skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not at all.

Yeah, it is.

>The main point of the article and you seem to be missing: freedom has intrinsic value.

And not everyone agrees with that, or that the value is enough to forgo the other things.

>I also don't care if you are interested in modifying the source code of your operating system or the driver of your printer, but I do care very much about having a world where these things are possible.

YOU do. Someone who just wants their printer to work would probably place much more value on that, than if the driver were open. Remember, one of the main themes of the article is whether software with "freedom" is worth more than software with usability or features.

>The article is trying to exactly show that "Free Software" is like this, focusing on keeping the intrinsic value of having software that can be freely read, distributed and modified - even when it does not translate in more utility value, a.k.a better software.

And many people disagree. If it doesn't do what it needs to do, then the software isn't of much value, even if it's libre.
Google paper on using deep learning to detect Diabetic Retinopathy
Even better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardness

I read an enlightening discussion on HN a few months back about "hardness". I was under the impression professional scientists/researchers do not use the generic terms "hard" or "hardness". Outside of marketing, I presume they would employ concise measurements like ductility, elastic stiffness, plasticity, strain, strength, toughness, viscoelasticity, and viscosity.
We've officially been told that the SteamVR information is not confidential. There is a lot, so if you have any questions, find my email in my profile and just send me a message.
It doesn't follow, fuel (whether spent or not), is density and dissipation question. Each kg of fuel is generating heat, so more fuel in a smaller space means more heat in a smaller space. Fukishima's spent fuel ponds had both spent and fresh fuel in them (reactor 4 was undergoing maintenance) and there was a lot of it. Spread that fuel out across say a hectare pool of water that is 5 meters deep and it stays out of trouble.

One disposal plan called for mixing the fuel with silica to create glass bricks. By spreading the fuel mixture to a density that was low enough to allow the ambient air to cool it, the bricks are shelf stable for thousands of years and not a radiation hazard (less of a risk than even natural uranium deposits you might come across).

Many disposal plans were like this, encapsulate the spent fuel into a container that withstands (and blocks) the radiation while conducting enough heat to avoid changing the properties of the material over the lifetime of its storage. Glass and austenitic stainless are both good candidates for that material.
CityLabs manufactures specific product lines that aren't special-built.[1] The price is still "contact us" but they are purchaseable and I've heard of a few popping up on marketplaces before.

[1] - http://www.citylabs.net/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wr...
No - New Zealand. Supposedly they don't grow well here although I think that must relate to fruit ripening as the palms grow very fast.
I've seen people put big bags over the actual bananas to get them to ripen which presumably helps.
Not to fear my fellow Americans! The U.S.A is a Republic not a Democracy. . .
Although, many view it as a democracy. . .even president's do the same.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13019834
Show HN: New Way to SPAM Using Apple Calendar
Apple Calendar is being used to spam people.

I recently received a notification inviting me about "NFL Jersey only 15 USD, Shop Now!" in my Calendar app.

Somebody from China sent 10 people an invitation to check out their website, including my email.

Clever trick, but definitely irritating because anybody can send you an invitation and it is added in your calendar and notification.

Apple should block Spam Invitations.
It used to be, a company wouldn't buy a machine without the spec booklet, the development manual and the in depth machine build information. Hardware producers were not hardware repair shops, you went elsewhere or contracted in house to fix something. As things got more complicated, proprietary and developed for relatively poorer end-users that's no longer the case. Now trying to fix something yourself or contracting out can get you fined or worse.

Maybe regulation would fix this, but it doesn't seem most consumers care for it anyway. Fixing things yourself today is hindered by regulation more than it's helped.
Try RTFA:

The government’s attempts to undermine the country’s constitutional tribunal, for instance, set off an investigation by the European Union. The resulting report warned that the government’s actions “endanger not only the rule of law, but also the functioning of the democratic system.”
Yet the advert is what's paying for the video and the bandwidth.
We do, and some folks even think it is economical to lay a sea bed power cable to the UK to sell some of it off. Most of the electricity is exported already in the form of aluminum.

Whether or not to keep building hydro power plants is one of the most controversial political topics in Iceland, and a strong differentiator between the agendas of different parties.
Show HN: Emojis Time – all the emojis for all platforms with emoji detection
I find the rather scant coverage of election topics on HN to be a glaring warning in its own right... if the technocratic class is focused on bricklaying (Go, TensorFlow, Docker, etc.), who is deciding what gets built at the macro level? Maybe it's time we all take responsibility for creating a fair, just, open, and economically robust society?
There certainly is regression at all corners:

1. Try finding a close-up of the keyboard of the function key model on the MacBook Pro website. It seems it is just not there or I'm failing to find it. Previously Apple used to have a design section where you could see the products from all angles.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

2. The online shop is just horrible. Even finding the store takes a while and the icons look like clip-art. Complete mess.

http://www.apple.com/shop/accessories/all-accessories

3. This is how the Apple Pencil and the Mighty Mouse are supposed to be charged:

https://i.imgur.com/CvcaGze.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/P8M8pqO.jpg

The Mighty Mouse is also an ergonomic disaster.

4. The iPhone case with battery pack has an aweful design. Who would ever let this pass?

https://i.imgur.com/DyvTE3w.jpg

5. It also feels like the "Designed by Apple in California" book was published 20 years early. It's just like the new Star Wars movie, all those recent sequels of the n-th iteration and Marvel comic adaptations. Nobody innovates anymore and people just replicate what worked well before or only improve it incrementally.
I did similar thing, but on "bigger scale" I bought opensource router Omnia Turris and configured OpenVPN client on the router for all, also hell no, endpoint isn't in France!
Indie games do this too. My favorite examples are:

Hatoful Boyfriend (remake that uses Unity), a simple graphical choose your own adventure with no animation at all that is painfully slow on my 3-4 year old laptop (although this must be intentional for some reason, it is hard to imagine how that could be achieved purly by abuse of unity)

Lethis - Path of Prgress a 'hipster retro' sim city in a steam punk world that fails to work at all with Intel integrated graphics.
Fascinating - what was favored to win at the time?
And the other problem is there are 23 kinds of bespoke artisanal ravioli and maybe it was handmade by a Michelin chef or maybe it's from a bootcamp graduate that spent two weeks learning how to blog, star things on pinterest, and require('can-of-chef-boyardee')
There's a ";)" smiley in the commit message so it's not the real reason. But I think they should have said the real reason, because lots of people are going to miss the ;) and quote them without it.
Russia was a democracy that, in less then a decade completely fell apart economically. Putin, and the rising price of oil can be credited for stabilizing the country, and largely pulling it out of a dystopian horror show.

Freedom and democracy is nice, but having the means to buy bread, and not being robbed and killed by desperate people is even nicer.

Edit: I presume the downvotes aren't coming from people who lived in Russia through the 90s.
Our HSTS header is set with an expiry of a year. Provided you've visited the Guardian in the last year then you will not be able to click through an invalid certificate, nor can an attacker intercept an HTTP connection as none will be made.

At some stage we hope to list theguardian.com in the preloaded HSTS list that ships with the browsers, but unfortunately this is some time away as there are a handful of other subdomains on theguardian.com that are not yet HTTPS (you can only preload a domain along with all of its subdomains).
Couldn't agree more! But in fairness, I think that could and should be said about all american media. AKA Tabloid media, cause god knows they've all forgotten how to do journalism except for quoting tweets and making life nothing more than a sensationalized reality show.

But sure, NYTimes during the election, def took the cake.
The petition already has a response from government

> The Investigatory Powers Act dramatically increases transparency around the use of investigatory powers. It protects both privacy and security and underwent unprecedented scrutiny before becoming law.
I think the recent election demonstrated that money doesn't matter that much. Voters actually have power. That's the silver lining to the depressing reality that voters don't care if industry writes regulations, the executive branch tortures people, and the rich pay even less in taxes.
> would I have a marketable skill?

Yes. Systems programming and Embedded are your best and most visible playing fields, but many large, legacy applications were written in C and continue to be maintained.

> Is it possible for C to be a standalone skill,

No. As others have pointed out, the language + standard library is very spartan and will only take you so far. This will only get you an entry level position, and only in teams that are big enough to have some senior people with spare capacity for mentoring, and a stream of small, self contained tasks for you do while in training.

To be able to work independently you need to have at least some basic knowledge of the whole toolchain: Compiling (you need to know to heart the different steps that are taken by the compiler, and at least its 20% most common cmdline flags), Building (make), program analysis (lint, valgrind), debugging (gdb, or whatever comes with the compiler you are using), 3rd-Party-Libraries (pick 2-3 of: glib, pthreads, antlr, curses, openssl, etc), Standards (MISRA, POSIX - which is at least as much about the API to Unix-like OS as it's about the C language).

From there, there are more tools to help you, but those are typically OS dependent and are not exclusive to C.
The fatigue is not with what to pick and what to learn / master.
The problem is when you go for an interview and other not-so-brilliant people start asking very concrete questions related to whatever-hipster-framework-component they heavily rely upon.

You might say that you would not work with such people but in reality you can't really choose. 95% companies / people are like that.
See also: "Goodbye Miami" from 2013 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-mi... and "The Siege Of Miami", 2015 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/the-siege-of-mi...
> Note1

Group policy editor (gpedit.exe) is not available on cheaper home edition of Windows. You either need to upgrade to professional version or use tweaks to somehow run gpedit.exe in home version.

> Note 2

Updates will not mess with settings changed by gpedit.exe . Though one can write powershell scripts to toggle all these settings. It is already in practice by IT Admins.

PS:

Avoid third shady party executables.
Ironically, the text is too small to read on my Android HN client. No zooming either.
It seems simple -- progressive extremism and progressive supremacy is what threatens democracy in today's West. The obstinate and divisive leaders of neo-liberalism have made absolutely no effort to reach across the aisle and greet their political opponents midway, instead opting for tasteless attacks and tone-deaf dismissal.

Democracy involves meeting each-other half-way without exception and clearly the likes of Merkel and Clinton have shown no interest in budging on wedge issues, which only accelerates their fall from leadership. Clutching onto power through underhanded further ensures our dangerous position on the edge of a precipice.
Because science is part of the big science conspiracy?
A new way to anonymize data might actually work
What would the mechanism look like for a firmware fix? The driver doesn't go through any firmware to drive the audio.
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> diluted disease kills disease

Huh. Well, we do inject people with weakened diseases (vaccines). So in that example, "like" really does cure "like", by training our immune system.

So, uhh, that part is kind of true. Only when it's not diluted so many times that it ends up being pure water.
Yes - I agree. I think people will always be part of the process of moving through things. It needs to be included in the thing that scales!
San Francisco's sinking Millennium Tower seen from space
For example, American flag burning has twice been ruled a first amendment right by the Supreme Court.

This morning Tump tweeted:

>Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!
Yes. Really: most of a self-selected group of scientists who chose to bring up Dawkins as an example brought him up as a negative example.
I connect to Slack from my favourite IRC client (Irssi) after getting fed up with the memory that the official client used. It's not as retro-cool as this C64 port but it fits my command line orientated workflow better than the Electron app did and allows me to build my own client-side plugins in Perl.
I am super excited about this, but I'd be very cautious about expectations. I've already gotten torn up in social media for trying to explain how an ambient information display is a Good Thing (think a clock or a calendar or a thermometer), without being something you necessarily interact with.

The second someone asks, "Why don't I just get a tablet, then?" you know they've missed it. They need to build a Chumby, not an iPad... but if the market is expecting an iPad, they're going to be sorely disappointed.

...and if the market is disappointed, then I'm going to miss out on a great replacement for my long-in-the-tooth Chumby8.
> Same arguments can be made for Flash: Plugin's developer can fix it without waiting for browser. Disable the plugin and use the same browser.

Not exactly comparable. Flash, at its height, had pretty much the "multimedia in browser" market cornered with draconian vendor lock-in effects. They didn't need to hurry that much with fixing issues, because what are you gonna do if you are not satisfied with the Adobe Flash plugin? Run your favourite Flash game with Microsoft Silverlight? Use the open-source plug-in that could only run some Flash 1.0 animations?

At least with browsers you can easily switch vendors (the whole point of standardization and techs like WASM), or even fork your own.

Even if I don't like Apple or Steve Jobs that much, I must say they did one great thing killing off Flash by not allowing it on the original iPhone.
Well, right now, they are currently calling blatant lies by Trump 'unsupported accusations', as opposed to... Well, lies.

A month ago, they were completely uncritically shilling for Clinton. How she became the paragon of the left still boggles my mind.
That's why I liked Halo. Red and blue on a high contrast background.

These days I use Enchroma [0] glasses. I still can't identify colors that well, but it helps with differentiation.

[0] http://enchroma.com
> voters don't care if industry writes regulations, the executive branch tortures people, and the rich pay even less in taxes.

The irony in your statement is that it's pretty much impossible to tell which candidate those voters you're referring to supported.
I thought https://airtame.com/ would get pretty huge by now
> If you can't just see those things in your head, and write them down, then you won't have a reserve of mental bandwidth to think about the higher level structure of the problem that you're working on, and you'll reach a level of complexity and abstraction where the cumulative effect of small mistakes prevents you from ever getting to B.

The big difference between math and music is that the latter is a real-time applied form of the former, with "real-time" being the key. You can waste as much time as you want thinking over things and research solutions to the given math problem; the solution you arrive at after a week is as valid as someone else's solution written down in minutes.
I agree. Most blogs should not require Javascript to read - that includes GA. Just a little bit of styling to aid readability and you should be set.

Related:

motherfuckingwebsite.com & bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com
> cloud ecosystem

I only meant in the strategic sense. If the future of personal computing is to be lightweight terminals and hardware requirements pushed into the cloud, Mac hardware and macOS might provide less growth opportunity than other business units. This is completely debatable, but is at least plausible.

> voicemail

Verizon for me.

> fat-thumbing an interface

I should also mention I have it set to the largest interface settings, and I'm a 32 year old with 20/20 vision.
Hi, Cyclotron developer here. I think it's fair to say Cyclotron is a bit more open-ended in terms of what you can build, whereas Grafana dashboards are a bit more structured and tend to look more similar. While Cyclotron provides common widgets and dashboard functionality, it also makes it easy to add custom HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc. This broadens the potential use cases quite a bit. The downside of being more open-ended is that it doesn't provide the same level of rich interactivity out of the box, which Grafana does.

Additionally, when Cyclotron started, it supported pulling data from a handful of different data sources, whereas Grafana was focused on Graphite. Grafana has definitely come a long way in the last year in this regard though.
Remove everything after the first slash. Then download from the menu.
Also: if you confine water to a single H2O molecule, you can make the entire phase phenomenon go away!
This article came a bit late. The Queen has already signed the Investigatory Powers Act as of this morning. Wikipedia has a decent summary of its provisions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016
This reminds me Nick Hanauer video about the pitchforks that are coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbj6hIOMcSk
I don't have first-hand experience, but I would guess it would be the same reason most people do: (1) when you roll your own CMS, you have to build all of the features your editors and designers request yourself, the scope of which people tend to underestimate significantly and (2) when you use a hosted solution, you can't customize the site to be exactly the way you want it to be — WordPress offers self-hosting and full customization.

Despite its warts and un-sexy image, WordPress just works for most people's needs when it comes to a simple blog, has a wide range of plugins that solve most anything someone would need from a CMS, can be truly customized, and allows them to move on and spend time on more important things.
Good point, but I appreciate the scant coverage on HN.
> But there are also a number of us that have resisted the amazon way and try to actually be human.

This last sentence was such a stark contrast with the rest of your comments above, that it almost feels like a slip or a that meme with a guy blinking an S-O-S signal with his eyes.
Diamonds have been used to detect ionizing radiation for a very long time, and it looks like they've now figured out a way to harness that to generate a very small current.

Here's a general explanation for how the detectors work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_detector

Here's some more info about using diamond as a netron detector: http://www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/091104_nuc_galbiati.pdf
Rabin Flips a Coin (2009)
We wont solve fake news right now but that’s not the problem – Medium
For me, the main feature of iMessage is that Facebook isn't gobbling up all of my metadata.
It's a very good learning process. But once your project scales up, you are essentially writing your own libc.

And there is no portability. It only works with the specific architecture's calling convention and the specific c compiler.
> I think the recent election demonstrated that money doesn't matter that much.

Can you elaborate on that? I'm unaware of how it was demonstrated.
I think the election proved the opposite - that if you can manipulate headlines, you can suppress voters from even coming out.

If you look past all of the fake news, twitter faux pas, etc., I think that FBI Director Comey's manipulation in the last week really did do a number on the voter base, and it's disappointing that nobody is enforcing the Hatch act.
Before There Was Profit, There Was Churn Analysis
Just to try and explain where I feel the OpenBSD project is coming from... their philosophy is a little different.

At the very beginning OpenBSD was not about security per se, but about simplicity of implementation and stark, clean code. It turns out this results in a rather secure system (go figure).

It was only after the fork from NetBSD that OpenBSD gained a real security orientation... I think there was some client who wanted a secure OS, and they helped fund the audit of OpenBSD's codebase. Yet even today OpenBSD's philosophy is better explained as a focus on stark simplicity.

Coming from that perspective, many of their decisions make sense. ACLs are a terribly complex mechanism that would require a lot of new code added to the kernel. Any new code is a deadweight that needs to be tested, audited, maintained, etc. across a large number of platforms, not just x86 and ARM.

OpenBSD (historically) has no hypervisor for the same reason. It's an incredibly complicated feature that would be difficult to implement securely and succinctly. As Theo put it (in characteristically brusque style):

>x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit.

>You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.

That said, OpenBSD has pioneered a lot of security features. They created sudo in 1997, recently replaced sudo with a simpler program `doas`. OpenBSD was the first mainstream OS to have ASLR turned on by default. And their new privilege-drop feature `pledge` looks great.

In the end, they're a smaller project with less manpower so it's impressive they achieve what they do. Obviously auditing the entire ports tree is going to be out of scope... auditing Firefox alone would probably be a multi-million dollar project.
Useful Perl one-liners (2013)
A Qualified Defense of Fake News
I mean more from the actual collectors standpoint. Some of these folks treat these items like works of art, so the physical package has real world value.
Node-ChakraCore and VM Neutrality in Node.js