skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will there be stickers? An SDK for apps to run inside your chat? Social graph widgets to invite my friends to chat? A pair of glasses that I can use for hands free HN chat? An Alexa skill for chat? :-P

All kidding aside congrats on your launch!

Look forward to your blog posts (and maybe source) with more detail as this has been a topic of interest for me off and on over recent years.
What to Expect When You Are Localising
The CIA's Absence of Conviction
I appreciate the feedback. I was honestly more annoyed that some really low effort comments further down weren't being downvoted, but it looks like it shifted.
> shouldn't be given extra
> weight just because he's
> a scientist

Don't they get him over the (admittedly fairly low) bar of "able to think rationaly"?
Microsoft gave Cyanogen a partnership that allowed them to bundle some Microsoft IP in their ROM. Don't know how much it really helped in the end.

As for a full buyout, I didn't see anything indicating that.
The thing is, this endpoint shows any list as visible: true. You need some other source of truth to verify the actual value of the flag. I use /api/v2/lists/10 for this purpose, but you can look directly into the database.
I'm not so sure about that. It's called "mutually assured destruction" for a reason.

If you have an alarm, there is some probability that it's a false one. If the US were to respond to a false alarm by say, nuking Russia, they could expect a 100% chance that Russia would retaliate. The retaliation would be extremely severe if either the US or Russia gets nuked. You have to think that in addition to all ground-based silos (some of which would definitely survive a nuclear strike), there are stealth subs with nuclear capabilities going around. Even if the US or Russia "lost" a nuclear war, these subs would be there to exercise some kind of vengeance, and make sure that the other side is destroyed as well.

If some alarm goes off and there is some chance that nukes are going to hit the US, the safest course of action is probably to prepare to retaliate, but wait as long as possible to confirm that there is an incoming nuclear strike. This might even mean waiting to confirm that some US targets have been hit before retaliating. You also should be pretty god-damn sure you know who initiated that strike before you retaliate. China, for instance, has a limited number of ICBMs. They couldn't destroy the US even if they wanted to. Russia, on the other hand, could nuke the entire world multiple times.
Except it uses L2TP (not IKEv2), 3DES, SHA1, and probably has more issues.
GPS announces leap seconds well in advance.
I like your tactical suggestion at the bottom, but I wanted to say that I rankle at the top.

Philosophically, I don't think a request for my attention creates an obligation to give it.

Practically, if I responded to every email I received, I'd spend all my time doing nothing but responding to email, then I'd still fail by running out of time.

It's actually pretty stressful. I've outsourced a lot of my email to a couple people who work for me, but there are still some that just go unanswered because the system isn't airtight. But it feels unfair to impugn me as rude for not being able to do a thing that becomes impractical to do at a certain point.
Right, Shaw, Telus, SaskTel, MTS (soon to be Bell), and TBayTel are the players west of Sault St Marie. Cogeco, Rogers, Bell, and Videotron get the majority of Ontario and Quebec. Eastlink, Rogers, and Bell Aliant get the Atlantic provinces.
My point more generally is that while Telus, Bell and Rogers (rightly) get a lot of grief for their actions in the cellular market, home ISPs are a different thing. Because Bell and Rogers dominate the golden horseshoe, they get most of the media coverage, but we shouldn't forget the influence the other players have.
I personally am shocked that this article condemning success bias and localized thought bubbles, two of the core characteristics of Hacker News, is unpopular in the comments on Hacker News. :|
OK, but why should we take the Daily Mail's say-so that this factual subject matter is of great significance? (And if it is, would they be OK with similar investigations into the private lives of the Daily Mail's editors or publishers?)

Seems to me you're in such a hurry to have a trial that you've decided not to wait for a crime to take place.
What's/where's your evidence?

1) The situation might have changed since you looked at this

2) The algorithm to do the work might have been suboptimal (for example, not taking advantage of pattern-matching, or using regex which everyone agrees is too slow in Erlang/Elixir)

3) for large files, there's some fiddly techniques that make things noticeably faster, see for example http://cloudless.studio/articles/12-elixir-vs-ruby-file-i-o-...
This is the Snapchat bug reported yesterday, right?

Incidentally, how is AWS dealing with the leap second next week? Google is going to have their time servers start to run fast around 20 minutes in advance of the leap second, so they're back in sync at 00:00:60 UTC.
Cohabiting FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux on a Common ZFS Pool
On Nextdoor this week, I saw that people are raising funds to pay for dental surgery for a woman who was mugged while walking in Mission Terrace, San Francisco. And that’s not an especially bad neighborhood.

https://www.youcaring.com/valeriesgoodguys
As an aside - worth noting that one of the UK's Trident submarines is actually called HMS Vengeance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vengeance_(S31)
Well, probably not. From the actual OIG summary report (which was not written defensively in response to articles like this, but is rather the source material from which these articles draw):

The employee in question --- an employee of the SEC, in case you thought this was an instance of the SEC telling other companies what to do:

(1) committed time and attendance fraud; (2) terminated
an employee for asking questions during an
SEC examination of a registrant and for voicing an
opinion; and (3) unnecessarily requested proprietary
trading code from registrants and downloaded this
proprietary training code onto a personal computer.

And, further:

(1) was untruthful with the
subject’s supervisor and the OIG about the nature
of foreign travel; (2) misrepresented commuting
costs when applying for transit benefits and received
about $400 in transportation subsidies that the
subject was not entitled to receive; and (3) did not
properly clear the sale of a security in accordance
with the SEC’s supplemental ethics rules.

Some of these claims were substantiated (for instance: the investigation, prompted by complaints from coworkers that this employee was never showing up to work, determined that the developer had missed 150 days of work), and other not (no evidence was found that they'd improperly obtained private trading code).

But either way: Quartz's summary of this story is needlessly glib, and the story itself doesn't seem all that interesting. I have no idea whether the employee was properly terminated or not (Quartz did them no favors by outing them in the article!), but I'm not sure why I would care either way.
New MBP laptops have no compatible USB slots

Another dongle
Why do we know of several Soviet citizens who saved us by not following orders to launch nukes, but no Americans?
I appreciate the dilemma: you understandably want to limit the friction in connecting HN members, and one of the means by which you're considering doing so has historically been abused so people are sensitive to it. I think 'zitterbewegung still has the right idea: it needs to be opt-in.
Stellarium looks pretty cool, will explore that. But honestly I want to leave the computers and stare at the sky :D
What about Apple Watch for 2FA
A simple linkedin search returns about a hundred. With the total number of employees about two hundred and the company having been around for about five years, it's hardly comparable to Blizzard, which has thousands of employees and contractors and had been there for decades.
Bipartisan Congressional Group Confirms Encryption Backdoors Are Unnecessary
Great, but that's very different to your original statement of "GitHub Pages was limited about 3 days go".
> even free for one carrier right now

That free carrier right now needs you to sign up with your Aadhar Number, kind of like SSN but more Sovietness included. Other carries might charge a bit but their rules for registration are more lax and thus better.
For Online Dating Sites, a Bumpy Road to Love
Understanding Neural Networks Through Deep Visualization
He is a straight up genius.
This comment makes my day.
Nice, "A Stargazing Program for Beginners " looks interesting..will check them out.
I'd recommend checking out the exhibitor list for the big solar conferences[1][2]. Start browsing the companies and see if any interest you and have job postings on their websites.

[1]: http://spi16.mapyourshow.com/7_0/search.cfm

[2]: http://www.intersolar.us/en/attend/exhibition/exhibitor-list...
I didn't word my post very well (I posted the "infinitely old" comment), but what I meant was that it should be more likely to be a Boltzmann Brain in an infinitely old universe than a human standing on Earth in a ~14 Billion year old universe. So why are we the latter rather than the former? That's basically what the anthropic principle is all about. The fact that we are the latter tells us a lot about how the universe, or universes as the case may be, work.
A Data Driven Analysis of MassRoots
This was a great article on this sort of thing http://cloudless.studio/articles/12-elixir-vs-ruby-file-i-o-...

Tl;dr: Elixir is a bit faster than Ruby for straight up File IO if you really know what you're doing. Naive approaches in Elixir can lead to terrible performance.

I'm a huge fan of Elixir, but eeking out better performance can require some tricks that aren't intuitive if you're new to the language.

From personal experience (we're using Elixir at work) and we compared parsing a CSV in Elixir vs Scala, and the Elixir version was about 20% slower. However, for our use cases, we can more than make up for it by parellelizing processing downstream, ie: the csv parsing wasn't going to be the bottleneck anyway - other things, (which are easily parallelizable if you're running on BEAM) are the bottleneck, so BEAM gives us some nice things the JVM doesn't.
Compensating for this effect of training may be done by properly discounting the measure using the Deflated Sharpe Ratio or similar corrected SR's. I always ask any interviewee who cites experience producing these measures a question with this effect as the crux. Few come back with a correct answer.
Two roads to the same place: 2016 and the future of self-driving cars
This toolbox allows you to visualize what neural networks "see" at each layer, and what image patterns activate what sorts of neurons (and how). For example, in this video [1] you can see neurons that detect edges, faces, and text.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkfIQ4IGaM
Serbian stewardess who survived fall from 10km of bombed jet dies at 66
A reddit comment [0]:

> StarEngine was based on CryEngine 3.7 (last big integration) with cherry picked changes from CryEngine 3.8 (mainly some Animation/Serialization fixes/improvements). The Lumberyard builds we used had the same CryEngine 3.7 base with the main changes on the Editor/Tools side. We heavily changed or have completely rewritten CPU/GPU side rendering, memory management, multithreading, entity/game object handling + added tons of engine features wich neither CryEngine nor Lumberyard have. Everything else is relatively easy to merge, thanks to the same code base + adding independent Lumberyard only features is straightforward too, especially with the help of Amazon developers. We are pretty good at handling the rest of the old CryEngine codebase, which CryEngine, Lumberyard and StarEngine have in common, ourselves ;)

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5k06v9/letter_...
One of them isn't sustainable as fanatics eventually burn out.
Its not like good container storage solutions don't exist for databases and other stateful applications. The problem is in expecting it to be free and open source. Building orchestration or simple file or object storage is easy, but building high performance, resilient, scale out storage that can run on cheap commodity boxes is a difficult task. Once you get over the "free" requirement, there are some good options like ScaleIO and Robin Systems. https://robinsystems.com/containerization-platform-enterpris...
> and also 'language' in Norwegian

Only for those without a Norwegian keyboard.

Should be språk.
Nah, it's not that hard. There are a lot of lonely people that will accept friend requests. You do have to ask 100 to get 2, but then, the little script you write to do that on FB becomes real code you can post to the fake github account.

Source: I do amateur level "reputation management" for friends that ended up with some problematic pages about them.
Tendonitis
Actions of these people are somewhat similar to actions of whistle blowers and apparently those are either jailed or chased into exile...
You'd be surprised how much you could piece together with obfuscated (but still unique) usernames. I'd be in favor of your system if the hash was salted with the article's id, so that the hash of my username in one article was different than the hash of my username in a different article.

One day I'm going to run for office and I'm going to have to get lawyers to scrub HN of all my comments because they have no way for users to manage their content :-)
But that information was public, more often than not, before the government collected it.
I definitely should have drawn that conclusion as well - I guess I'm just thinking about the logical progression of vehicles. Eventually Tesla will reach level 3 as well. Does it really make sense for each of those be registered differently with additional associated fees and monitoring? I don't know but it definitely errs on the side of exerting control.
I can't answer you question, but just one piece of advice, if you're not playing games stay away from anything labeled "gamer".
Be afraid, be very afraid: The robots are coming
Very cool, as I recall the 8080 needed multiple power supplies and a clock generator and the 8080A made those internal to the chip. The Z80 was usable with no support chips at all and I believe that was the primary motivation for the 8085.

When you look that notion of the 8238 you can see the seeds of the 'south bridge' that was so prevalent in PC design. Intel systems broke apart as "memory" (northbridge), "compute" (cpu), and "i/o" (southbridge). That has been a pretty successful architecture and one that ARM would do well to emulate for their non-SoC offerings.
Hi LordWinstanley, Christmas and New Year Holiday. There is a parenthesis after my title specifying the holidays included.
For which part?
Afaik Inferno can replace React directly. Why would someone not use an existing, mature boilerplate instead?
Show HN: Painting a Christmas Tree's LED Lights
A better way to solve it would be to sell the whole network in pieces and pay the taxpayer back, but no, they'll never do it cause nothing better than wasting taxpayer money.
That's why I prefer ephemeral threads like imageboards have.

There's almost nothing about most threads that will be of any long term interest to anyone - so you might as well allow them to auto-delete after a certain time.
Only within topics where he has developed a sense of self-critique. It's commonplace for people to have a strong ability to be able to work through a situation rationally when it's not also tied to something in their emotions. And when someone has developed expertise they also have a common understanding with other experts. So NDT can speak with some authority on some science topics that he has directly studied. That does not make him a political scientist or philosopher, though, or even a competent student outside of his field.
brohug
Thanks, looks like a great read.
This is great news!

I lead the "CII Best Practices Badge" project for OSS projects - if you have an OSS project, and you meet certain requirements, you can get a badge. One criterion is that "The project sites (website, repository, and download URLs) MUST support HTTPS using TLS.":
https://github.com/linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge/...

I think making GitLab pages part of the community edition will make it easier to meet this criterion. Congrats, and thanks!
Your explainations of capitalism being great for various countries were tangental to any analysis of BI in america. That capitalism reduced poverty is both obvious and unrelated to BI. No one is suggesting removing personal property rights. Think about BI like the banking and auto bailouts, inject cash in a dead spot to keep the economy stable using quantative easing.

I didn't and won't watch your video source. I dont think cs and economist are lying just that one has christian in the name which says somthing about their preexisting political bias and I'm not lying to anyone, the economist article was definitely a fluff peice which even the most highly credible media institutions can produce.
You still have to receive the traffic to block it.
Really, usernames only have to be unique within a single thread, don't they?

You could get away with something as simple as incremental ids in that case - user1, user2, etc.
This part gave me a chill:

The Royal Navy’s decision to save money by using Windows for Submarines, a version of Windows XP, as the operating system for its ballistic-missile subs seems especially shortsighted.

Indeed!
Amazon Lumberyard game engine = fork of CryEngine maintained by Amazon. So they just changed from were they get Engine support, the engine is the same.

CryEngine got forked and improved from Ubisoft before and is used in FarCry 2-4 series (now called Dunia engine). The original FarCry 1 was from Crytek.
The end of CyanogenMod
@deutronium, solving the real problems.
Trump encouraged a foreign government to hack Hilary's campaign accounts for incriminating evidence.

Trump focused on important states where he knew he could a lead with electoral votes.

He whipped up racist and class hatred to get elected.

I don't have respect for him nor the people who voted for him.

It's deeply disturbing that HN discourages political discourse now that Trump is in power.
Hmm, that's true, though, isn't it? They'd be able to sue under UK libel laws if it wasn't true.

You're certainly right that the Daily Mail isn't someone I'd trust much, but this sort of thing ought to be verifiable--I mean, the courts themselves may well have public documents regarding cases put before them, etc.
Don't forget my 1980's Usenet search engine: http://www.dejadejadeja.com/

Also I downloaded all Usenet from 2003-2013 (800GB of stuff) and Archive.org have that now (I sent it to them on a 1TB drive).
Algo is great. It actually provisions the machine for you - you run it, and it creates a AWS or GCP or Azure or DO machine for you, installs everything, and spits out a mobileconfig (etc) at the end.
my microprocessor course in college was actually based on the 8008 (or something similar).

We laughed about it that it was old, but pretty much everything still applies in today's micocontrollers
Why are people joining VMs to the NTP pool? These servers should be identified by address space and blacklisted.
Management is not in your future.
The Soviet officers we know about did not refuse to follow orders to launch nukes. Arkhipov was following a protocol that was in place precisely to prevent a single person from authorizing the use of nuclear weapons. We do know about several incidents in the US in which responders had to deal with a false alarm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Aerospace_Defen...
I like how similar the Vcc and GND lines are to the circulatory system (arteries and veins), especially with those colors
Cool, I didn't consider that use case but it makes a lot of sense.

BTW I love the CII Best Practices project and GitLab is proudly wearing the badge on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/#gitlab
> Presumably the bank had to go through special screening and training to get access to it.

No, not really. They just have to ask you if it's OK preform that query from a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) and have regulations around informing you about the sources they used to make decisions. Same for any 'background check' company. But if you want to participate in society you're going to have to authorize these sorts of searches... There's not a whole lotta choice.

In the US The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) regulates how the CRAs use that information.

I'm no expert, but I believe the FCRA only applies if the information is being used to make credit, insurance, employment, housing, etc. decisions. It doesn't apply for personal curiosity. That's why those sites say "you agree not to use this information for employment, housing purposes, etc." When you use them.

It's probably more useful to read the FCRA rather than listening to me though.
Absolutely, yes.

1. It's much more interesting to study something when you have a historical perspective that you can relate to later on in the course.

2. It makes you comfortable about the idea that such developments in mathematics are made by fellow humans only and they can also do such things if they put in the efforts. This might sound like a small addition but it's detrimental in developing such sense in young kids.
In some ways, the Soviet-era Perimetr system is a better solution. This is the infamous "Dead Hand" launch system. It's intended to allow a second strike if Moscow and the Russian general staff are both destroyed. It's normally on standby. When activated in a crisis, which the USSR did at least once, it provides a backup system to give launch authority to regional commanders if sensors indicate a nuclear detonation at Moscow, loss of communication with the usual launch authorities, and some amount of time has elapsed.

This removes the temptation to launch on warning in a crisis. The US lacks that.
Newspapers even published birth announcements. Dunno if this is opt in or opt out
Fortunately my name is fairly common, and a google search for it alone shows no links related to me, well past page 10 or so of results, so horay for good opsec. Use the right keywords though and you can still find me. A good newbie approach is to start by not using any of the popular social media stuff (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) and if you do, make sure it has no information about you or fake information.

EDIT: Of course I acknowledge a determined attacker could obtain all sorts of info about me. Not bragging or inviting doxxing, kthx.
I'd love comments!
The thing is, scientists really do have a greater chance of having an informed opinion of politics, or history, or any other subject than do actors or football players because to be a scientist you have to know how to evaluate claims based on evidence. That doesn't mean that their opinions are 100% correct of course, but yes, being trained in the skill of thinking makes their opinions more valuable than those whose skills are in looking good or running fast. "Scientism" is a meaningless word because every question that can be answered is part of science in the broad sense (which includes history and social science in addition to laboratory science).
former porn star/professional escort that David Mikkelson divorced his wife to marry is now an administrator at Snopes

So because David Mikkelson either divorced his wife and married his assistant, or divorced his wife and hired his mistress, you worry that he might be corruptible, given the right incentives. OK, although this kinda skates over the fact that their consequent unreliability would be obvious to others and thus reduce the market value of their service.

I'm not clear why you keep mentioning the fact that the other woman was a former porn star/professional escort. Are you trying to argue that sex workers are inherently untrustworthy people or something?