skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's so naive, to think that any country isn't simply pursuing its own interests.

I'll argue some of your points for fun.

> The EU doesn't block websites

Really? What about all the torrent sites being blocked? Same as Russia, EU has their own agenda for blocking websites. It doesn't need to be for the same reasons or the same websites.

> It doesn't control the media.

Really? Pretty sure any newspaper/tv station has an affiliation/bias with one party/view or another.
Also, same as Russia having state owned media, other countries in Europe have that too, for example the public national televisions and radios. Then there is the social media. Try posting something illegal on facebook and see if it is controlled or not. Try calling for a protest against something. You might get a visit from the police [1].

> It ensures freedom of speech

What exactly is freedom of speech? No country has 100% freedom of speech. How much does Russia have? How much do other countries have? How do you measure it? Let's say in Russia I can't insult Putin (although probably you can), in UK I can't insult the queen, in US I can't insult the FBI. Is there a difference? Insulting can mean different things in different countries.

> It makes it possible even for US companies to do business in the EU

Of course they do, EU is almost like another part of the US. In collaboration with the US they also use these tech companies to spy. But still, not all US business is welcomed. Some countries protect their own interests. That is why this EU-US free trade treaty is hard to get signed.

> without the fear that their servers are seized whenever some corrupt regime decides to

Yeah, US companies definitely do not fear their servers being seized because the US is doing all the seizing. In any case, this is a mutual benefit deal. But recently there is a shift against big US companies and their tax practices. So far, there was no seizing, but let's see what happens next.

> The EU doesn't go after dissidents

What about Snowden, what about Assange? Pretty sure Assange would go to Russia if he could.
Of course, EU encourages and protects dissidents of countries such as China and Russia. In turn these countries do the same. But nobody is better.

[1] http://www.dw.com/en/online-anti-refugee-posts-lead-to-offli...
It truly can.

The first thing I recommend to anyone that shows early signs of depression is: take care of eating/sleeping/exercising.

Besides giving a concrete plan of action, if you take care of those, quality of life greatly improves, and you can "build" on that, getting out of the rut.
How do you know it was astroturfing? Or is this just a lame inflammatory way to imply nobody could disagree with you?
They kinda bury the lede on that one.
Yeah, it's messing with you, don't believe everything it says.
Only in some parts of the world.
They were, but I don't know about any that has reached profitability yet. I might've missed it though.

Btw, are tar sands still expected to be profitable? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12554315 and suchlike seem to mention a new record price for solar power every month or two, at some point that must start to scare oil investors.
I'm not sure about this: I think the people were already divided, and this is now being being exploited politically.
For Wikipedia it would probably be more useful to embed js-ipfs [0] into pages, and fetch additional pages and assets after first one from ipfs. js-ipfs can currently speak WebRTC to peer with other js-ipfs nodes, and websockets to peer with go-ipfs nodes.

https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs
So we have 2-3 very niche deployments. Does it really make L4 popular in embedded systems?

Also, OKL4, specially the version claimed to run on qualcomm is very different from the original L4 (I say claimed since multiple attempts to reverse engineer qualcomm baseband firmware showed no traces of OKL4)

edit: if you think this is incorrect please provide a valid counterpoint. downvoting a post this way to hide its presence is not a valid response.
Wow ... so Executives who were actually responsible for taking this decisions will get away with it and staff will get fired. Always blame low level engineer seems to be the mantra.
Can We Make Money Through Our Blog Posts?
So that is why everybody wants more women in tech. They are nice and beneficial to spouse with.
There are ways to significantly reduce the cost of zk proof verification by batching (that are compatible with the existing Zcash protocol without a fork).
Pokemon ve Pokemon GO Çılgınlığı Bodrum da
Little know fact: Dutch have Austrian accents, and vice versa.
This is the front-end / my only front-friend / the front-end.
I heard that from his own mouth in the one talk of his I attended, and having read this book https://www.amazon.com/Project-Whirlwind-History-Pioneer-Com... I knew he was right.

Although "logic" might not make clear what we're talking about, it's things like parallel execution, modularity, 3D core memory, the first seriously useful form of it which got us going until DRAM, etc.

Note HN has this currently larger discussion of him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12983740
Not that difficult, but it doesn't accomplish the same thing.

First, have you noticed how long it takes for a tree to grow to a size where it's "working" at near capacity?

Second, the new pathway seems to sport higher efficiency at converting energy + CO2 into useable carbon.

Third, trees don't produce really useful carbon compounds. It takes a lot of energy to break wood down.

Fourth, the carbon in a tree is only sequestered so long as the tree is standing or its wood is processed into something durable. A tree that falls down and rots releases its carbon back into the atmosphere.
Using Python for Research (HarvardX)
i'm sure apple has done enough user testing to know that the touchbar will be an improvement over the existing keys.

I'd like to try it out first (if they ever actually ship em to the store) before I purchase.

That being said, the $1800 price point is BS. and so is the touchbar-less starting at $1500 for $600 internals. tim cook is being an asshole here. people will still buy it though (me too, but only because I need a new machine)
It's remarkable that the software comes with a FHIR server. Apparently there are a few features in the core module that are not mapped to FHIR resources.
I would love to see CCDA generation and interoperability support in there. Given the main purpose of helping healthcare in developing countries as stated in the wiki, I guess interop comes as a later step in the roadmap.
Thank you! I was really racking my brain trying to think of a use case that produced that much JSON.
Are they trying to say that exercises are good to us, until it is too much? What does not kill us makes us stronger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LNET_reE6o
Point taken :)

But remember that Lua was specifically designed for embedded scripting and has minimal footprint. A javascript engine is a huge beast in comparison.
> Where exactly do "progressives" think we are progressing?

Originally, the answer to that would be Communism. It was looming, remember? Just a matter of time and it could be accelerated through different kind of policies... Except it never happened.

But these days that's a bad word and some of them abandoned it, and others just don't say it anymore.
I think they focus a beam on each user in turn and so don't need different frequencies.
It doesn't - Communism was originally intended to be the mechanism by which the State withered away.
sub 2 this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LNET_reE6o
Exact same experience. There is no lightweight load for read only.
Performance of adding to IPFS has improved in the past months, I recently added 3.7 TB of https://cdn.media.ccc.de and it took ~24h, admittedly these files are each pretty big, while Wikidata sounds like tons of tiny files.

One more major improvement is on the way, which is directory sharding using a HAMT data structure: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3042
That is 90% of the fun :P
That's brilliant. Thanks for sharing
If you want to just transfer files for their content, there is a method provide in TFA, but that is not the matter at hand here.

It is. One can reasonably argue that it's natural for the parts that don't correspond between the two OSs to be lost in the transfer. But the main problem is that according to the article, it treats missing Linux metadata as an error.

Sure, you can suggest a bunch of guesses about what 1to do if you edit or drop a file from one context into the other without both operating systems agreeing on how to manage that but you will find yourself arguing about what "sensible default" means until the cows come home.

No doubt at MS there was probably large amounts of bikeshed over this, but I don't think "sensible default" should ever be "give up". Unfortunately, having been in a few design discussions with similar results, I have a good idea of exactly how that decision was reached: no one could agree on the precise behaviour, and "leave it out" or "make it an error" got chosen, simply because anything else would be perceived as supporting one alternative over another. Even randomly choosing one of the options would've been far preferable to having no option at all, to the surprise and disappointment of the users.

Someone brought up a related issue at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12981620 (HN discussion is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11008449 ) in a different context, but it may have come from a similar (in)decision process: "we can't agree on a default, so let's just leave it as an error" --- nevermind the fact that in that case, it means bricking the user's machine, and imploring systemd to try to work around it.
It par for the course from the US press. In WWII one paper printed ... something that a Congresscritter? blabbed to them that our subs were avoiding IJN depth charges because their crush depth was deeper than the Japanese realized. Needless to say, this resulted in our losing a lot more, the sub service ended up losing 20% of its men (almost all sub defeats kill the entire crew), and that's when it became "The Silent Service", not for silent running, but for not saying anything they didn't have to about what they were doing.
Yep, that's the one. Thank you.
Your math doesn't work out. If 10% are real, you'd need to bid 90% less. And that also totally ignores that you are bidding against others and wont get clicks for 90% less.
First off kudos to microsoft for open sourcing their JDBC driver.

I would have figured microsoft would have used a linter to fix style issues with their code before Open Sourcing.
E.x:
https://github.com/Microsoft/mssql-jdbc/blob/master/src/main...

Anyone know if microsoft is going to specify their java style guide.
> Now it's your turn, Oracle.

That'll never happen. They're too busy trying to make the open source projects they inherited from Sun (MySQL, Java) closed source again.
vgrep – A pager for grep
Terry A Davis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
They've also got some star imports in there (there's an issue for it).

I'm sure that they'd appreciate help in cleaning it up.
Really? Wow. Yeah, that's... a problem.
HN has been absolutely overwhelmed with Microsoft astroturfing. It's pretty incredible.
I think we need at least two guiding principles - transparency and equality for the new politics thrust upon us by the web

Absolutely should facebook and google be forced to reveal their (ever changing) algorithms. In fact (cf Kathy ONeills book weapons of math destruction) inwould prefer a legal framework forcing this.

But as for fake news being pushed into people's feeds, well this is a direct result of facebooks commercial desire to open up my feed to as many "friends and friends of friends" as they can.

My friends don't share adverts about the Rock that lead to body building supplements - no one shares that with their friends ! That's out there as a "you might also like"

Restrict Facebook to only showing what my friends actively share and guess what - no more fake news.

No more Facebook billions maybe but then who cares. It's a peer to peer messaging site - it's not important really

Edit: I would suggest that facebooks content would stall at the level twitters did if ones feed was driven by active sharing by ones actual nearest circle of friends.

I think I would like to know more about the extent of content that appears in a feed that is not active sharing vs active - it should resemble retweets.
Only use it if you want to send all of your information to FSB (modern KGB). Evgeniy Kasperskiy has friends in government, police and FSB. He also is apologet of state surveillance.
Who do you feel less loyal to? I only ask as I essentially try to keep the same boundaries but don't feel less loyal. I actually feel more loyal as I have more _focused_ time for the company, but this is probably just a rationalization on my part.

Edit: My question is more along the lines of: Do you feel less loyal to the company or to the people within the company?
> The Hezbollah M113s appear to be an older variant, and U.S. officials said they are inclined to believe that vehicles came from the disintegration of the Southern Lebanese Army, or SLA. The SLA was an Israeli-allied and supplied Christian militia that fought during the Lebanese civil war. Its military equipment was ultimately absorbed by Hezbollah in the early 2000s when Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon.

So basically, this is Afghanistan 2.0
The field of medical software is very different from everyday programming. You assume that somebody is lazily pocketing money. You are probably wrong.
Medical software is a highly regulated area and the software needs to be validated. There has to be proven documentation that the software functions correctly and does not endanger people or data. This is a good thing because we are dealing with sensitive privae information and the health of people.
Most hospitals and open source enthusiasts do not have the time, money and expertise to do these things. Thats why they buy software from vendors and probably let the vendors do some form of additional on-site validation.
It is very hard to "fail fast and fail often" in such an environment which makes development and improvment harder.
(And as an aside many corporations that do software validation do it in a braindead overly bureaucratic way and produce buggy software despite validation.)
One such standard that I find nicely executed and easy to understand ist GMAP5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Automated_Manufacturing_P... Its methods work not only for automated manufacturing but can be applied to software development as well.

Edit:
It would be interesting to see more open source collaboration. Maybe you do not see it that much because all the people that have the expertise do not work for the hospitals but get snatched up by the vendors? Maybe you do not see that many start ups enering this sector because while individual contracts are lucrative there are fewer customers around than for consumer apps/products?
Where? In the United States if you have great credit you can get a car loan for under 2% APR in the US for a new car. Under 4% for a used car.
> controversial topics like [..] Climate Change

You're making me sad on a Friday afternoon.
Rationalization plays a role but there is a lot more than that involved. If you studi the cultural war subject you might find some answers
Ah, but what if the man page for elf has been sneakily changed by your superhuman-intelligent adversary?

(cf. A Fire Upon the Deep, Virnor Vinge)
No , I don't. Nobody would pay 200$ for a new external SSD just to avoid the adaptor. For anything with a cable, you can also just replace the cable.

And, most importantly: Apple barely makes any money from the sale of peripherals. Their own products have mostly moved to bluetooth anyway.

I can understand people who don't like the switch, although I tend to disagree. But the idea that they have a profit motive in doing so I find absurd.

I've also seen it all play out before:

"I'm a professional, I need a floppy drive!", "Amateurs may be ok without a CD-drive, but I'm a professional", "They're just trying to push their WLAN base stations, it'll never catch on. Professionals like me need a real network".
and that is...?
tl;dr: inspired in part by http://xkcd.com/378/ on writing the "true" program in machine code (that is, hex AKA binary bits). Using the echo program....
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> Front-end Front is a place where front-end developers can ask questions, share interesting links, and show their work to the rest of the community. Have you heard of Hacker News or Designer News? It’s something like that, but focused more on front-end.

Maybe something like

> frontendfront: a front-end dev news-aggregation site

would work better
Where are you all getting Dutch from? He sounds generic Euro speaking English to me.
Digital imperialism.
Zuckerberg and Musk are competing who will control the means of communication and information. Zuckerberg tactic seems to be collecting data as much as possible with his drones and then sell it to the highest bidder in exchange for a free walled garden, while Musk has a more old school approach with his lobbying for privatization of public services.
Also: that embassy is in central London, not far from Harrods. Busy area.
Not for 32-bit, although fair point for 64-bit.

That said, an iBoot-level backdoor may not be as useful these days, considering Data partition is still protected with passphrase (and 10-attempt limit being SEP-enforced now).

I suppose you could argue root filesydtem access would be a concern, yet you would still need multiple zero-days to get persistence, defeat CS, etc.

While the argument regarding auditing is valid (for 64-bit), we both are aware that certain parties have privately been able to decrypt those. I highly doubt they would not say something if they had discovered a backdoor in iBoot.
I behave online with the understanding that my behaviour is essentially public.

PS - how come all website product recommendations still suck? Data collection is rather ahead of data usage it seems...
> It probably explains the increased demand for flexible hours.

Or desire to not have flexible hours, but go back to rigid 9-5 and to know you'll always be free after 5pm unless the business is burning down (rather than constantly on-call dealing with more bullshit every other day)

> One thing I have noticed is that some activities raise that bullshit threshold waaay more than others, and I can't really understand why, it's definitely not because one is more pleasant than the other.

Not sure if pleasant is the right word, but rather, internally rewarding.

Going to the gym is unpleasant, and whatever muscle group I've worked that day aches for days due to the intensity of the workout, but the end result (looking in the mirror) is hugely rewarding. Going to the farm isn't always very pleasant given the smell of animal droppings, but for some reason, by the time I leave the farm I'm feeling great. Ice skating is also gruelling, I fall a lot, I can't go more than 2-3 times a week as invariably I do something to damage my leg or ankle one of the days, but I still come out feeling great despite the pain.

Maybe I'm just a glutton for punishment, and have gone from being punished at work (high stress, high deliverables, high reward, followed by burnout) to similar outside of work.

Then again, I've discovered a love for musical theatre which is no pain but still huge gain (for me).
Top-end 'pro' DSLRs primarily use CFast cards with SD only as a backup or omitted entirely.
This was a fun puzzle and learning challenge. Glad to see the next generation is still suffering with null terminators :)
I've been using Azure in various forms since beta days. Back then it felt very startup-like with half baked software and updates coming all the time. That is still how their new stuff is delivered, but I've rarely had issues with anything that is out of preview.

Here what really sold Azure to me, the various companies I've worked for, etc. Azure allows you to do just about anything these days, and you can mix & match all sorts of different pieces of tech as you see fit, and its all the in one place. It's quite important for businesses that I have, for example, probably half a dozen ways to open a connection into my corporate network in order for my front end Azure-hosted API can access some ancient database. Microsoft knows how to make Azure appeal to businesses, since that is their bread and butter.

One last thing: where I currently work we have been running or entire infrastructure on Azure since day 1. We have to architect our applications for the cloud, but the benefits have always been amazing. Whenever we get bigger customers that slam our infrastructure with traffic, we just push a button (or automatically) and we get more machines/bandwidth/storage, etc. Not once has there been feelings of regret for choosing Azure in the company. It's a safe bet.
And young people become old, gain more life experience and knowledge and change their views.
What Math Do You Need for Physics?
OpenStack has begun to feel more of a vendor marketplace with each of them trying to see if you can adopt their flavor. It looks somewhat similar to the large number of the Linux distros that were popular about 10 years ago, except that these are much more opinionated and have serious vendor lock-in possibilities since it relates to enterprise. Kubernetes, on the other hand feels like a harmonious and homogeneous solution to a specific problem.
Note that it's how many threads, not cores. I have a this CPU: http://ark.intel.com/products/84985/Intel-Core-i5-5257U-Proc... which the websites believes is 4 cores when really it's 2.
Iran and other SCO countries will be customers since they are friendly with Russia. I wonder if they are running it on Elbrus chips. That would make it extra super secure and Russian.
If that matters the former CEO immediately accepted responsibility and resigned in 2015.

I believe, these are further consequences of the budget cut, they are NOT blaming low level engineers for the emission scandal...
So, while I applaud this, I am concerned about the startup time of ps as compared to the old command prompt. Has it been improved recently?
> Power is profoundly addictive and corrupting.

I would argue that a small taste of power corrupted the left.

When they started censoring conservative views, banning conservative speakers on campuses, "no platforming", they were not defending freedom.
Let's reformulate it then: topics where some actors have a strong incentive (monetary or emotional) to manipulate other peoples opinion.
I totally agree. I think that ironically this has created an atmosphere where manipulating people is easier than when the elites had more influence. It may be harder to manipulate all of the people in the same direction, but it's easier to manipulate a large group.
Oh my, when I read about it in Dilbert a few weeks ago, I thought it was made up and funny. Is that really a thing?
No, wait, seriously. What about the real wives asking "so who's this Tammy that keeps messaging you?"

"Oh, it's just my work-wife, Sharon. We have been laughing all day at work when our boss spilled his coffee."

Yes. That is gonna work for sure.
I guess he phrased it wrongly. Climate issues is not a matter of controversy but rather there are organizations trying to spread false knowledge and being able to spread that using wikipediaP2P is what OP is concerned about.
Microsoft has been open-sourcing a lot lately, but it seems to be mostly "peripheral" software...

The JDBC driver can be used to connect to SQL anywhere. Use it to connect to SQL Server (on-prem or in the cloud), Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

...associated with the use of their commercial products.
Why is this on the frontpage? :o
It depends on the nature of the company. In some situations (ie. corporate turnarounds) it can be hard to make tough decisions if you're overly concerned about the personal feelings attached to each decision. This can create paralysis. It's also very hard to fire people in situations when everyone is buddy/buddy.