skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's when we'll know he's really gone off the rails.

I think I read that Kerry had said something like "sure, we'll extradite him...if you have evidence that he committed any crimes." Since any evidence they do have is likely to be pretty weak, this seems like a classic "remember that USA is the boss of you" move. A reasonable Turkish leader wouldn't call that bluff, but Ergodan seems to be slipping deeper and deeper into paranoia and autocratic madness.
Gimp and Inkscape on retina Macs do not work
I suspect robin hood would have had the support of the people that he helped, so donations is appropriate.

I'd say where the analog breaks down is the media companies aren't exactly extorting the people, nor price gouging.
Flux in the Fundraising Market
> I'd rather live under a liberal, pro-Western, secular military junta, than an illiberal democracy ruled by Islamists who are destroying liberties, hollowing out civil society, and turning the country into a Sunni version of Iran under the Ayatollahs.

(1) The Sunni version of Iran under the Ayatollahs is called "Saudi Arabia".

(2) Assuming the attribution of the coup to the Gülen movement is accurate, it would likely not have been a "liberal, pro-Western, secular military junta" but instead an "quasi-liberal, pro-Western, relatively-tolerant-but-still-Islamist military junta".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12129101
Silicon Valley: A new episode written by AI
From what I've heard, the rich treat housing as an expense, one that typically returns about 50% of the money you put into it. I'm following that strategy myself; we'll see if it works...
> This seems like a bus-factor problem. Why does it keep happening? Why aren't these sites being run by multi-national teams that can survive a loss like this?

Trust. You have to be sure the people you're working with are diligent, careful, and won't turn you in (and likewise for them).
Doesn't bother me in the least. I am in the camp with Nicholas Negroponte who in his book Being Digital dismissed HD video as a waste of bandwidth, arguing that the same bandwidth should be used for more personalized, interactive experiences.

Basically standard def video is fine for almost any entertainmment. I'd much rather get smooth streaming of a lower-def video than choppy, pixelated HD without having to pay for a top-tier connection speed from my ISP.
> I agree that I should have the choice, but if I do choose to use something insecure with full knowledge of it's insecurity, can't I be free to do that?

But you are free to do that, aren't you? Last time I checked, cyber-police wasn't going around and giving people fines for not using a TOR client.

As a matter of fact, given that you are at least aware of the concepto of "convenience tradeoff", you probably are in the minority that is qualified to exercise such freedom responsibly. You may still make a mistake and land in the "too little" (or, less likely, "too much") camp on any individual decision... but most of the time you should be making the right calls more often than not.

When people in the know say "Everyone needs security and privacy", they are not talking about you. They are talking about the guy who has seen the Swordfish movie, though it was an embelished but otherwise accurate depiction of reality, and believe that a hacker is a younger version of Wolverine with super powered intuition that can type some gibberish @500wpm until they happen to run into your password. This people is not knowledgeable enough to reason about the tradeoffs (even if they know how to reason, the lack of priors and the wrong but otherwise sensible assumptions just kill them).

We are talking about having minimally secure defaults, for the sake of those that cannot (or will not) set their own configurations.
AFAICT, the MS offering looks pretty basic by comparison [0]. No named entity recognition or sentiment analysis.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/linguisti...
Notion – Docs, Tasks, Wikis. Seamlessly in One
A Cute Internet Star Flirts. All He Wants Is Your Password.
I think this is such a hard question, I've been trying to figure out a way to do it, also.

So far my best answer is to do Jekyll, with every post 'published: false'. I like it because I can include LaTeX and probably even Lilypond.

Flaws are I haven't figured out easy photos, and haven't figured out how to journal from a mobile device.

I'd also like to encrypt my journal but I'm not sure how to combine that with git and searchability.
You are the best author in human history
So Bittorrent is decentralized but you need a centralized index of the available torrents? Is this correct? Can you find anything without a site like KAT? TIA.
Twins are easily distinguishable if you know them -- I went to high school with three pairs and they were easy to tell apart. Almost everyone has some pockmark etc. on their face, and Identical twins often have these in mirror image.
Since ES6 is valid TypeScript, it seems like you could move to Angular 2 without learning much about TypeScript (beyond how to run the compiler).
> positive example of software made outside the US

well in this particular case it seems to have been screwed over once an American company took over. Skype always worked fine before MS (and the US Government) took over.
> and will be unaffected by the 10% increase in any meaningful way

Not unaffected - property taxes would increase by 10% in many jurisdictions (where no cap exists), and other costs like insurance and maintenance would likely increase by lesser amounts.

As to why people celebrate this trend:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_effect
We press escape a lot, many even map it to something more convenient like caps.

The point I was making though is that with vim you don't exit insert mode to run commands, you enter insert mode to write text and then immediately exit to normal mode.

It may sound pedantic, but it's a core part of understanding vim. Insert mode is the mode you should spend very little time in.
Ip torrent! Granted it's a paid service though.
Progcode – network of tech volunteers for progressive candidates
> The article focuses on this issue when thumb-sucking begins to affect secondary teeth

Which ignores that fact that crooked teeth in young children can impact speech development.
Using a javascript framework to generate a static HTML site is like building an entire car so you can extract just the chassis from it.

Eagerly awaiting attacks on the car simile. Go.
Actually, even the oldest VCRs let you do that, when your source was a coax connection (cable or antenna) and you were using a true TV with its own tuner. You would select on the VCR whether to view the VCR tuner or bypass it.
Other than orders of magnitude more testing and experience and usage on FreeBSD. Much code is the same, but the glue may have bugs.
This is a man who has demonstrated an extraordinary and heretofore unrivaled degree of ignorance and stupidity on the public stage. Clinton's no angel herself, but at least she has a brain. I think there's an IQ hurdle a potential candidate needs to clear and even though it's relatively low, Trump has managed the astonishing feat of not being able to meet it. That alone disqualifies him. Any further arguments are irrelevant.

That's why one feels compelled to assume that Trump supporters - the ones we would otherwise assume are reasonably intelligent at least - must have an ulterior rationale for their vote. The most obvious explanation is closet bigotry.
Ask HN: How do you get an inspiration for product?
Greetings. I'm an young software developer with few years experience behind my back. I currently work in one of the most fastest growing startups in my country and I'm pretty happy with it. Even though I do work on it overtime and like what I'm doing, I would like to try to create an app (mobile/web) and try to grow it/maintain it all by myself, just to see how far I can go. The problem is that pretty much everything I can think of, already exists or something really similar exists. I tried to think what I could automate in my life and what problem solving software about me I could develop, but still everything I can think about is already there. At this point I'm not looking in overnight success, if I manage to create something I would be really happy if it just pays for its hosting without any earnings for me.

So my question is how do you get inspired for a product? How I can generate better ideas and actually solve someone's problem?
Define "brick". You flashed the wrong BIOS?
> If you really want to fix the problem with women in tech, you need to take all female children away from their parents and raise them in state-run facilities where they're taught that they actually can do math and play with toys that aren't dolls and pursue careers in these fields. Somehow, I doubt this suggestion will be seriously considered....

Been tried throughout history. It almost never works and is as horrific as it sounds humanitarian wise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...
It was "good" for its time --but it could have been more user friendly if they had let that outfit legally manufacture double decker duplicating VCRs which were sued from selling to consumers -- tho I think they were allowed to sell to commercial interests. No thanks to mr Valenti, it seems.

That said, I do not see the modern day appeal. It's not an antikythera.
Looks nice, but would be much nicer if I can create an account instead of using Google to sign up.
The Ship can only be called the same ship because it was used continuously during one journey. If the sailors had disembarked, broke the ship down on land, and reused some of the parts to rebuild it, nobody would be calling it the same ship. Only because it happened slowly do they call it the same ship.

If they took part of the ship and used it to build a new ship, and rebuilt the parts they took with new wood, they wouldn't call the new ship the same ship as the old ship.

So it's perfectly fine to identify as the continuous stream of awareness, and are perfectly justified to state that a break in that continuity would constitute creation of a new person rather than a continuation of the current one.
What this tells me is that the only important part of the site (the content) is 20KB in size, and that the other 498KB is mostly for developer convenience?

How is this a good tradeoff? A 25x increase in page size justifies what kind of benefit?

For efficiency's sake in general, not to mention for a drastic reduction in data usage for mobile users or users with slow connections, I don't see why so much extra cruft is necessary.
And to think that Turkey was considered for EU membership - That's definitely off the table now. It's a testament as to how quickly Turkey has declined.

Even without EU membership, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Turkish people will try to relocate to Europe and elsewhere. This would be a massive brain and capital drain for Turkey - Especially given that this is a country which was considered safe and progressive not so long ago...
A Super VHS VCR using Super VHS tapes provides surprisingly good quality for generic analog.
Doesn't gmail handle this really well? It doesn't change often, so it should be too hard to build a filter.
Smarthires.io (YC S14) shuts down – no real service
Plagiarizing an older comment of mine...

>The things that scare me about death are the ideas that my specific goals would be left unpursued, that my responsibilities would be abandoned, my friends would lose my friendship, and that my memories and experiences would lose their significance upon the world.

None of those are necessarily an issue if an accurate digital copy of me continues on. Worrying about continuity sounds to me like worrying about whether you're the same person after sleeping.
Distributed discovery is possible, but you quickly run into spam/noise problems. Centralized communities generally have features such as curation and deduplication (duplication is bad for torrents, as it causes peers to be spread across multiple slightly-different packages of files, reducing the available peers for both).

It's not a technical problem, it's a social one.
Peripheral Interchange Program.

Gary Kildall recreated PIP for CP/M because he had come from using Digital/DEC systems. It wasn't just RSX-11, it was in a bunch of PDP stuff going back.

It was a pretty "revolutionary" feature of Unix that device I/O was just in the filesystem along with everything else so all software could access devices. (Not claiming revolutionary as in invented, revolutionary as in one of the things that helped unix achieve ubiquity and would be the first place most people saw it. Maybe it came from Multics, I don't recall.) Without filesystem mapped I/O, you need to create peripheral interchange programs to do ordinary things like copy files and print. Once you get used to PIP style file specification on command lines, it's a next step to push it into the OS API, so CON: will always mean the console, rather than only to software like PIP. This is the origin of MS-DOS having those special names too.

And colon as a special character in a file specification (I didn't say filename) is not just Windows, it's also in Unix (that's where it came from in http:), that's why I'm astonished to hear that people are naming files with colons in them. It used to be, there were more experienced people you worked with who would teach you very quickly that you don't put colons in filenames. Those days are gone, it's emojis all the way down, including some very sad emojis.
Can Ultrasound Diagnose Autism?
Adele, Adam and the Farm
https://youtu.be/mhBpJSmzDgg
I don't know what came over me. Early in the morning a few days ago I was working away in the orchard listening to Adele and these words just came to me...
Should have used bitcoin :(
Agreed that's impressive debugging for this issue. But...

> 10 minutes to roll out the fix

That seems very slow to me. 30% of their down time was because their deploy process is slow.
Performance without Compromise: React.js for TV UIs
> there's nothing stopping the US or others from giving various Kurdish groups weaponry which could threaten Turkey's air superiority (AA missiles, not jets).

Well, except Iraq.

That is, there is considerable tension between Iraqi Kurdistan and the central government (the fact that Kurdistan has its own army and the Iraqi army is banned from Kurdistan is one of the irritants on the Iraqi side -- the US arming the Kurds in a way that would make them able to effectively resist Turkey would not be a good thing for the internal stability of Iraq. Or for Iraqi-Kurdistan relations if it happened after Kurdistan broke away completely, like it has shown some interest in doing recently.)

(Actually, reinforcing Iraqi Kurdistan -- and even moreso an ex-Iraqi Kurdistan -- this way would also escalate tensions with Iran, Syria -- and because of the last -- probably also Russia.)
If you haven't read predictable revenue take a look at that. It'll help you develop a cadence of outreach touches to warm prospects through the process. One of my favorite tips he recommends is the "referral down".

1. Connect with leader of organization on Linkedin.
2. Wait 3 days.
3. Send one line email to leader of organization politely requesting a referral down to the decision maker and stakeholder you'd like to speak with.
4. Have initial qualifying conversation with stakeholder.

This leads to a much higher connect rate than just calling in cold.
Do you get more than one peer? I seem to get only one when I disable media.peerconnection.enabled and I assume that one peer is just the server streaming the video directly.
>In what world is a targeted harassment campaign considered "freedom of speech"?

Who decides where that line is drawn?

>And why do you care so much about the harassers, yet offer nothing for those who's speech is silenced because they are harassed off the platform? Do those people not matter?

The can block/ignore/filter, just like everyone has always done.
> Imagine if house prices tomorrow were to increase by 10% across the board, throughout the country. Who exactly would that help?

Lets say you bought a $400,000 house with $50k down (12% down). You have 88% LtV. Which means you have PMI and all sorts of extra fees on there.

If prices rose 10%, to $440,000, your LtV is now 79.5%, which means you qualify for a standard refinance and can knock PMI off of your payments.

So now you have a lower monthly payment (no more PMI).

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If you flip the house, you would have made $90k on a $50k investment, or a 80% growth of your money.

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There are plenty of ways to benefit from increased equity. And no, the bank definitely doesn't benefit. The homeowner does.
That's not how it works. If you don't fight for your rights, you will lose them.
The engineering was initially more complex. But once the production tooling was done, it probably didn't cost a lot to churn them out.

The quality of the components in a cheap VCR is also shocking. Compare a early Sony Betamax deck to one of the $49 VCRs you could buy at the end of their era.
I'm interested in the problem of how you would solve a distributed system that is moderated yet guards against bad actors.

To answer your question I think these are one man shops because they get shut down before reaching the size that you could have a larger team involved. Maybe if someone without a profit motive started something up they'd build a system that solved the problem above and could therefore last longer than a lone individual's contribution.
> I think the public has a basic capacity for logic and that's as basic as it gets.

Trump is literally lying about his opposition to the Iraq war and his supporters don't care. He also picked a running mate who voted for the Iraq war, despite criticizing his opponent for it.

I try not to paint an entire populous with a broad brush. But logic doesn't appear to be something that, on average, is exhibited by the voters.
Rebooting Digital Security
Good find! Where did you see this? Or was it in the comments via Nick Craver?
Admittedly I haven't stepped through all the code, but it's 958 lines and doesn't look horrible. It somewhat resembles the example C programs here:

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/

In particular there don't seem to be crazy optimizations and non-portable stuff like you see in other production regex implementations and in interpreters. It's pure ANSI C.

The functions are all short -- no 1000 line monsters like I've seen in a lot of old C code lately.

The rsc example code is actually a great example of using pointers in C. People rightly avoid lots of raw pointers for application code, but for this use case, they yield compact and elegant code.
> ...except that code can change quickly at a low cost, while regulations are costly to change.

And you don't think that's a salient difference? Particularly in light of the adversarial nature of politics, which was one of your comment's parent's points, and which is a major contributing factor to such changes being so costly?
Regexes are almost always a massive code smell. They should almost never be used, bad idea, bad implementation, hard to grok, hard to debug, hard to test, hard to spot.

Whoever came up with them has surely been given the same honorary place in hell with Jon Postel, who invented the utterly disastrous "be liberal in what you accept", that has plagued all web developers for the last 20 years.
You could ask the same question with 'sleep' instead of 'general anesthesia'. Every day we are born again (or die, if you want to look at it that way).
Yea among the first things I replace in a new install

* Internet Explorer (because it can't explore the modern internet)

* File Explorer (because it can't explore files on my system)
They can try... they revoked a lot of people's ability to travel.
Still hasn't killed as many characters as GRRM
If sexism in society does not cause a non-50/50 gender balance, what does? It must be innate preferences or abilities. I.e. the explanation is either nurture or it is nature.

Some people are willing to easily chalk up the differences to nature, without much in the way of concrete evidence. Others see dramatic changes in the representation of women in various professions over just a couple of generations,[1] and conclude that society must be driving the change, not genetics.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
You would need to convert it to NTSC. Probably most set-top boxes still have a cable coax output on channel 3 or 4, which you could connect to your VCR.
Cell phones used to bypass the official international connections are popular in countries with stupid regulation. One guy in Honduras used to run a phone bank (IP->Honduras) out of a van. He'd drive around to avoid being triangulated. When you make 5+ cents a minute per 20kbps stream, all sorts of stuff becomes interesting.
What exactly is a substring function, and what makes it different than a regex?
Lars Bak made V8, and both Kasper Lund and Lars Bak contributed the HotSpot VM. And if you don't consider Gilad Bracha (Who works on the Dart Language Specification) to be a language designer, you probably don't have a clue what he has done.
I think it's time for the U.S. to erect an Armenian Genocide monument in D.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
While it is true that this was possible, that does not mean it was easy. It may have happened, but I cannot recall a single time when I or someone in my family actually succeeded in doing that.
Oh wow, how do you edit the URL?

I've been locked out of my old hotmail account since they wanted my phone number. I'd like to just check if there's anything in there, then that's it for me with hotmail.
The examples you give : Instagram, YouTube & Apple Music are 'familiar' services that serve media.

You can argue that the major population does not need education to understand the data these apps will use.

Pokemon is a newer gaming app that gives out no obvious signals about it's high data usage.

I'm not saying the customer is not to be held responsible, I'm saying it would just have been good UX to provide a warning about typical app data usage.

The government does seem to be overreaching here.
It can also create breathing problems like snoring in later life
I actually make private Facebook wall posts to myself. It's great, easy to see and scroll through any time, and I can also add my friends individually (or a list of them) at a time when it's appropriate to share. The interface is great, I can comment on my own thoughts... I know this won't get any fans in this crowd but I think it's great.
Glad I was eating porridge for that one haha
Zipcar has been rolling out "one-way" trips in several cities: LA, Philadelphia, Denver, Boston, Seattle... You still have to return the vehicle to a Zipcar parking spot, but it can be at a different location from where you started your trip.

Given that Car2Go and ReachNow (BMW's car-sharing beta in Seattle) seem to be thriving, it seems wise for Zipcar to explore true one-way trips (i.e., park anywhere).
I had the EXACT same experience, and also lost my balance (<$10) on it. I now use hangouts for video & whatsapp for voice calling, and skype only when there's no other option.
Will they still get visa free travel to the EU? Seems like they have a big enough stick with all the refugees.