skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some arenas devolve into full-blown contests of self-interest and strategic game-playing. Politics, stock markets are pretty important so it's not too surprising that it happens.

But as humans we don't spend all our lives trying to mislead others and scraping for small edges.

People contribute to this forum, and contribute to open source, and vote, and contribute to their communities.

We are tribal, and hierarchical, and violent, but we are above all social.

Somehow we figure out social structures that work, that help people arrive at more or less objective truths and common ground.

Obviously, if a lot of people want to tear everything down, democracy and most social activities don't work. In the words of Madison "To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."

Cooperative social activities only work to the extent people believe the social institutions that coordinate them are legitimate. People only devote their lives to build, and risk their lives to defend, organizations and systems they see as legitimate.

HN has a pervasive community ethic and ‘pay it forward’ karma and reputation ecosystem that rewards people for sharing quality and burying fake news and garbage. It's also a lot of work from dang and the HN team.

The question HNers can be asking, is there a market design and technical affordances that can restore legitimacy to news? Tools to let people signal quality and build credibility and fight the noise machines? Or is the current market design the best we can do, and are we going to constantly see successful hijacks from all sides?
If someone hasn't said it already, I'd love to see a keyboard shortcut akin to Windows's snap-to feature.
What is "The Parrot"? Like party parrot?
I blog for work. I took a step back from product TechOps (we're a SaaS company) to write for us. We make a service that people like me, an ops engineer, would use. My rules for writing are I write about things that are interesting to me that fall within the general problem space and I don't sell product. I've struck on writing highly technical posts and including code or CLI examples of what I'm doing. If there's code I release GitHub repositories. A reader should be able to take what I wrote and instantly apply what they've learned. You can probably guess those posts outperform other posts anywhere from 2-5x depending on the popularity of the subject matter. If I strike gold we're looking at 20-30x performance.

The next key is promotion. I have a decent Twitter following (>1K) and have developed contacts with people in my profession. I schedule tweets for what I write that I think is really good. Hootsuite and Buffer can do that easily. If I want to strike gold I post to Reddit. I've posted here before but get minimal traction. I don't have enough time to invest in HN and just browse here casually. I spend time on Reddit regularly because of non-tech boards I love. (Hi /r/boston.) If I write something good for Reddit our traffic numbers see a significant spike. Those are the 20-30x performers.

All that said, ask yourself why you're writing. If you're writing for a specific audience then respect your audience. I've taken the talk up approach over talk down. I don't boil hard topics down to telling you what you should do without providing you a how. I'm also respectful of the communities where my audience congregates. That means I stay away from talking about our product. If my name is on something that discusses product I put those on LinkedIn and Twitter once or twice.

If you're writing for yourself, ask yourself again, are you writing for your enjoyment or your reputation? If you're writing for your enjoyment then whatever. Traffic numbers don't mean you have nothing of value to say. Just means you don't have an audience and that's going to happen today with the information saturation we all face. If you're writing for reputation, or because you'd like an audience to engage with what you've written for pure enjoyment, then promotion is key. I've used twitter because I'm on their regularly. My writing is only a small part of what I put onto twitter. I like posting pics of my cats, my food, and witty things I say to my girlfriend.

Wish I could share more and maybe be more articulate but need to work. FWIW, I have had a blog post become popular in the past week. Someone just filed a bug against once of the example repos. Knowing people are reading and inspecting my work to use it makes me happy and know that I'm doing something worthwhile. :)
New Quantifind Data: Americans are anxious about the price of burgers
The AMD engineers have decided to only support the open-source amdgpu driver and diverted all resources from fglrx to amdgpu.

Due to this, 16.04 does not have fglrx because the X11 server in 16.04 is not compatible any more with fglrx.

Around this time (end 2016/early 2017) it was supposed for amdgpu to get parity in features with fglrx. I have not checked, are there issues missing from amdgpu? You would need to test, and preferably test with the AMDGPU PRO driver distribution from AMD (has the very latest support that may take a bit of time to make it to the upstream projects).
Ubuntu already has that.
They call it HUD: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/HUD

Press Alt (as mentioned in other comment)
If you're looking at Flask, you may just want to connect to Stripe and then design your own basic platform.

https://github.com/realpython/flask-paywall
The code or the actions?

I'm all for holding people accountable for bad actions but I don't think that writing code is enough of to show intent to harm.
Yes you can't slice-and-dice it like I'm sure you can wood. But they last forever. Houses here are routinely hundreds of years old where in the US the approach seems to be to knock down the wooden houses and build them again before they get that old.
Police Report Untangles Uber Crash Mystery
I know it's not really an Ubuntu bug, but ZFS on Linux is broken. Try growing a disk in say VMWare or VirtualBox at see ZFS on Linux not knowing how to grow the filesystem.

It would be nice it that was fixed.
Yes, sure, construction is in general a bit more solid over here. But with pre-constructed houses, you can also get wood-based buildings starting around 150k (price to build).
So here you get the quality, but the financial burden to buy one of these highly engineered houses makes it more difficult to own one when you are young.
Sure in the US, there are areas where housing is extremely expensive. But when I look at metropolitan Dallas for example, where the economy is quite good, I can get deals for great looking homes for about 250k including large enough ground. A similar home in a similar economic area here, just comparing ground and building size (not quality) would cost me 500-800k in Germany. So maybe many US homes are not for life, but you can start one in them.
It doesn't have to be done in closed-source silos, people just choose to do it that way. There's open-source EDA software out there: Kicad is my favorite for PCB design. It works better than the PADS software I used years ago, and from what I hear from people using proprietary EDA software currently, the new stuff really isn't any better.
Atlassian Design Week 2017: A marketer’s perspective
Surely they are going to be loading it using Carrier Configuration tied to the sim card... As soon as you put a verizon sim card into your unlocked non verizon phone it installed a bunch of helper apps.

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/config/carrier.html
That's the point though, this 'sloppy shorthand' distorts the reality. Words have meaning, and we should use the words that best describe what happened which is the DNC was hacked and all their dirty laundry was aired.
Alternatives to algebraic modeling for complex data: topological modeling
Also I want to add, if you want to use Windows programs using VirtualBox or VMWare (+ lots of RAM) is probably the way to go. The Windows stuff doesn't work on macOS either. (I even bought the CrossOver stuff ;))
Finally a DDOS solution for the Chrome browser
Right, but it's only an "overclock" because the official spec only goes to 2133. And that means that compatibility is very hit-or-miss. It could benefit from being more standardized.
I had this problem on a previous work laptop. Very annoying. I thought it was the local IT people who had installed it wrong.
Facebook content placeholder using Vuejs component
You can check out https://github.com/StevenYuysy/vue-content-placeholder

Inspired by Facebook content placeholder deconstruction, http://cloudcannon.com/deconstructions/2014/11/15/facebook-content-placeholder-deconstruction.html

Based on that, I made a custom-built component that you can choose the height of the row or width of the boxes.
I was thinking that if you draft a document in XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX, including a template, then if you don't bother to really learn how font handling with XeTeX/LuaTeX works, you might end up with some fontspec or polyglossia line in your code, etc., and there might be problems with a template that does things oldstyle.

Another point is that some packages haven't been updated for Unicode, algorithms2e being one popular package that's still Latin-1, IIRC.

Then if your code will be compiled from source by someone using pdfLaTeX, your Unicode characters will cause problems.

Hence why I say that it's probably more pain than it's worth, since there are still things you need to understand to avoid incompatibility. I think a more proper analogy would be C and C++, since while XeTeX/LuaTeX is mostly LaTeX compatible, 1) you risk running into sinister incompatibilities and 2) typical XeTeX/LuaTeX code is different from, and incompatible with typical LaTeX code.
An as your boss I'd do simple random spot checks of some of those urls - you'd be under deeper review in a heartbeat.

The intern's requirements in this job are not "press every link presented" they are "find out who is not providing value for their worth" however the press dgaf about that.

The above is not advanced management techniques, it's basic check work.
I assume it's de minimis, but do you have a reason to think otherwise?
It's apt-add-repository.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/man1/add-apt-reposi...
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/25/...
so a small engine but the rest of it is a massive air cooled peltier heatsink?
The police should really go out of their way to make examples out of the partiers. Charge them for every single act of vandalism, drug use, public intoxication, public urination, assault, battery, disturbing the peace, etc., and seek the maximum sentence for every one of them.

And for the official guests who actually rented the room and threw the party, charge them under organized crime and racketeering laws. After all, they organized a group of people to come to a rental property and commit numerous crimes. The police's explicit goal should be to Swartz them.
Here we go again:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/25/...
Ask HN: An acceptable cross-platform GUI toolkit?
It's interesting but disappointing that there's no standout "winner" among desktop GUI toolkits. Among other things, devs want to write software that runs on their favorite GNU/Linux distribution, but that also runs nicely and is easily installed on MS Windows and Mac OS X. Ideally there would be an API that abstracts over each platform's GUI toolkit, giving native look-and-feel from one code-base.

I came across this old thread on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=423119 and there didn't seem to be an agreed upon solution.

Have things improved in the last 3005 days?
If the bedroom was in the middle of an office, maybe.
"To the extent that there is bias, it is slight and subtle." This is a delusion. NYT has a bad record in reporting data. One easy example: "Amid ‘Trump Effect’ Fear, 40% of Colleges See Dip in Foreign Applicants". https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/international-students...

Quote from the original report: "39% of responding institutions reported a decline in international applications, 35% reported an increase, and 26% reported no change in applicant numbers. " http://www.aacrao.org/docs/default-source/TrendTopic/Immigra...
VPN commonly only hides your IP for the time you're using it. There are many other factors that can be used to track you.

First is cookies. Say you log in to Facebook with your browser from your own IP address and a hour later you fire up VPN to browse the web. One of the websites you load has Facebook's tracking pixel and - unless you cleared your cookies - boom: Facebook knows you have visited that site.

Even if you clear your cookies, you may have some long-living stuff (like Flash cookies etc) that can be used to track your browser.

And even if you clear everything or use incognito, sites can use some clever heuristics (CPU power, enabled plugins, timezone, browser version, webrtc, etc.) to track your browsing and to match that it's you.
By using Google's free services you agree to giving them data - that's not how customers want to use an ISP.

Google is a company that relies on trust. If I can't trust them with my data their business will seriously suffer. Verizon in no way cares about users trusting them, it's not in their business model.

It needs to be a choice what companies I trust with my data
Of the "valuable" set of classes, what % would you have only been able to attend/learn from in an MBA program? I was accepted to several top MBA programs and decided not to go for a variety of reasons, including that virtually all of the classwork was things I had already learned or could easily learn via online coursework or community college without spending a quarter of a million dollars.
Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
Trade show marketing is so undervalued – Highrise CEO
My first (and I suppose selfish thought) is "where will I ever get to use VR if I keep living in small apartments". My current apartment is about 50sq meters. Unless I removed my sofa and TV or slept in the living room and got rid of my bed there's no place to have room scale VR here.

Similarly I've gotten to play Rockband at people's houses but there's no way I could play Rockband in an apartment. Certainly not above the 1st floor with the drums nor on any floor with the singing.

Of course those are 1st world problems I suppose.
15 Questions for All Translation Companies Before Starting a Project
The task is "find out who is not providing value"

Your solution is to say they all provide value?
While MBAs might learn stuff like budgeting, recruiting, etc. Are they going to better at doing this than an accountant or a professional recruiter? Is this the additional value they add when the join a company?
NASA's 3D-printable spacecrafts, rovers, satellites...
The "conclusion" of Pizzagate was almost certainly fake yes, but there were actual events/personalities that did occur which were real. Enough so that some people at least could be led to the conclusion.

Which is (in a less dramatic way) pretty much how standard media operates when they want to promote a position.

Point being, effective fake news isn't all fake. It's 90%+ real making the critical 10% palatable.
> And why is this a problem?

The one huge issue is that the (richer) buyer costs are normally subsidized by the (poorer) renter by government transfers and regulations that force prices up.

Remove the government mangling the sector, and I fully agree, there's no problem at all.
This one would be useful.

There are several things to test, and things that may break.
It is possible to get corner cases.

I would suggest to get purge-old-kernels on 17.10 in order to test it, and decide whether to put on 18.04 LTS later on.
Is this article one day early?
I imagine their argument would be that his claim that the tool was not for illegal use was just a subterfuge, given the forum. Isn't this kind of the same reason a head shop doesn't want you to even mention anything but tobacco?
> simply move away from the ads business model

"simply"?
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam does the same but for ad-tracking. It hides ads from webbrowser but clicks them in background (just sends request to tracking server that user clicked the ad).
On top of any age effects, I think there's definitely a thing where academic learning can make more sense and its applications seem more useful once you have some practical experience in the area.
Not trying to be an Apple fanboy here, but at least apple can generate revenue without resorting to something this low.

Guess they gotta make sure Mr. McAdam can earn his $18,000,000 check.
I agree, I've had to deal with this issue many times. I think it has happened at least 4 times in the last year. A few times I had to manually go in and start deleting old kernels because it had completely run out of space, so apt couldn't do anything without crashing.

I eventually set up a cron script to regularly delete everything except the last 3 kernels. I think this should really be the default behavior. "Save all the old kernels until you run out of space and everything crashes" doesn't sound like a very sane default.
+1. It made me quit Ubuntu, along with another bug (Ethernet authentication).

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- ROLE: Java developer, now founder
Perhaps OP means they want to be able to turn on a setting whereby this automatically happens when a big zero day comes out - like, Canonical becomes aware that certain packages are vulnerable and has a way of pushing instructions to affected machines to tell them to isolate themselves.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

HEADLINE: Stable/working HDMI sound, up to date Syncthing

DESCRIPTION: I was excited to upgrade to Yakkety on my home server, because it has Syncthing (I'd rather not use their 3rd party deb), only to find out that it's too old to be compatible with my phone (they're still in the rapid change phase). Would be great if it were all compatible. Not too much in your control, just try to be as up-to-date as you can at the point of release. I know you can't upgrade mid-release.

As for sound, on Trusty, I had issues with HDMI. On Yakkety those issues went away but now I have worse issues. I use my server with Music Player Daemon. I have a headphone cord for now so it's okay, but I'd rather use HDMI and get the full benefit of my flac files.

Thanks!
Debian Gnome dual monitor setup also darkens one monitor regularly when pugging/unplugging screens, took a while for me to understand that it only sets the screen brightness of one monitor to zero. So adjusting the brightness up bringd the monitor back alive again.
I don't know if it's that simple -- if I print out fake dollar bills it'll probably be treated differently if I sell them as movie props than if I sell them as counterfeit money you could pass off as real.
tl/dr: Thanks to Serial, podcasting has acquired a snobby cultural cachet among the NPR set, but it has surprising origins 10 years earlier among nerds. Still, it can't entirely replace public broadcasting.

What a weird take on podcasting.
It's not an exhaustive list. At that, IMHO, it's too general to say these firms (sampled) produce public goods (i.e. nonrivalrous and nonexcludable). For example, I don't get the benefits from intermodal shipping via Hapag-Lloyd without paying.
It needs to happen in-browser because of the modern prevalence of SSL. I think only Firefox has APIs powerful enough to intercept stuff on this level, and even those APIs are obsolete, so I think it really needs to be integrated straight into a browser fork. Chrome / Firefox WebExtensions have request interception, but I'm not sure it's powerful enough to do this kind of stuff

(Also, the mere fact such a scheme would have to jinx with the mechanics of a fundamental browser security mechanism should be enough to indicate how difficult it would be to implement safely!)
>Did he pick the wrong place to advertise his code? HackForum could just have easily been Hacker News.

Spoken like someone who hasn't spent a lot of time on HackForum. 99% of the content is super low quality and/or obviously criminal. Lots of money changes hands.
> I mean, there is such a thing as ethics. A programmer writing software with malicious intent or with the explicit purpose to defraud, undermine, or otherwise harm another person and/or their property should absolutely be held responsible for the code they write.

Congratulations. You've just publicly stated you should remove your game from Steam and anyone else who distributes DRM rootkits. Rootkits are re-purposable into malware too.

Will you? No?

Color me surprised. /s
Apparently nobody is saying. Arbitration is confidential.
One reason why JEDEC didn't standardize them is they often required higher voltages
Could you please tell more about it? How would that work? Do you have the config?
It would make sense as soon as the default filesystem becomes btrfs or ZFS.
As it is now, it would need to be a feature that only appears if it finds that you have the proper filesystem.
I have a live one of these, my 7 year old.
They are based on TSV.
The reason why I'm okay with Google, but not Verizon spying on me is because I pay Verizon but I don't pay Google. Verizon shouldn't have to sell my data for more money because they already charge money for their service. If their service is too expensive then Verizon can charge more money. However Google gives me services for free so I expect they'll sell my data to other companies.
Ironically, this is mainly happening because Android is so "open" (to carriers and OEMs). Android's openness was never intended to be for users (if we're talking licenses and such, not feature-wise, which is just a design decision Google makes, like whether or not to have more advanced camera menus, and so on).

It's hard to say whether Google would sell everyone's Android's data anyway, if it had 100% control over Android, but I imagine it wouldn't let carriers or OEMs add whatever tracking apps they wanted on the devices.
If someone uses a hammer to bludgeon, then is the hammer maker responsible? No. I thought people suing gun companies solved this, saying the manufacturer is NOT responsible!
Being awake while operated upon is the worst horror scenario I can imagine.

I mean, I drive an hour and a half to a dentist that will knock me out during the procedure and I'm agoraphobic; I'm more afraid of the drive there than the actual procedure. No way I'm going to have anything even more serious done to me while I'm fully aware of what is happening.
What do you mean? I personally know people that received sentences comparable to a rape conviction for white collar crimes.
GYST: Get Your Shit Together
Well at least they're up front about it instead of hiding it behind a terms of service or whatever. Doesn't make it right though.
Tip: Ignore that 'requirement' as we all know its not one. Apply as usual, if it comes up, state your experince and enthusiasim are equivalent. They may pay you less, but seldom will the lack of degree in IT be a hard stop. The only trick is to bypass HR filters. I find talking first to the hiring manager before floating a cv works best. They can bypass the bs, and many are impressed that you did more than shoot another email in to the abyss.