skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Dianne Feinstein won't run in 2018 it will be interesting race to watch as I imagine there will be a number of new interesting candidates.
In the USA, heroin overdosing now takes more lives than all homocides

I'd been hearing about the heroin epidemic for years. I saw articles about needles in Golden Gate park, I saw discarded needles and black-lit[1] restrooms in Vancouver, but it didn't really have weight until I read that 30,092 people died of opioid overdoses in 2015. In the US alone. Over 30,000!

Anyway, I'm just writing this on the off chance that there are others who are still blissfully unaware.

[1] black light makes it difficult to locate a vein for shooting up.
Is this writing style attributed to the Author being English or more so personal flair?
And the mental one is likely to be the real problem to beat.

Anything from tobacco on up seems to be about getting that bit of relief from the demons of everyday living.
I'm not as confident about this. In my experience, there are many "legacy" businesses who have adopted something as simple as Azure Active Directory, migrating off of their on-prem solution.

Office 365 was, really, Microsoft's foot in the door to migrate people to Azure. Now, Azure AD is a foot in the door to other Azure services. And if Azure can come in and up-sell them on things like website and database hosting, with big support contracts to match, that's pretty huge.

AWS will continue to dominate among more modern businesses who have developers on staff. But I genuinely think Azure will see a lot of success servicing legacy customers who are used to the microsoft ecosystem and don't have m/any developers on staff.

All that being said; Personally: Azure is a pile of crap, with practically no redeeming qualities. I have no doubt it will do well with legacy businesses, but I really wish it wouldn't.
The Future of Photography Is About Computation
Devices connected through another device still have the same external ip - allowing us to detect it's indeed Cellular and not Wifi
Who owns the design files?
Political World Embraces Encrypted-Messaging App Signal Amid Fears of Hacking
Ok, so they'd only know that you visited a domain like this at a given time?

securedrop.ap.org

That still gives away a lot, many of these secure drop sites are on a subdomain.
The MacBook Air (Early 2015) isn't discontinued. They're still being manufactured and it's still a marquee item with its own header on Apple's website.

The date nomenclature of Apple's products is the product release date and not its manufacturing date.
In a very meta kind of way, this is a great case study in the general way that humans acquire new skills and understanding. Grossly oversimplifying the research that's been done into this, we start with very specific things, and progress towards more general cases as experience and skill grow, until ultimately we (hopefully) reach a level where the fundamentals become intuitive.

Sadly, the next horrible insight a lot of people reach in the context of programming specifically is that while experienced, skillful developers can do everything the newbies can and more, for a great many commercial applications the newbie who has only the specific skills useful for a few months will cost far less than the expert but still produce acceptably good results. This explains a great many things, from the ageism and burn-out that are unfortunately all too common in our industry to the generally poor quality and often short lifetimes of a lot of software that gets shipped.

I'm hoping the next insight after that is how you fix those problems and achieve a step-change in the benefits our whole society derives from software by being able to use the extra skill and experience of the better developers in a viable way, but sadly I have yet to reach that level of enlightenment myself.
> * Gates' law

Actually, it's Gates's law. The "s'" construct is for plural possessives (e.g. "the three organizers' books")

In most style guides, when the name ends in "s", you still use an extra "'s" - the exception is for names in antiquity, when you don't (e.g. "Achilles' Heel").

Though this is becoming less prevalent on the Internet.
Looks cool, but I'm having issues where the list of jobs on the right hand side is slow to update, and there's no visual feedback that it even will update. So I would be in the scenario of looking at a map centered on Raleigh, but the job list would still show listings from New York. Several seconds later, the listings on the right were finally filtered.
Like I said, the report was compiled by a respected former intelligence officer. It hasn't been possible to verify all the claims (as secret operations often aren't, which is why these supposedly untrustworthy media outlets didn't publish it) but that means it is unverified, not that it is completely fabricated.
I read on another thread a user that does a lot of podcasting/audio editing say he absolutely loves the touchbar. He can annotate in Word and pause/play/scrub his video on the touchbar without ever changing app focus. This is a somewhat niche purpose, but I could see a handful of similar applications where you need to have simultaneous control of multiple apps.
Hmm, yeah, but only partly--

The reason they can tinker with it is that it's not public; if it were public it would (hopefully) be better-defined, locked down and stable, part of the Android compatibility test suite.

That feature request would let people supply their own sqlite.so, and also redirect the Java API to use it. Seems like a very promising approach.
Yep! The compiler gets to emit it, but you don't!
Oil Industry Automation Frees Up Talent for Next-Gen Projects
> It simply recognizes that the child is not responsible for the crimes of his father. The injustice of rape does not justify the additional injustice of abandoning or killing one's own child.

Yet the implicit argument here is that the injustice of rape DOES justify the additional injustice of forced pregnancy upon the victim. Pregnancy involves a profound set of changes to the body, not all of them temporary. I find it incredibly unjust that people are willing to argue that the rights of a handful of cells that will eventually become a human outweigh the rights of an inarguably human woman whose body was forcibly violated, by way of causing a second, 9-months-long forced violation of her right to control her own body. A concrete reminder of the rape that she cannot ignore because it's literally inside her and growing every day. It's despicable.

This is not to mention the lesser injustice of failing to provide her with any assistance during the pregnancy--she will need to consume more calories, will eventually find it difficult or impossible to perform her work duties until the child is born, etc. Where is that assistance provided for in all this legislation?

And for that matter, where are the appeals to the duty of caring for one's children when an adult with young kids is carted off to prison? Clearly there are circumstances in which that duty is superceded by some set of societal concerns. Why is conception by rape not one of them while some crime committed by a parent is?
My fear would be that my notes are being erased when putting the notebook into my backpack.
Is it any surprise that where people are struggling the most is where most of the crime originates from?

Poverty concentration/segregation is nothing new in Chicago, its been an ongoing for half a century now. Slowly but surely the city has been reversing the decisions to build large housing projects concentrated in a few areas. More law enforcement won't solve the inherent problem.
Congress legislates, president implements. The president isn't where "meaningful change" should come from. Hence 'king-complex'.
Yes, both through DNS requests (although one maybe could somewhat mitigate that by having each visit to the main domain trigger requests to the subdomain, a) creating traffic and b) putting it in peoples' DNS caches) and HTTPS (All modern browsers include the domain via SNI).

It still might be a better choice, given that the main domain for many sites goes through CDNs and more complex systems in general, increasing the risk of compromise there (which also would expose network details about the submitter, and possibly even more)? A dedicated securedrop site hopefully has dedicated infrastructure and better security.
We use the ESP8266 and ESP32 at my company for really quick, cheap prototypes. It started out as a way for us to add wifi to a microcontroller, but now we just use it as the microcontroller itself. We use it for all kinds of small hardware devices, sensors, and actuators. Its pretty fantastic to be able to prototype cheaply in microPython and then later port the board and code to C/C++/Rust when we need to go to production.
“My Code is Self-Documenting”
Yeah but from the point of view of the (unexpecting) uploader that doesn't change anything. If user A wasn't uploading, user B would still get the files from other peers on the torrent, doesn't change the fact A was sharing and actively uploading the file.

Not trying to throw a wrench in your game, but I think this is something you guys need to have a look into because you're turning unsuspecting users into uploaders of content they have no control over, without noticing it, when it has been proven to cause them legal harm.
Get personal services
Huh? No, Apple's entry-level laptop is the $999 MacBook Air 13″, which has an i5.

The 11″ MacBook Air was discontinued, but the 13″ is still around.
How do you feel about having some easily-offended individual claim what you said is racist, and having it forcibly removed from the net?

Or having some malicious person selectively edit what you said? ("Captain Zapp said, 'Personally I prefer... to deny the holocaust'. Censor him!")

Don't assume that restrictions on free speech will always be used in good faith against the targets they "should" be used against. These things have a way of expanding their reach. They can reach you sooner than you think.
the only point of taking an MBA is to unlearn the natural tendency to perceive magnitde as a log fn of magnitude

Interesting. Anything to read about it?
In World War II, the government combined rationing with price controls — limits on what people could charge for various goods — in hopes of keeping the cost of living reasonable. This poster urged people not to undermine price controls by paying premiums for black-market goods outside the rationing system.

src: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/ww2-rationing/5922
Not sure what you've read, but if you haven't read this one: Cuckoo's Egg

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0083DJXCM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Google Trust Services
This has been an under-analyzed / under-reported aspect of current political and economic changes in the U.S.: The relentless drive to privatize and profit off of erstwhile public resources.

The current leadership doesn't want to "fix" this. They want to maximize it.
Good, glad to see this is in the private sector where it belongs. Climate change was seriously ramping up to be just another ridiculous tax with questionable results, burdening those who can't afford it most. If preventing climate change is such a good idea, we don't need the government to stick a gun in your face unless you comply with whatever scam they come up with.
There is on crucially important thing that is often ignored in these conversations and articles:

What are the goals for this new hire? Why is someone being hired?

Scenario: A team isn't performing optimally. They are making bad or non-optimal decisions. Work isn't being done well or on time.

Do you hire someone that will "fit" so everyone can continue to drink the Kool-Aid and nothing changes? Or do you hire someone with less "fit", with the aim being to shake things up and correct the path forward?

In this case either you fire people from the team and, Grizzwald style, proclaim "We are going to do a good job dammit!" or introduce an agent of change in the form of someone with a different (or greater) experience base that will, with your input and support, help correct the situation.

This "fit" thing can very easily turn into an echo chamber. And that is rarely, if ever, good in any way.

Every good team I've ever been a part of (or hired, once running my own business) has had various degrees of conflict or "un-fit" individuals. I find this works well.
If you start with a massive inheritance, to some extent that will diminish the stress. Bathing in gold-plated bathtubs also cuts stress, and grabbing felines because you can.

One could argue that a black American would have great difficulty taking advantage of these stress reliefs.
Depends on how you define need. If you want to have a common open standard - absolutely. Same as with HTML instead of some ActiveX abomination. But if you want to have balkanized lock-in mess, then it's a different story.

As long as MS has the notion of lock-in going on, I don't buy this whole "reformed" MS story.
You had something you enjoyed doing that you could reach for rather than dive back into the pill bottle once the down and anxiety set in.

the trouble is when someone do not have that.
Googhole: The Existential Search Engine
Google, in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans
- Algorithms to live by

- The Selfish Gene

- The Circle (because the movie is being released that year, and Emma Watson is in the film!)
He would be dead by now if he did coke because coke accelerates cellular mechanisms for aging

For example, cocaine and alcohol addiction are associated with robust alterations in sleep architecture, including disturbances in slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement (REM), which has implications for several age-related diseases, since sleep contributes to the homeostatic regulation of the neuroendocrine and immune systems.

src: http://dalgarnoinstitute.org.au/images/resources/pdf/researc...
American Airlines does away with seat-back entertainment
It's already happening: http://www.networkworld.com/article/3156594/security/pentago...
Discussion on the announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13494780
This seems like a pretty straightforward thing to identify. I remember when the NYT's story, "The Agency", was published [0], some of the fake accounts it had mentioned were still up. Even though the accounts in that story were actually populated by real people, the sockpuppetry was pretty easy to identify. One: the accounts' past tweets right up until they started spreading the news about the fake U.S. disaster were in Russian. Two, all of the tweets of the fake news had almost exactly the same number of favorites and retweets (around 300), and you could see that everyone in that cluster was just retweeting each other.

I'm more fascinated by the spam by Facebook accounts. These show up all the time in relatively popular comment sections, and yet apparently FB doesn't care, or the problem is trickier to automatically flag. For example, this comment [1] is clearly spam...but if you click through to the account, it seems to be a real person [1], with a normal-seemingly friend network, mundane photos of life that aren't obviously stock photography. There are a few junk comments (a bunch of "hi's", but as an outsider, this is what makes FB a lot trickier to analyze, because you don't know how much privacy that user has enabled on their own account.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

[1] http://imgur.com/a/Rr8d3

[2] https://www.facebook.com/gulfam.raj
Their election night coverage was one of better ones, but in the lead up to the election, Nate Silver got a lot wrong about Trump. He even had to write a mea culpa about it. Perhaps that is what OP is talking about?
I moved from Web back into Forms, WPF and Android.

Couldn't be happier and dread of the next time I will have to switch customers, because of the high probability to return to web.
As far as AIO's go they are great, especially with the 5k display, but the main issue is that Apple doesn't spec bump them. It has been 472 days since the last iMac update and it will likely be at least until spring before we hear about an update.

The main issue for me is that my laptop can now use Thunderbolt 3 accessories, but if I bought an iMac today I'd be stuck with thunderbolt 2 and no usb-c ports for the next 3 or so years that I would be using the machine.
In matlab you can split a video into frames and perform some tasks on the images (neural net, DAISY, etc). There's examples of object detection on images if you google it.
It is my philosophy all of existence depends on suffering and is directly related to two unique types of causality I call public and private. The old, familiar public causality occurs along a timeline consisting of observation, discrimination and decision, in that order on the timeline. This can correspond to a computer in the cloud receiving data, computing on the data, and then sending it back out. The "cost" of this causality is observed as a technical limit on the growth of network rates as compared to the growth of compute rates in the market, again over a timeline. These two growth rates, or accelerations, are not equivalent as far as we know or have observed.

If private causality is viewed as internal suffering, one could postulate that suffering creates dissonance between the entity doing the rendering of future events and the entities who are involuntarily "caught up" inside that first entity's rendering. For example, I've observed some on the Internet seem very eager to tell others what they think will happen in the future, including how the others "felt" when the "observer" saw them suffering in their own internal rendering of reality. When the observer attempts to make their rendering a reality, such as by telling another entity how it feels, it turns their internal suffering into external suffering, at which point others then experience it directly.
Apparently the prospect of mating can do funny things to mammalian priorities...
Structuring and Organizing the React Components Directory at Scale
I strongly agree with everything you are saying here. But that said, I do think its prevailing thinking among protestants in the US; who are generally right leaning welfare hating lovers of Christ.

Further, real Christians (who live by the God given principles of honest hard work as you describe it above) are few and far between.
It won't work. Algo is not for censorship avoidance. It's right up top in the readme. Sorry!
> Back when I worked at Apple the dirty secret was that the cheapest models, despite all the marketing of the MacBook Pro, made up the majority of sales.

Isn't that normal for almost every product though? You advertise the top of the line knowing that most will come in and look for something similar that fits their budget.
Use only papers and pens
First of all, now is probably the worst time to buy a house if you plan to start a startup, it's an illiquid asset that has a whole bunch of associated closing costs and you don't know what your monetary situation will be in the near future, you're just setting yourself up for a pile of stress.

It's always hard to step back from your idea when you're convinced it's a good one, but the most common advice is not to start with an idea, but to start with potential customers and find out what their pain points really are. If they're not spending a lot of money outsourcing this, it will probably be really hard to convince them they should pay you for your software. I thought this advice didn't apply to me and spent months of late nights and weekends working on a product, but it does. If businesses are not crying for your product, selling it to them will be hard. It can be done, but it will be hard.

As a technical founder, the things that are likely to kill your startup are not going to be technical implementation issues, and as much as the temptation will be to spend a lot of time at your computer working on your product, that is probably the least useful thing you can do.

Figure out if people want to pay for the product you have in mind. Don't just assume that they should. Talk to them.

I would not advise quitting your day job before getting started. You should start talking to people who may want your product and finding out if they really do, way before you have it built.

If you just start writing code you will likely spend months on a pile of software that no-one wants to even bother integrating, let alone paying money for and the only thanks you will get is a hole in your finances, and then after that you'll be stuck in job search that's even harder than it would be now because you have nothing to fall back on.

I don't want to get you down, but you need realistic expectations, not about the fact that it will be hard, but that you will most almost certainly fail; the best thing you can do is find the sources of risk for your fledgling startup and figure out if you can address them, which is all easier to do with the safety net of a job.
I took this to mean it wanted only filenames and nothing else. I used:

ls -1
Ask HN: Where does news originate?
Is news still coming from the same sources(ABC, NBC, Reuters, AP, etc.) or are we seeing news coming from Twitter/Facebook etc?
If you don't trust the machine you're currently on then it's already game over from a security perspective.
> now it's the 11" MacBook Air that occupies that slot.

They don't sell that model any more. 13" is the only MBA now.

http://www.apple.com/us/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air
HN hug of death - Google Maps API rate limits exceeded :)
> A Twitter spokesman said the social network had clear policy on automation that was "strictly enforced".

> Users were barred from writing programs that automatically followed or unfollowed accounts or which "favourited" tweets in bulk, he said.

I am constantly getting followed by accounts with tens or hundreds of thousands of follows and followers, usually checkmarked accounts though I've never heard of them. It's painfully obvious these verified users are using bots to randomly follow people, both to spam my inbox with "you have a new follower" messages and to encourage people to "follow back".

But Twitter does nothing about it. It's not "strictly enforced" at all.
I just bought an ASUS ZenBook with m3 and super high res screen for my wife. The keyboard feels similar to my MBP13R. Much better than my 3k Dell.

Really nice little machine, blows the Air away and is a steal at 650 EUR (~400 USD using Apple's exchange rates).
The parent asked for more advanced book, not for more introductory book.
I wonder how many of those Facebook spam comments are entirely real accounts that've been compromised (access tokens and/or logins). Would make them even harder to detect.
All work, no ethics.
+1 on this. I had taken catia classes in college and have built a number of models in different programs for 3d printing. But building models for games is WAY more difficult. a AAA level gun can take weeks to build and model.
If you would like to stay on macOS, buy a used MacBook (Pro). Some owners treat their MacBook (Pro) like a jewel. Even one or two years old ones can look like new. Performance-wise they are still great compared to the latest siblings.

A week ago I bought a MacBook Pro 15" (Mid 2014) with 512 GB SSD and dedicated graphics chip. I can drive two external 4K displays at 5120x2880 (looks like 2560x1440) and the internal display at 3840x2400 (looks like 1920x1200), all at 60 Hz. That is all I needed. Couldn’t be happier. Cost me 1325€. Latest MacBook Pro 15" with 512 GB SSD costs 2700€.
I wonder why the article didn't mention that United has been doing this on a lot of its domestic flights. The international planes still have seat-back entertainment, but most of the domestic flights I've been on in the past year have had "personal device entertainment". And it's featured heavily in their pre-safety briefing videos.
Yeah, few seconds of stress. fixed