skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that he may make significant changes at those agencies as a result of their "feuding" with him.

And? What does that have to do with the tech community being critical of three letter agencies?

> but their reason for doing so was orthogonal to Trump himself.

I don't care what the reasoning is, Assange explicitly stated that he wasn't going to release info on Trump because he felt the media was sufficiently critical of him and he has kept up with that promise and maintained a mostly positive disposition regarding Trump, that's Trump support. Don't misunderstand, I don't think supporting Trump invalidates any of the info that wikileaks has released, my point is precisely the opposite, that this info was released despite their support for Trump so if Trump hadn't have won the election, it makes sense that they would have been just as critical if not more so.
I don't think you can really consider North Korea "orthodox communism".
Trump is crazy & I'm willing to believe the Russians helped him

Do you know how I know that you know nothing about US politics?
Well, the energy scales with the diameter to the third power (we go from 3m to 30m, so x1000) and linearly with the depth (we go from 100m to 700m, so x7). So in total, a factor of 7000 if everything is ideal.

What I mentioned in the post above (4MWh) is a 30m sphere at 100m.

I agree with your point, but am unconvinced that the system is scalable.
If it's true that all audio is being sent to Amazon, I will throw my Echo out today. That's a serious invasion of privacy and breach of trust.
The removal of XUL addons is scheduled for Firefox 57. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firef...
One thing I also notice is that the silicone seal inherits past smells of things you've cooked. Seems to be hard to get rid of the smell too.
You're missing the irony here.
This is a blank white page in Chromium. No JS errors in the console. When switching from this tab to another tab and back again, the contents of the prior tab are partially clipped into a top-centered rectangle. No functionality or other behavior can be observed.
AMD Naples server processor: More cores, bandwidth, memory than Intel
https://testpilot.firefox.com/ Looks like they're focusing on UX to me.
I made ChoiceScript, a DSL for writing interactive novels in the style of choose-a-path gamebooks, but longer, richer, and deeper. https://www.choiceofgames.com/make-your-own-games/choicescri...

The goal was to build a language simple enough that we could teach it to non-coder authors, to scale up the number of interactive novels we could publish.

It seems to be working. ChoiceScript is the core of our business; we're profitable with a staff of four editors, a production assistant, plus me, the main tech person. We've found that ChoiceScript makes it easier to teach writers to code than it is to teach coders how to write.
Lofree: typewriter inspired mechanical keyboard
Thank you for pointing that out, I don't use the sync feature because I don't like giving too much info to 3rd party services but I never considered running it on one of my servers.

I've just skimmed through this guide: https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html#h...

It doesn't look too difficult and it says that running your own account server is optional. Or does it mean that you can run your own sync server using a mozilla account? I'm not sure I understand how sync server and accounts server interact exactly...
Right, and that's part of what makes chronic lyme so unlikely. We've got a known mechanism for lyme disease, and chronic lyme advocates try to hand-wave away the fact that that evidence of that mechanism can't be found in its alleged sufferers.
MongoDB releases free tier for hosted MongoDB Atlas
Today MongoDB released a free tier for MongoDB Atlas. Atlas is a database-as-a-service run by MongoDB itself.

The free tier is their Atlas M0 instance and contains 512MB of storage.

Along with the free tier announcement, they also debuted a tool called MongoMirror which will facilitate migration of existing replica sets into MongoDB Atlas.

One nice contrast of Atlas vs. Amazon or Google's cloud database offerings is that they are planning support for Azure and Google Cloud Platform as well which will offer cross-vendor redundancy.

https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/announcing-free-tier-and-live-migration-tool-for-mongodb-atlas

https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas
It does, actually. A cynical person might say the Vietnam War constituted payday for the defense industry.

Crimea was about strategic resources (which ultimately boil down to money), and global posturing. Barely even a pretense of an underlying moral justification beyond nationalist rhetoric.
Types+of+leadership
you can't “upgrade” the free cluster per se, but at 512MB, it should be pretty quick and easy to do a dump/restore. the migration tool also lets you stream data from one live cluster to another
I don't know if it's just my computer, but Firefox lags horribly on my Mac after a certain amount of usage whereby I always have to restart the browser because the experience after a certain amount of usage, even if there's only one or two tabs open, is unbearable. And right now, the only add-on I have on it as uBlock Origin.

Whereas Chrome can have over a dozen tabs open and it still operates well. Which is a shame because I was hoping to switch over back to Firefox.
So who do you think actually will use this site and for what? For pirated content there are tons of free torrent sites. For legit content Google Drive, Dropbox and many others offer very generous free to use packages. Why would I ever use a file sharing site like this instead?
Suppose someone is a felon, can the average Joe run a background check to know what crime was committed?

I.e would happily hire someone who was caught in possession of marijuana or a bit of drugs, but not a pedophile, mobster or serial killer.
>Elect a despised criminal to be party's candidate
>Don't understand why they lost
>Blame Russia
>Continue getting nowhere

Yes, Trump is the crazy one.
Um... Isn't it downright against the TOS of that affiliate program? This is in line with every shady torrent site that hijacks clicks to force an affiliate link. Is this not outright cookie stuffing?
I was heartened by how poorly "add hn to cart" would actually do on this site. Most of those articles are instantly killed by various filters. Maybe I should go back and have another read through the comments, but that was my takeaway and also something I've noticed when browsing /new.

That said, it doesn't surprise me to see this at the top of HN. It is a geeky cooking tool with a cult following. I'm certainly intrigued.
The system works best over the long term if IPO shares are a little bit underpriced. Bankers have no trouble moving them and earning their fees, buyers are happy to take them because they get some pop and the company feels like they captured most of the value from the shares they sold.

A big pop says the shares were underpriced and the company left money on the table. A decline means the shares were overpriced and the buyers may become reluctant in the future.

For a company that only IPOs once, they don't really care if buyers become reluctant next time but they do care if a narrative develops that they have a loser stock.
Past few days I've been making a Befunge JIT that targets WASM: https://github.com/serprex/Befunge/blob/master/funge.js

Ended up finding that Firefox 52 is overly accepting in validation. Dead code is allowed to pop from an empty stack, whereas in Chrome that's not allowed (as per spec). It's fixed already in next versions of Fx
I have an espresso machine and an aeropress. The aeropress was about a tenth of the price and I use it 90 percent of the time.
I also ran some file/image hosting sites in early 2000s and another reason not to do them is that people post the most vile content and moderating can cause ptsd.
Just to clarify: The Echo - the hardware - is processing audio constantly to spot the wake word. Alexa - the cloud software - is definitely not "listening the whole time." Yes, the wake word spotting may occasionally trip a false positive, in which case the lights go on (and you can set it to also make a sound any time it wakes, if you prefer.)
With both of these, it seems that improving your skills may significantly reduce your perceived time expenditure. If you are proficient with a vegetable peeler it doesn't take much time at all to use, and depending on what you're doing will improve your results.
Sadly, I'm not a billionaire. And privatise is a strong word - I think governments do a crappy job of it and I'd like to try! (I have stood for election, but winning while being nice is hard. note: I haven't stopped trying.)
Really? Now I'm wishing I hadn't given away our unused pressure cooker in our most recent housing move.
It's also been in Chrome for years.
But it has a lot to do with the information they omit, amirite? Isn't that why they accused the panama papers of being a CIA operation without any evidence, because they wanted to give cover for the Russian establishment they cut television deals with?
Disclaimer: I used to work for MongoDB, but left more than 2 years ago.

I'm really happy to see the free tier as an option - I was a big fan, user, and advocate of MMS back when that was a free option for monitoring, and accessibility to Atlas has been lacking a "try before you buy" option (though I did pick up free credit from the MongoDB booth in Re:Invent, it makes it hard to recommend to others).

Also great to see an official utility for migrations with MongoMirror too. These things, along with the Jepsen tests now being in CI (and passing in 3.4) seemed so far away when I left MongoDB, really great to see them come to fruition :)
I've had 4 or 5 up bands.
They keep breaking (physically).

I would love to replace them but there is nothing remotely competitive when it comes to sleep tracking. And sleep tracking has been hugely beneficial.
Security through obscurity isn't a thing
There's also this primer, recently out: https://www.amazon.com/Causal-Inference-Statistics-Judea-Pea...
I keep repeating this, but the days when Mozilla cared about Firefox are gone with Blake Ross.
I work full time (from home) and go to class 3 nights a week. The other nights I am usually doing homework. The lack of time and my own laziness means going to the grocery store gets put off. I don't even like leaving the house to get a meal everyday, as I view the time spent driving as a waste. I recognize how absurd that is, but there is just a lot I would rather be doing than spending 30 minutes fetching lunch (12 there, 12 back, 6 minutes ordering).

Most of the delivery services to my area (not the heart of a city) have high minimums, and I have dietary restrictions, so those meals are about 20 dollars each. Given that, I drive to Chipotle just about every day, as that is one of the closest restaurants I can eat at. Even if I did go shopping, finding 30 minutes or an hour to deal with cooking is also inconvenient.

Even if not working, I'd rather save an hour and hang out with my girlfriend, watch a show, work on a side project, or pet my dogs. There are dozens of things I would rather be doing than going shopping or fetching lunch. I have 5 projects I would love to work on that I don't have time for. That is mostly due to grad school, but given that there are things I want to be doing, that are not being done, it makes everything I'm indifferent about look like a time sink.
There's a link in the article to one.
Social problems tend to require a different, fuzzier toolkit that involves emotional labour. Especially when you're working with areas that are not broadly understood. You're starting from the assumption that only those types of solution are valid, whereas most social change is neither scientific nor technological but word-driven and operating in the emotional domain.

Starting from the assumption that every worthwhile problem must have a scientific or technical solution is exactly the hammer looking for nail that comments here are complaining about.
That looks like more than one line, and not technically HTML.

Check out http://chartd.co for one line of actual HTML (no JS required).
This is the way it should be in every browser, actually. View source (as in the raw non-corrected source) can take up a considerable amount of space since it's only ever needed when someone is viewing the source. Otherwise the "source" gets transformed internally to be compliant with what the browser can understand and render.

Unless you were talking about some other kind of view source?
Data destruction and wiping
This is the old version of hangouts, so I guess a) because WebRTC didn't exist/was too new at the time, and b) hats
Pretty much everything in the article is simply unworkable for nearly every company on the planet, but to be fair, there's a huge difference between what the article is talking about -- doing actual company work for a few weeks in the case of Automattic -- and reversing a linked list on a whiteboard while an engineer pretends to read your CV.
Though the article stipulates the Echo was streaming something (music?) at the time - which could infer more 'active' attention - I also think this is more of a fishing expedition. I have serious doubts that the Echo recorded anything of value. I base this perspective of having numerous interactions with Echo devices and observing how routinely poor they are at listening in even completely silent rooms.

I enjoy the devices, but also scoff at the "OMG CSI TECH ENHANCE!!" spin that can kind of find its way into discussions via less-than-knowledgeable journalists. Or ones who want to amp it up. Whatever the case, I think it's kind of interesting to hear about.

I do pity the audio tech who might have to get the audio file, put it in a DAW and turn it all the way up to listen for, uh, evidence. Ouch.
Out of curiosity, what's your opinion of Squiffy?
Trump Sends Pharma Stocks Down with New Tweet on Drug Prices
Once upon a time this behavior would have been determined by hardware. For a device developed this decade, however, there's no way that a PCB design would determine this. Rather, this behavior is determined by the firmware loaded onto the microcontroller.

Even if one didn't know that, the fact that the trigger word is easily changed by the user should indicate that everything is in software.
WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents
Yeah, that's a definite issue I've had in dealing with mine. Fortunately, they're easy to swap in/out and are mostly affordable to buy new ones ($11 for a two pack on amazon right now).

I have one I use for the chilis, bbq, ribs, etc I do. One for soups and such, etc. It's a slight pain I guess, but the ease of use of the Instant Pot in general outweighs swapping out the silicone seal occasionally.
It was pretty much an open secret already.
Not really. In the first two years (from May 1957 to May 1959), R-7 had 56% failure rate (23 launches, 13 failures). It is now one of the most reliable rockets.
C14 Intensive – New Storage Option for Intensive Upload and Retrieval Operations
Or Why don't we have like a "Open BSD" equivalent on the Android Platform?
Show HN: Emoji Analysis of GitHub Commit Messages
The London Whale Resurfaces: Bruno Iksil Speaks Out
I think it's sporadically refixed and rebroken.
Are you optimistic about any technology in particular for grid level storage?
The very famously anti-Putin pussy riot has stated that Wikileaks has become a Russian propaganda front. I wonder why Wikileaks didn't cite them as part of their 'vibrant ciriticism'?
MongoDB Atlas Free Tier Release Day
MongoDB is best known for its world leading NoSQL database product, the company also launched Atlas, a managed database-as-a-service offering that runs on AWS.
Starting now MongoDB offers some interesting facts for free:

- Spin up a free, 3-node replica set perfect for learning and prototyping
- they do not request a credit card or anything else for payment
- You can directly start coding against MongoDB

some limitations exist, of course. You’ll only get limites of storage. But you are still able to get get access to the same highly available Atlas clusters as paying customers. So not bad to get a quick start in minutes without the need of any deeper DBA knowledge. Just try it and most likely you will stay, as I did since it is really easy and full professional.
Indonesia has its first Hyperloop firm
I didn't flag it, but I'd imagine a lot of people don't trust the source (any more).

Edit: Why the downvotes? I didn't indicate my position, I pointed out that some people don't trust WikiLeaks any more, which is obvious - go and look at the responses they get on twitter.
Yeah, I know the process isn't exactly straightforward.
Hell, most speakers can conceivably be used to record audio.
Exactly. Your only target are unemployed, which lowers your pool of possibilities a lot.
Firefox for Android recently stopped showing me the "Send to Firefox" option in the share menu. I previously used it all the time to send tabs to my desktop. Does anyone know what happened or how to get it back?
I'm in the process of making a user-facing scripting language for my hobby project Rolz.org (https://rolz.org), that's going to be a very simple affair.

My only attempt at making a "serious" language was np-lang (http://np-lang.org/tutorial - but it's defunct right now). Initially I made an interpreter in Java, later I made a parser that creates bytecode for a slightly mutated Lua VM. The reason why it's not being maintained right now is that, while basing the runtime on the Lua VM was attractive at first, it was really a dead end for me productivity-wise because I ended up spending more time with the Lua internals than was practical.

The reason why I started the np-lang experiment was that I wanted to experiment with a language that could ultimately become my scripting language of choice for web projects. I was never happy enough with it though.

I'll probably try again to make a language with that goal in mind, when I have some time and motivation to spare.

Apart from that I created several toy programming languages over the years because it's fun and I think it's also practice that can make you a better programmer by gaining a deeper understanding of the design decisions that go into a programming language and its runtime.

I also made some project-specific DSLs, mainly to facilitate configuration and user scripting. And simple, BASIC-like scripting interpreters for toy RPG projects.
This is the second, possibly third, time I've seen you link to your post about public file hosting - and this is the second, possibly third, time I'll agree entirely.

There are tons of pomf.se clones - many that have been going on for years as well. The important part for many of these hosts is that (a) enough people donate to keep it online and/or (b) the community remains small enough to remain affordable for the dev. Personally I use a combination of safe.moe and mixtape.moe.

Often times I've noticed these are "labor of love" projects where a dev can work on learning how to (a) keep a server running and (b) upgrade services without any/significant downtime, etc. Standard DevOps things. The monthly cost to these sort of people is seen as a "learning cost" in a real environment where they have hundreds of, if not thousands or more, users depending on them to not mess things up.

>I hate that if I look at a forum post written >5 years ago, odds are all of the images will be broken.

Inactivity pruning is largely to blame for this, not just new websites going under. IIRC, even Imgur does pruning after 6 months of inactivity (no views) which is totally possible on niche technical forum posts.
This is effectively Raskolnikov's justification for committing murder in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Sorry for the spoiler, but you've had 150 years to read it.
TBH, it's actually just a neat set of commands for configuring wireshark on Ubuntu to run without requiring root - which is potentially useful for anyone. (Most people don't like running apps as root)
I made a toy language called Cowbel to experiment with various language minimalism features:

http://cowlark.com/cowbel/example.html

It's an attempt to take as many features as possible out of a language and still have an expressive Javascript-like language. It worked pretty well, but of course, actually producing the compiler is the easiest part of any new programming language.

Features include:

- all types are anonymous (although interfaces are named)

- aggressive type inference which allows the compiler to distinguish between scalars, direct objects and indirect objects (via a vtable) at compile time --- not only does it do direct function calls if it knows what type an object is, but you don't have the scalar/object schizophrenia that Java and C++ does; integers are just objects implementing the int interface, but there's no object overhead

- very limited compiler knowledge of the language semantics --- int semantics like addition, subtraction etc are defined in the standard library

- template-based generics, full closures, nested functions

- multiple return values

- objects, methods (but no classes)

- non-nullable

- compiles into C for maximum interoperability

It was going to have prototypical inheritance via composition, where an object could inherit methods from an arbitrary number of other objects, but I never got round to implementing that bit.

One of the bits I'm most proud of is that I managed to unify block scopes and object constructors. {...} constructs an object. The only difference between one used as a block and one used as a constructor is whether you assign the result to anything --- the compiler just optimises everything away is you don't! This makes nested functions and methods identical, and drastically simplifies the language semantics...

if (condition) { thisIsABlock(); }
var object = { thisIsAnObject(); }

It's not actually useful, mind. There are too many rough edges and the compiler tends to crash if you give it invalid code. But it was really interesting to do.
> They're attempting to establish the precedent today.

At least this situation didn't give them the precedent; the defendant consented, so the court never got the ability to demand it from Amazon.
I dabble in computer vision. (e.g. http://git.io/fluidAR) If you share some example photos I could give it a try.
Curious what it is. No CSRF token?
This doesn't contain the accounts server, only the sync: https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html
Does it not work to select all, right click and "view selection source"?
Terrible article. How do you test for it, and how do you treat it. Neither of those things is addressed at all. She doesn't even make a compelling case for "buy my book".
> the official Instant Pot Facebook group

Well, that's a potentially clickbaity-sounding headline justified!
I was thinking about this -- I'm too afraid to try it, but if I said, "Alexa call 911", does that functionality exist?

Is there a skill I can install that would let me say something like, "Alexa start recording audio to the cloud"?
The hyperledger equivalent of ethereum's smart contracts is called chaincode. I'm playing around with it now - so far enjoying it much more than smart contracts.

https://github.com/IBM-Blockchain/learn-chaincode
The problem I have right now is that when I view the source of a page I'm working on, I get the source of the login page instead. I don't think that is justifiable behaviour.
Looks cool
does it really work with WASM or asm.js ?
Was wondering the same thing. I had an old one and the pressure relief mechanism looked pretty foolproof. Basically just a weight sitting on top of a vent tube -- when the pressure got high enough, the weight was lifted and the pressure released.
80 ways to retarget users on Facebook
As a Computer Scientist, I actually find the distinction Turing and non-Turing to be rather obscure. Perhaps I am in the ignorant minority on this.
I think the other reason was more important... People see chores as work, and have more enjoyable things they could be doing.