skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many STEM programs have a diversity requirement. At my school, pure engineering only had to take a few liberal arts classes, but if you were a physics, chem, or bio major, you needed to take a smattering of courses that satisfied requirements like "diversity in America."
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Isn't Microsoft sending requests to see if updated versions of Store apps are available telemetry, if it indicates which apps you have installed? There's always some manner of detectable feedback they could collect, and so no matter how slight "Basic" telemetry becomes, it may be dishonest to ever call it "No" telemetry.
> Second hand smoking puts others in risk too.

No, no it does not. So-called 'second-hand smoke' (a genius marketing term for smoke) is no more harmful than any other smoke. It is, however, a wonderful excuse for the sort of people who like controlling other people to … control other people.
Particularly since you'd presume that the "attention" alert would also stop the entertainment system.
https://github.com/golang/playground
You might be interested in this discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13282756
I assumed that the detailed report would probably have more information about the "what to fix" shown on the page in sections, and also "how to fix" with relevant snippets on the web page. If that's not the case, I don't see why a detailed report is even there.

I did not opt for a detailed report because it requires an email address and defaults to opt-in for additional communications. It's really a terrible dark pattern. I wonder who even thought that this would be acceptable.
I just run `curl -v http://google.com` in my termainl and click the redirect link. No risk of caching that way.
I guess that's the job of spec sheet.
Wow, thanks for sharing your story. I'm happy you're doing something that you personally enjoy more as your job now, but I'm also glad you were able to devote a few years of your youth to such a worthy cause. I'm sure there are many victims who are very appreciate of your efforts as well.
Well, I'm also interested in this area, so I guess I have something else to research!
I'm pretty sure that git's source is also version-controlled in git :)
I feel like Samsung has been hedging their bets on this for a long time. Before Google struck a patent deal with them that also included some other capitulations, Samsung was heavily working on replacing Google apps with their own products and services. And they recently bought the Viv assistant, from the original creators of Siri. Given Google's terms likely forbid OEMs from setting a default voice assistant other than Google's, it seems like an almost nonsensical purchase unless they want to be ready to leave Google.
Sorry you got downvoted to hell, but certain subjects are echo chamber religion with a lot of folks. It's just how it is. I don't know how some people can be so open-minded to scientific inquiry one the one hand, but when it comes to the matter of climatology, they treat skeptics as sub-human heretics.

I tend to think it is a deep-seated personality flaw that a lot of people have but don't realize they have. They think they are more open-minded that they actually are.

I'm heartened knowing that not long ago, the majority of people believed the sun revolved around the earth and anyone who dared to speak against that "settled science" was excommunicated by the Catholic Church.
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Given the net result is pushing sex work into illegal spaces, thereby making trafficking and other exploitation harder to report, I'd say that the most likely actual reasons behind said official statements are (a) moral puritanism of various forms (b) hidden commercial interests.

As to how much of which, stuffed if I know (and even ignoring real estate, the funding and attention given to 'rescue organisations' as part of soi-disant anti-trafficking efforts probably gives them at least an incentive under both a and b).

Though "pressure from an increasing level of (a) at The Hague" also seems plausible.

(tl;dr - I dunno exactly, I doubt there's a conspiracy as such, but I also don't believe the official reasons are even close to the whole story)
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When you are down, nothing can really make you feel like it is not your fault or that you don't somehow deserve the feeling. Except perhaps, at least among the people I know, this knowledge: That feeling of worthlessness, itself, is the symptom of a condition you have. That condition is called Depression, and Depression lies. So the depressed person can maybe make it through for a little while longer by trying to actively distrust their own feelings and thoughts and waiting for the episode to pass. If they wait long enough, the episode will pass. If they can't wait, they may end up taking their own lives, which is really the only other option they see in the worst moments of this disease. So recognizing that it is a medical condition for which you are not to blame could be very useful for people right on the margin of surviving a depressive episode vs not surviving. I hope this was not too much of a reply!
Well I know a mid 8 figure only-child family, but don't know or lie about knowing "10 figure parents".

I'm working and getting a $28k bonus for evading the gift tax--that's fine for now. My parents would know about that part. I have the pressure to present any business ideas to my parents, or even the trustee. Video games frankly seem tempting.
Horkheimer and Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment

“Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the wholly enlightened earth radiates under the sign of disaster triumphant”

However it's a dense read; questioning rationality itself is somewhat broader than your specific question.
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> I'd say his passion for user privacy and commentary on his sexuality has shown him to be someone who cares for peoples rights.

He's not running for office he running a public company. As a shareholder those things are not priorities, but to him they are. Thus the problem I have.
Pretty good article; the metric that more fully captures the idea is the ratio of land used for cars instead of people. Narrow streets takes care of the on street parking idiocy, which is the worst of it, but the number of parking structure where there could be residential buildings is also helpful to track. And the six lane highways cutting through the middle of town takes a huge amount of space...
It basically won't happen until we have a competitive processor that's fully open. Nobody has a strong incentive to start a standards body when they can control a market instead.

Even when Google was still working on Ara, they planned to release the "Endo", or base frame, itself, and then just let vendors sell modules with a similar OEM partnership to how they control Android OEMs today.
One thing to push for might be the idea that once you get to that far-off land of "all cars are autonomous, there are no traffic lights", pedestrians would have unlimited right of way such that you would be accustomed to just stepping out into a busy street and having all the vehicles stop for you.
Came here to say this. "NeverSSL" is just too cumbersome to "swipe" on mobile.
Blogspam of Oxford press release:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-01-10-retroviruses-%E2%80%98al...
If you join my religion, it will be the fastest growing with at least 100% per day!
Last year I was setting up a trial of Cassandra for something, going through the usual swearing of a new tool not quite working as expected (eg by default picking a random port for inter-node communication)... and the next desk over, a non-tech colleague called Cassandra kept hearing me mutter angrily about 'cassandra' and wondered what she'd done. Whoops :)
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Oh interesting, I didn't realize it was a very special build of Go itself.

I did know it was restricted, I guess I just underestimated how difficult that is to do. I didn't think the restrictions were actually implemented in the Go source, I thought it was more a locked down container plus a few restrictions implemented externally in the Playground's server code. It would be cool to know more about this, maybe I'll take a look at the source as @arjovr linked.

Thanks!
An android phone with Alexa was announced at CES.
http://bgr.com/2017/01/05/huawei-mate-9-release-date-alexa-p...
Good lord, my rainy day project domain purchases is a mile long at this point. So many transactions done just before falling asleep in bed.
You know, Google seems to attract a lot influential technologists that don't necessarily have a role in their organization. I guess it makes sense that other companies do this as well.
> GAC – The Global Assembly Cache is where the .NET full Framework on Windows stores shared libraries. You can list it out with "gacutil /list."

I think that one can be taken off the list now, unless you're working with pre core.
The Côte & Ciel Isar Rucksack. Perfect for daily carry and short trips. The laptop compartment can fit a 15in Macbook Pro and the main compartment can hold a couple changes of clothes and toiletries. Still looks brand new after a couple years of use.

https://www.coteetciel.com/en-US/isar-backpack-black-melange...
It's still true today if you buy non-"premium" laptops and boxy desktops still. DDR3 was the RAM of choice for a good long number of years, and SATA drive connectivity standards have reigned for even longer.

Stores like Fry's Electronics have major component offerings, and even at your Best Buy or Staples today there's generally a limited supply of standard replacement parts for conventional PCs.
The includes pensions, which are separate issues — the Strong Towns piece is basically looking at property tax annually / cost of maintaining infrastructure annually (and ignores deferments and the like)
>instead of re-architecting for a redis-cluster setup, we decided to move the component to a clustered microservice written in go, that sits as a memory-cache & write buffer infront of cassandra for hot, highly mutated data.

Somehow setting up a Redis cluster and doing whatever you have to do to distribute/shard your keys effectively (which afaik is not much) does sound a little more efficient than rewriting a clustered microservice in Go with a Cassandra backend. Redis clustering is actually quite easy.

Forgive me if I seem grumpy. My recent experiences have caused the "We had a minor issue, so we redid everything in a Totally Cool Super-Neato New Stack That Integrates All The Hiring Manager's Favorite Buzzwords!" perspective to become a bit grating.

Redis is one of the few new pieces of infrastructure over the last 10 years that's truly deserving of its position.
Scary...

Also: hacked in...3...2...1...
Of course, Ubuntu's UI and basically everything is superior to Win10, but I am yet to see equivalents of 8hrs battery :-) (except if you buy a very costly Windows Laptop)
In other words, yes, we use decimal because we have ten fingers.
Ask HN: Is there a tech media agenda?
Maybe I forgot my tin foil hat but aside from click bait ad revenue- does the tech media have an ax to grind? So 3-5 years ago the tech media was intent on punishing Microsoft. It also seems weird that I saw an uptick in Elizabeth Holmes as a hero stories shortly before the bad press started. Currently apple is even more popular than usual for negative press. I feel pretty weary of it all. Is it time for me to take a break from hacker news? Is the tech media more biased/pointed than before? Is it just that I've hit a point in my life that it bothers me more than it used to?
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> When we added up the replacement cost of all of the city's infrastructure -- an expense we would anticipate them cumulatively experiencing roughly once a generation -- it came to $32 billion.

A generation is what, 25 years? If you expect to replace all roads/electricity poles/sewers etc every 25 years you seriously need to look a quality. For this I feel this whole article is off.

> Humans are predisposed to highly value pleasure today and to deeply discount future pain

This is not true. One of the best test for predicting a child success is seeing if they will defer a treat now for more treats later. Many people have the sacrifice now for a better future instinct.

This article seems to make some vastly incorrect assumptions. Personally I think where cities are overspending 3 things could really help.

1) Making asset sales/tenders/expenditure very public and show comparable cost ratios. E.g. cost per km of sewer

2) Bringing more work back in-house. I feel this 'privatise everything is better' mentality is simply not true and does things that leads to infrastructure that needs replacement every 25 years and cost blowouts.

3) If you are going to privatise services price them on points of quality that you can enforce. E.g. Rather than jails getting a straight fee, they should get a small per convict allowance but a generous bonus for each released convict that spends 5 years crime free after release.
Some networks started sniffing for the user agent 'CaptivePortalAssist' instead of domain.
That's well-intentioned; IMHO a better way is to post the native link, then if you've found a successful paywall alternate, add that as a comment.

Using the native link allows searches by site.
There aren't any of those left, sadly.
This is exactly what I do. It might not be for everyone but when I find a domain that I subjectively really like, I instinctively know what I'm going to build on it.
Christ, tell me about it. The presence of one fiat/debt conspiracy theorist in the comments is far less troubling than the collection of commenters seemingly amazed at his insight. Let's not even get into the the smug myopia of Murray "legal obligations to feed and clothe children are state oppression" Rothbard that is also getting trotted out.

Fiat currency is, of course, an improvement over previous precious metal-backed currencies. When you can't control the price of gold (or worse, leave the value of your currency as subject to private or foreign manipulation) prices become much more volatile, making it difficult to operate in the economy with much certainty. Fiat currencies also allow for the impact of recessions to be lessened by (for example) lowering the interest rates for the inter-bank loans it provides thus encouraging savings to be redistributed as consumption.

The fact that the bank is privately owned is both due to a need for independence from the political process (see Zimbabwe for exhibit A why this is a bad idea), and a relic due to the fact that banknotes were issued by a number of different institutions until it was decided that these competing standards should be replaced by one with authority vested in and financially backed by the state.

The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson is an easy book to get acquainted with the story and evidence supporting fiat currencies today.
I did see that, but I suspect that either it won't be the default voice app on the device, or Google will threaten them into changing it before release. Or maybe they'll do some crazy double hotword thing where you can ask for Google or Alexa? I don't know, but Google's contracts are pretty ironclad if you want Play Store access on your phone.

As early as 2014 it was said that Google's confidental contracts with OEMs controlled the default voice assistant setup: https://www.theinformation.com/Google-s-Confidential-Android...

A lot of things are shown off at CES that never actually happen.

@flukus's comment below, since I hit my rate limit: Google is already under antitrust investigation for their practices with OEM contracts with Android in multiple jurisdictions internationally. The European Union case is ongoing. Russia has already ruled against Google and instructed them to release OEMs from the illegal provisions... so far Google has refused to comply with Russian law.
How DO captive wifi portals work?

Can I set one up on a home network with a regular router without WifiDog or some other OpenWRT firmware?

Maybe somehow use one of the computers on the network to run a DNS server that all requests go through??
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‘AI-powered’ is tech’s meaningless equivalent of ‘all natural’
The right comparison for ARC is with manual memory management -- not GC.
On legal and IP issues--

Some industries are under various requirements not to be user-modifiable. Some of those requirements are uncommonly applied or are uncertain (wifi routers), but some have serious teeth (export controlled munitions). For devices in those classes they often can't be open without risking liability.

On the IP side, some people really care about keeping firmware proprietary. Leaving JTAG in a mode that is meaningful for debugging that firmware will pretty much completely destroy that. So if you super duper care, you sometimes put clauses in your contracts holding the integrator or OEM responsible if your firmware leaks.

Regarding a race condition, yeah. It's pretty common for devices to come up open, then harden up-- and not just for JTAG. It's also not unique to the register-setting approach.
This is way more numerology than math, and I don't see any deep results coming out of this. Was this just a fun side project for the author?
I like this. Would it fit and protect a 15 inch MacBook Pro?
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Show HN: EchoRemix – anonymous one-on-one chats about controversial issues
From 0 to 0.1: The Journey of Bootstrapping a Shopify App to a Scalable Business
Thank you for this article. I can tell that you are struggling to articulate a half-formed idea, and I think you did pretty well. It rang plenty of bells in my brain. What I really appreciate is the willingness to explore the idea incompletely in public. That's gutsy.
> I don't know, but Google's contracts are pretty ironclad if you want Play Store access on your phone.

How long until anti trust investigations begin?
Actually a fair bit is in Sierra. Apple decided apparently not to invest resources in targeting 32-bit platform support, so they have had to hold off shipping software relying on it until the platforms drop 32-bit support. Sierra did that last year, and I'd put $5 on iOS 11 doing that as well.
I was the producer and an engineer on Grim Fandango Remastered, a remaster of one of the first games to use Lua (2.5, later 3.0 alpha). And the lead engine programmer on the original game in 1998, Bret Mogilefsky, added coroutines to the Lua language in the game engine before they were officially added as an official language feature. They are very important for scripting adventure gameplay in an intuitive way for non-engineers and helped the original team ship Grim Fandango in 1998. It was similar to what LucasArts had done with SCUMM, their adventure game domain specific language, previously.

To reference SomeCallMeTim's comment - the way the save game system worked in Grim Fandango was to serialize the entire Lua environment! Stack, all code, etc! And too jamesu - when you patch the game you patch the code that was serialized into the save game! The story behind all of this in Grim is pretty interesting.

If anyone is interested in more details please come to the Game Developers Conference this year as I'm giving a talk on the technical details of how the original game and the remaster works. Oliver Franzke and I will cover both the Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle remasters.
And so you ignored the larger point that he's more than capable of making smart investments like Softbank who now own ARM, similar to Apple's prior investment in Imagination Technologies Group who design the GPUs for the A-series SOCs. Apple was first out the door with a 64-bit ARM chip in a smartphone - they need this investment to stay at the front of the pack. It also helps to invest in a company that shuttles more iPhones than any other distributor in a market as difficult and lucrative as Japan.

Getting back to my comment you quoted -- given the growing concern over user privacy, being in the position where you can serve both users who care AND those who don't is a very nice position to be in. His being gay while growing up in a conservative state no doubt influenced his desire to protect users privacy. The culture of the company is important if it's to attract new talent.
I've met Daniel and Robby and was particularly impressed by Daniel. It's not a surprise to me that YC chose him for this role.
Another vote for the Goruck GR-1.

http://www.goruck.com/gr1-rucksack-black-/p/GEAR-000574

It's been through three rucks and has been my daily partner for three years now.

As a bike commuting New Yorker, I'm frequently carrying my whole life around plus laptop, and it's been perfect. It looks as new as the day I purchased it.

A truly buy it for life item.
Would be more interested in the script than the list and how long it took to run.

And if this is the best so far? Seems surprising given it's a popular kids game.

It's not really maths IMO since I think using 98 is cheating for instance, it's really (9 X 10 + 8), 10 not being allowed. So kids are not learning real maths, more arithmetic.
I have a Trager backpack. I've had it for about 14 years -- originally purchased it to carry all of the pages I was photocopying for my psychology classes. It has outlasted a number of other backpacks that I've picked up over the years.
Actually it was that way. Once the language was known the flag was set.

We laughed (and argued) at the implications. The few Italians working in that tech part of the company would scream loudly.

It was more of a problem with acquisition direct mail and billing statements. Messaging on the outside of the envelope was often simply guess work as to the language.
I thought for sure that was going to be a TLD devoted to satire :-)
The author, Chuck Marohn, has previously made this video that explains how a Land Value Tax would affect the fiscal situation of a city (for the better):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2uR3btMrE
If you're interested, you can see the code here: https://github.com/cyrusstoller/EchoRemix
I'm not sure they're drawing the right conclusions from that winning/losing graph. That area downtown is green because that's where all the toniest businesses are located, and you can't have a city that consists of only upscale businesses.
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> Making asset sales/tenders/expenditure very public and show comparable cost ratios. E.g. cost per km of sewer

I think this is one of the main drivers in favoring cheap and punishing quality. I agree with 2 and 3, though I'd argue that private jails are one of the things that should be bought back in house.
How long will it be before Google's Angular becomes popular, and the company decides it isn't economical to have two javascript-ish languages? My money is on Typescript.
There is no script, he did it mostly by hand.
Are WhatsApp group a real pain?
Interesting twist : Apple buys Tesla and elevates Elon to the missing role of Steve Jobs.
Wouldn't it be nice...
That's still 10K per person per year (assuming a 25 years generation), which seems on the high side. I wonder how much of that is roads alone?
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Love the idea behind point #3

Like many of us, my mind was instantly drawn to how the incentives would be gamed, but you know what? The current incentives are already gamed. We all read about the judge who got kickbacks for sending kids to a juvenile detention facility, etc.

Let's build our incentives in the opposite direction. A certain percentage of dishonest people will game the system. But many, and probably most, will actually work towards the idea. And nothing is accomplished perfectly in one pass, there will be reform and accountability.