skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CNN apologizes to Julian Assange after commentator calls him ‘a pedophile’
I use Alexa to put stuff on a shopping list all the time. It's probably one of its more useful features for me.

But most of this stuff is things I don't get from Amazon and, if I did, I'd want to check quantities, pricing, etc. For certain types of goods you might want to batch things up an use Amazon Pantry.
AI of that level would be unprecedented and far more dangerous than nukes; to think the government wouldn't interfere would be unrealistic.
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Not that I'm pro Russian, but that's exactly what I'd expect from the US government. Trying to police the world while making baseless accusations and meanwhile fucking up someone's life.

Can we see the proof, please? Of course we can't, because there probably isn't any.

Putting a oligarch with proper resources to defend himself through the courts (if he wants to) on that list is one thing, putting a random person on there is another.
France gives employees out of hours “right to switch off” in world first
The carrot is a salary and the stick is getting fired. I'd say it's exactly what works for most programmers.
Supportive, cheers from Russia
I'll be the devil's advocate this time.

As you can see in gpedit, Cortana and Web Search is disabled. Why does explorer.exe need to access akamai or search.msn?

http://imgur.com/a/yiIxn
Would you be open to trying non-Linux distros such as BSD distros?

There are various flavors of BSD that have the toolsets to do what you requested. Not very sure of laptop battery management though.

FreeBSD (Very stable)

OpenBSD (Stability + Security focused)

PCBSD (Linux like ease of setup for Desktop environments)

They all have access to large/comprehensive application/system/development software.
> Good programmers just don’t work for money

I disagree with this view.

I'd probably reword it as "Programmers as a group are generally not as motivated by money as other employees may be".

Saying they dont work for the money is misleading I think, and runs the risk of bosses thinking they can cut programmers' salaray because, hey, programmers dont work for money and don't care about paying bills or feeding & clothing their family or anything.

I think the underlying truth here might be that programmers who are enjoying their work are probably also good at their work and are well paid for it. In which case, it may be that many are not motivated by more money because they have enough already that it stops becoming a priority or an every-day thought/concern. This thought is echoed by the StackOverflow survey linked in the article - there is a strong correlation between high salary and high job satisfaction: http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#mone...
What Nurses Expect from Health IT Solutions (Part II)
Is it any better?
Oh yes, don't forget RAII as I did! (The name is super-awkward, but the concept is mind-blowingly awesome when it fully sinks in.)

Other languages have begun to pick up on this, think of Python's with-Statements, and C#'s using (x = SomeClass())-blocks. but C++ still makes it easier to take advantage of this feature.

Unless you play around with setjmp/longjmp. But to do that, you have to be ... special enough to not care about deterministic invocation of destructors in the first place. ;-)
Looks like a great conference, regrettably before my time (and unfortunately no videos of course). They look like fairly standard topics about the zeta function, where does "how not to prove RH" come in?
The East German nuclear plants went offline pretty quick after the unification. And yes there are a few natural gas plants, they would actually much better now than those annoying coal plants which were build recently. They are faster and way more efficient. (faster in the sense that you can turn them on and off w/o much lag.)

The heating in Grundremming is new to me, only found a press release from 2012 in which is mentioned. Anyway.

We is the basis of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In which there was a majority agains the usage of nuclear power for a long time now. It was part of the party platform in 1998.

Also it was his home state of Lower Saxony. The Wendland region was the centre of the resistance against nuclear power. And it was never about the safety of the plants itself but about what should we do with the radioactive waste. A question still unanswered to this day.

The issue in this discussion about Diesel and Gerhard Schröder is a different one. When he was Prime Minister of Lower Saxony and when he was the Chancellor, he always listened to the automotive industry. And this haunts us to this day.
Back when NextMuni was only 99% worthless, Transit had a method of actually getting reasonable arrival times out of it. Since each bus has a published GPS location (in addition to the NextMuni time), you can use that with driving direction data to loosely get travel time.

When the app did this you would initially see Next Muni times -- 2 minutes away! -- which would update a few seconds later for lines you were particularly looking at -- oh wait 20 minutes away!

Apparently NextMuni either just displays the schedule (which is literally never right) or does some kind of extremely basic estimation like you said. Many times I have seen a bus arrival time listed that was physically impossible -- a bus a mile away arriving in 1 minute, for instance.

Transit's method still fell down in the case of buses which appear on the route but are just sitting at the beginning of the line. It treats that as a bus that's en route, but in my experience they just hang out for as long as they feel like it. I learned to look up the locations on the map and discard those, just annoyance #475 of public transportation.
That didn't answer my question at all.

You said above:

> That's not true. Install and run wireshark then dial all you want, there will always be traffic every other minute or so to one of Redmond's servers from just idling.

I literally did exactly what you said. Shutdown all third party applications on a Windows 10 Pro machine, loaded Wireshark 2.2.3, filtered out all LAN traffic/broadcast traffic/etc and watched. Didn't see any traffic at all going to Microsoft nor anyone else, it is still running now and not a peep.

Now I have no doubt that if I waited long enough I would, since I have Windows Update enabled, use Microsoft for time synchronisation, and a handful of other things. But it definitely isn't "every other minute." I cannot reproduce that.
I'd try working in one before actually trying buying one :)
You're right. I wasn't really talking about people in poverty/near poverty. They can benefit from the network involved with an Ivy more than just about anyone, because they usually don't have a network at all.
> Strawman. If an amount of critical code is audited (and it is) it's still much better than nothing.

Is it, though? I'm specifically thinking about the Debian fiasco a few years ago when a packager broke OpenSSL's key generation. Clearly less scrutiny is paid than one might think. I'm unable to find any evidence/documentation/anything that suggests that code audits by Debian packagers of critical packages are done regularly (or ever).

I did find a few links to some Debian-specific tools to aid code auditing, but nothing to suggest where they're used, how often, and on what packages. Regardless, they look more like linters and static analyzers -- nothing that would help you discover backdoors or just flat-out malicious behavior.

> The packaging system check for files being overwritten...

Yes, I'm well aware, not sure why you're bringing this up. I was merely pointing out (regardless of any other argument being made) that file-clobbering is a reason why "curl | sh"-style installation bothers me, personally, much more than possible security considerations, which I consider to be overblown.
He? Kim LaCapria was doing a lot of the fact checking on political articles during the campaign.
If you do any creative work, Linux is pretty much a desert. Adobe software doesn't run on Linux, capture one doesn't either, so as a photographer I have no choice but windows (cheap hardware and malware os) or OS X (hyper expensive old generation hardware with passable os).

Davinci resolve seems to have a Linux version but not enough for someone who does more than video.
It wasn't a physical data breach, so I don't think it would make much of a difference. Presumably, it's a way to force Linkedin (and others) to have a subsidiary in Russia (legal entity), which can then be sued if there are problems with regards to Russian law.

On one hand, I fully understand your concern. I'm in Canada and the local governments pressure companies such as Netflix, Google and others to have registered legal entities here so that they can apply Canadian law (privacy, tax and language requirements).

On the other hand, Russia does not have a good reputation with regards to neutral application of the state of law. Furthermore, Russia does not have good privacy laws. Linkedin probably doesn't have the same resources/expertise as they do in the US. (as a Canadian, I never host my client data in the US for this reason.. it's not that the US is so terrible (although it kind of is w.r.t. privacy/NSA-stuff), but if something happens, we don't have the resources to deal with it)
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"Graal is designed from the start as a multi-language compiler, but its set of optimisation techniques is especially well suited to compiling programs with high levels of abstraction and dynamism. It runs Java as fast as the existing JVM compilers do, but when applied to Scala programs it runs them about 20% faster. Ruby programs get 400% faster than the best alternative runtime (i.e. not MRI)."

Pretty amazing claims being made here, but I do like the idea of it. Build up your language grammar, then get a compiler, debugger and runtime for basically free. Definitely will have to play around with this soon.
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P2P Software Defined Networking (ZeroTier) on PINE64 ARM Board (Debian)
Didn't they 'hack' it so it ignores MS servers listed in hosts file?
I'd encourage people to read the article rather than focusing on the headline. The author makes a lot of way more interesting points than the title would indicate.

I tend to agree with the article -- Slack is going to get squeezed by Microsoft or Google because companies are already paying them for business services
I don't use them for political fact checking in the nuanced sense of, for instance, how much repealing Obamacare will add to the deficit. Something that is open for interpretation, difficult to nail down, and politically sensitive. That kind of thing is not their specialty.

I do use them to see if headlines are completely made up. For instance, take the story,

"FBI agent suspected in Hillary email leaks found dead in apartment in murder-suicide"

This simply didn't happen, and the source is a website masquerading as a news organization. Snopes is good for rooting out stories such as this, that have no corroboration, no basis in fact or reality.

http://www.snopes.com/fbi-agent-murder-suicide/
PySignal: A Pure Python Implementation of Qt Signals
Pah! This kind of thinking might scare off non-technical dweebs on some video game forum, where everyone plays Halo, and stares blankly back at you, when you pose questions like:

Is it "normal" to supply
incremental payments of $60
for every opaque DRM locked-in
game that appears on the
shelves at Game Stop?

Here at HN, no such Jedi Mind Trick shall deter us.

We are not weaklings, to be tricked into voting with our wallets, or telling you our life histories down to our favorite color.
Putting aside for a moment the mechanism of this particular error (seemingly a slip-of-the-tongue), how has "pedophile" become the "witch" of our age?

Not even "child-molester," mind you, but "pedophile."

My concern is that this phenomenon can quite easily be activated by fake network traffic - it seems quite plausible to me that a person can be targeted for demonization (or worse) simply by fabricating the appearance of child pornography being transmitted, and now not only is the accusation very difficult to disprove (and yes, the illusory nature of the presumption of innocence is another related topic), but also casts the accused into the worst possible social characterization.
Some weird sentence structure in this article

"
Whatever the StackOverflow developer survey tells us, when I say ‘Good’ programmers, they are just 20% of all and those don’t work for the only salary."

eh?

Also I reckon this idea can apply to any field of endeavour. Just programmers right now have a premium on basic human dignity as we are in such high demand.
Really really close to flagging this. There is no "best X" for any X. At least not without adding lots of context (and then it gets boring for other people since these details probably are not interesting for them).
Just wanted to share this now that it's being used a bit in production.

It's a Qt style signal/slot system using just Python with no external dependency. Hopefully useful for someone else too.

Also my first Python package available on pypi.
> You may want to finish all of the first season then. It is the major theme.

I did, and your point nails it. It felt like something they tacked on to the last episode or two as opposed to being woven throughout the entire season.
Can we see the proof, please?

No, we won't show you proof. Here's what we can tell you:

We assess that the proof is classified. We also assess that the hack was directly orchestrated by Putin.

And we do ask that you just take our word for it, because
evidence is classified.

You do believe that we're not lying, right?
Bullshit. I've had a better experience with Ubuntu than with Windows 10. And since Ubuntu 16.04 the telementary thing you were talking about is desabled by default. Or you could use other Ubuntu derivate, like Xubuntu.
I've tried just about Clojure IDE/editor, and this is probably my favorite. But still I think it is tough for a beginner. 9 packages to install, editing config files, the ProtoREPL tutorial doesn't include Mac keystrokes. The problem for a beginner is you follow all these steps and you don't if you are doing it right - there is no feedback. Once it is up and running, it is really nice.

To be beginner friendly, it would be good to have a packaged installer that pre configures and installs everything, or a single Clojure/ProtoREPL package that could be installed in Atom that includes all the dependent packages, and config changes.
I'm not an expert on fighter thermal signatures, but this sort of looks like the rear output of two engines followed by usage of the afterburners maybe?

http://i51.tinypic.com/20fs0pf.jpg

It may correspond to known aircraft configuration, or an unknown one, but it doesn't seem like there's anything anomalous about it...
This has nothing to do with security. If anything, maintaining data centers on a per-country basis would be harder to protect.

In-country data requirements add a level of bureaucracy to the web that is just bad for users, as well as companies trying to innovate. This is a combination of both censorship and protectionism.
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How about "software that is using my computer in ways I don't want it used, inextricable from the software that I require"?
SEO/SEM Contractor (Where to find?)
Anyone know where to locate a good SEM/SMM expert who can assist with:

A/B Testing
Splash Pages
AdWords
Facebook
etc...
The lightweight drone company and the really good, really heavy camera company. Ought to be interesting.
Because the more fully kithensunk ones are worse/bad/negative or just because you keep it simple?
Some of us don't want any telemetry, or any crap. An idle OS should be idle...
I second this approach. The go standard library has a multitude of utilities that make spinning up a Web application fairly straightforward. Moreover, utilizing the standard library gives you greater leverage when you need to adapt to the unique needs of your application.
Be careful, this breaks things. I ran this when I first switched to Windows 10, and I found that it killed search in the start menu, certain control panel applets that relied on the metro framework, and somehow, VSS.
Up voted for this:

"If you do not understand every single command in this thing, you should avoid it, and if you understand every single command in this, you don't need it."

It's so universally applicable!
Sure don't! :)
Your requirements are met by any distro so you'll get people recommending their distro of choice here. Mine is Fedora. Arguments for Fedora include:

* Best SElinux implementation if that sort of thing turns your clock.

* Latest gnome 3 and yearly new releases with even more recent desktop software.

* dnf, or yum as it was called, which from personal experience I think is very good. On par or better than apt/dpkg.

* Backing of RedHat, a huge Linux company that have proven their dedication to open source countless times and are one of the major contributors to the Linux kernel.
According to the theory, "they" just set the initial parameters (big bang one would assume) and let things happen. Intelligence is just one of the many random evolutions of mater states in a vast simulation of the universe.

It will be accelerated if for example we as humans start a similar simulation of our own. And inside that simulation some other intelligent life evolves. So likewise we may be n levels deep ourselves and never know any better.
Thank you. As someone who struggles expressing concepts formally, it was enlightening to see how this sort of proof could be modeled.
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Then get Debian or Fedora. I'm serious, if the OS is doing things so bad you're willing to execute untrusted code with elevated privileges to modify the OS, you've already lost.
Add Evernote / OneNote for me.
That's kind of the point though. The reality of the difficulty is unimportant, it's the perception of difficulty that matters.
Russia requires that Russian citizens (even those living abroad more than 6 months per year) declare their foreign bank accounts.

Linkedin private conversations are a good way to investigate if they are having undeclared revenue from another country.

(sure, it's easy to avoid, and so is using Facebook Messenger / private chat.. yet people still mostly default to that because it's easier)
It doesn't have to be malicious to be dangerous, it can just be wrong. Nobody's running a test suite on these things whenever a Windows update comes down, nobody's testing them on a wide array of Windows configurations, and from the ones I've seen before, they can cause problems with your PC.
If I am starting to learn Go and want to try my hands at building a web service, what should I use?
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> It's like they just keep adding new ways to do things, for no other reason than because they can. What's wrong with only have one way to do simple things like that?

Precise control over those things is a feature in C(++).

If you weren't unfortunately forced to use C++, a principle of Python is to (try to) have one obvious way of doing things. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
Not native English speaker here; I read your comment along the lines "move along, nothing to see here, a foreign company collaborates with its own government, what's the big deal", plus a bit of sarcasm towards someone who tries to imply maliciousness from this. But language aside, sarcasm is always a bit tricky in comments.
We must be doing very different things. Outside of gaming, everything I do is as fast or faster to get done on Linux.
What's not captured by this criteria?

You can express whatever idea of "interestingness" you like in this framework by finding a predicate that expresses it.
A better off student coming from either wealth or parents with college experience have more resources from their families and peers in figuring out the logistics in going to college. How to get housing, financial aid, how to sign up for classes, etc.

A student who is poor or without the support and knowledge base of their family and peers must figure out all of this on their own. It was already stressful for me to figure out when I attended college, and I was in a pretty good position.

So there is a disparity which isn't based on the academic admission standards of the university, but on the students economic and social background. Providing additional support is a pretty cheap way to alleviate that disparity. The university will now get more higher quality students to attend.
Reminds me Daycare sex abuse and satanic ritual hysteria.[0]

First, it's hysteria and then it becomes some kind of a "regular insult". This horrible name is being used so often that it has lost its meaning, which in return if catastrophic for the real victims.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria
Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?
We are considering moving from Slack to Microsoft Teams, if anyone is using it here, can you share your experience with it?
JetBrains has something that is similar to this: MetaProgramming System (MPS)(https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/). It resides exclusively within the context of Java (so DSL) -- so it's not as, shall we say, far reaching as Graal and Truffle claim to be?

It works really well though; abstract the complexities of the AST through the use of various different methodologies so that designers can do what they do best, design. The shortcomings, I'd imagine, are the same with MPS in-so-much that the limitations imposed are defined by the system. And when you run into those boundaries, they are hard and unforgiving -- much like trying to use Python in a non-pythonic manner.
It's not, you can do everything in lowercase. Still sucks.
Not necessarily. I've read from several who have successfully replaced Photoshop with The GIMP. (I've done this, though I still do photo work in LR). Inkscape has come a long way, and there are multiple, competing (and very competent) Lightroom replacements for digital darkroom work.

I don't know how fleshed out the DTP side of things are but as a amateur photographer and graphic designer I've been able to get away without having Adobe anything (except Lightroom) installed for the past few years at home and at work.

You will have to learn a new UI though, but I find this is easier to do than it sounds because most of the open-source software doesn't try so hard to map things to their equivalent real world process. (I found that the hardest thing about Photoshop was its terminology and workflow, which was built to be familiar to film photographers and print media people)
Joke's on them.

Microsoft probably just bought that info from my Android location history.
If you want an Arch-based system with less worry about updates, have a look at Manjaro. The team do a pretty decent job of making sure each batch of updates work together - though if you use the 'stable' branch you'll be a week or two behind Arch stable (but not for security updates). If you want it more frequently, Manjaro's 'unstable' is synced to Arch stable.

Yes, Manjaro has a small team and occasionally mess up the website, but don't let that stop you from trying the distro.

(Retired Core team member)
Just to give the other point here. I do understand every line of it and agreed with most of it. I had previously hunt down a lot of those switches manually, now I have a custom fork of this script disabling the stuff that bothers me and keeping those I like. Also, its very presumptuous of you to assume no one need this. If windows welcomed choices like this before it would be a better development environment.
Anyone know how this is even technically feasible for a giant app like Linkedin to separate out a portion of their data in Russia?