skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, It does make one think... just not critically think.

Even if his personal claim about military and intelligence connections are true, it isn't evidence of anything, as you alluded. For example, most of the people he has connections with could also think he is a crazy wingnut.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Provide a rolling-release flavor

- DESCRIPTION: What keeps me from fetching too many packages from the Ubuntu repositories is that major package updates take 1-2 OS releases to get into the repos. This makes OS upgrades more difficult to execute because so much is changing at once, but also made me constantly seek workarounds, install from source, add third-party ppas, etc. when I couldn't have a newer version of some package.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software Engineer
You've just repeated your false fact "+8% (for big cities)" after I corrected it, with a quote from the source, in the very comment you replied to.

You provided the link in the first place and yet you're happy to misquote it twice in the face of correction. What hope for any kind of conversation is there now?

People might take your cause more seriously if you even put slightly more effort into your lies, or alternatively told the truth.
Math Technique Mops Up Higgs Boson's Mass Problem Like Clockwork
Google's co-founders are trying to live forever
Written Using Gnu Lilypond, Orchestrated in Linux MultiMedia Studio
would you mind sharing this in the meantime?
That is easy to be trite and say that in the abstract, sitting at your computer. In in certain situations, it might be that obvious. Most situations, however, are not so clear cut. At what point does it shift to 'about' to murder your loved ones? As soon as you see the kid with the machete? What if he is 300 yards away? Do you shoot him? 200 yards? 50? 10? What if he has a gun, but isn't pointing it at you? What if the kid is 3 years old and holding a gun? 5? 2?
This is my guess. I think that soon we will start to hit limits for single threaded performance so eventually we will just keep adding support for more threads to increase performance
I don't expect it but I think it's a great illustration of the gap between reality and political belief (something we likely all suffer from to some degree).
10 minutes not 1000 minutes
While this is a cool project, I can't really see it making financial sense...

> Lets throw away the last 20 years development on the linux kernel by thousands of people, and rewrite our own.

> How much will it cost?

> Ooh - I dunno - If you lend me 1000 engineers, we should be done in about 10 years, cos we're really smart and don't need to implement legacy SCSI support...
Wow, I didn't even know DisplayPort daisy-chaining was a thing
More work on gesture!

Including the ability to configure what gestures you want in a GUI interface!
Introducing SpinMagic (AirPencil special edition)
I just saw your comment after posting a fairly similar one myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14005808
Why is it that Neural Net-based ML only seems to be claiming results with images and natural language?

Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I haven't seen anything demonstrating results on "data" – the kinds of challenges that are actually valuable to businesses.

Why is that? Are those just less sexy / more proprietary in nature, or is there something about those challenges that make NN's less useful to them?
This isn't a 'fallacy' in any sense of the word.

There are plenty of people from advantaged backgrounds who do poorly, and plenty from disadvantaged backgrounds who do well. The reason for that is degree of effort and life choices.

Further, this undercurrent of resentment toward people from advantaged backgrounds is rubbish. There's no cosmic roll of the dice that determines into what circumstances a person is born; rather, that's the direct result of parental choices to have children, knowing full well their own life situation.
X-Plane 11 – The future of flight simulation is now
I've done work for gigantic investment banks, hedge funds, two of the world's largest retail banks, several insurance companies, and three major trading exchanges. None of them keylog. Can you give me a more specific example of "strict financial institution" that does keylog all its employees?

At every F-500 company I've ever been posted to, the logs produced by a keylogger would be considered a far greater threat than anything the keylogger itself might detect. I can't imagine the regime you'd have to come up with to protect those logs.
Apologies if I'm out of order but is there a particular reason why therpe1's posts are being marked [dead]? [dead] posts are difficult to read )in my browser at least).
I use tmux-resurrect for this exact reason. Between that and Chrome's session restore I end up in an OK state after a reboot.

+1 for fixing this issue, just trying to work around it in the meantime.
I wonder how this will affect the Infinite Fabric in Ryzen CPU which runs at half clock speed of the ram
Interview with a crypto-casino making over $50k/month
I haven't read the article because apparently I've reached my "free limit" or something.

...but the short answer: It's never OK, but perhaps a necessary evil if you're in the me vs them situation. But that should go for adults as well in general.
Good journalism is typically not dependent on "gotcha" images. It might hurt amateur twitter reporting, though.
He only resorted to the EOs because of the obstructionism from Congress. What else is a president to do when faced with such petulance?
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Make Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom happen.

DESCRIPTION:
I want Ubuntu to have some strategic plan to get Photoshop and Lightroom fully working (and supported), as well as monitor-color-calibration software. We'd move my wife's photography business to Ubuntu in a heartbeat if this happened.

AFFILIATION:
I provide support and guidance on computing issues for my wife's photography business.
The ice dams are due to poor air sealing and attic insulation. If you fix those, you won't get ice dams anymore (and your utility bills will go down!)

http://structuretech1.com/ice-dams-2/
It's not about your own intentions. You are using third party services which track and collect data for their own purposes.
rpc looks to be the most flexible of the bunch.

what are the downsides of rpc approach as compared to rest and graphql?
I mean, you say that, but on KDE, for example, every application except one on my system works with DPI scaling (the odd one out is Unity3D) - that's because at the QT level DPI scaling is built-in, so the toolkit supports it and the applications get it for free. Clearly this wasn't the case for the older Windows UI stuff, where they are literally just scaling the image of the window up (which means horrible looking text).
How to Use Microfeedback for Product and UX Research
LUKS
Very good question. It could be handled similarly to the fiasco of google's street view cars 'hacking' poorly protected wireless routers. They got a pretty serious smack on the wrist for that.

https://epic.org/privacy/streetview/
The adopted doctrine is well-founded: if child soldiers shoot at you, you shoot them. It's not easy, but it's right.

Doing otherwise would not only put you and your own troops in danger; it would also encourage ruthless and immoral warlords to use more child soldiers, since they would have such an advantage.
The article is mainly about Canada's armed forces' answer to the question and is in line with your opinion.
> for some bizarre reason uses the C preprocessor (!!) to pepper code with #ifdefs.

I always thought that was funny. You are using the most powerful (of the widely used) language available for transforming text, but must fall back to the C preprocessor.
Maybe I am reading into this but I feel like the author makes this sound nefarious and really uncommon.

When I was moving to the South Bay and had only two weeks to figure out my plan, can't tell you how many somewhat affordable room rentals in non-luxury apartments had crazier setups.

Some of my favorites:
1. Spacious open room with bed (it was someone's garage with a sheet down and a mattress on top of the concrete)

2. Pretty common: nice place but you were not allowed to use the kitchen

3. Converted Living Room (no joke, the photo was a twin bed in a living room with Office Depot boxes to create a divider)

So yeah, I get why someone would share a room in exchange for having some amenities.
Agreed, but BART is no exception to the public's impassioned hatred of new market-rate housing construction.

What's proposed for these sites is mostly commercial, with a little bit of lottery housing for homeless seniors, at-risk veterans, etc. Market rate housing, if proposed, stalls out (see MacArthur).
What sort of stats are you looking for specifically?
FLABOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Take Cinnamon seriously

DESCRIPTION: For many Mint users, including me, I suspect the Cinnamon desktop is the main reason we use Mint rather than Ubuntu. Ubuntu should make it be a supported package, and ensure it works well with each new Ubuntu release.
I'm definitely of the Mr. Money Mustache school of thought on commuting- there should be a fairly strong reason that you aren't dwelling in place from which you can bike to work.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-c...
From 2015.

Slides: http://us-east.manta.joyent.com/bcantrill/public/ContainerSu...
Yeah, Windows support is better than Linux for it, but it's still pretty iffy. While IE and a few other things do, even stuff like Windows Explorer and OneNote doesn't handle multi-DPI well or even just runtime DPI changes in general, I'll RDP my box from a 100 DPI system and have my session screwed up when I come back to my system.

If you're making a decision about whether to make a purchase, don't make it unless you're prepared to do it all at once. Stick to ~100 DPI until you can make a commitment to go all at once.
I'm a starting Sofwtare Engineer, just got my first job. I installed Ubuntu to get familiar with Linux since my job requries RHEL 6/7 knowledge. Don't have a specific request. Bluetooth fails sometimes, display sucks after suspend/wake (only on Nvidia drivers), and battery is not so good, but probs because of discrete gpu vs hybrid (integrated and dedicated).

I've fixed the bluetooth one myself and the second by switching to nouveau.. But for non tech people these are dealbreakers. But I also know this stuff isn't up to you (entirely).

Just wanted to say, keep up the good work!!! Hope to see linux dominant on desktop one day!
Thanks! We've removed that from the HN headline.
2 hours after reading your comment that HN tells me was 2 hours ago in the hour that I read it, the links seems to be up. :)
HOW WOULD YOU KNOW!

/s
What I learned from my 28 days of Productivity Challenge
Sure, but 99% of my Windows software isn't UWP. It's all good and well to say it's there, but that doesn't make the experience good for the user. Contrast to KDE and OS X where it just works for 99% of software.

I mean, I get it, same issue as Vista for Microsoft - people expect 100% backwards compatibility, but it turns out that terrible design decisions made many years ago tend to mean you need to break compatibility. Just like UAC, resolution scaling will be an issue that becomes less painful in Windows over time. Right now it's not great, however.
The article ends by saying "By the theorem, Koomey's law has the potential to be valid for about 125 years". One imagines that it could continue long after even this however with further ways of computations being discovered.
Her name is Kerala:Meet the American kid visiting the state she was named after
Password Cracking. pt 1 – Hashcat
Hi Dustin, thank you for your work on Ubuntu and for asking for suggestions here. It's impressive to see the range and specificity of things that people have come up with.
That's not what apple tells shareholders:

http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/17/02/01/see-how-app...
Yeah, that's not common at all. Plus doing so breaks a lot of things, like copy/paste, IIRC.
Hmm, I've done well enough (on Debian testing) by enabling dmix in alsa and sending sound through alsa by default and letting pulseaudio start on demand for the applications that insist on it: mainly, this setup lets mpd continue playing after my graphical session ends.
> By acknowledging their right to defend themselves, Canada’s government may lessen the trauma of those forced to fight the youngest warriors.

I think the closing line sums it up nicely. Killing children is not, and will never be, OK. It's a truly terrible thing to do, and only a truly monstrous person would ever do it without remorse. But war does, sometimes, force you to do terrible things, and you have to live with that for the rest of your life.

This seems to me like a fine attempt at, at least, saying "we understand".
Has he ever addressed that publicly? It would be soooo delicious seeing him debunk a conspiracy using simple logic the same way others do to him. I wonder if his followers would be too far "gone" to be able to feel the cognitive dissonance that should invoke. I will have to look into this more tonight for a laugh.
Mastering the Infosec Interview
Nothing. He should be able to do nothing.

That's the point of having three branches of government. A president has no god-given right to push through whatever policies they want; congress has no obligation to help.
Do you also think the Metasploit authors should have their homes raided, and criminal charges raised?
This whole discussion and article had me thinking about that.

CMake is faster than autotools and works fine with all the compilers talked about so far and all the windows compilers I know of.

Creating a CMakeLists.txt covering moderately complex build that links against a few libraries (but doesn't need and custom logic for moving files or other uncommon stuff) is normally just a few lines of code. Usually just one line of code per source file and per library (depending on how you feel about automatically including files this can be further shortened), then a little bit declaring the language and other settings. There are plenty of 10 line CMakeLists that can build large and seemingly complex projects.
On a related note, as far as I can tell the STOKE code seems to be incorrect w.r.t. aliasing between y and x, i.e. if x == y + 1.
Makes me wonder what SMT solver claims are worth in the literature.
Decorating ActiveRecord
I look at things like "how long does it take to enter 100 values into a spreadsheet". Back in DOS days, it was as fast as you could type. With Google Sheets, there is some lag sometimes. Many orders of magnitude more computing power, but how have we improved the actual experience and productivity?
Pure CSS in-browser search – no JS
Yeah, I was about to say, useful work performed per computation probably decays about as fast.
Invisible Manipulators of Your Mind
Translation: "I want all the packages to be updated to the most recent version and all the programs to be updated to the most recent version."
It seems like the whole study is missing the point. The question is whether people in New York would be happier if their system was faster, not if they'd be happier if they moved to St Louis.

Basically the study finds that trains go faster if there's a larger gap between stops. Not really that interesting a result. It then has a headline that implies a causal relationship where clearly none exists.
I actually would be one of the developers to come in. As bad as your problems are in the UK, the USA are far worse especially with your browser history effectively being able to be sold to the highest bidder[0]

Not mentioned([0]) is the fact that hiring and recruiting companies will be able to [ab]use this data

[0] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-browser-history-could-...
Same. At work we are in the process of rewriting an application that sends FAXes to doctors for their signatures. The barcode is on the edge of the doc, rather than the coverpage, but otherwise, same. The barcode is used as less error prone OCR for a record number so the FAX can be associated with the right "file". The users requesting the FAX loop view the returned document when it comes back to verify it (or at least, they will, when I finish recreating that feature :-) ). HOWEVER, users DO NOT sift through all incoming documents with data for other people which is none of a given user's business. Having to do so would be not only an inconvenience, but a data privacy issue.

Plus, I would rather somebody else build doc ID OCR in a language other than Java so I don't have to build it myself. This is going to come up time and time again.
Robbery is a physical action.

The words are not robbery.

What if they were uttered in a play? What if you're joking around with your friends? There are valid, legal uses for them.

In the absence of criminal actions such as robbery or assault following those words, a court would need to prove criminal intent.
So they are building too much luxury housing which normally would cause prices to go down but fortunately a startup is making it easier to pack people in like college students or illegal migrants? Wonderbar.

If I rented a "luxury" apartment by myself and found I was living next door to 5-10 people crammed into one place I'd be pretty angry.
Encourage people to vote as many ways as possible, as many times as possible, as much as possible.

Here's the magic of the Slashdot system: not everyone has all day to click voting buttons, but some people do. So what you'll end up with your proposition is voting dominated by people that make a career out of hanging out on one web forum, with the conversation consequentially dominated by them.

The Slashdot system is more like jury duty: go in, do your civic duty by casting your five or ten votes, then go on about your day. I don't want a justice system dominated by people with nothing better to do than sit on juries every day.
Is the blackphone not secure? I ask this out of genuine ignorance

https://www.silentcircle.com/products-and-solutions/devices/
فيلم سكس عربى محجبة سعودية تتناك من عشيقة
Translation: "I want Ubuntu, and also the kernel, to be completely free-as-in-freedom."
When people use the phrase MBA on HN they usually mean MBA from one of the top 20 or so programs, which answers your first question.
Well, yes. The entire point is: what happens when the population loses all faith in civilian control -- not just of the military, but of anything? From the article:

"Here’s what I think happened: Americans became exasperated with democracy"
My favorite setup is renting out a balcony. Yup. It was roofed so you didn't get rained on, but still...
The only way to not make any mistakes, is to do nothing.
As Nike says: Just Do It!
Agree; in case it's not clear, this would be a control for moderation, posting it as a comment for non-moderators to view would be optional.
Destroying Cockroaches and a Hackathon Experience
You're creating an unexessarily complex system. If you look at * chans, all of this is naturally handled by the system itself; how willing people are to actually respond to the post. It's only really insufficient against particularly malicious actors, like shills and bots.

Willingness to converse is the prinary metric; upvotes fuck with that by also pushing the orthogonal metric of how much people like the post itself (regardless of how worthy of response it is).

And ofc, you're trying to tack on like 6 more orthogonal metrics. But whats wrong with letting people vote with their feet?
Oh yeah absolutely, but I was just talking about the Technology division (where almost all CS grads go).
Because this is B2B business and usually done by specialized software companies. These companies do not publish or open source their solutions because it is either against their own or their customer's interest.

Examples are the whole Predictive Maintenance sector, the medical sector (Computer Aided Diagnosis) or insurance companies which use NN to for all kind of analyses.
So what we're seeing is these fields pre-deep learning were mathematical disciplines making steady progress on well-understood foundations. Then deep learning came in, was exceptionally effective at problems that had been difficult to crack, and people shifted focus because it seems weird to be diddling around with incremental gains on techniques that are significantly less effective.

What this created though, was a clean break from a field with a theoretical foundation like what we expect in CS usually, to an empirical foundation, like what we see in psychology, sociology, medicine etc. The theory will eventually catch up, but the fact that "it works" really trumps having a full understanding of why it works (at least for now).
Luxury apartments will always exist, no need to worry about that. But plenty of people don't really need those things, and certainly don't want to pay for them.

99.9% of apartment buildings in Germany do not remotely resemble anything in Manhattan, and it works extremely well.
Why Developers Hate WordPress
Linux is humongous. I don't know about what Google is trying to achieve with Fuschia, but I if you're willing to make trade-offs, I believe you can make an OS that is multiple order of magnitudes smaller than Linux (or other Unixes, or Windows) and still makes a lot of practical sense.
Happy Friday, we deleted all your data
It's not just images, audio and text. There's also behavior (reinforcement learning), such as in Atari games and AlphaGo.
Just because you don't have a legitimate use case doesn't mean someone else doesn't. Your mentality can be very dangerous with regards to eroding our cherished liberties.
FBI Face Recognition Technology Has 'No Limits,' Congressional Hearing Reveals
One thing I never knew about ping is that if you ping a broadcast address, then all hosts will respond! But for some operating systems (windows I think?), you need a packet capture to see this. It's been useful when probing around unknown networks.

I only found that out by reading the source code. It was part of a short-lived attempt to become a better hacker by familiarizing myself with the Linux source code, kernel and all. The more I learn, the more impossible it seems to ever master it all...
Define small amount. Are we talking $5000 or $50000 ?

"Note: after 6 months I'd likely be consulting."

I'd try to accomplish a life / financial goal. If I was a renter and wanted to buy a house, I'd use the money down on a mortgage. If I had a house and wanted a bigger / nicer house - same. Both - contingent of finding a job or starting that consulting gig ASAP.

If I was into really nice cars (100k+ cars - Porsche, Ferrari, etc...) - I'd consider putting the money down on that. If I was into traveling - maybe a tour of Europe or something.

In other words, something that would be financially difficult to accomplish under normal circumstances. If you really need a break, take it - but if your willing to jump back into work now - take the money and do something that you've wanted to do but would take significant financial effort to do otherwise.
there is no better way to speed-teach a generalist exposure

I'd say there is no way to speed-teach a generalist exposure - so MBA's are off on the wrong foot to start with.
A couple of previous discussions among https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20story%20of%20the%20Ping%...
Could you elaborate on the "not so much"? A lot of companies (including law firms and Fortune 100 corps) have had me sign documents with DocuSign/HelloSign with no reservation. What would be the potential legal differences compared to an actual signature?
Continuous Delivery: What it is, why it works
FLAVOR: ALL

Take your Snappy and leave the Debian ecosystem once and for all.
How safe is this? Having more efficient batteries seems to imply more risks of spontaneous exposions, as we've seen in various phones, cars, and computers.

And what about the lifetime?
Young blood for the win!
Vertical vs. Horizontal
Pirated implies proprietary software. Lesson: anything that is even remotely related to security should be written as open source.