skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Ostensibly, making everyone interact on the internet under their real name will "prevent harassment and bullying". But I have no idea how anyone with even passing familiarity with internet communities could believe that

The idea is that anonymous people 'harass' the over-privileged so-called celebrities on Twitter.

Of course if everyone was anonymous then there would be nobody to harass, and if everyone was pseudonymous then at least anyone would be a name-change away from harassment.

Personally I think that one interesting thought experiment would be that everyone sees everyone else as a different name. So we all see totally randomly generated strings as each others' names. If you block someone then they can't just make a new account and go to your profile, because the new account can't see BlisteringOakPlatypus (assuming some sort of gfycat-like scheme), as that name is only my randomly generated identity from the perspective of their old account.

You also can't bandwagon on people: "hey, go harass DribblingPharmacologicalHippopotamus" wouldn't have any effect.

How would you connect with people you know? You could generate a one-use code they could put into their account to find your profile and communicate with you. Or you could generate a code that lets them just view your profile, without communicating with you. Or for either of these, a many-use code. This lets you be a 'broadcaster' like a celebrity on Twitter, but just because you broadcast doesn't mean you have to receive messages back.

How would you find new people? Well on a Facebook-like platform, through friends-of-friends. What happens if you block someone and they reconnect to one of your friends and can then see you again? The same way you deal with encountering people you don't like IRL through friends of friends. You just have to deal with it like a human.

On a Twitter-like platform, you just follow particular tags or whatever, hashtags, etc.

On a bulletin board, you add people that you see make points you like/appreciate/find to be helpful.
Azure Cosmos DB is not related to the work on Corfu/CorfuDB.
Show HN: Australia needs a new political party: HousePriceParty.com
POSIX is a standard.

Windows has yet to provide a consistent way how to obtain the OS version across releases. Then we can maybe talk about standardizing apps communications.
Carpet cleaning Equipment – cleaning Machine
Wow. I'm impressed. There's something about completely ordinary old cars that look so pristine after a few decades. I saw a Datsun B210 the other day that was similarly cared for and it impresses me more than most classic muscle cars. Everyone expects a '68 Camaro to look awesome; nobody expects the same from a '79 Honda.
Well my co-worker is one: ex-military, java/python/etc dev. I can't remember how many head of beef, but I recall being impressed.

Come to think of it, another friend in Texas has 50,000 acres (family property) and would probably be in favor too.

Other significant land owners have independently introduced me to Mission Wolf... one has Yak I think.

Finally, I met Allan Savory not too long ago, and I'd wager that he would be happy to introduce me to wolf-friendly ranchers.
Cash for clunkers was a subsidy of sorts.
Decorators in Python
I agree with you, to do it properly you need two different RGBA objects, the emissive one will have A=0. But the same format suffices to represent both.
My 3pm headaches that'd come on because I was drinking 2 diet drinks a day completely disappeared when I quit. I still crave the bitter sweet taste of a Diet Coke, but fuck those headaches. The occasional regular soda drink is that much more satisfying instead as well.
THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD CORRECTIONAL CENTER MANAGEMENT
Disagree. Note that both mammogram and colonoscopy frequency recommendations have both been reduced recently, both because the cost of screening and because of the consequences of false positives resulting in unnecessary medical intervention
I moved out of ad tech, around the time my boss asked me to do something I thought was unethical.

I don't know that I'm out of it forever -- I find few industries a hard "no". Rather, it has to do with the people I'm working with and the exact project. I try not to make things that are addictive or harm the psyche, or that perpetuate social ills. I try not to do things that can be repurposed for those things.

Some industries seem to attract consistently immoral people, though.
Power Challenges at 10nm and Below
I work as a full time mobile dev and my primary task is to implement dark design pattern to increase number of in-app purchase made by user, it's agonizing to go to work every day but the salary is quite decent
It didn't, though.
I do not undertake projects having an immediate or exclusive military application.

Beyond that, I pick and choose based on my gut.
Pixel???
Just for point of reference, here's today's episode of the weekly "Around the Verse" video update series, showing what the UK studio has been working on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADB-wpvTD0k . Just watching the initial UK update segment, looks like we've got examples of lighting effects, ship design and implementation, object interaction, and a lot more.

I have no problems with people questioning CIG's ability to hit deadlines, or wondering what exactly the status of Squadron 42 is. Those are totally fair critiques. But, as long as they keep showing progress updates like this, I'm perfectly content to sit back and let them make the game we want them to make :)
If the insect learns from its errors would that be intelligence?
One study of a small number of male mice is really not significant evidence. This is at best a pilot study.
The same engineer who came up with

dest := source;

and

memcpy(dest, src, size);

as well as

obj.set(0);

Numerous assembly languages have destinations on the left.

Some have load/store instructions where the memory is always on one side:

load [r1], r3 ; --> direction
store [r1], r3 ; <-- direction

it's a matter of assembler syntax; the "AT&T" syntax used by the GNU assembler and gcc for x86 has destination on the right.
In jokingly cynical about a few of my friends using a pop socket and maybe they would help one handed shooting. Seems like how they function you could use one hand to hold and still pinch to zoom. Maybe?

https://www.popsockets.com

The Amazon reviews are surprisingly good.
finally some good news Uber is managed by criminals
Great feedback, thank you! Linux targeting isn't my area, but I know the guy who owns it would love to chat with you. If you want to help us make this better, would you mind sending me an email at apardoe @ youknowthecompany.com? I totally understand if it's not worth your time. But thank you regardless!
Ah, it wasn't super clear how much of anything is available to play. Is it like Minecraft where it receives rapid improvements?
I can't guarantee that it was usable -- I didn't try to buy anything with it, and for IKEA US to sell to me in CNY they'd have to have an exchange rate set up -- but it was definitely readable.

On the other hand, when I asked the recipient (it was a wedding gift) about it later, he reported that his wife had recorded it as having an appropriate-given-the-exchange-rate quantity of USD, so I suspect it was in fact usable.
It's definitely a dynamical system. There is a limit to the new car's price due to used cars (both availability as a function of increased reliability, exchangeability and the economy), leases [a bet on the future], the competition, as well as transactional costs and don't forget interest rates.

So if you own a car manufacturer what do you do? :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14316858
Thanks, I had trouble with arrow keys working when I tried it a while back but I'll give it another go with the "-run {bash}" option. And the Mac autocorrected "htop" to stop.
No meaningful parts (which encodes proteins and gene regulation) are different, however. Nature does not work that way.

Comparison of two genomes as two billions-bases-long strings is meaningless and yields nonsense due to waste and introns. Genome isn't a uniform string in the first place.

Nothing to see here, except hipster's self-praise and want for attention.
That is a bizarre allegation. I have never heard a Gracie family member claim that they invented sparring - that would be just plain silly.

The martial arts that consistently spar live against a resisting opponent, especially wrestling, boxing, Muay Thai, jiu jitsu, and (sometimes) Judo, are legit combative arts.

The grappling arts are unique in their ability to subdue an opponent while dictating the level of violent damage that occurs.

Jiu jitsu is unique among grappling arts in its emphasis on leverage and energy management to subdue bigger, larger, more athletic people while minimizing damage to both parties.
The Gut’s Microbiome Changes Rapidly with Diet
I still find it funny that people claim that they code on a Mac because it's flavor of Unix is somehow close to Linux. There's an ocean of differences between the two and I'm getting tired of people who perpetuate the false sense of security that because they're coding on macOS that they'll be fine when they deploy to a Linux environment. WSL is starting to look like the better option for those who for whatever reason can't develop for Linux in a Linux environment.
How many large corporations buy macs for everyone in the company? Serious question... I have no idea. My hunch says; Not many.
I want to share some of quotes I see everyday:

1) The higher the mountain, the more treacherous the path - Frank Underwood

2) What you think, you become - Buddha

3) If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done
What's even better is that it's trivially easy to find rubrics for assessing the quality of information available to you. That there is a site that espouses your beliefs doesn't equate to all beliefs being equally valid.
Crappy food produced for sale and quick profit.

To paraphrase - Processed Crap Is Killing You.
Wow, This is brilliant. Microsoft is making leaps and bounds improvement to keep their consumer base happy.
Almost ten years after switching to Linux, I think I might gladly use a windows machine as a second PC.
A placebo-controlled pilot study of a probiotic in chronic fatigue syndrome
It should be easy on a phone you control. You can try five times quickly, then it stops accepting fingerprints until you put in the password. This is a major problem for an attacker, but if you're just researching it then you can put in the password to reenable fingerprint authentication and then get five more tries. You should be able to try 20-30 fingerprints per minute.
Uber should probably be shitting it's pants right about now. Google would have to really bungle this to not get a jury to agree Uber has been acting very shady.
This is a huge precursor to the real blow:

"The decision hints that Alsup’s pending decision on a preliminary injunction might not be favorable to Uber. . . it could effectively halt Uber’s self driving development plans entirely while the trial plays out."

In context of Travis' view "What would happen if we weren't a part of that future? If we weren't part of the autonomy thing? Then the future passes us by basically, in a very expeditious and efficient way," he said." (1)

(1) https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/travis-...
Ask HN: Will I be exposed to more risk from this share transfer?
My company is about to be shut down. One of the shareholders is asking to transfer all his shares to me(his investors of his company is asking him to do so). Are there any negative repercussions on my end that can arise from this (ie. owning more shares of a soon to be defunct company)?

Additional Info:
The company does owe a little bit of debt to several private investors.
I own about 40% of the company.
I've been an Android user since Nexus S (Android 2.3), Nexus 4, Nexus 5, all the way up to Nexus 5X (7.1.x).

The LG made Nexus 5X bricked (suddenly rebooted and never boots again) at 13 months old due to a known hardware fault, there is a lawsuit against LG in California https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/lg-bootloop-defe...

My Nexus 5 had power button issue (it automatically switch off, sigh...) Nexus 4 build quality was bad, too.

I lost 3-4 days worth of photos (was travelling and didn't backup). Luckily I was able to boot once (out of 40 attempt) after it bricked by giving it some heat (thermal issue). Backed up the photos before it quickly died again (there are videos on YouTube to fix the problem using heat gun), finally I decided I've had enough with crappy Nexus phones (I am fine with Android though). Pixel / Pixel XL is more expensive than iPhone 7 or plus, really cannot justify.

Finally I've moved to iOS again, after 6-7 years as I decided not to manually flash phone OS and root any more (I have my Arch Linux workstations and MBPs). My requirements for a phone comes down to:
- Reliable hardware and high quality finish
- Strong hardware based/accelerated encryption
- Fingerprint recognition and authentication
- Stable and Swift OS (greatly improved with APFS, regained faith in Apple)
- Good camera - the best camera is the one with you
- Long battery life (ideally support both fast charge and wireless charge)

The iPhone 7 Plus meets all. So far I've been on it for 2 weeks. iOS definitely has better attention to details and better UX at the cost of more control over the OS, a lot of apps on Android that doesn't support fingerprint authentication support that on iOS, I was surprised to find out.

The only complains are that 1. there is no HN client as good as Materialistic (let me know if you know any...) 2. no strongSwan native client (Gboard has introduced more language support so it's no longer a big concern). Other than that I am happy.
This looks great! Good job.
Do you need a video to tell you to switch to the front facing camera to take a selfie?
Manufacturers need to get a clue that dealers are poison to their industry. Every time we've bought a new car in my family the experience has been a nightmare because of all the games the dealers play. The only new car I have any interest in buying today is a Tesla because their sales model is low stress and can be done from my office.

I will drink a toast to the day the last auto dealership goes out of business.
An Extension-Oriented Compiler (2008) [pdf]
I see no situation in which this would work out for the better. I'd be wary.
How much of it was sodium or caffeine?
Buried at the end of the article:

> Update: Judge Alsup has also referred the case to the U.S. Attorney for a possible criminal investigation.

(https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/11/waymos-claims-of-trade-sec...)
So they promoted the guy who screwed up the project, Malcolm Turnbull, to be Prime Minister.
Likewise, my scan was like this:
"How to shoot [an] Iphone" -> (Apple.com) -> "ON!" (doh).
Thanks! And you're right. Many years ago, I used to feel a little silly about maintaining what was essentially an inexpensive economy car. But it was the first car I bought with my own money in college (for the princely sum of $500 in 1992), and I just really enjoy driving it around town. It's so small I can park anywhere, and it gets 30-40 MPG.

And nowadays, it gets lots of positive comments. Turns out the muscle car/classic car guys like seeing the old stuff no matter what it is.
Google doesn't have to convince a jury of anything to win. All they need to do is hold up Uber's next funding round for long enough to force them to drop out of a few markets.
Non AMP version of your link: http://www.businessinsider.com/travis-kalanick-interview-on-...
> Properly coded applications will be using some form of sync primitives to shared data structures. So, when the emulator hits a LOCK xxx instruction

This is not always true. See [1] for an example. Because of the semantics of the x86 memory model a sequentially consistent load does not generate a lock'd instruction. When such loads are translated to ARM64, you need to introduce barriers or use a ldacq instruction.

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cpp/cpp0xmappings.html
This is a pretty fascinating scenario. Between this and everything else that Uber is going through at the moment, it seems that they are going to have a very rough year.

Here's to hoping that more people start using competitors so that it's easier for me to find a Lyft as quickly as I can find an uber.
+1. Quitting diet soda has allowed me to regain control of my appetite.
Who knows what's really going on behind the scenes and whether this piece might be unduly negative or not. It's possible that things are shaky to a level that the changes and the way they were conducted might be in fact much better than they could have been. I feel this piece works to characterize Shuttleworth in a negative light (by including his "um" and so on in quoting him, for example).

Shuttleworth produced the first easy to install Linux distro and brought many to Linux as a result. Doesn't he get credit for that?
Always interesting to see two companies with an unlimited lawyer fund go at it in court.
What % would Uber's stock drop today if it were a public company?
> In particular I suspect we may subconsciously learn that sweet foods do not provide energy.

What do you mean by this?
>The output of most machine learning algorithms is just a belief function.

It's not even a belief function, in the sense of a normalized probability distribution that respects conditionalization properly. It's basically just a one-hot vector for classification.
Cars are lasting longer on average than they used to, so stretching a loan from 48-60 months to 72-84 months seems completely reasonable to me.

(This assumes a good interest rate. The 10-20%+ APR loans are a disaster at any length).
Anecdotal counter point: I have never seen a skinny person that regularly drinks diet cola
I have a static site, so I gzipped every page on my site, and set up this Apache configuration:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.gz [L]

This tells Apache “hey, always send gzipped replies no matter what!!”.

I don't think so. The first RewriteCond is checking for the presence of an "Accept-Encoding: gzip" header (and the second that the file exists in gzip'ed form).
I agree that replacing carburetors with electronic fuel injection made a huge improvement. Another step was replacing the distributor and points with electronic ignition. When was the last time anyone replaced a spark plug?
I'm almost back in. Never thought I would say that. If I was made Wizard; I would take out a full page ad in all the big news papers--"I'm sorry." That's it.

And drop the Surface Pro down to cost. It would be the lost liter. I like that computer, but it's still a bit pricey for myself, and then there's the childhood memories I'm still nursing.

I never thought they could turn the perception of that comany around. It should be taught in every business school.

And what is it? "Just be kinda nice, and fair." Kinda honestly nice, generous, less narcisstic goes along way.
I remember reading on HN that at least one CMU researcher got paid 3 times their annual salary as a sign on bonus to join the self driving car team. I'm wondering how removed the Pittsburgh team was from Otto.
Man Borrows $325,000 to Buy Bitcoin – Investment or Gambling on Life Savings?
Phase-Functioned Neural Networks for Game Character Animation
I have - myself.
Man I hate that this is the end for Uber. I've recently been trialing Lyft and, at least in my area, it always takes longer and is more expensive.

But...if Uber truly is a bunch of scumbags, they deserve to burn.
Would you make an exception for something purely defensive, like an ICBM interceptor?
Ya wanna bet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing
This case reminds me of the glory days of Samsung vs. Apple in intensity and interest in the case, except it's not all wildly up in the air. It's fairly straightforward as to what side "looks" good, and it feels like it's more of determining just how bad the damage is and how far set back Uber will be.
Intelligent and Data Driven Bowling Machines in Cricket
Don't forget they also did Xbox (x86) --> Xbox 360 (PPC) emulation. It worked pretty decently well too.
What's the modern equivalent for the Linux kernel these days?
I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis 18 years ago and can confidently say when my sleeping pattern is off for prolonged periods of time the impact is definitely visible. I do not think it is a cause but coupled with other habits , bad eating , higher stress , weaker immune system etc I find lack of sleep to be a leading indicator that I need to prioritize getting sleep quickly...or else
Definitely looking into this!
iOS supports IKEv2 VPNs natively, no need for an app.
When Bash scripts bite
Look; I'm a long time Apple user and they have a great camera...But seriously; this is like their core thing for several years. They need to implement a rule that requires scaling performance and battery life at parity with camera improvements...
Same here in Northern Europe, but those are commodity parts and relatively easy to replace (although can be labour intensive). I just replaced the calipers and springs (half destroyed by rust and half by potholes) on my 2002 Lexus IS200 and it's as good as new after 210,000km.

When I was young my parents had a Renault and after around 12 years the bodywork started going rusty under the passenger footwell. They had it patched up, but eventually the rust spread. Nowadays something like that is pretty uncommon.
History of git
Millions of good vehicles were taken off the road after the 2008 fiasco (program to trade in). This left the used car market decimated. You could practically buy a new car for the price of a used car since there was no used inventory to speak of. Leasing was also hit very hard.

What we are seeing now is the used car and leasing markets recover back to where they were pre 2008. This has created some much needed competition in the Auto market.

Vehicles are lasting longer these days. In the 80's most vehicles already had rust on them from the factory (inside doors, pillars, etc). Since the very late 80's they started waxing and using galvanized metals. Engine tolerances were improved along with Fluid technology (Oil, Coolants, Grease, etc).

My advice is never buy new. Buy something either coming off lease or something about 5 + years old. If it is a Toyota there is still at least 10 years left in the vehicle. Honda's quality over the last 5 years has really suffered in my opinion. German cars should only be leased, stay away from used German cars unless you have a lot of money or can repair them yourself. Korean cars are throwaways after a few years. If you're someone who keeps a car for a long time make sure you do a lot of research because these days a lot of newer models have some serious problems like DI and CVT Transmissions that will cost more to fix or replace in a few years than the vehicle is worth.
I think you overestimate the reach of their ad campaign.
location matters
I get it. I know it. The kidneys rejoice when they get a stream of water. But I can't stand drinking just plain water all day; I need a strong flavor: soda, lemonade, Crystal Light, tea, coffee, beer, anything but tasteless water.

What can I do? force myself to avoid all of that? perhaps. I've tried but I always go back to flavored drinks.
Playing the Internship Game