skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope they make it easier too. Theres no documentation what so ever for installing kubernetes on coreOs yet they endorse using coreOs
Stephen Hawking has figured out exactly how much time humans have left on earth
I love Domainr, https://domainr.com/about/tlds
The lesson you should have learnt here is to keep backups. I'm amazed at how people store all their stuff on a single company's servers, and keep no backup at all (either locally, or at some other company).
Why is so hard to understand that some people are protected classes, and there's a good reason for that?

There are people in the US who have been marginalized and oppressed because of the color of their skin, their disability, the gender, their age, or their religion. Being white isn't one of those protected classes, because no one experiences oppression for being white.

It's so incredibly simple that it takes a white person to so stubbornly misunderstand it.
This is the second NYT article I see here today that is calling for more censorship because of some unsubstantiated claims. These people must be completely out of their minds.
The BBC is dodgy. That might sound like blasphemy, but year after year I'm increasingly aware of blatant bias, omissions, misrepresentations. The BBC is not to be trusted.
I think it's relevant, as I've heard a LOT of people claim that ZCash is amazing "because of the dream team behind it". The dream team clearly misunderstand cryptocurrencies, see for eg https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/713
"The triumphant reign of the Hawaiian Good Luck sign came to an abrupt end when Time magazine published a photo of the men and pointed out their ruse, writing in the caption that “three of the crewmen have managed to use the medium for a message, furtively getting off the U.S. hand signal of obscene derisiveness and contempt.”

When the crew’s captors read this, they kicked off what the men would come to call “Hell Week,” beating the crewmen mercilessly for days"

Fucking hell, I would really hope that whoever made the decision to print it faced at least some consequences. How much of an idiot do you have to be to not realize consequences of actions like this?
Bắt Địa chỉ IP Bất Sử dụng CloudFlare, Nginx, và Varnish
Here is the paper:

http://politicalbots.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Data-Mem...

I really dislike the basis of their research which is:

Twitter provides free access to a sample of
the public tweets posted on the platform. The
platform’s precise sampling method is not known, but
the company itself reports that the data available
through the Streaming API is at most one percent of
the overall global public communication on Twitter
any given time. [6]

So...we aren't going to mention a selection issue at all? Is that 1% of global Tweets a truly random sample? Can you confirm Twitter isn't manipulating the output? We have examples of them censoring stuff this cycle...

In order to get the most complete and relevant data set, the tweets were collected by following particular hashtags identified by the team as being actively used during the debate.

What's the methodology for selection? I'd hope research out of Oxford would be a little better argued. But of course since it's Oxford this research will get quoted in the New York Times by people who probably don't understand the paper they are reporting on and we'll have talking heads endlessly parroting why this justifies censorship.

All this research is showing evidence of is that the stream Twitter provides is pro-Trump. It's a massive leap of faith to assume this data truly is representative and non-biased.
I agree, but sadly IPFS still needs some optimization for that to be feasible.

I published the whole Wikidata dataset as separately accessible entities to IPFS and the initial publishing took ~2 weeks. Theoretically updating the dataset with weekly changes should be pretty fast after that, but if there is a change that impacts the JSON structure of every entity you have to start all over (which recently happened).

Right now Wikipedia/Wikidata is only really useful as a stress test for IPFS, but I'm optimistic for the future.

For anyone interested in this there is some (slow) progress on this at https://github.com/ipfs-wikidata , though it's admittedly a low priority for me right now, as I wait for the technical state of IPFS to improve.
offlineimap is pretty good. You can use the (very!) standard Maildir format, and eventually re-upload your emails elsewhere if you move.
Visual Studio Tools for Unity 3 Preview
I wouldn't mind a lack of upgradability on laptops if it meant much greater upgradability on desktops. It's at least semi-justifiable this way - consumer laptops that get replaced every few years, that are as light, slim, and gorgeous as possible, and professional desktops that can be upgraded every year, that can take up reasonable amounts of space because space is less of a premium when you're never moving something about.
The 'Dutch English' is hugely annoying...
That was interesting. Certainly kept my attention.
Fat Controller CQRS Diet: Command Pipeline
It's not $15 adapters for everything. The HDMI one is $49.
Interesting, I suppose I never thought about it from the perspective of an advertiser who is not direct response driven. That is, there may actually be players in the exchange who are buying eyeballs -- not conversions.
I'm in charge of the IT at a school that teaches EMR, if this is a quality product maybe we can switch to it!
But we're heading towards a future where Thunderbolt 3/USB-C can do everything. It's like complaining about HDMI replacing VGA, or USB A replacing an inbuilt CD drive.
Well I would say that is up to Twitter, Facebook and Reddit shareholders to decide since it is their property.

You don't get to cancel property rights because you don't like the reporting there. You also don't get to cancel freedom of speech because you don't like what someone is saying.
I understand that this is an early implementation.

Nevertheless, I have a question: how does it make sure the site you receive is actually the

a) correct one (someone could distribute incorrect pages e.g. about controversial topics like North Korea or Climate Change; or inject some malicious code that e.g. uses your account to submit changes to wikipedia)

b) most recent one (or at least a reasonably new one).

I imagine the first one could maybe be somehow guaranteed through the protocol. Maybe you can just solve the second by invalidating your local copy after it is more than one day old.

The github link on the homepage does sadly not work for me (firefox on linux), so I can't check.
dupe, please check before submitting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12981736
It is part of the liberal agenda that the oppressors cannot be discriminated against. So, in this case, racism against white people is impossible, because white people are seen as oppressors. Retarded but that's what they believe.
I apologize if I came off as an ass. I was ticked off by Redhat being painted as the BigBadCo and Canonical being painted as the little-guy-who-could.

I have the greatest of respect for anyone who has ever contributed a single line to Linux - more than anywhere else, your works really impacts countries like India.

I am not sure why there is this impression. I would be lying if I didn't think so myself.
That's like saying the CD drive is for boot discs.
That's wow, you are geek. :D
The OS is a matter of taste. After 8 years of Linux and macOS I switched to Windows 10 and I find it great so far.
But everybody already knows this. And since we live in a meritocracy it's just a matter of time that a free codec with no marketing muscle behind it takes over the world, right?

The mob (Xiph) who designed it is responsible for the speex codec, and is trying to apply the same principles to video in a codec called daala. Sadly it appears to have died.

Regardless, we should hail them as heroes. They gave the world the two best audio codecs we have. Suck on that, Fraunhofer.
Hard to forget to upgrade?
A now uncommon port.
Only the 13" model and it also has way inferior specs. They're clearly phasing out function keys on the pro line.
Presentation that includes size and performance figures:

http://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Wed1200-2016-01-...

Summary: smaller and faster than PicoRV32 & Z-scale, slower but smaller than Nios II/f.
That is the exact page I used to argue my case with Apple on the phone. I said it was misleading that the price given to me at the Apple store was so much higher than what was listed on their website.

They told me that those prices are the service pricing, but do not include parts. And because the entire lower-half of the laptop needed to be changed in the rMBP model, the total cost would come to about $900 AUD.

The actual item listed on the repair invoice is "Top Case Assembly with Battery" @ $562.73 and the "Hardware Repair Labor" charge is listed at $289 AUD.

Did you ever have friends or relatives change the battery in a retina MacBook Pro? Apple cannot remove the battery because it is glued into the lower case assembly. And so when I got my machine back from Apple the trackpad, keyboard, and lower aluminium chassis was brand new (however the bottom plate, logic board, and internals were the same).
Which is silly, since you can install the application on your phone from the computer. I don't need an SMS to see a link...
Semantics improves expressiveness which provides conciseness, which leads to less code. Less code is generally less bugs (sure...arguable). But definitely expressiveness is also often correlated to programmer happiness, which is important in itself.
No it's not. It's pretty cute.
You didn't get that he was meant to sound like a possibly Austrian psychoanalyst?
As best as I can tell. While playing audio an icon comes up you can tap to open up audio controls.
Domino's tests drone delivery of pizza in New Zealand
Your Bisiness Shouldn't Have Debts
so you could have done the same thing in python as well...
Just leave.
Where we fly –flychecker,cheap flights  Ibiza-stad € 99+ Alicante € 113+
???? (please turn on your sound) nothing else on the site here.
The text embeds/includes are really nice. Makes composing longer text much easier! I've been eyeing iA Writer for a while; anyone here use it? What do you like most/least about it?

PS: The only thing this introduces is that we're just one tiny step away from raw files, since these are iA-specific syntax. Not complicated, of course, you'd just need to include all the embedded files too. But to recreate the main file outside of iA, it would require at least some processing (copy/paste but still).
Doesn't seem to load on Safari/macOS. Console error:

Failed to load resource: An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made.
The Apple employee at the store explained that they cannot remove the battery from the rMBP model as it is glued in place.

When I complained in-person and through phone support I was told the same story specifically about the retina MBP model. They said that the standard charge for battery replacement in this model included the entire lower case assembly. I heard this from about four different support agents, even when it was escalated to the special support agent that was able to eventually authorise the free repair.

When I received my MacBook Pro back from battery service the keyboard, trackpad, and lower aluminium chassis were brand new. So they did change it all out just to replace the battery.
Video: Volkswagen Zukunftspakt
What are you trying to say? Racism against white is OK because whites are not a protected class?
Create an app like Nurx
I don't understand why this is a fork of glshim instead of a collaboration :/.
Is it this one? http://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes
funny, it can track/sync me from my "normal" chrome window over to the anonymous chrome window, anybody have a guess how it does that?
Apple could make iPhones in US in future
You're right, it doesn't take much skepticism, because that sort of conspiracy theorising is basically the opposite of skepticism, it's uncritical thinking.
I would guess IP Address is there anything else?
CSS and Scalabilty
how did this post drop so much? One minute I see it at nr 7, now I can't even find it. Is it hidden or did it drop 1000 places in literally 1 minute.
They currently get 2-3% of their electricity from nuclear:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/539691/china-will-soon-le...

A 5x increase in 15-20 years gets you to 10-15%. While that's good, I don't think it's enough given the current rate of CO2 production. It's hard to complain because they're doing a lot more than everyone else. Unfortunately, we need to find a way to do more.
Silicon IT Hub Is Agile Software Artisans
> Dealing with stress over time can break down the body’s ability to deal with short bursts of stressful situations, he says.

For what I could get from the article, under (mild) stress your thinking becomes sharper, but as it lasts longer, it breaks you down and you can't handle stressful spikes.

So, perhaps, not being stressed all day long is the key? I mean, just surf the stressful spikes, don't have a light stress constantly, because you won't be able to deal with those hard moments of stress (and yes, they will come someday and all you've gained from the light-stress-boost will be thrown away because you'll burn out).
> roughly 2/3 of mobile application revenues are through the App Store. The other 1/3 is Google Play.

Are there any indications of how much of that delta is driven by the availability of sideloading?
Fantastic, thanks. Looking forward to the hello world write up
Get Comfortable with Discomfort
Just wanted to add, as my comment seemed harsh against Russians - I've had a very mixed experience in Russia over the years. In cities, very mixed bag, muscovites are generally assholes but laugh about being assholes, st Petersburg clearly feel like they're under invasion. Go deeper though and people are warm and kind - we found ourselves being inexplicably adored in random small villages in the urals by the old babushkas sweeping the empty dusty streets. I had a night I'll never forget with a bunch of mobsters in Volgograd - and I met the Russian Slim Pickins as a highway cop near Astrakhan. Taught me to swear and beg for mercy in Russian, and let me go - despite the illegal-on-every-planet manoeuvre I'd just pulled.

Airbnb I've also had some great experiences with - in fact most have been - but it only takes one really shitty situation to sour ones perception. I'll probably use them again but it's still an issue they have to get on top of one way or another.
Funny thing is that here in Brazil this is EXTREMELY common, and people doesn't seem to care. Actually, people treat fake news as real here.
users flagging a post has a massive impact on its ranking, I assume that's what has happened here.
For scraping: selenium or bs4?
Capital Markets Go Long Trump
I thought it would first show as flagged. Now it just disappeared.
Offline, publish after consulting with the boss, his political allies and husband. Everything under the table. Huge barrier to entry. Editor moderation.

Is toxic because it leads to spreading lies like, for example, that HRC would win the election.

My point is , an equally toxic lot of shit happens in offline media too. It's just that you don't see it, and it doesnt bother you

Also, most people follow some blogs they trust, and most blogs do try to vet their stories. (maybe i 'm wrong, as i 've been out of facebook since forever).
oh pleasche schqueesche me a fresch glasch of orangche jchuische. It's funny :)
Hug of death? I'm getting loads of 500 errors.
I think it's a price you decide to pay or not. If you want to think sharper, you need to pay with the side affects. Very similar to Limitless (the movie and tv show), if you saw it.
If they can put up 20 sats per launch, that's a cost of $75m per launch. With first stage re-usability each launch might cost ~$35m, leaving $2m to pay for each of those 20 satellites. This isn't taking into account the cost of ground stations and operational costs such as personnel, but it doesn't seem completely outlandish.
I think the crux of these things is that you also kinda need the ability to fire people together with the code reviews.

If you have people that send you constantly completely broken code and refuse to get better, there's just not much you can do.
Change of fortunes? Dollar hits 13-yr high; Fed rate hike rumoured to be sooner
>the precision you can get from it is 1 cm (encrypted, presumably paid service) which is something I barely can believe.

You can actually get this level of precision with GPS too, using RTK - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Kinematic
It certainly is an improvement.

But my point was that it still leaves a whole lot of attack surface. If you want a provably secure system, you basically need to verify much more than "just" the kernel.

On the upside, if one did so, it would have benefits beyond security.
It seems that healthcare is one space that would benefit greatly by open source collaboration yet this sector, at least in America, has demonstrated over the last 8 years during funding by the ACA that it largely refuses to do so. So, it's nice that GNU has its Health project but the people who would actually decide what technology to use have already crossed that bridge. They've used public funding to re-create the wheel a thousand times over.
I would add music and workout. Music help get distressed very easy. And workout help bringing more oxygen in the system.
You don't have issues of force upgrade, reboot every week?

All of my linux desktops/servers have system uptime measures in months and few in years.
Go ahead, sell your soul.
It's a bit les surprising if you realise professor Forrester taught at the MIT Sloan school, which is the Business School. A fairly large percentage of the B-school students at MIT have an engineering background so it's still surprising they didn't know what the inside of a toilet's tank looks like.

I was in one of his classes and it was one of the best courses I ever had. Understanding of system dynamics has turned out to be surprisingly useful in lots of aspects of my career, not just engineering. Professor Forrester thought it might be good to teach it in Kindergarten, and I've come to realise that is not as crazy as it sounds.
Why cybersecurity has failed our market and how to fix it
Colorize according to votes. Purple = off-topic. Red = troll. Orange = weird and scary.

You could blend colors too. Reddish-purple = off-topic troll. Dark orange = weird and scary troll. etc.
Volkswagen plans 30K job cuts worldwide
Perhaps not mutually exclusive, all programmers try to introduce as few bugs as possible; but the philosophy is in fact "let it crash", then you reset to a stable state. Not only is the programmer unburdened of the cognitive load of trying to imagine every single point of failure, but also of the workload of a lot of defensive programming.

The whole reasoning behind this is what I said before: in large systems there will always be bugs, errors and failures will happen (some even outside of your code, e.g. power failure). Imagining every point of failure is impossible, so don't try to. Don't write preemptive code.

Yes, Erlang is dynamically typed, but not weakly typed.
IRS Seeks Transaction Records of All Coinbase Users Over Two Years
Agree, I'd like exactly to look closer inside "hard enough".

First, it depends on each specification -- what if the hardware is much-much smaller (IoT) and task to perform is well defined? It is hard today primarily because the required skill set becomes less and less current, but it is all demand-driven, it was not so some time ago.

Secondly, it could be replicated to some extent only -- for example, verified libraries for each device could come from each HW IP provider, instead of coming from the SoC vendor who integrated them. Say, Synopsis would provide a verified lib for the GbE controller -- to use with all SoCs that integrate it, etc. And the final integrator would take care of verifying the final integration, including his very small, fast, low-power-consuming and maintainable and 100%-dedicated kernel.

But my main argument is that the alternative is not so good-looking either. Porting and validation of the Linux kernel is performed mostly by engineers who have not the required skillset (managerial decision to spare on hires since "we have Linux") -- this is also something that I wish wasn't replicated among product makers but is, unfortunately.
Rocket Internet drastically decreases its team size at the Berlin headquarters
Stop using my internet connection without my consent!
Wow, this is an amazing progress to develop your games on Windows.
I usually use linux for all but if windows continue like this, i will think of giving a try to Visual Studio.
Yay! Just… Yay!

Now it's your turn, Oracle.
Bit syntax for Java, 1.1.ENOVEA1 released
I dont' buy that. A serious VIM user will have <CapsLock> mapped to <Esc> anyway.
It's resilient and fault-tolerant. Not antifragile according to Taleb's definition. Though, no reason you could not spawn 2 (or more) new processes for every 1 that crash.
New security camera compromised by worm within minutes of installation
> "Troves" don't have signatures. Omissions and context matter. See the ICIJ approach.

Even a single email offered by anyone claiming WL omitted emails would suggest you might be right. None have been offered.
Did you copy and paste the URL? It adds an id on the end, it doesn't track me when I remove the id.
http://otrude.net/employers/25980
Having a ‘work spouse’ makes you happier?
How is a browser extension you explicitly have to install, from a page that explains what it does, "using your internet connection without consent"?
Surprised no one has mentioned Cookie Clicker yet, which I think was what inspired notch to write that game: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

Notch's game was written in Dart and the source code is simple and elegant:

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid...
This bit of the judge's decision should give real concern to people wanting to be crygenically preserved:

> (2)	The voluntary organisation is said to have been under-equipped and disorganised, resulting in pressure being placed on the hospital to allow procedures that had not been agreed. Although the preparation of JS's body for cryogenic preservation was completed, the way in which the process was handled caused real concern to the medical and mortuary staff.
I used to work on this open source EMR:

https://oscar-emr.com/oscar/

Many years of work have gone into it.
> Which resulted in a spaghetti mess of over engineered code that still had bugs, and still didn't meet requirements, even after 100's of hour of reviews.

One would think the first check in any review is "does this code do what it should do?" and stop the review right there if it doesn't. As a professor of mine once said "code that crashes fast and efficient doesn't help anyone."
If you want some context on the significance and influence of his work modeling systems through the concept of feedback loops, I recommend the second part of Adam Curtis' "All watched over by machines of loving grace":

"The use and abuse of vegetational concepts"
https://vimeo.com/groups/96331/videos/80799352

Jump to minute 6:00 to watch the part about Jay Forrester, including an interview with him.
I agree with what you're saying--fake news from Facebook brainwashing people probably was not the deciding factor in this election.

However, fake news is a huge problem, especially as more and more people get their news from Facebook. Even if fake news wasn't THE factor this election, it was A factor, and it's not hard to imagine a future in which fake news determined the outcome of an election.
And one more
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