skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I am inclined to agree. There are a few lines in what I read that shoot up red flags (I only read the first 25% and last 10%). However I agree with the overall advice.

I read somewhere that its best to avoid any food that is sold in packaging. I try to stick to that within reason.
I think you're asking the wrong question. There is nothing special about Palantir software that you can't find in the open source world already. What Palantir does is just throw a bunch of bodies at the problem to "integrate" things.

If you truly want to provide an open source alternative then curating some jupyter notebooks with the right libraries and integration is all it takes. A properly curated set of R libraries with a nice interface would also do the trick.
On page 89 in the book Marconi's remote controlled boat doesn't talk about the transmitter (that I saw), but used a coherer as a receiver detector, something like a primitive diode I think. But if so, they probably used a spark gap transmitter attached to a long wire antenna, but splattered energy across a huge electro spectrum and traveled very very far, quite disruptive to any other receiver on all different wavelengths. Marconi used one of these for the first transatlantic wireless test as I recall. I remember books used to show you how to build one from a model A automobile coil IIRC, but I don't think it would be long before the FCC would knock on your door and would not be happy as they would maybe have to triangulate your location from different states?. A real Ham can verify all this, but I loved to pore over the old magazines, electronics, being old enough to search it out in the junk piles that were quite common before the 1970s.
I have. I'll do what I do with .EXEs already -- zip them and rename to .jpg.
I appreciate your opinion and candor.
"I think the Trump administration and the GOP are in for a rude awakening if they think these policies are going to stand."

I hope you're right, but at least for the next 2 years, who/what is going to stop them?
Thanks for the well thought out reply. I think what you say is sensible in the context of relative growth. I suppose the two factors that might allow relative growth of one country's economy to be net positive growth globally would be (a) gains specialisation and trade and (b) advancement in technology (in a sense, one of the aspects of 'efficiency' you discussed above). It seems easy enough to argue one way or the other about how much scope these factors create for 'net positive relative growth', but I would definitely agree it's bounded at some level.

It's a good point about Yew having the advantage of a near-autocracy. Although it might sometimes appear that way to us westerners, this is not entirely the case in China. I have noticed though that there is a (not entirely unjustified) stain of thought that authoritarian government is better able to implement unpopular, but growth positive, government economic policy. It's just my vague concern with nothing to really back it up, but I can't help but feel were slowly sliding towards illiberal 'democracy' in much of the first-world anglosphere. Hopefully I'm mistaken, as I quite like genuine liberal democracy.

The computerisation point is a very interesting one. Putting aside the possibility it's a measurement issue, one other theory I've seen posits that computerisation more often leads to cannibalisation of industries, rather than creation. Albeit these argument generally acknowledge that minor (but still positive) gain are made from higher industrial efficiency. My own pet theory is that computerisation has turned many markets into 'winner-takes-all' markets, meaning gains from efficiency have been translated into (highly concentrated) private wealth much more than they have led to broader increases in economic growth. I think there are two factors at play here: (1) the positive network externalities often associated with computerised markets and (2) the 'always increasing' economies of scale that purely (or mostly) computerised services enjoy, due to the non-rivalrous nature of their consumption.

I'd be very interested to hear your theories if you're willing to share :)
>Go likes it's superficial simplicity, syntactic irregularity & stubbornly refuses to accept that PL design has evolved since the 80-90ies, but I'm sure it's appealing to people who are used to languages from that era.

Not really. The largest proportion of Golang users come from relatively modern interpreted languages like Python and Ruby which arr widely used in server environments. I'm unable to find the survey results but I do recall this trend surprised the Go's original authors who were originally seeking to replace C++ & Java
What's wrong with email? (Honest question. Based on this discussion it is not considered an option worth mentioning.)
I am an Iranian CS student. I had a fully funded PhD admission at one of the US universities. I was admitted for the Fall 2016 semester.

I am currently in Iran due to my visa not being issued despite the 7 months I have waited for it. I was able to defer my admission to Spring 2017 semester, but then _this_ happened.

I am quite sure that I will never be able to attend this program. I had very high hopes for my future because of this admission.

I was very sad today after hearing this news. I have to come up with a new plan for my life, since it never occurred to me that I would not be able to attend.

Edit: Thanks for all the support from the HN community.
If you has Muslims in your country, then yes you might need to work with moderate Muslims in order to be suppressing problem of radicalization. Not sure how well it works tho.

But if you do not have Muslims in your country, you don't have to care about this at all, just cross this issue off your whiteboard in a broad stroke. No Muslims - no Muslim radicalism.

I don't think this is the solution for USA, but otherwise - it's often easier not having a problem instead of solving it.
I really don't like ads just like most everyone else, but I can't help but feel there is a missed opportunity here. Facebook just put classic mobile letterbox ads in a side scrolling container.

In such a unique platform such as Messenger you could get a bit more creative. One such example: Suggested pages to message. This would get companies leads and keep people on the Messenger platform. This might not be the best use, but with this product, Facebook can do better than just a re-skin of mobile banners.
fad - an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived and without basis in the object's qualities; a craze.

synonyms: craze, vogue, trend, fashion, mode, enthusiasm, passion, obsession, mania, rage, compulsion, fixation, fetish, fancy, whim, fascination "when I was a kid, no fad was more apparent than the coonskin cap"

I disagree calling all diets fads, just because the theories haven't been definitely proven or disproven, if they are accurate at making predictions it suggests there's something to the theory does it not?
You can get high on carbs or alcohol sure enough. Try getting high on protein or fat though.

Telling carboholics they need to eat less food is like telling alcoholics they need to drink less liquid. It doesn't work - you've got to be more specific.
I worked at palantir. As a designer. Grains of salt.

The value is in the dataset. Most of what's on top is handmade by fresh grads.

Spend your effort getting access to the firehose, and the rest will follow.
IPv6 on FreeBSD/EC2
Is it worth calling a senator who doesn't represent you? For example, there are some proposals being pushed by senators in NC I don't agree with, but I don't live in NC.
I'm on this site a lot, I know who it is and I understand why it made to the front page. It would help everyone (you included) if you try Google first whenever someone (or something) you don't know is mentioned in a discussion. Even if you search for previous mentions of Hugo Barra on Hacker News, you'd learn that stories mentioning his leaving Xiaomi have made the frontpage in the last few days [1]. As a person who is on this site a lot, I'm surprised that you aren't familiar with him.

Let's not even get into what is (or isn't) juvenile at this point.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13461387
I've been using Replicant since the early days. But I eventually gave up due to lack of updates to latest Android security patches. Unfortunately a free phone isn't useful if it is insecure.
Good idea, I posted it to their web form.
In a world where email clients were maintained as actively as web browsers, this behavior would be a default feature, in the same way we have weird workarounds for HTTP proxies.
Glad to see it reflects the situation down here in the South. Rural Uttarkhand is quite beautiful (esp near गन्ङा).
Which countries don't have Muslims?
> It also contradicts the recently popularized "keto" diet, which has roughly as much evidence behind it as any other popular dietary recommendation (i.e. not much).

Keto recommends avoiding plants? I suppose you're right about fruit, but those are disallowed because of the sugar content, not because they're plant based.

EDIT: I suppose while I'm at it I should take exception with the notion "if there is no evidence, then therefore it is wrong" line of thought. Which you may note you didn't say explicitly, so then I would ask well what did you really mean. :)
Who decides for me what's a threat and what is not?

Isn't there the same sort of people who during Communism decided whether I need any sausage or can go without?
Docker Container Security Guidelines
Actually, this is something different to the "solve your own problem" mantra! Your suggestion sounds simple, but for many hard to understand. I think that's the right direction, at least to raise some venture cap! Logical explanation.
Thanks a lot for your feedback, Just build it roughly in an hour to show the keypoints.

Now I think I will invest time on creating a better landing page.

And the reason also for why one should use it.
I really wish we had TP-style modules [0] information in our object file formats. What seems so simple conceptually is nearly impossible to replicate?

Can't figure out why C, C++, Java or C# never got there and why JS is puking all over the concept with half-baked, crappy syntactic look-alike (but not work work-alike) modules. Ughh...

[0] http://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html
> I don't think this is the solution for USA

I think this may be the first off-topic bomb thrown into a thread I've seen that actually admits that it's off-topic.
Come to think of it, I don't think e.g. Estonia has too many of them. You can probably fit them all in one train.
What's more worrisome is how fervently anti-science the new administration is. Academics may eventually be persecuted in the US across the board - as they are already at the EPA, USDA etc - and regardless of citizenship.

I firmly believe anyone with a brain should begin making contingency plans to regroup somewhere like Australia or Japan, outside of the reaches of far-right populism. An Erdogan-style academic purge may be on the agenda and sooner than we think
The "Share" functionality takes a screen shot and has to save it somewhere. That is the reason for that permission request. If you revoke that permission, the game will still work but you'll have to take the screen shots yourself if ever you want to share your score.

The totals are picked from the numbers that are given to you to use. There is no possibility of a total that cannot be reached by the numbers provided. But I'll check to see if I have some sort of bug in the code.

edit: I've added a notice to the store listing so there's no confusion.
Who knows? It may actually help. The news footage of a middle class white man being dragged away by jack booted thugs may elicit much more attention, sympathy and outrage than a "Middle Eastern looking" man undergoing the same, one would think?

And in this current world awash in pithy slogans, short attention spans and social media generated activism, it may actually be more effective.
Are you certain that you want a competitor to palantir? It sounds like you might want I2 Analyst Notebook from IBM, or something like maltego from Paterva. Maltego is also free (ish) which is cool.
Yes, view refresh with only delta changes.
At the least, they were very much first principle kind of thing, often a tour de force of electromagnetic and mechanical nightmares. Mainframe line printers or upright vacuum columned 9 track tape drives come to mind and cause shudders.

I might recommend to search out the early chemistry books, as well. They explain the early chemistry and processes of so many things we take for granted, in a lost art kind of way. I love reading these kind of books.
Ask HN: Why does Twitter list still exists?
With little care I think Twitter lists could possibly be a good alternative to existing public chatrooms but wonder why it isn't getting attention at all.
Terminix: A tiling terminal emulator
I am sympathetic to your plight. Why not do as the article suggests and apply to Australia or Canada for your studies? Not sure of the availability of funded PhD research programmes here (Australia), but it may yield quicker results at the moment.
It hurts so much to read stories like this, where politics stands in the way of education, especially when the university already approved.

Have you thought about coming to Germany? Not the US, but not bad either..

https://www.daad.de/deutschland/stipendium/en/
This article is about the government deciding whether a professor can take on a student or not!
A Behind-The-Scenes Look at How We Redesigned Our Software
The death toll numbering in the millions was pretty abnormal for the region, yes.
> My problem is, taking pictures is more effort than picking an item off a list, as current caloric counters do.

How can this be? Taking a picture is at most 2 taps, if it pre-fills 90% of your list (even 40%) it has saved you numerous taps.
7 Growths Hacking to Increase Your Website Traffic in 2017
Nah, he was just very German.
Relational Join Considered Harmful
Unless the general public is doing it for you. People vastly underestimate how thorough some enthusiast communities are.
The US gets only 8.1% of its oil from Saudi Arabia now, and that's dropping each year. The US is at last in a position to tell Saudi Arabia where to get off.
On behalf of my fellow Americans, please allow me to offer you our deepest apology. Please know that most of our country doesn't hate or fear you. We will continue to do everything we can to fight this policy and others like it.
If you password protect the archive you should be good
Every free centralized messaging service at some point needs to find a business model that finances the platform. Right now the (IMO) best choice are decentralized messaging protocols such as XMPP (https://xmpp.org/) or Matrix (https://matrix.org/). Similar to email you can (i) run your own server or decide which server to use (ii) communicate with people on other servers, and (iii) choose from multiple independent client and server implementations.

For XMPP I recommend Conversations (https://conversations.im/) as client on Android and ChatSecure as iOS client (https://chatsecure.org/). An simple easy to use server implementation is Prosody (https://prosody.im/), but ejabberd (https://www.ejabberd.im/) is a good choice too. There are also multiple public servers if you don't want to run your own server instance, for example the XMPP server run by DuckDuckGo (https://duck.co/help/community-platform/xmpp).

For Matrix Riot is the best client implementation which runs on multiple platforms (https://riot.im/). The (afaik) only usable server implementation is the reference implementation (https://matrix.org/), but at some future point the currently pre-alpha Rust-based Ruma implementation (https://www.ruma.io/) could be a good choice too.

A nice thing about XMPP is that server-based transports can provide gateway-functionality to other networks. For example with Spectrum (http://spectrum.im/) it's possible to use your XMPP client of choice to chat with your friends that use Facebook Messenger.
IPv6 is pointless until we remove IPv4
3 Simple “Forcing Functions” That Will 3-5x Your Productivity
Looking how well it does support Java 6, 7 and 8, probably never.

- Java 6 and 7, not all of the APIs are supported

- Java 8, on top of not supporting all of the APIs, it doesn't support the new bytecodes and 100% of the language changes. As Android team puts it at Google IO, "tell us which features you care about", apparently 100% isn't a goal.

Also the new compiler toolchain required for Java 8 support, Jake and Jill, still doesn't work properly.

Also there are several issues, where Android has implementation bugs versus what Java libraries actually do, e.g. String::split.

Have fun browsing through the issues, https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/

In a 5 years time, more or less when Java 10, hopefully gets released, the fun of writing portable Java code between Android Java and standard Java will be even better.
> Science can give us confidence intervals that let us maximize expected utility given what we know.

Is this possible in the field of diet, considering the long timespan needed for experimentation, the numerous contributing factors, and the fact that study participants are very often not telling the truth?
The situation is deplorable. I would suggest applying to Canada (as others have suggested), Machine Learning seems to be quite strong there. Otherwise, many of the application processes are still open in many European universities (if I recall from my time applying to grad school, ETH deadline as well as other continental universities are due sometime during Spring).

Edit: typos
US and Britain sell the Saudis over 100 billion dollars in arms. You can't get Saudis off your back with just no longer needing their oil. They still got money. And the military industrial complex needs to eat.
I am deeply saddened to read this. I apologize, on behalf of the country.

Please know that the majority of people in the US do not support this policy. We want to see you reach your potential. We want to benefit from the talent you would bring.

Many of us will be working hard to fix this for the next several years.

I'm sorry I couldn't do more to prevent it from happening in the first place.
you really think safety toggles are to protect against fingers?!?
I find interesting stuff through Facebook ads all the time. It's on a level that I often miss that it's actually sponsored content and not from a page I like.
And that's the reason I only contact people via email if I can help it!

Open, decentralized, accessible, and not locked in to some vendors shitty whims. I get why people don't like it, but until we come up with a good distributed and decentralized alternative, I'll stick with email thank.
Once you decide to leave and take a new job your allegiance is now to your future employer. My only regret in leaving jobs has been not taking all my holidays and staying too long after deciding to leave. If you do feel bad about leaving then c.f. Stockholm Syndrome.
It's a bit more interesting wrt. most 9/11 hijackers being Saudis: I think it's pretty much confirmed at this point that it was a deliberate choice by al Qaida, attempting to deteriorate US-Saudi relations.

But as long as Saudis are omitted from this regulation, it's pretty ineffective. Then again, how much of "terrorism legislation" is actually preventing terrorism, as opposed to extending the powers of police and prosecution, or just being populist "I'm doing something"?
What O. J. Simpson’s Acquittal Meant to Black People
It would be healthier for everyone if there was less speculative outrage. This doesn't affect anyone in the country. It just says if you are trying to get a visa from a country where we think there is a terrorism risk, that country needs to be able to provide screening info on the person, or else we won't provide a visa. It is targeting Syrian refugees, not Iranian PhDs.
Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals
The reason people flag stories/comments ultimately comes back to the same thing: they believe it doesn't belong on HN, as per the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is obviously a very sad and tragic story – no warm-blooded person could dispute that.

But it's a private matter to be dealt with by police and his loved ones.

No doubt people are generally well-intentioned in thinking that having this case discussed here may be beneficial, but for other people the interest is likely to be voyeuristic, and for it to be a topic of public discussion is insensitive and risks causing further distress to his family.
Our input APIs are full of poor assumptions, lackluster abstractions and arbitrary boundaries. It could've been fixed decades ago, but nobody seems to have cared. Instead, we're retrofitting on top of retrofitting and it's not clear that we'll ever replace the lower layers with a sane API instead of just hiding the shit under yet another layer.

I should be able to bind any button that sends a signal my computer can understand -- to any application, any action. It should not matter whether it's a keyboard button, a mose button, a mose thumb button, a joystick button, or my belly button... as long as a driver can detect the signal, the code to make arbitrary buttons bindable is trivial, yet people have just looked at the physical objects the buttons are placed on, and then draw an API for each object, with built in assumptions.

This is how we get mice that also report themselves as an USB keyboard, and half the thumb buttons do not work in most applications (becaues they're reported as mouse buttons by default and handling more than 3 or 5 mouse buttons seems to require higher intelligence) and, well, the other half overlap with keyboard keys I'd prefer to use for different functions.

It's nice that someone's working on this but I feel like this steam configurator is yet another proprietary layer, a hack on top of hacks, and so people just lazily depend on it.
Several thousand Linux devices infected with the Linux.Proxy.10 Trojan
Admission to a country was never a professor's decision.

I can't go to a country abroad and study because a professor has decided that I would be a good fit. At most, we can submit an application. Then, the decision is up to immigration officials.
The problem is that many of my friends aren't going to switch. Using a gateway/proxy is good until the banhammer comes down.

It's looking like my best option is to buy an iPhone for an iMessage/Signal one-two punch.
It's a political thing. Oil is a fungible resource. Saudi Arabia helps control the market. US doesn't want to lose that power by pissing them off.

As oil goes, so goes the world.
Because if you read it, it doesn't close access, it demands background information on visa applicants. Saudi Arabia is already compliant.
I'd say .40 S&W is mostly a slower 10mm and is much less interesting than 10mm.
In case anyone else didn't know, this is what the title references:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Realistically, how would Google sync texts between devices without sending your texts to Google? And once you're doing that, why not use Hangouts, which does, in fact, do pretty good cross-device sync?

I ask as a fellow Google-avoider; I think your competing requirements are asking for an impossible thing.
I'd rather a browser that can handle shitty websites than hoping every website will somehow magically be written efficiently. Especially since FF is the only browser I know of that can't handle multiple active javascript sessions. It's completely absurd if you think about it, I mean it's a browser, for browsing websites, which use javascript.
Not once in history has there been a quick office reboot ? No way to amend the constitution, to change the planning ?

I'm counting days until impeachment, seriously.