skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I never said that no other group has ever been linked to terrorism. I said it hasn't ever been close to the scale it is now, with major attacks in every culture across dozens of countries.

Actually, it was far worse (and more coordinated, backed by—among others—both major superpowers) during much of the Cold War, it's just that the armed forces using terrorism as a mechanism (especially ones successful in seizing and holding territory on the scale the "Islamic State" has) were more likely to be popularly labelled as militias or revolutionaries of whatever ideology their rhetoric focussed on (Communist, etc.) or, by governments sympathetic to their cause, simply as "freedom fighters". The ones that were labelled "terrorists" rather than other things were the ones that were comparatively unsuccessful.
Imagine how nasty Amazon would be and how much money they would lose if they just blamed their users for bugs of that magnitude. That's how Europe's tax authorities are running their business.

And the USA isn't all that much better.
The problem with worrying about the "Evil AI":

https://youtu.be/21EiKfQYZXc?t=37m20s

Radiologist will be impacted: https://youtu.be/21EiKfQYZXc?t=1h1m57s

Against Basic Income: https://youtu.be/21EiKfQYZXc?t=57m38s

Trolley Problem (who dies): https://youtu.be/21EiKfQYZXc?t=1h25m50s
Thank you for plugging iterlib here, I hadn't heard of it.

Have you heard of storehaus? https://github.com/twitter/storehaus

In terms of the fundamental abstraction offered, it seems comparable to iterlib to me, but I'd love to hear your opinion.

(See also: https://upscaledb.com/)
Not convincing for me.

While forgeting might be one of the effects that happens it is certainly not the main purpose of sleep.

If you forbid people to sleep long enough they die and nobody knows why (not counting microsleeps). Fatal Famililal Insomnia is erm.... fatal. Its certainly not because you didn't forget. You can use alternatives for that, such as boosting endocanabinoid system. THC in mices also make them forget stresfull events in life and vice versa (blocking CB1 receptor makes them remember). There is strong anecdotal evidence that it happens in all human consumers too. Also, there are few people that can never forget [1], one depicted in House MD episode and those people sleep and I bet they would still die if they didn't.

All those facts do not align in my mind with above stated hypothesis.

AFAIK, some neural pathways get improved during the sleep while others are pruned. That sounds more like a brain is in a maintenance mode, filtering out irrelevant stuff from important (among other things that might happen).

[1] http://discovermagazine.com/2006/jun/j-woman-memory
On the Amiga, it basically meant that for many years assembler ruled larg segments of the hobbyist space, at a time when a lot of people would've benefited from transitioning to C.

But it also resulted in things like AmigaE gaining a lot of popularity [1], and I suspect a lot of the reason ARexx got so widespread was because it took over some the space a decent Basic would have. Incidentaly, E had a big leg up on C on the Amiga because the C compilers were notoriously slow, while the AmigaE compiler was blazing fast (it was written entirely in assembler, and did things like reading the entire source into RAM and treating it as an array)

[1] http://strlen.com/amiga-e
> general consensus about Lost isn't it?

Is it really ? I remember when the last Episode was out, everyone was like "wow it was awesome" and all, while I seemed to be the only one who did not like it one bit.
Mercurial is very similar to git but more user friendly.
I pay $16/month for Heroku. Is AWS really that much cheaper?
No, and I chuckled at wording as well. And I also thought it funny how too much copper unbalanced your zinc levels, which as anyone knows who has made a battery out of a potato, if you don't have copper and zinc you are a pretty lousy battery :-).
Splittist! The People's Liberation Front of Lingustics fundamentally condemns you members of the Linguistic People's Liberation Front!
I'm thinking its more like, to integrate memories. Lessen the impact of the most recent memories lest we lose earlier lessons. Kind of like a moving average or filter. Dim traumatic events so we can think about them without over-reacting.
How do religions help answer origin stories?? If the universe was created by God then who created God? If God "has always existed" then why can't the same be true of the universe? This is "turtles all the way down" over again.

About your last sentence: the hardest part of not believing in God is not having the consolation of thinking your enemies will burn in hell -- I don't miss heaven for myself but I do miss hell for other people.
Obviously the answer is no, but the average reader likely doesn't know which minerals are elements and which are molecules. The statement seems redundant to you and I, but it is a key fact and likely not obvious to anyone with minimal chemistry/physics training.
sigh nobody has a sense of humor anymore.
Francis Crick, (of Watson and Crick DNA fame), got very interested in brain science toward the end of his life and gave several worldwide lectures on that subject. I was fortunate to attend one of them. During which he proposed several interesting theories. My favorite being that the purpose of dreaming was to identify and collect all the well-separated bits of something designated to be forgot, (tracing the chain of fragmented memory blocks); exactly as you suggest: the biological equivalent of garbage-collection.
If you are as confident as you sound you may want to pay the 10 % annualized to short some shares, especially if it pops after the IPO.

I tend to get annoyed when people have extremely overconfident predictions yet don't act on them. Just responding to your parent comment, it's hard to tell how bullish your actually are on SNAP from a brief paragraph. I'm bullish also but won't touch the thing unless it gets into territory similar to GPRO.
As I said it's not just a matter of "can we build it", because obviously there's always a way to build it, but does it make financial sense instead of having a local powerplant running 24/7. So far, it's clearly not the case - capacity is way more expensive.
I Work from Home
Every parent probably intuits this, whether they consciously realize it or not. The #1 cause of babies crying [that isn't pay or hunger]: overstimulation & a need for sleep to "reset".
Google Photos works well.
Would simply saving it, without opening it, execute it?
Another comment has mentioned poisoning the FB database with fake clickstreams, etc.

It looks like skillful black hat marketers have already succeeded at poisoning FB's content. Read this Vice story, then delete your FB account and delete the cookies from your browser. Friends don't let friends use FB.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/big-data-cambridg...
I'd love to see a second attempt at a distributed version control system.

Git wasn't the first, and even then had several contemporaries at 2nd gen.
start eating more liver!
Hate to say it but I think the lack of privacy is a big part of what makes social networks sticky in the first place. Facebook noticed that I went to a restaurant and now it suggests other similar places; uses social graphs to suggest new friends; tracks my clicks to give me a more engaging feed...

MySpace died because they weren't evil enough.
To be fair, 4.3.2 the current LTS version, but would ideally be migrated prior to April.

https://github.com/nodejs/LTS
It just comes down to specialization. The BI tools that succeed will be the ones that offer features that Google will never pursue. A perfect example would be Looker's LookML[0] - companies that don't need that sort of functionality will be fine with Google Data Studio. But if you need that functionality (and it is very, very nice) - you'll pay Looker.

https://looker.com/
You can try the KDE porting team's plasma5 branch right now…
> do you think a privacy oriented social network where users pay a small annual fee (around $5) would work?

I don't think it would work in the world we live in because people are long used to getting things for "free" (from the days of "free email"), where they exchange their attention and personal information for some services. Somehow people have also been trained to avoid even tiny costs in monetary terms (one reason why iOS App Store pricing is always a bad trap for most developers). In my own experience, the cost-benefit ratio takes a longer time to analyze and convince myself of in certain cases.

But if there were such a platform, I would certainly want to try it if it provided similar features (not lagging like Google+ and not including features in "New" that were in "Classic").

When Ello started a few years ago, I really wanted to use it and see it grow fast. But it turned out to be a platform that self-targeted some niche artistic crowd and didn't focus on features I wanted (like groups).

I keep pushing people in my circle to try new things as much as I can possibly do (like Telegram, Wire, Signal). So I'd be very interested in breaking out of Facebook.
Agreed. app.net was such an attempt to offer a paid alternative to Twitter, and that went exactly nowhere.
Secret Service's dedicated phone forensics facility
Facebook provides an option to download an archive of your data, you should have downloaded it before deleting your account. Apart from having all your data, it would have been the final nail in your Facebook coffin. To say the least, the data scared the f*ck out of me : they knew me better than any of my family or friends. The ad tracking data was...bang on target, they had facial recognition data, all the locations I signed in from. I sometimes joke that Fb knows more about people than the Government of the user. It's true!
Surgeon uses VR to aid sedatives
Power BI
It shouldn't be that hard to demonstrate "shocking" difference in experience.

Could you provide an explicit list of what do you mean by "a breakdown in my earlier comment"? (obviously, I wouldn't ask for more information in my comments if your previous comments were specific enough) e.g., in language X I can do Y using command Z but Python requires A,B,C instead (implying that Z is "shockingly" better than doing A,B,C).

As I understand, the issue is that you want the structure of a project in a language X to be generated for you by a single command (whatever the project) or that this command must be available by default.

I've googled "python create command-line project template":

$ pip install -U cookiecutter
$ cookiecutter https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage.git

I don't remember using this tool but If you like a machine-generated configuration; it might be the start.
Sure. But if all the money remains in the estonian company (no personal payments/salary), i should not be owing any taxes for that?

The goal here is not tax evasion but reducing some of the bureaucracy of founding and running the company.
Foreigners Trapped in the US by New Policy
https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5

http://tiddlywiki.com/dev/
Also http://birdsnap.com and http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/photo-id/
With enough volume you might be able to harness cosmic rays.
It uses two VMs, the gateway vm and the workstation vm.

the workstation vm is the linux box with the GUI and connects to the gateway vm.

so you do all your work and browsing in a guest machine where everything is routed through TOR.

regarding encryption, thats a loaded statement. read up on what specifically you want and see if it has it.
I know it's OT, but didn't Sweden also do quite some nation-building in Russia once? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians
if you want to see an example of what this looks like, check out brazil - they have very steep import taxes on foreign produced goods, and the result is that yes, they do manage to attract some local manufacturing, but whether things are made locally or they pay the import tax the result is the same: consumer goods cost 3-4x what they do in the rest of the world.
"Let a thousand flowers bloom." Competition helps both sides. Clang became good enough that it spurred GCC to become a lot better.

Until 1997, forking a project was considered a tragedy. I think things have improved since then :-).
> a shallow, short-term palliative benefit.

A shallow, short-term palliative benefit is still a benefit, might make a big difference to a lot of people, and shouldn't be dismissed out of hand but weighed against alternatives.
It is a mini-file system, working directly on top of a block device. Having something else in between is not a good idea. Much of the data handled by docker storage driver is temporary and does not even have to hit disk before thrown away.

This project is currently in experimental mode. We would appreciate any feedback you may have.
But what about the eggs?
I totally agree, you can't discount the lead times of things like zoning, permitting, and local bureaucracy. But on the other hand the time frame mentioned is a 5 year period.
> It's interesting how all the cool things seem to come from Microsoft these days.

I've assumed Microsoft have been making all this stuff all along, but keeping it internal then throwing it away on the probably false assumption that every bit of it is some sort of competitive advantage. I think they're coming around to the idea that at least appearing constructive and helpful to the developer community will help with trying to hire good developers.
You raise a good point. Protectionism would really hurt countries that depend on exports, like a lot of Eastern Asia. Would it hurt a country like America that depends more on imports and is big enough to have its own industry? I don't think it would, but there are obviously many who disagree with me. I would love it if someone had some data showing me I'm wrong.
Exploring Unseen Open Source Infrastructure
Ask HN: Are there any CRUD boilerplates available to use with existing DB?
I have a mysql database that's got plenty of tables and I can establish the relationships and after looking at a lot of popular saas solutions (sf/zoho/etc) often they come short with arbitrary limits and I rather just work directly with sql myself.

Thinking about just hosting my own so I can do 1M+ imports without an issue (well in this case I just hook up the database!)

Looking to bootstrap it pretty quickly. Simple crud with search and auth.
How many people have that problem, really?

An easy lower bound is 10s of thousands of engineers : developers at several large tech companies (e.g. MS, facebook, google, ?)
First, the article doesn't discuss 'whiteness', so your comment is something of an irrelevant narrative imposition.

Second, it's intellectually dishonest to imply that this had anything to do with a malleable concept of race. Italy and the US were at war during WW2, and the additional scrutiny was very clearly based upon ancestral nationality, rather than ethnic, lines.
> But they probably didn't know about it.

GNOME Virtual Filesystem is first search result for "gvfs". Even if you use bing!
Hi, I'm the guy who wrote and presented the original piece.

None of it was meant to discourage you from using FreeBSD. I had nothing to do with the LWN summary but the whole point of the piece was to look at what FreeBSD could be doing better from a community standpoint.
For anyone interested, this is the actual Pastebin link: (files already offline on mega) http://pastebin.com/y9P19guS
At last, an argument I can use to justify buying a copper bowl to whip egg whites for desserts.

Doesn't have to be a very good argument, just has to succeed.
what do your false positives and false negatives rates look like with this approach compared to other classifiers?
Isn't node v6 the current LTS version? I think each even major version is LTS, and 6 is the latest one of those.
> The only catch with markdown is about creating tables Dropbox paper has nailed it pretty well.

Agreed. Writing Markdown in anything else, I often open up Numbers and generate my spreadsheet there with formulas, etc, then export to CSV, then use a CSV to Markdown table converter that fully pads each column to be the same width. Probably an opportunity to optimize this further, but it takes < 1 minute and works better for me than writing Markdown tables of any complexity by hand.

> The product is more pleasing for eyes with better typography, cleaner design and user experience.

My favorite feature is being able to highlight text and Cmd-V to insert a link automatically.
UK press has been covering this, and the EU has frequently shown itself ready to push back:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/10/whatsapp-...
The positions would be relocated to a different region if the H1Bs weren't available, thus the money would disappear from the local economy.

This is entirely due to a shortage of talent willing to locate to Nowhereville, USA. The compensation here is very generous, and they advertise it. But there's just not enough Americans willing to move here, regardless of how much you can make.
In short, no.

Pedantically, though, some radioactive elements decay in your body, so there are nuclei in your body right now that are different from when you ate, touched, or breathed them in.

For example, the milligram or two of potassium-40 present in your body will, over a billion years or so, become calcium-40.
I mostly agree, but there is a similarity in that the Nix build/CI server "Hydra" puts a "One click install" link on build outputs (e.g. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/47550492 )
I spot-checked the stats you linked to, and 100% of the "acts of terrorism" in which 100 or more people were killed were committed by paramilitary groups like ISIS and the Taliban, and took place outside the US.

Those are horrific acts, but IMO are more akin to the US' behaviour in Vietnam, or Blackwater contractors in Iraq. Would you support a ban on Americans travelling to other countries because of those events?
Are you using a template design or something? I keep seeing it pop up lately. For example, this site is almost the same (especially the pricing page): https://rocketr.net.

(If both sites are by the same author, my bad.)
She wrote a script that found every Twitter account that followed 2 or more people from her list of supposed Gamergate figures (which included at least one major celebrity) and encouraged people to mass block all the accounts it found as an anti-harassment/anti-Gamergate measure. The result, in social terms, was that everyone was forced to choose between listening to one side or the other, including journalists who wanted to report on Gamergate, and their entire view of the other side was filtered through what that side said about it. It was, hands down, the single most clever and effective use of a technical tool to increase polarization and hostility online I have ever seen. (Especially since it had little impact on either determined axe-grinders who wanted to cause trouble by digging up inflammatory remarks and quoting them out of context or actual harassers.)
That reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A2t%C3%A9_de_Foie_Gras_(s...
JS: async/await error handling without try/catch blocks
Facebook marks 13 years with new Friends Day video and Messenger GIFs
The opposite may work. Paying users to use
your site. After all, the data is supposedly insanely valuable, we're
doing unpaid work for FB in a very real sense.
I see you do UX at Google. Thank you for asking users questions like this (I really hope you were asking sincerely, not rhetorically). Please talk to users more.
How on Earth can anybody work like that?

Since it's look like they are still migrating I don't think a lot of people actually did work like that. Maybe just a couple of times to figure out how long it would actually take. Or maybe those who really use it are actually doing shallow clones which would probably take much less time. Actually shallow clone is nice but doesn't seem to be known very well. I use it often if I know I won't ever need the full history anyway. Also great to shave time of CI builds.
There is a reason you can only think of one reason for this - it's known as inexperience.
The issue is data accuracy/normalization and availability especially for data sets like crime data and local events.

Real estate would be a little easier via the MLS (I suspect the cost is prohibitive though) and demographic data is easily available.
The article mentions that one risk of taking copper supplements is setting your zinc ratio out of whack. This is a clear example of the government taking positive action on public health.
I would so love to do it, but my use of Facebook is for a specific cause and I login and participate only in a few groups (always with a browser equipped with an ad blocker and tracker blocker). I don't browse time lines or participate on people's time line posts and comments. I don't use the app. I do use the messenger app for one of my FB accounts for convenience (with minimal permissions).

Since I don't use WhatsApp (because it's an FB company and because chat is not a substitute for groups), it'd be very hard to engage with others for my use, find new people, etc.
This was done using fuse to make it portable across different distros. We have not seen any major issues testing it as a docker storage driver, compared to the graphdrivers in use today.
Permanently Delete it here: https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account

If you are considering getting off of it for any of these reasons then why haven't you already done it? You feel you might somehow need it, just like a heroin addict has trouble imagining a life without drugs.

It is horrible for your privacy. They collect EVERYTHING about you!

It is in their best interest to manipulate your attention, which to me is terrifying.

It is horrible for your relationships, cut the acquaintance you met 5 years ago that YOU WILL NEVER SPEAK WITH and force yourself to make more intimate connections with the people that actually matter.

It is horrible for your mind, you have a constant bombardment of instant gratification and self reinforcing ideas.
I was a big fan of F-Spot, Banshee, and some of the others. The antagonism on some of the mailing lists against these Mono apps was part of my disappointment in some of the Linux community of that era. (Ubuntu moved some of these into the default distribution, got a lot of vocal minority flack from it, and removed them.)
OpenRC, an alternative to systemd
> when they see an article stating scientists say that climate change is worsening, they will view it just like any article that has "scientists say" in the title.

Actually, you should see it exactly the same way - a possibly interesting finding from probably a single study, and if you actually want to know the scientific information behind it, you should go read the science, not the newspaper, and look at multiple studies, and look for weaknesses in the study that may weaken the findings.

...especially if it is something you already believe.
It's difficult to teach this lesson to people.

It was difficult for me to learn this lesson personally. When I understood it, I deleted my Facebook account (best decision, btw), but I assume that even though my account was deleted there are still references to it all over. IDs in log lines, references not cleaned up -- enough to paint something of a picture of who I was and what I did with the site.

Now I'm more judicious in what I share, how I share it, which applications I give permissions. But I'm still leaking metadata everywhere. It's frustrating and terrifying that the cost of participating in our society is either a HUGE cognitive load in keeping an eye on all the data you emit or accepting that basically everyone will have full access to your (meta)data over time.