skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This smells a lot like anecdata. "Almost illiterate", in the age of the Web? I smell bullshit.*

Something tells me that this is more a reflection of the rapidly changing state of our language -- and the mounting generation gap therein -- than some sort of universal dumbing down. The Boomers' parents had a similar reaction to all the groovy new lingo and loosening linguistic conventions. When they said "illiterate", they really meant "nearly unintelligible to me", or had a negative reaction to being called "man" instead of "sir".

The definitions of literacy are changing. They're always changing. Without a quantitative measure to back up the claims, I'm inclined to think this is just reactionary garbage masquerading as fact.

* I'd absolutely believe that critical thinking skills are on the decline, however. I blame the balkanization/insularity of internet communities and the industrial commodification of higher education. Teaching critical thinking requires individual attention that is increasingly scarce in the rush to get everybody "educated". Simultaneously, the web has allowed and encouraged people to choose increasingly niche communities in which to spend their time, reducing their contact with different or challenging ideas, cultures, and experiences.
Oh, yeah. Back to the future.

Does anybody besides me remember the psychoanalyze-pinhead feature in venerable versions of Emacs?

There was a script that offered a parody of Rogerian psychotherapy. For example, you could type, "I'm anxious" into it, and it would respond "Do you feel anxious because of something that happened in your childhood."

And there was a script that blurted random Zippy-the-pinhead quotes, like

"Are we having fun yet? Are we? Are we?"

"Life is a blur of Republicans and meat."

The psychoanalyze-pinhead script connected these two together. So you'd get stuff like

"Tell me more about a blur of Republicans and meat and your mother."

Emacs was pretty fast. You could get a few hundred kb of absurdity in a few seconds.
Some specific numbers:

The patches from Tuesday fixed a total of 16 CVEs. 11 are Windows only, 4 are Windows+Unix[1], 1 is Unix only. 3 of those (Windows) CVEs were reported externally.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4398

Older bulletins: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-security.html

[1]: Unix in NVIDIA-speak generally means Linux+Solaris+FreeBSD
Isn't it the same general idea as Amazon's DynamoDB?
Sounds like an improvement over FRAM, which is already a shipping product that you can buy today - albeit more expensive than Flash and not as dense.

The ability to build with standard HKMG (high-k metal gate) wafer processing (unlike Flash) is very handy - means FeFET memory can be incorporated into high-speed microcontrollers.
We get poor public transit in part because we disproportionately fund car infrastructure, and car infrastructure often makes neighborhoods less walkable in the first place. A sprawled out city means that you need a much more extensive rail network than a dense one; massive roads make actions as simple as crossing the street take a long time, intimidating, and dangerous; big parking lots offer nothing for pedestrians who walk buy to do, and need to be in the very places that people want to go in order to be useful.

This is a chicken and egg problem, where investing in cars harms ease of transit, but reallocating investments into transit harms those car users. So we as a society have to make choices about what we deem to be more important, or be prepared to spend significantly more capital to make the two coexist (by tunnels and subterranean parking structures, densification of cities, major transit investment and what have you).
I've come to the conclusion that much of "higher" education isn't. More a mediocre patch on nearly nonexistent secondary school.
Containers 101
I think that's because hacker news is actually smart and not delusional like reddit. On reddit it's a de facto disagree button but a de jure spam report button. It's like they are in denial of what 99% of users use it for or they just don't want to admit it and ignore that fact.
Everyone uses roads. Those things you buy in supermarkets come by lorries and trucks; buses - public transport - also use roads; everything built and delivered to a city is largely delivered there by trucks (yes, there's also trains and planes and ships, but I wager majority of transport in most areas is generally roads). So I don't like the argument of me paying for the roads as a driver because I'm the one using it.

If you think about it, if someone drives to another city to do his work, he is likely building a service that others then use. Users of the service / product thus benefit from the road, indirectly. We accept that the cost of this transportation and whole service by the employee/worker is covered by the client of the product service - isn't driving and costs associated to it the same?

My point it - it's all very connected with EVERYTHING that we consume in modern world. It's not like someone who never owned a car is not benefiting from roads (and thus shouldn't pay for their use) in a myriad ways.
I think they respond to this in the Q&A below.
Ask HN: An Active Directory for my private life?
Like many here I am sure, I have quite a few digital devices, computers, tablets, phones and so on, running different operating systems.

In the old days I was a Windows only guy and had my own PDC running at home,and it worked well, but now I would prefer something cloud based.
(I can self-host if I need to).

I am looking into self-hosted Samba and that might be as good as it gets, but I was wondering if anyone is aware of a better / different solution?

The minimum criteria is to be able to centrally manage user accounts on Windows, Mac and Linux and that they service is available 24/7 via the net.

And of course, I am looking for something cheap.
You can cause a full thickness burn at really low temperatures. Water will cause a 2nd or 3rd degree burn in 2 seconds at 65 C.

http://www.accuratebuilding.com/services/legal/charts/hot_wa...

I think regular cotton burns at something like 200 C. Cotton on a plane is going to have fire retardant properties.

Burns are complicated, but if you'd touched something that hot you'd have had an instant burn, probably with blistering.
As a note, the later is very seldom considered childish in some cultures and some economic backgrounds. I have known people for which the request to their friends is not "will you help me move?" but "will you help me build my house?" (think bricklaying and setting up a tin or wooden roof). They would definitely return the favor, as well.
Even Myspace wanted to buy Facebook out, they refused. I think it is upto the founders as to what they prefer, 10% chance of something or 100% chance of something

It isn't that you can't dominate, but the thing is, you need to have a product that others can't copy.
Here's a screenshot : https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2P8VW0o_NjORlNMczdCUEpnQn...

That's FF51/Windows 7 32 bits (thrashy corporate laptop)
RDS also supports PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Aurora and MariaDB

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Welcom...
Why not demonize driving? Roughly 1.3 _million_ people die in or from cars every year worldwide [1]. In the US that's 37000 per year, roughly equivalent to 10 9/11s. Yet we not only subsidize car ownership (roads, parking, etc) and seem blasé to this carnage, we defend this practice as some kind of freedom.

It's utterly insane. Self-driving cars will imho be utterly transformative to society that one day we will look back on this century of driving vehicle ourselves as the barbaric hocum that it is.

[1] http://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safet...
> Ah another reminder I am old, and thankful I got to learn the lost art of using my senses...

I literally have lost my sense of smell, more or less, since I was about 20 years old. These dates are pretty useful to me, I'd never know milk was off until I was pouring lumps of it.
There are allegations going around that Trump has been bribed with a 19% stake in Rosneft.

More substantively, Trump has businesses around the world which he's refused to put at arms-length. It's almost impossible for him not to be accused of gaining personal benefit from political decisions, as there's no way of disproving or dissociating the results.
Just because you prioritize transit in cities, doesn't mean that transport costs in general rise. Transportation between cities can remain car driven as those are inherently sparse areas anyway; you don't need to reduce use of all types of cars in cities, industrial use / deliveries can still exist in those systems anyway; and as a long term idea, self driving deliveries may also drive some of these costs later on. Additionally, while cost of transport rises for car commuters, it very well may fall for transit ones and especially for those car commuters who switch to transit. So it's not a given that prices would uniformly rise.
It's kind of odd that there's no Dutch version of this article (yet)... That said, I'm glad they're standing up for us.
Because even in mid-low density European towns and cities the diversity of land use is greater. Shops, pubs, and parks are permitted to be near housing, as opposed to the US which makes it illegal to have a shop near your house in much of the country.
We can discuss your thoughts only because there where people who learned to much. Without them we would not have internet, computers, could not read/write and high probably would have been killed by an epidemic years ago.
Ah - those icons are quite small and subtle. I hadn't noticed them.

Also, while the top right one has a tooltip, the two top left ones don't so you have to click to find out what they do. Always a risky move!
Things that won't change in Python
Agree with you.

A couple of examples of change in that area;

Companies taking advantage by mothers who want to the workforce once their kids are in school by offering flexible working.

Companies dropping their long-standing policies of hiring from specific schools or attainment levels. These policies are historically quite common in professional services firms, but heavily reduce the available talent pool (and thus the quality of hires, because schools and attainment levels are not strongly predictive of productivity).
It's just one of those Telegraph/Times/Daily Mail articles that are specifically engineered to elicit an anger boner in Middle England.
> 6. New mail is encrypted as it arrives using the Curve25519 public key.

a "going forward" request could start capturing the incoming mail. But yeah reading the how it works section I can not see why they couldn't be compelled to decrypt on next login.

Riseup do say:-

> To be absolutely clear, this type of encryption is not end-to-end message encryption. With Riseup’s new system, you still put faith in the server while you are logged in. For full end-to-end email encryption, as before, you must use a client that supports OpenPGP (and is not web-based).

> We are working to roll out a more comprehensive end-to-end system in the coming year, but until that is ready, we are deploying personally encrypted storage in the mean time.
> The relationship among different Chaebol families is less like different Mafia factions, and more like different Wall Street bankers. They may compete in the market, but they're all in the same boat, and they have a vested shared interest in keeping themselves largely out of the law's reach.

This isn't describing a difference -- Mafia families have the same interest. Omerta and all that.
People depending on blue-collar work in the developed world.
I think the statistic to look for (where?) would be the percentage of students caught cheating who are not subsequently expelled. My guess is that this figure has risen, as a result of the profit motive.
I think this stuff makes sense for somewhat dense and populous cities; that said, I do think that the fragmentation of cities in places like the Bay Area could use some generalization (way too many independent, disagreeing suburbs that prevent rational coordinated action. Ridiculous numbers of transit authorities and inconsistent coverage with existing rail make the experience terrible).
I gather you grew up in a European city. I can assure that that sprawling asphalt hellscape suburbs aren't exactly great either.

However, I grew up in sprawling suburban asphalt hellscape, and now live in the core of an old European city. I still love it.
What is happening there while I'm away?! It seems to get crazier and crazier with every message I hear.

I mean, not US level crazy, but the country I used as an example of how it should be done is gone.
I'm not sure the data support the claim, at least in the US, that we under provision transit. We slight subsidizing driving, but not by much, and I agree that that should stop. Here's the numbers. http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=12133
Fully custom OS apparently:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/20/13346004/nintendo-took-th...

Though I believe the Shield uses a form of Android, and the Switch uses a lot of Shield components so it's plausible that the Switch OS is similar to Android
TIL you can make Finder quittable! It has always irked me that you can't quit it.
The "london additional runway" lobbying is extraordinary. I've seen huge billboard adverts about it up in Scotland, 400 miles away. There is clearly a lot riding on whether it ends up at Heathrow, Gatwick (less likely), Boris Island (even less likely now), or maybe doesn't get built at all due to environmental concerns.
Sprawling cities welcome you with their better quality of life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles
See also:
Atlanta, Houston.
Unless someone grew up poor and then made their money very quickly, they'll probably have a very different cultural background, which makes "pretending to be poor" extremely difficult. Poor people will notice that they're different even if they don't know it's because they're rich.
This is needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
Gigabit Internet Service for Huntsville Inhabitants by Comcast
I can't remember the link, but there was an article that took satellite photos and showed how much land was taken up by parking lots. It was something close to a third or a half, using places like downtown houston as an example. Also many roads sacrifice 2 lanes to street parking. A townhouse I lived in pretty much sacrificed %80 of one floor for the 2 car garage.

I agree the NIMBY policies are pretty horrible. 8 story apartments should of been a by right development type ages ago. European cities who take up the parking lane with huge sidewalks are very nice, all of this space for outdoor seating.
A few things (had a window motor go out and installed heated seat element, and then misc small jobs). The door panel used a few of the plastic fasteners, but IIRC, they were more mushroom shaped than Christmas tree shaped (I don't recall breaking any, even though they were 15+ years old by then).

Many of the interior fasteners, even if push-to-assemble were curved bits of metal spring that snapped into an FRP "box" to hold things securely and rattle-free.

As an engineer, I couldn't help but marvel at the care that went into some of the design and service thinking.

That's not to say it was all peachy. Mercedes faces the same realities and tradeoffs that other companies face, and they need to assemble cars to hit a price point that people will pay, and people don't want to see fasteners in the interior, so they use some plastic-on-plastic or plastic-into-metal in some areas.

The worst engineering I saw was that that car was eventually killed by rust, caused in large part by poor factory prep and/or a poor understanding of the durability of the (then) new water-based, low environmental impact primer and paint system that plagued the whole W210 line in snow belts. Perfectly good car sent to the junkyard after only 216K miles and 18 years. What's the environmental impact of that? Could have easily gone another 150K+ miles. Pity.

On old MBs, dad has a 1959 220S cabriolet that he's restored (to nice driver condition, not a show car) after we found it in a barn in PA, a W123 he bought new, a diesel W210 that isn't all rusty (as it's a southern car), an R170, and an electric Smart. With all those cars, the electric Smart gets the most usage...
ASK HN - How Important Is Customer Advocacy for SAAS Products?
How important is customer advocacy for SaaS products? Any great examples of SaaS companies doing this correct?
> Even in New York, I had to own a car to get to work.

I'm assuming you lived in the outer boroughs? In Manhattan, it's painful to own a car unless you're really wealthy.
"Anger boner". My vocabulary's latest addition. Ta!
Nintendo already confirmed the lack of browser a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/7/14544724/nintendo-switch-we...
There are some good books on the subject. Start with "The Google Resume" by Gayle McDowell. Then move on to industry specific books like Cracking the Coding Interview.
That's fine.. If the idealism-based push for privacy isn't doing so well, maybe the business-based push will. We can definitely fight through all available avenues.
Yes, Go maintains strict backwards compatibility, you can apply everything from the book no problem (unless it exploits a go bug which I don't think it does), though you'l miss out on the shiny new stuff.
Agreed. Glad that Scott Weiner got elected to state senate, as he is a force for building dense housing around transit stations - exactly the combination we need. Now if only Bay Area politics around housing development didn't move at a snails pace...

As for that statistic about the use of parking lots, I think that also included road space and other forms of car storage; I do think parking lots are good candidates for construction, as doing so doesn't displace anyone, and I would also like to narrow lots of streets in San Francisco (SOMA is basically a giant freeway grid), but I also agree that densification of neighborhoods is potentially more impactful.
> Spyware. Security. ...

I hope you don't use web apps, ChromeOS or Android then.
> humans evolve to develop a particular trait

> people who developed that trait got an evolutionary advantage and ended up spreading their DNA more than others on average.

The first is shorthand for the second.
I can't speak for the developers, but the reason I appreciate it and projects like it is the journey they're on. The things they've learned about Windows and it's apps, the skills they've developed, the community they've built. That on it's own is worthy of respect even if it was not of practical value itself.
Hello! Yes, as orbitur mentioned, Apple tells you the device type after you enter a UDID. The one that didn't work was accepted, but didn't return a device type. We tried it anyway, but the app wouldn't install, which is why I described it as 'invalid'.

> Note that UDIDs beginning with 32-bits of F are returned by the APIs that provide app-specific advertising identifiers on the device, so if you saw one of those and decided it was "invalid", that was returned because they used a tool which tried to return a UDID but was using the older public APIs to do that from a sandboxed application

It did have a bunch of Fs at the beginning, so that is probably the explanation! Thanks :)
"Also, I consider 10 miles to be a very short commute "

There's no arguing on opinions, but this shows the sheer distortion of perspective you get living in the US as opposed to most of the world.

10 miles is a ridiculously long commute if your job doesn't necessitate massive amounts of space (airport worker, etc.)

How much of that 10 miles is just asphalt? Parking, roads, garages, gas stations, slip roads, onramps, offramps, shoulders? How much of it is actual good stuff?

For what it's worth I used to live in hot places and I rode to work all the time. I changed at work when I didn't have a shower, and showered at work when I did. A few times it was over 110 F. Fortunately, my employer was supportive.
You can't build modern warships and recruit and train crews for them without a lot of lead time. It would take a decade or more to rebuild the RN to its size of the 80s.
Why check-cashing stores are a good deal, according to a UPenn professor
lol no idea how that happened. Thanks for correcting!

I cant edit my post anymore, so I hope people see your comment.
> but it's less the case anymore because for many use-cases everybody uses web applications instead of native software.

As a user, when given the option, I always use native.

And I know many that do the same, specially in mobile apps.

At work, when given the option, I rather produce native applications than web ones.
" People who still need to drive are going to drive, but will instead end up paying more."

or rather:

"People who still need to (walk/bus/bike) are going to (walk/bus/bike), but will instead end up (walking/paying/dying) more than they would otherwise, because I want them to pay for my motoring convenience." - everyone who can't afford a car, or can't drive due to disability
Ah OK, my bad then.
Yes, "use strict"; is already there for that - for anyone who is wondering:

https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...
How do they suck in unavoidable ways? Try spending time in a city with actually good transit like Hong Kong, Tokyo, or many places in Europe; and try checking out a place like Copenhagen with world class bicycle infrastructure. They make American car-based cities feel like the Stone Age.
I can't think of a single European city that I've personally been to in which car ownership was required. There were some in which it could be viewed as helpful, but the vast majority are car optional, especially in the NW of the continent.

I'm happy to be proven wrong, but in all honesty, I moved 4 cities in as many years, all in different countries, and all of different sizes.
that is simply not true if you travel in > 2 people. ie in 6 it's rather 1/3 of the comparable hotel price, with added value of kitchen and less sterile environment
I'm not sure what you are saying. Are you saying there are no backyards in American or that the suburban neighborhoods are not safe to walk?

Parks in big cities are completely different from large yards. Parks are nice, but large yards mean you can have gardens, grow food, or have lots of friends and family visit.
Side note: have you looked at React Native? (I think) it's great! (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/)
More than infrastructure, zoning and regulations preventing transit from being effective need to be in place. Hell, in an ideal city you don't even need transit as much because you can walk and cycle everywhere. Remove the need to traverse miles and miles of asphalt by letting people live near where they work and recreate and you may find that expensive rail line isn't even necessary.

Also, if the buses are backed up they need their own lane. If they don't have one it's hardly even transit.
> It's web developers who are pushing for JavaScript

Fixed that for you.

I am a developer, with UI experience going back to Amiga/Windows 3.x days, and will only touch Electron if forced by customers/employer to do so.
Drawille: Pixel graphics in terminal with unicode braille characters
I thought the same thing (especially about structs), but after some time with Rust I actually like the explicitness about lifetime rules.

As soon as you are not fighting with lifetimes anymore, it's just a bit more to type. IMHO it actually makes code easier to read, since I don't have to remember a lot of weird rules.

But I have to admit that Rust already has some rules for lifetime elision (e.g. `fn getx(&self) -> &T { &self.x }`. I can only speak for myself but IMHO these rules have a pretty good cost/benefit ratio. For me introducing more rules adds just more cost for diminishing value.
ReactOS in an invaluable resource when it comes to Windows internals and reverse engineering.