skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter introduces mute button for trolls as it struggles to fight online abuse
I'm sure I will. "How Rome Fell" looks interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.
Facebook Messenger Bot platform growth and trend observations
> Commoners did not have this custom until the twentieth century

It really depends on the culture. Having the groom give the bride something of value is a quite old tradition for Jewish weddings, including "commoners" (read: all Jews, pretty much). A ring was in fact a quite common such gift going back a long way.

That said, if a ring is used in this case it must traditionally be a plain band with no stones; we're not talking diamond rings here.
I'm sorry but, if you "threw a huge number of particles into a self-contained environment and let them stir for a while," you should have a purely deterministic, non-random, and if you could get the data and do the math, a predictable situation. Maybe I'm missing something, or we're talking about different things?

Nietzsche's "eternal return" posited just this type of situation, a limited (though huge) amount of stuff, and a limitless amount of time, well with those two you'd relive your life an eternal amount of times, presumably.

As an aside, I personally find a warming way of thinking of this idea by fictionalizing it to imagine that "I" might live a future life of every other person and even animal. Maybe by thinking like this I will be more likely to treat them as ends in themselves, and not as a means to an end, that's to say, closer to Kant's "categorical imperative". That would be nice.
You are god damn right. Programming is a means, not the end.
DHS is a law enforcement agency, which regularly uses surveillance techniques, some of which exploit security flaws in devices and software. When you share information about security flaws with DHS, you're sharing them with ICE and the Secret Service.

The FTC, in contrast, is a consumer protection agency. They don't kick down doors and they don't arrest people.

And yes, many security researchers have shared their prepublication research with the FTC.
If you run the numbers there is a surprising amount of solar lighting for example in the US. Solar hot water heating and passive solar are also not counted in these numbers. The single largest energy use in the US is of course growing plants, but nobody thinks in terms of 'solar power'. While a reasonable argument that this should not be counted, bio fuels are used as an energy source.

So sure, grid connected PV solar is a very useful comparison point, but the others are used to fulfill our energy demands.
Pixel ? The phone which advertises/ships with a data collection assistant ?
Just hit enter a lot to get a shell of the rooty sort.
I'd appreciate it if people wouldn't rush to the conclusion that we do these things for partisan reasons. It takes self-discipline to suspend your political reflexes and consider other explanations, but that's a necessary habit to get into if we're to have thoughtful discourse here.

In the above case, there was no ideal place to prune the off-topic subthread. 12945175 started the political digression for sure, but seemed clearly to be an offhand misstep in an otherwise good-faith conversation. That's not really a problem on HN. The problem is when other users (you, in this case) pounce and turn the politics knobs to 11. Then we get a flamewar. Had it been possible to snip the thread at the original off-topic aside, we'd have done that, but obviously we can't edit users' comments that way.

While I have you, I need to ask you to change how you use HN. You've been violating the site's guidelines by using it primarily to conduct political battles. That's an abuse, and we ban accounts that do it. HN exists to gratify intellectual curiosity. Using it to bash political foes damages that.

This isn't because we favor one political position over another. We're gardeners. When gangs show up to rumble and trample the garden, it doesn't matter what colors they're wearing.
It's a mixture of a couple things. One is that we tend to run pretty lean and our engineers are all booked up for the foreseeable future. Linux users are a passionate community, but we can't quite justify the development time for a market segment that is not very large. Additionally, because we run an unlimited model, a lot of people would immediately sign up and back up their Linux servers for $5/month and we'd sail out of business. We could address that by putting in limits for those types of devices and only allowing certain Linux builds, but that adds complexity and we want to keep the backup side of the service very simple - which works for the vast majority of folks. So it's a combination of a bunch of factors. We hoped that developing B2 APIs and CLIs would give Linux folks something that they could use if they needed to have offsite backups or archives and wanted to use our infrastructure cause we're pretty neat. Long-winded answer, but TL:DR - small market segment, development time/cost, possible abuse.
Well, I didn't know buzzfeed bloggers counted as reporters, I stand corrected.
Trump's Proposals Won't Help the White Working Class or the Urban Poor
This is awesome! Any chance you would release this?
I remember coming to sanatorini and wondering where the hell is that volcano some people have mentioned. Then, when waiting for something I looked at sanatorini map and I realised. Wow.
Your assertion was "if you can afford a $3k MVP you can afford a $3k ring." That the MVP shows a financial return speaks directly to affordability. The parent is not making a claim that financial return is the only thing relevant to decision making.
This is great. I've always been fascinated by future predictions.

Do to think we'll have universal translators in 20 years. It seems like the technology is already 90% there?
How i get free iPhones
You're wrong about this one but I guess that's your loss. It's a fantastic adaptation and takes what is already a great story and uses the full arsenal of film making to turn it into something truly moving.

I think the marketing/hype is just a studio decision - they got an amazing film with known stars for a cut price $47 million so it's worth a punt on marketing to make it a big release.
I've been using an IFTTT recipe for saving the weekly playlists. Works like a charm.

https://ifttt.com/applets/311873p
http://direnv.net/ is a language-agnostic shell environment switcher.

I built it years ago because I thought RVM was doing it wrong. It replaces all the ${lang}env switchers on my machine that I still use every day. The best thing is to see users adopting it without me doing much PR and contributing back with useful features.
Probably my largest is https://github.com/chad-autry/rototone Android app for ringtone nad notification tone play lists.

Other than that, I've gotten alot of use out of my dockerized minecraft project https://github.com/chad-autry/minecraft-server-container

And more recently, in line with what the OP is looking for https://github.com/chad-autry/markdown-code-extractor is a quick project to extract code from a markdown file(GH READ.md) and create files. I use it to create the yaml files which I otherwise develop/comment straight in the READ.md of https://github.com/chad-autry/wac-bp
> Hah. Good luck against the 101st airborne.

You assume a great deal with that statement. Namely that more of the "101st airborne" than not would be willing to open fire on their friends, family, and neighbors. And that other elements of the armed forces wouldn't face the exact same issue on a larger scale.
That's the one with all the time limits and the speed boat jumps? I was never fast enough to beat it.
CrashPlan built their system using Java and offers enterprise versions of their clients and servers. They have a very different technology stack and business model.
https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/
RClone [1] will back up to Backblaze and is a very versatile tool.

Why would you want a CLI per hoster, if there are CLIs that target most hosters? Service?

[1] http://rclone.org
Understand is in development by the same writer
The first API to send interactive emails: Rebelmail API
Just hit enter to get a shell of the rooty sort
Very similar to Litographs - https://www.litographs.com/

I expect they developed some algorithm to color/format lines correctly per some image in this case, so a little more flexible...
There's guides to serving osm based tiles (and some other services) here:

https://switch2osm.org/

I guess if that isn't what you are looking for you would have to be more specific.

There's also a growing number of apps that work offline (With maps, search and routing/directions).
Most games would just show a cutscene of you sliding down a hill and then give control back to you once you got to the bottom, but TR forces you to use the controller a few times and shows you an awesome death sequence if you don't. I found it really enjoyable.

But yes, for the most part, quick time events are annoying as hell. I feel like they were really bad in the early PS3/360 era, but have felt a little bit less forced in recent years. Or maybe I'm just used to them now.
I think it's simple, every character is a pixel, you just have to change the color of the characters to match the same pixel on the uploaded image.

It's a great idea btw.
Wow, that's pretty cool. I've thought about moving my parents to Linux; my mom only uses the internet, and while my dad needs his computer for work, the software he uses supports Linux. I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to support Windows for them for much longer. I use Linux full time, and Windows is slowly changing. I can still talk them through most problems over the phone, but little changes here and there have made walking them through an issue really time consuming, which is frustrating for all of us.

My chief concern with installing Linux was having to teach them how to communicate what is happening over the phone all over again. Outside of that, I'm pretty confident Linux is a good choice for my parents. My dad actually worked for Digital Electronics for years, and he's been interested in Linux for as long as I've been using it, but I think Linux would actually be better for my mom, because she literally doesn't care about her computer as long as it works. Her computer issues are generally the "the computer keeps telling me something and I want it to go away" type. Fixing those problems on the phone with Windows is a mess, but are basically trivial in Linux. My dad's issues are generally "I broke the internet," so this wouldn't be as helpful for him.

I'm really excited about this. I might honestly go buy an SSD to install Linux on my Mom's computer today. That way I could just drop it in her computer next time I'm at her house. My hope is that the boost in speed from Windows---> Linux, and the boost in speed from a 5400 rpm drive --> SSD would keep her happy long enough to get used to Linux. She's been complaining a lot about speed recently, and last time I was there I discovered she managed to her default user folder from the internal drive to an external USB backup drive. I have no idea how she did this, but it means she keeps running out of space because the backup process now backs up the backup drive recursively.
You are saying this free will stuff because you are conditioned to believe in free will. Someone who knew that there was only one future would find the idea of free will to be like some kind of fairy tale -- the lack of it doesn't require any more explanation than the lack of Santa Claus.

In our current non-fictional universe, where we don't know if there is free will, then if you want to believe in it, maybe the burden of proof is on you to explain how it would even be possible given what we know of the universe.

So I am not sure why you think a fiction author is failing at is job by not explaining the mechanism by which there is not free will.
It's not just the deaths. The Chernobyl exclusion zone is 1000 sq. mi., i.e. 1/6500th of the entire country of Russia (the largest on earth). That's pretty amazing when you think about it.
Having it reversible would be nice, too. Knowing the click is irreversible gives an uneasy feeling.
I thought about that, but some of our clients use 3rd party contractors / internal IT to manage their DNS as well so getting those entities to use it would be hard. Eventually that would lead to mismatched records.

The current way, I can actually monitor DNS changes to clients without them having to change anything they are doing.

I have thought about a syncing type of feature where you'd be able to schedule a one-time or recurring sync for a particular zone or group of zones.
Wow, what a hostile post. What would you think people would think of HN reading your stuff?
I had exactly the same experience with Xamarin.Droid, even though I'm mainly a C# developer, for android app development, i'll go with Java & intellij Idea.
WhatsApp Is Now Rolling Out Video Calling for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone
Is this the right math ? 1 microservice = 1 REST API endpoint = 1 container = 1 node process ?
Adding an Infinite Client Logo Carousel to Your Website
Thats usually the argument I used to explain why one doesn't need religion to feel a sense of awe: the fact you, or me exist at all is the result of millions of generations of our direct ancestors fighting for our survival with a mix of incredible luck and a lot of dedication.

That is formidable enough to ponder that that one doesn't need to disrespect all of these creature/persons thru the millions of years up to you/me by introducing a magic creator and wipe away all that effort.
I have high hopes for this movie, but I don't enjoy Ted Chiang's writing. It is too clever, the dialog is terrible, and there is an underlying smugness - as if the writer is laughing about his poor, dumb characters and their ignorance.
http://strlen.com/treesheets/
It's a cross between an outliner / spreadsheet / mind-mapper and general note taker.
I've spent significantly more hours using it than I've spent programming it, so that's a win in my book :)
It has to be stored, but it doesn't have to be stored on Earth.
Someone is pretty nervous from this site :)
Citing Cost, Billionaire-Backed Code.org Eliminates $10,000 Hour of Code Checks
Where do they state this? A link is welcome.
I made to site to teach people how to built the projects that I've built (was on HN two days ago) https://enlight.ml

I plan to add more projects to teach people to code in this type of way. I think the best way to learn is to actually build small apps and then altering them to make them better.
Built https://securesha.re/ a few years back, it is:

Secure (browser-encrypted) dumb file storage with self-destruct. By default, it self-destructs on first access. The server can't read your files and it will delete them anyway after a week (or less, if you like).

It's a good way to quickly send a file to someone else and to know if it's been accessed in the interim.

It was really just our own attempt to build something that can do very simple secure file sharing that anyone can use, as an alternative to so many broken practices (such as clearnet emailing sensitive docs).

It's turned into something pretty cool for a few reasons:

1. We get emails all the time from people who love how simple it is

2. It's a great testbed for new web technologies; I rebuilt it once using Polymer and intend to rebuild using Elm when I have the time

3. It's a great testbed for web crypto & webworkers.
Hire JavaScript Developers
One of the better examples I've seen, while still very simple. What has worked well to attract visitors/users?
You are right. Some samples from the Salon webpage:

“The racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office”: Republicans warn of Trump presidency

Donald Trump has killed American Exceptionalism: Why his election was the deathblow for our great national myth

White flight from reality: Inside the racist panic that fueled Donald Trump's victory

Has the American “experiment” run its course? The empire of chaos has overtaken America.

Please Google/Facebook add this to the list to remove as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12956143
This isn't my stuff. Though myself, and others share the same sentiment. Read the comments below the article.
If FB and other sites truly want to ban 'fake news' sites, the majority of mainstream news organizations will be banned.

There are so many stories, like this, that are based on fake information.

I feel like investigative journalism is dead.
I took Carl Jung's Association Method and turned it into a simple psychoanalytical tool using cards. Works like a charm: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/critical-stimulus

Downloadable, printable version is here: https://payhip.com/b/TFIi
> Nuclear power, which is the only one economically viable way to achieve serious CO2 emission cuts they advocate.

Without massive subsidies (both direct and through waste disposal etc.) nuclear is actually one of the most expensive power sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_pla...
FourQ: Go implementation
That depends on which perspective you view them from...
My memory might be hazy, but I thought it was the other way around. INS as the primary navigation with periodic corrections from GPS.

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
http://ericwood.org/excel2latex/

Back when I was in school I hacked this together as a diversion from lab reports and as a convenient tool for myself. You can drag xlsx files onto it and it converts them to LaTeX tables (all done client-side).

Even though it has some really glaring flaws (no numerical formatting support), it has a loyal following of grad students from around the world who find it useful and occasionally email me to say thanks. Feels great :)
If Trump could somehow channel his disdain for environmental groups away from coal and towards nuclear, he could actually end up doing a really great thing. The fact that environmentalists have resisted nuclear power for so long is one of the stupidest most self-defeating things in modern history.

If Trump took all his rhetoric and bullheadedness and focused it on making nuclear great again, that would make me supremely happy.
I made no claim about Apple being in decline. Just that Apple has been spending more time naval gazing than usual. This book is a prime example. Their September keynote, which spent more time talking about their past than showing how the new MacBook's are the future, is another.
If you had told me in 2010 that the most conservative and competent engineering culture on the planet could suffer a preventable nuclear disaster I'd never have believed you. If the Japanese can't get it right...
Yes, the paper JS Nice is based on calls out that they use the Closure Compiler as a backend:
http://www.srl.inf.ethz.ch/papers/jsnice15.pdf
Ask HN: Scraping Reddit in python
How do yo scrape reddit?
> But what matters for me is having an anonymous payment system with wide acceptance.

So failure (not anonymous, not wide acceptance) is "worked just fine"?
That page indicates what versions of those plugins are certified by the vendor to run on Sierra. That doesn't mean that older versions won't run, it just means they haven't been certified to do so.

I've been running software on Sierra that is only certified by the developer for Snow Leopard through Yosemite, and it still runs just fine for my needs. Apple puts a lot of effort into binary compatibility.
The Zone of Entrainment
Try Jira and/or whole Atlassian family [1].
Or Github now have Projects [2].

Interesting to see what others are using too.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/software
[2] https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-ann...
Please define "cool tech" or "cool idea"
The problem with a straight-up $15 minwage is that it goes against what is becoming a huge force in this country: inequality. Minwage is meant to somewhat try to address inequality. But in fact, the difference between rural and urban cost of living is huge. So minwage needs to be sensitive to this.

The issue really needs to be completely depoliticized, and the minimum wage should really be set to some kind of local/regional indicator, and indexed to inflation.

But if we did that... politicians wouldn't get to flip this card out every 10 years to play it.
I agree with all of this, but the question of true randomness has, of course, the greatest importance to it.
Grain of salt: this was the same organization that predicted a 71% chance of a Clinton victory the morning of the election.
I've only heard good things about rsync.net (though never had the chance to use it). Thanks.

Is there a blog posting or use case description for using it as a personal photos and videos backup solution? Something along the lines of best practices, approximate cost, any additional desktop tooling, etc.?
>> Avoid spoilers if you can.

That's another red flag for me. The great scifi remains watchable over and over. Knowing the plot, not being surprised, should not take much away from a properly good movie. When people tell me not to read spoilers they are suggesting to me that the film is considerably less watchable without the surprises.

True be told, pretty much every "giant ships" scifi follows the predictable path. We see the ships, we get scared. Some government types then want to nuke them while a band of heros (a couple government types + an emotionally-damaged scientist + the human interest character) tries to convince everyone to calm down and see the good in the aliens (Godzilla 2015). Or the opposite, where the scientist is the one screaming danger (Independence Day). The only surprise is whether or not the world actually ends ... but knowing that fact in advance doesn't take much from a good movie. We knew that the aliens would eventually die (it was a War of the Worlds remake) and we knew that Godzilla would win. They remain as watchable the second or tenth time you see them.
https://www.quantifiedcode.com

It's a hosted code analysis solution for Python. It tracks code quality issues using our own code analyzer.

We have developed an AST/flow-graph based code analyzer which allows users to write their own code pattern queries using YAML.

BTW I have been working on an OS version for the last four months which I will release soon, if you are interested in helping me please write: andreas@quantifiedcode.com
What's the story behind this blog? It just occurred to me that the domain is for the developers of Firewatch; are the authors of the articles employees of Campo Santo?
For Hahn, death is but a beltway 'round a life too slow. Though you'll probably haven't time to chat, I say he can be seen in passing - if one knows where to look: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/january-2015/how-to-...
This is the true thing to be angry about with the new wave of Apple laptops.
Lyft ditches the pink mustache
Animated raster images depicting a sequence of overlaid primitive vector shapes for a single input? Or just iterating the existing algorithm over a video input?