skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tbh, I think that whilst the September 11 bombings might have actually helped the Saudi government's monetary interests through increased trade as a key Western ally, they certainly hurt their religious ones.

On the one hand Saudi-funded madrassas find themselves under a lot more scrutiny and a lot more difficulty in even opening in the West. On the other, those people most subject to the appeal of hardline Sunni Islamism the Saudis favour are also likely to be impressed by the success achieved by a charismatic radical whose principal religious objective is driving the House of Saud and their infidel allies out of their holy land, someone whose fatwas explicitly mention "appropriation of Saudi Arabia" as the worst of America's crimes. Especially when the ensuing "War on Terror" results in the House of Saud being drawn into an ever-closer alliance with the infidel American and firmly stuck on the wrong side of the clash of civilizations from the point of view of jihadis regardless of how much austerity their morality police impose and how many beheadings they carry out ostensibly in the name of strict religious observance.

Obviously al Qaeda appeals to the religious interests of some Wahhabist extremist Saudis like fifteen of the actual hijackers, and I'm sure there are plenty of individual Saudis who like to play both sides by becoming fat and rich as business magnates with government connections whilst funnelling some of those profits to extremist organizations just in case that happens to be their ticket to paradise. But I'm really not seeing the motivation for the actual Saudi government or intelligence services funding an organisation which actually represents a bigger existential threat to them than it does to the US, precisely because it appeals to segments of their public.

Of course, there's no secret they directly funded Osama Bin Laden before he fell out with them over their backing of American intervention in Gulf War, back in the 1980s when he was fighting the Soviet Union with the Afghan muhadjeen. But so did the other enemy he devoted the latter parts of his life to rallying the Islamic world against...
It's not, not to much of the general populate. This has been reinforced by decades of science fiction in which fingerprints or handprints get characters access to secure resources. It's also been reinforced by Apple's messaging about the fingerprint reader on recent iPhones: it replaces a pin or password, and so people think of it as a password as well.
A few times the author expresses a rule as, "you should always do ____, unless you can't," which I really like. Follow the rule just far enough, but never further. When you find yourself thinking, "yeah, I just can't bring myself to do that here..." trust yourself and code on!
I'm... fortunate in that respect.
That's the wrong way around though. It shouldn't be the case that there are consequences for me if someone else presents my fingerprint or SSN. They obviously aren't secrets, knowing them shouldn't be treated as authentication.

(I guess if you have a human watch someone use a tamper resistant fingerprint reader you have accomplished some degree of authentication)
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Tell to Mac users that suffer two changes of CPU family and handled the binary compatibility.
I hope to muster the level of clarity and pragmatism you show here if I have time to reflect upon it when my number is called.

Inspiring.
To be fair, Doom wasn't a waste by any metric.
Doom has had an history altering impact on 3D engines.
The huge advancements that came from the Doom and Quake engines have found their way into software that benefits society as a whole.
Firefox was released in November 2004.
So was Bill Gates. That didn't stop people from idolizing him.
I imagine it won't take them many AAA releases to have the numbers to see if this was a good idea or not. I'm fine with Amazon finding more ways to make prime worth it without taking away features from prime members or increasing membership cost.
Can somebody skilled in chemistry confirm the article's claim? Because if it is true, then this is a technical revolution. In most devices I own, the battery is usually the only thing that I need to replace at some point (which is especially unpleasant with Apple devices).
Perhaps, but the name Willis is not from the current owners, but simply one of the primary tenants. The previous owners threw in naming rights as part of the rental agreement.
Scott Wiener, the Supervisor who introduced the bill, also is far more in favor of density than many of the other supes. It's a harder sell here.
The Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion. I died.

Then I wondered why there are so many telco/media stadiums/pavilions/etc., and not more furniture stores in the mix.
> Place Mecca & Medina under international Muslim custodianship

Why would the Saudis accept that ? They wouldn't.
"Culture ship name" was the first thing I thought when I first read about Boaty McBoatface. :)
Pretty sobering stuff. I watched my mother die of cancer about a year ago. Sitting next to her, as she moved back and forth in bed, incoherent, was....well...pretty surreal. Honestly, I don't get this world we live in. We pop in from nowhere and then live in fear of popping out in an untimely way. I kinda get where this man is coming from. A lot of cancer therapy just seems like such a long-shot. And it's your life on the line (including your sanity). Bouncing around from doctor to doctor, treatment to treatment is enough to break people. I mean totally break people. Financially and spiritually. It didn't break my Mom. She always had hope actually and never wanted to die. But I think it would break me.
Why not a <span> or a <dingleberry> then? I think this is the key thing to discuss here.
Except you need to type in the password to decrypt.

So it still requires either storing that new secret (the password) somewhere (which defeats the purpose of using this technique to guard your secrets), or you need a human (which defeats the purpose of automated deployments).
I was quoting the FBI. You can tell them how crazy you think they are. Meanwhile, the 9/11 Commission Report itself indicated attackers were funded by and tight with Saudi elites. You might, based on official report, wonder why our Presidents and counterterror efforts are tight with the one country they said sponsored 9/11 and other terrorism. ;)
That's a false dichotomy. I do not believe everything should have a whimsical name nor do I believe they shouldn't.

(Except in the sense that variety is preferable, but I don't think that's what you're getting at.)
"user * password *" site:nasa.gov filetype:txt
Know any "greater cultural stories" that don't involve obviously false claims about the supernatural, obvious structural oppression of entire categories of people, or obvious rationalization of exploitative power structures?
Oh don't get me wrong, you have planning. You just do everything in a different order.

It is radically different because waterfall has distinct phases at a "global" level.

Planning(All planning upfront)
Implementation(Implement all the plan),
Testing(test it all)
UAT.

Agile has these but does them at a feature level. So the order is radically different.
Planning(Plan feature or small groups of features) Implementation(implement feature),
Testing(test the feature).

You do this over and over again for each feature or little iterations. You may have more loosely defined global plan, but it is not ridged and is expected change as the world changes.

Waterfall also encourages to complete parts of the website in distinct phases. Either horizontally or vertically. Complete all the Data access layer, or complete all of the "account functionality".

Agile takes small vertical slices. You may want to implement just the login for the account management, but leave the user profile pages until after some other more important vertical slice in some other area like checkout.
An interesting question for me is, what will be the effect on wellness startups doing things like Fitbit or Soylent? I have no idea.
Can someone explain the purpose of this page? I'm feeling a little out of the loop at the moment...
"When a new hire joins the federal government, existing employees complete over 60 tasks to bring them on board"

They sound down right proud of their bureaucracy.
does it have many other features beyond what is built into IDEA? I use the database features in IDEA every day and dont find too much lacking - but curious if there are other things I could be missing out on.
Fiction does more than entertain, the best fiction exercises our humanity in ways which might not be possible with nonfiction.

Nonfiction need not read like crop reports or scientific papers. The best analogy is to photography. Photography is by its nature nonfiction, and yet we recognize that all photographs are not equal. Some are beautiful, some are moving, some are dry and clinical. They all inform, but some do more.
I recently read Sapiens by Yuval Harari, and this is a recurring theme in the book. "Collective fictions" throughout human history, the different forms of these myths, and how they help a society grow, or need to change as one does grow.

One sort of related example is local religions versus universal, missionary religions. The majority of religions in history have been local and exclusive. Deities such as nature/animal spirits and the like, other tribes may have their own spirits in their own regions, and there is no need to convert people outside of your regions. But the most successful religions are ones are universal and missionary; they believe that their religion is affects everyone, regardless of whether they believe it (and is often the only true religion), and that for some reason, it is beneficial to convert others to your religion.

Ideas like money, capitalism, art, really anything not essential to the biology of humans, are such "fictions", and the most successful (from any evolutionary standpoint) societies are the ones that have or adapt the most effective "fictions" for their societies. I guess to put it in HN terms, "how scalable are your beliefs?"

A lot of the old ways we've lost touch with, or never had, aren't helpful to modern society. A hunting trip in which you become a man doesn't amount to much in a society with mega-farms, slaughter mills and processed foods that don't expire immediately. Instead, our equivalent goals would be like "get a degree, get another degree, get a job". You're an adult when you're old enough to vote, and so on.

There's a lot of other topics as well, but that's what stuck with me the most and my interpretation of it. It's fascinating to think about.
China shuts Apple's film and book services
This is pretty typical of SF. Try and solve a problem they are not well suited to solve at the city level. SF has a ton of Fog, building solar panels would not be as beneficial to the city as increasing density and allowing people to have roof-decks.

Another great example is homelessness. Homelessness is actually something which should be addressed at the Federal (for Veterans) and State (for people who should receive medical help) levels, not the city. Oh well.

The end result of this solar initiative will be to increase costs for the poor. The 'real' solution is for CA gov't to stipulate that all dwellings of X and Y quality that receive Z amounts of sunlight are required to offset A% of their annual energy consumption with Solar/wind energy. You can either build it on your own home or buy a share in a solar/wind farm.
They are working hard towards making Firefox (and every other web product) faster and more efficient, Servo.

I'm pretty sure Firefox will be faster than any other browser once Servo is used inside Firefox instead of Gecko, check this out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11175258
> is more secure with snap/snappy because they are sandboxed (to some extend).

In a press release. Yes it is more secure but when running on a desktop with X11 will have same issues as before with X11.

Imagine a press release for 16.04 that all of the sudden starts going into details about X11 vulnerabilities. Who does that?

I am can see refuting a white-paper where Ubuntu makes detailed claims about security guarantees under certain threat models but this seems like a cheap shot to me.

Moreover under this model you can shoot down any product. "Tor provides privacy" -- "Ah no it doesn't, here are more details". "The new JDK is faster than the old" -- "Wrong! Here is a benchmark where it shows it is slower". And so on.
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𝕨𝕨𝕨.𝕖𝕝𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞 𝕨𝕨𝕨.𝕖𝕝𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞 𝕨𝕨𝕨.𝕖𝕝𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞

http://www.elfinite.com/

Full text: https://goo.gl/4gxRmd

PROBLEM:

We are flooded with content and staying up-to-date with topic we are interested in is getting really hard.

I am extremely interested in design. There is no single website that I can visit to stay completely up-to-date with design.

I need to visit dribbble, behance to see which graphics are the most voted for today = what are the current trends. I need to visit designernews.com, reddit.com to see what are the most voted articles about design. Then I should go to sidebar.io and check out the links there, and finally I also should visit medium.com to check what are the trending design articles today.

It may take an hour or more to do all this but only then can I be sure that I am truly up-to-date with design.

SOLUTION:

With Elfinite we want to significantly reduce the time we have to spend to stay up-to-date with the topics that matter to us.

Elfinite continually collects links from the most popular online content providers (i.e. YouTube, HN, NYT) and checks the number of shares (total number of likes + shares + comments) on fb.

Finally, it rates each link by applying our algorithm (publishing time + growth number + number of shares ). The highest rated links are then published on the main page in the appropriate category.

ABOUT US:

There are two people working on this project right now. I am the programming guy, and @brtkbrtk is responsible for product management.

WHY WE ARE APPLYING:

First, we need money for AWS and marketing. Second, it would be great to learn more from folks who have built great tech businesses.

PRIOR WORK:

I was a manager at COMARCH SA (5500+ emp.) where we were developing teleradiology solution: https://teleradiology.comarch.com/. I was fully responsible for this project.

𝕨𝕨𝕨.𝕖𝕝𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞 𝕨𝕨𝕨.𝕖𝕝𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞 𝕨𝕨𝕨.𝕖𝕝𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞
It's more likely than you think.
Global Warming Feels Quite Pleasant
The replies from the D3 community are inspiring: such a patient and helpful group of people.
OK, I just have to ask... what are you developing that it deserves the project title of "_pergatory"?!?
This is not just Obama, Hillary, and obviously the Bush families who have had long ties with the Saudi dinasty. This isn't a left vs right issue, most politicians in US are in bed with the Saudis.
I don't get it. As an incentive to sign up for Prime it makes no sense; Prime needs to offer me things I can't get elsewhere (or at least not for the same price), not return to me things that I can easily get elsewhere. I just spot-checked Amazon US's price for GTA 5, 39.88 [1], and it's the exact same price at Wal-Mart [2], so it's not an exclusive deal or something. (Nor did I spend several minutes hunting for a comparable price; it was the third hit on Google for "Grand Theft Auto 5 PS4" for me. Google being what it is now, YMMV.)

I don't mean "this is a bad idea". I mean "I don't get it". What's the point?

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-PlayStation-4/dp/B0...

[2]: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-PS4/41049186
To be honest people shouldn't be complaining they can't get it from Amazon, but getting it from someone else

It's that simple
You're right of course disagreement should be explained better.

But he is responding to a one-line meme whose only purpose is to establish learned helplessness and end discussion that massively oversimplifies a very complex issue and is essentially copy pasted in any article here that even touches on politics. It gets quite exhausting engaging, having long in depth discussion about how this view is overly simplistic on every single thread only to have it appear again tomorrow, exactly the same as before.

I think downvotes and silence is the correct move here.
This might make sense, if all of your users are located near your web servers and you can comfortably handle the load of all the requests hitting your web servers.

If the user making the request is in Australia, for example, and your web server is in the US, the user is going to be able to complete many round trip requests to the local CDN pop in Australia in the time it takes to make a single request to your server in the US.

Latency is one of the main reasons TO use a CDN. A CDN's entire business model depends on making sure they have reliable and low latency connections to end users. They peer with multiple providers in multiple regions, to make sure links aren't congested and requests are routed efficiently.

Unless you are going to run datacenters all around the world, you aren't going to beat a CDN in latency.
It's absolutely a good thing. We need some of our cells to die as our tissues develop, society needs people to die in order to develop. A society without death would be a stagnant hell.
It is majorly self defeating. A transaction on Amazon has very little friction, because they already have your payment details, you have a history and you know the quirks of the site.

By forcing people to consider alternatives, it is making people experience that initial friction elsewhere, but once they are setup there the friction is less. It won't take very long to discover other retailers have better prices, better shipping and less quirky sites.

Essentially this is nice gift to Amazon's competitors. Amazon will find out just how "sticky" those competitors are, but this stills seems silly.
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That is not correct. I was given five extra years by diligent medical work, expert surgeons and great after care. That didn't come from nowhere.
I'm pretty sure I had > 1024x768 graphics and have used nothing but Netscape/Seamonkey (because inertia) since the mid '90s.
Weird but not surprising -- not that different from HBO / netflix negotiating exclusive streaming rights to content. Spotify and youtube's 'deal' departments are more important (and more controversial) than their coders / PMs.

If you don't like this, steer clear of strings-attached content platforms.
Actually, accounting software doesn't say this. It has a disclaimer of 'no guarantee of being fit for purpose' but it doesn't have a self-dismissable line about 'you agree not to use us to do tax calculations'. If a lawyer wrote that, you should ask another lawyer.

And exactly what data are you trying to pull? Did you know there are people who have lived in the USA for decades who are not citizens? Are you really conflating citizenship with residence? Wow.
I think that attitudes like this are part of what allowed Holmes to con so many people for so long. As well-intentioned as it is, your hope for the young women of tech to be inspired has nothing to do with the veracity of Theranos' claims. A lot of the breathless fluff pieces on Theranos focused on Holme's gender instead of the technology.
Only the Feinest?
Sysprep is Microsoft's System Preparation Tool for Microsoft Windows operating system deployment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysprep
My two takeaways from this article are that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that C++ is a horrible mess. Many of these examples I found less than beautiful, but hey, to each his own. And I feel bad for the author and anyone else who has to work in C++, since it forces you to choose between genericity and readibility. Either your code is rigid, or it's a bloated, unreadable mess.

Here's some "eyebleach" for anyone else who might be a little sad after reading this; I've been learning Haskell and recently came across a definition of a Fibonacci function that I found eminently beautiful.

fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)
The closest point in a comet’s orbit to the Sun is called “perihelion”. The most distant point is called “aphelion”.
The trouble with the Apple Watch's repair process
So the real-wages economy is still in recession, I bet.
Yes, animals also shit in the woods and don't wipe themselves. At some point we realized we didn't have to do that anymore. We found more practical and hygienic ways to take care of business. Our burden now is to move away from exploitative behaviors, whether of animals or other humans, as much as possible, to progress morally as a species. To feel guilt, an animal would have to have a moral capacity.
That is nothing like "you agree not to use us for this purpose". That is "go ahead and use us but we could be wrong".
That's a standard challenge if you try to log into your FB account from a new machine / IP address that geolocates somewhere you don't typically seem to be. Of course, that's pretty ironic since your Tor exit could be anywhere, but it's not specific to Tor anyhow. I have seen the same behavior using VPN, too.
And yet, that hasn't stopped them in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1...
I'm a car guy, the type that loves manual transmissions, etc. My 'brand' is Toyota/BMW. I scoffed at electric cars as being even worse than an automatic, all that changed when I stepped into a Tesla.

I agree that Tesla's are an economic substitute for Toyotas but when you step into a Model S as a car guy you know it's different.

There's only two reasons I didn't buy it 1) I love road trips and there's one supercharger station in my province, and more importantly 2) I couldn't afford it. Tesla's are like BMWs you know they aren't that reliable, are really expensive, but there's nothing like driving one. Like BMW, it's a smiles per gallon car you buy it because when you step on it, it goes, not because it gets great gas milage.
https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database/ gives some more tips.
Which network and which latency? My local network runs audio way below the Haas limit - I can record over the network without incurring any latency penalty.
I like how the JS was slow to load and all the numbers said zero for quite a while. Zero users, zero experience but download now!
On the Difficulty of Learning to Program (2002)
I heard that internally, China has a very robust internet infrastructure, and it is just connecting to things on the outside that are broken
I don't like the idea of needing to execute a file to decrypt it. That could be abused by someone, adding malicious code to the decryption code.

Of course you could inspect the file, but that's extra work which many people won't bother with.

I guess what's really needed is a simple encrypted format that's easy to decrypt without needing to worry about command line arguments. For example, people are generally satisfied with .tar.* formats and not looking for self extracting compressed formats.
It's not sincere anger. It's trolls who are trying to find ways to annoy and provoke people. There is no point in arguing with them logically, they'll just continue in a different direction.
Reading the quotes from this page give enough of an indication that there is more than just a connection between the hijackers and Saudi diplomats as was shown in this release, but specifically financing and involvement from well known figures at a seemingly significant level:

https://28pages.org/quotable/

> When asked by 60 Minutes if the 28 pages include specific names: “Yes. The average intelligent watcher of 60 Minutes would recognize them instantly.”
Or you use a CDN in front of your site, caching the content under your domain. But certainly something to be aware of.
I had to add
0.0.0.0 fpdownload2.macromedia.com
to my HOSTS file because Skype kept wanting to install Flash Player.