skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks cranky. Some Christian motifs may have been ripoffs from other religions, but it's the first time I'm hearing this about Jesus and crucifixion.

There are non-Christian sources mentioning the crucifixion of Jesus within few decades afterwards.

If they think that crucifixion was a common motif in religions of the time they would better provide some examples. Their /cr.htm just repeatedly states it as fact.

No, this "Orpheus crucifixion" stone doesn't count because it was probably created by Roman Christians who were known to combine Jesus with Orpheus in their art due to the obvious parallels. And the original Greek myth of Orpheus says nothing about crucifixion.
The startup using cardboard to shape the future of cycling and recycling
This was surprisingly moving! notch is truly talented.
It's both. It's a visual metaphor for the edge of something, such as the fringe of a curtain or scarf.

Something should be both extreme ideologically, and a relatively small minority to be "fringe".
As a Brit, before I was introduced into the world of online gambling and american-style slot machines, the only real way to actually make any money off of a UK slot machine (more commonly known over here as a fruit machine, as 99% of games use the classic array of fruits as pay symbols) was via the feature/bonus system that most of the games employ - actually landing a winning combination on the reels from pressing spin is a rarity.

No real point here, just an interesting difference between the fundamental payout systems two extremely similar yet almost overwhelmingly different types of machines use.

Also of note is that fruit machines use a 'full hopper' system of payouts, in which the machine will only give out small wins until the 'hopper' (which is really just a number set by the establishment's owner) is full, at which point the relatively big payouts start happening - again, compared to the usual system of American slot machines of "this machine will pay out 9X.X% of what's put into it". This system means that you can infact 'outplay' a fruit machine - by not playing it until you think the hopper is full (or close to it).

I've had many a cheap night out by watching punters on fruities and picking the right moment - and that look of pure defeat on the bloke's face who just abandoned the machine is priceless too (although I usually buy 'em a drink if they witness it, so as not to add insult to injury)
Show HN: (locateonspot) app to find car, family and friends easily
Please download it from Google play
Talk at Princeton High About Privacy Takes a Controversial Turn
No, what you are looking at is a giant cardboard cutout held up by thousands of Mylar helium balloons and pulled by a herd of cats connected with fishing line.

It also explains the "super moon" effect; the cutout actually is closer, and therefore larger, when the helium supplies start to run low every few months or years.

#learneditontheweb

/s
Yeah, but why not wait till the day where accessories are actually sold with a USB-C to kill off the alternatives? Why not start out with just a few USB-C ports in 2016, and then when the market is matured enough, you kill off the unused ports?

The only way this move makes sense is in the scheme of apples 'proprietary lock in' strategy where they try to force the user to stay in the apple eco system with bullshit like this.
I find this to be neat demonstration of new AI techniques, and a glimpse of what could be done to enhance our favorite game worlds. How about generating additional world areas based on existing ones? Or making your own DLC with new weapons, characters, quests? Or training on one game and generating content for another, to create a cross-over between mario and megaman?
This is another place for front-end content spam but I like it.
Utonomous cars–“new oil” or “big brother”?
Same happened to me on Firefox first (and worked on Chrome), but then when I tried again in Firefox, it worked there too. Also told me "Firefox! hmmm ... Privacy, alternative etc.." :)
Kaspersky certainly care about security, it's their business. I'm talking about people who build routers or web cameras. I doubt that Kaspersky built OS for internal use, they want to license it to other manufacturers. But I'm not sure that other manufacturers will want to pay for this extra security (if they would want, they already have better options).
It depends.

One of the things that makes Earth special is the formation of carbonate rocks by life taking CO2 out of the atmosphere and falling to the bottom of the oceans; these rocks are then subducted by tectonics and the CO2 spewed out by volcanoes.

As the Earth's core cools, volcanism will diminish, and so the recycling of CO2.

But perhaps Nuclear fusion can fix everything...
However I am not a geologist.
The whole idea of "progressive" humanity is bizarre and absurd. Look at the world. I mean, what do you see? The world is a polluted, concreted over mess. Suicide rates are sky high and people work in shitty meaningless jobs they hate. We are all being stacked on top of each other in apartments.

Where exactly do "progressives" think we are progressing? Why don't other animals need to progress? What is having access to wikipedia even going to do? "Education" is basically just another term for brainwashing and the internet is largely about administering that brainwashing.

Silicon Valley has literally no idea what it is doing. The leaders don't realise they are not as smart as they think they are and are not actually right in the direction they are attempting to steer the world.

If I look at all of the areas where the internet has improved my knowledge and helped me in some way, it has only been to solve problems caused by "progress" in the first place.

For example, sitting down all day as part of my job led to a terrible posture. I used the internet to figure out how the muscles work and what needed to be changed to fix the problem.
Acute stress is good (adrenaline -> fight or flight), chronic stress is bad.

So, worrying about money or being fired or <insert real life problem> all day every day will wear you down and limit your ability to reason. There's not much brainpower left over. This is why it's, for example, difficult to be super productive at work when you're going through a divorce or dealing with a breakup. And why it's never a good idea to launch a new product while moving house.

But, going bungee jumping or downhill mountain biking or racing cars or just driving too fast on the freeway. That's relaxing. Gives you focus, gets you away from the chronic stressors and into the immediate. Wonderful.
> Acute stress is good (adrenaline -> fight or flight)

citation needed
It's all in your head, for better or worse.

Extreme sports or intense physical exertion have been key, for me, in dealing with daily stress.

And no, I'm not some superstar adrenaline pumped athlete, just an amateur that loves skydiving/paragliding/fast motorcycles/hiking/etc over the weekend.

I didn't realize how much these activities help me, until I had to take a break from them for whatever reason (e.g.: winter where it's cold enough that you can't do most sports, but with not enough snow to go skiing or something).

I could almost measure the effects: the longer the break, the lower the threshold for daily stress -- from feeling slightly irritated to almost angry over the simplest triggers, if enough time had passed.

Then I'd do one skydive and it would make all the difference in the world, whatever daily stressful thing would happen "in the real world" it just felt like it didn't register as dangerous/stressful in the brain.

My feeling is that you can raise your tolerance threshold for what counts as stress, you just have to find out what works for you.

I'm guessing it also has something to do with these activities being very focused, so you're kinda disconnected from what's happening in the world and just truly "in the moment".

Maybe that pause from stress is what does it?

Has anyone else had similar experiences?
I'm old school as well, last time I had a "simple" project that didn't allow setting up a SQL RDMS I used flat files, and for system administration by users their presence in various directories and Windows' file manager back when it was simple, fast and good.

Normally, though, I like independent enforcement of data integrity, and PostgreSQL is free, easy to set up and maintain.
You say all this in a dismissive tone, but there is a powerful media voice in America that talks about fish people and interdimensional elves, and a president elect that claimed for years that the previous president was a sleeper agent who had his entire life story up to and beyond college invented as a cover story. Who on television after a mass shooting crassly implied that the President was implicated. I could go on but I'll stop there.

That seems worth a news article or two.

Also regarding your thought that it's just sour grapes after losing, here's a fascinating This American Life episode from during the election on roughly the same topic, but talking about the USA:

https://m.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/599/se...

"Ira's quest continues. He calls his Uncle Lenny, who gets his news from Fox and the Wall Street Journal, and lives with an entirely different set of facts, and Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration expert at the CATO Institute, who explains that the central issue in Donald Trump’s candidacy is based on something that isn’t true."
"We call it climate science."
Normal people call it climatology. Rhymes with biology.
Volkswagen plans to cut 30,000 jobs, until 2025 and mainly in Germany.
Not just that you can't predict where the hurricanes will go, you can't really have a pop-up generator to extract power from a hurricane can you.

It is a bit extracting power from lightning strikes, it isn't going to be a good return on investment.
I think the point that Apple is making is that they don't have the data in the first place (because of their device-side encryption).
Jobdit
It's a little disappointing, usually software that's part of the GNU project is really good about this. This website looks more "designed" rather than someone typing something up in vim (or Emacs) just to give people a landing page/description/links.
Reduce the cost for who? Them or everyone?

It seems like everything gets more expensive as of lately, not cheaper. So I wouldn't be surprised if they just pocketed the difference.

I seen on the news a few days ago that some hospitals are in network but the doctors there are out of network. Makes no sense. Seems like the medical industry is just one big money making the scheme. Doesn't even tell people the prices up front.
omg that is fun and freaky at the same time.
>And this is intended to generate a significant amount of revenue

You gotta appreciate the honesty. It is so unusual that we still look at this trying to see the angles.
fwiw, https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/4577... lists a workaround. Not usable for mere mortals unfortunately :(
Oh that's going to make work life really wonderful for everybody.

http://assets.amuniversal.com/66b0ae4066380134c959005056a954...
Not a phone, but Amazon offer an included 'no worries' warranty on their Kindle Fire Kids edition tablet - in the UK at least.

I have two reasonably destructive young children, so it's a little extra piece of mind.
>Music help get distressed very easy.

You mean de-stressed, not distressed: the captain of the Titanic sent out a distress call because his ship was sinking, while the string quartet played music in hopes of de-stressing the ill-fated passengers.
This was not real racism. It was fake racism to make a point. It is in itself racist because it delegitimizes actual racism with bogus false equivalency. It's like when racists say "all lives matter."
I don't think it would work all that well with content that changes so often.
How is there lock-in? Every new PC sold has USB-C as well.
Interesting. Would you care to elaborate?
"you can't throw money at adventure market and expect to gain traction".

Eh, yes you can. Not to say they'll make it this time, AirBnB has been trying this (or something like it) for years, they might well fail. But not because money can't gain traction :)
Others are 8$, they recently put them on sale to counter the conspiracy theory that they care about the money from adaptors.
Popularity is not exactly what attracts most hackers nowadays; it's profit.

Yes, in the common case, the more popular the system, the more profit can be made by hacking it. But if a system is running on a few, but very strategic places, it will be an interesting target and thus attract a lot of effort.
> I get the big brother corp hate, but let's be reasonable and factual with it if we must go this way

I fail to see how calling FB out on cherrypicking criteria for counting conversion on videos is invalid because those criteria were made know ealier. This is IMHO alike of arguments over e-bay auctions doing "image scam" not being scam because you knew what was sold, after all it was there in auction's description. It's still dishonesty.
http://metricsgraphicsjs.org/
I'm at work and a Dutch guy is speaking on the phone behind me, and then I hear this guy talk with a Dutch accent. It felt creepy as hell for a moment.
What about the alcoholic who drinks himself half to death and ends up on life support with no insurance? The kind that literally cost hundreds of thousands in medical expenses to keep alive for another day.
The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
Diablo II is the greatest.

Not sure why you need function keys to play it though.
> If you buy a MBP now, it will probably be good for another 4 years and you can't justify buying a new one with better CPU and RAM specs which might come out in 1 or 2 years.

Great to see that their longevity now counts against them.
I like the idea and wanted to sign up but there are a couple of issues with the HTTPS setup.

- The site doesn't redirect to HTTPS by default
- Even when manually navigating via HTTPS insecure content is still loaded (including on the signup page)

Once those are fixed I'll have another look. Good luck with the site. :-)
Linux is very insecure. Maybe you have not been following the news lately.
OTC analgesics are a common suicide (attempt) method. It's just suicide prevention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmd9HUkOQHk
Overall I do not think that the result is surprising. The large genetic deviations result in deviant behaviour and in deviant face. On the other hand it is next to useless for law enforcement since if it is applied to general population the majority of criminal-like faces belongs to law-abiding people.

The fact that we do not like the result does not make it false. For validation, see page 4, where they checked that a random labeling of images does not produce such a good distinguisher.
My immediate reactions to this was (A) that's a lot of money and (B) why are people still using TCL for embedded-scripting now that we have Lua?
After the whole year of Clinton propaganda the Clinton News Network is a joke to me, it's basically NK tier "news" (propaganda).
Besides that what You said is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
Please give me some scientific articles (there should be a plethora of them considering how hot this topic is) with actuall statistics and measurments that would support this claim.
In my opinion this is a victim complex (similar to the Jews and Holocaust) where people want to milk historical events for their own personal gains
Yeah, I mean "they made up nearly one-fifth of the political discourse on the microblogging service" sounds impressive, but how many people actually read those tweets? (Though I did, hilariously, see parts of the media reporting on a bot that auto-replies to all of Trump's tweets as though it was a real person.)

Most of the Twitter fakery seems to be from people virally retweeting false claims. That doesn't require bots. In fact, the last dubious viral claim I investigated (about the election being rigged in favour of Trump) traced back to the verified Twitter account of a well-known journalist, Greg Palast. That didn't seem to make it any more true.
From Twitter's point of view one post was racist (or abusive, whatever) and one was not. I think here people are more interested if Twitter did the right thing not if the guy doing the experiment did the right thing. But of course you can judge them both.
Where front-end developers... front?
New Metallica album “HARDWIRED…TO SELF-DESTRUCT” is out
There was something weird going on when I set up Signal for my partner today. She had downloaded and installed Signal through the play store and we tried to scan and exchange safety numbers. My phone gave me the message that her version was outdated. The other way around gave her the same message.

When I updated my version it all worked out.
"Conventional wisdom holds that colleagues shouldn’t get too close, but the changing nature of the workplace is throwing traditional human resources manuals out the window."

I hate it when people just make up stuff. "They say that cucumbers were once used as weapons".
I think he phrased it that way because most people are much more concerned with their own well-being than with others'. As such, you'd think they'd at least take care because of that, but they clearly aren't.
The Evolution of Icon Design
Goodbye WordPress. Hello Duda
I have done zero research in depth on this, but one of the first (easy) things I would look at is the whois on the domains that are producing news. If they're hidden behind a proxy identity, probably unreliable. Also what about providing an inexpensive way to "verify" those whois credentials? Pay $5 and we'll send you a letter in the mail and you confirm you're the owner of the domain in question.
It would be great if someone built some non-qualcomm phones.
How did the web developer hurt Comic Sans feelings? a. Once he saw the font he quickly changed it to Open Sans and exclaimed “In your @font-face!”
What about Firebrick? the company that manufactures it says that it an in-house TCP/IP stack (I don't know if they run their own OS). http://www.firebrick.co.uk/
Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build
I guess that's what makes it a Hex machine.
... save 3.7 bn and invest 3.5 bn in e-mobility, car connectivity and autonomous driving. Conclusion: Tesla will see the brutal force of competition over the next years. Finally, the Goliaths started to move.
I didn't know Austrians have Dutch accents.
thats gold rfrank, gold
Thanks for the head's up. Fixed now!
Useful cheat sheet. I've bookmarked for later study and research. Thanks.
Oh god... Postmodernism at its best. Also, why is the title of the HN entry dashed?
You don't establish a communication channel with GPS. You merely listen to the broadcast.

Like a radio tower can service an entire town, but you need many many cellular access points.
It looks like all the audio files are stored as numbered mp3's on AWS, so those interested can grab all of them pretty simply.

My personal favorite is the, "Oh, for fucks sake": https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/clickclickclick.click/Voi...

There's a song as well: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/clickclickclick.click/Voi...
Go 1.8 (in development) will have support for logging TLS secrets in the format required for Wireshark https://tip.golang.org/pkg/crypto/tls/#example_Config_keyLog.... It needs to be enabled on the tls.Config though so needs a special build.

Full disclosure: it's my contribution.
Harvest – Track the performance of online shops in India
Well, GPS is more like radio, you only listen to the broadcast, you don't talk back.

But this is more like cellular access points. You have a private channel.
Could you explain in detail why you think fact checking this particular false claim from Trump is a bad thing that erodes trust in the "mainstream" media?

> Trump, Sept. 5: You see what’s going on with her emails. It’s a disgrace. It’s a disgusting situation where she pretends like she doesn’t know. I mean, she had her emails — 33,000 emails — acid washed. The most sophisticated person never heard about acid washing. Acid washing is a very expensive process and that’s to really get rid of them.

> Trump, Sept. 6, North Carolina: But why do you acid wash, or bleach, the emails? Nobody even heard of it before. Very expensive. Just ask yourself.

> Trump, Sept. 6, Virginia: How about the acid wash of the e-mails that didn’t mean anything? How about the 33,000 missing e-mails that were acid washed — acid washed. And Rudy was telling me, nobody does it because it’s such an expensive process. OK, 33,000.

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-facts...

edit: I'm now reading all the replies to that tweet and further boggling at the people I share my world with. One claims everyone knew what he meant, while another seems to think the correction is that she used "bleach" (which has a high pH) rather than "acid". Another seems to believe NBC are autistic jews to even mention this.
'DCM' = DoubleClick Campaign Manager tags

'VT', in this context, probably meant 'viewability tracking' or 'viewability targeting'.
Initially, it made sense, but nowadays I see loads of people that aren't really all that notable with verified status, namely people that work for the press in some way, or have had something notable happen to them. I know two people with verified status on Twitter. One is a writer for a trashy celebrity mag, and one is basically a Twitter loudmouth that was in the news recently. In my opinion, these people don't really need verification, as they're using Twitter as a medium to have conversations with everyone, whereas some notable people might want to manage who they speak to.

You could always have multiple paid levels. $10 a year if you're a business and you want to use Twitter as a customer service portal. $100 a year for the badge if you have over 10,000 followers. $1,000 a year if you want to filter who can tweet you.
Originally it sounded like you had VSCode installed on Windows but you're able to get all of the goodies (context sensitive code complete based on files in Linux) of it running on Linux -- without VcXsrv running on Windows.

I guess I just don't get how VSCode that's running on Windows can "see" and use the Linux filesystem. Is this something MS did that only works for VSCode (ie. it wouldn't be available with Sublime/Atom)?

Also it looks like VSCode doesn't work through VcXsrv according to this issue:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/13138
That may be the case but when I rock up to clients offices they have VGA or HDMI for me to plug into.

The the removal of useful fn keys is the future why do we still have CAPS LOCK key?

Apple could have eased the transition, say include a Thunderbolt 2 port so we didn't need to replace all adapters immediately.

But no that's not Apple's way 'cos they know best…
Heroku autoscaling in beta
Suspicious Aviation Tragedies: 1970 Swissair Flight 330
Thank you for correcting me. Wont blame the autocorrect :)
I am Indian too, but Pandits were like 5%?

A bigger issue is the radicalization of the 95%.
You don't think that there is even the slightest chance that the decision to use FB3 / USB-C is based on the fact that consumers would have to replace their entire collection of USB accesories?
So I bought a surveillance camera
Gernot Heiser, the leader behind seL4, thinks so: https://microkerneldude.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/verified-so...

They built infrastructure to build verified OS stuff faster/cheaper. For example, they reimplemented ext2fs for Linux.
control + left square bracket
I'm having a severe case of js fatigue.
US tech groups scramble with post-election soul-searching
A port that is unlikely to be common for the expected lifetime of this machine. I very much approve of adding USB-C ports, but I think the removal of HDMI happened too quickly. If, in three years time, most TVs and monitors have USB-C ports that's one thing. I suspect that what we'll actually see is a large number of dongles for years to come.