skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To play devil's advocate:

I see from another comment that you are Vegan, so how did you make the distinction of what living things are acceptable to eat, and which are not? Plants are just as alive as mammals, fish or insects; so if it isn't 'life' that you are preserving, what exactly is it? some idea of consciousness? intelligence? How does something like Honey fit into your view of this issue?

Further, how do you justify your greater reliance than meat eaters on migrant underpaid labor? Is human suffering for your nutrition preferable to animal suffering?

Isnt this just a game of semantic false moral superiority until there is a nutrition source that is completely death and suffering free?
You are correct, we only ship our Omnibus packages with PostgreSQL. And the ability to use an external MySQL server is only in the Enterprise Edition.

Switching away from MySQL might not be an option for you but documentation on how to convert from MySQL to PostgreSQL can be found on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc...
Google wants to replace SMS with a better messaging platform
This applies to later models of iPhone; the 5c doesn't have a secure enclave. All password attempt limiting and erasure of data is implemented by the operating system.
Which is one subpoena away.
Grey goo has frightened me since I was a child. Now this. Thanks!
> For example changing the WiFi or Bluetooth MAC is not locked down and effects the UDID. Because the UDID was never intended to be a way to bypass the device encryption it was not designed with anywhere near the same level of care and sophistication as handling the encryption key itself.

I never suggested the UDID. Please don't ascribe a claim to me that was never made. SHA512 the serial and macs independently. Job done.
...and harvesting those plants kills millions of rodents per section. A plant diet is quite arguably more devastating to animal life than a meat one.
Thing that bugs me most is the url `/customer-letter`.
Is this the one and only "Customer Letter" they're ever going to write?
Sound management for all of the cars, drones, and (probably) robots might be even more important than sunlight!
Show HN: VeryAnts: Probabilistic Integer Arithmetic for Ruby
I dislike Apple as a matter of principle, but I really love them when they are kicking and screaming for the right cause.
SmartCane – An invention to help the visually impaired navigate better
> I'm skeptical that cloud flare can somehow be roped into 'corporate censorship' -- they IMHO clearly were not founded or intended to enable some sort of nefarious intent. Quite the opposite in fact.

The fact that CloudFlare makes it challenging for users from a particular network to access common resources is, in itself, a form of censorship. This is especially problematic due to the nature of people who tend to use Tor, i.e. those who seek some level of anonymity for various reasons. I don't believe CloudFlare is malicious or intends to block legitimate Tor users. But it is censorship nonetheless, hence the title.
After a quick little look through the Terms of Service...

>IT IS ALSO SOLELY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO EVALUATE THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, USEFULNESS OR VALIDITY OF ALL OPINIONS, ADVICE, SERVICE, PROMOTIONS, ADVERTISEMENTS, AWARDS, PRIZES OR OTHER INFORMATION, AND THE QUALITY AND MERCHANTABILITY OF ALL SERVICES AND/OR MERCHANDISE, PROVIDED BY OR THROUGH BRAIN.FM. BRAIN.FM MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR ENDORSEMENTS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED AS TO THE ACCURACY, QUALITY, COMPLETENESS, NON‑INFRINGEMENT, OWNERSHIP, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR OTHERWISE OF ANY INFORMATION, GOODS OR SERVICES ACCESSED THROUGH BRAIN.FM.

I guess this is a helpful disclaimer in many ways, because this allows me to presume that all their claims are invented, all their peer reviews are suspect, and that their entire product line is inferior to a generic recording of waves hitting the beach, crickets at night, or a babbling brook.
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I'm running Arch Linux in production for my private systems, and am currently extending it to a system previously on Debian oldstable in order to harmonize my processes.

It works very well for me (I didn't have any update-induced downtimes yet, except for the usual reboots to apply kernel upgrades), but I can easily see how people could struggle with the no-partial-upgrade problem when they employ complex, fast-moving software stacks.

My solution is to package that software myself in a private repo, so that I get to decide when to upgrade. In Arch, probably more than with any other binary distribution, it helps very much to have a good grip on the packaging process. Once you already have your private repo and signing key set up and rolled out everywhere, the barrier to rolling the next custom package is much slower.
Can't say I understand the value in this at all.
Couple things.

I think it is pretty cool that a college social network has morphed into a horrifyingly privacy invading intelligience company just as much ad the next guy, but seriously WTF?

I assume there is a good reason they are using drones? The deep learning of satellite data was interesting, but why is it neccessary?

Assuming you just use planet labs or something similar to get data and you process it, you find the people. Makes sense. Except in the case that these people regularly migrate as nomadic beduins i guess you could serve your popup drone fleet at them as bushpeople don't have adblock.

But if they are just poor people who are trying to get by and live, to the extent possible, like many other people, I don't get it. Surely you have a chicken and an egg problem here, right?

They either have running water and some semblance of infrastructure like roads and power, or they don't. Unless Matk is going to airdrop a fission reactor wouldnt have been easier to ask thr power company or trace the lines?

Second thing. Why not towers, or just paying for LEO sattelite nets?

Don't get it, but I guesz it one ups self calibrating loon baloons...
> something I suspect is very tightly protected even within apple.

By, say, breaking up its custodianship among a … finite group of human beings.
> 1 - To whom do you suggest the government should be accountable?

Other governments and ultimately the citizenry as a whole.

> if Apple cannot comply without endangering every iPhone owner, then the other owners of iPhones have a stake in the outcome

They do not. No more than owners of doors when the FBI executes a warrant.

> The government's right to investigate this crime doesn't expand to the right to endanger millions of people's privacy and security.

No plausible mechanism has ever been put forward where this would be the case.

> Libertarian philosophy doesn't suggest that you have a right to hurt other people, unless in self-defense.

Right, they attempted to coerce your staff on your premesis into acting against their own interests. This is a violation of the NAP and therefore any level of violence in self defence is justified.

This is one of the most core Libertarian beliefs.
How does Square know my name in their app's registration process?
If you're really looking to overengineer this, look at SAML. ;-)
Remix OS, a desktop-focused version of Android, is coming to older PCs
I get a little uncanny valley from listening to this.
You may want to check out the HFY subreddit[1]. The skill level varies greatly, but there are some fairly good writers there, and some are 100+ posts into stories. It's often fairly trope-heavy (as is the point), but there are some real gems in there. Looking at some of the curated lists, or the top all-time posts will give you a good idea of the quality.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY
>The real answer is to do a Putin -- buy a typewriter.

Even that might not help:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/how-soviets-used-ibm...
I'm in a may-issue state which in the most dangerously urban parts is actually a shall-NOT-issue state.
> Even if you fail, but put action into the belief, you'll be happy and have grown.

Can we please admit that it is terrifying to be an economic failure?

If you try and fail, have police at your door because you can't pay rent, spouse leaves you, children are ashamed of you. You are going to feel intense anguish and shame.
Venture Capital in Berlin is finally maturing
So basically this will only install on android. No?
I am guessing they have the call records from the phone company and found something interesting enough to go through all this effort.

We dont know what they found in the lake.
Nit: 0.00001% of 5.8 TW is 580 kW. (I assume you just misplaced a decimal point.)
Glad to hear that the rendering got better for you.

That animation is our loading indicator introduced in GitLab 8.4. There is no way to disable it. However, it seems to have a lot of fans https://twitter.com/jerbob92/status/692089402030460929

I hope it is less weird now that you know what it is for.
I attributed to you a common left wing position on welfare recipients. It appears I misunderstood you - apparently you don't believe welfare recipients are just regular people.

If a person chooses to be toxic to those around them, why is that a behavior that should result in us giving them money?

Lets make this concrete. Consider a racist who chooses to be an asshole to every non-white person around them, and who also lives in a very diverse area such as Silicon Valley or NYC (and refuses to move to a very white area). They are also sexist to all the women who choose to work outside the home as well. Their voluntarily chosen behavior patterns leave them unemployable.

Why is this person deserving of free money taken from productive people of color who choose to pleasantly work for the benefit of others?

(I have of course chosen this person to be as offensive to left wing sensibilities as possible.)

In regards to your first sentence. Surely you don't believe that every person who can be employed can find work.

I do actually believe vastly more people could be working than currently are, because I used to live in India and I saw vastly higher labor utilization. There are a huge number of jobs that simply don't get done in the US.

E.g., I have a maid clean my flat twice a month, but I'd like it done twice a week (or daily, like most Indian professionals do). However, labor is simply too scarce in the US for that to be reasonable. Perhaps some of those welfare recipients who are "great to be around" can find me and help me out, should we implement the author's proposal.

However, if such a proposal only puts half the people on welfare back to work, that's still a good outcome.
This is a strong reach of an assumption and very click-baity. What this really should be worded as "if your neighbor wins the lottery, you're more likely to succumb to 'keeping up with the Joneses'".
> Nonsense! Believe it or not, prior to the existence of smart phones it was possible to convict people of abuse and rape; in fact, it happened quite regularly. The evidence against such criminals need not be on a smartphone; after all, there are the victims; there are witnesses; there is forensic evidence.

So this means it's OK to withold access to evidence, even if you are simply a private company with no legal standing? No of course it doesn't.

Please, tell me how a paedophile I know exists and uses an iPhone can be prosecuted for the contents of that device. I'm fairly sure he has taken illegal photos of children he may be abusing, but he lives in Cambodia.

What can be done?
Potential curative HIV-1 therapy [pdf]
I wouldn't say "once a day". When I'm sick, I might not touch my PCs for a week, and that has always been fine.

The only situation where things were fucked up badly was when the system upgrade failed on a friend's notebook that was not updated for 6 months. I had to uninstall KDE in order to untangle the missing dependencies, then do the upgrade, then reinstall KDE.
> If Apple can do it, then they must.

Which is why they ought to ensure that they cannot do it. And it's why we should resist any law mandating that they be forced to include a pre-emptive backdoor.
The DSM that Psychiatrists use is completely a guessing game. Not "partially" -- there is nothing that has ever been proven that any mental "illness" exists -- this is important when they tell you that a drug can fix the problem. They say by changing these "chemical imbalances" with a drug, we will solve a problem. But nothing has proven those chemical imbalances are there to begin with.

All we know is that the symptoms are real -- there are other non Psychiatry/Psychology methods for dealing with them -- I would see CCHR for more data.
> A plant diet is quite arguably more devastating to animal life than a meat one.

No, a person could not credibly make that argument. Don't forget that the meat-providing animals have to eat plant material.

So you have the same problems of the vegan diet, plus the inefficiency of the plant-to-meat conversion, plus killing of the meat animals.
Thanks rogerbinns - Understood, just wanted to make sure you were aware & it looks like you are :). I've pinged the VC++ team and will report back.

BTW we've setup the alias pythonbuildtools at microsoft.com where folks like you that are building pkgs can speak to the Python+VC++ team members. I recommended send your request there as well.

Cheers.
One Language to rule them all ...
A lot of this is front-loaded in the 4 years of undergraduate training, 4 years of medical school, and 4-6 years of residency training that physicians do.

Physicians are trained to preload all possible diagnoses based on a certain set of initial symptoms--they have ideas about what the potential answer might be when you inform them of their symptoms, but in order to narrow that space down, additional workup needs to be performed (tests, imaging, etc) and until those results come back, anything else they say is speculation.

(edited, fixed a typo)
This belongs to the same drawer as binaural beats.
Quite. But as best i recall the whole thing started before ISIS had control of fields, never mind started selling.
Where is you car?
If you notice, the <e> of people/peple is /i/, which is different from the <e> of edible/edbl that is /e/.

The general rule of English taught in kindergartem is that the silent <e> makes a vowel letter "say its name". That's the difference between "mat" and "mate" or "kit" and "kite" (or "nit" and "nite"). Similarly, doubled consonants make the preceding vowel "short", as in "holy" and "holly", where the former vowel says its name and the latter does not. Not to endorse Cutspel at all, but these are ordinary rules of English spelling that are taught to everyone at the beginning of elementary school. Cutspel looks very inconsistent, yes.

Another problem with English is that by college, educated people have so internalized its eccentricities that they have forgotten how difficult it is for kindergarteners to learn ;) The big advantage of spelling reform would be teaching children to read faster and more easily, so that more classroom instructional time could be spent on actual content rather than something as ridiculous as spelling. Spelling is now mostly a tool to reify social class. http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/how-the...

Spelling reform isn't going to be solved by a browser extension replacing words, because some of the benefits of spelling reform involve things like disambiguating words that are spelled the same, like the noun "moderate" and the verb "moderate". http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2010/09/luv-u-giv.html
> I disagree with your healthcare analogy. It is in the interest of the many for the US to have widespread, cheap, available healthcare. It would give our citizens longer, healthier lives, which from a purely economic standpoint would allow them to work longer and increase GDP.

I agree it is, but my point is that despite this, it is not implemented in any way. The needs of the many in the US do not outweigh the needs of the few. Nor in most cases should they. Individual healthcare has no significant harm to it, but prohibiting the searching of communications and data on someone's primary computer has major harm implications.
Are we expecting any major announcements today in the vein of React Native?
Turkey: Not very Turkic (a genetic history of the Turkic peoples)
> there are some people who, because of their unusual needs, have a bigger more powerful one.

Unusual needs like being able to see a lot of text at once, type things longer than a paragraph, multitask, use more than one app in a work flow, and run real software?

I doubt it... unless phones develop dockable desktop capability in which case they are now dual-purpose converged devices. Right now to believe that mobile is "the future" of everything requires one to believe that most people have nothing to say beyond one-liners and selfies and that the only purpose of computing is to interact with canned services. That might be true for a subset of the market but I think it's a smaller subset than some do.
Microbenchmarks comparing = and eq? in Racket
i think this is the right link :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi62S_MvheE
Wasn't it the Atari version of Pac Man with "wafers"?

Nothing beats game programming in the 80s. IMO, the golden age of programming.
Apple Will Fight Federal Conscription to Defeat Encryption
Improve Your Design by Coding to Interfaces
Thanks, glad to hear that. We're doing everything we can to keep and improve upon that culture. Being remote first and having a public issue tracker certainly helps, less difference between a comment of a co-worker and of a user.
I'm not currently using tags, thank you for the suggestion.
Not sure is available in the SO api, I'll check.

The keyboard shortcut is not hard to add. You could do it yourself :P
Caddy – The HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS
Apple just gave IBM a huge leg up in the cloud wars with Amazon
One way you can do that is by architecting something like chmod. Basically a point based system. 7 gives all, 1 gives read. You can then have your actual implementation compiled away, but can change points for a user as and when you like. The code that checks won't need to be recompiled.
I think the argument here is that stealing a private key isn't fundamentally more difficult than stealing this iOS backdoor (were Apple to create it). Under this model, Apple's refusal to create a backdoor is in some sense an appeal to security through obscurity because it implies that engineering knowledge is the main obstacle to adversaries, whereas the true obstacle is the ability to steal protected information from Apple (the key or the backdoor). If the key and backdoor were equivalently useful, the existence of a backdoor wouldn't impact the safety of customers because the key already exists.

Of course, whether stealing a backdoor is actually as hard as stealing a key is a legitimate question, but (I thought) Apple had the option to unlock the phone in-house, which would at least keep the backdoor out of FBI hands (the legal precedent, however, could still pose a real threat to user security).
Some victims are being represented pro-bono in a case against Apple [1]

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-victims-e...

There should be more discussion. Tech companies should seek to understand the government's job to keep people safe, and the government needs to understand that this is a game of whack-a-mole they can't win
As an Arch user, the lack of MAC in any well supported form throughout Arch and its derivatives is a deal breaking turn off to me. I cannot imagine telling someone who is not technically literate to start using a Linux distro without being able to trust that arbitrary software cannot read all their documents and steal their passwords.
My primary concern here is that there are 14 people dead and the powers that are asking for this obviously failed to protect them. To me the arguments people are making for Apple to comply are like abstinence education. Despite all facts pointing to the effect that with all that they ALREADY have on us they are completely useless at "protecting the American public" why are they using that as an argument here? Obviously because people are still buying it, but at some point shouldn't we point back to fact that they were unable to stop 14 people being massacred?
We're working something similar at Patchwork (https://patchworksecurity.com/) . You tell us what packages are installed and we notify you when a new security update is released. Right now we're focusing on distro package managers, but plan to add support for monitoring upstreams like nginx.

The big issue we see with RSS / mailing lists is a problem of discoverability and noise. Not all software has an easy to digest format for security changes. We want to do the scraping / parsing once and make it consumable by others. General lists such as OSS and distro specific security announce lists tend to have more noise. Most people only care about packages installed on their machines, which is why we filter our results based on your set of packages.
You've built an awesome product- now you need to bring it to life
A guy on Reddit yesterday posted about going to the mall and going into a makeup store with his girlfriend and later receiving ads for the same store in his Facebook feed. I'm not sure if he connected to the store's wifi or not, but still very creepy.
> but I assume this article was what 5G means for me

Why would that not be for "you"? When LTE rolled out in my country my usage pattern shifted. I paid up for higher/unlimited data allowance and can truly work remotely now unhindered. That includes data and latency critical tasks.
Thanks I took a note of it. Once I publish I'll send you a link to a free copy. I've been writing since I was a kid and just recently discovered how enjoyable it is working on this novel.
WW3 RUSSIA TELLS UN STOP TURDS INVASION OF SYRIA
Google Fiber Expands to Huntsville, Alabama
Maybe I wasn't clear. She finds items in other places, ships them to the amazon warehouse, then sets the price +5%.
Glad I can watch from my comfortable office
Never `import React from ‘react’` again
Sites routed through CloudFlare are practically unbearable to use over Tor and ReCaptcha 2.0 has actually made things worse. The new challenges take more time to solve and most times you're required to complete multiple challenges before being accepted.

I'm glad to hear that this is being worked on, but I'm pretty pessimistic that there will be a good resolution. There seems to be a fundamental conflict of interest between preserving anonymity and being able to identify potential abuse. As CloudFlare grows and absorbs more and more of the Internet, the inconvenience and potential for tracking will only increase. The problem is really more of a structural one than a technical one - this is what happens when one entity controls vast portions of the infrastructure of the Internet.
Animals that sniff out TB, cancer and landmines
I've used simple tax for my last two fillings and I must say kudos to you all on such a great product.