skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real problem did not start with Facebook and other social media being fake. It was the main stream media that started to generate fake news with the support of their local governments. No one can explain better than [ https://chomsky.info/ ].

The other issues is international, before this year US elections, US used these so called social media to "export its kind" of democracy to other part of the world, call it Arab Spring and rest of the events in middle east and recently in Turkey. It was perfectly legitimate to use them as under cover agents of democracy.

History has taught a lesson to American( sensible ones) who were closing their eyes/or unawre of world events specially and how they affected the people around the glob using "Democracy" "Freedom of speech" "human values" while violating the exact same thing at the same time.

Their bigotry has revealed in a strange way, but its too late for lots of people, for Americans and for the rest of the World.

What are the alternatives:

a). Free media the ways it should be, main stream media is polarized itself already and dictated by high in the Govt. offices.

b). Accept that democracy does not work sometimes if its helping hands are already chopped off
e.g participation of civil society, feed media etc ..

c). Do not spread democracy for the sake of democracy if its more evil than dictatorship.
That is really not true given the full history of things. Most Republicans were very willing to compromise after Obama first took office, but he elected to completely ignore them instead since he had a super majority. At that point the only thing they had left to do was to be obstructionist, and I'm sure he was very aware of the potential political consequences of jamming legislation through in the beginning of his administration. In my opinion, the attempts at being bipartisan later were just political showmanship. Similar to how the Republicans voted to repeal Obamacare repeatedly even though they knew it would be vetoed. There was a lot of legislation that was voted on only because the knew it would get vetoed
> I was in the habit of just holding the clutch pedal down while stopped at intersections or in traffic.

If you take a driving test in the UK and do this, that would be a minor fault. You can only have a few minor faults before you fail the test. The rationale is that you need to be in full control of the car at all times, and when you set off you mustn't drift backwards at all. The easiest way to do this without needing three legs is to use the handbrake. Unless you have a diesel engine that has enough torque without any pressure on the accelerator pedal to pull away.
Here is how Donald Trump described said candidate's apology for that: "And then he apologized like a little baby, like a disgusting, little weak, pathetic baby, and that's the problem with our country," [1]

Make no mistake, Trump and the alt-right are incredibly hostile to anyone who doesn't see Black Lives Matter as an evil, racist attack on white people, who don't think that blacks complaining about police violence against them is the real racism.

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/21/politics/martin-omalley-do...
It's more complicated than that. If Google just produced a standard version of Android with a standard kernel version that all vendors would write for, refreshing and wiping phones would be as easy as Windows/Linux laptops. I wrote a post on this a while back:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/

Since then, I've become more and more frustrated with other ARM boards. Android fragmentation is directly related to ARM fragments and it's a huge mess. Things like device trees help, but ARM is missing the standardized architecture that Intel, Power, et. al. have.
That is helpful, thank you.

But the most concerning issue however, in my opinion, and taking into account the amount of attention that the NTM paper got, is that (to my knowledge) all public implementations of the suggested architecture involve a great deal of guesswork. The researchers didn’t release any code; only vague details about the architecture and results that we must take on their word. The note they released is, I think, closer to being a tantalizing press release than a proper scientific report.
I think the legal theory behind this would be that you have agreed that Google can terminate your account for any reason.

Furthermore, they're not preventing you from reselling your phone at all - just deleting your account. Not "deleting your account if you do resell it" just deleting your account. First sale simply means they can't sue or get you arrested. They can do anything else with you, and refusing to do any further business with you certainly falls within that scope.

Without additional laws there's nothing to do here.

TLDR: never use your main Google, or Facebook, account for anything, not even buying a Google made phone, or buying Facebook ads for your own company, just never ever do that, so that at the very least, the pain is spread. They are businesses, and you do not want to give them a trivial way to retaliate or use this in a negotiation.
They are? Not in the US:

BMW 340i: Auto 4.8s, Manual 4.9s
http://www.bmwusa.com/Standard/Content/Vehicles/2017/3/340iS...

BMW M3: DCT 3.9s, Manual 4.1s
http://www.bmwusa.com/Standard/Content/Vehicles/2017/M/M3Sed...

C&D review of the VW Golf R: "The manual loses to the automatic Golf R against the stopwatch. The 0.7-second deficit from zero to 60 mph, which takes 5.2 seconds, is almost fully attributable to the two shifts required to reach 60"
http://www.caranddriver.com/volkswagen/golf-r#eztoc8578403_0...

I couldn't find a manual Mercedes on their website, Skoda isn't for sale here, and I couldn't find 0-60 numbers on VW's website so I quoted an automotive review instead.

The general consensus I've seen is that automatic transmission cars are faster than manual transmission cars 0-60.
Weird.

Passed my test in the UK a couple of weeks ago (I'm 30 years old) it was just assumed that I would be learning manual. In fact I had everybody I know tell me to learn manual (even the people that learned automatic) simply because it means I can drive both with a manual licence.

I'd say most cars in the UK are manuals, far fewer automatics. I don't have exact numbers to hand, but from googling I'm seeing ~20% of cars on the roads are automatics.
Remember that managers too respond to incentives. People working 9-5 are probably more productive than those doing 12 hour days, but which is more likely to keep the VC money flowing?
Most people in the UK? At least, if they want to pass their driving test.
Less than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual controls.
- 2036
Yes, but whites are less likely to be suspects in crimes (per capita, since whites live in nicer areas on average), so the polices won't stop them as often.
I think someone who figures out an easy way to do it will get some nice money coming in :)

Technology is already there, just need an easy way to order a domain and a server configured to use that domain. You control 100% of the data.
> On the logging question, does the ForwardToSyslog option not do what you'd like?

Of course not. Now you have two logging services. Hardly a replacement.
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> Stop/start reduces fuel consumption on test cycles like NEDC

I would like to know:

1. How long you need to idle to recharge the electricity to battery you use to restart the engine?

2. Does NEDC and others require that the battery has same state of charge at the end of the cycle as when beginning?
worst scenario - list of some/all spies on given territory leak. even those who blended perfectly would face torture, and either death sentence or be forced to betray the country they spy for. you can never trust anybody, not women, not friends (which you don't actually have). crap life
Sunset over America: it’s time for the next superpower
Sarkozy has already suggested this for Europe - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/donald-trump-...
Ask HN: Does anyone still use TextMate?
If so, whats your reason for staying and not moving to more "modern" text editors like atom or sublime?
Can you explain what you mean with agenda? When i read the nytimes i expect a bit of an bias, i am totally ok with that. Every newspaper has an opinion. But i would not be ok with an agenda if you interpret that as selecting stories that mostly fit with your goal and bending stories to favour your goal. That's not journalism.
Junk prevention is addressed in the details of the proposal, deliberate deorbiting early, but if not they'll decay nicely. It's still as many satellites as are currently flying at all, but they have considered it.
What else is there to do? I don't text in the driver's seat, putting the gear in neutral gives my limbs something to do.

(It happens to involve the clutch, but that is "automatic", as in "muscle memory", even though I drive less than once a month)
Spot-checked BMW as well:

http://www.bmw.de/de/neufahrzeuge/3er/limousine/2015/technis...

Innerorts in l/100 km: 5,2 [5,0] / 4,7 [4,6]

Außerorts in l/100 km: 3,8 [3,6] / 3,4 [3,3]

Kombiniert in l/100 km: 4,3 [4,1] / 3,9 [3,8]

Beschleunigung 0-100 km/h in s: 7,9 [7,8]

Numbers in brackets are with automatic transmission, and it outperforms the manual transmission in both fuel efficiency and acceleration.

Not gonna do Skoda and Volkswagen, feel free to prove me wrong though!
It's because Germany has a very low credit card penetration rate and the German debit cards cannot be used to guarantee a transaction. Direct debits can be cancelled without any reason for a while and aren't confirmed at all for several days.

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to change. The big banking networks have their own debit system that's not compatible with many international online payment systems. There is thus little incentive to switch to sth like Visa/Mastercard debit cards.
Whoa there. I was asking a question, somewhat incredulously. Maybe the person who wrote that comment is misinformed. Maybe they know something we don't.

Nowhere did I suggest they were 'JetBrains shills' and neither should you, unless you have some evidence of it.
I'm assuming that's a dig against American cars, but most European and Asian cars sold here are also automatics.
Another solution would be to disable dhcpcd while the laptop is locked.

I think udev is a bit to low level for this. NetworkManager & co. would be the right place IMO.
Maybe this could even be considered a security bug with them.
>it could dump US debt for Euro debt — a radical move, but one that would gain a lot of attention

Well, most people don’t know, but China’s SAFE foreign offices were buying very rarely used securities called bond substitution swaptions with foreign currency re-factoring option against T-bills (the best English translation I can come up with) since 2008.

What this paper lets the buyer to sell the T-Bill for Euro cash value of an equivalent Eurobonds if the T-Bill goes up, or swap if for equivalent Eurobonds if T-Bill value goes down.

Given that such securities are not publicly traded, China gets exceptionally bad price for them as financial instruments, but gains much in peace of mind in case of T-Bill nuclear scenario. I have no data on how much these swaptions they purchase, but many people say that the current Eurobond valuation anomaly may be due to SAFE moving the market from behind the curtain.
Yeah, Service Fabric is super awesome! I'm refactoring out company's infrastructure to run on it currently - the older stuff runs on MVC 5 on Azure Cloud Service.

I'm refactoring it to ASP.NET Core on Service Fabric. Getting about 50x better real-world performance. Yes, that much. It's insane. Currently on Windows as Service Fabric on Linux is in preview (not comfortable using it in production), but I imagine I'll move it over once that's stable ️

A great time to be a .NET developer! Makes me happy I stuck with it.
Sure here are the logs:

[art] Not late-enabling -Xcheck:jni (already on)
[AndroidRuntime] Shutting down VM
[AndroidRuntime] FATAL EXCEPTION: main
[AndroidRuntime] Process: com.greenrobot.testapp, PID: 3218
[AndroidRuntime] java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider mono.MonoRuntimeProvider: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to find application Mono.Android.Platform.ApiLevel_23 or Xamarin.Android.Platform!
[AndroidRuntime]	at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:5156)
[AndroidRuntime]	at android.app.ActivityThread.installContentProviders(ActivityThread.java:4748)
[AndroidRuntime]	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4688)
[AndroidRuntime]	at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap1(ActivityThread.java)
[AndroidRuntime]	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1405)
[AndroidRuntime]	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
[AndroidRuntime]	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
[AndroidRuntime]	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
[AndroidRuntime]	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
[AndroidRuntime]	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
[AndroidRuntime]	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
[AndroidRuntime] Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to find application Mono.Android.Platform.ApiLevel_23 or Xamarin.Android.Platform!
[AndroidRuntime]	at mono.MonoRuntimeProvider.attachInfo(MonoRuntimeProvider.java:38)
[AndroidRuntime]	at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:5153)
[AndroidRuntime]	... 10 more
[AndroidRuntime] Caused by: android.content.pm.PackageManager$NameNotFoundException: Xamarin.Android.Platform
[AndroidRuntime]	at android.app.ApplicationPackageManager.getApplicationInfo(ApplicationPackageManager.java:304)
[AndroidRuntime]	at mono.MonoRuntimeProvider.attachInfo(MonoRuntimeProvider.java:32)
[AndroidRuntime]	... 11 more
[Process] Sending signal. PID: 3218 SIG: 9

Email me at andy@greenrobot.com if you have any questions and don't want to post them publicly.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems

Gentoo officially uses OpenRC (and eudev), which is what you get if you follow the installation handbook. However, Gentoo also encourages choice and allows many options for init, daemon management, etc, which includes systemd. Other options ( are also available, too, at least unofficially.

> if the user makes no decision

While OpenRC is the official default, the "compile and setup everything yourself" nature of Gentoo makes this kind of statement somewhat irrelevant. One of the major reasons to use Gentoo is the ability to pick the components you want in your OS so it meets your specific needs. So yes, while there is a default, the concept of having a "default" is less important when you are installing everything manually.
Zfec – Efficient, portable erasure coding tool
Ah yes Office .Net.

Such confusion. They then went and tagged "Live" on everything.
Disaster Recovery in a Virtualized World
In today’s always-on, information-driven organizations, business continuity depends completely on IT infrastructures that are up and running 24/7. The costs of downtime are huge and data loss can put a company out of business. Data loss is not only caused by natural disasters, power outages, hardware failure and user errors, but more and more by software problems and cyber security related disasters. Therefore thorough security and business continuity strategies are crucial for modern businesses, minimizing data loss and downtime.

Especially now, as data centers become more and more softwaredefined, these private, hybrid and public clouds become more vulnerable to these kinds of threats. In a software-defined, virtualized environment, applications run on virtual machines (VMs), independent from the hardware. Though this brings a lot of efficiency benefits to the business, these benefits are not extended into the realm of disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC).

Most DR/BC solutions are still based on physical entities, arrays and appliances, and lack the ability to scale with the amount of data modern organizations produce. Many of the benefits achieved through virtualization, therefore, can be lost because of the management overhead and the complexity of aligning a virtualization strategy with disaster recovery tools designed for physical environments. Virtualization-aware BC/DR solutions are needed to overcome this.
Germany has a very bad banking system, mostly due to the high market share of very small banks that don't want to or cannot adapt quickly.

Here in the UK transfers also arrive within seconds 24/7 and debit cards can be used for online payments. No idea why transfers in Germany need 1-3 days (depending when you submit it) in a time when there's no manual work involved.
When would skipping a gear be more "eco"?

I find the shift indicator annoying. Depending on the car (e.g. my diesel 1.6L), it will probably be unreliable. One example is suggesting to shift up when driving on a light ramp when going over 2000rpm - this might be more eco, but it will put strain on the engine and also decrease your reaction time if you need to accelerate.

The only useful thing that the indicator does convey is to keep it between ~1200 - 2000rpm and don't go over 130km/h if you want to save fuel.

Interestingly my car model has the best fuel efficiency available only on manual, the same engine automatic uses slightly more fuel.
But an automatic is generally safer (instant reaction time) and less troublesome (can't choke the engine).
I don't think one has any chance of doing things like controlled drifts with an automatic.
As others have said, I would go with simulated annealing, or any non convex optimization algorithm you're more comfortable with.

But first I'd investigate what's really the gain of closely packing the candies. Would shipment costs increase with a bigger non completely filled box? wouldn't a non rigid bag be better? Do non closely packed candies get damaged with shipment? Do customers prefer closely packed candies?

I mean, let's say you get good enough local optimum configurations, then you have to exactly follow them packing the candies one by one... wouldn't it be easier to throw everything in a bigger bag and ship that?
"automatic transmission" is usually taken to specifically mean a torque-converter based hydraulic transmission, rather than a general class of self-shifting transmissions. I'm sure that's the sense in which the parent comment to yours meant it.
Pff, couldn't even recognize bread: http://i.imgur.com/kSdiWeP.png
You're just repeating what he said. A dual clutch automatic can be more efficient, but the more common torque converter type won't be.
Maybe a bit of a contrary opinion here but I think Google is in the right. You break the terms that you agreed no when creating your account, you loose your account.

I was in a similar situation recently where I lost my adsense account. My appeal got rejected, and once they made the connection to my other adsense account which was run by a business entity, they banned that adsense account as well for violating the terms with creating another adsense account. That it was linked to a YouTube channel that lost monetization and partner status didn't matter. That it was not even breaking the terms as it was owned by a legal entity instead of me as a person didn't matter either. Try to contact a human to get this mistake out of the way? Impossible.

It's important to know how fragile your entire online existence can be. Plan for these kind of things and backup often. Don't trust cloud services and have a emergency strategy ready.

For me, I took control over my domain, moved it to fastmail and would be ready to rewire the mx records to a different server anytime.
My dropbox account is getting auto-pulled to my NAS at home which is powered by a RAID setup, and once a week the files are compressed and stored somewhere else. It's setup in a way that if dropbox deletes a file, the NAS doesn't delete it unless manually given permission to wipe deleted files.
Same goes for Google Music - all files I buy or upload are getting auto-downloaded to the NAS and securely stored.

I have multiple Google accounts for different things: Music, YouTube, Analytics and all services that allow it have multiple account managers setup, just in case a account is getting terminated and login is no longer possible.

Then I still have 1 google account that I am using as login email for very important things, just because it's the least likely to get compromised.

After signing up somewhere with OAuth, I also immediately go into the settings and give myself a password and valid email to not rely on the OAuth provider.

Paranoid? Don't think so. Since knowing that my data is waiting at home for me and can't just disappear, I am sleeping a lot better. It was a bit annoying to go from the convenient "my google account is my life" to this solution, but the ease of mind is so worth it.
Rather than fraud or lying, I think Dharam Pal Singh may be simply mistaken. My grandmother, who would have been in her 90s now, never knew her correct birthday. She knew her Hindu-calendar birthday, but you can't translate that to a Gergorian date unless you know the year too. Record-keeping in India was pretty patchy back in those days.

> For four years, officials said, they had patiently requested that Dharam Pal Singh provide reliable evidence to verify his birth date: school records, military records, baptismal records, medical records, school records of his children.

Yeah, no. My grandmother could not have done that either. She dropped out before completing high school. Come to think of it, I haven't seen my father's birth certificate either. His school records carry a false birthday, which was pretty common back in the day. If parents wanted to get a child admitted to a school, but the kid was a few months short of being eligible, the parents would just pick a suitable date.
> solve their business problems

Your job is to solve business problems. You happen to use code as the tool to do so because it lends itself to building better, more reliable, more scalable solutions.

Nobody pays for a lump of code, they pay for a tool that solves a problem they have.
As far as I know, 3D secure also works for debit cards. In many countries debit and credit cards use the same system (Visa/Mastercard). Have seen 3D secured payments several times for my UK debit Mastercard.
Splittable: bundler with support for code splitting, ES6 and CommonJS modules
Hi Alin,

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What you describe already exists but it doesn't get called "automatic". The car companies don't call it that, the drivers don't call it that. It'll be called DCT or the older sequential manual gearbox.
Ask HN: What Slack bots are you using?
We started playing with the "retrobot" (https://github.com/remy/retrobot) and it has been super useful so far. We run it before our weekly review meeting so everyone can give feedback and vote. It has a "summary" command to get the next-steps.

Are you using another bot that boosts your team productivity?
True, but the amounts of fuel needed for idling is minuscule.
Ask HN: Good source of artistic WebGL
Where is the best place to find awe-inspiring examples of art (think interactive landscapes etc) using WebGL?
That is why I stick to OSS like Linux, Thunderbird, nextcloud, etc. as much as possible. I got locked into a closed source platform once and it was a pain to get out of it. I will never let it happen again.
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In the UK at least, all our payments in store above £20 require a PIN to be used (payments below £20 you can use the fairly recently introduced touch pay which just requires you to touch the card to the payment machine).

If you are purchasing online, all my credit and debit card payments require me to enter 3 random characters from my (previously set up) password.

Not sure what the system is like elsewhere in Europe/worldwide.