skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a hard problem. Internet tomography aside (an even harder problem), route-servers and looking glasses everywhere expressly forbid automation, and any network administrator, virtually anywhere, can break your reachability testing. Add to this the myriad complications of BGP selectivity (Why do people insist that "net neutrality" is in danger when it never existed as stated?), and network operator participation becomes almost unavoidable.

While I understand that tools such as http://www.internettrafficreport.com and http://internetpulse.keynote.com are not enough, it isn't at all clear to me how any single actor could provide better monitoring. I admit this sounds pessimistic, but I've thought deeply about this and similar topics for many years, and I'm all too familiar with the obstacles to (and poor architecture underlying) Internet polling.

However, I do see a clear need for aggregated monitoring data--many sources, re-published succinctly in one easy-to-find place--and I would certainly donate to such a cause.
Yes, general problem with all Blogspot blogs. It's been going on for years at this point.

This is getting off-topic, but Blogspot/Blogger is a #$%# shitshow. My general rule of thumb is to use services from a company that treats them as its top priority (like say Wordpress in this case). Google likely doesn't include Blogger in its top 100 priorities.
Nope. And I don't think you'd want it switching on every time you use the word google as a verb.
The novel if you could pull it off.
> UPDATE 11:58 AM ET: The Google Homes have fallen in love. How nice!

Best wishes!
It is a dark time for Linux distros. CADT is destabilizing everything: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

I suggest devuan -- debian without systemd -- or elementary os -- it feels like some MacOS refugees wanted a reasonable (usable/lightweight) desktop OS so they made an Ubuntu derivative.

Rationale:

Run elementary for the default gui (esc and alt work out of the box!) but be warned that it is systemd based. I have found that systemd distros are fragile, and not robust against customizations like switching desktop environments. (YMMV, but I have not tried to significantly customize my elementary os box, and don't plan to.) It is beta software, but unlike all contemporary distros I have tried, it has sane defaults out of the box. I had to dump my nvidia card and buy a radeon. This isn't Elementary's fault, but worth knowing if you have an nvidia laptop (I assume intel video is generally fine too).

Use devuan for something approximating what you'd expect from Ubuntu five years ago (before the current wave of usabilty and stability regressions from unity, systemd, etc...). This is probably my new goto for work boxes, where I just want emacs firefox and command line tools.

You asked for a Linux distro, but if it weren't for steam and hardware compatibility, I would have already switched to a BSD. That might a reasonable alternative, depending on exactly what your dev environment and laptop look like. They all have virtualization solutions at this point.
I know and it bugs me that I didn't see it until after the edit period (its a Swedish to english mistranslation).

To say a few more words about Debian, the operating system has targets for multiple architectures, multiple kernels, and multiple platforms/hardware. Some treat them as four different operating systems, ie "Debian GNU/Linux", "Debian GNU/Hurd", and "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD" and "Debian GNU/NetBSD". It look silly, and its the same software in all of them unless you do things very close to the hardware.
An more accurate description of the function would be "given this picture of a screen, what is the most likely key my author was pressing in this situation" - no goals, no values, no optimization, but simply learning to imitate the actions performed by a human.

Coincidentally, one of the neural network components in AlphaGo did pretty much the same, i.e. attempted to guess what human player would usually play in this situation purely based on the image and nothing else.
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It's hard to take this article seriously when it starts out with stuff like "A nonfree program denies users freedom, which is unjust in itself." If you don't want to use Skype, I can respect that. But to accuse the developers of moral failure just because they didn't make their software free... That is an absurd view of morality.
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I still can't forgive Karel Zak for removing ddate[0]. =(

[0] http://riaschissl.bestsolution.at/2012/07/when-maintainers-b...
You're absolutely right, Amazon did commit fraud by not confirming that the person doing the ordering is the owner of the account. They should be held liable for the result.
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I don't think there's such a thing as "truth" in the idealistic way you mean it.

When you seek to describe something as complicated as the economy of a gigantic country or some event involving millions of people, you necessarily create abstractions that capture only a tiny fraction of "truth." And yes, which fraction you end up capturing probably depends on your own personal biases.

You postulate conspiracy: that "[the media] decided to publish half truths because you had certain interests." I think these "half truths" (AKA inaccuracies) are a necessary result of any attempt to describe complex things.

In my opinion, the rational way to live in a world like this is to read widely and take everything with a grain of salt. Or unplug completely. But don't expect or accept any single source of truth.
I love my Arch laptop and desktop, but I would caution that Arch is a very Linux way of doing things. You're in full control and you take full responsibility. This is fantastic if you want to get an understanding of what your laptop is doing.

If you're looking for a MacOS replacement, Ubuntu might be a quicker path to just get things going. It mostly just works, and when it doesn't, there are lots of good resources to get you going again. There are a lot of developers on Ubuntu so a lot of package development happens there first.

In my experience, Arch has been more solid than Ubuntu, but I like to heavily customize my laptop. If a default Ubuntu (or Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc) desktop environment works for you, it might be more stable.
basically no 3rd party system is designed to execute programs to obtain new certs when they expire. so can't use LE for existing workflows.
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Can someone provide some links to fake news articles? I feel like the term "fake news" became popular after the election yet I haven't actually seen any fake news. Maybe it's because I don't use Facebook?
Could Skype have been be monetized effectively if it was open source?
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These laws join other laws, the so-called anti-terrorist package from August 2014, which require service providers (defined very broadly to include such things as social networks and ISPs) to provide user data to the authorities upon request. If the server is physically in Russia and controlled by some Russian subsidiary, it is much harder for a company to evade such an order.

Few people even bother to pretend that this is about anything other than closer control of Russian internet users by the Russian authorities. There is a weak spin about protecting the data of Russian users from foreign governments by placing it within Russia, which makes zero sense, since nothing prevents an American company from giving user data from its Russian server to the American government.

And before someone says that the US does the same thing, note that something like 1000 people have already been imprisoned in the Russian Federation over various online comments and posts, and even Facebook likes. The fact that the US violates privacy also doesn't mean that it's all the same thing.
Non-productive blather. Posting this Twitter conversation disrespects HN readers.
I personally don't blame InfoWars or Breitbart [0]. They don't have the institutional backing nor the legacy that the main stream media has. I blame the main stream media for virtually forcing a segment of the population to tune themselves out and exclusively follow these far-right sources.

I'll give you my own example. Typing "c" on my address bar and pressing enter was a very common thing for me. It would take me to CNN. It was muscle memory. Same for "ny". But in 2016, most of these websites were becoming insufferable and I just started tuning them out. Even I, as someone who disliked Trump, could see the absolute blatant bias and I had the feeling that this was going to backfire very strongly [1].

Some people took it to the other extreme. They got disillusioned by the main stream media but then ended up elevating fringe far-right groups like Breitbart, InfoWars. Those groups didn't become big by spending VC money on ads... they were elevated by a new readership after the dismissal of MSM. Think Digg->Reddit.

[0] It's sad that I even have to say this: I abhor what they publish and the crazy radio host at infowars.

[1] I actually took out a bet in Trump's favor in Jan 2016 to validate my criticism with my friends.
but unfortunately, the compiler we used only understood C89, so my hands were tied.

You can do it in C89 too, just allocate sizeof(header) + n * sizeof(element).
> >They used that power to publish biased articles, half truths, etc.
> No they didn't. They just didn't post what people wanted.

What about the Rolling Stone Jackie scandal? What about the constant demonization of men?
Mumble's server is harder to setup than nothing but it's still pretty minimal
" but art criticism in general is completely fucked in all directions. You think the internet did a number on the record labels ..."

As a label founder myself [+], I'm not unfamiliar with where you're going but I'm curious on your perspective. Care to elaborate?

[+] you plug i plug: scalatapes.net
> D-Link is to home routers as the Trabant is to automobiles

Trabant was actually a very ingenious design that solved a real problem. D-Link is an analogy of a large car company producing, over decades, model after model of Trabant - each laden with the same old problems - while the rest of the industry moved forward.
Maybe fake news is a blessing in disguise in that it makes you distrust everything. Which is a good thing. Because despite what some people want to believe, media as it is today is a healthy dose of garbage shoveled down your throat by people with various interests. All focused on self-interest without considering the broader implications of their actions. Fake news is the lowest form of this, but we have many higher forms that pass without ridicule.
Not just snooping, but seizure and blackmail... sure would be a unfortunate if we had to remove these servers for a little examination, maybe you can do something for my little friend?
River = a stream of streams

I've mostly seen it used in the context of news readers.
Bit of scaremongering in that piece:

Think about how this might play out in communities where
the “liberal media” is viewed with disdain as an
untrustworthy source of information… or in those where
science is seen as contradicting the knowledge of religious
people.

I'm a 'religious person', and my children attend a Christian High School. Being Canadian we tend to look upon all American media with skepticism because it is so much more sensational than our media outlets. We are always talking about how to discern truth from error. For example, I recently picked up this book on logical reasoning: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1502713764

Yes, there are other religious people out there who are terrified of everything, but don't lump all of us together. Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Oxford... these are all universities that were founded as theological seminaries (and still have those departments). Sound reasoning is not only the backbone of Science and Technology, but also Christian Theology.
I haven't visited gizmodo in a while, but it looks like they're no longer about tech.
Ask HN: What happens to a long-running script when my computer sleeps?
I have a command line script running throughout the day monitoring plane ticket prices, and sometimes I forget it's running and put my Mac to sleep at the end of the day. When I wake it up, the script continues on as if nothing happened, but sometimes time stamps are a little funky. What actually happens when I put my Mac to sleep? Does the OS pause all running processes? What part of the OS handles unpausing the processes when awoken without corrupting their state?
The tech industries arrogance brought them there. They thought they ran technology, they can't run their own technology, let alone anyone else's.
Yep. I tend to use Ubuntu Server and then dump i3 on it as my WM. The support from the community is second to none, so when I need answers they're always a Google search away.

Mind you, if I don't get answers I normally end up looking at the Arch documentation, which is phenomenal.
Is there an equivalent to The Spectator http://www.spectator.co.uk/ in the US? It is a conservative publication that has been running for nearly 200 years.

Any ambitious conservative writers seem to have quite an opportunity at the moment.
Are you able to point to any academic papers or even concrete examples of the old media lying about race, gender or sexuality? I am legitimately curious about this claim.

Thanks!
I bet with a bit of deal scouring one could find a 5k panel that is comparable but not quite as good. The opportunity cost of using that monitor on any other computer rather than just the one mac? Priceless. Fuck Apple, they sell you on the brand not the product they just happen to have good products.
Yeah it reads like a Leclair novel.

The spy was probably burned from the beginning; an informant could have warned the Britsh(?) of his coming deployment and they in turn set the 'mother' on him.
They're fickle, earlier one proposed to the other and was declined
Hard to beat Ubuntu LTS. It has plenty of documentation and community support, has mostly up-to-date drivers and runs VirtualBox. LTS offers stability over several years. I use Xubuntu variant with i3. Moreover, I prefer to develop on the same OS I deploy to.

ArchLinux: Great community but too many surprises when updating that sometimes break things or in one case left the OS unbootable. Fun to tinker with but if your livelihood depends on it, choose something more stable.

Fedora: good option but no LTS version

Debian: slow to upgrade and doesn't support newer hardware
There you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
You can always run Windows on your iMac, but again, 5k is just not a realistic gaming resolution yet.
> You postulate conspiracy

Your use of the word "conspiracy" there has a larger consequence than you think / intended.
These type of try-hard (every appliance) efforts are crazy... The market hasn't demanded every appliance based on the sales of connected devices currently. I'd guess if they did do every appliance they quickly reverse and offer non connected devices very soon after.
You're right that simulation arguments generally don't rely on QM interpretations. I mention it as potentially detracting from simulation because a common argument includes the need for computational shortcuts. QM as it is popularized now simply fits the shortcut narrative better than it would under the Bohmian approach.
It might be a trade violation or bad for the proles, but it's certainly not a problem for the Russian Elite, if that's what you mean.
I agree. As a developer, a desktop PC gives me the most value and peformance. I recently replaced my Asus zenbook laptop with a new desktop PC that I built myself, with an Intel i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and a great nVidia graphics card, at a price that no laptop could ever compete.
Refresh rate for mac monitors are usually low, which is really bad for gaming.
> The alternative is storing an entire world map, or subsetted map(s) for the locations you think you'll need, but that'll kill almost all the storage on phones without massive SD cards.

And that's what HERE Maps does best, without needing massive storage.
I started in Graphic Design with a strong interest in building websites. After learning enough HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to realize that I couldn't build the ideas in my head without help, or a CS degree, I switched to CS.

Nonetheless, I learned many useful things in that introductory year of Graphic Design. The program placed a strong emphasis on design-thinking and critical feedback. Those skills are valuable in any line of work, especially in programming, which often requires artistic or creative thinking.

The graphic design courses also improved my code review process (toward self and others), and it improved how I think about usability when writing code – I focus much more on the next person who might work on/with my code.
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Ah, a fellow Trader Joe's fan. :-D
This is a technical problem and can be solved by technical improvements. The listening device needs enough microphones to locate the exact position of the sound source. If it never moves then it's not a human and it should be ignored.
I love my iMac not because if any brand cachet, but I program a lot and love crisp typography on the screen. It is quite simple, you don't have to buy one, no it isn't a gaming machine. No reason to fuck Apple about it.
Remember that the New York Times published fake news that helped the Government launch the War in Iraq, costing the country trillions of dollars and thousands of combat causalities, tens of thousands of more deaths Iraq, destabilizing the middle east, helping the rise of ISIS and the current wave of terror. This is something the New York Times did. They own it.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2004/06/26/dick-cheney-the-new-y...
Another collection of wisdom and mixed metaphors attributed in part to Dave Farber and collected by Ralph Griswold: https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/oddsends/farber.htm
This all reminds me of the situation in Eastern Germany just before the German unification. In the elections campaigns in Eastern Germany just after the fall of the Iron Curtain, politicians were lobbying for reunification with rather overblown promises for the future of Eastern Germany after the reunification. It should have been clear that these promises weren't realistic, and this was in fact pointed out at the time. But people dismissed these warnings, as they came from the (now free) Eastern German media. It seems that many people now thought that everything the old media said was a lie and dismissed as false everything they were saying. This feels quite similar to the attitudes about the "lying press" that are currently circulating.
"Fake news" is itself fake news. Look at the timing: immediately after Clinton lost, a consensus emerged among the losers that we have to do something about all the "fake news" floating around the internet. The timing is a huge DNC banner in the sky.

The whole fake news hullabaloo is obviously partisan. It provides a psychological relief valve that allows the left to blame its terrible loss on some external evil. It also provides the left a mental system for justifying literal censorship of the right. "Fake news" isn't about public responsibility. It's a strategy for winning the next election.
You can on my 2014 Moto X. Mine is trained to "Listen up, phone!"
More that Clinton stories of little consequence were dragged out forever because of her inability to give a straight answer or admit any mistakes without burying them in weasel words.

Those Goldman speeches were a constant hum throughout a year of campaigning, and when they were finally released against her will, they were a no-op. If she had released them the minute they were asked for, and apologized for anything in them that didn't agree with her current stances, they would have been gone in one news cycle. The emails went on forever, because instead of saying sorry and claiming technical ignorance, she blamed everyone but herself. Every time she blamed someone or something else - that's a new story that has to be written.

edit: The main feature of these two stories? Nobody is even claiming that Russians had anything to do with either of them. The leaked emails that the usual suspects are blaming on the Russians just had the effect of confirming Sanders supporters' suspicions; she lost their votes when she characterized them all as privileged white male children.
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Whats wrong with "Skype for Business?"
Books used:

1. Men of Mathematics (E.T. Bell, 1937)

2. The Riemann Hypothesis: A Resource for the Afficionado and Virtuoso Alike (Peter Borwein et.al, 2007)

3. Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (John Derbyshire, 2004)

4. Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra (John Derbyshire, 2007)

5. Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (William Dunham, 1991)

6. Riemann’s Zeta Function (H. M. Edwards, 1971)

7. Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Constant (Julian Havil, 2009)

8. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (Paul Hoffman, 1999)

9. The Riemann Zeta-Function: Theory and Applications. (Alexander Ivic, 2004)

10. e: The Story of a Number (Eli Maor, 2009)

11. An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 (Paul J. Nahin; 1998)

12. Dr. Euler’s Fabulous Formula (Paul J. Nahin; 2006)

13. Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers (Dan Rockmore, 2006)

14. Infinity and the Mind (Rudy Rucker, 2004)

15. The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Karl Sabbagh, 2004)

16. The Prime Numbers and Their Distribution. (Tenenbaum and Mendès, 2000)
Solid points.

> Moreover, I prefer to develop on the same OS I deploy to.

Me too, but I use containers (Docker) or VMs to achieve this.
This is my thought too. PC has always been interesting to people who care about performance, price, future proofing, free software, etc. Specifically glad the author is going to be well, on the side of the Holy Master Race but overall people who want to buy macs are, in my opinion, paying for the shiny brush and Apple not the guts. I run Debian on my thinkpad e5 series without any problems. Ubuntu 16,04 installed with 4k multi monitor support out of the box. Windows is dead, long live Tux
I'm doing all of the above: living in a place so like, working at a job that is interesting and pays well. My new job has tripled my salary, and so rather than inflating my lifestyle, I've just been saving & investing the new money. I'm happy spending the same old amount based on my old salary, and just taking a couple more vacations a year.
Google Voice is stagnant and I am scared about losing it. Are there any other comparable services I can jump ship to before I lose my number?
Apples and Oranges.

Have you ever seen someone talk to a PC from across the room? Is there any popular PC voice software that is "always on" and doesn't get itself into bad states? ("dragondictate.exe has stopped")

I personally have taken 100's of pictures of Windows dialog boxes on giant advertising/airport displays. If people who are paid big bucks to manage a display can't keep it running flawlessly, how will someone who has bad motor skills and bad eyesight?

I'm not saying Alexa is more useful than a PC. But I am saying that Alexa is zero maintenance, and a PC is not. It's the same reason Chromebooks outsell laptops -- it's not that they do more than laptops, but what they can do, chromebooks do "better".
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> But to accuse the developers of moral failure just because they didn't make their software free... That is an absurd view of morality.

Why? It's as reasonable as saying they have a moral failing when they've failed according to my moral view in any other case.
When your machine sleeps, it sleeps. Only a few processes remain running, like wake-on-LAN or BT etc.

Normal task scheduling handles waking things up.