skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I downloaded the entire English wiki 4 years ago

The linked article makes a big point about it not just being the English wiki, but 300 languages instead.
"he could probably get away with five years at worst"

For better or for worse, federal prison sentences do not work this way. There are sentencing guidelines, for one thing.

Chelsea Manning is serving a 35-year prison sentence at Fort Leavenworth; prosecutors asked for 60 years. Manning is eligible for parole after serving one-third (I recall) of that sentence.
A Protocol for Dying
Which model do you have? My new 9350 seemed to hang a few times and become unresponsive when I tried beta 2, I'm hoping that release isn't going to do that.
U.S. suicide rate rises sharply, especially among middle-aged whites
tango is not the only game in town

SVO: Fast Semi-Direct Monocular Visual Odometry 25 Feb 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YnIMfw6bJY
The solution to problem animals (deer) is not to add more problem animals (wolves) into the mix. The only thing "good" about wolves is that they kill deer. They also kill people.

The proper solution is to encourage hunting. The idea of "deer season" is crazy; they should be hunted continuously. To the extent that it is safe, this should be allowed in suburban neighborhoods and city parks.
That ambiguity in hotword detection makes me nervous.
I just did some ownership percentage stuff where it's not uncommon to go 16 decimal places out...working with JavaScript on this was a pain. Never thought I'd care about that .00000000000001 difference hah...
The Time Is Right for a Pixel Phone (Uber-Flagship to Complement the Nexus Line)
Getting 37% conversion, apart from luck
I might if there was a PM option.
The Pentagon's Twisted Potlatch
Default go http server doesn't say something like “go web http server”
curl -i http://officecrashe.rs
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 05:22:03 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
no new ubuntu release would be complete without graphics issues from Nvidia and AMD.
I say AMD too because FGLRX is out of 16.04.

After all the Issues i had with intel/amd/nvidia stiwching gpus in the ivy bridge days i just gave up buying nvidia and AMD, and boy has it made linux easier.
Until you need to deal with decimals instead of floats, then you are going to hate yourself because you have to pull in some third party library because the language treats every single number as a float (and floating point errors are a lot more common than most people think even when they are adding together simple numbers).
The reasoning is that there may be new information that helps identify conspirators or abettors. We all know the chances of finding smoking-gun type evidence on that phone was slim, but that doesn't mean you ignore possible leads when attempting to piece together how a crime was committed. Just because the shooter didn't intend to leave any evidence on the company-issued phone, doesn't mean that there wouldn't have been meaningful data on there that would advance the investigation and generate valuable leads. Think GPS info, or items that complete a timeline, etc.

Here's an example. Suppose they uncovered GPS info from the phone that showed that the shooter visited a particular location frequently in the days leading up to the attack. FBI checks that location out, and discovers that it is implicated in another ongoing investigation for money laundering. The other investigation wasn't tied to terrorism, but this thread creates a link and enables another source of support to be found and squashed.

My example is just an illustration of one of many possible ways the data on the phone could advance the case. It's absolutely worth pursuing.

To be clear, I'm 100% opposed to any attempts at government backdoors, and I sided with Apple when they refused the FBI's request initially, but that doesn't mean the Bureau should just shrug their shoulders and not do their job.
I get that binary format is nice, but I just don't get why instead of adding binary format to an existing good text format Amazon decided to first extend a poor text format and then add binary to that.

Basically: Ion == JSON + extra features + binary format spec. But Ion ~= YAML + binary format spec. You're going to write a new serializer/deserializer in both cases anyway, but in the second one, at least you get the text part for free in almost any language available.
Free tier is good to have to easily build your list of people to advertise to. Use these emails to push your paid tiers, push affiliate links/one off offers, etc.
Where have 4.8M Syrian refugees gone?
> I wish there was during my teens (in the nineties) an option at school to learn programming. That was in France and I don't think it has changed since then.

That's funny, because I learned programming basics (and was self-taught from there) at school at a time when there was no formal curriculum and our teacher was a CS student who just figured he'd do a few lessons on that because what the heck.

I'm pretty sure that nowadays IT classes in my country are standardized enough that this wouldn't fly. Also, today nobody would dare hiring a CS student with no formal teaching qualifications instead of a professional teacher whose IT competence doesn't extend beyond MS Office. Meh.
Your hypothetical "low accident protection" scenario is laughably unrealistic.

One major point against it is that even though self-driving cars may be here soon, none of us will live to see the day when manual driving is banned. Especially not in the freedom-happy US.

A second major counterpoint is that even in this fascist dictatorship where manual driving is banned, external factors (large wildlife, sudden slippery ice, human error in vehicle maintenance, etc.) will still cause serious accidents.

The third major counterpoint is: say you reduce accident rates by two or three orders of magnitude (which would be huge). Still, a tiny tiny fraction of people would end up in accidents. What society would be OK with saying "Oh, screw it, let those people die so manufacturers can build cheaper cars"?
Goldman Sachs has even mentioned this as an advantage on earnings calls. The regulatory burden on the financial industry is insurmountable for a new entrant.
I'm a little late to the party but I'm glad you filed. That's awesome. Standing up for yourself (and others) is always a rewarding thing. Great work!
Opera browser's free built-in VPN vulnerable to major security flaw
i'll bet default java one says something like:

"Server: Oracle-Application-Server-11g Oracle-Web-Cache-11g/11.1.1.6.0 (H;max-age=300+0;age=17;ecid=584413567863459,0:1)"
Not really the same. McD's is adding a lottery ticket on top of a regular purchase that sells high volumes at the same price when the lottery isn't running. valve is selling lottery tickets standalone..
Firewire and Thunderbolt both introduced important capabilities that no established choice could even come close to. Apple doesn't wait around for the beige box vendors to come to a consensus on technological advances.
For me, the answer is "plenty", but that's neither here or there. Everyone has their own use case and I daren't say yours isn't valid.

Video editing tends to done in applications, of course that's not to say video data can't already be piped. I once set up a screencast using gstreamer to convert /dev/video to an HTML 5 compatible video format which I then redirected to a named pipe which could then be opened from a HTML file page in a web browser. The UNIX shell is already very powerful. You haven't stated what it is you want to do with video editing that is either difficult or not currently possible but would be possible with this new shell, so I'm not sure that I really understand the point that you are trying to make.

There is nothing wrong with creating an alternative shell. I can see the need for something like this. PowerShell for example works very well. My main gripe with this project is that the author has named it "Next generation UNIX shell" which suggests that it is intended to be a replacement rather than an alternative. In my humble opinion, it tosses the simplicity out of the window that makes UNIX, UNIX.

To quote Dennis Ritchie, "UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." I'm no genius, but I get it.
> If accident rates can be low enough, they don't need as much conventional safety measures; air bags, metal armour that crumples, etc.

There is no hope of that happening. You're never going to convince people to remove safety features, and even if you could, a car that has 5% as many collisions but logs 50 times as many miles would justify more safety features because there will be more collisions per vehicle despite there being fewer collisions per mile.

> The way they drive should mean lower maintenance & fuel costs compared with human drivers.

All of that sort of thing will be dwarfed by not having to pay a human driver. But in a competitive market it will also be eroded by competition. A cab ride that used to be $20 will soon be $2 because now $2 can turn a profit.

On the other hand, if it now costs $2 instead of $20 then people will start using hired cars instead of owning cars and then you might make a lot of it back on volume. (By essentially destroying the rest of the auto industry.)
/dev/random – a new approach
> It will complicate processing.

In practice, it doesn't. If you want to know if an IonValue is null, ask it with #isNull. If you don't care about the null's type, ignore it. On the other hand, the type is an additional form of metadata which allows overloading the meaning of a value.

nulls can also be annotated, so Ion doesn't really have the concept of a singular shared null sentinel.

More so than JSON, Ion often uses nulls to differentiate presence from value (that is, the lack of a field in a struct has a different meaning the presence of that field with a null value). Since nulls are objects, they can be tested separately from the lack of a field definition.

> a timestamp is clearly an aggregate and should be understood as corresponding to some structure type.

Timestamps are structured types with a literal representation that is explicitly modeled in the specification. You're free to ignore it and use a custom schema for representing time, but you've moved any validation into your application at that point and are no better off than JSON.
Warning: Auto-playing video with audio.
> Are there ad blockers for mobile?

In terms of mobile apps, yes. There are rootless-firewalls that register themselves as an all-routes VPN and then blackhole 'unwanted' traffic.

Mobile browsers such as Firefox already have the same ad blockers plugins as desktop.
Facing the music.

I think the expression has something to do with "Paying the piper" who of course plays music.

I like it.

But I don't think that Snowden should indeed face it.
Scientists Have Discovered a 600-Mile Coral Reef at the Mouth of the Amazon
A required credit check for employment is illegal in California. California gets some things right.
Yeah, that's kinda my point. People throw the word "agile" around as though
it has one precise meaning, when it clearly doesn't. And IMO, the kind of
"Agile" that people are railing against is so far removed that it doesn't
deserve any association whatsoever with the expression "agile".

I agree with you, but I'm also realistic about the fact that the term "agile" has been thoroughly and completely tainted by its association with bad implementations. One may as well complain about people referring to "Linux" rather than "GNU/Linux", or using "hacker" to mean people who break security rather than programmers who come up with novel solutions to interesting problems.

Words are defined by usage, and every manager I've encountered has used "agile" to mean a system of project management in which work is broken up into things called "user stories", and is then bucketed into fixed-length "sprints", with planning sessions to actually put the work into the buckets. Now you may say that this is one mere implementation of agile, and you'd be right. But it is by far the most dominant implementation. It's like saying that GNU/Linux is one mere implementation of a GNU system. You're right. But realistically, no one you know will be familiar with any others. It's the same way with agile software development. Scrum is one mere implementation of agile. But it's the only one most developers and managers encounter, so it's understandable that they'll conflate the two.
If I read this correctly, this new suggestion also keeps the entropy estimation voodoo:

"By using the primary DRBG to serve /dev/random, the LRNG ensures that each random number generated by the primary DRBG must be backed by an equal amount of entropy that seeded the DRBG. Hence, the data derived from /dev/random is backed by information theoretical entropy."

(page 21 of the PDF documentation)
You are upset that people enjoy a videogame differently from you. Maybe the gamblint is the game (that's where the money is made) and the fighting is the sideshow.
There's an interesting comment on the thread from someone calling himself "melgross" who sounds like he knows what he's talking about. ( http://anandtech.com/comments/10265/understanding-the-97-ipa... ) Always hard to be sure but he seems pretty credible.

The TL,DR version of melgross's comment is that Adobe modeled their RGB color space after the old Kodachrome film gamut, which was optimized for colors found in natural outdoor scenes rather than human flesh tones. As such, it's not ideal for general production use, and many professionals have been unsatisfied with it.

Another interesting link from a comment disagreeing with melgross is here: http://www.astramael.com/1
> you don't play a game with the skins

Except you do play a game with them. (though they affect that gameplay aesthetically)
The status symbol creates the financial value.
Why people sleep badly in an unfamiliar place
I didn't know, that's great news.
The internet is hard to police. Brick and mortar Casinos won't let kids in.
If the frame buffer is 8-bit and in P3 color space, doesn't that mean that there are (way) less than 8 effective bits per channel for sRGB content? That seems like a pretty big compromise if true.

The P3 iMacs are 10-bit, and there the color space looks more like a clear win.
The Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski once said "Original sin remains a profound and insightful view of the human condition".
He didn't last long at Berkeley, as it happens.
Or a linter. It helps to stop you inadvertently doing something stupid.
Ask HN: Is it practical to be a programmer who cannot read/write English?
Totally agree. Super smart of Uber.
We call it communication as a broader classification. Then the system of sounds they make is the communication medium. Like looking in the eyes.
You're upset about questions of merit. I'm just saying it hardly surprises me.
VW should be sending a check to everyone who lived or worked near a freeway during the time these cars were on the road.
"Detach during running" is a problem solved from the beginning of shells: just suspend a foreground command with C-z and type `bg` to wake it up in the background.

Output redirection seems to be a valid point, though.
Fresh IT Grad Hacks Philippines Commission on Elections Site
U.S. has this too, it's called the DMV.
However, seed breeder rights are not specific to Monsanto, and not specific to GMO technology. Seed development is expensive work. Breeder rights came to legislation over the past 80 years or so. It is not a coincidence that the Green Revolution and vastly improved agricultural yields started to come about slightly after that.
Not O(n) because your eyesight is highly parallel pattern recognition, and you can move items in batch.
> It would also be a powerful statement

It would be powerful. It's actualy shameful that Assange and Snowden are so constrained, especially for telling the truth. Ironically, Roman Palanski plead guilty to raping a 13 year old. Later, he was detained in Switzerland but they denied a U.S. extradition request.

It's sad basic travel would send a powerful message, just because that means many assume that these constraints are a foregone conclusion.
How to ask your wife for permission to spend $250K on a domain name
Labeling or not, calling it a problem or not, I don't get your point. Are you saying that you cannot control yourself and it's not your fault that you didn't do all that work?

At the end of the day it seems a personal choice to me. Similar to people with drug problems, it might be harder or easier for certain people to get the willpower to do (or not do) certain things, but it's still under your control and up to you.

I don't see the point in arguing over what to call it and whether it's a problem. Either you do the work or you don't. Just do your work if you want the results.
> Wired wouldn't let me read it, because I've got an ad blocker turned on.

Use uBlock Origin. It blocks the ads, and it blocks the adblock blockers.

I use it, and I read the article and didn't see any ads, or popups about how butthurt wired is that I'm using an adblocker.
Just email the author using a toastmasters style feedback that is hearty and respectful. No need to pollute the thread or have a meta-thread.
In that case, no, Microsoft would not be able to do anything to someone who found a Windows DVD modified to remove the EULA check:

1. Copyright would not be involved because copyright cover the reproduction and distribution of content. You did neither. It'd be the same if someone photocopied a book and you found the copy on the ground. You might argue that "well, you need to copy the software from the DVD to the system". If that's a problem, imagine that the mysterious individual also somehow installed the OS on your computer without your knowledge.

2. Patent law doesn't apply because patents (in theory) cover the application of techniques and technologies. Patents are irrelevant to end-users.

3. As stated before, the EULA also doesn't apply.

IMO, applying patents to living organisms is completely bogus, conceptually. It'd make more sense if the genetic information of the organism was copyrighted. Then it would make some sense to talk about unlicensed copies being made, although it'd still be rather tenuous. Copyright wasn't thought for self-replicating and randomly-modifying data. Has a law been broken if a disc undergoes mitosis? How many words would you need to change for a book to no longer be considered the same?
Whoa! You go girl!
How to kill this Google chrome popup?
Please see the popup is not allowing anymore to run extensions locally. How to kill that popup?

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=594013
> Presumably one will try and teach the other.

IIRC this has already been tried and demonstrated to happen. This is the first thing that google came up with, but I'm sure Scientific American has also covered the teaching behavior.

http://www.earthintransition.org/2011/09/dolphins-teach-each...
That's correct. There is unfortunately banding since it's only 8-bit. It is definitely an unfortunate short term compromise, though the P3 gamut is still worth the tradeoff.

Also, both the 5K iMacs are 10-bit, while the 4K iMac is actually 8-bit. It's down to the bandwidth of the GPUs.

Reference documentation for anyone interested: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/MacOSX/....
Yes, the Profski Scheme, as it's known (although IME it's the administrators who are behind the inflation of the scheme).
I think there is fundamentally something morally wrong with the HE system in the US and now the UK, which lands young people in so much debt before the start of their working lives (I would make exceptions for vocational qualifications like medicine).
The sooner this space is disrupted, the better - it is a moral imperative.
Awesome RC pilot here(1).

Hitting a commercial jetliner with an off the shelf drone is impossible--especially at that altitude. With $8K it becomes feasible, but I'd put the level of difficulty at about the same as driving a Bugatti Veyron at 70mph in reverse and executing a j-turn (think Hollywood 180 spin) into a tight spot between two SUV's at the grocery store--3 times in a row.

As rare as plastic bags are at 1700 feet, if it was a sunny day in London in an area with a lot of jet traffic, then it was in all likelihood a bag that was kicked up by a car, caught a massive thermal and managed to get blown around by jet traffic.

(1) Fly fixed wing RC in excess of 180mph weekly and have flown quads for 3 years.
This article didn't touch on the idea of evolved dependence, which surprised me.

Essentially, parasites were inside the body of most human beings over our evolutionary history, up until the last 100 years. The parasites secrete immune-modifying molecules[1]. And because we don't have parasites as often anymore, autoimmune disorders have exploded in prevalence.

The thinking is that, in the same way that human beings and guinea pigs lost the ability to synthesize vitamin C because it was always available, some people lost the ability to regulate their immune system because parasites were just that pervasive. In other words, our ancestors lost genetic machinery that modulated their immune response because the parasites they had provided that service already. So losing those genes had no effect on their fitness.

It's not a widely accepted theory, but it certainly challenges the notion of self in relation to parasites.

1: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2014/964350/
Same could be asked about humans. Quirk of evolution is my best guess.
Digital objects that are torrentable are public goods. This includes media files and local machine software but not web services.
L3 Cache Mapping on Sandy Bridge CPUs
No capital ships took direct hits during operation crossroads.

The closest was the USS Arkansas, at 170 yards from ground zero during the underwater baker test. It was lifted all the way to the vertical by the blast, before being pummeled into the sea floor.
Except that most of the issues they're looking for advice on, are things that most voters don't care about. Basically, it used to be a battle of information with lobbyists putting their (often biased) viewpoint, and then the advisors, who are at least paid by the public and theoretically looking out for the rest of us, putting in their view.

Now you just have different lobbyists weighing in on these issues and no one out there thinking about it who isn't already bought by someone trying to make a buck off the public. It should worry at least some of us.
Germany has good academic (selective) schools and good technical schools.
We used to have something similar in the UK.
I have a PhD and was good academically. I recently bumped into an old school friend, who was not academic in the slightest and is now a tradesman earning great money.
If I had kids, I wouldn't mind one bit if they decided to pass on higher education and learn a trade instead.
I call it, "Revenge on the snobs."
> <groupId>software.amazon.ion</groupId>

Why not "com.amazon.ion", like thousands of other existing packages?
Microsoft opens Flux, a free co-working space in downtown Helsinki
The Boss
Whatever we can speculate about the ifs and hows of this situation, let's keep in mind that incredibly courageous people like Snowden have to endure what they endure because people like us, citizens, don't seem to stand up to corrupt governments anymore.
Error prone computers can tackle harder problems
> * Real decimal type - invaluable when working with currency

I believe that the proper way to handle money is to use Integer values plus a pre-defined precision.
Ertalyte (PETP) Plastic Suppliers and Products Manufacturers
Ask HN: What good CIs are there for private Git repos?
I don't want to go with Travis since its totally outside our budget. We have shortlisted shippable and circleci.

It would be great to have some feedback on using them in prod. Or any other alternatives ?
Ok, my wife organizes my daily t-shirts as a deque: fresh comes into bottom, I take always from the top )

O(1) insertion O(1) retrieval.