skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the thing to be clear about it that this is not some high and mighty ethical challenge to Gawker or in defence of privacy (cough cough Palentir). This is petty revenge writ large by a billionaire.

If it was about principle why was he hiding his actions? This interview is a pure PR exercise because his involvement was revealed.

The whole story is a sorry mess.
These are words of wisdom, let it be! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1PtyYCrZQ
Sorry to be that guy, but the fact that it is built in Electron is not a "core feature". It does not benefit the end user in any way
> want more affordable housing

Then they should support as-of-right construction. Mandating affordable housing doesn't actually increase its availability if a developer's plans to build affordable housing keep getting shot down.
Having links that used to be hotlinks no longer be hotlinks is a dark pattern; also URLs that look like hotlinks (ending in .jpg or similar) but aren't. I'd argue that serving ads sometimes but not always is a dark pattern (particularly if they use cookies or similar to never serve ads to the original uploader).
ENLIGHT SECURES SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT FUNDING £1.2 MILLION
Now they just need to try folding some paper 7 times, squash some playdoh animals and set up a YouTube channel and the thing will pay for itself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11694819
the sex tape was reprehensible but outing? Aren't we like ten to twenty years past that point? Its not really different than the press publishing cheating stories these days.
Major Danish University, want students to install Spyware to attend their exams
Still waiting for the KnightRider feature where you can talk to your watch to have the car rescue you, i mean pick you up :)
Programmer's log: Throttling outgoing requests
Visualizing City Similarities Using Sammon’s Mapping and Voronoi Cells
It scales
Thoughts on TTIP
using reddit on mobile when viewing imgur content was horribly painful with their app spam covering the top
Thank you, I'm going to try and use it in my project then.
>I just don't believe you can force a language on people.

What about all of the American continent?
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Counter-argument: Wikipedia.
> While we're at it, let's demand the end of free TV, free email providers, free forums, and even youtube.

If you have a sustainable business model for such a thing, knock yourself out.

If you're just making it free for a couple of years to suck people in before you ratchet up the (not necessarily monetary) cost then yeah, we can do without that.
I think I just paid the regular .com amount from when I first registered it 10 years or more ago.

My surname also ends in BY so I recently bought a Belorussian domain for it so my website is [firstname].[partofsurname].by and email address is [firstname]@[partofsurname].by
Propaganda (movie, 2012, 96min)
The Mandelbrot set in JavaScript
They still provide a 'free to the user at point of use' service. The service they provide doesn't include hotlinking by other site hosts, that's been normal since about 2000 IIRC.
For the hipster in all of us (a productivity hack)
It only uses slightly more memory than Eye Of Gnome. If that's the price I have to pay for desktop apps with a better UI, I'll pay it.
Cool stuff. There's an open-source TCP stack available in Verilog on OpenCores[0], but that is actually C code compiled to Verilog using Chips[1]. Had no idea this kind of stuff existed, but then again, it has been a while since I've done anything in VHDL.

[0]: http://opencores.org/project,tcp_socket
[1]: https://github.com/dawsonjon/Chips-2.0
Forgive my ignorance but are there biggest names in tech near your place? You should pitch remote work against your local market not the best companies in the world.
That said, remote work can be hit or miss. I started working remotely for a company I worked before when my SO had to move for a PhD. We switched countries and I can't wait when we come back, I just miss home. 6 more months and I'm back. I had better and worse periods, overall I'm quite happy I did it but glad to be back in the office soon. In a regular company, when you're one of the few remote workers, you're always THAT remote guy. I guess its much better in companies with robust, mainstream remote culture.
I attended a conference where young Chinese PhD was giving presentation and nobody could understand what he was saying. Finally one of the organizing professors interrupted him and requested that he should speak English. "But I'm speaking English." he replied with desperation in his voice.

He knew his stuff and could write and read English well, but it was very hard to understand what he was saying.
Society does not reward you for what you've learned though, they reward you solely on credentials.
And nixops which allows you to build everything locally (or delegated to a build machine) and push configuration to multiple machines.
Moving to the Latin alphabet must have been quite a shift as well.
How ‘Experience Design’ can create a more holistic ‘User Experience’
But the new benchmarks say MySql is faster, why should I use that instead of this image viewer ?
Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round
Microsoft Edge Team talks about the new fetch API
Surfaces commerciales  ralentissement dans la construction en 2015
Overfishing

Less amount of economically valuable species of fishes = increase in squids, jellyfishes and unedible species. Nothing really new here.
The car should react to something closing up rapidly in front of it, which is not the case in that situation. Seems like just a poor implementation.
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> what does it say about our justice system when a millionaire needs a billionaire to help seek justice
> "Yea that's a good way of handling things"

That's my view in a nutshell. Despite our reputation as supposed money grubbers perpetually on the side of Big Business I've yet to meet any libertarian who thinks the poor are less deserving of justice, or as we say here: 'a fair shake'.

The thing is a codebase overflowing with cruft.
The Immortality Hype
Plan9 never really was built for clusters. Rather it was it built to unify the configuration and administration of all of your computers.
Is there a roadmap for what is currently planned for the standard library? A lot of language choice these days comes down to what high-quality batteries are included and what will require either trusting some unknown 3rd party's github project or your own homemade version.
> NCR feature disappeared

Have you tried using it again? I kept forgetting that it was gone, until one day it started working again.
Ask HN: How would you improve Stack Overflow?
One of the plan9 users put a lot of work into a terminal boot disk that supports rootfs over flakey connections.
Also, last I checked I believe 9front supports mounting root over AAN which supports roaming between networks and flakey connections.
I have this problem too. However, being in an open-plan office, I have to choose the lesser of two evils: monotonous music vs human voices. I find the latter very distracting. I can even go to sleep with music playing but never with people talking around me. Of course given the circumstances, you could probably guess that I pick instrumental music and mainly music without strong 'movements' (I don't know the right term).

Eventually, I felt that listening to music on headphones everyday for many hours is going to affect my hearing on the long term and I decided to sacrifice productivity to keep my (better than average) hearing in good condition.

I may be rambling a bit but the point I am trying to make is that people are different and also in differing circumstances. So, is possible that you will choose likewise if you were in their place (and were of similar constitution).
Feedbacks on OSX:
- "Pinch with 2 fingers" on trackpad should zoom, not move to other pictures
- I would like to be able to move very quickly from picture to picture with the right/left arrow (as fast as the Picasa photo viewer on Windows), but I cannot switch to the next photo until the animation is over, therefore I cannot see more than 1 or 2 photo per second (too slow when I want to browse hundreds of photos to find the one I'm looking for).
>If you listen carefully in the storm of excitement you can hear a faint voice who still remebers the core of the business: Provide the service and don't fuck with the customer.

The people looking at images for free are NOT THE CUSTOMER.

Hint: the customer pays for service.
The point of building infill development in our cities is to not pave over greenfield land on the urban fringe.
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> we'll have our first batch of papers coming out soon

are you batching papers instead of releasing them when they're done?
The problem is that neo-liberal capitalism has essentially been the only remaining big "story" over the last 30 years. First it weeded out all ideas of communism and recently it seems to slowly but steadily trump even European social capitalism, eventually it might simply eat itself and turn humanity into a literal "state-machine".

There really seems to be "no alternative" today and consequently people seem to see no way out of that box for the most part.

"The Unnecessariat" which got posted here yesterday was a very sobering read in that regard:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11765581
Columbus' plan was equivalent to crossing the Atlantic and then the Pacific, with nothing in between.

That is a 24,000 km trip in a straight line (from Spain to the Moluccas, the Spice Islands) for which he was absolutely unprepared.
Yeah, I've got a couple of old android phones here that would be useful for repurposing, if they would actually get out of the bootloader.
"In addition, Department of the Treasury uses assembly language code—a computer language initially used in the 1950s and typically tied to the hardware for which it was developed."

Do I even have to put a sarcasm tag here when I say my heart is breaking for them? I'm almost at a loss of words.

Don't get me wrong - I appreciate them being vigilant, but I think the GAO's criticism isn't entirely merited here. Particularly for the Department of Defense; if the thing that controls your country's nuclear missiles works reliably and consistently doesn't get compromised, it's probably a good idea to let it keep doing that.
We could only wish to be as socially mobile as the Victorians

http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/1/1.abstract

EDIT: from the paper, it appears that mass education in England toward the end of the Victorian era only made a short-lived dent in social mobility, presumably because any temporary advantage in being more educated levelled out after a generation.

In the UK up to the 1960s-1980s, working class people could get a leg up through grammar schools and fully-funded higher education (tuition and modest living costs subsidized by the government) - if you could prove you were smart and hard-working enough, you had a chance to rise up. This ladder was successfully kicked away by comprehensive education and mass higher education (with introduction of student loans rather than free grants). The politicians who introduced these measures of course ensured their own children were privately educated.
imgur CEO: https://i.imgur.com/D2j9SlH.jpg
It's much simpler to compensate for dead weight to get as exact as possible measurement. With a hydraulic press you need to compensate for the compression and heat buildup of the liquid etc.
Only if you speak Dutch.
I recommend Arika Orkent's "In the land of invented languages" for people who are interested in the history of invented languages. Esperanto is still the only which is in any sort of regular use, though.
If Electron means that people actually make cross platform apps, I'm all for it. Slightly suboptimal apps are better than no apps or discontinued apps.
When I started coding 30 years ago, I didn't have internet, and being a kid living in a remote rural area where even the nearest bookstore is a long drive away - virtually unreachable for a 12 year old - I hardly had any resources available at all. It was both frustrating and exciting.

Every book or tool you could get your hands on was a treasure; and my friends and I, developing primitive adventure games, had to reinvent some wheels in pretty lame ways, like image compression for our backgrounds, or drawing of sprites onto a background.

I once got my hands on a 8086 assembly manual, what a gem that was! but alas, we had no assembler or a C compiler, so we reverted to creating blank files and using DOS' DEBUG.EXE to tweak the assembly from all zeros to whatever we wanted.

It was really exciting although not very "productive". Then one of the guys got a modem and the BBS world opened up to us, and it was never the same again.
I guess the point developer2 tried to make is that the parent poster's language is very non-personal.

This is a common thing -- by not seeing the victim as a person/human it's way easier to rationalize whatever ideology etc. you might have.

Sorry, not a native speaker -- can't put it better :p
Sadly/Awesomely spot on :P

The thing that really got me into programming, and which I still enjoy about it, is being able to reason and design about code. Understanding the parts, why this happened, the patterns, connections, implications. Building up and reasoning from first principals. Its why I enjoy optimisation, algorithms, explicitly working with read-compile-run cycles and meta-programs, how data is laid out and stored and moved, and what must be mechanically/logically happening in any process.

A lot of "modern" programming seems a bit of a nightmare to me to be honest. Plugging together a bunch of poorly implemented, exception-ridden, "never really sure its working but not throwing an error yet..."

Numeric and science and performance based computing and language work...much nicer there... now if only there were some local employers wanting that and not marketing/web/mobile-apps....
Right, another name for a canary is a heartbeat, which are used in systems to know if a system is still up:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbeat_(computing)
Humans can be trained into not having surprise paralysis, for instance, through a simulation. It can be part of the requirements for driving permits.
Thanks. So no clear winner yet. Does libraries have to be re-written to support the coroutines ?
This discussion keeps coming up in the Go world. As with many words "systems" has multiple uses eg operating systems and enterprise systems. I don't understand the confusion.
> Most of the users cost more than they earn

I call bullshit. Can you spell datamining?

also: native advertising.
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Does this mean there could be treatment that would clear them out ?
The cat paw is absolutely obnoxious. It's funny that a service that started to get rid of all the crappy image hosts would do that.

I can understand the redirect to a page with ads, and even showing unrelated images. But the cat paw... what in hell.
Well all care, because it costs the US DOD 60 billion a year to maintain old technology. Thos 60 billions come from tax payers all over the world. Indeed, not only the US tax payer must pay, but also foreigners have to pay local taxes forwarded to the USA thanks to the extraterriorality of their laws, and the fines they put on non-US corporations doing business outside of the USA.

So whoever you are, where ever you live, parts of your taxes or of the price you're paying for the products you buy goes toward those 60 billions wasted on ancient technology.
Nope, same thing. First time I get html, second time the direct link.
>I wonder how long it will take until academical papers are published with clickbait titles.

Seriously. It's the exact opposite of an abstract, which is to give a quick TL;DR summary so you can know if it's worth your time reading more about the paper.
I think Clash (http://www.clash-lang.org/) would help a lot with this sort of effort.

"CλaSH (pronounced ‘clash’) is a functional hardware description language that borrows both its syntax and semantics from the functional programming language Haskell. It provides a familiar structural design approach to both combinational and synchronous sequential circuits. The CλaSH compiler transforms these high-level descriptions to low-level synthesizable VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog."
It's easy to measure area but how do you calibrate your pressure sensor?

I think you'll find that this device is used not as a testing tool but as a calibration tool.
It's unethical because (a) Thiel was funding an unrelated case merely to exact a personal revenge, (b) he appears to be behind the decision to drop a certain charge from the lawsuit only so that Gawker wouldn't have insurance cover - it shows vindictiveness, (c) Thiel's goal seems to be to bankrupt and shut down Gawker.

Most of all, if this was indeed above board and ethical, why did Thiel feel the need to do this surreptitiously until outed by the NYT (is he going to fund someone to sue them too?).
slight you say? eog 8.1MB vs lightgallery 60MB for same image file.
That's where the 60 billions go to: maintaining old manufacturing capacity.
Not only possible, that's the reason, as the article said.
Do you know if Argon Design hires graduates? I would love to break into the HFT / FPGA design space, however it seems like the barrier to entry is rather high.
I'm not very familiar with the kernel RCU, but I believe that not only rcu_read_lock does not block, it doesn't even issue any expensive memory barriers.
Unfuck your screwed Git commit
https://github.com/pendashteh/git-recover-index

so you fucked up your git-foo and destroyed some code that you had added to your index, but didn't commit? - you are no longer screwed : https://github.com/pendashteh/git-recover-index restores your files from the git blobs into a directory and you can get you precious files back....

thanks @pendashteh
cURL + docker = buildcurl – Precompiled binaries, built on demand
That's funny, when the quality of imgur images and comments is similar to that of 9gag and reddit itself.

At least on the default subs of reddit you can find a handful of good comments if you only read the parents. If you go to the children, they all become obnoxious.
From the article:

> So as soon as a thread yields its CPU, it’s guaranteed to be out of its critical section.

Therefore, the yielding can be seen as a blocking operation, meaning that readers do in fact block!
It's a UI element and a UI with just one element is an UI already, so an UI-element is itself an UI. Let's argue semantics on a Site for Hackers.
Me too, but there should be some way to share resources between them
Funny, so limited it's good

https://sli.mg/lrrDOF #testt
Would be interesting to see your digital location as well. ;)
DAO.Security, a Proposal to guarantee the integrity of the DAO
and it uses cloudflare, so browsing for pics gives me another gazillion captchas because I'm on a vpn. well thanks al lot...

at least imgur didn't use cloudflare.
You're right, you can't have anything like that in SF. (Well, there are some pretty nice forests nearby.)

You also can't have any of the culture and city life that a major city like SF has. You see easily 10x as many people in a day in SF than you see all week in a semi-rural town in the Midwest. There's 10 cafes within a 10 minute walk. The nightlife is extensive and amazing. The restaurant scene, world class.

And that's fine if it has no value to you. But clearly for many there is more to consider than just cost of living and space. There is a reason startup hubs happen in major cities.
Hmm I'm not sure. I'm not from US, and while I am very familiar with Edward Snowden, I have never heard of Chelsea Manning, I had to do a wiki search to read a bit about her. I guess the international coverage just wasn't the same in her case.
> it's a great feature for boring driving

I'd much rather have a "boring" driver on the road than deal with aggressive drivers.
You must be fond of kragen articles.

https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-hacks@canonical.org/msg0...
Native-like toast notification but for the web
Reminds me of http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/khttpd/README?v=2.4...
Cool, a web page linked in a serious discussion that has copyright 1997 on it. The page was created about half way between the heydey of 8" floppies (late 70s) and today.
It solves the problem of people not upgrading their PCs. /s
Sure, good luck datamining a hotlinked image (or showing ads there)
Harvard senior thesis project examines concept of over-trusting robotic systems
Datamining. What FB is doing. Sell the info.
Computers probably still have a bit of a reputation for being prehistoric after they're ~5 years old (obviously not the case anymore, but to someone not paying attention, the difference between, say, a 1995 desktop and a 2000 desktop might carry some weight in how they determine things).

Either that, or when the average person thinks of a computer, they think of laptops or smartphones only designed to last a few years.
Yes, although I'm not sure that bucklescript is anything
more than the compiler.

js_of_ocaml comes with library that lets you interact with
the DOM and most of the browser APIs
so learning a few Romance languages simultaneously will be a much better use of your time.

This is bad advice. People grossly underestimate the effort to learn ONE language, never mind two related ones at the same time.

You will probably not succeed at learning a new language unless you have a pressing, extrinsic reason to. Self-study language courses have dropout rates north of 98%. Even in an educational setting with young people (better at learning languages than older ones), it's only about 20% who progress beyond the bare beginner stage.

Esperanto is MAYBE easy enough to learn from only curiosity and dedication... but I am aware that "eternaj komencantoj" is an expression in Esperanto-land.
Perhaps I missed it, but I didn't see anything indicating what image formats it supports.

I assume it supports JPEG and PNG, but does it support all the various versions of TIFF (there are a lot of these)? Does it support raw images (Canon/Nikon/PhaseOne/etc)? Does it support PSD? How about GIFs and video formats?

Unless I'm wrong, and I missed it, this might have been useful information to include in the "Core Features" section.
His point though was that SF isn't particularly suitable as a city for startups; there's no magical "tech gold" that you can't get elsewhere, like West Virginian coal - people go there just to be in the game, because that's where the VCs chose to be. Historical and geographical factors in fact make it a particularly unsuitable place for a bootstrapped startup to exist.

The difference perhaps is that although Hollywood is the place to make deals and host awards ceremonies, the actual work of filming is done around the world, from New Zealand to Ireland to Vancouver.
Yeah, not on Three's side here. It's not like ads are illegal / immoral / ianything. If a user wants to block, cool - not the ISP. Doesn't a portion of the online world depend* on ad revenue to exist? WTF are they doing?
That's rather hard to do if your site mainly serves hotlinked or embedded images. You don't have the level of interaction required for meaningful data.
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I'm primarily a frontend dev, the vast majority of libraries and and browser APIs don't include offline documentation.
> I find using the justice system in pursuit of revenge at the cost of actual justice rather perverse.

Its major function, crudely, is to prevent Hulk Hogan from visiting Nick Denton in character.

It isn't to prevent the pursuit of revenge. It is to prevent violence and vendetta by having a neutral third party arbitrate. The pursuit of revenge for wrongs committed is the notion and motivation behind the elaborate social institution we call justice.
Good coders code, great - reuse. :)
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