skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The R Language has them:

https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-lang.html...
copy nul %1 >nul

to get an empty file. It's not a replacement for touch, though, as touch will do something different to existing files. Your attempt will silently overwrite the file in that case.
Haha. Well the narrator's accent betrays more than my mouse movements. could it be a dutch / danish white male in his late 20s?
I'm afraid this tool might trigger my account to be disabled.
DraftKings and FanDuel Agree to Merge
Global Trumpism
Wait, the Linux subsystem on Windows inherits that stupid convention of deciding if a file is executable by its name?
It's amazing, isn't it. They went to the effort of building a typed shell but didn't realise there are multiple different types of string.

I bet it still truncates output of the ">" operator to the console width, too.
Comparison between Postgres and MS-SQL
OMG - PowerShell is better, but still, it's slow and verbose. I mean, extremely verbose.

They should have used C# as the powershell command language, it looks almost the same, or even F#.
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

(Note that 'gnu' in the story is GNU Emacs!)
Have you even used Powershell? :)
How so? It would seem like a minor configuration change would be unrelated to accessing a process's memory. But I'm not a security guy.
I've heard the term before (in the US). I don't know how common it is. But I work at a small company and AFAIK their are none here.

Although when two of the execs get on each other's nerves I have heard the phrase "Mom and Dad are having a fight again"
The problem is that it requires installing third-party software to function (the IPFS client) or putting load on some IPFS gateway.
Partnership for Open and Fair Skies on the Election of Donald Trump
Ask HN: What do you expect from a lead generation company other than lead?
For your B2B startup, lead generation tactics like in-person events, webinars or case studies are very effective. So what do you think that a B2B lead generation service should offer other than lead that can add value to your business. For example an info-graphic, Online Presentation or blog article.
Also, I'm pretty sure you will not want a 10 watts microwave emitter couple of inches from your brain
The article contains several real examples of fake news influencing foreign elections. When you live in a country where your the only data you can afford to access is Facebook and partner's "free" version of the Internet on your mobile device, the possibility of fake news influencing the election is increased dramatically.

You conveniently fail to mention that every example in the article is real, factual, and documented. Do you have any specific examples mentioned in the article that are demonstrably false?

Without any specific falsehoods, you're simply indulging in an ad hominem attack on the source as being biased in and of itself based on what you perceive to be their motives.
Then don't make them aliases, if they're not the same.

The issue already happened with cURL.
> Ask yourself the following questions. Is this article covering some specific recent event?

The piece was written yesterday in response to meetings in Berlin between Obama, Merkel and others. Breitbart reported on it too, obviously with a very different spin [1].

> If you don't believe in meta-narratives, just look below the text to "Related Coverage" box on the page:

That an article is lumped together with other articles covering the same topic (same tags) is of surprise to no one who has ever worked with publishing or SEO.

> This is what high-grade propaganda looks like. It doesn't use outright lies, but rather relies on reframing, anchoring, deliberate name-dropping and rote repetition to establish certain associations and emotional responses. I find it infinitely more sinister than some outrageous bullshit appearing on Facebook.

> And it's disconcerting to see just how hard some outlets try to (morally if not otherwise) discredit the outcome of the elections right now. NYT is actually not the worst in this regard. Just open the home pages of Washington Post or The Atlantic. Political FUD stacked on top of more political FUD. Maybe I have a memory lapse, but I've never seen anything quite like it.

Well, by GPs own logic, that post is anchoring. It's just framed as generally as possible to appeal to people in the same way as horoscopes.

[1] http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/17/o...
Possibly because by the time the makers put out the Mac version, they were already aware of the issue, and also because the Mac has the GNU coreutils as part of the main OS, rather than being third-party installs, so the problem was immediately obvious to the first tester who actually used it.
Is it considered safe to leave your oauth ID and Secret public in open source projects?
That was a great read! I've been doing this long enough that I still complain about how much I hate GA compared to the old Urchin. I used Urchin for years and loved it. I was all excited to see what it had become as it changed to GA, and it was just... blah. It went from this super incredibly powerful tool that gave me access to all sorts of stats I needed, to this... I dunno... seemingly random assortment of things that seemed like would only excite someone that worked at Google or had AdWords on their site. That was, of course, probably the goal, so I suppose they succeed, but damn I still miss the old Urchin numbers I'd see every day. They were useful for webmasters and sys admins. GA is useful for those trying to see more ads (not that there's anything wrong with that, but that ain't me).
Came across this when looking for a benchmark. Thought it would be informative for people now since MS-SQL is now being packaged for Linux distros.
VAG said they had come clean, and now there's another software defeat going through in some Audi models now. Another rogue engineer? That hardly seems credible. Corporate bad faith and malfeasance? They're already in the thick of it.
"Half the muders of Norway" means about 15, at least from 2014 data. A lot of different things could lead to fifteen murders in a year, one person who doesn't like refugees could do it.
Agreed. I like PS too but forcing it breaks a lot of staff, you cant use it interchangeably, eg 2 quickies:

-bcdedit /c {xxxx-xxx-xxx-xxx} (= {..} is parsed as a code block)
-invoking executables with spaces in path
Courage!
I don't think an ideal solution exists for practically anything at a global scale. Modern sanitation increased public health significantly, but what of the plight of the humble chamberpot maker? What we have is ideology, and in America we have an ideology that speech is to be free and unrestricted.
You could just as easily say Symantec/Norton/Microsoft Defender/Windows/Google is CIA/NSA.

Isn't it, though? Apple seems to be the only company that has stood up to the three letter agencies. (I'm a US citizen.)
No, this is in powershell not the linux subsystem. In powershell they defined a bunch of aliases to internal powershell functions like cp, mv, cat ... that don't work like the original unix version. If you install the GNU version on the system and try to use them in powershell that won't work by default. You either remove the alias or use the trick above to force powershell to use the .exe of the utility.
Isn't Google already doing this to Google with Tensorflow?
Meanwhile, Gnome Terminal has been taking away the tabs...
Maybe an year or two after all Linux users migrate their to some idiom of Python.
It's not that weird, they put the alias' in so new admins on windows fresh from linux don't hit a complete roadblock at the first command they type. Its to make powershell less punishing to learn, not emulate a different system.

So imagine when they packaged that for Mac, that assumption is no longer true.
I'm genuinely curious - what is the feature parity like between Oodoo and SAP?
I have worked with both and I would not claim that bash is superior to Powershell. I wouldn't even claim that my favorite shell, zsh, which is mostly better than bash, is superior to Powershell.

They're different approaches and the only real benefit of bash is that it's super entrenched and extremely widely supported. With the same level of support Powershell would run circles around it. But since we're comparing things in the real world, Powershell is roughly equivalent to bash for most tasks. Better for some, worse for others.
the point you make is one of the key reasons why what was so good.

the currency was upload

i only bought music so i could exchange it for a the more valuable upload it gave me.

gutted
Here is a link to a research paper on the subject, based on an ethically questionable experiment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock...

tldr: it's extremely difficult to detect and mitigate, relatively easy to do (assuming you have some technical skills), and quite effective
No, Windows does not decide whether files are executable by looking at their name.
I find it incredibly easier to configure and run periodically in a cron job. Plus I've never had even the slightest stability issue with gmvault whereas Thunderbird (which I use anyway to read emails at work) has bad days from time to time.

Additionally, the output format (gzipped plain email + metadata) looks very convenient for indexing / analysis; something I'm dreaming of for a long time.
National Music Publishers Association Letter to President-Elect Donald Trump
Folks felt much the same in the CompuServe, AOL and MSN days where the aforementioned big wigs had a complete monopoly on what most people saw online.

In fact during the 90s it really felt like there was no technological future possible beyond what Microsoft saw fit. They would literally buy out, copy and crush every upstart who had even moderate success in the technology sector.

Never know where the future will take us, or indeed where we (techies) will take it. For all we know the next what.cd might be something far beyond its current incarnation (a distributed Spotify + Slack/IRC on steroids - anyone's guess!)
Along these same lines, one of my favorite examples of this type of work (human factors related to attention/alerting) is "Bitchin' Betty" and company - the female voice that makes up the "oral alert system" from the F/A-18 superhornet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7-yvXf6f8

A lot of research went into everything from the gender to the tone of the voice so that pilots would know to immediately pay attention to the warning system above everything else.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitching_Betty
Please don't dilute your problem by trying to draw untenable parallels to foreign actors.
I guess the OP means "free" as in "freedom" not as in "free beer".
For software developers: how to find a job with relocation to Europe
No. First off, these satellites are all in the relatively underpopulated upper section of low Earth orbit hugging the lower reaches of the inner Van Allen belt at ~1,000km above the surface. Most satellites in LEO are closer to 300 km up. So there aren't really any non-ElonNet satellites to worry about except for ones in highly eccentric polar orbits and those are few enough to be avoidable. They also have fairly aggressive plans to de-orbit them at the end of their lives which makes me happy.

The big danger for Kessler syndrome right now is all the satellites whizzing around Earth in polar orbits that all cross over the Earth's poles.
I've heard this described as focused vs diffuse mode thinking. Focus on a problem for some time then move on to something else to allow the diffuse mode to continue the work.

Salvador Dali used this method by sitting in a chair while holding a key in his hand. He would then try to nap in that position. When the key would fall from his hand onto a plate he put next to the chair, the sound would wake him up and he would often have fresh ideas about his problem.
Console GUI applications. Pretty much any tweak to conhost ever and they'd implode.

I don't know what's changed now but they've rolled that policy away. Maybe virtualization?
Beside other personal considerations, the main motivation was that we wanted to improve the quality of the codebase ( especially the data-model). There was no time and no wishes for that at the time, so we decided to leave TinyERP (the former name of OpenERP/Odoo) and do that ourselves.

(I'm one of the Tryton founder as you may have understood)
Web development. Lean approach
+1 on offlineimap. Those of us that may be a little strange in the head and prefer using mail clients like mutt will often use it to handle background imap syncing.
Clear Acceptance Criteria and Why It’s Important
> Great sweeping accusations require citations to back them up. Without any citations, the above statement is meaningless hyperbole.

That's basically what I was always telling myself in the back of my mind during the latest US election, every time I heard that the Wikileaks DNC email leaks were originating from Russia :D
Assuming f is a function, just do

local env = {}
env['args'] = {...}
setfenv(f, env)
return f()
Well, anyone who has access to the environment of the browser.
[disclosure: Craig -- CEO]
to name a few
1. support and services. this is a really important factor for most enterprises; they want to know they have expert staff on call who have a decent shot at getting a change they need upstreamed.
2. consolidation and operations at scale. turns out Kubernetes is being deployed as a 'devops tool' today and people create lots of teensy clusters. we built it to be super flexible and work either for smaller clusters, or work at scale (using namespaces, etc). there are advantages to running larger expert operated clusters (borg style) and we want to help enterprises get there with consolidation and operations tools.
3. integration tech. there are oceans of 'legacy' systems that basically run enterprise today and need to be integrated with.
4. help with for non-Google environments. despite the fact that there are tons of interested commercial parties in K8s, except for a few awesome community folks companies aren't putting a ton of resource into AWS, or OpenStack, etc and do unglamorous testing work, etc. Would love to help get the cloud provider model sustainable, and put effort into doing stuff like testing and better deployment tech.
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I 'm not american, and i expected trump to win anyways.
I like the different acronym mistakes people always (and very authoritatively) make for utm. "It stands for Universal Task Module" "Nope, it stands for Universal Tracking Monitor!" ... inevitably the old guy jumps in, "Kids, let me tell you about back in the day when we used Urchin"
Was expecting stackoverflow clone, got hackernews clone. Title is misleading.
> A private company censoring the content on their platform is not a violation of freedom of speech

It's not, but a third party forcing FB to censor or me to shut up is censorship.

> I believe that the point being argued is that they have a responsibility to filter out automated messaging.

No, there is no responsibility whatsoever. Users are free to not use the service if they don't like it.

If you see this different then we have different views on what private property is.
I owned both X61 and T61. Great design, possibilities of modification, strong CPU, and good build quality that lasted for ages (I am still using the X61, now in its 8 year).

The model policies for the current models seems to have changed, though.
joey@darkstar:~>touch true
joey@darkstar:~>chmod +x true
joey@darkstar:~>ls -l true
-rwxr-xr-x 1 joey joey 0 Nov 18 10:53 true*
joey@darkstar:~>if ./true; then echo yay; fi
yay

Just saying.
Not necessary. Either Wikipedia can help out with hosting their own gateways in addition to the ones running on ipfs.io, OR they can include a js-ipfs node in the browser.
Manifesto for Responsible Software Development
Just saying "it's their property" might not address the underlying question. Should it be? How important does a platform get before it needs public regulation to prevent harms to its users?
Lol you could always have done this by setting the command prompt properties -> since at least 3.51 ;)
Amazon's Next Big Move: Take Over the Mall
My experience working for a German company is that there's a strong cultural distaste for laying off employees. I've seen major projects get shut down, and I saw huge cost-saving measures after the 2008 downturn, but there was never any question of letting people go. People got moved to other projects, or had enforced, unpaid vacations, but no layoffs.

I suspect it's driven by strong employee protections in German law.
It's the future! Where mobile and desktop collide.
They got removed in the open-source version of PowerShell and only remain in the Windows build.
I'd love to see some of their FPGA projects mentioned in the 2nd link on that page.
I have had a quick look through here [1] and most of the answers involve timing precision of two significant digits. By that metric, PowerShell's 2.4ms clocks in at 0.00 seconds. Which means cmd.exe (at a precision of two significant digits) can't beat it.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/673523/how-to-measure-exe...
Very nice writeup. I once had to do something similar for RFID readers used by the Dutch police to scan 'anti theft' RFID tags for bikes/scooters. The scanner manufacturer went bankrupt, and we had a bunch of scanners with old firmware which needed to be updated to a newer version. I spent a couple of weeks building the required hardware and software tools to extract firmware from the newer scanners and load them into the old scanners. Fun times =)
I feel like <20% of ballot measures are clearly worded, so that wasn't any surprise to me.

More fun was that State Rep. Johnnie Caldwell of Griffin, GA (formerly Judge Caldwell before being approached by the JQB and resigning due to allegations of sexually harassing a female attorney) was one of the co-sponsors of the amendment.
(I'm the Heptio CTO)

Some other pointers that give context here:

My blog post on my motivations: https://www.eightypercent.net/post/another-leap-heptio.html

The press release: https://blog.heptio.com/founding-members-of-kubernetes-team-...

Blog post: "Cloud Native Part 1: Definition" https://blog.heptio.com/cloud-native-part-1-definition-716ed...

Guest article (from Craig): "Cloud Native: Service-driven Operations that Save Money, Increase IT Flexibility " http://thenewstack.io/towards-cloud-native-operations/
Automatic Java Artifacts Upload to Nexus Repository with Walter and Git Hooks
The satellites are pretty low weight so it looks like the limitation is that only 20 or 25 can squeeze into a Falcon 9 payload faring. $20-25 million seems a reasonable guess for the cost (not price) of a reused Falcon 9 launch so $1 million a pop launch costs seem reasonable. But there's also the cost of the satellite itself. These are mass-manufactured and pretty low weight so I'm wildly guessing somewhere between $100k and $5m each.
Urban areas already have high-bandwidth, low-latency internet service at more competitive rates, let alone 3-5 years from now. I'd think most target customers for this service are in rural areas, as well as those with a need for connectivity while traveling.
As with depression, one of the best things you can do for yourself in burnout is to recover your sense of agency - the confidence that you have the power to positively affect your life.

This is very hard, to be sure. But it is possible, and while I'm not sure I'd agree that it's absolutely necessary to recovery, it certainly does make that outcome vastly more probable.

Of course this is hardly a new concept. But, for reasons beyond my knowledge at this time, it seems almost never to be usefully expressed. We see it everywhere from "oh, just cheer up, it's all in your head!" to the Christian doctrine that the only truly unforgivable sin is that of despair - but only rarely anything that's likely to help those who need it most.
It was claimed to be 22 in Norway so far 2016 and 11 in Malmö. (According to media).

(Also, I didn't misspell. Please be careful when quoting.)

>> A lot of different things could lead to fifteen murders in a year, one person who doesn't like refugees could do it.

According to an imam from the Malmö suburbs, it is an internal problem to the suburbs. Do you have other references?

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/malmo-imamens-uppmani...
Seems a logical step for SpaceX. One of the biggest challenges facing Mars colonization would be internet connectivity over such tremendous distances.

A super cheap (relatively) satellite mesh network would be just the thing to handle Earth to Mars communications.

Getting out of left field here but could imagine the whole Solar System dotted with these. Add a few sensors to each satellite and you could start detecting and monitoring some pretty interesting metrics.
Sounds like a lot of fun!
It's like the trouble with design patterns: it is perfectly reasonable to assign a name to some pattern you can repeatedly observe in reality, but that does not necessarily turn them into a good guideline.

Personally, I have seen the pattern quite often, but never saw a name for it until today. A "foodies group" kind of relationship, that happens to be strengthened by things that might have lead to something romantic had they met in a different context. Even the name chosen hints at it not being an overly romantic state: it skips right over date, girlfriend/boyfriend, bride/groom to the wife/husband stage which can be more like a well worn in mechanism than like an uncontrolled infatuation in many cases. It (jokingly) references marriage as in "old couple", not as in "a pact to raise children".
Upgrade your staffs ;)
Why?

With GCC's ability to deploy to just about every architecture, most heavy-handed libraries using C themselves (hence a C FFI in higher languages), and access to the biggest and best GUI libs.

Add in musl and static compilation, you get:

* Probably fast

* Native UIs

* Tiny binaries that are easy to distribute
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But the goal of that optimization is not to make your life better, it's to make money for them.

They may be pretty bad at it now, but one thing about technology is that it gets better and better, and their goal is to encourage consumption of their product.

I'm thinking about buying a new laptop right now. I'm trying to make a smart choice, weighing the funds I have available, my need for it, the options available, my preferences for various brands and features, and my own desire to have new shiny stuff.

The advertisers can distort this rational decision. Right now they just have a poorly-targeted generic bit of text that I don't really read in the sidebar of certain websites, and I feel comfortable with this level of influence. If they were super-persuasive at selling their product to me Present Me would consider that theft. Future Me would probably be grateful to the advertiser, and that's terrifying.

A Self-Driving, Self-Selling Tesla might show up at my door, perform an inspection of my current car, and, in its silky voice, deliver an irrefutable argument why I must never get in that car again and should instead hop in for a free ride across state lines so I can take out a home equity loan and cash in my 401k to buy it. Yikes!

The optimistic side of this is that maybe they'll eventually move beyond market research and on to individual research to give us stuff that we actually want. "Oh, LeifCarrotson is filtering out our 1366x768 TN panels, doesn't seem to care about thickness, has recently read about the Samsung 960 Pro? Let's build him one with a big 9-cell battery and longer travel keyboard, a good screen, and one of those SSDs. And he seems to be running Linux? Let's swap our default touchpad for one with an open driver, and donate a few percent of the profits to the EFF, that's sure to make him happy."