skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Techdirt is one of the most deep digging websites I read regularly, with insightful and different takes on privacy and legal issues surrounding the tech industry. It would be sad if a real asshole who THINKS he invented email (he actually built a communication program called "EMAIL" - had nothing to do with actually inventing what we all consider email).

This is a sad and pathetic attempt to somehow make himself known as the inventor - hopefully the EFF can protect techdirt against such a frivolous claim - and can make sure Shiva Ayyadurai is remembered for all of history as a self aggrandizing idiot who tried to claim he invented email - which is just as preposterous as Al Gore inventing the internet.
2000kg of NaOH has a volume of less than one cubic meter. And I don't get for what reason I would have to store the water needed for the reaction instead of just connecting the device to whatever water supply the house uses.
Remacs: A Rust port of Emacs
This Is the Year of the Machine Learning Revolution
Windows Dynamic Lock Automatically Locks Your PC Anytime You Step Away from It,
my bad, was there some rules for this? I wrote a detection algorithm to find which are the top trending repos that were not featured on HN and I sometimes pick out a good one to feature. I thought it was be nice to spread the word on some of these under appreciated projects.
Twitter finances (TTM):

revenue: $2.52B
gross profit: $1.49B

It's only losing money because of stock grants.
Talk about focusing on the negative, Not quite what it says... (from other post on HN)

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?Rec...
With the type and amount of attention Twitter maintains it has multiple, very viable business models. Notably advertising, data sales & company tools.
I wish they would make a society of AI brains inside the computer which talk to each other by sending documents around, one AI brain might have a job such as checking the document is correct. A large society of AI brains.

Secondly, a single AI brain is composed of many small AI brains in a society. Also those brains, recursively down forever recursive.
20 minutes? What are you even talking about?! This would take days if not weeks.
Apparently you're also a pedant who wants to be right.
Definitely also recommend Spotify. Has enough that if I can't find something I want, I'm quickly distracted by something else soon enough.

The Discover and Daily Mix options have been great. It's brought dozens of great artists and tracks to my attention that I don't know I'd have found otherwise.

I'm sure they're likely also on other services, but I really like the instrumental versions of some albums (by RJD2, Aesop Rock, etc) - often makes them good options for the office.
In line at the NYC store. I'm #2. There are a few people hanging out looking into store which is holding an event with a bunch of kids. Fewer people overall than I expected but there are 9 hours to go.
However, the Saudis will soon raise the price of fuel to exorbitant levels

They don't have that much control. The US would increase fracking / shale ops and bring the cost of oil back down. We have incredibly massive oil reserves here in the US that any sort of Saudi nonsense will have limited effect.

Saudis have gotten themselves into a world of pain over the past few years attempting to play their stupid games with oil prices, so much so that they are about to take Saudi Aramco public to get a desperately-needed cash infusion. Our fracking/shale ops are also hurting though in this race to the bottom.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/07/31/texas-shale-o...
That's ridiculous. Lol, as if 3 months of "rigorous" training could remove that accent.

I'm a native English speaker and I find it super difficult to understand English with an Indian accent.
The Multiplier and the Singularity (AI)
Buffalo just combines a few common web-related packages, such as gorilla mux, together
You can just pipe xz instead, although you may want to shred the original file:

xz < file | scrypt enc - > file.xz.enc

And I agree: scrypt (the program) is much better for password encrypting documents. It is only a few thousand lines of readable code; it uses modern algorithm choices (scrypt, AES256-CTR, HMAC-SHA256), with no alternatives; there isn't any configuration involved; and it's written by a respected author.
Native English speaker here, and I find the Indian accent literally the hardest to understand out of any accent I've heard.

When I get them on a tech support call it just makes me automatically angry because I know how much more work I'll have to do just to communicate.
So noscript is no longer just about avoiding annoying javascript but also to protect privacy. Time for the web to go back to simple markup.
The price of hard drives is still dropping, there were just some setbacks from the flood. http://www.jcmit.com/diskprice.htm

More importantly, don't just look at a year or two. 1080 availability is significantly more than a decade old. In fact, you should probably be comparing against 1080 mpeg-2. That gets you nearly the same bitrate between then and now. In that time hard drives have gone from ~1GB per dollar to 35GB per dollar.
With that said, I'm guessing that the current cost estimates are based on a Model S, which is a much larger car than either a Prius or Civic.

The Model 3 will most likely have significantly better range per kwh than the Model S, reducing the cost even more.
It's similar to parallel construction in that, if by law you can't share data with someone else, you could just ask your buddies to share their copy of the same data with that someone else. It would be like spammers selling their "remove" lists to each other.

I guess the next time China or Russia hacks us, they'll get a much bigger reward. I'm not sure how you could really get bigger than the entire top secret clearance OPM db. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
Ask HN: What is one aspect of your job that makes you happy?
Is the guy first in line wearing a powerglove?
I had to laugh when during the livestream they were going through each of the innovations of their past systems, and the only thing they could mention about the Gamecube was that it had a handle :)

But overall I think they continue to show real innovation in gaming. They're the only company who puts so much effort into maximizing their software with the uniqueness of their hardware.
Report shows that cannabis is not safe either. Increased mental disorders, possible link to coronary artery disease, bronchitis, etc
I paid into the very beginning. It was never useful to me. I don't regret spending the money to see if it could work.

For me, the lack of apps/integrations made it essentially impossible for me to get the people I wanted to talk to on there on to there.

But I'm really glad you tried, I'm even more glad you've documented what did and didn't work, and I definitely got value for money.

Good luck with whatever's next.
University of Washington offers online MS in applied math. However, it's pricey.

Here's the link to it:

https://www.appliedmathonline.uw.edu
बालासन योग कैसे करें, लाभ और सावधानियां
I've never particularly liked init systems that restart jobs when they die. Normally, I don't want daemons that crash to restart. They should die, be caught by monitoring and the server bypassed. I would accept a single restart but after that, there's clearly a problem, and the systems should fail, rather than restarting the process again and again and again.
The USB 3.1 spec isn't restricted to 5V. The charger can deliver up to 100W and the voltage can be negotiated between the charger and device.
I mean, it's a fighting game? Generally it involves people/monsters/robots punching other people/monsters/robots.
Looks incredibly interesting. If Nintendo opens this platform to indie developers it could become hugely successful
Can You Use 3rd Party Apps on Your Kindle Device? If Yes, Then How?
Triforce? Of Street Fighter and Marvel fame?

http://nintendoenthusiast.com/interview/world-record-holder-...

http://kotaku.com/5955557/hurricane-sandy-forces-triforce-jo...
Just continuing the theme of, "When so-and-so famous person was your age, he was dead"
It _would_ be nice to spread the word on these under appreciated projects, but not to lump your own promotion in with it. This is basically the same thing as blog spam, which is disallowed under HN rules. [1]

>Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

You should just submit the link to the Github repository you want to share, not to your own site. You appear to do this all the time - stop.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Kudos to Nintendo for supporting Vulkan and OpenGL. Nitendo do a lot of wrong stuff in regards to how they handle fan made games for instance, but adopting open, cross platform graphics APIs while their major rivals are stuck in the backwards thinking lock-in mentality, is a good decision.
No, Jeeves wasn't fired, he retired.
Hi Charlie! Great to see you, and thanks for the support over the years :).

That discussion was an eye opener for me (in a good way), it showed me of how easily things get muddled in online discussions as context goes missing. It always reminds me to really see what the other person is thinking.
Wow! I believe Nintendo can make this a great experience for mobile gaming. It looks so good. I really like how you can engage your friends to play together.
Kiloboot: 1kB TFTP Bootloader for AVR
Well, there is not that many of them. Only around 2% uploaded videos to YouTube are private (roughly 14M in the last year). Another 8% are public videos with under 1k views (50M in the last year).

I do believe that YouTube is not hyper excited about these videos, but they do have some optimization techniques in place. For instance they don't automatically generate all possible video profiles up until they are not requested. By default they produce around 6, while very popular videos may have up to 40.
as in, whenever a CEO does a bunch of press, the co is a good candidate to short? just want to check i'm interpreting correctly
Thanks Michael! railstutorial.org has long been an inspiration for me, showing what an educational site could become.
> There's nothing inherently slow about LISP.

> In other words, whatever assumptions I had about higher level languages and/or garbage collection being bad for game dev were mostly proven wrong.

I'm afraid I have to disagree on that point. GOAL is not LISP -- it just looks a bit like it, and draws a lot of ideas from it. However, LISP is ultimately dynamically typed, while GOAL is statically typed. This means the compiler can generate fast code ahead of time, LISP can't.

GOAL also does not use runtime garbage collection in the same way a LISP system does.
How early did you get in line?
shred is ineffective if you're using a CoW FS, and probably less effective on a journaling FS, and those probably covers 99% of all the FS people use today. Just use FDE.
Yes, it's a little known fact that Babylonians were casting huge perfectly pure silicon crystals. They were also pioneers in x-ray lithography!

Processors are made from sand in the same way people are made from carbon. You're skipping a few important steps.
Any association with the SharePoint people could and should doom a social network product. Or any product.
Respectfully, actually, I think you missed the point. Linux itself offers a number of powerful features such as namespaces to isolate programs, capabilities that can be dropped, etc., including the User Namespace feature we're discussing presently [1].

Systemd's job and goal is to provide a simple configuration file format that makes it easy to enable these features with installed system daemons.

You may overlooking the parameters supported by systemd and their benefits. Admins get a single way to manage their services and dependencies, and a way to do that that works consistently across all services. These features can be enabled even if the services were not designed for it (e.g., chroot). With systemd you can employ these settings from the outside with any service, and that's a big advance. Difficult to achieve otherwise.

> The point was that it's a leaky abstraction composed of half implemented concepts

I am unclear what part you want to criticize. The Linux kernel is what provides the User Namespace feature. Systemd helps users take advantage of it. What part do you consider half-implemented or a leaky abstraction?

Please also consider whether you might have the wrong mental model for the feature or its employment. In particular, the documentation for PrivateUsers= says: "This is useful to securely detach the user and group databases used by the unit from the rest of the system, and thus to create an effective sandbox environment." The usage you had in mind when you wrote your comment may not be compatible with the purpose of PrivateUsers. I recommend reading up systemd.exec params [1] before criticism. PrivateUsers= is intended for scenarios like transient sandboxed environments, so I'd suggest we discuss a simpler example like PrivateDevices=

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/user_namespaces.7.html
AppSec for Developers
Monitoring Postgres using Network layer interactions as source-of-truth
It's rare to see a service as entrenched as Twitter get displaced unless it's just not Good Enough in some capacity.

It's possible that if Twitter crumples under the weight of the abuse, if it becomes nothing but a dead sea of trolls, that we'll see a successful replacement.

Until then, muddle on!
Current concern on the gaming forums is the lack of high-profile launch games, with Splatoon 2 and Mario not being present at that time. Can Zelda alone sell systems? (probably yes)
Nothing is safe,
>Acetaminophen overdose is actually the leading cause for calls to Poison Control Centers across the US—more than 100,000 instances per year—and, each year, is responsible for: More than 56,000 emergency room visits. 2,600 hospitalizations. An estimated 458 deaths due to acute liver failure.

Yes, there may be an extremely small correlation with marijuana use and a few mental disorders, but the studies themselves are rather lacking in materiality. I personally know three schizophrenics two from the same family and another friend, all had the disease manifest well before any drug use.

Your possible and et ceteras are quite weak, especially considering the other possible factors for those diseases and the lack of any hard findings. Funny how tylenol and twinkies lead to more detrimental health effects while showing very little benefit to society
That probably compresses really well.
Nowhere does it say anything about the split.
Being able to show my impact on a daily basis. I work for you a young startup so there is a lot of room to show how your actions impacted the business.
In HCI terms, the Gamecube didn't do much. But it was Nintendo's single largest leap in architecture and hardware power—it sticks out above their console "power curve" trend-line quite strikingly.

The Wii was basically just a higher-clocked (~2x CPU and GPU) Gamecube—much more like the XBO S or the PS4 Pro are for this generation, than like the architectural reinventions Nintendo usually gets up to. The fact that it seemed like a whole new console with new capabilities for games, is more than anything a statement of how much untapped potential there still was in the Gamecube's architecture at the end of its life, that Wii developers went on to find.
You show your age :-)
Good point. What do you think is forcing them to release the system before most games are ready? I know Wii U hasn't been a great success, but would holding off the Switch for another six months have been so dire?
For the gamecube I'd say the controller, plus some unique sound features (a dynamic midi thing). This is still my favorite controller, each button was easy to hit from the home position and no one (looking at you konami) reversed the confirm/cancel button standards.
I don't know if this is appropriate, but why are extinct humans classified as different species while the still alive humans are all considered the same species?

It seems political. Either some of the current races are different species, or the so called extinct human species are just different races.
Counter: How many of those who are willing in India can do it as well as those who are willing in the US? I expect the population who speak flawless and accentless (to the US ear) English in India who are also willing to do call center work is infinitesimally small.
What are some of the reasons why Nintendo Switch isn't just phone + app + chromecast-like device + bluetooth controllers?
無名小站 (wretch.cc)
One of These Drones Could Save Your Life
How much QML in total application size did you use?
The idea of systemd isn't bad. What's annoying is the friction involved in using it.

It's just a shade too ornate, a little too magical, in both cases only by a small degree, but it's an important one.

Creating a workable systemd init script is actually pleasant. Getting it running is easy. Checking for errors with status is nice, but searching the logs is annoying.

pm2 (https://github.com/Unitech/pm2) has a neat feature where you can watch logs easily, someting that systemd should totally steal and pack into journalctl, like "systemctl logs sshd" shows it in real-time, an alias to the obnoxiously verbose "journalctl -u sshd -f"
They invented this super cool tech to increase battery life, called larger batteries. For some reason every time the processor gets more efficient, the battery gets smaller. Soon we'll be able to use phones as chinese throwing stars.
I get it. Most of the people who watch the presentation won't care. It just would have been such an easy change that wouldn't have made the presentation any worse for anyone, and it would have made it a bit better for some. It's not like Nintendo threw this show together in a few hours; they've considered a lot of details.

And note this was specifically human avatars in 3d with clear genders. Non-gendered monsters or robots wouldn't have the same issue. It wasn't a montage either; it was a single match demo.
I remember that guy - met him 10 years ago while playing Versus mode in Tetris Attack at a convention. We both sent each other so much garbage blocks that we froze the game and he took some pictures & video talking about the feat since it is apparently pretty rare.

That guy is hardcore good at games all around.
The example index.html page contains a link to framework.web.js which is 167k. Minified and gzipped this reduces to 17k so not 8k, as advertised, but the same size as Vue.js .
Read Across the Aisle: helping people get outside their filter bubbles
Pretty sure it's the latter
I work for a children's hospital gluing several systems together to automate the conversion, preprocessing, storage, and analysis of brain scans.

It's more tedious than challenging, I have to use Matlab which kind of sucks, I'm stuck in a windowless box, and I constantly deal with server problems. Not to mention less-than-stellar-pay.

What do I enjoy about it? The feeling that when I finish all this the doctors will spend a lot less time pushing the same buttons on their computers and hoping that the software doesn't crash, and more time actually doing research and treating sick kids.
It would be interesting to see the discussed effects in comparison with the effects of let's say increased sugar consumption for example.
Which is a lesson in how VC can easily destroy a viable, profitable business with a "money-chasing-money" strategy.
Will 6 people play it on all 6 demo Sundays (in 6 cities)?
The GameCube was the first device to use a second-screen experience, with the GBA Link! (yeah, yeah)
For those not in the know, what was app.net?
Seattle median home value is $612,000. San Francisco median home value is $1,132,300 (zillow).

Assuming all other factors are equal that means you need to save almost twice as much for a down payment in these areas. If you are making >100k/year CA income tax will further complicate matters.

Seattle home prices are about 1/2 SF. There is no state income tax, so add on 8% to your income. Salaries are slightly lower, but not by much.

If you don't care about culture and just want to make/save lots of money, this is the place to be.
The thing all those languages have in common is mutability by default. Being able to return values from if/else eliminates a lot of variables that would need to be mutable otherwise.
"Extinct humans" are not humans. They're homo, not homo sapiens (or, more strictly, homo sapiens sapiens).

The genetic differences between you and any other human being of any other race are vanishingly small both in proportion to the size of the human genome and to the (known) differences between sapiens and neanderthalensis.

It's not politics, it's parsimony.
Sure, it is well-known that people with schizophrenia are more likely to use marijuana, but correlation is not causation.

"But here's the conundrum: while marijuana went from being a secret shared by a small community of hepcats and beatniks in the 1940s and '50s to a rite of passage for some 70% of youth by the turn of the century, rates of schizophrenia in the U.S. have remained flat, or possibly declined. For as long as it has been tracked, schizophrenia has been found to affect about 1% of the population."

http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2005559,0...
At the risk of sounding cliche', just do work at something you enjoy. If you think there will be valuable knowledge in the degree certificates, go for them. If you have a cool idea you want to explore, go for it.
Google uses lossy compression on its images, so it has more flexibility than Flickr does with regards to optimizations.
I honestly think that Newton was well aware of the unlikelihood of making breakthroughs in theology and alchemy[1].

In physics he had a lower[2] benefit but much higher probability of progress.

1. Plus he went a little mad from chemical fumes.
2. Really. Imagine[3] making a real breakthrough in alchemy or theology!
3. I can't imagine it and you almost certainly can't either.
Rax –  A universal React-compatible render engine
Who would buy that? Screen is too small to be of great utility for gaming, cellphones have awful battery life for gaming, controllers wouldn't be as nice to bind to such a device while sticking it in a pocket, and it directly brings it into competition with Apple and Android phone vendors.

I love gaming as much as anyone else, but that makes a lot less sense than what Nintendo is currently doing. The Switch isn't a pocket-sized console, and doesn't pretend to be. It is big and powerful enough to drive a TV-based experience, while being portable enough for trips/public transit.
they shut down Wii U production a couple months back. I imagine this is slightly forced by stockholders to prove that Ninty is trying "something".
Sure, I posted it as an original link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13388520
Nothing can be omakase in Go. The language disallow it, unless you completely opt out of its type system. But then, what's the point of using a statically typed language? Go is built in a way that forbids writing abstractions. When I say forbid it really does forbid it. Even C is more expressive.

Buffalo isn't a framework, unless a router + few bells and whistles is now considered "framework".
A more likely strategy for a major (not Intel specifically) is to just use whatever they want without a license, and beat us to death with lawyers.
... but supercharging in SC will be roughly half the cost of what it is in CA, meaning the equivalent trip would only cost $7.50 in a Tesla.
What scientists cannot accept is that there are aspects of human life which are not observable or measurable. Science is good at measuring what is observable but many scientists then make that a foundation for denying, ridiculing or reducing what is not observable. Science then becomes, paradoxically, a religion.
For GNU Social, set up a ServerPilot stack on Ubuntu (it's a PHP/MySQL app and the ServerPilot stack works a-okay for this).

For Mastodon, deploy their Docker image?