skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i3 user here. I call it the best system for 2% of people, and the other 98% HATE it. One time I left it up and my wife had to use it when I wasn't home. Talk about a unfun conversation. BUT I still use most of the KDE programs.

KDE is by far my favorite Desktop Environment (i3 to me is not a DE) and I find the macOS being my least favorite. KDE unfortunately had a license issue with Qt at first and was the reason why GNOME was actually founded. Then KDE became the brunt of community anger and that reached fever pitch at KDE 4.0 (That was pushed out by Distributions due to community excitement) KDE 4.8+ has been a great DE but people would still say it was bloated even though in reality it was the same size if not smaller then Gnome 2.x.

I still use some KDE apps on Windows (Kate (now VS Code has taken over) digiKam and Okular (PDF viewer). The KDE on Windows also provides for Kritia (My favorite painting program) Here is a blog on the active project http://kfunk.org/2016/06/18/kde-on-windows-update/.
I'm not so sure, certainly one of the two socket protocols is vulnerable (the "tty" one) judging by what the regular repl does with '' GET /%20(println"hello") HTTP/1.0 '' and it's somewhat likely that you could get through the bencode transport too.
I didn't, it sounds unpleasant, I can guess, and I don't like it, which is why I'm not a fan of Java.
Cybersecurity Issues for the Next Administration
The recruiter misunderstood the answers and or he is not qualified to ask those questions. Usually when you ask someone something that is not literal as in "what is 1+1?"
You can't expect them to be literal.
Questions like: Why Quicksort is the best sorting method?
Guy gave very good answer showing that he has perspective and he is able to make a valid argument.
The recruiter on the other hand just read the paper and completely disregarded the fact that the person he is trying to recruit is a valid candidate.

Also at the end the recruiters attitude aweful. Like what is that, he was reading answers from a paper, couldn't make valid arguments back to the candidate and at the end turns and says to the candidate "sorry my paper says you don't know this and that, and goodbye?"
I haven't had good experiences with tagging. There are just too many "tags" (often one per line or group of lines).

They also have disadvantages in that they separate data which is only different by some aspects, but not most others. (For a simple example, the printing function is not interested in a "safe HTML" Tag. The effort needed for constant tagging and untagging (or using "Stringy" classes, or the cognitive overhead you need to pay if you found a clever way to remove the syntactical burden) is too big except in very few cases.
What's your problem exactly?
UK government 'short' on climate target
I had to call 911 recently, and I was really upset to discover that some idiot had pushed a software update to my phone that replaced the dialer with an "improved" version that changed the way the keypad worked -- in particular, they hid the keypad interface behind a tiny grid icon that I'd never seen before, which made it much harder to figure out how to dial.

If my circumstances had been different, that update could have killed me!
The messages contains a lot more than the flags though so those bytes aren't enough and he didn't mention SYN-ACK.
Electric vehicles could go first at traffic lights under UK clean air zone plans
Facebook and Google to Build 8,000-Mile Undersea Internet Cable
When your editor's cursor hovers over "transistor T1" do you in fact touch the transistor on the board over your desk, the transistor in the schematic diagram, or only the text that happens to be "1T rotsisnart" spelled backwards (with no underlying meaning that is)?

Data representation is not the data. It's just this: "re" presenting. And when this representation is disconnected from the source by means of showing only the raw text and not allowing access to the source you get what you describe as "unpleasant".

You may find it enjoyable to work only with raw text but you're missing out on working with what that text is supposed to represent.
"The chemical or physical inventor is always a Prometheus. There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. But if every physical and chemical invention is a blasphemy, every biological invention is a perversion. There is hardly one which, on first being brought to the notice of an observer from any nation which had not previously heard of their existence, would not appear to him as indecent and unnatural."

- j.b.s haldane 1924 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus;_or,_Science_and_the_...
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Common prostate cancer treatment linked to later dementia, researcher says
The countries where cash is on the verge of exitinction
Physically, the Hubble 'horizon' is mostly meaningless. What you have in mind is the cosmological event horizon.

Both can be defined in terms of certain velocities reaching c: The hubble sphere is located where the change in proper distance at constant cosmological time reaches the speed of light (aka recession velocities), the cosmological event horizon is located where relative velocities as evaluated by parallel transport along the light path does so.
What's the point of my nightmares?
Am I wrong or is this VMware effectively throwing in the towel in their quest to compete with Amazon/The Cloud in general?
No, I meant that the interviewee misunderstood the questions/answers given by the recruiter and thus misrepresented them when he wrote the blogpost. Since he couldn't even get the questions right I highly doubt that he gave a correct representation of the recruiters attitude as well.
It's more about automatic type conversion than the API, though; numerics magically get converted to strings and vice-versa. This is convenient in some cases, especially for beginners who don't have to think about types, but it eventually bites you if you never realize what happens in your back.
How consumer drones wind up in the hands of ISIS fighters
And at ~5 million home sales/year, and an average home price of $240,000, a 10% drop in prices would be about $110B. That's deflation noticeable at the GDP level. My first mortgage (2001) was 7.25%.
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The New York Times’s Lawyer Responds to Donald Trump
Unity is terrible, but at least Ubuntu admits it. I do think Gnome can be made to be pretty.
In what way is it "highly immoral"? Is it more or less immoral than burglary (for example)?
Why Firebase might change the way we think about web development
Crunch Report – Soylent Bars Are Getting Recalled
Also, maybe we'll have increase for demand for affordable, mass produced, high quality frozen pastries that are easy to finish in the oven.
Ways I Screwed Up Making a Fake Identity
> Now that Angular 2 is out, a lot of web companies and enterprise companies are starting to adopt it. And when building new apps we will need to choose a backend to go with Angular 2.

In this post I will go over some reasons why I think that the latest Firebase might be just as impactful in web development as Angular 2 itself, and why the two combined could be the best thing that happened to web development in a long time.

After all the advances in technology, building web applications is still way harder than what it should be, but maybe not so much anymore if we can use something similar to Firebase.
It depends on what you are looking at, but generally index returns (such as the FTSE 100) are calculated as if you are rebalancing your portfolio periodically to reflect the changing composition of the index over time, which is what a passive index fund manager would do for you if you were to invest in a FTSE 100 index fund, for example.

I am not aware of any non-index based stock market performance measures like what you are suggesting--e.g. if I bought all the stocks in the FTSE 100 index in 1994 and never rebalanced, what would have happened? I suspect that the returns would indeed have been a lot worse but I can't say for sure.
Softbank and Saudi Arabia’s PIF Planning $100BN Tech Fund
> programming by successive approximation

That's called 'Agile' nowadays...
True, but we still have a treaty that prohibits bombs in orbit, because they'd reduce the warning time enough to threaten deterrence.

Maybe one day we can launch Orion from Mars.
Elon Musk is right, we do live inside a computer simulation. After spending a considerable amount of time analyzing the galaxies images used on this NASA article I'm comfortable to assure you, those galaxies are a computer's desktop wallpaper.
Dario Fo, Whose Plays Won Praise, Scorn and a Nobel, Dies at 90
Computerphile is magnificent!
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His cost estimates depend on hundreds of thousands of people signing up, to diffuse R&D costs. That's dubious.

Historically, colonists are self-interested. Typically they want to become rich, or they want to escape poverty or persecution. (Typically they're also poorly informed about just how dangerous their new life will be, and how much wealth they can expect to find, but in this age we shouldn't expect that to last much beyond the first landing). There's no precedent that I'm aware of for people leaving comfortable, privileged lives in mass to colonize someplace that has no wealth.
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"Several states have reported attempted scans of their computer systems".. I don't find it likely that the Russians have mastered port scanning technology, this bears all the hallmarks of the hacker 4chan!

Also, this is getting really ridicules..
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Is your business sinking into technical debt?
I almost can't believe I'm saying this, but there nothing wrong with the look as such. The, maybe controversial, problem is that the substance isn't there. Things you expect, or strive for, in modern application development like developers tools, multimedia support, security features, adoption, distribution etc. isn't up to the task. It seem like whenever Linux desktop technologies get good enough to go somewhere they reinvent themselves under a slightly different paradigm.
A world-famous urbanist says New York is becoming a “gated suburb”
Encoders allow you to correct for lost steps, but you'll still be off the intended toolpath. And over/undershoot / oscillation are well known artifacts of a cable based system, it all depends on the length of the cables and how elastic they are and how fast you're moving. It's a tricky combination to get right, I've seen one project like this canceled because of repeat accuracy issues but that may not be so important for everyone (signage for instance, or art projects may be quite forgiving).
It is because the car can’t judge on itself whether exceeding a speed limit is in fact illegal (heck, it can’t even detect the limit with 100% reliability).

How’s that? In some jurisdictions (I would imagine in most, but can only speak with certainty about Czech and Slovak ones), it’s legal to do anything that would otherwise be illegal if you do in the course of protecting a person from imminent danger to their life. There are nuances to it, but the gist is that.

So imagine your son was bitten by a snake. Ambulance won’t get there and back to the hospital (because they won’t have a serum with them) fast enough. The fastest, best way to save your son is to drive him to the hospital as fast as you can. Fuck speed limits, a life is at stake, and it’s perfectly legal for you to ignore them (or any other laws you have to break to save his life) while doing so.

The car wouldn’t be able to judge this. It would have prevented you from driving fast enough and your son would die, even though the car’s restrictions would not be preventing any illegal behavior at the time.
Not a Microsoft fan myself but those talks have quality I must admit.
Opposite for me but I am a nordic ESL speaker myself.
Dario Fo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdaːrjo ˈfɔ]; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian actor–playwright, comedian, singer, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, painter and political campaigner of the Italian left-wing, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Grammelot (or gromalot[1]) is a style of language used in satirical theatre, a gibberish with macaronic and onomatopoeic elements, used in association with mime and mimicry. The satirical use of such a format may date back to the 16th century commedia dell'arte; the group of cognate terms appears to belong to the 20th century.

While the historical origin of the term is unclear, it has been particularly popularized by the Nobel-winning Italian playwright Dario Fo with his 1969 show Mistero Buffo.

https://youtu.be/8A4n9Ez9O8g?t=49s
Yeah it was their response to Vista with dwm and other fancy UI things. Yet here we are at the end of 2016 and Wayland still isn't quite there and gnome went some weird direction with everything. I hate how much wasted space there is at the top of the screen for gnome. Cinnamon is really nice albeit a little bloat with options. That isn't really a bad thing though imho.
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> you don't need to worry about async IO or multi-threading

Isn't there a downside to that? If you want to do multi-threading, you can't just do `ThreadPool.StartNew(() => doSomething())`. You're SOL.
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> Yeah, but you also have to fork a whole process per request to do it.

Eh, any PHP developer worth their salt is implementing PHP-FPM. The days of forking expensive Apache processes have long been over.
I do not like your intro and I think your hair is stupid.
Wrong category:

http://www.freshports.org/net/openntpd/

It is currently marked as ignore, so packages are not built because it requires LibreSSL by default which means it will cause conflicts with stuff that uses OpenSSL.

On July 4th, this commit was added:

https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=395088+0+/usr/...

However I don't think this got merged to the quarterly branch until later, I rebuilt openntpd with OpenSSL on July 5th of this year.
If you work at Google you can find them by searching for it.
On MicroSD Problems (2010)
This would probably be more beneficial under "Show HN"
Relevant and crushingly obvious XKCD: https://xkcd.com/327/

If it was an intentional joke in the grandparent post's code, then it's not one that came across well.
1997, downloading all the KDE1 essentials on a 14.4 kbps modem.. Still wasn't enough to break the hold fvwm1 had over me.
It's almost as bad as HackerNews comments
Thanks for the expansion. My oversimplified theory is that central banks created the post-crisis money to replace the mortgage payments on $500,000 loans for $200,000 houses made to people making $20,000/year that were never going to be paid back. It's not really that the wealth of the payment buyer has increased; it's that the balance sheets of the banks have been expanded.
I interviewed with Google about 10 or so years ago for a manger post. I was not selected after 3rd phone interview.

Potential job was about predicting number of servers required or something like that. I was recommended by a friend's friend who apparently worked there. Google contacted the day they saw my resume and did two quick phone interviews verifying my basic background.

In the third interview which was highly technical, they asked a bunch of techie things including what an inode was. Whatever answer I gave about inode was apparently OK, as the interviewer proceeded to ask me how I would repair a faulty inode.

Since I did not know the answer, I honestly said I do know and joked that I would "google" for the answer. My pathetic attempt at humor did not sit well with the interviewer and was told that I did not pass the current interview.

Fixing inodes or other hardware/software problems is certainly something that needs to be done, but I did not buy the interviewer's assertion that everybody in Google knows how to fix inodes. For making predictions about server needs, failure rates are just one factor to consider and the time needed to repair them.

Whether a prediction manager needs to know the low level details of fixing inodes is questionable in my mind. I just assumed that Google interviews a staggering amount of people and reject a large portion of them for the smallest of reasons (like how astronauts are selected). It also seems they hire people for one thing, but that does not preclude them in deploying them in totally different positions. Otherwise there was no reason to ask me techie questions.

What surprised me was how fast they moved, how upfront they were about overall interview process, and how they asked about non essential questions from my perspective.
You add a significant amount of mass to the bombs to act as propellant. I don't know offhand what fraction is typical for Orion designs.
Caveat++++: Factor in rogue planets that don't orbit any stars, or large asteroids drifting through nebulas etc...

I'm sure the number of solid bodies — potential habitats for life or artificial constructs — in our universe is magnitudes larger than the number of stars we've detected, and the latter is already a mind boggling quantity.
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I'm surprised they are so awed by the "Lightning/MicroUSB" cable but gloss over the (spring-loaded?) "USB-A/MicroUSB" plug of that selfie fan. The latter seems even more insane to me.

As for the fake SD cards, I'm kind of disappointed they didn't take the opportunity and produced the world's first 100TB SD card (patent pending). I'd be curious how many phones would be wrecked by such a card just because of the announced size.
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The State of GHC
All of the tip outs you describe are to FOH staff.
GP is making the point that not all CPUs have a cache.
Agree. In general, administrators want fees for public services to prevent overuse that causes high costs for taxpayers, i.e. Hypochondriacs visiting hospitals once per week.

But for public transportation, that doesn't apply. You cannot overuse public transportation. People have jobs - they don't decide to ride the subway for ten hours per day just because its free of charge. At most, they can take the subway instead of biking or walking and there's no harm in that.

Public transportation should be seen as an extension of the sidewalk, free to access and traverse for anyone that has a place they need to be.
> If we had a source of massive CO2-free power we could extract CO2 from the atmosphere and turn it back into coal, effectively unburning all the coal and oil that we burned so far.

aka photosynthesis
That one was more a "I wonder if I can.." than a required thing so I didn't fully give it a go. I was giving Bedrock[1] a try for it which may have complicated matters further trying essentially to learn two new things at once.

I imagine my thought process at the time was "Flynn is like Heroku and Heroku is all about 12 factor apps. Bedrock seems to be a 12 factor WordPress, I'll try that!". It also somewhat matched up with the rest of what I do in Laravel so the standard composer, PHP, .env, MariaDB vibe. I'll give it another shot over the weekend, I don't recall what stopped it working.

Major thanks on adding MariaDB support by the way, I know mysql and the likes get their fair share of flak but it's what I've used for the past decade or so, more comfortable with it than postgres :)

[1] https://github.com/roots/bedrock
> Usually that manual control comes at the cost of literally violating the language semantics and wandering into the territory of undefined behavior.

What makes you say this?
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We already have this technology, burning biomass with CCS [^0] as just one example. Synthesising methane with solar/wind energy, burning it and feeding the exhaust into greenhouses to grow crops as another. It just needs deploying at scale.

This is not a technology problem. It is a political/economic problem. And it can be solved given the will.

[^0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage
Ask HN: Is there a platform to authorize companies to sell my data for a cut?
Show HN: Conversational insurance quote system for freelancers
When one speaks of visual thinking, one does not mean literal pictures either though, right? For me, when tackling a programming problem for example, I may see a data structure or some piece of architecture as a graph, without really seeing the pictorial representation of that graph that I'd draw on a paper. There's no scaling or positional geometry to speak of; merely connections. Was just wondering if this is similar to what others mean.
My comment just said that they are just college students. And the links are to prove that. Those are just facts. I don't know why people are pissed.

Edit: It is not just their age. I have seen their contributions (RFC's and implementations) and had conversations with them. And my opinion is also based on that...
Why do I find these retro DE more appropriate and eye pleasing than modern ones? KDE 1 with HaikuOS icons would look amazing! I was rocking WindowMaker until recently.
Sounds very similar to the emergency patch issued for Android Studio and IntelliJ IDEA back in May, https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2016/05/11/security-update-f...
Cloud and IoT Apps for Error-Free Publishing and Increased Production
Maybe not such a good idea to post an internal link? :)
The path of computer crime law
as the other commenter said, php is a web framework... and it's what we were using. it's actually more of a web framework than a language in my opinion (or at least was at that point). it's centered around receiving http requests and writing http responses. the article mentions this in fact.

it was a huge pain to try and get php to do anything else. it was totally unpractical to do the kinds of back end processing that we needed (since the database was pretty much off limits during a http request)... long running processes with hundreds of millions of objects were a no-go. believe me, we tried. which meant you had to sync all your logic into Java or something else that could handle the job. which is really error prone when you have a bunch of people moving fast on something.

one of the greatest things about php is that it's a super minimal focused framework. it's also one of it's major short-comings when that model no longer suffices.

you can layer something else on top of it, but the stuff available at the time certainly didn't help the performance or memory characteristics.
I'm currently addressing this need where I work and posting my training materials at http://RForecasting.com as they are developed. Also I like https://www.amazon.com/Data-Matters-Conceptual-Statistics-Ra..., but you can see I'm biased on that.
Hate words by country is the most interesting part for me. I really want to see a deeper study done on that.
Also covered this week on Catalyst, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's weekly science magazine show. Catalyst agrees with this article: the news ain't good. Prof. Terry Hughes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies seemed especially pessimistic. Catalyst's website has an extended interview with him.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4553792.htm
Aristotelian logic can and should be taught at the elementary school level. Bring back the Socratic method while we're at it! And Euclid's Elements! The Greeks contributed well to education.
If space is curved rather than flat we could still have a big crunch on the far side.
Nose alternatives – nose2, pytest or something else?
I speculate that the ban on raids had a much bigger impact. Before that they were used for all kinds of things, mostly to cause mischief, occasionally even for a good purpose, e.g. op chanology. So this might have tied up and channeled a lot of the mischievous energy of the more active users. Now that it's banned we get more informal, less organized hit-and-run harassment.
That's why "badidea" exists.