skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be happy if 90% of the "journalism" died out, and the rest remained as quality investigative content behind paywalls (which I would gladly pay for and already do for 2 sites) and government subsidized strictly informational reporting (sort of like we already have from NOAA, Orange alerts, emergencies, closures, etc.)
"It's a browser based video tool for rapid video creation" What does that mean, exactly? I consider my iPhone a tool for rapid video creation.
If you want your Perl files to be invisible, Acme::Bleach hides all of your source code by encoding it as white space: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=967004
But if you saw that would you assume it's an attempt to hide a message? How often do you open up webpages in your editor and inspect the line endings?

All steganographic methods can be detected if you start actively looking for them. The point is it's very hard to know what to look for, especially if you come up with your own coding which you do not share publicly (off the top of my head: using commas and full-stops to encode a bitstream in tweets.)
Arachne Rapid Web Development for Clojure – Reached It's First Founding Goal
More precisely: for example hotels typically have a public wifi for their customers, but you must get an individual login account from the reception. This protects the hotel or its service provider.

It is quite silly, of course, and is generally a little hassle with your hotel.
> "They'd be cutting off massive markets where internet connectivity isn't consistently good (most of the world)."

With all due respect, countries without decent Internet infrastructure are unlikely to be places where there are plenty of people with the spare cash to blow on a console.

Furthermore, Nintendo has said that the NX is not designed to be a replacement for the Wii U, meaning that Nintendo may still plan to sell the Wii U, and therefore would have a product to sell in emerging markets (in addition to their handheld devices).

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/15/nintendo-nx-n...

"Following a Nintendo investor briefing, officially translated here, president Satoru Iwata says that although the NX will be "a dedicated video game platform with a brand new concept," he does not "intend it to become a simple "replacement" for Nintendo 3DS or Wii U.""

Carrying on, consider the following points from the GFK Research Group leak:

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/rumored-nintendo-nx-spe...

"Connect with other Nintendo players around the world via the Nintendo Network"

"Gameplay flows between Nintendo NX console and Nintendo NX handheld device"

"Supports 4K/60fps video streaming"

"Gameplay graphics at 900p/60fps"

> "Sure, Nintendo are struggling to find their place in the home console market right now but they're more conservative when it comes to changing the distribution/sales model."

Nintendo have been slow to develop their online offerings, but they're increasingly working in that direction. Nintendo is also keen to get into the mobile gaming market, which a game-streaming platform would help with:

http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/17/nintendo-and-dena-announce...

Furthermore, even if such a move to a streaming, subscription-based service would be innovative for Nintendo, the sort of 'Netflix for gaming' approach is nothing new in the market. Aside from OnLive as mentioned before, Sony are already doing it with PlayStation Now. Nintendo can learn from earlier attempts in the market, they don't have to go in blind.

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/gaming/playstation-now-1213...

Lastly, if you believe some of the rumoured specs (which I personally think are mostly driven by wishful thinking), the NX is meant to be 3x more powerful than the PS4. That sort of power only makes sense if it's a streaming platform.
Languages shape and are shaped by the environment, by the way the speakers experiences the world. There's the example by Franz Boas, regarding the many words Inuit might have for different kinds of snow [1]. Their language, in a very utilitarian manner, evolved to that state; and, of course, Inuit people's perception of the world is shaped by the fact that "snow" is not a single nor simple concept (they don't see "snow", they see a particular kind of snow with its associated characteristics). Wouldn't using English be a disservice to them, in their environment?

Besides the kind-of evolutionary argument (which might be downplayed on a globalised world), you'd have to consider the history and culture which languages carry. There are e.g. many recipes in my mother tongue which are named from historical and social context; all this would be somewhat lost in translation.

Obviously you have a point and there would be a lot of advantages on standardising on a language. The great issue is then on weighting pros & cons. Or greatest, even: being able to even begin to consider the cons. Can we really have an objective measure of how much we, mankind, would lose by turning all languages except English in dead languages?

Anyway, it doesn't matter much as the biggest obstacle is obviously political, not cultural.

[1] which was said to be a hoax, but after all not so much: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/there...
I've always thought the UA header should just be removed. Sniffing is a bad thing and analytics on it are mainly used to preemptively decide not to use features that you should just use feature detection for (and for tools like Google Analytics comes from the js lib not the UA header anyway). Plus it's so many wasted bytes.
Why i first started using Noscript.
That seems ill advised, one of the benefits of btrfs is it obviates the need for lvm and mdadm.

I guess in your case you have a more stable raid5/6 opportunity, but you're losing many of the raid benefits present in btrfs natively. I'd also imaging it could be slower or introduce IO issues others haven't tested. Though I really have no idea, never seen anyone do that before.
Automatic upgrade of one of packages completely breaks network manager on ubuntu
Well that while your not looking(Put that on your LinkedIn .. Not looking)those crazy outlandish recruiter calls you say happen should be an alarm to your current company! Better keep you happy or your find something better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKHz7wOjb9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXWspo5hrc

Perhaps you could say that hooking an axle to a pulsejet is impractical, rather than impossible.
InDesign should read them I believe
Imagine windows movie maker or iMovie in the browser.
iOS Swift Books
Affinity Designer is really great for vector graphics, and exporting to raster. Super fast. Super easy to learn.

Their developers are very active. They have a beta available to owners. I've encountered a few minor bugs in their App Store version, downloaded the beta, and noticed it was fixed.
If I set

[build]
target = "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl"

in Cargo.toml and run cargo build --release

unused manifest key: build.target

What am I doing wrong?
If it's that important hire someone who can and pay them to fix it, job done, everyone happy, move on :)
Yes, my comment is for real.

I disagree that the language of choice should be Chinese or Spanish, because as far as I can tell more relevant content exists in English.

If however a standard language would be chosen and it was Spanish or Chinese, I would still be in favor of it.
ARRL Radio Designer ... it was great for designing complex wideband and narrowband filters. And it would run Monte-Carlo simulations that let you estimate yields based on the component tolerances.
Second this! I loved PSP and used it daily. When I lost the binary I hunted around for a replacement for ages and finally settled on Paint.NET. It's not as good but works well enough.
Detecting ImageTragick with Burp Suite Pro
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/4j6okc/detecting_im...
Well, I am glad they are moving over. Technically, it would be very hard to find people responsible for open Wifi in, for example, a hotel. Who would be responsible if Osama Bin Laden browsed something that is illegal? The hotel owner, the staff, the internet provider? And how about if the hotel is owned by a public company? The shareholders?

Just bullshit.
In this case, the programmer cannot reasonably expect that a concurrent read produces a meaningful result.

There are good reasons to use clean, abstract formal logic over brutish "engineering" that results in a myriad of unmaintainable "if x, y, and z, do this, but not if also a or b, then we do that."

That said, I agree that compilers should not needlessly optimize based on undefined behavior in cases where a sensible architecture-specific behavior can be defined (but turning a "read can produce any value" into a "read can produce high 32 bits from old write and low 32 bits from new write" isn't even worth specifying).
Both can be great cities and have different things to offer. I would try to visit both and see which one you enjoy more. TO is like a racial mixing pot, you get people from all over the world, so it has a pretty unique culture, but it's a pretty big city. Not a lot of outdoors, I didn't find people to be the friendliest. If you like living in a big city it might be worth it.

Vancouver is big, but more spread out. The downtown core isn't huge. It's in the Fraser Valley so it's beautiful pretty much no matter were you are. You have these bit mountains in the north and east. Not quite as multicultural, it's predominantly white/Asian(/Indian). I live in Delta which is a 35 minute drive from downtown with no traffic or closer to an hour wirh traffic. There is lots to do, especially if you like the outdoors.

Weather is pretty drastically different. TO has hot hot summers and cold cold winters. Expect a bit of snow but mostly it's just freaking cold. However, it's typically still nice sunny blue skies in the winter. Vancouvers winters are much more mild; we didn't get any snow last year where I live. It will get close to 0, but we play outdoor soccer year round so it's certainly bearable. Winters can feel long when it's just grey skies and rain though; part of living in a valley. Summer's are beautiful, hot and humid. Luckily there's no shortage is beaches and lakes to go cool down in.

Looking for anything in specific or does that help?
No, this is probably the only thing they did right. Getting early traction is important for many reasons.

- It gives you an opportunity to get early feedback from people interested in your product. If you can get an email you can talk to your users.
- It gives you some early KPIs and a limited, but important understanding of acquisition channels. If you can't find any one who is interested in your product as a concept, how will you get users?
- It motivates companies to get products out earlier.
- It helps when talking to investors to mention that you have 1,000 people on a waiting list.

I agree though, you always need to get the product to market.
> This iterative improvement by AI rating of genomes could be sped up by creating sperm and ova directly from embryo stem cells. This way we don't need to wait for a generation to pass to have the kids become parents.

You don't need to create sperm or ova to create a genome. That's adding layers of indirection. Bostrom/Sandberg should study biology instead of handwaving like that. It's much faster to forego some of those steps completely. They are so busy being excited about "you don't need to wait an entire generation" that they don't realize "you don't need a sperm nor ova to rate a genome".
If you're stuck on a OpenSSL version without ALPN, and don't want to deal with upgrading OpenSSL (or rather statically linking your web server to a newer release), consider using caddy[1]. It's a HTTP/2 web server written in Go, which comes with its own TLS library (crypto/tls) and thus doesn't have any dependency on OpenSSL. It even supports automatic deployment of a publicly-trusted certificate through Let's Encrypt.

[1]: https://caddyserver.com/
Maybe they want to show us the limitations? This makes it seem like they are not doing any fancy grammar parsing.
Heh, I have an issue filed in a repository of his too, but I had a suitable workaround.

As a maintainer of a major library myself, I completely concur with the article - while I don't have a baby, I am a long distance runner, as well as someone who directs albums of music. I also like to socialize as well, and every now and then I give talks (oftentimes traveling to give them), interview (even having excessive time lost to take home projects), and experiment with new technology or contribute to other open source projects.

I think one thing people need to do is help us help you. It saves us a lot of mental energy, as well as speeds things up. If you can, filing a pull request would be great too if you understand the parameters of the problem
A major problem with being a Perl developer is that nothing impresses me any more
Because your LinkedIn is optimized to make you look professional while the other social networks are not.
I wonder what kind of job opportunity it is that's both:

1) Worth following up on

2) Not worth the recruiter going to the trouble of finding your contact details through GitHub/your personal site.

It seems like the very lowest common denominator way of finding people, which would suggest that it would also have the lowest common denominator applicants, and the lowest common denominator jobs.

Much of this thread is 'What might you be missing out on' but I see developers who have chosen to own their own career identity and not federate it through a platform that every other attention seeking bozo is on doing just fine.
In fact, for much of the world, this "deposit a check" is definitely from last century. Instant transfer is reality in Europe, and even many countries in Africa and Asia operate mobile banking services where transfers happen right away.

The currency is not necessarily cryptocurrency; it can be "air-time".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
...or ranger [1], if you're into vi-like keybindings.

[1] http://ranger.nongnu.org/
This isn't really true. If you know the PSK and can capture the packets of the client associating with the AP, you are able to decrypt any further communication.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/8591/are-wpa2-co...
Large Synpotic Survey Telescope Data Management Developer Guide
As zanny said, cow presents an issue for transactional workloads (databases, vm images, etc...) as each write fragments the file, by nature of the process of cow.

btrfs can handle database workloads but you have to disable cow for them (which you can do at the file, directory, or subvolume level in btrfs). You would specify the nodatacow mount option, or chattr +C (file/directory).

The btrfs autodefrag is still rather new, and needs some work. I expect that could be the long term fix (manual defrag is fine now, but you wouldn't want to call it frequently on a db file), I'm not sure how ZFS handles the fragmentation, but I do know in the past ZFS observed similar issues (seems to have been mostly resolved). I should also point out that disabling cow doesn't really fully disable it, snapshots can still function, etc... however, I'm sure that once you start to use the other cow functions you might observe slipping performance due to fragmentation of these types of files.

https://blog.pgaddict.com/posts/friends-dont-let-friends-use...
https://bartsjerps.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/zfs-ora-database...
There are IrDA USB adapters for around $20.
I'm still using a phone with IrDA, several laptops too. The phone still does GSM data if I need it.
I've got a Psion5 recently, the software is very good. But the keyboard is not as good as it looks like and the screen lack contrast. But overall it's a good device.
See also: adding side channel data to JSON files with whitespace. http://stackoverflow.com/a/23275699/300224

Maybe the most controversial answer on StackOverflow.
A phone with a proper SSH client and a real keyboard; I have owned and loved (in this order) the Nokia E71 and N900, HTC Desire Z, Motorola Droid 4 and Photon Q. But now I am out of options, as there are no worthy successors to any of these devices. Modern phones and tablets are not about production, but only about consuming. A lot of thought goes into the output devices, but the only input device - the touchscreen - is not enough to get real work done.

I still find typing on a touchscreen cumbersome, especially entry of special characters is a hassle. This makes managing remote systems or programming very hard to do.
No MVP.
No talking to users.
No strategy.
No surprise they failed.

MVP - build an app with parent login, child login and a points system for chores.

Talk to users (parents) by having chat in the app.

Find how to acquire users cheap, retain them, and make them pay. Go for a bank partnership when it is a compelling business proposition. Banks like money, not startups with no profits and no users.
Would You Trust Tesla Autopilot with Your Life?
Pascal even let you index with non-numeric types, so you could have an array indexed by the characters a to z, for example.
A lot of ratings feel like the user could have a different perspective.

If you give 5 star to an erotic novel you can reasonably assume that the buyer will understand the genre and not compare it to Jane Austin. Technically Six Shades of Grey is a better erotic novel than Pride and Prejudice but that is a silly comparison to make.

A £300 laptop computer can be very good value for money and deserve 5 starts. But it may not be as good as a £500 machine with 3 stars. The problem is that people don't understand the product and buy purely based on the number of stars.
Related:

Scientists Talk Privately About Creating an AI (1956)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_Conferences
I believe System76 uses rebranded Clevos. I own a Sager which is also a rebranded Clevo and it has the worst build quality of any computer I have ever owned.
You make a couple of great points and I concede that their would surely be some friction losses.

However, my point is that I think the pros outweigh the cons in this instance and that humanity would be better off if everyone could communicate with everyone else.
Why the 7 year gap for stabilization? Especially after ext4 only took 2. Jusding from the timelines, btrfs is much more complicated and I'd guess more Linux users exposed more corner cases, but a 3.5x lengthening is substantial.
When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer
Oh yes, I absolutely loved the Desire Z (the other ones didn't quite make it to the European market). Haptic feedback is really important, and the little bonus features like the OK button/trackpad/notification LED were a great design.
Wow, I was reading yours and others comments and thinking: "it can't possibly be that bad". Then I opened it, and immediately came to the conclusion that yes, it really could.

What's really fascinating is that the presentation isn't even broken. Someone actually designed that mess and thought it was a good idea. Then, someone else looked at it and said: "that's great, I am going to use this for my presentation". What is even worse, this even happened more than once.

It's like authors positively despise their readers, since they obviously don't want them to be able actually consume their content.
Some event WLANs I've used had been set up to use WPA2 Enterprise, but accepting any user/password combination, giving everybody a different key. Bit more annoying to set up and connect to though, so probably not for general public APs. (+ explain that to customers. "No, really, just put anything in there. No, it doesn't matter, just do it.")
Linus ideal memory model is 'DWIM'; to him it is obvious what the compiler should or shouldn't do. When people have asked him to write down exactly the rules he either refused or handwaved it. Unfortunately it is still pretty hard to write a compiler that would exactly replicate Linus thought processes and he also might not appreciate the brain dissection required to do so.
+1 for the Kensington Expert Mouse, I have 3. The quality of the scroll ring is up for debate but the device overall is much better than anything else I've used.

I also miss the Logitech Trackman Wheel optical. It was cheap, light, and worked very well. I still have one for occasional use.
Good idea Mr. Trump, but how about a standard programming language that everyone agrees on first?
Who supports Donald Trump? The new Republican center of gravity
Title here slightly misleading depending on which definition of "deny" you use. The article's actual title is "Judge Sides With Technology Firms in Case Over Justice Department’s Gag Orders".
16:9, 16:10, potato, potato. Point was that said web devs could not be assed to consider that there was a world outside of Apple.
Gene Simmons: David Bowie's Death Was Tragic, Prince's Was Pathetic
Directory Opus (prior to DOpus 5 when it all got a bit "special"). Two panes, amazing file recognition, I've missed it ever since.
Lilian Garcia Rumors to Be Released by WWE, Reports Say
Please use to original title of the submitted article ("What Mark Suster Missed In His Blog Post Defending uBeam"), see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

EDIT: also see discussion about this topic currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11693184
Big Festival Brother? What summer music festivals are doing with your data
Diver finds ancient underwater city off Mafia Island, Tanzania
> But I would argue that's exactly why Didi's data is MORE valuable for autonomous driving modeling to be based off.

We are assuming Didi/China will allow Apple access to the data ...
I remember trying to look up documentation for nginx in its early days. Almost everything was in Russian, and with links and discussion boards also in Russian. That was an eye-opener for me, realizing how it feels when important software/internet information wasn't available in any of the languages I understand, and also that there really are huge parts of the internet that you normally don't see as a mostly-English reading person. Particularly Russian, Japanese and Chinese.
So instead of upgrading a library or the webserver you'd rather replace the webserver completely with a relatively new [1] webserver and redo all the configuration?

(edit: more positive wording)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9452606
That's a very good reason. I don't think it truly explains the shift, considering the larger context. They suffered similar and larger legal setbacks on data retention and they didn't change their position on that, they pursued it further.

Why are they willing to drop this so much more quickly? Is the legal argument stronger here? Are the law and order people just that much more powerful than the intellectual property people? Is there a larger compromise at play, where the CDU compromises on this issue and the SPD on another?
Food+Technology+is+Bumbling+in+Volatile+Labeling
I took a history of technology class and was shocked to find out how modern the turn of the last century was. In my head I guess I vaguely used to think electricity, radio, etc, was invented in the 1920s-1930s. I was shocked to learn stuff like electric street lighting being deployed in the. 1880s. And I never realized how extensively people relied on telegraph. Like there was a long time when it was an ingrained part of business communication like email is today.
>The human body does not literally require social interaction to continue operating. That's just silly.

I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about whether a human infant missing most of its brain and deprived of all social interaction, environmental stimulation, and physical activity would thrive and mature normally. It would not.

(Also, just for the record, there are things which aren't possible to do, no matter how many awesome engineers you have.)
Yet another case that makes me wish consoles had no Internet connectivity.
Similarly, the Vizor Handspring. I always popped Pimlico's Datebook onto it for better calendaring. My modern android smartphone is more capable and more fun to tinker with but is a worse phone than my old Nokia soapbar and a worse PDA than the Palm and Handspring.