skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hypocrisy at its finest.

Few months ago I installed Windows 10 and decided to try Edge. Here's how Google responded to that:

1) Every time I went to google.com, I was presented with a notice that I should install Chrome and that I should set Google.com as my search engine

2) Google sent an email to my Gmail account telling me that I should install Chrome and use it instead.

3) Every time I went on Youtube.com, I was again pestered with notices that I should install Chrome.

And if you're a Firefox user, you've probably noticed "set your search engine to Google" every time you search on their site. But being an Edge user is 10x worse.

Google is THE WORST offender when it comes to pushing their own services.

EDIT: Here's the email that Google sent me... just found it: https://i.imgur.com/aTChPib.png
Probably - but then either the default price would be the ugly $103 that makes it obvious it works the other way and stops them from saying it's <$100, or the price in general would go down to $97 and they probably pull in less money overall.
What I miss most about Apple was that Apple was the company that made reasonable decisions for you, when it came to security and all those technical details that was/is endemic in any computing. They had Opinions with a capital O - and made sure that every product you'd buy would be guaranteed to work with other products. If you had the money, you could focus on what you were trying to get DONE rather than spend forever learning about the implementation details. Abstract people from the hardware - focus on the use cases.

Now it seems they're leaving people who depended on that behind. No company offers an ecosystem that doesn't require "fiddling" to get things to work correctly. Maybe this is the way it has to be, but I really wonder what Apple's strategy is going forward, because its clear that they've slowed down or stopped development on everything other than their phones/pads and the occasional laptop. What are all their engineers doing? What is the use of having hundreds of billions in the bank if you're not investing it in growing or creating product lines?
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Did anyone notice 12-bit jpeg?
Apparently the jpeg standard was extended to support 12 bits per color channel. Do any cameras support this format? Does any commercial and/or free software support it? I can't even find an example file with high bit-depth to try opening in <random app>.
How about Eero?
Debugging hints for Logstash
Because B2B and B2C markets usually use BANKS as intermediaries for currency exchange anyway, so only the banks need to do it, and already have exchange provisions for fees, it would be easier to do there as a tax (additional fee). So instead of every individual responsible for filing taxes, only banks, and businesses do (which they already do as sales tax).
Japanese peacekeepers arrive in South Sudan with new mandate
Show HN: Small maze game written in Elm
This last election day, only 4 of the races on my ballot were even contested. The policy could have been to chop up all logsfromblammo into kindling and use them light fires under wicker cages filled with crying children, and I still would have voted for it, just because it wasn't for the smug, major-party incumbent.

So yeah, thanks for running. Because of you, someone was able to make a choice.
This is a good point. The chinese room seems to stem from a more antiquated system of serial processing and the analogy doesn't quite hold when we look at the massive parallelism that occurs in the human mind that gives us consciousness. Furthermore humans can still think in the absence of understanding. In fact id argue a majority thoughts by people are conjugated without full understanding of the subject of the thought.
I would say that we all have become numb to the negative aspects of this job, which as you can imagine, usually include:

1) (rightfully) angry customers
2) painfully arbitrary and illogical corporate procedures
3) any sort of purpose or mission that our products fulfill

Speaking for myself, I think it's very important to realize that this job is one of the best in town, is still decently well paid, and allows you the down time required to work on "real" projects.

The ones who were capable of leaving have left. The rest of us are waiting.
that would be abused by folks who paid $200 to a diploma mill.
Exploring Java's Hidden Costs
You're 100% right about debugability. It's the main reason I don't push to use haskell every day. That said, I think we really need to get clever and think of good tools to debug in spite of these difficulties. Most complex bugs are from interacting systems that can't be found by step debugging. For example, the following code is considered pythonic, and for good reason:

fs = [f(x) for x in xs]

The other commenter's points about being cleaner and less prone to debugging are totally legit. If we can make e.g. list/set comprehensions debuggable, we can probably make other FP idioms debuggable and get the best of both worlds.

Kinda reminds me of microservices, actually. Tough to debug, but good in other ways.
> This is not the 40's.

Investors actually have a name for that. They call it the "This time is different" fallacy.
How do people justify and act going into an interview if you think there is a less than 10% chance of you wanting the job.

Do you just walk in and say "Yeah, I don't think this is going to work but I came here just for the hell and experience of it." This feels like a shitty thing to do, it feels even more shitty to walk in like you really want the job when you're mostly there for the practice.
But, I don't "really want high performance networking". What I want is "good-enough performance networking" everywhere in my house.
>Campaign to get obstructionist members of Congress replaced. That's a pretty unsatisfying answer, but that's the only legal means to do it right.

The problem is that Congressional districts are gerrymandered as fuck, making it quite often impossible to have a genuine two-party contest within electoral politics. I mean, are you suggesting Team Pepsi run in Team Coke's Congressional primaries as moderates rather than contesting a general election they basically can't win?

A system in which Congresspeople get to pick their favorite voters isn't democratic.
EMET is a complex service that requires a small dedicated team to functionally operate at organizations of any size. Its simply too hard of a sell to all but the most security-focused enterprises, and the resources that go into it would be better utilized on regular systems security.
Don't use things like RISEUP.NET. You shouldn't be running mailing lists at all. You shouldn't be using Jabber and asking all your peers to enable encryption.

So what are the types of services one should use?
> Apple's hardware/software integration has always been a better bet for ease of configuration, and honestly, reliability.

Meh. I worked at AppleCare for about 1.5 years and when I got calls regarding issues with the MacBooks I'd say 99% of the time the internet connectivity issues was with the AirPort Extreme and it had to be hard reset (I've had to walk through this process so much I could essentially recite it in my sleep back in the day).

That's only an anecdote but consumer grade networking, including Apple's, just always seems to suck. Nowadays I try to spend a little more and get some sort of small business type of router.

So, in my mind, their customers are not missing out on much. Though I'll admit the App for getting it up was nicely than browsing to some IP address like many routers at the time.
> To use an imperfect analogy, who would be better at actually building houses; a vocational school grad (who built houses all day as part of his education) or a college educated architect? A lot of programming these days is "hammering nails" not architectural design.

If bootcamps were vocational schools things would be great. As it is, how many are more like for-profit scam courses handing out unrecognized certificates with the main aim of teaching people how to game the programming interview process?
It's slightly different because Google has not had a court find that they abused their monopoly position to push their own browser and crush competition.

I am not suggesting that this current action violates the terms of Microsoft's settlement, only that there's relevant historical context here.

To be clear, I think both companies' whining is tacky and annoying.
Munchery appoints new CEO amid reported struggles
It would be better to spend that money figuring out how to improve the plight of working class people for whom college isn't in the cards.

We need a great deal more genuinely affordable housing in this country. That would be an excellent start.
Can you elaborate on why? We use css to style images.
I did an svg animation a few weeks ago and used a mix of css and javascript. I find this much nicer
Materialism assumption. :)
How would anyone get such a proof? Seems like mining would need to be collaborative, with no possibility of choosing the collaborators.
They are laughing yes, I don't want to speak for everyone at Dyn, but the people I know are laughing at how hard it is to escape Big Red!
Downvotes are nice, but is there any other solution? I want just security updates without new extra functionality.

MS is unpredictable and I do not trust them. One day it might decide to put ads on wallpaper or something.
Microsoft says it themselves and who are we to disagree? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

"WOW64 is the x86 emulator that allows 32-bit Windows-based applications to run seamlessly on 64-bit Windows".
> Yea, sure. What's so hard about that?

The hard part is coming to grips with consciousness merely being an abstract or concrete system changing states and nothing more. If rocks on the ground can be (slowly) self aware, then doesn't that mean everything in the universe is self-aware?

For example, say I throw a bucket full of sand on the ground. Then, later, I define an incredibly complex abstract computer, such that the sand falling out of the bucket and shifting along the ground exactly represents a self-aware AI within my defined computer going through its states. Does that mean as I was pouring the the sand on the ground, the sand was momentarily self-aware?
Exactly. Every day that goes by w/out a proof-of-life from Assange adds weight to the theory that he is in fact no longer alive.
Next year I will have been programming for half a century; in this time I've used a few dozen languages (counting things like awk, m4, and SQL in addition to ordinary programming languages). AppleScript has to be near my least favorite language. It's so called natural language syntax is verbose, unintuitive, and ambiguous to me. Almost any real programming language would be better: bash, python, Lua, JavaScript, tcl, ruby, whatever.

AppleScript seems to be a valiant effort to design a language for non-programmers, but the English like syntax just adds complexity to writing even simple programs.

See Dijkstra's take on "natural language" programming[1].

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...
Apparently not a threat to Hawaii - Tsunami threat for Japan:

http://ptwc.weather.gov/text.php?id=hawaii.TIBHWX.2016.11.21...

"THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER HAS ISSUED A TSUNAMI THREAT MESSAGE FOR OTHER PARTS OF THE PACIFIC LOCATED CLOSER TO THE EARTHQUAKE. HOWEVER... BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII."
Wait, how is this hypocrisy? Google isn't the author of this article.
As a tourist I showed up in the Munich airport on a plane from the States. They stamped my passport without a pre-arranged visa and set me on the intra-continental flight to Pisa. Which countries need pre-arranged visas for tourism in the EU?
> be a nation state, and no state is ever going to renounce that monopoly.

I agree that the politicians in Washington will fight back to continue their monopoly. How people transact in private life has however no implication on nation state. USA as a nation state and we as people would be significantly better if Fed stops the business of regulating currency and simply replaces old note with new ones.

The fight on BTC is something that US government is bound to lose because the rate of innovation here has already surpassed the rate at which the pen pushers in Washington can pass a bill.
prices would lower so it's not only the the rich.

Right now it benefits the rich a great deal since they can afford unpaid internships or low paying entry jobs
Fine, it's clever. I'll give them that. They can go fuck off down the river though.
Your thoughts on "/api.txt" are pretty similar to how a Hydra API can be discovered: https://www.hydra-cg.com/spec/latest/core/#discovering-a-hyd...

Essentially, there can be a Link HTTP header to the "Entry-Point" document for the API, which further links to the vocabulary that describes the resources understood by the system and the actions you can perform on them.

Link: <http://api.example.com/doc/>; rel="http://www.w3.org/ns/hydra/core#apiDocumentation"

I recommend watching some of the talk videos listed on the hydra web page: http://www.hydra-cg.com/
Yeah I had a Linux TimeMachine for a time, I had to completely restart the TimeMachine pretty consistently. So I didn't much trust the NAS implementations of TimeMachine. But then again I have used TimeMachine through Mac OS Server and it started doing the same.
Which can be changed at any time.
So I'm in the business of wheeling and dealing in these things.

It's common knowledge in the industry that all of these devices likely have government backdoors or (likely deliberate) critical security flaws at any moment.

Virtually all CCTV hardware comes from ruthless and unregulated Chinese markets where the goal is to obfuscate the price (and source) as much as possible, to prevent price discovery by the end user and allow 2-4x markups on the equipment by the integrator.

Usually these manufacturers will sell to separate companies for their name brand, off-brand, and offer custom branding to distributors.

Due to the obfuscstion of manufacturing source, and at the same time a desire to "stand out" amonst the rest, the industry is rife with knockoffs, third-shift products, stolen technology, unauthorized distribution, you name it.

As an example: Every single Hikvision camera on amazon.com is an illegal sale and void of any official support from Hikvision. Go ahead and try to call them with a serial number for a product you bought on amazon and see what happens. It doesn't matter that the company selling the product on amazon is also named Hikvision (its an imposter).

Point being, the surveillance camera market is so rife with corruption that you generally accept that everything is compromised.

But none of it matters, because as long as the features work and the equipment is reliable, you simply throw it all behind an isolated network and call it a day.
I turned off alerts on LinkedIn when I change something on my profile and I don't post my resume online. I also only work with local companies that have been in business for a while.

I've found a few recruiting "companies" that just put up a WordPress blog and the footer even says "powered by WordPress". I don't respond to those at all.

I have 26 local recruiters all from different companies in my contacts. My shortest time from starting the process to having an offer is 4 days - from a Fortune 10 company. My longest is three weeks when I was being very picky about what technology I wanted to use.
I bought an Ac66u a while back (nicknamed dark knight). The thing died after 1 month. I didn't have the time or inclination to bother to return the thing (Asus support was entirely unhelpful). Sat like a dead spider in my networking cabinet as I put my Airport back into service.

If Apple is indeed abandoning the router space I'm a bit disappointed and worried that leadership doesn't understand the basic needs of their average brand loyal customers.
> If you really want high performance networking, use wired. It is stupid to connect a television set, for instance, via WiFi.

This is complete nonsense. 802.11N / 802.11AC are perfectly fine for your streaming needs. No need to try and rip up the walls or run ugly cables all over the place. Wireless in 2016 just works for streaming like this.

Unless you're trying to drive some 8K video but even then AC should still be good. I know over 802.11N, on an older generation of FireTV, separate by 1 story and multiple walls our TV streams fast and does native playback on the FireTV for most of our videos at its original quality settings.
> Our current education system isn't always the most efficient way to learn. Skip the unrelated to programming classes, the extra curricular things, make people basically sleep, eat, and code for a few months and it's doable.

This attitude is the reason why I am strongly in favor of expanding vocational schools and training in the United States and Canada. People who do not actually care about learning or thinking should be discouraged from attending university and wasting the time of other students and faculty.
Per month? Per year?
How would this actually work? Wouldn't it be painfully slow? Even ARM emulation on x86 seems to be pushing it, and I feel like the reverse should be 10x worse at best...
Science Olympiad is perhaps one of the best examples of the differing level of parental involvement and the impact it makes. However, personally, I always tried to remove the competition from learning despite the curve. Ultimately, what the Jones's are doing has little impact on your own ability to learn and that's what its all about.
We only need one good solar flare similar to one we had 150 years ago to end modern civilization.
How do you compare it to just buying nice off-the-shelf APs and installing OpenWRT on them? I've been doing that for quite a while now and it's reasonably painless. The things I've seen mentioned are that Ubiquiti makes the config easier (don't really care at this point) and has better support for seamless handoff which was an issue when doing VoIP over WiFi sounded like a good idea but these days normal cell coverage is too good and too cheap to bother.
Trump rally carries stocks to new records
How the 2016 Election Blew Up in Facebook’s Face
Ask HN: How do you begin to find contracts as a freelancer?
I'm looking to do some freelancing but don't have a network or past customers to rely on for contracts. I've been applying to Upwork jobs but it's been difficult without ratings and competing against lower priced engineers.

I do have experience as a DevOps engineer so I feel confident in my abilities to build production-ready infrastructure but getting the right leads is not something I'm experienced with.

What has worked for you?
If I read your link correctly, that announcement is saying the earthquake is not a threat to Hawaii.
Why? What makes it nice?
I knowingly bought the only device that will get me to the internet while having good antennas.
Good point. His platform does seem to be left-of-center, though, so Republicans didn't really have much of an option in this race.

EDIT: Honestly thought Shea was a female name. Oops.
New technique could help treat phobias and PTSD
Many 22 year olds with a CS degree have been coding since they were 12.
They are probably looking at competitors entering the space. Starry, Google, and more are entering the $200 "we'll take care of that for you" market.
Seems like that site vitalik.ca is down. Do you have any other sources for that paper?
Same. It's tough when the name of your company/product has the same name as the producer of one of the largest and most successful multiplayer games ever built. 0_0
>Basically you get to pick between nondeterminism (randomness) and a global function that influences everything that's much more complicated.

That sounds as if the universe is passing everything through an RNG monad.
I have been using Windows since 3.1. I've never been this annoyed. Windows 10 caused data loss (don't even get me started), privacy issues, constant nagging about their products and too many hours spent trying to change defaults (only to see them being reset seemingly at random).

It's an amazing, stable and usable (except, you know...) operating system which for no logical reason, tries to alienate its users.

If this is greed on Microsoft's part, then I'm really sad to see such great engineering used to do such evil. If this is a popular operating system adapting to its average user, I'm extremely sad about this deep incompetence of the average user.

Probably both.
Earthquake sparks Japan tsunami warning
Start a forum specialising in some software (or write your own) then as your forum grows so will the people hiring you to perform customisations etc worked for me.
Margins don't matter. What matters is ROI and ROA.
> I'm actually surprised the government showed their hand so soon.

Yes and in a very incompetent way. Coinbase will lose all credibility now if they don't challenge this in court. Coinbase is likely to win in the court increasing costs for IRS to do the same thing in future.

Secondly, despite the immense coercive power of US government this is a fight they are likely to lose badly in my opinion. The rate of innovation in currencies have reached well beyond the rate at which government can make sense and act on these things.
And we already can seen bitcoin mining pools in China that collectively approach or exceed 50%. It's almost impossible to avoid concentration of power in any system that provides value to power-holders.
>...made sure that every product you'd buy would be guaranteed to work with other products. If you had the money, you could focus on what you were trying to get DONE rather than spend forever learning about the implementation details. Abstract people from the hardware - focus on the use cases.

Looks down at iPhone 7 which cannot be plugged into new MacBook Pro...
Nice. Timeline on custom domains?

And yes, this looks good for me. I won't use it for a personal homepage, I'll use it for other sites, but seems easy to use it for non-personal homepage sites too.
And now this has been flagged.

Again, for the guy who apparently mods this whole thing, and to whom I can't reply: it was a random thought, for which I've been thrashed. Super.

I absolutely alluded to organized PR; I never claimed this was part of it. The timing simply brought the idea to the foreground. I never claimed the author or the poster was a shill. It was just an unfortunate coincidence. I apologize to the internet gods for not doing a thorough background search on this particular post and vetting it so as not to imply that THIS post was part of a conspiracy, or clearly stating that this was NOT implied. The implication just didn't cross my stupid little peabrain mind. Perhaps understanding every nuance of how every single person could interpret a post is part of the terrible, implied responsibility of posting on a public forum, and I readily admit that I utter failed to do so.

By all means, sctb, if you have the power to delete my account, please do so. Because of previous examples of nonsense exactly like this, I've tried several times, but HN offers me no way to do it. So I wind up lurking, then slowly coming back, and then this sort of thing happens again. And I never seem to learn that someone, somewhere will find a reason in ANY post to be upset about it, even AFTER EXPLANATION, and either I find these people way more often than others, or I just have a harder time with the response.
Agreed. I would much rather pay for windows and have that be the product than it be free and I be the product.
Apple Music with Airplay is in every way inferior to Spotify with Spotify Connect.

- Airplay still drains my mobile's battery

- I can't control an Airplay stream from multiple devices.

- If I go out of range with my mobile the stream stops.

- Airplay devices are way overpriced.
We are! The problem is, the robot arm costs much more than hiring an artist.
Tsunami Warning Issued After Quake Off Fukushima in Japan
Just handle .рф domains (and the Serbian Cyrillic ccTLD) specially.