skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ummm... I looked at the account, and it doesn't look like a shill account in the slightest.

In this case, I personally came to the comments to say exactly what the top comment said: This is raising the subscriber compliance limit from 100k to 250k. Nothing to see here. No "threat" to net neutrality at all, except if you're trying to sensationalize it.

I'm more worried about net neutrality when it's giant companies like Verizon or Comcast. Not so much about the compliance of smaller companies, who:

1. Aren't big enough fish to cause the kinds of problems with product adoption that most of the net neutrality worst-case scenarios depict.

2. Aren't big enough to cut the deals with larger content suppliers that net neutrality is trying to prevent.

3. Frequently are barely able to survive at those scales, so the extra regulatory burden isn't actually worth cutting into their meager profits.
They definitely should be, for accessibility reasons and because it's not that difficult to support.

Here's an example of a tree widget that can be navigated by keyboard: https://www.jstree.com/docs/html/
Uber denies targeting female engineer who complained
Awesome! Thank you, I appreciate it. Looks like that's just a rehost of a Brietbart article.

Seems like some of the events disagree with the collation article:

>On Thursday, Fox News’ Ed Henry tweeted that MSNBC hosts Ed Schultz and Lawrence O’Donnell, as well as Ezra Klein of the Washington Post and Fox News’ Juan Williams, had been invited for a private off-the-record chat with President Obama.

So not exactly the "lefty" conspiracy painted in the root article.
Considering NYT, CNN and Politico were all implicated via wikileaks for directly colluding with the Hillary campaign I don't blame Trump one bit. The mainstream media needs to be reigned in an not represent one single political party in this whole current mess, but it's not the government's job to do it.
the problem is that putty's terminal window (as far as I know) doesn't work in local, so if you are doing local terminal-based work (vagrant git etc) and then you need to ssh, you can't do everything with putty's terminal, but you can do all of the above with git bash.
This is true. I love games. But after finishing there is definitely a feeling of being "unfulfilled." It is tough.
Perhaps the interest of the company is not so much to provide their 'product' to low-income, spanish speaking families, but to make some buzz around themselves and make sure you know about it.
Doesn't work on mobile? (iOS)
I recall thinking the singular of sheep was shoop, probably from foot/feet.
It hasn't been relevant for at least 40 years for most people in this industry. My first job was in an organization with exactly these people, except that "operators" (of which I was one at when I started as a teenager about twenty years ago) had several component levels of hierarchy within it. Sysop, Print Op, and at the very bottom of the ladder, the Tape Op, whose job is to be the robot arm that our organization refused to pay for (no shit). Now, I'm still in contact with a couple of people that I used to work with, and one of whom still works there (though now he is a programmer upstairs). That hierarchy does still exist. We did, however, have a card-punching machine. You fed cards into the hopper, and a computer did the punching. So we didn't have a keypunch operator. But I still have a stack of cards somewhere in my house. I'll have to ask if they still use that equipment.
Ask HN: How has software engineering changed since you started your career?
This is a great question. Is there an algorithmic way to offer the best explanation of an idea to an audience?
Plagiarized from PNAS:

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/39/10824.full.pdf
I was confused too. It looks like an bulleted list in Chrome.
A lot of us are working on 3D interfaces for design tools, but the difficult part seems to be making it bearable for longer sessions (hours). Some examples:

Medium https://www.oculus.com/medium/

Tilt Brush https://www.tiltbrush.com/

Quill https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1118609381580656/

MARUI https://www.marui-plugin.com/

Simplex http://www.gradientspace.com/simplexvr/

Gravity Sketch https://www.gravitysketch.com/

Unity EditorVR https://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/12/15/editorvr-experimental-b...

Unreal Engine VR Editor https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Editor/VR/

Modbox http://store.steampowered.com/app/414120/

Mindshow http://mindshow.com/

and my own tool Sketchbox http://sketchboxvr.com

So far it seems like the traditional CAD players (Autodesk, Dassault, Adobe) are focused on using VR for visualization, rather than creation.
Thanks for sharing! I see your 3.5k and raise (lower?) you 1.6k

https://github.com/cheezmeister/kapok

[I think it does most of what yours does](https://github.com/Cheezmeister/kapok/blob/master/tst/kapok....) (EDIT: Nope, missing URL loading and XSS cleaning!)
Yes. My wife and her family came to America with a permanent resident permit knowing not a lick of English.
This is why a git clone is not a real backup.
I wrote a small proof of concept here: https://github.com/michaf/shattered-torrent-poc

Both Installer.py and Installer-evil.py result in the same piece hashes, with piece size chosen as 512. The only difference between the files is the shattered pdf fragment, encapsulated in a variable. This fragment starts exactly at the piece boundary, resulting in identical hashes.
They showed a lower bound of .1 points, not a total .1 point decline; the most reasonable extrapolation would be .3 points, so since the 1910 start of their sample, -3.21 points (and possibly more since the phenotypic correlations driving this decline were noted for decades before then in England, but at the moment, while we have ancient genomes from thousands of years ago and many modern genomes from 1910AD on from 80yos+, 1000-1900AD is a bit of a doughnut hole - not so ancient people are willing to sequence without 'consent', but too ancient to ever get consent).
Yeah, even the CEO got caught editing comments, and nothing happened to him. What do you expect, at this point?
Other than announcement posts, I think HN members general post submissions whenever they come across them. Looking at the bug report, it was updated today, so it likely caught someone's eye.

A comment consisting of the single word "So?" is dismissive, particularly in a text-only environment devoid of tone of voice or body language. It doesn't convey any of the interest you've shown in your follow-up.
Though “escalate” is a kind of funny one.

“Scale” (meaning climb up) and “escalade” (a military attack of a fort by soldiers climbing up ladders leaning against the walls) are both from the Latin words for ladder/climb.

“Escalator” was the trade name of the first commercially successful version of the moving staircase idea at the turn of the 20th century. The company otherwise made elevators, so “escalator” was some kind of invented mashup of “elevator” and “escalade”. There were various competing products under other names, but “escalator” was memorable and easy to understand in relation to the word “elevator”, so their name became the generic term.
Plagiarized from PNAS:

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/46/E7337.full.pdf
That exists, it's called GUI...

Improving on the text model is almost always premature optimization, though. Consider the incredible cost for an observer to "understand" what you are doing. Insane amounts of work (resulting in lock-in or a product never shipped) is not how the text model could become so successful.

Why can tools like grep or sed be so immensely useful? Precisely because they don't need to understand what goes in (other than a stream of lines), what does the pattern mean (other than being a regular expression), and what goes out (other than a stream of lines).

And what's the benefit of programs understanding "semantics of output" really? Everything is text. When a file is printed on the terminal, select it (e.g. double-click), type "vim " (or whatever), and middle-click. It's good enough most of the time. When there is some really dry repetitive work, bang out a command-line to automate that for you (along the lines of "while read filename; do vim filename; done").

A GUI can only help for the most common cases. If these are only a minority of cases, GUIs are only crippled tools preventing you from doing real work. (Personal anecdote: I use nothing but a browser and xterms on most days or even weeks).
Enter 'Hack Temple', [] Where Startups Are the New Religion
Is an O1 Visa dual intent? Also is there a rough estimate of how long wait times are for different countries of Origin?
Love fastmail -- I have six domains. I can send/receive from whatever address I want.
I've always been jealous of the prime minister's question time. Members of Parliament ask tough questions and demand follow-up, plus it's the prime minister answering instead of a press secretary. I'm sure the prime minister is less enthusiastic about it than I am, but since he is subject to votes of no confidence, he doesn't have much of a choice.

The president will never do something similar in front of Congress, but wouldn't it be great?
Sorry, I might be stupid, but I'm not sure what you're saying. What _is_ the critical issue? Generally destroying objects?

There is some spectrum between a usable item and complete refuse, it feels like most of the stuff being cut up is closer to refuse, but I could be very wrong.
Show HN: A tool to help determine which passwords to rotate due to cloudbleed
Man walking around with hyena as a pet OMG
He could be thinking of starsky robotics
You'll be happy to hear that the JMAP work we're doing will make labels a lot easier to do on the FastMail interface

(on the downside, we can't yet account quota cheaply for that, so a message with multiple labels will count multiple times towards your quota usage at first)
It's easier to move to a country who's ideals you identify with than to fix an entire country. Also American culture isn't exactly limited to the American mainland. It's been exported over media, one of the major reasons people immigrate.
Just wait for the patent to expire. Or, don't wait, build out your product, and release it the second the patent expires. If it's a good enough idea, you'll be able to find investors willing to bridge the time gap.
You are describing a content lock-in dystopia. Yes, this would be anticompetitive (and appropriately addressed by the FTC or DOJ, not the FCC) and it is among the more unlikely scenarios.
Interesting to see a VR company working fully remote
Funnily enough I am doing the exact same thing. In my mind Golang has a temporary spot on the roster, and I'm actively looking at Rust, Nim, and a few other languages for writing some server projects in the next few years.
I either may not be reading HN as much to see the trend or you may be confusing HN with reddit.

(btw most video game development is in C/C++)
Plagiarized version of:

http://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993(16)30906-6/fu...
Programming with Nothing
They re doing what secondlife should have done long ago. I wonder if they have a platform for games.
Wish they used citc/Git/blaze... but oh well. There's a wrapper internally but I heard it was crap, so I never used it.
That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
Ask HN: Domain registrar recommendations
I used to use GoDaddy and then I switched to Namecheap. Now, I am wondering if there are better alternatives out there which I am missing. Cheaper would be appreciated, too, but I am mostly interested in "better" for values of better TBD.

This is mostly for .com domains.
> And none of this requires any traffic shaping rules that deliberately identify what's video or VoIP

True, so why is net neutrality necessary then? Do you think ISPs are making this possible out of the goodness of their hearts?

I'd argue that their profit motive has made this happen because it's what consumers demand, and the internet (protocols and services) has changed rapidly enough that entrenched patterns have not really emerged.
It provides a baseline from which to build. If I have a news article that cites sources, and eventually those sources are verified in this kind of manner, then I can "know" something.
The same mistake is in the process of giving us the word 'kudo'.
I just constructed a little POC for bittorrent: https://github.com/michaf/shattered-torrent-poc

Installer.py and Installer-evil.py are both valid seed data for Installer.torrent ...
As an immigrant, I've seen many immigrants who have absolutely no interest in the culture or society of the country they immigrated to. Most people just want to get a citizenship because their own country's passport sucks and their country's economy and education and health care sucks.
Typescript-library-starter
I've always tried and failed to keep my smoking habit to occasions where I could enjoy the smoking.

I wouldn't "highly recommend" trying it, because very few people can keep it at that level. I couldn't, and my way of quitting was to remember all the other ones I smoked. To this day, on the rare occasions where I crave smoking, I'll just remind myself of the nausea, the bad throat, the smell, the dizziness and whatever else the other ones, the ones I would smoke after the good one, would do to me.
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In this situation it seems fair to classify it as a dupe. Would've been better to just post the link in a comment on the earlier post, and leave it to a moderator to update it instead.
That list is missing a section for terminal music players. I created one in Haskell some time ago: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-player
You should consider removing all the other functions from the global scope, especially because they have relatively generic names like "generateTree", "toArray", "depth", and "toggleClass".

Consider using an actual class or a closure perhaps?
It is fascinating indeed.
For .com I would suggest OVH.com, they give free WHOIS privacy, also they provide free basic hosting for registered domains.
I work in the conservatibe enterprise world, and vendors dropping services with much less than a decades notice -- usually, but not always, with a recommended replacement that they are also willing to sell you -- is quite common.

I think Google's problem here, inasmuch as it has one, is marketing and relationships, not substantive policy.
This was posted earlier and is a better (cleaner) link, but for other readers the discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886
Why wouldn't you be able to? Most file formats have ways of including comment data, including JPEG, GIF, HTML, C code, and most others. You could potentially create a piece of noble C code and a piece of malicious C code that collide. (However, creating a piece of malicious code that matches an existing codebase that doesn't contain a comment would be hard, if I understand correctly.)
After wasting money on 2 other VR desktop apps, I was shocked that Bigscreen was free and 10x better than the other ones.

Hope they can put the investment to good use. I'm definitely not opposed to paying them when the final version is released.
iPhone 7 battery meltdown [video]
'Plagiarized' is an odd word to apply to hosting a PDF, and the reason I bother to host PNAS PDFs at my own expense is that they are embargoed for a while early on when there is most discussion.
Ask HN: Why are web directories dead?
I am in the process of looking for a job. I have been keeping a text file of the sites to search for on a regular basis (because linkedin, indeed, craigslist, plus numerous niche sites all have different jobs.) I again randomly stumbled upon a good site (a venture backed startup that has $62mm funding) that provided me with a pleasant experience, that I didn't know existed before. (I actually found it going through a github list of sites effected by the cloudflare breach.)

I wondered how many other job search sites there are that I don't know about, and this immediately made me think of web directories. Gee, wouldn't it be great if all job search sites were in one list that someone maintained?

I went to DMOZ (the "open source" directory) and typed 'job.' Went to the appropriate section and a lot of the results were outdated including missing the $62mm startup that's #3 in Google. I applied to be an editor after carefully putting together an application, and was denied exactly 4 minutes after -- with no reason why. DMOZ basically seems rotten to the core and outdated as it's used by a lot of self promoters.

My question is, why isn't there a good web directory out there? Internet advertising is many billions of dollars large... unnecessarily. If there was a directory, people would have an easier time finding sites they like.
I've been using name.com for years. They have a really good UI, good e-mail communication and support automatic renewal.
This has been a big problem with illuminated manuscripts such as books of hours (which represent massive amounts of beautiful medieval art and calligraphy). For centuries, some bookdealers have been willing to disbind a complete or nearly complete volume and sell individual leaves, because of course people love to be able to display a beautiful page on their wall.

I just went to an antiquarian book fair and there was a dealer selling medieval illuminated manuscript leaves (who's been there for many, many years), with a sign specifically addressing the concern, and basically saying "we didn't do it!". But it's hard to verify and the incentive is still strong, because you can get more from selling a hundred-page illuminated prayerbook as 100 $1000 leaves than as a $40,000 whole.

Overall I think people who care about the past in certain ways would prefer for artifacts to remain whole, even if that means we don't get to own them ourselves, much as with King Solomon proposing to cut the baby in half.
Agreed! Paying member for 10 years here :-)
Dial-up modem noises explained
Most people in general just don't have a mind for the law. The people hanging out on this board probably are smart enough to figure it out, given sufficient time and googling.
They also increase link rot (full urls give you at least some information like: the domain, date, and title slug) and deteriorate the open nature of the web by locking a link behind some company's proprietary database that is liable to disappear without a trace. Please just share the full link next time, even if it is long.

> URL shorteners may be one of the worst ideas, one of the most backward ideas, to come out of the last five years... To someone in the future, it'll be like everyone from a certain era of history, say ten years of the 18th century, started speaking in a one-time pad of cryptographic pass phrases. - Presentation at PDAC 2011 by Jason Scott
looks like Uber's day of strong arming everything are over. good riddance. i always knew it was a cesspool of ego
> If you're going to create a wearable indication of membership in an elite division of your company, you'd damn sure better ensure that every member of that division can actually wear it.

I'd agree, but would also suggest not creating a wearable indication of membership. Create multiple wearable indications of membership, and everyone gets one of those indications. Maybe a choice of a jacket, a nice laptop case, a fancy scarf, or a sword with belt scabbard.

Of course we're talking about Uber, so if they did that it would probably be the leather jacket for the men and a string bikini for the women...
Point is, the media has done a terrible job, misguided the people, and deserve _no sympathy_.

It failed to give a honest account of Cuba [1], Vietnam [2], Iraq [3], Syria [4] (Nicaragua, Guatemala, and so on). In fact, it lied about it. That had deadly consequences for millions of humans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish%E2%8...

[2] http://www.globalissues.org/article/402/media-propaganda-and...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/world/aftereffects-prohibi...

[4] http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-propaganda-syrias-destructi...

To answer your introductory clause: Not trying to paint myself as the victim or w/e.
If you aren't on a private contract with custom rates already, you aren't swimmin' with the sharks. Big affiliates heard about this a couple weeks ago, and likely had their contracts updated as a result.
you missed one possibility: that they're deliberately attempting to downplay the severity to make themselves look less incompetent
It's a decent start, and works for quite a few stories. However, it'll need to be used with other solutions in order to cover various other cases where this doesn't help. Such as:

1. Where it's the object in a photo that needs to be confirmed as real. For example, a fair few sites will take pictures/scans of magazine or newspaper articles, and this wouldn't help in those cases (since it only says the photo is of a real object).

2. Where the photo isn't taken with a camera. For example, a lot of entertainment journalism (like for movies and TV shows) and almost all gaming journalism requires capture cards to get the screenshots, not a camera. So something like this that could be adapted to these use cases would be nice to see as well.

3. And finally, where the image is real but used in a misleading way. Time and place stamps help here, but still leave room for manipulation by careful camera angles and what not.

But still, it seems like an interesting tool none the less.
Just to be fair, this is an instance of pro-actively communicating good(ish) news. Not everyone does this, so of course it's good to encourage more of it, but it's much easier than pro-actively communicating bad news.