skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original research paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/961.pdf

It annoys the heck out of me when news sites bury the link to the source 2/3rd of the way through the article (nearly as much as when they don't link to it at all!).
Well, this was interesting, but certainly does not persuade me of the thesis stated in the title. I mean, sure, if we have limited records of them we can't know a lot about ancient cultures, but who's surprised to learn that?
The irony of the fact that I read this during my morning 30 minute read through of tech news—at Hacker News, the über site, no less—is not lost on me.

Although a funny essay, there's a great deal of truth here, and should make us ask some hard questions about how, why, and when the technology world and its culture should infiltrate the everyday.
It's a nice hoorah letter. I'd be interested to hear from some people working there what they think of a letter like this. Bullshit? Heartfelt? Motivating?
Just switched from a MacBook Pro to a ThinkPad, myself. It's early days. Everything you mention was/is also an issue for me.

I'm dual-booting Windows for Photoshop and Lightroom, and using the 1Password Web interface since there isn't a Linux client.

Like you, I still have my MacBook Pro around for when I really need a Mac. But I'm tired of supporting Apple when its clear they're not especially committed to the Mac anymore.
Samsung Kills Off Note 7 After Second Round of Battery Fires
Side discussion, does anyone know what type of code highlighting library they are using for this? Looks like server side processing, and then outputs the html/css.
"And, to this day, the DNSSEC specification for securing the Internet's domain name system limits keys to a maximum of 1,024 bits."

That is a factually incorrect statement. Currently the ZSK protecting the root zone is using a 2,048 bit RSA key. There are also many TLDs that are protected by 2,048 keys. There is absolutely nothing in DNSSEC that limits key length to 1,024 bits.
Love papertrail as well.

Biggest downside to papertrail is the price. You can log important stuff for a reasonable price. If you want to debug log everything from a fairly big site? You are looking at a papertrail bill 10x your hosting bill.

Not bad idea to send info+ to papertrail, and debug off to S3 or similar directly so you can dig when something weird happens..
IMO a lot or even most child sacrifice (especially infant sacrifice) in the ancient world can be understood as ritualizing the process of killing children one does not have the means to raise.
If I didn’t prepare a buffer before reaching a point where I had to think about “staying afloat” then I’d just be more aggressive in taking on contract work (I’m a consultant but favour my discretionary time over filling every day with work). I’d pause my main project until I had a buffer again or do the new work around my project.

That aggressiveness comes from reaching out to my existing network more, stretching that network to more people and also removing things that compromise in the contract work search (bonus if they’re also sapping money). So things like Netflix, eating out regularly, or anything else that’s definitely a Want but not a Need, are put on pause as well.

But this would be a lot easier if a buffer was created first so you wouldn’t reach this situation in the first place. Or if you did then you’re prepared better for weathering it out. You build a buffer to help you financially and also mentally: build up a war chest with either savings or investment money and do things that make you uncomfortable while you have the room to do so, so they don’t make a mess of you later.
It was to give him an "out" to resolve the issue in a way that's positive to both of them. He didn't have to write a PR blog post. He just had to state the facts:

His account was linked to one involved in fraudulent activity.

He's working with Apple to get his account unlinked from the fraudulent one.

That's it! He doesn't have to admit wrongdoing and Apple (despite being very confident they didn't make a mistake) gives him the benefit of the doubt and unlinks the account. Instead, he decided to dig his own App Store grave.
Show HN: Cluvio – A new cloud analytics platform based on SQL and R
Hinge pivots, declares death to swipe-based dating
Debugging Neural Networks: A Checklist
There are IRS rules regarding this if using it as a tax deduction, too. Donors can 'advise' the charity in what it does with the donation, but generally cannot control it with a legally binding contract. (I am not a lawyer, but that is how I understand the rules, anyway.)
Funny read. It was certainly comprehensive. I don't think they missed anything.
That assumes a perfect 1:1 mapping of grads to employees, and careers are lifetime. It would be pretty easy to downsize every white man at 30 for ageism reasons yet keep women and minorities around until retirement as diversity hires thus "fixing" the problem.

Also assumes the purpose of the original story was as stated on the surface, not just to enforce prevailing politics in a preaching to the choir sense (we should all feel and share the white mans burden, etc).

We don't hire (mostly white male) mechanical engineers to work on assembly lines although I'm sure corporations would enjoy that caliber of employee if they could get it, which they can't, so their assembly lines demographically look a lot more like the local neighborhood and relatively few bolt tighteners are good at differential equations or finite element analysis, although that doesn't affect productivity at all so its OK. Likewise to write boilerplate CRUD apps we traditionally hire grads with extreme levels of higher math and exotic upper level CS education because we have a huge surplus of those sort of people (who are mostly white men), although in practice there is no need and random laborer off the street is both semi-realistic and demographically more like the rest of society.
Yeah, I've noticed that there's never any recognition of anything I'm involved in from anyone I don't report to. I can only conclude from this that the work I'm assigned doesn't actually matter all that much to the rest of the company.

It's very tempting to phone it in while looking for another job. It's basically a meeting for QA and manufacturing to remind everyone about QA and manufacturing.
"but cats, their human partisans will proudly point out, cannot be tamed or herded"

Just check CATMANTOO channel on Youtube, you will be amazed at what he makes his cats do.

And apparently it's that hard to train a cat, he says you can do the same with yours.
Ah sure, yes I forgot that you can create a company in the UK and simply run it from Berlin without much hassle.
Wow. I mean, wow Apple.

I come from linux, I'm used to screwed up APIs, and stuff breaking. But when we have something broken, it's usually because it was designed that way (see epoll). Usually, anyways.

But even we would never break something this fundamental. And if it did break, we'd probably fix it. Immediately.

Breaking one of the most used syscalls in the POSIX spec isn't an option, and is never okay. Ever.
You realized Amazon offers hosted MySQL and PostgreSQL, right? One click, and it's up.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12684081
Releasing code should be no less harder than making a push to the repository
and none of them are Muslim immigrants.
>I don't like it when CEO's flavor their koolaid with lofty missions, while simultaneously looking to maximize profits.

Why not? In a capitalist society, it's the only real hope for linking economic output to "the greater good".

As long as companies think it good PR to even pretend to have a loftier goal, then there is incentive for creating and operating companies that actually do. This can only be good. Shouldn't we want them to have this incentive?

Or, would we prefer a society wherein we give social license to all corporations to behave like blatantly psychotic entities--whose only goal is profit--imbued with corporate personhood, and wielding the bulk of the economic, political, and societal power?

If you have evidence that contradicts what these CEOs have said, then please raise it. But, it's socially counter-productive to issue a blanket condemnation of any CEO at the helm of a for-profit enterprise who expresses a desire to do social good.
For anything important, a notebook. . In terms of the CAP theorem it trades strict consistency for availability. I find physical reality is a useful abstraction with a well defined API and good persistence model -- also widely available and open source.
Interesting that the dude is so open about the fact that he basically pivoted his business (which he said was successful) based on reading this Vanity Fair article last year: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/08/tinder-hook-up-cul....
Just tried to track down the details, it looks like I was thinking of an Opam problem specifically, and the last update was about 3 weeks ago, so likely the issue is already resolved.
No, you cannot rewrite history at all in fossil. But you can commit repeatedly to the private branch and when finished merge all the changes into a public branch. It will look like a single commit.

https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/private.wiki
Why is a random developer (out of millions who have not had this issue) immediately trustworthy, while Apple (who has no financial interest in banning him) is assumed to be untrustworthy?
Now that the 30-minute routine of tech news is done, we shall reflect on this essay during the 30-minute meditation session and add appropriate actionable items to our quarterly and yearly goals.

;).
Bloomberg actually had it almost two hours earlier than WSJ.
I've just posted it to HN just now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12684081
You should do your diligence but fraud is still fraud.
Exactly, I'm all for more frequent releases but a yearly one is too frequent. I'd rather have stable features than UI/UX changes every year. Windows is doing the same.

It might make sense on mobile since features and abilities are changing rapidly. For desktop, I'd take stability over new features yearly.
Morale at Twitter Plummets as Jack Dorsey Warms to a Sale
I'm not likely to watch a >1h evangelist propaganda video, thanks. If you can give me a summary of the alleged points I'm supposed to consider, I'd be grateful.
Its not about the processing but the graphics. I have tried Lightroom and Photoshop in a VM a while ago and the rendering was a little off and very slow.
Might be too late, but I couldn't find a "staging area" like in SourceTree.

Does it exist or is it like a lot of other git GUI with no separation between staged and not staged files/hunks ?
Decades Old Mystery Put to Rest: Why Are There X's in the Desert?
Isn't that backwards? (ie. if Samsung failed, South Korea's economy would take a massive hit?)

I think this will hurt Samsung significantly but not fatally. They'll come back with a nice fancy new phone (although they may not re-use the Note moniker) and they'll price it at barely above break-even to encourage people to give them another chance, and people will love them again.
The Overton Window on immigration is fascinating. We've gone from being a nation that that had selective immigration all through its history to one where trying to halt illegal immigration gets you labeled a xenophobe and a racist.

Social media has made it worse. I think that it encourages preference falsification and causes inelasticity in the Overton Window. That inelasticity means that changes in public opinion are abrupt and usually need some concrete excuse to be justified.
Ah, yes. "Invigorated", by being with tons of other people, not knowing if you are gonna be put in the spotlight at any time. Also known as "exhausted" if you are introverted.
> * HiDPI does not seem to work as well on other platforms.

It seems that if you have a GTK3 desktop (I've tried elementaryOS, GNOME 3 apparently works well as well) most of the developer related things will work well at 2.0 scale - like Mac does it. At least I've tested out Sublime Text, Chrome, Terminal apps, GVim and other included GTK3 apps.
10.12's poll() is also newly broken in another way. When called with certain combinations of descriptors, it will block forever, causing an application hang: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/3530#issuecomment-2...
You do raise a good point, but I suspect that other users would ask the same question, s/emacs/$EDITOR/gi, and a few other substitutions for the specific commands and plugins (I'm not familiar enough with other ecosystems to say which ones).

And Emacs isn't the only way to do CL, it's just got really good support for all lisps: Paredit and SLIME are still some of the extensions against which all others are judged, with most lisps having a SLIME equivalent mode, give or take.

But what's so bad about Emacs?
I still think building the transistors needed from scratch would be more interesting. You could argue that burying dinosaurs to make the oil is pretty cool.
Not all tech workers are programmers, not all programmers have CS degrees. This problem cannot be boiled down to such a simple metric.

I've talked to a number of women in my office, almost all of whom have expressed that they felt like they had to overcome obstacles while growing up as a woman who was interested in technology. That when they made mistakes, they were told "maybe you should do something else" while their male counterparts were told "just try again, I'm sure you'll get it!" This may not be something Google, Facebook or Apple can unilaterally fix. We need to fix society, and that starts with privileged people simply accepting that this is a problem, even if it doesn't have a simple solution (although donating to organizations like BlackGirlsCode and GirlDevelopIt can certainly help).

With that out of the way, there are real problems that women and minorities face in the workplace when diversity is ignored: abuse, harassment, being passed over for promotion in favor of less qualified white men. When the workplace is composed of 90% white men, they get to set the norms of behavior and culture. If they do so without thinking about the other 10%, they will hurt and eventually lose most of those people. When they get to the point where their workplace is 99% white and male, they may muse "hmm, I guess women and minorities just aren't that interested in tech."

Someone may inevitably ask me: "alright smartypants, what are these 'white male behaviors' we're so guilty of?" To be honest, I'm not the one you need to hear it from. You need to talk to women and underrepresented minorities in your life about their experiences in the workplace (in tech or in other fields). If you don't know many women or minorities in white collar fields, and (this is very important) you're willing to patiently listen without butting in, I recommend following ericajoy and jennschiffer on twitter.
When there are millions of $ on the line 'good faith' doesn't cover it any more. You have to make sure that you are spending that money on something real. That doesn't mean there can't be risk involved, it doesn't mean that companies invested in won't fail. But you owe it to yourself, your partners and those who trusted you with their hard earned money that you do everything in your power to invest wisely.

The state will protect you if you have done your own homework.

I'm not saying the investors didn't look well enough, I'm saying that if they hired some party to look at the technology that party was asleep at the switch or they didn't do due diligence at all. There is no way that outside expert in the field would have been fooled if they came prepared to look at the technology in depth.

If the investment was done before the technology was realized then they probably would have raised some issues with respect to the fact that the core tech was unproven and might very well not work for a number of reasons.

Due diligence will never be perfect, that we agree on. But to get the core issue wrong is extremely rare, first and foremost you verify each and every claim the company made. It is not a discovery process, it is a verification process and given the fact that Theranos made some pretty strong and very verifiable claims is what makes me wonder how much DD was actually done.

From the outside looking in it looks as if a whole bunch of totally clueless investors couldn't wait to fork over their money to not miss the boat without so much as a shred of doubt about the miracle machine.
This morning I read (and just submitted) a Vanity Fair piece on how morale at Twitter is really low and people are straight-up not coming to work. It ended with this letter, which makes no mention of a forthcoming acquisition and seems rather empty in context.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12684114
Anonymous Hacker Begins Second Week of Hunger Strike in Prison
Does it work with Gitlab?
I own 3 retail stores and am excited about this.

We have used GroupMe for a few years, but I am dissatisfied with how limited it is. Our team is not sitting at a computer all day and mostly needs to share information efficiently.

With 3 locations, it needs to be digital. With 2 shift blocks per day, 7 days per week, it is hard to keep everyone working collaboratively on things like promotions, social media marketing efforts, etc.

I also like that it includes the opportunity to work with other companies.

I am also a SaaS software vendor for retail store owners like me. I could definitely see integrating this into our app (ResaleAI.com) and had considered Slack and others. So yeah, I signed up to play with it internally first.

I am cautiously optimistic.
If you don't upgrade until xx.yy.5, then it is a great UNIX. By "dot dot 5" they've usually fixed the things they fucked up in dot dot 0. This means I'm a year behind, but I can run the latest in a VM (VMware Fusion is awesome) for testing and builds, etc.
Adjunct side-gigs can be fun. Teaching students who started at zero and wound up quite capable of sophisticated hacking was very rewarding for me. If you have been curious about teaching and find an opportunity, I highly recommend trying it just for this aspect of teaching.

But I taught a course as an adjunct and the preparation time totally killed me. I wound up re-working the entire course from scratch. Worse, the course started almost as soon as I was asked to teach. By the end of the course, I was often prepping for the class the night before lectures.

Despite promising myself to not repeat the experience, I have just accepted another adjunct lecturer side-gig for the spring. The main difference is that excellent and up-to-date materials already exist. I'm hopeful these materials make the course prep less intense.
Where there own polices are an attempt to effect long-term, positive (for consumers) change in the global RX market.

I don't see that as a bad thing.
A couple years ago, I did my own analysis of all Hacker News submissions (http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/hacking-hacker-news/) and also wrote a script around that time to get all data (https://github.com/minimaxir/get-all-hacker-news-submissions... , see also a modern dataset on Kaggle derived from it: https://www.kaggle.com/hacker-news/hacker-news-posts). I only looked at the # of points as a metric for quality, so front v. back with this approach is interesting. Given the good work in this post, I may take another look at the data myself.

This is a case where the sample size used may be problematic. "425 fronts against 570 corresponding backs" (n = 995), in the grand scheme of Hacker News, is not a lot, even if statistical analysis permits it (example: the by-hour Chi-Sq test, which barely hits the 5-per-cell assumption). Given the method of collection by scraping the front page directly, this is understandable, though.

However, that presents a problem. the front-page algorithm has changed in recent months and I myself have had difficulty predicting what makes the front page and what doesn't (and what ends up making the front page hours after being submitted for no reason). With relatively new features like the second-chance pool and explicit dupe marking, there is new quality control of the front page thanks to dang/sctb. That is another issue of looking at a small subset of HN data; it does not reflect the site as a whole, although looking at more-recent data might be more beneficial for optimizing one's own posts.
>pandoc.css

Looks like it might be called pandoc

http://pandoc.org/demo/example18g.html
You don't "talk about mission" in these meetings, you talk about things the company did that week/whatever which further the mission, such as a product launch, partnership, event, or major announcement.
In released products, no. In development kernels it's a bit more like the wild west. It was only a few years ago that dup3(2) was broken in a development kernel. That's a very fundamental syscall, especially when you consider that some libraries replace all dup2 with dup3 to get O_CLOEXEC behaviour.

Of course these things get fixed very rapidly, so completely unlike this Apple/poll story.
I started with an LG optimus on Virgin mobile, and loved that phone. I had an LG G3 and the girlfriend has one as well. I'm mixed about them.

On the one hand, the hard ware is great. I got them cheap refurbished and they have a good community. On the other it gets hot, like burning hot touch. I've been through three batteries since getting it. The boot loop on mine made me switch phones. The thing that is making me pause with them is the software. I'm not fond of the custimaztions, but I can live with them. What got me is getting a marshmallow security update nuked the phone. WiFi stopped working, any earphones in the jack always started "Ok Google" recognigtion. Cell Signal went to 2G, and the Home/Back/OpenApps buttons stopped working. It turned the phone into a brick. I finally got around to rolling back this weekend, which took several hours. This wasn't just me I saw similar complaints on XDA.
This time almost everybody knows. With every flight announcing "you can use your electronic devices now, in airplane mode - except for the Galaxy Note 7, that must stay off during all the trip", people won't forget for a while.

In Samsung's shoes, I'd kill the Note brand.
A $7 Trillion Moment of Truth in Markets Is Just Three Days Away
Duh, not sure how I missed that last line of <head>. Thanks!
The DGX-1 is available for a cool $129k: http://www.nvidia.com/object/deep-learning-system.html

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's basically a couple hundred NVIDIA 10-series cards strapped together with a full custom NVIDIA software stack.
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

A link to friendly formatted source code might help people learn what you learned.
Oh, you'll meet loads of great people and it is an experience getting out of your comfort zone and leaving behind old friends in the city you grew up in.

I was just meaning in regards to differing opinions to liberal metropolitanism it will be very similar to London. Best of luck in your endeavour!