skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow, The creator in the "flesh"! Thanks for replying to me.

Hypothetical scenario: Let's say you're writing an experimental tool that doesn't exist anywhere else. You don't care about security, you don't care about speed. You just want it to exist so you can see what it does and possibly iterate on the idea if it ends up working out. Would Rust still be feasible?

From my impression of it, you would need to take care of a lot of corner cases and such (which don't exist in other languages) that may slow you down in the short run. I'd imagine those corner cases would be extremely helpful in the long run if you want to squeeze some extra performance out of it (or avoid technical debt). But from the perspective of "figuring out what's possible" I feel like Rust would get in the way a lot.
I live in Seattle where traffic sucks, and there are hills. I drive a manual. You get used to it.
I wonder how the Sanders/Trump contest would have been decided. Certainly Sanders was perceived by folks I knew to have more integrity.
In fairness, as the author points out, the files are hidden and marked as "system". People tinkering with files flagged system are usually going to have a bad time. You have to specifically go digging for this, and then decide you want to mess with it.

Microsoft's platform design is generally open enough to allow you to do dumb things. This is a good thing, because you can reg-hack your way around problems with the OS. But like editing the registry, doing so is very much at your own peril, it's really not designed to be tampered with by users.
> The driving handbook you're complaining about was probably written 30 years ago

No, it's continually updated, and featured lots of other modern facts about cars. For example, from a safety perspective, it urged people to stay the fuck away (maybe not using those words) from cars manufactured before 2000, because safety ratings increased a lot between 1990 and 2000, across the whole board.

The eco-driving requirements are 10 years old, at the most, but the manual still states facts about automatic transmissions that were true 30 years ago.

It's also important to remember that getting a license in European countries is generally a lot harder than in the US, so the eco-driving requirements results in people having to spend time learning the "theory" behind it, spending valuable driving lessons with an instructor to learn it, practice it, and getting evaluated on it during your final road test, and failing to drive "eco-friendly" will result in you failing the test.

So it's a big deal, it affects a lot of people, and it's mostly been obsoleted by technology. The gains from forcing people to learn eco-driving are minuscule, and the whole piece of shit could be replaced with one simple sentence: "Please buy a modern car". The last 10-15 years have seen crazy efficiency gains, and buying a new car will do more for the environment than a lifetime of eco-driving in an older one.

And that grinds my gears. :-)

> Almost anyone is allowed to jump in and drive a stick any time they want.

Fortunately that is pretty self-regulating, because it's incredibly hard to drive a manual if you haven't had practice and training. :-)
Who wants to help me create an .arse TLD? Who's with me!
Meat in general is expensive these days. Chicken has traditionally been a low-cost alternative to beef but in recent years the price has come closer to parity with ground beef.
Well they obviously aren't checking for metadata / extended attributes when reading the files.
Thank you for the writeup! I hope I never need to use that information, but I'm glad I have it now.
I've never enabled iCloud on any of my iOS devices, since I find it a bit creepy.

What real benefits am i missing out on that outweigh the privacy aspects of not using it?

Find my iPhone would seem to be an obvious benefit, but are there any others?
Here, we are instructed to use the clutch only for switching gears. At least in your driver's licence test.
It's the worst. I've sufferred so much although I never wanted to care about it. I'm a little blurry on the details, but if you want to automize addition of some configuration to the dconf system you have to put your part of the configuration tree in /etc/ and recompile the whole config to a new binary file. I doubt anybody can measure the parsing advantage of a binary format, but the drawbacks are obvious. You can't just deploy by copying files. The target system has to be running, and you have to run the right update script in the right sequence.

This update sequence is also meant to live-update the configuration of the running system. Of course that wouldn't work reliably. My session dropped its hotkeys (the only thing I actually cared about) on every update.
I can personally vouch that not all police are like this. I have a handful of family friends who are/or were police officers and they very strongly embody the values of "serve and protect." Honestly, they would give their life if necessary to save a life however they obviously would try to avoid death. So while there are definitely horrible police officers, there are definitely a great deal of honest ones as well.

Rather than rally against the police in general, we really should focus on identifying the sources of the horrible ones and how to develop more of the honest officers. Personally I believe this can only occur through transparency and accountability but that's just my 2 cents.
I accepted long time ago I will never be let into the US because of those HN comments, so...

If you regularly kill civilians at random with high explosives, with no way for them to even know something bad will happen, to the point you instill in them the fear of a clear blue sky, isn't that terrorism?

Hello drone strikes in Pakistan...
Which is why I see it less as an American police problem versus an American police culture problem.

The bad cop stereotype is universal. But America's current police culture in my opinion encourages bad cop behavior. The culture is way too military-oriented versus community oriented at the moment. It is hard to "protect and serve" your community if you are always at "war" with some "enemy". This case is a perfect example of that.
Interestingly, the police in China do not carry firearms nor are they allowed to do high speed car chases.
Snapchat: Is it really worth $25bn?
“We trust the companies we work with,” Alec Asbridge, director of regulatory compliance at Georgia Department of Agriculture, said earlier this month. “We don’t see any reason they would submit information that wasn’t truthful.”

I feel like this statement makes Asbridge unsuited for his job as director of regulatory compliance. Willful obliviousness implies a conflict of interest.
I was going to write up a dossier, but found one created by Der Speigel here: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-documents-atta...

Yes, trust strong encryption.

VPN isn't strong encryption. Or rather, VPN is not necessarily strong encryption as most of the VPN standards and implementations have either been backdoored or weren't designed for strength against state actors.
Login with Facebook is a nightmare: I've stopped counting the times I've had a problem with accounts created with Facebook Login. It is pain in the ass to switch that account to a regular one, once you did it.
Centered double quotes?
Zcash is definitely better in the sense that it has big money investors, the ear of the NYT and now Gavin Andreson shilling for it. Technically, on the other hand, it's a dud in it's current form. It doesn't have anon by default (because the anon transactions take too many resources to generate) and the few anon transactions that occur are subject to timing analysis.
His judgment explicitly states that he was convicted of contradicting scripture.
Researchers: Some employer fears about hiring ex-cons are unfounded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY10kTcM8ek

We talk about technical debt in data science and how rust (and the type system) can help.
Not really practical though (cite: http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2004/11/mythbusters_ping_pong_bal...)
Left turns from the extreme right lane (and vice versa)

New Yorkers in Manhattan know that dashing from extreme right to extreme left is the norm for yellow cab drivers.
> (there are loads according to UK law).

No, there really aren't.
It is a distributed ledger; calling blockchain here is certainly not crazy-talk.
I think this was exactly Scott's(the author's) point. He thinkd Trump will be a terrible president, just not terribly racist one.

And while we focus on all of this dog-whistle, he's secretly a racist BS, we lose focus on the the true ways that he's a bad president.

I don't he would have won the election if the focus had been on "is Trump a good president" instead of "is Trump a racist".
John Oliver's "Dick Pics" seem like a pretty good argument that can reach average citizens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
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Not sure if Postbox on the Mac will meet your needs or not but it's based on Thunderbird and done by a company founded by Thunderbird's lead engineer. It's a paid product, but well worth it...I use it as my main email app.

https://www.postbox-inc.com
Throw a wrench into the works if this happens: report a bunch of your conservative Christian customers as Muslims. It'll suck for them but it serves them right anyway.

(Make sure to leave the country before the authorities figure out what happened.)
Strange the Umbrella App link gives me a 403 https://secfirst.org/fdroid/repo/ Can't find it within the FD app.
> It seems like the argument is because the language doesn't force you to use static types, in the long run it could be bad.

Not so much 'in the long run' but moreso 'as soon as you end the exploratory phase'.

> I think the limitation is more in whether you do so or not, not in the language

Perhaps if the type systems were equal in power, but they are not.

> If anything, by not forcing you to use static types, the language provides more options, which seems like a good thing...

The problem here is that touching an untyped interface can break inference, and break assumptions about types, meaning that by having the type system be optional you potentially poke holes in it.

But to be clear, I think that the typed python approach is valid, and can be a great way to help with these problems. I am not saying to ditch python and go with another typed language - just saying that the untyped approach has caveats. Maybe you're right and optional systems are better, but I think the point to get across is that a typed understanding of your data helps a lot.
<Blah blah disclaimer IANAL & speak for myself>

I think this may have changed since that talk. I think Google still doesn't technically guarantee full deletion (who knows if someone's GC process messed up or has a bug) but in practice it happens, at least AFAIK. It is expensive. And it does take time, I wouldn't expect all my stuff to be purged until at least 180 days (the 90 days they are supposed to delete after + ~90d for the delete to fully propogate).

It also drives every engineer nuts when they're asked is your service wipeout compliant and they realize omg I can't store this data longer than x days?! shit shit shit

European Privacy Shield compliance is yet another bag of legal worms every service has to deal with. More deleting, encryption at rest, etc.
In the UK you can already go to prison for refusing to hand over the password to encrypted data. The thing is, anything can be encrypted data. So in theory someone can say that you have encrypted child pornography on your drive, and theoretically, you can go to prison for refusing to give your password to it, even if it doesn't exist.
The difference is that you can get an honest 3.5% fixed APR on a 30 year mortgage, but nothing close to that for a car loan, unless it is a subsidized scam.
Kubernetes founders launch Heptio with $8.5M in funding
The computer beeping is merely a reminder and I'm betting most drivers will even disregard it after they are familiar with the track they are on. Gear changes happen so often and so quickly that waiting for a computer to tell you when to shift is a sure sign of unfamiliarity with the track layout and it's also a hit to one's concentration (ex. if they're trying to pass the car ahead or block the one behind). Anyone that does any sort of track driving consistently should know what gear their car should be in for each corner long before a race.
News story from 2012: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/2012/may/23/miller-...
Wasn't Galileo that discovered the phases of Venus?

Those prove heliocentrism. The fact that Galileo's model had worse predictions for the planets positions was much weaker than that observation.
2.1 million total for the Founder's Reward out of 21 million total that will ever be minted = 10%
> According to research published last year, spending a day in Beijing is currently akin to smoking almost 40 cigarettes. Decoupling emissions from economic growth thus helps both people and planet. Convincing Mr Trump of this fact is now an urgent and daunting challenge.

How is convincing Trump here the answer? Isn't convincing China more important? How about convincing the American people? Do this and politicians will follow.

Perhaps if Trump can bring back more industry to the US, he is on his way to helping already.
I'm nearly hit by inattentive drivers on a daily basis. I've been riding bikes for so long that I just roll with it. I knew they were going to invade my space probably before they did because I read traffic ahead and to some degree predicted the possible outcomes.

But unfortunately that comes with time and experience. I've said in the past that if you can survive the first five years, you'll probably be pretty safe on a bike. I survived my first five years, despite of myself in retrospect, and the only time I've been down on asphalt was last year on a patch of black ice 400m from my garage. 35 years of not hitting pavement, only to be brought down by a stupid piece of slick road at 15mph.

I would never argue that a motorcycle is as safe as a car. For the youngsters under 25, I'm amazed that anyone survives, including myself. :-P But it's been mostly accident-free for me for 35 years. YMMV, in fact it probably will.
> Linux desktop is getting better but is still a painful experience when used with non common setup.

Indeed every time I think of getting a new laptop or desktop, I try to do research into how well Linux will run on the hardware. Thankfully there seem to be a decent number of laptops that have Linux preinstalled now.

As much as I enjoy tinkering, even after using Linux for a while I still don't have a strong understanding of how things work, and it's frustrating to be forced to tinker when my intention was to get things done.

Perhaps I need to dedicate more time to understanding how things work?
Right, but it doesn't matter whether their belief is right or not, what matters is that they believe it.
> Hosting wouldn't be. Speaking certainly could, but that would depend also on his familiarity of the topic.

Could you talk more about this? I have little to no anxiety about public speaking, but hosting a meetup sounds like a lot of work and stress to me. Are you talking about putting a new meetup group together from scratch, or asking a preexisting meetup group if you can MC for them one night, or some third thing?
My experiences are similar, it's not the software that's the biggest problem, I use mostly FOSS anyway. It was the lack of decent hardware support, e.g. Skylake laptop support, Displayport MST, that drove me to Windows 10.
Udacity Launches Blitz, Helping Grads Win Jobs
Protect your privacy with a VPN, either run your own or use one of the available providers. It's a shame you need to do this, but that's just the state of things.

Run your own with OpenVPN: https://openvpn.net

VPN providers(not affiliated, just ones myself or colleagues use):
https://www.expressvpn.com
https://www.goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn
https://nordvpn.com
Not that simple. Unless you get some prodigies involved in this, the government will be able to apply more math at filtering the noise that we'll be able to throw at generating it.
> If Jeff Han had designed a keyless entry system for a car, it would’ve involved dragging a secret gesture on the car’s window instead of the car automatically unlocking when you open the handle if you have the key in your pocket.

So basically: "Good design is invisible"
Some batteries seem to live on. I bought a no-name cheap dashcam for my car, and was surprised to see that its battery was identical to the one in my first Nokia phone.
Yup, and it is also nice that if you just touch the brakes when going downhill the AT downshifts to engine-brake stronger. I can also feel when the converter locks up when accelerating. Particularly when the engine / AT are cold the acceleration is not ideally smooth because of this (well, it is still much smoother than I can do with my other car with MT).
They sell ~10 iPhones per Mac so most people are only going to be using FaceTime on their phone.
Hah I wasn't the only one reporting this "mis-feature" I bet. I wonder if Microsoft could license the old NetApp 'unified' protections code that let you export a volume to both CIFS and NFS.

In my case I pulled a git clone into the Linux side of a project that was building using a third party gui tool, ran that from windows and my Bash window got soooo confused.

Seriously though, if they can improve the terminal "behavior" and figure out a work around for USB device access this will be really stellar.
Somewhere in my innocent heart flickers the hope that patenting fasting wouldn't be possible even in a parallel universe where it's not part of Islam, Hinduism, Jainism or Buddhism...
No, it does make a huge difference, actually. If the traffic is travelling to outside servers, it can be encrypted, and there's no mitigation that they can do to get access. But if it ends up on the servers inside the country, they control the endpoint where it has to be decrypted to be processed. Then it becomes a kind of a reverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM#SORM-2 set-up, with every prominent service provider having a preinstalled tap for the agencies.
A much more productive question would be: Why don't they allow it?

They cite performance and security control, and really, can you blame them?

The web is quite the wild west nowadays, and the WebViews they provide, while not ideal, cover most of the cases while offering a decent level of protection.

And I think that somewhere down the road Apple will open up, when the system is ready.
Half of US F-15s Need Overhauls or Retirement
You are making the article the point of the discussion here. The point of the discussion is your racist attitude that you display plenty here by asserting that discrimination based on race is not racism. LOL. Grow up.
The canary in the coalmine for global warming is Arctic sea ice. It is melting at an alarming rate, and we can expect an ice-free (>1m sq km of sea ice) Arctic in the summer within a decade or two (or 3-4 years if recent trends continue!). There's a small active community who follow this. We tend to hang out here - a HN level of polite discussion goes on: http://neven1.typepad.com/
Ah yes, 1997. I was a mere lad of 50, driving a 5-speed sports coupe. Funny how at 69 my idea of driving is now a diesel econocar with an automatic transmission.
What language are you using now that has faster compile times with a codebase similar in size to what you worked on in Java?
> I think there needs to be a law that punishes false information

Dangerous game to play there - who decides what is 'false information', is it the same body that doles out the punishment? If so, we're back at square one.
Cool idea. Unfortunately, game play looks bland. AR seems to be mostly tech demos at this point, not usable content.
The ending to that story was particularly delightful.
Less JavaScript
> You can easily get VPN and continue to use Linkedin if you need to.

VPN is only temporary cure. I think soon or later Kremlin will try to crack down use of VPN when it becomes popular.

> Most of the governments do love to spy on its own citizens, for obvious reasons.

And I'm not fond of most governments and even notion of big intrusive government.
Thanks for the info with the fibre, thought it was closer to light speed. But for a satellite the signal would also travel through the atmosphere for most of the time, or am I mistaken? Is the speed through air close to the vacuum speed? Otherwise it's probably just 10-20% which I guess would be slower after considering the extra distance?
Aristotle is not just "science" - it's long been at the center of Christian theology, carrying the main argument that could reconcile Christian faith with the empirical world. Until very recently (and certainly by Galileo's times), contradicting Aristotle meant doing away with the entire building of Christian theology.
Men between the ages of 18 and 34? Otherwise referred to by the Obama administration as enemy combatants[1]
I'm not sure what it says about a conflict when the people most likely to be able to defend their homes leave, while their families remain.
1: http://www.juancole.com/2012/05/how-obama-changed-definition...
Hacker News and chicken problems.... ;)
Will Trump pick an “agent of change” or an insider to lead NASA?
How does "basic income" work? I have never heard it explained in a way that made any sense. Starting with a premise that resources are finite, you will always have power brokers who oppose the idea of spreading resources thin across the population. To think that would ever happen on a global scale seems as likely as us populating mars. It could happen, but certainly not in my lifetime.
He must think everyone else is an idiot when he talks like this.
That's why I said "for the next few years"
"may"
What Trump Means for Urbantech
I don't talk much as well (I am originally from Russia, we don't smile much too + I am a software developer).
And if I do, I prefer to talk for a reason.

But now I live and work in New Zealand and smalltalks here is a must. And that is really difficult for me.

My advice: just talk. People like to talk random meaningless things. Talk to your colleagues about the weather, about plans for weekends, about their current tasks, ask if they are ok, ask about their car/bike/cat/dog, invite for a coffee etc.

And don't be afraid to repeat yourself. Literally, they ask the same things everyday.
Krpano VR
surely my.lovely.horse :-)
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NIST's new take on IoT security
Help My Startup Can’t Stop Bro-Ing Out
Libertarian ideology is based on the classical liberal tradition that each person has the a priori right to life, liberty, and property. Since you have these rights, you may dispose of your person and property as you see fit as long as you do not infringe upon these rights of another. This leads to the non-aggression principle, which in bumper sticker form is "don't hurt people and don't take their stuff." Basically, the initiation of violence is prohibited unless it is in defense of property or as punishment for a crime.

All individuals in society should be treated equally under the law, including members of law enforcement and others within the government. If I am not allowed to commit violence against you until you have been convicted of a crime, neither should anyone else, whether or not they wear a police uniform. Indeed, libertarianism advocates for private, rather than public, police forces.

> what is the ideology that lacks them

Statism in all forms grants special privilege to members of the government, including the power to tax and hold monopoly on the use of force. The US criminal code is full of exceptions for on-duty police officers, judges, and others, especially regarding firearms laws. Police officers can carry firearms into school buildings where others are guilty of a felony if they do, for instance. Thus you have inequality under the law. Such police immunity is what leads to the abuses we see every day.
If it isn't willful obliviousness, at the very least, it is blatant incompetence.