about things like writing object literals than the language itself required.

That was enough for the projects I'm thinking of to decide a relatively simple minifier like Uglify was a better choice for their specific situations. Now that a lot of pre-optimisation JS is the output from one transpiler or another, that might be more of a practical limitation.
Wasn't the comment you were replying to lamenting these things about C++, on the implicit assumption that rust fixes them?
France has passed a law a few years ago that makes it mandatory to have the phrase "For your health, limit your salt, sugar and fat intake" on all ads for food.
Sweet patches with a gigantic octopus devouring the Earth

"Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach"

"Full Spectrum Dominance"

"Total Information Awareness"

"Five Eyes"

This is the culture of a whole generation of career bureaucrats. I'm afraid even major legislative victories for privacy will struggle to change the culture.
How I got shit done in 25% less time by using Time Blocking
Yea, basically this seems to be those "WE BUY HOMES FAST WITH CASH!!!" signs you see jammed all over gas stations and highway medians, except with a responsive web design and javascript.
I found the 24-hour access interesting. Is that something other companies have been doing as well?
I've always felt a little strange about TEMPEST:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
React MVC
Netflix starts blocking some VPN users
Thank you for a technical reply.

Nevertheless I cannot see that fundamental advantage over FreeBSD, which has ZFS but still no DTrace. Moreover, as far as I remember zones and jails were modeled after the same IBM's technology.
Very pretty. Looks useful too!
Yeah, this is a basic problem with the web as it works now -- Perma's long-term storage can and will be decentralized behind the scenes, but control over DNS routing is inherently centralized.

I don't really know a way around this. When a lawyer is reading a court decision that include a link, and the link is broken, showing them "(archived at perma GUID ABCD-1234)" won't mean a thing to them. Showing them "(archived at http://perma.cc/ABCD-1234)" actually solves their problem.
As everything in life. The secret is in the balance.
With regards to the standing desk, I find that for me (5'11"), placing a tabletop on top of 2x IKEA Billy Bookshelves (41.75" H x 31.5" W) does the job perfectly; it easily supports a dual-monitor setup (1x 32inch, 1x 24inch). Add in a anti-fatigue cushioned mat for your feet, and you're good to go!
Related from 2 days ago: "GCHQ-built phone voice encryption has massive backdoor" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10936914
I use LogWatch, gives me daily emails with nice summaries of that happened on my Ubuntu Droplet: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...
I'm aware.

We do regular security audits from a security firm who goes the extra mile to try and social engineer and gain physical access to all of our sites.

Plus we're talking about things like processing fish in a town of 2,000 people. If I was operating a nuclear reactor, I would surely adapt better security measures.. although against government sponsored attacks using undocumented vulnerabilities, windows update isn't really going to do much.

The Target thing you posted has to do with internet access, which is something that goes against what I was saying. I'm talking about closed, physically secure networks, possibly not even using tcp/ip or ethernet.
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React is not the best way to do MVC, as it's too opinionated. But the architecture looks promising.
Any special reason for choosing mysql over postgres?
Should You Fire All Your Techies?
Ah, yes, but my suggestion was to pin the root.
They should sell it as some kind of portable bathroom mirror with apps. Or bundle the thing with some Gillette razors or something.

When in front of a mate and a glare screen I know of no one that prefers the glare one.
Maybe this is a silly question, but what's a situation where you would want to use this?
Thanks for the comment. React is actually not that opinionated, which makes it the best view library at the moment. Take a look at the project and I'm sure you'll find yourself at home if you are into MVC :)
AWS EC2: Guide to scale your Windows performance
It might be a good idea to discretely gather contact info for some of the team members you trust. That way you will be able to let folks know privately afterwards.
It's hard to hire good javascript developers because knowing javascript doesn't imply that you know how to be a good programmer. Nowadays, you can string together 500 node modules and make an impressive demo on the surface. The moment that dev needs to dig deep and debug something or create something from scratch, they can't.
I think there are various definitions of "mobile".

Mobile, for me (as a Vainglory player since the launch in the US), means I can play anywhere. Not that I need to be able to play a game in 5 minutes while taking a dump.
And prokaryotic cells are much, much smaller than eurkaryotic cells. I think the mass of a eukaryotic cell is over 1000x the mass of a prokaryotic cell.
Just wanted to link to where Qt are currently with cross platform QML UIs. They are making progress, but the UI is still emulated, and I don't think they have a huge team working on this.

And I agree with your comments btw. React native is another good candidate for native controls, for some types of applications
> "We own the night"

That has such an 80's, "The Lost Boys"-esque flavor to it (reference for the uninitiated: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lost_boys/)
OpenDoor is unique in that it owns all the homes it lists for sale, countering the prevailing trend in Silicon Valley of solely running a marketplace that matches buyers and sellers. As a result, OpenDoor’s strategy is steeped with risk, potentially backfiring if the economy tailspins...The company uses mostly debt financing to buy homes, improving returns. Mr. Wu declined to disclose OpenDoor’s debt terms but said they are superior to what a typical home buyer gets on a mortgage.

The combination of high leverage and complete property ownership seems incredibly risky to me. If the country-wide housing market turns sour, not only is the company left with swiftly depreciating assets on their balance sheet as real estate values drop and people stop buying homes, but they are also left paying (probably 1-2%) interest on houses that they "bought" with these loans for $300k, but that are now worth $200k.

But the overall concept of increasing liquidity in the market by cutting out the broker and his/her available hours, "automating" the valuation and bid process, using low short-term interest rates to flip houses, and pricing for volume and quick turnover is pretty cool. The key is sticking to "commodity" housing (cheap-mid range) and timing the market correctly.
How about the engineers who wrote this code? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

I can't put all the blame on the software engineers involved: the decision to do this surely lies higher up the chain. But did anyone of the coders object or blow the whistle beforehand? Or were they all fine with "just following orders"?

Now that more is known, have any come forward or even given an anonymous interview about it afterwards? AFAIK,no.
It actually looks like MVVM, rather than MVC.