skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really cool. You should think about doing a startup around this, especially given the new tech ecosystem with AR/VR and good voice recognition.

I would love to be able to code, using a headset+phone combo, while wandering around in a park.
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> How about starting at the buyer's market with enticing cash offers and then hunt up the source of the illegal merchandise?

You're describing a basic sting which is far from a new idea and the poachers aren't idiots when it comes to avoiding them.
Graphical languages are quite common in the industrial controls space, ladder logic in particular. Horrendously cumbersome to you or me, but usable by controls engineers and factory technicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_logic
So.. Switzerland is free, since they aren't in the EU, nor NATO, but Finland and Norway are slaves, right?

Where would you rather live, India or any EU country?

Oh and Ukraine isn't in the NATO or the EU either, see how free they are?
WASM, Grid, deprecation of NPAPI and SHA-1 certs, all in one release. That is huge. A very important release!
> Beliefs are the same, and a relation to "facts" or "truth" is not a requrement for their utility.

If your beliefs about the world are entirely false then you are going to have a bad time.
I've just started writing my own PL/0 compiler, I found the best resource for it (apart from the Wikipedia articles on EBNF, PL/0 and P-Code) is Wirth's book "Compiler Construction" (http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf). I don't think later versions of "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" contains anything about PL/0 (or a I could not find anything in the contents page). Eitherway, I find Wirth's writing amazingly clear.
You know that what you're doing here is creating a world-dominating monopoly on the use of force, and whomever ran that army would be the defacto leader of the world, right?

We're organized as nation-states in the first place so we can protect (generally) and pursue interests based on some sort of shared goal or value. For the United States, it's the constitution (ostensibly), for others it's different reasons.
Federations of nation-states contributing to a global force might work without totally corrupting, but not a single "no-executive" force. Further, if everyone contributes forces then countries can opt-out and go their own way... for their own interests. (See the UN)

Coming to an understanding between 10 people on what pizza to order is hard. Coming to an understanding between 8 Billion on who should be able to arrest them is extremely difficult.
Checked my receipt, I paid $69.99 for the 7-in-1 6qt
And replace it with the unknown magic of how the same food products cost 5x as much.
There should be no A-labels on bare gTLDs, so "https://google" should never make sense (per SSAC053 report - https://www.icann.org/groups/ssac/documents)
Or clear cutting forests to print trade joe's marketing material that ends directly in the garbage can.
I created a language called MoonScript in 2011

It is heavily inspired by CoffeeScript (and Python), it works as a transpiler for Lua. I've since used it regularly to code dozens of projects.

It's now powering my company along with a handful of websites and supporting libraries. I've also made games and GUI apps with it. The adoption has been pretty minimal, but I'm satisfied regardless. It has definitely improved my productivity.

http://moonscript.org
https://github.com/leafo/moonscript
Being highly connected and being capable of utilizing your luck are skills IMO, and I don't understand why you feel the need to speak so spitefully of him.
>then actually follow up on their citations

Not to mention that citations are not all they are touted to be.

Just because something has been written by someone somewhere doesn't make it an objective reality fact.

Just because something has been published on a peer reviewed journal doesn't make it an objective reality fact.

Just because something has the consensus opinion doesn't make it an objective reality fact.

Just because something is supported by the numbers given by some government, state agency, NGO etc doesn't make it an objective reality fact.

And in many cases someone with actual "skin in the game", who knows a subject empirically can be right, and know they are right, against "citations" from all of the above.
I thought this was going to be about Kafka.
> Greg is the guy you need. Not necessarily the guy you want to be.

(I am Greg, and am reasonably happy to be me.)

I think this reply is true. But even that aside, the startup philosophy that guides me is variance maximization. So yes, when starting something new and pouring your heart into it, you have a chance of having nothing concrete to show for yourself in a few years. But if you succeed, the magnitude will be much greater, and you'll have been a core force in making that happen.

I worked on a number of startup ideas in college, which never went anywhere. The first company I worked on that had any sort of success was Stripe (which I joined when we were 4 people). I've taken an identical approach (hard work and trying to cover the entire problem surface area) to each organization I've been a part of, and am pretty happy with recommending it as a general strategy.
Vaccines are safer for a population, and they are safer for individuals in an unvaccinated population. In a vaccinated population the risks to the individual having a vaccine are low, but non zero. The risk of not having the vaccine may well be lower. The problem is that by not being clear that having a vaccination is an altruistic act with marginal risk but a massive social good the way is left open for claims of duplicity. This may be the key issue; some people won't agree with the desired position because the fact we are using isn't a fact at all. We fail to persuade because we don't make a good case.
They typically have an herbal remedy section that ranges from peppermint menthol for sore throats to some truely outlandish cures. I think it's those "natural medicines" on the reishi-mushrooms-align-chakras-boosting-immune-system side of things gp is referring to.
hmm very strange ill report it to the team, thank you both
"A good chunk of the wants to live in DT Toronto, further reducing the small supply"

Toronto's population grew by 10% between 2001 and 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Toronto#Popula...

There is currently a vast supply of condos in the city, and considering the average number of children per household (1.1 in 2011), the supply should cover the housing demand in the city.

Things are a little different in the GTA, but this still doesn't explain the magnitude of the jump in prices in the last two months.
"In addition, the Neural Machine Translation system learns over time and improves, resulting in better and more natural translations the longer it works."

Dumb question (maybe?). How is it learning since it's not getting any feedback on what is the right and wrong answer?
My wife has made hard boiled eggs, risotto (kinda) and yogurt in it. Didn't expect any of those. It advertised yogurt, but I didn't expect it to turn out as well as it did.
WikiLeaks posts files it says are from the CIA’s computer hacking arsenal
Attributing the release of such secrets to someone who is already dead seems like it could be a very effective way of hiding one's source. ;)
Do they support Chrome without Silverlight?
Hard to imagine how that could be done in one month.
According to the statement from WikiLeaks, government
hackers can penetrate Android phones and collect
“audio and message traffic before encryption is applied.”

How is that possible? Isn't the data encrypted before it's sent over the wire?
that's fucking awesome.
LCFS speeds up docker build by making docker commit a constant time operation
First we need mandatory life sentences for poachers of endangered animals. Secondly poachers caught in the act should be shot on site -- just like we would if someone was caught in the middle of murdering other humans.
Google Faces New EU Complaint Over Android
If that is how cooking times are my slow cooker can make a mean stew in a few minutes - but you'll need to start it a half day before you want to eat it. If you remove the foil from a lasagna for the last five minutes and set a new timer, did it only take 5 minutes?

I don't get the trend in instant pot directions to say it only takes X minutes when it is really warmup + X + cooldown. It really doesn't help anyone know when to start cooking a meal.

I can make anything from ice cream, cheesecake, pizza, stew, sauces etc. from scratch without a recipe, but I find instant pot recipes to be some of the worst I've ever come across. It has a steep learning curve. That said, I think I'll like it when I figure out how to get what I want out of it. Maybe I'll even write a real recipe for it.
Go to an industry site like www.napbs.com and look around.
Since serverless uses AWS primarily. I'm assuming if I put all my eggs in the serverless basket and Amazon has some amazing outage. I'm screwed?

To which I don't understand the appeal of serverless besides having no servers lol.
The "evidence" appears to be simply that one anonymous group about which nothing is known was going after targets that would presumably be of interest to Russia.

But that's simply heresy: such targets might also be of interest to western intelligence, or really anyone who wanted to stir up trouble by framing another country.

All we can say is that the correlation is interesting, but that's about it.
Seems like your proposal would reduce the incentive to get drugs to market quickly?
> I don't think GP was relevant or that he's sympathetic, but he did post something mildly interesting I didn't know before; because of this I chose not to vote.

Here's the background:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385178

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3683994

> I don't think the flagging was proportionate, I'd prefer it to hover around the bottom of the comment section.

I spoke ill of Altman, PG's anointed one. I'd be surprised if I were met with anything less.
This was an interesting read and we will do our best to avoid this fate.

Right now we're focusing on patching bugs and providing a stable service, but in the future a premium service will be created which targets heavy users.

PS
You can change the status of the last active host in your list (Minus.com) to shut down as well.
Quit with the fucking conspiracy theories. Seriously -- can we get a fucking mod in here to get rid of this shit.
Arguably loading DLLs from non-system folders is bad design in this day and age.
Through leaks like this one. Leaks that can be partially validated or corroborated, but which (by their nature) cannot be entirely proven true.

And those leaks were very transparently beneficial to a person/group who are also going to benefit from this one.

I don't trust the CIA at all. But I don't trust Wikileaks either. I see way too many self-described "skeptical" types who aren't approaching any of this with any shred of skepticism.
What is a reasonable VPN-solution today?
We use a VPN-solution from CheckPoint which requires Active/X or Java in a browser. This was always troublesome for some operating systems, and with the release of Firefox 52 (which does not run Java-applets) it just gets worse.

What is a reasonable VPN-solution today? It MUST support Windows, it SHOULD support Linux and MacOS, and i guess it SHOULD support mobile devices (iOS, Android), too.
Where did the ISO:s go? Please give us something with a known hash.

I attempted to create the offline installer [1] but the vs_community.exe just silently quit after some mintues, having downloaded only some certificates.

The custom download idea is easily planted with malware and all those bad things.
Also, please consider upgrading from SHA-1.

> We understand that a lot of customers want an offline installer for Visual Studio 2017. Even though we don't offer an ISO image, it's easy to create your own.

1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create...
I've been tempted to stop using it, but instead just shut off notifications. I really like being able to pull it up quickly to see when code has been pushed up, pull requests created / merged, or whatever automated CI action is going on for a particular project.

The chatter can burn a lot of time though. You're absolutely right there.
College and inequality
Edit: deleted, for very valid criticism. Next time I won't post in a rush during work hours.
Malware running on a phone can do anything it wants, take screenshots, record messages/typing, etc. Unfortunately, the article is misleading by claiming encryption was bypassed.
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Glad to see CIA hackers are Dr. Who fans!

"Weeping Angel" makes it look like a Samsung television is off while it is really on and recording the room. Precisely what the Weeping Angel does during the Dr's first encounter.
Or a very good time. One's circumstances are seldom that much dependent upon their beliefs about the world.
While I don't think the CIA is above killing a US citizen on US soil (you know, for "security" or something), I don't think they need to hack a vehicle to do it, nor would they want to draw the unnecessary speculation and attention. I would expect antics like that to be reserved for high-ranking foreign officials or other hard-to-reach people. If there's one thing that agency should be expected to excel in, it's untraceable targeted killings.
Good timing in light of the Okta Stormpath announcement.
The belief that they're using rhino horn as an aphrodisiac is made up by western culture. The people consuming it do not believe this.

https://www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/threats_to_rhino/poa...
> C/C++ is memory safe if you turn on dynamic checking.

What's the option to turn that on? Which compilers is it in?

I know there were several fat-pointer patches to GCC back in the day, but I didn't think anything remotely similar had ever gone mainstream. There's just too much existing code that relies on undefined behavior last I checked.
I think what we're seeing is that "SIGWAR" is a thing. Why blow up something if you can undermine it?

If you think about it, it's similar to how the physical world evolved. I was recently up at Fort Ticonderoga, which is an example of a fort designed to resist and leverage the cannon as a defensive weapon. In Europe forts of similar design were nearly impregnable, but ultimately obsolete -- mobility and artillery rendered fixed positions useless. There's a similar thing at play here!
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Such a heart warming thing to do, this made me tear up now

Such a beautiful person (the wife)

I sincerely wish things were better. My hear goes out to you :')
Harder to imagine that you can do it with his appointments. Billionaires, cronies, prejurers, and people with conflicts of interest a mile long. People who have not the foggiest understanding of the departments they are running.

What exactly qualifies someone to be a 'drain the swamp' candidate? Because at first glance, they sure aren't it.
Control of the local device has always meant game over. How could it be otherwise?
I don't understand making this point unless it's to give yourself permission not to think about this. Feel free not to.
Wow — that is extremely surprising. I did not expect that behavior at all. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to let a builtin command absorb the pipe symbol?!
Several banks here in Brazil require a "security" plugin (which acts more like malware) for one to be allowed to use online banking. I wonder how the end of NPAPI will affect this.
This nice summation really reminds me of a quote from Shawshank Redemption which is, I must admit, not the most flattering in a business context:

>I'm a convicted felon who provides sound financial advice - it's a nice pet to have.

The best takeaway for Technical / SV minded folks in this posting is quite clear: The odds of success are greatly enhanced when you have a Top Flight Communicator at your disposal. An ability to "walk amongst the tribes" is very important. It's a lot like getting various human systems into harmony / unison (nerves and cardiovascular for instance).

I can state from first-hand experience with Bids/RFPs for projects worth tens of thousands to billions that the most important person in the room is the Proposal Coordinator and they get the least respect and compensation out of the gate. It's realistically a horribly stressful job that is only rewarding to a very select group of people, one of which happens to be me. I've learned how to herd cats.

If I wanted to be, uh, less generous in my perspective, the Machiavellian perspective is much more clear: "Manipulating people is a profitable enterprise."

That's why I have a photo of Winston Wolf in my peripheral vision every day at work, because his motto makes the most sense in a world plagued by Murphy's Laws...

>My name is Winston Wolf. I solve problems.
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My computer connects to this host:"edge-star-mini-shv-01-frt3.facebook.com (Ip: 31.13.92.36)"
It has successfully been done in the past, so yes, you could do that.
I help launch products here at Microsoft and run developer events (including this launch) but at heart and for 18+ years I'm a developer first, and I can totally relate to what you mean in terms of everything being part of the bigger story that matters.

I am very biased so don't listen to me lol, but I do think Windows 10 and the various developer tools release we've done over the last few years have really pushed things forward but of course we are very much listening to our community so please make your voice heard.
the link is a above
Thats the thing, they capture the data before its sent over the wire, as you type it or speak it. you ->capture->app->encrypt
I've only ever been to the ones in Portland, Oregon, but I haven't seen any of the quack remedies outside of the homeopathy and nutrition aisle (the same way that Fred Meyer does it).

I'd be more inclined to call it 5% of the floor space at most, but maybe there are differences between stores.
Your android alarm app or iOS app could to be listening and uploading as well. So...
http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/09/pressure-cooker-recipes.h... is a great resource. The Texas chili is incredible: it's about ~10 mins of prep (saute beef; prep chilis), 30 mins under pressure and ~10 mins to boil off the excess liquid at the end and thicken. When compared to the hours it'd take in a dutch oven or slow cooker, it turns "weekend meals" into weekday ones.
From what I've heard, patients are often more aware of their own bodies than people give them credit for. Ie. If someone thinks they're dying, you should believe them.
Having another human there to reassure a scared patient that a treatment plan gives them their best chance is invaluable.
Having lived in both the UK and US I find the cost of medicines very hard to understand here. For example in the UK I can buy a ventolin inhaler for £10 over the counter (if I went to the Doctor it would be free). But in the US, an inhaler costs me $60 (with insurance).

Why is it that much more expensive here?
I created a spec called MOML and is a markdown-friendly alternative to YAML. It uses plain markdown but allows you to section off parts of the markdown file in order to organize data in a sensible fashion. It has support for arrays so far it only has support for 3 data types: small text, text, and array (of small text or text).

I'm slowly adding features to it like typing, object nesting, etc.

I created it for easier blogging. I'm not a fan of YAML because it's indent-based and I wanted to have a markdown file that hosts all the information about a post on it from the date, to snippet, to main text, title, metadata, hell even a sidebar ad, and author, etc.

I did end up creating a parser for it that I couple with a blogging engine.

The current compiler transforms the MOML file into a JS object
Facebook reports journalists to police for flagging possible child porn
> why aren't major vendors devoting a fraction of the resources to find this stuff and fix it on their own?

I'm pretty sure most of the competent ones are... it's just really slow, expensive, hard work, with little financial upside (beyond preventing the financial downside of disastrous long-tail exploits). Spending ever more on it probably isn't an easy sell to business people with normal (read: bad) human probabilistic intuitions. And a lot of the people best at it probably just choose to work for themselves because they can auction their work to IC or criminal collectors for much more than they'd get from a fixed rate bug bounty.
The grandparent post was pointing out that once you've decided to hire someone for one day they'll probably be around for at least 6 months. That's where the majority of the cost comes from.
Do you really think reimportation would work? It hasn't worked in the past.

A decade or so ago there was a big push to import cheaper drugs from Canada. What did drug companies do? Put a cap on how much drug would be sold in Canada. Canadians ended up restricting exports so that they had enough drug for their own citizens.
http://krishna-kanaiya-photos-images.blogspot.com/2017/02/ha...
> So this is full, 100% Visual Studio for Mac (soonish), or is it Xamarin Studio rebranded?

No isn't an answer to that question.

> Visual Studio for Mac will be our Mac IDE going forward and will grow in features, sure its past is Xamarin Studio but its future will have A LOT of investment so its worth checking out in Preview 4.

Is a good answer to that question.
Wood is a renewable resource, and most paper comes from tree farms, just like housing timber. Which is why the wood is so soft these days, compared to the old trees they used to clear cut.

"According to the USDA Forest Service, four million trees are planted every day in the United States. Of this amount, the wood and paper products industry plants on average 1.7 million trees daily,1 excluding millions of additional seedlings regenerated naturally. In Canada, natural regeneration is supplemented by the planting of 600 million seedlings per year."

"According to The State of America’s Forests, a report released by the Society of American Foresters, replanting and reforestation efforts have helped keep forestland stable. There are nearly 750 million acres of forests in the U.S. — about the same as 100 years ago. Annual net growth of U.S. forests is 36 percent higher than the volume of annual tree removals. Total forest cover in the U.S. and Canada basically remained the same from 1990 to 2005.3 Furthermore, less than one half of one percent of Canada’s forestland is harvested annually.4 Sustainable forests are also carefully managed to help prevent catastrophic damage from fires, disease and insects."
Not really. Every Whole Foods I shopped at only had a small homeopathy section along with shampoos and beauty products, most of the stuff they sell is regular food just organic.
Like many Poettering products, PulseAudio polarizes. There's one minority of users with either quirky setups or just bad luck for whom it just doesn't work, so they have to stick with ALSA. One minority of users (including me) who really loves the features it puts on the table (e.g. per-app volume control, effortless network transparency).

And of course, there's a large majority of users who couldn't care less, and who will just choose whatever their distribution installs (which is why I think the most Linux users not using PulseAudio are on those distros which don't install any sound stuff by default, e.g. Arch).
Do you really think that those things make it easier? It seems like when languages do these kind of "beginner friendly" features, they just end up as gotchas and quirks. (Like in JS or SQL)