skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you say clickbait?

We've been on the cusp of an antibiotic resistance epidemic (according to the media and select physicians) for decades.

1979 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/45521

1992 - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/257/5073/1064

But, as @reasonattlm said far more eloquently than I: humans seem need these stories to provide the motivation to use existing antibiotics less and to get moving on creating new antibiotics.
As a long time Mac user I find KDE hard to enjoy. The UIs of KDE apps are almost universally overpacked, messy, or lopsided (one side of the window had its controls crammed while the other has awkward white space). It might sound like a silly gripe but it really bothers me. The design of apps from GTK+ desktop environments (GNOME, Cinnamon, Pantheon) generally feel much better, but they have their own problems.
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Well, if you're building the next SnapChat, MongoDB is an entirely reasonable option and may even save you some coding time!
Nate Silver is happy to be wrong
As if they're not trying for much larger numbers, as we speak.
So we Germans aren't right in our mind trying to push for recycling and energy waste?
Here's the two most relevant paragraphs:

"The list includes chemicals used extensively in consumer products and that have become widespread in the environment. Of most concern are lead and mercury; organophosphate pesticides used in agriculture and home gardens; phthalates, which are used in pharmaceuticals, plastics and personal care products; flame retardants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers; and air pollutants produced by the combustion of wood and fossil fuels, said University of Illinois Comparative Biosciences professor Susan Schantz, one of dozens of individual signatories to the consensus statement."

"“And if it looks like something is a risk, we feel policymakers should be willing to make a decision that this or that chemical could be a bad actor and we need to stop its production or limit its use,” she said. “We shouldn’t have to wait 10 or 15 years — allowing countless children to be exposed to it in the meantime — until we’re positive it’s a bad actor.”"

And their website: https://ldaamerica.org/
New Backdoor Allows Full Access to Mac Systems, Bitdefender Warns
Undervolting the Radeon RX480 to make it PCIe compliant improves performance
And it's not clear to me that fixing a broken system is worth the time, when we have a working system standing by idly. I don't know of anyone who is asking for more interactiveness for most of the web, but I do know that non-js works, and works well. It may not be as "interactive", but I view that as a good thing.

Of course, this is all in context of a typical webpage. There are exceptions to this.
Seems like it would be simple enough to achieve this by altering the number of minutes in an hour depending on the time of year.

I'm for it.
> In other words, "don't think that because Hillary can get away with it, you can, too."

Seems like that's reinforced by this line as well (emphasis mine):

>> Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the past.
I wouldn't mind living in Singapore
I think the article above was written off the back of, or at the same time as, some fairly shoddy reporting about antibiotic resistant strains back around March to May this year, because who doesn't want to get in on a decent untreatable rampant killer bug story. It's worthwhile having a read of this:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/everybody-be-cool-a-n...
What are we up to now? Three preloaded spyware scandals, possible remote execution via the Intel stack and now this vulnerability. That's just what we know about, who knows what else exists. I don't think I can buy another one, which is sad as I think it was a timeless and great design.
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Amazing Northwind War Results of Gaming Life
Our software allows us to order, track and pack high velocity items which are then sent to Amazon fulfillment centers. We also do a fair amount of direct shipping to customers. Inventory comes in via a variety of ways, including API feeds, FTP uploads, etc. We buy from manufacturers and distributors and are adding new ones all the time!
Do you have any recommendations for Turkish shows? I'd be interested in seeing them.
It looks like the issue is far more widespread than just Lenovo, we just aren't aware of the full scope yet.
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I really appreciate when project authors make it so simple for users to deploy. Thank you, folks!
Shark ORM for iOS, MacOS and TvOS Gets a Mention
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What kind of filter are you using?

I want to filter too. Right now I'm using filters which needs to be exchanged every month and filters water very slow :(

Any tips?
FBI Recommends no charges in Hillary email case
There's something amazing about carrying around your dot-matrix printed source code in a roller suitcase. The only thing that says "stable release" more than printing it out on hundreds of pages of paper is launching the computer running the code into space with no hope of doing an update.
I live in Toronto, far from being the most northern city. It sometimes surprises people to learn that we're at the same latitude as Rome. Anyway, I _detest_ not just the switch from DST to Standard Time, but I also hate how we move the clock for the winter. If you wake up for work it is going to be dark, or _barely_ light out if you're lucky. But by shifting the time backwards I can't play outside when I'm done work because it is dark out. I have to bring lights with me for my bicycle. Wtf is with this? Why are we making all of the light hours during the time I'm at the office? This isn't the 1800s we don't need to milk the cows. We have the opposite problem now. We need light to play outside and we need fun exercise far more than we need a little extra light between opening our eyes in the morning and that first shower.
Very good library organizer? Are we using the same Steam? Ok, you can add categories, but you have to do it manually. You can't even see genre tags or anything about the game unless you open the Store Page. Which for some games (when it's ultimate edition or whatever) doesn't even work.

That's not too mention that something like twice per week (again today) there is an update which blocks opening the damn steam client. Why can't they update it in the background?
"I can't answer for Patrick, but I don't see the term "automatic memory management" as useful as distinction, I look at it more as a spectrum, and Rust/C++ fall squarely on the "more manual" end of that."

I agree 100%. My objection was to the assertion that Rust and Swift were completely different because Swift was garbage collected and Rust was not. That's just not a helpful way of looking at it, because in many ways Swift's strategy is closer to Rust's then Java's.
Even if they are, there is no guarantee all this money is going to prevent it. You bring up Orlando, well the FBI talked to that perp how many times?
@brudgers A quick question regarding Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 on OSX:
How to get the row of keys above the function keys to be detected on a Mac?
FBI's Comey says 'no reasonable prosecutor' would bring a case against Clinton
On X220 and previous, the whitelist is removed by creating a modified version of the BIOS without the included whitelist, then flashing it to the BIOS chip. Technically, this can still be done on X230, but as it has the flash write disable unless a signed Lenovo image is to be flashed, the user must desolder the BIOS chip and flash it with the modified image using an SPI chip flasher. As this exploit can remove this flash write protection, perhaps a modified BIOS image can be flashed from the system itself, bypassing the Lenovo signature check?
Your rebuttal... is a quote of the person suing the TSA.

It was offered as a counterpoint to "she fell to the ground". Which was pure speculation, suggested by someone who wasn't even there.
I called my bank because I couldn't log in

"We recommend Internet Explorer."
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Contrary to the title here, the Navy does want these ships, but the Department of Defense doesn't. "The military" isn't a monolithic entity. Congress is favoring one branch over that branch's nominal bosses, but it's not like they're buying something nobody wants.
WebAssembly doesn't really add any more language choices for the DOM directly. At least not yet:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md
> Vulnerable code of SystemSmmRuntimeRt UEFI driver was copy-pasted by Lenovo from Intel reference code for 8-series chipsets.

> Alex James found vulnerable code on motherboards from GIGABYTE (Z68-UD3H, Z77X-UD5H, Z87MX-D3H, Z97-D3H and many others):

This is beyond the scope of just Lenovo machines.
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have you tried emailing Jeff?

http://gizmodo.com/jeff-bezos-if-you-have-a-problem-with-ama...

I say this because I heard through someone that works there that Jeff does read complains and will often forward it to a department head with "?" body content. At that point that manager drops everything to come up with an explanation for what happened. Can't confirm this, but the source was pretty solid.
"index.html", as Wget creates a default name (defined by the "default-page" option) when you download a directory path using HTTP.

The path in a URL is defined as the following (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier) :

A path, which contains data, usually organized in hierarchical form,
that appears as a sequence of segments separated by slashes. Such a
sequence may resemble or map exactly to a file system path, but does not
always imply a relation to one.[9] The path must begin with a single slash
(/) if an authority part was present, and may also if one was not, but must
not begin with a double slash.

You can rely on the path to be made up of parts that will not begin with a double slash, and will be separated by slashes, and be defined by a specific character set. URLs also contain a query and a fragment after the path, and the client can choose whether to keep those in the file name or not.

Wget has many options which define how file names are created, mainly to better serve in mirroring large complex websites. But in general, whatever the "path" was, the final part of the path will be the file name, or a default one is provided. There are options for enforcing suffixes, creating directory structures recursively, changing accepted character sets for file names, and hundreds more options.
True, but that's a different topic.

Saying the U.S. has "no terrorism problem" is just hyperbole, and useless rhetoric.
> ...to provide the motivation to use existing antibiotics less...

But always complete your antibiotic prescription.
As confirmed by Lenovo as well:

> The package of code with the SMM vulnerability was developed on top of a common code base provided to the IBV by Intel. Importantly, because Lenovo did not develop the vulnerable SMM code and is still in the process of determining the identity of the original author, it does not know its originally intended purpose. But, as part of the ongoing investigation, Lenovo is engaging all of its IBVs as well as Intel to identify or rule out any additional instances of the vulnerability's presence in the BIOS provided to Lenovo by other IBVs, as well as the original purpose of the vulnerable code.

https://support.lenovo.com/ca/en/solutions/LEN-8324
Thanks for bringing this up. We did not anticipate users with Javascript switched off. Even though the site will not be funtional without JS, we certainly can show a message.
I think it's not just age, but the wealth and prosperity that can go along with it. It's easier to have a moral code and look down on those with less when your own needs and wants are secure.
I don't think WebAssembly's main target is the DOM (although there seems to be planned support for accessing it).

A VM + Canvas is the primary use case, from what I had gathered.
That's a very outdated view on webapps.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API...
Hey more risk is more profit ;) I would just be afraid of that market, hah.
Clear as mud.

Lenovo has previously sacrificed user security and privacy for money (superfish), so it does not surprise me that they have done it again, and these kinds of weasel words aren't going to get me to buy another Lenovo product again.

Here's an idea: How about not putting backdoors in our products?

How about making it easier for consumers to replace software on systems they own?
Is it:

"Looks Good to Me"

or

"Let's Get this Moving"?

:-)
Amazon has to have over a billion products in the catalog, with literally millions added every day. How do you propose this is done ;)
Not really, raising cattle on the ocean is a very bad idea as far as the environment goes.

And if 2/3rd's of your land will be flooded (which is has been the case since well forever as most of those windmills are water pumps that pump water out of the ground) you have bigger problems than finding your cows a new home (Belgium works just fine also).

It's an expensive and more or less pointless exercise, heck based on the cost of building artificial islands especially now since China became a world leader in doing so if you really want to expand into the ocean that's a better idea.

The excrement from cattle farms is a horrible source of pollution, it's one of the main sources of pollution of water in the world, raising cattle on barges means that you are going to pump metric tons of shit into your coastal waters which would have very bad effects on the sea life.
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You can reflash in place (no need for desoldering) using a SO8 clip. Did that on a T430.
My coworker replaced his BIOS/UEFI with an open source version (thinkpads enable this). It allowed him bypass Lenovo’s whitelisting of “approved” hardware, so he could install his own 3g modem.

He repurposed an old Arduino into an SPI flasher and a chip clip to sit on the bios flash chip.

https://twitter.com/thomas_cannon/status/703633676102471680
The example exploit is run from an UEFI shell which requires physical control of the device. It mentions exploitation from the OS as a possibility however one would expect that the OS shouldn't allow such operations as a non root user.
This exploit just requires physical, not administrative, access to the machine. You build an EFI "app", put it on a flash drive, and execute it from the UEFI shell.
I see one thing missing from the ADEPT method, which is "what's the story?" in the literal sense. Storytelling is one of the most powerful learning techniques and even a self-learner can create a story about the concept to be learned. The story doesn't need to be picturesque; even a dry story is much more useful than just the facts and description.

Some of the examples they provide are stories ("Academic progress on imaginary numbers took off only after the diagrams were made!"), but the notion of teaching with a story isn't made explicit in the steps of the method.
I'm confused. What's the relevance of this to the posted story - "Antibiotic resistance: The grim prospect"?
Cool. I suspect that's going to start being a problem in the next decade or two, assuming that government entities haven't already made sophisticated quantum computers in secret.
We have too many ships as it is, buying more ships that don't function is stupid, but business as usual. Buying excessive military hardware is contractor welfare after all. How many carrier battlegroups is enough? We have 11, I think they want to build another half dozen.
Actually there are fairly easily measurable benefits, e.g. to tourism due to extra light in the evenings.

Staying on BST all year would be the best thing IMO. In the winter, yes it's hard to get up in the dark, but most of the time it's dark an hour after I get up anyway too. There's not much natural light in my office so in the winter I rarely see the sun because of the idiotic timezone.

Google 'lighter later'.
Maybe author did not want to deal with Lenovo.

> Lenovo did not develop the vulnerable SMM code and is still in the process of determining the identity of the original author, it does not know its originally intended purpose.
According to Buffett: "When I see a memo from Howard Marks in my mail, it's the first thing I open and read. I always learn something..."
There should be a rule that nothing anyone in the Legislative supports can directly advantage ones own district or state. It would force any support for projects to stand its virtues rather than politicians' personal advantages. You think a littoral ship is necessary? Ok, well it will go to some other district and state than yours and will you collude and "scratch each other's backs" you will be brought up on criminal charges.

Beyond that, the whole legislative is compromised and far too involved in the execution. The Legislative should not be deciding what specifically is built or where, they should be funding high level strategies and budgets with specific outcome targets. That's a primary problem with our government.

Sure, the Executive is overstepping massively, especially under Obama, but he Legislative is and has for a long time overstepped its boundaries and role. We really need a refactoring and return to order and proper structure.
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wow! ok I am not even sure if there is a way to refute this without sounding angry...like, what part of anti-discrimination laws don't you like? the fact that marginalized groups can have equal access to gov contracts?education? healthcare? housing? please elaborate....
Show HN: Embed and syntax highlight code from any GitHub or Bitbucket repository
I plan on using my quad core T520 for probably another 5+ years. All of their laptops after the T520 series have the full size keyboard with numberpad which off-sets the center of the keyboard, so now your typing is mostly happing on the left side of the keyboard and that causes wrist strain.

Having a numberpad is really lame on a laptop. I won't buy one and I know of no one else that likes the numberpad either.. sadly many manufactures are doing the same.
Whenever people claim we have free will, the first thing I do is generally to ask them to define it, and that is usually where that conversation ends up in a quagmire.
In that case, it would be helpful to have a Github list of links to language communities for quick reference.
One theory is Durkheim's suicide hypothesis: South Korea's industrial development has ripped apart the traditional society (already badly damaged by the country's partition and the Korean War), and social norms and society have not yet consolidated on new adaptive ways https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=durkheim+suicide+south+...

If so, we can hope that SK will gradually improve, especially if they can figure out how to corral the out-of-control signaling arms-race which is their educational system. (Although this also predicts bad news for China in the coming decades.)
Looks like Egypt has a hard time deciding. According to Wikipedia:

> [Egypt] Observed DST in 1940-1945, 1957-2010 and 2014-2015.

Looking at the map on that same page it looks like Egypt, by abandoning DST, falls in line with most other countries on that latitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_countr...
There are uses of software outside enterprise.
Probably an easy way to do it, would be to run the book title through hacker news comments and programming language subreddits. Count up the number of references. That at least would give you an idea of how often a book is mentioned.
Maybe this will help. I am thinking of the same distinction discussed by Meehl in Figure 2 of this paper:

"The poor social scientist, confronted with the twofold problem of dangerous inferential passage (right-to-left) in Figure 2 is rescued as to the (H → O) problem by the statistician. Comforted by these “objective” inferential tools (formulas and tables), the social scientist easily forgets about the far more serious, and less tractable, (T → H) problem, which the statistics text does not address."
http://rhowell.ba.ttu.edu/Meehl1.pdf

Here, we are not even yet talking about the substantive theory, although that issue will also exist. There is also a difference between the statistical hypothesis (the mathematical object) and what the researcher wants to test. I think you are conflating those two hypotheses.
Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, can it be used for deep learning?
No surprise here, the fix was in. Very odd conference though, he lists all manner of violations then says no prosecutor would take the case.
Lenovo has always maintained a higher standard for their Think products, Superfish was only an issue on the Idea line. Doesn't excuse the debacle, but ThinkPad's are their professional line of notebooks and they make every effort to keep a positive image.
I once had to spend an entire evening finding the root cause of a bug in a time parsing code I used to work on that would show up only when DST is in effect. The bug was due to the way mktime() function used the value of tm_isdst member variable of struct tm. If DST was in effect and t->tm_isdst = 0, then mktime(t) would add an hour to t and set t->tm_isdst = 1. If DST was not in effect and t->tm_isdst = 1, then mktime(t) would subtract an hour from t and set t->tm_isdst = 0. See http://stackoverflow.com/q/9041514/303363 for more details.
What a travesty of both justice, democracy, and government.

Too big to jail, I guess. Ignorance is an excuse when you have a president running interference for you to undermine democracy, even if you knowingly and intentionally weakened and exposed the whole country and then lied about it and played it off.

But let's make a crooked, incompetent, and dangerous person our leader.
Ask HN: How many levels deep is the deepest directory on the average PC?
Files are typically arranged in hierarchical structures. An example might be:

Home -> User -> programs -> Hello_World -> bin -> run.exe

Home -> User -> programs -> Hello_World -> readme.txt

When we think about all the libraries and nested files required to run the average computer, my gut feeling is that one my descend deep down the rabbit hole to get down to the most core file of computing.

Is the total number of hierarchies between the top level and the bottom level an easily measurable thing? Does this number have significant impact on efficiency or on some other parameter important to the computers function? Does this number differ significantly from architecture to architecture (MacOS to Windows for example)?
Hey thanks, it looks like the link for the css was the problem so I've just fixed that for now.
True. The part of the statement that stands out to me is the word "collaborate", which seems to imply that they made some sort of contact (since they didn't say "unsuccessful attempts to contact") so your theory may be accurate.

Although based on the author's original blog post and title for the GitHub repo, it seems that he originally thought it was Lenovo specific...
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