skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's okay to foist an injustice upon someone because they were ignorant or lazy? We should be making our social systems fail-safe when the consequences are so severe. It shouldn't be possible to eject someone like that without round after round of appeals and second chances to get good paperwork, and if they were eligible for citizenship, and in good faith relied on the idea that they were citizens, then by all rights they should be one.
maybe you are right about Windows 7, but Windows 8/8.1 has the same driver model with Windows 10 so at least that won't be an issue. now why would anyone want to run Windows 8.1 instead of Windows 10 is unclear to me.
That phrase is laden with subjective meanings:

Liberty: positive or negative liberty?

Freedom: freedom from or for what? Obligation, morality, ethics, work, or responsibility?

Justice: is this rule of law, or some type of social justice?
Why is Google Maps Widget the fastest plugin for the job
I disagree with using "Congress" as a euphemism for the political party one is in opposition to. Clearly a majority of Americans believe in their own senators and representatives. It's the "other guys" who are bad. Call a spade a spade.
It does mention the airline: Delta.
>> Apparently, none of our clothes or electronics are being fabricated by (economic) slaves.

You know the full argument as well as I do, I'd think?

For a country to get rich, it walks up a staircase. It starts with simple industry, investments in education and at the top after two-three generations are Japan or South Korea? What to do to walk the staircase is known today, there are examples. It mainly needs lack of conflicts, little corruption and good (capitalist) governance.

If you have good counter arguments, other than that China has one generation left of stairclimbing, I'm interested?

This was what changed my world view regarding this:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19...
You can block what you want using the built in firewall
http://winaero.com/blog/stop-windows-10-spying-on-you-using-...
The LBRY team had a reddit AMA earlier wherein many redditors asked some very pointed (though often impolite) questions that I think were not answered very well by the team: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/50tyub/were_the_nerds....

The top comment, reproduced verbatim:

Suppose i created address with name of my company lbry/:Mycompany and i bought this address at 1 LBC.

On that address i will be posting my music that i created myself. This address becomes very popular. People often going on that address and buy music created by me. After 4 months it appears my music that you can find on address lbry/:Mycompany becomes very popular. So some guys came in, he sees that many people come in to that address to buy stuff. So he buys lbry/:Mycompany with 1.1 LBC and started posting his content and sells it. So the first guy who created lbry/:Mycompany in a lose position here. He make this address very popular to attend and then he loses it. And right now it is a headeache for him to try buy back this address on greater price or make another name.

So what is the point of such system?
A casual observation of mine which I find intriguing me is that people who tend to make such complaints are largely just as obnoxious and objectionable as their targets.
Better is of course subjective, and I might suggest a hint of rose-tinted glasses there.

I've been using Windows professionally since Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and whilst sure I miss some of the simplicity and cleanness of older versions, every time I actually have to use one of the old versions I'm constantly bumping into annoyances and missing features that I've gotten used to with Windows 10

One small but important, to me, example ie being able to resize command shell windows by dragging them! and easy copy/paste !
It is interesting how everyone can pass the blame for emissions. In Australia there is an argument from some that even though we are the highest polluter by capita our net emissions are low enough that it doesn't really matter what we do.

A country like India or China could then turn that around a say if other countries that have a very high standard of life won't do anything then why should we.
Got some proof of that?
In germany all emergency aid is privileged in the sense that the law bars any suit against you (except probably purposefully causing damages and injury) and all insurance claims are covered by the Berufsgenossenschaft (sort of a public insurance for anything work-related). I'd expect that many jurisdictions have similar laws since that just makes sense from the view of the society.
Seven Magnificent Big Data Success Stories
Hahah, and when your goverment makes some things hard for you, you vote with your property and move to another country. Why complaining? Just move, right.
Interesting, but there's an awful lot of UFO and remote viewing mentions in there.
> I've never understood why U.S. is so protective in terms of citizenship.

In some ways it isn't: merely being born here grants citizenship. That's no longer the case in any EU country: Ireland repealed birthright citizenship years ago.

It means that simply flying to the US on a tourist visa before your baby is born will grant it citizenship. But living in the US on a work visa for 18 years after your baby is born? That doesn't grant anything.
This Wednesday he literally promised to create a "deportation force". The comparison isn't too far off.
>> Airways, oropharyngeal. Most people don't know how to use those. Might be useful, though

> Most people don't know how to use any of this stuff... That's why they page for a doctor...

In Australia we teach OPAs in Advanced First Aid (not the first aid certification that most people get, but it's a component of the training that workplace first aid officers at any large business must undertake). I'm not sure whether flight attendants are required to undergo that training but it would not be unreasonable to make them.

Of course, as you say, when you can page for a doctor...
> However your point is still correct: RHEL 6 which will support these new chips was released a year after Windows 7. RHEL 5, released two years before Win7 is no longer getting hardware enablement, only security fixes and other critical stuff.

How does that make his point correct? There's still Windows 8, which neither gets support, and which was released two years after RHEL 6.

Windows 8.1 was technically also its own version and released 3 years after RHEL 6, but I'd even be okay with ignoring that one.
The only problem is that Rawls was wrong; there is ample evidence showing that we have differing views on what is right even when shielded by a 'veil of ignorance'. For instance, your view of equality is not the same as mine, as I favor a 'rule of law' paradigm of equality (, and I do not mean to imply that you are 'wrong'). The author here seems to value Pareto (absolute and widespread) improvements over relative measures, which you appear to prioritize; one could even make the case that you are encouraging avarice.
In what way was I pushing others to switch to Linux? I literally said I do not bother trying to make others switch.

I simply gave the reasons I prefer desktop Linux to Windows and yes I believe desktop Linux is "great". In my experience it is certainly not "subpar" compared to Windows, hence why I use it.
Homebrew is better in one obvious way: You can't break your system and the packages are usually up to date. With pacman you do one wrong step and your system fails to boot.
Designing Akka.NET Applications from Scratch
That is a feature of US law, isn't it? Quite a few countries have laws that compel people to render first aid and at the same time offer protection from prosecution even if the first aid makes matters worse.
I have a horrible idea, but I'm curious; what would happen if everyone had some ownership of any data they create (such as through copyright) or perhaps data that could be linked to them in any way.
Yep, exactly. You just need to compare everything against the same context.
I think it's called a katabatic wind, see the bottom of http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~kpt/terraquest/va/science/climate/c...
Global blockchain summit to be covered by China's biggest news agency
Automatically Locate When and Where Bugs Were Introduced with Git Bisect
I'm in Australia, so my good list is Qantas, Emirates and Singapore Airlines for any flight longer then about 2 hours.
Vegetarian-arian: only rests vegetarians...
How exactly are you going to apply for a green card at 18? It's not like most 18 year olds have the necessary university degrees to qualify for an employment based green card. And 18 is a bit young to be getting married to qualify for a marriage based green card.
E-ink readers are a luxury, unfortunately. Where phone and tablets can be justified in most homes as being multipurpose, ereaders are fundamentally single-purpose. This is why their share of the market grows so slowly - it's limited to hardcore readers and the wealthy. We need eink to go beyond dedicated devices.
Yes. I world also like to see the delay randomized between 3 and 10 days so that nobody can tell what tempo you're replying at.
Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness
Yeah. On some level, I try to get people to read "he faces up to ..." as "he faces no more than ..."

Still though, a little disproportionate.
Jenkins Makes a UX Splash with Blue Ocean (and ReactJS)
and with humour:
> Git's internal date-formatting code can now correctly show dates past the year 2100. Phew, fixed with only 84 years to spare.
Glad to hear it, even though I am not really surprised.

eBooks have several well-known advantages, but for all their worth and utility, there are some areas in which they just cannot match real books.

To name but one: multi-sensory input. Humans are designed to experience the world around them with as many senses as possible. Physical books can stimulate up to four of our five senses. Sight (obviously), hearing (the rustling of pages), touch (the feel of paper, the relative thickness of the part of the book you've already read vs. what is still unread) and (especially on older books) smell.

eBooks only really offer sight, and, to a very limited extent, touch. That this paucity of sensuous input does not satisfy us as much as a physical book should not come as a surprise.
This is the disturbing thing about corporations, profit is their moral compass.

It takes people with power in the corporate structure to contradict that default.
On adrenaline. This is presumably in there for anaphylactic shock - in which case it will make a huge difference right?
What bad results in IMAP or SMTP? In my experience this works as advertised.
What's wrong with single-purpose devices?
There's an intersting article here on the US situation.
Seems you do have good protection, though it's not absolute.

http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics...
It is nice to be able to buy used books. The problem with e-books is that they were designed to cut out those historical rights to lend and resell. Turns out: people don't like them as much that way. Oops.
That was my first response to the article as well. However, I do not put blame on the airline since his condition could not have been noticeable upon boarding. I would assume they would have done something about a noticeably sick passenger regardless of seat location. Instead, the passenger was incredibly selfish for taking an exit row seat considering they knew they were sick.
While you were 'in doubt' I recently reinstalled my old laptop (with the same restricted set of software except updates) so it can boot quickly and open explorer instantly, not in a couple of seconds. This behavior disappears at the time you install all updates. I experienced that many times on many pcs. Not that you should trust me, test it.
I really like the solution of offering 'public transport bicycles' at stations. I've used it in a number of cities in Holland and seen it in action in Barcelona and (IIRC) Paris.

Barcelona in particular seems to have really gone all-in on this solution. The city, or at least the center, is covered in spots where you can pick up or leave such a bike using a card.

In Holland it's understandably not as widely rolled out because most people have at least one bike in the city where they live, and often a second bike for the city where they work.
Some years ago, I used to wonder why all kinds of companies were getting into "big data". Turns out, most of the examples I learned about were all doing analytics. Marketing teams have become like day-traders on wall street: Rather than investing in long term proven paths that happen to be slow, they are obsessed with collecting all kinds of scraps of current information. As a privacy advocate, I find it makes me scratch every "big data" job off the list whenever I look for employment. (That's not to say all "big data" jobs are that way, but why find out when you can just read the company name and ask yourself if that sort of company has anything to do with lots of data?)

I suspect, too, that the pervasiveness of GA has driven up the usage of NoScript as much as malicious JS awareness.
No fault insurance is something that a lot of people would like to see in places where it's not. It allows for an environment where problems see the light of day and can be fixed. Germany commonly seems to get a lot of things right.
To un-trust on OS X:

1. Open Keychain

2. Search for Startcom (3 results)

3. Double click each certificate

4. Open Trust section (expand small arrow)

5. Select "Never Trust" for the first option.
Better than what my calculus labs did - Assigned 30 questions and then randomly marked five of them (same five for everybody) on everyone's paper. Thing is - you never knew which five they were going to look at.
So we can't eat baked or fried vegetables either? There's a huge difference between plant matter that is pyrolised and that which is vaporized at about 200c. It's obvious. When you vaporize it mostly remains behind whereas when you smoke it mostly gets turned into ash, which you inhale.

Cannabis has been shown to have anti-cancer properties in at least two clinical studies that I know of. Not the miracle cure that some cannabis advocates say it is, but certainly worth researching.

The fact that cannabis reduces side effects of cancer treatments is well known and a major reason why it is prescribed in the US.

It's absolutely ridiculous that the DEA continues to insist that it's not a medicine, it's clearly a medicine.
> Oh my god, those damn chat boxes! I work for a company that uses one of those chat box providers. They seem to be actively used and i haven't gotten many complaints.

My hosting provider has a support chat box that occasionally pops up, but generally isn't very intrusive. I've used it a bunch of times for support and it's been very helpful. I think chatboxes are great when they're used in this way.

Anything else is just annoying.
They both give you bignums by default. They only differ slightly in implementation.

Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> type(10)
<type 'int'>
>>> type(10 ** 100)
<type 'long'>
I think not having explicit support for proxies in HTTPs is a fundamental design mistake, so seeing how you’re keen on putting me in a camp, I’d like to volunteer for that one.

The term MITM is appropriate because it shows the whole thing is a charade. If handing off secret keys to third parties with absolutely no transparency past the first hop is the standard modus operandi then the entire protocol is a big fat joke. The only purpose, as far as I can tell, is to further centralize the web. First it was ICANN with domain registration, now it’s certificate authorities. Soon you’ll need a special permission from government to host a website.

HTTP(s) needs to be burned to the ground and replaced with something better. Liberty and freedom are at stake. How’s that for FUD.
Thank you for the suggestions! The blur and convolution packages are definitely among the first things to be optimised, lots of other features could benefit from a much needed faster convolve function.

Halide looks very interesting, I found the "Halide Talk" video on their website to be a great primer on their methods.
Sending people back who came illegally while people all around the world are waiting to come legally has zero in common with Nazis.
Being the 15th man on an NBA team can be better than being a starter on an NFL team. The median NFL player only makes about as much as a 1st-round non-lottery pick NBA rookie. Moreover, for the most part, NBA contracts are fully guaranteed, unlike NFL contracts, that have all manner of byzantine bonus and base salary constructs.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/players.html

http://blog.futureadvisor.com/nfl-players-must-go-long-on-re...
PC-BSD ... sorry ... TrueOS Desktop (and Server) has had that idea of ZFS snapshots for "boot environments" for some time.

* https://blog.pcbsd.org/2012/07/9-1-feature-multiple-boot-env...

* https://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/06/pc-bsd-status-update/

* https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/a-closer-look-at-the-changes-...

* https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/the-revamped-life-preserver/
> checking everything when you land a plane

And critically, before you take off. This is what checklists are for.
One of the numeric types `Integer` in Haskell prelude is an integer with unlimited precision.

https://wiki.haskell.org/Learn_Haskell_in_10_minutes#Simple_...
Immigration is complex enough that there are lawyers who specialise in immigration law. Most people can't afford immigration lawyers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11972135
Flush and Fuel: Drivers Can Now Gas Up at Sewage Plants in Japan
When discretionary spending is limited, multipurpose devices are easier to justify. This is why the number of readers on tablets and phones is growing at much faster pace, despite a poorer reading experience: people buy those devices for multiple purposes, including reading books.

Amazon should try giving away paperwhites for free.
Meanwhile Donald Trump promises he'll get the USA out of this agreement when he gets to be dictator...
[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36401174
Art of Protest: Student-Built Scale Model of $20B ‘Bailout City’
Cool story, but I've never been talking about any conspiracy. If something does not appear in media or HN, it does not mean it's not happening. It's just not too sexy to discuss, because there's no way how the imperfect and definitely not exemplary environmental policy of a fading piece of former empire can be interesting to anyone. And its too complicated to explain to readers, why this shadow of grey does matter - it's much easier to paint black and white picture with bad Putin and good "Tolstoevsky". It's hardly normal to write an article criticizing someone without asking for his comment. With your link it's exactly what's happened. It's clearly a bias, but I don't believe in conspiracies and my only explanation is that the topic is uninteresting and journalist is too lazy to get his job properly done. And, unfortunately, this is happening quite often on such dull topics, where media do not do proper fact-checking and align the available information either to black or to white. I don't blame them - readers don't care, but if you care, you have not to rely on single article with a political statement and opinions of few people from opposition.

By the way, for some reason you have chosen about "renewable energy projects", but I've not been mentioning them alone (yes, they exist, but not as big as in many other places in the world and HN is not an industrial news bulletin to mention them). Environmentally friendly industrial policy consists not only of them and energy sector is not the only source of emissions.
> the crew in charge of checking failed

What other checks might have been missed? Fuel? Flap-setting? Doors are closed?

Cleaning and catering are not legal requirements to ensure the safety of the flight, unlike FAA-mandated equipment.
I'm really interested in the possibilities that are opened up by package managers such as Nix and Guix. Atomic upgrades/rollbacks, side by side installation of libraries and apps, multi-user support...

It's just a shame that the maintainers of Nix think that labelling it as "The Purely Functional Package Manager" is the best way to sell it. Same goes for Guix, "The Emacs of Distros" - they say that like it's a good thing.
Can you cite anything that mentions birth control as having anything to do with roman empire collapse? I'm genuinely interested.
Swift has release-mode assertions, they're done with precondition().
LBRY: a decentralized, community-owned YouTube alternative – AMA
Yes, that stupid American electorate who can't understand basic economics.

I really wish everyone could be as enlightened as yourself.
Building more houses is great. Buying the same houses for increasingly higher prices is not that great.
you are totally right and yes, media handling is beautiful :)
Aight, I'll need to read their docs exhaustively, I had to anyway. Thanks nonetheless.
I never understand why so many people find it so hard to change, and get used to a simpler way of doing things. Your computer has a power button, or (if it's a laptop) you can simply close it. Windows supports sleep and standby very well.

We have two oldfashioned desktop computers running Windows 10 in our home. They are shared by the family and kids for email, browsing and gaming, everyone (and even several of our kids friends') has a Microsoft account on each computer. The computers are turned "on" and "off" many times a day, using the POWER button. The computers take less than 3 seconds to start, as they are actually just sleeping.
Where did I say that you were pushing others to switch to Linux?
I clearly said that the article was doing that.
You instead stated an absolute truth that Desktop Linux is great, that is simply untrue by all means.
I want to disagree with everything you just said. Linux needs to not do this at all.

There is no possible way for open source to compete effectively with the design and research resources of large companies. But there's also no need to: everyone has been screwing it up for years.

Linux just needs to be simple, stupid but work. And the kernel level is pretty good at this. My window manager (cinnamon) is very good at this. At some point we've actually solved UI on a flat screen, and we're just going around in circles trying to reinvent it poorly.

So I disagree - Linux needs 2 or 3 mimics of other window manager layouts, and we need standards to ensure everyone can code to all of those easily.
it doesn't make a gif but I think it's really nifty to get a similar (better?) effect: https://asciinema.org/
> a YouTube alternative would have to be able to pay the content creator while delivering their content to users for free

True, but that holds only for a small part of YouTube. I think the majority of videos on YouTube are not being paid for.
How 'eye-tracking' could change our experience of cities – for better or worse
Ironically, perhaps, when comparing current desktop Linux distros ("current" meaning "less than ten years old") to Windows, printing on Windows seems like an exquisite form of self-torture. CUPS (both on OS X and open source Unx systems) just puts Windows printing to shame.

As for Wifi, none of the devices I own have given me any problems. I've heard people curse NetworkManager, but it has always worked nicely for me, including VPN support. Maybe I just got lucky, but I have never run into any problems.

(My desktop is a MacMini, just to be clear, but all my other computers run various Linux distros or BSD; I mainly stick to OS X on my desktop because I need to access my Exchange mailbox at work, and on OS X it "just works", while on Linux/*BSD, it only sorta-kinda works - except, apparently, for CentOS 7 using GNOME 3 and Evolution. It's not like I am particularly unhappy with OS X, though.)
There are "second hand" ebook markets out there such as ebookrequest.com also plenty of sites to get enough free books to thousand lifetimes.