skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a matter of personal taste, they don't deliver the fast visual clues to me that simple red and green elements do in other CI systems like bamboo. From a distance, they look quite similar and that fails to give me a quick overview. From my experience, they are a very polarizing piece of UI design :)
uBlock Origin can handle hosts files, so you can just add it on the bottom of the Third Party Filters tab. It will auto-update it too.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmdugan/blocklists/master/...
Excited to see Lua here, I feel it complements C very well for desktop scripting.

I was just browsing yesterday for some sci-fi desktop interfaces [0, 1].

[0] http://nnkd.org/dexui/

[1] http://sciencefictioninterfaces.tumblr.com
Empathy definitely has to be exercised and trained regularly to work well. As I understand it (not an expert but I've read up on it on the Internet), children are pretty much incapable of it until ~4 as there's some mental development necessary. If you spend lots of time in an environment where you're not conscious of building your empathy and remembering to use it, your ability and tendency to do so will wither.
Thank you for your thoughtfulness and suggestion, I personally rent and have aircon. But I speak more generally - I believe we can do better, more localised heating.
Nice visuals, and probably a good suggestion from the article. But it really lacks an example, because it's not clear at all what does author mean by "creative project" here.
I agree, I don't see why it shouldn't be similar to almost every other linux distro where most critical security updates are in modular packages. Frankly, I actually want the feature upgrade, but I certainly don't want to be tricked into it or told after it's already done that a big binary update blob is has been downloaded to my phone.
Tech Titans Raise Their Guard, Pushing Back Against News Media
TRUMPIFY, take selfies with Donald Trump
I think that's a tautology :)
That's not uncommon.
I saw the video some hours ago and I have been wondering since: how did the camera survive the re-entry? And how did the lens stay so clean?
This sort of article makes me wonder whether the 'decline of malls' is more to do with the culture and geography of the US than anything specifically related to shopping malls themselves. Because they're also (at least from what I can tell) doing pretty well in Europe as well, with the popular ones in the UK seemingly just going from strength to strength and quite a few new ones opening up thanks to the Westfields brand.

Indeed, in parts of London (and quite a few towns in outer London), the shopping centre basically is the high street.
New Neighborhood Will Grow Its Own Food, Power Itself, and Handle Its Own Waste
This article is about Persian rugs that are produced specifically in Iran, not the looser definition of "Persian" rug you're using, so I think you should make that context clear in the OP.
Charles Peirce also had the idea in the 1880s, but he didn't publish it. (There were a couple of others in the 1930s who did, but were unfortunate enough to not be Shannon.)

http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/pulc/pulc_v_45... from page 186 has the story about Peirce.
OrCam device
Rip internet
It's only odd if the traffic to affiliated sites is not mysteriously increasing.
Masks Simulate How You Look to Facial Detection Algorithms
I blame customers too, but for a different reason. I only reward manufacturers for devices that are well-represented on Cyanogenmod. Granted, someone like my mom has no hope of installing Cyanogenmod on her own, given that she knows nothing of Google or Android. But as long as people have friends or family to help them out with technical matters, they only have themselves to blame for devices whose software quickly go stale.
When you look at Android and then look at previous phones with Java and apps on them it's hard to argue it isn't transformative. The difference between SavaJe and Android is night and day.
I wonder what's in it for Amazon to continue with affiliate links. It was clever in the early days when Amazon wanted everyone to link/visit Amazon and were willing to give out free money to achieve that. But now it's Amazon paying to maintain a network of spammers, click hijackers and dishonest reviewers. What's in it for Amazon now?
The grandparent was making an analogy, but...

Use a "non-dom"! BVI or Jersey/Gibraltar/Mann, etc.

My understanding is that it's similar to money left outside of the US: with a UK non-domicile you can defer paying taxes on the cash as long as you leave it outside of the UK.

The catch is, of course, you have to be able to show the money was earned outside of the UK as well (e.g. investing -- see David Cameron's father and the Panama Papers). On that other hand if you open a regular pension investment account in the UK you can defer up to 100% of your annual income tax anyway, without having to jump through hoops or be really rich.[0]

0 - https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-your-private-pension/pension-tax-r...
D3-relationshipGraph: Parent-child relationship graphs in D3
Why would the addition of affiliate tags cause any drop in user engagement?
Some of my favorite Kotlin features (that we use a lot in Basecamp)
I've yet to find a build system that is better than TeamCity.
"Later asked by an attorney for Hogan if there was a situation in which a celebrity sex tape might not be newsworthy, Delaurio responded: “If they were a child.”

The attorney then asked him to specify: a child under what age? Daulerio responded: “Four.”"

This was the Gawker editor who came up with the sex tape and story. This sums up the the anything goes interpretation of free speech these people have. (Although he later said he was being flippant, that's even worse in exposing his infantile psychology).

OTOH, Thiel's ruthless use of the suing machine also leaves a bitter taste. This is a case where it's hard to totally root for either side.
Not really, Instagram is a social network, Oculus is a device?

It depends on the purpose of the list, of course, but for me they're very different.
First of all, props to you. It's cruelly insane ( I left the typo :p).

If you mention your project for persons with disabilities, couldn't you get funds or something?

Just saying this because on the last slide you mentioned lack of resources, time and motivation.. :)

PS. Any reason for 2 accounts? Acrazyloglad for posting and crazyloglad for comments
Who really cares?
I wasn't even aware that this reached #1.

I'm not a bot tho, and I have no affiliation with the site in question whatsoever, I just found it by chance and I thought I would share with the HN community.
I am curious: doesn't this negatively affect your evaluation score with your university? How do you deal with this?
>Gawker is a fast-moving site; it can’t (and doesn’t) carefully lawyer every single thing it publishes.

Maybe it should move slower then. And report, you know, responsibly.
like the dexui look and feel, hmm, that would be about an all nighter with my all-rush mixtape and a two litre bottle of shasta..
How do you build a P2P site/app? Isn't that by nature hosted somewhere?

As for alternatives, what about The Pirate Bay? Links, comments, anonymity.
From the article: "Historically, news publications have treated certain subjects very carefully: if you’re rich and [...] litigious, then [...] organizations will have lawyers do a careful review of anything they write about you [...]"

Well, if they would now have to "do a careful review" of everything they write for the fear of vengeful billionaire going after them, nobody would shed a tear.

But obviously that wont be a solution.
It was pretty obvious Oracle wanted it to go there because they hadn't the faintest idea how things actually worked. Oracle could then apply legal pressure and handwaving.
I'm talking about Forte, circa 2000. That's when Sun sued Microsoft over Visual J++.

Forte later became NetBeans and today it is fine but it was rubbish back then especially compared to Microsoft's tool chain.
They seem to have advantage for color blind people, no?

It's easier to disambiguate shapes than colors.
Good point. It should probably be NAND: ~(W&X). Assuming that R is also a valid option, at least.
At what population level did things start to go noticeably South?
Microsoft was an investor in Facebook, http://whoownsfacebook.com and they are planning an undersea cable between the US and Europe that will only be used by the two companies.
I agree with you, and it's very easy to test. Print 15 mixed weather icons on one sheet of paper and 15 red/green/orange circles in another. Show them to test subjects for 1-2 seconds, and ask them to assess the situation. Now repeat the test, but showing the sheets from two meters away. Our brain is really good at color cues, and especially red = danger is deeply wired into us!
I don't think that is as crazy as it sounds. Remember, back then, the commercial potential of a "computer" was for the military.

Even if you had the idea & concept back then, AND the money to build it - what would you do with it? You're not using it like we use computers today...
First phrase of the article:
"The US Department of Labor projects that one million jobs in computing will go unfilled by 2020"

This is just false. Similar lies are spoken in Europe. It is just a scam of the "industry" to get more cheap labour.
The OP certainly did answer your questions and since you asked the questions you did you probably already know the answers ;-).
In the UK you can post a bond in lieu of having motor insurance, but it's something like £250,000 so rather out of the range of the ordinary car driver. (It's mainly used for commercial vehicle fleets as you say.)
Deserts are dry, not filthy. White is the traditional colour for a tunic worn in those areas, according to this:
http://www.pbs.org/lawrenceofarabia/revolt/clothing.html

Where does this "filth" idea come from?
First, let me say this looks amazing. Thanks for your work!

My biggest issue with Jenkins so far has been configuring complex jobs. The single configuration page just gets unwiedly fast, and important settings are often hidden by default.

Is there any work being done to make this easier as well?
Well the weather icons do have meaning - they are a historical indicator of how successful your build or deployment process is. We show these along side the color accessible status indicators except on the non-personalized dashboard. On the dashboard, they indicate the historical health of your most important branch (e.g. Master)
Arguably it was largely workers performing R&D inside of the US which resulted in the creation of these products. So there is at least a bunch of income, payroll, property taxs, etc. paid already inside of the US.

Now, if the company were to move all of their R&D to Bermuda & Ireland like they moved their IP, we could argue that they deserve to pay the ~0% corporate income tax on their overseas profits.
Old (some would say current) usenet was decentralized.
I have to admit, I've always been conflicted about this. On the one hand, yes it is a dangerous precedent to let the rich destroy publications they don't like by funding any possible lawsuit against them.

But on the other hand, there seems to be an assumption that journalists and the media should be immune to punishment for when they do stuff that potentially destroys people lives, careers and reputation. Gawker didn't have the right to post this content and didn't care that the courts found against them.

And when you consider that millionaires and billionaires often own media outlets as well, that can be worrying as well. What about a Murdoch esque figure trying to push their own views on society (and discredit opponents) through their newspapers and publications?

What Thiel did here is potentially worrying, but so are the other possibilities from the media site.
Note that with GitLab CI, you can having anything run your build. It's just that we typically use Docker as an example and use it ourselves most intensely.

GitLab Runner (the 'slave' that runs your code), is just a Go binary, so it runs on anything you can run a Go binary on, which is pretty close to all major platforms.

Read more on Runner here: http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/runners/README.html

And congrats to the Jenkins team! This looks amazing. A majority of our customers uses Jenkins. I'm sure they'll be excited to update.
OpenJDK either didn't exist or was in its infancy. Also, Oracle created a lot of confusion in that they tried to argue that even Apache Harmony was in violation.

Also, there were a lot of third party drivers and software they couldn't use the GPL with. That has now largely disappeared.
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This is a great point. If media outlets stopped being so obsessed with publishing anything and everything for clicks (without checking if it was newsworthy, legal or moral to do so), then cases like this would be much fewer and far between.
Is HN now the SpaceX PR RSS feed? Are we going to have to see this same article and talk about how amazing SpaceX is every time they do anything?

I look forward to the breathless comments on "SpaceX successfully lands rocket for 38th time!"
Such as a terrible article. Trying to paint Gawker as David. Gawker needs to be shut down, I hope Thiel never stops funding.
Here's an idea that's probably naive and that's been tried before and failed: what about individual moderation?

Let users decide: "I never want to see anything from that guy ever again" (unless, say, 50 people I've upvoted upvote one of his comments).

I can see why people would want to avoid such solution, with all the "filter bubble" rhetoric, but I can't see why it wouldn't be a viable option?

In fact, I'm pretty sure there's a huge opportunity in that space, for whoever nails the mechanics correctly.
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I think most people buying a rug would be hard pressed to know where it originated. My op post was about my personal feelings about buying new rugs - as the article explains it won't be even an option to buy a true new Persian rug soon.
Dr Heimlich saves choking woman at his retirement home
I don't care, most publications today post whatever their "advertisers" want. Ventriloquism are the correct words, if you ask me.

There's no such thing as press today.
Yeah ,There are no good guys here.

Criticizing Thiel shouldn't be confused with supporting Gawker , because we don't know who Thiel might choose to punish next
Good point. This isn't an argument against your comment but I wonder, at which point does everyone exercising their freedoms become anarchy?
Wow thanks for the complement - I'm chuffed!

There's a trend to move job configuration to a Jenkinsfile that's stored in a Git repository using Jenkins Pipeline. What used to be several jobs is now one Pipeline job config defined using this DSL https://jenkins.io/solutions/pipeline/

Today the pipeline visualization only works with this way of making jobs.

Now we realize this isn't for everyone and we are thinking about how to let users create Jenkins Pipelines through the UI without having to know the DSL (just like freestyle). We are also looking at making Pipeline easier for beginners too.
He seems to be saying that vetting info about people who are not known to have enough resources to pursue legal remedy themselves is too large a hardship for journalists to endure. In all of the voluminous writing about this topic this week, I have yet to encounter a single good objection to what Thiel is doing. I'm honestly mystified by why so many people are objecting to this.
Yeah, it scares me that people are accepting this as "philanthropy" uncritically.
Wix, weebly, or square space. Done and done.

I'm a dev and would doing it if I were not such a cheap bastard.
> But as long as people have friends or family to help them out with technical matters, they only have themselves to blame for devices whose software quickly go stale.

That part makes no sense to me. People who don't have the technical skill to deal with upgrading are typically the people least interested in upgrading.
Some of my favorite Kotlin features
Tracking, yes, sure. Wouldn't work otherwise. But other than that, don't expect to be harassed by retargeting ads run by the affiliate network or something. As far as I know, this is not done at all.

Besides, all affiliate networks are (by definition) third party. In many cases, it's just not worthwhile for the merchant/advertiser to setup a custom tracking and billing solution.
I think these look kind of creepy. I wonder if I wore a mask of what the computer thought I looked like, would the computer still be able to detect who I was.
Charlie Chaplin's movies. Modern Times is very funny, but the end scene. I cry every time. City lights, ditto, the end scene is so strong. And Limelight. And the Gold rush...
Vigilink sits between them, the shop doesn't have to be explicitly in on it.
I'm afraid you'll see an article about SpaceX being awesome every time SpaceX are being awesome.

Which is and will continue to be often.
To contextualize the discussion on "open access" (the practice of editors that ask for a sum of money in order to make the paper available). It costs a lot: about 1k for ACM venues. Currently I have to pay for this out of my own budget, and I don't have that kind of money (I'm a PhD student, and in addition to my scholarship (1.8k€/month net of tax, in Belgium), I get a 5k€ budget for two years that must cover material and travel -- I can also get about one additional travel grant per year).

Publisher have about zero added value except fixing the odd latex issue. Actual editorial work is assumed free of charge by professors. Other venues such as Arxiv and CiteSeerX do a better job of distribution for free. Science publishers are leeches in the system and should be removed.

I think the EU a measure will precipitate the current movement against such predatorial publishing practice. Already, publishers are walking on eggs. They move against sci-hub but they'd never dare to go against the common practice to just host everything one publishes publicly, license notwithstanding, something almost everyone does in the CS field -- maybe they say it's a "draft"... (meaning there isn't a copyright notice mostly).
FWIW I would never have considered Thiel's actions to be philanthropy. Which is why I was so confused when reading the headline "Peter Thiel's dangerous blueprint for perverting philanthropy."
Except, believe it or not, that is what people want and expect now from a homeowners policy.

Simple Fire (HO-0) or slightly broader coverage (HO-1) essentially don't exist anymore for individual homeowners. HO-2 (Where the company says "We insure you for the following (long list) of things).") is also somewhat unusual now. People don't buy them unless they are very price sensitive.
The most common type sold is HO-3, where the the carrier says "We insure basically everything, with the following exclusions (like earthquake and flood)."

(Actual policies are much more complex, but that's the basic idea.)

And in fact, you do get the best of both worlds, because any carrier allows you to choose a high deductible, like $5,000 or more. So you can self insure the small stuff, (which the carrier doesn't want to deal with anyway, because of the overhead of settling a loss) and feel comfortable if say a pipe breaks during the winter while you are on vacation and causes $20k of damage, you are not going to have to come up with that money somehow.
Exactly.

If anything, this is not a problem of freedom of speech. This is an old legal problem: "the rich have money to pay the lawyers and the poor don't".

But in this case, Hulk Hogan is 100% right, and Thiel is doing society a favor.
Somewhat true. The question is basically, "what's the incremental value?", especially since all those links would be posted nonetheless.

I guess it might make sense to view this as some sort of avoided opportunity cost: reddit could potentially redirect existing product links (say, to a CPU at Newegg) to a different shop.
Work with the medium.

Back when I started programming, I wanted graphics modes that didn't exist, higher res, more colors, more cpu power. What I didn't realize was that I was creating problems that were largely out of my control. I should have worked with the existing medium and embraced what was possible.
I spent some time with your book (the neural networks section in particular) around Christmas/New Year (when Springer gave access to hundreds of books by mistake). Being able to run code written 25 years ago with only minor modifications is great.
> we don't know who Thiel might choose to punish next

Thiel didn't "punish" anyone. Gawker broke the law, and he helped hold them to account via the legal system.

I don't like Thiel one tiny bit. He's a weirdo. But this is, like, the least bad thing a billionaire has ever done to infringe on "free speech". Hypothetically abusing the legal system (eg, many frivolous lawsuits) would be bad, but he hasn't actually done that.
There is a difference in reddit handing an affiliate referal code to say Amazon and a party between reddit and Amazon.
Related opinion on the legal aspect of funding the legal fees of other people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

Like most things in adversarial law, it looks to me like an atom-blaster that can point both ways.
First of all, the DK1 and DK2 were huge andvances in consumer VR. They also let developers play with VR for the first time, and start learning the rules of the new medium.

But we are here critize, not to praise.

My ongoing gripe with the DK2 was the Occulus Drivers and API constantly breaking. Every couple of months they would release a new driver that was incompatible with previous drivers, and games programmed to work with previous drivers. This meant that you often were faced with having to upgrade to play a new game and forever losing access to your favorite old games. I finally just quit upgrading -and thus quit buying new VR games.

It also used to sometimes require an hour of work to get a game to run correctly.

Occulus has fixed both of those with the Cv1 release. So why am I waiting for a Vive, rather than buying a CV1?

Occulus really, really wants to own VR. You can't launch a game without an Internet connection. The TOS allows Occulus to record what you look at and do in VR. I find both really creepy.

The Vive is room scale, gives you hands, and has better optics. So I'm just waiting.
SmartReactives: a .NET library that detects when an expression changes its value
They do only so for events where they explicitly think about your invitation. Which are rare.

General Group invitations will miss you.
Maybe it's me but I don't care about historical health. For my projects I only care about its current health because anything Jenkins builds is going to successfully build (when it doesn't it's a fluke because we shouldn't be checking in broken things).

Not sure if I'm in the minority here or not though but it actually bothers me if, say, I misconfigured something, build breaks, I fix it but now it's showing it's cloudy. It also took me way too long to realize that cloudy meant it built but failed in the past. I remember my first experience with Jenkins trying to figure out why the build was failing before realizing it wasn't failing and cloudy somehow meant it's good.
Astrologers!
Forget about the greater cause, Gawker messes with the wrong guy.

i agree w this comment on twitter: Let's say that Thiel & Gawker is a match made in heaven.
I think those same things are still incentivizing the program.
They mentioned during the broadcast that there is actually a cleaning system to remove frost, etc. from the lens.
Have these techniques been incorporated into Linux since then?
I think you're wrong but there's always the off chance that the site owner was waiting with a fleet of bots/fake accounts until someone (me) posted this link. :P

But I agree with you though, I don't think this is worthy of being #1.