skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to know the number of people who bought a computer with Linux installed on it and decided to put Windows on it. I think this must be some alternate dictionary definition of zero.

Linux is so impressive that people will spend days and months learning and figuring out how to switch. It's a really painful process (because of all the problems you mention with proprietary hardware).

I tried to persuade Novatech in the UK [0] who will sell machines without operating systems to actually sell machines with Linux on them. It just wasn't worth the support overhead.

[0]: https://www.novatech.co.uk/
Many years I had sent out resumes looking for work as a MCSE. Never mentioned novell. Guess what? Recruiter emailed me looking for novell engineer... Hw fell out of my funnel real quick.
I have moved the player to the top of the page, I look forward to any further comments, let's get this sorted!

Thanks again.
I hope that you do exactly that.
Gnuplot has an output mode - called "dumb" - that prints an ASCII plot to the terminal. See e.g. http://pastebin.com/WHcLZHPr This is very handy when running scientific codes on remote machines, and works in any terminal (not just iTerm2 like the submission).

I've been looking for a matplotlib extension to do the same thing, without success.
Or visit the source: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.ht...
It's the standard Google answer to every question.
No, I'm saying that weak gun control is not a complete bad. A lot of functional states have all sorts of gun control laws.

However, all (as far as I know) totalitarian states have strong gun control laws. I can't think of a single one which had a permissive attitude toward the civilian ownership of guns.

I'm speaking of course of de jure gun control laws, not the de facto possession of guns by the population.
That sounds like just about the worst place to put a datacenter. Getting just a single kilogram to orbit costs about $2000 at its absolute cheapest, so I can think of no better way to send deployment costs through the roof. On top of that, space is bad for heat exchange because there's no convective cooling.

Also cosmic rays will wreck havoc on all your delicate silicon chips.
Conclusions: ADHD diagnosis risk alleles impact on functional outcomes in two generations (mother and child) and likely have intergenerational environmental effects.

So, ADHD is frequently heredity based on certain genes?

Why oh why oh whyyyyyyyy must academics write like this still?? (I know the answer, doesn't stop me from complaining)
Actually I don't think oxygen has been detected in any exoplanet atmosphere. And typically the atmospheres in which water has been detected are large Jovian exoplanets. My sense is that we don't yet have the telescopes/instrumentation to detect things like oxygen in the atmosphere of an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone.
Genuine question which I think should be on the site's FAQ:

Why should I use Isso over Disqus?
Security fix: an integer overflow bug in the agent forwarding code. See vuln-agent-fwd-overflow.

Security fix: the Windows PuTTY binaries should no longer be vulnerable to hijacking by specially named DLLs in the same directory (on versions of Windows where they previously were). See vuln-indirect-dll-hijack.

Windows PuTTY no longer sets a restrictive process ACL by default, because this turned out
to inconvenience too many legitimate applications such as NVDA and TortoiseGit.
You can still manually request a restricted ACL using the command-line option -restrict-acl.

The Windows PuTTY tools now come in a 64-bit version.

The Windows PuTTY tools now have Windows's ASLR and DEP security features turned on.

Support for elliptic-curve cryptography (the NIST curves and 25519), for host keys,
user authentication keys, and key exchange.

Support for importing and exporting OpenSSH's new private key format.

Host key preference policy change: PuTTY prefers host key formats for which it already knows the key.

Run-time option (from the system menu / Ctrl-right-click menu) to retrieve other host keys from the same server
(which cross-certifies them using the session key established using an already-known key)
and add them to the known host-keys database.

The Unix GUI PuTTY tools can now be built against GTK 3.

There is now a Unix version of Pageant.
That website brings my MBP to a crawl. I was sure I would have to do a hard reboot after Chrome stopped responding for several seconds. For some reason, they want to know my location, they have popups that don't close, and more ads than content.

Oh and there was nothing to be learned beyond the headline.
I expect the most extreme anti-abortion candidate to be a lost cause for anyone else. So why not focus strongly on a 'stay out of private bedrooms' and 'women's CHOICE about what to do with their body' instead?
could you explain what you mean by stream ?
If I am hearing you correctly, you are saying that a CS college grad (maybe with STEM grad with programming) is more likely to get the opportunity to interview than someone with only bootcamp coding experience. I agree with that. The former has been coding for at least a few years, and the latter a few months. There's no substitute a the right kind of foundation built from experience.

That being said, when hiring for a junior role, it's hard to spot the "right stuff" on a resume. If you figure out how to spot that, let me know :). Or keep it a secret and sell me that as a service! There's a reason that currently most recruiters can't charge a commission for placing junior candidates. It's hard enough for you to spot the junior dev you want to hire in a sea of applicants you've never spoken to. A recruiter who isn't you will have an even harder time figuring out what you want.
That kind of thing is in every transcript. Doesn't look strange at all with the odd one like that. It's rather systematic failure I'm trying to look out for.
Ebola is a STD and other business lessons
By supporting trump (and thus pence and gop) one implicitly agrees with people dying due to cuts in health services. (And yes, pence has already done health-related things whose only consequence were deaths.)

Do you feel being fired and blacklisted is a worse consequence than suffered by people impacted by support of trump (and his people)?
It's easy: just ask the user.
Special snowflake, 'triggered!', elitist, pussy, pinko, queer, and so on. The difference is that the labels you point to as 'ad hominem' when used by liberals aren't really ad hominem. They are about ideas and behaviours. Calling someone 'nasty', or saying that they are a 'special snowflake' is much closer to the idea of an ad hominem attack as I understand it.
I guess Trump didn't have a strong case. I wonder why?
UC president taps Georgia Tech’s engineering dean for UCD chancellor
I explored this for my static website (hosted on github), Didn't fit my needs exactly. So I started building one in flask and mySQL recently: https://github.com/singhjaideep/flask_comment
Slavery is taking someone's labor for free. Even an Anarcho-Capitalist would have trouble equating taxation with slavery. The person being taxed gets the benefit of living in a country not plagued by uneducated, sick, hungry citizens. All for the low price of a certain percentage of their income.
I'd go further and say that most users don't understand the difference between OS, hardware and form factor\case and see a computer as an all in one appliance no different from a smartphone or a console.

You can see this when people talk "Mac vs. PC", they'll talk about the features of the hardware and the OS interchangeably (Macs are better because they get less viruses), even though bootcamp has been an officially supported path on Mac hardware for a long time.

There is a marketing problem with mainstream users in that most people don't know what Linux is, but I'd guess that many people don't know what Windows is, probably don't know what Android is and don't know what iOS or OSX are, so I'm not sure if understanding what Linux or Ubuntu is actually matters for usage.

I completely agree in that sense that Linux would work for average desktop users if OEM's installed it. The only major barriers I can think of are lack of MS Office and potential support overhead. Companies would have to hire a lot more dedicated Linux desktop support staff.
> The argument that America even has a singular culture to preserve is, I think, a false premise.

I think that is the actual false premise. Baseball, apple pie, and all that jazz. American folklore, Blues music, American cuisine, American politics and all its silly quirks. The idea of no American culture is laughable.
Re: Credit card: I own one, I can hand it out. Most of the information necessary to use it (name, number, CSC) are available if you hold that card for a second.

My (honest, I'm not trying to pull your leg or anything) question is:

I have a phone. I own it. You (payment provider) cannot control it and I might do stupid things.

I have a credit card. I own it. You (card issuer) cannot control it and I might do stupid things.

Where's the difference? How can CCs work, but Android Pay/Samsung WhateverWhyWouldIUseIt doesn't, given my current impressions above. Can you correct my errors?
I'd love for you to address the other points in my response:

Thiel is hired for his ideas. You say that he can not be fired for his ideas. This is a problem.
Have you tried using cacaview on images? When I'm running scientific code on remote machines I use jupyter tunneled over ssh, but I assume you can't do that.
> With things like fractional shares (ala Sharebuilder), almost everybody who has any income at all

Sharebuilder's fee is $4 per trade, and Motif is $5. They're the only people winning in the fractional share game, unless what you're buying is so expensive you want $1000 of it and still care about the fraction.
> covered in vaseline

I am fascinated by this expression. What on Earth does this mean?
Got it thanks.
RFC 7858 (2016)
You're again, falling victim to confirmation bias by rejecting the best quantification you've provided yet.

Lets examine the data you've provided - 29% white women, 19% women of color, 21% men of color, 30% white men.

This data is entirely in line with the demographics of the US. About 50/50 on gender and 60% white. In fact, given google's global hiring reach, these figures are actually biased towards white people - while about spot on for gender. This entirely contradicts the point you were originally pointing to this twitter feed as confirmation of.
I enjoy the matrix theme falling letters (4th on the top-sorted list). Thanks!
I feel like it's still early days, but that's a good suggestion!

I filed an issue: https://github.com/upspin/upspin/issues/209
I usually do this:

1. Have a subject I want to learn say Game Theory

2. Google phrases such as "Best Game Theory books/textbooks".

3. Collect the links and bookmark them.

4. Look up the best ones on amazon, read some reviews, and pick one or a couple.
Samsung C-Lab to Exhibit New VR Projects at Mobile World Congress 2017
I've been working in the programming industry for ten years and have never had to implement tree traversal. I could probably scrape together a naive implementation in a relatively short amount of time, but it's certainly not something I've memorized. But then, I'm a programmer, not a computer scientist.
And just to tack on a specific anecdote about my own use of containers and how what you're saying just isn't true, I found once when trying to run Chrome in a container that it failed for some reason related to sandboxing. So I tried to disable sandboxing with --no-sandbox and saw that it worked, then went back and googled to find out the implications of what I had done.

The first advice I found was from core docker maintainers saying clear as day "don't run chrome with --no-sandbox".

The problem was a missing kernel flag for USERNS support. This feature provided by the kernel is the piece that allows to create a virtual root user that only has root access inside of his namespace (only inside of the container, then.) This is a service provided by the kernel.

Just to rebut your position, in my experience there is no "throw up your hands" attitude towards security in the Docker dev team and containers ecosystem.

Now certainly the thread parent shows this is not the case everywhere, but I can tell you in my opinion from limited experience that I am not AT ALL surprised this happened at IBM. I was exposed to their BlueMix platform at a hackathon in Buffalo, and putting it gently I was not impressed. More directly, important things like authentication and continuous deployment were obviously broken as soon as you scratched the surface.

The judge from IBM did not respond well when we told him we found their platform was severely broken, and we had decided at 1am that we'd needed to switch our efforts to targeting Heroku deployment instead. (We did not win the prize, if you're still wondering.)
So by supporting Clinton would you implicitly be agreeing to bombing children in Syria?

That's just a silly line of reasoning
The hidden weakness inside Goldman Sachs?
They clearly indicate otherwise. Slack is certainly meant as a productivity tool, but they make several claims:

+ For all kinds of "Work"

+ For teams of all types and sizes

+ Bringing people together to make them productive

Compare that to the messaging for say Hipchat:

+ "Team chat built for business"

+ Enterprise features

+ Loved by your IT team

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I only miss the right click on the taskbar icon with the stored connections! I would be nice if you could pin aliases in the Ubuntu icon...
https://www.wired.com/2015/01/ai-arrived-really-worries-worl...

and

https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-08-28/how-advances-automati...

will get you started.
So Yeah We Tried Slack… and We Deeply Regretted It
Power from a seabed cable or nearby offshore power. Data by the same cable. Sealing a cable or a small container is not hard to do at all.
AWS has spot instances which are roughly ~1/10th the price of the regular EC2 instances. Anything equivalent here?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that radiating heat is actually really hard in space. It seems counter intuitive, because space is so cold, but it's mostly a vacuum.

To transfer heat, you need a medium for the heat to transfer through. I believe some heat can be lost due to radiation, and so they have these big metal fins as heat sinks to radiate as much heat as possible, and reflective material on the solar facing side to prevent more heat from being absorbed.

The water, on the other hand, is a fantastic absorber of heat, and I'm guessing it's easier to drop one in the ocean, rather than launch one to space.
Please stop posting uncivilly and unsubstantively like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cloud Datastore has a perpetual free tier, too: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/ :)

(I work on it.)
I have to admit, the screenshot they picked seems like a really bad example :)

Most Android devices can't just be updated to the latest version, which is counter to the proposed goal of being user actionable.. Won't this particular check just result in alert fatigue? Once any single alert comes in that the user has no control over, they HAVE to ignore it, and once they ignore one, it's easier to choose to ignore more..
I've got 4 instances open right now. Thanks, Simon and co!
To cry double-standard here is to have completely missed the point
- The chair was black. We know what various black chairs look like.

- The author's skin tone: http://amelielamont.com/about/

That woman, wearing a blue shirt, isn't someone that I'd reasonably expect to blend into a black chair, even with a room darkened to make a projector more visible and a half-blind manager.

Keep in mind that the author had also spoken up earlier in the meeting, offering to take on another supervisor's project during his vacation.
Data Selfie Analyzes Facebook Usage to Show What Companies Can Learn About You
You need to register your public key with key.upspin.io in order to speak to any Upspin servers, so in that sense it is not "account free". You need to prove to others that you are who you say you are.

There is an "all" permission that shares with the world (see https://upspin.io/doc/access_control.md) but in most cases we expect people will share with a specific set of named users.
Same for conservative enclaves. Don't kid yourself.
Strong AI Isn't Here Yet
The big problem, outside of questionable conduct from MS, is the lack of stability surrounding the userspace plumbing. The DEs and their friends lower in the stack can't stop CADTing the APIs etc, and that scares away third parties.
A person with a strong grasp of the subjects described therein would have excellent foundational knowledge.

I would say that you're right! These days it's easier to access all the required instructional material for foundational knowledge outside a university. I would also say that this has probably been true for multiple decades. I would say that a list of MOOC courses is possibly not the same as a strong grasp of core materials, however.

Such a curriculum, while strong at first blush, likely suffers from many of the flaws of self-directed learning. It is perhaps not access to information or instructional material that is the problematic part of the educational process.
Has GWAS become a reliable means of identifying causal variants? How have the methods evolved over the last five years? What are the big success stories?
Πάμε στοίχημα: Θα το παλέψει ο ΠΑΟΚ
When less [capital] is more
> Our target audience is personal users, families, or groups of friends. Although Upspin might have application in enterprise environments, we think that focusing on the consumer case enables easy-to-understand and easy-to-use sharing.

This definitely does not look "easy to use" unless the target audience of families only includes families where all have technical backgrounds. If I gave anyone in my family that list of instructions they would stare at me blankly. There is a reason Dropbox does so well, its simple and doesn't require you do any manual fiddling.
> Long before there was Facebook, plenty of people bought and read magazines and newspapers like the National Enquirer and the Daily Mail.

Yes, but now there's a difference: a zero-cost, near-zero-friction platform for fake news distribution. Today's fake news peddlers don't have to pay for space at supermarket checkout counters and newsstands, or pay for paper and ink. They just have to throw their product onto the platform and from there it literally distributes itself.

In other words, Facebook disrupted fake news.
It does seem that Apple are keen on migrating their users to Linux of late.

I'm actively considering going back to Linux myself, and have already jettisoned a bunch of apple products.

Is it conceivable that the conventional desktop market will shrink to a core of Linux hackers developing software that runs on the tablets and phones of everyone else? With IDEs provided by MS/Google/whoever but not OSs? Finally, the year of the Linux desktop arrives, when the desktop comes to an end.
Now if only I could click a link and have it open in a browser.
Ah, sorry, my bad, too tired. Misread your post.
For a, you can put a sacrificial anode on the frame. Given that the rate of corrosion should be known, the size of it can be calculated to however long the pod is expected to be in service.
The best I've found is to find any university and look at their recommended course calendar for a CS degree and go to those course homepages to get the lecture notes/slides or vids if they are public. This will be a course structure made by professional educators to give you the intuitive ideas for a subject. Then look up the same foundational material in The Art of Computer Programming or other academic text with enough challenging problem sets so you remember the material. Unfortunately many universities require campus accounts to get at homework or tests so the only other way is get it from TAOCP.

While you do this apply for entry level support engineer somewhere and work your way into development from within the company or find open source projects and write requested features, debug them when problems arise, repeat. That plus being helpful on the mailing list and stackexchange for whatever project it is almost always leads to email job offers coming in. When you have enough experience you can directly apply to developer ads and hopefully survive the initial screen for not having a degree as you have real experience, plus all those problem sets you did will help pass a whiteboard interview.
Ah, I missed that. Fair enough.
The degree to which your likes and dislikes influence what you are fed is hidden in Facebook's proprietary codebase.

For the most part, feed algorithms are tailored to show you whatever will keep your eyeballs on the screen. The idea that your conscious desires prevail in the realm of allocating your attention has been pretty well debunked by psychology and cognitive science.
I think it is a brilliant idea to merge file paths with email addresses. In hindsight it feels like a logical next step from services such as Dropbox, where everything is about sharing files. You share a file and the other person gets sent an email notification that you've shared that file with them.

It's great to see that they try to think outside the box and actually innovate on something that the Dropbox engineers also could've (and now also "should have") thought of.
That's what we pay boulos for. /heh
> I believe expolanets with oxygen have already been discovered:

@greeneggs is correct[0], that article is talking about modeling of a hypothetical atmosphere for a given planet. There was not an actual detection of oxygen in the atmosphere.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13700744
Ask HN: What would you do if you discover a security breach on iOS/Android?
Would you report it or try to monetize on it?

It looks like iOS breaches with root access are extremely wanted and might be well paid, so my hypothetical question is: would you report it or wold you try to monetize in some other ways?

I haven't' talked found anything relevant, but I am curious to know what people would do and what are the general thoughts about bounty programs.
Ask HN: How precise are computer clocks?
If my computer wouldn’t synchronize with a NTP server, how precise would its clock be? How much would its clock/time deviate, especially compared to a quartz or mechanical watch?
EM isn't going to travel very well or very far through water. You would want something exposed on the surface, and preferably in very close proximity. Every time you transform power, you're going to incur losses.
The corollary of Jira being "extremely complex" turns out to be that most Jira instances are not set up optimally - meaning that the experience for a lot of people is "this is crap".

I'm not sure the blame for that can be placed on Atlassian thouh - the problem space they're trying to solve is large, varied, and complex (perhaps _that's_ Atlassian's fault, trying to do too much?) I've yet to come across any alternative to Jira that solves a large subset (or superset) of the problems Jira solves, that isn't equally difficult and resource intensive to set up and customise for a specific company/team. Trello's a great example of a _much_ simpler (and on the surface much less "crap") piece of software, but it falls _way_ short of doing everything a typical Jira shop needs Jira to do... A 5-10 person bike shop building custom bikes? Yeah, Trello will probably crush it. A 10-20 (or50-100) strong dev team working on multiple complex projects? Nah - Trello won't solve all your problems.

Jira can _easily_ suck (and does, way too often). But it's almost certainly a config/training problem rather than a software problem.
Can you explain further? I don't quite follow.