skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you from? Not sure if that's just in Europe but there's an option[1] to permanently delete everything from fb, though I'm sure it wasn't available a few years ago. Now it is though and I'm guessing fb is obligated to provide this b/c of some european law.

[1] Sorry for the google ref link but I have fb hosts blocked and couldn't find an easy way to just copy the actual link:
https://www.google.gr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...
Why you can’t afford to ignore messaging platforms
Trae, another HTTP library
To expand on this, Ubuntu MATE is also a viable option if you literally want Ubuntu with the old DE (since MATE is a fork of GNOME2).
We have strong cryptography and near-instant communication protocols. Why the hell is there a postal service in every country, and why is the quality of the postal service an indication of sophistication rather than lack of development in a country?
No, most things I read pointed towards it being a bit of a dud. After a few seasons, I got the feeling they didn't know where they were headed and bailed. Asked myself prior to that point, "Am I going to regret not seeing through the next 100 hours of this content when I'm 80?" Answer was a quick no. Quit it, read the spoilers, left it at that and never regretted it.

Did the same with Walking Dead early on. Too much fussing about in that show.
Yes, it was from an earlier prototype of FB. But the bigger point is that it was Zuck who was saying that. And it tells you everything you need to his real attitude toward your privacy -- no matter what his "policies" say.

As well as attitude towards his users as human beings generally.
Isn't that close to 6 years, not 7?
It's not just Facebook, Amazon? Google? Microsoft? They all advertise too, and many others. I've deleted my Facebook profile a couple of times, I've only kept it this long for family. I may change that soon enough too. Especially if anyone ever asks me for my password for it that will be the end of that.
Personally I think the backlash against colleges is overblown. Articles like this talk about conservatism as if it were just another view on the correct way to slice a pizza. But often the ideas in question are those that specifically challenge the rights of a group of people to exist or have opportunities to succeed. Certainly it can go too far. Certainly, administrators shouldn't run universities by mob rule. But on the other end, why should I stand there and smile politely while someone comes to my campus and launches a propaganda campaign and recruiting drive for ideas that challenge my way of life and in some cases my life entirely? And you know what? Fuck Andrew Calhoun and Cecil Rhodes, and all these great namesakes of many campus halls and public works, who spent much of their lives institutionalizing oppression. It is easy to ignore the "bad" in favor of the good when the "bad" wasn't trying to create a future where people that look like you are under someone else's boot.
NSIS aka Nullsoft Superpimp Install System was a great program, and the fact you could run the installer creator on Linux was a boon.

I seem to remember the scripting language was a bit... eccentric, but it got the job done for us in the mid 2000s distributing a cross platform C++ app which was cross compiled on Linux.
I think it's maybe a little optimistic to assume that only people that read an article will brave a comment.

And even so, is it that big a problem if subscribers to some publication are the ones that can make an interesting comment about an article? Where's the downside to hosting that discussion?
Do the alibaba shares have voting rights, it didn't stop their rocketing in value.

Yeah no rights for alibaba: http://fortune.com/2014/09/18/alibaba-ipo-shareholders/
Compare and contrast with Diane Duane's _Young Wizards_ books (which if you liked Harry Potter you should totally read), where in the later ones the characters are using their Wizard's Manuals as instant messenging/social networking clients. Turns out that books which magically contain the information you need to know have many applications.

Yes, they even go bing when a new message arrives.
That's not consent, manufactured or otherwise.
How can an axiom be 'wrong'?
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It's called shadow profiling[0].

Even if you haven't signed up for a facebook account but someone you know has an account, they by proxy, you have an account. Merely existing as a contact in their address book is enough to create a shadow profile with facebook. Their deep-learning algos can collate such data from all your friends and serve you correspondingly appropriate ads.

In fact, I just thought of an experiment that you could try sometime.

1. Buy a new cellphone number and store a small number of contacts (say, about 5) in your phonebook. Make sure all 5 of them have functional & active FB accounts.

2. Install the FB app on the phone and grant it access to your phonebook.

3. Open the app, create a new user and check out the list of suggested friends.

I think you'll be surprised.

[0] http://www.dailydot.com/news/facebook-shadow-profiles-privac...
It is really awesome to see Clojurescript transforming from "oh, look how awesome this language is" to "oh, look what I've built with Clojurescript".
The language, the tooling, community, entire ecosystem is so nice - whenever I try to compare it with other languages and stacks to build front-ends, it always feels just one step ahead.
Saying that Snapchat connects the world in the sense of GPwould be the same that saying that "AOL discs connect the world", or that "MSN is already web portal that connects the world". You really don't see the difference?
FTFY:

How to spell GitLab.
Any and all skills? No. Mathematical and other related intellectual skills? Why, yes, I do. Despite what most people say, I've never seen a genius who hasn't worked at least twice or thrice as hard as his peers. I've never seen a child that, without the help of any tutors at an early age, or without any influence from their parents, was simply spitting out non-trivial theorems from an early age. I have a hard time believing that some people are BORN better at math and logic than others, and I've yet to see any evidence to suggest that.

Quite on the contrary, I've seen plenty of evidence to suggest that genius is at all not genetic, and that you can train children to become prodigies, and later, geniuses. Surely you've heard of Judit Polgár, universally considered the best female chess player of all time? She was made a genius, not born. Her two sisters grown to become Grandmasters as well. And here's Dr. Frankenstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Polgár
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“Rule the Waves”: a unique, compelling game of naval strategy (2016)
Having worked in both open-plan offices and cubicle offices I beg to differ. In open-plan, it's by definition that you can hear other people; in cubicles it evolves into the one or a few congenitally loud people doing the noise. "There goes Amy again."

The visual limitations of cubicles help here, because you have a little bit of privacy that motivates people to respect personal space. I'm quieter in cubicles, but not everybody else is, but in open-plan I have to adapt to everyone communicating loudly by being loud myself.
Pasting the text because the page is not friendly to JS-off browsing. There are a few satellite images if you click through to the article.

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Planet Labs is thrilled to announce that we have entered into an agreement with Google, wherein Planet will acquire the Terra Bella business including the SkySat constellation of satellites, and Google upon closing, will enter into a multi-year contract to purchase Earth-imaging data from Planet.

I can speak for everyone at Planet when I say that we’re incredibly excited about this opportunity. We’ve long admired what the team at Terra Bella has achieved and we think the SkySat constellation of 7 high resolution satellites is highly complementary to Planet’s existing medium resolution 60-satellite fleet. The former enable regular, rapidly updated snapshots of select areas of the globe at sub-meter resolution; the latter regular, global coverage at 3-5 meter resolution. The two systems under one roof will be truly unique and will enable valuable new capabilities.

Planet will distribute SkySat data through Planet’s suite of geospatial offerings. Planet’s global medium-resolution imagery has proven to be of great value in the commercial market, enabling us to exceed our revenue goals in 2016. With Terra Bella, Planet will diversify its available data and solutions and be able to serve new customers and markets.

As part of this agreement, a number of Terra Bella employees will join Planet to continue their great work within our combined organization. We’re honoured and pleased to welcome Terra Bella to the Planet family and look forward to working with the Google team.

“When we thought about a company that shares Terra Bella’s passion and strengths in high frequency satellite imaging, Planet was a natural home,” said Jen Fitzpatrick, VP of Product and Engineering, Google. “Terra Bella has accomplished a lot in the past two years—including the design and launch of five more satellites. We’re excited to see what’s ahead for Terra Bella, and look forward to being a long-term customer.”

“From the start, Planet and Terra Bella have shared similar visions and approached aerospace technology from a like-minded position, and while our on-orbit assets and data are different, together we bring unique and valuable capabilities to users,” said Terra Bella Co-Founder John Fenwick. “Planet and Terra Bella together enables the continuation of our mission and makes for an ever-stronger business.”

With this acquisition, rapid business growth, and the largest launches yet for both Terra Bella and Planet scheduled for this year, this will no doubt be Planet’s most impactful year yet!

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals in the US.
The History of Asphalt
That talk to individuals, do not blame entire field or entire gender.
How can I make money by betting against Spotify?
The original article still exists, at http://jdebp.eu./FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html
Reaper: http://www.reaper.fm/
(good tutorials: http://reaperblog.net/)

Good synths:
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/firebird-by-tone2-audiosoft...

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/synth1-by-ichiro-toda

Good all-purpose instrument: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/orion-sound-module-by-sampl...

Good orchestral instruments: http://vis.versilstudios.net/vsco-community.html

A helpful article I wrote with links and basic advice for new musicians: https://blog.rileyreverb.com/how-to-be-a-musician-58511c4e18...
I was just reading a book about this, "The undoing project". The point of the book was that statically even distribution only works in large numbers, in small numbers its normal to get uneven distributions like this. That's why sample size is so important in scientific research.

So, for example, when have a group of 10 men and 10 women, and you randomly pair them up in a tournament, it is normal and possible for a woman to be playing against 5 women in a row. It's not an aberration because small numbers won't necessarily even out. However, when you get a group of 1000 men and 1000 women, and start paring them up for tournament matches, it would still be possible for a woman to end up playing against 5 woman in a row, but on the whole when taking all 500 matches she plays, it should approach 50, the aberration would be if she had played against 500 women in a row. That would be an indication of something suspicious.

This is an example of the gambler's fallacy.

https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat100/node/46
Trump's tweet generator
It's an example of someone quite effectively solving their own problem in a couple hundred lines of code. That it's flawed in ways that are not part of its original use case is irrelevant.

NIH is a problem when you spend a lot of time creating inferior solutions to solved problems. Not when you spend a tiny amount of time solving your own problems very effectively for years...
Isotopic analysis and dating from samples taken from cores from within and without the area in question could establish extra-terrestrial origin, especially in conjunction with correlation of possible ejecta worldwide. Geological evidence of stressed material with consistent dates? Maybe ocean floor topography? I think those are what they used to pinpoint the more recent K-T event impactor. I don't know if you could use that to confirm or deny your specific scenario though.
I use facebook.com as a tool for networking just as I would LinkedIn, no app, no messenger, just the site. I know people who don't need facebook at all, I know others that use it to share their creative content and others that just post useless articles. However it is still a tool for many, if you don't want it to collect a massive profile of yourself either limit the amount of posts you share online or don't use it at all. I don't understand the massive fallout of facebook on HN, the 'collective think' mentioned earlier and companies like Cambridge Analytica seem like bigger issues than the data facebook collects itself.
How to watch Super Bowl 51 on all your devices–for free
This is my favorite environment. A large office per team. It makes me still fell like I have my own personal space while maintaining a team vibe. It's like a research lab where everyone in the lab is focused on the same goals.

Like a pack mentality.
One nice thing about the "rewrite C++ in Rust" is that oh can do it incrementally; we're taking the same approach for Firefox, for example.

Out of curiosity, what are the libraries in C++ that you miss in Rust, or would have to re-write?
If pointing out that there are people out there celebrating child rapists and women who want to destroy female equality in the united states is a bannable offense on HN, please do so. I see no reason to stop pointing out facts because it makes the hive mind here uncomfortable.
> Flash photography works, so capacitors are seemingly okay.

It does? But yes, these things are glossed over quite a bit, which is also odd since there are enough wizards that grew up as muggles and should have a fairly good idea about what technology can do, and would miss tech they'd have to leave behind ((EDIT: in a modern version) no smartphones, no internet would be quite a jump for kids used to them)

Any suggestions for fantasy that does it better? I can think of Charlie Stross' The Laundry Files (where technology is actively used to harness the power of the paranormal), the Harry Dresden series and the Night Watch series (which shows older wizards struggling with technology, younger ones actively using it, and at one point an army of humans with magical artifacts posing quite a challenge)
Denuvo Website Leaks Secret Information, Crackers Swarm
So is the write up. My favorite part:

> I started working on this machine in May ’16 and only finished it in December. It took a lot of time to design and build the machine, and I kept optimizing the parts and software after the first prototype was done. Including all prototypes and spare parts, I spent nearly €500 on this machine. Well worth it, considering everything I learned.

https://willemm.nl/mm-skittles-sorting-machine/
How do you know if the conversation concerns you, before you overhear it?

Giving you a continuous background awareness of what's happening in the company around you ... isn't that part of the claimed benefits of open offices?
That's not necessarily a problem considering the depth of the pockets of those types of clients (landowners, logistics and insurance are other major markets)

The bigger issue for Google specifically is that those types of clients are best served with a lot of handholding, and not with the self-service, mass-consumption sales model Google prefers. Also it's not a market they're ever likely to dominate.
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Facebook collects information about you whether you use it or not.
You do see a ton of Java web apps in in-house and consultant-built line of business applications. Just not so much from product companies.
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My field's VR, so... all of it.

In particular, wireless transmitters for roomscale are really exciting - seriously, I cannot wait to get rid of the wire-to-head era - as is roomscale for mobile devices.

The Vive getting additional trackers is also super-cool, as that will enable some much better forms of locomotion through foot-tracking. It'll take a little while to take off but I expect the Lighthouse tracking ecosystem to produce all kinds of cool things.

(Not all in VR, either. Drones plus Lighthouse, for example...)
Cross compiling shouldn't require a C compiler unless you have a dependency on C code.

Most wrappers should at least provide an option to statically link the C; I know the OpenSSL ones do.
Perhaps you could help clear up the misconception by fixing Wikipedia's 'System Programming' and 'System Programming Language' entries.

It might also be worth commenting on these[0] Stack Exchange answers, too.

[0] http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/151610/54726
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Is there a useful introduction reference to 'context-free conversational change'? The Google results did not appear promising.
I think we've lost the war. I was even asked to meet with my company's architects and designers about a new space we were building out. I basically spent an hour telling them in every different form I could that what I wanted was a place I could go where people could find me, but they would have to knock on a door and open it to talk to me, and these people looked at me like I was from fucking Mars. They'd never heard anything so absurd in their whole life. I even pleaded for cubicles. I can't even remember what it was like to have dignity.

"What about a health clinic? Or a coffee bar instead?"

I found as many studies as I could about how awful these open office plans are, and printed them all out, and left them there. At the end of the day, on a whim I checked the recycle bin in the conference room they were in. Anyone want to guess what I found?

When I die and get to hell, there will be a Hermann Miller chair in an open office waiting for me. With free snacks and drinks in the kitchen.
I'm only moderately surprised that no one has informed our President so he can "fix this" :-)

That said, the history of this stuff [1] is pretty interesting as well. There were some 'test roads' in the desert outside of Las Vegas were the Dept of Transportation was trying different formulations for hot environments. In the desert the heat would make the roads more malleable than you wanted and trucks driving on them would leave some pretty impressive ruts. Concrete was used as well but the expansion and shrinking would destroy it too. Then there were some cobblestone roads that had been built in the 1800s that were still in good shape but you can't really make a freeway out of cobblestone :-).

[1] The History of Asphalt -- http://www.asphaltpavement.org/index.php?option=com_content&...
Ask HN: How would you disrupt the current dev. hiring process?
We're in 2017, we work in one of the most innovative fields and we still have one of the least innovative hiring process. How would you improve the hiring process for Software Engineers in 2017? What would be your ideal hiring process?
I have never read as many "open offices are bad" and "why I like working in trains/restaurants/coffee shops" as in the past 2 years, it baffles me a bit. It also suggests that there is some correlation between bad employers and open office spaces, but the latter isn't the real issue.
> This false equivalence convinced people to vote for Trump.

"false equivalence" is a non-argument used by Hilary supporters to sidestep proving that she is objectively better than Trump, after it is correctly pointed out that she is not an angel from heaven either.

> No way Hillary would have implemented this ban.

This is a misleading statement that you can't even prove, because it requires you to either be a mind reader or being able to travel to an alternate reality. For the sake of argument though let's assume that she wouldn't have performed this action, can you prove that she wouldn't have done worst things? She gets money from Saudi Arabia, you would have a hard time proving that she can do no bad.
I think the best one of those I encountered was an SF story where the navigation for FTL was done with slide rules.

But demanding that fiction predict the future is unreasonable and will cause upset for you and the authors. Almost all speculative fiction is based on "what if": imagine if there was something different about the world or or our technological capabilities, what stories could we tell about them?

(That's not even counting the SFF that makes no claim to be about the future or reality, but simply brings in elements for dramatic effect. That's why you can hear things in film space battles, which tend to be organised like WW2 carrier/air battles. That's why Harry Potter books make no attempt at consistency.)