skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are a human. You are capable of going to a different planet. Communicating with me over a temporal and spacial gap is trivial to you. You are likely a programmer; creating tools which allow for that communication is within your ability.

We're made in God's image. Making planets that are habitable, therefore, is within the ken of our image. Also we're responsible for having dominion over this planet and all the critters and plants that are in it.

In China, they have a program to help clean the air in which they shoot the pollution out of the sky with water cannons. A hundred years ago there weren't any cars or commercial planes. There are solutions. There are even solutions that we would be blown away by; whats to stop a drone collection army that re-collects released emissions or a bio-logical version which does something similar? We aren't powerless.

In the tower of Babel, man wanted to build a tower that would them reach the heavens. God stepped in and put a stop to it, confusing language. We can do things that are amazing and we can do things that are terrible. Humans are so capable that when they set their mind to do something, it takes an act of God to stop them. Do you see fish getting out of their cage and walking on the moon? If you do, your species put them there.

I'm going to go back to writing out things which make the world behave as I order it to now. I want people in one location to be able to watch things in another location without going there; and I want them to see invisible features of the things like an audit log of what occurred there. Not clairvoyance though, just our usual so every day that it has become normal science-fiction-like world.
Simple is great but it's a bit confusing when looking at your balances. If you are just using the mobile app it's fine because it hides your stashes but the web app spills the beans when it tells you how much money you really have.
Yes, the API documentation is lacking especially with what we've gotten used to from Swagger markup and Stripe's API doc style. I have scoured for such an easy breakdown and found none. As a result I actually just implemented a new, clear, client for LetsEncrypt and have been documenting as I go.

It's made me think we should have a Swagger or API Blueprint of the spec on github that everyone can keep up to date. What do you think?
one of my favorites of all time. Haven't found a bigger time sink.
Benchling (YC S12) is hiring engineers to accelerate biotech research
I can't help but be thoroughly impressed with his execution, yet simulatanously being thoroughly frustrated if it was me that had to maintain a UI that was architected in this way.
Stop Learning
In a world without canaries, all providers could have received NSLs forcing them to cooperate with wide ranging surreptitious surveillance, and we'd be none the wiser.

Instead, we live in a world where we know that many of them either are not being forced to secretly cooperate; or in one where canaries don't work, and they're being forced to lie about it.

And of course, there are ways of implementing internal surveillance without the cooperation of providers: by trespassing on their infrastructure, by analysing and recording traffic at their border, etc.
The latter. The atmosphere is generally viewed as a convenient place to dump whatever with no consequences. Like the ocean!

No consequences at all, nosiree.
They have ATMs everywhere. And newsflash traditional banks cards do the same thing, they are just less transparent about it.
Let's see how far we can ride this joke. I see next step as being an ASIC for leftpad.

Hardware accelerated leftpad anyone?
> As everyone knows, within the kernel everything is faster and better.

> Leftpad has millions of users, so it has to be as fast as possible.

Flawless logic.
First of all, it's great that you're exploring functional programming paradigms and their applicability to game programming/state management.

That being said I have to point out some things that bothered me: I believe you're conflating immutability and commutativity -- these things are not the same thing. Functional programming does not absolve you of paying attention to the order of operations. For example if you had two functions plus1 and plus2, you can order those any way you like since summation is commutative. However if you had plus1 divide2 functions, you have to pay attention to the order of application due to non-commutativity.
@gkya doesn't have the American or even European understanding of free speech. He's got his own definition and I doubt we will be able to convince him via the internet how simple the issue is and how complicated he is making it. I'm totally with you, by the way.
seldom have I seen april fools day won this early!
That's a terrible idea.

We need less classified information, not less access to it.
> There are a million better places to do it than here.

Where is there informed, intelligent, valuable discussion of politics? I'd love to find it.
Firefox and cookie micromanagement
> Even react-native isn't ready yet if you're a windows based shop.

Don't forget, Facebook's annual developer conference F8 is coming up next (April 12th 2016). They will surely have some new announcements in a few weeks.
I was reading and thinking nonsense but yeah I had the same insight.

This one was awesome though.
The PlayStation 2 Officially Dies Today
It doesn't matter.

Once is all it takes, from that point forward you can't fully trust anything they say about their privacy / security.

The only real questions are: is this an april fools? And does it matter?
yep i did.
The ConocoPhillips leak in the San Juan Basin is larger. And not so easily sealed.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/47.15/in-the-southwests-four-corn...
While will be bad for workers in the short-term, I think it's better for everyone in the long-term.

Companies that have a solid business model won't be folding every 6 months and workers will have more stable employment.
Actually it's the other way around. Simple is the public facing interface that is beholden to all of the policies and inconveniences of Bancorp. Don't get me wrong I love the service but full disclosure it's Bancorp with makeup. Now I have had instances where they where Bancorp was closed for a holiday and my direct deposit didn't get processed and I had bills that were going to hit that I needed access to my funds and they were very helpful and happy to do a temporary credit to my account to make sure that I got what I needed.
Secure internet micro-services, dynamic discovery, search and events
Honestly, I don't think they'll ever cancel Gmail.

Or maybe they'll cancel Gmail so users will transfer to (ew) Google Inbox. I sure hope not.
> he is using his position to prosper as a rich man

I just said he would prosper more by accepting the diversity that exists in his region and the world. You're not even reading my comment, you're just repeating the same thing you said before.
Ah, good idea. Right now you get a fade, but that's easy to miss. Of course, the intent is that the expounded text becomes a part of the overall paragraph, so you shouldn't need to know what was just expounded, you just read on, so there's definitely a balance there.

Also, the text is very very easy for the website owner to style, with just a single CSS rule.

EDIT: I've added some styling information to the page, thanks.
I could say horrible things about them. Like when I was in school and my student loan disbursement came on a Bancorp debit card, and they charged me money to withdraw funds. Yup, if I wanted to buy books with my student loan disbursement, I got charged bank fees on money I got from a loan and paid interest on, and had absolutely no choice in the matter.

Yeah it was my school's decision, but that doesn't excuse Bancorp from offering a product that is designed specifically to cheat people out of their money.
You'd be surprised. Tight presidential elections can come down to a handful of districts. What you'd think would require a nationwide conspiracy can really be brought down to a group of 7 or 8 people.

It boils down to the fact that most states are red or blue. They are going one way or the other and nothing is going to change that. In the contested states, there are tight votes and there are ones that are "in the bag". in the states with tight elections, it will boil down to a few geographic regions within those states that carry enough weight to swing the entire state one way or the other.
Is it really necessary to post a spoiler? It kind of ruins the fun for others.
>Welcome to the Pallets Project... If you discover this right now, this is not announced yet and work in progress :)

https://www.palletsproject.com/blog/
Windows Forms is just a wrapper around the GUI parts of the Windows API. Even if they do open it it won't help anyone port Windows Forms to anything else, since the real display logic is implemented in the huge legacy codebase that is user32.dll, gdi32.dll and so forth.

Now, I would be glad if they open source WPF, which is very well designed GUI framework that could be great for cross platform apps, but it seems like they've kinda abandoned the XAML front. Even releasing existing code to open source takes resources, and Microsoft is not charity.

I'd say the same thing about porting Microsoft Office to Linux. Microsoft has, in fact, released Office apps for Android, and they would definitely rush to release office for desktop Linux if it had a non-negligible number of users. Maybe next year - after all 2017 is poised to be the year of the Linux desktop!

So Yeah, I think Microsoft has really changed. Of course it's all because they're not the market leader anymore and they need to survive! Yes, they can no longer succeed just by making a buggier version of tech X and pimping it on MSDN Magazine and have flocks of developers run to implement their latest version of COM++. So what? It doesn't make it any less real.

You should be suspicious about Microsoft's motive as much as I'm suspicious about Google or Apple or any other large company. But bringing up Embrace, Extend and Extinguish every time Microsoft does something makes you sound only a little less anachronistic than writing their name with a dollar sign.
That's another feature that's requested a lot. I'm still not convinced that it's something people request because they actually want to re-collapse the text or just because they're used to the mechanic of "if it expands, it must contract". Presumably they wouldn't feel the need to collapse a paragraph that they didn't expand first, even if it was the exact same paragraph.
PADL AL, 1h
> The open source advocates (Scott Hanselman, Scott Guthrie, Damien Edwards, and many others) won the internal struggle.

This is truly an amazing feat. Imagine the cultural headwinds these guys were up against. They also won over the Microsoft Board of Directors to eject Steve Ballmer (finally). Hats off to Scott, Scott, Damien et al for staying the course and pulling off a coup.
Show HN: Ndu – Shows disk usage of node_modules
That's one of the reasons I developed this. You could essentially go into as much detail as you wanted in the topic you wanted. Of course, the writer must be careful not to overdo it, because sometimes the reader does want to just read everything, but it'd be great for things a reader might be familiar with, or that not everyone will find interesting.
It takes only what it needs to survive...
Everything you say and do has consequences whether you accept them or not. Free speech says the state cannot punish you for what you say, with certain small exceptions that vary by country that has free speech, such as libel and direct threats on someone's life.
The stimulus budget was passed in 2009, the bulk of the spending came through in 2010, and the graph you linked to shows that.

Cutting your tax revenue isn't fiscal prudence. It's letting ideology triumph over reality. Harper never met a surplus he didn't throw away.
Looking good for me then!
I have an old Citi Forward card that offers 5% back on all restaurants and bookstores (including Amazon).
Government report slams Theranos for quality control, unqualified personnel
Red Hat Expands Red Hat Developer Program with No-Cost RHEL Developer Subs
Is it too much to hope for Linus to either wholeheartedly endorse this patch, or (preferably) eviscerate it for not being implemented well in some way? That would really be the icing on the cake.
But once Bush became President, the bubble started, and the Bush administration backed it because the recovery from the 1990 recession was slow, the conservatives stopped talking about Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. They told us it was good home ownership was rising, the prices were sound, and there was no chance they would suddenly collapse, much less cause the economy serious financial harm.

I know because I am rather independent and think the conservatives have a lot of good points on economics, and so I listen to both sides.

Which leads me to ask you, rskar, what was your position during the boom, and what did you think when the conservatives suddenly changed their views immediately after the bubble burst?
"But all these tools won't solve the real problems which explain why a team might be failing. And if a team is committed, they'll eventually succeed, even without the shiny tools and cool approaches."

Commitment is the first requirement, but it doesn't guarantee the team understands or will derive an effective process in time to deliver .

Failed startups are usually an example of committed individuals that ran out of time.
Cook dinner with Google Sheets
Lol. According to some, speech justifies mass killings. And the world keeps spinning..
Then why do you have "many legal experts" in the LA Times article saying that there is little chance of prosecution?

Are they merely protecting a political allied? Can the current democratic administration delay the prosecution until after the presidential election or have I been watching house of cards too much?

I understand these questions are heavily political and touchy subjects; but I am just trying to understand what is going on. I really don't have an opinion on American politics.
> The treaty explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet, claiming that they are the common heritage of mankind.

Interesting that this applies in outer space, but not on Earth...
Tom Wheeler: Bill banning “rate regulation” would kill net neutrality
Agreed. This is an astute observation.
What's on March 31st?
If this had a buffer overflow vulnerability it'd be perfect ;0
Last time I had a side project was at uni. So a bit over a decade ago.

At the time I was 90% theory/learning (Uni) and 10% practical, so adding in a side project to increase the practical side was very valuable.

These days I'm 90% practical (work) and so adding extra L&D/theory is much more valuable to me than spending another hour coding.
Note the pattern: Another attempt to trap a Clinton in a situation where it's illegal to lie (Bill to a Grand Jury, Hillary to an FBI officer).

Bill, way back in the 1990s before the testimony that caused all the problems, said that their only goal was to ask him damaging things under oath and then leak his responses or prosecute him for perjury. Remember that Bill was not testifying in a case about Lewinksy, but in an unrelated case regarding Paula Jones. But once he was under oath they just used it as a fishing expedition to achieve political ends.

Is this how we want our democracy to work? Probably law enforcement can find something to justify prosecuting or at least investigating anyone.

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EDIT: It turns out FBI Director Comey has a history investigating the Clintons:

Comey’s first brush with them came when Bill Clinton was president. Looking to get back into government after a stint in private practice, Comey signed on as deputy special counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee. In 1996, after months of work, Comey came to some damning conclusions: Hillary Clinton was personally involved in mishandling documents and had ordered others to block investigators as they pursued their case. Worse, her behavior fit into a pattern of concealment: she and her husband had tried to hide their roles in two other matters under investigation by law enforcement. Taken together, the interference by White House officials, which included destruction of documents, amounted to “far more than just aggressive lawyering or political naiveté,” Comey and his fellow investigators concluded. It constituted “a highly improper pattern of deliberate misconduct.”

Comey parlayed the Whitewater job into top posts in Virginia and New York, returning to Manhattan in 2002 to be the top federal prosecutor there. One of his first cases as a line attorney in the same office 15 years earlier had been the successful prosecution of Marc Rich, a wealthy international financier, for tax evasion. But on his last day as President in 2001, Bill Clinton pardoned Rich. “I was stunned,” Comey later told Congress. As top U.S. prosecutor in New York in 2002, appointed by George W. Bush, Comey inherited the criminal probe into the Rich pardon and 175 others Clinton had made at the 11th hour.

Despite evidence that several pardon recipients, including Rich, had connections to donations to Bill Clinton’s presidential library and Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign, Comey found no criminal wrongdoing.

http://time.com/4276988/jim-comey-hillary-clinton/
Someone in acedemic pickup and publish a paper on realization of the algorithm with quantum computer
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/31/1125

Somehow, this just makes it better...
That's the problem with game theory in politics - unlike hypothetical scenarios, the game never really ends in the real world. There are typically unseen (or ignored) consequences to actions made during engagements, that come back years later. When I said rational actors, I was referring to the students themselves and the scoring system put in front of them.

But you're right - it seems odd that a poli sci professor would give a team zero points if they were wiped out. What if they had previously used trade of luxury goods to maintain peace on a continent for centuries?
I have family in the midwest. The problem isn't that they don't care or aren't busy, they don't know what's going on most of the time, or they know the wrong thing because they just skim one newspaper and occasionally listen to the radio. Yes tgey have computers, internet, and smartphones, but they're not using them to investigate issues or much at all.
Microservices everywhere!
I would argue that Snowden was.
Please don't start this. April 1 is extremely tedious.
That's orthogonal to whether the prospective user of the package has an actual choice or not (besides using as GPL it or going without).

WHATEVER THE ORIGINAL AUTHORS' REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE GPL (sic), it doesn't change the situation that one might not be happy for a project they want to use being in GPL -- including people who don't intend to make it proprietary, but who prefer BSD licenses nevertheless.
Or maybe just use a popup, not sure if inlining it is better.
I sure hope so! I'm 42 now, and I just came back in from a bike ride - only my second since a 5 month layoff caused by a combination of weather, travel and shoulder surgery - and I'm beat. And gawd was I slllooooowwwww out there tonight. Uuuggghhh.

But hey, I know it will come back with time, and - more to the point - I know how important it is to stay active. After the whole heart-attack thing back in 2014, I'm pretty committed to staying active from here on out. Keeping my heart healthy is priority #1, anything else is just gravy at this point.
You could make PADL an alias for SHR I suppose!
I think a lot of this is showcasing some really bad advice. Working through a book or tutorial is actually often a fantastic way of quickly getting a mental model of something. Trying to "just do it", without thinking of how you will learn how to do it, can lead to you banging your head against the wall or wandering around in circles. Good tutorials matter.
We need an orthogonal `rightPad()` as well to be complete.
People who have never looked at golfed x86 assembly language probably don't realize how close this is to reality.

https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2774/...
Interesting, though I'm rather suspicious ths would work as stated.
As someone who has recently quit smoking (6 months) and started a daily regimen of 1.5 hrs of serious cycling (including 45 min up a steep incline) at 2000m (6500ft) altitude at age 34 (2 weeks down; with a couple of breaks for alternatives like hikes or longer bike trips), this article makes me feel like I've made the right decision

Definitely. Take it from me, the alternative(s) are no fun. I got lazy about biking and running and everything, let my weight creep up, and was over-stressing myself way to hard, and ultimately had a heart-attack. Luckily I lived and the doctors say I should be fine, but they all hammered me on the importance of staying active and fit from here on out.

Luckily I never smoked, so I have that going for me at least. But yeah, quitting smoking is definitely a Good Call if you care about your health.
And to clarify, this is not a separate runtime. These are the actual bits we run in Azure. It's all open! :)

As mentioned, we'll be working to enhance the local dev scenarios over the next coming months, which goes beyond just being able to run functions locally.
How will we explain to alien scientists that 1/365 of or news output is potentially untrustworthy...?
Firstly, I completely agree with you regarding why this is bad news. However, I don't understand one thing: let's say our hypothetical user has been posting in a private subreddit for carrot fetishists, which Trump will make illegal in 2018. If, today, a NSL was received by Reddit, isn't it potentially already too late for our carrot fetishist, even if they immediately stop visiting the subreddit or delete their account? Now, the carrot lover knows there was a NSL, but there isn't anything they can do except wait and see what happens when the new legislation rolls around in 2018. Emigrate, maybe? Serious question; I don't know how these things work. Asking for a friend.
> Most of the country uses paper ballots that are counted by machine.

I'm not aware of this. Are you sure? Do you have any point of reference?
MetaFilter isn't bad. Although it's a lot more than just politics.
This is definitely bad behavior from Microsoft that amounts to patent trolling, but that's still way better than the old Microsoft was. They weren't the only ones though, as any of the fancy patent lawsuit maps of the smartphone patent wars would show you.

Apple was notorious for suing Samsung of using the patented shape of a rectangle and while this was a misrepresentation of the way design patents work, most the patents they've used in their lawsuits were frivolous as well.
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Just what the doctor ordered: microservices on steroids.
Just because the product isn't going anywhere, doesn't mean the licensing structure isn't going to change. You ready to pay for your monthly VS Studio subscription?
Are you referring to the server-side API the client is communicating with, or the internal API the client exposes?

The former is documented in the ACME specification[1], currently being worked on by the IETF. There are many low-level ACME libraries for basically every language[2], and a pretty decent guide on writing your own client as well[3].

[1]: https://ietf-wg-acme.github.io/acme/

[2]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/wiki/Links#librar...

[3]: https://github.com/alexpeattie/letsencrypt-fromscratch
Ask HN: Do you think we will ever see VS on linux?
Following the recent development of events at MSFT, am I too dreamy to want VS on linux ?
I'd put that closer to 364/365...
Yeah, nice work! I dig it.
Well that's what you get when instructions can be up to 14 bytes in length