skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>that sounds like its criticizing the motives of the other side.

I'd say that it's 1/3 bad motives, 1/3 group think and 1/3 the naive belief of propaganda.

I don't, for instance, believe that this billboard/overt threat was paid for by average citizens expressing their concern over lost jobs:

http://images.gawker.com/itqtvwbe3c0skb99wirm/c_scale,fl_pro...

Or this expensive Times Sq Billboard:

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/49a08e277b870c1416bcca4a7562...

What do you think motivated the people behind this to throw money at it?

>Obviously if we were raising taxes to pay for schools or NASA or something, we wouldn't want a tax that targets Walmart more than Google. That would be weirdly political and probably inefficient

Walmart in fact already receives indirect "weird political assistance" to the tune of $6.2 billion dollars via your taxes:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-w...

I'm fairly certain that they wouldn't mind at all if their workers got a $8 billion subsidy paid for by your taxes, and if they could cut their wages by $1 billion at the same time. Alice Walton would be overjoyed at the extra $800 million going towards her staff's incomes.
What have your biggest issues been?
How computers take elections away from you
Love it. You can also edit latex documents with collaborators in real time.

This is the only reason I got to make my team mates use to Latex for lab reports instead of Word. Latex isn't hard, and the fact that I could help them in real time and that they could see my code in our report's context got them pretty good at latex within an hour of using it !
> Heck, get in touch with a drug cartel, have them set up a US corporation to buy the thing and walk away.

> Alternatively, leave the boat and move to one of those countries and set up shop there.

While this might allow them to sell the boat to somebody it might also get them in trouble if they ever plan on coming back to the US.
If you used Latex a lot, isn't it worth learning it well? It's like somebody using python a lot for science work, but just copying things around, because they don't bother to learn the language.
What country do you live in?

Does it have any enemies?

Would you be upset if some local corporation sold breakthrough military technology to that enemy?
> It plans to allow users to log into 1Password ... (emphasis added)

Assuming this is on a laptop that already a.) uses FileVault and b.) requires a password to log in, I don't think it's much more of a risk.
That makes even less sense, and reeks even more of irrationality: if they're using JVM, a Solaris based system like SmartOS would be the best choice - Solaris is where Java is developed, after all.

It's like buying a NetApp appliance to run NFS servers, when Solaris is the reference NFS server implementation. Humans do not make any sense with their decisions governed by feelings instead of logic.
I'm currently using Overleaf[1]. It has collaboration (no live tracking) in the free tier, support for BibTeX with auto-import from Zotero, auto-complete and syntax highlighting, and works completely in the browser.

[1]: https://www.overleaf.com
Sadly, it's because we're all fed nonsense and propaganda, constantly by our governments, corporations and media outlets. People are way to entertained and comfortable that it's just all too convenient to ignore.

Even people's social media feeds can be tweaked to change people's views enmasse,not saying they are, but it's a real possibility.

I stopped reading "The Guardian", Facebook and most main stream media sites and my mental health is much better for it.

There is a serious war going on in which innocent civillians are dying and we don't actually, fully understand why, but it's being funded with our tax money. We need to wake up.

I honestly believe the current implementation / configuration of western democracy in the west has been failing us for far too long, the system needs a major overhaul.
Would I be wrong in saying the US government sponsors in a similar fashion Christian missionaries albeit tacitly?
Seems reasonable. An interesting bit for me was the CITATION file. The lack of citability for software is a recurring annoyance when writing up work that uses that software.
Or you can run Windows 10 with first-class support on Intel and NVidia hardware.
6 Tips for Planning Personal Development: Challenges of a Steep Learning Curve
This is generally why we (as a country) invest in things like education and, later, retraining programs.

Eventually, of course, many things will be automated away by higher wages. At that point, basic income is a reasonable thing to consider.
I installed Sierra just a few days ago on an Intel server board (S5000XALR). I had to change a single setting in my bootloader (clover) to make all the services work (Admittedly, it did take a bit of googling to find that setting).

I think Intel boards are ideal because they are presumably quite similar in hardware to the Mac Pro motherboards. All my hardware (including GTX480) worked without any additional configuration.
Yes, you would be wrong in saying that. Really, where would that idea even come from?
I used Latex extensively in Univ for thesis and publishing papers. Since then, I forgot that knowledge and am having hard time picking it up.

However, I briefly used www.sharelatex.com, is a web GUI (or WYSIWYG) type approach to Latex. It's a good project and makes using Latex slightly easier, but user must still know various packages, how to layout images etc. Nonetheless, sharelatex is a good effort and hope it benefits others.
And what was the premise that gave birth to that desire? According to founding fathers of the scientific method such as Johannes Kepler?
I've been a Mac user since the late 90s. Believe it or not you used to be able to get a Mac for under $1k. Usually, through student discounts and back to school sales. My last desktop Mac was a Powermac G4 tower. The next gen was the Powermac G5 with double the price! There was no upgrade plan going forward. $2500 was wildly out of my budget.

A few years later, after Apple released the first intel macs, I discovered the osx86 wiki, gave it a shot and it worked! I built a Hackintosh that was almost as powerful as a full MacPro, Intel Q6600, 16GB RAM, RAID10 HDD, for 1/3 of the price.

I've always enjoyed using a Mac since the System 7 days. But in this day and age paying >$1500 for a laptop just seems ludicrous. I'm typing this from a 2011 MBP. I anticipated purchasing a newer 2016 MBP. After this announcement I'll probably look into a refurbished rMBP.

Sadly, I believe the entry level xMac is never going to happen. the Mac mini gets no love, the MacPro gets no attention, the iMac gets and it appears the focus is mobile and laptops. So I'll be back on the OSX86 wiki making my shopping list and doing my research once again.
Does node-canvas allow you to select high fidelity algorithms over fast algorithms? A while ago, I wrote a crop tool using browser canvas, and found that the results of a scaling operation were unacceptable, due to its fast downsampling algorithm.

The gory details and a few attempts at higher quality scaling algorithm implementations are on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18922880/html5-canvas-res.... TL;DR: sending the image to the server and having GM scale it is faster and more reliable than your own scaling algorithm in single-threaded browser JS.
If you are looking for a more coherent and better source, Wikibooks has an amazing Latex guide:

https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
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Yes, because there are no Western-financed Christian missionaries operating in Saudi Arabia.
Consequently, repeating something too many times is a flag to detect a lie. Amateur liars usually forget that rule. Good liars create doubt. Bad liars create certainty. However, the former knowns how to gain ppl's trust.

You learn that with camp fire based games like Mafia/Werewolf
No I can't but for me it means that it always performs well no matter if I am watching video or messing on sublime text or I am on the terminal. Also, the terminal for me is only about the work I do and almost never about managing my computer because my computer works as expected.

My blood boils when I hear about linux on desktop because my experience always involved up keeping linux doing millions of easy things all the time just to make the thing run.

Some funny glitch when running Chrome? Oh that's because of the display driver, update it and you'll be fine but to update it you need to install some dependencies and to install these dependencies you need to add some repo. Oh great now the app that worked is no longer working because installing drivers somehow messed to the permissions of some folder, just run this command to fix the permissions and now you are all good. Remember that app that was crashing due to permissions? Yeah, it was due to a bug that is fixed on the new version now you need to run this command o undo the permissions change because the bug was fixed and now it's not working with the hack.

I like not maintaining my tools, I don't maintain my macbook except for installing updates when prompted and cleaning the screen and the keyboard every now and then. My uptime tends to be from OS update to OS update.
Really well until the enemies of your clients decide to off you?

I find the Gerald Bull story fascinating, definitely worth reading for anyone unfamiliar with it.
I do think the "self extension" is a deep human builtin. And it's a very high bandwidth path in us. Ignoring it is mostly waste.
From an article like this[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith-based_foreign_aid
I assume this is an older article because it makes no mention of the recent kickstarter for a sequel. Looks good. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/611279740/calculords-2-...
How many scientists now and in the past do you think were and are religious.
Quite likely. Describing it as an "attack helicopter of the sea" sounds a lot like a hand-wavey excuse for not really having a clear idea what naval role the technology would actually fill.

Just demilitarize the thing and sell as a billionaire's toy for the confidential getaway from the swimming Versailles of a superyacht you already have. "The dinghy? Yeah, it was so advanced the Navy did not know what to do with it so I got it on the cheap", I imagine it would make a great conversation piece.

Edit: I might be basing my mental model of billionaires too much on the writings of Neil Stephenson though..
It lacks the most important LaTeX tip, don't fight the machine. LaTeX is really good at getting documents that look 90% as good as an actual typesetter could make them look, if one can live with somewhat conservative looking documents. The last 10 percent, fixing margin width, changing paragraphs and so on, are incredibly hard with LaTeX. (Of course LaTeX defaults are a lot better than word, largely because LaTeX automatically uses consistent headers instead of sometime 15 pt and sometimes 16 pt underlined.)
Right, but what about some part of the third-world?[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith-based_foreign_aid
Obligatory warning about interesting sounding psychological studies that may or may not replicate.
> If someone else is dictating your craft, you're the tool, not the artist

Not quite. According to this view, prominent artists from the Renaissance were just tools. Patronage made possible some of the best pieces in art history. In fact artists didn't even get to pick their subjects until relatively recently.

The line between commercial (commissioned), craft and artistic endeavour (self-expression) are often blurred.

And yes, art is escaping definition, and it should.
"I love hearing a developer at a daily stand-up meeting saying he's been up all night..."

A phrase I heard from a much older, wiser developer: "heroism doesn't scale." If you encourage workaholic behavior don't be surprised if the team starts falling apart, or worse if their families suffer.
Morality is always there, or should be. Picketty has shown that our understandings of the Market as anything conducive to a stable society were a fiction caused by recent history.
Everything works fine in QEMU for me.
Information related the taxation regime for "non-habitual residents": http://www.livinginportugal.com/en/moving-to-portugal/tax-re...

Apparently, the 0% tax only applies in case the income is already taxed in the state of origin...
Also check out these old photos of Afghan: http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/06/10/lost-in-time-groovy...
For anyone else who doesn't immediately get the acronym,

"Fine particles (PM2.5) are 2.5 micrometers in diameter or smaller, and can only be seen with an electron microscope. Fine particles are produced from all types of combustion, including motor vehicles, power plants, residential wood burning, forest fires, agricultural burning, and some industrial processes."

https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.particle
this works quite well, and does not necessarily require any NN/machine learning. see the youtube for this paper https://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/scenespace/
tldr simple brute force weighted average of samples from many frames, combined with a noisy/low quality depth-from-motion estimate can be used to de-noise, increase resolution and otherwise manipulate video footage. very cool paper with great results from a simple technique.
It's like the people complaining about all the fancy Lego sets today are removing creativity from Lego, no? One kid might build the set and leave it together forever. But my kid builds the set, leaves it together a few weeks, then uses all the cool new pieces to fuel his crazy creativity.

Likewise, this summer I made a spontaneous trip to Milwaukee for their Irish festival on less than two hours' notice that a band I love was going to be there. Maybe it's just me, but I would never have made a six hour trip to a city I've never been to with no advance planning without the assurance that my smartphone was there to help me navigate my way around.
The usual plug for sharelatex here. Check out sharelatex.com, it is amazing. Write LaTeX without having to install it, plus collaboration in the cloud. (I'm not affiliated, just a fan).

And in general, LaTeX is a super worthwhile language to learn. It may be a bit more complicated than markdown or its cousins, but it can do pretty much everything.

I've barely scratched the surface of what it can do, but since I live at the intersection of CS and Education research, it is great how BibTeX will swap between APA and ACM styles easily, or how I can use a macro to create likert scale questions, for example. It probably takes the right kind of mindset, but I really liked the fact that my dissertation had a makefile (and was in source control, way back in the CVS days).
Carriers do maintain sessions centrally though. These are the HLR and VLR - home location register and visitor location register. This is how "hand offs" between towers work. Handsets don't authenticate to the base station, the base station proxies those back to the MSC, mobile switching center and are looked up in the EIR - Equipment Identity Register.
I'll have to give another spin at MS wavy layouts. I fell in love with ThinkPads and old school keyboards. My view is biased by music. Guitar and pianos are straight, but with time you shift how you use your hands/fingers to allow fun on it. I do think it's the same for keyboards. But maybe I'm wrong.
This is so wrong… Did they use old-style figures, too? That's the only way I can imagine it might have looked OK.
The Problem with Mass Consensus in Tech
Pro tip: you can't.
The SIM card is a smart card

If you have a credit/debit card with a chip, look at the arrangement of the contacts and compare to a SIM card. It's essentially the same standard (ISO 7816) at the lower layers, but with different application-layer protocols on top.

Also, as a matter of being the only device in posession of the subscriber but arguably owned by the telco, I'd definitely prefer it to be a removable piece which communicates over a standard interface. The alternative of embedding it into the handset is far worse from the perspective of lock-in and perhaps security.
Welcome to 2008, Mono. :- )
Great way of hijacking a comment, pull in Trump and reversing cause and effect. You must be of the 'Let us abolish ourselves camp'.

I am not.
Ask HN: x86 SMP with cpus on different processor modes
It's possible to setup SMP on intel x86 processors and leave the BSP in real mode?

I have the following setup in mind:

- BSP in 16-bit real mode;
- 1 AP in 32-bit protected mode;
- Every other cpu off;

Why?

The project is a simple assembler IDE that runs in bare metal, and could be used to fast prototype of ideas talking directly to real hardware. The code is assembled in-memory, and then to "test" is just a jump to the assembled location. Will be used most to learn/teach OS design.

The use case is very simple (only need disk and VGA), but I need 4GB address space. Being able to use BIOS services could make it a trivial project. My initial plan was to use Unreal mode for it, but it turns out to be error prone.

My idea is use the AP processor to develop the simple OS (it's just editor TUI + assembler), and invoke the BSP processor to access disk. I'm aware that will require a mutual exclusion lock, but I never programmed a SMP and every reference online uses protected mode BSP.

It makes sense? What kind of problems I have in this design?

Thanks!

Project details: https://github.com/tiago4orion/EnzOS
Plan: https://github.com/tiago4orion/EnzOS/blob/master/plan.md
Well for 1 & 2, this story is about a guy who is from the US, and is trying to sell military tech to the US. Either he supports the US, or he doesn't care what his military tech is used for. Either way he can't really claim the moral high ground if he turns around and sells it to "enemy" countries.

But you don't really need to assume any of that. If you just assume that spreading military tech is a net negative, then this is good. I don't support the US's use of drones, but I especially don't want other countries to have drones. I don't support the use of nuclear bombs, but I certainly don't want other countries to have them. Whether the country is good or not, I think advancing military tech is at best neutral, and at worst very, very bad.
This is true in America too. Most of mosques here were setup here by people who immigrated here in the 70's and their ideologies never went through the reforms that happened elsewhere even in countries like Pakistan.

Middle-class Pakistani parents here are more fundamentalist and repressive than say Pakistani middle-class parents .
I suspect what makes a 'tech capital' is the presence of VC money. For better or worse, SF absolutely dominates here, and till we have comparable amounts of money in another location, there won't be comparable 'tech capitals'. I doubt low rent is a marker of a tech capital anywhere. (I could be wrong).

It might make sense to register a company in the USA, raise money from US VC then work from wherever you have access to your customers and you like living. India has a few companies that do exactly this. US registered companies, a global clientele, tech work happens in India, mostly in Bangalore.

E.g: Helpshift.
Is a student loan a full Full Recourse debt? My understanding with the bankruptcy process here in Australia is even though you may declare bankruptcy it is still up the proceeding Judge to make the determination based on your circumstance and sometimes can deny the claim for bankruptcy but require the creditor to re-adjust the term of the mortgage either via change in the debit amount or the repayment schedule.
Sure. How about the entire history of western science since the Roman Empire ?

Without the church, there would have been far less research (mostly happened within the church, mostly by order of the Vatican), we would have wiped out the scientific knowledge several times in history (mostly, but not exclusively during revolutions, when monasteries saved entire libraries containing scientific knowledge), and scientists have been explicitly wiped out as a matter of state policy several times, when again the church saved large numbers of them.

And that's ignoring that, even today, a university that doesn't originate within the catholic church, or is even still part of it (like my alma mater) is still not very common. Even today, at least organizationally, very significant amounts of scientific research still happen within the catholic church (as in the boss of the boss of the boss of the boss of the scientist is the pope). Today.

Honorable mentions go to several ecclesiastical orders, most famously the Jesuit priests.

Sadly, Christianity is the exception here. While, yes, most religions had their priests do some form of scientific research, most religions wiped out the scientific knowledge they amassed, rather than protecting and safeguarding it, famously the burning of the great library of Alexandria by one of the main sources of islam, caliph Omar (who for instance is the source of sharia, as in the law system called sharia) [1]

In my opinion this happens because in most religions there is no separation of church and state, like Christianity first had because of it's fights with the Roman Empire. This meant that the church could continue when the empire split, fell or otherwise had issues (and could remain popular when the state failed, as states inevitably seem to do), that the Catholic church had a constant and functional international organization from AD 200-300 onwards or so, and it remained functional and separate from states until ... well it's still going, isn't it ? And even today, neither faithful nor atheists would say that the catholic church is the state, anywhere except perhaps Vatican city (and even there, it's mostly the Italian and Swiss state). In most religions, when a revolution happened, the revolution was as much against the religion as it was against the state, meaning the priests were the first to get their heads chopped off and books burned. This is not to say that Christian priests escaped that fate every time, but often they did.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Library_of_...
While China is somewhat the poster child for modern air pollution, do not overlook that PM2.5 and PM10 exposure is also very bad in many parts of Europe, SE Asia, and large American cities. The Netherlands occasionally experiences a haze that is quite visible and smokey-smelling, in fact tomorrow will be one of the worst days of the year for PM exposure in NW Europe:

http://www.temis.nl/aqi/aqi_nl.html
It is an arbitrary number I made up!

My point is that this is not really a good way to make financial decisions. If you've bought a house and plan to stay, spending up front to save over a decade is something to work at. Consider the rule of 72. Something that pays back in 10 years is yielding a roughly 7% return. That's a great return. As I said, I'm right there with ya on waiting until it makes good financial sense to make such purchases, I just think it is also a good idea to do some analysis to figure out what that means (and if the purchase makes sense, who cares what it means to the company selling).