skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't have a useful conversation if you can't or won't try to understand what the other person is saying.

> What an infantile way of thinking.

This is ad hominem. It is not an infantile way of thinking, but it is a distraction from the topic of conversation. It is also a strawman. What I said was that multiple sides can be morally correct, and you recharacterized that into a completely different statement before insulting what you just said. The worst criticism most people would have about my opinion is that they disagree with the idea that murdering a human could ever be morally acceptable, and many of the remainder would disagree that there could be more than one morally correct participant in a war.

> Sounds like you believe in a utopian ideal of a classless society.

I do not. I believe that it is necessary to have a wealthy upper class to advance technology and industrial development at a reasonable rate. I believe it is no longer necessary to have an impoverished underclass, as it is now possible to replace its former role in civilization with robotic labor. As such, social policies enacted to ensure that the underclass would continue to exist are no longer useful, and ought to be repealed, with different policies enacted. UBI is a good start on this, but I don't believe any of the currently popular conceptions for how it would work are economically viable.

I will not continue unless you can accurately paraphrase my position from what I have written. I can only argue as myself, and I won't argue as the opponent you have created in your mind that you wish for me to be.
This is really cool!

Just glanced through it, and saw this:

5.4.2
Orientation.
Labels and information thereon (i.e., words and symbols) shall
be oriented horizontally to read from left to right. Vertical
orientation, reading from top to bottom, may be used only when
labels are not critical for personnel safety or performance and
where space is limited. Where vertical orientation is necessary,
the characters shall be readable in an upright orientation as
depicted on figure 31. Sideways text and text read from bottom
to top are unacceptable.

Such a definition seems like common sense, and then I realized there is probably someone out there in the vast military industry who probably doesn't care enough and may actually place a label sideways from bottom to top...

It is also amazing how much longer it takes me to read a label when letters are arranged vertically but not sideways. Sideways and vertical is quicker for me.
Yeah. I had a real hard time conceiving of it as something that doesn't involve malt powder.
"Most" being the operative word.

"These improvements are unlikely to appease that minority of users that regard the mandatory telemetry as an unacceptable intrusion..."

by "minority", I assume the author means those pesky, conscientous types who prefer not to have every action disseminated for exploitation. Analytics make the world a better place, and they can be abused as spyware... it all comes down to trust. MS's history speaks for itself.
The actual list of what it gathers: https://technet.microsoft.com/itpro/windows/configure/config...

Included:

"Storage attributes, such as number of drives, type, and size" -- So ID numbers of all USB storage drives you've connected? Better not put sensitive data on a USB and send it to a journalist...

"the number of crashes or hangs, and application state change details, such as how much processor time and memory were used, and the total uptime for an app." -- To e.g. determine when you used the TOR browser, since the difference in uptime between two time points is how much it was up during that interval.

"App usage data. Includes how an app is used, including how long an app is used, when the app has focus, and when the app is started" -- Oh, never mind, they also explicitly state they gather which apps you have installed and how much and when you use them in the next section.

"Accessory device data. Includes a list of accessory devices, such as printers or external storage devices, that are connected to Windows PCs and whether these devices will function after upgrading to a new version of the operating system." -- Print poster and glue it to a wall -> Printer gets identified via tracking dots ( https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d... ) -> Printer is linked back to you, even if you bought it with cash. I hope you didn't print anything your local sheriff would dislike!

Edit: This is all in the 'basic' level, which you can't disable.
Ask HN: Could there be a Hacker News for 'all news'?
The question, in short, is in the headline.

Hacker News is a great source of computer science and startup related news from different corners of the Internet [1]. Sure, one could argue there is a slight bias towards Silicon Valley & the US in what's getting up-voted and commented on, but overall, the quality of things to read here and the related comments are generally of high value. This is, as evident, all thanks to the active community with little tolerance towards internet memes, jokes and non-value-adding information.

So dear HN, could there be a Hacker News for ‘all news’? Or do you think time and other ways to share information has passed the idea?

Sure, there is Reddit and other social media that can be used for the same purpose to some extent, but given HN rightfully serves a purpose of its own, it’s difficult not to think that the same news-centric-community-thinking (for a lack of a better term) could be valued in other contexts as well. Would highly value your insightful thoughts on whether this is something worth solving, or testing out.

[1] Based on purely subjective view by reading and following HN on a daily-basis for several years.
Seems like that's only for publishing new content, not for merely browsing.

Though I guess unless you create a new identity for every site you want to post a comment on, your comments on one site could be proven to be posted by the same person as your comments on another site.
Filters deal with the situation where A is sending to B something that B doesn't want to recieve.

The situation where A is sending to B something that's harmful to C cannot be dealt with by C's filtering and can only be addressed at a higher level in the system.

Those are the technical distinctions, but there's a lot of possible things covered by the second case: leaked nudes, lynch mob organisation, slander, leaked intelligence, compromised party documents, names of human rights activists being leaked to secret police, copyright infringement, child porn, fake news, real news in fake states, allegations that invitations to pizza are evidence of child porn, and so on.
I love contrast rebellion (aside: tool to check your contrast game is http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/), but I believe the author of the website intended it to be so as to draw attention to make your code stand out. However, I agree the contrast isn't high enough
Show HN: BreakLock, a web game to guess Android locks [PWA/mobile/MIT]
Well we are already having billions of our dollars wasted on terrible software projects with incompetent management, it's just that it's baked into the price of goods instead of taxes.
For many, Happiness is not a goal of life. Rightful living is. See Buddha, Gandhi, MLK etc. Sure, You might be happier than them but that hardly means anything
Because then people would stop using their OS. They would also lose their free beta testers.
The first sentence of the article is "Microsoft has published the full range of data that Windows 10 version 1703, the Creators Update, will collect in its default "basic" telemetry setting." They provided all the info they collect in the default mode, the title only says "most" because they didn't give a complete list for what they collect in the opt-in "Full" telemetry mode.
What incentive does government have to innovate and become more efficient?
They could tell us they're telling us everything and just be lying. Why does it have to be hidden at all? And why not let people turn it all off? Then everyone would stop talking about it.
Perhaps a secret court order forbids them from doing that.
Yes, it does.

It's operationally equivalent to changing ISP.

I'm not arguing that it's OK for ISPs to collect and sell data. I'm just pointing out an option. There's also the issue that being in the same jurisdiction as your exit ISP may not be such a great idea.
Is Intel's Hyperscaling really a change?
I have no idea why you bring up the government - no one besides you is discussing government censorship. Are you attempting to steer the conversation towards a discussion of your libertarian principles?
plus it took them almost 2 years after release to reach even this pathetic state. M$ lost any trust it ever had (not that much) long time ago
>All crash dump types, including heap dumps and full dumps.

Maybe I should not have used Windows Insider after all which forces you to have it on full...
Get Your Team Experimenting More by Using One Little Word
In the UK, from my experience, the drink is usually associated with more elderly people (my grandparents & older uncle are the only people who drink it), interesting to see it here aimed more for children.
It may be a problem on Twitter, but there is no reason to believe it's a problem on p2p social networks.
From the HN guidelines:

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or proclaim that you expect to get downvoted.
I used my food side project as a way to learn new skills. I am still in the process of working on version 2.

The simplest way to start is to take a framework or system that has most of the basic parts ready for you to use.

Since you already know python, try to learn something like django and use Bootstrap with a CDN for your front end stuff.

I would recommend reading some of the posts on indiehackers.com to get an idea of how those people got started with an idea and how they got their first customers. Some do not even have any tech skills and just used wordpress or found someone to help them with the site.
There is also a podcast for this that just got started that is excellent. The founder of indiehackers was a YC alumn named Courtland, he is a cool guy.

I chose to solve a problem that I personally encountered. If you cannot think of something, try picking something that you know requires lots of manual effort for some people. Then use some scripts from the book Running Lean to try to work out exactly what the problem is for those people.

Another great resource is OppsDaily which I love reading first thing in the morning. Cory sends out a problem someone has in a particular industry that needs to be solved. The criteria is that they must be willing to pay for it if someone responds. In many cases they will say how much they are willing to pay.
And it's a protected choice, if the Open Internet Order were to stand and be enforced. Which seems unlikely with this FCC majority.
If I understand the article correctly, they are publishing all they are collecting by default.

They are not publishing exactly what they are collecting for the "Full" telemetry setting, which is opt-in. I'm guessing they don't want to commit to that because they want to be free to add and remove metrics they're interested in.
Watch the exact moment SpaceX made history by landing a reused rocket
Unfortunately it's somewhat consistent with the rest of css (e.g. padding is top left bottom right)
> A theatre in New York was showing the 1995 film, so I watched it for first time on big screen on Wednesday, then saw the live action on Friday

> Did you ... even see the '95 movie recently?

Dude...
Very nice! Works as advertised. ;-)
The issue with ecommerce is how competitive it is. You are no longer only competing within a 40km radius, you are now competing globally.

A brick-and-mortar mall likely could not compete with such low prices and so your online sales would probably not warrant the initial investment in setting up ecommerce.

People don't attend brick-and-mortar malls for low prices, they attend for the experience, to try clothes on, maybe buy a few small items and to have a milkshake all whilst only needing cash, no terms of service involved. If you focus on improving the experience of shopping at a mall, it doesn't matter what your prices are, you will likely receive a higher return than if you invested that same money in ecommerce.
We used to drink Horlicks in Bangladesh, where it was - like in India - a breakfast drink. Of course, Horlicks has no special powers to do anything, certainly not any of the things it is marketed as doing. It's a potent example of the insidiousness of marketing: pretty much everywhere in the U.K. and the former British Empire people associate this product with qualities it simply does not possess. Not only that, they are drinking a high-calorie product because it is marketed as being good for you. Kids in the U.K. (and, as development happens across the subcontinent, increasingly kids in India and Bangladesh too) really don't need to be drinking milk fortified with wheat and barley - either for breakfast or before bed.
I think that Passengers could have been much more interesting if, especially in terms of sequence of events, it had followed Jennifer Lawrence's character.
Alias analysis has been the holy grail of compiler development for a while. In C++ it's a global, imperfect, and expensive analysis. In Rust you get it for free.

C++ can't do the same thing Rust does because it would be a breaking change to have finer-grained distinctions between the types of references.

This is a matter of language semantics, not compiler implementation. rustc isn't doing anything new here, LLVM already knows how to make this optimization and is making it.
Immediate learnings from the first 3 exercises:

1. Grid columns and rows are 1 indexed instead of 0, ensuring a coming decade of mistakes due to the mismatch with Javascript (and, y'know, everything else) conventions for arrays.

2. Grid extents use the "one more than end" convention instead of "length", which is sorta confusing. But then they call it "end", which is even more so.

(edit) more:

3. grid-area's four arguments are, in order (using normal cartesian conventions to show how insane this is): y0 / x0 / y1 / x1. Has any API anywhere ever tried to specify a rectangle like this?
Did some investigation into prescription data however prescription data is usually aggregated at surgery level. Also the reason for prescribing the drug (even at high general level) is not recorded. If prescription data was available at LSOA level (http://www.datadictionary.nhs.uk/data_dictionary/nhs_busines...) then you would be able to study epidemiology and potentially identify urban/rural areas where certain diseases are prevalant.
Does anyone have any good resources for UX that they would recommend? Books, courses, certifications, or otherwise?
"Why bother, when you have solar?"

Because solar is intermittent, and isn't practical at all in many parts of the world. The true environmental impact of nuclear is also arguably less, since solar requires a lot of space per watt produced by comparison.

Next-gen nuclear reactor designs from Thorcon Power, Terrestrial and others are very near to perfectly safe, and also produce much less long-term nuclear waste than current designs. There will be an ongoing need for clean, high-density electricity sources.
Free and quick Broken link finder for your website
This is good advice; do you think most companies are against side projects, or is it just unlucky that you've worked for so few that are okay with it?

I guess it would surprise/disappoint me if the majority of companies disallow programming on the side.
Seems like it's just as anonymous as the existing web; you can use Tor to hide your IP, but that's optional.
Steve Jobs used Comic Sans font to launch iPod
I assumed they meant offline browsing of cached content
I really think having price transparency across providers for both medical treatments and for medicine would be a game changer for the industry.
Dolphin Progress Report: March 2017
Strikes an odd chime when an article appears about marketing differences in a brand I'd managed to completely forget about despite having been one of those in the UK who'd enjoyed it before bed. I'm not sure I've heard it mentioned in 20 years.

Seems to me they could do with more marketing, any marketing.
People are still trying to sell that idea, only now they've packaged it as 'bone broth'.

Snark aside, though, I could drink salty, savoury hot drinks all day long.
I think that in this context, "melee" refers to Super Smash Brothers Melee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Smash_Bros._Melee
Digital Ocean Management Interface Down
> pre-11 versions are <<1% these days

I wish, I guess you don't do much enterprise intranets.
I love the design. Looks great on mobile. Not sure about desktop. Loads really fast too.
Not necessarily best practices, but I recommend the Matasano Crypto Challenges to basically everyone. I make all of the developers on our team do them too:

http://cryptopals.com
Other things covered by this case include leaks identifying corrupt behaviors, allegations of sexual harassment such as Susan fowlers, and evidence of human rights violations that the authorities wish suppressed.

Or various right wing ideas now softly suppressed on Twitter/Reddit.
At work I am working on a video game; at home I am working on a snail simulation.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14041312
> But in 2015, the FCC decided to treat the Internet like a public utility, taking away the FTC’s ability to police the privacy practices of broadband providers.

This is a lie and Pai knows it; the case that spurred the FCC privacy action ruled that even in non-commit carrier activities, common carriers couldn't be regulated by the FTC, which meant many large ISPs—all the telcos like AT&T and Verizon—were completely outside of FTC jurisdiction even when acting as ISPs even without the Open Internet Order from 2015.

The FTC has no authority to regulate many ISPs, and an FTC privacy regulation that applied only to ISPs that aren't also telcos would've pointless. The FCC is the only agency with authority to issue privacy regulations that treat the whole ISP field the same, with or without the Open Internet Order, and Ajit Pai knows this as well as anyone.
The limitations of the open banking licence
I love using Postgresql, one of the best pieces of software out there.

Does anyone know if there videos of the conference available and if the are all listed in a central page?
Yes, the FBI exploited a Firefox vulnerability to drop NIT malware on Playpen users. And said malware phoned home to FBI servers, bypassing Tor.

However, any Whonix users would not have been affected, for two reasons. One, this was Windows malware, and Whonix is based on Debian. Two, Whonix comprises a pair of Debian VMs, a Tor-gateway VM and a workstation VM. Even if the malware had pwned the workstation VM, there is no route to the Internet except through Tor.
Killing that feature you knew would change the world
They are each about a factor of 6 apart from each other.
I'm not sure what this comment means. Can you explain please?
Step 1 will attempt to update and tell you what the new version is. It will also tell you you are out of date. Recalling from memory, it looks like this:

Google Chrome is out of date.
Version 54.0.239.240 (Official Build) (##-bit)

Update available: Version 57.0.2987.133
The entire point of Garadget is to add control of your garage door over the internet...
I'm just going on StatCounter global stats, which is what caniuse reference. I'm sure usage within certain geographical areas or certain demographics may be higher or lower, but in those cases you're probably taking a more careful approach to a wide selection of modern browser features already anyway.

For the average case (or probably the more common case - not everyone works in b2b) CSS grids are going to be fine to use almost immediately.
Java please. There's absolutely no way that can run on the kind of microcontroller we're talking about. Did you read the part about having 300 bytes spare?!
Bitcoin to Be Accepted at 260,000 Stores in Japan by This Summer
from revolv.com:
"The Revolv app and hub don’t work anymore, but we are offering a refund for your Revolv hub. To get your refund, please email us at help@revolv.com."

Fair enough?
Viewing Cute Images Promotes a Careful Behavior and Narrows Attentional Focus
Impolite and "toxic customer"/"Thief" are worlds apart. If you can't deal with a broad selection of the average public, don't sell to them. It's really that simple, and the business world selects heavily against people who think that their product or their fiefdom is excepted form that rule.
Guilty of this. Black background and light grey, deep blue highlights, deep red syntax. Staring at white boxes too long makes my eyes hurt.
Rock’n’Roll Animals: Musicians Tell Us All About Their Pets
Did you even read the link?

"What if I don't have a smart phone?
To accommodate residents who want to utilize the service without a smartphone, Uber will provide the Town with a number of iPads that will be available in community hubs. Using the uberCENTRAL platform, riders will be able to request a ride via the iPad. iPads will be available at:

o Town Hall

o Nantyr Shores Secondary School

o Sandy Cove Acres

o Innisfil Recreational Complex

o Lakeshore Library (Alcona)

Depending on where there is demand, we will examine adding or moving the locations of these iPads."

The alternative was having TWO BUSES. How likely is it that one of these TWO BUSES will be running late at night in this town with 30,000 residents when kids are likely to get beat up?

Unless you get (rather conveniently) beat up near one of the handful of stops served by one of these TWO BUSES, during operating hours - probably 6am to 10pm since it's a small town - you're SOL on public transit anyway.
A comprehensive listing of foods and the allergies that are associated with them (a listing of food ingredients with tags like peanuts / shellfish etc... ).
Easy-ish. I just went through the process of setting up a VPN on all of my family's devices, and mobile devices were a bit of a pain.

Plus now I'm paying $10 a month for a basic level of privacy that the previous law made free. I can afford it, but it's still obnoxious.
In that case, why is it repeating material out of ISO C instead of just referring to ISO C as a base document for all those points.

You can summarize it all in one item:

"A program fails to conform to the CERT standard for secure coding if it violates any of the following 'undefined behavior' situations explicitly described in ISO C, or implicitly by omission: [give a summary list with brief descriptions and section references]"
I would already be happy if all software used for government purposes had to be free. Whenever free software doesn't fulfill all requirements, pay programmers to add the features instead of buying proprietary alternatives.
Blinklights.io: learn to program FPGAs by building a Pong clone in your browser
What's the difference? I remember Quake Live as being Q3A with matchmaking, though I've only played a tiny bit of it.
It's a preferable alternative to sugar, sure, but the salt content could be a concern. Wouldn't be a bad option if the other option is soda.
I think something like an automatic garage door opener is a reasonable thing for someone to want; same with, for example, a smart HVAC system or potentially security cameras.

It obviously drops off sharply when you start getting into the Bill Gates territory where monitors on the walls adjust their artwork to suit the people currently occupying the room, or modifying the light levels, etc. But all the previously mentioned stuff seems like a reasonable thing to want, the same as an automated washing machine or a microwave oven became standard items.