skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks nice, but what is wrong with:
mysqldump -h 127.0.0.1 --database production | mysql -h yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy staging -f
?
Exactly so. And then there's the corollary of times you come home, walk around back and drink beer on the patio watching the sunset with friends and eating takeout.
Well, it's usually due to taxes. The company I work for hires people from other countries officially as contractors, otherwise they would need to maintain a legal presence in every country that they hire in - or so I'm told.
Ask HN: Online professional services for English to Chinese translations?
We want to translate our English page to Chinese. The web page has business and technical terms so we search for a service where we can find professionals with some level of expertise translating technical terms. A plus would be to have a professional who can also edit a simple HTML.
I don't think it is. I expect cops to ask the provider for a copy of the messages as well.

pretty sure deleting incriminating evidence is obstruction of justice

Probably, but so what?
Agree with everything. I also want to point out that the final published version is not always better -- it represents compromises made with reviewers / editors to get papers through. Often these are positive, but not always. Sometimes it's useful to be able to send people the preprint rather than the final version.
We replaced all our AD servers with SAMBA4, so much more reliable and while AD/LDAP is still a nightmare of an architecture having it running on standard Linux servers means it's much easier to monitor, backup, snapshot, introspect and it far out performs windows based DCs.
Yeah, that is true. But Play is the middle man, not sure the end user could even verify the apks in any way...
Ask HN: Best data visualization?
What's the best/most interesting data visualization or statistics article that you've seen in recent years?
Nah, I'm far from consipracy theory here.

To list quickly from memory (and my game machine experiences) - all from windows 10 pro.

* new install with ms office, I run autoruns.exe and see that I have 70+ things being run on startup. Yikes. Default install.

* registry: multiple things, biggest for me: you can't easily move part (or all) of it between machines, due to being tied to specific machine: imagine in unix you can't move whole /etc between to a newly installed separate machine.

* still lack of decent package management (check chocolatey (BTW they try to do some work here): among dozens of problems they have, they still (and in fact probably never) can't tell you simple 'list all files of given package'. Don't event want to start laughing about appx microsoft newest invention: it does not return even HALF of default installed apps of new laptop.

* logging. During update 1607, process is stuck (6hrs, and still 'please wait'): no simple place (log) to analyze what's happening (and no, eventlog is not such place). All daemons and windows do not have sane logging with enough information constantly being written to logfiles to analyze problem (this is big and deliberate).

* file system mess: e.g. system drivers running with kernel permission installed in 'program files' (new dell xps from 2016) and also usual common day programs being installed in c:\windows - while windows happily allows it - again, clean new install :)

* naming of services/technologies and their (microsoft) general approach to architecture design (boundaries and namespaces): this is mess, one example among hundreds: check what is short name of background transfer service (the bits one) you need to restart if windows update (sic!) stops working - no, it's not bits or bts :)

This is only written on the phone high level things, There is on the net comprehensive listo of 500+ things could have been fixed.

So???
We already have a category for what emoji are: pictographs.
Is this for replication or maybe updating developer environments with fresh data?
If the latter, maybe some more options like "WHERE date <= curdate() - interval 30 day"
>Yes. All that would achieve would be to undermine wikileaks' credibility.

You're assuming that the accuracy of the information Wikileaks releases is crucial to its influence or credibility, but I disagree. A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can put on its shoes, after all.

I submit that Wikileaks is more influential because of political bias than it is because of objectivity.

>I don't doubt that the mainstream media would hammer home the point that they released lies in the past from that point onward.

Many Americans have been trained to mistrust the mainstream media and to assume they are biased, corrupt and bought by corporate and political interests.

People who would be susceptible to political influence from sources like Wikileaks would likely also reject the credibility of the mainstream media, so the intended effect of influencing partisans wouldn't really be countered by MSM rebuttals.

The question is whether the set of such people is large enough to actually influence an election.

>If you were the subject of such leaks you could offset this problem by releasing the rest of the information rendering its selectivity pointless.

Yes ... and your releases wouldn't be believed, because many people have been trained to assume that politicians are corrupt and that their denials regarding accusations of scandal are lies.

Also, guaranteeing that anyone who leaks inaccurate information will be answered with a leak of accurate information probably doesn't set a good precedent regarding the integrity of classified material.

>The only way selective exposure as a means of propaganda works is if you actually wield a large degree of influence or control in the media.

I present to you the recent US Presidential election in rebuttal, and argue that selective exposure as a means of propaganda worked quite well in that case. Not because of Wikileaks' influence over the media, but because of their influence over social media and the cynicism of the electorate.
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Markov chains are exactly what I thought of when he started on the topic of dynamic vs static in inequality. It's not really that a high-brow concept.
You're asking about Literature, e.g., books that are considered canonical? Like Tolstoy, Eliot, Twain, Nobokov, ...?

Of course. No different than the study and appreciation of music, art, physical fitness, mental fitness, etc. I find benefit in being well-rounded. It brings insight and creativity from outside my primary realm of expertise.

Anything that broadens ones horizons is a net gain.
C was designed in a time when codebases were much, much smaller than codebases today; when your project got big enough that it was unwieldy for C you embedded a lisp or TCL interpreter and used that to string together small C utilities.

As I Get Older™, I'm starting to agree with the Suckless[1] people that the small-project way is better, and that one of the reasons it's better is that C still works for it. Projects that are small enough for a single developer to understand in the nature of things have fewer problems. Yes, that would mean a change in what we expect software to do and how we expect it to behave, but that changes all the time anyways, and I think a pendulum swing back in the minimalist direction would be a good thing.

[1] http://suckless.org
That is a good point, but even if it weren't, does it matter? Let's call it 0-38C vs 32-100F (ignore my rounding). Does that additional precision in the latter really matter for every day weather temperatures? 75F and 76F both round to 24C, but does it actually make any difference in my daily life to have that degree of precision? I'm wearing the same clothing regardless. The difference between 75F and 80F is meaningful, and Celcius gives you that discrimination ability, but single Fahrenheit degrees aren't meaningful enough in common tasks.

I'm also somewhat amazed that no one has brought up Kelvin (my one true love) in this discussion yet. But that's my astronomy background talking. Black body radiation is a total mess unless you use an absolute temperature scale in the equation, for example.
Could you try and make that argument without the term "financially viable"? We're talking about science here. Capitalism is a tiny thing that really isn't required to rule everything, and particularly in this case I don't think it has any authority based on which to implement that "check".

If I just leave that out you seem to imply science publications should be selected by whether enough people care about, or whether they are boring or not. Both (especially the latter) are rather bad measuring sticks for the quality and importance of research.

Adding "financially viable" to "less boring" produces "EXCITING!", adding it to "enough people care" yields "POPULAR!". These are definitely not forces that should be pulling scientific research.

Not saying there shouldn't be checks. Just that market forces are probably too stupid for it.
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I really enjoyed this TED talk that talks about how looking at data can help identify an overlooked problem. http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_wellington_how_we_found_the_wor...
Ha, reminds me of when I brought my iPhone into repair due to a faulty battery. They took a look at the charts and noticed a high usage of power in the morning and then it would stay charged the rest of the day while I was at work. When the device was unplugged was when I left.
Because NOBODY wants emojis to be a form of language?
At least Germany is not putting its neighbours at risk with rotten nuclear plants. Looking at you, Belgium [0].

Also, Germany does not export its nuclear waste, dear France [1].

The current situation with coal is bad and we have to solve it. And I know HN is pro nuclear and downvotes opposing opinions, but history has proven several times, that nuclear energy is not a very good option, either.

[0] http://www.dw.com/en/new-incident-at-belgiums-tihange-2-nucl...

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8...
I was pleasantly surprised when I got my first Now purchase delivered that way. I was expecting a box. But the paper bag is better -- I use them as “garbage bags” for paper and cardboard, which makes the recycling quicker on my end.
Tone and facial expression aren't conveyed at all in non-emojied text. Comparing emojis usage to spoken conversation doesn't make sense because they aren't used to augment or replace speech.
I not only asked him about royalties, I asked him if I could call it "C++". He laughed, and said nobody had ever asked that before, they just did it. He was very nice and said I was welcome to use it.

I wish I remembered his name. He was a good guy.

I also remember how nice Andrew Koenig was to me in the early days. All the C++ people were nice, but Andy was a standout.
> Those patterns would be easily detected in the dataset

You left off the implied "unless the intent of those systems is to create the appearance of occupancy". You know that a pattern associated with waking up happened. You don't know if I'm home or not. Now add in the case which happens to me sometimes where my morning ritual automation kicks in because my phone is home (but I'm not).
Job queue services have async modes where enqueueing the message returns immediately. Then the jobber can send the message under a more limited account, or even on a different machine in a different language without timeouts.

Last I checked, PHP's mail() function blocks until SMTP connect/auth/submit completes, and with things like SMTP tarpitting, or just ordinary slowness, that can take a very long time.

Sometimes, it takes more time than your server-side web process is alloted for execution, leading to your script being force-terminated prior to completion.

[in reply to skarap]
The action of mail() depends on the mail/sendmail settings in your php.ini, so the behavior could be blocking or non-blocking depending on which client is used and which parameters are passed.
When discussing controversial topics on Hacker News, we need to cleave to the topic at hand (weighing passengers for air travel, in this case) to avoid the threads degrading because of the already-heightened sensitivity. You can sometimes tell if you haven't succeeded by whether the ensuing subthread becomes about something else. It has here, predictably.

Additionally, you've brought up specific topics of controversy which you've addressed several times before on this site without anything new to say about them. This is not in keeping with the guideline that asks us not to introduce classic flamewar topics.
From my POV, cops tend to ignore anything that doesn't point to "guilty". There would be no benefit to the accused in this case. IANAL, yada, yada.
Because there is no emoji for "because"
I just read a part of the text, eventually started searching for the GPS keyword. couldn't find the connection between the title and the article other that the ad for a book thing.
> It doesn't show up on my graph, but I'd bet from the data you can see exactly when I go to bed, since I plug in my phone (+1W) and switch off the last light (-5W).

You'd probably have a viable business model if you could actually do that. Existing options like Neurio cannot reliably detect devices pulling single-digit power draws.
1. It's a made up fact. http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/02/03/170851048/do-we-...

2. Cat's killing birds doesn't make it acceptable for humans to kill birds by the tens of millions.
Crypto experts don't follow "good practice" for the sake of it; they do things that would meaningfully improve security.
arXiv isn't meant to replace peer review. When I submitted to phys. rev. d, a submission to arXiv to allow people to see the work ahead of review was expected.
FYI: They had to disable 2 cores and HT to reach 7GHz.
>bios loads the malware irrespective of the boot drive order specified in the bios

>rewrite the make and model of the hard drives

ummm, no
Yes, you can. The only area we didn't visit when I toured Isar 2 was the control room (we looked through the window and got a description of the various parts and their function).
I think at this point a better solution is to use a polyfill for Webp.

The polyfill is pretty light because the underlying image format is just a single frame of VP8. Shouldn't get much performance hit since it will just render as a single frame of video on polyfilled browsers
Was this deleted (or heavily down-weighted) for disagreeing with some admin's politics?

I'm pretty sure when I saw this it was on the front page, now it's totally disappeared, except from the "New" tab.

[All these downvotes, but no reply. Am I wrong about this? If so, say so.]
There's an oil shale museum in Estonia. The tour covers visiting actual underground oil shale mine tunnels and a general museum about oil shale enrichment, chemistry and energetics. See: http://kaevandusmuuseum.ee/eng/
I disagree very rarely does one explanation take that long. It can normally be built up by lots of little videos. Once someone has completely 10 videos on the basics you can do slightly longer ones that span the concepts and explains tradeoffs between techniques.
How Google, Facebook, and Lego Celebrated Christmas This Year
No nuclear power whatsoever.
Damnit NOAA, stay out of my house! This summer was unbelievably hot; it's unforgivable to find out that it was all due to NOAA!
There is a strong argument for them to still refuse: suppose the suspect somehow gamed the system (e.g. by translating the voice via radio), and the suspect is acquitted based on this data, and proceeds to do his evil things — think about the bad PR your company would get! No thanks, I'd rather stick to the safe and rather popular policy of preserving privacy.
thats why i didnt want them to install the 'smart' meters for electricity. i told them I didnt want it, but they said they would shut off my electricity unless i complied.
I'm not entirely sure I understand the question.

You already seem to have the buzzwords necessary to land a reasonable position.
That still reflects positively on Amazon, though. It protects the innocent consumers AND Amazon if they don't build mass surveillance into their device to begin with. Makes me wish more tech companies were building end-to-end security into their platforms.
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I don't have anything to add to the blog post itself, but I find the complaints about the writing style pretty strange, especially to HN. I never even try to read New Yorker articles anymore, which get shared and upvoted here so abundantly: lazy, wordy writing that concentrates on people instead of concepts, tries to reason about important things through emotions instead of logic and in general tries to be prose instead of journalism is insufferable to me.

After that, Taleb's writing is like fresh air: straight and to the point, logical and precise. He's using concepts that I myself utilize in analysis of outside world, shows great intellectual honesty and backs his claims with a plethora of sources. If anything, I expected HN to be full of fans of this writing style, not New Yorker's.
Leakage: Memory Leak Testing for Node
Artificial Intelligence Might Solve the Security Skills Shortage
It's excerpted from a book. I do think that it would be better if he altered it a bit for this article.
On Amazon's Android app store, they repack the developer-provided APKs. Any developer APK signatures would be lost.
If I'm not mistaken, the algorithms (and their names) usually come directly from the literature. ie: to understand them, you could read books on AI / computer vision, or look up the research papers from which the algorithm comes from.
I don't know, but am I right in saying that he is generally in favour of ephemerality over verifiability? It'd seem odd to do this with definitely attributable works like software releases, but it is what would make most sense to me.
An IDE for the Atari 2600
Share them with neighbors maybe, should they need to ship something?
Not only XT/AT (of course).

For my Amiga I had the Tiny Tiger Parallel port to SCSI adapter.
Cost me a bomb.

http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=...
I wonder what the market is for a utility usage randomizer that fuzzes this data?
The Touch Bar, Cognitive Load and Usability
I'm not sure why that matters; can you explain?
tks @spraak for clarifying.
No sum types (the Java alternative to Rust enums is the horribly verbose visitor pattern, so a lot of the time people don't bother). null. A verbose and unabstractable "checked exception" system (that the standard library uses poorly in places) that leaves many users resorting to unchecked exceptions (panics) instead. Uninitialized field problems because methods are virtual even when called from superclass constructors. Excessive overhead to custom types that leads to using weakly typed Strings etc. rather than domain types. Poor abstraction facilities that lead to a culture of "magic" annotations and runtime reflection (or worse, proxies and bytecode manipulation) e.g. @Transactional, @Inject.

Java is safer than C, but it's a long way behind a modern functional language like Rust.
I couldn't get to his idea to criticise.
When I was a student this murder happened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Rachel_McLean One important piece of evidence was the record of the number of bus tickets sold at the time/place Tanner said he got the bus (there was also a witness that said he was alone). A single ticket was sold, not two he had claimed.

That was 1991.
Yup. For instance, Word's PDF output, has an absolutely positioned textbox for every word (and sometimes sub-word). This is for kerning purposes. If you want your original text back, you're going to need some OCR-like preprocessing and heuristics to guess what textboxes belong to the same line. If you have multiple columns, good luck distinguishing them from accidental rivers.

It's not impossible, but I wouldn't know immediately what tools get this most right. And it's always a lossy operation going back and forth.
Anytime you hear someone say AMD is going to be competitive "any day now", remember this, and think about the headroom Intel has.
> There is hardly any life on earth for which these temperatures (upwards of 45C) play a role, and consequently, any effect on proteins would be 'out of context'

It makes me wonder what the pressure dependence is for this phase change. http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_phase_diagram.html

Pressures inside a particular piece of cellular machinery can be much higher than 0.1 MPa (1 bar).
Easy for editors, and a developer's dream CMS
Seconded. I found his style genuinely delightful.

People are more likely to comment about things that piss them off though, right?
Oh yeah. When I was a kid, my parents bought me an Athlon XP 2500+… overclocked to 3200+ and ran like that for many, many years. Eventually I gave that PC away to someone. I kinda regret that decision now :D
It's not an issue of familiarity or stability for me. I've been using Windows more or less daily since Win98. I'm more frustrated about not beeing able to fix it in sane way when things go wrong. I'm able to patch and compile kernel, but i'm unable to fix Windows update. It does not make any sense to me.
It's worth pointing out that modern phones have at least a half dozen other means to determine your location. Not all methods require the phone to participate. Here's a few off the top.

* CGI/CGI-TA/UTDOA via the cell network
* bluetooth discovery
* wifi AP's
* audio via both mic and speaker, possibly ultrasonic: listen and emit to other devices in environment
* NFC
* magnetic field

If you don't like this, you should turn it off and keep it in a metal box.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/bluetooth-surveillance2...

http://www.skyhookwireless.com/about-skyhook

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-tha...
tv-tablet-and-pc/

http://newatlas.com/magnetic-anomaly-indoor-positioning/2325...
Is that actually true? In my research, i found that a number of scholars (including the ones you cite) critiqued aspects of Piketty's theory, but their papers read like either additions or clarifications. Further, the results are definitely not "convenient" - indeed, they go against a lot of prior research, and Piketty has done a remarkable job being open with both the data he uses and responding to others' arguments. He has certainly started an important scholarly debate.

If I'm wrong, mind citing the correct sources?
He is citing Piketty for his flaws, not to praise him.
But they do have recordings of everything said to Alexa ("Alexa, how fast will a body decompose in a hot tub?"), and potentially other recordings following false positives for "Alexa", as the article mentions: "...the device is also occasionally accidentally activated, through similar sounds..."

I used to have Google's voice search on my phone, and found it interesting that they store your recordings indefinitely. You can listen to your own voice searches: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?restrict=vaa. It was also interesting that they include what was said in the few seconds preceding the wake word ("OK Google").
Look on two things:

A) main that SUV happened (just before starting sommersaults) to position itself orthogonal to its previous way of moving. In this position all wheels of SUV created massive 'resistance' to continue move forward

B) it happened partialy because of the middle barrier. WOuld it be missing, SUV would probably move (on the arc) without sommersaults.

Change of orientation was caused by small car, but look that up to moment A) SUV more less was moving fine.
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Ask HN: Do you feel/fear that you're more disposable as a remote employee?
Mon Mothma didn't appear until Return of the Jedi.

Think we'll see the side story that lead to the data she presented to the Rebels in that episode?