skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not a dupe per se; this is the PLOS (peer reviewed) paper whose draft appeared on arXiv earlier this summer.
So... no one comments for privacy reasons or what? You have to know something: it is true that they are powerful and dangerous, but knowing that and fearing it, without having the greatest hope in change means you're even weaker, and they're even more powerful. Don't let them creep you out. They are creepy, but nowadays the only way out is to not be afraid and to just ditch it!
There is an about at the bottom of the page that perhaps should be somewhere higher

> eLucy is dedicated to sharing information about Lucy, an early fossil hominin represented by the 3.2 million year old remains of a relatively complete skeleton.
Cartapping: How Feds Have Spied on Connected Cars for 15 Years
xonsh might be fine for interactive use, but I'd hesitate to use it for serious
scripting. The nice thing about PowerShell is that it's a .Net CLR language.
So, this means that anything that's accessible to .Net (including COM bindings)
is also accessible to PowerShell. This means that for example, you can script
IIS configuration and setup with PowerShell. You can script things like
importing certificates. You can stop and restart Windows services. I'd be
surprised if xonsh exposed the same amount of the Windows API as PowerShell.
> I hardly even have the desk space for that

I'd suggest you buy monitor arms. They really save a lot of space and make your setup way more ergonomic. I use 3 of these:

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00358RIRC

They also have dual-arms.
That's more of an "in theory" than "in practice" - executive bonuses are almost never clawed back, even retention bonuses in the event of an executive leaving the company.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nikesh-arora-keeps-8-million-...
This Map Shows Ecosystems Most Affected by U.S. Consumption
4k is awesome! But for higher picture quality, not for more screen estate. I find high DPI screens with activated scaling a lot less stressful to read on because of the smoother fonts.

4k on a > 32" screen won't have that advantage, DPI would be more or less like smaller screens but with a lot more screen estate. I personally wouldn't prefer that, as I already have found 30" screens slightly too big to work on - in the end I always looked only at small portions of the screen with my head turned in an akward way. 27" 4k works great for me. 2x 24" 4k might also be a great setup for some people. I personally prefer a single monitor for most tasks, because with 2 monitors at least one will always be badly aligned with the seating position.
Android phone hacking into my Wifi
Hey everybody
Someone keeps entering my wifi, although I changed its name and password multiple times.
I can see the name of the android which is the initial name, smth like android-638cf639cj397.

So I was wondering if there is any way I could find out who that guy is...?

I dont know what I should use as password, my password is pretty long, had nothing to do with my wifis name, it consists of capital letters and normal letters as well as numbers.

Any tips on how to make my wifi more secure?

Thank you in advance
point taken. I bought my house in the wake of the 2008 crises (bought in 2011 when prices were rock-bottom). One point of view is that I did a good thing by buying when the market was at a free-fall (even though I did it strictly for investment purposes, I'm a single guy with no need for a 4bd house). I helped create a bottom, I helped create a demand where there was none.

People have made your argument but with short-selling in the stock market: "short selling should be banned, there shouldn't be incentivized pessimism in the market", but those people overlook the fact that short-sellers are obligated to buy back, and they can create a bottom in the market when there otherwise wouldn't be one. (if XYZ corp just went up in flames, who the hell would want to buy them (thus allowing more people to unload their shares)? Why, short-sellers of course - because they have to )
Single monitor with Pytyle (window manager) + Debian Crunchbang/BunsenLabs. This distro uses Openbox by default, but I turn off the window decorations = more usable pixels.
Occasionally use Terminator and Byobu to further subdivide, depending on what I'm doing.
Contemporary linguistics is to Chomsky as psychology is to Freud.
I used this site to learn about the Army Lacing [1] for a pair of boots that would normally take ten minutes to take off when I get home.

It seems silly, but learning an improved lacing method has not only saved me a lot of time in a given day, but its prevented unnecessary stress. The method gives a fantastic, tight fit that's incredibly easy to loosen.

[1] http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/armylacing.htm
I agree, and it's also amazing to me to see how well he's maintained the site in the ten years since I first saw it, including a tongue-in-cheek, clickbait-style granny knot celebs page[1], that produced a laugh-out-loud moment for me.

[1] http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknottingcelebs.htm
I've been using the Ian Knot for the past few years, never had a problem.
Gosh not a lot of support for devs getting paid around here. Unless it was the swears (sorry for the swears).
> Is that something anyone is doing today with web sites?

It's a pretty common unikernel demo, see erlang on xen's "zerg" for instance: http://zerg.erlangonxen.org

The Mirage project's Jitsu also does something similar (though not identical): https://github.com/mirage/jitsu
The other issue is just how much incentive there is in finance, which doesn't actually create anything of value. I get that allocating capital to where it's needed is a thing that needs to happen and there needs to be incentives to make it happen...I'm not for medieval prohibitions on usury, but if the 20% number quoted in the article is accurate, that seems dysfunctional. Given how often capital isn't being allocated effectively in the US, your example being just one of many, it seems like we're paying an awfully high premium for that function in today's society.
Huh, I have a question about that: do planes actually point downward at any point during a normal descent, or do they just adjust velocity and control surfaces so as to produce less lift?

I understand that planes are pitched upward at the moment of landing, but I don't know if that's true during all stages of normal flight or not!
I use two 30" monitors at work and a single 27" iMac (running Linux) at home.

If work is buying then I'd get two monitors. If I'm paying then I'm fine with one, assuming it's 25+ inches and high resolution.

The extra screen space is nice, but not so much to justify the extra cost and the extra desk space. IMO a good window manger can make a single large screen almost as nice as two medium or large screens.
Wastewater analysis and drugs – results from a European multi-city study
Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data
FYI: Most people here are familiar with stackoverflow.com and related 'Stack Exchange' sites, earlier this week this question was a 'featured question from the Stack Exchange network' and, if you are on Stack Overflow looking up something difficult, it is very tempting to click on the other questions listed in the sidebar, including this one.

Therefore, this story is on HN in part because it was a promoted link on Stack Overflow this week.
Minor nitpick: (2015)

That aside, I wonder how hard proper software development would be for such a machine. It seems like multi-threaded software is something that we struggle to get right in our current low-core-count systems, so...
> I'm sorry, but I see a categorical difference between a partner's death, and abandonment.
> Maybe others don't, but in my categories the latter implies at least deliberacy, if not malice.

I don't see it as either one way or the other.

They share similarities, but I agree they also have differences. Intention is an example of a difference. Deaths, as by disease, is generally not predictable.

What they have in common is both are on first glance painful, and negative. That's a matter of coping and adapting. Human beings don't do that beforehand though.
Yeah I did not mean to go so far off topic, just wanted to point out that I think a free market approach to health care will lead to an abusive system due to for-profit entities like insurance companies behaving in ways that are good for itself, but ultimately bad for patients.

I agree that reducing IP protections is a good idea. I'm not sure I would call other systems mediocre. They're not perfect but they're far, far ahead of what we have in the US. I don't think that our country is so different from others that implementing a similar system wouldn't lead to an improved outcome as well. Anyways, thanks for the discussion.
this is so much better than talking about politics, isn't it?
I think it's quite common for CS grads to choose finance as a second choice after the big tech companies. Few people see it as an exciting as these banks try to portray themselves. I know several people who took an offer from a big four company to leave from a bank the first chance they got.
I would recommend:

The Measure of the World
by Denis Guedj

There is an excerpt here:

http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/310302.html

The matter is interesting and IMHO very well told, as besides describing the peregrinations of the scientists it gives an insight into the period, the science revolution and Enlightenment.
Not a joke. Here's something I posted in a recent thread to disable/enable CSS in web pages with the s / shift-S key (perhaps because CSS makes a particular website worse).

nmap s :emenu View.Page Style.No Style<CR>
nmap <S-s> :emenu View.Page Style.Basic Page Style<CR>

You could assign the 'b' character to the :back command, or use the default shift-H. If you want to go back 4 pages, you can simply type "4 o", just like in vim.
Yes! I love being able to click on links from the keyboard! Sadly, a lot of new interfaces make it hard for programs to recognize clickable links.

I went through a phase where I became obsessed with doing everything from the keyboard rather than mouse[1] and that led me to pentadactyl (and then to vim[2]), an add-on I fell in love with.

When the FF upgrades made it stop working I read the docs for how to compile pentadactyl, and I fixed version compatibility. That became an ongoing thing. (One time I also had to fix a bug in the build script.)

Sadly, about six months ago, Firefox banned unsigned addons, so I couldn't use pentadactyl even if I allowed them in the config, leading me to write this Hitler parody (and move to vimperator/vimfx):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=taGARf8K5J8

[1] even registered tyrannyofthemouse.com

[2] I would have have heard about vim sooner but for not having much contact with programmers
> The Game Theory has nothing to say about partially observable, stochastic, continuous environments and has no concept of future.

Untrue; game theory has plenty to say about such environments, though that goes well beyond the kind of trivial level of exposure lots of people who are aware of game theory have of it.
I use Linux and a window manager with 10 virtual desktops/workspaces, keyboard shortcuts let me instantly jump to or scroll through them.

That said, I've never understood the need for multiple physical monitors. Maybe someone can explain a few advantages of using more than 1 monitor vs a single with multiple workspaces?
The article doesn't even try to answer the question in the title.
I don't have problems finishing but I find it exhausting, I guess it's the effort of forcing myself to complete all the tedious details required at the end of a project. I usually need a few weeks at least before I start the next project.
As far as I can see, making the information available to the public isn't even a choice. There is no market information you can make available to the public that will make everyone richer. The only people who get richer are the ones who act before it becomes public knowledge. When they are done, asset prices reflect the now public knowledge, and there is no longer a profit to take.
You're right, and that's unfortunate. I wanted a basic phone for porting out my Google voice number to my carrier when I decided to stop using all Google services, but there wasn't anything worth having that was cheaper than a smartphone. So, since I was buying a new smartphone anyway, I went with a dual SIM model.
This is probably the stupidest thing that I read all day, and I work in the games industry. It's like me getting upset that there are companies making ferraris or mclarens, because I can't afford one, or because Ferrari only sells to a pre filtered list of clients and not just anyone off the street. Or getting upset that new movies are released on Blu-Ray, when you don't have a Blu-Ray player, even though DVD copies are still available.

Games are made for systems people have, not the other way around. The only thing that could make people switch en-masse to Linux for games would be to release latest Fifa or CoD on that platform and on nothing else. Of course, for EA it would be like killing a goose that lays golden eggs, so why would they.

I was recently told that we should develop our games for Linux. And while I agree with the sentiment, the truth is that if the game has a PS4/X1/PC version, then PC version will be 5% if not less of all sales - it doesn't make any financial sense to spend time on various sub-segments of the PC market.

As for the comment that you need super expensive PC to play latest games - also nonsense. I have a really old desktop pc, with Core i5-750(which is a 7 year old CPU at this point!!!!) and a GTX750Ti, and it plays any new game, on low-medium settings.
>> Google deleting your gmail for reselling a Pixel phone at launch.

Any reference for this? I think you are referring to [1], but that was not because somebody sold their Pixel phone, but because a company was reselling a large number of Pixel phones from New Hampshire to avoid sales tax (which is against the ToS, and probably borderline illegal).

Also:

"Many of the accounts suspended were created for the sole purpose of this scheme. After investigating the situation, we are restoring access to genuine accounts for customers who are locked out of many Google services they rely on."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/17/google-su...
Turn it on them and declare it was stolen. Either they accept the transfer or you are legally the owner and declare it stolen. Go to the police and report the car stolen. That would create such a cluster$uck for them maybe they'd be more inclined to work with you.
That sounds like the prologue to a near-future sci-fi story:

"The year is 2017. You can run Linux on Windows, .Net, Visual Studio and powershell in Linux and Bill Gates is the champion of open access in scientific journals. Oh and- .Net and the C# compiler are open-source.".

What the hell is happening with the world? :)
Usually belts don't require grease... and to tell you the truth I don't see why they put that white belt guard on top...
Well here as are a few predictions made by game theory.

1. There wasn't a nuclear war today

2. Every telco in the world gives large chunks of money to governements due to auctions

3. Ebay sellers get higher prices than they should

Also, I can read association rules, decision trees and lisp programs ok... and yet my machine learning programs (ok ok nowadays the ones I get out of various apis and packages) have written them...
Also using a single 32" 4k screen and think it's perfect. I had 2 different 4k 40" over the years, seiki (thought I could get over the 30Hz, I couldn't) and a Philips (colors, ghosting, viewing angles were all wrong). I found the ~110DPI nice because it matched my previous setup 21" (rotated, 1080p) and 27" (1440p), but after I used a dell laptop at ~165dpi I considered 4k screens in the low 30" range.

Usual flow is split into 3 sections. website/documentation on the right half, emacs on the left upper, video/chat/email on the left lower.
Found This AI/Deep Learning Gem on Reddit
Here in Argentina it's almost the same, but IIRC, you're not allowed to publish those photographs, I'm not sure if you're allowed to take them or not.
Two people have mentioned this now, great point. Something I hadn't even considered
You don't get to both 'give away a freedom to the government via the social contract in exchange for protection of your other freedoms' and then also say "hey, it's immoral to not have this freedom; Give it back!". It's one or the other.

Hum, the whole point of anarchism is that they don't even recognize the first as valid, let alone wanting both.
This sounds like a good idea until you realize that your computations will be dominated by synchronization and/or communication overhead.
If it has to be adopted, then it has to be based of that all science is supported by tax grants. It simply has to be accepted that all science that receives any government money has to be complete open and that using any portion of the grant to pay for this should be illegal.

Now that nobody (or close to nobody) can publish in Nature some other open access journal will be the number one.

Without the need for printing papers the amount of people actually needed to run a journal drops to a few admin people (research and peer review is still paid for by others) and somebody to keep the website running. This can easily be paid for by a few universities (Harward is sitting on billions and they have an interest in solving this problem).
Hopefully, there's enough people that just want a general purpose computer
with and open source operating system that just happens to include cellular
internet connection (bonuses for me would be a a hardware keyboard, is at a
size that actually fits in your pocket and has a hard switch to disconnect
it from the network)

There aren't. I'm sorry, but the number of people who actually truly care
about "general purpose computing" and privacy just isn't high enough to form a
viable market segment for any but the most specialized of hardware vendors. If
it were not the case, we'd have seen a lot more phones with truly open hardware
and software stacks.

That said, if you're willing to relax the "pocketability" requirement, a laptop
running GNU/Linux and tethered to your phone fulfills every other requirement.

(PS: What is it with the "hardware keyboard" requirement? It's not like you're
going to be writing the next great American novel on your phone. For text
messaging and short e-mails what difference does it make?)
If that's how Google is implementing it, and the prices are similar, then isn't that some evidence that Amazon might be implementing it the same way?
Or at any rate, pricing based on net present value of archived data given decreasing costs over time for storage.

I do find it rather fascinating that AWS has managed to keep the technology used by Glacier, even at a high-level (i.e. disks vs. tape vs. optical), so under wraps. My personal guess is that it's powered-down disk drives on the grounds that's the simplest long-term solution but that's purely a guess.
We'll see. This business is becoming massively commoditized, which will eventually minimize network effects in the face of competition and price (for drivers and riders). We lost Uber/Lyft in Austin less than a year ago, and there are now several new services (Fare, Fasten, etc) that do exactly the same thing here, with a little less of that moneyed polish. Drivers and riders alike are using them just like before. One hardly even notices a difference except the name of the app.
Escaping the Coding Desert of Despair - 1,258 Hours In the Making
Text of "Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world (2009)" that's not behind a paywall

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2009/04/08/ten-principles-...
>> Is your workflow severely impaired when on a laptop alone?

I find that with a MacBook Retina I can turn the scaling up and use an effectively higher resolution for a short amount of time to get a little more productivity.

Previously, I had an 11" MacBook Air (1366x768) and was basically unable to accomplish any development with only 768 vertical pixels.
>"Except she's an advice columnist giving advice on the question posed to her of how to keep the romance alive. Her being self-deprecating still doesn't mean she shouldn't consider the wife's role in keeping the romance alive."

The wife's role? This is what I mean about seeing relationships as business arrangements. If that's how you want your relationships to be, that's fine with me, go for it, but that's not what I'm interested in. To me, when you strip away everything around it to get to the core, a relationship is about spending more time with someone you enjoy spending time with. People are complex, if you can only enjoy a fake role-based version of them you're missing the bigger picture.

As for one-sided relationships, they aren't healthy, but I really think you're stretching what you found in the article in order to suggest that this is what's being written about. As I said before, you'll not understand it if you look at relationships as point-scoring. Plus, the article wasn't meant to be '10 point plan' kind of article, it was about painting a picture of how romance evolves as time goes on, it's a narrative-style piece rather than a do's and don'ts of relationships.

>"Very few relationships are exactly 50/50 but if you aren't concerned with trying to be an equal partner (which requires some level of scoring) then you're probably the worse partner."

If scoring works for you, fine, but I prefer to give without expecting something in return, which I can do most easily with people I trust.
Yep. This is basically what they do. Source: I was around when they were designing and building Glacier.
Ask HN: What are your life values?
I'm currently reading Principles book by Ray Dalio. He defines principles like this:

"Your values are what you consider important, literally what you “value.” Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions; they are beacons that guide your actions, and help you successfully deal with the laws of reality. It is to your principles that you turn when you face hard choices."

Now I'm a stage in my life when I want to define my life core values and then build some principles based on them.

I may be looking for some inspiration and that's what I want to ask you: what are your life values?
I guess Uber shareholders expect its business plan to be more solid than that.
Oh interesting! I've used the Ian knot for about 10 years now and hadn't even considered looking for anything else.

Quite a lot of sailing has given me a good appreciation of knots. It's amazing how (when you're doing a lot of rope work) you can get a real instinctive sense of the pressures on a knot and how to create the best knot for the situation. In ocean racing there are places you have unusual needs (like tethering the running backstays to the cars while you adjust the angles).

Believe it or (k)not, there a branch of mathematical topology dedicated to knot theory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_theory

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
I tried the Ian Knot, found it fiddly to tie. I use a standard knot by force of habit or when I can't stand having unties, or the laces are long, I use a Surgeons Knot.

The Surgeons Knot is just a standard shoelace tie with 2 slight modifications - when you overlap the 2 sides of the lace you tuck the lace under twice. This, like a Timber Hitch, creates much more contact area and thus much more friction.

I have (not from that site) switched the way I tie a standard knot as I was doing grannies instead of reef-knots. This seems to have prevented unwanted unties.
Many comments same/similar to "I would like to try Ubuntu Phone but I cannot find it anywhere."

Well, I got tired of waiting, so I bought a NEW Meizu Pro 5 (Flyme Edition) and installed Ubuntu.

Works great. New phone, with warranty, running Ubuntu.

What's more, the Pro 5 runs a Exynos 7420 (ARMv8-A) so is likely to run the Xenial based snap image when released by Canonical.