skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll make the observation that people have increasingly been conflating nationalism and racism. If Trump wanted to single out Hispanics or Latinos, he had the vocabulary to do so--identifying a country of origin and its people is not sufficient for racism.

Folks've gotten sloppy, and it's costing them in these sorts of arguments, you included tptacek.
On a more egalitarian note, the VC also wants the loser companies to die 1. so that their founders can be freed up to found other, non-loser startups, that they can then invest in (a pivot is just as good as such a default); and 2. so that their talent can be freed up, and then fed to other startups in their portfolio, to give them better chances of wildly succeeding.

In a VC's eyes, a "zombie" isn't just a time-sink; it's a prison holding back good founders and employees from doing other things.
Clojure and Elastic Beanstalk.

You take an arbitrary Ring-compatbile HTTP server, write a handler, and glue together whatever you need to.
And you most likely don't need a routing library, you can just use an array-map for that. When it is time to deploy, you create a jar that contains your whole project and upload it to AWS.

Rollback is easy, too, as you don't overwrite your previous version. Funny enough, it means you can treat versions as immutable values of your application over time. I use yyyymmdd for versioning in most projects, that works great with this approach.

There are many discussions on virtues of Clojure's dynamic development environment, so I'll skip that.
Learning how to negotiate.
As a bootstrapper with no interest in VC, I can say this rings true. I was never more productive than when I was scrambling to ensure financial sustainability.

Once things became comfortable, I slowed down. Partly, this was good: recovering social life, dating, etc. You can't keep up a breakneck pace forever.

But, I needing more money was a clear, objective metric that kept me focussed. Once you're default alive you need new metrics.
Automated Inference on Criminality Using Face Images
Tesla vehicles already come with free data! Built-in international roaming 4G SIM. Free data for first 4 years.
I believe it's just a matter of proper voice interface and commands. Most probably it would require elements of AI for context awareness.
What I learned last week from Web Summit and the U.S. election
Can someone think of a better way to do DNS? I remember when the internet was just a hosts file you had a copy of on your computer, so it is not outside the realm of possibilities to come up with something different. Something better.
Freeman Dyson would probably be pleased by this work.
i m only half joking, because the words "Paper" is capitalized in the parent's comment.
How different we may seem to others. When they talk about earth they are talking as if we talk about other strange lands.

"Did you know..." applies to everyone, no matter how far they are.
> none of these are universally true of course

Er... yes, I basically deeply disagree with all of your points :-)
I hope your name is Al and not Eric.
Spring-Boot.
Craigslist, Wikipedia, and the Abundance Economy
The vast majority of exploits of that nature take less than 60 seconds. It is nothing at all interesting or special or rare that it took < 60 seconds. Just clickbait, like every year when pwn2own rolls around.
Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
I don't see this as a problem. At some point voice recognition will be able to distinguish one individual from another by voice. Also with directed/implanted microphones you might be able to just whisper instead of talking.
> There's this entire train of reasoning that seems to be that a rich interface is one that places as many demands as possible on the human body

I disagree completely. The line of reasoning is "what actions can we perform that have the highest bandwidth, and lowest cognitive load?" And various forms of manual manipulation, like gripping, are an excellent avenue of exploration when answering that question.
Well, um, I'm not running a preview build, but I have it. It's been there since the Anniversary update
I'm always really impressed with the depth that Ars Technica goes into, considering that it's a pretty mainstream (well, sorta) site.
Except that IQ is only approximately normal at small deviations from the mean. Otherwise it's quite skewed

I mean no one has IQ of -5.
One might say that Apple didn't so much go from failure to success, as that Apple did fail—rotted from the head—and that, upon its failure, NeXT acquired the "Apple" marque (along with all the employees, factories, and purchase agreements) and rebranded itself using that marque.
This is why Microsoft has at least one significant long-term strategic advantage over Google - they understand how to deliver some form of end-user customer service, whereas Google rates an absolute zero in that department.
Sydney Australia.

But yeah. Coasts usually have interesting motorcycle roads, as do mountains.

And motorcycles _are_ awesome :-)
Wasn't Oink before What? I still have an oink hoodie...
The way I read the story, this law which was passed is
Modifying surveillance laws, rather than completely
Oppressing people with something new.

What can the average British subject do? I know they
Do not have the funds nor the legal and political
Acumen to do anything about it.
> RethinkDB is something we were looking at for a large project

From the comments in HN it feels like this was always the case for RethinkDB; folks looking at it, admire it, thinking about using it in their next project but, for one reason or the another, never ending up using it. Which is really a pity.

I don't know about the others, but I am really curious to know why you ended up not picking RethinkDB for your project.
For 2 years?

The authoritative nameservers still return the original IP, I can still access the site from anywhere in the world except the US.
Party like it's 1999.
I think you're reading a bit too much in it.

Say you hate Italians with a passion and I send you a request.

You can surely tell me no, politely declining with any excuse you like.

What you can't do is reply me in an offensive way, asking me for more money or anything else which strictly related to your hate.

Or at least, you can but if you do that they can now ban you from the service.

I was pretty surprised when I first read that, but evidently many more people than we think are being explicit about their igno...ehm, hate.
This is silly, you can absolutely use the product in a meaningful way without exposing data. Just don't use iCloud or iMessage (just use SMS) problem solved; no personal anything will go to their servers.
Worksnaps Feature: Reporting
So funny. The current right wing enthusiasts don't even mention the cattle futures thing, which is the only outright crooked thing you can really hang off Hillary Clinton. It's all Benghazi all the time these days but to me the Clintons have so much of the small-time corruption in their history.
The worst part of both for me was labeling everyone without a college degree as uneducated.
It wouldn't be a cryptocurrency post without someone invoking the cult of personality.
LinkedIn didn't just "get blocked" out of the blue. They got blocked after many warnings and plenty of time during which they refused to take basic steps to comply with the laws of a sovereign nation. Just set up some servers in a Russian datacenter and be done with it! But instead they blew it off, or created the impression of blowing it off, by going running to the Russian bureaucrats on the last day -- as if the whole thing were a big surprise!

If you wanted to insult them, show them you didn't take them seriously and didn't make a plan to comply with their laws, I can't think of a better way to do it than going to them on the last day to ask for more time. If I were those bureaucrats I would take especial relish in cutting them off. (And that's aside from the fact that it's a worthless site in the first place.)

Sometimes when you get Tased it's because of crooked cops, but most of the time it's because you're being an ass, disregarding the laws of the people, despite many warnings, and not taking simple steps to comply.
Maybe 5-6 a month? Sometimes a bit more.
(Excluding one company who would spam me all the time but stopped.)

But my resume is public, my email is my screenname@gmail so it's not like anyone has a hard time guessing who I am.

I also recently graduated from Berkeley - so I have no doubt that with a simple search things could rank me as being possibly looking for a job. Then again, there's no way in hell I'm a "Senior Blah Blah", so I would guess a decent amount of the emails I get have been from scraping. (I always gave real recruiters a better email address.)
More numbers to crunch:

- Satellite with LEO orbit covers 1-2 percent of earth surface with 10 degree elevation.

- Land occupies less than 30% of earth's surface area. Urban areas occupy less than 3 percent of the Earth's land surface. That's where the customers are.

You have to divide at least by 100.
They are not asking you to be unbiased. They are asking you not to treat others with bias. Thoughts vs. actions.
I mean the quality of the translation is good...but not that good for deep understanding. It is good enough for informational messages, like news stuff, but for things like reading a paper/textbook, where sometimes you need to spend hours to read certain section repeatedly in order to fully understand the meaning behind, this thing is far from being good enough to be useful.
That's a lot of satellites, I wonder if they'll have to outsource to other companies like RocketLab who are going to do multiple launches per week from next year.
As SapphireSun said, it's because .su is based on "abstract ideas that are less liable to change"!
I take your point, but I think it's worth reflecting that the largest communities in the world where Christianity† needs to be "rehabilitated" are all Internet message boards. If you're working from the premise that Christianity is somehow working its way out from some kind of siege... well, not so much.

Another thing worth remembering is the historical context we're talking about. The list of books banned by Catholicism had a far more important meaning when the Catholic church was a state (or an instrument of the state). It hasn't been that for a very long time.

† (or, if you like, mainstream organized religions)
Yep. Along similar lines of thought, there's the issue that the equations and laws governing classical mechanics fall apart in such settings.

Even so, assuming that we can apply classical thought to the problem: the simplest roadblock to rockets escaping from a black hole is that their change in mass per time unit multiplied by their velocity must at least partially exceed the gravitational pull.

Either you utilize ungodly amounts of fuel per second or you already have a crazy-high velocity or some combination of both. The math just makes it infeasible. There's limits on mass you can have and eject, and limits on attainable speed.
This is classic governance in general, not just red state governance.
UK Parliament Rubberstamps Mass Surveillance Law
It's interesting to me that we hold AirBnB to one standard and Tinder / OKCupid to a completely different one, even though they're both essentially apps for finding someone whose house you can sleep in.
PCIe devices can identify themselves to the host with whatever vendor and device IDs they want.

Since PCIe is a point to point link rather than a shared bus, it is not really possible for a malicious peripheral to pretend to be connected through a different port. PCIe switches may weaken this security somewhat.
Police are using software to predict crime. Is it biased against minorities?
Now might be a good time to familiarize everyone with Kessler Syndrome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Sniffing encrypted traffic can also be done with Fiddler (admin account required) and NetRipper (no admin requirement): https://tinyapps.org/blog/windows/201508150700_sniffing_encr...

On a related note, to extract webmail passwords and more from memory, check out mimikittenz: https://github.com/putterpanda/mimikittenz . Basic usage: https://tinyapps.org/blog/windows/201607080700_extract_passw...
People also speculated that this was the reason Alphabet invested in SpaceX. (Which was around the same time as that announcement)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/technology/google-makes-1-...
The counter argument is that there is 'hate speech' on twitter directed at many types of people and many ideologies that 'threaten the survival of people'. But twitter is only removing certain groups and ideology while sanctioning others that are just as hateful and threatening.

So twitter loses the moral argument that they are trying to prevent these activities. They expose an ideological bias. And by hosting only certain types of 'hate speech' and radical ideologies they are promoting it.
It definitely is. Plenty of evidence all around.
I've loved Andrew Wyeth's work since an exhibit of it came through our small town art museum. I wondered at the time how that tiny, unprestigious spot could attract works of such quality. I guess I know now.

It's unfortunate that there aren't high quality reproductions of many of his works.
> That's a pretty serious statement, the government threatens infrastructure providers all the time but I haven't heard of the FBI requiring ISP level censorship of DNS.

It’s not unheard of the FBI just storming into data centers, seizing entire racks, just because some of the systems in them might be connected to piracy sites.

> Can you give some examples?

I’m sorry, I know this will undermine the credibility of the statement, but I won’t link to content where linking to it can potentially be a crime on here. Sorry.
Yeah I get that part, but why would you go out of your way to keep a copy of Atlas Shrugged in circulation?
Before insulin was discovered, all manner of restricted diets were tried - all they did was postpone the inevitable.
A detailed search of prior art from 1800 should kick this application to the curb.
Suspicious, sure, but that's moving the goalposts. And all of these signals exist at present, but as soon as Facebook starts suppressing posts based on machine classification then obviously fake news publishers will adapt and it won't work anymore. The only reliable identifying factor of fake news is that it reports facts that aren't. This obviously cannot be detected by text analysis. People who are suggesting technical solutions just haven't thought past the very first step in the dance.

To speculate, perhaps part of it a lack of respect for the hard work of real journalism, education, and geniune political dialogue, so the fantasy of surfacing all the crap from social media and then extracting the ground truth with a magical algorithm appeals to some people despite being a completely hopeless idea.

What you're actually arguing for is the negative twin of today's filter bubble effect. Algorithms already prioritize things you'll like, but now that the SV elite is shocked (shocked!) by how that worked out, there is a crisis of fake conscience. Obviously the solution is to also filter out the things that you'll think are fake. Or the things that "look fake" to Facebook's algorithm. It's concerning to me that the relatively intelligent folks here could be taking this at all seriously.
They can always jam whatever bands it operates on. They can make it illegal to tx/rx in those bands.
My point was that these biases and agendas have more and more driven a wedge, dividing the people of the U.S., Britain, and others.
Teledesic. SkyBridge. Probably more. Of course the timing is better with SpaceX having its own rockets but it's curious noone mentions how this have been attempted and failed.
This patent will be used as the basis for a racket that preys on health cranks, naturopaths etc that will sentence their followers to a slow death
What if SpaceX offers a free tier version. They can possibly double internet traffic with a flip of a switch.
With proper AI editing by voice will look different -- probably more like talking to a smart assistant rather than "cut here paste here". Keyboards and mouses will probably remain for some particular tasks (e.g. math formulas or CAD design) although it won't be the mainstream input method -- more like a helper device.
I disagree on that because I actually looked into what they classified awhs fake news. In the recent buzzfeed article they classify hyper partisan news as fake news. I actually looked into the raw files. And there was if cause Breitbart listed amongst the fake news. So in the end it is established media trying to claim their ground.
They don't HAVE to do anything at all. They can blow off Russian law and be blocked by Russia.
I guess I'm old school. For simple projects I still use Perl with CGI.pm and a flat file database that stores data in CGI.pm's "name=value" format in a text file.

If I need templates I'll add "HTML:Template", for email I'll add "Mail::Sendmail", et cetera, to my perl cgi script.
Right. That is fucking nuts.

I've yet to read his book, but I'll just leave this excerpt here

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
Well I went to see if there was any news on this for an Australian, and all I found when I logged into LinkedIn was this advice regarding "restricting" my account from use:

http://imgur.com/a/VOBQV

I haven't sent out a direct message or "added" anyone in months, and the only recently posted content was this blog:

https://lolware.net/2016/11/17/requesting_bank_login.html

Despite not being able to log in, I've received two separate emails from them. I have a feeling I'll be letting LinkedIn go.
Data driven history: data on the history of lynching
Anyone else have any insight? Was there a tax savings from having non-vested stock (ie. you didn't have to recognize capital gains?) during an acquisition.

I asked an accountant but they didn't know and I have to decide how to vest the stock.
Luminus - compilation of Clojure libraries for web dev. Postgres.
What are the rules around changing annual registration fees for gTLDs?
You seem to know a lot about US SIGINT. Please excuse my assumption. Let me guess: your actual employer and title are too important for the plebeians to know?
AWS Lambda functions and some kind of database. Lately that has been graphene. AWS SWF, SQS, SNS added in the mix allow me to POC distributed apps quickly. Finally, I've worked with API Gateway recently when needing to support mobile devices.
I think the article is saying that it's about his politics and theoretical stance rather than wealth. You can be wealthy and popular in the art world.

I can't speak to this case in particular but there's usually inside knowledge involved in art world assessments. The work might look good but if you've met the artist and he/she is an idiot, or they disdain every living and dead artist you like... Well, it's difficult to sustain a positive critical opinion.

That might sound irrational, but I think it's justifiable as a result of the fact that people and human relationships are more complex and important than artifacts.
What is the expected return on a stock? [pdf]
Stealth addresses don't use any new cryptography, aren't computationally expensive, and require no changes to bitcoin consensus or policy rules.
That's what people thought about sleeping in strangers' apartments, but it turns out that reputation systems do a pretty decent job of culling bad experiences. "Don't get in a car with strangers" used to be common sense, but now people do it every day.
I didn't know that. I got my numbers from [0].

Perhaps dollars are an overstatement, but your numbers are also for a best case scenario, when you have an application where you need to send data infrequently, in bulk, in an area with good coverage (not at sea) and no guarantees.

[0] http://www.rock7mobile.com/products-rockblock-plus.php
Are gTLDs like this even worth it as a primary domain? In my limited experience, these kinds of domains tend to confuse people who are not technically oriented.
I appreciate your informative explanation. I think it's important that we have the facts when discussing this.

I will say that you've sort of missed what I think is the important part:

We as a society have decided that it's acceptable to legally bar medical practitioners from performing life saving treatment of sick individuals.

The only explanations I've heard for why that might not be crazy has unfortunately been simple and hand-wavey. Specifically I've heard that patents protect innovators, and the idea is that protecting innovators by intentionally granting them a limited monopoly on the use of their invention will create a society more likely to produce new innovations. The idea is that despite clear negatives, patents offer a net benefit to society.

The problem is I can easily imagine scenarios for either side of that argument, but I've never heard a comprehensive argument in favor of the current way of doing things. I also can't help but notice that patents often protect the establishment by granting the wealthy more monopoly power. Given that the legal system is in many ways captured by the wealthy establishment, I question whether the patent system continues to exist because it is truly beneficial to all or because it benefits the elite that also extert significant power over the legal system.

If the latter were true, then it could also be said that patents are another example of the establishment hurting the masses for their own gain. And in this case (again, as you pointed out the practical effect of this example may be small), the patent system is creating a risky legal situation for those who would try to provide medical care for sick members of our society.

As an anecdote, 3D printers were $30k until several major patents expired. Then small companies formed and in less than 10 years we created excellent 3D printers that cost $329 (I just bought one of those).

I can't help but wonder what the cumulative effect of artificial monopolies is on our society. Because it's invisible it's hard to calculate, but it's clear to me the effect is large.

I'm open to any insight into these matters. My plan is to promote the voluntary open sourcing of engineered works, but I'd sure love to stop supporting the patent system in the first place (I think).
> and not anything that is managed by a non american

Linus is naturalized though:
https://lwn.net/Articles/404729/
Bash.exe is a Windows console application as far as every other application is concerned. So for VSCode to run it instead of Cmd.exe, is really nothing at all. Same with other tools.

I'm mostly using it to C/C++ development for an embedded platform so my experience with code completion, etc, is a bit different. But it does work as well as it does on a pure Linux installation.

I have a pretty powerful desktop but I run the same configuration on my i5/4GB laptop and the performance is still good (and why not, it's all native code). I think there might be some disk performance issues but I haven't compared it too closely. I prefer it over using a VM just because of the integration and convenience.
Council of 300

https://xkcd.com/1224/
Good question, and one that is worthwhile asking as part of the post mortem process.

In our particular case it is because I (as lead technical person on projects) come from a 30+ year background in SQL. Moving to NoSQL is always a point of trepidation for me purely form a comfort and familiarity angle.

I must say though, in our investigation of NoSQL systems for a couple of projects ReThinkDB (and PouchDB for another mobile project) were the two that seemed to stand out, and seemed to make installation and testing easy, as well as remove a lot of the barriers to dipping a toe in the NoSQL ocean.

So, end of the day it wasn't really a technology issue, but rather came down to familiarity and habits.

NB: For the mobile project, we went with Back& (backand.com) which is essentially a NoSQL wrapper around a MySQL database that we have running behind it. It helped me to get my head around NoSQL while still letting our DBAs build out the data structures in pure SQL. Working well so far.