skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NSA kept a real, meaningful scandal--and not a blowjob scandal, but one material to how the President will govern and look out for American interests--buried until after the election. While the FBI released a pseudo-update on a scandal of IT incompetence the week before the election after dragging it out for months.

It's hard not to be bitter about how politicized both these agencies are. I can see arguments either way about how and when things should be released, but there should be consistency. The fact that they're inconsistent and always happen to come up anti-Democrat is pretty telling.

ETA: As misja111 points out below, the NSA and CIA did announce this before the election. So, my ding against the NSA's political integrity was uncalled for. Leaving this comment here so no one is confused by all the replies.
Because nobody needs one. In a place where white people were systematically enslaved and excluded from history, one would make sense. In the US, a white history museum would just be a duplicate of a normal history museum.
Do they understand what is happening to the label that they identify with? Do they seek to make a clear statement about what they believe the alt right stands for?

If they let some definition take hold that includes racism, then in the future when they object to saying that the alt right is racist, they aren't standing up for what they believe in anymore, they are providing cover for the racists that stole the label from them.
Predicting advances in technology are easy. What's hard is predict is it's impact on society.

How many people in 1950 would have guessed that social media would be a thing?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-repub...

That tipped me off to thinking that We may be using differing definitions of the word republic.

So I went to a semi more trustworthy source wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic

If you scroll down to the section on the Elections you'll see where I formed the opinion that an indirect election of the president conforms with the definition of republic I'm used to.

>> The indirect election of the president through the electoral college conforms to the concept of republic as one with a system of indirect election. In the opinion of some, direct election confers legitimacy upon the president and gives the office much of its political power.

So this is where I formed the (incorrect) idea that the word Republic had a hard and fast definition that corroborated this definition.

Obviously I was wrong, but I'd like to say that you are not correct either. Typically I hate being wrong, but through this exercise I was able to learn. So thank you for challenging me to dive deeper to find out why my definition didn't match the commonly accepted definitions and where'd I'd come to that conclusion.
But you have to hand it to them, they and many of their contemporaries did an amazing job building the tech for their futuristic worlds. You could read Foundation or Childhood's End now and you probably wouldn't notice that they were written in the 50s.
I am shameless and evil. Everytime it asks me to "draw" something, I just "draw" the letters for the words it uses to describe the thing it wants me to draw. The poor network is always very confused by that.
Announcing SQL Server on Linux Public Preview, First Preview of SQL Server
Turkish-English one is nearly perfect. Well done Google
The lesson that everyone should take here is that corporations change in ways that we could never imagine. (For those that are younger they may not remember Microsoft calling Linux a virus and setting its entire salesforce in motion to spread FUD against Linux).

So, we need to reflect on whether giving corporations our personal data makes sense over the long term rather than just giving it to them because its easy today.
It could very well be [0]

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The story here is simply that politics don't belong on Hacker News, and users (rightly) flag stories like this.
Hi, ceejay! I'd love to know more about how you arrived to that conclusion. I am asking for a couple of reasons:

1. To get more feedback on the docs if that's how you arrived there.
2. To get more feedback on the system itself (design and code) to see if there are bugs we can fix and issues we can improve.
I know it's super rough right now, but I just wanted to throw my project out here and get some feedback.
I have to switch between multiple anti-inflammatories as my body seems to adapt to what I take to manage chronic arthritic pain
If they could contribute to WINE that would be most welcome.
Will there still be competition for progress?
https://redom.js.org
Visual Studio Mobile Center Preview
I think the "average" person on earth is 35 year old Indian male.
SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 generally available
"...The way our statistical analysis works, the farther into the future you go, the more accurate the projection. It's based on a kind of non-linear dynamics, whereby small fluctuations tend to factor out over time." - Julien Bashir
https://www.visualstudio.com/visual-studio-pre-release-downl...

^^ download link
I just wanted to say I hope the OP isn't beating themselves up about what happened. In terms of moral integrity I feel they did very well to, at a relatively young age, take the decision to quit. I understand the point of the article (we may be developers at the end of the chain, and there maybe lots of people legally and ethically responsible above us, but we can still stand up for what is right) but at the same time, until you read something like this, or are in the situation yourself, it is common for people not to appreciate the knock on of what we do. If the OP hadn't made the quiz, someone else would have, this isn't to say people can't take a stand, but it is more to say no matter what they did that person would still be dead.

So my respect to the developer in question, I'm fairly sure I would have continued to work there. I would have just said to myself that these things happen, there are laws in place to protect people, if the laws aren't good enough we should campaign for change, I'm just a developer move data around a machine, etc. But I sort of assume by time I get to my death bed, I'll probably look back over my life and decide I made most decisions wrong, rather than work hard for success, fortune, etc. perhaps favouring compassion, helping others, charity work, etc. would have actually be a life better spent. So for the time being I'll give credit to those who take the moral high ground!
Announcing the Next Generation of Databases and Data Lakes from Microsoft
Azure runs on Linux? What? Small portions do, but it's misleading to say it "runs on Linux".

Edit: clarifying
The number people repeating the wikileaks bullshit that clinton is a devil worshipper is kinda insane. It would be silly to say its not a problem at all.
Or if that's even the right question. Do we have an obligation to raise the minimum standard in our society, so that no decent citizen is starving or in pain, even if that doesn't optimize the average? How much should we count future generations? There's tons of philosophy that must be included in any practical discussion.
Microsoft Announces Visual Studio for Mac
Ukraine related economic sanctions would be probably cancelled by Trump, while Clinton would have maintained the status quo.
Isn't this the norm? Most 15" top-range models (e.g. Dell XPS 15) are available with quad core CPUs.
13-inch MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals 'Cosmetic' Speaker Grilles
I'm really confused - because when I go to the site, it doesn't really say "Visual Studio" - it references tooling and Visual Studio Code. So am I missing something?
Fact-Checking Facebook Politics Pages
They're integrating xamarin into visual studio. That's pretty big no?
Yeah the NSAIDs warnings are quite consistent. I've been sensitive to them but can tell the benefit as long as I'm taking them appropriately (e.g. infrequent doses, usually with good amount of food). Kind of surprised me Naproxen Sodium is still a script drug some places outside of the US whereas Codeine would otherwise be OTC, basically speaking. I know which I'd rather have access to for pain management.
How do you find taking on extra work outside business hours? I tried the whole freelance on the side of full time thing for about 6 months a few years ago and it was really tough. I was basically coding 24/7 with no time for anything else. Add on top of that the stress of dealing with clients and other freelance crap you have to contend with. I figured it wasn't worth the extra cash in the end. I did learn lots though.
Free local development using the DocumentDB Emulator plus .NET Core support
Actually I just noticed that your repo is available. Awesome!
Yet another reason why Twitter will ultimately fail. Censorship of whoever you think are nefarious characters when purported "victims" can easily just block people is just plain silly. We already know there are block list services that will autoblock. So if anyone is getting trouble from troll / enemies or want to be their own echo chamber, it's easy to do all this stuff. Bye Twitter, hello Minds & Gab.
It depends if we remain individual nations that chart different courses, or if we are conglomeratized into trans-nation states like the EU.
Instead of reading a negative interpretation into one sentence, did you actually look into the research which is just a few clicks away? Of course you didn't.

The adjustments were in response to new data and new analysis, which you can see if you bother to look at the paper before posting ill-founded speculation. The article is pointing out that the UK did the analysis first, so NOAA was behind. You've turned this into some kind of harmonization of some other kind which just isn't there. This sets off "tamper" alarm bells only for someone who is (a) expecting to find tampering and (b) didn't do even the most trivial research to falsify their suspicions.
My concern is morphing terms of use that could give Amazon access to my business data and insights. Who has the time to monitor evolving terms of use? I don't.
I felt the same way when I finished Memory of Light. I had been reading WoT since 1994. The book definitely marked an end to a period of my life. It wasn't just the end of the book. There were changes going on at the time leading to greater maturity. It included a cross country move and shedding of most of my possessions, including many of my physical books. I had realized collecting dead tree versions of sci fi and fantasy was more wishful thinking on my part (more practical to get the books on Kindle, very easy to move cross country with them).

I was also disappointed with the ending. I roughly knew the general sketch of the ending based on remarks Jordan made at a DragonCon. I knew he had written that entire series just to get to that ending. But by the time I had reached Memory of Light, I saw a possibility for something even greater.

A year later, the unpublished chapter on Damonadred (don't remember how to spell his name) came out and therein lies that possibility. Except no one will write that epic :-D

That existential anguish that comes from having journeyed ablong way -- well, the Wheel keeps turning. That's the point. There is a koan that goes, "before enlightenment? Chop wood carry water. After enlightenment? Chop wood carry water."

Stories always come to an end, no matter how magnificent. It does not matter whether that story is a work of fiction, or something you tell about yourself. What doesn't end is awareness. The Wheel moves on.
Except that Microsoft is still hostile towards Linux with patents at the same time but no one talks about it.
Yes, it's included. Remember Microsoft has VSCode, Typescript, .Net, Cognitive Toolkit and more on Github. Google would be #1 if Angular was hosted under the Google org.

I remember first seeing these stats in Github's infographic which they released a month or two ago: https://octoverse.github.com/
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a wireless monitoring sensor
Microsoft–yes, Microsoft–joins the Linux Foundation
Yes, nobody calculates in their head above 100 or 1000, but the domain where calculation has really made a difference is in AI and scientific modeling, a domain far away from the small calculator with 4 operations.

Maybe people are going to limit themselves to learning a few words in a foreign language and translate the rest. But in 50 years, maybe all humanity will be learning a new language designed by AGI, a language with concepts that are revolutionary and completely different from ours, that will help us talk to the AGI on its level. Who knows what will come in languages. Google is already using a kind of interlingua to connect from any language to any language.
Twitter doesn't have an ability to ban you from parts of the community. So they are a single community.
> Racism is a sociological system that transcends the intentions of any one individual

I think that's a rather ambitious definition of racism. Racism is the discrimination of some person/group due to their race. You are either denying that being white is a race (Caucasian more specifically), or you are denying the global definition of the word. Both are wrong.

Anyway, onto your pseudo-fact opinions, since these are always sad to see purported as facts on HN:

> Today, the likelihood that you'll be shot by a cop if you're black is astronomically higher than if you're white.

...Because black crime is 4x greater, not from any mass cop bias. False correlation. Also, "astronomical" is a totally inappropriate exaggeration. Please, look at statistics before hurling words at screens.

> so they can't benefit from institutional racism.

But, that is not even "racism". That is an expansion of the term that is not the term itself. It's irrelevant. Also, have you seen US University GPA requirements? I think you'll find that it favors POC more than anybody, and makes it hardest for Asians, then whites. So. That's not universally correct right off the bat.

> "Thing" is already White by default.

Another exaggeration.

Regardless, I definitely do disagree with your general opinion that negative past events towards POC should mean they are treated specially now. Like in another comment, don't you think that trying to "revenge" on historical racism by being racist again with opposite races, is a little, well, stupid? You can already see that it doesn't work by how dissatisfied white people are with this mindset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend_and_extingui...

Let's see how they'll try the next step.
Does it mean that Microsoft may release some phone in near future (year? two? three?) with SDK based on Xamarin?
I'm not sure of that (that democracy can be fixed through perfect information).

I'm not even sure we'd want a world with perfect information. Is the pursuit of art for art's sake valuable. What if the answer is no? Do we repress art?

Having a variety of ideas rests on there not being perfect information and people making personal choices based on imperfect information.
German here, I don't find that translation odd at all, maybe a bit colloquial but I could totally imagine someone saying that.
Unfortunately not all manufactures test it and mention it in the pill notes. But some of them are, for example Advil liquid capsules, they mention in the note that it has 90-95% availability
Couldn't agree more my friend.
Sarcasm? I imagine that they're not emulating the Linux Kernel on Windows... From what I've gathered from job postings and whatnot, their virtualization system is in line with AWS's (Xen) on Linux.
More beating of the drum for war with Russia.
Yes really! And the reason they can get away with is that they have enormous number of users which means that many advertisers are still making a fortune.

Welcome to advertising. Shady as fuck.
> The only use of USB ports when a computer is locked should be for charging devices (current out, no data in). We also need to ensure that devices that were connected before the computer was locked continue to function.

Good idea, but...

(hypothetical helpdesk ticket) Oh crap! I knocked my coffee on my keyboard and ruined it as I was sitting down at my locked computer. I connected another keyboard, but the lock screen is not accepting my password!

Allow HID class devices to be connected when locked, and that should be OK.
Bill Clinton was not impeached for a blow job. Bill Clinton was impeached for committing perjury in a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him by a former employee, and trying to convince other witnesses to commit perjury as well, obstructing justice. In addition to the House of Representatives impeaching him, he was found in contempt of court by the judge presiding over the lawsuit and had his license to practice law suspended for violating ethics rules.
Windows Phone had UWP no? Where developers were concerned it didn't offer them anything compelling enough for that platform it seems. I think it would be even less so on Tizen even.
There would not be a problem with a "White History Museum" if there was enough of an historical presence of white people in that place to support it. I don't know enough about the history of African countries to know if there is one that meets this criteria. The same could be said for any "non-default" minority "type" anywhere.
These guys have done some solid work in the past: http://rangle.io
Joining a table for open discussion is great, no matter how you look at it.

Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967770
I don't think "sentience" is a sufficiently precise term to enable us to judge whether it's there or not.
I missed part of the key note but it sounds like MSVS for Mac is subscription only?

If that's the case, it sucks :(
I have a Delaware LLC, just for liability protection now. I know the US tax code is complex, but making this one small change to simplify for small LLCs with $0 revenue would be nice.
Jeff Bezos and Amazon Used Exactly 2 Sentences to Teach Us All a Major Lesson
This is why Software Engineering as a profession should be regulated and licensed just like other engineering fields - mechanical, civil, electrical, etc. Professional Engineers are bound by a code of ethics stressing first and foremost the welfare of the public. Engineers who behave unethically have their licenses revoked which can be a career-ending event. It is our responsibility as engineers to ensure that the code we ship does not negatively impact anyone's health or safety; especially as software becomes more and more pervasive in society.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/ethics/code-ethics

http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html

http://peo.on.ca/index.php?ci_id=1815&la_id=1
PoisonTap: The Tiny Internet-Hijacking, Cookie-Stealing, Backdoor-On-a-Board
I'm not asking only how Trump would benefit Russia, but what evidence exists to suggest that this entire ordeal was some elaborate scheme concocted by the Russian government?

EDIT: If this claim was such a stark truth, surely there must exist a smoking gun somewhere? So, where is the evidence?
Okay, so what about a "White History Museum" in Africa? Or China? Or Brazil? That is definitely perceived differently, and also it's content would not represent the "normal" history of the parent location.
You don't need amnesia to feel an experience fresh again. It's a matter of mindfulness. Sure, it takes some training. Someone who is present in the moment will always feel everything is fresh and alive.
I believe the install experience is getting a lot better as well.
IMO it is more a response to Microsoft with its PowerBI + DataZen products.

The Google Data Studio is only for dashboards (i.e. static visualizations) these other tools offers standard BI operations like rollup, drillup, pivoting and etc.
There are more women than men
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on taking a career sabbatical?
Those of us in tech are quite privileged, in that it's pretty likely that even if we take 3, 6, 12 months off from work, we can find a job relatively easily when we come back.

Still, I see a lot of people jumping from job to job without really taking time off to do the things they might not be able to do while working (travel, hack out a side project, etc.).

What do you think about taking a sabbatical? What holds you back from taking one if you haven't / won't?
Your argument is completely fallacious. The contest from the beginning was to get the most electoral votes. The candidates campaigned with that in mind. In many one-sided states like California and Utah, voters voted with that in mind, i.e., Republicans stay home in CA and Democrats stay home in UT. If the election had been about the popular vote, the candidates would have used radically different strategies and the voters in heavy red and blue states would have voted. None of this is controversial.
"only if the laws are passed with enough specificity that the interpretation is reasonably unambiguous"

If this isn't the case a court can strike down the law as ambiguous.

"if people vote based on single-issues and/or if surveillance is one of their top few issues"

... but can't the same thing be said of any particular policy? if this policy isn't as important as other policies, that's the public deciding that we're fine with it. you and I as individuals may disagree, but this is the reality we face. it's simply not going to get fixed through legislative action, until and unless we are able to reframe the national conversation sufficiently.
Thanks for all the great info. DreamFactory looks super interesting.
The character of Scrooge McDuck sleeps in a giant bed.[1] Not to share it with anyone, but because he slept in a drawer as a child.

I think this 50-person bed is much more likely to be a status furniture than a bed for multiple guests.

[1] https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0zLC0vqKlhw/U-j3euxqRuI/AAAAAAAAM...
Given the title, and the fact that this site is currently down, I can't help but think that this could've be the cruelest yet funniest April Fool's joke ever.
Direct link to the product page: https://quicksight.aws/

The page feels very sluggish on a i7, 16GB MBP. What machines are they using to test it?
What? My point is that I drew the same doodle for different words, and for each word it put forth a different _first_ guess.

The first guess for each doodle was the word that was provided -- if this software was completely legitimate, I would think it should have guessed the same word for each (and then moved on to other guesses).
Chinese Scientists CRISPR a Human
FWIW, the same could be said for the Linux foundation. They're not really pro GPLv3 either. Linux is GPLv2 and will stay that way.

Open Source != Free Software
It seems kind of predictable that "real news" sites would run stories on how "fake news" is an epidemic.

Maybe this is too much speculation but it seems like deflecting. Fake news sites weren't responsible for "real news'" complete failure to predict a Trump victory. I've seen little reporting on the attitudes of real Trump supporters. It's mostly reporting of noisy flawed polls and simplistic opinion pieces on why Trump is bad/hitler/stupid and dismissals of his supporters as racists.

IMO I don't think fake news is the problem either (though it is a problem, just not a proportionately large one). It has shades of demonizing independent news sources. Personally I can't stand any cable news source, I prefer to watch "Democracy Now!" I prefer The Intercept, Truthdig, and Jacobin to the NYT or WaPo. They don't peddle fake news whatsoever.

Edit: fake news was not responsible for this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxZVgktWQAAXu8g?format=jpg&name=...
Link change: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/

Moderator, can you update?
The government needs to shrink so it can't be bought. It's ridiculous that the party which should be anti government hasn't reduced the federal agencies.
Your claim that Uber is being banned because "taxi companies are mad" ignores several documented issues around driver safety, background checks, and driver pay (to name a few) that have been cited as cause for bans.