skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking neutrally, the legit use-case for that kind of tool is stated in the article -- for local network monitoring by budget-conscious network admins. Now, I personally think that the use of such tools is unethical, but the general opinion on HN seems to be that on a corporate network, anything the management wants to do on your machine is okay.
This seems quite interesting. As soon as I reached the boolean circuit example query, I immediately thought of Prolog. Is there a known way to do something similar in logic languages? Using discrete ranks instead of continuous probabilities seems like a nice fit for such a setting.
People do want to live in them. It is the people who control what gets built that don't. Consider a neighborhood with a great school. You don't think families would jump at the chance to live in a new apartment in that town? The town planners, however, will fear apartments will bring in people that might lower the quality of the school, bring town test scores, etc. The only apartments allowed will be retirement communities.
It does matter for some non-IT positions (economics, law) and big companies tend to create general rules (e.g. everyone has to prove he has degree he claims to have).

Plus, while it does not matter whether you have degree for programming, it does matter whether you lie about it.
Every time you change connectivity your device will be locked for 3 minutes
Exactly. Airplanes get inspected between flights, but it takes hours, not days to do the inspections.
Yeah, the option of allowing super to be withdrawn as a house deposit seems very much like stopping a fire by shovelling coal on top of it.

This is just like the first home owners grant, which only made barely-affordable houses that much more expensive and didn't actually make houses more affordable for young people.
Well the last is basically what NULL means...
Buys an axe from the liquor store robbing section of the liquor store robbery forum, and then proceeds to rob a liquor store with it?
Have you seen better Friday malware?
You know, I'm really surprised and pleased to see this comment, because it's exactly what I was going to say. It amazes me how confident people are that somehow they know all there is to know about extraterrestrial life. Whether it exists, what its probably like, how good their science and tech could be, whether they'd interact with us and how. It just amazes me that anybody thinks they know anything about this, let alone enough to be able to judge abduction claims as insanity. It's incredibly ignorant.
1) They could improve those open source drivers.

2) They could improve the other aspects of the experience that is crap on Apple hardware, like display connection/disconnection, sleep/wake, battery life adjustments, keyboard layouts, et c. It takes about a full day to make a mac not suck after installing Ubuntu.
Oh. Look at the pretentious press trying to make a criminal look innocent. This guy knew exactly what he was doing. Trust me.
Most laptops shipped this year still has DDR3/LPDDR3 RAM
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. For you to believe them, sure. Not for them to be true.
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SpaceX also only has so much warehouse space, and they can't have too many rockets in the shop at the same time. That would limit how often they can do flights.
Yes, the scale at which you notice problems with older code changes as you gain experience. i.e. you may have it down at a function or class level but then, at a system design level, or perhaps in the way that the code addresses business needs there will likely be improvements that you can see given the benefit of hindsight and experience.

[edited to remove typo]
P.S. PVS-Studio team is ready to do regular audit of your code: https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0493/
Exciting! I'd like to see the faces of all those people arrogantly writing off SpaceX and Elon Musk. He isn't just a flamboyant marketing man, just doing stuff NASA did 40 years ago or whatever sour comments I've seen directed towards the achievements of SpaceX.

It is very inspiring to see a man with a dream reach this far, despite being ridiculed for years. It wasn't supposed to be possible, but he did it anyway. From now on one can always point to Elon Musk if somebody tries to put you down and say something can't be done.

Of course most are not anywhere near the talent and focus of Elon Musk, but it proves what people often seem to discount that startups can make a dent and challenge the big established players.

I see the same when people discuss Tesla. People are very quick to write off Tesla believing it is only a matter of time before Diamler Benz, Audi, Toyota, etc knock them down with a superior electric alternative.

Personally I think we will see in both space launch and the car industry an iPhone moment, where long time established players eventually get destroyed or made irrelevant.

It has nothing to do with difference in talent, but when you work in an established company you know very well how slow it can be for a company to change their ways in fundamental ways. The change in priorities, strategy and mindset will come too late for many of the players.
Palmer did nothing wrong. Nothing at all. He's totally free, in the United States, to hate on whatever candidate he wants and fund political cartoons against them.
Here is another interactive blog post with the Sierpinski triangle and other fractals - inspired by the Logo turtle http://exupero.org/hazard/post/fractals/
Contributing factor: Point of view by editors and producers of mainstream media. The Podesta emails reveals much dissonance provoking coziness between the media and the political establishment. Audiences want muckrakers and are not getting it.
Not usually concrete in a domestic house, but solid red brick or stone blocks for the internal walls yes. Hollow walls like a kind of wood and plaster tent seems just as ridiculous to me. Solid walls keep the house cool or warm and stop noise.
Full brick :)
Just a heads up that AFAIK these Docker images are built on top of the Ubuntu Core ones (which are ~30MB) so this is likely the overhead of multiple Docker layers that we all know about, see https://github.com/docker-library/repo-info/blob/master/repo... as it apparently explains where the core image comes from. Disclaimer: I am a @canonical.com but not involved directly with that so I also +1'ed it :-)
We agree to disagree!

I think Gilead's pricing scheme left a bad taste in the payer's mouths and probably caused them to be much more restrictive than they otherwise would have.

Yes, payers still would have worried about total budget impact, but a lower price means more value. If a payer can spend another $1M and treat another 50 patients (at $20K) vs. 10 patients (at $100K) I get the sense they would have felt it more worthwhile.
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I'm curious what init system would you prefer?
- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Make trackpads great again! Bring on gestures by default.

- DESCRIPTION: Trackpad config situation is a mess. Pretty much every Ubuntu derivative has its own simplified (reads severely lacking) interface. What's worse is the gestures configuration. It's mostly done via some dude's one off scripts found on some forum post 2 years ago.

Give me a MacOS like experience on the trackpad (especially the 3/4 finger workspace switching) and I'd never look back on MacOS again.
Flavor: Ubuntu Desktop

Headline: UX for Moms/Dads

I've been using Ubuntu Desktop for over 5 years and Linux for more than 15 years. I keep on changing distros, but Ubuntu is my first choice.

Role: Web developer

Please make it easier for Moms/Dads to use Ubuntu. My parents (both above 60) use Ubuntu and they love it. But I can feel their frustration sometimes when they need to do more. They mostly use Firefox (YouTube, Facebook) etc. so its fine. But when they need some more power usage, like transferring photos from camera they are stuck. Using a webcam, no way.

Upgrading software, yikes!

I seriously believe Ubuntu Desktop is doing a fantastic job of making sure Linux rules the desktop. If not now, it will soon. I'm sorry I can't provide any substantial issues, but I hope the UX team at Ubuntu can do a good job.

All the best!
Interesting, it's a bit different here in Australia, we have free healthcare, free education and incredibly high house prices (eg ordinary house in suburbs > $1 million; 2br unit almost $0.5 million). Of course, those first two aren't actually "free" and eg drug prices can be very high.

Patented drugs are at least something new - you're getting better tech, enhancing or even saving your life, to an extent previously impossible. The "standard" cost of drugs increases with our expectations, but also their true value. Inflation measures mightn't account for this. eg basics like aspirin and ibuprofen are dirt cheap these days.

House and education prices are above their actual utility; a bubble, an insidious monopoly, or something else.

Isn;t educatiin high because it's a false ticket to a "good job"? i.e. people get it for that reason (not for the education itself, or for a market demand for that specific skillset/knowledge), but the jobs aren't there, so they double down. Demand for education exceeds supply so the price goes up. Yes, more places are made available to meet demand, but they lack the prestige (and network effects) of the top institutions... On it goes. Mightn't apply to K12 though (that's highschool I guess?).

LCOL is it. BTW I used to want to retire, now I want to be able to work on projects. That's a subset, I guess.
And where do we go from there? It's a nihilistic argument. I claim that Jesus and the alien from Roswell are sitting next to me at the moment. I'm Tupac Shakur by the way.
Aliens works in mysterious ways?
- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Option to disable all animations and transparency effects in Unity

- DESCRIPTION: With a big (>=2560x1600) monitors and a not high-end graphic cards they are not smooth anymore anyway and my PC is freezing up randomly (but seldom) when switching between applications.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: developer
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: More stable dock/undock and sleep/wake handling.

- DESCRIPTION:

I've noticed that my system often hangs unrecoverably with a blank screen during dock/undock and sleep/wake events. I've learned, though, that I can reduce the likelihood of having problems by trying to minimize the number of state changes that the system has to handle at once. For example, if I'm leaving the house with the laptop, I'll first open the lid, wait 10 seconds to see if the display wants to turn on or not, undock it, wait 10 seconds for it to adjust, and only then put it to sleep. Same thing waking it up: one step at a time, with 10 second pauses in between. Seems to reduce my problems by about 90%. As a developer, this screams "race conditions" to me, but what do I know? If there's a bug filed for this already, I wouldn't know -- no idea what I'd search for.

I take the uptime game pretty seriously: having to reboot means that I lose a ton of context. Right now, I've got nine separate workspaces/desktops going, all with several browser, terminal, etc. windows. A reboot means I'll spend anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes installing updates and recovering all of that state. It's painful. Right now, my system has only been up for 9 days, which is weak sauce.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: software developer in the federal government
https://github.com/roman-neuhauser/motoconf aims for that space, sadly it's very incomplete and dormant.
That's at least $200 to use Spreedly. What benefit have you gotten with it so far? Do you find yourself switching gateways to get lower rates, or do you just stick with one gateway?
There are some 0MQ Rust bindings out there. But has anyone coded a pub sub server in Rust? Rust should be a good fit for a deepstream.io or crossbar.io style pub sub server.
The uT was sentenced to prison for writing software he didn't use either (TJ Maxx theft), they just used chat logs to prove he was part of a conspiracy and I'm sure FBI probably has similar PMs from this guy replying to potential customers or informants "proving" conspiracy.
HN is not made up of one person, but even if we assume it was, is it hypocritical? Education does not equal schooling. One could advocate for educating people better while not believing that the postsecondary school system that currently exists is sufficiently filling that role.
Same here. Watch out for the various versions with different impedance. I have the 80ohm version and on some devices I'm slightly limited in volume. I'd say 80ohms is alright thugh, just don't get the models with higher ohm numbers.

AKGs have a more roomy sound (doesn't sound like the band plays in your head), but for really good overall sound quality you have to get the models that are priced at least 100 bucks more. The half open beyerdynamics might also be an option, but they bleed sound more and block noise less.
if you implement swagger (now openapi) then you put the discovery in: https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/ver...
2016 revealed just how thin skinned, conspiratorial and fatalistic the tech community is. Hence the drop in participation around here.
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- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Automated night mode so I can sleep well after work

- DESCRIPTION: Reducing the amount of blue light during the night is proven to help people finding sleep after having used their computer at night. So during the night, the desktop automatedly reduce the amount of blue light emitted on the screen by shifting the color balance.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Dev/Machine learner
Ask HN: How RCS can be used with botframework
We do some bot development for channels like Skype, Messenger etc.
The framework we use is https://dev.botframework.com/.

We were trying to figure out how [RCS][1] can be used as channel for bots?

[1]: http://www.gsma.com/network2020/rcs-2/
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Add tablet mode similar to Windows 10

- DESCRIPTION: As far as I know, Ubuntu has no tablet mode, which makes it difficult to use with touch screen laptops like the Lenovo Yoga series

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: User
There are long term care insurance products with good companies. They behave by using your policy value as a deductible. I saw numbers for a 58 yr old male. Pay $75k, get $122k death benefit and another $122k as LTCI pool.

If you get disabled (cannot do 2 of 6 daily functions), you can draw from the death benefit, when the death benefit is exhausted you can draw from the LTCI pool.

So if you have money saved up, it makes sense to use some money to get protection. Otherwise disability at old age can use up a lot of money.

If you don't use it there is cash value that can be used (it grows along with the death benefit) or passed on.
Oh yes, they are busy putting up apartments everywhere, but I think a vast majority of them - possibly more than 50% will sit empty for a while when Inpex reaches endgame. Just across the road from us, they started building a 4 storey apartment/shopping complex last year, but the company in charge pulled it a few months ago because they could see the writing on the wall. It's just a 1/4 built concrete framework, and likely to stay that way for years.

We visit the local markets frequently, and almost all the stall holders (some who have been at the markets for 2 or more decades) are struggling. All the local hotels and services apartments are occupied by fly in fly out workers, taking rooms that tourists normally buy in the dry season, and they don't visit markets or spend coin locally. Inpex was touted as a boon for the Northern Territory, but it has been a total bust for us. I really love Darwin, but I fear it will be a ghost town in a few years.

Did you walk down the mall in the CBD when you were here? Notice how many empty shops and 'For Lease' signs were up all over the place?

We used to have a solid public service contingent in this town, which sort of kept things going through the lean times, but even that is under threat. Our newly elected Territory government is looking to axe 100+ jobs over this year via natural attrition. We've already sold off most of our high value assets (the port and our TIO insurance company etc.), and the Federal government have just announced they are slashing $2billion from our GST revenue share over the next few years. There is not much left in the kitty.
Unfortunately this is true.

Massive wealth disparity has created different classes of people, including an Elite class, the wealthiest, who are treated like royalty.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Low Latency Audio Server + Touch support for pro audio

- DESCRIPTION:

Running pro audio apps under any linux distro is still pretty much a pain, mostly due to the problem of getting a low latency audio server to run without lots of manual configuration at the risk of breaking your system, by installing jackd, running a rt kernel, and not breaking existing sound servers (pulseaudio).

_Audio stack and drivers_

Google has announced that android O 8.x would ship with a completely new low latency audio server, enabling pro audio apps under android, all such apps have been iOS, OSX and windows exclusives up until now.

Since google has done it under android it should be doable on GNU/Linux ?

Today more devs are porting pro audio apps to GNU/linux: Bitwig Studio, Renoise, Harrisson Mixbus have linux native versions and REAPER has a beta linux native build.

However running these DAWs at rock-solid low latency with an up to date audio interface is hard/impossible for config issues and lack of driver support.

This would most likely require engaging discussion with audio interface manufacturers to develop/port their drivers to linux (Focusrite, Presonus, RME, Avid, Roland, Tascam) Focusrite Scarlett in particular is the best selling enthusiast-level USB 2.0 audio interface range in the world today, with Presonus a close second. RME, Apogee, AVID, MOTU, etc. are high-end stuff that will not appeal to enthusiasts. RME already has rock-solid support under linux.

_Multi-touch_

Most current and future audio DAWs and apps are going the down the multi-touch route (Bitwig, Presonus Studio One, etc). Sanitizing the audio stack on linux and enabling proper touch support would allow Pro audio apps to run on linux (most likely using WINE at first, as most pro VSTs are windows -- or mac -- only).

Considering all the privacy issues and crap ads that ship with win10 (browsing through pro audio forums will show you that that most people are stuck with win7 for running their DAW computer, do not want to upgrade to win10, and win7 support will stop really soon) and the absolute ripoff that the Apple HW is nowadays, linux might become attractive to audio enthusiasts, maybe pros in the long run?

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Comp. Sci. Researcher, music enthusiast.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Better Mouse Settings

- DESCRIPTION: Right now mouse acceleration is enabled by default, and for heavy mouse users this is really not usable. There is no way to change this behaviour in the mouse settings. The only way as a user to get a workable mouse configuration is with custom startup scripts, and it took me as an experienced Linux user and software engineer a long time to figure out exactly how (The recommended way to do this kept changing). Non-expert users cannot be expected to do the same. All it needs is a checkbox or possibly a slider in the Mouse & Touchpad settings to configure the acceleration speed.

- ROLE: Desktop User
Go took this idea from Plan 9. In fact, Go shares a lot with Plan 9 C compiler structure.

Related: http://doc.cat-v.org/henry_spencer/ifdef_considered_harmful
Awesome answer.

It made me smile.
Do you have any grounds for this statement whatsoever? Sounds a lot like baseless speculation. How would you imagine that FBI bypasses the end-to-end encryption?
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"Until you can empathize with someone who reads infowars..."

Absurdity defined.
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Here in the UK, we have the Spectator magazine, whose writers are very professional and generally support a conservative position.
That WiFI issue is so annoying for me. Sometimes

`sudo systemctl restart network-manager.service` fixes it without having to reboot, other times even that doesn't work.
Some concrete pain points I came accross in the last several weeks:

Better thermal management - Thermald should become the default, but it needs many improvements.

Zombie processes in containers - When somebody causes a Zombie in a lxd container which happens from time to time you have to reboot the machine, this should not be necessary

Mounting remote filesystems in containers - Fuse is possible if you allow it, but mounting SMB, NFS require a kernel module and cannot be mounted in a lxd container, so make fuse-smb or fuse-nfs.

DNS in Openstack - DNS in openstack is currently really painful to setup correctly. Create a new default module which lets you configure a subdomain for the cluster, a subdomain which is the projectname and then after you start an instance you should be able to simply ssh user@instancename.projectname.clustername.tld
I get where you're coming from, it wasn't a particularly good metaphor I put forward. I would argue that there's some legitimacy in claiming that frameworks are just prepackaged collections of tools.

It's funny you mentioned hammers actually, the movie playing in my head when I was writing that post was of a neophyte hammering nails in all day, struggling to remove nails with some contraption, eventually deciding that there must be a better way to remove nails and inventing the hammer with nail extractor head.
Remembers me some virus that existed back in 1998, more or less, that would allow you to take control of some computer, see the screen, open CD-ROM, and so on.

It was used as a base for some softwares that would replace VNC or some kind of remote management for Windows (when Microsoft solution was too expensive or too poor)
The article makes it pretty clear that this was "hack" in the criminal sense. The nature of the forum is a question of fact, and it sounds like the prosecution will have no difficulty in showing that lawbreaking was a major topic of conversation. With "Hacker News" on the other hand the hypothetical defense could easily demonstrate that it was for "hack" in the positive sense. Dictionaries routinely list both senses of the word.
Agree. It's a tough adjustment to make in a blog though, where images get uploaded by non tech people. Also, if your talking about the medium article I don't think one can code stuff in there :) anyway it's a good thing to keep in kind mind, thanks!
RATs are also commonly used for IT support and law enforcement.
Those with a good financial record thus get to crowd out the market and push up prices for those without the record (and mortgage).

>>For these reasons, property typically doesn't have a good ROI, vis-a-vis e.g. investing in shares.

Have you seen the UK property market recently?

This seems a bizarre assertion given market patterns over the last 15-20 years.
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This is a particularly american problem. It's not Alex Jones or Breitbart or Hannity or Limbaugh it's the fact that profits come before truth and making money by appealing to human nature through click bait, fear mongering, exaggeration, conspiracy theories is the only thing that matters.

The internet killed the profitability of real journalism and free press and might take down democracy with it.
Other Than That, the (NYTimes) Story Was Accurate
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