skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the long term health effects of drinking water vs not drinking water or pretty well understood. Also the effects of water vs no water on your body.

I cannot say the same for random sugar-like-but-not-really-sugar chemical of the month.
The phrase "social contract" dates back to a 1762 treatise of the same name by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The stated aim of the treatise to determine whether a political authority is legitimate, i.e. the monarchies of the time period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract
Generally the cities tend to be too small, too expensive (for what you get) or not international enough. More than anything "even cheaper" doesn't necessarily matter, around €750 is pretty much the sweet spot in terms of cost of living. Ljubljana seems pretty nice though.
Couldn't it be the charging circuit? Or some fault in the power circuits that draws too much current too quickly? ie it might be something that is easy to replace like the battery, but something that requires a fundamental redesign of the electronics.
Chart of science Nobel Prize winners shows liberal-arts degrees aren’t worthless
Where did you hear the entire call? I only heard the part on his blog that clearly didn't start at the beginning.

Apple didn't notify both accounts because they're under no obligation to notify someone that they're committing fraud and ask them politely to stop.

Why would you take the word of a developer dumb enough to post this audio clip and publicly shame Apple in blog posts as someone honest and working in good faith with them? Here's a much more likely story: he's not telling the truth and he's in over his head. His cousin didn't leave fraudulent reviews from his test devices on his and competitors' apps for no apparent reason.
> because Germans generally place low emphasis on learning other languages (just like Americans do)

I agree with everything you say, except that. Older people form Eastern Germany obviously did not learn English in school.

In Germany it is not like the Netherlands or the Nordic countries, but I would say in Western Germany you have a much higher chance to meet people who can speak English or French at a decent level than you have in France or Italy to find someone speaking English or German. And that is inspite of the German market being much bigger and people from Eastern or Northern Europe also often being able to speak German.

Of all highschool student exchanges to France or Britain I know of, the students ended up speaking the other language, not German. I remember a neighbour had an exchange student from England over at his home. He supposedly learned German in school, but just repeated his sentence "Um 5 Uhr fährt der Zug nach Berlin.". This really changed my perspective on the foreign language education in Germany.
http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod#code_kq...
Thanks for the warning. I put macOS 12 installation on hold for more superficial shortcomings. This one would have taken me a bit longer to find.

I have adopted the practise of installing new OS releases on a separate test partition first. Blindly updating the main system can be a really bad trap.
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” - John Adams (1735 - 1826)
So, Trump didn't really do that in the actual speech, as far as I can tell.

He said "they're sending us" drug dealers and rapists (or the illegal immigrants are drug dealers and rapists). Which was a blatant misunderstanding of a Fusion article that said something like 80% of illegal immigrant south American women are raped by the coyotes who get them across the border. Not in his defense, he later defended his misinterpretation solidifying his lack of understanding ("well, someone's doing the raping!" is the direct quote) -- but he didn't say what is portrayed in the media, which is a racist slur of an entire country.

http://fusion.net/story/17321/is-rape-the-price-to-pay-for-m...

An thing I've been thinking about is that having bulletproof borders would stop this type of trafficking with this human cost, so maybe it would be good to a point. But then again, allegedly the women and girls are told to bring contraception with them for the crossing, so they are aware that this is a cost of getting transported into the USA...

It is a horrific situation, and I feel that the best solution is somehow helping the countries of origin, I don't think that immigration is a sustainable solution... But it's super complex to me.

For the tax thing, yeah, the two approaches are:

To come a bit closer to a European style socialism to close the wage gap and simultaneously accept a portion of debt from poorer countries in the form of immigrants.

Or to go back toward free market, but lower the wealth disparity gap by locking out labor, which would increase the cost/wages of labor already here.

The cost of the first is possibly having wealthy owners flee the country and move business elsewhere where taxes are lower. The cost of the second is a loss of cultural infusion and national pride (to an extend). As I see it.
> It still does not follow that we should not make something more accessible for anyone, or that we should tolerate a discrimination.

To me, not making the effort to make this industry more accessible for those who are underrepresented is itself discrimination, even if a mild, unconscious form. Your story of passion naturally leading to a fulfilling career is wonderful, and I want that for anyone. I don't think the onus of fostering passion is only on the family, but it comes in large part from societies expectations of gender roles. That is why I believe we can't have enough efforts to make tech more accessible, even if those efforts seem contrived.
What mistake did Apple make?!

Is everyone here taking the developer's word at face value? Despite him giving no reason to do so?
"It's why we are here."

Meh, I'm pretty sure now that Twitter is publicly traded it no longer exists to meet some perceived societal need and is now just a profit engine.

I don't like it when CEO's flavor their koolaid with lofty missions, while simultaneously looking to maximize profits.

Twitter deserves the skepticism it is receiving, and I hope a downgraded evaluation waterfalls to further downgrades in the tech sector. Specifically in the SV messaging app space.
Actually, I remember my finite element analysis professor running on a MBP in a VM both Catia and ANSYS, which are hungry programs resource wise. And on top of that, he was running a bunch of browser tabs, PyCharms, and a few other things on OS X. And it was impressively responsive.

I'm not saying Lightroom will run in a VM, I haven't used VMs for heavy programs, this was just an anecdote of me being surprised by how someone could use huge engineering programs inside a VM.
I believe the point was that while it's fine for Trump to say he isn't happy with the current NATO commitments, it's unacceptable for him to say he's not sure what he wants, is open to offers from both sides, and will make a decision last, from a position of power, when the stakes are suitably high.

That is to say the problem is his use of the word "maybe", and following it up with a call for bribes instead of a call for consultation. It's not the breaking of old treaties that offends, it's the part where he refuses to offer his terms.
What does the term dogfooding mean?
Show HN: A Command Line Neural Network
Because I don't want to manage my own DB, so I would rather stick with the options that Amazon offers as a service.
> Donations often involve numerous conditions and strings attached, including restrictions on which patient populations and what geographic areas are allowed to receive the benefits.

What?? Is it a "DONATION" or a "CONTRACT"? I don't understand how this could be called a donation if it has "strings attached".

Once I donate money to a charity, I expect them to spend it wisely, but I do not make them sign a freaking contract!
Theranos will have a hard time proving that they did not make the same or similar statements to the investors prior to making those claims elsewhere. They've now directly confessed they actually did make the claims at least once, which will make it more believable - not less - that they made those claims at different points in time as well.

'Staff writer' will have a busy time in the next coming weeks.
How I got unlimited Wi-Fi at London Stansted Airport for free
Ipython Notebooks is called Jupyter now, and it supports a bunch of languages in addition to Julia, Python and R (thus the Jupyter name). R Notebooks looks like a variation, but less of a REPL approach, perhaps.
The two most common vulnerabilities in Rails (with code)
This. I am an ISP owner and we block popular ports used to run services by default. 99% doesn't care and their computer gets hacked or they get virus/malware and those malware starts running services and spamming the world and our IPs gets blacklisted (which is a huge headache) and now cloudflare's broken shit ip checker will automatically start blocking ips, and customers will start blaming us for it. Occasionally, 1 or 2 customers will ask to have email server port or web server port to be opened, we usually ask them to sign up for a business contract, which clearly states that you can run this kind of services and you are fully responsible for any negative consequences.

This is not about money. This is just good housekeeping. When I was in NY, I believe they TimeWarner and Verizon (or was it AT&T?) also used to do the same thing.
While not huge, they can be previewed in RStudio (not sure if IPN/Jupyter can be) but generally it's not a bad idea to have all the tooling from the same language crowd (imo). Worst case it's an extra alternative to the excellent IPN/Jupyter.

I've used RStudio more and more for my "quick check stats" like quickly calculating interrater reliability or whatever pops up (I only know the basics of R). As such I can totally see myself quickly sharing things with R Notebooks.

For everything that requires "plumbing" and/or actually uses stats in software I gravitate towards the Python toolchain. Might not make sense but that's how I work. I've also noticed that RStudio is accessible enough to non programmers for the same quick checks I run (converting over some SPSS users...yay?!).
I actually would not mind having a simple database (that is cross platform like SQLite) which would act as a separation layer from the files (and store any tags, and minimal meta data)...only because I'm not crazy about any system changing file names on me. Call me old fashioned ;-) That being said, the UI - especially the editor - looks pretty neat.

I've seen comments for git-annex, but the lack of a neat gui/browser gives me pause. Can anyone recommend an alternative to Tagspaces but which does not alter filenames...and is of course cross platform (because i work with a couple different machines every day), and is open source?
In Fairness, Google have a pretty good up-time record, and it's obviously something on your end:

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/google.com.html

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google.com

http://downforme.org/is-google.com-down-today-for-everyone
There's risk both ways... By updating you risk breakage. By not upgrading you risk security issues and increase technical debt (which is a risk amplifier).

I'd argue that missing out on security fixes is far more risky than any technical issues you may encounter after an update but I'm a security engineer.
> you’re not going to get to space

:(
> they failed to do due diligence before investing

Do we know the scope of the DD that was done?
They are plain text, you can easily diff and version control them.
Seriously, there are so many great points in there hidden between the expletives. Here is one that really touched me:

> And what the fuck all those parties after raising money. Don’t you get it? You just dug your grave a little bit deeper. You should celebrate any day that you don’t have to sell off another part of your company.
I'm confused... do you think that people of different genders and skin colors are less likely to share your passion? If not, then what's the point of this post?
APT Group Targeted TrueCrypt Users with Trojaned Downloads
John Carmack says VR devs are “coasting on novelty”
Didn't know that, thanks! I believe it wasn't when I started using the X220, but I'm not sure either way.
That time I climbed a volcano and what I learned from it
3 Ways GitHub Integrations Are About to Get Better
>Registration takes ~3-5 months to get an appointment, god forbid you're a foreigner and have to also register at the ausländerbehörde and wait from 3am for the 1 of 50 tickets available that day.

Your bureaucracy makes American bureaucracy seem amazingly efficient in comparison. I did not know such a thing was possible outside defunct communist states.
There is a difference between legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, immigrants with advanced education and immigrants with low levels of education. To evaluate the contribution of all of them together and say that the are the same is like taking a look at all Americans and saying, Americans are doing great, look at our per capita income.

There is a debate to be had about who and how and how many people from where we allow to settle. We are outliers in how many people we take in. And I think we should tailor policies with the impact on Americans in mind.

We're no longer in a steep growth phase, we're a mature economy which can successfully absorb so many new people into viable jobs. We need to work harder to get our underemployed better employed before we employ the surplus workers from elsewhere.

That's not to say no immigration. Just controlled and proportional to need and population of origin so that both a Senegalese and Indian and Cuban have reasonable equality in obtaining a visa.

There is no reason we can't set data driven quotas to allow, say, 2MM per annum to fill needs for ditch diggers and doctors, etc. But base it on need and do it with some balance.
In this case we're making the person actually responsible (i.e. in control of the door) legally responsible. Not going to be a disaster by any means.
Yep, for the price, I can't say I'm impressed with my XPS 9350. The 4k screen is nice, but the shoddy WiFi chip plus random wakeups from sleep make it a real pain.
If one considers the previous ~200 years of Russian Baltic/Eastern European hegemony to have experienced merely a 25 year interruption, perhaps Russia is feeling revanchist, that dangerous superset of expansionist which fuels the latter with patriotic imperative.
Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics
No one needs to be given the right to study music.
Thanks-- great feedback and thanks for making it so easy to follow. ;-)
> A significant portion of modern Americans regularly enjoy blood and carnage in video games and movies

Yeah. it's called fiction and a more significant portion of people in the world consume all that without committing mass murder. So please, stop associating video games or movies with whatever crazy people do.
Also a fan of the late adoption on OS X / macOS new versions.

While that works well, you can install the newer version in another partition or disk. That's what I did with macOS Sierra and then I went back to an older version as it doesn't seem very stable to me.

FWIW on a macOS Sierra test box I just had compress hang on zipping up 2 small log files. Not sure if that's Sierra or if the machine has problems, but it sure was weird.
AWS Latency Comparison: API Gateway vs. Lambda vs. Bare EC2
Seems like they jumped really quickly to 'aliens' as an explanation and I don't find it particularly convincing.
Investors will invest in all kinds of stuff they personally have no knowledge of. This is perfectly ok if it is their own money and they have no responsibility to others (especially to limited partners who have no say in the matter, or, for instance in the case of a pension fund).

The way it works with such parties is that they hire people who are versed in the technology to prepare a report on the subject at hand. This is called 'due diligence', specifically, technical due diligence.

So if you cross the t's and dot the i's there will be a nice report saying 'this technology is a-ok' by some party in a drawer somewhere. If so then that party shoulders a large part of the blame. Absent such a report (and I find it hard to believe the investors did not perform due diligence, but then again, so far none of them have stepped forward to point the finger at their technical advisors) the investors themselves are far more responsible.
Very well put together post. Great work.
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MSF just said that donation is actually harmful and you're still praising Bill Gates?

I suggest you spend 20 minutes thinking about the impact of medication funneled through corrupt gov. in third world countries. And the influence of gates on those govs.
Registering a business is literally going to the "Gewerbeamt" and answering their questions about what you want to do. You will then be contacted by the tax authorities. I would then just search for a tax adviser, who speaks English.

If you want to incorporate a business, you do not necessarily have to do it in Germany, it is the EU after all.
Plans for an electric car charging point in every new home in Europe
Apple does supply security updates for older versions of OS X though. Once that stops it really is time to move on.
Drug dealer? Can't think of many people who can make $100K/mo and have time to play video games all day.
I enjoy those games and movies myself.

It's not my intention to suggest that enjoying those means that our socialization has failed or that we are dangerous (which I do not believe), but that those games and movies appeal to something in our nature that still exists in many of the most well socialized Americans.
Do they really need to be formal awards, and not just "And a big thanks you to Cindy for her work on project X!" (followed by a sentence or two about why X matters).
Running Mavericks here without incident. I avoided the WIFI debacle with Yosemite. Unfortunately cannot upgrade Xcode or Safari past version 9 - a fair trade for an OS that works I suppose. I'll switch to Chrome and not use Xcode. Swift? I hardly knew ye.
I'm confused as to why you think Hacker News would have a front page article on garbage workers. There are large gender gaps in waste management, as there are in programming, and there are initiatives to reduce those gaps, including action by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regarding illegal discrimination against women in the field.
The point of the grandparent wasn't to outline all possible things that may have happened (Hell, the whole thing could have been made up). The point is that original texts may have differed, omitting certain aspects for logistical or other reasons, that newer versions try to rectify.
I used to have a Surface Pro 3 and the wifi on that machine was mental. I know people have been complaining about wifi reliability on Apple's computers for years now, but the Surface was really something else.

Every couple of weeks they'd put out a patch that claimed to fix the wifi, and while it did get better, it was never as good as it should have been. I live in a 1-bedroom apartment with an 802.11ac router and all of my other devices work fine. The router's off at one end of the apartment where the coax comes in, but I'm never more than 25 feet away from it.
I guess s/he means running GNU/Linux on VM.

Which is what I do nowadays, my netbook is the only surviving desktop still having a native install of GNU/Linux.
I saw the headline and thought: "Definitely voting yes on that poll!" but then I realized it said something else. Still...
I stared coming to hacker news for the tech conversations reading this made me realize how much I have been sucked in to the dark side of it.
A question for the moderators: Is flagging an automatic operation, or is mod discretion required for its enactment, as well as its undoing?
I've been making an app that filters Twitter[1] and I've been realizing, from the kind of people who are positively reacting to screenshots and want to use it, that there's an interesting phenomenon in services that aren't necessarily "mass audience" but still engage an "influencer audience." Let's say you make an app and it doesn't become like Youtube where random shepherds are on it all day. But the President and Ellen DeGeneres use it every day.

How do you value that? Maybe not in the Facebook metric of Monthly Active Users?

[1] Think Nuzzel for tweets https://twitter.com/firasd/status/781602728728469504
Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars
Most of MATLAB toolboxes and functions send most of their data between function this way. For instance, the GUIDE toolbox puts everything between handle functions and structure variables. If you wanted the button to look a certain way, all the information can be stored in one variable. For example (this is just an dummy example, I can't recall the exact syntax right now for GUIDE), the button variable will be: button1.color = 'blue', button1.size= [150,200], button1.position = [200,325], etc... Therefore when you only need to input and return one variable (Button1) for each element. It's a really convenient way to keep track of your variables.
In the specs of the poll function I don't find anything that says if you pass NULL as the fds then also it will wait for specified timeout. Am I missing something?

"If none of the defined events have occurred on any selected file descriptor" - This statement is not same as passing NULL.
Yes, it does. That's why I'd like to see a link to a free source (that doesn't require one to pull ostentibly illegal tricks to read the contents) rather than an advertisement.
Full-HD-Videos and Fotos of the moon probe Kaguya released
Yes, lying or misleading is unacceptable. And this should lead to the deal being terminated before it is closed. There is no reason the company should get away with this prior to the deal being closed, assuming everybody plays their assumed role. But in this case I suspect that the investors did a slipshod job of their duty to inspect. After all, what the company said doesn't really matter, what matters is what the investors themselves determined to be the truth based on the evidence provided to their technical team and what the technical team did to ascertain this evidence was correct.

As for what world I'm doing business in: I work hard to keep the money of my clients safe by detecting mistakes/fraud/omissions/issues before the deal is consumed and I have a hard time believing anybody competent signed off on the Theranos deals from a technical point of view.

It's a fact of life that when you're an investor every now and then someone will attempt to take you for a ride, this is why investors perform due diligence to begin with, to make sure that they have covered their responsibility towards those whose money they manage.
Security patches are available for the previous version, the trend is that the previous 2 versions of OS X receive security updates. Would you mind giving me an example of technical debt? I am not sure what you mean by that. Just to confirm, I am not missing out on security fixes at all, I am updated all the way to the latest version with security patches with the previous version of MacOS.
Agreed. Management needs to be careful scheduling all-hands. Do it well in advance (4 weeks+), add agenda items where possible, etc.

Short-notice all-hands are often bad news and should be reserved for truly major breaking news (good or bad).
> stood by and watched

I don't know where you got that. You should read up on the history of the war and learn a bit about all the fierce fighting in Western Europe (including the time when the Soviets were being friends of Hitler's).