skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grassroots Digital Rights Alliance Expands Across U.S
I think this product in targeted to companies who already have a MS-SQL database, and now can consider use Linux.
It does not persist data. It requires shared volume support for that, and they are not currently supporting shared volumes on macOS, which makes this, for all practical purposes, useless on a Mac.

I have it running in Vagrant, in the meantime. Easiest SQL Server install I have ever done.
FWIW, I use both and vastly prefer most things on the rift (especially flight and driving sims).

The room-scale experiences on the Vive are fantastic and definitely the direction this tech will go, but the majority of the SteamVR experience are... unpolished? That's the best way i can describe it. SteamVR itself is also extremely buggy, but I've also had USB 3.0 issues on the Rift, so there are some issues on both platforms.

But flight sims feel extremely natural (DCS World and Elite:Dangerous in particular), especially with Rift's ASW.
Well, MS is still extorting money from android vendors using os related patents.
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>avoiding more neocon foreign policy (Syria, Yemen), and blocking free form globalization

Boy are you in for a shock when you see his shortlist for SoS.
It's not fraud. At best, it's a violation of CAN-SPAM, but I doubt it.

Don't get me wrong: it's unethical. But I don't think, "I didn't check the box that said 'add me to the newsletter' and they sent me a newsletter anyway" is particularly powerful.
Black Mirror is less ham-fisted, more black comedy (no pun intended) in most episodes. (especially Nosedive)
It's difficult to tell which is the best, but there are good resources for finding which hosting providers to avoid. You'll just have to evaluate the hosts you like one by one.

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/networks/.
http://www.abuseat.org/asntraffic.html
http://www.spamrankings.net/

A host with more issues means it is more likely that you'll get painted with a "spammer" brush.

And then, of course, do all of the right things. SPF, DKIM, setup TLS correctly and so on. There are plenty of documents available discussing this. I presume mailinabox takes care of a lot of this for you.
I actually don't care about the people being discussed enough to look them up and I have little interest in substantiating someone else's claim. If you want me to believe someone is a nasty racist, you can tell me why and show me examples. A huge part of the reason that dialogue is breaking down in the U.S. is because these sorts of charges are so easy to fling out there and too many people take it for granted that they're justified. Worse, too often not taking for granted means you get the label yourself. It's no wonder that the polls missed how closely fought a thing the election would be.

My point about some people feeling justified in conceptually stealing the moral condemnation implicit in a term like "racist", while defining that term to mean something very different than what it does mean, stands without regard to whether or not that this is the case with Twitter and these individuals. No one should trust these accusations until the specific case is actually made arguing for the validity of the charge.

OK, I gave in... I looked the first name up that I came across, and what little I looked at and I tend to agree: it looked genuinely racist. By that I mean that it fit a definition of racism that is: decisions or beliefs about individuals using the non-volitional physical category of race/ethnicity of that individual as a factor in their conclusions. That and only that. Everything else, I said in the first two paragraphs stand.

[EDIT FOR ADDITIONAL POINT] Also, Twitter as a private company has no obligation at all to support/allow any position, even if that position: left or right, reasonable or unreasonable, substantiated or unsubstantiated. It's their ball, they can play whatever game they want. My points aren't about Twitter's rights as much as they are about no longer believing "naked" charges or racism, sexism, etc.
Whoever in the military writes the descriptions for these things has got to be so excited that microwave energy moves at the same speed as light, just so they can say engagements take place "at the speed of light"
"How can anyone in this day and age assume when someone speaks poorly of a massive, corrupt oganisation that they think highly of another massive, corrupt organisation?"

I'd so love for this to be the case. Unfortunately that doesn't appear to be empirically true. There's a lot of political discussion just on HN that shows it's hard for people to grant the other side (whatever other happens to be) that benefit of the doubt. It does take work, though.
Intro to Swift 3
He's a prolific security researcher. Evercookie got him the fame and since then he's been researching all sorts of security vulnerabilities even on things like combination locks [1], I enjoy his video tutorials a lot.

[1] http://samy.pl/combobreaker/
I'm not offended at all. I just happened across that video a few days ago, I saw the line I quoted in the article, and connected the dots from that video to the quote.

I suppose it is entirely possible I misunderstood the point the guy in the video was trying to make. I certainly didn't mean to come across as offended.
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As in, native ones written in Swift which utilize Foundation and UIKit?

I would say almost certainly not.
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I imagine that no-notifications is an intentional part of the minimalist æsthetic of HN, but I would also like this feature. It seems that it could be made minimally obtrusive by just having a "Replies" entry on your profile page, so that it's never in your way, but you can find the replies without having to trawl through all your old comments.
Can you be accredited based on embezzled or borrowed money? Will it bring attention that will uncover it?
You don't do manual HTML manipulation with this lib either. You can just see your page as being composed of components and replace components in order to update screen.
What I'd like to know is if this is relying on drones (either multirotor or fixed wings) having carbon fiber or plastic bodies as opposed to enclosed metal.
Microsoft was never good at avoiding installers.
Microsoft should have his own Linux version, supported by the company. It will be inevitable.
Hacker News is really the site with the least amount of self criticism on the entire Internet.

'dang, go ahead and do you thing.
To be honest that's true for about 90% of VR demos/experiences that have been released...
Wonder if drones could be shielded against this? Or, better yet, could the technology be adapted to transmit energy to drones or spacecraft?
Not to disagree with one half of your assertion (that media leaning right is corrupt and broken), but you appear completely blind to the media that leans left being equally corrupt and broken. Many scandals about the left were covered up and hidden away. You just didn't look for them.

I struggle to find any mass media that hasn't been rendered completely useless during this election cycle. To contrast your Fox/WSJ/WaPo list of egregious terrible media, consider BBC, CNN, TYT, HuffPo, Slate (I'll stop there, but I could list 50 more).

Honestly, the best coverage I could find in this last election cycle came from dreary underground groups. All major media had clearly picked a side and was uninterested in providing useful, factual information.
I agree with most of it. But I personally think .net/C# simply to not bring enough advances over Java to even think of changing core parts. Most advantages that get mentioned are app developer conveniences.
Not a big issue for me, most media-driven issues have no bearing on my day-to-day directly, luckily. Until noise on the line could be considred an assault on intelligence, I could care less what media-darling group is being given more attention than they merit, but here's my guess:

Because "safe spaces" inspire unrealistic expectations of the real world and foster dependence and normalization of more institutional controls over the rest of the populace, perhaps.
I heavily doubt your characterization of the average reasons people voted Trump. Only one candidate threatened journalists with "opening libel laws," where was the hand-wringing about "Free Speech" then? Where was the worry about neocon foreign policy when candidates endorsed torture, carpet bombing the middle east, killing the families of terrorists, and reimbursing ourselves with Iraq's oil after the invasion?

People mostly choose their candidate and make justifications after the fact. I do believe that the rhetoric of the left probably drove conservative voters away, but that has nothing to do with what "Free Speech" actually refers to and a lot more to do with cultural values, hating the liberal elite for being liberal more than being elite, and a vague sense of "feeling attacked."
As long as they can coerce people into buying machines with higher spec than they need right now "just in case", it's good business. I think it's the same thinking that makes them not having an SD card slot.
What would be required to bring the CLR up to the JVM's legendary level of engineering?
AFAIK yes but not in a "production ready" way.
I'm sure they'll get on it right after Microsoft stops extorting Android OEM's that can't afford to fight their BS patents.

Also, Google joining the .NET foundation was a cloud move. Nothing more.
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/compiling-to-the-web-with-rust...
I have this running on Debian 8. Only needs openssl from jessie-backports, and it works flawlessly.
It's forbidden to go within 15km of Mecca if you're not Muslim.
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> In a general sense this tarnishes their credibility, either they lied or they didn't know what they were talking about for the last 6 months.

I think we have very different understandings of what the news is about. Maybe you're comparing more editorial aspects, while I'm concentrating on reportage of facts? So, 'not a real candidate, not able to win, clinton is only real candidate, have to choose her' are all opinion. Whereas Trump says he wants to build a wall, Trump boasts about being able to sexually assault women, Trumps campaign has ties to Russia and is being helped by Russia, the polls as they were, Trumps refusal to take standard steps to avoid conflict of interest and to be transparent were and are all facts.

Individuals that appeared saying the things you said were opinion pieces, and they potentially should reevaluate (although quite a few of them are not proved wrong by the simple fact of Trump winning). Individuals saying the things I listed were reporting facts. Just because a lot of facts were particularly unflattering for one of the candidates doesn't mean that reporting was wrong or biased, and all the calls for the MSM to beat itself up for how it was wrong make no sense. The things I listed don't go away just because Trump won.
IS is already using commercially available drones as weapons

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/world/middleeast/iraq-dron...
Unfortunately, this is just a promotion for a series of videos. Probably talking head videos with PowerPoints.

Most people who do systems programming probably already know about Rust. They may not have used it, but know it exists.

What's "Hacks"?
India's Unified Payment Interface that has gone relatively unnoticed
It's more or less folded into Google Maps since most of the Earth features can be done in a web browser with webGL now.
Yes. See [1] for details.

[1] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/compiling-to-the-web-with-rust...
>The world over, people are getting sick of elitists, oligarchs, and a crony system that is impoverishing them while making hollow promises.

"Hi, my name is Donald Trump. Nice to meet you!"
Most Microprocessor manufacturers Atmel, Microchip, ST, TI, NXP etc give out incredible documentation for free and probably enough though for a competitor to reverse engineer a dodgy but functional implementation of the chip (say in a FPGA).

Not sure why these guys go all the way where as companies like broadcom do not, I would put it more to shaving the last cent off the chip. I know which ones I would choose as an engineer but you dont often get to make the choice.
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Hey all, I am on the Mobile Center team. We are creating amazing work flows for app developers of any language or platform. From React Native to Swift.

Please share any of your questions or areas of the mobile app creation process that are most frustrating / annoying / time-consuming to you.
I did the IFTTT daily digest dump to my e-reader, but ended up filling up the memory too quickly.

I've been using Google Newsstand recently, and it seems to work well in providing new content without sucking you down a rabbit hole. It would be nice to be able to add your own RSS feeds like reader though.
hence my point... I'm tempted to reply harshly but...

The first pattern was property ( as well as is used affects others ), the second pattern was a belief or similar ( others not affected ).

So, examples.

Car/Guns == Public Safety ( other people may be affected, socks was a joke, but you can argue that the buying of something, can be regulated by the seller as he wishes )

Fairytale/Sexual Preference/Religion/Red Hair == Does not affect other people... ( plus, some of these you can't change, and should have no bearing.. they are identifiers of people/culture/etc )

Violent Religious/Red Headed Person? We already have other methods/laws for this, it's called Laws against committing other crimes... The Red/Religion is superfluous...

I'm sure in this oversimplification I made bad analogy.. again, the analogy should not be needed ( but it unfortunately is.. )
If you can take out an enemy vehicle before it gets to your checkpoint, then suicide bombers and other forms of guerilla warfare will become obsolete since they will not have sufficient enough range. As it is, they rely on more primitive technologies since they are less cash rich but now their weapons that don't have circuit boards will be more effective. Intelligence and espionage will still be more useful than firepower directly.
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It looks like 3D models.

You can see the models through google maps on the normal web interface. If you go to a city, zoom in so your screen is a few blocks across and select "3D" view from the lower right corner. It should load 3D models of the buildings. Then if you hold Control which clicking and dragging, you should be able to freely rotate your view around the map's center point and see the buildings from any angle.

EDIT: and I should mention, it works all over the place, not just cities, i.e.: https://www.google.ca/maps/@41.0775591,-71.9351097,67a,20y,2...
This really only make sense to me if you don't allow developers to choose what tasks they work on themselves.

Which is nearly universal, in my experience which is now quite stale, and from the many current reports we hear about the horrors of closed allocation in the field. I keep thinking back to the hardware engineer who was also pretty good at Python who was hired by Google, who then make him write Python hardware testing code. Not wanting to end his primary career, he of course had to quit ASAP.

See also "micro-management", especially I'll add by managers who are failed software developers, which was an all too common thing back when I was in the workforce (through spring 2004).
It's their developer event today.
> IMHO, a large segment of the media is not really journalism, but ideological promotion. This includes Fox properties (Fox News, the WSJ - at least their editorial page, NY Post, various UK publications, etc.), Rush Limbaugh and most talk radio, right-wing blogs, and many others. Therefore a large segment of the news media doesn't cover scandals on the right, while everyone covers them on the left:

Quite so. I don't wonder about those. I wonder about Time, Newsweek, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, etc. The Clinton emails on her private server were an error in judgement; minor compared to most of the muck that came out about Trump.

That a nation-state was attempting to influence the elections should have been a five-alarm fire in all the media, but particularly anything that isn't bought and paid for by the Murdoch crew.
Thanks! As of yesterday I was looking to find a way to install it on Ubuntu. I finally chose to use TeamViewer on my home PC but my database didn't connect. I'll try this instead.
No, I think virtually all of the vote tallies, across virtually all media showing superdelegates included with pledged delegrelevant, by prsenting Bernie as having to make up over a thousand votes instead of dozens, early in the race.

That said, you bring up relevant points and I think we should agree to disagree. (Not much to be said, just correcting your summary of my position.)
Is there any reason why they don't automate the process? The articles says they use manual labor but doesn't say why.
Indeed, .NET must be the worst, most misleading, least googleable product name ever. I suppose we should be grateful that MS called an earliest technology COM not .COM.
Anything would be better to what we have now. Right now I need to bookmark the link, visit it every now and then and search for my username... It's pretty bad.
Disagree - I recognize hospitals by the brutalist architecture and the huge ventilation pipes.

http://www.viewroyal.ca/assets/Discover~View~Royal/Photo~Gal...

I guess if I was trying to doodle one, I'd do something like this: http://med-fom-emerg.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2012/06/surrey.j...

A carport with ambulances parked in front.
That is Visual Studio Monaco, which is also the editor in VS Code.
What else is on the list of things you show people who are new to VR?
What if you're not logged in on the console, but have an SSH session open over the network? Does that count as 'logged in' or not? Imagine a server under a desk with no monitor attached. Or, a thin-client situation, where I am logged in to a virtual console over VNC or RDP or X, but have no access to the actual machine's USB ports?
So, you're still controlling what is updated and when, with the same potential for making mistakes that you'd get in direct DOM manipulation.

React doesn't require you to ever manually replace a component - that's why the two are not comparable.
Do you think that 15-20 years from now nearly every nation won't have military attack drones of varying types? The military would be crazy to not build / R&D new weapons for where technology is moving rather than where it was decades ago. It's simply skating to where the puck is going to be.
isn't the clr already there?
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Wonder how many watts that thing is putting out, and at what frequencies. In theory it could kill a person if it pulsed the correct harmonics. Will be interesting to see drones with Faraday cages. Some teenager on YouTube did something similar:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOT2_Z-GIE
It's already there? The CLR is a well maintained and engineered system.

Why do you believe otherwise?
there is "threads" entry in menu bar, you can see your question and replies there

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wkoszek
Sanders would have gotten his ass kicked against Trump. I can't make that argument as conclusively as I can the argument that the DNC didn't steal the primary from him, but I personally believe it just as firmly:

* Turnout was lower for both the D's and the R's this cycle. R turnout would not have been lower if the D's had run an avowed socialist. Suburban/exurban voters --- a natural R cohort Clinton actually outperformed with in this cycle --- would have turned out in force for the GOP.

* Sanders policy proposals and the language he uses to talk about it aren't in sync with the white working class (really, any part of the working class); it's "let them eat college tuitions". Unemployed tool & die engineers aren't looking for college subsidies, and they already survive on handouts ("long term disability"). That's why they're angry.

* Sanders did terribly at engaging the African American vote, so much so that insider stories got written about how messed up their African American outreach was. The narrative of this election is that Clinton lost in part because she failed to mobilize Obama's coalition. But Clinton crushed Sanders in the primary with exactly that coalition, so the evidence suggests Sanders would have done even worse with the hand Clinton was dealt.

* Sanders was terribly vulnerable. His supporters like to believe that HRC gave it to him with both barrels during the primary. But she did not: she was a complacent candidate who believed (correctly) in the inevitability of her nomination and (incorrectly) in the inevitability of her election. It is simply a fact that Sanders did not receive a serious vetting during the primary, and to see that, you only have to see what stories didn't come up during the primary:

--- Sanders chaired Senate VA during the Veterans Health Scandal and was on VA during the Walter Reed scandal. Unlike Benghazi, these were real failures of oversight that harmed large numbers of American veterans. Not only that, but Sanders has in part built a Senate career on support for veterans benefits, so the attack ads write themselves. How culpable was Sanders for any of this? Fuck if I know. That's not the point.

--- Sanders wrote an essay that stated women fantasize about being raped by three men simultaneously. Does that really matter? Almost certainly not. That's not the point.

--- While Trump was starting his real estate "empire" with help from his father, not only was Bernie Sanders not winning victories for the working class, he was collecting employment (in his mid-30s) and stealing electricity from his neighbors. Does that matter? Not to me; to me that makes him more relatable. But that's not the point.

--- Sanders is not only a supporter of, but personally profits from, a scheme to transport toxic waste from Vermont and dump it in Latino communities in Texas. Does that make Sanders an "environmental racist"? Well, in fact, yes it does.

Are all of these things dispositive? No. But they give the lie to the idea that Sanders would have crushed Trump because Clinton had too much baggage to run with.
Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?
With so many "new" js frameworks (like React, Vue.js, Mithril,..) and js-like languages (Elm, Dart, TypeScript,..) is classic jQuery still taken as something good and recommended to use for the front-end? Or should it by replaced by something else? Maintainability and minimum of errors are more relevant for me than raw speed or "hype".