skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. '90s Italy was in a state of turmoil: the economy was tanking, public finances were in disarray, the Balkans were exploding producing waves of refugees, old political parties were dying... in the newly-empty ideological landscape, Berlusconi saw an opening and took it. Rivers of ink were spent analysing that phenomenon, under the fear that we were witnessing a new Mussolini. In the end he never went full-fascist, his movement self-deflated under the weight of its own contradictions, and he buried his head in sexual escapades.

The experience of living my formative years under Berlusconi makes me optimistic on Trump. "The Donald" does not control the media landscape to the degree that Berlusconi did (or could have done); his conflicts of interest are minor; his platform is much more confusing and badly put together; and even most of his own footsoldiers don't take him too seriously, which is why he had to get a fundie for VP. Silvio was in a much better position, with more fanatical followers and widespread support from the establishment, and stil achieved very little, because the country stubbornly refused to bow to his demands. I expect Americans will similarly drag their feet. You can't dig a moat if people won't pick up their shovels.
That particular tweet falls under the "never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity" razor, which kind of undercuts the rest of the author's (fair, but quickly sketched) points.
That swirly black and white pattern is fairly common for vehicle prototypes. It lets you drive around without the stupid "tent" on the vehicle while still making it difficult for people to turn spy photos into renderings of the final product.
This is the standard stuff from our company page (http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/stack-overflow)...

20 days vacation (to start)

Flextime

No Copay Health Insurance

Whatever workstation you want (PC/MAC/Build Your Own), Monitors out the wazoo. Seriously, I have 128GB of RAM and a GTX 1080, we don't skimp here.

$3,500 a year + 3 days conference budget

Gym Reimbursement
Tuition Reimbursement

In NYC and Denver we have in house chefs

Unlimited sick time

Fully Paid Parental Leave

...but our people team is pretty empowered to make you happy.

And yeah, there's equity.
Thank you for your contribution to the growing JS ecosystem of useful, stable and well-documented libraries. I've had personal success using Moment() to solve otherwise boring and error-prone problems with date/time manipulation on a number of projects at various companies (and on side-projects and client-oriented work as well!).

While Mr. Wood might have other things preventing him from being happy and carrying the torch forward, I sincerely hope he reads this and realizes that he has made a net-positive impact. Thanks again.
Exciting news about LaunchKit
It is interesting that Go has caught on that much.
This would be analogous if the Mac was named the Apple Alto and looked like almost exactly like the Xerox Alto and even cloned the marketing materials and presentation templates that Xerox used, if Xerox had ever made the effort to come up with distinctive marketing for their computers (which they didn't, but that's the bar for "this situation is like that situation").
I'm right dead center in the middle of the targeted age group and was extremely into arcade games at the time, but everything I've seen about "Ready Player One" makes it sound pandering at best.
The poster above says I have no doubt that climate change is a problem. I have kids

Well, duh, that's why.
Here's a novel thought:

At least some of the points Eco mentioned do not require an authoritarian government to implement. For example, selective populism and racism were alive and well in the South prior to the 60's, and happily administered in a democratic system. It took, yes, a powerful government to break it up.

Removing all power from the government transforms a nation into a state of nature that empowers such fascist and elitist groups to suppress marginalized groups in the same way an authoritarian government would. This is why many neo-fascists and alt-righters pay lip-service to libertarian (or classically liberal) ideals and the two groups often overlap in practice, because a truly stateless nation would allow the "weak" to be dominated by the "naturally strong", ie., this or that better poised group.

Counter-intuitively, a state is required to maintain individual liberty, I think.

PS: To be fair, I think most people who are libertarian do not want the state of nature. For example, libertarians, AFAIK, want a government that protects property rights for example. Yes, I think if one considers Snowden's revelations, these developments don't enable the state's protection of individual liberty arguably. As we've seen, they haven't been very effective while instead are very compromising of individuals' rights.

It comes down to details, but blanket removal of all power the state just places power in the hands of the de-facto elites. It's a delicate balance we have to strike and yes debate.
The Brutal Math of Pokemon GO [video]
"Underspecified RPC" doesn't sound as cool as "REST", so I don't think there will be much rush towards abandoning "REST".
With .NET Core, all .NET languages, and ASP.NET Core being open source I'd say they've made that jump. It's literally millions of developers who use .NET and pay for Visual Studio (not to mention, this is what an incredible amount of Microsoft's products are built with), which last I checked is a billon-dollar business for MSFT. The open source stuff is where they're taking that business strategically, or at least it certainly seems that way.
well some not great privacy settings is not the same as "no privacy" therefore I would suggest those statements are not contradictory.
When a project is brand new it's definitely play time, but as it grows, matures, and more and more issues are opened up it can start to become work. It can get pretty difficult to maintain a healthy "work/life" balance as well when you have a full time job and now a new part-time, unpaid night "job" as the demand for features and bug fixes is 24/7. It can also be hard to say "no" frequently to well intentioned but off-target pull requests. I've received a few really nasty bug reports, one of which emailed me while I was out to dinner at my wife: definitely wrecked the evening. It is rewarding, but it can definitely get hard. This is a picture of my own inbox from earlier in the year.

https://cloudup.com/cg2K9ikg_Av

I literally get emails every day for issues and my projects are much smaller than the amazing moment.js. If you're not equipped mentally and emotionally to deal with the literally endless barrage of issues it gets pretty easy to feel overwhelmed.

edit: updated to use proper characters for italics
> exposure to 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁

FYI, those bold unicode letters don't render in firefox on my mac, making a large portion of your comment unreadable.
A Crescendo of Sound May Be Behind Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
"to not read this piece and be wary" is more clearly written as
"to read this piece and not be wary"

I think most readers subconsciously eliminated the nonsense interpretation.
I think the point is abandoning REST, but rather use the term REST to describe HTTP services, even if they don't use hypermedia. This is pretty much what most people already do anyway.
Verizon Sues NY to Avoid Spending on Network Maintainance
"The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a new Windows 10 feature"

whereas with the solution here presented (and with the binaries provided on the GitHub):

"At the end you will have standalone Lua distribution for Windows which:

- runs on Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 ... 32/64 bit (if you can run it on XP let me know :)

- doesn't require from its user to install any additional libraries, runtimes, frameworks into his operating system to run correctly

- you can distribute to your friends, collegues or clients with your scripts as a zip archive

- you can take with you on USB key"

It's supercool, something that has been missing.

I've tested it, if the whole zip is unpacked to d:\t

Then in any directory on Windows where the test.lua is I can just invoke

d:\t\lua_ok\bin\lua.exe test.lua

and everything works, even without any environment variables!

Great work. And to use this occasion, is73, thanks a lot! Consider making a paypal donation page for you. Wow, now I see, you also make a portable PHP 7.
Just saw it as well. Gone now, though.
I thought it was entertaining but also wouldn't recommend it unless I think someone would enjoy the nostalgic bits.

One newer sci-fi trilogy I would highly recommend is The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. The writing is a bit different but if you get over that the ideas are really novel and the story is epic and gripping. The Dark Forest (Book 2), in particular is one of my favorite sci-fi stories of all time. My Chinese coworkers all raved about the triology and for good reason. Note: the first and second book are out but the third's English translation is coming this fall (I am eagerly awaiting it).
I used to live under the approach/departure paths to one of the runways at MSP.

Landings are for all intents and purposes silent. I could sit on the deck and watch airliners landing all day long because they are completely throttled back at that point.

Takeoff, OTOH is a whole other issue. By the time they got over my house in south Minneapolis, they were already turning away (noise abatement procedures I guess), and you got used to it after a while but it was still grating. I learned pretty quick which days to keep the windows closed :-(
If you're sending an even slightly significant amount of money, there are potential tax implications too. You might need to do a 1099.
One reason that designers don't participate in open source is that they don't like the design-by-committee approach. On open source projects, everyone (understandably) wants a say in the visual and interaction design of the software. But while having many participants contributing to source code can work well, I don't think this model works well for design.

It sounds really undemocratic (why shouldn't everyone have their say?). And it undoubtedly contributes to the sterotype of the designer as diva or precious about their work. But can you think of an open source project praised for it's visual and interaction design that was colloboratively develeoped with dozens or more participants? If you can, it will be an exception, not the rule.

When there are too many participants in the design of a program, you end up with a project pulled in every direction and pleasing to no-one. But if you go the opposite route and limit design decisions to a dedicated UX team, you end up generating resentment from contributors or users who feel their input is being ignored (just look at Ubuntu for an example of this).

From a designers perspective, either of these scenarios will seem like a no-win situation.
Ranger chev
By November, Russian hackers could target voting machines
"This sort of thing really merits a judicial investigation."

If there's been a crime, and the victims step forward, then yes.

Until then, "we" should wait and see. Dirty laundry has been aired, everyone's hyper vigilant. How do the actors behave from this point forward? Is Appelbaum more Anita Hill or Clarence Thomas? Time will tell.
Trump 'encourages Russia to hack Clinton emails'
> There's a fork of their software here to install on other devices too - https://xpenology.me

It's not a fork so much as a custom bootloader for Synology's version of Linux.

Here's the official forum: http://xpenology.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2
However those abstractions rarely map to hardware well.

For example, I use hash maps and vectors for almost all of the adhoc data structures in my programs. Neither of these have a useful abstraction in hardware.

At that point, why am I using a modern programming language?
> With a large enough sample pool, we'd be able to correlate features with obscure genes, wouldn't we? Am I missing something fundamental?

Nature vs Nurture.

You'd find a huge sampling error because of epigenetics. The same genes in different people don't always kick in and do something.

However, finding out which gene + which life-style == bad stuff might still work out as a possibility.

Even those might not be repeatable in the future - I grew up running around in leaded gasoline land and the same genes will probably never have to deal with so much lead in the air in my kids. Does it matter that I might have special tolerance genes which protect my brain lead fumes?

The study would throw up interesting results, but not "feature -> genes", but maybe "genes -?-> features" (necessary but not sufficient).
We're talking about the Jony Ive who designs rectangles?

Meh. Him and Apple have stolen plenty! Isn't Steve Jobs famously quoted as saying "great artists steal"?

Anyway, what's the fucking difference if you steal a few pieces here and there or the whole thing? Nothing.

(EDIT: A piece of something is still a whole piece that you've stolen. And Apple has also stolen entire apps, like Konfabulator. They get no sympathy from me.)
Walk more as a means to get around, not just for exercise. Wear normal street clothes and walk to a nearby store, walk to an eatery for lunch or whatever you can reasonably manage.

I gave up my car some years ago. The internet advised me that I did not live in a walkable neighborhood, even though I lived about as close to my job as was possible and there were three or four shopping centers within a 20 minute walk of my apartment. I began walking to work and I and my sons began walking to get groceries and do other shopping.

The entire neighborhood began walking more. The cops stopped staking out my apartment complex. The vegetation in the area got visibly healthier.

Walk more and set the example. I have seen this make a real difference in multiple neighborhoods.
"And every single one of the authors speaks English! Talk about unbalanced!"

You're right though. Summer reading especially, since you normally have less workload, is a great time to explore other cultures. Most of these books seem to be of the popular kind.
I hope WikiLeaks moral high ground and/or credibilty are never huge factors. Their releases should probably always be treated with trust-but-verify disposition. Or maybe distrust-until-verified.

The way I look at it, WikiLeaks is basically a parallel construction. We have no idea how or where the info came from, but if it's a map to the bodies, we go there and see if it's accurate info.
It's a bug. The post was originally killed by a spam filter. We turned that off and marked it legit, but some traces of spam-filter disapproval remained. Should be fixed now.
Yeah I've always thought of genes as like dynamic code, it's hard to tell what's going on until you run it
If that happens, you can contact Amazon seller support and have them cancel the order. Also, you can restrict the quantity any one customer can buy from you.
There are 1,862 candidates for President right now [0]. The 5 or 10 candidates you will see on the ballot in your statewide election for President are those that have satisfied the ballot requirements in the state.

It turns out that satisfying the ballot requirements is already a challenge requiring organization, and that organization is called a political party.

[0] http://www.fec.gov/data/CandidateSummary.do
Thank you truly for moment. It has saved my bacon so many times.

As other commenters have stated, let us know where we can donate, to yourself or to charity. Best of luck.
> "The Juligo headlamp has become a top-selling item on Amazon. And we all know what happens to top-selling items: They get arbitraged. Other people -- Becker’s peers -- are now selling her headlamp on eBay and making a few extra bucks off her work. Does it bother her? “I think it’s awesome,” she says. “I can earn some income, and they can earn some income. It’s really fun to watch that.” "

of course she doesn't mind, her "product" is basically a quality control sticker.

> She developed a brand called Juligo, a niche in camping equipment, and found a particular hit with a headlamp. It’s just an ordinary, generic light made by a Chinese manufacturer, which she had stamped with her brand. “I’ve sold tens of thousands of those buggers, a ridiculous amount,”

however, would she still think it's awesome if someone else purchased those same headlamps from the Chinese manufacturer, put the same/similar sticker on it, had no quality control, and flooded eBay at lower cost?
If you read Megan McArdle, her hypothesis is that parties have to resort to these mechanics as they no longer have more overt methods of controlling members.
We Are Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) AMA
I really enjoyed "Children of God" and the sequel "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell. Great sci-fi.
Thank you so much for looking over it and giving me your honest opinion. It helps immensely-- I'll write up a new tech-specific CV and post it here.

I agree with your assessment of hiring managers' mindset on that, and am being discreet. I'll even come back and delete my linked CVs as soon as I get a job opportunity.
> and not nearly perfect like my programs and dev ops processes.

Sarcasm noted.
I'm actually that "someone else..." so here is my feed back on that.

I do not care about "it takes your files off of your computer except for an intelligent local cache." What does it mean for me and my photos?

Also, all my photos are uploaded into Dropbox via iPhone anyway...
Microsoft's ugly history is full of sketchy shenanigans, like the time it seemed like they were working to make sure WordPerfect wouldn't run in DOS due to subtle, breaking changes to the API (http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ancient-microsoft-nov...) or those occasions where they were suspected of kneecapping Lotus in much the same way (http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done...).

The new Microsoft leadership seems more interested in building bridges than in crushing and destroying companies Ballmer style, but I could be wrong. Removing win32 seems like a huge mistake both from an optics perspective and because of its impact on partners.
It'll just be another threadbare cultural touchstone to kowtow at in order to win mainstream "geek cred".

Snowcrash is what shaped the future.
How many different designs can one really come up with for a space efficient air purifier anyways?

Imagine if someone complained because a tire manufacturer came out with a gasp round wheel.
> Suicide before reproduction is all that would be selected against.

Not necessarily true either. If your suicide is beneficial to your siblings, for example, it won't be selected against (assuming they have the trait as well, but it hasn't expressed itself for them).
There are many examples in daily life of things that we do which are hurting us but for which the momentary pleasure outweighs the long term pain. Just to be clear, I'm not saying OSS maintaining is addictive, but it comes with costs and those costs don't go away just because you want to back away from the project. At some point you have to declare a sort of public bankruptcy, as has been done here -- otherwise the costs continue out forever.

To be more explicit using a personal example -- as a very small time OSS maintainer, I've had many people email asking me how to do something with my project. I put it out there, I would like to help them, but every bit of time I give them is time I'm not putting elsewhere. If I decline to help them it's natural to feel bad about it, especially when some people are less than polite about things. For larger projects you add in the responsibility you feel to contributors -- someone has written a PR and would like you to merge it. Often that involves quite a lot of time. Users file issues against you, or try to make your software work in environments it's not designed for, or just don't understand how it works. Very rarely does this lead to income -- in my case I wrote software as part of my job that I was able to open source. Great! But without prioritization from the company, it falls on me to manage these things, even if that's no longer my job or if I move on from the company. And my case is a good one -- many OSS maintainers will never see a dime for their work.
He can use amazon fulfillment to fulfill ebay orders. See https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId...

It's a bit more expensive than selling on Amazon, depending on the item.
What you are describing is already more-or-less the system we have. You don't need to be nominated by any political party to run for office or have your name printed on a ballot.
Enough of them don't that this eBay game becomes profitable. Consider the trouble and expense: All they're really doing is point-and-click throughout. You just need a few.
So, effectively, there is a "ceasefire".
Trump Invites Russian Cyberattack on U.S
Another mirrored aspect to this is that identifying the need, and obtaining the required mental health help (talk, drugs, etc) is not a skill that is taught/passed down/whatever very often (and it actively taught against in some cases).

So it's easy for people to not even know that they need help, or to deny to themselves that something is wrong that needs help (or worse to be actively stigmatized away from finding help).

There are a lot more "It's ok, you'll come out of that funk in no time" and "Just push through the pain, it's no big deal" conversations, than there are "You know it's ok to talk to a professional about this stuff, everyone does it" and "Having depression is like having a broken leg. Not seeking help is the crazy choice." conversations.
I believe GP meant built-up as in denser multi-family buildings, not sparser single-family buildings.
Speed Limits
I would love to see them bring containers to the consumer OS. It would be possible to launch a base container that has it's own win32k and csrss, and another that only does UWP or .net native apps. The containers themselves might only speak NTAPIs and see a small segment of the full NT filesystem. Windows would be displayed through a shared-memory version of rootless RDP. DirectX and GL/Vulkan would support direct rendering. When running a game non essential processes could be checkpointed and suspended.
They don't allow Prime accounts used for resale.
Don't be a cheap ass and hire a security guy.
Market based equalization provides a balancing force - showing not everything requires gov regulation to correct bad behaviour :)

Their popularity and role in influencing people has resulted in them getting even get more scrutiny than NYTimes and other media outlets who heavily shape and editorialize their coverage.

If FB starts losing money because of outrage brought via media and loss of advertisers, then they will be punished for negative behaviour and work to avoid it.

Otherwise, they own their web properties and are allowed to control the content as they wish.
The Magicians is a lovely book; I actually interviewed Grossman when the first one came out, in 2010: https://jakeseliger.com/2010/10/14/an-interview-with-lev-gro.... If you like it, try Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy too.

Leviathan Wakes disappoints: its plot and political economy are interesting but on a sentence-by-sentence level one wishes for more. If you haven't read it yet try Peter Watts, Blindsight.
I was thinking more about the insurgency the Americans had to fight more than invasion.

The answer is still the same, have clear objectives, devote the necessary resource and expertise, and accept casualty in the pursuit of those goal.

If we are unwilling to do those kind of things, then we have no business in waging a counterinsurgency.
>I guess a small amount above average temperatures just isn't noticeable in the average temperature graphs.

From your link

> The worldwide ocean surface temperature during June 2016 was 0.77°C (1.39°F) above the 20th century average, the highest global ocean temperature for June in the 137-year record.

0.77C is not a small amount