skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing inherently wrong with an image for a logo, since it works consistently across browsers (both old and new) and looks identical to everyone.

You'll just want the master to be a vector graphic so that you can create multiple scaled raster graphics (e.g. PNGs) to fit different circumstances and usages (since, again, browser support sucks for a lot of vector formats).
Ideally you have both, like in Taiwan - you can travel from the almost the length of the country into Taipei on HSR and then get onto the metro system to go on to your destination.
The land grab for farm data
The number of large companies that forget to renew their domains or SSL certs is way too high. Haven't these folks heard of calendar reminders?
> Since there was incontrovertible evidence that Hussein had used gas against his own people

With the full support of the Reagan administration at the time, mind you.
> But, if that sample set had been pg or "similar", it would have been received differently.

Not for me. It could also have been Tim Ferriss or any one such entity.

> But, most people gobble it up if the author is perceived to be successful.

Sadly so. Advice from a (percieved) successful person tends to kill critical thinking for lots of people.

>> A sample of size 1 doesn't have any valid information in it. But to be more diplomatic: It might have some inspiration for your own testing, though.

Maybe I should learn to be more diplomatic and less black/white.
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There are a lot debates about this and from my experience the biggest issue with running PostgreSQL on Windows is the “Windows Tax”: background processes and services you don’t need on a DB server soaking up resources. Windows Update comes to mind.
A Second Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom
Going for the Gold: The Economics of the Olympics
"… what do you think about that Josh?"

"Sorry, I didn't realize my mic was on mute there."

"No problem Josh, we can hear you now just fine."

"Sorry, I didn't realize my mic was on mute there."

"... um, Josh?"

"Sorry, I didn't realize my mic was on mute there."
The phenotypic legacy of admixture between modern humans and Neandertals [pdf]
Right.. I'm getting downvoted because? Anyone? Just because it didn't happen to you folks?

Surely it was a mistake to comment without the support of evidences of any kind, but anyway, I just though I could share my experience.
Hi folks, James from Dropbox here. Happy to answer any questions that come up so feel free to send them by way.
Fun NDG quote regarding #1. It's 2.5 million years from our frame of reference, but an instant for the photon.

> Photons have no ticking time at all, which means, as far as they are concerned, they are absorbed the instant they are emitted, even if the distance traveled is across the universe itself.
I guess. I'm using espeak and picotts, and yeah, the default voices are terrible.

I'd have to pay for better voices, but I have no money.
But it's a critically important minority - it's well researched that CEOs, bankers, and other highly successful types in business have sociopathic traits. (I attach no moral judgment to that - just stating it.) Full, diagnosable sociopathy and psychopathy are rare, as you point out. People with a decreased ability to feel empathy are a minority, but they have a disproportionate ability to shape society.

For that reason, I'm always somewhat annoyed when other atheists (I'm an atheist myself) rely on some shared sense of human empathy and argue from it - it's only convincing in a society where empathetic people wield power. We don't live in such a world. To convince people to act humanely even if they don't feel empathy, we need to appeal to a higher objective source of truth as the religious do, or find an argument for humane acts that doesn't rely on appealing to people's consciences.
Very nice, and I thought I was cool putting my end of video on freeze while I did other stuff during the conference.
I don't disagree for those use cases that's very impressive. I just don't require a lot of local disk space.
I could well believe that. But assuming that GTK really should be at a simmer, I'd want to see an argument not for generic stability, but for areas of stability vs change. E.g., "Foo is now well understood, so that should be a stable core API. Bar, though, is an area that will keep evolving, so GTK should do A, B, and C."

I'm not opposed to providing stable APIs. I just don't like the myth that if perfect people sit and think really hard, perfect software results.
This is genius. How long before instead of dialing into conference calls, we just send our bots and have bot to bot con-calls? Could this be the killer Twilio app?
That's why we should just give them houses:

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic...
What makes you think that there aren't a metric ton of trolls there as well?
Why. If nearly everything they do is great, that phrase should capture exactly that - or am I wrong here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse#Design

Queues at Disneyland etc. follow these principles too, to stop you from getting stressed by a long wait.
Which doesn't really matter in this case. The character for "he" in vernacular Cantonese is "佢", which isn't used at all in Mandarin.

The characters for "don't know how" in vernacular Cantonese are written as "唔識" in traditional Chinese or "唔识" in simplified Chinese, which are used in Mandarin, but never in this context (as the example given, the common way of saying "don't know how" in Mandarin is "不會" in traditional Chinese or "不会" in simplified Chinese").

In a sense, the relationship between various Chinese "dialects" and standard Mandarin Chinese is similar to the Scots language's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language) relationship to English.
Next post from IBM: "we trained our speech to text AI bot on your idiotic conference calls and it killed itself out of boredom"
The Duolingo English Test and Academic English [pdf]
Or a conference call with a project manager (fully present) and 5 developers all using this. Perhaps a scene for Silicon Valley.
Even if it's classified, there is no problem following yesterday.
Didn't know this. Thanks for this bit of information here.
The Flying Sensor Network That Could (Finally) Save Our Planet
128GB 16 core VMs now available from Exoscale
Just another way of saying that whether in the browser or mobile device and you're signed in to Google, any stuff you do that touches Google is being tracked.
people would type in login .tplink .com

people would type login tplink into google/bing

from a usability standpoint this solution wouldnt work.
I'm perfectly fine with this deflationary concept of existence, and leave the "foundational importance" to particular kinds of existence that actually warrant it. Once its articulated like this I have no problem. But my problem is with those who want to speak of existence of abstract objects in terms that claim such entities are independently members of the constitutive fabric of the universe. I just have no idea what this kind of existence means.
Terminal Cancer
while true; do gnome-terminal; done
If you're really trying to find a cooler name than the obvious low-pass IIR filter, you could call it an "alpha filter", which is equivalent to a position only (no derivatives) Kalman filter in steady-state, using a precomputed gain (called alpha, here equal to 0.04).

The alpha-beta filter is the position/velocity version, and is commonly seen in settings where less is known about the system dynamics, or there's not enough CPU for matrix math. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_beta_filter
So what does it mean if you didn't call for the prosecution of her predecessors and also don't call for her prosecution?

You're supporting corruption at that point, right?
I think you're better off reading the box model spec.
Given that they seem to have given up on kdbus, and is instead developing something called bus1 that appears they are not even planning to submit for inclusion, i find myself thinking that the systemd devs are these days working on enveloping the kernel.

Meaning that you no longer use kernel syscalls, but instead program with systemd in mind and then systemd talks to the kernel as it sees fit.

Just observe their actions regarding session tracking, where they are basically ignoring all data from the kernel about sessions.
As well as a number of other rather useful languages [1].

Now days I use RMarkdown even for experiments because it's nice to document my line of thinking as I write the code and get a nicely formatted output when I'm finished.

[1] http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/engines/
I would emphasize that, in many of those examples, Go wasn't a very viable choice when the apps were originally written. Twitch chose Go back at ~1.2 (2013), when Erlang might have made more sense.

Today, for companies making a similar decision now, that argument is a bit different. Go 1.6/1.7 obviously has massive improvements in the areas the article outlines. But, in Erlang camp, we have Elixir making that more enticing.

I would argue Twitch made the right choice. They will have a magnitude easier time finding devs to support a Go system over an Erlang system. And their product never suffered for it. And they are clearly a force behind making Go better, which has helped more people than just them.
One thing I've been wondering about lately is whether our brains have more than one consciousness arising from it and we are just one of them. In split-brain experiments, it's shown that two independent consciousnesses can exist in the same skull, since they have been physically cut from each other. The predominant assumption is that when both hemispheres are connected, only a unified consciousness arises. Tononi says that in any composite system of consciousness, the component consciousnesses are suppressed and only the highest-level one is active. But what if they're still active and have their own subjective experiences? We won't necessarily see it in other people just as split-brain patients seem like one person until you scrutinize them. And that all consciousnesses will have access to the same memories sort of muddies it up a bit, but it still accounts for different phenomena, including unconscious thoughts, desires, and behaviours; and changes in personality.
China Cracks Down on VPN Services After Censorship System ‘Upgrade’
We Made the Whole Company “Serverless”
Hard to say since it's still in development. Maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in. But it's focus is on parallelism and performance, so I have high hopes. Slack (a flagship of Electron apps) is currently using 850mb of ram, idle in the background. Firefox with 50 tabs open is using the same amount.
I think another lesson is that you cannot conduct a "surgical" war. We have seen this in every failed military action since Vietnam.

If you are going to go to war, the strategy should be total destruction of your enemy and his complete surrender. If you're not willing to do that, it's not worth even getting involved.
The Power of ‘Why?’ and ‘What If?’
Ask HN: What cloud automation platform do developers prefer?
There are quite a few automation platforms which help you deploy application on the cloud and test it real-time. Services like containership, elasticbox has got plethora of language/framework support and a good market place. But I am yet to find a good git based deployment system.

I do use containers to quickly setup services, but I still don't see a great git based deployment tool that I can quickly use to test my application during development.

Is there any good platform out there?

Would you mind paying $15 or so for such a platform which provides single click git based deployment on AWS or DO and supports all languages/framework and services?

Your thoughts?
Exactly-Once Streaming Ingestion in Druid
Cheers. Unfortunately it seems that the milestone name and link where they are assigned in the issue still doesn't. So you get "[user] added this to the [old_milestone_name] milestone on [date]" and then clicking it returns no issues.
No, looks fine for me (Retina display).

For those that are interested, I've also released my approach to imagery in the terminal (Python):

https://github.com/daleroberts/tv
You should not. The vast majority of "conspiracy theories" are outlandish, improbable and not founded in visible fact.

However, it is a useful mental exercise to listen to a hypothesis, perform research, synthesize your own theories and form a well rounded opinion on a topic that may, on the surface, seem impossible.
"This list is useful for people who are already used to thinking in these ways, intuitively, by being exposed to other people and learning by osmosis. Formalizing intuition leads to easy growth."

That's exactly what I'm questioning though, if that's the right way to learn things. Especially with the premise of the article, there's a risk that people are just "collecting facts" to be used as anecdotes to avoid reasoning.

"For other people, you're right, it's about as useful as reading through a list of course descriptions rather than taking the actual courses."

Somewhat ironic I read course curriculums all the time to figure out which subjects are covered and what are good beginner books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb
Add your key to authorized_keys2, however its been deprecated since 2001 (ref: http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=100508718416162&w=2 )
Apple Enters the Bot Business
Are there non-physical things? I doubt it.

Let's take the road. Obviously the mass of the road itself (the object) is physical and has physical characteristics like its components, the chemical composition of its components, the elements in the chemicals, the particles and forces in the atoms of the elements, etc.

Now let's take the idea of a road. Where does that idea actually reside? In the brains of living beings, which are themselves physical.

Ideas are information, and information is physical. You need energy to create and maintain it, and it can be quantified in terms of the entropy spent to create it. It is a persistent pattern of mass/energy.

The "world of information" only seems infinite to us because we are so inefficient at working with it outside each of our own minds. Think of the incredible amount of mass and energy that must be expended to create a road, or even a book, or even an SD card. By contrast, our 8 lb. lump of brain stores and returns vast quantities of information with seemingly no effort on our part.

But of course thinking does require physical effort. An inert human, thinking in a chair, still requires food.
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The bug is still there, and my software still has to work around it in my CSV emitter (force redundant quoting so the first byte will be '"' instead). Boo, I say!
A company wanting nearly all internet usage to be through them would be, I think.

It's kind of different than just wanting a product to be used.

The question is whether this is what they want. It seems like something similar may be.
Have you checked out R Markdown notebooks?

http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/r_notebooks.html
Comcast says it’s “not feasible” to comply with FCC cable box rules
In this case you shouldn't be. Dr David Kelly was a UK weapons inspector who told the government that he had informed his superiors that there were no WMDs. The government and the media were particularly harsh with him and he committed suicide.

There are conspiracies surrounding his death, but regardless of them it is fair to say that he was driven to an early grave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)
R Markdown Notebooks
Reifying RDF: What Works Well with Wikidata? [pdf]
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Why companies who don’t embrace remote working are wrong
Robot Cars: The Case for Laissez-Faire
Ask HN: How to Be a Tech Nomad in an Airstream?
I am thinking about buying a used Airstream and setting up the interior to have a dedicated workspace and as many of the high tech features I'm used to in my home as I can. I'm thinking solar, lithium batteries, LED lighting, etc...

I would love any advice folks may have either about specifics (use these solar panels not those) or general (living in an airstream will make you hate XXXX). Thanks!
You are confused.
The initial hypothesis is only a starting point. When building a model where 'mice are smarter than humans' you need to account for all the evidence out there.* Compared to the model where 'humans are smarter than mice' it's vastly more complex or vastly less testable.

* I have heard this defined as hypothetical baggage or implicit baggage. ie. if CO2 is not increasing temperature then why not?
One benefit you miss is by using Go in GC all Go tools (fmt, profiler, vet, godoc lints etc) available to writers of GC also which was not possible with C.

I think it is similar to Oracle was trying to JVM in Java known as Maxine. Now JVM contributors or potential contributors would know C++ but from OpenJDK website one motivation was to leverage amazing Java tooling to write its own VM.

I just noticed Oracle seems to have removed references to Maxine VM from Oracle website and OpenJDK website. Seems that project is no longer active.
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David Kelly definitely died. At the very least, he was hounded into suicide under intense media, political, professional and personal pressure, without even getting into conspiracy theories.
The Quantified SaaS
I tried this a few weeks ago with Watson for that purpose (being able phase out during conference calls); complete gibberish came out on all my trials (about 40 conference calls) with 2,3,4,5 and 8 people, all in English. All come out complete garbage. You can't even guess what we are talking about reading the entire transcripts.

Not sure if this is not just the same thing... If it is, I would love to hear your experiences.

Edit: shame I didn't publish it :)
Edit2: I had one call for which I have a colleague speaking who speaks 'the Queen's English' and same result...
My dream: Bart along Van Ness, Geary corridors, replace Caltrain down to Gilroy, another spur down the el camino from Millbrae to SJ. A mass transit bridge to Marin (oh, I know, it'll kill the views of the GGB. But tunnels at the GG seems impractical, given geography) and extend integrated public transit to Marin and beyond.
Some previous discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926243

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503824
They don't make its software. I have one and didn't notice anything: OnHub uses its own app to connect to the router.
Yeh; to be clear this is what I was aiming it. I think it's entirely fair to say that the Govt. had some not-insignificant part in driving Dr Kelly to commit suicide.

Whether a black op or not... it's certainly discouraging to a potential whistleblower.
Fair enough.

To be honest, I do agree with you that such articles should be condemned when they occur, but I just felt that this was much. And I think you have a reasonable position.
Except, the opposite of

> own as little as possible, for a clutter-free, minimalist lifestyle

is not

> keep your basement and your cupboards full of useless junk

It seems reasonable to keep one set of Christmas decoration, maybe one and a half if you don't want it to look the same every year, keep one 8-person dinner set for the three times a year you might need it. Occasionally go through your wardrobe to see if you still want to wear all your clothes, and give those away you don't want, but maybe keep two pieces that you never wear just because you like them.

A persons life is probably full of examples like this, where it's reasonable to keep items that aren't exactly useful every day, or even every month.

These things add up and come to be called clutter, just maybe because they're many pieces, even though they all have their purpose.

And don't get me wrong, there is absolutely junk that's too much, and that one probably doesn't need to keep.

But in the end this minimalist idea always seems a bit juvenile to me, where when confronted with complexity, the solution is to throw everything out instead of organizing it, recognizing that there aren't perfect systems of organization and managing to live with a small bit of actual clutter, but at the same time being able to actually host some friends coming over for dinner or fix something that's broken without first having to procure a screwdriver.
Ah yes, let's judge a project based on its implementation language. Because every Java program is insecure by default, and no exploits exist for anything written in C. Sigh.
my undergrad project was on kalman filter. He is awesome.
If people like this, they will probably find the Apache Guacamole project interesting. I was surprised to here it is a superset of this (RDP/VNC/SSH bastion box) but also handles key auth, perhaps insecurely architecturally, even if they have passwords for the remote desktop stuff compressing it and then sending it over HTTPS using a protocol they designed back in 2006. They added SSH to boot.

http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/

The main dev had a wonderful interview on SE Daily.

http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/06/27/apache-guacam...
MDN will be a huge legacy for Mozilla. Of all of their projects, I think MDN will have the biggest impact on the web. It's absolutely needed for someone who just wants to know the order of function parameters.

For a more nuanced understanding of browser behavior, you have to read the spec. Worked on a high performance network app, and I think I know the XHR spec by heart now.
Hopefully as Windows 10's mDNS implementation stabilizes and becomes more reliable we might finally see cross-platform usage for .local, and devices such as routers could advertise .local names in documentation.

(I've done some dabbling in web applications intended for internet-disconnected networks with somewhat unreliable local DNS servers, such as cruise ship networks, and .local if it worked reliably enough across platforms would probably help a lot instead of trying to pass around IP addresses.)
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Me too.

https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols
Okay, it sounds like what you call assumptions, I would call "data". Or "background data" or something.

If I think Bruce Wayne is Superman, I might base that on the fact that they're both physically very fit; that one would need to be very rich in order to have the kind of technology that is indistinguishable from alien powers; that Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered, and this could conceivably draw him to a life of fighting crime, which is a thing Superman does.

That sort of thing leads me to form the hypothesis: "Bruce Wayne is Superman".

But that sort of thing isn't what Occam's razor is about. It's about things that we haven't observed to be true, but which would need to be true for the hypothesis to hold. You should prefer a hypothesis that requires fewer such things.

If I see Bruce Wayne and Superman in the same room, then in order for Bruce Wayne to be Superman, he must have an identical twin. I haven't observed him to have one, but that's what the hypothesis requires. Accordingly, my confidence in the hypothesis decreases.
Here is a perfect read for you then: http://www.meltingasphalt.com/neurons-gone-wild/
It looks like it. There is the Ergodox (https://ergodox-ez.com) and the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard (https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/), which were/are both crowdfunded and have an ergo layout. I've also seen in a forum where someone hacked their Ms4000 to have Cherry MX keys.
What it means to be a professional
I don't see anywhere that faded242 said java was insecure, and c wasn't.
Why did URBN brands bring all web development in house?