skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this article is completely half-baked. If we had only grown enough of these staples to feed humans, it would require a whole lot less than growing enough to feed animals who feed humans. The author here is making it sound like there wouldn't be much difference.
>There's always been running gags about spooks at hacker conventions, but it's "nice" to have a confirmation (even if it's hard to verify).

Was the 'meet the feds' panel at DEFCON not enough of a confirmation? I've seen people at academic security conferences wearing name-tags with "National Security Agency" right in the employer field.
And of course while it's Canonical's fault for not having a v6 dhcp, the similar problem affects Amazon Linux instances:
﻿repo.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com is ipv4-only so yum makecache fails.
Nothing that yet another otherwise meaningless wrapping div won't solve..
Nice. Although, Angular 2 and Redux are irrelevant here.
4% is a high number in this context. If I cause a problem for 4% of my users, I will be spending the next week answering support issues and nothing else. When it is two orders of magnitude less, then we can talk.
The author's agenda is showing.
We (the Dutch) have one of the most watched societies and it's never enough. All phone/internet data is saved for years with almost dragnet like strength, even though it was deemed excessive by judges. The police buy their traffic information from TomTom, the highways are littered with camera's with licence plate-scanning abilities, cities have permanent bluetooth capable scanners around them (to monitor traffic it is said) and there are there is talk to add a RIFD chip to the official licence plates... And still it's not enough...
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I also liked the article linked in one of the comments: https://logological.org/girlfriend

Edit: Actually, it also popped on the front page.
Define "subversive." Does politically organizing against Putin count as "subversive"? Does not wanting everything you read online to be tracked and recorded by the NSA/Obama/Trump count as "subversive"? Does not wanting a large fraction of your browsing habits to be added to marketing databases count as "subversive"?

Honestly, I would suggest that more people ought to consider encrypting more of their communications just for day to day use.
I wonder if 17 years later statistic have triumphed or not.
Euhm no... not trolling (at least, not aware of it). I just assume that country governments just want to know what other governments are capable of... I mean, it would be great if such a thing was not necessary and there would not be any nation states acting against other nation states.
And no, I have not been recruited or work for any other company than my own (which is not in the security business)

EDIT: can't reply anymore. But I seem to be wrong indeed. hackerspaces are probably not the best place to look what other gov. can do. Maybe it is for recruiting instead?
True but when compared to Measure Theory (the foundation of Probability Theory) almost everyone can agree that those concept are simpler, i.e. basic.
Haven't had any issues with ESET NOD32 in the last 10 years.

I've turned off the MITM on https though.
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There are many facet to preserving the planet and optimizing food production so the jury is still out.

One quick interesting discussion point is that no land can indefinitely sustain intensive farming and some plot will only ever be able to sustain grazing animals.

So let's reduce these constraints for the sake of argument: the world is two field as such. what's more eco friendly? A corn farm and a shrubland, or a forest and a sheep herd?
What % of $1 bills are used for illegal/immoral/subversive activities?

What % of $100 bills are used for illegal/immoral/subversive activities?

Conclusion: Anyone handling a $100 bill is a criminal.
I don't eat meat not to solve any sustainability problems. I don't eat meat because of how the meat industry is treating the animals and the nature
(By the way, most soy and grain is produced to feat our animals). I can give you a lot of examples for the planned economized genocide on other races than humans. But people, like the author of this text, don't want to hear arguments or examples like that. They don't buy at the local market, they buy the cheapest meat at the supermarkets and care about their wallets more than they care about others. We totally lost the connection to the lives of the animals we eat. Additionally I don't eat meat because 80% of our antibiotics is produced to feat it to animals. Just Google MRSA and find out how much your government is doing about that issue. Some scientist, here in germany, call the resistance against antibiotics an equal threat to the mankind like nuclear weapons. This issue brings meat consumption and therefore the meat industry in a total different perspective.
Who said I thought he was obviously wrong? The point I was trying to make is that the likelihood of him getting the response that he was looking for from this audience is unlikely. Which is why I pointed him towards an audience/speaker that he might not know about that would be more in his line.

Fredrik deBoer is a liberal writer who is also deeply dissatisfied with the current status of liberal thought. I thought that the person above me would enjoy someone who holds similar beliefs but is unhappy with how those beliefs are being communicated with people in general.
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I think the point is that in order to take in less calories than you burn, and stay vaguely healthy, you need to be aware of what you're eating, how your body processes it, and how to avoid the temptation to eat more. If you're not eating the right sorts of foods, then you're going to wind up hungry well before your next meal - which isn't conducive to an ongoing diet change.
Uh, no. That is not what the article says at all.

The text explicitly says that vegetarian diets are not part of the solution. Either now, or under the system he proposes.

He's very clear that eating a fully vegetarian diet now is worse, footprint-wise, that eating a mildly omnivorous one.

He's also very clear that while eating a vegetarian diet under his proposed system would be just about possible, it is built around the assumption that most people will be eating meat, and that it would form a primary food source for the months of year when plant-based sources were scarce.
So he is banning, among others, Syrians and Somalians?

Need a passport? Just pick up a Somali passport on the street for a few bucks. They are not biometric:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3704127.stm

Syrian passports, real and fake, are for Sale in Syria. The ISIS has its hands on real documents in occupied countries.

Sounds like a very reasonable decision for me. Should have banned Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Wahabist terrorism. too.

Not everybody has to go nuts like Merkel and open the borders for millions of illegal (by law!) immigrants.
Your reasoning fails at (1). The money spent purchasing a home is sunk cost. It's gone. It's never coming back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Loss_aversion_and_th...

Furthermore, I claim it does not require us to be "moral superpeople" to get past this situation. There are many populations with vastly worse problems than (1) who don't turn to drugs, unplanned pregnancy, abandoning their wives and refusing to work. For example, the population of rural Mexico.

In fact, it's this tendency for rural Mexicans to be "moral superpeople" that created one of Trump's key platforms. Mexicans are willing to move, abandon their societal networks, find a job and work it. Isn't this why Trump wants to build a wall?
Trend micro officescan, their enterprise offering, has plugins for Firefox.

Well, it had a plugin that got disabled by following Firefox updates.
Ask HN: What frameworks are currently used in a modern web stack?
I'm curious which tools and frameworks are popular amongst today's web developers.
>I just assume that country governments just want to know what other governments are capable of...

How does sniffing around hackerspaces tell them what other governments are capable of?
The author is also playing the false dichotomy vegetarian <-> omnivorous, while people in the "omnivorous" category can eat varying amount of meat, and from 21 times a week down to one.
Yeah, well, now try it if you're gay. Divide the world population in half, and then multiply that by (latest estimate) 4%. Also, remember that every other gay guy is a potential rival as well as a potential match. Every day I think about how lucky I am to have met the guy I am with, now 15 years ago.
Oh, I see what happened. I have a minimum font size which makes the first paragraph tall enough so that it wraps all the way around the image -- so the clearfix is effectively redundant with my font sizes. The image clears it up, thanks!
To take the metaphor further, the really strong antibiotics have a chance to destroy the kidneys, making you a permanent dialysis case.
It's nothing new. It has gone on amongst the NGO and activist community for many years. Especially the aid worker (in places like Pakistan) and environmental defender community (all over the world). We have investigated a number of instances of pitches by both government and corporate intelligence human penetration over the years in many different countries. In fact we cover it quite extensively in our security training programs that we teach. I think people are often surprised to know that we've seen nearly as many human penetration attempts as digital. The activist space is full of (mostly) good hearted humans who are as vulnerable as any normal person to flattery, money, ego etc (the common and preferred pitching point of a service) and weaknesses like crime, blackmail, revenge etc (the lesser preferred pitching point).

On a side note, it's always worth pointing out, especially in Europe, that direct attitribution to a service making a pitch is never so sure. Many countries make pitches pretending to be other (usually local) services. For example the US and Israelis are often aware that Europeans often take personal political stances against their government policies so they will impersonate a local service like AVID. People have spent years not realising what service or country they are really working for.
I haven't used the Steam controller, but when someone talks about a controller feeling cheap, I assume that they're referring to "creaking" under stress, lack of rubber stops on the triggers (i.e., when you press it all the way down, it feels like the trigger is bottoming out on plastic), sounds during vibration, etc...

That said, I have no clue whether the Steam controller exhibits some of these properties or not.
> They have also removed all mentions of climate change from the white House website

They replaced the old website with a new website. The old website is stored in: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ This is usual. Obama toke the same measure. Here is the Bush website if you like it: https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/

With the change, Trump (technical staff) removed many subject they disagree, and many subjects they agree with. If Obama had a page about how great are ginger hair people, it would have disappeared too.
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Writing viral articles about your misery always helps improving your initial chances. I guess he's alright now :)
This article reminds me of a previous one from a few months ago that talked about where the produce in Chinatown comes from (local, small growers rather than large industrial operations).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11981063
I think advertising is the best approach for digital monetization, because you don't have do invest a lot in customer relationship. I think chatbots will go through this route, too.

But most of the successful chatbots (initially) are going to be appendix of already successful apps/platforms, imo. And it is not going to be so big as people were thinking yesteryear.
Genuine question, is there an anti-muslim immigration policy in japan or some other force at play?
Not GitHub based, but StackOverflow nailed gamification for Q/A - despite the fact that it attracts a lot of hate in HN they managed to build a great resource using a self-moderated community. Far from perfect, but who is doing it better?

There is a chat feature and I've used it to give free 1:1 consulting/support.

There are lots of answers linking github issues and code playgrounds like jsfiddle and codepen.
True. My exotic workaround was to buy rechargeable AA batteries from the pharmacy. If you buy a 4 pack, you can have a pipeline of always-charged batteries.
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> ... for a girl to be considered really beautiful to me, she should fall at least two standard deviations above the norm

> ... [in intelligence] I will settle for someone a mere one standard deviation above the normal

Yeah, that would do it. Nothing to learn here.
> Note: everything written from here on is from the “local” perspective of a Virginian

Then why talk about the planet.
You're just biased, because Facebook has way more potential for doing you harm and has used your data against your interests already.

Facebook manipulates the emotions of its users:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-...

MasterCard to access Facebook user data in order to make you spend more:
http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/business-it/mastercard-to-ac...

Facebook ads use your face for free:
http://www.itworld.com/article/2746556/networking-hardware/f...

Facebook is inventing phony likes to promote stories you've never seen to your friends:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161215092610/http://www.forbes...

Facebook guesses your race and uses it for targeting:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/faceb...

Facebook has been the main promoter of bogus news and misinformation in 2016:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/09/facebook-...

Facebook has started to collect WhatsApp data, in spite of the app's original policy:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/25/whatsapp-...

Facebook collects the texts that you don't send:
https://arstechnica.com/business/2013/12/facebook-collects-c...

Facebook tracks and builds user profiles for people without accounts:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/facebook-...

Facebook's privacy settings have been designed with black patterns, making it easy to publish by mistake:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/29/facebook-...

Facebook makes it easy to tell when you're asleep:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/02/2...
From http://www.rsc.org/Education/Teachers/Resources/cfb/carbohyd...

> Carbohydrates (also called saccharides) are molecular compounds made from just three elements: carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Monosaccharides (e.g. glucose) and disaccharides (e.g. sucrose) are relatively small molecules. They are often called sugars. Other carbohydrate molecules are very large (polysaccharides such as starch and cellulose).

I wish people would stop hating on "carbs" and redirect their disdain to sugars / small carbohydrates.
> I don't like the idea that this is tacked onto the "display" property. "display" is for the outer display properties of the div

That's really not true[0], "display: flex", "display: grid" or "display: table" are all inner display properties, which is why inline-flex, inline-grid or inline-table exist ("display: flex" sets the outer display mode to "block" and the inner one to "flex", "display: inline-flex" sets the outer display mode to "inline" and the inner one to "flex").

Which is why CSS3 split display properties between outer display (block, inline or run-in) and inner display (flow, flow-root, table, flex, grid or ruby), which can be specified independently e.g. `display: inline flow-root`.

Furthermore `display: inline-block flow-root` makes no sense

1. `inline-block` is specifically a "legacy" display property which impacts both inner and outer display (and thus is not compatible with a separate inner display property)

2. `inline-block` already means `inline flow-root` so `display: inline-block flow-root` would expand to `display: inline flow-root flow-root`

[0] and has not been since CSS2 and display: table, possibly CSS1's display: list-item
This book?: https://archive.org/details/Mechanics_541
You were okay with them making a threat to him in order to get him to cooperate too?
Cool project! Forwarded to people at oekom-research.com I know.
The language neither trivializes the Holocaust nor does it unfairly hitlerizes Trump. It describes what is going on in a way more of the general population can understand.

There have been many populist governments around the world over time. Hitler wasn't the first to do that sort of thing. Unfortunately, not everyone remembers all the names or knows the history - so comparing him to a lesser-known leader (which he might be more comparable too) just doesn't work. It is like reading a literary reference to a book you've never read - it is easy to miss the context, even after the reference is explained.

So we use Hitler because we understand the Holocaust (and the like) was far too horrible for words to describe and we'd like to avoid going near anything of that manner. We draw comparisons between the early Hitler days and now because we notice them. Coincidentally, it follows a general pattern of authoritarian and fascist leaders and it scares the heck out of us.

And you think, surely, that can't happen here. This is the United States, after all. And at the same time, Trump is up there talking about how we should be using torture and waterboarding more because he's convinced it works. And we aren't sitting here appalled because we've started to become immune to his rhetoric. He's been saying this sort of thing for months. What else are we going to be sensitized to?

Furthermore, what does it mean for me when I go to visit family back in the states? If I get a tan and look "middle eastern", will I get harassed? Are they going to bring up that a portion of my family is Syrian, even though my grandmother was born in the US to immigrant parents? What of my family that still lives there? I know this stuff isn't an issue right now, but I'm afraid of what happens if it escalates. It isn't like we can trust the things that is being said from the top at this point.

This "unhelpful" hyperbole is the only thing we really have to be able to express this stuff to others.
We would be better served - collectively - if more people would read Hayek's "Road to Serfdom".
"Visual representation of code and how it connects to other functions" sounds precisely like boxes and lines. I'm not sure why you bring up Java in this regard; are you referring to UML?
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And of course, he forgot to take into account selection effects. You don't meet and go on dates with random people, you meet and go on dates with people similar enough to you to be in your social circle.
They forgot to mention the SEVIS record madness (want to know what the muslim registry will look like?), I20, being heckled or killed in the streets and casual border crossing racism by the CBP.
"premature optimization is the root of all evil" - Don Knuth

Also old-style for loops in JS fall victim to the last entry effect since people often use them to set up event handlers and wonder why they don't work.
What do you think of the articles that have been posted to HN about how people make worse decisions when they're under financial stress?

I think they fail to explain the majority of the behavioral differences. Specifically, they fail to explain:

1) why the children of upper class parents do not start behaving like poor people when they are broke (e.g. during college or grad school).

2) why Mexicans make good choices like sneaking into America, working hard, forming stable family units and saving money.

3) why Indians make the same good choices even when they don't have the option of sneaking into America.

4) why unskilled Chinese immigrants (or folks back home) make the same good choices.
Okay. Covert spooks.
The vegan nonsensealists perhaps should consider the role of hunting and animal husbandry in the ability of humans to inhabit northern and semidesert regions of the planet and to sustain a population. It is also good idea to read about the causes of malnutrition in poor communities.
This article is long on assertions and devoid of facts. It is junk. To the author: post again when you can back up your statements.
Washington's farewell address was a political speech. He was unequivocally a federalist, and his speech was aimed at suppressing anti-federalism. He basically believed there should be only one party - his and Hamilton/Adams' party.

That's why very soon afterwards federalists in Congress passed laws allowing the President to imprison people for reporting truthfully what was happening in Congress (out of the fear it would generate outrage in the populace) and even for mere criticism of the President. For much of his tenure as Vice President under Adams, Jefferson lived in fear of his safety and was even afraid to speak out in private letters, as he believed federalists were reading his mail looking for something to ruin him with. Early America was incredibly factious, with rebellions and armed private militias and mobs perpetrating violence (and threats of violence) on their political opponents.

Politics hasn't changed much over time. Read Washington's speeches like you would Trump's or Obama's.
Cynically, I imagine it's a similar process to what many American students go through to get into top American universities.

Step 1: Win the sperm lottery

Step 2: Get Daddy or Mommy to write a big-ass check to build some building on campus.

Step 3: Don't screw up completely.

Step 4: Profit!
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> In which case the zipper is definitely in the least practical place.

Argh! How would we even know it's in the least practical place? Is it because you don't put on your coat that way?

These things are not designed with the same constraints. Getting into a space suit is a slow deliberate process, with people there to help.
Could the moderators please investigate why this deliberately naive comment "And if we will have some WWIII I think it will be mostly 'cyber'." is repeatedly upvoted to the top?

I've rarely read such garbage as the top comment here.
> "I mostly use my Xbox controllers..."

I feel like I should give MS some credit for the Xbox One controller. It's a very high quality controller, IMO.

- It doesn't flex or make any creaking noises when you're squeezing it really hard (during extreme rage situations).

- The triggers have rubber bump stops. Believe it or not, this simple “feature” alone makes the controller feel much more premium to me. My aftermarket Xbox controller doesn’t have these and the triggers make a “cheap” plastic sound when you press them quickly. It’s almost like the entire controller is resonating at a high frequency.

- The joysticks are “tight” and precise. However, they do tend to accumulate some slop over time.

- It’s a comfortable shape overall.
Continental Europe tends towards having many "good" institutions at the expense of not having the extreme stand-outs like Stanford, MIT, or Harvard. There are also departments within universities which are excellent and well-known in their fields without being as well-known by the general public, as well as research institutes separate from universities, like the Max-Planck societies or EMBL.

Overall, I'd say the model makes it harder for something like Google to be created in Europe, but it makes it easier to get an education that will get you a job at Google.