skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this mean we can basically render any WebGL code server side and effectively stream the output?
we can to stop people from being exploited in the meantime.

My point is that they are being exploited, because even being exploited is better than the alternatives they have, and by prohibiting it, you're actually harming the people you're supposedly trying to help. My argument is not a Nirvana fallacy. I'm saying that we're actually better off doing nothing than prohibiting people from taking the least worse option they have.

If we want to help, we should provide an alternative (and no, this certainly doesn't require an end of capitalism). If we can't do that, we should leave it alone.

Prohibition works very well, depending on the circumstances. But you know this, of course: you are simply making a rhetorically contentless incendiary broad generalization. Murder is illegal and there is less murder. Fraud is illegal and there is less fraud.

I thought it was clear from context, but I'll be specific: I'm talking about Prohibitionism as in preventing people from deciding what to do with their lives "for their own good", much like the Prohitibion Party did with alcohol in the early 20th century.
I'm not disagreeing with anything that you said. I'm just lamenting the fact that SF will look just like every other skyscraper style skyline. You won't even know where you are
Aristotle's tomb found
> How hard is it to run a "canary watch" though? The overhead has to be pretty low. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to pull the plug.

I don't imagine the decision was based on resources, but rather on a realization that the "canary watch" didn't work, because people just didn't care. In that case, it might make more sense to abandon it rather than continue to suggest, in the face of evidence to the contrary, that it's a productive tool for keeping tabs on government overreach.
That's not necessarily true. It would presumably depend on how much damage was done. Here's some cases of improvement with turmeric, one of the spices in curry that has anti bacterial and anti fungal properties http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/turmeric-produces-remarkabl...
> India's extremely complicated bureaucratic nightmare of inter-state borders and customs/tariffs is the fault of the British?

The West's legacy of (literally) militant mercantilism is the root cause of quite a lot of issues we are currently facing in the world.

The weapons have changed. The mindset remins the same.
I love Ansible, and have been using it since it was a humble little git repo with a single author.

Unfortunately it's probably the most important python package that doesn't support Python 3, it would be cool to see it upgraded. Apparently the hold-up is supporting very old 2.x python versions because of RHEL.
Contentful Secures $13M for API-Driven Content Management Platform
Neanderthals built cave structures – and no one knows why
mio has nothing to do with callbacks in its design, unless you build such an abstraction yourself on top of it.

However, without an ergonomic way to create state machines (i.e. generators), it's hard to use at all in the intended fashion (small per-connection state instead of large boxed closures or coroutine/thread stacks).
the click bait is real
> I saw that multiple times here on HN now that people misuse the term. It's a pity, the original idea is something to be aware of, and diluting what dark pattern means hinders that awareness.

Sorry long post TL/DR Fighting people on word definitions is frustrating and words change meaning when one aspect gets popular.

I have fought this war over and over again over the following words:

Troll - Everything is a troll now. It use to be just someone that tried to ruin other people's fun. Now if anything that makes anyone laugh is a troll.

Hacker - This site is case in point. Hacker was a person who would make inventions with pieces that didn't normally get take apart and put back together into something different then its original intent. Then it became criminals. Now it's start up coverage websites were if you use terms of Hackers of long gone days (i.e. M$) you get down voted for being unprofessional. :)

Humanism - Means Atheist? Humanism was founded by the leaders of the Renaissance and the Reformation Movement Leaders would self-identify as Humanist. I went on a 5 day Reddit AMA with the President of the American Humanist Society (Secular Humanist) saying they can't hijack the word and change its meaning.

Humanism and related terms are frequently applied to modern doctrines and techniques that are based on the centrality of human experience. In the 20th century, the pragmatic humanism of Ferdinand C.S. Schiller, the Christian humanism of Jacques Maritain, and the movement known as secular humanism, though differing from each other significantly in content, all show this anthropocentric emphasis. http://humanism.ws/featured/a-history-of-humanism-robert-gru...
Any questions you have will be really useful for me to create an "about" page that explains what it's doing. The main purpose of this site is to give people an easy way of seeing who is actually expected to win the election. The site uses betting markets as it's source because that's a better indication of who is actually winning. Even though some polls show Trump has tied or even ahead of Clinton, Clinton is still a favorite over Trump.
Show HN: Front-end issue tracker tool from the city of Prezi and Ustream
This is something that isn't just unique to higher education in the U.S, it's pretty much standard practice back in China as well. It's all about rote memorization & tests. What you can't memorize, you find a way to cheat through. You can't cheat? Then buy off your professor or teacher. Bribing educators in China is the quickest and easiest way to pass. Practically no creative learning takes place in China.

This is interesting to me because it's something that's inherent to China's culture. It persists passed the education stage of their life, well into adulthood. And that's a terrible shame because it sets up China for failure.

Without actually learning/understanding the material (and learning to think critically), the general populace isn't equipped and stands no chance when it comes to future innovations. The foundation for future technological innovation (in any industry) simply isn't there. Their country has always been a few steps behind, and keeps falling further and further behind as the decades pass. There are no new big innovations coming out of China, they've only been able to hold their own (if you can call it that) by buying, copying or stealing technology from other countries, entities or businesses. The problem is, China's targets have wised up over the years, so future IP/technology theft will be much, much harder if not impossible.

Unfortunately, I think because this has its roots in China's culture (systemic), there is no quick fix as changing the culture of a billion people is nearly impossible. I think the entire thing needs to come down and be rebuilt from scratch.
> You're making it more ambiguous, creating more possible sentences that could match the same output.

Yes, but can you quantify how much entropy is in those letters and spaces that are chopped off? In an obvious way? I agree that there is (probably) no harm in and of itself of including them in the password, but as mentioned in the sibling comment, the main point is to have it obvious what level of entropy is encoded. As the word tables and system is designed to be public, the don't encode more secret information, except in the case where the attacker isn't attacking you/this system specifically. But an attacker could, so I'd rather avoid the false sense of security that the handful of extra bits full English words would add. And as mentioned, it adds to the difficulty of typing in the password correctly, from memory.

> The better solution when length is capped (...)

While systems might cap length when storing/validating passwords, the capping here is for the human part of the system. How and what to remember, how and what to type. It's a user interface/interaction improvement over other password schemes, not strictly a technical scheme.

Basically the problem it tries to solve, is how can we easily remember n numbers of random data, and communicate it to our various systems, both new, and legacy.
Peter Thiel is a theft. His paypal stolen hundreds of dollars from me.
At this point, no idea why anyone would except uproar over any invasion of privacy, security, etc.
OK, but that is not "halting" in the sense of the halting problem. That is a design feature of ETH.
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Ethical?
I got it a long time ago, so just ~$10/year for over a decade.

I did once get contacted by one of my dopppelnamers, who happened to be the lead guitarist of an 80's one-hit wonder band (and now solo), but I didn't want to give it up.

I have the .com, but he dominates SEO for our name.
More details on the tomb have been announced on Greek news sites. The excavations and research started in 1996 in ancient Stageira in Northern Greece and there is strong evidence this is Aristotle's tomb / memorial.
Well what did you expect if you bought a phone made in 2013 and which was low-end phone with mid-level price even at that time (costed about 400 € and felt like a 200€ smart phone).

Nowadays it's either Android or iPhone. Pick your poison.

The specs for Jolla C are quite limited, but maybe with their OS those specs are enough. At least now they gotten better display panel (IPS) because the one of the biggest fails the first Jolla phone had, was the display.

Jolla C looks like it's priced at zero-margin. They just want to have lots of developers at this point. And the 169 € sounds a lot better than 400€
On a single-user machine all the interesting stuff (personal documents, configuration, browser history etc) is in userland anyway. And people are already entrusting Dropbox with their personal files.

I'd say this article represents Twitter-fishing -- search the comment-ome on any recent event and you'll find somebody panicking, or being crude, or whatever else you want to write an article about.
Senseless machine learning tricks seeem to be the equivalent of a coin-flip nowdays. How can anyone think that this might actually work?!? And that doesn't even touch the inherent discrimination that these kind of systems will inevitably incur.
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> Religions are ~2000 years old

Ehm.
Yes, there's work being done on developing immunological treatments for Alzheimer's. Work in animal models has been promising, but a viable treatment for humans is still a ways off.

http://www.nature.com/nri/journal/v6/n5/abs/nri1843.html
I'm sure buying the server pays off, but what about running and administering it?

What's the minimum commercially you'd spend to get cross-continent redundancy on hardware you manage in-house. Just the accounting cost of paying wages for technicians in two countries probably means you need to be a quite large company.

There are middle grounds, managed co-location say, but then you're not likely to save much over using AWS are you?
Seems useful (albeit tongue-in-cheek), but will have to keep my eye on this just in case:

http://isdeadyet.deadyet.lol/

;-)
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There is nothing more PATHETIC than a designer using Windows. If only he could taste the wonderful FREEDOM of GIMP and throw down the shackles of Microsoft oppression!!! The CANCER would be gone from his brain and he would soar free like a majestic eagle on the winds of unZOMBIEfied morning forever. Yet he tolls forever blinded to independent reasoning about computer software! The work of the blind designer cannot be true! Everything else is irrelevant.

Yet there is NOTHING more pathetic than a gamer using Windows. This is a cancer on his game-brain, nothing more that a zombie-like tunnel-vision of gaming. The gamers are not stupid people yet Microsoft keeps their capable mouse-hands LOCKED away so their skills will never develop beyond what Redmond envisions. Everything MUST BE CONTROLLED through One Microsoft Way, and so Microsoft continues to remain dangerous to the FUTURE of gaming! Lo and behold, the end result is SUPPRESSION OF ALL non-Windows games.

And now - hardware.
Well of course population growth isn't the same as demand, that's the point!

What davidw was observing was that there's plenty of cities that do better at satisfying the demand for housing than San Francisco does.

You can have a growing population in the same area while demand goes down, if you're building enough new housing to offset the demand. The examples davidw and I have been citing here show cities that have faced similar population growth that have built up rather than succumbing to SF's housing problems.

I think your claim that it's apples to oranges is invalid. Yes SF has been a boomtown, but plenty of cities all over the world have been boomtowns without the same issues.

The issue is that SF has been a boomtown AND hasn't gotten its act together when it comes to building up density. That's what makes it a special case, and that's why both the demand for housing housing prices are ridiculous there.
On the other hand, as your system gets more complex, you will start missing tried and test libraries from some of the more mature languages you have mentioned. Maybe the extra time you have to spend writing that code will compensate for the extra memory you would have spent because of the JVM. Not taking anything away from Rust - I'm just giving an alternative perspective.
You assume simply labeling the milk with the melamine is all that is required?

Not just having melamine in the list of ingredients, but actually clearly labeling the danger. Obviously nobody would sell milk saying "Danger of death", therefore that case is irrelevant (selling without the label would still be illegal, since it's fraud, not just "protecting people from their own decisions", which is what I'm arguing against).

However, I do believe privacy standards need to be strengthened to help prevent (or at least correct) such cases as malicious misuse of private data (example: doxxing) and neglect of private data (example: hacked websites that expose databases of information to criminals).

I fully agree, and I'm quite happy to live in the EU which has at least some decent privacy protections, but those aren't cases in which people are willingly giving up anything.
The "freedom of press" argument is total bull. This is 2016. Free press has already won, 1000 kids could write the same things in 1000 social networks and blogs. The information is there. But gawker makes money off this. Thats what makes them immorral and they should pay the damages for hurting people. It's not like their copywriters cannot post the same shit on their twitters.
But is it for Japanese? In general I think that an artificial language should never put two consonants together.
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If you view education as teaching people to learn, then you might have an argument that education rates enable and empower people. If you're training robots who don't think for themselves then you'll encounter the situation you've just described.
At my job? No.

My sense is that it depends on team size -- when you are big enough that there's full time work in DevOps, I think you should have a specialist.
Interesting idea. However, I'm not a fan of the overwhelmingly negative vibe this gives off. By this I mean there seems to be no effort made about any kind of constructive criticism or help, e.g. a way to offer feedback on the listed startups so that they could actually use it as a platform to learn from.

So far it seems to me that it's more of a "Haha, you didn't make it" page creator when it could actually become a force for good.
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> you can have a lot of fun right now

Can't say anything about beforehand, but I know I'm certainly having a hell of a lot of fun programming now. What a time to be alive, and I mean that!
Makes sense to me what you say.
People often say that knowing latin is good if you want to study medicine. It's ridiculous. Learning a list of 100 relevant latin root-words would likely achieve as much.
That seems like a very low salary for any technical lead position. Are the wages in Canada generally that low? Most lead positions in the US regardless of geographic area start in the low six figures.
evrything was good until Qualcomm 212 !
If done correctly, you might end up with a very secure webserver in your hands. I imagine it would be tough to use conventional vulnerability penetration techniques on something like this.
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A hitchhikers guide to troubleshooting linux memory usage
I miss my semi-bricked n900. I know one of us always chimes in, but still, it's true. It was a very functional phone. I need to solder a USB cable onto the data-pads under the battery to retrieve some data and possibly restore it, but it served very well for 5 years.

The Ubuntu phone is a tolerable placeholder. A Jolla seems like it would be just tolerable also (as per sametmax's comments) but I'll have to keep waiting for something decent and open.

Also still holding out for convergence... Give it another 5 years probably!
I cannot see any reason whatsoever, that this has to run in the kernel.
Curious if "roll forward only" could create situations where a failed version change could place the system of interest in a non-functional state until the problem was diagnosed, the code revised, and an update released. If that's possible, I would have concerns about the infrastructure meeting the core needs of the business such as providing value to cutomers.
> Go I just don't like as a language (personal taste) and I think the GC adds a bit too much of pausing for this app

Not saying you have to like Go, we all have different preferences. But FYI, the gc has gotten much better in the latest releases. I don't think you would be bothered by gc pauses. (my understanding is that it' both faster and more "spread out")
Didn't know about Automagic, seems interesting. I use Tasker, but I find it a pain to do any complex logic. The flowcharts in that app are probably much easier to use.
I'd like for Jolla or Ubuntu to succeed with their phones but I just don't see it.
I fiddled around with an Ubuntu phone for a while but stopped using it eventually. The basic funtionalities are just not as good or as stable as they should be. That would be step one.
But then, especially with phones, there's a lot of innovation and those kind of phones just can't keep up.
I hope open sourcing Ansible Tower is still on the cards after it was promised at a conference shortly after acquisition.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5997
That just makes Gawker look worse. The rant in question was part of the sex tape, but they didn't include it in the original article - it was published later by Gawker as a direct result of him suing them over the sex tape in question. It looked remarkably like retaliation for him suing them over their publication of the sex tape.
What happened to color.xxx ?
pretty negative, reminds me of fuckedcompany.com back in about 2000 - that made it into a game, you could bet on which dotcom bubble companies were going to fail.
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Are you talking about the "run sshd on a different port" or portknocking?

I'm not sure how what you said is related to what I said.
Hahah I will be too! ;)
You might want to consider willhillaryclinton.win, as well.
About object-oriented design and the “class” and “extends” keywords in TypeScript
> You had to code against the metal, so to speak

These days, you can actually code the metal itself (so to speak) with easily and cheaply available FPGAs! That to me is even more exciting, certainly a lot of fun, and at least I've been doing a lot of trying and failing with it.
Related:

an interactive (zoomable) HTML/JS mandelbrot with detailed (but not long) source code + a super tiny (200 bytes) Mandelbrot tracer:
https://github.com/xem/miniMandelbrot

Also related:

ASCII Mandelbrot (111b):
http://www.p01.org/128b_mandelbrot/
Anyone remember deathwatch[0] from the first dot com bubble?

It was based on actual financial statements "based on their reported liquid assets and loss rate. When the cash runs out, something bad for stockholders has to happen."

The weird thing is, at the time that statement was controversial. "We'll make it up in volume!"

http://downside.com/deathwatch.html[0]
Well I'm also assuming people will also spend a lot less of their lives working. Otherwise you're correct, there will be a huge oversupply of labor.
The correct pronoun is 'her', not 'him/her', and a lot of trans activists and allies do spend an inordinate amount (which wouldn't be so necessary if people made even a small effort to get them correct) of time correcting people on pronouns, but there is a lot of work that transgender rights activists are doing for people in prison in general, and I do know that they've been involved with some of the work to help ensure that she is able to access appropriate treatment while she's in prison.

It seems like it would be very difficult for any civil rights advocacy groups to be able to do much for her though, since she's not a civilian or in a civilian prison.
If I understand it right, Rust has "zero-cost abstractions" meaning that they don't exist at run-time, just when compiling. e.g. http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/11/traits.html

This is the right choice if you want the language to be "a better C" but it means that there is none of the Run-Time Type Information that we are used to in C# (or java).

The RTTI plays a small but key role in e.g. how a DI container works: The container works out what parameters a constructor needs at runtime and instantiates those recursively; and in how a mocking framework works: Generating a class on the fly with the right interface declaration. Even XUnit/NUnit work by using RTTI: The testing framework looks for all classes/methods with the right attribute metadata, and runs them.

It's easily fast enough for how we use C# and Java, but it's not zero-cost.

There are unit testing tools in Rust, but they cannot work the same way - IIRC, there is compiler support for them. So, While Rust as a good chance at being "A better C", don't expect it to do all the things that C# does involving types at runtime. A different goal meant a different language design.

There are other interesting things in Rust like the Macro system that might help do similar things, but it's really not going to work like in C#
Runtime errors are easy to happen in Go, main culprit being the typesystem. If you are writing some non trivial abstractions (e.g db calls), you'll almost always end up with passing interface{} types, which destroys the compile time type safety.
Thanks for the writeup. I wouldn't mind having a very hackable phone I suppose. Does one need Linux to enjoy it at its fullest, or is OSX also okay?
I don't like the negative vibes I get from http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ instead giving tip how to stay up it's purposed to say if website is down.

It's normal that companies die. What advice would you give them?
First the term was neutral. Then the word became a widely used pejorative. Nowadays the word is hardly used at all. Why did people stop using "colored"? Because it had turned into a pejorative. When did that happen? Decades ago.

That's why I said its historical usage is pejorative. This isn't controversial. The word wasn't conceived as a pejorative, but that's utterly irrelevant in this context, so there's no point in even bringing it up.

You could also point to a time in history where the N-word wasn't technically a pejorative. It originally (and etymologically) simply meant "black". Would you also argue against the claim that "it's widely known that the historical usage of the N-word is pejorative"? I sure hope not.