skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This post shows that you, too, are a member of "the public" which is ignorant "to what is going on at the uspo." It's the USPTO, by the way.

Thanks for ignoring the qualifier I used, how convenient for your own accusation.

> You can even find his phone number and email address.

Glad to hear this, but after a quick glance at the document I still cant find it. I'll try again.

> They are incentivized to reject applications multiple times

How? A source would be nice but the explanation will suffice.

> This shot in the dark is totally baseless, and incorrect

Could be incorrect, therefor the qualifier, again...

>OH WAIT. IT ALREADY IS

Where? Thanks for correctly informing another citizen. Your civility was much appreciated.

Also, I would like to reiterate my call for responsibility. Although you said the examiners and applicants all known, I still dont think they are held accountable enough for the bad patents that get issued.
It's not about the rights of the individuals OVER those of the state. It's about the fundamental belief of liberty which our Founders made a core tenet. Everyone is entitled to personal liberty and freedom so long as they don't infringe on the liberty of others.

So you can't compel a doctor to provide healthcare, whether you think it's a good thing or not.

Libertarians are for state's rights. You can be for both individual rights & liberty AND state's rights. That's perfectly inline with the Constitution.

And votes may go against individual liberty at the state level, but at least that's the proper domain for most decisions and it's local.
Agreed, I guess the way that works in general is just disappointing in that it doesn't produce anything meaningful or advance anything (to my mind). It's spinning wheels and burning energy for no appreciable reason, to make some people rich.
Doesn't github already make majority of this data public? With the exception of emails... Previously they used gravatar hashes which allowed email brute forcing (since removed). Then they also were not omitting emails from commit messages.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/github
I would love for someone to primitive Google Street View.

Then make an open world game out if it.
We just need to find the right header file and update the constant of C to reflect our new needs
I would argue that RedHat is in a better position to do most of the development of the Gnome desktop and Wayland vs Canonical being able to manage the transition to Mir and keep Unity going.
Rails database best practices
Boy, I gotta say I was really nervous when I saw "Have I been pwned" in my inbox. Took a while to convince myself that it's just my public-facing Github profile.
New Airbnb app is 90%+ React Native
This is the bullshit I really don't miss from the Windows world.

*nix: "Go for it, edit what you want, just be aware you can fuck up"

Windows: "what the fuck are you doing in the special area? get out!"
According to that article:
"China’s coal consumption growth was responsible for more than half of global CO2 emission growth in the past 10 years."

China gets over 70% of its electricity from coal. Yes, they are building more solar but it'll take over a decade for there to be significant change.

Anyway, the real problem is that even if everyone somehow meets the Paris limits, it's not enough.

https://www.beforetheflood.com/
Yes the added verification etc on top of the key/value lookup is the meat of it I guess. A complicated problem, I guess it'd be nice to somehow remove the money factor from a critical function of the net.
There is an article somewhere about how Speilberg commissioned consultants to imagine the near future. What happens you get fresh, imaginative movie imagery loke 2001, Star Wars, Minority Report. Then fifty copycat movies.
Floating-Point Determinism (2013)
Seriously? We're getting the reddit-level pun threads now?
This is like some bad teen movie where the bully is forced to live with the nerd.
Well, kinda, but based on the examples given, the data also includes assessments and assumptions about you presumably based on the aggregated information that is available.

They appear to be building recruiting profiles of github users based on their public GH profile and commit info.
> I can press the back button on my mouse a lot faster than I can two-finger-swipe to go back a page.

Big assumption that you're using a mouse (especially considering the ubiquitousness of laptops). Laptops provide a ready-made surface for fully portable use and I've found getting using a touchpad for professional and personal use[0] to be more than sufficient and that the availability of easy to use gestures is very nice.

If you haven't tried gestures on OS X with Apple's touch hardware, I'd highly recommend attempting to use them regularly. I got a fancy Razer Blade 2016 and using the touchpad is significantly worse than an Apple laptop, and OS X has much better native touch support (3rd party software might make Windows better).

I'd say touch interfaces are great compliments to keyboards for text editing workflows (more or less all I do professionally), you don't even need to move your hands off the keyboard to get a mouse (hooray thumbs!).

I would liken getting used to laptop keyboard/touchpad as getting used to a minimalist *nix install. It's difficult at first, but once you get used to it you have a great skillset that lets you do anything you want on almost any computer. Not that you should never nice high-level and user friendly programs, but being able to drop down a level of abstraction and still get the job done is great for understanding how systems work.

[0]: most of my video games suck without a mouse, but that's the only wall my personal use runs into
So there's a Dutch website where people can log their fuel consumption. This s real life, normal people, fuel consumption. I just checked some modern cars, although with a small sample size, and manual transmissions seem to be more fuel efficient. Caveat may be that in the Netherlands an automatic is deemed a luxury and is therefore more often found on cars with bigger engines.

Here's the site:
http://www.autoweek.nl/verbruiksmonitor
I tend to believe that if we stop subsidies for dirty energy sources, the market will take care of the rest.

So it comes down to policy.
You can't entirely defeat it, but you can eliminate, or disassociate, as many things as possible.
Backdoor Is Sucking Data from 700M Android Smartphones Without Permission
I live in a urban city in the US and when I tried to learn how to drive a manual I couldn't find a way. Most of my friends can't drive a manual or even have a car and none of them own a manual. When I contacted a few local driving schools for manual lessons, they replied they don't have any manuals on their fleet but they'll teach me if I somehow bring my own. I might just move on and just settle for a DCT on my next car since knowing how to drive at all will become a lost art in a few decades.
If this directory is special, why doesn't Windows treat it that way? Put something in the EA that means "This file can't be read/modified by normal programs" so people can't make the mistake in the first place.

Obviously making it so programs can modify these files successfully would be great, but that's a much bigger job.
I'm one of the affected users.

My initial reaction was that I had absolutely no idea that this site even existed. While this is publicly facing data, it might explain some situations that I experience, such as people sending me generic recruitment emails to my old email address (the one leaked here, that hasn't been on my GitHub page for months now) filled with the name of the GitHub repository with the most stars and telling me how they liked my code in that repository (even though the most popular one on my profile is not software-related at all).

Mini ask HN to those whose email address is public on GitHub: How frequently do you get these kinds of recruitment emails?
You can click on the uBlock icon and open the logger (little icon that looks like a window with lines) to see which requests are being blocked. I'm seeing xhr's to	https://collector-medium.lightstep.com/api/v0/reports being blocked every few seconds. Probably some medium analytics request.
Thanks for the answer.

So, again, coming from a place of having done a couple passes of the basics, but otherwise completely ignorant.

What is the advantage of having that kind of config info baked into a package vs having it in etcd?

Again, I really appreciate it.
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finid 3 hours ago | parent | on: Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuz...

People seem to be too focused on jobs that will be lost because of automated cars/vehicles, but are not looking at the jobs that will be created because of that.
Think back to when people were just becoming aware of computers and how they will change the workplace. The same arguments were made - high unemployment, etc.
Look where we are today. Imagine a world without computers!
I see the same for automated driving. It will lead to the creation of more jobs than it will kill.

Not sure how you figure that.
I'm seeing this criticism in a few places, but in context, it's a strong argument, and in fact a nice summary of the piece as a whole:

What if there’s a candidate who does something more like, say, go to a KKK meeting and say that black people are inferior and only whites are real Americans?

We might want to use words like “openly racist” or “openly white supremacist” to describe him. And at that point, nobody will listen, because we wasted “openly white supremacist” on the guy who tweets pictures of himself eating a taco on Cinco de Mayo while saying “I love Hispanics!”

In other words, if this guy is already a 10 on the racism scale, what do we do when somebody even worse turns up? Do a Spinal Tap and turn it up to 11?
The role of the elected is to carry out the will of the governed except in cases where it is the will of a tyrannical majority. I think that has been demonstrated to not work, unless your measure of success is counted by generations and not years.

I don't agree with you on the media-portrayal point, because I think your premise is way off. There is no unified conservative perspective in the way that there is with progressives. This last election has made it very clear that the old conservative guard, the ones most similar to progressives, who called for universal healthcare before Obama, are in a minority position.

I'm not likely to be the one you want to discuss this with though, as I'm an anarchist.
What a Post-Mortem of Pokemon GO Can Teach Us About AR Development
Review comments from a declined iOS NSF SBIR Phase I proposal
"Deep Work" and "Traction". More here: http://www.kirubakaran.com/books-read.html?utm_source=hnbook...
What's up with the W3C hate here around? As far as I can see all they're trying to do is to publish a snapshot of WHATWG's work, which WHATWG refuses to do.

There are those of us who need to develop against a stable feature set. Browser developers aren't the only ones interested in HTML, it's one of the most used vocabulary/API of all times. Is it unreasonable to expect some results after more than 10 years of work.

I think some WHATWG members make themselves a bad name by ridiculing W3C publicly; WHATWG do great work, why do they find it necessary to troll W3C?

I have a feeling it is it because they think they "own" HTML or something. In that case, they should be reminded of the fact that neither WHATWG nor W3C are "standards bodies" vs. IETF and ISO/IEC, say.
Here in the US, self-driving cars will cause some challenges on the legal front.

In China, lacking the rule of law, it'll just be a calamity.
That is what I meant with 'grounding.' I say that mathematics can be a useful tool, however contrast this with the situation in physics, we have comprehensive theories and we have the situation were we can be very certain that all future theories contain something that can be identified with atoms and even more, if one uses a mathematical theorem then we can be confident that there is something in nature that corresponds to the results. We don't have anything similar in all other intellectual endeavors, but people treat physical and non-physical models similar.
whatwg/html is where you go to know what is valid HTML.
Consul ACLs – an introduction
Total Information Awareness.
That's not true. I just registered a six letter domain a few months ago (minops.com).

There's still plenty of good ones left. I created a program to help me find them: https://github.com/jedberg/wordgen
See also atheist historian Tim O'Neill's blog posts:

"Agora" and Hypatia - Hollywood Strikes Again

http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2009/05/agora-and-hypatia...

Hypatia and "Agora" Redux

http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2010/05/hypatia-and-agora...
I recall a couple occasions:

- Didn't want to open a browser one day but wanted to download the latest version of FF. Thought I'd try FTP. Ultimately gave up on trying to find the right path and Googled it.

Another time (later), I vaguely recall being at a kiosk with IE disabled in various boring ways, and I tried to see if I could download FF (just to see if it was possible) after successfully managing to open the FTP site. I might be misremembering, but I think the only reason I was able to locate the dir properly was because I'd previously made a careful mental note where it was. (It downloaded, but executables were disabled. Those sysadmins did a good job.)
There are ways to do zero-knowledge proofs in Bitcoin too, for example: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/02/26/zero-knowledge-conting...

It is pending a Bitcoin softfork (segregated witness) (edit: actually I don't think it depends on this), and I don't think anyone has implemented something approximating z-addresses on this yet, but the opportunity is there.
I remember when I discovered Unix as a college freshman (HP-UX with CDE), I spent way too much time fiddling with the desktop settings. For a while I even ran a buggy Enlightenment because wow was it pretty.

I loved trying out new visual styles. I spent so much time on wallpapers.

It took me years before I realized that what I really wanted to optimize was app layout. Any screen space that wasn't used by an app was wasted space. Space I could use to have a few extra lines in a terminal, a few extra columns of code...

I used AwesomeWM for a few years because I loved its concept of "tagging" windows which let you mix-and-match which you were displaying at a given time (this is my "all code" setting, that's my "all terms", and this is my "some code some term..."). Now I'm on macOS and I dearly miss it.

Anyhow, I haven't looked at a desktop wallpaper in years, and I like my window decorations as minimalistic as possible.
Spacemacs works fine if you install it normally. Most dotfiles in your home directory will work as usual.

I'm not familiar with ebuild or PKGBUILD. You'd probably have to rewrite them as Nix expressions.
It's not that simple. In your example, the X-1 "people" apart from you have already mixed their own coins with other people before...and so on. Monero is like a constant tumbler getting better with usage.
This is pretty cool to have, as a thing, but I'm still not happy with Edge's PDF viewing experience, and tend to prefer Adobe Reader or even Microsoft's abandoned Reader app from Windows 8.
> Remember: There’s a reason we gave the %localappdata%\lxss\ folder ‘hidden’ & ‘system’ attributes

They already did that, but as usual "with great power comes great responsibility", so if you ignore the safeguards installed .. well .. bad things can happen.
It was illegal until they brought in retroactive legislation in the middle of the night making it legal for them to hack. What's the point in having laws?

Most politicians want these intrusive powers in spite of them being against the ECHR Act. Nobody to vote for or dare you vote at all?
Opus Codec: royalty-free, better quality and lower latency than Vorbis/AAC/MP3
Another thing to watch out for is how you have git configured to handle newlines. Usually the recommended config under Windows is to have it transparently change them to \r\n when you clone a project, and back to \n when you push.

This trips up some Linux tools when you use those files from the Linux subsystem. Best either turn that feature off or only use the Linux git for any projects you plan to touch from there, even if you're saving them under /mnt/... to share with Windows. And of course you'll have to beware of how your Windows editors are saving those files.

I wish the Windows world had just migrated to UTF-8 and \n 10 years ago. It would all be smooth sailing by now.
$11.99/lb at Harris Teeter for my locality. Thighs are $7.99.

http://grocery.harristeeter.com/pd/Smart-Chicken/Organic-Bon...
The Danger of Being Default Alive
He might do it if you don't threaten him. :)
It's not impractical at all. You clip it to your backpack. That's what I did in college, and if I wanted to ride a city bike in a big city, that's what I'd do there too. Every time I go into a walkable big city like NYC, I'm carrying my backpack with me since it's the most practical way to carry a bunch of stuff including my laptop. Clipping my bike helmet to it would be trivial.
Oh awesome news, it's wicked fast and will definitely be my default mobile browser once they solve the yahoo problem.
Some people blame Xerox Parc for locking the world into the office metaphor. Some widely icons like floppy disks and phonsets represent obselete objects.

The ancient Greeks used rooms of a house to organize information. Just think we could of ended up with that instead.
Fairly regularly. On the address leaked too.
From GeekedIn's announcement [0]:

It is a site that crawls open-source code hosting sites (e.g. github and bitbucket)
and creates profiles of open-source projects and open-source developers.
Those profiles include things like technologies used by a developer on open source
projects (e.g. Scala/Java, .NET, Clojure, Python, etc), libraries and frameworks
(e.g. Hibernate, Spring, JQuery, bootstraps, etc.), on many cases locations of
the developer, and even when a developer used a particular
technology (for Open Source projects)

[0] "I'm creating www.geekedin.net" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/im-creating-wwwgeekedinnet-er...
I'm used to driving a manual, which means I'm used to always knowing the exact amount of power my car will give me, because I know which gear I'm in. I had a loaner car for a while with an automatic box. After a while I put it into sports mode, because in that way i'd never be underpowered if I needed to get in front of somebody. I would usually turn it off on freeways, but the damage in efficiency would already be done.
well fortunately the Antarctic is gaining mass, so things happen. We are still only 12k years out an ice age and learning as we go. Natural variability is quite boring so it doesn't make headlines as much as it should.

the real reality is that the Paris agreement is a horrid piece of do nothing legislation that lets the major developing powers do what they want all the while getting the nod of acceptance from the UN because of the hundred billion dollar payout. Basically we have what is a one time voluntary agreement to pay out to certain groups so that developing countries can continue to pollute provided they plan to eventually slow it
My Korean friend had the same attitude (and claimed it was common in Korea). After several "correctly" cooked chicken breasts he changed his attitude.

Breast meat takes far less heat/time to cook than the rest of the chicken (comparatively) making it very easy to over cook. Rubbery chicken breast is much less appetizing than chicken thighs (etc).

Also beast meat in stew/soup is difficult (impossible?) to do right (so so easy to end up rubbery). But thighs in a stew are perfectly fine (can't really overcook).
Windows Phone doesn't use the CLR at all.

.NET is AOT compiled to native code using the same backend (C2) as Visual C++.
This is clearly broken. Don't be too smart for your own good and use long abandoned features like NTFS "Extended attributes". Save the stuff you need in a metadata file and be done with it.
I recently purchased a Fiesta ST, which (along with the Focus ST) bucks this trend. The Fiesta is a cheap car, but the highest trim package, ST, is exclusively available as a manual and adds 70 HP. The Focus ST is the same, with an even bigger HP bump.

Hopefully somebody else decides to compete with Ford for the budget enthusiast market, and we get a bunch of fun manuals :)
https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/11/yahoo-and-mozilla-for...

"strategic partnership"
It isn't legitimate to do so without at least offering some idea of how the object of criticism could be improved though. If you criticize something, that means you know it could be better in some way, and you should at least point out those ways.
It's interesting that your experience is so different from mine. I've preferred Linux environments since about 1998. Sometimes I boot to Windows, but Windows feels very limiting. With Linux and KDE, I can use custom keyboard shortcuts with ease, I can put my whole OS on a thumb drive, I can run the same instance on other computers, I can copy an instance as many times as I like, and I can try different variations of drivers and settings with no worries that I'll break anything so badly that I can't fix it. I can downgrade anything. I can upgrade programs and drivers even while they're running. I can upgrade at my own pace. I can run the same software on either a desktop or a server. For the few programs I use that don't run well in Linux, I have Wine, virtual machines, and dual booting.

I like Windows and Mac OS, but I feel like they have a long way to go before they're useful for my day to day work.
You know, every time I hear somebody complain about "political correctness" they follow it up by saying something really ugly and inaccurate. Then they complain, "gee, isn't it too bad that people don't let us use these dated terms anymore?". The reason we don't use the term "mulatto" is that there are a whole bunch of wrong assumptions rolled into that word. That there is any such thing as mixed vs pure race, for instance. The distinction is wrong. I mean, yeah it takes away your ability to describe the world a certain way, but it's because that way of describing the world is historically linked with murder, genocide, and slavery!
cf. Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious

https://aeon.co/ideas/opposition-to-galileo-was-scientific-n...
Indeed, psychology and sociology are much more difficult fields of study than hard sciences. Physical laws, however tricky they are, don't seem to change at all, and tend to be the same everywhere you look. Psychology is about studying a behaviour of an advanced computing system that's about as smart as the researchers themselves. Sociology is about studying how those advanced computing systems interact with each other at scale. It's insanely difficult, and that's why it's so hard to even come up with an experimental setup that makes some sort of sense. Not to mention ethical issues (many experiments would be so much simpler if you could disregard the well-being of the test subjects).

So yeah, personally, I have utmost respect for the complexities involved in sociology - while at the same time I absolutely hate all the bullshit that's being done because doing actual research feels too hard.
Actually, unless I'm mistaken, the whole z-x-c-v thing was a thing on Macs way before it came to Windows.
What I do is run a tiling window manager inside a desktop environment. XMonad inside Gnome is what I'm using right now. For 95% of what I do every day I'm just using the keyboard but when I do something unusual there's still the friendlyish GUI to take care of it.

On Ubuntu it's just a matter of

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gekkio/xmonad
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-xmonad
Even for the Romanian and Greek Orthodox churches, the Easter rarely coincides with the Catholic Easter. You are right about the Christmas though, it is on 25 for both churches.