skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone as in your average joes and janes on the street? Not even close. People still think Iraq did 9/11.

This document merely suggests the possible link, while there are some document still classified that actually links Saudi Arabia's role as a state sponsoring the attack on 9/11.

US and its coalition went to war with Iraq and Libya over what could be said to be nothing compared to the 9/11 attack. US wanted to start a war with Iran, another giant monolithic power in Middle East over the regime's rhetoric.

Compared to those rationales for going to war, if there are actual proofs of SA's state involvement of 9/11 attack, we will actually have "just war" cause for going to war against SA. Imagine the impact of that. Convincing the masses would be so easy, that won't even be a problem. Convincing senate and congress probably needs more work, but given that there's huge support for war from the public, it would have to be a risk congressmen/women and senate would have to take losing the election next time.

When that happens, you don't need any convincing to make people wonder about WTF was Bush admin., Obama admin. and perhaps entire Republican and Democratic party doing for last 15 years knowing that SA was the real enemy?
Another fun example is the Louisville International Airport which was originally named Standiford Field, thus the airport code SDF and even locals still sometimes refer to it as Standiford, but in this case was renamed to the more obvious choice (Louisville International Airport) to confuse people less.

A further tangent, but the more obvious airport code LOU is still in active use across town at Bowman Field, the city's original air field (definitely not an airport) and these days the oldest remaining continually operating air field in the country.
Productivity tools considered harmful?
Another point is that advanced degree in the right subject make acquiring a work visa easier in many countries, though US work visas are challenging to get regardless.
and hungry.

Show me apple just after breakfast vs just before.
Funny story:

My economics professor back in college would give us these take-home quizzes each month with hundreds and hundreds of "short-answer" questions on them to use to study for tests and such.

I noticed there was a inconsistent amount spacing between questions and opened one of the pdf's in illustrator. The fool actually drew white boxes over all of the answers. Needless to say, I walked away from that class with high marks.

That was a lovely class.
Actually, ION was originally developed for C++ and took quite a while to gain Java support.

Source: I was there.
It sounds beautiful. I guess part of us wants to continue to exist, even after our death. I must point out, as much as I agree with the sentiment, many people give up a happy life on earth (forbidden food, no premarital sex, tithes etc..) for the sake of religion.
USA should not be at offset 0 from UTC
7 Ways Cafes and Other Foodservice Businesses Can Benefit from Social Media
> I thought everyone already knew this?

There is a difference between knowing something and a fact that can be proven. With proven facts you families of the deceased can sue KSA. "Common knowledge" doesn't work in a court of law.
Export a list from Wunderlist, even if they don't want you to
I find this anger against death weird.

We are alive because we are not death. Death is part of our lives and we should accept it without the drama, just like Peter is doing.
I don't think that comparing religious fundamentalism of american christians and of islamists is fair. "Fags must die" demonstrations are a long way of overturning governments and genocide.
I'm curious about the repercussions for the British Monarchy and th Bushes due to their unnaturally cozy relationships.
I agree with you and find it aggravating as I see it in politics all the time. Otherwise smart, effective people stay all over peripheral instead of core issues.

An example is recent election. People are citing what each candidate says or promises despite admiting the whole game is to lie for votes then do what they're paid to do by their contributors. So, you look at voting history and prior business activity to determine both likely action and character. Got Hillary and Trump filtered out almost instantaneiusly for me whereas they rise to the top for the masses. "But he/she said..." (Sighs)
Maybe I'm naive, but I think there are contingency plans for (almost) everything. Imagine for example there is a coup in KSA and "the bad guys" end up in power and they do crazy things with "our fuel".
Best thing I ever created with Pieter was stallmanism.com a few years ago. And the beers we drank over the years discussing a wide range of topics while typically being surrounded by people that started to shake heads after a few minutes of listening in. Moments that will survive everything. Thank you, Pieter. Love you.
This article (by way of the WSJ) claims that Walgreens skipped their standard DD in partnering with Theranos, and that the deal overall was atypically structured.
This Battery-Free Computer Sucks Power Out of Thin Air
As great as Jetbrains IDEA is, they are now trying to push their Creative Cloud style suite of several separate tools called Jetbrains Toolbox. My concern is that in the long-term the integrated features of IDEA will be weakened in favour of lots of individual tools for which one needs the toolbox.
The idea is each number is adequately precise in that additional precision would mean additional useless trailing zeros.
For the earlier experiment, subjects were presented with words, not images. This is (ostensibly) what lowered the error rate.

I agree it is hard to tell if this result will be consistent with a larger sample pool.
I can definitely endorse this point of view. I've had success with it a number of times now. I think part of the key here is to recognize that you are working on a project (including managing it) in service of those that will consume the results.

The mistake I often times see is that people forget that and end up in service of one methodology or another. Too many times I see a project manager types that can't reason out the distinction between the mechanics of a given project management process and the goal that process is setting out to achieve through the mechanics. Once you focus on what you're trying to achieve in any process, rather than how you're trying to achieve it, you can adjust your process to be optimal to the team/customer/etc. It's not all mutually exclusive and there are rarely benefits for being loyal to a methodology for purity's sake.
I assumed it was Lightning McQueen.
yeah, it's a called a job.
Well, maybe it's a sign that it's about to change.
You too! thanks for your words.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisztomania

In 1839 Liszt began an extensive tour of Europe, which he continued for the next eight years. This period was Liszt's most brilliant as a concert pianist and he received many honours and much adulation during his tours. Scholars have called these years a period of "transcendental execution" for Liszt. During this period, the first reports of intense responses from Liszt's fans appeared, which became referred to as Lisztomania.
I don't think jQuery is the problem. jQuery is not 1.2 MB. It's not even 0.1 MB.
MyLifeOrganized has that (look at 'Dependencies' - http://www.mylifeorganized.net/#comparison-table) but I think it's probably too robust (and expensive) for the average person.
This is awesome. I've been waiting for something like this. Slack should be the centre of everything I swear. and this looks better than what else I've seen that is suppose to do chat through slack.
Let's be realistic. The only real profitable revenue stream for Apple is the phone and app store.

>with more than one of them earning more profits than the whole of Alphabet put together.

Which would those be with the exception of the phone? As for those other other revenue streams you mentioned - they're just a blip on the radar (tvOS and cloud - really?)
They're adding all sorts of junk to Messenger. Surely they're monetizing that platform on itself already, or will soon.
I once bought a pre-made landing page template with all kinds of whizz bang Javascript libraries built in. The demo page was 4 MB. In the time it took to strip all the trash out of the template I could have designed the page myself. I'll never do that again.

I wonder how much of the problem is due to bloated templates.
Oh interesting. Like the above commenter, I didn't think of this at all. Your humor is definitely up to date :).
My swiss army knife:

$ psql
yes please - this style buider is great for showing people the functionality in an experimental way that allows you to build a component with each set of functionality
love the clear use of profanity and simplicity of this extension, but luckily facebook is blocked for me =)
And, IIRC, Wayland isn't ready for primetime yet. Thanks for replying. I guess I'll stick to updates through good old apt then.
done. file removed: https://github.com/yonahforst/focusbook/commit/491cf59a087c8...
Thanks, glad you liked it :) If you do give it a try and run into problems tweet me at @k0nserv.
Interesting, though unfortunately they seem to be mostly adverts from the author's eg: Ronda Rousey, Donald Trump.. or adverts for friend's of the author eg Julia Louis-Dreyfus..

Bernie Sanders suggesting you read a book on the constitution made me chuckle, he really does seem different from the usa norm.
Given they are measuring a response to a photo, change the photo? This seems much more like challenge-response than other forms of biometric data.
Remember: It's not a waste if you (and millions of other people) have fun!
It is hardly surprising, considering that a single picture taken with an average smartphone is probably already surpassing that by quite a bit.

Times change, and 20 years in tech is equivalent to several geological ages.

If anything, it cannot really be underestimated how some developers were able to craft such compelling gaming experiences, with the limited resources available at the time.

My personal favorite as "most impressive game for its size":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_Elite_II
done. File removed: https://github.com/yonahforst/focusbook/commit/491cf59a087c8...
Unless the browser ends up swapping a lot I doubt that browser bloat would cause significant perceptible performance regressions compared to the quite significant amount of optimization that has happened in the meanwhile.
See also: Science World in Vancouver being rebranded as TELUS World of Science.

Nobody calls it anything but Science World.
The reasons are mostly that they have stuff we want, and we just ... take it.

We do this between ourselves. Everything we do to animals we do to humans, I guess except eating.
Does this still have the Java caused wonkiness when connecting to databases over unix sockets? I did a quick search and couldn't find the answer. I just went through the hassle of trying to figure out how to make Pycharm connect to mysql-like instance over a unix socket and just gave up and switched to a TCP port. I hope that isn't an issue here.
First, I don't think at all race or demographic makeup was ever a component in Amazon's decision-making process. But that said, it doesn't mean that cold, logical, analytical decision making doesn't have repercussions that align perfectly with race and class.

Yes, this is really just representative of a larger, unrelated issue of persistent segregation an income disparity in these cities, but it doesn't mean that in some way Amazon isn't unintentionally contributing to the issue. When underserved areas are underserved because they're underserved, it becomes an issue.
As a PM who needs to fetch and crunch numbers frequently from Postgres databases, this tool is amazing.

Auto-complete for looking up fields and practically writing your JOIN clauses for you is just delicious.

Using it since it was 0xDBE and actively promoting it in my company.
The pot-smokers tend to be neither the very regulation following kind of people, nor the kind of people who have the money for this stuff, nor people who are actually considerate enough of other people. For example, a vaporizer helps with smell, and that's a very cheap solution, but apparently rolling it so much more fun.
Bremermann's limit is rooted in the discrete bits of reality that we understand. What is silly is to assume we understand reality.
Is "2004" considered close enough to "now"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_de_Baz%C3%A1n-clas...
It's a bad name. If it were a funny name, or creative, I think there would be a point to make here. But its neither.

The only reason to vote for this name is because it would be funny to make them name it something stupid. The humor is only in the anarchy. A mindset that juvenile doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.
Senator Wants to Protect Investors from Steve Cohen
Thing is their suite is pretty good value; I have all of the tools I need to be productive with Java/Python/C# for what, somewhere between 150-250 EUR per year? That isn't bad.
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It only takes one case of blatant disregard by a trusted source to spoil the entire process. What do you do when the scandal leaks that X Co didn't do due diligence and now 100 million of their customer's brainprints are leaked and able to be compromised?
Pain aside, wouldn't a finger prick be less risky from an infection standpoint?
I had similar feeling about DataGrip when I first tried it out, but it still feels a bit outdated.

So I am currently working on Datazenit[0] that takes a bit different approach than most regular tools. It's a database GUI for MySQL and PostgreSQL, available for both desktop and web. It's lightweight yet introduces a few unique features like data visualization, query/connection/chart sharing with team members, query builder, database content editor with specific editors for different data types and so on. There is still a lot of work to be done, but many of the users are already using it daily for their database administration needs.

[0] https://datazenit.com/
Without commenting on this specific article, if there's one thing I learned from reddit, it's that heavy moderation >>> "the users choose and everything is free".

An example of the latter is pretty much any big subreddit you think of as awful and full of nonsense. Some examples of the former include the most well-respected science and history-related subreddits. I would honestly prefer there to be heavy moderation on HN with someone who has a vision for what "HN content" should be (even allowing for the fact that those people may disagree with me) than a free-for-all.

Random sites on the Internet are not the entire Internet, nor are they the government. I believe in Free Speech when it comes to people with power over me, not so much when it comes to websites that I can choose to leave at any time.
Very original. I'd call it Uncle sam
Red Hat at the ISO C++ Standards Meeting: Parallelism and Concurrency
The Taliban offered to put bin Laden on trial before 9/11 even happened (for earlier acts of terror). The US refused. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/09/20119115334167663...

After 9/11, the Taliban also offered to hand bin Laden over to the US. The Bush administration rejected the offer, as it would require 1) proof of a connection and 2) an end to the bombing of Afghanistan. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.ter...

The Taliban and al Qaeda were not close allies. Mullah Omar, founder of the Taliban, actually despised bin Laden's tactic of attacks on the West and anywhere outside the area the Taliban ruled.
I lived in $nowheresville, TN for a bit. This drove me insane. Sure, your webapp works great in downtown SF, but try loading it with the spotty connection the rest of the country has, not to mention the rest of the world.

One of the places I worked at had a computer hooked up to a ~800 kbps modem, and would test all their web-pages on that. It was really eye-opening, and I wish more companies would benchmark like that
Apparently you can do local updates, i.e. update a particular row. At least on the 6.7" e-ink that the Kindle uses:

http://www.essentialscrap.com/eink/waveforms.html
Inserting stock ticker garbage into articles is really obnoxious.
There's an accounting cost, but it's the tip of the iceberg. The real costs add up when even entry level employees (like myself working for a Fortune 500 out of college) hit major roadblocks in developing simple solutions to simple problems because a lawyer or auditor shows up and throws a Sarbox fit.
The only way it will grow is if it's actually cheaper for the average consumer to use solar. It will most likely never be cheaper, because as soon as it it, the government adds a tax for lost revenue from standard electricity.

The same thing is happening with the electric car: Some states are now proposing a per/mile car usage tax (where a mandatory black box needs to be installed in your car to track it) to make up for the lost gas tax revenue.
I use node on Windows everyday and very rarely run into any issues. Following the dev environment setup from microsoft's node.js guidelines[0] should take care of a majority of any issues you might run into with handling path length (tools for removing things > MAX_PATH), using c modules, etc...

[0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejs-guidelines
Intentions are as valuable as ideas. Outcomes and execution are ultimately what matters.
Lead dev here - Yes, it supports that. It supports any task which can be expressed in the syntax "complete this [X] days after this [list of items] is done, where X can be positive, negative, or zero, and [list of items] could include just the special first task "dayZero" which sets the base date for the checklist or any other combination of tasks.
I was concerned about that when they went with the subscription model and started spitting out more 'helper' apps, but so far (as primarily a Pycharm user) I've been really happy about the rate features are rolled out across all the products and the completeness of all the integrated features. More often than not I'm surprised a particular plugin/integration (database access, typescript support, JS/HTML-framework-of-the-moment) is as full featured as it is.
I was definitely speaking whimsically because it is a huge chicken and egg problem. But theoretically if every site that used jQuery referenced a version at https://code.jquery.com/ there would be a very good hit ratio, even considering different versions. However we are a very, very far way away from that.
I would offer an inverse to Pascal's wager as a counterpoint.

If there is any chance that our life on earth is the only chance gets on existence, then one should spend it contemplating good life here on earth and not concentrating on a plausibly false hope.
Scientists can now make lithium-ion batteries last a lifetime
That's the same reasoning for text passwords, yet there are huge password dumps every year.

It only takes one place where security standards aren't implemented properly to have your print leaked forever.

Never mind a malicious user managing to alter the code to leak the print before it's hashed.

Or even someone physically accosting you and retrieving a brain scan. They could do the same thing and force you to give up a password, but at least the password you can change later on.
For individual customers the first year is $89
How are you differentiating from https://chatlio.com/?
> Another caveat for this test is sound, human players will have audio but the A.I. will be purely visual so a slight disadvantage.

This project says it only uses the screen buffer, but perhaps (and this is beyond my low level knowledge) there is also an equivalent "sound buffer" where it could tap into left and right channels?
The Boaty McBoatface incident reminds me, with a smile, of a similar incident when Kraft (Australia) turned to the public to name a new variant of Vegemite. The winning name was "iSnack 2.0" which sure seems (at least to me) to have been intended as satire/commentary. Anyway the product launched under that name to much ridicule, before being later renamed Cheesybite.

Interestingly, the name Vegemite itself was also originally "crowdsourced" back in the 1920s [1], so the effort had some tradition behind it. Perhaps "Vegemite" also sounded really silly back then.

I think (but not sure) that it's still for sale in Australia... in any case it is/was delicious, regardless of the name.

[1] http://adage.com/article/global-news/crowdsourcing-wrong-veg...
Primary source: http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2015/10/01/citizen-s...
Reciprocity requires, well, reciprocity, a two-sided relationship. Only some animals have shown themselves capable of any moral relations with humans.

Just pointing out.
That loaded SOOO fast on mobile with no delays or scrolling problems. Great job!

Note: Might try it with NoScript later. Always a good indicator of... something...
UK ploughs ahead with plan for 10-year jail term for online file sharing
The Mythical Man Month by Frederick Brooks
So much for difference between US/UK and, say, China.
Show HN: Machine learning enhanced Wikipedia browsing (Chrome extension)
Facebook, Google campuses at risk of being flooded due to sea level rise
That's not what I meant. The good in life is not inherently contingent on death.
Based on Microsoft's node.js guidelines[0], it looks like you should be able to get by with just installing the Visual C++ Build tools and not the full VS community edition.

[0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejs-guidelines/blob/master/w...
I was honestly in disbelief when I first came across it. It just seems insanely stupid on so many levels.
>things like Windows RT

But that didn't go too well. The same reason it didn't go too well (binary compatibility) is the reason why it's not going to be viable.
I think a plugin that enables the chrome "regular 2G" throttling (developer tools / network tab), permanently, for anyone that works in marketing or web development might help :)

Edit: Joking aside, that throttling feature is a nice easy way to let a dev team, or business counterpart, see what their site is like for say, a customer with a low-end DSL connection: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/prof...
Security measures are going to have to deal with situations where people are potentially acting under compulsion and need plausible deniability.