skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but not have those answers associated publicly with that account

Correct!

Joshua, thank you for the response. I was going to reach out and point you to this sub-thread, so you saved me time.

There are some excellent programmers I know who would like to post answers on SO/SE without being able to trace the source of answers to them.

The reasons can be many: some dont want to be bothered with random people tracking them down and contacting them to as involved as having the ability to say (as an example): "ahem, don't depend on this API because it's going to be deprecated in the next 3 months".

I am sure there are other useful reasons.

People might be concerned about misuse and spam, but I have been told Smoke Detector has been doing a pretty good job with that.

A random idea: SO is full of developers who are ready to give back. Why don't you ask the community how they can implement a solution that is not too bad?

Thank you again for the comment. Really appreciate the thoughts.
Yes yes yes. We read "Story of Your Life" in my Sci-fi reading club, and several people came away with the misunderstanding that the aliens could see the future or something like that. But your interpretation is correct (IMHO). Chiang was making a point about the subjective nature of consciousness, or at least one aspect of it.
> I do, >10k rep on the security.stackexchange.com site

That's amazing! Thank you for your contributions. I meant to imply that donating money is usually the least fruitful way to contribute, in my experience. It should be your last resort; definitely not the first one.

Example: One way SO can really gain from your security expertise is for you to think about how anonymous answers can be supported. That will be far more valuable than $$$.

I posted about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12961447

I would love to read your opinions about this crazy idea!
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Ask HN: How much hours of People / Meeting time does your day have?
As I get older I find it quite energy draining to meet with people while staying on top my game. How many hours meeting or pairing with other people do have on an average day? What is considered healthy?
I love the irony of railing against social media using a stream of <140 character paragraphs.
> They seem to have specced more or less what Webkit had already implemented

The problem is that the WHATWG always just standardizes "whatever Chrome does".

This leads to the HTML living standard actually being just like Office Open XML, with one entity controlling all of it.
A Bayesian approach would learn the degrees of belief empirically from examples of spam and "ham" messages.

There are other machine learning approaches that would also learn from data - specifically, a Bayesian approach would use Bayes theorem.
Did something change in font rendering with Freetype on Linux? While 49.0.2 with FreeType 2.7 looked the best (subjectively) I've seen any font rendering (including Windows 10 and OS X Snow Leopard (been a while)), something off with 50.0's rendering. I haven't enabled any custom render options, just your typical archlinux freetype 2.7 desktop. Time to get ESR and compare with that but would be great to hear back from others with a similar environment.
Do Snapchat's Spectacles have mainstream appeal?
8 or more hours
Welcome news. "All Intel, all the time, makes Jack a dull boy", to coin a phrase ...
7 hours
There is no Free Software company – But
Microsoft Azure Announces Industry’s First Cloud Bot-As-a-Service
You got it in the latter (former would be even better). Explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12961447
Wow, I didn't expect they maintain so detailed records of infidels, including mugshot-like photos and their blasphemy citations.
4 hours
I don't understand their headlines either.

They just raised $8M Series A on March, 2016 [1], and their business modell is basically about trying to serve you those crowdsourced photos made by volunteeers.

Like $249 / month if you are trying to use those images in your map [2].

There is nothing wrong with that, but I believe it's the opposite of "available for all" and "open repository of photos", as you've quoted as well.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mapillary#/entity
[2] https://www.mapillary.com/solutions
Indeed, there are an almost infinite number of crank theories because they don't require logic, evidence, or proof - just belief. One crank can churn out a hundred nonsense theories in the time it takes someone to validate one scientific idea or mathematical proof.

This has a corollary in the startup world: everyone has an idea, what matters is execution.
You do realize Newton's laws had to be amended less than 100 years ago to make room for the newly discovered subtleties of nature, right?
I've mad a few:

Command line tool for OSX to upload images to imgur:
https://github.com/FigBug/imguru

Copy and paste for Windows command line:
https://github.com/FigBug/ccopyppaste

Mac App to set Philips Hue bulbs colour temperature to match the sun:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/circadian-hue-for-philips-hu...
Any idea to which consumer card the Quadro M620 correlates? If it's something halfway decent then it might be a also a much better ultraportable gaming solution for some people than e.g. a NUC. However that also depends on if the Quadro drivers are suitable for gaming or not.
I know you're being facetious, but Mozilla shipped Motif builds for a really long time after most of the world had switched to GTK. Far longer than seemed reasonable at the time. Given that the majority of GTK-running systems support GTK2, and that the GTK3 builds of Firefox require GTK2 already, it seems very strange that the default distribution would bother with GTK3 at this time. I'm sure they have good reasons; I'm just curious about what they are.
Super Tiny Compiler – simple compiler written in easy to read JavaScript
Google is 10 to 60% cheaper last I checked ;)

They're not even playing in the same league.
who does video calls from their phone

A lot of people, specifically FaceTime users. I would probably be safe in saying the vast majority of smartphone users, especially iPhone.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/01/6-facts-abou...
Very happy to see some progress being made. I've been very disturbed by the rise of coordinated hate group activities like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/1...
Aren't you limited then to C datatypes?
Great article! But I think you're missing the main point that you're not a software-development machine - you are a walking, talking, living human. And what you've described is the same decision making process described years ago in books by such renowned authors like Agatha Christie. Admittedly, she wrote fiction - but read at least one novel about Hercules Poirot, and you'll notice a pattern of thinking that is exactly like what you've described. The brilliant Belgian detective with a carefully maintained moustache would gather all evidence, observe everything he could regarding the case he was solving, and eventually find the right answer bubbling up from his subconscious. Same thing with Sherlock Holmes, same with Colombo if you're into all that stuff (I definitely am). Just because you're a software developer doesn't mean you're suddenly not a human anymore. The fact that your subconscious mind gives you the answers is simply how it works, and there's no way around it. For reference, see the Learning How To Learn course on Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/learn... - luckily they haven't made this one paid-access only, so you can enroll and see the first few videos to learn how your brain... learns, and comes up with conclusions and solutions to the problems you're facing. The most important thing I remember from the course is that our brains work in two states - focused and diffused. In Focused mode you kind of direct your pattern of thought from node to node, you're in control of your thought process but have access to a small database. In diffused (or relaxed) mode, your brain does the work for you, accessing a vast database in your brain that you can't recall using short-term memory. Thus the feeling that solutions, or conclusions come to you, but aren't devised by you.

But if you didn't do the work of accumulating information and gaining experience everyday, your brain wouldn't give you those solutions/conclusions at all. So in reality it is you solving those problems all the time.
Is there an obvious reason that they stick with traditional air cooling for this, rather than using liquid cooling? Here's an example of a compact system with liquid cooled CPU and graphics card built using off-the-shelf parts: http://blog.newegg.com/building-a-mini-itx-gaming-pc/

I'd think that at this small size, you'd need really high air velocity to make it work. Coupled with small fans, this generally means the system would be really noisy. Is liquid cooling still too expensive? Not reliable enough? Not actually an advantage for noise? Or do the expected purchasers just not care about excessive fan noise?
The writer really lacks brevity. It is absolutely so grating to read.
Personally, I am an ultrafinitist.

By that I mean that I believe that physical systems can be completely described by constructive mathematics based on intuitionistic logic[2] operating on computable reals[3]. I believe that any other kind of mathematics, e.g. classical logic with axiom of choice can create unphysical models.

That being said, I don't object to classical logic as a purely abstract concept. Everything proved in ZFC is certainly true in ZFC! And I don't think any finitist will contest that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafinitism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_logic

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number
"Now: let me be absolutely clear. I do not believe Trump is a fascist. I’ve been consistent in that belief ever since he began running. I prefer to label Trump a “petty authoritarian” — the term “fascist” has always struck me as spectacularly inapplicable."

Nails it.
I'm on the Aurora channel currently running 51.0 and NoScript works fine for me.
How's the difference between between IronWorker and IronFunctions?
How to get more storage
Excellent insight. I am hopeful SE will figure out a way to stop/reduce this arbitrage opportunity.
S3 has built-in functionality to trigger a Lambda function when certain events occur (e.g., object creation). For example, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-s3-example.....
https://github.com/jurgelenas/pdfify-server
https://github.com/jurgelenas/node-pdfify-client

My little open source app which converts HTML to PDF.

Useful when generating PDF invoices, legal documents. I am using it in my own projects.
"I conclude that the climate models are not fit for the purpose"

Without any statistical treatment at all. And then later puts "expert opinion" of others in quotes.

At that point, I lost confidence in the analysis. Do some well known numerical and statistical tests of the models, and create a Bayesian based estimate based on all the models, and see where you end up instead!
Now is the time to check your reservations and account again for how much was saved or lost.
simple tool: a handy json comparison tool
https://github.com/ChannelIQ/jsoncompare
History is written by the historians we choose to read. I learned the name of many Persian cities from the first few centuries AD by reading Gibbon on how Justin the Apostate got himself (and many others) killed trying to conquer Persia.

The contest which the west "won" is to have its own historians read. But (unlike India) Persia seems to have a well recorded history which we could be studying better.

BTW: What is the attitude of the modern Iranian authorities to the history of pre-islamic Iran? I recently saw a news reel of nationalists celebrating at the tomb of one of the ancient kings -- but it said the government discourages that sort of thing.
I have a script that gets a bunch of data and emails it to me and some co-workers every day at 7AM.
Stuff includes: high temperature/probability of precipitation for the day, bitcoin price, iTunes/Google play sales/rating values, number of "diff" lines in web pages, number of followers on Facebook/Twitter/Google+. The latter isn't entirely a vanity thing... some co-workers manage multiple social media accounts and it's nice to know if readership is going up or down.

Part of the point was a) to aggregate everything in one report to reduce the temptation of looking at something multiple times per day, b) to avoid visiting multiple pages in order to find all the information, and c) to find changes in things that I may have forgotten about since they rarely change.

I've thought about making it available for others, but it'd take a bunch of work, and I'm not sure what the demand would be like.
Wars don't seem like a big risk for nuclear plants. If war has escalated to the point nuclear plants are being bombed, it has escalated to the point that we're nuking each other.
I guess that question is answered then.
I'm glad you like it. This is one of those personal UX preferences that has you either one or the other camp. Am I right to assume you liked this from your past Opera use?
I just replied to your email, but these comments are not from me, and I'm really pissed off by it for reasons that I hope are obvious.
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I would postulate that the cause of this is that, as a provider of services, Google kind of knows what's difficult to do in a browser and what apis are needed to make it more native-like.

So it's not a terribly bad thing, unless other people's standards are just being ignored
I don't agree with your premise. I've seen many users join the site and succeed in recent years, because they cared to understand what they were joining, and how they could contribute to it. If you're only looking for an answer for yourself, people are not going to cater to you. It's not a great environment for random newbies looking for personal help because that was never the primary goal. They're more expected to benefit as consumers of the content that more experienced programmers generate.

From the announcement of Stack Overflow, before the site was even in private beta (https://blog.codinghorror.com/introducing-stackoverflow-com/):

> Stack Overflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange meets wikipedia meets programming reddit.

The community elements of the site are nice, and I have made some friends there, but "wiki of programming answers" is much closer to the original vision of the site than "community".
this goes for learning anything
The pro version has 4 displayports was written on one site.
But I guess that means that 6 displays can only be connected at a limited resolution (Full HD?). Wonder if could even drive a 4k screen on each displayport.
https://hexlist.com/ which my brother and i use to make lists of links.
Hustle, a text-distribution tool, raises $3M
CEO Resigns After Social Media Posts Threatening President-Elect Donald Trump
Do you know how to run Firefox 50 with GTK 3.22.0 and the native Wayland backend? If I try it, it crashes instantly, and I was surprised to see gtk3 and gtk2 linkage in the xul libs. Any idea?
And don't forget, violating Newton's Third Law of Motion also violates the conservation of energy, linear momentum, angular momentum, and thermodynamics.

https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/themes/NewtonsThird.ht...
Yup. I had my mom over and while I was sleeping she was looking for a computer to use. She recognized the chrome book, because they have one at home.

She opened it, saw a screen saying "press spacebar" and she complied.

Was I angry at her? Yes. Very. But when I realized that even I could have easily made that mistake I stopped using the chrome book with crouton. Too high risk.
Actually I like it from IDE's and text editors :)

As well as the alt+tab desktop behaviour
This is really cool - just bought it. I'd like a good way to get photos from the Photos app into it, either by sharing them or by directly accessing the photo roll from within Primitive.

Great work!
https://github.com/k2xl/downtime_monitor - Simple HTTP monitoring that sends a slack message when site is down. Configured all from a yaml
http://recap.work - Chrome extension that shows salary info of people when browsing linkedin profiles
http://facepalm.bogost.com/ - Silly little app that shows a facepalm picture of Georgia Tech professor Ian Bogost and his latest cynical tweets
http://yofigame.com - Mobile word game for iOS and Android
http://www.k2xl.com/games/boomshine/ - Flash game I made called Boomshine (also on mobile)
http://www.leanbelts.com - Six sigma certification for really cheap
http://k2xl.com/games/obechi/ - Flash game I made called Obechi (also on mobile)
http://soundcloud.com/k2xl - Some EDM music i wrote
http://k2xl.com/games/psychopath/ - Flash puzzle game I made called Psychopath
http://k2xl.com - Personal site with a bunch of flash games I made a long time ago

Multiple others I can't remember off top of my head
Is it? That's not a question I know the answer to. I might agree with you but I don't take your point of view as a given.

I try to read and listen to content from multiple perspectives but I avoid things that I "know" are wrong and/or ridiculous. It's not so much a judgment call on the validity of their viewpoint as it is the fact that I have limited time to read and ... oh wait, it is totally a judgement call on my part.

My thoughts have just turned way too philosophical for a comment to a comment on HN but why the heck do I read anything. I don't know. I need to think now.
This has been possible for a very long time, as a side-effect of enabling browser.ctrlTab.previews in about:config

Glad to see they are paying more attention to this though.

Thousands of people have requested that feature for Chrome. To this day there hasn't been (or I haven't found) an official answer and the only way to do it is to use an extension, using an alternative keybind as extensions aren't allowed to interact with ctrl-tab.
> ”Will I survive?” seems, I said, equivalent to “Will there be some person alive who is the same person as me?”

Although taking these two questions as equivalent does simplify the thought experiment, it goes so strongly against my intuition that I find it incredibly unsatisfying. Of course, I know that doesn’t make me right. But, If the stream of consciousness that my mind is currently experiencing ceases to exist, it gives me no comfort to think that someone exactly like me would live on. However, I recognize that this statement is filled with a ton of metaphysical baggage, and Occam’s razor may suggest Parfit is correct to eliminate the concept of personal identity. I do wonder though if we really can properly describe our reality without the concept of personal identity.
Have an upvote.
Considering that wording is from an official NASA biography, it's probably not non-existent:

He currently serves as the Advanced Propulsion Theme
Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate and is the
JSC representative to the Nuclear Systems Working
Group. In his role, White is serving to help the
Agency incorporate high TRL advanced power and
propulsion technologies into near and mid-term human
exploration architectures. He also is pursuing
theoretical and laboratory research on developing
lower TRL advanced propulsion and power technologies
in the advanced propulsion physics laboratory known
as Eagleworks that is located at the Johnson Space
Center.

https://www.nasa.gov/ames/ocs/2014-summer-series/harold-whit...
If there are a bunch of people that need this you could do the community a service by doing it and hosting it somewhere for all interested parties.
I have a scripts repository on github served as a collection of years of scratching my own itch: https://github.com/fishy/scripts

They are mostly python and shell scripts (with one PHP), and most of them are still useful today :)
I think you missed the humour, friend.
The speed of the Waser was the first thing I paid attention to upon hearing about it so long ago - I'm sure it'd be great as a toolshop or hackerspace tool, or perhaps even educational, but there's no way I could use this commercially to complement existing laser and CNC capabilities, so I'll just keep outsourcing.

A shame, as I'd really like to get on the first rung of water-cutting - it's an incredibly versatile tool.

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Your 6Kw fibre laser video has me looking at my own laser machine quite ruefully :)
Show HN: On-demand generated microservices
Old boys club is a misleading way to describe the scenario.

There is content that doesn't belong and content that does, this is established by the company at a broad scale and customized for various boards by the community.

I haven't seen the case where content belongs but is denied because you're not well enough know or w/e. If by old boys club you mean long standing members are preventing new members from changing policy then yeah thats true.

Another thing you're failing to realize is that that plenty of people who do RTFM, become contributors, and stick around. More than enough to keep up with demand.

> that get the boot because they've been addressed(poorly) previously

This is a valid complaint. I believe SE needs the Karma system to do a better job at rewarding cleaning up existing questions.

> At what point do you start just running a Wiki of programming answers, and not a community of programmers.

Its more we want a community to create a q/a based wiki. There needs to be a question answering community (no need to focus on the asking one it will come) and strict question moderation helps attract and retain the answering community. Retraining and attracting 15+ year industry vets is much more vital to SE's health than retraining new users.
If you have the disposable income to afford this you should be giving more money to charity, not Apple.
All of the ones that haven't sunk to civil war yet.
I'm not a big fan of "one-line proofs". Any proof is a one-liner if you omit the details of how you get from A to B.

I'd liken the utility of something like this to that of a "one-line program" where you just don't take a new line after the semicolons, and you skip all the initialization because "it's obvious given the context". The contents of the explanatory sidebar, while not one line, are significantly better than the contents of the main page.
Just interested: What's your use case for ECC? Do you intend to run a server on it and aim for highest stability?
George Takei: The Challenge Ahead Under President-Elect Trump
You can pretty much drop any fake news item into Google and immediately get back results from more reputable sites saying it's fake. Yes, you might have to do a little research into what's reputable, what their biases are, etc, but it's really not that hard and only has to be done about once or twice per major source. If you can't be assed to do that, yeah, you get fake news, enjoy it. I don't think a sizeable portion of the population is changing their political opinions over it, more that the bases are using it to confirm pre-existing biases.
Took me a while to realize this wasn't a joke. Seriously-- 2 sizes? ;-)
Oh, it's fogleman! I follow your work on GH dude, always on the lookout for a new repo from you in my feed haha :)

Looks like a great tool to be honest, and the UI looks beautiful. Wish you the best, and keep up the awesome work!
Let me add, how do we know that this situation isn't already the case? How do we know that other people's stream of consciousness is distinct from our own? Why do we ascribe importance to that?