skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not enough True Black Metal. Fail.

Seriously, all these things end up as personal preferences and whatever fad is in now. Techno? Whatev. When I was in school, it was industrial.

All this talk about how it helps "focus" or "brain" or whatever is just scam babble.
The law in the UK was changed a few years ago to permit this but it wasn't installed because of the cost.

A quick search turned up [1] which reckons £300 million for installation and £800,000 per annum to maintain. Which seems a bit pricey.

That said, there was a plan to trial it this year, but I can't remember if that was pre- or post-brexit.

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-35411297
> There’s been a lot of talk in Silicon Valley about Peter Thiel’s public contributions, and support for Donald Trump, yet no one seems to be talking about Eric Schmidt’s private contributions to the Clinton campaign that were just exposed via Wikileaks.

Because he picked the "right" side, you only got bullied if you support the "wrong" one.
Design patterns aren't obsoleted by JavaScript; they've just been given trendy new names like reducers and sagas.
No, you can't move the goalposts like this. You just said Google should have waited to disclose until a complete fix was published. In asserting that, you must also assert you'd rather have Google disclose nothing than something.
> the Mac was in its time the canonical hacker's computer.

Yeah... not really. Never happened.

In the 90s, the canonical hacker computers were Amigas and Ataris. And soon thereafter, Windows PC, during the Windows 3 -> 95 transition.

Or if you want to go back another decade, Apple ][ and C64. Now these were the ultimate hacker computers.

Macs at the time were mostly used to create newspapers, slideshows and graphical assets. We're talking MacIntosh and Mac+, here. You never saw these in LAN parties, trust me.
You're a web developer, right? Why are you disappointed in the MBP? It's not like web development needs more than 16GB of RAM, or the absolute latest GPU.
I think that was Schrodinger's argument in "What is Life": nature seeks to maximise entropy, and life does a very good job of it.
It says "Designed for PC Gaming", why would it release elsewhere?
As someone who just logged back in to Instapaper to find a pile of articles 3+ years old, still unread.. You know your business.
I don't think oversight policies are nearly enough. The intrusion into your privacy is scary enough, even without marrying it to state-sanctioned violence. And automated license plate reading is quite possible with consumer electronics, which means that the only reason why things aren't getting tracked is that it's not profitable to track it yet.
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Hillary bumper sticker can't hurt...
I have a question concerning actual remote work vs. what is shown in "Who is Hiring?" threads.

For example, how do full-time, actual remote (eg. you are in Japan and your company is in Belgium) employees feel/interpret job-postings like:

> Somewhere, USA | X-Company | ONSITE / REMOTE | Full-time

From my understanding/seeing of so many of these types of postings, they always have hidden gotchas like:

- only for extremely senior positions

- remote (at your home, which is 20 minutes from the office) once a week only

- not actually remote, but just using the word as keyword-optimization

As my question above says, how do actual remote employees interpret such job-ads?
Went to a few seattle.rb meetups, and truly felt like the experiences captured what makes Seattle/Ruby weird, wonderful.
The happy clients of the Innocence Project seem to enjoy the rotting in jail option over the execution...
It seems that no one has mentioned this so I'll add.

There was a study back in the 1960s which has shown that listening to music was actually detrimental to programmers' productivity. The results were kind of popularized in the book Peopleware and by Joel Spolsky (see e.g. here: https://www.quora.com/How-accurate-is-Joel-Spolskys-assertio...).

My personal experience confirms this. While I can successfully fix things or TDD something I already have a good reasoning about while listening to music, more difficult programming tasks require more focus which I can get only in silent conditions (which may be hard to find, alas).

The most important thing with music to me is that it shouldn't capture my mind. In other words, I shouldn't be noticing it.

There is a nice tool I've successfully been using for years: https://www.focusatwill.com/, it looks like no one has mentioned it yet also. It is paid (though cheap) and it helps me tremendously, especially in noisy environments (office). They are marketing themselves as science-based, has a few channels, including the ones aimed specifically for those who suffer from ADHD. Their music selection is quite nice and they also take the idea of distractions seriously: if you find a track is distracting you (basically, if you catch yourself actually listening to it instead of focusing on work), you click "Next" and this track will never be played again.
You can also just paste the URL (either the original URL or from Vimeo) as an argument to youtube-dl and it'll download it.
Does your mind jump around, stay on task or get stuck?
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The big online stores (Steam,Origin,UPlay) themselves are pretty interchangeable feature-wise. I buy most stuff on Steam just because I already have a ludicrous amount of games on it. It's pretty much inertia now.
These apps will move your Steam games for you and use Windows Junctions (links) to do so:
http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover
http://www.stefanjones.ca/steam/
In one sense, sure. But IMO regulating the IoT "industry" in a general way is a bad idea because it will just shift the low hanging fruit around some, while ultimately stifiling innovation, which is what is needed for any deep, meaningful security to happen in the long term .
The main criticism seems to be that they publish personal information.

When the Manning cables that exposed various corrupt and illegal actions of the Bush administration were released, the exact same criticisms were leveled at them.

I'm failing to see the difference between then and now.
We should send missionaries.
> SW developers are not Apple's main audience for this machine

I'm not too sure about that. Almost every startup software developer I know uses a company-issued Macbook Pro. I'm not sure what it's like in some of the older, larger companies, but that's definitely the case at most startups.
This is old FUD.
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System76 brings Ubuntu to $699 laptop with Kaby Lake chips
It's sad, as there are also constant complaints about GEMA from artists. They serve themselves only, not artists.
GEMA is widely disliked in Germany, mostly because of it's heavy handed business practices, enabled by historically established political connections and sleaze, and it's internal corruption and unfair distribution of the taken money.
It's not a crazy amount for running a company. It's a crazy amount for a crowdfunding campaign.
>> there is a package manager ( homebrew ) & also there is iTerm

> Yeah sure, if you install some tooling it then becomes fine, but you need to install that.

What distro do you use that abstracts the need to install things?
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Ubuntu 14.04 is very likely not going to be a good experience on a 4k display. A newer release, however, should be significantly better. I'm not sure if it's possible to work around Dell's configuration constraint system.
I used to be fond of trying out new desktop environments, playing with "fun" stuff etc. At this point in my life I no longer gain a lot of enjoyment from just fiddling around (at least not usually). These days a laptop is just a tool -- and ideally, one that works efficiently so I can do the work I need to do and get on with my life.

The reason I've used a MacBook Pro for so many years is because it really does "just work," or at least consistently has in the past. It's very, very rare (in my personal experience) to run into any system-related issues. I used to run Linux on a laptop and spent ages fiddling around with my Xorg, troubleshooting wireless issues, dealing with buggy desktop environments, etc...

I think a lot of other people are in a similar position, in that the "neat things" and "fiddling" are a negative. I just want a machine that works well with minimal configuration. Is desktop Linux at that stage right now? Popular opinion seems to say no, but I haven't actually tried running desktop Linux since for years.

(I do use Linux every single day, but it's always over ssh/tmux)
Reading the whole article I am not sure if it has been written by a human. Maybe an algorithm or a translation from some other language.
Uh, POSIX is generally considered a decent standard and has had great success, especially when compare to what it replaced.
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That... sounds horrific.
> ...prevents you to see the path, maybe there is a way to configure that somehow?

First hit on searching [macos] [finder] [full] [path].
He was making a point about linux being closer to a developer os by having all those included in a core install
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I've never paid for an SSL cert :/ Also, keep in mind that I'm just issuing them like they're peanuts now, because LE is there. Need to deploy a throwaway instance of my app? Random subsubsubdomain and a TLS cert, why not.

You can't really compare the number of free things you're using to the number of things you'd use if they weren't free.
I understand your frustration, I guess the question is if they try and cater for too many preferences would it ultimately compromise the focus of the product? It's very similar to the original 'too-soon' shift to USB on the iMac, though as a consumer product you could argue that was more justifiable.
Because it's a way to avoid confronting the increasingly unavoidable fact that the AI renaissance DNNs were supposed to usher in is looking increasingly less impressive. Unsurprising, given that throwing more computing power at neural networks doesn't constitute a fundamental leap forward -- but disconcerting to a community that expected, and promised, far more than is being delivered.
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This sounds... crazy. I learned cursive in the UK as a young child with a ball-point and it made very little difference to writing.

Yeesh, no wonder the US has such a hate-on for it.
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> I would first question why you think you need to disable capability passing at all, which was the main thrust of my post [1]. What specific problem are you trying to solve by restricting capability passing?

Right now, my specific problems #1 (resp. #2) is understanding what you (resp ticki) have in mind :)

But I can also think of problems such as:
1/ limiting privilege escalation;
2/ somehow transitively revoking privileges that have been obtained through a compromised process.

Not sure if `Kind` has any effect on either, but I'll spend a few days thinking about these issues. I'd be happy to chat with you if you're interested (I'm Yoric on irc.mozilla.org).
I have to admit, I am normally not impressed by "Show HN"s from a practical viewpoint (most are technical demos, I think), but your page really stood out. I really like, that you keep it simple and allow to transfer the pages.

A feature request I would have if I published open-access papers (and that is fortunately more and more the case) would be to host them on your page.

Maybe that's already possible (i.e. adding static files), then I have nothing to complain. :)
I thought the idea with Maxwell's daemon was that detecting the particles heated it up which made the particle detector less accurate.
Yeah but if you want to develop in C++, Java or C# you're gonna need visual studio thus rendering macOS useless.
Any way you'd add Bitcoin support? It's the second most convenient thing (after PayPal, but I hate PayPal).
I think you're misreading it. The author clearly considers himself a nerd.
Even better if you display a willingness to spam your users 'in key states'...

https://medium.com/voteplz/help-your-users-vote-6ee61dcf224d...

(edit: US really really needs mandatory voting(and preferential voting, but that's another topic)).
ProxFlow (formerly ProxTube) has been around forever, running a bunch of proxy servers as basically a public service. It's widely used in Germany.
Ask HN: Anyone would like to get started with ML part time?
anyone keen on getting a bit deeper into Machine Learning but doesn't quite know where to get started or whether studying it is worth the effort? If you have few hrs/week, then I have work which is easy enough for an experienced web engineer (but total newcomer to ML) to quickly ease into it.

Combine that with a Coursera (or some other) program and you have a new leg in your career (or hobby) including an endorsement and industry reference for a real project on your CV. Old (slightly bored) but super experienced geeks who love Open Source and Security are especially welcome to reach out. Expectations are low since most of us on the team have also not done any ML that goes beyond reading some papers :-)

my contact details are in my user profile (always happy to meet real people from here :))
I have 2 identical computers running windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.10 and I will say that the room gets a whole lot hotter when the Windows machine is on.
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They rebranded!

This was previously 'Facebook Games Arcade Beta' [1], then officially unnamed, but occasionally referred to as 'Facebook Arcade' [2].

At the time TechCruch wrote about this in August [3], it was less clear what their gaming portal ambitions were, and I lamented why they'd push this product with the Facebook brand so strongly instead of de-emphasizing it in favor of a different brand [4]. Since then, they had a partial change of heart -- the URL for this site is still through Facebook, but on the splash page, the only mention of Facebook is the [f] in the 'Gameroom' logo.

[1] http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/facebook-games-arcade-beta...
[2] https://www.facebook.com/arcade
[3] https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/18/facebook-desktop-game-plat...
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12313908#12314672
"As long as the thief drives my car straight into the ocean, it's ok for him to take it"

I'm glad you're thinking outside the box, but that kind of "immunity", if it were ever to be authorized in an emergency (attacks on power grids lasting hours or days), it should only be carried out by the government with a warrant, and with the understanding that people may die or lose property due to the sudden, public destruction of millions of devices.
Actually it shows "Trump Orgainzation" as the registrant (The typo "Orgainzation" is actually in the WHOIS record); Emily McMullin is the Admin & Tech contact.

https://who.godaddy.com/whoisstd.aspx?domain=trump-email.com
Skype fined in Belgium for not cooperating in police investigation
Ah yes... good old Eric. Always ready to sell out for a price.
Didn't Yahoo do this more than 10 years ago? I remember playing a lot of checkers as a lab monitor in college.
:) cool. If those reasons could be addressed, do you think you'd consider using a tool like Sqwiggle again?
But it is more powerful hardware. The CPU is upgraded. The SSD has read/write speeds that smoke most competitors. Graphics got a big boost (though people found an excuse to rant about it not being Nvidia). The only thing that's not better is the ability to upgrade to 32/64GB of RAM. That's really it. And the problem here is the Intel's lack of support for LPDDR4. Apple was faced with choosing two out of three between thin/lightweight, good battery life, and support for up to 64GB of RAM. I think the decision Apple would make here is more than obvious. Look at the existing market for 64GB capable laptops and all of them are either bulky or just suffer in battery life performance. And the whole deal with only Thunderbolt 3/USB-C is way overblown; just buy the 1-2 cables you need and your problems are solved. The only genuinely valid complaint I see is the price. I don't know how much of that is attributed to more expensive components (CPU/GPU) vs the cost of the TouchBar itself.
The last 150 years have seen the rise of science as the dominant force in the intellectual space. A lot of what used to be good and impressive about philosophy, as opposed to just a lot of hand-waving, were the parts which had some overlap with science. The last 150 years has essentially seen a brain-drain from Phil -> Sci.

The result is that what's left for philosophers to talk about and contribute is... debatable. Worse, the space their ideas can occupy shrinks as its claimed by fields with more rigor and more of a basis in scientific endeavor.
They were used in Canadian prisons. And it's set off a backlash about broad capture of everyone's communications (including prisoners and employees).

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-canadian-prison-was-spyin...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/opp-launch-crim...
the Lenovo x220 has the best keyboard in the business & an overhead lighting system that i'm fond of. it's very "throwback" but there are some aftermarket upgrades for it to make it significantly quicker.
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Why would you need VS for c++, or especially java? The both have plenty of IDE's.
The next line of the output from the command you specified but which you didn't quote and that gives almost 5 GB on the machine in the example it is named "Shared with Windows"

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn251566.aspx

"This value provides the size of files that are hard linked so that they appear both in the component store and in other locations (for the normal operation of Windows). This is included in the actual size, but shouldn’t be considered part of the component store overhead."
Newcomers like Microsoft?
if you think that's crazy.. take a look at the amounts on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_funded_crowdfu...
ps: I can't provide any meaningful volume of work in the beginning but there is probably more coming as ideas progress (we are new to this, hence also our expectations from this would be easily managable)
That's a good point, though in this case the thing they need to remember is a key part of doing the job. Seeing a line of code run correctly once does not mean it's correct. It's one of those concepts that comes up in many forms.

Perhaps one way to make a teachable moment of it is to help them set up a baby CI environment. Then every time it catches something the value of good practices is driven home.
The default terminal in linux used to be quite ugly as well, seems unfair to compare the defaults from years ago to the current status in either.

I came to OS X in 2006 (grad school, prior laptop had just kicked the bucket, a new battery was a couple hundred, and it was dog slow anyways being a ~2003 laptop three years later (hardware moved much faster back then)). So that was OS X 10.4. Terminal.app suited me just fine. The default was indeed ugly, but that was quickly remedied. I don't recall when they got tabs, but as a screen (now tmux) guy, that never bothered me. I've personally never understood the desire for multiple tabs when a better solution existed that didn't take up big chunks of your (especially on a laptop) limited screen real estate.
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