skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Machine Learning with Perceptrons and Python
To elaborate, Arrival is based off of the story "Story of Your Life" from that collection.
Tangent: I'm curious about HP's hostname taxonomy. I.e. What products or content live under www8 vs www2 or www7.

http://www8.hp.com/...
It seems to me to come from a difference in priorities. I'll try something because I want a new experience, whereas the people who maintain the subcultures are there because they want to receive the social capital that goes along with being the best in their group.
The problem was that the Huns wouldn't pay for it.
Hm. Sounds like they added them --- nested functions certainly weren't supported the last time I looked (because, as you say, they're far too useful, and I hated having to give them up).

Have you had any reports about problems on, e.g., OpenBSD, related to needing an executable stack?
Was looking for info on multi-head support. Where did you see this?

EDIT: ah, I see it now. Three dual DisplayPorts: http://store.hp.com/us/en/ContentView?storeId=10151&catalogI...
I’ve just finished reading “The story of your life” the other day and I can’t say I’m impressed. Based on the comments I’ve read about the movie I expected it to be mind boggling. The author claims that knowing the future affects free will but he doesn’t bother explaining how could anyone know the future or why would there be only one – quantum mechanics for example states that there could be countless futures/universes. For my standards the story is too swallow. I’m used to reading hard sci-fi where usually authors go into excessive detail to describe their worlds. Chiang doesn’t do that. He just presents a theory and lets it linger in your mind. It reads more like philosophy rather than sci-fi.
The Github: https://github.com/trbarron/HueAlarmClock
You're conflating ideas.

Yes, Potassium and even radioactive Caesium are flushed out of the body. (whether Caesium is, is controversial). Iodine accumulates in the body (but has a short half-life). Strontium, and several other elements build-up. They bio-accumulate. So yes, you can eat a radioactive wild hog, and be safe. If you eat them for dinner once a week, you will very likely, eventually, suffer ill health effects, possibly even cancer.

This is not a problem for hog hunters in Germany.

It is a problem for Rice farmers in Japan. Because those guys eat a lot of rice, all day, every day. Plus, the rice is often processed into other products, and combined into other foods as starch or protein supplements, so even people who don't eat rice are getting some exposure. After Fukushima, the strategy was not to dump all the radioactive rice. They dumped everything with high levels; and then the rice with medium levels, they mixed it in with uncontaminated rice, to make the overall level low enough to be below regulatory thresholds (which they raised after Fukushima). Now, it's going to be found in your rice-chex cereal in America. Your protein-bar in France. Your chewing gum in Africa.

Is any of that going to kill you? It probably raises anyone's chance of eventually getting cancer by .001%. Yes, there's no way to prove it, no way to sue anybody, or collect damages. If you survive the cancer, you're still the person who has to pay for it. If you don't get cancer, you still pay for it, because your insurance premium covers the increased risk to your pool.

You - the person affected - pay for this.
The people who made profit; the shareholders, don't care.
I'm so glad that this movie is getting Ted Chiang more exposure. He's one of the most interesting and creative science fiction authors out there, despite and unbelievably small output (he has literally published fifteen stories over almost 30 years, and picked up four Hugos, four Nebulas, and a ton of other prestigious awards.) Maybe this will finally motivate him to quit his day job and write more, or at least get more people reading his stuff.
https://instafavicon.com/

I created this favicon generator a few weeks ago to generate minimal favicons for my side projects. I'm not good with design tools so it saves me time when I start a new project and want a simple favicon in ICO format.

I'm proud of it because it's server-less. I generate the multi-BMP ICO file in binary using ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays in JavaScript. I use a <canvas> element to create the images/design.

It's not very polished and I'm sure there are bugs, but feedback would be appreciated!
SSH sessions started freezing after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.10. The solution
Both of those are left wing outlets.

I'd think "mainstream" would be the ones which still posit themselves as un-biased (CBS, NBC, ABC, NY Times, Wash Post, etc.).

I say the more the merrier. Let people decide.
https://www.codacy.com

I've made this because all the companies that my co-founder and I met had scripts glued together in build tools to get code metrics and static analysis.

We ended up discovering a significant amount of people and companies interested in having a nice product constantly running code analysis and linked to Github.
The reason why people will continue using a OS that they dislike and distrust, is the same reason why people don't switch to an Free and open source OS. Too much software is exclusively on windows, and that forces the user onto that sticky platform regardless of user preference.

Its the same reason why people who dislike and tries to block advertisement don't simply stop consuming contents that contain advertisement. They don't want to turn into hermits that live on a mountain away from the web, TV, mail, email, radio, billboards, milk cartons, the sky, and practically everywhere where a company can stick a advertisement on something. It is an imperfect solution to an imperfect world.
I didn't know him until now. I will definitely check out his short stories.

I also love Ken Lu, his book "The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories" is one of the best collection of short stories I have read.
Clickbait. Title should read:

"HP Unveils its[1] First-Ever Mini Workstation"

It's certainly not an Industry first, nor a "World's First" as the press release claims.

[1]Based on publicly available information of workstation competitors as of October 3, 2016 with volume of at least 1 million units annually as of October 3, 2016 having < 3 litres volume, professional graphics, Intel® Xeon® quad core processor, ISV certified applications, ECC memory.
1225 karma here and I still can't downvote stories, just comments.
> If you are not able to get it via your $JOB, a valid key from MSDN surplus shouldn't be more than $50 if you look around.

Then again, the main reason for running Windows instead of Linux is because you want stuff to just work. Once 'buy Windows' becomes 'go looking on the gray market in the hope of finding something unsupported that might or might not actually work when you try to install it' the value proposition relative to Linux has been significantly eroded.
I was more into C&C, though you're absolutely right, that RA intro was amazing! I liked the first RA game, since it was a little more serious... the second and third were a bit too campy for me given the setting of the first.

I played C&C through 3, but really hated the 4th. They ruined it by trying to make it some half-baked MOBA type thing. I still haven't even finished it.
iPhone 6S Plus Giveaway.Hurry,i get just get my iPhone
Yeah, I'd say your assumption is correct. However, other common ways that I've seen cron "fail" is for the cron entry to being installed in the wrong user's crontab, the permissions on a script changing such that it can't be executed, temporarily disabling or removing a cron job and forgetting to re-enable it, etc.
A new way to image solar cells in 3-D
that's for comments, downvotes for stories don't exist.
I assume that's just their way of pinning you to a load balancer.
How about a subreddit?
I'm still sad they changed the name of the movie from Story of your Life at the last minute (from what I heard the title did not do well with the initial test viewers). Arrival is so much more generic, but it is doing well for the number of screens they put it on which is the most important factor.
The defense is that they had a contract with http://www.planet9.com/ (who AFAICT did indeed license the software): https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?indexName=awardfull... https://govtribe.com/contract/award/n6258312p0767

The Navy paid out a reasonable amount over the years; clearly a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.
The organizers of React.js Conf don't know that.

http://conf.reactjs.com/
Does it sound like a jet engine? I was disappointed how noisy even the small Lenovo Thinkcentre desktops were.
Ted Chiang is incredible. My personal favorite by him is "The Great Silence". Touches on communication, the Fermi paradox and ecology from the point of view of a parrot named Alex - http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/authors/ted-chiang/
To start there's triage. Go away and come back for cancer screening every five years. Stay here and we treat you. You're toast here's some painkillers.

In between there's a wide mix of removing the cause and repairing the damage.

This almost seems too obvious but there's obvious recent surface decontamination, wash it off. A test tube in the lab shattered, well get it all off you first of all.

Only a step past that, if you chug heavy water you'll be encouraged to drink tap water to pee out the heavy water. Likewise if you ate something contaminated an hour or a day ago they'll give you stuff to make your digestive system explode out both ends. I donno if they'd feed you an expectorant for inhalation. There's no point if the exposure was months ago of course.

There are peculiar specific treatments if you've been recently exposed to iodine isotopes from a bomb or very major plant accident they can flood your system with zero radioactivity clean iodine to convince your body to pee out 99% of your intake rather than adsorbing 100% of the bad stuff into your thyroid. Its like reducing your exposure by a factor of 100 just by popping some pills. There are other isotopes like that I can't remember.

If you were doing radioactive labeling experiments obviously they'd flood your body with unlabeled clean stuff to make you pee the glowing stuff out.

If its a bone-seeker there are mineral chleation treatments that are very hard on the skeleton but you'll pee out those isotopes which is better than having them irradiate you from the inside for decades.

If you wipe out your bone marrow you're screwed unless you get a bone marrow transplant. In the short term they could pump units of blood into you. This works better if there's one victim per hospital than if there's an entire Japanese city and the hospital was vaporized, which is why not too much was done along these lines at the end of WWII.

Similar to the above paragraph if you wipe out your digestive tract alongside 100K neighbors there's not much the hospitals can do, but if it was an unfortunate lab accident, you might be kept alive via IV until recovery.

If its a surface burn I'm not sure what they'd do WRT preventative skin cancer, maybe skin graft it on general principles or wait and watch and see if a tumor forms. Obviously there's antibiotic treatment.
Thanks for the link. I hadn't realized the enormous amount of matter involved in a pyroclastic flow... And I find solace in well documented and articulated articles as this one.
Windows actually has a pretty nice UI, and although some of the underlying system is different than more unixy variants, that doesn't make it bad. I use Linux (htpc, and work dist) as well as Windows and macOS daily... I prefer the Windows UI on the desktop, and Unity (Ubuntu) is close enough for me... macOS is the odd one out... I mostly stick to bash and node stuff lately, so I can get by anywhere. I use VS Code for editing, so again can get by anywhere.
It's a very, very simple thing, and needs updating, but my filter bubble busting Twitter bot is something I'm quite proud of.

http://www.strangecompany.org/how-to-fight-the-filter-bubble...
Third paragraph:

> ...and has the ability to support six displays right out of the box.
How does it work? What does it do?
What about all of the fake Trump news? My friends on Facebook still think Trump is a rapist (he never raped anyone), Racist (I'm still not sure where this one came from), and homophobic (he is not reversing gay marriage).

When his first speech came out about immigration, he said he wants to deport illegal immigrants (which is actually already law). The media turned it into just 'immigrants' and we now have entire groups of legal immigrants that are afraid Trump will deport them. Did nobody watch the speech or does the mainstream media have problems comprehending English?

There is anti-Trump violence growing in the US and people have been assaulted and harassed for even saying they supported him. The protests aren't 'peaceful', they are riots.

This is all ignored on the news, however. The only thing they can spew out is the story about the girl that got her Hijab pulled, which turned out to be fake. MSNBC still reports it as fact.

Will Facebook ban links to MSNBC for this fake story?

This is exactly why half the country voted Trump into office. Even now, you still can't figure out that it was your own fault and want to blame the rest of American for losing the election.

The other irony is complaining about bias and marginalizing and then painting an entire group of people (Trump supports) as 'racists' and 'islamaphobes'.

It really shows me that all of the people that claim we need more 'love' and 'peace' are just using it for political gain and power. When they don't get what they want, the fangs come out.

You want understanding and compassion when it comes to gay marriage and the transgender community, but give none of it in return.
http://antigen.sharats.me

I'm not the original creator but currently maintaining Antigen: A plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle.

Back in the days I made and found quite useful Dumpr: Command line download tool written in bash. https://github.com/desyncr/dumpr
Thanks for news!
Raising the costs of employing people isn't always the best way to get more employed.
Really surprising to me that some disks have 4-5% failure rate yearly. Great data
I found it to be a story where the payoff takes a little while to percolate. It did not hit me immediately - I even had to search around for an explanation. It is intentionally left a bit open, and the specific "scientific" details are left up to your imagination, beyond the linguistics work. Once it hit me, though, I slowly became more and more impressed.
Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces
Not sure the code is production ready, but similarly, dro.pm is a small thingy that has a command line option to share files. The links expire automatically so there's no abuse headache and it allows links to be single characters most of the time (eg. dro.pm/v).

You can even edit links afterwards, for example to remove content you know the other person already opened.

Additionally to files, it also dupes as a URL shortener and as pastebin if you paste text.
>Impact great than 0 does not mean it's enough.

I agree, but it doesn't discount it either, it simply means greater than 0. Its not enough to draw a conclusion from which is why I haven't. My only claim is that critical thinking would lessen the non-zero impact.
Very niche, but I'm very proud of having made this: http://kerrick.github.io/mtg-tools/#/playtest-cards

It allows people to create playtest cards for a strategy card game, so people can test out decks before purchasing cards to play with in a tournament.

I made it because my wife is a Twitch streamer, and she needed a way for the card name to be visible even though the usual printed size is quite small. It ends up looking like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lCQFI9nthE
Even a Macbook Pro can drive 4 external displays and the internal display at the same time. The Mac Pro that came out in 2013 can drive 6.

The question is really up to the GPU makers to put the right output capacity on their cards, and the integrator to hook up all the ports and make sure the software actually works.
https://tasklater.com

Long-term reminders emailed to you. It keeps these tasks out of sight until you need to be reminded.
It would be nice to have a few pointers to descriptions of each algorithm to understand the concept.
My following suggestion is a very unpopular one, but it is this:

If you are a student, use the money you would have donated to StackOverflow to purchase a book or a tool that will help you to learn better and become an expert.

If you are an expert, contribute your time to StackOverflow (instead of money).

Money is easy to get compared to content. What helps StackOverflow grow is quality content.

I am also interested how they approach the subject of money:

> How much money we make is a direct proxy for how much we are helping our users. We focus on maximizing how we help users in order to make a great business. Very few companies have done this successfully, and we take great pride in the fact that we’re one of them.

Personally, I would love to see how this works out and I wish them well. Hopefully they can prove this model works well. Users need this model to work well for other businesses to adopt.
Only $799 the average full sized workstation has CPU's that cost more than this.
I'm a little saddened by all of the comments about this "article" being written like an advertisement.
Perhaps if people watched the actual award presentation they'd feel differently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SijPcSOhev4&t=1803

Also, some more info on behind the scenes: http://www.motortrend.com/news/behind-the-scenes-2017-car-of...
I get the feeling people who have security folks that need 6 monitors will be ordering this. It sure would be a nice replacement for the box we have now. The small size is a big benefit.
I think the figure is on a per-individual basis. Some quick googling revealed this: http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Statistics/On-Si...

> Over the past four decades, the entire industry has produced 76,430 metric tons of used nuclear fuel. If used fuel assemblies were stacked end-to-end and side-by-side, this would cover a football field about eight yards deep.
No. Games that utilise the Denuvo DRM (which is gaining popularity, unfortunately) will not run on Wine.
Ted Chiang is cool. But I think "Story of your life" isn't his best work. If you're going to read one story by Chiang, a good one is "Liking what you see": http://www.ibooksonline.com/88/Text/liking.html
I had that problem too. So then I started making things that I thought were humorous.
-Very innapropriate flappy bird clone.
-An app that makes a playlist out of a bands most recent setlist on google play.
-An app that reads articles using tts and allows you to play/pause/save them.
-An app that lets you tell people you are on the way (like yo but with location streaming)

Just think of something you think is funny or talk to your friends that are into tech either directly or tangentially. A lot of my ideas come from phone calls my Mutual Fund investing best friend.
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Elon Musk Is the 2017 Motor Trend Person of the Year
I'm pretty terrible at video games, especially tense FPS ones like The Last of Us; I own a copy, but I was hoping my wife would play it so I could watch it that way :P
You mean the ikea BookBook?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOXQo7nURs0

Apple might not be the first to the market with a book but I am sure they will have done it better than anyone else.
Similarly, Go/Golang.
Sorry, test

https://www.google.com
True story: Early 90s. In a world before Windows 95. Was visiting a friend of a friend, an IT professional. We were in his home's “computer room” and his son was having trouble finding his favorite game on one of the many PC’s in the room. His father said, “Oh! I moved that to the ‘games’ directory on the ‘D’ drive.” And his 9-year old son, armed with that bit of info, was able to use his MS-DOS command line knowledge and good-enough keyboarding skills to find and play his favorite game!

That experience colored my expectations of what level of computing ability adults should have – “...if a bright 9-year old can figure this out, surely an adult with decades more cognitive development should be able to so as well...”

This survey sadly shows that may too much to expect out of some.
Unless you're in the insider program on the insider build, I believe what they are grabbing is mostly usage data for features and applications... Now that could be nefarious or benign, there's no real way to know.
I have disabled diagnostic data collection, and LittleSnitch still finds at least 6 daemons constantly trying to do requests and send data to Apple servers.

(And yes, I also dug through the settings and disabled things in a rather counter-intuitive Spotlight menu.)
As a writer, I have a sneaking suspicion that Ted Chiang writes a lot more than he publishes. You just don't get as good as he is without lots and lots of practice. I have a feeling there are a lot of projects he scraps that we never get to see, and many of them are probably pretty great.

Personally, I find him and his quality-over-quantity approach inspiring.
The Internet of “Stuff Your Mom Won’t Do for You Anymore”
Boom – This tiny supersonic jet could be the next generation Concorde
Is there any real difference between buying on Amazon with an non-major brand and buying at Alibaba?

Seems like for items that involve things you care about (kids, your personal data), you take your chances buying from a vendor who might be an fly-by-night and in a jurisdiction that doesn't care about your local country's laws.
Me too, but then try the same URI at www, www2, www3... it's a 404
Or there web presence is to use a technical term "$%^T"
You feel deceived by Google for buying a cheap Chinese made phone? What other things do you feel deceived by Google? Buying a car from Ford that always breaks down?
Excuses are the nails that build the bridge to failure.
For the most basic model, I wouldn't be surprised if there are going to be options at more than double the price...
It's flawed, certainly, but I found it compelling. Took me quite a while through the credits before I could compose myself to leave.

Probably the best $5 I've spent in a long time (morning showing).
Key topics for legislators: a solution for 101 (software patents) uncertainty
Backblaze is consistently a great service. Needs a Linux client though.
Hi zizee,

Author of Kill the Newsletter! here. I’m glad to know that my project inspired
your idea. Feel free to generate NewsMaker RSS feeds using Kill the Newsletter!,
if you’d like :)
https://criollo.io/

I built it because I wanted to able to make websites in Objective-C and I didn't like any of the stuff that existed when I started.

I've learned a lot making it and enjoyed it. I don't know if I would start something like this again. Reading the RFCs and implementing FastCGI and HTTP was a lengthy and tiresome process. I enjoyed it though.

Sure, now you have a bazillion Swift server-side frameworks, but at the time Swift didn't even exist. Call me a dinosaur, but I like ObjC and the Cocoa stack and I think it deserves its place on the web.