skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of sad that we classify Politics so linearly. After all originally it was only based on where representatives were seated at the assembly. What characterizes Le Pen is the nationalist stand inherited from her father : basically the idea that most problems come from immigration so that we should close borders and kick foreigners away.

The schism between "socialism" and "liberalism" has imho, nothing to do with that. It's more an economical philosophy about the ownership of capital, as discussed by Marx.

In addition to that there are differences regarding some moral values, where "conservatives" are usually seen as people who stand their grounds on old principles (like heterosexual marriage, death penalty, gun ownership), though it seems to me that this is very much an American.

Anyhow, this makes it all very confusing, especially when translating, and I suppose that's why an article written in English did not say Macron is "socialist" but rather "liberal", even if in France "liberal" kind of means "right-wing".
Gonna need to science to show me that most users under 30 know how to avoid phishing (particularly spearphishing). This goes against all available evidence that I have seen in the industry.
You got this exactly right.
Ask HN: Teams using AWS, are your i3 instances dying at abnormal rates?
We've had several i3's (2xl and 4xl's) die in the space of several days on critical pathways, out of about 18 that we have in service right now. Our AWS rep has given nothing but non-answers and nervous comments.

We love the i3 because of the cost/compute value, but we need to pull them out of the fleet if they're on fragile hardware.

HN SRE's/devops/infeng people, have you experienced similar?
Out of curiosity, how much information do you retain from all the books that you've read?

That's a really good question, and one I ask myself a lot. I honestly don't know, and I've read reference to some studies somewhere or other that suggest that most people retain fairly little of what they read. So my strategy with a lot of books is to read the book, not take notes or anything really, and at the end, make a simple "this is worth revisiting" or "this isn't worth revisiting" decision. If it is, I'll read it again and either do some light pencil underlining or use post-it page flags to highlight important stuff, OR I'll do a full-fledged "create a wiki page for this book on my wiki and take detailed notes" pass.

Sometimes I'll do the "light pencil underlining and post-it notes" thing on the first pass.

It's an interesting trade-off... I don't want to spend too much time taking notes and cut into my time for reading other books. But I don't want to waste the time I spent reading a book and not retain anything from the experience either!
My complaint is that Colbert's humor reflects wealthy New York values - and he never makes jokes about the actual problems which caused many to vote for Trump (yes, some Trump supporters are racist - but many have real issues with the wealth transfer to the 1% and the myriad consequences of that transfer.) Where are the jokes about hiding billions offshore and avoiding taxes and undermining community values? Colbert, sadly, is part of the problem. Like Trump and Clinton, Colbert thinks he illuminates while he is really only promoting a different set of class values.
I am not thoroughly convinced that non-physical labor jobs are zero sum, necessarily shrinking and/or reduce other employment. Why should I believe that? Can you cite any evidence to this effect?

Furthermore, if white collar jobs are "shrinking" means they should be irrelevant, manufacturing jobs are shrinking means they should be lamented?

Lastly, what if increasing automation means that manufacturing jobs will inevitably go away regardless of how anyone feels about it or complains about it? What do you propose to stop that? Manufacturing output of the US has consistently increased despite any variance in the amount of people it employs or the state of the rest of the economy.
You can find the tail numbers for Volga-Dnepr's A124 fleet on various flight tracker sites, like FlightRadar24 [1].

Four of their planes have been in SFO in the past week:

RA-82081 was in SFO on April 28 and flew to Kinston, South Carolina, then continued on May 2 to Nantes, then Leipzig.

RA-82074 arrived in SFO on April 30 from Milan MXP via Goose Bay, then from May 2-4 flew to Kinston, Nantes, and Chateauroux.

RA-82047 was in SFO on May 2, and flew to Columbus OH, then to Everett WA.

RA-82077 landed in SFO on May 3, arriving from Tokyo via Anchorage, then flew onto Kinston the next day.

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Meanwhile, in the same week, RA-82042 has been to French Guiana, Barbados, Toulouse, Madrid, and East Midlands; RA-82043 flew on May 3 from Leipzig to Beijing; and RA-82044 has been in Iraq, France, Germany, Mali, Germany, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, and Germany again.

[1] https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/volga-dnepr-airl...
Replacing Boxen
Ask HN: Any technology can collect children learning behavior data in class set?
A CoC that against economic incentives is unlikely to work out.

Instead, they should work to change the incentives -- likely by paying more attention to them as an organization, talking about people who contribute them on the project's page and blog the same as they do for major technical work, and possibly even bringing on maintainers focused on (soft) docs.

Trading attention and prestige for content might work, shaming the people who produce content for not giving you the credit for free is unlikely to.

I don't think projects give soft docs the credit they deserve, so why are people so surprised that people develop that content elsewhere, where they're recognized for it?
They would if they could and it was clean/legal. But there are very few purchasable databases that make a dent at Twitter or LinkedIn scale.

This line of thinking was behind the original motivation for Digits (part of the Fabric SDK). Get developers to collect Address Books for us, in return they get a free SMS-based verification service.
In my experience a huge number of users under age 30 can't even distinguish the difference between a binary that is natively running on their windows10 or osx workstation OS, and something that is presented inside of a web browser window. Thus you get people paying for windows bluescreen ransom javascript webpages (or "FBI has locked your computer") that are presented with scary graphics as fullscreen inside chrome on OSX.

People basically treat their laptops as glorified thin clients nowadays.
There are plenty of workalikes available.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/daemontools-family.html

That said, I disagree with your premise that runit has bad code.
As someone who has worked in government I take offence to this. There are plenty of very qualified people in government who do want to help make the country a better place.

They are often just dealing with out of date processes that are mandated by law and which limit their ability to be innovative.
>> $549, though, doesn't seem very competitive.

Competitive compared to what exactly? The way how I see it, the target market for this device will have two mandatory requirements:

1.) robust physical keypad; and
2.) modern Android OS

All other specs are secondary considerations. In the US, the only this I see this device competing against is BlackBerry's existing product line, in particular, the Priv.

The market of users who absolutely demand a smartphone with physical keypad is surely much smaller than the market of users who would like a physical keypad but are willing to settle for pure capacitive touch UI...which is undoubtedly still smaller than the market of users who couldn't care less. All I see here are market forces at work.
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Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack as documents leaked
actually, Trump doesn't use email. He believes phone calls are more efficient if I remember correctly. A big part of his days were always spend on the phone.
Its a fun question on a Friday, with two possible avenues; "How much heat drain would it take to freeze the Earth's core?", and "What would freezing the earth's core do to life on the planet?"

For me, the more interesting one, which was the 'bad guy' in the forgettable movie "The Core". The earth's magnetic field is created by the motion of the fluid iron (which is conductive) surrounding the solid core[1]. That it is moving and carries charge creates a dynamic dynamo which determines the strength of the magnetic field. Changes in the fluid are why the magnetic poles move around and sometimes change places.

The number 1 feature of the magnetic field (for me at least) is that it deflects the solar wind (those charged particles racing out from the Sun) which would otherwise collide with the gases surrounding our planet and accelerate them outward. Eventually stripping the planet of most of its atmosphere.

One of the less well known ways the solar system could wipe out humanity.

[1] http://www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=64
Air circulation is compromised in the winter because we close all the windows and doors, and generally we congregate closer together.

For a long time that was considered to be the only reason colds happen more in cold weather. This thing with influenza viability would change that (of course, what one study finds another refutes, so who really knows).
You may be right, although there can be a "too close to the election" if it means there isn't enough time to go through the documents to find anything incriminating, and/or for the information to spread.

In this case, it's highly unlikely that it will change the election's outcome, given that Macron has a solid 20%+ advantage in all recent polls.

It also bears repeating that debate about the Comey letter is somewhat silly in that it usually treats "Comey swung the election" and "Hillary made mistakes" as mutually exclusive options. In reality, it's almost certainly true that they both, as well as other reasons, were necessary conditions for a Trip win.
The hidden reason Republicans are so eager to repeal Obamacare
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That is absolutely true. Not going to recruit a person like that for just 45 days. Organizations like the DNC need to have such a person on staff full time, 365 days a year, whether an election campaign is active or not.
So what we have learned here is that whilst many years ago 8-30+ g daily dosage was either routine or at least proscribed in some cases, the routine upper limit is now much reduced because the side effects of taking Salicylate in such huge doses are worse than the symptoms or conditions that it was prescribed for.

However, it may be possible that the stuff might (in huge doses) cure or at least reduce something even worse than its own side effects. Then you are in the realms of a simple risk assessment where the failure mode is pretty horrid but that has to be weighed up against the alternatives if they even exist - all of which ... well you get the idea.

(IANAD)
Ask HN: Any new technologies, except mobile/pc, can collect individual's data?
except these mobiles/pc/tablet/watch, is there any mature technology/tools can collect massive personal data easily?
Decency with regards to what exacly?
> "both authentic and falsified documents" was speculated in the DNC/Russia hacks,

Yes, that claim was made many times, including by people directly implicated by the leaks, and yet and later it was found that they were all true, with not one source pointing out an actual fake email or document.
Depends.

If it’s contaminated ‘coz expired, it’s doable. Many devices have accurate real-time clocks even offline, e.g. GPS. It’s easy to include the expiry date in that cryptographically-signed data. BTW, Kerberos protocol does similar things with their timestamps.

If however it’s contaminated just because the producer decided to recall a batch of their product, then yes, a centralized server is a good choice.
I ended up making a custom data structure and query language around this kind of notation. Not in Python(am working in Haxe) but easily generalized. The structure is either array or string map or ordered string map with a dynamic data field and optional string tags. So it maps very well onto JSON or XML style data, but comes with the benefit of a very unambiguous way to do queries, where I can mix together addressing styles(take this numbered index OR take the named key) and pull elements into an array without much difficulty. The lookup syntax is "@<key>#<index>..." and each key or index entry is parsed into an ADT. I can pass along partially constructed queries as the relevant data to be processed. It's not quite as flexible as SQL since the data has to come in tree form, but it creates a major design affordance: the same query can be passed to a custom algorithm or custom data structure, with less ambiguity than a simple string lookup.

To some extent this retreads ground covered by e.g. XPath, but the specific structure puts it closer to my day-to-day needs.
Yes, it is a well known fact that Germans have no word for 'lightning' anymore. Such a tragedy that 75 years later, we're still supposed to be fighting the Nazis on their terms.
This seems odd. Why would Apple and IBM want their products taxed by Brazil in response to the Brazilian clones? How did that stop the clones from being sold in Europe?
Now he's going to liberate 150.000 government workers of their jobs to bring down mass unemployment. Doesn't sound really logical if I put it down like that but that's what it comes down to. Reminds me of Macri in Argentina. Probably just as ineffective.
Ask HN: Is there any mature development platform for Augument Reality?
https://archive.fo/VCz3I/22b9ae6e1cfad9328490576e8ddb4549f87...

Now, I have no idea which one is the original, but AFAIU once you take a jpg and scan it into pdf, it's easy to move the text around (?).

EDIT: I hope my implication is clear. I think that the jpg file is more likely to be the original photo. It was later scanned as a pdf. Then OCR'd version was edited a bit by merging parts of the text (or only parts of it were OCR'd). Then a journalist opened it up in an editor and saw those layers.

Going in the opposite direction would require someone to produce an authentic looking jpg from an obviously OCR'd pdf. That seems like less likely to me.
Reminds me of Warcraft 3. The last expansion came out in 2003, and the mod community was still going strong into at least the late 2000s when I was still playing.
Edit: I made a comment inappropriate for HN.
The Comey letter was two weeks before, though. Enough for a few news cycles, not enough for it to die down. This seems too late?
A good follow up question would be "where's the proof?" Until that proof is provided, a conspiracy theory is no more useful than any other belief. It's good to be skeptical, but once it starts to mobilize into a force, it becomes a witch hunt. In the case of national security issues, that usually comes with the consequences of stripping away liberties, creating black lists of individuals/groups and hardening the surveillance state.
> Aren't each large and powerful enough to strong arm neighbors into favorable trade deals if the EU dies?

That's a BIG if. It's also not likely, and without it the answer is a resounding "no".
You think quality of life is synonymous with quality and competence of government. This is the problem.
Very debated issue, but many think that the Souther countries (Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal) may have a lot of benefits from a weakened Europe.
Then political parties need to get real or resign themselves to being hacked.

At the level of Hillary and Macron, the money is there. If infosec people don't volunteer, they will need to be paid for, even if it means running less television ads or what not. Even in Europe campaigns have paid staff. It might mean cuts to something else, but is it worth skimping on security?

As an aside, I'm from the US and have never heard of a campaign looking for infosec volunteers. Are we sure no one would volunteer?
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Thanks for the link! I'll have a look at these.

>That said, I disagree with your premise that runit has bad code.

Have you seen it? Bad code may be subjective, but it certainly doesn't come close to my standards.
It's really not a one-dimensional line. Compare the Democrats to Germany's center-right CDU/CSU, for example. The Democrats are well to their left on most social issues, but mostly to the right on economics.

Macron is probably best defined as a neoliberal, a somewhat coarse-grained label which is nonetheless fairly well understood globally. Despite his previous party affiliation, he is not any flavor of socialist.
It only took two minutes for someone to answer a clearly rhetorical question.
They don't need luck, you just downloaded the attacker's payload onto your machine! Phishing is more than the old "click my link, enter your password". Often they use malware so all you have to do is download the attachment or click the link.
This is so amazing! Good stuff guys!!!
> Half past six, six thirty-five, six twenty. It isn't until we approach the next whole hour that we give it any credit: Quarter 'til seven.

It's sometime amusing to use the "half past" or "quarter to" form but not with whole hours. E.g., if someone asks the time at 6:35, you say "quarter to 6:50" or "half past 6:05". It can perplex people. (Best to only do this with people who already know you are a twit...).
> Perhaps my memory is hazy but I didn't recall previous late night hosts having to resort to as many partisan jokes for laughs.

Your memory is hazy; late night has gone to politics for comedy pretty heavily, especially when there is low hanging fruit, since Carson pioneered the genre.

> IMO it's lazy humor that lacks originality and plays on people's hate.

Humor that needs to be timely on a nightly basis is always going to be somewhat lazy, or at least opportunistic in picking the low-hanging fruit.
He made a joke about Trump's taxes in the very same monologue.
"Surprisingly, it wasn’t a PC clone-maker that forced the question, but one making Apple II machines."

There were far more cloners than mentioned in the article. My second computer was a Apple][e clone shipped in parts from South East Asia mixed in a consignment from Rockwell Collins.

The cost, that magical $2000 dollar mark.

The parts were re-assembled and that's what I used from High School into my early Uni days until I started using PCs, punchcards and Vt100/Mainframe to learn programming. With a Z80 card, 80 Column card money was made off this machine spitting out resumes via a dot-matrix printer and a large supply of spooled paper. If I remember correctly the shell was a direct clone of the 2e chassis. The operating system was a direct clone. Most of my software was cloned and that's were I learned how to program 6502 machine language to interface with hardware. [0]

Reference

[0] Marvin L. De Jong, "Apple II Assembly Language" https://www.amazon.com/Marvin-L.De-Jong/e/B001H6SRHE/ref=dp_...
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What ? This makes absolutely no sense.

The collapse of the EU will firstly send the world into a recession which given how perilous some countries economies are could take decades to get out of. And given that France IS Europe they would be affected the most. They depend on free trade within the EU and the Schengen has done wonders for their economy. Britain would be ruined given how important EU is to them. US would probably suffer the least but still they depend on NATO as a bulwark against Russian aggression.

Also not sure what on earth "winning team" means. There are no simplistic winners or losers. Some countries have advantages in some areas, disadvantages in others. But everyone depends on global stability, free trade and efficient movement of human capital.
There was plenty of selected editing by Wikileaks - which is what most reports about that referred to.

The actual sources, no. But given the sources we're rarely presented as the first point of information by the main distributor... it's a fair criticism
You're on HN: anything we like is innovation or good business. Anything we don't like is rent-seeking. Be sure not to mention that apartment complexes have maintenance staff and grounds keepers, it won't go well for you.
While I agree with the comments that political parties should hire infosec people to get their shit secured, you will be surprised how many fortune 500 companies actually do that and how many of them have more than 3 infosec specialist on staff.
Wouldn't you hit Python's recursive limit rather quickly doing this?

There might be a way to avoid messing with the recursive depth if you swapped out the main part of the for loop for a generator though.
It's relative to France.

Globally, "left wing" and "right wing" would probably have little overlap: the left-wing Venezuelan leadership is authoritarian and pro-social services, the right-wing Le Pen is... authoritarian and pro-social services.
I don't know if you can do it in Norwegian, but in colloquial Polish it's possible to specify how much time will pass until the next full hour without specifying what hour it is.

So, it's possible to say, for instance: „Jest dwadzieścia po” [It is twenty past X] or „Jest za dziesięć wpół do” [It is ten till half X], regarding your first example.
Yes, this is the (rare) use case for the first call you make to a stranger. If you have a pre-existing relationship with a particular lawyer or doctor, you tap on their name or face in the contacts app.

Like, thinking about this I understood that don't know the phone number of my wife. I (probably?) have it written down somewhere outside my phone, I had known it by heart many years ago, but life was different back then, and as far as I recall it may be that I have not used it in any meaningful way for more than full ten years.

I recall that I have given her phone number to others on some occasions, but it involved sending a contact - possibly the number was displayed at the screen during that process, but neither I nor the receiver really read it, and it that way even before smartphones were a thing and sharing a contact happened over SMS.
Precisely. When giving career advice, remember to put your HR hat on. Most of the front lines receiving your resume don't think very much like an engineer. That's why names of languages make for such popular keywords.
"chromebook"
see above

no default downloading, cannot execute anything downloaded
They mentioned it in the article. It is impossiblly difficult to know all of the variables which cause a time shift over a period of time as long as 5 million years. You could build it but you'd most likely be wrong eventually, failing to compensate for the unknowns

>The date of Easter encodes a strange kind of orderly disorder, and yet, even that is an expression of an abstraction that only approximates reality. Over a period of 5,700,000 years, as Bryan Hayes points out in his 1999 article on Y2k compliance and the Strasbourg clock, things like tidal drift will cause enough variation in the orbital and rotational periods of the Earth that any algorithm will require ad hoc correction anyway
It was trickier that that even. It wasn't an empty password. It was an empty digest auth response, something like this is the normal path, inside the browsers code...not your own code.

HA1=MD5(username:realm:password)

HA2=MD5(method:digestURI)

response=MD5(HA1:nonce:HA2)

So you have to hijack the header value the browser sends...not just send an empty password.
Germany Breaks Record: 85% of Energy Comes from Renewables Last Weekend
Sure but those benefits pale in comparison to all of the problems.

Weaker Europe means less money for business subsidies e.g. agriculture, less travel and tourism, less household income to spend on consumables, less trade.

And how exactly does a weaker Euro benefit those countries ?