skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also note that this is in the US.

Other parts of the world have had wild cat populations for millions of years.
A Better Way to Map Forms in Scala
A lot of the science-y crap that is popular today is no better than creationism and magical thinking. The problem isn't science, it's "science for everyone" and scientists' failure to jealously guard their turf.
Just use "brew services", it couldn't be easier.
What it’s like to work at Snapchat, one of the most secretive companies in tech
Already taken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP
They really should have used a different name: https://www.nasa.gov/nextstep
Service Discovery and Visibility with Ease on DC/OS
That's exactly like saying humans ought to only live in the savannah of Africa as hunters and gatherers. Just because that's where humans evolved doesn't mean that that is the only way they are "supposed" to live, nor is where they are "happiest". For starters, humans in civilization and indoor cats live a heck of a lot longer and don't have to worry about getting eaten by predators.
Part II: Intro to Web Application Data Security and Cryptography
I wonder if it's this same code? https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/scripts/inject_...
Why should they? Roads are not there only for those actually using them: they are meant to be always available for everyone.

Right, this line of reasoning leads to, why should anyone without kids pay for schools? And so on and so on. It's OK to believe that mind, it's a free country, but you would need to be consistent about it.
Not having a healthy predator prey relationship in areas leads to public health issues.

But at the first coyote or cougar sighting in the suburbs, the rifles come out. And then we wonder where all those feral cats came from.
Of course, Debian/kFreeBSD is an ambitious project - and probably not what you want if you would rather run FreeBSD -- but Debian/kFreeBSD already exists (I'm not sure of the status of Stretch and/or support for the FreeBSD 11 kernel etc):

https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
The use-case? Well, you have a process that will run for a long time. You don't want to keep a terminal open. You /could/ just detach it. Now what if you want to kill it? Open another terminal, kill it by PID or through pkill. Clicking a button might be more convenient.
>And it was an accomplishment worthy of remembrance since it required a combination of a certain level of technological advancement and courage.

There is evidence that Polynesians made it to the "new world" long before Europeans (http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/storie...). And even in the case of Europenas, they were able to do it with the technology invented in 10th/11th centuries e.g. Leif Erickson's voyage. It was just that the political and economic climes were not optimal for them to sail West until centuries later.

The notion of the progress and advancement inherent to Europeans as "discovers" is propaganda. We celebrate it because they killed most of the people who were there first and got claim it all for themselves.
Advice I keep emailing myself
I haven’t visited their site at all in the entire past week.
I don't think so.

When Apple tried A/UX he was on his way out and it was never an attempt to replace Mac OS.

Regarding NeXT, the company was targeting the new workstation market, which was moving away from Lisp and Ada Machines into UNIX ones, thanks to UNIX code being freely available, as AT&T was not allowed to charge for it.

NeXT main competition were Sun and Irix workstations, so a certain compatibility with UNIX was desired.

However the whole Mach stack was very UNIX-unlike. Many naysayers regarding Objective-C use for systems programming aren't aware that even NextSTEP drivers were written in it.

So it was all about business, Steve was always keen on how Xerox PARC OSes used to work.
1- Probably but not certainly, and a little caution (say, 100 more years of remote sensing exploration as technology improves) will go a long way.

2- I'm not so anthropocentric as to think that the only value in the universe is human value. It's not our universe; we're an infinitesimal fraction of it. Other life has inhabited earth for billions of years, and maybe other places too. The terrestrial or extraterrestrial environments have value for existing and future life, regardless of whether that is human life. And most of life isn't human, and won't be in the future either.
> The font rendering in Windows is indeed pretty bad

Windows vs. OS X have quite different philosophies in font rendering:

> https://blog.codinghorror.com/font-rendering-respecting-the-...

"Apple generally believes that the goal of the algorithm should be to preserve the design of the typeface as much as possible, even at the cost of a little bit of blurriness.

Microsoft generally believes that the shape of each letter should be hammered into pixel boundaries to prevent blur and improve readability, even at the cost of not being true to the typeface."

Also under Windows font hintings and other subtile details of the font format have much more importance on a good-looking font display than in the font rendering algorithm than under OS X.

Source:

> https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/a-closer-look-at-fo...

(This article is from 2012; I don't know whether it is still up-to-date):

"On Mac OS and iOS, we hardly have any control over the rendering, which is acceptable (since it’s generally very reliable). [...]
On Windows, hinting matters—especially for TrueType-based fonts (the only Web fonts Internet Explorer 6–8 will accept). Apart from that, one significant control we have over the rendering is the choice between TrueType and PostScript. Except for very well-hinted fonts in smaller sizes, the latter is equal or superior in rendering, and easier to produce. Even though DirectWrite is making Windows rendering more pleasant, it will not remove the necessity to provide well-hinted fonts."
Plans for MS Sql Server support soon?
Author here, this is the beginning of a series of related releases.
On it's own it can be useful, but it is possibly not too exciting, if you don't target Windows.
Surface does have its fair share of bugs. At least in my experience (YMMV) the macOS bugs are more critical and often revolve around NVRAM, which somehow only breaks things for Mac devices.

The newest and my personal favorite is a faulty file save/open dialog on OS X. Anytime an app invokes that, the entire app crashes. Really fun in Chrome, Word, Atom, or any other app that involves opening or saving files.
yarn.lock[0] is similar to composer.lock[1]

[0] https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/99dd4504469273332f01ce5...
[1] https://github.com/composer/composer/blob/20ee689bb464edfe7e...
Wow, this is super convenient. Thanks!
What would a "new market" on Mars really look like? Living on Mars would be extremely harsh for the foreseeable future, inhabitants would be struggling just to meet their basic needs for many, many, generations and the life of a successful Martian entrepreneur (in terms of material wealth) would be comparable to an American pauper.
I agree it doesn't hurt to explore, but we have vast technological means to do so now remotely from our lovely planet Earth. We have a rover that climbs over terrain, never has to sleep or eat, and can do mass spectrometry. The need to insert humans on Mars is arrogance.
I switched to linux for my laptop this year and encountered surprisingly few problems. The distribution defaulted the KDE plasma and I certainly don't feel punished for leaving the command line.

[edit]

The only issue so far is that when I unplug an external display, it sometimes fails to shrink my desktop accordingly. I've seen issues of a similar level of annoyance on macs as well.

[edit2]

There are the other standard linux things (every piece of software is configured differently &c.) but as we are talking about someone who uses linux on the server already, I didn't consider that apropos.
I wouldn't call a slow migration that has no written record on the same scale as the exploration of the new world.
You probably use less information to uniquely identify users in apps that you write. Assuming you write apps in the first place.
Also, you don't know if there was consent before the recording started.
Well sure, but the point is that saying "I am INTJ" is like saying "My blood sugar is X." It may be true at the moment, but it's not a useful statement about the general prevailing conditions.

But people take the test once, and then use the results for a long period of time. Guess what? At night, blood sugar level goes down. it's no longer X. And likewise with this test.
get a multi currency account from a singaporean bank.
Why didn't you move to Birmingham?
A documentation crash course for developers
Yeah, they're on The Guardian from when before Greenwald turned the leaks into his The Intercept venture [1]. It was one of the documents in the 2nd round of leaks about a month or so after the original PRISM and phone metadata. This presentation was the first evidence that the United States spied on State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in addition to foreign governments.

The presentation was for analyst training, and the Petrobras intrusion was nonchalantly used as an example.

If you're just getting into learning about the Snowden leaks and NSA network exploitation, I would suggest starting from the beginning in 2013, checking out the original The Guardian articles and the NYT and Washington Post ones. Der Spiegel also received one or two leaks as well; the articles were written by Jacob Appelbaum and are fairly thorough. The Guardian and Der Spiegel articles are heavily editorialized and jump to some conclusions that were later discounted, but overall the reporting is decent.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-bra...
Yes. This makes it part of code reviews and is what keeps everyone who might ever use the project(whether human or CI) using the same libraries.
The Economy Mahathir Created
Not to be snarky, but we announced Julia in Feb 2012, which is less than 5 years ago. Unless you happened to be in the MIT class that used Julia in the Fall of 2011, you're probably overestimating how long you've been following the project.

If you're comfortable using R and the tooling and performance it offers, you should probably keep using it. Julia isn't just about big data, but it does tend to appeal to people who are struggling with problems that are sufficiently hard that their old tools left them in a world of pain. That pain may comes from size, complexity, CPU-intensiveness, or need for more language expressiveness (a hard thing to define). In particular, Julia offers a unique combination of productivity and speed for numerical work that can't be found anywhere else.
Dutch bike are different, more sturdy, built for bad weather, built for being outside in rain and wind and cold all day and night. Most of the time they are parked outdoors because there is no room to park them inside the house, especially in the bigger cities. They are relatively heavy, but simple and can easily survive twenty years outside. They will look horrible, dirty, old, broken, and they are.

Many bikes here have wheels that are not straight anymore. But still they are used daily. Tires are soft, chain is worn out, and still it works. They not only carry the cyclist but also his or her friend on the bagage holder on the back, which is probably wobbly.

OK, what I'm describing here is the typical student bicycle. It may not be efficient, but it is cheap and it works and it gets you there. We don't use these bicycles for long distances, but for short onces, going from home to the supermarket or school.

In Amsterdam and Utrecht at Central Station they have bicycle parking lots for about 20.000 bikes. And many times you have to search and search to find an empty spot. When you park your bike here, anyone can throw his or her bike against it, or pull another bike out of it with force, damaging your bike. Not everyone acts like this, but it happens now and then.

So bikes are efficient in a different way than the bikes I see on pictures in NYC.
It's still expensive. Although it is now easier to get, it's still easier to simply join a group plan at work.
Taking only Gas Taxation as the only "user tax" is dubious at best

"User" Based taxation figures should include

1. Gas Taxes

2. Sales Taxes on vehicles

3. Registrations and Inspection Fees

4. Yearly Excise Taxation

5. Environmental Fees

an several other kinds of taxes that directly apply to operation of motor vehicles,

Further this study (that I saw) did not seem to address the MASSIVE subsidy given to commercial operations on the Interstate system, the Gas taxes paid by Commercial Trucking companies is fraction of that charged to operators of non-commercial vehicles.
Or the Chicago streets around bus stops are often warped and wavey.. whereas the lane away from the bus stop is flat.

So obviously heavy things can do damage.. but roads do wear out even if they just sit.
Why the internet only just works (2006)
nicely done, hope it works out as a business for youse guise
+1. Similarly, as a creator do I have the option of opting out all my viewers of metrics, so that the issue never even comes up for them?

If I'm creating a video, I don't want the people I'm sending it to to feel like I'm getting marketing data from them (assuming I'm not).
ha, got a laugh from that.
Echo, interfaces and friction
Censorship Kills Potential Twitter Acquisition
Yahoo users find it hard to leave due to disabled mail forwarding
I'll put a terrier up against a cat any day. As you describe: grab, bite, dead, move on to the next one. None of this "let's play with it for a bit" crap from cats, there's work to be done.

Mole problem? Borrow a dachshund for a week, no more moles. For efficient, methodical obliteration of a local pest population, hard to beat a canine for Terminator-like determination and efficiency. Cats just dick around too much.
Looks very promising! Are there limitations on the length of recordings?
You could say the discovery and subsequent colonization was deterministic. Considering Man is driven largely by self-interest we won't be seeing a Mars colonization like that of the Americas unless there is something on Mars which can be exploited.
Your comment works surprisingly well like this:

As an individual (Taurus) thoroughly interested in astrology, I often see this discussion brought up. As a short rebuttal, I feel as though many of those who tout astrology as a comprehensive personality test fail to understand what astrology attempts to identify. While the "value-add" is more subjective, I'm going to go ahead and say it's not as useless as this article claims. While I don't think anyone (especially employers) should rely heavily on astrology, I think it can provide a decent framework (or starting point) outlining basic facets of an individual's personality based on their own perspective. Though I often distrust individual claims about belonging a sign, given my interest in understanding myself and facets of my own personality, I enjoy discussing why a person may claim to be a part of a certain sign.
For me, astrology tends to be little more than a starting point for discussing the finer parts of my own personality, values, and perspectives. I find that those who are equally interested in astrology share similar values in self-understanding, thus a starting point for some interesting discussion.

Your comment can be distilled to "it's fun to talk about".
As someone who is an amateur at cryptography, are you being earnest or facetious about the terrifying nature of ECDSA?
Does anyone if there's a commonality amongst these IoT security cameras that is facilitating this? Is it just non-sensible defaults or is something more like the embedded webserver/SoC?
Generally, I uniquely identify users by PK sequences on a table with UNIQUE constraints on various pieces of User data.

So if Apple had made credit cards and/or test devices UNIQUE to a given account then sure...but that's not what they did here did they?
I'm sure that will fix itself very soon.
The "clarity and less eye strain" of being unable to use tools that don't explicitly support it without nearly unreadable antialiasing artifacts?
This work aboard the space station is the heart and soul of the first stage of NASA’s Journey to Mars; a stage we call “Earth Dependent.”

The ISS and shuttle are (or in the case of the shuttle "were") broadly considered a waste. There was a recent article posted here that described how they really only existed for each other ... and to give NASA a public facing "expedition".
WP REST API Team Proposes to Merge Content Endpoints into WordPress 4.7
Even though I disagree with your post, I upvoted it to counter the people on this site who downvote merely because they disagree with somebody's comment.
"Ruining a mountain side" is one thing when it sustains an ecosystem of life. It's harder to argue we are ruining something like a planet with no life.
Have you seen how many people use ad blockers? I'm finding people on Reddit and Imgur who talk about using NoScript and uMatrix! People are learning, but as with all things, it takes time.
Yep, I was thinking that it will make the viewers feel like someone is standing over the shoulder watching.
This statement is a misunderstanding of the Bayesian approach:

"Take the proposition that the Earth goes round the Sun. It either does or it doesn’t, so it’s hard to see how we could pick a probability for this statement."

Bayes Factor, the Bayesian alternative to a NHST, is quite a bit different than simply creating the Bayesian equivalent of a t-test. Bayes factor asks "How many times better is my Hypothesis at explaining the data than an alternate Hypothesis". So the Bayesian statement would first pit one model of the Earth's orbit against another. The Bayesian statement of the question of the Earth's orbit would be:

"How much more likely is the astronomical data we've observed to have happened given that the Earth revolves around the sun than it is if the sun revolved around the Earth."

For a more concrete example let's suppose that we have a coin. I think the coin has only heads and you think it is a fair coin, with a 50/50 chance of getting heads or tails. We observe three heads in a row. My hypothesis says that the probability of getting 3 heads in a row given a trick coin is 1. Your hypothesis says that the probability of getting 3 heads in a row given a fair coin is 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 = 0.125. My hypothesis explains the data 1/0.125 = 8 times better than your hypothesis. Now suppose the next flip is a tail. The probability of HHHT in my model is 0 and yours is 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 = 0.0625. You're hypothesis explains the model infinitely better than mine!

Now we can say that our new Hypothesis is that the coin is fair. Suppose another friend comes along and claims that they thought the coin had a 75% chance of getting heads and only a 25% chance of tails. We flip the coin 5 more times and get HHTTH. Your hypothesis says 0.5^5 = 0.03125, and the friend's says 0.75^3 x 0.25^2 = 0.0263... You're hypothesis explains the data only 1.2 times better than theirs. Clearly, we need more data to feel really confident in one hypothesis over the other.

If you want an even longer example, I wrote a post awhile back about "Bayesian Reasoning in the Twilight Zone" that goes into more detail (including priors)[0]

[0] https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2016/3/16/bayesian-reasoni...
It's not clear that's ever getting a UK release, though import is a possibility. Also I'm not sold on the second screen - it adds to an already large phone.

Definite possibility.
Numba and Cython can be very competitive with Julia.
Or maybe just tags, then you could subscribe to tags of interest, e.g. 'security', 'AI'
True, but by noting your blood sugar readings over a long period of time, taking note of the spikes, drops, and so forth, you gain some insight into your health and diet.

Same thing, here. I wouldn't put much stock into a single result on a single test, but I think there's some broader value to be gained by examining the trend, the fluctuations, and what you wind up as more often than not.
Cappella Romana is truly an amazing group. I was fortunate to have them visit my Church for the Nativity season last year.
I'm guessing that they use LLVM's C++ API, which is not stable between releases. The C++ API changes dramatically from one version to the next, so upgrading LLVM versions typically a big effort for downstream projects. The LLVM C API, however, is meant to be stable. For C++ users, it may make some sense to write a stable C++ API wrapping the LLVM C API.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the LLVM project.
Wikileaks release Part 3 of Podesta emails
Seems somewhat ironic that an article about DDoD is published on CloudFlare's blog.
>Apple said "Hey, write a post telling the whole story and all will be cleared. Just don't say we were at fault."

Why should Apple tell devs what to publish on their blogs? That does seem like blackmail: say you are sorry and we will let you back in.
It would probably be different for orbital missions as opposed to interplanetary missions -- at least at first!
Apple has known this fraud reviews for a long while, we are talking about 1000s and a time line of two years. I am wondering Apple would normally have terminated the account long ago if DASH wasn't a popular app.

I read a lot of the previous HN thread saying Apple blackmailing him. This point would be correct if you consider Apple was wrong, and this Guy borrowing his credit card AND account to this "relative" ( Which we still dont know if he/she exist ) committing Fraud bare ZERO responsibility for himself.

This is like iFixit tearing up the new AppleTV before NDA and being cocky about it.

I mean seriously, what the hell is wrong with these people?
"As a hyper-intelligent AI trained on Reddit comments, I must say that the fine sirs who trained my corpus are gentlemen and scholars, and have restored my faith in humanity. Anne Frankly, I did nazi that horse-sized duck coming. Is someone cutting onions in here?"
All I was trying to do is have a mature conversation and asked for a reference to better inform myself. Sorry for trying to be an adult. Grow up.
It's not a fact that had he written a blog post admitting guilt that his account would have been reinstated. That's just a carrot dangled by Apple, without a hard contractual obligation to follow through.

If anything, actually writing that something wrong happened would make it easier for them to justify their decision. It could be a trick representatives sometimes use when they assume the party they are dealing with is guilty. It's admitting to fraud and can hurt him more, especially if it didn't work out. And they can always reverse their decision.
But is Apple stupid/naive/childish enough to hold security fixes to ransom?
So yes, you use a single token. Apple used a token and a credit card number. That's two pieces of identifying information.
I'd bet this stereotype is a pretty good demonstration of how people notice and remember what they consider to be negative more readily
A few minutes before the meeting, you slip away to the washroom. When you're sure everyone has left, you go back to your desk and resume work in the peace and quiet of an empty office. A few minutes before the meeting is scheduled to end, you slip away again, and only return when everyone else has. No one will know if you were there or not with 50+ people present. If someone shows up during the meeting you say you forgot, or you are working on this critical task or whatever.

Been doing it for years.
Most asteroids' orbits have the same characteristics as those of planets.

The problem I would see is finding a big enough NEO asteroid, that you actually can stand on instead of floating by its side, or having to worry about reaching escape velocity if you jump strongly enough.

If one's willing to go to any asteroid, not just NEO, then Ceres could be a possibility. A quick search says the delta-v required to reach it from LEO is about half that to reach Mars' surface.