skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish it was all conspiracy theory (just like NSA registering your calls, right?) but ibn Laden is known to be death somewhere around 2003 due to kidney failure. He had very serious health issues for many years - sort of issues you most likely die even when taken care of by best doctors in west hospitals, not in caves somewhere in remote mountains in Afghanistan.

Its a matter of time. Shapiro proved Obama birth certificate is fraudulent fake [1] and we know from gossips the photo op from ibn Laden capture was fake (then convenience bury at seat with no photos and whole team 6 conveniently dying on helicopter crash) - its a matter of time when someone somewhere is going to prove it.

[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/27/obamas-birth...
C'mon we know this already, it's not a backdoor.

This has been known and is discussed in the protocol and forums as the trade off in ease-of-use versus validation.
For people wanting security, they simply check the verify keys, warn on key change. For people who don't care as much about verifying the recipient, they don't know about the feature, and don't use it, but they still get pretty good security, can upgrade to verifying if the choose, all without having to re-key or change protocols/messenger apps.
Parrot Struggling, Lily Fails, and Google Closes Titan Project
Spotify: President of Playlists
Could not agree more (see my other comment). Firefox should slim down to reduce the attack surface.
Har har har
If one of those was fact I would guess "a".
Should I be worried about the WhatsApp encryption backdoors?
I didn't mean to suggest that sample-rate had anything to do with discarding the bass. Name-dropping Nyquist just to show off I have a little knowledge. Just that such signals may be discarded as a matter of course by filters on either side (recording/reproduction) on the basis that they are "inaudible".
The price of monetizing schemes
Based on the 2016 electoral map - or indeed, almost any from the last 20+ years - the ideologically homogeneity isn't a regional thing but a city vs rural thing.

Take the largest ~20 cities in the US and they would be city-states while literally everything else would be a single country.
I think it was Neils Provos who said on stage that Google does not trust link encryption, but rather prefers end-to-end, even though that's a much greater problem in terms of key management.
Don't disparage your former employer - regardless of how the breakup went. I feel that in retrospect these things are for the better. You didn't want to be there anyway - they just made their move first.
beer?
Developer Program Metrics: How Intel Measures Developer Satisfaction
I agree about .NET having less friction than Java. I think it is largely a result of not having to make as many technical decisions regarding tooling selection. This means that secondary support such as blogs and StackOverflow tend to assume similar environments, i.e some flavor of Visual Studio. Similarly, tutorials are likely to work on what a new programmer has running without installing another IDE (or Vim or Emacs).
This. Both map apps are very good in the states but suck in other countries.

For example, Google maps can't even show directions in South Korea while Apple maps can due to government restrictions.
It has a touch screen and there is a camera in the joycon
Just something I was wondering about this morning.

-- https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04376 : Dyson Spheres around White Dwarfs
Show HN: I built a Chrome Extension to automatically expand short urls
Haha, KDENLive has caught up with it in my opinion but yeah for years Blender was definitely the best video editor (after some configuration).
I've always liked the way the HP Z series looked.
"Not because the ideas are necessarily controversial in their own right, but because anyone could twist them to seem controversial if they were sufficiently motivated to."

I don't know if you're doing it deliberately, but this is what you're doing.

> The author equivocates online critique and criticism with being 'silenced'.

She uses the word "silenced" exactly once. There is no indication that, for example, she considers "people aren't saying anything because they don't like the tone of their online criticism" to be the same problem as, for example, "people aren't saying anything because they're scared of getting arrested".

If you think she's comparing two things that aren't alike, you need to be more explicit.

> does not think it's too risky to advocate for immunity from critique for the already powerful

She is not in any way doing this. "How do we solve this problem? I don't know, but I hope there is a solution." That is not the same as "clearly, we need to solve this problem by making people immune from criticism".

> reducing all critique of online 'powerful individuals' as attempts to target and silence them

She describes one type of criticism. She does not say that all criticism takes this form.
I expect to see these same companies try ever more fragile and bad methods to bypass these restrictions. If chrome refuses to load extensions from disk, they'll inject themselves into the process address space somewhere, which as a bonus will likely introduce sandbox escape vulnerabilities. This is what the AV vendors are doing these days.
FWIW, there is actually no code in React to normalize touch events between browsers. For touch events react and preact are basically the same (aside from React creating a lot of pooled objects for their synthetic event system, and preact not using delegation).
I think the phrase "politically correct" has lost all meaning. It used to be used as a synonym for "polite" and now, in the US, it seems to be used as a synonym for "ignorant and obstinate".
> 1. You must reframe the situation as quick as possible. Don't think, 'shit, why me, what happened, am I not good enough?' Such thoughts bring you a vicious cycle. You must treat this situation as the best thing ever happened, you must be happy about it. And I promise you, heck I bet $10,000 that you'll tell us in one year that this lay-off was the best thing ever happened and led you to x, y and z.

Positivity that isn't based on logic is wrong, just like negativity that isn't based on logic is wrong.

It's better to be honest with yourself about any given situation. Accept what you could have done better at without feeling inadequate. Recognize what you did well at without feeling complacent. You grow in response to your failures, not your successes.

Recognize what was good about the job and what you'll miss, so you can factor it into your next search. And obviously avoid the bad parts. If making yourself believe the job was only bad in an effort to save face and stay positive leads you to seek out the opposite, that's likely counter-productive.

These situations are rarely black and white. Everyone has a combination of failures/micro-failures, successes/micro-successes at every job whether they get fired/laid off or not. So there's plenty of logic to refraining from beating yourself up. Seeing a situation clearly and learning lessons from it happens more easily in hindsight than when you're stuck in it. So there's a lot of value in thinking about the past, if it's for the right reasons.

Staying dispassionate is more important than staying positive.
Didn't there used to be an LLVM C backend?

I think it's long since fallen into disrepair/bitrot, but it could probably be revived if there was enough demand.
If you're loading libraries individually off a shared CDN, performance must not be much of a concern :P
Is there a "someone's razor" for sensational, speculative "news"?

Chances are they are looking at something like this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12990211 -- control a mouse cursor with your thoughts anno 2011) to make a better interface for the Oculus Rift than (I can't believe this is a quote) "the mind reading and telepathy of science fiction movies".
n00b question, what are the benefits of tiling window managers?

I never used them and always have my windows maximized when working.
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Possibly answers your question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13234211
That story makes exploding $100k centrifuges sound like a bargin.
How about $50 cash in your pocket for voting?

Minimum wage mothers would vote in droves.
Three.js is very useful for many cases, however it's popularity is a bit dangerous at times. Three.js is to WebGL what GitHub is to Git, and on many forums, people ask for WebGL advice, when in fact they're asking for Three.js advice.
not sure if you can call these features, these are basically options to see what permissions you have given and what are being used by whom, and as for the features question, any day I would prefer camera access through WebRTC than installing and using flash plug-in.
It's a common trope of the far left in Australia.

People aren't actually being killed.
I completely agree with your sentiment, but privacy is a bit harder to sell--guns are badass and cool to collect, privacy is geeky and suspicious. Another key difference is that the second amendment is big business (Smith Ruger & co stock went up >500% during Obama). There are big businesses that could get behind anti-encryption, but mass appeal is more difficult- perhaps at least until something spectacular happens.
Phone Hacking Company Falls Victim to Hackers
Here my definition is: behaviors that start with a good goal and later turn into a set of taboos.
Keeping your best people has always been an advantage. When you keep telling them "if you don't like it, leave", sometimes they take your advice and the problems they saw still exist after they're gone.
How to write a research paper: a guide for software engineers and practitioners
Or irony
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat played on the plastic bongo controller (with handclap sensor!) is definitely in my top 5 games ever.

(It's playable on the older Wii models with gamecube ports if anyone is intrigued by the description)
How is it inexplicable? When you're tasked with stopping individual suicidal extremists hiding within your citizenry, the obvious first step is "I need more information". There doesn't need to be any conspiracy or hidden threat, it is a natural and logical response.

Politicians aren't robots, obviously they care more about terrorism than tobacco. And they aren't spending political capital by setting up surveillance, they're gaining it. Obama took huge hits every time he said "ISIS is the JV", "terrorism isn't an existential threat", "chill out everyone". Imagine if he said he was diverting NSA funding to fight the tobacco industry.

Basically, if you don't understand politicians, talk to the people voting for them. The NSA exists because people want it to.
Why an Alzheimer's Risk Gene Still Exists
> which is not what she says

It's not? Are you using some overly-strict definition of 'silenced' here?
What's so wrong with getting productive faster. Learning takes time. It is not very hard to write Go web apps with the standard library, but it may be more convenient to use a framework for the sake of time.

It is an assumption that amateurs will defer learning due to the framework. It also seems as though there is another assumption that all the people using this framework are somehow amateurs. It is convenient to be able to write a quick program using a framework and then being able to scale that project as it grows.
I just mean it doesn't pass my personal "what do I think is possible in the near future?" test. I'm not claiming to be objective, just a gut reaction that we might quietly read how this project team was transitioned into some other project in a couple years. Nothing wrong with that at all, by the way. I love that companies fund careers for people to explore big possibility ideas and experiments like this.
The delta-V requirements for landing on an outer solar system body are… intense. New Horizons flew past Pluto at 14 km/s; in order to land, that relative speed would need to become zero. This concept likely requires new propulsion technology.

Agreed on being fascinating, though.
Yup, though the Rax benchmarks are especially bad. Calling a function with unchanging arguments in a loop with a constant number of iterations is going to trigger about the least real-world performance characteristics you could ask for, haha. I'm happy to see more people getting into the VDOM space, but it sucks to have to explain all the pitfalls every time a new broken benchmark comes out.
I will buy this if it has sports games.. and I don't mean Wii Sports like games... I mean... EA, 2k and so on.
Exactly! We all have to carry the third-wave-feminist party line here.
sure. but they share none of their engineering insights. As Mr. Lattner is an engineer, I would assume that sharing engineering-related stuff is more interesting than pre-announcing marketing information.
Thanks, I've added your info to the README and a credit to you.
I've flown hundreds of times in my life and never been on a plane which had power or usb sockets. Airbus 320/Boeing 737 don't tend to be equipped with them.
i'd recommend react-native, iteration is very fast and you'd be able to reuse some of your web experience
I always took it to mean, "attempting to corrupt the language to force a certain point of view", similar to Orwell's Newspeak.

Ignorance and obstinance are symptoms.
Regarding 2, should these be CEOs OP knows directly already or just cold emails? Can you give an example of what one of these emails would look like?
I disagree, I trust WebRTC enough for camera and screen access, the one real issue might be, it exposes your local ip
Poorer men are being driven out of full-time work. Here’s why
This is also the rationale behind uselessd, which keeps the service management part and cuts out everything else.
Apple's Augmented Reality Glasses May Soon Be Hitting Shelves
I expect the second generation of the new MacBook Pro will be awesome as battery issues are fixed and more software uses the new hardware toolbar.

I bought a MacBook a week after the MacBook Pro was released, and I feel good about that decision because the design is stable and had one hardware update. A really nice device.

I continue to be disappointed by Apple Cloud web services, and as I have said here before Tim Cook and the board of directors should on a regular basis sit down together and use Siri and Google Now/Assistant and honestly compare them.

I very much like iPads, but the weaknesses in web services also affect iPad usability.
>maybe Trump

I doubt it. Trump has praised NSA surveillance in the past and has hinted that Snowden should be executed. Unless he was just saying such things to try to get the intelligence community on his side pre-election, he's in favor of authoritarian tools.
How do software publishers protect their data?
Hello,

Software publishers deal with tons of developers who have access to their source codes since they are the one who are writing them. How do publishers protect their source codes and other confidential resources from being copied by developers or other staff members ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...
Is this a first/business class thing? I've never been on a plane with USB power outlets (though it has been about 6 months since I few last).
RIP Newsletters and Welcome Knowledge Letters
The analogy has been made "You wouldn't leave your car at a gas pump". But Tesla charging is different, a gas car takes ~4m to fill, not long enough for you to do much else. A Tesla on a road trip takes 20-40 minutes to charge. So long you aren't going to stand there, but not long enough to a sit down meal or walk the half mile from the hotel with the charger to a fast food restaurant and eat, visit a gift shop, etc... To name some examples of what we did on a recent road trip.

With the Tesla, a road trip is a different cadence from gas, where many peoples tendency seems to just get on with it and minimize these fueling interruptions. With the Tesla, we would talk to locals, visit the train museum, go to gift shops, I'd drop them off at historic districts and go charge.

It didn't feel like we were waiting for the car to charge, but that was because we were doing other things. If I now have to go back and move the car because the stalls are 50% full, that changes the road trip a lot.

Something not common knowledge: Superchargers operate in pairs. If there are 4 stalls, only 2 of them at a time will operate at full speed. If you are charging on stall 1A and someone pulls into 1B, they get a much slower charge rate until 1A completes charging.

So a 50% full supercharger is actually "full", but the remaining stalls can be parked at and will start charging full rate as things finish.

Because of this, I was kind of expecting the idle fee to be when the stalls were all full. If there are no stalls left, you are making someone potentially wait while your car sits there idle.

The longer term plan is they hope to make the cars move themselves when charging is done. That would be awesome.
It is completely unusable on mobiles because it drains bandwidth and battery.
How do you get from "social construct" to "figment of imagination"?
you do realize he works for a pharma company, right? The last time he was an academic was when he was a postdoc. In the mid-80s.

he's discussed his stock positions a few times; the takeaway is along the lines of "i don't have any holdings that could be construed as bias as regards where this blog is hosted; otherwise it's my own business" if i remember right.
She is clearly saying she is not speaking because it's not worth it, not because she could not or is afraid of speaking.
Covering Code in Practice – Part 1
Mastering at album-length is largely about coherence... making a bunch of separately recorded things with often wildly varying sounds sound like a single piece of music. It involves a combination of gentle compression and brickwall limiting, broadband equalization and high-Q deep-cut equalization. Some of it is visual metrics (especially looking for frequency problems), and some of it is just ears. A good master will sound good on any playback equipment. This is where I point and laugh at all the people lauding the "accuracy" of their favorite medium. Speakers and amps are the limiting factor, not the medium! I've been dinged by a mastering engineer for accidentally having a 32hz synth tone (a sub-bass sound) on a mix. He eq'd it away. My mixing system couldn't reproduce it - hardly any can. But it wastes tremendous power and distorts amps and speakers, so out it goes.

For cd, it's usually brickwall-limited to no more than 10db max dynamic range (often no more than 6db). This makes things sound "better" on typical playback equipment, which is... not good, compared to the sound of live instruments in a room.

Vinyl is a different beast. It needs RIAA equalization on the master (which is reverse-eq'd by the playback equipment) to managed the size of bass grooves and keep the needle from jumping out of the track, and to make the highs physically big enough for the needle to pick up well. Dynamics are constrained by the physical limitations of the media. So it's a separate master.

That's not a big deal, though. The constraints of vinyl slot in quite well with the constraints of speakers and amps! This is why vinyl, despite its on-paper inferiority, can sound as good or better than digital.

But in the end, it's all about the speakers. I mix on a pair of Tannoy System 12 speakers and an old UREI studio amp that would be the envy of many hi-fi nerds - but I don't consider a mix done until it sounds good on my stock iPhone earbuds and shitty car stereo. Mix to the output, not the medium.
Simply beautiful! Thank you! I've been looking for something lightweight like this for a long time. It's hard to find this sort of application without so much useless bloat.
An elegant solution which will be easily extensible with my own scripts as needed.
Nice job.
The difference, as always, seems to be user adoption and funding.

You need both for your project to succeed. This should not be underestimated.

The nice thing is that if your platform is decentralized, hosting is a non-issue and you just have to focus on adoption.
They already try to do that. Hell some have even gone as far as to remove chrome, and install their own "infected" chromium compiled with their extension whitelisted and updates disabled.

It's terrifying. And while you could make a case for this "not being chrome's problem", the fact is that it's really hurting their user base, so they can't not do something about it.
CE-BROS?
Get yourself an MGCOOL Explorer 1S and go explore the new world
The first section is wrong (emphasis mine):

> A hash function is simply an algorithm that takes a string of any length and reduces it to a unique fixed length string.

Hash functions strive for uniqueness but unless it's precalculated to ensure that it's true (by hashing every combination or deriving the parameters of the hash function accordingly), it's not guaranteed. A cryptographic hash function gives a high probability of uniqueness but again it's not guaranteed.

> The word 'cat' will hash to something that no other word hashes too, but it will always hash to the same thing.

Say I have a (terrible) hash function H(X) => 1. Now "cat" will hash to the same value as the string "I don't understand hash functions".
You can't prove a negative "we don't have any evidence" is a fallacy.

Ask yourself: Why are there no conservative voices in the climate science field? Why is only one certain type of political class so obsessed with it?

Where are the skeptical scientists of any political stripe hiding out? If these people are all in 100% agreement on this matter it tells me that much more is going on than just science because not even in math and physics do we see that level of agreement going on! It's only in this one area where there is no room to speak one's mind.

The "evidence" you speak of is all based on models. I have seen some of these, been in presentations where they were discussed, and have shaken my head in wonderment that these models are taken so seriously.

Climate science is a religion, there's no mistaking the behaviors of the people involved in it. They even want to pass laws now to limit anyone asking questions!
Stunning. I'm excited about forthcoming pictures to see just how much like earth Titan is. It's actually shocking that up to now pictures like this haven't been available. I'm digging into the archives now to see if I missed something over the years, because to me these pictures alone are the biggest story currently when it comes to our search for life outside the Earth. Our galaxy will likely prove to be teeming with it.
To eliminate this, in many cars "100% battery" isn't really 100%, so that users can't accidentally "mis-charge" in a way that deliberately degrades the pack.

For example, a Chevy Volt has a 16.5kWh battery, but a "100% full" Volt charge only uses 10.4kWh of that.
Sway works great as long as you have a system that can handle Wayland. I've been having terrible luck with NVidia hardware lately -- proprietary drivers are known not to support Wayland, and Wayland / Nouveau has been unstable with the hardware I use. But AMD and Intel systems are rock solid, and I've switched over to sway there.