skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've moved places from 0% Linux to around 70% Linux, but the obstacles on the road to 100% in non-tech companies are tough:

- Office VBA: OpenOffice is good enough for people who just make docs and spreadsheets, but some of the more savvy folk (usually in finance and engineering) use MS Office VBA as a development platform. OpenOffice just doesn't cut it for them.

- Old stuff: Critical sensors, HVAC systems, fuel management systems, etc. that have proprietary windows-only clients. Some work well enough in Wine, others don't.

- 3rd-party support contracts: A lot of places rent their copiers, and even though those copiers have Linux print drivers, the support that is bundled into the contract is windows-only, so you're on your own with Linux.

- AD / Group Policy Deployment: Samba4 is closer, but without windows desktops on the client-end, it's still no substitute for the one-ring-to-control-them-all nature of a bunch of windows boxes under AD, and I'm not just talking SSO.

I think the key-problem with windows is that most users--even in a lot of AD-controlled corporate settings--are full administrators. If you can drop everyone down to limited-user status, it greatly improves things. Not to Linux levels, but still a lot better.
Land was a lot more plentiful in 1950, especially near urban centers. The population has also increased drastically. Inflation alone is not enough to do a reasonable extrapolation of what houses should cost today.
...vs. "time flies like an arrow."

If you try to parse natural language with a strong distinction between syntax and semantics, you get a lot of ambiguous parses.

Most current successful NLP work uses statistical models. (Don't mention those to Chomsky.)
Isn't Japan a case study in treating homes as disposable? They frequently rebuild homes rather than renovate for a variety of reasons [1]. Some people believe that this attitude has contributed to Japan's slow economic growth: replacing all the homes every few decades is essentially wasteful.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-japanese-homes-dispo...
Tell HN: Python 3.6 on OS X requires a post-install step for SSL to work
I'm posting this as a PSA, because I just wasted a few hours (should have read the release notes in full) trying to resolve an "SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED" exception every time I requested a URL over HTTPS. All my Googling take me to promising-but-irrelevant StackOverflow threads. It turns out that on OSX Python 3.6 no longer uses the systems trusted certificates, so after install it has no certificates at all (except a hardcoded one for pip) and can't validate any SSL connections.

To fix this you need to run a command [0] included in the installer that will download and install the certifi package, which is a collection of trusted certificates. If I understand the release notes correctly you are also now responsible for making sure your certificates are up to date - the release notes recommend subscribing to the mailing list.

Personally, I think this sucks. It makes Python way less friendly to new users, and I don't want to be on the hook for keeping my certificates up-to-date. At the very least, the installer should run the post-install script automatically, so that SSL connections just work.

The ReadMe with more info lives at /Applications/Python\ 3.6/ReadMe.rtf

[0] /Applications/Python\ 3.6/Install\ Certificates.command
1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game)
You're complaining about binary, infantile invective whilst employing it yourself most blatantly. The stench of inadvertent irony is near overwhelming.
There was a thread a few days ago talking about Google security looking at how protect against compromised shared GPUs. (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/fuzzing-PCI-Exp...)

How many organizations globally are doing research like that?
Theoretically , Analog is by far the best for neural networks. But why aren't we starting to see chips offered ? Heck even an old process like 130nm could have some practical uses .
Sounds like a self-imposed problem. Why do you "need" a smart phone because you live in a city? A lot of people would disagree with you.

Anyway, I don't know about Android, but it's easy to turn off notifications in iOS, and the notification settings for every app are all in one section of the global phone settings:

https://cdn1.tekrevue.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/disable...
I can say from experience that in the U.S., the procurement people are definitely incentivized to look for solutions built on open standards and open source because of the ability for the government to have the option to not ever have to upgrade again, but to continue servicing this specific procurement (and this specific version) forever and ever and not be beholden to a specific vender or solution provider.

I've even seen cases where one company will sell a solution into the government and lose the maintenance contract the next year to some entirely different company who underbid the original provider -- and there's minimal slowdown in technical execution because the entire stack is open to some degree.

The government is starting to develop an allergy to vendor lock-in because of this.
Swift idioms
Oh good grief. I'm sure you'll still be free to wave your Confederate flag and wear your white hood in the comfort of your own home.
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> At least that's what their lawyer claims.

Of course he would, that's his job. How does Android "directly hurt" Oracle?
I think that once we had pension fund and the like buy REITs for investment, it's become much much harder to consider moving to such a paradigm.
The African Union passport: A waste of time
Your ISP and your government have a strong interest in monitoring what you do, and they are more likely to take action against you if they don't like what you do.

A random VPS service (preferably in another country) only cares about you insofar as you pay them and don't cause any trouble to them. They don't have as much of an incentive to invade your privacy as your home ISP does, and I trust incentive structures a lot more than I trust boilerplate words on a privacy policy.

It can also be a matter of opportunistic encryption. Most public wi-fi is vulnerable to anyone in the vicinity, in addition to the usual ISP and the NSA. Use a VPN and now you're only vulnerable to the VPS service and the NSA. That's quite a bit of improvement.

You also have the freedom to choose a VPS service with good connectivity in a relatively less snoopy country, a luxury you often don't have in choosing your home ISP.
"Many of the gnostic gospels were pretty clearly written earlier"

Says you. The textual evidence says otherwise. The gospel of Judas for example has a sole surviving copy dated ~300AD. Irenaeus mentions it around 180AD as being the usual gnostic load of shite. So we don't even know whether we have the original text. It's about as reliable as my personal eyewitness account of the French Revolution that I wrote last week, that is to say, not at all. The gospel of Thomas leaves an equally pathetic mark on history and was only discovered in the 1940s. Clearly a divine text for the ages! Or perhaps not.

"by people closer to Jesus."

History seems to be silent on who these people actually were. Any ideas? In fact, history seems to be really, really quiet on the gnostics in general. They clearly scuttled away and didn't say much when their faith was challenged.

"Why were they excluded, while all of Paul's crap thrown in? Politics."

No, because they weren't eyewitnesses, clearly borrowed FROM the canonical gospels and not the other way around, and have nothing new to add that isn't the moronic mystical mutterings of idle urbanites.

"His was a vision of Christianity suitable to those in power in 367CE."

Gnonsense. There was no "vision" of Christianity when Paul was around - it was a very simple call to worship the resurrected man Jesus and obey what he commanded. How did it grow from twelve followers to become the official religion of Rome in just a few hundred years? The article deliberately avoids the real reason: early believers were convinced that their teacher had risen from the dead and could prove it. If not, Christianity would not have survived a few months, let alone become one of the foundations of Western civilization on Earth.

"Again, instead of violating the rules by calling people stupid, please learn the actual facts."

Point me at the two thousand years of gnostic-driven civilization, science and culture and I'll think about it although I see you've carefully not answered my earlier points so my hopes aren't high.
Personally, I joined Facebook only because the co-working office space that I rent space in coordinate most events and notices through a private Facebook group. To know (for example) when government representatives or media are going to be on-site.

I still don't really use facebook socially at all.
A dump is not available yet.

> The Met collection of CC0 images can be browsed on the new CC Search beta, also announced this morning.
Am I the only one who can see the problem here?
So far I've gotten the responses that sound like the following:
"dude, this is your own fault" or "this is how Apple works, their expedited review is always faster because it's called expedited".
In the meanwhile, I'm still waiting, while waiting -- loosing my clients.
Perhaps, this is life, and there is nothing that can be done.
Uninstall the apps and give them a bad star rating. Yelp especially should be familiar with this process.

The Facebook Mobile website issues quite good. Unfortunately no messenger support, but my circle of friends aren't messenger people.
Facebook, YouTube and Google are still massive users of MySQL. And MySQL development is moving along (admittedly after not much for a few years). I doubt MariaDB really figures compared to MySQL in industry use, or new installs.
No kidding. I'm not an economist so my opinion on this isn't necessarily worth a lot but it seems pretty clear that it's more important for young people to be able to live financially stable lives near good job markets than it is for real estate to perform as a lucrative investment for those who are already well-off enough to own it. The former is clearly necessary for the future health of our society and economy; the latter seems easily replaceable: just invest in something else. Since we can't all live in the single most desirable place, it's always going to be a market in some sense, but I really believe that we could (and should) do a much better job making housing affordable than we do now.
Just a generic piece of life advice here: you can call up your credit card company and get the annual fee waved, for degrees of difficulty generally south of e.g. getting a bank to waive an overdraft fee. They want their plastic in your wallet if you have a premium card; the most direct incentive is interchange and/or interest and the other one is "We probabilistically pay $X00 [+] to find a new customer of uncertain quality; this bird-in-the-hand is of known quality; let's keep them happy."

[+] Cost of customer acquisition in credit cards is $250 on the low end.
> Critical sensors, HVAC systems, fuel management systems, etc. that have proprietary windows-only clients. Some work well enough in Wine, others don't.

No joke. Around mid 2000's worked at a scientific lab part time. We still had Windows 3.1 machines in there because measurement equipment (sensors) had older DOS based drivers. So would run the experiments then had to use floppies to shuffle results around.
Are there universally accepted quality metrics of a program and its source code?
Are there universal tools or methods to calculate these metrics? Can a program have low quality code but be high-quality for its users? Does quality of the source code depend on the programming language it's written in?
Can you recommend something to read on the subject?
For example, NetBSD, which also had a book[0] written about it.

[0] http://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/
Many open-source projects and standards bodies operate the same way. Many's the time I've attempted to make a contribution and discovered that first one has to get on the inside of a particular clique, else be ignored.

It's rare for me to persist in such circumstances; life is too short to play other people's games. I usually abandon the contribution, or maintain a fork if it was of utility to me.
Those are very damning accusations. Care to give some examples?
> By the paper’s calculations, a home in the San Francisco area should cost around $281,000.

This makes very little sense to me - San Francisco is surrounded by water on three sides and borders other towns/cities on the 4th, so how does one account for the demand of new housing once the existing housing is built?

In other words, let's say we increase density sufficiently, so that we flood the market with new homes (apartments for SF) and drive the price down to 281k. As time passes and population increases, with a fixed land supply, you'll need to build denser. But you have people already living in the homes you'll need to tear down. How do you force enough of them to move so that you always maintain enough housing stock to keep prices low?

It has been done with marginal success in non-market economies. For example, in USSR, when new apartment buildings were to be built where older ones currently stood, government simply ordered people to relocate to "improved" new apartments, usually located in undesirable areas of the city. This is hardly fair.

A US version of that could use eminent domain powers, but I somehow doubt the people of the city would support that.

Another question is whether people will want to live in that level of density. Eventually, you'll have price stratification based on height and access to sunlight. In NYC, you already see sunlight or lack of it as a significant pricing factor. Street noise is another factor.

That said, it doesn't mean there isn't some sort of sane middle ground. SF could use more development, just like the westside of LA, but it won't result in $281k price point.
The US still has a lot of farm land in every state in the continental US under 5k per half acre. While it's true the population has flocked to a tiny fraction of city's that's more an issue poor planning than any fundamental issue. https://www.usda.gov/nass/PUBS/TODAYRPT/land0815.pdf
I have never had a good experience docking Linux laptops to a dock with multiple monitors attached. The behaviour changes from only lighting up one monitor to hard lockups on docking or suspending or something else, depending on kernel version and whim.

Randomly the keyboard attached to the dock doesn't initialize and I need to unplug and replug.

Unreliable docking is IMO an excellent reason not to use Linux on laptops. And most people use laptops these days because of work from home optionality.

This is with a mix of Dell and Lenovo laptops with Intel display chipsets, fwiw.
The Fourier Transforms and Its Applications – Stanford EE261 [video]
I'm not sure if that's true - houses depreciate the same as cars. What does appreciate is the house on its location, often old houses go for land value, sometimes less if they haven't been maintained because you have to factor demolition costs in.
I don't want to sound like racist/FUD but there are a lot of eastern European coders working at MetLife to this day: both in NYC and elsewhere. Maybe being cheap on staff creates a greater vulnerability to foreign/industrial espionage? Just stayin'.
Didn't a similar service just shut down recently due to lack of profitability?
I bet your source was right. I don't have inside knowledge, but as one of the first Unixes to try to make a serious business out of it, and as an arguable progenitor of the SysV approach, it wouldn't surprise me.

That said, POSIX was never designed for general portability. Just as a seal of unifying approval and sanity for existing practice; far more descriptive than prescriptive.
This happened at FarmLogs once. Our bug tracker started getting some really weird exceptions due to a Chinese company reverse engineering our app with the frontend code, which had our API key in it. We didn't really mind; it was just funny.
The article is interesting but the title is very clickbaity (”AI’s Killer Instinct“).

There is no inherent killer instinct. The neural network AIs use different game strategies based on incentives defined by the creators.
Houses are also bigger now, safer due to many construction regulations, more energy efficient (at least per sq/ft), all of which also add to the cost.
Thanks for the helpful suggestion! I'll try formatting it this way, too.
I've been pointing this out about journalism for years, and it's awesome that it has a name. However, I still want a name for just the first part of the effect - the part where you notice an article about your area of expertise is laughably wrong. And you never forget it and conclude that journalism is just terrible.
Could you launch an ICBM horizontally?
You can still send messages over https://mbasic.facebook.com.
The "Pol Pot Memorial Library" does have a nice ring to it.
Testing this theory yes, you can, and yes, my provider at least does.
Coincidentally I just finished watching the postmortem of Lucasfilm Games[0] from GDC14 where this is a topic

[0] https://youtu.be/-8AGwZ5mp_U
No, I don't like to live my life in paranoia. Also anyone that was sufficiently motivated could just implement it themselves anyways.
Doesn't that suffer from survivor bias?
A New Value Add for Being the Best
Whatever protocol doesn't matter. If/when aliens get here, that will literally change everything.
iOS has always had this feature, in the settings > notifications menu.
A canonical copy certainly does, but just as folks don't want to keep scraping the Met, I'd prefer that folks who want to do style analysis or color transfer or whatever else, do so with a public dataset in GCS (and S3!).
Unlike the American press, which generally tries to promote a naive concept of objectivity, the UK press is not shy about taking a side. It's the reader's job to decide what to believe, and that's true in the US as well -- even though many Americans want to believe in an objective press, that's clearly not the case. At least the Brits are honest about it. You can't outsource your critical thinking to journalists.
but lean a little closer, stranger, and i'll whisper the truth into your ear: the "two sides" are unequal in their abilities for evaluative thought, self righteous zealotry, and dogmatism. an honest attempt at critical evaluation will go nowhere if your evaluating apparatus is garbage.

Of course everyone will think the two sides are unequal, with the side that isn't theirs getting the worst of it.
Do you know when this was instituted? I'm quite sure that wasn't the default when I set up my pfSense systems..
I mostly agree with you, but want to note that there are exceptions to land appreciating. You can look at neighborhoods in cities like Detroit or Buffalo where the house and land have depreciated to almost nothing.
Context matters. It matters to be on the morally wrong side when society is at a decision point. By and large, we don't judge romans because they practiced slavery. We judge people who have chosen to defend slavery when it was not a moral consensus anymore and on the verge of abolition. Plenty of slave owners have their names on university buildings, but they never went to war to defend it.
On the other hand, rent for people in Tokyo is... 20% of what it is in SF/NYC? In cities where most people do not own, having most things be cheap means less economic output going to rent seekers.

It would be nice to have the "disposable" attitude without actually rebuilding all the time. Making as few people as possible profit from rising rent/home prices means it's easier for governments to take policies that prevent that.

Policies which, ultimately, improve society as a whole because less economic output is going directly into the pockets of people who are doing nothing except owning a good.

A theory I heard about economic growth in Japan is much simpler: Population growth has stalled, so economic growth has as well. Lack of labor means it's hard for companies to increase economic output without improving their processes.
Is it though? - the reason the land costs more is because of two things - geography (ocean views, doesn't flood etc) and the infrastructure available. The second one is what adds to land value in cities - it's a network effect.

Like everything the cost of infrastructure is changing and the rate of change will increase - self driving cars will be a big factor, telecommuting, internet shopping etc. Water and electricity are others - electricity is probably also changing due to Tesla and others.

You could say the cost of land is directly due to the network it is embedded in. If the cost of network construction decreases then land prices will decrease.

edit: and of course social relationships are the other network effect - inner city lifestyles are an example of this
I believe the point is that such a signature is useless since the software signed as safe is actually unsafe, while a self-signed rom at least has a chance to be safe.
Katla has much more potential than Eyjafjallajökull.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla_(volcano)
Really interesting business cards, simply cannot look like a business card, and the direct communication features (contact details) are secondary.

If a business card can delight people who receive it, then it has a point.

In this epoch, if sharing contact details requires a hardcopy, I'm of the opinion that it's of very limited value. Although it's useful to have business cards for many locales, since they are a customary item. (In many parts of Asia, it's essential)

So, if a card can communicate some meta information (sense of creativity, problem solving, good humor etc.) That's going to have value. It will create an interesting memory.

I think it's worth having a few designs made, but it's a matter of ROI.

If you think you need a business card, think about why, where and who they are for.
> Just a generic piece of life advice here: you can call up your credit card company and get the annual fee waved, for degrees of difficulty generally south of e.g. getting a bank to waive an overdraft fee.

Interesting. Would you consider it feasible to do so for a card you don't have yet (i.e. obtaining a new card without its associated annual fee), or would you only consider that plausible as an existing customer of such a card?

And does that apply to the large vendors (such as Amex or Chase), or only to smaller ones?