skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last time I visited Germany I was asked for my details in order to buy a phone, and the same to register the SIM card.

I just gave invented details both times.

So now it's impossible, eh?

A mobile phone might be a 'new invention' that you can get away with not using, but what about transport? In my city it's been game over for years, decades even.

The London Underground is the one subway in London. It uses a smart card, the cash fares are a multiple of the cost, and there are CCTV cameras everywhere anyway so you're tracked.

The red buses removed cash fares and now smart card/contactless bank card are the only way of paying.

The central region is plastered in car licence plate recognition cameras so you can't drive. (They exist ostensibly because there is a congestion charge for driving in the central region).

You can cycle or walk but facial recognition kills that eventually.

So yeah, existing in London basically means the authorities know, or have the ability to know, where you are at all times within a few metres regardless of whether you use a phone or not, it's just a matter of how integrated these databases are and whether anyone can be bothered.

To me it feels a lot like, in major cities anyway, this privacy battle is just completely lost, because there are attacks on all fronts. You can have your anonymous phone, but are you wearing face paints? Do you ever drive? Do you ever take public transport?

The further you go out of the city, assuming you don't have a mobile phone, I suppose there are fewer data points available. You can roam about in farmer's fields or something, no cameras there yet. Maybe the minor cities have analogue cameras, or they're turned off due to funding, or whatever.

It's gone beyond something to be depressed or feel a call to action about at this point I feel - it's a bit like a lion chasing a gazelle - it just is. Fighting against this individual initiative feels good, but is it ultimately futile?

The actions required in order to attempt not to fall into these databases seem to have gone from "don't use your real name online" to "don't drive a car" to "don't take trains with your bank card" to "pay cash on the bus" to... eventually it's just done, all of it's tracked, I can pay with cash at the local store but there's a digital IP camera in the corner so sooner or later they know it anyway.

And the rational amongst us know that it's not about us. It means nothing that I can go 'off the grid'. What means something is that society as a whole is able to appreciate this, and I think the number of intrusions is high enough now that they simply can't. It's like asking people to go without oxygen. It's everywhere.

The fight I'm really concerned with is privacy within the home, in private establishments. I want to know that conversations between me and my friends stay within that box, that private sphere. Miniaturization and propagation of technology just seems to make that an impossible goal, though.

I don't want it, but I really feel like privacy is dead, we just don't fully know it yet.
If you click through one of the links in the article, you'll see a couple crows instigate a fight between two cats. I was wondering if they were trying to get one cat to kill the other, so there'd be something to eat. That'd be some long term thinking.

Also, honeyguides are birds that guide humans to beehives, so the humans will open the hive for their own purposes. The birds then eat the leftovers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_honeyguide
> He's working 16 hours a day to make the world a better place?

Might be paid propaganda, but it looked like the guy was much more worried about Saudi Arabia's future than making "the World" a better place. That self-interest looks pretty credible to me.
Once again, you're getting too hung up on my dumb little example, which I spent exactly 0 seconds thinking about. It's the general problem that's interesting (and annoying), the 'command1 | command2' general case.

If you want a difficult example, then take a more real-world example: e.g. the workflow of a 'find [some stuff] |grep [some other stuff]' is one to consider. That's where horrid workarounds like -print0 and -z have to come in, but the simple 'find|grep' works fine up until a file has a space in it.

As I said, there's no simple fix, even for the re-organised form of 'grep [some other stuff] `find [some stuff]` because the shell can't tell the difference between a filename and just a stream of text in the output of one program.
Well fundamentally, its main reason for backwards laws (e.g. non-equality for women) is that the House of Saud derives its legitimacy from a rather orthodox religious sect, in exchange for enforcing said orthodox sect's backwards religious rules.

Switching to a democracy would mean nobody need pander to the Wahhabi sect.
Yeah, it's becoming more and more interesting. What would kill my interest is if it ends up being bought by a Chinese company, though.
Are there plans to add Python 3.5 support?
anti-mosquito sanitation is relatively expensive, compared to other forms of sanitation.
Rolling Shutter Effect
I've yet to find a _better_ HN UI. All the ones I've tried so far (including this one and the one reustle mentioned) don't add any benefit to me over just using vanilla HN. They are also, in my experience, much slower than HN.

This one makes bad use of space IMHO and, much more importantly, has terrible contrast on basically all elements. Makes it incredibly hard to read for me.
Yes, I'm roaming.

The EU's mandatory maximum 'roaming' prices are lower than the normal prices charged at home. So, when I use my UK Tesco Mobile phone in Germany, things become cheaper.
>Probably they also have some heuristics that look closely at people who geoip in a different country than their billing records

I have paid for American Netflix for years and years but I'm forced now to watch Dutch Netflix because I live there. It's not based on where you pay but where you are.
What is going to happen when they land at Z? The end of Ubuntu as we know it? :P
> Resistance to ID is just an americanism.

I literally just explained how it's not.

> There are no practical negative consecuences

Assuming an ideal, benevolent government.

(Presumably residing on an infinite frictionless plane, feasting on spherical cows.)
Designers who shit on everything looking like Bootstrap should read these two comments.
I don't know if you don't understand simple statements or you are pretending not to, to make some weird point. You vote for a government that promises things which are overall 'good' or 'least bad' according to you. And definitely, you have some version of good and bad you categorize people, and things with. Everyone has (if you don't, this discussion has no meaning). Google is doing the same, and there are people who find it very useful.

And I have no interest in explaining to you like 5 what is an evil corporation. Do a Google search.
Indeed, wish it offer more pre-defined themes.
Is there any way I can download Ubuntu securely? They don't seem to have an HTTPS link to the .iso file
Thanks. I've added right/left arrows to the to do list.

About the back button: Do other people feel the same way? This is by design, but I'm open to change this behavior if people would prefer it.
The only other information I noticed while reading was his law education.

In 2007, Prince Mohammed graduated fourth in his class from King Saud University with a bachelor’s degree in law
No, I am having my browser using only half the screen, because today's monitors are too wide. And you put a wide sidebar there that takes half of that estate.

Quite a lot of sites today cannot adapt to screen resolutions smaller than about 1000 pixels horizontal (half HD resolution, on my work browser) or about 600 pixels vertical (resolution on my netbook). And don't let me start about Acroread..

I am also happy to report that HN works with Netsurf, your site probably doesn't.
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11541992 (posted 2 minutes prior to this one)
Why Commercial Solar Needs 'FinTech'
Product Hunt for Mac
7ve24
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
~~~
It's best to include the full sticker price.
Wow. Just wow. Congrats to the PyPy team. It never stops.

I stopped calling myself a Python programmer sometime ago and started saying I'm a PyPy programmer because this is the future of Python. The underlying basis for PyPy has big implications for a number of dynamic languages though so we should all be cheering it on and contributing.

For those who want better Python3 support, there's only ONE answer so no need to keep begging. Donate more money to the project or donate your talents. Patches welcome!
It's much easier to ignore the facts when you remove them from the environment.
From first glances it seems that this is a "proper" Mac app, rather than something that is essentially a Chrome web view packaged as an app.
I wonder why Canonical don't have an HTTPS version for this page.
Amarok 2 made major UI changes which many users didn't like, the whole thing just felt more heavy and complex. Clementine is a fairly faithful reproduction of the original Amarok line.

For comparison, look at Clementine screenshots vs this:

https://amarok.kde.org/en/screenshots
Is it difficult for Saudi to adopt/customize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
Intel was essentially forced into buying XScale from Digital via a legal settlement. DEC sued Intel for uncompetitive behavior (and looked likely to win).

I don't think Intel really wanted ARM and so made half-hearted attempts at selling it.
So someone was wrongly accused of a crime because the methods of catching criminals (that is the surveillance state) turned out to be flawed. I still don't see how that changes the definition of what "criminals" are.
Pretty sure you mean Sega Saturn. Dreamcast was mostly 3D games. Saturn was designed primarily for 2D and they got burned for it, because Playstation and Nintendo 64 was showing the new 3D hotness (although those early 3D graphics really haven't aged well, while Saturn's 2D games still look pretty good), and were also cheaper.
> For instance, it's trivial to fingerprint most browser add-ons. What if organizations refused service to people with anti-anti-adblockers entirely?

You can bypass such a fingerprint by replacing JS using that very same extension.

Keeping a database of browser fingerprints does no good when performing those fingerprints relies on JS running unmodified. You can just patch the algorithm to always return a known good fingerprint, or one from a set.

A legal response would be the only possibility, but due to the technical means still being possible... well, on the internet legality doesn't really get in the way of technical possibility, now does it?
If your so close, this might be a better link for you to look at! :)

https://www.enterprise-ireland.com
For the census (in the 80th) you are right, but today the political activists rather use comparisons with the Stasi. For example when Wolfgang Schäuble was Interior Minister activists against the Zugangserschwerungsgesetz (Access Impediment Act) often used the slogan "Stasi 2.0" (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_2.0). The same slogan is used by activists against Vorratsdatenspeicherung (data retention).
Agreed. I've been using http://hckrnews.com for over a year now and I wouldn't ever go back to the normal HN site. I love the feature that shows you all the new submitted links since you last visited. No longer do I have to scan up and down the list and see the same links over and over again looking for new ones.
The user isn't changing page, so you definitely shouldn't be using pushState. If you want to update the address bar, use replaceState. After clicking a few of them I certainly didn't expect to have to click back to cycle through them just to get back to HN.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/113194/what-will-happen-when-...
I feel like bootstrap has become the jquery of css themes. People will launch into a lecture on "separation of concerns" when they see a style attribute in html or a ruby loop in an .erb template. Yet they litter their code with class="col-xs-4" without a second thought.
They should just stop publishing MD5SUMS for new releases. By now, everybody should have gotten the word that MD5 has been broken.

The security of the MD5 has been severely compromised, with its weaknesses having been exploited in the field, most infamously by the Flame malware in 2012. The CMU Software Engineering Institute considers MD5 essentially "cryptographically broken and unsuitable for further use". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames
Count me as a systemd convert
Yes, people edit Wikipedia with an agenda. It's an encyclopædia which attempts to be objective, any edit is political.
I'm curious, glancing at the code I can't tell immediately, but how does the DNN trainer (Deep Neural Network) differ from traditional back propagation? Does it train layer by layer using a kind of successive autoencoder approach? (If that makes any sense..)

I'm curious whether this would perform differently than e.g. Keras, on deeper networks.
Yeah, get rid of historystate. It's annoying.
It depends on how long it takes to grow a tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-growth_forest#Logging_in_o...
I understand the rationale for doing it either way, but fwiw I prefer changing it so every card flips does not wind up in history. I think it has to do with the notion of "flipping" through the cards -- you're often just navigating through them to reach your desired goal, not reading them one by one as part of a linear narrative.

(I'm on my phone though so it's possible there's some alternate navigation on widescreen layouts that I'm not seeing).
> When I was in SV, the tech community seemed so self-absorbed. All they talked about was tech, their startups, and VCs.

This is one of the biggest things keeping my wife and I from considering a move out there. Every time I see the stupid amounts of money being thrown at engineers out there I get this itch to move, even if just for a few years. Then I remember this part, and have serious reservations.

I would add that there is too much smug superiority going along with what you describe. It's a minority of people, but a large-enough minority that I really don't want to deal with it.
As a person who builds apps for customers who don't care about flashiness and only want a working useful app. I'm right there with you.
Thanks for your suggestion. I've considered adding a search/filter box, but I've decided that people can use Ctrl+f/Ctrl+g (assuming Chrome) in order to find items.

I might add it in the future though. It would be a nice feature really.
We deploy 2 cpu and 4 GB for office 2016 VDI users. That's tight for a developer.

Unless you're offshore and your wasted time is not as valuable, that's a poor VDI use case that doesn't make sense

Fight it with vendor recommendations.

http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/tag/vmware-view-storage

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/view/Server-Storage-Sizing-G...
I live near Yellowstone. No one that I know is concerned about bison roaming outside of Yellowstone. In the park itself, they should allow bison hunting because there are indeed too many. The wolves are at least helping.

I wouldn't be too concerned about horses when deer are already a much much bigger problem.
Do we really need this pointless bitching about ad blocking every time people view a article?

I don't go to the comments to view off topic points.

Wired have been doing this for months and you could still read it for sake with ad block running.
This isn't my experience from going through the USDS hiring process, although that's a branch of the White House's Executive Office, not congress.

Disclaimer: No degree, 15 years in tech, was considered qualified.
The problem here is knowing what really is the cause and what is the effect.

It is well known that, in the United States, drug usage between all races tends to trend roughly the same. However, the arrest rate for blacks is much, much higher. See these charts for marijuana.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/04/the-b...

One possible explanation, of course, is indeed that blacks are more likely to be arrested while committing another serious crime. Hence the gap.

An alternate explanation reverses the argument: blacks may be more prone to commit serious crimes because they are more likely to be arrested for trivial crimes like marijuana usage. Prison does have social consequences after all (eg, people are less willing to hire someone with an arrest record; prison can establish contacts with underground economies that are more likely to utilize violence to settle disputes; prison can tear apart families; etc. -- http://www.economist.com/node/708550 ) and since America is not keen on reintegrating criminals into society (a very high rate of recidivism compared to most countries -- http://www.salve.edu/sites/default/files/filesfield/document... and http://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is-... ), it is very possible that early arrests for modest crimes lead to later arrests for worse crimes later.
Interesting question, and closed as "not constructive". Typical.
But propeller driven-aircraft aren't obsolete; they became turboprop.

Take a look at Super Tucano for a modern example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/23/world/la-fg-ecuador-...

Only $10M each!
CSS and the Paradox of Hilbert’s Grand Hotel
> SV may have the top spot for tech, but it feels so insulated from everywhere else. NYC has tech, but it's just one of many industries in a truly global city.

This really sums up the difference. A lot of the companies doing tech in NYC are not in the "hot" or "flashy" realm of tech companies. They're not dime a dozen apps or services that are so prominent in SF. A lot of them are in other sectors, and often with business models, so they don't come across as being relevant when they really are.
That's a paltry sum by Western standards even in Romania - one of the poorest countries in Europe though you might just get away with it. I wonder how many consultations, x-rays and medicine must be provided per day to generate a reasonable wage for medical staff in India? Or was this one-off for an emergency?
Agreed. The measure of usefulness is a signal of great thought, research and design thinking. Thankfully @mdo, did his homework and for that I commend him.
Code for Hillary
Ask HN: Buffer for Reddit?
I use Buffer for scheduling LinkedIn and Twitter posts. However buffer doesnt support reddit yet. I mod a couple subreddits and want to schedule posts so I can keep a queue going. Does anyone know of a tool like buffer that will work on reddit?
33 Payment Forms of the Most Popular SaaS Companies in the World
Post your Bitcoin address on your profile page, and the people who care enough will do it
I think this is the crux of people's issues with bootstrap -- it SHOULD be used by non-designers for things like dashboards and internal apps. But the poo-pooing comes when actual designers use it to be lazy and not actually design anything specific to the site's purpose.
Free, unlimited VPN for protecting all of your secure surfing from your domestic surveillance...
Thanks for the clarification. I do wonder what other kinds of things this math could apply to. It's pretty abstract, but if you want to direct an unpredictable agent toward a certain behavior, knowing where to place control mechanisms might be interesting.
Whats the problem with that? Honest question.
The USDS is a very new and fundamentally different organization from most of what the US has ever done with tech.
older SysAdmins

I hope you aren't referring to their age, in which case consider using a different adjective: experienced, seasoned, wiser, etc. Your colleagues probably don't want to install fish shell for reasons besides how old they are.
Google Has Released Its First 360-Degree VR Movie, ‘Help’
Same Problem. Newest VirtualBox newest vagtant 1.8.1
Skute app: The underground social network that's bringing city streets to life
Physicists didn't just dismiss and ignore cold fusion. It's been tested a lot, and it just doesn't work as originally described.

Likewise, the EmDrive is also being tested. So far it's pretty inconclusive and it looks likely to have a mundane explanation. But testing continues, so what exactly are you complaining about?
Why is there this hype around “blockchains”? What does this even mean?

Bitcoin has a proof-of-work chain which, through wasting superlative amounts of energy and destroying the atmosphere, establishes consensus about transactions as a distributed system. It is clear what a “blockchain” is there, and in Bitcoin clones and forks.

But outside Bitcoin, what does it refer to? Peer-to-peer? Distributed systems? Global warming? It feels like a meaningless buzzword. How, exactly, does having a Bitcoin-esque distributed consensus system – if that's even what you mean – actually solve some given X? It never seems to be explained, it's just “blockchain will solve X”.

I think “blockchain” might be the new “.com”.
And the thread concerning that much better model:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11403653
as a tourist, first priority on the ground in a new country is to get a data connection. I had more difficulty in Germany than other EU countries visited around the same time. Despite promise of a handful of prepaid sim's available everywhere, activation was a roadblock because no local credit card. Eventually found my way to an O2 store where they used their own store address to activate for me and it was all good
I've gotten compliments from customers on how good my bog standard bootstrap sites look.

Having websites look and feel similar to other familiar sites is a good thing.
Besides the default online dash searches pre-Xenial, do you mind sharing what other changes are allowing you to consider moving back?
Not new. Javascript is not the most popular language, does not have the largest "package manager" (nor standard library, nor package library which is what I think you mean) and more importantly it does not have the most programmers specializing in the problem domain at hand -- shell functions. Moreover the referenced toolset doesn't even use Javascript! You merely jumped in blind to promote your favorite tool. Also if you want to play HN-by-the-book then you should refute my argument why Javascript shell scripting in 2016 from a cold start is somehow better than Perl shell scripting in 2000 given its lead back then.
Does anyone else feel like Bootstrap 4 is just taking forever? It seems like Foundation turnaround time for rolling out new major versions of their frameworks is much smaller than bootstrap.
I bet it will be blocked soon.
I am not involved with PyPy. Observing from the outside, the answer is yes, but it isn't a priority because there is no one paying for it.

(They've largely used up the targeted crowdfunding; the unused money isn't enough to make a large amount of progress)
If you've recently upgraded to VirtualBox 5.0.18 you might try downgrading to 5.0.16 as I had a similar issue earlier this week.
> Why should the House of Saud govern, and not be replaced by a democracy?

By whom, you?
I heard it can be used differently.

Select your elements with SASS and let this selector inherit the style of a Bootstrap class.

body > div > div {
@extend .col-xs-4;
}

But I never tried to use it that way.
Not just solar, commercial equipment in general with some kind of insurance backed into the loan. And allow used equipment.
Isn't that fairly standard amongst the privacy respecting VPNs?

We store nothing / log nothing.

We'll comply with law enforcement as far as we're able (ie not at all beyond billing, email and perhaps bandwidth used).

So that seems to say they'll perhaps be able to tell when you were logged in, who you are + payment info, and perhaps volumes transferred. Where and on which ports? No clue officer.

Private Internet Access seems similar: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/privacy-policy/