skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, of course you can make a living out of desktop applications. In the echo chamber of HN you could maybe get the idea that they are no longer relevant, but out in the real world millions of people need to do real work, but don't have a stable connection to the Internet.

Second, If you decide to create a desktop application, then make it native. I must strongly advise against using any of these "web frameworks" e.g. Electron, QTwebkit etc. to create desktop applications. They are slow, bloated and probably contain many security holes because of the huge complexity of browser engines.

They only exists because many developers don't know anything else than web development, instead of learning new skills they created this abomination. One earlier post said that minumum an i3 was required for the apps to remain snappy, think about it, that is just ridiculous especially in a time where PC's are upgraded much less frequently than they used to be. I would NEVER install an application created using a web framework.

I have good experinces with Rust and Golang when creating native applications for multiple OS.
Those are all valid points. Is it being suggested that Tor should attempt to blacklist sites/networks, and/or block auth headers, that allow logins to compensate for ignorant people?
Breaking rules to set up a sham business that scams and steals is one thing (and often the reason the rules exist). Breaking rules to create a product that most people like and find better than the alternative is completely different.

Unfortunately many of the laws created in the name of "consumer protection" do little to protect anything but the entrenched interests that lobbied for the laws.
"Zenefits says it regrets any factual exaggerations that occurred under prior leadership."

Nice bus you have there, Zenefits! But is it really big enough that all your problems will fit under it?
> What if it were liberal news?

If you read the article, its quite possible that it was also liberal news, depending on individual curators. Given other FB interventions I've seen, I'd be surprised if, like everything else at FB, the news moderation wasn't just stunningly inconsistent with rampant suppression of left, right, and center according to individual and essentially unaccountable whim.

FB is tolerably usable for basic circle-of-immediate-friends social functions without excessive interference. As far as public communication, news, and advocacy, well, its there, and there's enough people that come to it for that that it can't be ignored, but its fairly horrible for it, not so much from a systematic one-sided distortion but more absolute caprice.
Because the complaint there is closer to "wow, we're paying the most and we're not even close to the top" rather than saying the quality of care is objectively bad.

And we're a good bit worse than 11th there.
In the US, the insurance industry has essentially driven building and construction safety for more than a century. For example electrical devices are required by building codes to be listed and Underwriter's Laboratories [UL] is one of the most common listings. Even further, local governments frequently build new fire stations in order to secure insurance rate reductions for local industrial uses. Historically, the National Fire Protection Association [NFPA] was organized by insurers and created requirements for fire sprinklering risky occupancies [where "risky" is to a non-obvious degree about the fire hazard a building imposes on neighboring buildings].

Anyway and although I am not a lawyer, local governments receive high levels of judicial deference in matters absent clear statutory requirements particularly in matters of staffing under the tautology that government make decisions based on politics. Without clear regulatory guidance such as state or Federal employment law, the only place due process would enter the equation is in the form of an individual or collective employment contract.
The supplement works best for those with an MTHFR gene defect, where the body does not create enough 5-MTHF (L-methylfolate). I have c677t heterozygous type mutation and I take 5mg of a generic brand. It helps with methylation process which is very complicated, so I won't try to paraphrase. There is a decent amount of information online you could read up on, though. I would not suggest 5-MTHF for people who do not have the genetic defect, though I imagine a very small dose per day may be helpful, but then again I am no doctor.
See https://gist.github.com/MatthiasWinkelmann/d1f19a11d539e609f... for something quick&dirty.

Note that I don't want to claim that Swift is faster than C in general/real life/anything but a few microbenchmarks. But the two just being within an order of magnitude makes a really strong case for Swift, I believe.
An open-source equivalent to VirusTotal, built for scaling, is IRMA by Quarkslab.

http://irma.quarkslab.com/
I always use uBlock's "element picker" to block out trending topic lists as I find them somewhat manipulative.

1) I do sometimes suspect biased curation 2) They can be astroturfed 3) Even if spontaneous there's a virtual mob mentality that comes with trending topics.

Trending topic lists are ok if they're on their own separate page but when you have it upfront the subtext is "this is what you must care or know about".
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I read that as the "The gnomic era arrives" which seemed pretty reasonable o me.
worth noting that this same process works if they did other transforms to the images (like blurring instead of tilting)

if you blur license plates or text, people will still be able to read it!
I'm not in that industry, I'm sure my ideas aren't very good.

* massive step up in grant funding to front-load R&D costs so they're paid by the time the drug is out, or

* worldwide medical R&D fund, bounties for individual re-searchable issues, or

* move private R&D to universities, have profits gained pay back R&D, send any extras to researchers, and shutter R&D aspect of private medicine

At least I'm trying to think of alternatives, and not just trying to shoot other commenters down
Miller is like sed, awk, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV and tabular JSON

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066742
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Brazil crisis: Rousseff impeachment vote 'annulled'
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Then modify the claim to say "some Linux kernels/distros" instead of Linux as a whole. Meanwhile, thanks to CompSci, there's Linux's (eg Criswell's SVA-OS) and FreeBSD's (eg CheriBSD on CHERI) that run with way more security than OpenBSD. They push the state of the art. So, it's a mixed bag.

OpenBSD is actually no different. The developers care a lot about security and quality. Yet, the mere fact that I see OpenBSD desktops in Google images running shoddy applications shows many OpenBSD users make similar tradeoffs to what you described of Linux camp. It's just the kernel and select userland that gets their attention to quality due to limited staff (and their preferences).
Except it is illegal for employers and insurance companies to do such discriminatory practices.

With new technology comes new responsibility - we shouldn't shy away from the tech because we don't want the burden of enforcing regulation.
If there was a shortage of supply, they would.
I prefer text to video, but I assume this is about Donald Trump's campaign to replace Matz?
Feynman tries to explain the absurdity of trying to ask questions which if divided down to their most simplistic forms can't give binary 'yes' or 'no' answers.

The issue with the 'why' questions is at the bottom most place in the the 'why' stack you need to have an axiom/postulation or at least a plain assumption, without which you can't explain the subsequent 'why' or 'how' questions.

Now this a classic trick in trying to prove science as useless and propel pseudo science concepts among crackpots.
You've clearly never worked with ad networks. Even Google serves up malicious ads every once in a while.
You could put some of the 'people in charge' in jail.. then the company would not be harmed, but the leadership in the future would hesitate to be so caviler.. it would give you the 'reform' part of punish and reform that is supposed to happen in the justice system..
Right. Certainly there aren't any liberal blogs or "news" organizations that sensationalize headlines or downright make things up... It happens both ways and is unfortunate.
"The prisons that I'm aware of that are looking deeper into video visitation are interested in its potential to increase visit frequency and virtual, remote, visitation. It makes the stigma and difficulty of visitation easier (on the visitor) which gives a prisoner a visitor that may not have had one otherwise."

The kickbacks, sorry, commissions, that the prison gets from these systems probably has little to nothing to do with that decision... distance is really the only reason to -augment- the visitation system, to my mind. Augmentation I'm fine with, reduction of existing visitation, not so much. It's a little condescending too - "We're reducing visitation and increasing paid video visitation, but it's to make you more comfortable, and not have to be around other prisoners".

I somewhat DO think it's the actual motivation of the prison system, or at least parts of it, which is why you see these same companies lobbying FOR three strikes laws, lobbying FOR mandatory minimums, lobbying AGAINST legalization of marijuana because, in their own words, these things increase numbers of convicts in beds.

I'm also of the thought that the strength of will of people who come into the prison system with altruistic goals to fight a suffocating cynicism of grim reality can only be found in a minority.
Interview with Peter W. O’Hearn, recipient of the 2016 Gödel Prize
I must have lost track of the law that said that all things must be monolithic in their nature. Facebook is a connector of people that uses news to keep people interested an on the site.
Evolution IS only after sex.
Because lay-people call them windmills.
Typically you'd avoid subjective analysis in 5 why's so transform traitor into person and too much into empty string and in the third answer it should probably have "was perceived by Snowden as the most likely"
It's not bad, but it doesn't seem get the hint if you don't care about something, even you go out of your way and click the "No interest" option. Clicked that 20 times for a channel, it still showed me suggestions from them.
Slightly off-topic, but it annoys me when Windows filename conventions (e.g. a ".jpg" suffix) are used in lieu of a format's name (e.g. JPEG). Especially when such names are short, well-known, etc.

If, for example, I saw an article titled "Parsing HTM with BeautifulSoup", I'd be a little wary of the content.
I applaud you for taking the initiative to continuously improve the system you're responsible for. These kind of values seem to be hard to find these days.

Serious question, do you also enjoy working on/tinkering with old cars?

I have a few data points where I've found that people who do enjoy working on/messing with cars are also the same kind of people who do what you do. If this is true, it's something you can look for in interviews.
Although the food pyramid as originally designed was modified at the request of food industry lobbyists out of fear it would hurt sales.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/invented-foo...
Manhattan software deployments [Twitter]
The Inflatable Transpose Tree: a highly compact data structure
Yeah, Airborn OS is supposed to be a whole operating system, but it has the classic problem of having not enough apps. But, apps written for Firefox OS can run on it, which in turn are not much more than normal web apps.
Out of curiosity: what was the interest rate on your credit card, and what was the rate after you refinanced your CC debt through Lending Club?
Moore’s Law, Battery Innovation – Stop with the False Comparison
`Wives on Strike’ makes N60M at box- office
First demo of Viv, the next generation AI assistant built by Siri creator
You can't know everything about someone's past and past actions don't necessarily dictate future actions, but to correct you slightly: Conrad says he failed out of Harvard, but then later returned to finish an arts degree in Chemistry.

I believe Harvard has the highest pass rate of any university (except, perhaps, diploma mills), at 98%. Using a Harvard degree as overriding credentials is a misstep.
Founders and early employees own common stock, so they won't get paid until all the investors got at least their money back, which means founders and early employees could easily end up with little
A blind drunk man was jaywalking and was hit by a distracted and inexperienced driver and died. Why did he die? There likely isn't a singular root cause. There are 5 potential singular root causes, but they are a subset of the 5-factorial potential combinatorial root causes.

I agree that solutions before problems is bad, but the five whys is problematic simply because it promotes the idea of singular root cause which is almost inevitably a fallacy when analyzing complex systems. There are often conceivably millions of overlapping and/or interacting causes to an observable problem. Sometimes, trying to boil causality down to a single item is merely missing the point, but very often it is much more problematic. Unintended consequences from solutions derived from improperly attributed singular root causes can be terrifying.
China rules that iPhone knock-offs are OK, Facebook ones are not
Traveling Salesman Problem Visualization [video]
I guess "regulation" was the wrong word because that gets into the legal aspect of it; I meant purely the programming side, "we won't give you this certificate unless our web app's counter for you hits 52." "Oh, well, I'll make something that clicks your app's counter for my employees!"

Obviously, yes, this fell foul of the actual regulations, which were not "the web app's counter hits 52" but rather "you need to spend 52 hours looking at this stuff."
I think a and c could be the same. Why not believe it?
I wouldn't say "no accountability checks." The article references instances where the curators were instructed to boost non-trending stories. So, they are being actively managed. And, presumably can be replaced easily if their curating deviates from Facebook's wishes.
The only thing lacking for me on OpenBSD is it doesn't run Wine. Otherwise I would jump to it in a heartbeat...
I hear what you're saying. For my part, security and privacy are very practical concerns for me...the aren't just an abstract ideal:

When my father-in-law bought a computer from Costco a year ago, it was full of malware from the start. He didn't care about the spyware--it was the constant popups, and the prompts to enter credit card info and login info that was the most worrisome. When my 'mom' sent me an IM message from her Hotmail account, claiming to be somewhere in Europe and needing emergency money, I had to call her up (she was not in Europe), get her to rotate her passwords on a bunch of accounts, work with her work IT team to investigate the security breach, etc. I've had one of my personal OpenBSD servers sucked into a DDOS zombie army (did I mention I'm a security newb?) and had to wipe the thing, rebuild, and ponder my mis-configuration sins. Security is hard enough (for me anyway) as it is without starting on a less than ideal foundation.

Criminals, for the most part, are (just) trying to steal money from people I care about...and when they're lucky enough not to lose their money, it can still cost a lot of time.

States have power over life and death, and there are plenty of examples in the US and elsewhere of bad people in government abusing their power to the detriment of relatively powerless people (and giving all the good people in government a bad name). I don't want to live in a police state, where saying the wrong thing over email can lead to bad things happening to me. We're not there yet (in the US), but we're not pointed in the right direction either. I think FOSS, secure software has a positive, important role to play. It cannot answer the larger political questions, but it can help, if only to buy us time to have the debate before the abuses get too far.
EDIT: No sir, there is no such law that said that all things must be monolithic in their nature.

So, distort stories to keep eyeballs of main customers (younger hence more liberal) on Facebook, for the sake of earning more ad dollars?

I think the younger customers deserve more than that? Should give more credit to the younger generation no?
Interesting, but "pay after your sales exceed $100/month" or something similar or percent based payment would be even more interesting.
I am literally doing the same thing right now, with my tax returns.. Anxious for the end of this month, when the first payments are due..
What do you mean by different level of retard? You mean it's easier to shoot yourself in the foot with Obj-C?
That's a 10x programmer at work, you filthy commoners :)
It's because the evidence turns out to be real (ostensibly), they just fabricate how they obtained it.

They get information which leads to an arrest. Once they get the arrest they construct an alternative explanation for how they got the original information in order to avoid scrutiny about how they originally got the information (such as the Sting Ray).

The information they got from the Sting Ray is, ostensibly, true/actionable but the Sting Ray itself is questionably un-constitutional. So instead they create a fake evidence trail leading to the information they got from the Sting Ray in order to explain any and all information actually obtained from a Sting Ray.

Like someone else said, it's kind of like evidence laundering. "How we got this is bad, so instead let's create a fictitious string of events to add legitimacy to it."
Hey, I noticed that I need to sign into google to make an account. Does this require a google account?
Don't get me wrong – I'm a big fan of Objective C, and I think it gets a far harder time than it deserves.

That said, Swift feels similar while being more productive:

- Lots of nice syntactic sugar to reduce noise
- Optionals (and chained calls) which do much the same
- Type inference!
- A REPL. Pretty amazing.
- Bounds checking

lots more nice features too.
Isn't the author essentially proposing using octrees [1] or similar, which I think is a standard approach at least for ray tracing?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octree

Edit: ah, I see the proposal is to compile specific shaders for different regions of the screen based off octree-like data.
If you're wrong about something you can just say it. Just say you were wrong.
I'm a UX+UI designer with experience in early stage startups and marketing, looking to partner up with someone who wants to launch SaaS products :)
In the video the CEO says roughly people should have a right to 50-100L of clean water but not the right to fill a swimming pool because there isn't always enough for everyone to do that, which seems not unreasonable.
Perhaps Facebook was suppressing "news" items contradicted by empirical reality, and this policy disproportionately affected conservative positions.
I get the distinction, but there appears to be a deliberate direction to make Swift more portable. Thus, I was curious if that effort might include something UI related in the future. The interest level would certainly spike up if something were available.
The one who suggested the compatibility defense for fair use was the appellate judge, so I'd say it has at least some chance of working.
So what's better in that case -- ammo?
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuIkL23Bsb8
I certainly have the laugh :)

And was really, one of the best villains I've ever seen in any game/movie. Intentionally poisoning everyone, for expediency, is disgustingly evil.
Dropbox drops perks
By the same logic, African-American never comes up without race being a significant part of the context.

I'm mostly surprised because "African-American" is a mouthful compared to just "blacks", so I'm suspicious that in common language it is somehow limited only to racists.

"Blacks" is also more accurate if you just want to refer to people by skin color (for whatever damn-fool reason).
How  Stripe Is Challenging and Changing the Financial Industry
The complication is that "wrongdoing" is in the eye of the beholder. Is Uber committing wrongdoing? The taxi companies certainly think so. Many municipalities think so. A lot of folks on Hacker News think so.

But the folks who had a few too many beers and missed the last Caltrain and would otherwise drive home drunk if Uber didn't exist? The innocent folks that would otherwise have been killed by a drunk driver if Uber didn't exist? The folks who drive for Uber to pick up some spare cash in their spare time, or the ones who do it because they can't find any other income and would otherwise be destitute? The folks who drive for Uber to meet interesting new people? The Uberpreneurs who pitch their wares to a captive market for the duration of a ride? They all benefit significantly from Uber's existence.

That's why this "get big fast and then hope you can avoid the consequences for your wrongdoing" strategy exists. The consequences will oftentimes not be known at the time an idea is conceived. Sometimes they will be much, much worse than is apparent at the time (look at the environmental pollution and global warming caused by heavy industry), while sometimes they will be a lot better (look at the liberalization and toppling of many totalitarian regimes since Facebook and Twitter came out). Oftentimes they will be both worse and better at the same time; someone killed in a revolution has clearly suffered, while someone who can open up a business that would previously have been shuttered by the government has benefitted.
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++i and i++ have their uses. Just because it is confusing to you doesn't mean it is confusing to others. There are things about swift that are confusing to me, but I don't out right say that it has to go.

Chalk this one up to shit hacker news says.
I think its more like:

Answer Why(Answer question) {
if(validDivisibleQuestion(question){
return Why(question);
}
}

I guess this is how our mind handles stuff too, and because of the stack issues is why working things on papers works better than doing it in mind.
It really bothers me that acceptable forms of protests are now: intimidation(1), harassment(2), and subversion(this).

If your cause is just, isn't a non-violent protest enough? Speaking about it, voting with your dollar, etc?

1) http://gizmodo.com/okcupid-tells-users-not-to-use-firefox-be...

2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
I ran across this the other day. Looks interesting. Does anybody know the general difference in approach between HBSD and OBSD? They both seem to be trying to achieve roughly the same thing (a security-focussed BSD).
I fail to see an actual problem with this.