skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also think that desktop vs server are two different domains.

The desktop / personal user domain is looking like it's in the early stages of transformation, with mass data collection to support voice search and user intent prediction. While there's something to be said for privacy, I don't think consumers will care enough, and I don't think desktop linux systems outside of whatever Google may make is going to be adequately competitive.

This will likely not be a server concern. Engineers probably won't be interested in a service that opaquely collects data and sends it off to remote locations just so that they can say, "Cortana, run the Ansible script to redeploy my API server." But desktop users would find value in saying, "Cortana, move all email from unknown entities to my todo list."
Abraham Lincoln had an impossible choice to make, and withoutthe benefit of hindsite I dont know anyone could have made a better one.

Unfortunately,
Allowing states to decide for themselves whether they could literally own humans or not, lead to a civil war that strategically undermibed states rights.

So no, it is a lot harder to just 'have a subset' of something. Plus, obviously the internet is national + global, so while I agree with you I would argue the governments only role in the matter is arbitration in the event of a lawsuit as these are simply contracts.

You probably got downvoted because:

> if the American people want...

Is rarely considered.
You'd have to be crazy to leave at this point. You're only young once. Enjoy your senior year, smooch some ladies and / or dudes, read some books, join a club. You have a lifetime of toil ahead of you.
Of the 600,000 food items currently in the American grocery store, 80% of them have added sugar, the statistics get worse as you look at restaurant menus.
I was really upset when they massively increased the font size from normal. It looks terrible and everything takes up so much more space. I think it was probably done from manual A/B tests showing the larger font had some impact on how long people stay on the site or something, which doesn't necessarily mean anything.
That actually looks very nice, thanks!
To be fair, you could make a distribution that works this way (or you could modify a current install). Simply make critical files belong to root, make files that are fairly important (config files) belong to a special user, and make user files belong to the user. This way, you can do day-to-day system administration with a more powerful but still limited user, while performing critical operations, such as installing a bootloader, as root. NixOS sort of does something similar, although not necessarily for the reason of preventing breakage. Any regular user can install packages for his/her own environment, which the daemon installs in the package directory that belongs to "nixos" You still need to use root for system configuration, unless the "configuration.nix" could also be chowned to the "nixos" user.
First OSS React Native Commit 1 Year Ago
Like have a life, do your laundry, tidy up your place, that sort of thing? What does it have to do with work supporting 20% of your time for coding something of interest to you or learning a new language/framework?
Only in name, rather than action. Bestof basically functions as a massive sanctioned voting brigade.

(and I did mention outliers)
Slightly related question:

They mention segregating their customers into separate /24s, and consequently having to assign an IP from every one of these subnets to the router for use by the customer as a gateway.

Is there any reason why they couldn't get rid of these by having customers set up a static route to the "primary" IP of the router (migration / configuration issues aside)?
It seems rather that the spec allows, but doesn't require, lenience in what data the encoder accepts. If you want to write an encoder that always errors when given invalid data (that is always "strict"), that's fine. But if you're going to be liberal in what you accept, you are required to also implement a strict mode.
This never really stopped happening. If you want to read intelligence to support viewpoint X, you can always find someone willing to say X.
Absolutely. That classification markings are there because the subject matter has an overall classification, but doesn't actually confer any legitimacy to the content.
In the U.S., a lot of name-brand "ice cream" doesn't even meet the legal definition of ice cream, so they have to call it "frozen dairy dessert"... including most of the Breyer's line (years ago, they were sort of premium).

But stay away from Three Twins' Orange Confetti, lest you be lost to addiction. It's sorta like crack, but at least crack doesn't have calories or carbs or fat.
Ketchup is a combination of tomato paste...

generally made from the worst, otherwise-unusable tomatoes.
Whoa, how did you do it?
Show HN:Shareis.es - Redefining social networking by rewarding users for sharing
Node middleware to generate preload headers
I don't think the machine being unfinishable was an accident of history; I think that's an accurate reflection of the phenomenal expense to create one it would have been. Given that the current techniques were largely good enough, it would have been difficult to recover that value. We are incomprehensibly richer now than society was then, it was almost certainly a great deal easier for us to build 20 years ago than it would have been for Babbage, and it still took 17 years and a lot of "drama" even so. The cost/benefit ratio just hadn't quite gone positive, or at least, not positive enough, yet.
I actually took a math class taught by another former Dragon co-founder not mentioned in this article. I think he got screwed even harder than the Bakers, he always said he was good at math but bad at "business stuff".
Not only is root root, and should be permitted to access and modify the system as desired, it seems to me that the root of this problem is that motherboard manufacturers are shipping faulty boards. I shouldn't be able to brick my motherboard from my operating system, and that I can is a bug. You're telling me there isn't so much as a factory reset on these boards?

Perhaps systemd could shield users from their motherboard's manufacturer's stupidity, but the amount of flack being received doesn't seem warranted; has the same amount of outrage been directed towards the manufacturers?
our you can host your server where DDoS protection is included by default

OVH for example

https://www.ovh.com/us/news/articles/a1171.protection-anti-d...
Oh. Ok. Cool.
Sorry, I wasn't clear, that's what I meant. I was using running the code through Node as the current situation, and trying to communicate you meant the opposite of that :)
CoreOS is a Linux distro based on Gentoo. It is noteworthy for being very small, built for "all-or-nothing" automated updates, and geared for clustering.

Basically if installed on disk (you can also boot it over the network or from a USB stick etc.) it updates by having two system partitions - one "known good" because you've successfully booted from it, and one used to download new updates to, and then will (by default) automatically reboot and switch to update.

The system you end up in is basically systemd + Etcd + Fleet (with Kubernetes on the way) + Docker and rkt, with very little else included.

If you want to spin up a large cluster where everything will run in Docker or rkt containers, that's something CoreOS is well suited for.
Man you people drive me nuts. Here I've been using Linux on the desktop for 6 years. Y'all spend more time being blowhards about Linux on the desktop than I've ever spent "fighting" anything in Linux.
Ironically a lot of the works on Babbage go into his own trials and tribulations when trying to fundraise his Difference Engine and navigating the politics of 19th Century British Government affairs.

Jacquard's Web [1] was a good break from this tradition and goes into the technical foundations for Babbage's work - highlighting the loom industry in Lyons but primarily focusing on Babbage and Lovelace's technical efforts.

My two favorite quotes from this book:

Babbage does not himself use the words 'programming' or
'program'. These terms had not yet entered the language and
he is therefore obliged to resort to more obscure
expressions. For example, he describes the Analytical
Engine as being made 'special' for the mathematical
formula in question. In precisely the same way, we could
visualize a Jacquard loom that was programmed to weave a
lily as being made 'special' for the task of lily-weaving.

And:

Babbage also borrowed from the Jacquard loom the plan of
creating what he describes as a 'library' of cards that
carry out different functions, with the Analytical Engine's
operator being able to take cards from the library as
required and input them into the machine in order to make it
special for the task. The enormous advantage of the Jacquard
loom was, of course, precisely that it was able to weave any
picture or pattern for which a chain of cards had been made.
Weavers would keep these chains of cards in a storeroom
whose function was very much the same as that of the
library–or we might even say software library–which Babbage
was proposing to create.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Jacquards-Web-Hand-Loom-Birth-Informat...
Barriers to Shared Growth: The Case of Land Use Regulation and Economic Rents [pdf]
That's a funny statement given how many "homeland security" style companies are entirely outsourced on premise.
There are IT departments inside of non-IT companies that would love to have this sort of luxury. But with department heads that would have their heads explode if you try to explain this to them.

sigh
You first.
Add you to 500 Facebook groups
Yeah, me too.

-1. There is legitimate trolling, harassment, drama and d!ck moves that need to be handled with decency, common-sense and least bad measures... in open societies in real life, specific laws and enforcement haven't yet been able to eliminate #sshole behavior... it's usually handled socially. Sure it's different, but there's got to be some common sense and due-process, rather than instahellban of a core dev because someone new makes a bogus accusation.

0. Folks should try to calmly stand up to bullyvictim behavior and excessive microagression drama.

1. On large projects facing mostly public / non-enterprise / younger users, there could be need for formal training of project leaders or designated third-parties in conflict resolution / mediation to make peace, where possible. (Maybe open source conflict resolution as a service would be a viable startup? IDK, or a pockethotline perhaps?)

2. 37signals showed less anonymous participation increased kindness and reduced toxic behavior... perhaps projects should link accounts to G+ / Facebook / Github?

3. A risk of blindly adopting CoCs is that a new, amorphous bureaucracy of unknown persons/governance itself gains a foothold into many projects, and may come back and start asking for compliance reports, more control and more changes. Some of this might be good, but it could become more about browbeating others into bending to their will a-la Yale screaming girl https://youtu.be/9IEFD_JVYd0

4. Popularity of a behavior or trend is not necessarily equivalent to an ethical and/or wise change, but it is worth discussing.

5. Paraphrasing subversion folks An undefended community ceases to be the latter.
Remarkably low amount of new info relative to the clickbait title. Huge surprise: Govies watch everything you do and wait for you to mess up.

Including this comment. I'm toast.
The dark, disturbing world of the visa-for-sale program (2014)
Googler please chime in, but as far as I read it's been dead for years. http://qz.com/115831/googles-20-time-which-brought-you-gmail...
Could be a job for SELinux. Most of the files in efivars don't ever need modifying. So SELinux could make all files unmodifiable by default, and allow modification of the few that are needed by efibootmgr.
> Since nobody uses Obj-C without Xcode

Hey now, I do! But I'm convinced that I'm subconsciously some kind of masochist, so that's probably not proving you wrong.
Why not purchase these items via your company, batch them up into pallet-sized shipments, then arrange for commercial air transportation? You can then provide commercial invoices, cover any duty and taxes, have insurance to cover the goods from loss or damage during transport, and (bonus!) comply with the importation laws of the destination country.

I bet that would work out to be less than $25/item and you wouldn't have to count on mules to do your legwork for you.

It might even work out well as a UPS/Fedex competitor, saving shipping costs by batching shipments together and allowing you to expand into other countries. Though I'd be very surprised if this isn't already a solved shipping/logistics problem. It's not like transporting items between countries hasn't been around for centuries already; although existing solutions don't have the novelty your company brings to the table: offloading legal compliance onto your mules.
I feel like this quote from Yuval Steinitz just has to be a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment of that. Or it's just the most bald-faced lie I've heard in ages - not sure which interpretation is more funny.

“We know that the Americans spy on the whole world, and also on us, also on their friends. But still, it is disappointing, inter alia because, going back decades already, we have not spied nor collected intelligence nor hacked encryptions in the United States.”
Agreed...Certain brilliant works, read at just the right moment in our lives, align with our intuition, validates the information we've gathered and parsed to that point, and propels us forward with confidence...

I read Edward O. Wilsons' "On Human Nature" the year it was published (1978)...I just happened to stumble upon it in a bookstore...a wonderful read which prompted me to wonder,"What other thinkers are out there that I don't know about?"

This was two years after Dawkins published "The Selfish Gene"...I was unaware of the book, or Dawkins in general, for at least a decade...when I discovered it I devoured it...

It had the effect of further cementing the philosophy of living my previous inquiries had led me to...

I've discovered no benefit to putting a label on myself, whether that be atheist, agnostic, or theist...early on I discovered others held tightly to their views and were usually very unlikely to change them...discussions were interesting and invigorating, but ultimately fruitless...

What I most appreciate about the efforts of Dawkins and Wilson is that they are quite serious thinkers...they encourage us to "go with the best available evidence"...there's no better advice...

There's ample evidence that we humans are finite beings, and IMHO we don't much like the idea of that, i.e., we want answers as to why we exist at all...and we're often unwilling to embrace "the best available evidence"...

Further, I think that those who cannot accept that we appear to be finite beings misunderstand the concept of "infinity"...it extends backwards, forwards, in any direction our human linguistic invention of the concept of "time" might include...infinity implies limitless possibilities...

I'll continue to proceed with my life based on what "the best available evidence" suggests...if new and compelling evidence is uncovered I'm willing to turn on a dime...
I'm sorry, but I don't understand your comment.

Yes, every road is different. So pay careful attention to the design of every road, rather than following a standard (eg, 12') plan, so people naturally want to drive at the safe speed limit. Design the roads for the speed limit. Don't overdesign the roads, then use signs to force everyone to slow down from what they naturally want to do.

That's still standardization, but based around people rather than a Platonic street design. And it brings its own advantages.

Regarding traffic calming, and quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming :

> Traffic calming consists of physical design and other measures, including narrowed roads and speed humps, put in place on roads for the intention of slowing down or reducing motor-vehicle traffic as well as to improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists.

So yes, it's partially about reducing traffic, but it's definitely also about slowing people down.
That's kind of the point. Terrifying, but humane.
The new Citibank ATMs that take the chip card hold onto it until after you've taken your money. I already accidentally left my card in a machine after taking the cash.
I have 10% time.
> > The conversion from DFA to NFA [...]

> I believe you mean NFA to DFA.

Yes, you're right. Whoops :P.

> > [...] would require O(n^2) in that case

> I believe you mean O(2^n).

Ah yes, I forgot that you could chain epsilon edges. Fair enough.
China's latest crackdown on lawyers is unprecedented, human rights monitors say
ReadMe (YC W15) is hiring product-focused Node engineers
Most of these concepts irritate me to no end by such enormous amount of wasted whitespace. May be it's an irrational thing (after all, personally I usually work with a pair of 1680x and 4k monitors and have no shortage of pixels), but I just don't get it: why use all these gigantic margins and spaces when instead UX designer could've just made the window smaller?
Yoshua Bengio Says Machines Won't Become Dangerously Smart Anytime Soon
The static route has to be via a gateway that is on a locally connected subnet.
The Teen Who Trekked 1,800 Miles Through Canadian Wilderness Disguised as a Man
This is undoubtedly cool research, but how useful is the automatic generation of a fix? In practice, finding the bug is by far the most important step. Once you've identified the problematic code, it's normally trivial to fix it.
He says "The ability to hose a system is certainly reason enought to make sure it's well protected and only writable to root." That looks like agreement that it needs something done to me. I took the followup comment to be a useful to on how to mitigate the problem until then.
QIRA is a timeless debugger
The full paper can be found on Martin Rinard's website [1].

[1] http://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/
Huh? If you think assistant professor salary in UIUC will go up because of H1B minimums you are probably living in a parallel universe.
Hello world, we are Rize
Glider 4: "R 89.0%, OpenEdge ABL 11.0%"

Panarena 2: "R 78.4%, C 21.0%, C++ 0.6%"

Glypha III: "R 92.1%, C 7.9%"

Glider Pro: "R 92.6%, C 7.3%, Objective-C 0.1%"

GitHub, these are called legacy Mac OS codebases. Today you learn a new thing!
> Linux is important on dekstops to thrive.

That's what distros are for. The "Linux" family of operating systems are used for a very wide variety of uses, some of which are orthogonal (and sometimes incompatible) with "desktop" features.

Something like "Year of the KDE desktop" or "Year of the Linux Mint desktop" would make much more sense than trying to shove all of Linux into one pigeon hole. In fact, even within "desktop" there is variation. While an easy to use, mostly automagic desktop is a good idea, that's not the only definition of "desktop".

Ultimately, this is the the biggest problem with the idea of "THE Linux desktop"[1]: one size never fits all. Fortunately, Linux distributions exist[2] allowing for great variety - including "everything just works" desktop distributions. Just remember that the Linux ecosystem is larger than one type of distro.

[1] and systemd, and 15+ years ago the "desktop environments" that insisted there should be only one GUI toolkit, etc

[2] This assumes distros decide to keep their own identity instead of continuing on the homogeneity bandwagon that many joined when they converted to systemd. Turning into a clone of Red Hat is the path to obsolescence.
Ask HN: Deep learning tutorials for hands-on learners?
I learn best by doing, so I wanted to ask what are good examples of projects/tutorials/other sources to dive into deep learning beyond the more theoretical research papers and high level overviews?
Some nitpicks:

* Pivotal Tracker is the SaaS software you're thinking of.

* Pivotal Labs is the agile and lean engineering/design/product/data science consultancy, from which Pivotal Tracker first emerged as a product.

* Pivotal is the parent company formed from Pivotal Labs and other products (notably Cloud Foundry, Spring, Greenplum, Gemfire) several years ago.

Disclaimer: I'm work at Pivotal Labs.
Well, it's not like they pay you to write code for them right?

It is only fair that your are, in theory, not allowed to reuse the code who wrote for them at your next gig. And to be clear, we all do it. If you've implemented it once you can redo it in no time.
<But what real value is in that raw stream beyond voyeurism?>

For one thing, it helped feed the Reddit witch hunt that tracked down and popularized images of... the wrong people.
You get what you pay for, in the case of OVH they'll do a decent job tanking volumetric attacks, but fall short for anything that doesn't involve tons of bandwidth.
No offense, but while that is your view, many low end providers do the same thing.

Every company around that price point has these problems [and if they don't, they are either burning VC money or lying].
Well, I would describe your inability to sleep in, as definitely qualifying for being a morning person.

On the other end of the spectrum, you have individuals like myself. From my teens into my early twenties, my ideal sleep cycle was 4am to 1:00pm. Probably still would be my ideal sleep cycle, if that fit into civilization.

It's hilarious to think I could maybe survive on 5 hours. Go to sleep at 4, wake up at 9? Hah, ya right.
I can't even figure out what language it's in, and GitHub can't either, but it's definitely nothing I've seen before.

I think that answers your question.

The code would necessarily be a full rewrite. All this would be good for would maybe be official asset sources... but then I've seen other people mention that they've reimplemented the game by just taking screenshots, so maybe not.
Someone once asked me what I do. "I'm a software engineer".

"What does that mean?"

"I spend all day thinking about what to name things."
Digg could have survived if it iterated I think.
Wasnt the big idea behind those 20% increased creativity?

I have the feeling most great ideas in our field get bastardized by people who know nothing about it.
Iirc, bios just loads the first sector[1] of the disk into a specific place and jumps into it. Interpreting the partition table or not it's up to that code.

[1] or maybe the first 512 bytes, if a sector is bigger
Wow, that's some bad UI. Wells Fargo ATMs require you to take your card before it gives you the money.
Yes this has nothing to do with the customer. This has to do with the waiters, hostesses etc who know how to use the system and to get them to us another system would take time to learn.
In practice, most volumetric attacks have spoofed IPs- amplified UDP reflection attacks and even SYN floods with no amplification.

Getting rid of UDP amplification reflection attacks will get rid of 90% of volumetric attacks.
"You can’t open the application “Glider Pro.app” because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." :(
>Or just have low testosterone.

Huh? You're getting paid for it. The company isn't stupid, they wont let you use their resources just so you can take all the credit.
I do all of those things and code something of interest to me and my company has no 20% time. I understand, you'd like more time to do those things, but time when we get to do whatever we want is called a day off.
I know for a fact ~7 providers around the same price range have had the exact same problems and were less honest about it. :p

Hell, I know some in 2016 that are plain text offenders still.

You get what you pay for, and unless you pay about double what Linode charges...you don't get much in the way of added security or protection.
Aaron Swartz and copyright wars in the Internet age
source: https://twitter.com/carlmalamud/status/693272115995414528
Trai set to reject differential bandwidth pricing; FB's Free Basics to be hit