skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article makes no mention of Steve Bannon, who suggested too many Asian CEOs is a threat to civic society [0], and ran a website that peddled anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim conspiracy theories.

Interestingly, an earlier version of the article did contain a defense of Bannon, concluding that the accusations that Bannon is anti-semitic suffer from the same issues as the accusations of Trump's racism. I can't find it online any more, but it included the sentence: I feel like a non-wolf-crying person might reserve “anti-Semitic” for the sort of people who don’t even have longstanding Orthodox Jewish friends/employees with degrees in Jewish Studies who are willing to write long defences of them.

The reference is to this recent article by Joel Pollak, who claims that 'Steve is a friend of the Jewish people and a defender of Israel': http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/14/stephen-k....

Separately, Alan Dershowitz also says that accusing Bannon of anti-Semitism "demeans the term": http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/16/alan-dershow...

I don't know if Alexander removed this section because he came across new information, or because he thought it was a distraction from the main theme of the article. Personally, I have no knowledge of Bannon other than what's been recently reported in the media. But without defending Bannon's other views, there does seem to be evidence that 'anti-semitic' may not be an entirely accurate accusation.
Then I guess we need to get rid of all the alternate browsers on Android, Windows, Linux, etc because they are all just ticking time bombs waiting to destroy your device.
Fwiw I snagged lech.blog at list price (so $30 + 220), I wouldn't pay a cent more, but my main problem is that I still have no access to the domain and, unless I am provoven (or refunded) otherwise, my domain registartion runs from 28th of October.
Some email were sent from an unverified, unencrypted, unrelated domain - I nearly sent them to spam.
They really need to sort out their internal processes.
Used hide.me so far. Speeds there were really good and the company is not located in Europe or us.

But this is much cheaper, any experience? Especially using it in the UK, does it increase latency significantly?
Very interesting point. I registered after being a long term lurker just to tell you that I think this is a very interesting way to look at it. I often thing of things as the GP presented it. You're post has me re-thinking it. Thanks for this.
I've found the vertically centered "" to be far superior almost everywhere. Definitely for comments, but even for pointers (yes, I do write a fair bit of C) it becomes clearer that the glyph is part of the type signature, and not just a footnote.

By "6 point" I mean the character itself has 6 "arms", instead of the typical 5. For my taste, it makes the glyph feel more balanced.

There is this repo: https://github.com/hbin/top-programming-fonts . Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with the legality of obtaining Menlo without OS X/macOS. It is a variation on Bitstream Vera Sans, which is AFAIK Open Source, but I am completely ignorant when it comes to how licenses apply to fonts (as opposed to code).

As for SF Mono, that seems to be impossible to obtain even if* you have macOS and an Apple Developer account (only the UI fonts are available for download). I managed to dig them out of the Xcode application bundle and install them as system-wide fonts, but was greeted with a very scary warning stating that installing these fonts could destabilize my entire system (so far my OS is still running, though)...YMMV.
Thats really not what I'm talking about. I understand the push back against "SJWs" and those in the language policing community. That said, telling someone to get in the oven, which Ricky Vaughn and others are known to do, is a deliberate intimidation tactic designed to dehumanize and silence others and I don't think it needs to be protected.

Does this have the potential for abuse? Sure. In the same way that I think Zimmerman's self-defense argument was a problem, this could be implemented poorly. That doesn't mean I think it isn't an idea worth pursuing if we could adjudicate it justly.
Update: I can see the Update to "Focus by Firefox" in the App Store (the logo changed), but due to the rebranding in Germany I can no longer access the details page of that in the App Store. The German version, "Klar by Firefox", hasn't updated yet. Likely someone needs to build the rebranded version explicitly and just hasn't done so yet.
What registry was this? That's not supposed to be possible -- registries are only supposed to be able to designate domains as "premium" if they aren't registered yet.
Good note. Thanks!
This stood out to me as well.

The drug use question is a reasonable one, at least in terms of active use. It has a significant impact on how you want to talk to someone, how at-risk they are, and yes, on what the police should be aware of if they're eventually contacted. It shouldn't ever go further if the person doesn't need a police visit, though.

Demanding that he "say the guns are down" sounds like stupid and alarming legalism. It strikes me as someone reading a script, unable to deal with an answer of "they were never up to begin with, and are locked away, can we move on".

And the whole thing... yes, the police can help with suicides. Yes, someone hanging up without explanation is a bad sign. But you can't fail to help people, then assume they're unstable for hanging up on you, then make wild and unjustified claims to the police.
Seems like a minor nitpick, but Hispanic is considered an ethnicity, not a race.

You can be black and Hispanic. And my favorite...according to the federal government, it is entirely possible to be "Hispanic - White and Black."

At which point we can all agree that discussions of race are almost always more confusing than helpful.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Source: worked on some USDA reports.
Look at how many have down voted my response. I lost more points than I have gained. Negative 2 at this point. I've always felt that HN is overwhelmingly made up of white angry male readers. I don't need a proof anymore. This says it all, and is in plain site for everyone to see. Except "everyone" is 90% white angry male readers. LOL. Eff'd up.
I got lots of interesting offers from linkedin. Also I didn't have to bother to write my CV in years, because I can just link anyone to my up to date linkedin profile.
Dude - that's an awesome link. I have been a long time watcher of CNN. I used think they were highly respected. I will still watch, but will continue to notice more and more low quality and low integrity productions.

This is exactly what I mean, it isn't just "they've moved far left". It's worse than that, it's that they are making things up.

I wish I could upvote it twice!
it's actually 104% of profits now
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2016/11/04/apple-ipho...
> ugly politics with nice explanations

And why in the long run OSS will be subverted because it exists to strip free software of politics...
He delivered shit ton of code; managers have seen the progress pretty much daily, or at least weekly. The failure of the project can be blamed on many things - so ultimately, maybe Walter was just digging the right (albeit crude) ditch but at the wrong place. Someone else's ass may or may not get busted for the project flop (depends on the size of the company, usually).

In the meantime, Steve gets sacked because he's obviously not working - so why he should get paid?

The point is, companies would want you to focus on business goals, but in fact they pay you for the amount of code produced (and punish you if it's low).
It seems that your claim is that the astronomy had nothing to do with burning a man alive.... but there are many non-astronmer pagans not burned alive.

Perhaps astronomy wasn't the only reason, but clearly the church was against any message, however scientific, that conflicted with their message. Scientists have this nasty habit of having evidence that complicates shutting them up while they live.

EDIT - Grammar
Only the WKWebView gets fast JavaScript. Any app that uses it will inherit that functionality.

For example, Firefox for iOS ranks exactly the same as Safari in speed benchmarks.
The linked article by Bret Victor on the future of computer interfaces is worth reading: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...

Of course, Pictures Under Glass interfaces have advantages too. Touching a screen has become a familiar way to interact with technology: a more tactile interface might be harder to learn. To make a screen-based interface, you only need to draw a 2D picture and respond to 2D touches, not design a 3D object which can be manipulated in space. You can buy touch panels off the shelf instead of having to manufacture expensive custom 3D parts.

But these are advantages of easiness and cheapness, not quality. If designers and engineers can put in the time to make a physical interface and users can put in the time to learn it, you can improve quite a bit on Pictures Under Glass. Think about how terrible it would be to replace a car's steering wheel with a touch screen, for example.

So that's really what the article is saying: we should think of touch screens as the cheap, easy option, not the exciting, futuristic one. Our futuristic starship control panel should be a custom-manufactured physical interface instead of a cheap glass panel.
Corporate walled gardens, diminished accesibility, ubiquitous tracking, complete de-anonymization, and widespread disinformation and propaganda.

Pretty much exactly what we have now.
Patent application by USC: Fasting condition as dietary treatment of diabetes
It's not about being trigger-happy, it's the focus of thinking.

The military's job is to defeat enemies. If you are a soldier, enemies are people who want to kill you, the soldier. They're enemies when everyone wakes up and they're enemies when everyone goes to bed. So the soldiers' job in-country is to sort people into enemies and civilians; to defend civilians and kill enemies.

In the U.S., a police officer's job is to enforce the law. They are supposed to be policing behavior, not sorting people. Everyone is a civilian. A civilian who broke the law is not an enemy, and the justice system is not seeking to defeat them. The law is supposed to punish behavior in proportion to the crime, and in accordance with the written law.

Now of course it's not that simple; there are organized crime syndicates, like drug gangs or terrorist cells, who target police. But the reality is that those are a tiny tiny percentage of the population.

But law enforcement has spent a decade re-organizing itself to defeat them. That's how you get an "Emergency Response Team" (SWAT) setting up a secure perimeter and clearing houses around a sleepy veteran who just called for a little support, as in this story.

They didn't show up to help a veteran; they showed up to defeat an enemy.
astrologists and homeopaths would say that, as well
I think you're mistaken. The site tries to be modern by including 'material design' elements. I'm not gonna lie, I think it's extremely ugly and cluttered, but functional.
New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks
It's a rebranding of Xamarin Studio, they're not going to stop support for it any time soon. Even if they did, just use Code.
The slow start was a good way to avoid unfair distribution in the beginning phase when miner implementations were still being written, deployed, tested, debugged, ported and optimized.

In fact I would advocate for a zero-day start, where the first few hundred blocks following genesis have exactly 0 reward, coupled with an overestimated initial difficulty, so people have some less stress-full time to get set up and sort out technical problems.

The crazy initial prices are abusive to no-one except the fools who pay them.
This is miss-titled, ity should read Do not mess with Google's Pixel TOS when buying that device.
Yikes. Just extended my lastn.ame domain hack to 2026.
Airbnb Experiences
Let me preface this by saying I'm a developer advocate at Asana, so it's part of my job to try to construct useful stories from this sort of information. If you don't mind me asking, what do you want to see from the API? Text formatting (i.e. the strikethrough) is a huge one that I'd like to see implemented, and there are definitely some, um, ideosyncratic parts of the API (I'm trying to be nice here), but I feel it's way better than screen scraping, which is what it sounds like you're advocating.

And as for the backend, I wouldn't call it dumb, exactly, but it was implemented in a way that would help spur early growth of the company - and it succeeded in doing that, so it wasn't a poor decision from that point of view. We really, really do know that we've outgrown it now, and are hard at work replacing it with something better. That happens at just about every company as it scales. The frontend is constantly getting faster as we adopt the rewrite, and the faster backend for the API has just entered open beta, as a matter of fact; you're welcome to try it: https://asa.na/fast-api.
My team all use macOS, so it was really easy for me to write a CLI in Go (this library [1] is great), and then run

go install

to create a full-contained binary that I could distribute to everyone. People can put the binary somewhere on their PATH, for example: `/usr/local/bin`, and then be able to run it like any other shell command.

If you already have python installed then it isn't too much trouble to run a .py file by doing

python mycli.py

But if you have a bin on your PATH you could just run

mycli

without having to install Go or any of the dependancies because they're bundled up in the binary.

edit: I should add that it is possible to cross-compile with Go, so if someone on my team wasn't on the same OS as me I could support them as well

[1] https://github.com/urfave/cli
> but it would be nice if there was a formal way for DEs to recognize and acknowledge the existence of another DE.

Not sure if it's what you want but applications can specify in their .desktop file that they should only be shown in a specific environment :

cat /usr/share/applications/xfce4-about.desktop
[...]
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;

Now many don't but I guess if they all did it would then be a problem for people who want to use applications from another DE.
What the hell is the point of the Labour party these days? They are absolutely not an effective opposition.

Hear, hear. They've even done a 180 over Brexit, which they now support, against the majority of their supporters.

Labour claims this is because they respect the referendum, which is ridiculous. It'd be like the Democrats becoming pro-life and anti-immigrant to "respect" the presidential election. You don't just give up your own ideals and platform for what won - well, not unless you're the modern Labour party.
Ask HN: Top things to focus on in an on-site SWE interview at Google/FB?
Hi HN crew,
I know that this is a broad question and there is plenty of info on the web, but I am really curious about your recent experience. What are the top things that I should focus on (technical/non-technical) in an on-site software engineer interview at Google/FB based on your recent experience?
To be fair, that was mostly inter city truck drivers who didn't want to pay tolls while they were reconstructing the only non toll alternative.
It helps with preventing online tracking, since private browsing windows/tabs do not have access to your cookies.
That sounds to me like a conflict of interest
Link to paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi16/osdi16...

I'm one of the co-authors on the paper. Let me know if you have any questions! (And no, we didn't come up with the title of the article. One of the Columbia journalists did.)
Thanks, this is very impressive. I didn't know about braille unicode characters, very cool.
This excerpt is a good summary of the smugness that I hate the WHATWG for.
For every person loving those plain texts, there are one that want to see them purged from existence. Observe how Gnome has basically recreated the registry, complete with hidden magic switches...
I don't think you have understood the pro-life stance, then. One of the main functions of sex is to produce children, and it is well-known that sex has a decent likelihood of producing children. So if you choose have sex, you are also choosing to accept the responsibility to care for any children that come.

This is kind of tied in with the Judaeo-Christian worldview, which says that sex is only designed to be done within the context of an unbreakable covenant (marriage), because it bonds you together in a deep way. Sex isn't just an act, which is why divorce is so traumatic. Children are supposed to be conceived out of an act of love into a safe, loving environment. (Everyone is aware that this is often not the reality, but this is what the design is.)

All that is hard to explain, though, so it's easier for people say "it's morally wrong because God says so," which really isn't a helpful or even appropriate way of interacting with non-Christians. An appeal to authority doesn't work if the other person doesn't accept the authority...

Obviously, you are free to reject this view. You can even reject the moral part, but I think that fundamentally the conservative stance is taking responsibility for the consequences of your actions. We take a dim view of people who get drunk, drive, and kill someone, because driving carries a responsibility. So why are we okay with people who have sex and then kill someone to get out of their responsibility?

Hopefully this makes the pro-life position more understandable, even if you don't agree.
It's also much easier to get unstuck in the snow with a manual because you can rock the car back and forth between 1st and reverse.

Also you have the option to start in 2nd gear to prevent spinning tires and sliding when starting from a dead stop.
Because you can't actually buy them. I bought a car a few years ago, the option was base trim with manual or all other trims in automatic. It was very frustrating.

If the choice is between automatic windows, dual climate control, heated seats, etc or a manual, you'd be a fool to choose the manual no matter how much you prefer it over an automatic. Then of course, the "sales data" feeds back to the manufacturer and everyone keeps buying into the notion that no one wants manuals.
What sort of advanced OO features are you referring to?
That's a... great idea.
Self driving cars without passengers, where the hard components are close to the ground, and with soft padding everywhere else.
Is that ever possible? Every interaction is going to have side channels and fingerprints.
"What I cannot create I do not understand."
A private security guard does too. And surely most of the time a police office is dealing with law-breakers that aren't violent, or that aren't carrying a firearm if they're violent?
Well, TIL on that, so thx! Still going to pop into neutral w/o engaging the clutch and coast a ton, as I've always done, though :D
In 10 or 20 years from now, perhaps the news article would read "Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. needs manual drive mode."
The recent libotr vulnerability is a good example of such a bug that appeared with 64 bit:

https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2016-001-libotr/
I think that is the key difference. People feel like these are only minor infractions and that those that have the data will only go after the "real" bad guys. Not realizing that there is a thin line being tread in that argument. Especially since historically we've seen movie studios able to get the data to send cease and desist letters. I also don't think people realize how easy it is to sift through that data.

Also I find it interesting that argument holds so much ground since it has been the catch phrase of tyrannical governments for a hundred years. In Sinclair's "The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation" and from the mouth of Goebbels. Usually people try to distance themselves as far as possible from the NAZIs.
FB has a history of falsifying metrics.

Just look back at the armies of bots pretending to be "engaged" users pre-IPO.

People give Zuckerberg the benefit of the doubt because he is young, but his track record speaks of someone who is willing to lie and manipulate in order to achieve his goals.

This election cycle proved that FB is not be trusted with anything more consequential that cat pictures.
Yeah, use clojure! :D
Say you owned ensiferum.com. Should you be allowed to sell subdomains and make money out of it? That's really all they are doing.
Recreation of 1940s programming wins Tony Sale computer conservation award
In some cases coasting in neutral will save fuel, in others it will not. This depends on the specific situation.

If you're coasting down a hill to a stop, then it's better to coast in gear to use approximately no fuel. If you're coasting down a hill to long level stretch of road it's better to coast in neutral to obtain kinetic energy. If one wants to follow speed limits it's sometimes necessary to first coast in neutral then use engine braking at the bottom of the hill.

The optimal strategy in all cases is actually coasting in neutral with the engine turned off, and then starting the engine when you need to increase your speed. (This advanced technique may be illegal, though).
The anti police rhetoric in the article reflects the judgement, which the article helpfully links to. The judgement is very clear and easy to read.

(I really appreciate that linking, btw.)
The theory is if you go down a long mountain the brakes will be very hot when you are getting towards the bottom which means the performance is not as great. So if you then suddenly need the full power of the brakes it is not available anymore.

Also if the mountain is tall enough the brakes might not make it all the way down which has happened a few times in Norway with catastrophic results for large vehicles like busses.
I mean most developers, period, use Windows, on a worldwide basis. Most web developers use Windows. Most C/C++ developers use Windows. Most Android developers use Windows. Almost all .NET developers use Windows--but most developers, period, use Windows.

Windows is the de facto standard in most places that aren't chasing the leading edge.
Logically speaking, hundchenkatze's riposte seems best: that hiding and privacy are two different things.

Practically speaking, I believe it's impossible to convince most people, including myself, to change their behaviour online. In my opinion this is because most people feel detached from any instrumental or guiding role in their society. They simply have no agency, no say in what is done to them and what is done in their name. Because of this perceived abyss between them and the state, the notion that its magnifying glass will be turned, one day in the future, upon them personally, is incredible. The distance is too great. And because they feel like they have no stake in the fate of their society, their browsing habits are anyway innocuous: they probably rightly think that they won't raise any flags. To leap from that state of affairs to a future in which individuals start to be singled out for their browsing habits requires an effort of the imagination that most of us don't have the time or energy to undertake in the detail needed for it to be realistic or even actionable.
Lots of folks have started integrating helm into their own internal deployment pipelines. Describing your own software as a helm chart gives you all the benefits of versioning, upgrades, rollbacks, lifecycle hooks, and release tracking.

Also drastically cuts down on all the `kubectl {create,apply} -f ...` hacks that folks are using today. To get a sense of what that might look like, check out Lachlan Evenson's demo of a helm-based ci/cd pipline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVoln4HdZOY
This is true. I have seen some very effective programmers do this. They do this even when playing with a new library.
Agreed. My Houdini sims and cooks are between 10-20 minutes per stage. Evil.