skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some travel highlights of my time in Butkina were:

- An 18 hour trip to get roughly 300km. On the very last leg we took a detour in our bush taxi down what was very clearly only a bike trail. The van got stuck on a tree and as we waited one of the drivers took my bike off and just rode away. Turned out he was riding out to get someone from the village we were detouring to.

- During a 20 some hour bus ride to Ghana, a dude popped out in the road and shot at the bus. After the driver pulled over the guy came in and fired a few times down the center of the bus and husseled everyone off. I was just starting a vacation with a number of friends so they got _a lot_ of cash. Eventually when I felt brave enough to look up I saw the Ghana police firing randomly in the woods (Impressively they got there is about 10 minutes). As we were telling the police how much they toke, one of them said in adorable English, "Oh! They sure had a field day, haha".

- On a trip from Ghana we ended up hitch hiking and got a ride from a former head of the presidential guard in a sweet minivan. The dude was super nice but a crazy driver. Among the multiple times I thought we would die, he went to pass a long truck while another huge one was hurtling towards us for a head on collision. Instead of backing off or slowing down, he casually jammed the gas and swerved off road (which had a solid six inch drop) to get around it.

So many more hilariously insane experiences. Lots of fun.
Also the name of my next punk band. ;-)
Most useful slack integrations
Open Source Percona Monitoring and Management
My complaint is that I can't upload a gzip'd file and have it decompressed on their end, yes.

Yes, the other things I could have meant would have been odd, so I'm not sure why you spent time typing them out.
In the US, that formality us called impeachment.
i like your comment because it fits my hypothesis :) yes, good. i went into the use and abuse of every different emotion... quite surprised this had never been done before.

you can relax, you're not a psychopath even if you have, as we all do, some of the talents.
What do you expect when a government agency calculates inflation, while other government agencies has liabilities pegged to inflation (Social security, TIPS)?

Sure, they're different agencies, but that doesn't matter in the slightest. It's like two departments in one company.

According to Shadowstats, which calculates inflation using the 1990-based CPI methods, inflation currently is at 4.5% per year. http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
It looks like someone welded some shipping containers together in a car park.
UK surveillance bill will force tech firms to disclose products before launch
The idea is that the Makefile (and maybe configure?) could just as well as a "curled" install script contain ANY command, even "sudo rm -rf /".

It's not about where it will install it if it works fine.
My Giant Calculator
How the Bin Laden Raid Put Vaccinators Under the Gun in Pakistan (2015)
FreeCAD 0.16 release notes
I am Pornstar Gianna Michaels, AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/duplicates/3vaqet/i_am_pornsta...
Why do most of the traders Fail?
Sysadmin tool suggests installing itself with sh & curl combo? This makes me suspicious of the tool itself.
> My biggest advice about ROOT is: Don't use it really.

I partially agree: don't use it as a framework, but do use its libraries, they are good!
Another useful resource (not for git, sry):
http://www.catonmat.net/category/cheat-sheets
I'm not familiar with Erlang. Nevertheless there are two main issues with this threading model:

1) Application memory consumption grows more than it should, because same extensions have to be loaded several times in the same application, but in separate threads;

2) Resources such as images (or any other kinds), or OO objects, cannot be transferred between threads efficiently, the only way is to serialize them to scalar representation, which then can be passed through either tsv (mentioned above) variables, or through a message to another thread - then deserialize them there. Apart from precious time which it costs, you also make a full copy of resource/object, growing memory consumption even more.
(almost) all of your points are fair, but slightly tangential to their article: they want to put the "curl | bash is _insecure_" myth to rest. They explicitly acknowledge that it is worse than package managers in many ways.

Perhaps they should have said: "however, the following non-security arguments are valid, and there are more we didn't list." Agreed.

But, at the end of the day, they're right: it's not _less secure_ than, e.g., npm.

PS: In your list; "It's much more vulnerable to MiTM attacks" --- that's essentially the PGP vs HTTPS argument in disguise. Which they also cover, and acknowledge to be true; the argument is essentially "curl https:.. | bash is not less secure than any HTTPS based method, including npm, .isos, etc."

EDIT: and because this is such a hot topic, I just want to emphasize: I'm not arguing in favor of curl | bash. This is only a counter-argument to "curl | bash is less secure than other https- based install methods".
ugh, please no gifs, I'm trying to read here!

Big quotes I already read in the text are similarly annoying...
The idea of the original parent comment on Make is not about well conforming makefiles.

The idea is that if one doesn't trust a random curl-ed install file, they shouldn't trust a downloaded makefile either -- and for the same reasons, yet tons of people complaint about the first, but have been using the latter for decades without complain...
The software before the update was used to detect if a car was being tested for emissions/ fuel consumption. Then it lowered power and fuel consumption.
So it gave skewed figures.
Which means in normal driving it was always giving more than advertised figures.
So the fuel consumption has not changed from before update for normal driving. So you won't see any difference.

Edit: ah my bad.
Ah, it specifically relates to particulate emissions, that is not related to fuel consumption
Don't forget the most important part:

sudo make install
That will never happen, considering most of the 0% tax havens are British crown dependencies. A lot of the money that is held in these "offshore" entities is actually parked in London, for who is wondering.
The same way we trust people. By reputation and familiarity.

If something is from e.g. Red Hat or a large project repository like Apache, it's more trusted than a random website with some unknown tarball...

If many people in websites and forums say "don't trust this program", well, don't trust it.

Etc.
Maybe i'll do a write-up in the future. I assume everyone does it already, but on the off chance they don't.... i don't see any upside in writing about something that might help my competition.
I was in ATLAS DAQ, too, and I'm happy I never had to use too much of ROOT, too. PAW, on the other hand, it was... charming!
My favourite tip for commit messages: write them as if you would explain someone how to do what was done in the commit. So, instead of "fixed a bug" use "replace datetime object with date". It can be more abstract for larger commits (e.g. "refactor payments"), but it should be roughly analogue to what you would write to a ticket title to the same effect.
For other people reading here: It is built on Tcl and released under Tcl's license. BSDish.
I suspect a large part of this is down to

1. People defaulting to the nuclear option constantly, in their reactions, and

2. People not wanting to accept that some issues are complex, and that a blanket approach doesn't work.

The latter of these is the real issue. People love being outraged over the lack of women in STEM fields, and how those that are are treated, but few people talk about the lack of men in teaching it nursing roles. The former is seen as "a problem" and the latter isn't. I'd argue that both are issues, but one is something that political groups get behind and the other isn't.

As a different example, you could look at the issue of badger culls it fox hunting in the UK. The most outspoken people against both aren't from the countryside, have never kept cattle or been on hunts, don't understand (or want to think too much) about the issues involved, but know that badgers and foxes are cute.

It's the infantilism of understanding; people wanting things to be black and white and easy to understand, where pretty much everything contentious, when you dig, is complex.

I suspect a lot of the blame for this is a combination of the short article and news industries, giving people the feeling of being informed without any of the substance to back it up, and the increasing politicisation of issues, where people hold views for reasons more tribal than rational.

Once you start believing that issues are simple, it's easy to fit everything into that framework and to wander round being outraged or offended or insulted by things. Because you can read into life whatever you want.
3D laser printing yields high quality micro-optics
There's a Toronto version as well on May 28: http://stupidhacktoronto.com
Maybe a touch frivolous but definitely pertinent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w
That's a reason, not an excuse. Chinese electric car companies (to just choose a random example) don't have to worry about the autobahn as it's just one market segment out of the entire globe). German car companies seem to be setting themselves be set up to be disrupted as electric cars that aren't "good enough" slowly grow from the bottom up to be better in multiple dimensions.
/r/rational - awesome subreddit about rational fiction. People and discussion are just as interesting and intelligent as on Hacker News.

Also LessWrong, though it's pretty quiet recently.
EU lodges formal antitrust complaint against Android
But then how will they pass the test?
How Some Lucky Bros (& Karl Marx) Ruined Work for Everyone
More information there, DEFCON talk of someone reverse engineering the ECU and then discovering the actual data that corresponded to the EURO5 emissions test : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZSU1FPDiao
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a tyranny of the minority backed up by politicians, government appointees, and judges, all who realize their power by separating people into groups to play off each other. Each new victim class further increases the power of government, the loss of privacy, and worse the loss of community and seeds of distrust and anger are set to drive people into different camps.

when the individual becomes so important that community suffers we have our priorities wrong.
Google's Answer to EU Antitrust Complaints on Android
I think that's probably a little misleading. The European emissions limits are based on a specific driving cycle that's known to be kinder than real-world driving. If you use a more realistic test cycle with more aggressive acceleration you're going to get worse efficiency and pollution than the NEDC tests.
I'm an Icelander and I quite like this article, it is one of the better written pieces I have seen on a cultural phenomenon I relate with - and it is no exaggeration, swimming pools are quite central to our culture. I have two young kids and I take them to an outdoors swimming pool nearly every week, also in the wintertime. Since I live in the capital area we have a few swimming pools to choose from and we rotate between them.

The title hints that this is the reason for the country's high score in happiness surveys such is this one: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/denmark-happi... . While I don't think it's that simple I can forgive the author, the title "A survey on Icelandic swimming pool culture" just doesn't have the same ring to it. Usually when I see these surveys the first question that pops up is "How do they measure that?" and it seems journalists generally are not to keen on pursuing that question.

My point is that isolating one thing from a culture and pinning that down as a "cause for happiness" seems a bit silly to me. But apart from that the article is pretty accurate.
I don't know, but I'd be interested to hear whether these things can be enforced if, as part of your new job, you move to China.
Banned from FB Messenger for sending a meme (Trump holding a gun) to a friend?
So, this happened. I was chatting with a friend on the latest USA election news in NYC and sent this picture in the chat: https://i.sli.mg/I5OrY3.jpg

Two minutes later, I was logged out of all devices, a "community standards" violation modal displayed on next login, and 30 minutes later I received a notification that I was banned for 24 hours.

Messenger, status updates and friend requests are now blocked.

To recap: FB does automated content analysis in private chats, only not sure if the gun, or the caption was problematic.

It seems like no contextual information is used during analysis (the messages before and after the picture we're clearly jokes on Bernie sadness and Trump train)....
Package managers deal well with files which they installed. What the app creates is your business... and for a good reason. You don't want random package upgrade / conflict to remove your data just because there's something changing about the binary.
What would be the point of getting your car fixed, assuming you're describing it accurately?
Given that GMG never make a profit I'd be interested in where that 29.4% came from. To my knowledge they pay very little tax as they're loss making.

That aside they make well documented use of tax havens which per their rhetoric is BAD EVIL RICH COMPANIES AVOIDING tax so yeah, I do feel it's well hypocritical.
Many of my points have a security element to them. Such as inability to verify if files have been tampered with, inability to audit beforehand what the script will do and ease of MiTM attacks.

My point with the PGP argument is that you can indeed go through all those steps to verify their install script with GPG (although note that on top of the steps they run, you should ideally also verify the script against a known hash that you verified elsewhere to make sure that the contents of the script is what you expect, as well as the authors).

But the manual GPG verification process will be ignored by almost all users, who will decide they can't be bothered. My point about package managers is that they do this automatically, without requiring the user to jump through extra hoops. Which is much better than the 8 additional steps that almost no-one will bother with, in practice.

Also saying that it's not less secure than npm isn't a great benchmark - npm is really bad too. See the recent left-pad issues, for example. So yeah - it's not really much worse than other things which are also bad. But it's a lot worse than doing it properly, with a signed RPM repository.
Is it a GM car or is it an LG car? From Wikipedia:

The battery, motor, drive unit will be manufactured at LG, Incheon, South Korea
Performance is a Feature (talk)
For non-polish speaking:
Even that all code and articles are written in English, author uses: var dupa="dupa" as an example variable. Dupa means an ass, a booty and also an atractive woman in sexual contexts.

Dupa is often used as 'foo' variable by Polish programmers and used to be most popular password (like qwerty).
> So the fuel consumption has not changed from before update for normal driving. So you won't see any difference.

Uh, I think you've got it backwards. Won't the updates mean it drives in 'test mode' (e.g. acceptable emissions that meet the standards) all the time? Meaning that it will result in some downside (which was apparently bad enough that they cheated in the first place)
Compare it with Systemd instead of puppet: it is stripped down version of Systemd.
My understanding, having owned two TDI vehicles affected by the recall, is that the statement of not affecting performance and fuel economy is based on the fact the EPA numbers were calculated with all the emissions systems active.

Now what will be affected are all those individual reports of ten to twenty percent better than EPA numbers many TDI fans love to rave about. Both my TDIs were like 40 highway / 30 city rated and yet over their lifetime the vehicle average was closer to if not higher than the highway number. Granted I do not drive like most people I see; racing to each stop and such. Still the numbers I had versus what the EPA said cannot all be explained by good driving.

My question is, if it was so easy to slip diesels past emissions testing then how about gasoline powered cars? Worse with the regards to diesels I think a truck manufacturer was caught cooking numbers in the nineties?
Assuming that both of those claims are correct, my guess is that they did it to make their cars more affordable in EU where road tax is related to emissions. Although I personally don’t know anyone who bought a VW because the yearly traffic fee is lower than in other cars. Generally speaking their cars are stellar in every account which makes this whole situation seem utterly stupid. They didn’t need to do it, they already had the advantage towards the competition.
Darpa project could double wireless capacity
Anti-innovation: EU excludes open source from new tech standards
Yes, but not as root!
As in everything, to understand the logic of drug prohibition, we have to follow the money.
The money goes out of:

1. everyone taking drugs that have money to buy them

2. from their families

3. from everyone else in the society, as people are robbed by addicted people that could not afford to buy the drugs by themselves.

The drug money is distributed along a stair of levels which end in a few people earning a lot of the money of society.
These people have the power to influence politicians, the media, etc, to keep drugs prohibited. Why? Because when something is prohibited the price of goods is higher. If it was allowed a free market for drugs (as there is for wine, beer and other beverages) the price of drugs would drop significantly. And guess what? This is no good for the drug lords, neither for politicians and other who benefit from the status quo.

In Portugal half was done. Half remains to be done. Still, a good initiative.
Another anecdote: Drive Now (carsharing corp) has i3 in its fleet so you see a decent number of them in large German cities (like Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne), definitely more often than Teslas:

https://de.drive-now.com/en/#!/yourcars/bmw-i3
Binaries and some websites are signed with a verified legal entity.

This is what the Debian guys standing in a circle holding their passwords are doing at your Linux event. It's also why when you visit github it says 'GitHub, Inc [US]' in your browser's address bar. Heads up: I work on the latter.
All feet in the door are not the same. When you're iterating on ad concepts, maybe CPC is an okay metric, or at least an early indicator. But these ads weren't really interations. Without a baseline CPA and running ads related to the ad that generated that baseline, CPC has no context.

Also, if all traffic is going through that to-be-optimized funnel, how does that justify ignoring the CPA of any individual lead source?

The only explanation that makes sense is that conversions aren't frequent enough to find significance. That makes more sense given how many variations were run. In that case, it doesn't make sense to run so many variations. That, or maybe find an in between metric that at least indicates some greater level of lead quality.
The problem with "beautiful" is that it is very subjective. This picture is my definition of ugly. Unless you were sarcastic.
My area was L2PU and Dataflow related, a decade ago.

So also not that much use of PAW as well.
World of VNC is like VNC Roulette, but better
Open package manager and remove checkbox at a package, then press "Apply".
And here in Copenhagen our new waste-to-energy plant will look stunning, double as a ski slope and blow smoke rings:

http://www.big.dk/#projects-arc
Flashback: Declassified 1970 DOD cybersecurity document still relevant
New map simplifies drone flying with over 18M ground hazards
That's doing shipping containers a disservice --- you can make some quite interesting structures by welding shipping containers together: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02210/CONTAINERC...

Making something as awful as the Brooke Road Facility takes real skill and a lot of work.
The original hackathon page is probably NSFW, by the way.
Any ideas on making a visualization?
heheheh: https://hex.pm/packages/leftpad
Yes! This is the hackaton I've been waiting for. Practical in its purpose, low key, and (hopefully) fun.

Wish I wasn't on the opposite side of the country ... Also wish I didn't miss the one that was on my side of the country
On the end of the page you can see other versions (together with Toronto) too.
Why processing a sorted array is faster than processing an unsorted array
Your phone number is all a hacker needs to spy on you
For those who make a living, this is good news; for the internet, this is one more papercut, closing to the 1000.
A positive thing for sure. But the hardest part is not the processing, it`s the sorting of different types of plastic and the washing phase if required.
The Grauniad's not exactly a fan of Corbyn either.
>Well, it's not that simple. Safari's Webkit has started as a fork of KHTML, which was already open-source.

I know, I was using Konqueror before it was cool. That's beside the point though.

>1) Webkit has not been open source from the start, but from one year later

Still irrelevant to our discussion.

>2) Webkit is open source, it's so because it's a fork of KHTML. A wild fork though, an aggressive, non-cooperative fork. Webkit effectively hijacked and killed KHTML.

And also a fork so much advanced (even at the first year) from KHTML that might as well have been a totally different project. And I should know, I'm one of the (I presume) few in here using Konqueror and KHTML in KDE 2.0 back in the day (that would be circa 2000-2003), for my, then modest browsing needs. And I know the whole backstory, as I was reading the "dot" then (KDE's news portal).

The thing is, WebKit, the fork, saw far more success than KHTML as an open source project, and became itself one of the largest open source successes. In fact it's so much a not just Apple thing, that code from there also powers Chrome, the most popular browser today (and Opera) and numerous other projects.

And, like with KHTML, Google forked Webkit to create Blink. When you want freedom to shape a project as you please, that's what you do. If you can keep 'em up, forks are nothing to be ashamed of. Some of the most successful projects have been forks (and sometimes, they even merged back after many years, e.g. XEmacs).

But still, this is again all beside the point. You whole comment until here merely repeats: "This Apple is not that benevolent -- they only made WebKit open source because they based it on an open source project". Nobody argued otherwise, and it's now what's under discussion.

>3) energy efficiency is not something that only concerns the rendering engine. There is also the javascript engine, the plugins and so on. You're making it a little bit too simple there.

The javascript engine is also open source.

And you can check battery efficiency without the plugins -- which aren't any secret either.
>For me personally, the security aspect isn't even the reason I dislike curl | bash installers. There's no standard behaviour for curl|sh, and it re-introduces many problems that were solved by package managers decades ago.

Every time I've seen it used, curl | bash is simply a way to deal with the fact that the users all have different package managers (often with outdated software) and quite complicated workflows to get stuff set up with them because there were problems that the package manager didn't solve.

>Docker solved this problem.

Ironic. Docker is one of those applications. And they used to ask for it to be installed with a curl pipe.

They seem to have replaced it with what is effectively a script executed with human hands. Not really an improvement.