skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am clearly correct that we did not hit peak oil back then

It may be the case that Thiel misinterpreted the economic consequences of peak oil and made bad bets based on it (particularly, there are no particular clear short-term market effects associated with peak oil beyond greater price volatility).

> The peak oil histeria from 5 or ten years ago was about the claim that we had already hit peak oil and pretty soon we wouldn't have enough petroleum to even grow food and we were all going to die.

The idea that the point that will be the peak in the smoothed long-term production curve is already past is not yet rejected, though there remains some doubt as to whether that point is in the recent past or not.

The idea that the peak would have any particularly clear set of clear short-term market consequences (and particularly anything like "we wouldn't have enough petroleum to even grow food" or "we were all going to die") has never been part of peak oil theory. Now, its clearly possible Thiel bought into some crazy idea like this secondary to peak oil theory, but that's a different issue than peak oil itself.
My guess is that the generals at the top are well-aware of political and military realities and the downfall of the caliphate was planned for. Sure, some of the faithful will fall away disillusioned, but not all of them.
No, it's not legal, but AFAICT it's usually activated with a switch, not always-on, so the cops would have to actually catch them in the act. Also, this kind of thing is surely almost always done in areas where there's no emissions testing (such as the South), so it's just not that easy to catch violators.
It just took me three hours yesterday to secure a single Wordpress install. Three hours is a lot less than a year, but on the other hand it's longer than the 10 minutes I was expecting.
I just eat a bite of watermelon and then eat some cheese, but any way is fine. Just find a ratio of watermelon to cheese that you like, usually about 3/1 or more (feta is pretty salty).
Carrier of News has arrived.
I don't see it that way. I know my taxes went up under Obama--not only do I not care, I'm not even sure how much they went up. Gay marriage being legalized, on the other hand--that was a big deal.
> Coke is much more spiced and refined ... Pepsi is what people who eat Doritos and Mountain Dew prefer, ie. they don't care what they consume.

I think I see what you did there.
People who lie about having checked signal integrity suck. I have a horror story of my own along these lines, with very creative memory corruption.
Ask HN: What version of code are you running?
As software developers we are surrounded by an industry obsess with optimizing hardware, improving software, and project methodologies. But who is working on you the individual? Burnout, frustration, blame, and resignation are just a few of the symptoms common in our industry. So when is the last time you did an upgrade of your code, the one that was installed by others as a youth? Is it serving you today in the direction you wish to go? How buggy is the current version? I have been there and I'm on a mission to help my fellow developers with "The Three R's". http://threeRmindset.com
Isn't that the parent's point? If copying a book you own can be a crime, so can repairing an item you own. Both restrictions are equally arbitrary. While only one of those may be illegal today, there is no reason they couldn't both be illegal tomorrow. There is nothing inherit to ownership that prevents the latter from becoming a crime at some point.
I really love the django ORM, after your model are done you can create a really fast api with DRF, and if you want to try graphql/relay is possible with graphene https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene.
> but it appears that the above commenter downvoted me for having a conflicting opinion

I may be mistaken, but I don't think you can downvote replies to your comments.
Physics-based synthesis is an active research area, and will be for decades, I think. We are still pretty far from the mark.
PromoRepublic Raises Funding, Goes US
False. Jet Blue is way better than United, for example.
> This is all it does.

Looks non-trivial to me. That's removing 18 patches/fixes, four of which don't have a description.

If I were you I'd re-install, get OneDrive back into working order (if indeed one or more of these uninstalls is the cause), then re-apply these hacks one at a time until OneDrive starts misbehaving....then put it back.

Blindly running a script like this based on "advice" from the internet, without knowing the consequences each time some wave of new patches/fixes arrives on Patch Tuesday, is a wee bit scary. Especially if it's your primary work/wage generating machine.
Ironically yes! Haha
http://something.com

or use what Google does when Chrome notifies you of a login gateway to public wifi:
http://www.gstatic.com/generate_204
Clicked through and got the answer within a second.

http://i.imgur.com/4hjX71d.png

What a succinct way to demonstrate why people use Ad/Script Blockers.

HubSpot is geared towards marketers, so I can understand why they push the limits in terms of seeing what they can get away with. But, when you run a content site and you want to send anonymous users Desktop Notifications, you have to ask yourself: "is this really a sustainable way to use desktop notifications, or am I just ruining it for everyone?"

The "fake notification" at the bottom too... How is that any better than those banner ads that pretend to be OS dialog boxes?
Every TLS speed concern I've heard has been about the server speed, not the client speed.

The servers shouldn't be running on old MacBook airs.
How Does Google Measure User Experience?
> There are always practical limitations to site-wide technical changes, and HTTPS Everywhere is no different. Sites and content we consider ‘archival’ that involve no signing in or personalisation, such as the News Online archive on news.bbc.co.uk, will remain HTTP-only. This is due to the cost we’d incur processing tens of millions of old files to rewrite internal links to HTTPS when balanced against the benefit.

Not to be snarky, but haven't people written tools to help with this? This seems like a common issue. I mean, there's `sed` and similar tools, obviously, but something that could go, validate that the link works over https://, and update it. I don't see why that would need to be some monumental amount of work.

HTTPS is more than just privacy. See https://certsimple.com/blog/ssl-why-do-i-need-it and https://www.troyhunt.com/ssl-is-not-about-encryption/
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Line Jumps in U.S. Debut of 2016’s Biggest Technology IPO
NativeBase – The missing piece of React Native
Yeah, it's a request like "Do not track" with no controls to enforce it besides pulling a plug out.

edit:

To _b_'s point: "Info Sharing" is merely the promise of the marketeers', info cloistering/monetizing/weaponizing(?) are the realities.
Unless I'm missing something, there's a race condition between "check if there are new commits to pull before force pushing" and "new commits come in". This workflow might work for a very small team but for a larger team it is bound to cause problems.
> How so?

Because many pop musicians are successful without “knowledge and skill in music” as it was defined at the time. I would push “pop music” even further back to traditional folk music, which has rarely been appreciated by professionals. Though, I guess commercial pop really took off with the invention of the phonograph.

> Still, there are some things that almost everybody agrees are better than some other things. For example, someone singing out of tune, or a beginner playing the violin.

Put it into a loop, add some other loops, I can work with that. The main problem with poor music performance is the lack of consistency, not the quality of the sound itself. I remember when rock came out, and the old people all said it sounded horrible, who would want to listen to the screeches and distortions of electric guitars.

We now have simultaneous islands of knowledge and skill of music. Most successful musicians specialize in a particular genre, and nobody has time to be skilled at all the popular genres, both composition and performance.

Then each genre has a tendency to ossify and split, as young people take music in a new direction, and the old practitioners say, that’s not our music. Rock music split off from jazz. In the old days, jazz was rebellious music associated with African Americans. Now, the local community college teaches jazz classes. Amusingly, the freeform jazz musicians there are old white men, and the young African American man teaches a rigid formal version of jazz. When the teachers put on the end-of-semester concerts, the old white men let their students play, but the African American hires professionals from out of state to do the solos.

So, no, you can’t extract a category of people ”who are knowledgeable about and skilled in music themselves” to be an arbiter of taste.
Good on BBC for coming right out and talking about their plans in public. Love reading this stuff!
I totally agree. I think your code should be clean and your history should be accurate. I think as developers we're very focussed on writing clean code and documentation. We should try to write clear commit messages that relay the intention. But we shouldn't worry about adding one more commit if it makes the code better. I wrote about it in detail in http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/gitlab_flow.html#squashin... Of course rebasing is fine if you have not pushed your branch yet.

BTW some teams do prefer a rebase workflow and we want to support them in GitLab too, showing a diff with the changes in an MR if the commit was overwritten
It says to merge PRs but also mentions that rebasing the branch being pulled first is a good practice. This would be a fast forward merge, effectively serving the same purpose as a rebase, no?

As for the example of a "linter" commit, I feel that lends itself more naturally to teaching git commit, git commit --amend, or rewriting history. Which the OP is not about.
Writing your library in Objective-C is silly if you mean to use it from Swift. The languages are incredibly different (value types, powerful protocols, generics vs. just objects and simple C types), so you'll heavily limit yourself by writing in Objective-C. Nullability annotations don't really make up for that. If you're using Swift, don't limit yourself by writing your components in Objective-C.
So, am I to read this as to mean that when I send Dropbox a JPEG, they are behind the scenes further compressing it using Lepton? Then when I request it back, they are re-converting it back to JPEG?
Those ideologues are also insecure in their own beliefs:

> A series of communiques issued in the Islamic State’s Syrian enclave last month closed down Internet cafes in one province and ordered the destruction of TVs and satellite dishes in another.
The orders, billed as an effort to eliminate a tool for “disseminating infidel beliefs,” effectively cut off access to news from the outside world.

Tyrants everywhere know their position will not withstand debate.

This is something the tech community can help with: provide uncensorable, unblockable, and anonymous comm channels to keep the world talking.
What is the “state of the art” of SEO today?
The Confederate States of America ended 151 years ago and there remain no shortage of people willing to pick up that flag.

Hatred doesn't mix well with rational thought.
This is what worries me about Nintendo. With the possible exception of Pokemon Go, they aren't capturing new users. They make money off of loyal fans who grew up with Mario and Zelda. Do kids today care about Nintendo?
[Int. CEO, at least 2 VPs, Creative Director, Designer. In all glass conference room huddled behind a designer, looking at his screen. Everyone in the open plan office shifty eyes, trying to eavesdrop.]

CEO: Who approved that?

Designer: You did...

CD: ...at the last review.

CEO: I did? Well ...it needs to change. I was thinking...

[1 month later, 48 hrs to launch.]

CEO: When did we change that?
Open letter from technology sector leaders on Donald Trump’s candidacy
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So the US is exceptional and defies the phenomena we see in other countries?
> Clean project history is overrated.

I go back and forth on this issue.

On one hand, I like having commits that do one thing. Makes it easier to "read" a project's history, to revert things, to track down bug introductions.

On the other hand, I like having a history of the mess of how I actually implemented something, because it's more accurate and more detailed, both of which help when I go all DETECTIVE-MODE: ACTIVATE.

But on the other hand, the mess often includes such uselessly awful commit messages, and lots of terrible code that only existed for like 2 hours until I realized it was the wrong way to do it, and scrapped it. That's kind of a red earring.

So I don't really have a firm opinion on it anymore. I just go with whatever I feel that day. That said, I'm a team of 1 and have been for about 4 years, so it doesn't matter too much in my case.
Im not that surprised. I'm sure the fact that ISIS commanders are boiling their own soldiers in acid[1] because they refuse to fight is not helping moral.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3598477/ISIS-execute...
I agree. I messed around with it for a bit, and realized it didn't even have the depth of the Gen 1 game, and gave up on it. Its a great idea, with tons of potential, but right now it doesn't have any real gameplay.
The written news is even worse, a gigantic live feed of what every idiot on Twitter thinks mixed in with exploding popup ads that capture your click if you're not perfectly precise 'Here's what @TotallyNotAPaidShill had to say about the latest political scandal' [Click Here to see 9 ways you can lose weight with Prolexitroll]
Washington Post. Buzzfeed. The Guardian.

New York Times still dosent have HTTPs.
May i use this chance to promote some free alternatives to Still-cloned-Star-Craft:
http://www.istrolid.com/game.html
Embarcadero releases a free version of their C++ compiler
Are those the same things?
Interesting sub-thread. But most commentary seems to be assuming that there is only one cyberspace - like in Snow Crash. That is not the case and I don't see it becoming the case. When I walk around in AR cyberspace, I'll not see things that others decide to show me. I'll see no ads. I'll see no obnoxious graffiti. Why would I. It's my cyberspace - I'll see and interact with things of my own choosing.
You can embed SVG in HTML if you want to limit asset requests.
An open letter from technology sector leaders on Trump’s candidacy for President
The F-35 Era Takes Flight
a small toy keyboard would be a good bet. They're nearly indestructible and cheap. definitely worth it.
I mean free. Free as in speech and beer. maybe use the MIT license but add something about data being free.

Another example would be... if you wrote search engine crawler. you would have to do something similar to common crawl.

the idea is... if you write open source tools for collecting big data. how can you get people to share it.
Marvelous Mini Generator Draws Energy from Saltwater
Pokémon Go and GraphQL with AWS Lambda
Would be good.

In the meanwhile, pretend you are the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) working for the US Navy, and they have explained that for their nuclear armed, submarine launched intercontinental ballistic missiles they have one heck of a navigation problem. They tried inertial navigation but are not pleased with it.

So, some physics guys thought about some satellites sending out signals, the Doppler shift, etc. Some back of the envelope physics was some convincing due diligence. The system was built and deployed as planned, and a receiver on the roof of the lab routinely navigated itself within one foot.

No question. No doubt. Worked great the first time.

Disclosure: Have to track the satellites quite carefully and update the data on their orbits frequently, and the JHU/APL had a group doing that. At one time I was a programmer, on the fast Fourier transform with passive sonar data, in that group and heard the stories.

There are many more examples where some such applied math/physics, etc. worked great. The due diligence was carefully done, and the batting average for the projects was terrific.

Instead of empirical pattern matching, just do due diligence on such projects one at a time. That's what the US DoD has long done.

E.g., look at that truck with some long tubes on the back the US just deployed to South Korea. Each tube has a missile that can get up to altitude like right now and hit an incoming warhead. So, given several warheads and several missiles, how to assign missiles to the warheads? There's some nice applied math there. And don't have to wait for a pattern of nuclear wars to know that the math will work.

Maybe the lack of enough data for pattern matching is the bad news, but, then, the good news is that same lack of data -- we're talking greenfield here, guys!

To heck with the pattern matching: Instead pick a problem, one that with the first good or a much better solution enough customer/users will care enough about to yield spectacular revenue and earnings. Then, use applied math, physics, etc. to get the crucial core of such a good solution. Write the software. Go live. Get publicity. Please the target audience. Smile on the way to the bank. The core tech permits better or first good solutions to challenging problems, gives crucial technological advantage, barrier to entry, proprietary intellectual property, etc.

But, as for the JHU/APL project for the US Navy and many more US DoD projects, have to do the due diligence one project at a time. Sorry 'bout that.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.
> The need to walk around is a lot of friction to playing a location based game.

The only reason I play Ingress is the social aspect of it, and the need for walking. I don't have any other game in my cellphone that I play regularly and I don't care about angry birds and so on. If I want a seated experience my computer has far better games.

So, it depends on the user, there are no absolutes in gaming.
A similar approach has also been developed for use with zpaq, a compression format which stores the decompression algorithm as bytecode in the archive:

[The configuration] "jpg_test2" by Jan Ondrus compresses JPEG images (which are already compressed) by an additional 15%. It uses a preprocessor that expands Huffman codes to whole bytes, followed by context modeling.
http://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaqutil.html
How File Locking Facilitates Collaboration in the Cloud
The post said that Cloudfare communicates with TPB via its IP address, not its host name, and that Airtel must be sniffing the hostname out of the header. So if they went full TLS Airtel would have to block the relevant IPs, which can be a little harder to find out, instead of the host.
Just need to get proper desktop notifications integrated into this alpha version.
Point: Google is a monopoly. I don't believe enough research has been done to decide if they've used their monopoly in an anti-competitive manner.

Interested to see what the EU conclusions are.
Well, I can understand how the principle being asserted would apply to cultural preferences with respect to scales & modes...but beyond that, eh, not so much.
What advantages does this have over <video>?
Now I understand!!! Thanks :)
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out!
'New York Times' story says Trump doesn't rule out quitting after winning
That's the idea behind the algorithm, yes. And since it's lossless, every original bit is preserved. The same idea could be applied on the Desktop client instead of on the server, which would save 22% of the bandwidth as well and make syncing faster.
New event management plugin demo for WordPress
was south integrated? the docs say it hasn't http://south.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about.html#a-brief-his... but maybe it's outdated?
Nintendo Classic Mini
Aaaaand ScamSpot wants to put notifications in my browser.
I bet you do know the difference - you just didn't know the words. And now you do!
High switching costs can make monopolies worse. And yes, it is possible to switch away from Google search. But it's still a monopoly, and it's held in place by various means.

For example, the vast majority of people - not tech people like us - do think that they can't switch away. They don't understand the distinction between a web browser, a search engine, email, etc. For them, Google is how they access the internet, and that means google.com, and often also means Chrome and gmail.

The monopoly is also held in place by Android, which defaults to Google services (search, email, etc.) very strongly. Of course, us tech people know how to avoid that if we want, but the majority of people don't even know they can. And even if they do, it's not easy for them.
This is the same for me. I've also learned how to recognize an album that I WILL like after more listening, which feels really weird, but it works.

Also, very catchy albums that immediately grab me rarely prove to have long-term listenability for me. An example would be the Postal Service album, I remember thinking that was really catchy and great, but after a few listens I hated it.
The nicest thing about Cloud9 is being open source you can install it on your own hardware so those VMs don't have to be remote.
The Wii U shop knows what VC games you've already purchased for Wii, because it offers upgrade pricing for most of them. And there are a few games out there that do cross-buy between the Wii U and 3DS shops.

The multiple purchase issue is a strategic/marketing issue, not a technical one.
I'm a little surprised at all the negativity. Everybody complains that the two parties are the same, but as soon as the prospect of a Trump/Thiel ticket comes up (which would, at the very least, shake things up), people freak out.

I'm about as far from a libertarian as you can get, but I find this interesting! The combination of Trump's willingness to attack everything, and Thiel's ideas on disruption could put a lot of sacred cows up for debate. Regardless of what side you're on, that's not a bad thing. It forces the other side to articulate defenses of the status quo, instead of leaning on inertia.
As someone that's tried many times to learn Emacs, I found Vim's basic features a lot easier to pick up.

I think that may be because all the mode changes are single keys, rather than Emacs, where I constantly have to ask things like "Okay, was it control, alt, meta, or some combination + S to save my file?"

Vim does the : command line thing, but it's an actual command line, with editing, rather than a series of hotkeys.

This annoys me because I'd really like to learn Emacs. It seems you can live in it - but the learning curve is hardly gentle.
Although I'm a pole, I'd appreciate if this link was posted with translation.
Yeah that kinda works, except you have to make sure that you add your error code to the end every time you add something. Also, you're still stuck with doing the check if your code doesn't quit hit this pattern.
Sexual Harassment Is Invisible to Half the Population
So you really can blame baby boomers for nickelback.
Go is a solution looking for a problem!
The Kochs are the 21st century Kochs. Peter Thiel hasn't had any major success as a political donor, while the Kochs have been wildly successful as political donors and furthering their political agendas.
Three Puzzles Inspired by Ramanujan
They enabled Secure HTTP don't forget. Not the insecure kind a lot of people might be thinking about here.
This has happen to me with some of my favorite albums/bands. I'll be completely unimpressed the first go around but months later I'll fall in love.
US would stop accepting applications for EB-1 visa from Indians and Chinese
So it's just a char-RNN? I was hoping this was using one of the seq2seq frameworks for actually writing code, like https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06640