skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting aside the fact that Windows RT was a commercial failure and discontinued which makes it weird to push yet another effort that this would be anything more than some niche demo thing like Raspberry Pi support, Windows in of itself is not what concerned potential Mac switchers.

People are concerned that they have some mission-critical, unreplaceable app that only runs on Windows, that has no acceptable Mac analog (doesn't exist, doesn't have feature parity, data formats are incompatible).

Windows on ARM doesn't solve anything because almost no Windows apps that people care about were ever ported to Windows RT. (It was probably more likely there was a Mac port.)
Any server is interesting enough to get pwned to join in on DDoS botnets. I've seen it happen to so many cheap personal VPSes.
Ah, thanks. This gives me better perspective.
Isn't it funny how Github, the supposed "leader of open source" and basically owner of the open source hosting/community, is nowhere near that list? Would love to have the source to the tool they used to get the data, and try it on github.com/github.
Hellbanned on Reddit
I've been a reddit user for many years. I didn't use it a lot because every time I posted, usually I got a bunch of ugly/snarky comments. HN had a lot higher standard for posting and conversations.

But a couple of years ago I decided to record some of my coding sessions, so I posted those Vimeo links over on reddit. I also started participating in the history forum. I love history.[1]

Weirdest thing, though. Nobody ever replied to my comments. Nobody ever voted up any of my articles or commented on any of my posts.

I'm not posting out of narcissism. It's fine with me if I have nothing useful to say. But for months on end? It was odd.

So finally, in a fit of curiosity this morning, I check the site from incognito mode.

I'm hell-banned. That is, nothing I type in appears so that anybody else could see it.

I don't know how I got this way. Doing some Googling, looks like most folks never get out of jail once they get in.

I consider this amazingly fucked up. I spent a lot of time trying to add value to a lot of conversations. None of it mattered. This looks like one of those situations where a vendor thinks that their time is valuable and your time is worthless.

I'm not really sure what to do from here.

1. Here's a link to a comment I wrote 10 months ago with a score of 33. As far as I know, I haven't done anything that could be contrued as spammy of self-promotional since then. https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/3to3n4/woodrow_wilson_was_extremely_racist_even_by_the/cx7ucab
Will the US see large engineering works this century to prevent flooding? Large stretches of Florida have quite alot of property right on the sea barely above sea level, would these property owners demand protection?
Ummm, yes. A lot of people think that's a problem. That's called corruption. Do you not?
Yes, your post was a poor choice for my reply, I apologize.
Well yes and no. I ran Windows in VirtualPC (I think) on a PowerPC MBP for a while. Pretty slow but good enough for Outlook, Word etc that I needed the compatibility for.

Say, does anyone know who owns the IP for FX!32 nowadays?
Would you like to give some examples of the leadership in behavioral change you'd like to see? I personally doubt anything save huge taxes on gasoline are going to do anything to change behavior. You can decry driving by people still need to get to work.

Laws are the only drivers of change so massive. We're fighting over oil pipelines to pump more oil for use, not which green energy gets tax breaks. And even with outrageous prices caused by taxes meant to make dangerous activity prohibitive, people still smoke.

Cash-for-clunkers-for-EV? "Infrastructure spending" in EV charging nationwide? Federally supported replacement of coal fired power plants?

People aren't going to change behavior at all because of flooding except for maybe those people under water. But they'll just move.
Ether is being heavily manipulated for a long time by the Ethereum Foundation, so having the "normal" altcoin/crypto speculation is enough to drive you nuts, but having some a team of bag holders coordinated to manipulate price is a "retail" trader killer.
Photoshop's not a good example, it was emulated PPC for ages...
Sounds toxic. Imagine this was created by someone that sees art as a collection of objects.

Art is about artist, not art - and no one wants to directly be told they are not producing "quality art" by some system.
I don't see politicians as male or female and could not care less what sex they are. Are they fit for office is the real question.

Female politicians are just hit with some special charges related to their sex. But male and female politicians are hit with all kinds of shit all the time. Compared to the avalanche of accusations that go to both, having some special accusations because you're a woman politician is not much. Plus, in the current PC climate, most respected outlets don't do that at all -- it's down to the "yellow press" so to speak to do that.

(Besides most, if not all, deserve to be called all kinds of shit anyway, as they are crappy politicians, male or female).
It was a sad day to be a North Carolinian...
So, you need a more relevant example, right?

I think The Witness might do it: it's a relatively big game, build with a custom engine. And it's quite clear it couldn't have been build with a classic engine such as Unity though telling why would be a bit spoiley. Likewise, Braid couldn't have been made with a generic 2D engine: its time mechanics are just too alien.

Another reason why Jonathan Blow chose not to use any 3rd party engine is, he wants his games to last. He wants the ability to port them to new platforms, and that ultimately means owning the code —if only to separate clearly the platform dependent parts from the rest. (I hope he'll release the code at some point, so others can continue that work.)

Being able to fix issues was also a reason. When you not only have the source code, but also have written the damn engine, you can fix anything.
As described here - https://www.reddit.com/r/shadowbanned - message the admins.

But from https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette:

"Feel free to post links to your own content (within reason). But if that's all you ever post, or it always seems to get voted down, take a good hard look in the mirror — you just might be a spammer. A widely used rule of thumb is the 9:1 ratio, i.e. only 1 out of every 10 of your submissions should be your own content."

and do feel free to remind them that

Shadowbans are meant for spammers, not real users according to reddit's CEO /u/spez - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cxedn/i_am_steve_huf...

Good luck.
Police have not confirmed why they detained the machine named Promobot, but local media was reporting the company behind the robot said police were called because it was "recording voters' opinions on [a] variety of topics for further processing and analysis by the candidate's team".

Here's the perp's website: http://en.promo-bot.ru/

Anyway, this is so much BS.

I didn't see any handcuffs being use in the video. The thing has arms but don't appear functional except to hold press releases.

Very poor choice of words. The police don't "detain" your camera or your computer when they seize evidence.

Up next: Local police arrest Corolla for to many parking violations.
Ha ha ... the Clinton Foundation is an 'operating foundation' - which means it doesn't give it's money away like other charities. So - if this was like the 'Christian Children's Fund' - than that 88% would be 88% of the money goes to Haiti or wherever, with 12% overhead.

The 'Clinton Fund' doesn't give any money away, the operate their own missions and programs - meaning that - of that 88% , any amount can go to 'consultants' 'lawyers' 'research' 'friends' 'conferences' etc.. And it does. That's a lot of money to spend - and 100% of those people work directly for Clinton Corp..
It's absolutely true that migrations in SQL databases can be a pain. I don't actually think that's a bad thing - what's really going on there is that the DBMS is throwing data integrity issues into your face, and encouraging you to think about them.

A lot of developers don't want to do that, because they want to think of data integrity as this tangential concern that's largely a distraction from their real job. A lot of developers also have a habit of cursing their forebears on a project for creating all sorts of technical debt by cutting corners on data integrity issues, while at the same time habitually cutting corners themselves in the name of ticking items off their to-do list at an incrementally faster pace.

This isn't to say that NoSQL systems make your system inherently less maintainable. But I do think NoSQL projects gained a lot of their initial market traction by appealing to developers' worst instincts with sales pitches that said, "Hey, you don't even have to worry about this!" and deceptively branding schema-on-read as "schemaless". So a reputation for sloppiness might not be deserved (or at least, that's not an issue I want to take a position on), but, in any case, it was very much earned.
How's that different than conference tickets to see a speaker or a corporation hiring a big name to speak at their event?
If you want an example of straight bribery, which is sufficiently far in the past to be non-partisan, try Rick Santorum with Accuweather.

Accuweather employees (mostly the head and his brother) donated $10,500 to his PAC and he subsequently introduced an Act trying to wall off the National Weather Service's data from the public domain.

What surprised me was how low the price tag was. These days, that barely covers a new Submariner.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum#National_Weather...
Ah, thanks. Sorry. I always confuse AI and Switzerland, as both derived from project MAC. Both were important, and are generally more famous than LCS, although LCS was arguably more influential.

It doesn't help matters that Switzerland was sometimes called project MAC, which was the original name for the collective. To further confuse matters, https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/mac/ is the Switzerland website, and it looks like Switzerland is kind of still going, even after the CSAIL merge. Unless the site's just outdated, which is also a possibility.
> So it's just a "bad play of game" if a politician allows a referendum

Yes

> very large part, likely a majority, of the population wants a referendum

Not true. Noticable minority

> This looks to me a bit contemptuous towards the voters.

Politics since 1997. Hence the ever growing disconnect.

Tory majority government elected by 22.5% of the electorate - the lowest figure ever.

Of course it's contemptuous.
"MongoDB: Because /dev/null doesn't support sharding"
I understand that I may have run afoul of that from posting the coding videos and some of my blog stuff. There's a different standard on HN than reddit.

But it was quite a while back. The only thing I can figure is that some bot ran in the last ten months and flagged me for stuff I did 1, 2 years ago (without meaning any harm)

It's extremely ironic that I didn't want to participate on reddit because of the poor atmosphere -- and ended up getting punished, presumably for contributing to the poor atmosphere?

Thanks for the links! :)
Mine is not plain-text. I embrace rich-text.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/amirbehzad/pro_resume.pdf
It attracts people to your event.

If you're paying $1,000/plate for some fundraiser, there's an expectation for something more than rubber chicken and a photo with representative so and so.
While Hillary was Secretary of State, Bill's speaking fees from foreign interests dramatically skyrocketed.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bill-clinton-cashed-hillary-s...

One example of these appears to be related to the uranium deal with Russia, where he bagged $500K. Hillary changed direction and signed off on the deal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-...

This is not the only form of payola for corrupt elites. Hillary's new book, for which she received a record $14M advance, sold less that 3000 copyies its first week. We've seen this before.
Help HN: nevermind..
It looked like a risky dependency, simple as that. Despite the HN title, the point of the article was not to talk about React Router.

EDIT: Additionally, I'm not saying React Router is bad per se, just that it's not fully baked. I'm glad to see people working on the problem. I look forward to leveraging the fruits of their labor in the future (in fact, I already do - I use the history library on which RR is built).
I used to do that; then I realised the way I was using Twitter wasn't scalable, stopped, and realised Twitter wasn't for me.

I still have it, but mostly just use it to contact customer service departments - seems to be the most painless way these days.
"And before you downvote, ask yourself: Senseless violence to stop outsiders who are just trying to survive: is it really any less bad when the outsiders are animals?"

Yes, it is.
Complete introduction to Webpack for beginners (Part1)
Does that remind anyone else of the "understanding poetry" scene from Dead Poets Society? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjHORRHXtyI
Windows 10 IoT Core is already running on ARM and it runs UWP apps: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/explore/de...
Lee is awesome! We love having him onboard.
We've been talking with lots of lawyers since the very beginning, but to be honest we are automating the role of the lawyer here. That's why we are focusing on the ex partes reexamination, which allows this kind of automation to happen.
Largest-ever study reveals environmental impact of genetically modified crops
>>In the case of top politicians, it does look very much like a convenient legal way to pay them bribes and/or rewards for "good work".

Yeah, as far as I'm concerned it's the equivalent of paying someone $200,000 for a bag of rocks. Sure, it's a legal transaction, but everyone knows the real purpose behind it: as a way to trade favors.
Microsoft is doing fine.

Their consumer product escapades are very visibly, famously star-crossed, but their revenues have always shown consistent growth, and over the past few years they've had some realizations and made some re-alignments that put them in a good strategic position for supporting all their other operations.
Isn't Angular a Google project? Shouldn't at least some of those commits be counted as some of Google's?
The department announced this week that the robot approached from behind and took the suspect's rifle as he was lying down on his belly to face a battery of SWAT team members assembling to take him down.

The robot was being controlled by an officer like an RC car. This makes it sound like the robot acted autonomously.
Tried using it, will see if we will continue.
The idea is good, but the execution not so much. If they want our designer to work with us on github, they need to let them drag and drop images into tasks. Also, no way to migrate current issues into projects as far as I see. Hope they improve it soon.
Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 get new TCP improvements
Fixing FHA loans and ending the growth Ponzi scheme that is municipal infrastructure spending would be two huge things that could reduce US contributions to the problem.
I too would like to see examples from your site. Does your book on mental models relate to this topic beyond surface relationships?
There are a lot of places like that, just Google something like:

(secret OR sensitive) (facility OR building) INSERT-LOCATION-NAME
Just thinking out loud, but what happens if the SSH server provides two salts. One is the /etc/shadow salt (including the hash type and so on) and the other is a one-time nonce salt to avoid replay attacks. So the client will first generate a crypt(3)-style string (which is equal to the one that the server has stored in /etc/shadow) and then will hash it with the connection-unique nonce to produce a hash that the server can then verify.

Now, to be fair this does mean that you have to give every client the salt for the user they're trying to authenticate as. However IMO a password storage system should still remain secure even after you get the salt for the passwords (you didn't get the hash, so the salt is not useful information to an attacker).

Would that be a viable method, or have I missed something obvious?
We all know by now CO2 and CH4 leads to a warmer planet. We also know what's driving greenhouse gas levels to rise across Earth. Contributors are deforestation, intensive animal farming, and primarily the combustion of carbon fossil fuels like coal, tar sands, oil, natural gas etc.

But here is the underlying problem, despite us knowing how bad things are, (97+% of scientists who study this field agree we are causing the planet's climate to shift away from the temperate climate we thrived in) not enough is being done at present to truly solve the problem.
What really is disheartening and what no one in the media and government is talking about is how in 2015 CO2 levels rose by the largest amount in human recorded history. 3.05 PPM http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/gr.html

We are being lied to, often mislead by our governments that uniform actions are being performed to save the planet for the future of man. Vested interests in the fossil fuel industry continue to drive climate change. Yes, solar and wind energy are starting to become incredibly efficient and cheap but not enough of it is coming online in proportion to fossil fuel burning that persists and is also installed annually. If we do not rally against it, our ability to live on this planet is at stake. The lives of our posterity are also at risk because of the burning. Even if you chose not to have kids, it still makes our work and lives meaningless if our species and other species on this planet go extinct because we allow dumping in our atmosphere to go on unfettered. It will not be until we take extreme actions not on a country level but as humanity together that we will slow the burning and save ourselves.

What are these actions you might ask that will actually be effective? These can range from banning fossil fuels entirely, global carbon pricing system, banning deforestation, changing human diets, extreme uniform investment in renewable energy and potentially fourth generation nuclear reactors, more funding for developing nations to install alternative energy sources, and to shift the transportation grid towards sustainability.
Their legislature gives them many such days.
US citizens get extradited to Britain too. It works both ways.

In this instance we have someone who's pretty clearly committed a serious crime (stealing credit card info, for example), being extradited to the country which has jurisdiction with respect to the offense committed. It's a completely normal and proper instance of extradition. I'm surprised to see people here falling for the guy's rather overwrought sob story.
It might help kill Intel though, which would make it harder for someone else to enter Apple's core markets.
A shift to ARM is a big deal for developers, so they'd probably want to give them a year like they did the last time this happened. It's also the kind of thing that Apple would want to announce at WWDC. We just had one of those a couple months ago, so that makes the next opportunity for a switchover more like summer 2018.
Trademark Registration in India – It’s All about the Date. But HOW?
Agree with everything you said, just curious is the GT in your name for Georgia Tech?
Isn't this called the iPad Pro?

PowerPC to Intel had some built in advantages: Intel was really pulling away from PowerPC and it gave Apple immediate hardware parity. Before Intel you could love their software but there were real questions about performance.

The advantages with arm seem less obvious, why would you do anything but let the market decide? Build up bigger and better iPad pros until it erodes you MacBook market.
Convenient to ignore the abuse heaped on female politicians (hell any professional) daily. Again, denial that there's a whole special category of female-bashing is not an argument. I recommend reading up on it.
Why DemoDay has to change
That is a Silicon Valley view of Starbucks full with Macs and iPhones.

Here in Europe Microsoft is doing just fine across the continent companies, not only enterprise. Including selling Windows licenses for computers used in Android development.
I have several friends who are doing the Microsoft Vancouver -> Seattle visa dance, and they're ok with it. I also have a friend who got a green card while working at Microsoft.

I think you don't realise how much better the US is for a software engineer than any other country in the world.
I think government will change slowly so I expect laws will follow social change.

People born today will have to face the environmental change that past generations heard would happen but they knew they'd die before the worst of it. As an increasing percent of the population cares, and can see the change, we'll see change anyway, maybe people will see SUVs and flying all the time like smoking.

I don't know politics, so I don't know how easy legislative change would be, but reducing subsidies to polluting industries would help. We spend billions on meat, dairy, and the corn to sustain it that pollute a lot. Also, accounting for externalities of pollution that private firms cause but the public has to deal with.

Personally, I'm more interested in helping change public views, seeing how it changed so much with smoking.
In the Heart of Silicon Valley, They Don't Want New Jobs
> I'll bet my Python code has a similar probability of working correctly on the first run, conditioned on the complexity of the task.

Having developed professionally in both Python and Haskell, the probability for me was significantly higher in Haskell.
Thanks for your response, great info.

The reason I ask is that I have a large dataset that I would like to visualize.

The ideal situation would be:
I could use python to create a giant flat plane, and then iterate over the dataset to generate the level (which initially would just be quads on the 2d plane).

The dataset would be too large to do in-engine in realtime, and the quads are static - I would like to generate the level as a 1 off process, and then have Unreal do any optimisations that it can by "compiling" the level (e.g. frustum culling, quad tree calculation etc) I might have some of those optimizations wrong since my knowledge of engines is still stuck in the Quake 1 era, but you get the gist :)

Do you think this is possible? If this tech doesn't exist, I would pay someone to develop it for me....
What universe is that happening in? There have been around 50 smoke-screen fake 'scandals' invented around Hillary in particular. None have come to anything. Millions mis-spent in tax money on what amounts to political slander.
Surely the iPhone's new chip should worry professional and creative Mac users even more. The Mac Pro is now so outdated that the iPhone is catching up to it in single-threaded performance, and one wonders if macOS is much longer for this world.
This is great but keep in mind vr/ar is going to be changing the game in the next few years. We'll be back to chasing max power.
"Free as in Baby" - how apt! I have my own children; I have no desire to adopt someone elses' brats. This explains perfectly why I'll search for a supported commercial product before any open-source deal.
Can't help with your question, but I was wondering how did you get in touch with the European startups you worked for?