skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The feature is technically interesting, but I don't care about Allo. There are enough silly messaging apps out there, evolving in their own silos. I miss the days of the XMPP protocol.
There's something called MacType (I don't personally use it).
> . You have to feel some level of empathy for the company's employees.
Most of them probably came from other well paying jobs and were already counting their option payouts int heir heads.

how many of those employees thought the drivers were getting a good deal under uber?
if the social sciences held themselves to the standard of the hard sciences this problem couldn't exist
It does not seem that way to me at all. Some of us live close to death and are comfortable with that proximity.
I hate to break this to you, but the feds are snooping on your company emails/texts/phone calls anyway and filing them away forever in a nice big data center in Utah.

And a passcode isn't much in the way of protection, except from the airport rent-a-cops and maybe the first tier of Homeland Security. Physical possession of a device guarantees access, if a three-letter-agency wants it. The security theatre of last year w/r/t the iPhone access was to lull us into believing the CIA/FBI/NSA could not access a 'locked' phone. Counterintelligence. It has been accessible all this time.

Finally, corporate espionage on behalf of governments is a thing we'll read about in a decade or so. The stories aren't ready to break just yet.
I'm dumbfounded that this still happens in 2017. And not only that I feel a terrible sense of hopelessness for the millions of women (of all ages) who might be subject to this right now. How do countries change the minds of cultures to end such barbaric practices?
If you click on "Build" in the top-right corner, there is more. A bit hard to find.
I don't understand why we can't just make patents non transferable. If you company gets bought, your patents go away. Small companies still have protection but trolls disappear. You still do have the IBM approach to "patent all the things" but that can also be addressed by forcing patents to have to be actively deployed in a public way or they expire after a year or something.
I was under the impression that I wouldn't care about somebody MITMing me, but you've made me see a number of things in that vein that would bother me.
Thanks for posting this publicly!

I suggest updating your post to say that the issues are still unfixed as of today's date.
I replaced Unity with i3 and have been living happily ever after.

https://i3wm.org/
I hope you are right, but there is not enough transparency to tell. From the discussion it sounded like modern hardware will behave the same, and maybe they'll try to amend the standard.

I didn't feel like betting $100's to find out if it hits on new hardware, but you can readily reproduce it on ElementaryOS with the 500's. You have to manually install the binary drivers with the ubuntu/debian proprietary driver tool, since ElementaryOS recommends the opensource ones.

This isn't the only distro that hit it, just the one I landed on in the end.

Anyway, for me the easiest option was to switch to open source drivers (where this kind of thing has a better track record of being fixed), and Nvidia is a non-starter there.
Oh come on. If that were even remotely possible, there would be books about it. Maybe even movies. That would make a good summer blockbuster.

Luckily, that possibility is too remote even for Hollywood.
Would be nicer if they would just document the bootstrap process for initializing a WSL "container" (or whatever their term is) so the community can do this on its own.
Inferring and Executing Programs for Visual Reasoning
You'd add that to Squealy.

JinjaSQL simply generates a SQL query with an associated array of parameters. It isn't even aware of the SQL query that's written. JinjaSQL would work just fine with any database.

Squealy is a django project, so if you can get the right database driver configured and installed - in theory, squealy would just work fine with MSSQL. After all, the user is writing the query, so squealy doesn't care much about the underlying differences in the way SQL is written.
Upwork now limiting many jobs to US freelancers
JQuery plugin for making smart and high performance sticky sidebar
Windows 10 fall update will restore (and improve) OneDrive’s best feature
Taxi company considered taxi company. Full news at 11.
> do you honestly want to go back to a world without it?

Yeah, totally. I want a world in which taxi drivers can actually earn a living rather than scraping by with double shifts for Uber, Lyft and every other gig-economy vampire to come out of Silicon Valley.

Because, you know, chronic job insecurity and ever-sliding standards of living fucking suck.
Arch works fine, the wsl subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/) has a guide how to install it manually.
You might enjoy this piece which takes your point much further: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/08/sarah-p...
Porting the Swift Programming Language to Haiku
Living by Faith
Freshbooks. It's not free, but it has all the features you want, both on web and mobile. It costs me ~$200/year, but it saves me enough time that it more than pays for itself.
It is also slightly nauseating that a US company finds it perfectly acceptable to undermine US citizen's privacy for profit. I suppose money is attractive.
> Form good unconditional friendships and your happiness will exceed to new heights.

I think human relationships come with conditions. If there is not some reciprocation of affection, support, time, kindness, etc, then what you have is not a positive relationship, usually for either side, though they may not see it. I think we see good relationships as "unconditional" because the reciprocation comes easily and without calculation, but there are still conditions.
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how does this handle SELinux on Fedora? Is SELinux below the userland, so it doesn't factor in at all?
On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago.

I tried Ubuntu on Windows 10, and found it too wonky. I switched over to running Xubuntu in VirtualBox!

It feels like there's different groups inside MS that are working from fundamentally incompatible premises

It's always been like this.
They mentioned it in the second paragraph:

> Their conclusion: Joy moves faster than sadness or disgust, but nothing is speedier than rage.
Perhaps those people are unemployed, and all they need to be an Uber driver is a driver's license and a car?

Another likely possibility is that people often think their cost to drive someone is just gas ignoring cost of of car registration, insurance, car maintenance etc. Ignoring other costs the Uber's pay seem attractive.
Net Neutrality and You
I am an Indian citizen I am not American. Indians (and Hindus specifically) see death as merely one transition.

I find it weird that we are denying poor people an excellent opportunity to pull their family out of poverty instantly even after an unfortunate event. Here we are using nature's forces to force the "rich leeches" (as one person wrote above) to part with their wealth and help the poor family.

At the moment rich Americans fly to India and China where gangs (and government) illegally harvest organs for the benefit of world rich. If USA regulates the organ trade within USA we can avoid all that misery for poor Indians.

I suggest you want the Indian movie Ship of Theseus which dwelves on this topic.
I see what you meant now, thanks for the clarification.
Interesting. This may also be region/carrier specific I suppose. I've seen some pretty old looking consoles in smaller airports.
Hi from Occipital!

Both are welcome to apply. We need both, the latter especially if you're interested in learning mobile development.
It seems to me like the issue is that its just a really large ship and will take a while for the whole company to get on board with the new philosphy. Redmond wasn't built in a day.
The song Devil Town was written by Daniel Johnston, whose work you might enjoy. Bright Eyes certainly did a solid version of it!
I have also not seen any anytime. It is also true that I only use managed Enterprise, and a pro at home where I have o365 subscription.
IIRC SELinux is an LSM which runs in the kernel.
>I know a guy with the last name 'Tester' that had to have a gate agent book their flight every ~10 minutes until their flight departed because the reservation system in production would delete any reservations with the last name 'Tester'.

Jesus. Given that one of the Senators from Montana is named Tester, I would have thought someone would have been up the FAA's ass to get up their asses about this.
Mods or OP, please change URL to http://paulgraham.com/quo.html?viewfullsite=1 to make it work on mobile

Thanks
It sadly is, but the core syntax of YAML IMHO is still nicer than any other. To that end, I wrote a parser that simply cuts out the crappy features leaving just the basic core (and added optional type-safety/validation):

https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml

I also tried to write up a more extensive justification for anybody who scratching their head trying to decide which config format to use (including a "why not HOCON" paragraph):

https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml/blob/master/FAQ.rst
New Uber blow as EU legal adviser says service should be licensed like taxis
Simple diet hack of cutting out carbs has had a huge personal impact. Tim Ferriss expands on this subject > http://tim.blog/2007/04/06/how-to-lose-20-lbs-of-fat-in-30-d...
I feel like former employees sometimes know better why a company failed than founders. If the founder knew exactly what is/was "wrong" they probably had been able to turn it around.
That's partly because they're the Kray twins, though I had never heard of them before, either. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kray_twins
If you have no tolerance for such BS, you'll eventually find your place without it. There are literally millions of companies to work for, as well as other non-direct-employment opportunities which is something like 30% of the workforce now.

Accepting these problems as a necessary burden is your own personal choice.
At the same time... I see a lot of the same errors at lots of startups. It can be hard to generalize best practices, and harder still to recognize when you are failing to follow them.
Yeah well I use linux 99.9% of the time for a reason.

There's nothing dealbreaking about the platform for me, well there's hardly even anything nagging about it.
They can do this all they want but no amount of linux in windows is going to get me back to using it on my main home desktop. I have no choice at work (an all MS stack: c# and sqlserver) but yeah I'll just stick to VMs, docker, or linux on bare-metal. I get the latest kernels, the ability to run anything in the nix ecosystem without arbitrary drawbacks.

*Arbitrary is harsh, they did a lot of heavy lifting to get Windows, but it's still early and still rough imo.
I'll settle for people and companies not being obliged to make the world a better place, as long as they don't actively make it worse.
This actually looks pretty cool. Some initial thoughts:

- I have never used Allo or really even know what it is. I am downloading it now though.

- I hope it does more than just auto-create a Bitmoji character. I wonder how its going to distinguish itself from other avatar creating apps.
My code has a much bigger immediate impact. But I always assume that 10 years from now it will all have been rewritten or projects replaced/cancelled. However, my wood projects that I've given to family will be passed down to the next generations (hopefully).
Ask HN: Why does it cost $1.4B to take the US census?
I was reading an article today about the head of the census quitting, citing lack of funding from the Trump admin. In the article, is says they requested $1.4B to take the 2020 census, $936M of which was for "computer system upgrades".

I understand they need staff to go around and hassle people who haven't filled out the forms, find the homeless, etc, and also marketing expenses to get people to fill it out.

But $1.4B seems ridiculously high, and so do $936M for computers.

Is anyone familiar with what is involved in a census that can tell me why it costs so much? I'm having trouble finding good (digestible) info with Google.
Ask HN: Book, PDF, or Slides: which one is better?
I have realized that most books can be summarized into a few pages of diagrams, charts, and infographics.

Also, in my university courses, professors often use PowerPoint slides which sometimes is just more than enough to learn that subject.

What's your opinion about that? Aren't books overrated in the 21st century?
More importantly, what's the best source of knowledge these days? (websites, MOOC's, etc.)
French workers booby-trap factory, trash machines and treaten to blow place up
This article doesn't mention the fact that a vast majority of FGM cases are carried out in Islamic theocracies and Islamic communities abroad.

The article rightfully points out that "no religious texts require FGM." But it neglects to mention that Islam's Hadith does indeed mention FGM, and according to that Hadith, Mohammed permitted it saying, "Yes, it is allowed. Come closer so I can teach you: if you cut, do not overdo it, because it brings more radiance to the face, and it is more pleasant for the husband."

This is used in several Islamic nations to justify the practice, and is why FGM cases are overwhelmingly Muslim cases.

Why does this article omit this information?

The article mentions rising cases of FGM in Minnesota. As a Minnesotan, the reason is apparent: our state has been a home for Somali immigrants to the United States, an overwhelming majority of which are Muslims who support FGM.

Again, the article omits this information, and instead tries to give the impression that FGM is equally practiced between Islam and other world religions.
I think people have a bit of a popular misconception about the Explorer advertising thing. What's happening is that MS is adding a banner to Explorer advertising paid OneDrive subscriptions.

I totally agree that it's massively inappropriate, but I do think that most people are imagining third-party advertising which is not what's happening - a lot of people might not consider the current situation to be an "ad" necessarily since it is pushing a subscription for OneDrive, a Microsoft product that you already have installed. It's more of an in-app purchase kind of offer.
They can have my iPhone. I can get another and restore from iCloud. Good luck to them to do anything useful with it. Sure I might have to wait for a bit but they have to let me in.
How about harvesting organs so the kids could use that money to create their next Javascript based startup ? Should the society then also fund their Startup ?

College education is an example. People will spend resources on whatever they think is useful. Who are we to judge ?
"supercomputers" are archaic in a day when one can rent a 40,000 core GPU system with 732GB of RAM for $14/hour, on demand, via Amazon Web Services. Available whether you need one or a hundred (4 million cores crunching on a problem with 20Gb/second throughput is still only $1400 per hour).
edit: more thorough response.
It's all in the settings. I never had ads or privacy problems, but if you leave everything at the default settings, you'll have those problems
Good grief, is there nothing that people won't try to make into a commercial transaction? You won't cling to life any more effectively by making one last sale.
> It feels like there's different groups inside MS that [...] Nadella either isn't willing or isn't able to wrangle them into all pulling in the same direction

That's exactly how it is.
Slack for office and some random publicly available teams
FB Messenger and Viber for day to day with friends
Some friends use Hangouts so that comes in sometimes as well
Used to have Skype and WhatsApp but Im starting to cut down on all the attention killers. Also most of the day everything is muted except a few important channels or contacts. I only answer phone calls and come back to messages in spare time. If its important they should call me.
Those "bedrock values" you call "bedrock" are not as such at all.

What about those that get joy from pain? What about brothel owners that highly value the slavery that gets them their women? What about terrorists cells that desire chaos above safety?
I would never hand over my phone or passwords at the border. The only reason customs can search you at the border is for any smuggling or immigration issue. Since no rational person would smuggle something digital on their phone, when they could transfer it over the cloud without physical possession, there is simply no reason for them to search your phone without a warrant.

If they threaten to take your phone, threaten to sue them for trespass and to go to the media.
If you're a US based freelancer this could benefit you. As a non-US person, this has already adversely affected my job feed there. I assume this will not have a big impact on the lower end of the scale but as someone who charges a premium for unique services, US jobs have basically disappeared.
1.4B / 10 years = 140M a year to hire people to go out and talk to residents and systems to collate it. I've nothing to compare that to to sanity check it but it does seem high.

1.4B / ~ 300 million is about 4.33 usd per person. That doesn't seem all that high especially if you divide that 4.33 / 10 as the census occurs every 10 years.
Why do they do that?
Yes!
If they do not know what you are looking for, they shouldnt be looking.
What if you could get $10K today just to donate your dead body to a medical college ?
As a German: Most of my experiences with traditional cabs have been horrible. There were some nice exceptions but on the whole I really try to avoid taking a cab.
Considering how much they are probably spending in order to make this happen (considering the amount of work being done to it), I feel like it was started as a proposal to the head people that there was a group of people that normally wouldn't use windows, but could be convinced to use it by having this subsystem. Along with this, supporting open source makes Microsoft look good.

But, it wasn't anywhere close to enough of an importance for Microsoft to abandon their data collection system just to go "all the way" with the whole open source thing. It seems like their privacy model is more important to them than whatever an open source model could bring them.
If anyone is interested, this beautiful and inspiring TED talk led me to change how I will approach end of life for myself and my parents: https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_t....

Modern hospitals are far from an ideal place to be if one has a terminal illness. They are antiseptic, literally anti-aesthetic. From my experience, the people I've known that had a terminal illness yet received extensive care up until the moment of death did not really want to receive further treatment because they understood that death was coming and would have rather died in their home or gone on one last vacation. The treatments were painful and left them barely conscious of their surroundings.

The demands that some families make can be selfish. The infirmed that I knew only went through with these treatments for the sake of their family to give them some sense of false hope, that they'd never give up fighting. It's sad to watch as I think a happier outcome could be achieved if we learn to accept the imminent fate and enjoy the precious time that is left, having the last moments with a loved one be a joyous time to cherish.

From the beeping and humming of numerous machines, the drab, monochrome interiors to the lack of windows. A patient's well being has an effect on their recovery. They would greatly benefit from a redesigned concept with this well being as one of the focal points.

If anyone is interested, here is a talk on how we can improve end of life care. It is without doubt the most inspiring and powerful presentation I've ever seen at TED.

https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_t....
The government funded a tremendous amount of innovation while there was a Cold War with the Soviet Union.

When the Soviets launched a satellite before the US, that launched "The Space Race" where the government put an enormous amount of money into NASA, semiconductor development (for satellites originally?), science education.

Also with the Cold War there was a tremendous amount of weapons development including nuclear weapons and ICBM systems. Supercomputers were needed for nuclear simulations and code breaking etc.

The Internet is an outgrowth of military (DARPA) funding.

Once the Berlin Wall fell in 1991, there was no longer the political push to fund science.

Israel is an example of a tremendous amount of innovation for a country about the size and population of New Jersey (8 million). They are surrounded by enemies and have been since even before the creation of the state.

They have many military advances for such a tiny country. 3 different antimissile systems (Iron Dome -- short range, David's Sling - Medium, Arrow long range) sometimes co-developed with American firms.

Israel was the beginning of the Drone industry and today is #2 after the US. Also #2 after US for cybersecurity. Your Intel processors are designed there and some are fabricated there (the 22nm node plant has been upgraded to 10 nm). Apple has a design group there that designs much of the ARM processors for the iPhone.

Besides military, Israel has since biblical days water shortages. They innovated so that up to 1/3 of their water needs can be satisfied by very large desalinization plants.

Unless the US wakes up about issues with China, we may not be investing as we should. Imagine if the US had the same motivation as Israel for development. For me, someone who is familiar both with Israeli and US innovation (per capita), it is very frustrating to see the government spend so very little on science compared with The Cold War/Space Race, especially today with advances in computing, biology, ....
Analyzing images with AWS Rekognition
Stay tuned - This is just the beginning ;)
I'm gong to have to think on this...
Living up to their names: Verlander, Freeman, Kaufmann ... Who's next, Dickstein, Feingold and Kuntslinger ?

Verlander: denotes 'the dweller by or on the pasture land'. Similar formations are 'Verdell', dweller in the valley, and 'Verbrugge', dweller at the bridge [1]

[1] http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Verlander
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Show HN: Wander – Travel by budget
Just adding support to the two other posts. Cutting carbs. My personal experience is that losing weight is 2/3 achieved by how you eat.

Another personally effective method is intermittent fasting. I don't normally eat breakfast, so for me that means skipping lunch two or three times a week.
They don't target the same user segment. The C7 will start having a lot of trouble as soon as you try to run a VPN server on it, do full NAT/routing at gigabit line speed, or need to handle multiple VLANs. All of that has to be handled by the frankly underpowered CPU on the C7.

The TO will chew through that pretty easily. A lot of it is handled in software as well (I believe VLANs are handled in the silicon, though), but the beefier CPU means it won't choke as quickly.

I use my C7 as a dumb access point. It literally only needs to handle the encryption for a few wifi networks, and transpose the traffic into the proper VLAN. No routing, no connection tracking, no NATing. My EdgeRouter handles all of that, and does it very well.