skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kaspersky's claims that Microsoft doesn't give them enough time to ensure their software is compatible doesn't really ring true for me, because between the Release Preview, Slow, and Fast rings, people can get their hands on Microsoft OS versions long in advance of Microsoft pushing them out to consumers.

Having a limit on the number of antivirus products a computer has makes sense, antivirus software often causes conflicts with other antivirus software, and a large amount of security software on a PC causes it to run very slowly, as duplicated scanning efforts take up a majority of drive performance on the slow 5400 rpm hard drives shipped with most consumer PCs today.

To be clear: Antivirus companies have acted like a plague on Windows computers for a long time. They use scare tactics to convince people to spend money on placebo-effect tools that rarely protect them from the type of malware they actually are likely to encounter.

One of the favored strategies is to bundle on new PCs with a short trial, and then tell people they won't be protected unless they subscribe. People aren't told that if they just remove the third party product that was preinstalled on their PC, they'll have perfectly serviceable antivirus.

That isn't to say Windows 10 doesn't have issues that still bother me, but let's just say that Kaspersky crying about them doesn't bother me much.
I believe feathers evolved from scales. I think they were first beneficial for dinosaurs for their likely elaborate courtship/mating rituals if birds are any indicator of how other dinosaurs found mates.

Early feathers weren't useful for flying, keeping warm or making a creature look bigger, so I would figure the advantage that made them useful was related to mating.
I'm looking for macbook pro alternatives... so wondering, do you think one day it would be posible to have Visual Studio for PC compile iOS projects?
Ironically the prebuilt binaries of hashpipe itself are provided without means of verification :I

So if you are going to use hashpipe, I think you should download it in source form, read it -- it's under 100 SLOC -- and then build it from source yourself. This way, you do that once and then in the future provided that you trust those sending you various scripts and binaries and the channel they used to provide the hash, all is well and no further manual verification is needed on your side of things ever again for any of those.
"Your argument breaks down once you consider contemporary mainstream world history books."

Not really. Most historians base their history books on those who came before them. The majority of texts available to western scholars are older western texts. Bear in mind that there is a big language barrier. Historical imbalances will persist without an attempt to counter them.

The study of the middle eastern history/culture used to be a special field of study called 'orientalism' and required scholars to learn middle eastern and asiatic languages to make any of the history available in the west.

In the 70's, traditional orientalist scholars came under fire for being overly western centric in their coverage and for exotifying their subjects, (mainly by Edward Said) but I think that sort of thing is almost inevitable when you are writing about someone else's history. If you are not a Turk, you'll have a harder time thinking from the perspective of the Turks.

"It becomes even worse, and extremely xenophobic in my opinion, when you disregard the work of scientists who followed said religion."

Most of the work of scientists and scholars from the Golden Age of Islam was unavailable in the West until much later so while much of it predated later Western developments, the later developments were still independent. Scholars such as Averroes and Avicenna on the other hand, who were very influential in the west, generally aren't ignored and haven't been. Religious scholars from the middle ages regularly cited Averroes and reference him in their work.
Java the language versus C# the language.
There's some sick bastard in Microsoft who really likes these confusing sames. He's probably the same guy who came up with .NET.

Remember when .NET could refer to virtually every product Microsoft made?

I was half expecting them to call it Visual Studio Surface. Then you could run Surface on your Surface on any Surface on the planet.
VSTS is the back end for CI aspects.
No. 10dB is the volume of calm breathing, 0dB is the threshold for auditory perception of a sound at 1kHz.

With regards to a CD, the decibel measures the gain rather than the volume. 0dB in this context simply means "full volume", while -10dB means 10% of full volume, and -20dB means 1% of full volume.
> it was one of only two impeachments in 240 years

Technically true, but there was that other time when the President resigned rather than face impeachment, which should be counted. If anything, both times that the President was impeached shouldn't count since both were politically motivated. In our country's history, only Nixon--the one you didn't mention--committed crimes that warranted impeachment.
It is but we've also had decades of practice. What scares the most about AI isn't how advanced computers can become but how slow we are to learn in comparison.
Neither have you. I suggest you refresh your browser because the situation is dveeloping by the day, from Christie, to letting Christie make picks, to booting Christie, to then booting everyone he picked... things are changing fast.
Dream on. I am liberal/democratic and I think this election was lost because the dems had the wrong candidate and didn't offer any thing different. It was an election of "pick the least worse choice" for many people. Period.
Incredible. This is the first 3D mapping implementation in JS that doesn't make my MBP switch to leaf-blower mode. It runs smooth and silent. Well done.

It would be nice to get a ballpark indication of the pricing if anyone from this company cares to share.
Are the SMS being sent from Lambda or another service like Twilio?
Incriminate them for what? How, with that line of thinking?
I've been using DK2 + Leap Motion to play some of the simpler Vive only titles. I'll try it and report back.
At least in the Word 6 et al timeframe, Microsoft had switched to developing their Mac software using the Visual Studio Tools for Macintosh cross compiler running on Windows. They switched back to doing development on the Mac for either Office 98 or Office 2001, using Metrowerks CodeWarrior.
That sounds awesome. Is there an offline installer yet ?
Reading your comment, I was suddenly reminded of the days when the Windows vs. Linux TCO (=total cost of ownership) debacle was all aflame... ah the sad irony.
He probably would care to, but how much time would you care to spend listening to anecdotal bro science today?
I thought Mecca was like, the opposite of a forbidden place.
It's starting to go that way but that's a very hard space to push new things into. I talk with all my ex-gamedev contacts and they're hesitant to even use lambda or other C++11 features that have been around for a while now.

I think Mozilla's plan of driving things forward with Servo and using that as an large-scale example of the gains that can be made is a good approach.
I voted against Trump because I am afraid of what he might do to the environment (like appointing a climate change denier to office) and to our civil liberties (like appointing anti choice justices).

There are legitimately bigoted things that came from Trump supports and arguably Trump himself.

I don't understand this rising hatred towards "safe spaces", but maybe I don't think of them like you do. To me, I see a safe space as something like a home, where someone can relax and be themselves. Every single person should have access to a "safe space".

If your idea of a "safe space" is something different please let me know.
Since we are going to do arguments by quotes..

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Isaac Asimov

So, no, sorry, a registration by ownership ( gun/car/fuzzy pink socks ) isn't the same as a registration by Religion.

This really should be obvious, but for some reason, it isn't.

I really wish I had the answer to that...
> 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.

I agree 100% with the above sentence. But I do not think that implies regulation and licensing to be the appropriate solution, at least not universally. Perhaps it is appropriate to require licensing to write code for life-support systems, vehicles, or other systems on which all other engineering requires licensing. But not to write code for Twitter. Not to tweak the PHP on your Wordpress site. Not for the vast pile of code that may be meaningful to the author, but is trivial when considering its risk to the health of the general public.
> "You can go to Tehran & North Korea"

Leaving, on the other hand...

https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/alertswarnings...

https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/alertswarnings...
Depends on the affiliate program; Amazon pays affiliates per conversion (at various rates).
Thank you for that! I use your app regularly.
OMG I feel so old when I read your question. Component Object Model is what it stands for.
Show HN: Taker – async.js for Go
Mecca, Saudi Arabia is slightly different, of course.
Objective C is just as open as Swift is I think
Reminds me of reinforced earth which I learned about from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0olpSN6_TCc (which is also from the pretty great Practical Engineering channel).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5EcyUaZQrU

Better version that doesn't have all kind of broken artifacts.

I enjoy hearing the justification of "friendship" between the high roller, and his fixer. Pretty hilarious.
I'd like to know why you think that, and also if you think that W10's unstoppable updates is the right way.
Black Mirror's episode about "Waldo" could be very easily connected to Trump.
Lots of previously Enterprise Edition-only features such as table partitioning and data compression are now available in Standard, Web, and local editions. This is a pretty big deal. More detail here: https://sqlperformance.com/2016/11/sql-server-2016/big-deal-...
Holy Crap someone else doesn't get the hype for that show. It isn't just me.

I find it pretty shallow as well. People compare it to the Twilight Zone all the time and I really can't see it. Black Mirror isn't really as deep and it deals with the issues it tries to examine pretty poorly.
Wikipedia claims that "In 1950, New York City was the only urban area with a population of over 10 million."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity#Growth
Could someone explain why "ASP.NET Core 1.1" Kestrel webserver decided to use LibUV DllImpor [1] instead of .NET Asynchronous Server Socket (System.Net.Sockets) [2].

Does that mean that the managed implementation of Async socket is broken and was too slow?

[1] "https://github.com/aspnet/KestrelHttpServer/blob/dev/src/Mic...
[2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bew39x2a(v=vs.110)....
Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member
> Available first on HTC Vive

I can't find if it'll have support for DayDream View, which I just got for free with my pixel. Does anyone have more info?
I've not looked at MS-SQL in a long time. My business ships software using PostgreSQL.

Does anyone have, in their opinion, compelling reasons why one should consider MS-SQL on Linux for either a new project or potential migrating too?

Consider too, PostgreSQL runs under Windows as a service too.

What does MS-SQL have that PostgreSQL does not?
Of course. Only available on the HTC Vive.

I regret my oculus rift purchase.
And note that many of the new Linux Foundation projects (kubernetes, runc, etc) are under Apache licenses.
This is great news and I am looking forward to be able to use MSSQL from within linux and macOS. Hopefully the client support is going to be cross platform too.

The one thing in the article that puzzled me is:

Thanks to its support for Docker containers, even macOS users will be able to run it.
Indeed, Microsoft is betting on containers as one of the main distribution mechanisms for the preview

Wasn't there a golden rule to not store persistent data in a container? I can see it being useful for testing, but am wondering if this is going to be suggested for deployment as well.

Of course one can locate the database on external block storage, but that makes it less easy to support due to having multiple parts. (not that that is a very big issue)
A good point and I'd forgotten about that allegation; thanks. My thoughts:

My memory is that the IRS was legitimately investigating illegal campaign finance, which happened to be among some Republican groups. GOP members of Congress used their power to shut down a legitimate law-enforcement investigation. (Note that the GOP has a history of this: They also have effectively disabled the Federal Election Commission by appointing members who veto almost every enforcement action against Republicans.) If my memory is accurate, it's further abuse of state power for the party's interests.

As a result, the U.S. has no campaign finance enforcement AFAIK. The IRS won't get near it, fearing Congressional Republicans, and the FEC has been hobbled.

Finally, even if my memory is false, it doesn't match up to the GOP pattern of behavior.
They started it by dehumanizing me.

But good reasoned discussions will never work on most voters. Facts might make them sheepish for a while if confronted, but they'll soon retreat to news which assuages their confirmation bias. Only large-scale demonstrations and emotional reactions are going to work against that. Make these people feel like they're in the out group, for once.
Javascript has always been a turd. Actually the whole front end including CSS and dealing with browser incompatibilities is a turd. The people who work with this have lots of grit, determination, and genius in my book.

Brendan Eich has more or less apologized for JS and said it was written in 10 days meant to do things like make text flash.

The goal of front end has always been "this feature sucks less than before!"

Wow a let variable to fix scope! Arrow operators to dekludgify callbacks!
Lol CLASSES WOW is this heaven?

Web Assembly is my hope for getting rid of opinionated langs in the browser and allow in langs built on decades of experience, which will make front end reasonable like the rest of the sodtware world
You should look further into why the 'pizza and ping pong' company changed it's logo.
The Case for Working with Your Hands (2009)
Many SQL Server Enterprise Features Now Available in Std, Web, and Express Edition
Then how is "The FDA doesn't test the data sent by the corps" true then? I don't understand.
If you can name a good sci-fi show that's not ham-fisted, that'd be appreciated. I think most of us are just taking what we can get.
Where is the information on the change in pricing structure mentioned in the article?
Trump supports free speech? He promised to strengthen libel laws (pretty sure there aren't any such thing at the federal level now ...)

He said a lot of things freely, and a lot of them are interpreted by many as racist or otherwise categorized as bigotry.

I can see the viewpoint that supporting Trump is much more about supporting bigotry than it is about supporting free speech, based on his words and his promises. I have more trouble seeing the viewpoint of the inverse, at this point still.
TechEmpower also reports that the performance of ASP.NET Core
running on Linux is approximately 760 times faster than it was
one year ago. Since TechEmpower started measuring benchmarks
in March 2013, they have never seen such a performance
improvement as they have observed in ASP.NET Core over the last
year.
The vast majority of opiates, substituted amphetamines, and cocaine were available OTC for a myriad of ailments. Many Vietnam veterans were treated in hospitals with heroin, yet they didn't become addicted.

What it boils down to is that the addict is unable to achieve homeostasis with their environment. Unfulfilling relationships (both romantic and platonic), financial burdens, lack of a job, lack of intimacy all contribute to addictive behavior.

It's easy to blame a particular molecule for ruining someone's life. It's less easy to blame a system that turns men into machines.
The "hard left" has been arguing against "elitists, oligarchs, and a crony system that is impoverishing them while making hollow promises" for 150+ years.
So Redhat is hostile towards Linux too then, right? Because if they weren't, they wouldn't push their competing products against Canonical or Suse.

Just because companies release competing, incompatible products, doesn't mean they're "hostile" towards one another.
I just spent 20 minutes in it and the controls are well done. I had no nausea issues. I hope it is loading the models to local cache so that on repeat viewings I wont have the texture lag. Pretty impressive though.
OK. So what about a third party developing and selling drivers ?
The great purge... of alt-right, white supremacist accounts, yes.
Rolling all commits back to 1994
Locking+your+Computer+with+Shortcut+Keys
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/794450623404113920?lang...

which somehow lead to clinton worships satan.
Is there a large current threat of enemy drone armies? Because I thought most of our last two wars were fought against loosely organized militia fighters and IEDs.
You can do this with Polymer, Vue or Angular too (and many others)
How One Small Change Increased My Conversion Rate 200%
I wouldn't be against a law that prevented people from gambling large amounts of money unless they could prove the money was theirs. (ETA: whew, a quadruple negative.) The IRS could provide a form that confirmed that someone reported X amount of income, and you should only be allowed to gamble X-Y for some nominal value of Y. This wouldn't be that hard to enforce (the time isn't too significant when you're dealing with large amounts of money), and I don't think there's much public interest in being able to gamble unlimited amounts of money and keep it secret from the government.

Is there some problem with the above? Is there a compelling reason this would harm civil liberties that I'm missing? It's not worse than banning gambling altogether, and should prevent most embezzling or gambling borrowed funds.
I always hear of the JVM's legendary capabilities, the result of so many million engineer-hours baked in. What would be required to bring the CLR into parity with it?
Yes, I noticed that to. I just ended up going for a cheap ~6 Euro USB adapter. On the plus side you get an SD card reader. (And besides Bluethooth it has great connectivity: 2x LAN + WLAN with external antennas.)
> Want to concat an number and string ? JavaScript wont complain.

Is that supposed to be an endorsement?
> there was that other time when the President resigned rather than face impeachment, which should be counted

Agreed. I'll update my post to reflect it. Thanks.

> both times that the President was impeached shouldn't count since both were politically motivated

True in a way, but I don't think it changes the evidence (it's very rare).

> In our country's history, only Nixon--the one you didn't mention--committed crimes that warranted impeachment.

Let's say he's the only one who was caught and investigated.
Basically that it isn't all "tender and delicious meat," i.e. the good stuff. You have to have the bone (a way to generate revenue) with the meat (the fun content for users) before you can cook and serve it (continue to support it).

Hope that helps!
Lombok includes the "val" keyword, which infers the type from the initializer expression: https://projectlombok.org/features/val.html
I'm curious - how has anything Donald Trump done since becoming President Elect shown regular people having control over the levers of power? Best I can see, he's taking the same old Republicans (Giuliani, Gingrich) and reinstalling them into government, throwing in some lobbyists and his extremely rich son-in-law for good measure.
Not sure what the DNC did to gain HN commenters undying loyalty. :|
And i hate to deviate.. but.. by all reports, Jared Kushner kicked Christie off.

Jared Kushner's dad was jailed by Chris Christie...[1]

But sure, go on about that not paying attention part...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner
Walk onto a college campus. This isn't about private property. This is about suppressing discussion because you disagree with it. That mentality is why identity politics is so bad. Instead of seeking out people that disagree with us, we're isolating ourselves both digitally and physically within our little tribes.

I'm pro-choice BTW, but it isn't a top issue compared to the others. Call me a bigot as much as you want, it won't change my vote.
White women helped push Trump to victory, despite campaign missteps
> I think it's fine to make adjustments, but the destroying, or making the raw data harder to obtain is unscientific and unethical.

What are you referring to?

Not only is the raw data included in these graphs and used to readjust the computed data in new studies all the time, so obviously not destroyed, but you can go download the raw data right now:

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/readme.txt
Basics of GIT and getting started with GitHub
For what it's worth, both parties and various non-party-affiliated interest groups use the government to suppress opposing votes. See http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-democrats-suppress-t... (from a year ago, note).

I don't say this to excuse this sort behavior on the part of Republicans; it's utterly despicable in both cases.
So Microsoft names all their products Visual Studio now. Before it used to be that everything was called Windows.

So its just like the 3 versions of Skype that Microsoft offers.
> Would it had made any difference if it were an unknown US hacker?

Yes, especially if it was done or aided by a domestic three letter agency.
Google Earth already has thousands of handmade 3D models, as well as auto generated models.

Here is an interesting quora on where Google Earth sources their models from: https://www.quora.com/How-are-the-3D-models-of-buildings-gen...
That's how the FDA works.

The FDA is required to approve the study plan, the pharma (or really, the contract research organization (CRO) acting on its behalf) reports back to the FDA. The FDA decides based on the reported study result (reported to the FDA) whether the drug can be marketed and under what constraints.

Why should tax payer pick up the tab on a clinical trial like this? Over the life time of a modern drug, the clinical trials required can easily approach $1B.
You should check out http://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm143534..., it gives a good overview of how this works.
Swift is very similar to C#.
I am just thinking the tooling and the huge .net community who are already building ios with c# in visual studio. If it became core it would be hugely beneficial
What about Registration by Fairytale?
Are you aware that Material Design uses consistently applied metaphors and adheres to a style guide? That's the opposite of both of those.
That is a massive demographic to dominate. The fact that boomers and x-ers don't understand makes Snap an undervalued buy.

http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/pages/millennials/
Seriously, Trump, Bannon, Guiliani, and the rest of those ghouls you consider to be 'regular people'?
Here is the home page :)

Let us know if you have any questions.
I would assume that the Mac version is not intended to be a production server, but a convenience for developers.

I would also not assume MS will be supporting Mac servers in production because of the small market share for things like RDBMS hosts.