skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some issues there:

- how can you set a property to null? if setting to null is going to be used the old value
- there is no structural equality
- only for properties with reference types, value types non nullable (like int) cannot be used like that
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Adobe Flash Player, December 13, 2016  Vulnerability Identifier: APSB16-39
When I asked my dad - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Ball - what the most important books were to shaping his thoughts, The Strategy of Conflict was number one.

Not a good year for strategists.
Time to set a static IP?
Yep, in that case, you need to call over a friend with one, there is a 99% chance he or she will have one.
Damn, do we have to teach you kids everything? Just prefix your values with an X.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6852612/bash-test-for-emp...
Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region
Uber launches self-driving service in San Francisco [video]
At a guess, the server probably provides a unified front-end to services written in multiple languages.
Elasticache is still there, and it is still getting updates and new features: Redis got bumped to 3.2 a few months ago, and they also added managed sharding support.
What is HARP and do I qualify for a HARP loan?
I made a similar thing that is supposed to be vaguely require.js compatible in 541-588 bytes, depending on enabled features [1]. Not production ready :).

[1] https://github.com/gliptic/hypjs/blob/master/src/amd.ts
'That guy' is John Perry Barlow who is currently 69. He wrote it 20 years ago when he was 49.

Regardless of how naive (or even misguided) it seems, it's part of the culture of the internet and it's a bit sad that more people on hackernews aren't aware of it.
Or more realistically, make a substantial proportion of them redundant.
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How Indian Entrepreneurs Are Expected to Seize Post Demonetization Opportunities
Ask HN: Looking for a free POP3/SMTP type simple email service
Hi, I'm looking to punch feeds of information into emails that I can download onto my phone into a separate email account. To this end, I am hunting for a free, simple POP3/SMTP email service that I can script sending emails directly into, and then easily collect those emails on a variety of mobile devices via SMTP. Security is not an issue.

I know if I time-travelled back to 2001, I'd be tripping over these services, but these days reliable ones are now all web-based, or have loads of features that would complicate my purposes.

Any thoughts?
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/5i9qmc/haskell_in_...
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That's the site I used to find out which addons I should be using. They used to recommend using Disconnect and uBlock Origin but I guess they've updated their info since I last read it.

One less addon is always good news.
Amazon Prime Video now available in more than 200 countries around the world
Oh no, a young child! Press the brake!

> WinCar Updating... Restarting...
AFAIK AWS doesn't fully build and manage their own datacenters, they usually just lease a bunch of space in an existing one that's good enough.
The existence of segregation is repeatedly cited as PROOF of racist oppression and anyone who says otherwise denounced as racist. The fact that segregation can easily emerge even with no oppression at all means that segregation alone is not sufficient to prove that any injustice has been committed at all much less that injustice/oppression/racism is the primary cause of the segregation.
You are confusing AV1 with VC1. Re-read the post you're replying to.
GPL provides greater rights to users, MIT provides greater rights to developers. If your purpose was to have the greatest degree of freedom for usage rights, you probably should have gone with GPL.
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Thank you. I found it odd the article would hype this piece like this, quote an entire paragraph and mention the Cormac McCrarthy connection and not give a link. News on the internets business as usual I guess.
VR is a bubble. It is a gimmick and will never be popular and profitable (in the video game industry, there are other applications where VR is useful, like surgery,architecture...) . I'm never sick in cars, yet VR makes me sick, it gives me headache and makes me want to puke. If it does that to me, I can't imagine how painful VR is for others.
It really depends much on how the battery / fuelcell tech will develop over the next years.

If we get good improvements in capacity on batteries you can expect personal electric aerial vehicles to become commonplace (drones / n-copters for personal transport)
Many of the books seem older than 10 years (also in the general exams list[1]). Are the (seemingly) vast advancements in the last years still based on the same principles? (Speaking as a complete ML noob.)

[1]: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin//generals/general_exams....
I've never had problems with the java app, so that surprises me.
Certainty, it's not possible as per the standard protocols CAB forum because any of Certificate Authority can not issue standard SSL more than 39 months. However, you could use scripted tools to put your certificate on auto renewal.

We would advice you that go with easy and quick RapidSSL DV Certificate, because it has easy renewal process. If you need more information on one click enrollment.
Show HN: Botella – Bot (Slack et al) with plugins running as Docker containers
This was covered in a previous post:
"Haskell is sandwiched between two layers of C++ in Sigma. At the top, we use the C++ thrift server. In principle, Haskell can act as a thrift server, but the C++ thrift server is more mature and performant. It also supports more features. Furthermore, it can work seamlessly with the Haskell layers below because we can call into Haskell from C++. For these reasons, it made sense to use C++ for the server layer."
https://code.facebook.com/posts/745068642270222/fighting-spa...
They appear to have 2x100G links at LINX to Slough Equinix, so I'd guess they have at least 1 AZ in Slough space leased from Equinix. I hope they know that Slough isn't in London.
Of the articles above, only Tomshardware even tested roomscale.
C++ Impossibly Fast Delegates: Library Version
Inspired by the post: https://www.codeproject.com/articles/11015/the-impossibly-fa...
> I'm sorry, I'm having hard time finding where I said that. Please do point me to an excerpt.

Cool. This (below) was the bit I must have misunderstood. It read as if you were saying that coders naturally find coding, and that people who don't naturally find coding are better off not coding.

"People who will code will code even if you don't push them to. And most others, well they have other better things to do in their lives like making art, becoming a scientist, or becoming a doctor."
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For a good basic intro, this is excellent:

https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Neural-Network-ebook/dp...
Maybe my word choice is wrong. 'Limited' here does not mean someone is limiting the resource. It means the scarcity. In another way, it is limited by nature. Like how it is used the definition of Economic Problem: "How do we satisfy unlimited wants with limited resources?" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_problem)

Back to your question, China is not limiting education. But the education is limited by the nature of a lack of resources problem.
Lets say we are in a university called US. We have 10 students and 10 Profs in US. Then every student could easily get into the course they want. An entry test might be placed only to make sure the student has knowledge required for this course. But in another university called China, they have 20 students but only 5 Profs. So a entry test is placed on those 20 to select the best 5 students for classes. So these 20 students need to study damn hard for the chance to get into the course they want. For here, prof is a 'limited resource.'
Are there viable solutions to the circulation of fake news?
There are two great blog-posts covering the typography in 8- and 16-bit systems (Commodore, Apple, Atari, Amiga, IBM, etc.):

https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-sys...
https://damieng.com/blog/2011/03/27/typography-in-16-bits-sy...
Free speech generator for animated presentations
I have to do some research. I'm primarily commenting on this to keep track of it.

Ultimately I want technology to be my better half. Fill in my gaps if you will. I want my vitals linked to a server, a "CRON" job monitoring my sleep/wake cycles. I've been doing some scraping. I'd like to develop my own thing runs "autonomously and grows"

Gotta read, between this and machine learning. Gotta focus though. Not sure when I'll come back to this. Thanks for posting this.
> First and foremost, MSVC is a C compiler, and for a long time was the only one available.

Since when? MSVC doesn't exist, never did, the product has always been called MSVC++.

The only pure C compiler from Microsoft was called *Microsoft C Compiler", and Microsoft was actually the last C compiler vendor adding C++ support for MS-DOS.

> Comparing it's spec support story with GCC, clang, tcc or turboc, and it stands out.

GCC used to stand for GNU C Compiler, before it got renamed into GNU Compiler Collection.

tcc is a C compiler.

Turbo C was a C compiler, the C++ one was called Turbo C++.

clang always supported C, C++ and Objective-C since the beginning, because C's subset of Objective-C is a 100% compatible with C, which isn't the case with C++.

> t may make sense if MS assumes all their developers have no need of the many C APIs they maintain, but it is certainly not the reasoning of many other compilers.

They have assumed this for a long time now, since 2012 actually, people seem to keep not paying attention.

https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...
Today we removed AMP support from MacStories
And now you've just discovered why relational databases have a "null" concept that is separate from the "empty string" concept.

In a relational table, all rows in the table have a "middleName" column. So you can't "omit" the column entirely for some rows like you can in a doc/KV store.

"NULL" in a relational DB is to store, in a table where every record has a "middleName" column, the concept of "missing key" from a key/value store type layout.

NULL is the relational DB's way of representing: "a record without a middleName key" exists here.
How do we expect Privacy Badger to learn from domains we've visited if we won't let it store a list of domains we've visited?
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> When I write C++ the language magic is "just another library".

The difference is: For a library you can (in principle) write your own implementation and replace the given one by it. Or even remove the library completely if it seems a good idea. For language features this is not possible (without writing a new compiler that implements something different than C/C++). Thus the language features of C++ clearly cannot be compared to a library - they change the language (if left away), while a library is no different language, but a text written in the language.
I use uBlock Origin together with Privacy badger. It can block cookies for a domain while allowing you to load files, which I find useful, for example, for reading disqus comments in a website.
That's what I have been thinking of. Because there is a lot of good content on YT, but too much sh*t that is in between. I have the feeling that they are killing themselves (user-friendly-wise) by keeping the shitty content. Unfortunately its money > quality.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13163895
From the looks of it, data mining seems to be a problem confined to the USA⸮
No, there are at least 2 of us

Driving a Tesla isn't boring either of course
Bad guys can easily rent time on botnets with hundreds of thousands of ips.
citation required for what? For stating, that it is complicated to install on bare-metal and that it's been a priority for Kubernetes to be deploying on cloud servers?
Did the math on my contribution to global warming
changea -> change
Amazon accused of 'intolerable conditions' at Scottish warehouse
Disabling the Windows Update service and only enabling it when knowingly wanting to install an update (or Store application) has worked ever since XP, and is unlikely to ever cease working.
I think the users group might switch over time, more people that go there for easy, non-informatic, stupid videos. The other group will maybe find its way to a new platform (if there is one) where there is informatic, high-quality content.
The one you link to is a) not ISOFIX, thus not high end, and b) discontinued from the manufacturer.

We have this one, which is what I'd consider the gold standard. It's ISOFIX, and only rearward-facing since kids under 4 should not be facing front, and it's won basically every test there is:

http://www.besafe.com/product-int/izi-kid-x2-i-size/

It weighs 40.6 lbs. Quite a bit of structural steel in there, including a full integral roll bar and a brace against being rear-ended, both of which your linked Britax seat lacks.

Also bloody expensive, but if there's one thing I won't skimp on, it's the safety of my children.
I remember reading that article a long time ago. More recently though there is a discussion on SG14 (the game dev / low latency C++ working group) about basic_function, which is another similar concept.

https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/d/topic/sg14/1Sw_qEdI...
Maybe, but you can make it better even without any fancy loaders, async and defer are regular attributes of the script tag – https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/scrip...
Going to the website that is data mining you and putting your personal details such as phone, address, full name and email feels counter intuitive. Not sure I feel comfortable doing so.
Invasive update rebooting has been a thing by default since XP SP2, it however used to be the case the override switch to disable it was less well-hidden.

Similarly, by the way, no Windows version had supported custom theming since XP - if you wanted the XP themes back on Vista/7, you were SOL too.

Also, telemetry has been a thing since at least Vista, and any version since (including 10) let you disable most or all of it as a choice during installation.
I agree with you. Misleading article titles are a big pet peeve, but this is not as bad some of the clickbait out there.

I think another interpretation could be: By popularizing this idea outside of SV it changed SV. As the general population, as well as future entrepreneurs entering SV, do change SV too. For example the dot.com bubble and its subsequent bursting changed SV via popularizing outside of SV something that was clearly misunderstood.
That sounds much too high. What common dictionary has 16 million words?
I still struggle to understand why Microsoft is used at all?
The only sane explanation I can think of is that Microsoft have some licenses that people need to do certain tasks (They extort money from android makers for fear of nuisance suits it seems) Surely if developers stood together we could root out this Microsoft pest once and for all?
Just like spam is dealt with in email and walled gardens, it could have been dealt with in Usenet.
The Debian packaging guidelines requires a man page for every command line program. Any missing manual page is regarded as a bug.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s12.1
for few more days. Obviously a guy like Woz will have houses all over the world.
This seems to be an issue with certain network card drivers that were shipped in-box with the RS1 RTM release - my Intel I218 controller tended to have this issue until I moved on to RS2 pre-releases.
I clicked on Trending a few days ago and discovered "Simon's Cat". It's how my youngest daughter discovered Numberphile (I'd actually showed my kids some of them a while back but she'd forgotten, now she's addicted).

I never really used YT regularly, just looking up the latest Scott Manley Kerbal video form time to time, but my kids were subscribing to channels so I started to as well. Now I'm hooked and have subscribed to some great channels like Nerdwriter, Primitive Technology and Close to Truth. For me, Youtube has never been better.
> And _apparently_ for some people any action taken to correct yellow journalism is decried as censorship.

No, but automatic removal of fake news is censorship, since all of us in here should know that determining truth by algorithms is really an unsolvable problem in _very many important cases_.

It could/would probably be reduced to a source credibility score, but credibility is subjective.
Embedded Engineers: what workflows will you tolerate?
So, I've spent the last 30 hours or so of my life trying to get Xen running (and now just anything) on my Cubietruck (Allwinner A20) without much success. When I first bought it to play with ARM virtualization a couple years ago, I didn't know much about it. Right now I'm in a ranting mood and I just want to complain about the "workflow" with this thing -- it feels janky. The thought ocurred to me though that I'm just tinkering and the Cubietruck probably isn't so bad and real embedded developers must be suffering some through some pretty painful stuff.

So Embedded engineers: at what point will you throw your hands up and toss a project due to flawed tech? How far have you gone and would you do it again? Have you ever outright quit a job due to workflow issues?
Cause they are competing with anyone with a car. That makes margins a fair bit lower.
> Instantaneous transmission of signals vs. delay imposed by axon and dendrite length

Would there be anything to gain by simulating this?
... or allowing ISVs to more generally test their applications for compatibility with new Windows releases without a full-on testing/partner contract with MSFT.

For the few Windows applications I maintain, targeting preview builds is a great way to anticipate things that will break in future RTM releases due to perfect compatibility being unattainable.
Sure, and I do that when I can (e.g. not when I'm writing SQL), but the point of my quick examples isn't to show off my software engineering, but to illustrate what vim can do in the simplest way I can think of.

I guess I'm failing to make the point, so I'll just refer to the articles that got me to try it in the first place.

http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html

http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html
This seems like a really empty, hollow pledge to me because the employers of these signatories fall into two categories:

1) Companies like Google or Facebook that already have "databases of identifying information...to target [for advertising] individuals based on race, religion, or national origin." That data exists. They're not going to delete it. If legally subpoenaed, they will turn it over.

2) Companies like "Poncho"[0] a cartoon cat that tells you the weather. They do not have this kind of data, and they never will, so there is zero chance of these signatories facing a tough decision to keep their pledge.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but I don't think employees of type 1 are going to actually quit their jobs, or go rogue and delete their employers' data, and I don't think employees of type 2 are ever going to face any choice.

So how would this pledge ever demand any kind of action from signers? Somebody help me out here? It feels like the equivalent of tweeting "I really really don't like Trump".

[0] http://tryponcho.com/
> I own a Pebble Time Steel. It is wonderful. People really underestimate the impact battery life has. I get annoyed when I finally have to take it out to charge (about once a week). Heck, right now it's at 10% and I don't really care. It didn't even tell me yet when it's expected to run out.

And I don't know if it still has this feature, but the OS had something that when it was really close to dying it'd switch off all the bluetooth and smarter bits and display a basic watchface, so it'd keep working as a watch for a few more days. That was awesome.

> It's also very developer friendly. Heck, you can even create watchfaces in Javascript.

Something that really attracted me to pebble was just how easily I could make a simple app and get it loaded on my watch.
C++ culture at its worst -- listen to the weekly recommendations of Herb, Scott et al. and you'll be fine. Trust us.
What Is Event Based Marketing?
After reading that article and what I just described, it does not seem like neural networks is what I'm after. Still it is something to use.

I wanted to write a "quick search" scrape pages related to a search (though last time I checked, the Google API wasn't available anymore where you could search Google back end.)

Anyway. Maybe a source like Wikipedia. Still parsing words and assigning them values...

That part about using ANNs for finding regularities in patterns. That sounds interesting. It seems many successes came by determining the next step in some form of evolution whether it was a product or service. Blockbuster to Netflix, Blackberry's to iPhones, etc... Maybe look at something like that.

At any rate, gotta read. That was quite informative. The whole thing of "not knowing what it actually does" is pretty nuts too. Give it data and watch it go!
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A London language business is hiring an emoji translator
You forget that Windows 10 is a stable and well-rounded OS that also lets you run some software Linux can't.
What a mess. It would take eons to opt out of each of those.
Can you see my reply elsewhere on this thread? Can you genuinely imagine a scenario where you be prompted to take action based on this pledge?
> A new drone video, captured by aerial videographer Matthew Roberts earlier this month, shows the 'Research and Development' facility..., the 'tantau roof' on the security kiosk in place,... landscaping taking place both within the "spaceship's" courtyard...

Fascinating what's possible by one man and his drone without any corporate authorization. As I was watching I first thought this was an official release, it looked so slick. We will see more like this. On balance I like the implications for public transparency.
Uber Takes Self-Driving Cars to Tough Crowd: San Francisco
https://github.com/QubitProducts/micro-amd is another project with similar goals. Its pretty small, amd compliant and battle tested
... except the interactive UI has an option to reschedule a pending update installation/reboot for up to a week at a time.

MSFT licensing has always been an unnavigable mess of SKUs, but the Professional SKU presumably hasn't been cut short this much that one can't set a local update server - it however is kind of problematic that even Microsoft's own documentation isn't a reliable source at most times...
Give uMatrix a try!
NLP analysis of Pride and Prejudice
Yeah but we can use the same "trick" we've been using for years, an IIFE:

(async () => {
// Code...
})()
Cited as evidence perhaps. I would like to see these repeated assertions of proof.
Happy to see they pushed the changes to the upstream GHC!
> Thus OpenCL seems ultimately more proprietary than CUDA,

Could not be further from the truth there!
OpenCL is an open standard, can be used to program GPU, CPU and even FPGA. It is definitively NOT proprietary in any sense! To target both AMD and NVidia GPU, you do not need any vendor specific flag at all.
Yes, OpenCL, is like OpenGL pretty verbose and explicit. It can be a bit tedious but once you've factored this verbosity in a framework of some kind, it becomes pretty easy to use.

HIP seems interesting, but I am unwilling to invest on it yet. What will happen if for whatever reason AMD abandon it in 6 months? No such worries with OpenCL.
Yes, and I like the approach that Trezor takes [1] for 4-digit PINs where the wait time increases by power of two. Also adding 2-factor authentication increases the security even on weaker passwords.

[1] https://doc.satoshilabs.com/trezor-faq/threats.html#brute-fo...