skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that something /given away for free/ should have a different standard than something which is sold as a product or service.
Can Job Hopping Be a Good Thing?
The Punctuation Guide
As one of the other commenters suggested, I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Economist.
I'm sick of this "fake news" crap. It's just called "news" and it hasn't been fair or objective in any western country for over a century.

I actually have a lot of respect for Scott Adams, and I feel that he, and others, who supported the unpopular side of the Americans Next Best President reality show that was on last year, have been unjustly labelled for what was a set of equally terribly choices.

Scott Adams constantly uses "Cognitive Dissonance" (so does Bill Nye and the vSauce guy Michael .. it's the buzz word of the year) and says in his blog that you can't tell when you're in it, even though he claims he's not in a state of Cognitive Dissonance himself!

I have an unpopular view myself, I think the game is rigged, the parties are the same, the points don't matter and that no matter which president gets elected, we'll go to more wars (Obama started bombing 5 countries. Clinton would have done the same. So will Trump. America's industry is dependent on war).

While I respect Scott Adams and don't think he should face the unjust criticism he has gotten, I still don't agree with his outlook. I don't think he's an idiot or racist or deceived. I think that all of America is simply on the losing side of the false left right divide, and have said as much:

http://fightthefuture.org/articles/the-fallout-of-american-a...

I could be wrong though. Maybe there is a difference between the two parties? I might have fallen into nihilism; accepting only the sources that feed my world view that America's political system is hopelessly corrupt and broken. I wouldn't mind being wrong, but I don't think that is the reality.

It's important to doubt your axioms and to constantly challenge your world view. Beware of nationalism or standing behind a person or idea because you feel you have to. Cognitive dissonance is giving the electric shock to the other person in the Milgram experiments because you didn't see that there were other options, and the reality is you won't know for sure what you'd do until you are in that situation.
Any evidence?
It's not clear to me that it will ever work outside of special cases on any ZFS implementation - see also ryao's two comments here [1], but briefly, ZoL seems to primarily think this would be feasible to implement in a not backward-compatible or upgradable-on-old-datasets way, using the dedup mechanisms, and ZFS's dedup is...well, it's a four-letter word in a number of ZFS circles.

[1] - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/405#issuecomment-50...
Republican Nunes Tries to Give Trump Cover on Wiretap Claim
The quote implies that Apple left him in the dust after 20 years, but if you look at careful phrasing it leaves open that Apple offered him an alternative position.
I think I liked spiders before I got bit by a brown recluse. Now I like dead spiders.
I wouldn't provide access to most of those data because I don't have the means to and I wouldn't want to either. My businss strategy is to build "strong NLP" without having to treat users as bags-of-valuable-data that I can sniff. But to integrate with a open map service would absolutely fall within the scope of my offering.

The research we would do in my team would be cutting-edge. But we would never even attempt to achieve what Google is achieving when they sniff their Android users. Why would we be cutting-edge? I don't know, but that would be our aim. Here's an example of what we would be doing in the NLP domain:

"Give me the latest sales numbers."

parse:

Give=exec
latest=DateTime.Now-x
sales=sp_daily_sales

exec:

exec sp_daily_sales '2017-03-23'
This is amazing..I wish we had this in India, which is still catching up to high end coffee.

As a coffee obsessed , but curious hacker - what is the biggest technical challenge in for this? Is it the brewing, or the bean selection..or the freeze drying?
ES2015: The Spread Syntax
Ouch. Mind sharing what it was like?
If using composite video and a PAL TV, you can also blend colors by using alternating horizontal stripes because PAL TVs use a delay line to cancel the chroma information with the line above it. Exactly what color you got would depend on the specifics of your TV's decoding.
I agree, give them all the control they need to keep their ads or content disassociated with the undesirable corners of the site but unless actual crimes are being committed we shouldn't have any videos being taken down for anything. Censorship of content on YouTube is the digital equivalent of burning books.
It used to work fine for Google Plus iPhone users, until the app was updated to remove the feature. I have now changed to Glympse for iPhone/Android comparability.
For comparison, here's what Autodesk Inventor's 2D sketch mode is like.

- If you draw a line, and it's close to horizontal or vertical, it gets a horizontal or vertical constraint. The constraint shows as a symbol and you can click on it and hit DEL if you don't want it.

- If you start a line from very close to another line, or close to another point, the endpoint is constrained to touch that line or point.

- You can explicitly select various constraints from a menu bar, such as "parallel", "collinear", "coincident", "tangent", and then select two lines, which applies the constraint. This works on lines, circles, arcs, and splines.

- If you try to add a conflicting constraint, you get an error message and the constraint won't be applied. Constraints do not have priorities; all constraints are enforced.

- You can explicitly dimension something, and give it an absolute length or angle, or some function of other dimensions.

- Anything that isn't constrained can be dragged and moved. There's a counter of the number of unconstrained degrees of freedom, and when everything is locked by some constraint, the message "Fully constrained" appears. All unconstrained degrees of freedom are displayed as straight or curved arrows, indicating how something could be moved.

- The hard cases, such as making a arc tangent to a line, or circles tangent to each other, work right.

It's a really easy way to set up geometry for parts you're going to make. This is all part of a much larger system for full 3D machine design, but the sketch module is close to what you'd want for web layout.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. If you have something substantial to say... why not say it?
> a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks

I'm curious, how do they access functionality in other apps? Does iOS provide an API for that? Do the apps somehow cooperate? Or did they hack into the iOS kernel?
Cray did it first, that's why there's no patent dispute right now.
We used to have more automated web design than we have now. Remember Dreamweaver and Front Page?
The reason is pretty simple: the punishment is not great enough. If the gain from doing "bad" acts is greater from any expected punishment, expect the bad behavior to continue.
Groups are a feature that often provide enjoyable experiences for me. I'm a member of a few that have fairly vibrant communities, focusing on art and hobbies. People share tips, questions, humor, plan events, and make friends. Overall I feel the design and experience is inferior to reddit, HN or even vBulletin, but the reach and popularity of Facebook are inescapable, which means lots of members and lots of content.
I plan to use https://www.chargebee.com/ with stripe.
You've probably read the name here on HN, so here you go:

The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
A combination of selective memory, cherry picking and other logical fallacies can lead to cognitive dissonance. Things like nationalism, patriotism, propaganda and public relations can be used to place people into that state without them realising it. That is the power of advertising (ready about Edward Bernays and Anna Freud if you want to be really frightened).

Capitalism, communism, climate change, climate denial, racism, LGBT rights, reproductive rights, states rights, federal rights, debt, money, free markets, religion, atheism, healthy foods, unhealthy foods, pollution, consumerism, environmentalism ... you and I are wrong about one of these things. Statically we have to be. At least one of our core beliefs about society will eventually be proven entirely wrong at some point within the next century. Keep that in mind the next time you get into a political argument.
Were you on the last season of the pitch?

https://thepitch.fm/episode/sudden-coffee-season-2-episode-2
The day I can pay 10 cents to read an article through various sources will be the day I start paying to read online articles.
If an advertiser doesn't want to reach viewers on the largest and most concentrated video market on Earth then that's their own internal problem they need to deal with.

This is the brave new world. The free-market of information is beginning to show its teeth for better or worse and those who shy away from it will lose market share.
Actually if you print that infrequently you'd probably be better off with one of those 'office stores' as a print service.
Engineers: join Open Listings to automate real estate transactions
No I don't. I think it's a huge number. Think about all those diners, souvenir shops, whatever, who need websites no longer go to mom-and-pop website designers but click, click, click and they have a decent WordPress installation.

Remember those "website for $100” ads? All gone.
The em dash—typography's most versatile punctuation mark
Well, qubes requires technical expertise, and a lot of people have a tablet anyway.

My point is, if you want to check online banking, your tablet (ipad|android) is much more secure than your (windows|linux|mac) laptop. For example, here is how I would explain Android security to someone non-technical: "Do not ever enable 'unknown sources' setting, and always refuse if it asks you something about installing a keyboard". Try doing the same for full-featured laptop.
It's based on the premise that people go to Medium's home page, and are willing to pay to do that.
> Most of the major labs I've seen pay six figures easily to their top researchers.

Even a normal programmer easily makes six figures, I hope they are doing better than that given the demand in this space.
Mostly by URL scheme. Each app can provide any number of url schemes like workflow: or app-settings: or etc. Then they can use data from that URL or the clipboard.
> which specifically cites empirical testing

Are you serious? He tested /dev/zero to /dev/null and assumed that was somehow related to readahead of a hard disk.
But you don't need to be a programmer to install (and keep up to date) WordPress.

In fact, you can be a business owner, set aside a Sunday, and you're done. You don't need to hire anyone
That's pretty clever. If you used a tablet as a head unit, you could switch it into game mode when the engine is off and parked .. might drain your battery if you're not careful though. :-P
I think they're trying to fight for the iPad Pro in some respect. Though they won't endorse programming on it, they will benefit from more automation systems on the iPad making it into a more viable alternative to the general purpose computer.
I suppose but when you're already using Chrome using the Widevine CDM isn't a huge difference. When you're using Edge using the PlayReady CDM isn't a huge difference.

I see the general theory of the argument for Opera and especially Firefox but even so, why trust a CDM blob less than any other commercial binary?
Apps register URIs, so methods and screens can be tied to addresses. Workflow routes data between them.
In Apple's case, no, because their growth over the last decade is insane. But to be clear that table you posted shows that $1 in 1977 is worth $4.40 today. That is a big difference, mostly cause by the insane inflation of 1979-1981 (around 12% a year for three years). That makes the average inflation rate over the last 40 years 4%, which is double our target of 2%.
Congrats on the launch! This is really inspiring to see how polished a solo-founded startup can be :)
DOS Ain't Done 'til Lotus Won't Run.

Don't tell me it's a myth, same thing happened with DR-DOS as well.
I'm sure that's an appealing argument if you don't like DRM, but the reality is that someone who ripped content marked to their personal account, which server logs show did access the content in question from their usual IP address etc., is going to have a tough time convincing any court on the balance of probabilities that some unidentified bogeyman actually did it.
But my point is that this was going on for a while.

How many code-monkeys (who are real humans with real needs) can't find a job now because modern high level languages take out so much of the monotony of programming in the 50s?

How big would MS have to be if all code was written in Assembly?
Well, a-f and 0-9, and they are randomly assigned.
If a compromised account was used, presumably the server logs will show an unusual access pattern on that account, in particular involving the content that has leaked being accessed from an unusual location. And then presumably the person whose account was used will have to make a convincing case that they shouldn't be held responsible for access using their credentials anyway.
Thanks! And to add, how can one possibly become less confident instead of more confident in our media the older one gets? I think the media is just a tool, to be used by those with the strings of the reporters, or the reporters themselves, to drive a desired message. Truth is hard to find. Wait, I'm already a cynic. Oh well, I'll just go watch old shows on netflix like Star Trek TNG where I won't be inundated with carefully crafted dilemma's with equally carefully crafted solutions and virtue signaling. Wait a minute...
I suspect there's a vast grey area between what's actually against the terms of service and what some companies want their ads shown next to. For example, a video calling for Muslims to return to the middle East to fight in the jihad, with no actual graphic content, might not violate the TOS, but British Airways probably doesn't want their ad in the same zip code as that.
Have you measured acrylamide levels?
Do you all mean to say that nowhere in the near future will it be possible for a business person to speak out loud to their computer, asking it to show him on screen the latest sales figures regarding the new line of products he released yesterday?

"Give me the latest sales figurs for the new XLine line."

We coudn't parse that into

"exec sales_report '2017-03-23', 'xline-123'

thus rendering the data analyst job you used to have obsolete?

EDIT: Google will easily solve the problem of speach-to-code, or someone else will if Google's not interested once they "crack" NLP, and they will. But what does it mean to crack NLP? Well, they already have the means to build the perfect model. I love the word2vec idea and I think there can be innovation still, standing on the shoulders of that discovery. What would a perfect model mean? With a perfect model you would be able to spot concepts with unflawed precision and be able to translate those concepts, with unflawed precision, into whatever language you have. It's perfectly doable.
Is it just me, or is it a relatively new thing that FB focuses on public images/videos shared by friends rather than actual content made by friends.

I mean, it used till be a thing that "FB is where you go to see what your friends had for supper". Now it's more like " where you go to see news your friends likes".

I actually liked the first version more.
In my field (physics) I find that an increasing number of journals allow supplemental materials. You provide the main story in the text, but can add a lot in the supplemental materials. For example, suppose we have discovered a new material with some exciting properties. There is a fair amount of characterization that we do just to convince ourselves that we made what we think we made. A lot of this can go into the supplemental materials for those that want to make sure that we have done the standard sanity checks. A long time ago, you would write a short letter, then a longer report. That fell away, but I am really a fan of supplemental materials when used correctly.
Black car drivers were.
I was about 10 years old and at a bonfire at a summer camp in Texas. It was dark when I was bitten, so I never saw the spider. It felt like there was something between a mosquito and a cockroach on my ankle that was hard to shake off. The bite didn't hurt and I didn't notice it at the time.

Next morning, I'm completely out of energy and feel awful. There's a region about 2 inches by 1 inch on my ankle that is pink, gummy texture, and looks like it's lightly coated in a white balm. A family member recognizes it as a spider bite and then we find the fang marks. Go to the doctor, who diagnoses as either a brown recluse bite with a light to medium amount of venom or a full dose bite from relative of brown recluse. Get some pills (probably antibiotics) and a cream to put on the area and told to stay off my feet as much as possible for next 2 weeks.

Spend the next 2 weeks of summer mostly laying on a couch. Ankle is in mild aching pain, otherwise I feel fine. Watch ~.6cm of flesh of my ankle turn to mush and decide that spiders suck.

End up with a scar similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxoscelism#/media/File:BrownR... (warning: obviously mildly graphic). Scar has almost completely faded 15 years later, dislike of spiders has not. I still prefer spiders to ticks though.
Software used to predict crime can now be scoured for bias
Why Developers Should, and Shouldn't, Consider Microsoft SQL Server
Larger blocksizes are faster, but take more memory and interleave badly with other tasks since they are all-or-nothing. A large block can take a while and nothing else can read or write while it's running.

That's about it.

You want a blocksize sized so that it takes around 10 ms to write to disk. So around 128K to 1MB, depending on the underlying hardware.
Pornography, CP, and other things are regulated in the US and they can't legally do what you suggest.
i think one of the assembly party reports (94?) used it to show true color photos on vga.
Use tmux-resurrect as well. But I might give this one a go. Depending on the type of code that I am working on, I like to use slightly different tmux layouts, and it would be nice to use the per project capabilities.
The term is applied broadly to mean both works which argue that the holocaust did not even happened and those that challenge certain historical claims. It's a loaded phrase, used to cut off any possible discussion of the topic.
'New' wave-like cloud finally wins official recognition
Every ISP I used in the 90's sent a floppy or CD-ROM with a setup guide, web browser and some other shareware internet tools (FTP clients, Stuffit Expander on the Mac, etc)
It would be of no use (and the code can also be encrypted for additional obfuscation). There is no private data in the blob. The blob communicates to mothership once it's safe inside the enclave, and that's when sensitive data is transmitted over an encrypted channel which only the blob can decrypt inside the enclave.
Kudos for fixing the issue. I do question whether it was originally tested throughly on Linux in the first place, otherwise it's hard to see how such a major bug could have crept in.
Off topic-ish: There was a trick you could use on the Atari ST to display more than the allowed number of colours - you reloaded the palette data on each horizontal interrupt. Could this have been used on the C64 also?
Bill Gates starts satellite project to help people after natural disasters
Wow. Thanks! This CoCo is still teaching me. Love that thing.
No, that's all fine for mucking around and developing apps, but actual SGX needs attestation which the emulator can't fake. That's the whole point of SGX.
Could the wings be considered another set of legs? So they either have 4 pairs of legs, or 3 pair and a pair of wings.
It stigmatizes inquiry, it's shorthand for 'heretic', pariah.
"I know of at least one "seminal" robotics paper that was rejected from top venues multiple times for "simplicity" (lack of mathematics content) that went on to become a foundational paper in the field after appearing in a lower-tier venue years later."

Curious. Which paper is this?
I've mentioned this before but will mention my setup again because I think it's so great :)

ITerm has native TMux integration so you don't have to re-learn how to use TMux terminal (ex. copy and paste work differently, etc). I used to use Mosh + TMux for super durable connections and that worked beautifully. Unfortunately Mosh doesn't play well with ITerm's native integration so you can achieve a poor man's Mosh by using http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/.

All-together it looks something like this: Open iTerm. autossh -t myRemoteHost "tmux -CC -A"

(Of course I have an alias for this)
Ask HN: Why does OS X Spotlight's calculator assert N/0 = N?
Perhaps a trivial question, but I think it's interesting how digital devices handle mathematical inconsistencies/absurdities.

I can't say I've seen this sort of "screw it" approach before. Anyone out there know why this is the case with Mac?

If anyone is curious, the "Calculator" app returns quite considerately, "Not a number", so they don't seem to be run by the same engine. I also tried in spotlight with 0.0 to see if it was a float/int distinction, but no dice.

Note I'm running 10.10.5 (Yosemite)
I don't think this is recent but I'm glad people do it. If I read a title that seem shocking, I'm more likely to see that's it's true or have one of the first comments call it out upon quick glance.
I have mixed feelings about a lot of this.

For younger children, it's hard to object. But the general idea that you might give general access to your location info to a family member and that not doing so could become an issue feels... bothersome.

In a different vein, as someone who grew up pre-cell phones, I'm a bit bothered by the idea that you should always be reachable. That said, as satellite trackers/SMS/emergency beacon devices become more affordable I do start to ask myself if something like this isn't prudent on a relatively remote solo trip.
The Puzzling Performance of the Samsung 960 Pro
I hope this effort will include the folks with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team.[0] They've been doing some of the best work with satellite imagery after natural disasters for years.

[0] https://www.hotosm.org/
There is a three michilen star chef in Milan who uses instant coffee in his signature dish. Send him a sample!

I found someones version of the recipe:

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/112265-carlos-craccos-basma...
Do you lock the front door to your house when you leave?
In-process Chaos Monkey
Oddly enough, book Uber and open clipboard link in Chrome are two of the featured workflows in the tutorial. I added both and neither of them actually work :)
Not connecting them to the Internet would be a first step.
> Research in automatic programming is simply research in the implementation of higher-level programming languages.

That's most of what such research has been to date, but that doesn't mean that's necessarily all that automatic programming will ever be.

What is clear is that reasoning about programs is a remarkably difficult AI problem. Still, in a world where AlphaGo has beaten Lee Se-dol, I would not want to bet that it will never be solved.
Thanks, useful phrase!
Would either be faster on mobile? I feel like a gif would have been better in this case, and I generally dislike the format.
There was no palette to reload - the C64 (like most 8-bit systems) had a fixed palette in hardware.
Sunrise was integrated into Outlook quite some time ago.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12895358/microsoft-outlook...
AT&T... the company that advertises on fox news, that company.

Pot and the fucking kettle right there.
you could have turned into Spiderman.