skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm not saying that microsoft is fundamentally evil, but don't you think it's problematic that the premise "business X is evil" is necessarily "dogmatic" or "not conducive to discussion"? i mean, specifically, what about the case where "business X is evil" happens to be true?

"what's evil? this is so subjective and [insert complaint]"

suppose an organization is committed to tricking the public, ripping off the government, committing crimes, gaining power at the expense of any idea of the public good... don't you think at least some people would be confident in thus concluding "business X is evil"?

again, regardless of microsoft's motives for litigation (which i'm going to go out on a limb and suggest are probably more nuanced and confidential than can be explained in a single article), shouldn't "business X is fundamentally evil; ie they are united in the pursuit of a criminal or publicly hazardous goal," be available for discussion? all the more if the speaker has evidence?

neutrality is great if you want to be level headed and find facts... but it can't be true by stipulation. that's just crazy, and truly "dogmatic and not very conducive to discussion". yeah, "x is evil" statements require more evidence, and more explanation of what you mean (because rando on the internet stating "x is evil" conveys pretty much no information at all), but they have to be admissable.

...unless you think it's somehow impossible for organizations to come together to pursue evil (by most standards) goals?

(and, again, not asserting that microsoft is evil myself, but didn't the karma-bombed author cite reasons that s/he found microsoft taking legal action to protect its customers dubious? if someone provides argument for a conclusion, and you--without even handwaving at a reason to dismiss their argument/evidence--dismiss her conclusion out of hand, aren't you doing some serious violence to intelligent discussion? you're expressly taking a discussion that had progressed to the point of thesis-with-argument back to bald-statements/opinions/theses... that's nothing to endorse)
Oooooh. I'm pretty stoked that Scott quoted me!
That hardly seems necessary. Only so many objects have a foo method to find. With free cores, search from both ends and meet in the middle.
An isolated issue that's been allowed to continue for weeks.
I bet bionerd23 knows Mr. Korneyev quite well.
Not an exact timeline, but it's something that's being actively worked on. There's even an RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1566
If it's not improving my life in some way, it's mental clutter and it's out
If you ever want a crushing sense of "this project is totally mismanaged", just read its issue tracker.
How This Entrepreneur Built an Agency for an Internet of Things World
Yes, a health ecosystem requires non-sentient live for a number of reasons including that non-sentient is the source of genetically different sentient live. Diversity is critical for ecosystems.
This is what happens when you buy a service from an organization oriented toward ad-supported services. The mindset is that it doesn't matter if the user isn't being served.
Oops, you got me: another memory failure. Thanks for the catch. Yeah, a guy with a limp outrunning or fighting attackers carrying a book that weighs 200lbs. The 60lbs part is his and apologists "alloy" BS that's rejected by the book itself in Mosiah 8:9 where it says the plates are pure gold. So, it looks like a stretch unless the book is wrong.
I had an acquaintance who was sued by Blizzard under the DMCA for creating a game server for StarCraft. That was under Vivendi which they are no longer a part of, so maybe it's different now, but I would not trust them myself.

https://www.eff.org/cases/blizzard-v-bnetd
Optimizing the keyboard
I wonder if people at Google know how awful it is to report...

No. (Or they don't care.)
Hey! Author here, happy to answer any questions about this library or the Facebook messenger platform in general.
Which is why you pay Google to do it for you via AppEngine!
How do you think the court could have limited the scope while also staying within the confines of not making things up (the court does not legislate).
Right, exactly, to make the point it literally is unhealthy.
The FBI May Be Sitting on a Firefox Vulnerability
The OPM hack was probably a wake up call, and it can help the NSA look good.
Probably. Doesn't invalidate my claim. There's all kinds of people who go to the doctor to get drugs like these because it feels better that way. They just have to pay more and get it from specific people for it to be legal. Their motives, the drugs themselves... all the same.

Let's take it further. The drug you need is a cancer treatment that costs $100,000. The drug itself was paid for with a mix of tax dollars and private R&D that resulted in a patent. The patent at this point has paid off its private R&D plus plenty of profit. A Chinese supplier can make the same ingredients with a Le Roux-like company selling it to you. It's illegal to acquire that as the law says you must die or make that drug company richer.

Is morality and the law in alignment when someone is being murdered for someone else to make extra money? Or for people to do time for trying to save their life with a clone?
Water can change things. It might easily combine with the corium to form various hydrates.

Hydrates contain hydrogen, which is a neutron moderator. To the extent that corium's complex decay involves neutrons, changing the neutron energy spectrum (what a moderator does) could change the decay pathways and durations.

Electronic ("normal") and nuclear chemistries can interact.

Edit: Also, water dumped on hot stuff can crack it. Cracks mean that regions of material have changed their geometric relationships, which affect nuclear decay.
I can understand the frustration, it must be painful to be that much of a fan and lose such an enormous community.
You can totally walk into a computer. I've done it. Hurts.
The Safeway in the San Francisco Castro neighborhood is especially... exciting... relative to the surrounding area. It even has its own full time police officer.

One time as I was leaving I asked the officer why Folgers crystals of all things were locked up. His reply was "[ethnic group] gangs steal essentials in bulk, and sell them to the homeless."

From that point forward it clicked in my head, retail theft is about liquidity not value.
For possible clarity, despite arguing against "unwanted" optimizations, I'll mention that I'm also in favor of strict aliasing. That's the sort of optimization I like, especially if it's "opt-in" by specifying -std=c99 or -std=c11. It's unlikely to happen and probably not wise, but my personal preference for future standards would be to invert the "restrict" paradigm, and assume that even same-type writes never alias unless "may_alias" or some-such is specified.
My uncle had surgery in a very well regarded hospital in the Northeast US. I visited him in one of their buildings and they were absolutely in a shambles from an IT perspective. Someone with bad intentions and a USB drive of almost any description could probably wreak havoc there.
> You can add Touch controllers and a second camera to the Rift, but the Vive is never getting more comfortable or crisper.

Currently, you cannot add these things to the Rift. I think @croon put this best in another comment,

> The trade show Kinect displays were also immensely more functional than the released products. The Oculus Touch is not a real product (yet). Same goes for the roomscale tracking. There's no point in discussing the capabilities of a product before it's manufactured at scale, with all the cost-cutting that entails. Trade show demos really does not say anything unless the product on show has gone to production.

When Touch becomes available on the Rift, Vive could be ready with newer versions of their headset. There are many hypotheticals in the future. Perhaps in a year the Rift will have the edge. Today, people seem to prefer the Vive when balancing the pros and cons of each system.
I have an old soviet camera that has both timer and shutter speed adjustment that lasts many seconds (both mechanical). The photo looks like it combines the initial camera-flash photo (blue helmet pose) with the blurriness (and flashlight movement) of a long exposure.
Those are good. May I steal some?
I wouldn't say it's super wasteful, but there is waste involved since he's on AWS. AWS bills EC2 usage hourly, and doesn't do fractional billing. If you deploy, then 5 minutes later deploy again (and provision a new instance and destroy the first) you'll still pay for the full hour of that first instance.

So every deploy incurs that usage rounding. Depending on the frequency of deploys and the number of servers being deployed to, that adds up.
Games You Can’t Win
SawStop cartridges are ~$70 USD. Not very expensive -- your hands are worth far more!

http://www.amazon.com/SawStop-TSBC-10R2-Cartridge-10-Inch-Bl...
Too busy prosecuting whistleblowers and collecting metadata.
This is a really cool post and I love seeing posts about human neurons on Hacker news. Especially this one talking about the different glial cells, as most people only think about the brain in terms of neuronal connections between synapses and think none of the housekeeping.

I tried to find the other segments for this series and could only find the first four chapters, so I'm wondering if there are more. But for anyone really interested in neuroscience on a biological level, "Principles of Neural Science" by Kandel and Schwartz (also one of this article's references) is your bible.
This argument seems decent enough, but a couple of things come to mind.

1. Wouldn't multiple HTTP requests be just as slow? (especially if you're on a slow cellular connection, which I am at a coffee shop). Are there any benchmark tests you've done?

2. Is there a reason you couldn't select libraries to download at the start of your project? It's not like you switch libraries too much, especially after initial exploration. I don't think it'd break workflow too much to check some boxes or pick a few packages, I do it already in sublime.

3. To allay concerns about storage for some, couldn't you dump the data after some point? It seems like to be useful you'd only need it while someone is coding, and certainly not long term.

Just some thoughts, would love to get a response. Like others have said, I love the idea, but especially at my work, I don't think I could actually get permission, which puts me in a grey area.
I'm only going on here because I'm worried I've been unclear about the nature of the damage here.

If you're objecting to the idea that, having caused a breach, the convicted attacker is now on the hook for securing the application they broke, so that the attack they used is no longer viable, I agree. That is in no way fair.

But that's not what's happening.

Instead, having been breached, and only because they've been breached, the victim is now in a position of needing to assess the extent of the damage done. They can't guess --- at least, not if they're a major corporation --- because continuing to operate when you have reason to believe you've been systemically compromised is unethical and dangerous.

That's the difference between a DF/IR audit and a security audit. A security audit tries to find all your vulnerabilities. A DFIR audit tries to scope the compromise and retain evidence. Of the two, the DFIR audit has a narrower scope and more specific purpose.

But, weirdly, it's also more expensive. There are more application security consultants than there are DFIR auditors, and DFIR auditors are often selected by insurance companies, not by the market.

At any rate: the costs we're talking about Keys having incurred are not a bonanza of free assessment work Trib gets to bill to Keys.
One thing to remember is that most of us here consider ourselves experts at finding things on the web. Everyday people seem to have a lot of difficulty bubbling up even the simplest answers or ever venturing beyond the first page of search results.
To be honest, when you're talking about tens of thousands of dollars of one brand of detergent from one store alone, maybe there is some value in examining the minutiae? After all, it's easy to sell a lot of things illegally, but most of them are not so incredibly widely desired by so many different people.

Soap is after all, an essential.
Interesting. I have been somewhat weary of the "machine learning for everything!" approach that google has taken recently -- i just don't think it's there yet. I wonder if a learning algorithm on the google side just started deciding outgoing spam and not giving correct feedback. It is very curious that no url works and with url doesn't. That should give straightforward repeatability (if they can simulate as your account). Have you tried sending to different target e-mail addresses during the test? I saw once it just worked and a bunch of stuff flew through. Also saw there was some question as to quotas. Did you get it clarified? Are you maybe above usage quotas with the regular e-mails so test e-mails are being stopped/delayed? Are test and production separate? It seems like if it were a google side issue there would be an uproar from the users.
MicroPython 1.7 Released – Now with cross-compiler
That's a good documentary. Haven't seen it before.

I remembered distinctly when it happened, well when it was anounced on TV on evening news. It was really mentioned in passing -- oh by the way, there was incident at Chernobyl, a quick flash or some white smoke coming out in the distance and then ... sports.

My dad knew it was something more than that and said something like "Oh shit, this could be really bad". People have learned when they published something as small in the news, they would multiply by some factor to get an idea how bad it really was.

Then something really bizare happened. Refuges had started to stream into different cities. And for some strange reason, they were shunned. Others somehow thought these survivors were contaminated, cursed, builty or what have you. So instead of being embraced and helped, they found themselves trying to hide who they are and where they came from.
Regarding Dasher, David mentioned recently* that he hopes someone carries on supporting the work. It's a brilliant example of arithmetic coding in action and helps many people communicate through low bandwidth channels. Now that he's gone, I don't think any has any ownership over the project. It'll be a huge shame for it to be forgotten about. If anyone's interested in helping in someway, mention it here and I'm sure we can figure something out. Here's a quick example of it an action (https://youtu.be/ie9Se7FneXE?t=28m38s - Google Talk from 2007)

[*] David was still teaching us information theory just last month, despite going through chemo which by his admission seemed to take a lot out of him. By everyone's account he was astounding lecturer. He really cared that no one fell behind. Very sad about the news today.
I'm pretty surprised by the long wait times between "updates" from support... that's pretty rough. I understand it can be hard to get a good signal to noise ratio with support, but when so many other people are reporting issues, perhaps it's time to take it a bit more seriously?

This thread is a great example of why support is so hard.
A professor of mine instructed me to "devour" MacKay's "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms". To this day it is one of the only textbooks I have purchased on my own initiative (not for a class), and this is after I read many chapters online. I also thoroughly enjoyed his video lectures [1] for a course he taught based on the book.

News of his passing deeply saddens me.

[1] http://videolectures.net/david_mackay/
I like Haskell, too. But we are talking about adding generics to Go as it is. Not about designing a good language from scratch.
Man deletes his entire hosting company with rm -rf
...if Priv is shorthand for privacy, then that's veering close to dishonesty.

I remember one experience very clearly from when the Priv first entered the market. I looked through the related web pages, curious about where Blackberry was going. I found plenty of marketing around tools that would notify you if various things went wrong in terms of privacy and security. However, I found literally nothing to state that the phone would actively prevent those things from going wrong or check with the user before performing actions they apparently considered significant enough to warn about. It was one of the most marketing-heavy, content-light, non-committal product sites I've seen in a long time.

Until today I don't think I've been there again. After reading the initial marketing, I just assumed the phone wasn't actually going to be significantly more secure or private than anyone else's or they'd have told us how it was instead of skirting around it repeatedly for the entire site. In fact, if memory serves, it was at the time based on a version of Android that predates some significant improvements in terms of app permissions and locking down what they can do, suggesting that contemporary models from competitors that used a later version of Android would actually have been much better than the Priv in at least some areas of security and privacy.
What exactly was the logic with this company? It feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of the Uber business model, which thrived on the constant demand and ubiquity of a market. It also, frankly, is cashing in on people who uber when they know they'll be drinking. That's a giant slice of the market that, for obvious reasons, kids won't be a part of.

It seems like it would be tough for a "Shuddle" driver to make a lot of money, during the limited hours when they'd be needed.
Even in a script, would you really want it not to prompt you or fail under those conditions? Files are usually write-protected for a reason.
Social media influencers may be required to disclose relationship with brands [pdf]
Your examples of "getting rid of clutter" seems more like a play to kill your crack dealer to me. You haven't really solved any problems since everything you tried to get rid of still exists and can be added back again. You just need discipline.
Startup Words Wednesday: Pre-Money Valuations, Unicorns, Acqui-Hire…
The first photo of light as both a particle and a wave
Dropping POSIX in favor of a syscall ABI implicitly defined by Linux's implementation is a pretty substantial backwards step.
We wouldn't use it.

To me, the whole point of Appengine is to abstract out system administration. GCE (like AWS) abstracts out the systems, but not the administration - you suddenly become responsible for all the scaling, fault-tolerance, and all the subsystems that Appengine manages for you.
The pay is terrible because it's set by Congress. Agencies don't have the liberty to set pay.
Sad. I have a similar example.

Android also conflates language code (say, en-GB) with physical location for many apps. And does not provide a Canadian English (en-CA) -- so if you want to not have the phone constantly spellchecking your emails incorrectly when you type colour, neighbour, etc, and switch it to en-GB to get it to shut up it then starts giving you UK news in the News & Weather app, and reads your turn by turn directions with an English accent.

And there's a similar ticket open about the subject. Also ignored for many years by the Android team.

I've thought about raising a ticket internally (I work at Google) about it, but I imagine it would suffer the same fate.
Another funny bit was when he mentioned having to be careful not to inhale the work.
What is this "Moore's Law"?
Alternatively, the law makes a distinction between types of harmful activity that are legal and types that are illegal with interesting results. The kind of very damaging activity smart, disciplined people do that ruins lives is often legal. These are [Wall] street thugs. Then, there's other types of harm the lesser people can pull off that are illegal. There's also stuff they do that doesn't harm other people but is severely illegal.

So, I don't think there's an average criminal given the variety of crimes, levels of harm, and criminals themselves. However, the average criminal on drugs in my area is a working class person who poses no threat to society but smokes weed on occasion. There's also a number of addicts who are similarly not a threat but will receive long sentences. There's also thugs who range from your description to well-educated people who say "screw being someone's b for minimum wage when I can be my own boss for $50k slinging this stuff!" On thugs, similar predatory behavior as many business owners except their type of harm is allowed and affects more people. Even when it's indirect murder.

What's law and what's ethical isn't the same. The law can enforce evil, stop good, and do arbitrary things hard to judge.
Are you familiar with (a) the climate of Ireland in the 19th century and (b) the growing conditions demanded by (most) spices, cacao, and coffee beans?
If you truly want to support higher education, your best bet is to refuse to donate until the colleges cut their wasteful spending and lower tuition. This is doubly true for private universities. When they call asking for money, tell them why they're not getting any. Nothing will change until the money stops flowing.
There's some active development at https://github.com/ipomoena/dasher/releases , discussed by David at http://itila.blogspot.com/2016/03/dasher-version-50-released...
So soon we might be able to say MacOS goes to 11?
In Sublime, Paste and Indent (Shift-Cmd-V on Mac) does that fairly well. It's not based on an AST or anything like that, but it's rarely failed to do the right thing in my experience with these: Python, XML, HTML, CSS, SASS, PowerShell, YAML, Ruby
This is mentioned in the release notes for 1.0.0 [1].

Their suggested solution is to disable built-in JavaScript validation entirely and rely on ESLint instead.

> Some users want to use syntax constructs like the proposed ES7 Object Rest/Spread Properties. However, these are currently not supported by Salsa and are flagged as errors. For users who still want to use these ES7 features, we have revived the javascript.validate.enable setting to disable all built-in syntax checking.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/Updates#_100-march-2016
Why? When you make a bold statement like this - provide some context and proof.
The funny thing is I was messing with you by citing the exact circumstances of the 2008 financial crisis that's still reported on periodically. I was thinking you'd catch that. Good to know that you've been seeing signs in other places, too, though. ;)
Considering from the outside it just looks like people shovelling rocks, that's one of the more harrowing clips I've ever seen.....

Thanks for that!
Interesting any other suggested source of info on nutrition?
Guillory, who says he was ousted as Cruise co-founder, files counter-complaint
I have read about those shady techniques from publishers. Universities should refuse to deal with them and those proven to take favours for making these publishers required should be penalised.
Uninstall QuickTime for Windows Today
One alternative is a Nifty MiniDrive for ~$30 + a MicroSD card. I put m an extra 128 GB in my rMBP that way.

http://minidrive.bynifty.com/
It would be nice if we don't have a bunch of bot kits and instead converge on one.

I appreciate the package author putting this together but with Botkit as well... I don't know. That's frustrating dealing with multiple APIs. Botkit is adding support for Facebook too.

Would be nice to have one. https://github.com/howdyai/botkit
CryptoKids – America's Future Codemakers and Codebreakers (2010)
Jeremy Guillory's Counter-Complaint against Cruise Automation
It's a good lesson for contract writers and anyone else that wants to be clear. Never use any of those terms. Instead, write, "Inspections will be done every 24 months", or, "The toner needs to be ordered every six months".

If something is supposed to occur every other Friday? Write it just like that, or "every 14 days". Don't say, "Paychecks are distributed bi-weekly"