skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You realize the same people predicting the destruction of the British economy all had their fingers in the tanking of the Greek economy and/or predictions of growth that were blatant lies? See eg IMF Greek debt sustainability analyses and their continued wild exaggerations of sustainability. So there's plenty of reason to doubt such predictions or assume they are politically motivated.

Recall how EU/Merkel treated Greece, a country too entangled to leave, and note Brown's decision to keep the pound sterling was prescient. That creates plenty of skepticism of the value of the EU.

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2016/cr16130.pdf
i very infrequently wish i could down vote posts, but i'd make an exception here. this contains so much ad hominem and vitriol as to make me feel awkward for even reading that.
Clickbait.
Betteridge's law of headlines.
etc.
True, the BrExit echoes the feeling of a working class who have been marginalized by the leadership who said they would represent the will of the people. True of Trump supporters and Sanders supporters.

I spent a bit of time reading about the political and media elites in Britain ignoring the plight of the working class.

1. Apparently, the British people never had a referendum to join the EU. The elites decided for them.

2. Unlike the leadership of our "union" the United States, the leadership of the EU have not been given a mandate to lead by the voters.

3. 20 years ago there were 0.9 million immigrants in the UK, now 3.3 million.

4. Prime Minster Cameron said he would reduce the yearly 330,000 immigration rate to 10,000 or so and he broke his word. Had he done what he said he'd do, BrExit may not have (probably?) would not have happened.

5. Apparently these immigrants get four years of social support. The social systems are stressed as is the National Health Service. Of course, the elites can choose to use the private Harley Street doctors, something the working class would be unable to do.

6. Cameron did not have to call the BrExit referendum, but chose to call it because of his hubris thinking that it could not possibly win.

The British political elite like their American counterparts have refused to hear the suffering of their citizens. They have been marginalized by elites who lack empathy.

Instead of listening to the voters, the political and media elites simply berate those who do respond such as Trump. They call Trump a racist because he is against illegal immigration. He has never said he is against Mexicans who have legally immigrated to the US.

In the US, the media elite also refuses to use the correct phrasing of illegal immigrant and using the term "undocumented" which is bad reporting because the correct term is illegal.
He has iOS, and unlike Android, iOS does not give every app you download your phone number.
The bias of NPR is as obvious as Fox news. And I really like many NPR programs. Radiolab is another classic example.

If you cannot detect it, then you've fallen for it. With Fox News it's presented directly, like a minister in a church giving a sermon. With others the One True Way is presented indirectly and this is harder to recognize at first. That's one reason why older people are more conservative, you need a certain amount of crystallized knowledge to see it.

How bias at NPR and Radiolab works is that they selectively leave out facts that won't contribute to the narrative they are trying to construct.

This is partially based in politics but it is then exaggerated because of the medium they are working with which it harks back to the old radio broadcasting system i.e. uni-directional. There's not a lot of "What about X?" going on outside of the company, so if your firm has a monoculture that is going to be expressed in your product. The questions asked are purely rhetorical because they also provide the answers. This can make you sound very sophisticated to the novice but dumb as rocks to an insider.

For a practical example of worldshaping views, consider doing an macroeconomics program without any reference to the critiques of the Austrian school. Now consider doing a similar program using materials exclusively from people like Hayek and Mises. Or having a entire discussion about global warming and alternative energy while pretending nuclear energy doesn't exist, something my country has done successfully for decades.

Right wing propaganda makes you biased beyond rationality and left wing propaganda makes you ignorant but superficially confident. Both groups believe they have the right model of the world. Sometimes they're even right.

The right wing often pattern match too much e.g. Blacks are bad because they kill whites at a higher rate than in reverse. It goes unmentioned that of course men also kill women at a much higher rate than in reverse, but that doesn't make the character of men intrinsically bad. Getting rid of all the men wouldn't really help any. A statistic is a single number and the world is stuffed with complicated correlations.

The left wing don't believe in patterns at all. Every day is full of random surprises totally unconnected to the previous day. You see that in the present with Orlando's terrorist attack. This was ludicrous to see. I felt like the reporters on the BBC were presenting information about an Act of God like a freak lighting strike.

If the school shootings which periodically occur in the US were secretly all connected to some special organization, I think that would be pretty interesting information.

Once you spot the mechanism of bias, the selectivity of their attention, then it is easy to see that both the left and right have relatively simplistic models of the world. They're not wrong. They're just models.
Great article! I love these kinds of reports on the features and capabilities of the latest trojans.

I used to get my fix when I was active (as a customer) in the malware scene several years back, but now I can't follow these developments anymore. Don't worry: I didn't do much, and it's all behind me now.

Does anyone know of good blogs or websites that cover these kinds of things? I currently follow Krebs and a number of subreddits, yet I still feel there's more out there.
I feel like the metadata collection argument is overrated here. It's a nice promise, and it's not that I don't believe them, but at the end of the day it's just that: a promise. We've got messengers with E2E crypto because we don't want to just take someone's word that messages won't be read/intercepted, so the same logic should be applied to metadata: Either the protocol guarantees that metadata cannot be collected, or we should assume that it's being done.

Signal being open source is still a very good argument in favour of it. It's also great that they're careful about not including features that could make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot (online backups). We can do without the whole "just trust them" dance.
Falling ASCII balls (coding golf)
There was that great quote from Steve Jobs saying that the only reason modern computers had decent fonts is because he dropped in on a calligraphy class once and it stayed with him until they made the first Macs, which were then copied by Windows.
What's the difference between soylent 1.x and 2.y?
Just like how North Korea isn't "undeniably" wrong in censoring speech to such an extreme. This is a very 1984-esque "solution" to a problem -- don't want to acknowledge positive use of guns? Good news, we can just erase them from our language! The way we treat emoji has some very serious similarities to Newspeak.
You are making a baseless assumption the non voting 30% would vote differently
> I hope that you're really happy of the outcome of your vote. You destroyed uk and global economy, even if you still Don't realise it. A nation with narrow minded people that cannot understand the simple consequences of their actions will not have the most happy outcome.

Get a grip.

Has the UK economy been destroyed? No, the FTSE 100 dropped 3.15% on Friday, reacting to temporary uncertainty, and is up 1% on last week.

European markets fell far more, reflecting the fact they have more to lose from an acrimonious Brexit than the UK does.

What is narrow minded about voting to leave an anachronistic, sclerotic, anti-democratic political union, to which the UK contributes more money than it receives back, and from which the UK imports more than it exports to?

In all likelihood, the UK will leave the EU, but retain access to the single market through the EEA. This will enable us to enter into free trade deals with the rest of the world, which we are not able to do as EU members. There is nothing narrow minded about that.
Do you have any tips for remembering the minute details in the manuals? Do you make flashcards, or do you re-read them repeatedly spaced out over time?
Supreme Court to hear petition seeking ban on WhatsApp
Is this a point of discussion or an Ad? Here are some previous discussions which I feel cover everything their is to be said about the product:

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6247552

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995303

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7814005

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109371

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6115114
Looks cool. Wish you didn't have to pay $100 each time you restarted and the PayPal and email cancelation is not anything I would trust sadly. Just seems to risky for a "well we didn't get your cancelation, sorry" situation.
I've tried sometimes to point out to people that States can secede, divide into parts, transfer parts from one to the other[1] or devolve. It merely requires an act of congress and the state in question. This usually induces frothing at the mouth though[2].

[1] More recently California and Arizona exchanged some bits the better to align the state boundaries with the Colorado river. It required a number of years of negotiations, and then Arizona, California, and the Federal government had to pass legislation.

[2] I think secessionists dislike the idea that leaving in theory is easy. Because it's a tell that there isn't any real support for their position.
I don't think you've really thought about those things, or you don't understand what I'm saying.

Here is the recent video about Heljsberg I mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11685317

I doubt your parser is even close to doing what he is talking about. I think you're an advocate of Microsoft's debugger over GDB, so hopefully what they are saying carries some weight (i.e. a little computer science doesn't hurt). They aren't just a bunch of eggheads; they are actually building language tools that people use.

And again, I'm not claiming that ALL parsing is hard. Sometimes you can just write a hand written lexer and recursive descent parser and be done with it. But that's not true in all cases, particularly for "real world" languages, or when you are designing a brand new language.

Saying parsing is easy is like saying "I wrote a game in BASIC in 8th grade, so writing games is easy". (And yes I've actually heard that statements like that ... )

I was researching Jai awhile back, and was definitely curious about it. I don't think you have released the code, so I can't tell which of these statements is true:

1) Parsing is easy for you

2) You think parsing is easy, but your language and your parser are full of bugs

I'm perfectly willing to believe #1 (honestly). But that doesn't mean all parsing is easy, for say a competent programmer in some other domain. It doesn't help anyone to say "just type out the code". Your comment about how you do precedence is a little more helpful.
> if you prove that you are an EU citizen, they can not prevent you from entering

Well, since a few years they cannot (don't want to?) prevent from entering even those ones who are _not_ EU citizens. Moreover, one can enter the EU even without a passport or any other identification document.

> The pillar that supports this and other freedoms is the political machinery in Brussels ("the EU"), and without it it all comes tumbling down.

I agree -- this situation is (mostly) a result of the political machinery in Brussels.
Click the "web" link above, then click the first google result
Have you been to a Walmart recently?

I don't think the Wall-E scenario is entirely off base.
1.x is powder that you mix yourself. 2.y comes in bottles.
Regardless, a 1.6 release is still a newsworthy item.
Has it really been less than 100 years? The point of the EU was always a "lesson learned" from Versailles.

So you "pay more than you get back"? The EU simply put is and was insurance there won't be another V2 landing in London, because the next version would certainly be carrying a nuclear warhead.

All the destruction of WW2, and it only took a generation to die to forget all about it.
I didn't like the tone of the reply I gave to a sister comment of lifeisstillgood's comment and have since deleted it. In it I pointed out that I had not specified whether I had voted, or who for. This is what his edit refers to and was, like the rest of the comment, an unnecessary level of pedantry.

Of course I voted the same way as the friends I had been discussing this with for years.
As per the article the people that voted leave didn't really care about the consequences because they are at the bottom of the barrel already. So of course, they are not nice to fuck it up for every body else, but hey, they didn't setup a referendum in order to stay PM.

Parent is on topic and gives a slightly different perspective.
I assume each of his friend had at least additional argument that probably align with one the messages of the Leave campaign as with the argument he listed most people would just stay home and not vote.

What is done is done, you better understand what those guys think because you will need their vote.
Shameless plug: to run multiple of such security tools at once (nmap, openvas, nikto, etc) I've created https://gauntlet.io -- it's free for few days, but soon won't have such limit.
we saw finding dory yesterday with my son (3.5). it was his first ever movie theater experience. after 30 minutes of previews of other cg animated films, when Piper played it was almost like hearing the folks at Pixar say, oh nice guys. and here's a little something we put together. amazing. my wife said it was one of the best short films she's seen; I dally in 3D (Blender with Cycles is absurdly fun), so understood the technical prowess behind such this lovely film.

and my son was silently enraptured.
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i tried it once too. The program crashed in the middle. I tried a restart, pressing the three nearest buttons for control alt delete, but that seemed to only make the situation worse.

For next steps, i conducted user testing on porn hub. They were unable to replicate the error.
This is super useful and helpful, thanks for writing it up!
The MATL programming language [pdf]
Call it PC, and nobody will complain.
More than just training, I think a lot of people could be helped by very regular motivation of some sort.
I completely and totally agree with you. I would only add that the best engineers also understand when to take a complex set of interactions and create a black box abstraction from them. They also understand when the abstractions are likely to leak and what the consequences are.
Malloc result checks are generally a bad idea; they're error prone. Better just to run with the allocator configured to abort on failure.
I've actually been wondering the same thing. I've found SyncSpace and TalkBoard on iOS. On the pricier end, ConceptBoard is web-based option.

A good friend of mine has been using TalkBoard and hates it, we might try SyncSpace soon instead.

We're using this to sync up a remote team of developers during morning standup. What's your use for remote whiteboard? have you found anything either?
Agreed. We call that "world building" now. Where an audience can look at seemingly incidental parts of a work, and infer things about the fictional world those parts come from, because the authors designed them to be from that world.
> Far more was wiped off European stocks than the FTSE, reflecting the fact that investors are more worried about the future of the EU than they are the UK.

The FTSE losses seem smaller because they are denominated in Pounds, which tanked the day after against the Dollar ... and the Euro.
I'm not sure about California, but eg. in Norway, the problem is usually that contractors will hire sub-contractors, that'll pocket the difference between what on paper might look like a "living wage" (although, often when you factor in materials and look at actual time spent, the offers start to look suspiciously cheap) - and hire someone unaware of local conditions, and pay what ends up being effectively slave wages.

There was recently a case where the local government had contracted for all the electric and cabling for a new hospital - and it turned out that after calculating the expected pay due to the hours in the offer, there wasn't any money left for the actual cables and electronics the company was supposed to install (also included in the offer). Usually this is all accompanied by fake work contracts that lists higher wages than what's actually paid to the workers.

So your line of:

> Actually, I cannot possibly 'take advantage' of illegal labor -- maybe the people who I hire to do the work do that.

reads a lot like "I do take advantage, but I'm wilfully ignorant, so I'm not the bad guy". Not saying that's the case, just saying that's the impression you give.
man pages don't really solve the discoverability problem.
My Most Important C++ Aha Moments (2006)
Btw. Looks like the message is not PGP encrypted. The line lengths are different and gpg complained the message wasn't valid when trying to read the signature.
There are all manner of logistical and ethical issues that need to be ironed out for a study like this. Doing small, limited-time, "This is not exactly going to produce the same results as the larger planned study" is extremely common.
The thing is, as a result of not being in the euro zone, the same sort of situation that Greece is in could not happen. In a way, it's really a disaster to have a monetary union without a fiscal union.

However, the main benefit of the EU is the single market, both in terms of goods locally as well as leverage for negotiating trade deals with other, non-European countries. That's going to be what hits them the hardest, because they won't get such a good deal, especially outside the EU
Why did you call it a remote future? I noted in my comment that the number of WiFiless-LTE-only households in on the rise.
I suspect wasm is a long-term bet on the part of web advocates (including Google and individuals like Eich) to ensure the web remains center stage in the age of mobile native apps that sit on top pretty powerful mobile hardware. As I understand, it's essentially asm.js repackaged in a more formal, standardized manner and has already gained support from all the major browser vendors.

Once integrated properly in desktop and mobile browsers (maybe two years from now), it would probably reduce most of the "useful" performance lead that native apps have over web apps. But, it's still a bet - because of course, no one really knows for sure what things will look like two years from now.
"Sex in America, the Definitive Study" is perhaps more useful.[1] This was done in the 1990s. They selected about 3000 people in the US at random, using proper random selection techniques. Each person was both surveyed and interviewed. They tried hard to convince the selected people to participate, so as not to unbalance the survey. They went to a lot of trouble to get good results. The results are thus more meaningful than self-selected surveys and surveys of college students.

The results are unsurprising, but interesting. The New York Times has a summary.[2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sex-America-Edward-Laumann/dp/0446671...
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/07/us/sex-in-america-faithful...
They've said they're working with an external IRB. Not telling them would be a massive issue for informed consent, and at least if I was sitting on said IRB would generate a pretty firm "Um...no."
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The least they could have done was to add something to the content that Boston Dynamics themselves put out.
I believe what's implicit in these arguments is the word "unilaterally."

It remains illegal for a state to unilaterally secede from the Union. (North v. South, 1865)

The article above implies that Mr. Marinelli is targeting Californians with his "Yes California" campaign. If he wishes to succeed/secede, he'll need to convince Americans from all over the place that it's a good idea.
There are a number of study designs that don't require a null-intervention control group. Some of those would have been interesting, and might actually have yielded something closer to the true effect.
Many states in the South are dragging down the rest of the nation.

Sorry.

That creationism thing, that climate denial thing, and that extreme conservatism thing stunt progress in the rest of the country.
As someone who very occasionally gets very nervous about something to the point of not wanting to chew, soylent+chocolate powder in a blender bottle is really helpful.
Can Brexit be overturned? What Brits are asking each other today
Which subreddits?

I might add the Malware Must Die blog: http://blog.malwaremustdie.org/

One of the few malware analysis blogs that doesn't have all-Windows, all-the-time blinders on.
If MacFoo and WinBar are OK, then surely "Mac Cli" is OK.

Or shorten it to MacCli if you must.

The actual command doesn't have to change.
> In all likelihood, the UK will leave the EU, but retain access to the single market through the EEA. This will enable us to enter into free trade deals with the rest of the world, which we are not able to do as EU members. There is nothing narrow minded about that.

You realize that most of the trade deals for the UK will not be favorable at all, right? As you mentioned, the UK has a negative trade balance.

If you voted for leave, you voted for the balkanization of Europe, and possibly the UK itself. History has proven time and time again that this is a bad and short-sighted idea (India/Pakistan partition, former Yugoslavian republics, Middle East, etc). It wouldn't surprise me if Canary Wharf suddenly relocated to Germany.
> Is one typically billed when you have the fire department arrive? I thought it was a public good.

It's complicated. Unincorporated areas will often (depending on the state) leave firefighting to nearby municipalities, which will generally charge a periodic fee for coverage and bill property owners who do not pay the fee if/when they respond. Even some municipal corporations (e.g. towns, etc) do the same thing, though generally only in quite rural areas.

My impression is that it's generally pragmatic rather than ideological: most of us live in densely populated areas, but (in the US), most space is very sparsely populated.
True. Unfortunately, there's also a lot of spaces in science where there isn't a clear and direct non-profit necessarily working in the space and funding research.
Nope. Try adding a Client Group with no clients via the API - you can't. Xero have admitted that it's a problem, and basically won't commit to ever fixing it. There are another couple of examples relating to problems with the Xero API that don't come to mind right now, but indeed there are problems.
I mean, the US doesn't have the best history with secession…
This is already discussed below and you are right. It was an issue with the perspective of the term recursion from my side. Unfortunately, I cannot change the HN title anymore. (Maybe some moderator can?) The GitHub project description has been changed.

Some of the resolvers might ban/rate-limit you indeed and even send abuse complaints to your ISP.

EDIT: You might have a look at the newly implemented --norecurse option.