skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly doubt that the people on Reddit and HN are just making this up. It's not like an "Automatic Update" is that remarkable of a claim. Forbes[1] a few days ago and others recently wrote about this very issue. So far it seems like a pretty real problem. Sucks it's messing with so many. :/

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/09/12/microsoft...
Is your company investing in social selling? Would love to hear your thoughts
I had the same result after switching to a keto diet 10 months ago. Do you know if there are any research papers on this? I was really surprised how effective the change in diet was because I did it on a whim without receiving medical advice.
What you can do is see which neurons were activated by a certain event, then figure out what other situations they are activated by and the patterns that they match. That's won't get you a coherent explanation straight away, especially for a very large network, but it's a start.
Wonderful quote, great wisdom. Interestingly, the passage speaks to ideas that exist across cultures, and throughout the centuries. It's remarkably similar to the philosophy of Spinoza, particularly embodied in his seminal work, the Ethics published in 1677.

For example, in the Ethics Spinoza wrote (roughly translated) "eternity cannot be defined in terms of time, or have any relation to time". I puzzled over this idea for many years, extending to decades. More recently I've thought it prescient, in a way anticipating the concept of "space-time". Indeed that may not be coincidental given Einstein's statement that he was strongly influenced by Spinoza.

So it's not a surprise, in fact even reassuring that such insights permeate human thought, as the Zen Mind nicely demonstrates.

Edit: grammar
Shutup10 and Spybot Anti-beacon
Is there any way I can guess at my password from the Gawker leak?
Plastic Bottle Cutter: Turn Plastic Bottles into Rope
A single volunteer who was fired. This is more about the APD who have a long and much criticized history of abuse.
If the IT staff for any large organization hasn't reviewed their inventory for affected systems and taken appropriate steps... that's outright incompetence. The writing has been on the wall for years and MS clearly documents unaffected systems (which includes Windows 7 Enterprise) and the required Group Policy to block the update[1].

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351
That is really fucked up. The threshold for chucking someone in a cell needs to be higher than hearsay.
And why those?
I would make that argument. What specifically makes PHP less developer productive than Ruby?
> For example I'd be happy if I could generate structs dynamically, based on string input.

I don't understand why you'd want to do that. That sounds like an architecture you are excited about, not a problem you are trying to solve. Can you give me some context?
That's thinking about a much bigger problem - and you're completely right about that.
imgix offers a solid solution in this space nowadays
Yes. I mentioned C++ templates, because I don't want to only talk about Haskell. (People make ghc do interesting things, too. And some of them are even not-so-ugly.)
Disney's Unlikely Garbage Innovation Was Supposed to Sweep the Country
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales blasts “deranged” companies editing their own pages
The interest in self driving cars is much higher than in EVs for the general population. EVs even with two hundred mile range models coming out; I hope to get a lease on a Bolt by next Spring; will still have more limitations than people will accept. Even if the limitations aren't that burdensome it will take time for people to understand that. Still they will see 200 mile range and half hour or more charging versus the 300 to 600 mile range that petrol cars use.

Automation has so many more payoffs than electrification that I think its a better investment in the short term. The lives than can be saved, the freedom offered to those who cannot drive for varied reasons, and the fuel savings as well, all conspire to make automation the next big thing.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, Windows badly needs a better update mechanism. This has been a huge pain point for consumers for a long time, which often results in buying new hardware instead of updating the browser, etc.

On the other hand I think this will drive people away from Windows and towards OS X and Ubuntu.

Oh right, there is no downside to this!
Stephen Wolfram Livecoding at SXSW
CEO Stephen Wolfram showing off Wolfram Language in Austin, TX

Livestream: https://www.livecoding.tv/stephen_wolfram/
Google loses appeal in Russia on Android app bundling
AKA, "why I don't miss the US after leaving 8 years ago." They'll lock you up for breathing the wrong way there.
I honestly expect that they wouldn't have used the Internet to transfer a volume that large.

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes" and all that sort of thing.
I'm moving my home NAS back to Debian after a couple of painful months [1] [2] with FreeNAS 9. Would this give me jail-like functionality under Linux? The one thing I enjoyed about FreeNAS/FreeBSD was how easy it was to create and tear down jails for all kinds of uses.

[1]: https://blog.voltagex.org/2016/01/08/freenas-9-3-on-the-supe...

[2]: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2016-Februar...
> traffic engineers disagree with your assessment of efficiency.

Do they?

> You are effectively using aggressive driving

Not me, personally. (I ride a bicycle and use transit from time to time, and the occasional rental car on weekends and holidays: out of the vicious rush-hour traffic.)

Fact is, if you throw a blinker, there will be those drivers who will reduce gaps and not let you in. Usually not in merge situations (as in, you can't join this freeway, bugger off!) but situations in where the lane change is not necessary (you're not entitled to swerve into this lane just because it's moving faster!). I agree with them; they are doing the right thing. It can usually be done safely, within the "two second rule" for following another vehicle, depending on speed. Be it right or wrong, safe or unsafe, if you want to outwit those who are doing it, you have to do the wrong thing an not blink.

Not letting people join a freeway is despicable. (It happens too: "Hey, you can merge here ... just not in front of me, thank you very much!") The do-not-blink principle does not apply there, because it's obvious that you want to merge whether you blink or not, being in a merging lane and all! My comments don't apply to that situation at all.
Why is this crap making it to the top of ycombinator? I am perfectly happy seeing SXSW not screw with Austin for a week. This guy was probably detained for suspicion of a crime. Austin cops have their problems but are not particularly bad in any regard. Austin is a very safe city and one of the few to not have any "mass shootings" in recent history. Austin's big problem is the gentrification brought on by class conscious geeks constantly moving there.
Senior judges often don't operate that way. ;)
> Bonus: UBI (hopefully) allows for elimination of some bureaucracy, instead of folding existing bureaucracy into a new program.

I hope so, too. Alas, the very threat of elimination of bureaucracy will perhaps make some of these bureaucrats rally against a change?
looking forward to the reactions from people regarding compilation times when sbt 1.0 and scala 2.12 land. hope a broad spectrum of code get's these compilation time improvements.
It's the same link I've already given above? And fascinatingly for you, "the writing was on the wall," and for some other commenters, it's unimaginable that it even happens. The perceptions of individuals are really hugely different.
Haha yeah! I really can't wait until I can do ALL of my day-to-day dev work on a Linux OS. Soon though... very soon...
The title says "wrongful arrest" which is not accurate, since the police computer says to pick up that person - it's just the arrest of the wrong person.

A wrongful arrest is more like an arrest with no warrant and no evidence - like walking down the street and refusing to answer questions or show ID to a police officer who is attempting to infringe your civil liberties.
I am afraid that what you describe is a pretty fundamental limitation of peer review. Currently it is not expected of reviewers to try to replicate experiments, but only to check if the methodology of the paper seems sound and the relevant previous work is cited. Should this be expected of reviewers? Should the authors provide all code and data so that the results can be replicated at the push of a button? That seems a pretty tall order. Seems like we'll be stuck with a modus operandi of lots of papers being published, peer review only catching obvious errors, and replication being very rare.
>to try and win internet arguments

is pretty much the antithesis of

>to avoid wasting time.
> and the client side code is about 50 lines and completely resuable and DRY

Were you able to implement auto-reconnect with backoff? That's one of the most important features that something like Socket.io gives you.
Holy fuck are you serious?
Pi Searcher: Billions of Digits of Pi on Google Cloud Bigtable
Speaks foreign language, has a beard, and Texas.

Sounds about right.
I think both are pretty significant. Your message suggests this second incident should be dismissed.
All the best arguments require a time machine.
In the house meeting the security expert said this pretty well. As soon as the process becomes routine its going to be in a huge amount of danger.
It was one volunteer. How stupid can you be? It was not "SXSW".
JavaScript Debugging Tips from the Trenches
Every Movie Ending Is Improved by That One Stupid Dire Straits Song
Great book on the history of pre-antibiotic medicine is "Devils, Drugs and Doctors" by Howard Haggard, available online here:
http://www.unz.org/Pub/HaggardHoward-1929

As I recall, you could boil down medical progress up to the publication date as "discovery of germs" as in "washing hands," "cleaning things," "vaccination," "isolate people with plague from the well" and "don't drink water you pooped in" -and the discovery of anesthesia, which made complex surgery possible. I'd say antibiotics is the main further improvement.
Where would you go next if that sub-area is already saturated? I'd particularly like to get some opinions for self-taught devs tired of CRUD and DevOps land(s.)
Exactly this. I open tmux on remote connections, maybe to panel (Altho scrolling through output in tmux sucks), but definitely in case I lose my connection while running a longer process.

My other favorite use is screen sharing without screen sharing (2 people connecting to the same session), super helpful when taking control over screens share is too slow due to network lag.
Oh, and efficiency saves lives in and off itself. (One possible path, using less oil for cars, we can use more oil instead of coal in other applications. Thus mining less coal. Coal mines are crazy dangerous per Joule mined comparatively.)
With a bag on his head? WTF?
> Why is this crap making it to the top of ycombinator?

Because SXSW is one of the most important events of the year for launching digital products that are not games? Lots of regulars of this website (myself included) are part of product launches at SXSW.

It's also a diversity-related story, which has been becoming an increasingly important topic for HN.
Cryptomator - Free client-side encryption for your cloud files
Northern California reservoirs inch toward capacity
I understand your sentiment. . .
I have to admit framing currency devaluation and product dumping as cheating is rhetorical brilliance.
Turns out you can use the same navigational keybindings to move around nvim splits and tmux splits, so that moving between the two programs is a sinch. This is what I use.

https://robots.thoughtbot.com/seamlessly-navigate-vim-and-tm...
I know clickwrap EULAs have been contentious, but can a EULA for something you didn't even ask for and didn't want in the first place be forced on you against your will?
It's usually more an issue when someone is getting on/off the highway and isn't at a reasonable speed.

But that's kind of the issue. At times I think if the car just let off the gas earlier it wouldn't need to brake.
For complete self-driving cars, it's seems obvious that the manufacturer should be liable. And a lot of people want it that way:

- Google wants to be liable.
- The passengers doesn't want to be liable.
- Insurance companies would perhaps like to go after the entity with deeper pockets, too?
> It seems what they used to cover my head was a spit mask...

https://twitter.com/francesc/status/709161902631424004
I wonder who pointed him out and why
This looks awesome. But I'm still going to laughing at how silly the name looks while written. "Adobe XD" it's hard to in-see the hilarious laughter emoticon once you see it.
For some context these were unveiled in 2014 - http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-introduces-project-tango...

There was a presentation at Google I/0 2015 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP9m9a2KEN4

Lenovo announced at CES 2016 that the technology could appear in smartphones this summer. - http://www.lenovo.com/projecttango/
Awesome! Thanks for being a customer. We'll continue to work hard to make Dropbox better and better.
You might want to check out Kafka Streams.
There have been a number of mass shootings in Austin, with many fatalities. A quick google search will find details. Also, safe is an arbitrary thing.
v3.7.0 of npm [1] fixed the previously submitted performance problem with the progress bar [2].

Which is not to say you are incorrect (as often disabling logging to the console can speed up operations), but for the most part the bug has been fixed.

[1] https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.7.0

[2] https://twitter.com/gavinjoyce/status/691773956144119808
No normal consumer is writing directly to S3, so the entire premise of your debate is kind of moot, that's why you're being downvoted.

You're missing something here, which is that DropBox are probably now spending roughly 10-20% of what they were paying Amazon on an annual basis. The savings probably grow as DropBox grows. Those savings over your hypothetical 5 years could probably keep DropBox on life support for another 5 years.
yes, and that's not free
https://reddit.com/r/hackernews
I go mostly mouseless by choice.

Since I can move the mouse I have no need for the pointer lock but I use unclutter a small utility that makes the mouse disappear when it's not used for a time.

For copying, qutebrowser has caret mode (I believe the hotkey is 'V') that lets you move the pointer with the keyboard and visually select and copy text as you would with vim.

Copying url's is done with the 'y' hotkey and a terminal emulator I use (termite) has a hotkey for finding and opening urls from the terminal.
After google reader shutdown I switched to http://www.newsblur.com/ as my reader, I recommend and pay for it.
To me this sounds horribly unsafe. You are lulled into this state where you don't have to pay attention to steering UNLESS you have to pay attention to steering, and you will find this out suddenly. So if you always have to pay attention, even when the system is active, then what exactly is the point of the system in the first place? Wouldn't it be safer to always pay attention?

I guess this is an empirical question. Is it just as safe to (a) not pay attention until suddenly you have to pay attention, vs (b) pay attention all the time?

I suppose the sudden aspect of (a) is the dangerous part.

On the other hand the constant vigilance demand of (b) is also dangerous (we know people are bad at staying vigilant for long periods of time when a stimulus doesn't change much)

Does anyone know of any peer reviewed published work on this?
Yes, but there is no real story yet. People do legitimately become detained for things. It sucks, but thats what happens when you show up to demonstrations etc which the author aludes to previous in his twitter feed, but not the one quoted in this message. It is Travis County, the liberal mecca of Texas. People are not being oppressed for their views there. He did something to have the spitmask put on him.
#ListenAndBelieve
IMO it's better to describe it as an issue with Austin/Texas as a whole, instead of just tying everything to SXSW.

Austin & Texas have a lot of problems.
It would be helpful if the story had any details, to know what to provide useful comment on...
Wow, I don't know what happened at SXSW, but this Twitter conversation is a disaster in itself.

Mr Spandex ‏@Manfeelings90 12h12 hours ago

@strobist He was treated EXACTLY how he wants his
opponents treated. He helped create this Culture of
fear over "harassment"

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Be Just & Fear Not ‏@SuperNerdMike 21h21 hours ago
.@francesc Did you try spitting on the cops by chance?
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Brussel Sprout ‏@TheIxxer 21h21 hours ago
@SuperNerdMike can I take bets that he got drunk, belligerent. Police came,
he called them bigots and spat at them. Now he cries oppression.
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Be Just & Fear Not ‏@SuperNerdMike 21h21 hours ago
@TheIxxer Let's make a pool.
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Caffeine Commissar ‏@CaffComm 21h21 hours ago
My money is not on trusting the guy who made his profile picture look like
he has a halo.
@SuperNerdMike @TheIxxer

... that's rough. Do these people know something I don't? Or is this really what Twitter gets like once you get exposure?
It is hard enough to get staff to use DropBox at all, let alone optimise the spend.

Most of the world is not HN readers, it is McDonalds workers (gross generalisation for affect, not accuracy). Dropbox is the greatest tool ever when dealing with the vast majority of workers, because it just WORKS, without a lot of explanation. Work in this folder always or get written up. DropBox is still my favourite SAAS service, and every time a co-worker loses a file I just want to punch them.
If they don't do it, someone else will. Sometimes it might be better to be a critical mind shaping what happens, than being a bystander.

What is absolutely necessary is an awareness for what is happening, ethical guidelines and probably even governmental control.

What scares me most are the techy self optimizers, with every step obedient to their fitness tracker (so far from knowing what they really want) and believing that tech will get us out just in time before life on earth collapses (well, humanity on earth, nature finds its way).
Isn't that mostly a pro-business ideology?

(They overlap quite a bit. But eg business don't like competition, especially foreign competition. But competition exactly one of the reasons the market works well for society.)

I imagine a free-market ideologue could make a point like: the government shouldn't spend money on fuel-efficiency, just put a tax on emissions and let the market figure it out.
I think you might have missed the point of my question. I am not suggesting banning ammunition, but asking why legislating their killing power be restricted as an approach to gun-control has not been tried. It appears that it is constitutional to limit the killing power of ammunition (i.e the armor piercing bullets) - what interests me is how far this approach can be taken and still be constitutional.

I will say once again I am not personally in favor of gun control, just asking why the anti-gun lobby is not trying to go after the weak point in the regulation of guns (the ammunition) rather than the strong (the second amendment).
If you were to reference the anti-gun propaganda which went over mass shootings in recent history, Austin is distinctly lacking for a city of its size. Yes, there have been shootings. Charles Whitman is the famous one.
Why polling results should be taken with a grain of salt
I have to say that with respect to regular cruise control, I got out of the habit of using it years ago and don't remember the last time I tried it. I don't drive a lot of wide-open roads and even when I'm on rural interstates that are relatively low traffic, it's the case that I just got out of the habit.

I'm all for collision avoidance systems but, for the rest, I think I'd need to genuinely (and relatively safely) be able to take my attention off the road and do other tasks. Maybe decrease the amount of mental energy in stop and go but the big win is being able to do other things than actively drive.
- Built in reconnection.

- Events / actions as main abstraction.

- Support for degradation for old devices, browsers, corporate networks.

- WebSocket is not very good at multiplexing. One discrete TCP connection per socket (opposite direction of what HTTP/2 is going)

- Binary support inside JSON (`Buffer` etc)
Re-posting my comment from the other thread which didn't get as much attention:

I spent about 3 hours this week doing tech support for my mom over the phone because of Windows 10's aggressive upgrading behaviour.

I told her to keep her the best way to keep safe security wise is to make sure the os/browser is up to date, and because Windows 10 keeps asking to upgrade, she went ahead and did so. After upgrading to Windows 10, all network access (wired and wifi) stopped working completely. The worst part of this is that if you can't get internet, you can't even download new drivers to try and debug the problem. We tried a few things, and eventually just did a system restore back to Windows 8, but unfortunately, the system restore didn't work completely and there was more mucking around to try and get the computer into a bootable state. Then, last night, she said the heard the fan making a lot of noise, and looked down to see that Windows had gone ahead and started installing Windows 10 again. Fortunately, wired network access works now, but wifi is still broken. Hopefully Windows will push an update that fixes the wifi access soon.

Also, there seems to be a number of people here commenting very strongly in favour of Microsoft, which I find very surprising. Perhaps people from MS trying to do damage control? Some people have doubted that Windows is doing this automatically, but during the above debacle, my mother actually spent time to make sure that 'Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them' was selected. She even sent me a screenshot asking if this would prevent Windows 10 from installing. A few hours later she had Windows 10 again.
How about withholding judgment until more facts are known, please.
Uber driver mass shooter in Michigan claims app took him over
It's also important to note that you don't just need browser support. You also need support in every web appliance that the request passes through.

It's really common for web sockets not to work through corporate content filters and old load balancers.
Often by abstracting the algorithmic implementation details from the system organization and logic. Then the individual algorithms can be interchanged or modified during optimization.

There is of course some scale dependence to the use of these terms; the 'design' is of a larger system than the individual algorithms that compose it and can be abstracted and optimized.

In cases where the scale is the same, i.e. variations of the design itself will have substantial impact on its performance characteristics, then optimization and design can't be readily distinguished and Knuth's aphorism is less clearly relevant.