skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And with some industrial processes, the tiny variation in barometric pressure within air conditioned sites still causes problems.
How BBC Persian is using Instagram and Telegram to get around Iranian censorship
Wow those are some pretty significant updates!

I've loved the idea of bash-on-windows but it was missing just enough that it wasn't worth it moving away from my current love affair with the "git bash" system I'm using.

With these changes, it looks like I'll be jumping ship when it comes to stable!

Great work to everyone involved!
I'm a huge fan of BetterTouchTool. I even bought a SiriRemote ($99!) just to tinker with it after BTT implemented support.

However the TouchBar is just a UI deadend. We are trained to not look down at our keyboards. My BTT shortcuts for the trackpad and MM are completely memorized so my eyes keep focus on the screen and work in front of me. I can't not do the same for the Touchbar with its changing contextual visual shortcuts. I have to glance down to confirm the context and the shortcuts. Glancing down at the touchbar means breaking concentration. Even if Apple adds haptic feedback in V2 it doesn't solve the fundamental problem of glancing away from my main screen to a tiny touchstrip. T

he touchbar is simply a crutch until the iPad wins or Apple makes a full touchscreen Mac. It's a waste of time. I'd much rather Apple have continued to implement the trackpad haptic feedback controls into the rest of their apps.
And you'll end up with a liberal echo chamber and a conservative echo chamber, and never the two sides shall read the same story.
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Exactly. The corollary is you demo a pretty UI with no backend and then have to watch the crushing disappointment when you say it can't be shipped tomorrow and you need another 6 months to build something behind it.
VCs are finding themselves with less cash than they expected because they invested in stupid ideas/people. This is good no matter how you cut it, if you have a shitty idea you wont get funded. If you have a good idea there will be less competition.
Those are all perfectly valid reasons, but the article cited the training time to use a type writer.
If there were comments it would probably wind up being more than 130 lines, but would probably wind up being somewhat easier for other people to evaluate and understand.
This being distinct from that by being entirely undocumented, instead of burying the data limitations somewhere deep in the contract.
I don't know anything about the architecture, but if an external source is causing the interrupt, how can could you observe that the interrupt was delayed until the end of a basic block? You can only run for so long before you reach the end of a basic block, so can you tell the nanosecond difference? And doesn't the routine triggering the interrupt wait until the interrupt is serviced, so how can it tell the difference as well?
Thanks for your response. I'm not a user of your service, but I've always appreciated your transparency with how you've run (and grown) your business.
Recall: this is a populist campaign that sustained itself on a "deplorable" sad frog meme. Symbolism in politics is not irrelevant, especially when the symbols belong to groups that consider themselves to be marginalized (N.B. many white supremacists do, and will fully admit it if you hand around enough of them for long enough).

You can find the threads celebrating his announcement on Stormfront. They're real.
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Ask HN: Has anyone else had perceived legitimacy problems using a .io domain?
I purchased an .io domain that I have been migrating to. Works great in all respects, except I deal with some older potential customers, or people on the phone, and they often express skepticism. This is especially true with Paypal transactions, and I occasionally have to give the person sending me money my gmail address because they think the .io thing is a scam.

On the phone with people, when I end my address with '.io', they assume I'm not finished talking, or they do a double-take and question it.

Has anyone else dealt with issues like this?
If you read the article, it's clear the user limit was a technical limit and not a freemium limit. So even if they did pay, Slack would still not have been able to accommodate all their users.

Which leads me to my old-timer question: What's wrong with IRC?
Slack doesn't have paid tier that isn't $x/user ?

edit: https://slack.com/pricing/enterprise-grid
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He never said he had no intention, I just think he didn't want to pay half a million dollars for slack.
Also the term 'filter-bubble' which acts as if conservatives are simply not exposed to liberal viewpoints.
Fairly disappointing list. No GC in hosting list, even with generous free tier on App Engine, Firebase and other services. No DigitalOcean. No Azure. On e-mail front, no SendGrid and Mailgun, even with their generous free tiers. No Cloudflare. CI as category is ignored. 1&1 makes it, but GoDaddy, Gandi, and others don't.
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There is a lot of talk around 'Find your why' or 'What's your purpose?' these days. The truth is that once you know your why, not a lot can stop you because you know the real reason why you wake up in the morning and the purpose behind your actions. Here is an easy exercise to help you discover why you do the things you do. www.7levelsdeep.com
Get the book, yes, but do get the original BBC radio play. That's where it started, and it's excellent.
Right, but the article didn't say "They couldn't afford a typewriter", it said it would take too long to train them to use it. It's surprising to me that it would take longer to train a person to use a typewriter than it would to learn to write in this type-like style.
This was very similar to the Reactiflux move to Discord:

https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/10/19/reactiflux-... (October 2015)

To be fair, Slack never really said it was made to support that many users. Even in my team of less than 20 on the free tier, we hit the 10,000 message limit really quickly. I can't imagine how that must have been with 8 thousand users.
Original Submission with Music Video in case link gets switched: https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/unix-os-archaeolo...
Causation and Correlation: What difference does it make?
does cuban actively invest in A.I startups? wondering what makes him a quotable authority on the topic.
I certainly don't think every discussion about any fictional work
needs to be turned into some Simpsons comic book guy analysis of the
most minute of flaws.

Most sci-fi or fantasy works have some "gimme" that you just have to
accept, because it furthers the story. Fine, anti-gravity, time travel
or whatever exists. Nobody's expected to explain how it works.

What makes for lazy writing is introducing some world changing concept
that you base your entire story on, and then just conveniently leaving
it out in the very next scene for dramatic effect. That goes beyond having a
gimme, you're just assuming your audience is dumb at that point.

I think the book "Story of Your Life" is just fine. It's consistent with its premise. As my comment
indicates it's the lazy movie adoption I have a problem with.

They depart from the book by making the character capable of changing
the future based on her prescience, she's no longer just a puppet
playing out future events. She's got a choice. Okey, fine, let's run
with that.

But then she can see a future where here young daughter dies from some
incurable disease at a young age, but decides to have her anyway. Her
partner then leaves her because she went through with that without
telling him.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the universe of the movie when
they had that conversation. He was probably yelling at her that they
could have just spent a couple of thousand dollars on sperm sorting &
IVF and say had a boy instead of instead of having their young
daughter die at an early age from some statistically improbable disease.
The author's expectations just seem wildly unrealistic, I can't find much sympathy. Signed up for a pay service with a clear limit on the trial, yet was surprised by the limit, even though he knew how many Slack users he had and knew or should have known how many messages per day they were already sending. Put his community (customers) of thousands on the Slack team, even though the advertising and economics only make sense for internal teams. He is trying so hard to make his own mistake sound like Slack's fault.

Also, previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9754626
The friend could easily submit far more answers than 23 if need be. He just needs to go to the toilet.

Step 1: 10 bits information - First 10 answers as seconds from start of exam. After x seconds, friend goes to toilet.

Step 2: Restart counter

Step 3: On return from the toilet, take time taken in toilet. You may want to limit this to 6 bits of information / ~ 1 minute in the toilet. Anything longer might be suspicious.

Step 4: Restart counter

Step 5: Only 7 bits of information to hand over to get 23 questions. Count time till he leaves.

Step 6: Repeat toilet-going process for more answers in different situations.

There should be no suspicions, as the answer-receiver will not go to the toilet.

Do not drink tea when attempting this method.
No history by default, in fact there's only text by default.

I like IRC, but newer generations are used to having "full-featured" chats without setup (beauty is in the eye of the beholder).

I also like being able to do some simple markdown in my messages.
Unlike Obama, Trump is a pathological liar. He peaked at 40 lies in a single day, his diatribe against mainstream media included 17 lies, and he's managed at least 80 lies as so called president.

As a matter of fact, Trump built his political career on lying about Obama's place of birth.

See:

https://www.thestar.com/news/donald-trump-fact-check.html

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/uselection/2016/11/04/don...

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-false-statem...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/campaign-stops/all...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/politics/donald-trump-o...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/...

Trump Lies about His Birther Past: A Closer Look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sBhANSz--k
"Trump built his career on a racist lie because he's a racist and a liar" -- Seth Meyers
Talking about open access data: Are there good public sources of raw radio astronomy data?
This is beyond Pao, recognize that.

People may have sexual-liberty, just as they may have the freedom of speech. But, freedom from consequences is not guaranteed under these liberties.

If you sleep with the boss (man or woman) or a co-worker (man or woman) you are putting team dynamics in jeopardy. Likewise, if you openly bash your place of employment and revel in hate speech, you are putting the company's image in jeopardy.

I'm not fond of the SJW rhetoric, but I will acknowledge it when it contains rational arguments. Using the guise of liberty to mask irresponsibility is not a rational or useful argument.
Tresorit is way ahead of these guys...
IRC doesn't have cool stickers?
If that's what they're doing their must be a reference article the "fact checking" article is pointing to.

Why? Facts about a particular story are often reproduced by many sites. It's reasonable to run a check on those facts without specifically targeting a site. Snopes (which they use as an example) does this regularly.
I think you're being overly obtuse. The point they're making is that browsers don't automatically send anything after the # to the server.

This makes it possible to implement apps where all decryption is done on the client and the server never sees either the plaintext or the key (which they are mistakenly calling 'Zero-Knowledge' apps).

Whether this is beneficial, and how easy it is to bypass (court order to modify the JavaScript, MITM to modify the JavaScript, extensions which dial in to the mothership with all URLs including the hash fragment), is another question.

But if you assume that your browser or that app are compromised and arbitrary scripts are running in it, then the attacker already has access to all the data anyway, and the location hash itself becomes irrelevant.

They don't claim it's a silver bullet, but they rightfully claim that this at least has the benefit of protecting your data in case someone leaks or sub-poeanas it from the servers hosting it.

Many web apps successfully use this model, most notably client-encrypted pastebin clones like privnote and password managers like KeePassWeb and LastPass.
Its a peer-to-peer video conference. Will surely work on the about page.
I did a little fact checking of Politifact:

Discussing his speech in Florida, they claim he referred to a terrorist attack in Sweden. He never mentioned a terrorist attack.

They said Trump's approval rating is 41% [1], cherry picking one of the lowest polls. Lower, in fact, than any recent poll listed on RCP [2].

1: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/feb/18/...

2: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trum...

("Recent" not including one poll from 19 days ago, 17 days before the Politifact article, that reported 40% approval.)
Any particular issues you've got with the existing third-party ones? I don't honestly use them often (I just work on the Windows side for 99%+ of the GUI stuff I need to do), but I've not had any issues with Xming, even on a HiDPI display.
How much of them beating you was marketing and how much was customer service?

World class customer service by itself can be a market beater, even when the product you are backing up is more expensive / lower quality for the same feature set. People like to know that when they have problems, they'll get answers quickly.
It's a little ironic you made up a statistic about how people are ignorant about facts...
On a service where all paid plans charge per user, starting to pay when you reach a point when their free plan is no longer suitable for your high number of users is always going to be a ridiculous proposition for even the cheapest plan. The Slack pricing structure is not designed for this use case.
I would assume Firebase, Azure, Digital Ocean, etc would be first on any list
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> Is there a guide to the best way to rip the disc image, preferred formats for inlay scans, etc?

Not sure there's any magic involved, I did this on Linux with dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso. For scans I just did the highest resolution my scanner did.

Re copyright, I wouldn't be overly worried. I mean this stuff usually contains shareware, demos and other software that was supposed to be copied. The Internet archive will probably take it down if there's a legit complain, but given that mostly "nobody cares" it should be okay.
Correlation is probably there but indirect: education level, age, etc influence the affiliation and their likelihood to use fact checking services.
Advertently, sure.

But they reside in a space (the internet) that doesn't have the same controls over conduct as the physical society.

It wouldn't be a stretch to say that their current anti-PC attitudes will prosper after being given a space like this.
I switched over a large group of friends from using a gazillion hangouts to slack and it's mostly been an improvement. That being said, there's a lot less of us: around 30.

I'm definitely disappointed to hear about this. The pricing model sucks for us as well since it means $60 a head to add someone to the friend group if we wanted to pay for slack. If we could pay a fixed price and get a slightly better message history and more integrations, I'd gladly pay it, but per-head is just ridiculous.

We also use Discord for online gaming since it's easier to invite people outside the group. It's been absolutely fantastic, but we had issues with some people not having access at work.
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Judging by the rest of the comments in this discussion, there are some very notable oversights missing from this list. It's not unlikely that is caused by a lack of referral program from those providers.
It sounds like more of an engineering issue. I'd imagine that unlimited-up-to-the-capacity-our-system-can-handle is reasonable.

The biggest takeaway from this should be: if you think you might be pushing a system, you should probably talk to a human first to get confirmation on how it will work for your specific scenario, and not just use their sales page.

Particularly when that tool is so important to your operations.
Can anyone explain to me why the `expect` type of assertion library caught on so much in the javascript land?

I mean how is

expect(2).toBeLessThanOrEqualTo(3)

more readable than

assert(2 <= 3)

Especially when we have packages like power-assert (1)

[1] https://github.com/power-assert-js/power-assert
I feel like Sentry[0] should be on the error tracking list, it's an amazing product that's fully open source so you can host it yourself if you're concerned about privacy or throw some money at the stellar team behind it to have them host it for you!

[0]: https://sentry.io
This is true, but there is still no excuse for blatantly false marketing messages claiming an unlimited size.
This is a very helpful one, I used it a lot and referred to it a lot when building out my first few Django apps.
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Absolutely true, the whole idea that there is one dominating factor in success is a dead end. Just looking at SaaS: bad marketing means no growth and wasted product, bad product means no retention and wasted marketing.
As far as youtube tutorials go, I thought sentdex had a pretty good one: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDeA05ZouE4O... . It helped me get my first django project up and running.
So wait, you abused a free service to the extreme and you're complaining about the service not meeting your expectations? Grow up.
> Could someone explain the hate for affiliate links? Maybe I'm just being naive, but as long as there's no suspicion of ratings bias, I'm fine with them.

> Ex: I've used thewirecutter.com recommendations for home supplies--and I'm happy to give the creators a kickback for their effort (at no cost to me).

Wirecutter is an example of affiliate links working well. The site itself adds value by providing deep reviews of each product set and presents options, even at different price points.

The vast majority of sites that include affiliate links are nothing more than listicles with the bare min amount of content to get included in search engine indexes.

They're also notorious for not being maintained so whatever the "best, more curated, bespoke, ..." content was of 201X becomes the only recommendation ever presented.
I also work in tech in Africa (2nd largest population on the continent if that's any indication) and it is certainly challenging.

Love to chat/commiserate more about your experiences
I think it's good enough that they recommended a number of options without an affiliate program. Intentions pass my bar of nobleness.
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I really hope some people find this to be a fun tool. I spent a little over five months building it by myself.

Before anyone asks, yes, the backend currently supports other languages! Specifically:

* C

* C#

* C++

* Elixir

* F#

* Haskell

* Java

* JavaScript

* Objective-C

* OCAML

* Php

* Python

* Ruby

* Rust

* Swift

Once I’ve smoothed out the rough edges and squashed some bugs, I’ll begin working on rolling other languages out. Also, the challenges right now are rather easy BUT the system allows anyone to publish their own challenges: https://edabit.com/guide/creating-challenges. So if you want harder/more challenges, by all means please help out! :)
You appear to be confusing the message archive limits with the number of user limits. The first is (loudly) disclosed. The second, apparently not.
Oi, `file` is a BSD tool, not a GNU tool.
I'd say most people are more familiar with late low quality media, which means plenty of unreadable disks from the 00s while most stuff from the early 90s might work fine (if stored properly)
Is it possible to put that while loop on multiple lines? It looks like there are 6 different assignments in there, and trying to pick out what is happening is very hard when it's all on one line like that.
They're looked down upon becayse they're associated with questionable "review" sites that are essentially grey-hat SEO-gaming schemes.

I don't think this site qualifies though. There's nothing wrong with affiliate-linking an unbiased head-to-head comparison.
<So if somebody searches for vaccines, how should the anti-vaxxers and pro-vaxxers be ranked? Just because somebody has an opinion, does it deserve to be presented as likely as every other opinion?

Real example. Bextra. Dr prescribed. Immediate loss of strength in legs especially climbing stairs.

Pro sites gave all +++ chat sites gave common experiences.

I want Google to not touch their search. They can put a good housekeeping tag on search results but don't remove them from my world
He wouldn't have paid $50,000 per year either. It's pretty obvious he signed up with the full intention of staying on the free version forever.
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> Are people really debugging that often?

Don't people say that debugging is the longest part of development?
Perhaps. I'd love more data on the subject. The data closest data I'm familiar with pertain to fair compensation between genders (not necessarily sexual harassment); and these data suggest that all but 4% of the wage cap can be explained by differing priorities between the gender (women prefer safer work with more flexibility rather than a high salary); the other 4% could be attributable to discrimination, misogynistic conditions, or other choice-related variables for which the studies didn't control. If so many companies were as bad as this article describes, I would expect that 4% number to be much larger (there are other explanations, but they don't seem very plausible to me). At any rate, we probably need better data (or maybe the data exist, but I'm not aware of them?).
Slack doesn't advertise as a chat for thousands of users, but teams of 5 to 50, worse case 100 people. It's "lucky" they didn't hard code a limit.
The Touch Bar is gimmicky, for sure. The only useful feature (in my opinion) is Touch ID. Otherwise it's an unnecessary battery drain.

Why did I switch? It boils down to this: after 13 years of being a hard core Mac user, it feels like Apple doesn't care about the Mac any more. It feels like all they care about is the iPhone.

This Dell? It's a better "MacBook" than Apple's MacBook Pro. Beefier CPU. Beefier GPU. Twice the RAM (32GB).

I want raw power, to do my work with. Apple cares more about thin and light, at the cost of everything else.
There's nothing wrong with IRC except for the fact that the user experience in an IRC client is generally horrible. They're not pretty, there's no good account system so users can easily spoof being someone else, the logging isn't great by default, sharing files is hard, and whether or not you can do media embedding depends on the channel setup.

There's a reason why companies like Slack have built billion dollar businesses doing ostensibly the same thing as IRC, and it's because IRC doesn't offer enough value even if it's free.
Be very careful using a "free" tier on any email service if you care about reliable delivery. These are naturally utilized by people sending spam, so the mail servers used by the free tier plans tend to get a low(er) reputation. I had this issue with Mailgun, which otherwise is a fantastic service.