skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> but I just couldn't bear the thought of there being nothing left.

As I exited my 20's and entered my 30's, I had to deal with several deaths in the family and having to finally deal with my own mortality, this has affected me in profound ways.

I've done the same thing you have, albeit with several movie trilogies. I skipped the last Matrix movie, I refused to go see the last LOTR movie (even though I read the books when I was in my teens and knew what was going to happen), and the same thing in the Divergent series.

It's practically become a common theme in my life - some sort of psychological avoidance to have to deal with the ending of a story, the emotions and the emptiness of something I pursued for so long, now at an end.
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In general, it is best to keep work and personal devices separate. Is it possible they could install a key-logger, absolutely yes if they supplied you the phone. The likelihood that they have is probably small but it depends on how much your company respects your personal privacy.
Are you Canadian by any chance? MSN only ever really seemed to take off in some specific regions, one of which was Canada. After ICQ, almost all my American contacts moved to AIM. Which was honestly pretty awful, since MSNM was much nicer.
What he said. Light years cheaper than any similar offering.
|Breitbart might use "words" and "paragraphs" from other sources

I basically read the sources. I prefer primary sources anyway. I rely on the fact that they have a different ideological slant from myself to keep me questioning them.

|NPR is not generally ideological

I'm sorry, but this just isn't true. You can pick a single example where they may not be ideologically biased, but their reporting on a whole, very much is.

|It's very questionable that dems fanned the flames of racial divide

I've seen an awful lot of stories and rhetoric about how America chose racism, sexism, bigotry and whatever else in this most recent election. I don't know what you'd call that, but I'd say their description is fairly accurate.

*edit: Small changes to hopefully provide clarity.
I did some caching/content distribution/load balancing work for HP many years ago (maybe 10 years ago, now).

The names are (or were) geographic and divisional. Their infrastructure is (or was) pretty old school. While they do have load balancing and such, it is often of the form of redirects based on locality or other information. People in Hong Kong or China starting on HP.com in the US would find themselves bounced over to servers in Hong Kong, based on their language and where their traffic was being routed to/from. They mirrored tons of their data automatically with Squid proxies and just additional web servers. So, once a user gets directed to a local HP site, they'll tend to stay on it...and if content doesn't exist in the local cache, it'll pull it from the origin. HP has tons of public server names not just in the wwwN.hp.com space.

So, while I don't have specific information about www8 vs www2, etc. Based on my own experience with their infrastructure, I would assume it is the most boring explanation. They need several servers to provide good service, so they just give various divisions their own servers. This was the case in Hong Kong, Korea, and China, where my work was deployed. They do have load balancing and content distribution and such (and did even back then), but the actual web services were pretty traditional; they just ran on a server somewhere.
https://github.com/olalonde/deisdash#deis-dash

I made this in a few days to learn React + Redux and it turns out a bunch of people now use it and have personally thanked me for building it. It's a web UI for Deis (an Heroku like PaaS that runs on Kubernetes).
Some of that, and some further improvements, made their way into https://github.com/cperciva/bsdiff . But I don't think anyone is using that new code; the company which was paying for me to work on it decided not to continue with that project before I had a chance to finish polishing the work.
'Post-truth' named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries
The most detailed inside look into Apple's Design Studio
You are perhaps not aware of Grindr.
If I give you a stream of decimal digits, and you filter out everything except for 9s, would you call the resulting stream as random as the input stream?

How about if you filter every digit that is not exactly one more than the last unfiltered digit?
https://github.com/TheBB/spaceline/blob/master/README.org

Scroll down for nyan mode, if you don't mind using an external package. :)
>Screen sharing software was just one more thing to go wrong on their computers. This way, I don't have to worry about whether they have a version with a critical vulnerability, or if they'll fall for a social engineering attack and click on a teamviewer invite.
Yes. I replaced my Nexus6 with a OnePlus3 ($400) because paying the Pixel's price ($950) would have made me feel like a sucker. The screen is excellent, and there is a wide variety of ROMs to choose from.
Happy to answer any questions people have about Hustle. And of course we are hiring! http://hustle.life/jobs
I got texts from 'For Our Future' before the Nov 8th general election, that appear to have been sent from this service, or similar. The first was signed by 'Carlos' and the second was signed by 'Matt' - for the talk of personalization and how effective that is for text, the discontinuity was jarring. (They came from the same number).

My other caveat with the piece: "The Hillary campaign ended up building their own clone of Hustle called “Megaphone,” though clearly that didn’t quite work."

The success of a SMS engagement app is measured in getting people to go to the polls and vote, not winning the election. As I've written about previously here, getting voters to believe in your cause is a different matter.
Did anyone else used to "hack" people on ICQ? If I recall correctly, ICQ would expose users IP address if they didn't intentionally hide it. My friend and I would get to chatting with strangers and then exchange photos... Only ours wasn't a photo, it was something that opened a backdoor into their computer that would allow us to take over their PC. We never did anything harmful but might have gotten a few people in trouble for looking at naughty websites or freaked them out by printing to their printer or opening and closing their CD drives sporadically. This would have been around 9th grade 1999-ish...
Thanks! Equipment on all four were taken with a Sony Alpha A7s with 35mm lens. I haven't thought about printing any of the Primitive images, but mostly because I only downloaded it about 20 minutes before posting these images. They might look interesting on canvas, tempting!
The discussion of media/source bias is becoming an increasingly important one. What measures of bias do you trust? And are those measures biased? Where's the regression end, in particular with respect to sources we can generally agree upon? I've been trying to see what's out there, and I feel like I'm gas lighting myself :)
Thanks a lot for Miranda, I'm using it since 2006 I think. I don't rely so heavily on it as I used to, probably because of popularity of facebook and mobile chat applications, but I still find it useful :-) I started using a fork http://www.miranda-ng.org some time ago, which seems to be more actively developed.
I think they used to use it to provide info about the progress of Firewatch. I remember getting thiese quarterly reviews as a newsletter during development.
I don't pay attention to it and I can't for the life of me figure out how much it earns monthly but there is over $800 in my account. My hunch is $10-$15 a month or so.

I just moved it to a cheaper hosting plan so it's actually turning a minuscule profit now.
San Francisco is a great place to do this because it looks basically the same as it did in the 60s. Whether this is a good or bad thing is up to other people to debate.
Not input per se, but they can see what sites you visit and apps installed. Getting every keypress is a bit harder to my knowledge. Depending on mobile device management (MDM) software used, they can have granular access to running and installed apps, web traffic logs, and access to memory in an aim to control corporate data. Also, most MDMs running on non-corporate (BYOD) devices run corporate data in a sandbox that is managed by the MDM separately. If you have a corporate phone, than this is usually not true and the MDM can see much more data.

Now, the question of will anyone look at what you wrote is a bit harder to answer and it depends on the size of your organization. My firm will not really look unless there is a HR or legal request or you pop up in some reporting of malicious site visits.
Pentadactyl for Firefox also allows that (press 'b') and it's absolutely amazing. Way quicker than searching for the tab visually and manoeuvring the mouse to it on a notebook.
"Facebook is now in the awkward position of having to explain why they think they drive purchase decisions but not voting decisions" Casey Newton

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/796909159174127616
We are not a spam sms tool. We work best with organizations that have existing relationships or want to create long lasting relationships.
This is straight out of Bremoaners Brexit playbook.
Bah, my ICQ number is 52M. I am impressed my credentials are still in my Pidgin setup, though. And that it still logs in.

I don't think I have ever received or sent any messages, or met anyone else who used it.

On the plus side, my Slashdot number is under 7000, so that validates my life a little, and OH GOD THE RESET PASSWORD LINK EMBEDS YOUR OLD PASSWORD IN THE RESET URL IN THE CLEAR I need to wash my brain out now...
Have to agree on the wheel of time. It's a shame it had to finish. That level of escapism over so many books is hard to match. Finish it and you're lost for weeks.

Dark tower was another guilty pleasure of mine.
Aah Licq ... so much memories in my head right now. Thanks for the great product.
Awesome. What widget are you using to do the comparison? That would be a good way to show images off on the Primitive webpage.
Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. files for IPO
Author here. It goes without saying, doesn't it? It's literally called "junk food."

You can get information about why it's bad for you from a million sources (the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which I briefly mention in the piece, is a good starting point), but information about how it came to be? Now that requires a little digging.
Mods: please rename this title to "Oh god, what have I been doing with my life ?!"
Not me. However, I starting planning for a new product that needs to scale to reliably hold a lot of measurement data. I initially was thinking Cassandra might be a good fit. After doing some research, I like the design of CockroachDB better.
git-pull-request - CLI tool for insanely easy check out of contributor PRs from github:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/git-pull-request

Code is hacky, but hey, 350 downloads a month for something I threw together, and have never promoted...

Proud? Not really, but thought someone here might find it useful.
I've always felt that an entrepreneur's toughest job is to find just the right prospects and leads for their new business. So, I created a tool to helps people find highly targeted leads and prospects. You can target users based on location, # of followers, twitter bio, and 7 other filters too. Give it shot:

https://www.find70.com/?t=hnews
Same here. Introduced to ICQ while playing UO. Used it to ping each other when there was a rare spawn/scrolls up.

Good times.
I've got an HP Stream Mini, which I've been perfectly happy with[0]. Granted it's not a business machine and I don't do any dev work on it, it's just my living room HTPC. But I totally dig how easy it was to open up and replace the wifi card, hard-drive, and memory. In fact, my only complaint about it so far is that I stupidly let it update to Windows 10, and now I periodically turn my TV on expecting to be staring at Kodi, but instead I get a login screen because W10 decided to install updates and reboot on me.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/cheap-functional-upgr...
better details
http://www.storagereview.com/hp_introduces_the_z2_industry_s...
> "It was not a bird, but a dinosaur that was a close relative of birds."

I know it would lead to confusion in the article, but birds are classified as dinosaurs. However, there are many groups of dinosaurs and each classified by their evolutionary traits. Birds just happen to be the only group that survived to the present day. If dinosaurs are a superset of many species, birds would be a subset of them.

The interesting aspect is they found one that had evolved just enough to have a beak, but retained many of the characteristics of more primitive dinosaurs. Many dinosaurs not considered birds also had feathers, so that's not overly significant alone.

That said, countries like New Zealand had birds that went down a pretty similar evolutionary path that lived up until 700 or so years ago[1]. New Zealand is a pretty interesting place evolution wise. It answers the question of how birds would evolve if not exposed to any other major mammalian predators for centuries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa
Thanks a ton

Loved Miranda

Showed me how software should be. Useful, out of my way if not needed

Even preferred it over trillian and adium

Thanks a ton!
I added two suggestions for my city, since I only saw parks listed. Great idea! The interface to add things is a little clunky. Most places being added are already listed on the base map, so being able to select something from there as the base recommendation would be great, then just add a few notes on the kid-related aspects. Also I wanted to be able to add a picture from the location's website instead of downloading and then uploading it.
More Than 4000 Drk W3b Lnk$
It was the find random user that I used back in the day.
Snapchat files to IPO Confidentially
What's that law of title writing, if your article poses a question in the title it can almost always be answered with "no" and the reader can skip your article?
Though they're in planning more so than operations, I believe this is a "Strike Team" and not a "Task Force". Willing to bet they share common comms and utilize similar if not the same resources.
I'm on book six. Thank you so much for not adding spoilers.
Reminds me a lot of the documentary "LA Plays Itself":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hYg01uqz9U
BTW, ol' Sinclair sure had a talent with words.
Ultima Online was the best mmo I've ever played. So much flexibility and ... well it was really impossible to onboard without extensive help from everyone else on the server.

Which made it even better. Met a lot of cool people that way.

I remember one time I was playing as a girl and got somebody to "marry" me so they'd give me free stuff. Got a loooot of free stuff by being a girl on UO.

Good times.
Support for entering postal codes would be really nice. :)

Also it would be nice to per-populate the date field to today's date.
Forgive me if this is incredibly ignorant, but I thought this was targeted at the gay community?
YC alum Vote.org used this tool too [1]. This is pretty sweet! Wonder if they'd use twilio on the backend?

[1] https://backchannel.com/the-simple-secret-weapon-that-could-...
There's been breakthroughs in a fully quantified theory of how electromagnetics can be used to create propulsion reliably and at (still incredibly small but) orders of magnitude larger than prior designs provided by the aeronautics research team from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an.

The research team published their breakthroughs in 2008, and excitingly, they've been highly reproducible.

Unfortunately, the paper appears to be behind a paywall: http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-YHXB200805027.htm

Does anyone on HN have the background necessary to explain the mechanics of EM propulsion to laymen?
Fans of The Prisoner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner) have been doing this for years: http://www.theunmutual.co.uk/locationsguide.htm

A scene from The Prisoner was shot in the GEC Marconi building in Borehamwood (now demolished). This was where the Elliott 803 computer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_803) was designed and built. Tony Hoare worked there.
I'm so ashamed of HN after reading the previous comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12361921. Glad these are more positive :)

Love @redwood's response though: "This is like a parent saying "We're really looking forward to our child learning to walk by her next birthday" and you responding: "I've got children in their 30s... what kind of parents focus on getting their kids to walk?""
It's just a simple jQuery plug-in called Twenty Twenty that I found when I had the idea to take the same picture at different times and compare the result. Drag/swipe across ended up working better as an effect than my original fade-in idea. You can view source to see how it works, it's really simple.

http://zurb.com/playground/twentytwenty

Here is the photo that kicked off my idea:

http://www.jongales.com/rainier/timeshift/

I also did another in the Spring that turned out nice:

http://www.jongales.com/timeshift/columbia-river-gorge/
My ICQ UID is 15584496 . I still remember people buying less-digits or easy-to-remember digits accounts for real money.

Gosh, I just logged in. Kudos for not auto-deleting my account for so many years.
- "requires payment" and "completely anonymously" seem at odds; especially when the person you're communicating with will likely have purchased it from an app store. i understand that there is a way to purchase it with btc at their own site, but that doesn't really help with licencing and GCM

- proper implementation of e2e means where the servers are shouldn't matter

- threema uses GCM too -> whole google play services framework

- this steve gibson? http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/
Could someone with domain knowledge give feedback on the specifics she brings up? As I take it, the backbone of her argument is:

1) "If climate sensitivity is high, then we can expect substantial warming in the coming century as emissions continue to increase. If climate sensitivity is low, then future warming will be substantially lower."

2) "In fact, it seems that uncertainty about values of ECS has been increasing. The bottom of the ‘likely’ range has been lowered from 2 to 1.5oC in the AR5, whereas the AR4 stated that ECS is very unlikely to be less than 1.5oC. It is also significant that the AR5 does not cite a best estimate, whereas the AR4 cites a best estimate of 3oC. The stated reason for not citing a best estimate in the AR5 is the substantial discrepancy between observation-based estimates of ECS (lower), versus estimates from climate models (higher).

3) "If the climate sensitivity is on the low end of the range of estimates, and natural internal variability is on the strong side of the distribution of climate models, different conclusions are drawn about the relative importance of human causes to the 20th century warming."

4) "Whether or not human caused global warming is dangerous or not depends critically on whether the ECS value is closer to 1.5oC or 4.5oC."

5) "Given the uncertainties in equilibrium climate sensitivity and the magnitude and phasing of natural internal variability on decadal to century timescales, combined with the failure of climate models to explain the early 20th century warming and the mid-century cooling, I conclude that the climate models are not fit for the purpose of identifying with high confidence the proportional amount of natural versus human causes to the 20th century warming."

Is this an accurate summary of facts? Do we have good evidence about the true value of ECS that she does not mention? Is there evidence for scenarios where a 'low end' Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity still results in a dangerous warming? Or are there indeed values for ECS that would be considered 'likely' but do not result in dangerous warming?

Lack of knowledge about the true value of ECS is not an excuse to avoid precautionary measures, but it would seem to raise questions about the suitability of current climate models as predictors for future climate. At the least, it would imply that determining the true ECS should be a very high priority while other mitigation measures are taken.
I was thinking the same. I can't really tell for sure tho, is it read only access or what?

Edit: Never mind, I figured out how to see what access it was. Btw, Holy shit! Why all this access?? "read and write all public and private repository data"
I agree with the HTTPS part, but aside from that I can't really see how it's less safe than saying "here, install this .deb (which gets to run scripts as root) and then run the binary inside".
#SubvertingTheInternetsSince1998 :D
Snapchat has reportedly filed confidentially for its massive IPO
From my perspective the "they" being referenced is AOL.
How a Chess Champion Trains for the Big Game
Sounds like SubSeven.
(Author here.) Wow, that's fascinating. I've always heard them referred to as cheese curls—that strikes me as an interesting example of how regionalisms tend to change the names of common things. Like, the Chee Wees I mention? They're incredibly common in a specific region of the U.S., but outside of it they don't even register.

I wrote a piece about ranch dressing a year and a half ago, and it was a similar situation—outside of the U.S., nobody knew what ranch dressing was, so Doritos had to use, uh, creative naming strategies to get around the unfamiliarity.
> Tongtianlong limosus — the name means “muddy dragon on the road to heaven”

Did they name it after how they discovered it died? Ha.

Imagine if species were given posthumous names based on how they were wiped out...

Would Dodos would be "Eaten by sailors on a lonely island"?
Thanks for the link!! Mods: please replace the NYT paywalled link with this one. It's free, and it's far more useful too.
The last thing I want is a Mailchimp for SMS. Hardly innovative.
Vk?
I'm on tree styles tabs 0.18.2016090802 and firefox 50.0 and haven't had any problems.
The Simulation of Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen
IIRC telegram secret chats are somewhat fine, all normal chat and group chat is insecure

Correct me if I'm wrong though
> As I get older I find it quite energy draining to meet with people

In a typical day 0–2 hours of meetings working as a developer independent contractor. I don't count occasional DMing on Slack in that figure.

I think this might be more personality-based than age-related. I'm in my mid-20s and have similar feelings about most meetings. The kind of meetings I like and that are really productive for me are short, for a purpose (there are explicit questions one side has for the other), and with a small number of attendees, for me it's typically 1–3. Working with people you really like to be around I think helps as well.
Open population datasets and open challenges
how come there's no https://www.contradementor.io/ ? where am i to get an opposing point of view?
The "EME-free" build differs only by the default value for the "Play DRM content" checkbox. You can put a normal build in the equivalent state by unchecking the checkbox.
Audiobook the whole thing! Re-reading is hard, but taking the slow path with audiobooks is great. Personally, I've had some of the best memories of the books while listening to them while hiking. Especially for fantasy books, walking/adventuring while listening is great fun.
Power supplies are around 85%-95% efficient I believe, meaning that more than 100W of those 130W end up as heat in the case no matter what.
209xxxx uo player as well with primary use coming from that. Later on a little Diablo 1 and few others as well.

Good times!
I have to say that from what I've seen/done in ng2, that I wouldn't want to do it without at least the babel level of support... the decorators are just too useful.
My goal as well. I think that I assumed (wrongly) that these small form factor computers would be more quiet than a tower.