skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One piece of this was poorly predicted: rising violent crime.

In the late 80s and early 90s, there were lots and lots of predictions that in another decade, violent crime would be at crisis levels. It was steadily increasing year over year and there was lots of disagreement as to the cause.

Then we reached 1994 or so, and everything started going down[0]. Lots of possible reasons, popularly that Wade vs Roe had been 21 years prior but lots of other competing theories may explain it, or be part of it.

I'm not saying that the future predicted by this story isn't alarming in some of its predictions but that this particular prediction was made by a lot of people and it turned out to be pretty clearly incorrect.

By 2012, America was probably as safe as it had ever been and continues to become safer despite popular belief to the contrary.

[0]https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Pro...
Wow. That's my first memory too. I was almost 3.
I'm still pretty sure the stories about flagging calls for mentioning keywords in the 90's were urban legends. The sort of computing power to do that didn't exist then.

It's a conspiracy theory pasted onto a kernel of truth (Echelon).

Even after snowden there is a lot of the same stuff going on. The stuff he leaked sure didn't show that the NSA was doing some sort of active analysis on all communications. Though at least now it's probably within the realm of technical possibility.
Debezium implements Kafka Connectors, so the serialization is pluggable. Debezium can work with thrift, you just need a thrift converter for Kafka Connect.
I've always been under the impression that commute satisfaction is related to various levels of consistency. Constant speed, constant commute times.

I drive 3x as far at my new home to my job as I did at my previous home but since my workplace is on the edge of the city and I moved to a rural home I drive 90% of the way on highway. Set cruise, set podcast, arrive at work in 20 minutes (+/- 5 minutes). Old home? 15 minutes but through a dozen intersections and several road merges and lane changes.

Much happier now.

EDIT: I should say that my first career job was about 2km from my home. I could choose to drive and battle 10 intersections and then the hell that was parking, or I walked. It took 15 minutes longer but it was consistent and smooth any day of the week, regardless of construction. Highly satisfied.
>What's wrong with using XPS? I picked one up for $1200 last time I bought one, that's not too high of a price.

If you ship it to Australia it's over the $1000AUD gst threshold so it picks up an extra 10% as it crosses the boarder.

If you ship it to Iceland it picks up ~30% in VAT and other taxes, and you have to pay tax on the shipping as well. If the Icelandic customs decide what you've bought was a "luxury good", it could pick up as much as 50% more tax in the process[1].

The USA is not the world. The base price tends to multiply when you ship it elsewhere.

[1] I don't think anyone understands how the Icelandic Customs applies tax, including customs themselves
What's your analysis on why this is? Because the assumption is he will bring back the robber baron times, which were good for established businesses? This is the only interpretation that makes sense to me, since everything I've seen so far looks like selling the long term future for short term gain. But I'm leftwing and humanist for European standards, so i have an obvious bias.
ConvNet was indeed invented a long time ago. But a lot of things have changed since then other than data and processing power. There have been new development in optimizers, non linearities, architectures, loss functions and theoretical understanding.
Richard Branson Launches World's First Dyslexic Sperm Bank
It will work, right now it only supports a few phones (Nexus 9 WiFi, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P) with the Pixel and Pixel XL on the way. I don't have a supported phone currently so I haven't been able to test it out but any phone that is capable of connecting to Verizon's network hardware wise should be able to connect using any OS that implements the necessary protocols. The Pixel and Pixel XL use nano SIM cards to connect to a carrier.

If CopperheadOS is installed the only attack vector Verizon could use is the SIM Card, but CopperheadOS implements a lot of security features that could help mitigate the risk:

* Full verified boot, covering all firmware and OS partitions.

* Baseline app isolation via unique uid/gid pairs for each app.

* App permission model including the ability to revoke permissions and supply fake data.

Carriers can not install software on phones connected to the network. Assuming they installed a Carrier configuration application or anything else using the SIM Card you could revoke its permissions or supply fake data, or even create firewall rules to disallow the traffic manually.

More security features:

https://copperhead.co/android/docs/technical_overview
I don't agree. I maximize all the apps on my monitors. I like to see the max amount of data in each app. The secondary monitor is used to look at help, docs or something useful.

Using a single monitor means I have to position and resize all kinds of windows on it on a regular basis. Very unproductive for me. Eventually the Windows will be too small for my eyesight. This is a highly personal preference with everyone.
pi/2 years, i'm trying to make sense of this fact.
Perhaps that's the case, but the problem is that it would be very difficult to persuade people of that

Nobody has to be persuaded that he had innocent intentions. In the US, we base our legal system on presumption of innocence. The onus is on the State to prove that he committed a crime. And if "Intent" is what makes his actions a crime (or not) then then State have to persuade a jury that he had malicious intent. The presumption is that he did not.
As someone that's lived both in a concrete 10 story "high rise" apartment building as well as a 3 story wood-framed apartment building, concrete is far superior for noise dampening as wood.

In the concrete building, we could never hear neighbors above of below us, in the wood framed building, we could hear foot steps and even voices. Our upstairs neighbor had a squeaky bed and we could clearly hear the bed every time they were intimate.
Going Container Native – Bryan Cantrill
To prove this statement you must define:

1) Who are you talking about.

2) What is sperm.

3) What do you mean by conceived.

4) Whether the statement is literal or requires specific context.
verifying the source of an image via a blockchain is probably going to have to be a thing
Dropbox is a utility/product/feature. It can be replaced.

Snapchat is a network and therefore is open to network effects, i.e. the sum becomes greater than the parts.

I think in ten years time Snapchat will look the more justified valuation, providing they execute.

Dropbox are going to struggle unless they can innovate ontop of the current business model.
Seems like this would be a step backward in efficiency. Direct mechanical drive is more efficient than double conversion at cruise speeds. Even the Gen1 volt connected engine to wheels at highway speed because it was more efficient, Gen2 they went to a more conventional hybrid design like a Prius with mechanical power splitting because its more efficient even at lower speeds.

Airplanes are even simpler using variable pitch props the ICE just runs at it most efficient rpm with no or minimal transmission and nearly zero mechanical losses.

Also a hybrid design is heavier than a direct mechanical and airplanes would seem to not benefit from hybrid advantages such as regenerative braking and 0 rpm torque.
My local library is the same. Absolutely packed in the afternoon/evening until close. Lots of teenagers. Many just doing fun internet stuff (games, social media, etc.) - but also getting pulled aside for homework help and tutoring.

Pretty awesome community space.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: Better palm detection for trackpads
- DESCRIPTION: With the caveat that I realize that you need to support many brands of laptop with different trackpad drivers, this is one of my major pains when using a linux (Ubuntu) laptop vs anything else: after hours and hours (and hours) of googling and struggling, I can still not manage to get reasonable palm detection going on my work laptop (Dell XPS 15). When coding, probably once every 10 minutes my palm is mis-interpreted as a finger swipe and my cursor jumps into some unrelated code.
ROLE/AFFILIATION: linux software dev, federal gov't
Can you please deliver the following numbers and correlate them?

X: Reliance of the manager on numerical only input.

Y: Short-term improvement, usually gained by burning a non-measurable resource (brand-trust of the consumers, etc.)

T: Time from Promotion to a different Department till Disaster Impact

F: Time from Consequence Impact to arrival of capable fire-brigade CEO, basically reverting disastrous changes and recruiting back the personal that left.

If you put these in a formula, you should be able to derive the approximate bonus a MBA can have on a department, lets that from now on approximate with the sinus.
"Liquidity is irreducible to physical phenomonon. If we break it down to atoms and look at each atom we will see that it's not liquid. Therefore we must conclude that there are two types of matter in the world, liquid matter and non-liquid matter."

Or take for example the fact that a few hundred years they couldn't figure out fire so they made up a new property (not too unlike pansychism):

"In general, substances that burned in air were said to be rich in phlogiston; the fact that combustion soon ceased in an enclosed space was taken as clear-cut evidence that air had the capacity to absorb only a finite amount of phlogiston. When air had become completely phlogisticated it would no longer serve to support combustion of any material, nor would a metal heated in it yield a calx; nor could phlogisticated air support life. Breathing was thought to take phlogiston out of the body"

The points I'm trying to make:

1. Emergent properties are real. Just saying that reducing something makes it hard to explain doesn't make that thing a magical thing.

2. History shows that it's kind of silly to invent new type of matter or properties when we fail to explain something.

We have this black box that we barely know much about inside our skulls. It could be an amazing machine that generates consciousness yet before trying to reverse engineer it some of us likes to say "it's actually not that thing, it's something else that has the magic".
Once we had a dream of sharing wifi among each other. What happened to that?
In all of these cases, the software is supplying details that are likely in context on the basis of its prior training, rather than details that are somehow known to be right. One analogy might be asking a human painter to complete a partial portrait of a person. The painter might be able to guess at the person's likely posture and plausible items of clothing based on the information of the unfinished portrait, but of course the real person who was the model might have been wearing something else entirely. The fact that the completion is plausible and self-consistent doesn't mean that it's correct.
I know there's few better subjects for bikeshedding after vim vs emacs than "what should be in /etc/motd, /etc/issue and how should they interact with logins (ssh, console and xorg/gui)" - but how does this "break boxes"?

I guess for consistency, as update-motd seems to be installed by default(?) and the motd is called in /etc/pam.d/login by default - xmotd or something similar should also be installed to make sure that everyone is pestered by the message of the day...?
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core

- HEADLINE: Build from source, minimize deltas from upstream, and quit poisoning the Debian ecosystem.

- DESCRIPTION: I have repeatedly hit issues with core packages and applications that are solved by simply doing:

apt-get build-dep; apt-get source package; cd package* ; fakeroot debian/rules

Sometimes the packages fail to build. This tells me that you do not have an automated build regression system, even though Debian has gone to great pains to make this easy to automate.

I have hit bugs in packages because there is a large stack of diffs that have been applied to the package (logrotate is one example), but never upstreamed. The logrotate diffs include a "security patch" that is not well thought out, does not actually close a real bug, and causes logrotate to silently fail, filling /var.

This would not happen if you actively upstreamed patches, and reverted changes that are not approved by upstream, or addressed in other ways by upstream developers.

These two systematic issues have caused me to move away from Ubuntu for server and desktop use.

Finally, I've heard stories about Ubuntu devs forcing through controversial votes in the Debian project, and noticed an uptick in user-hostile decisions by the Debian project (like the forced systemd migration).

As a major contributor to Debian, Ubuntu should do whatever it can to improve the health of the Debian community, and generally improve the code quality + stability of upstream debian projects (without just killing off stuff that Ubuntu has decided not to ship).

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Engineer/Researcher At work, we ship a hardware appliance based on Ubuntu. I've been using Ubuntu / Debian as my primary development environment for almost two decades, and am saddened by the level of bitrot I've encountered over the last 2-3 years.
Had the same problem a while ago with our saas product. We receive dozen of requests each week, and except a few exceptions (bigger things that we are already building anyway), most of them are pet peeves and very specific to single customers.

Long story short: we ended up writing our own solution, with a twist. Each week we assign votes to customers, unused votes expires after a while, and quantity of votes is function of customer value and seniority.

Let's be honest: a customer on the free plan or during the trial, that makes tons of request, cannot be weighed the same as a customer which has been with us for 3 years already and is on the biggest plan. A request from the latter is a serious thing for me... a request from the former not so much!
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Tiling window manager that just works

DESCRIPTION: Tiling wms are great. However most have regressions compared to Unity; e.g. need to wrestle with systemd to get screen locking on suspend working, weird interaction issues between gnome daemons, etc. Easy enough to get a nicely functioning system with some googling, but it'd be great to have a tiling wm with no integration issues out of the box. Perhaps fork i3 and add what's needed to make it work seamlessly after install. Call it unity-tiling?
That is because we now have 8Gbit DDR4 chips.
Re #4 - we saw this throughout the Obama tenure as well, more executive orders, more expectations of the President to create and change law rather than execute it, etc.

Point is, it's not just Trump - or Trump and Obama - it's been a slow but steady march toward treating the Office like a monarch...
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A giant group canvas from Reddit
Uh... people aren't 'building whole new facilities' for their gaming desktops. The new GPUs also have the same rated power consumption.
We can't blame ourselves only because we have solutions available and we can learn from them about how to protect our privacy. its quite clear the Republicans won't do so we have to. I have been a lot about security and privacy for the past few weeks and i came to the conclusion that solutions like VPN and i am being biased here, PureVPN and even to some extent TOR as well can be very helpful.
Maybe just move etckeeper into the base install, as a middleground?
Sure. The main question I'm asking is, "why that particular analogy"? I mean, he could've even said hunting rifles (where legitimate use is more obvious). Why handguns?

IMO, it's a matter of explicit vs implicit functionality. The explicit function of a handgun is to do violence to other humans. Self-defense is only implicit/secondary.

So, to analogize this software to a handgun is to acknowledge that the most obvious use for the software is to hurt others, while "self-defense" is only secondary.
Wow, it's so great to hear that there are people out there who are actually doing this. Congratulations! That's exactly the kind of security I want to have.

Good to know how long it took you. 6+ years requires grit, and although still a bit limited by the RSI, I'm in a personal position where I can have that kind of long-term commitment.

I loved the expat software website, by the way :) It reminds me of an amusing conversation someone on Freenode (##passiveincome) sent me this link to:

myles.io/thoughts/passive-income-hacker-vs-startup-guy
You can't really get a bachelor's in 'law' in the US. I don't think Aslup is old enough to have one from the 50s or 60s or w/e.
These are amazing.

I wonder if it could start with input of a normal portrait of you, style: some celebrity of your gender, and output: what you would look like after receiving the same style? It doesn't seem beyond the examples shown at your link...

It would bring a whole new meaning to the word "filter" (instagram, etc.) I particularly like that the original is very much present in the output: it would still be "you".

But maybe there are subtle problems that I don't notice because I don't look at the subject matter as carefully. People pay a lot of attention to recognizing each other, perhaps the effect would not transfer as well as these examples presented.
(2004)

It's an interesting historical report, but all the controversy (or not controversy) is about a book published in 2004.
Previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13991851
Trolls are winning the internet, technologists say
OSX handles this by upsampling/downsampling the parts of windows that are drawn on the other screen.
PitchFriendly Announces the Pitch Drone
Some of the tax prep and strict financial institutions do.
Axioms can be shown to be useful or not. This is why some mathematicians reason with or without axiom of choice.
Likewise, systems of axioms can be shown to be consistent or not.
Snapchat now lets you search across over 1M Stories
That's a very good point.

It's worth noting however that reality television predates YouTube. That's not to say there weren't still alternatives back then, but when comparing the two mediums I think it at least constitutes a small dark age of sorts.
I know plenty of people with houses over 100 years old in the US, so it's not like the houses aren't lasting that long. Naturally, it's not as large of a portion of the houses as in the UK because the US's population has more than 200% in the past 100 years while the UK's only went up by 50%, so the US needed to do a lot more construction since then.
https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/security#validating-requests

Twilio cryptographically signs its requests

Not sure on the specifics of a GET vs the normal POST callbacks but they definitely are aware this is an issue.
I live in a suburb of Los Angeles and I occasionally do work at a local library branch. I overhear a lot of the patrons' conversations at the reference desk. It's astounding how much people still struggle to find quality information in "the information age". It's no surprise given the rise of poorly vetted articles spread on social media.

I realize how much of a role librarians can play in guiding people towards more reliable information sources. The key takeaway from the article shared is that libraries are still effective places for people to build self-reliance with regard to information seeking. It's an important skill that doesn't always get taught in schools for whatever reason.
I just use my cell phone as a phone... just a phone (it's not a smartphone); the rest I do on a device that isn't networked. The convenience of a smartphone comes with far too many hooks in my opinion.
I see you’re point, though I too use LVM and haven’t seen that happen... weird. I could have been more exact with my response as autoremove does more than just remove old kernels. Anyway, it would be nice to see Canonical resolve this.
> building new roads just allows people drive more.

Not only that: it allows more people to drive.

I'm not the first to say this: people will choose to drive into congested agglomeration as long as the alternative (public transport) yields a longer door-to-door time.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. What do blockchains have to do with this?
Yes, it's true that there are issues. It seems like most Microsoft apps handle multi-DPI well. By comparison, on Fedora 25 (the latest release), the only program I have found that handles multi-DPI is Terminal. Firefox doesn't do it.
By pretending that propaganda only comes from sources that they don't like, they can rationalize censorship.

'Fake News' needs to be put in the context of on-going propaganda that comes from the mainstream media (including in the United States).

Most HN readers are unaware of this context. I urge the reader of this comment to research the history of (war) propaganda, and carefully examine his/her belief system if he/she feels that the United States is exempt from history in this regard.

See 'The Myth of American Exceptionalism' http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/10/25/obama-putin... and research the history of propaganda in the US. At some historical point where it becomes uncomfortable to acknowledge it, people will suppose that it ceased to exist. This is not true.
RATs are also commonly used for IT support and law enforcement.

That's a damn good point. I bet if his defense team looked hard enough, they could find an RFP/RFQ out there somewhere, where the FBI themselves were seeking to purchase something like NanoCore. Hell, I'd go one further and suggest that in discovery they ask the FBI for a list of any RAT tools they use, including NanoCore!

Proving that the FBI themselves are a customer for tools like (and possibly including) NanoCore should be enough for any half-intelligent judge to throw the case out without further discussion.
It's all supply and demand. Supply of graduates is up massively, demand is down due to outsourcing and centralization of the good jobs. This creates falling wages for graduates, who have to take what they can get because of their student loans.
> I do expect that readers will click the ads on purpose and actually gain value from them.

I would be interested to know whether you have any stats to back this up; if it works this would be great.
Love this article. I went through a lot of these same steps when I was tinkering with my own chess bot. Bitboard representation with bitshifting operations can dramatically speed everything up (see here https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Bitboards). Another easy step is to integrate an opening book. The "Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings" provide a great set. Here is link to CSV of the openings for easy parsing:
https://github.com/notnil/opening/blob/master/csv/openings_a...

Plug: Any gophers out there looking to build their own bot can use my chess engine https://github.com/notnil/chess

Edit: wording
If you zoom in, you can sort of force parts of one monitor to be shown on the other monitor. You can see how everything's upscaled/downscaled from there.