skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Reasons May Donald Trump Have Had for Firing FBI Director James Comey?
Don't waste your time reading this article - if any of this was true, you could do as much good or evil (or anything you felt like) without repercussion. The reality is that our actions may not have broad global meaning but they can have huge local actions. This reminds me of a story about starfish [0].

This author has some other issues - the "I write to reduce noise" part is nonsense as if you really wanted to reduce the noise, you wouldn't write at all (or talk). And he can't even bother to get his idioms correct (e.g. "modes of dust" should be "motes of dust".)

So ... each of you is in fact special at least in some small way. And you can go out an do some good that at least impacts one person. At least go out today and make a stranger smile - that person might need a bit of cheer.

[0] https://eventsforchange.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/the-starfis...
Although the domain name registration was intentional, activating the kill switch wasn't.

The author registered the domain name without knowing what would happen (the virus might as well have wiped the entire disk) and was surprised to see that he had activated a kill switch. That's the accidental part.
The difference is they own the means of production.
Many workers in automated industries do not.
Likewise. I don't actually want to see what I like, I want to see what's really happening. I can't do that if their algorithm is distorting my view, so I just don't use it anymore.
The author is Richard Stallman [0]. Yes, he is against DRM itself. Consider this FAQ: https://defectivebydesign.org/faq

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
I have this bookmarklet I use all the time

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John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++
Rust has a lot of nice safety features, but the compiler hasn't been formally verified at all.
It doesn't do the right thing if dlfolder doesn't end with a slash.
If that's the motivation, just use a non-existant TLD, or, even better, .local

If the motivation is to have a killswitch, you don't want something expensive, because the attackers would then have to pay for it if they want to activate it for whatever reason.
You are comparing upgrading a system with going to the store and buy a new operative system and saying its the same thing. Windows vista was not a Windows XP update, and in theory they could have nothing in common but the name and the publisher.

There need to be a meaningful distinction between a software update for a product and a new product. For a operative system, hardware requirement and driver support is quite critical.

As a small testament to this, I had a server which hardware initial had 3.0 Woody as the version and ran until 6.0 Squeeze, at which point the motherboard gave up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335076

This comment links to a rigorous English dataset.

Band 5 staff earn between £21k and £28k. Band 8d staff earn between £65k and £81k.

When we restrict ourselves to a single healthcare profession (in this example I used widwives) that has many more women than men at the entry level jobs we still see men being promoted above women.
Probably not what you have in mind but, in the case of old computers, performance.

I know everyone here changes computers every year, but lots of people I know keep the same computer for 7-10 years. And why wouldn't them? They can read their email, browse the news, and write letters.

Updates, on the other hand, tend to include the latest and greatest, requiring more and more resources. As a result, the computer gets slower and slower without providing any extra functionality. Good luck installing a modern browser with 512MB of RAM or, God forbid, the latest Windows. Things can also move around across versions, which is not great for non-technical users (or even worse, users with some kind do of impairment).

In these situations I disable updates, add some extra protections, and accept the fact that I'll have to retouch them every year or so.
Exactly! The first thing I thought of when I read the title of the patent was the tmux session I had opened in my terminal.

Given how GNU/Unix Screen has been available for thirty years I doubt this patent will hold up in court.
Oh, and thanks to urllib.unquote, I can disguise slashes as "%2f", so the tightened regexp doesn't help.
They used to have a very good position as an independent source of data but they have started editorialising with their releases and they certainly seem to take some political positions regarding their releases, which calls into question their impartiality. I am still a fan but not as much as I used to be.
Page is empty for me. When I checked an archive site, it appeared to redirect to a probable malware site. http://archive.is/cYDEp
The article is interesting and I am glad to see some contrarian point to the main "automation will destroy jobs" narrative but...

But I think that they are comparing apples to oranges here.
The engravers have not been "automated away" - in their case technology augments them, so it's not like "I used to be an engraver but now I have lost my job to a robot" but - as the article says "I am an engraver and thanks to technology I have to say sorry but I can't do that ten time less often than before".

Same goes for office automation in general. Technology have augmented human-unassisted output (well, in case of office automation a lot of that has been wasted on futzing around with fonts and so on, but still...).

But I wonder what would happen if self-service engraving (via web interface, at a fraction of the cost and with your item delivered by drone or automated van in case of larger packages) entered the market, and if they would keep the same level of enthusiasm about automation.

I wonder what would they say
People are building in forests so that they can have trees by their houses.

I guess requiring huge setbacks would discourage that behavior.

Also, forest fires are more or less inevitable, at least, until you decide not to have forests. Overdoing fire suppression often leads to bigger fires (because fuel builds up). There might be room to make policy decisions that minimize the amount of pollution they produce, eliminating it isn't an achievable goal.
Should have taken the version with MSDN subscription: that one includes VS upgrades, various Windows licenses and even some Azure credits.
Are you opposed to the public school system and public libraries in general, or just for the purposes of this joke?
I totally agree with that. When I mentioned dynamic dispatch, I had something like Scheme or JavaScript in my mind. Dynamic dispatch in those languages require a more subtle analysis to obtain precise results. I wish I could edit my parent comment to clarify my example.

To clarify my position (hence my parent comment's point) on this general matter, I'm OK with any language feature that is amenable to static analysis in a practical amount of time. This puts me closer to PL conservatives in Steve Yegge's spectrum.
People love to bash those who aren't in their "club"; you probably are aware it's nothing personal but an instinctive social reaction. I still wouldn't tolerate it however.
Parts of MonoDevelop, not just a rebrand. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14309709
Google have a GPS feed from a good proportion of phones, they don't need to sniff WiFi. Plus they'd have to sprinkle devices for detection throughout the world (I doubt mobile WiFi chipsets do monitor mode)
An alternative point of view, even for those entering the industry: just don't sign a contract with a non-compete clause.

At some point in your career you are going to have to negotiate over terms in your contract. Best to get practice in as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
It's about maintaining digestive track temperature to allow for proper ingestion of nutrients in which case room
temp (20c) milk or formula does hinder the process.

We didn't came up with warming it to 34-37c for no reason.
Serving it at 10-15c colder than body temp puts a lot of stress on the infants digestive system and prevents proper nutrient absorption.
It is a disappointment that this article merely scratches the surface and didn't give even slightest details. It is more like PR than a tech blog because it merely shares anything substantial.
Well, try NOT to practice capitalism or protesting it. You're in for a lot of nuisances at best and to jail at worst.

The point is, capitalism seems to do a wonderful job of looking like "the good system", as soon as you stay within the boundaries. And I'm not talking about rioting. I'm talking about groups doing perfectly legal stuff getting infiltated (if they're doing nothing wrong why would you try to entrap them?) or peaceful protests broke out by force by the police.

The fact that you're not stepping out of the boundaries is what gives you the impression that no-one is pointing a gun at you to practice capitalism. I'm sure plenty of people in a communist, fascist or whatever regime stayed within those boundaries and lived a happy life without guns pointed at their heads. Just witness how many people in Italy (for example) want a fascist government to come back.
I'm currently building a small weekend project that will automatically chase invoices for freelancers. Would people be interested in that?
Opera Reborn -With messaging and more
Please use this link. There is nothing malware related anywhere.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170514081120/http://fsecurify....
Intel AMT Checker for Linux
Lock you in? To what? I see it as just another option (tool) of the many available tools out there. If it is better than the rest and makes it easier to build solutions, I would consider paying for it.
> we still see a gender pay gap.

Could you explain the gender pay gap in these midwifery statistics please? I am struggling to find that information.

I see that as people get higher bands (probably get older) they get paid more. I see one or two men in the higher bands which to me raises some statistical significance queries. I see that the Ratio of men to women increase from incredibly small to very small, but that doesn't (to me) indicate a gender pay gap. Unless the "gender pay gap" here is that men are paid less compared to women as there are less men in the profession? Perhaps it's about the definition of "pay gap" - does it just refer to unequal outcome? Does it mean that we should expect the same ratio to occur in all pay bands, equally (e.g. not allow men to have pay grade 8), and if we do not see the same ratio that there is a pay gap by virtue of unequal representation?
If I buy a book it is MINE. Or, more broadly, when I buy something, I insist on it being mine. And once a thing is legally mine, I don't want any interference whatsoever from anybody in how I use it or whom I give it to or share it with. If I buy a Blu-Ray disc, the magnetic dents physically present in the matter that represent the ones and zeroes that make up the sights on my abyss belong to me. If a movie company want to restrict the use of their magnetic dents they better screen at theatres only as when I have the magnetic dents, I have the moral rights and the technology to reproduce and redistribute them. Also, in this day and age, disc sales probably mostly benefit disc sellers, and the best idea is to put your movie on YouTube/Vimeo/sth. after theatrical releases. Spinning disx with magnetic dents are by now primitive, and their use is to limit the consumption and sell peripherals.

WRT books, I'm among those who prefer dead tree, because that's part of how I work, and I believe digital can't replace print books, but that does not mean no innovation is possible: Printing-press-on-demand should be introduced where I can order a printed copy of a book and then the seller prints one from a digital copy and sends me that. If book shops want to continue, they can just bulk-order print copies and put them on their shelves. Lots of money goes to intermediaries in book business and if you're not a world-wide best-seller, as an author you don't earn much if anything at all. And you're worse off if you want to be like Kafka or Calvino instead of J. K. Rowling.
In most of the years from 1998-2008 it was over 6%, with a spike above that.
It is loading fine now.
Yes reminds me a little of Cormack McCarthy.
Ask HN: What are your main tools?
As an housing architect/hobbyist dev I use (on Win7):

terminal: ConEmu

launcher + file searching: Listary Lite

text editor / note taking: Sublime 3

visual notes / image library: Pinterest

browser: Chrome (always updated)

antivirus: Avast free edition (always updated)

image: Photoshop CS6

cad: Autocad 2012

3D: Sketchup 2017 + Vray

calc: Excel 2010

cloud storage: Google Drive

mail: Gmail

music: Spotify / Youtube / 1by1

video: VLC / Youtube
> “It’s not like you’re employing fewer people,” says Rader, who has about 10 employees, including his bookkeeper. “I can just do more things. I can tell fewer people, ‘sorry, I can’t do that.’”

That was refreshing to hear.

There was another more detailed treatment of automation's impact in the Economist a while back, which mentioned graphic design, a similar profession, where human jobs weren't replaced, tasks simply became redefined as designers started using more computer aids to let them perform more complex work:

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21700758-will-s...

David Autor had a long academic survey of the topic, it's detailed and in-depth, but a good read if you're interested in this area, with a fascinating discussion of how we quadrupled the number of bank tellers after the invention of the ATM, and the role of good governance in mitigating labor shocks due to sudden increases in roboticization.

https://economics.mit.edu/files/11563
At the same time, please don't assume that every woman at the office who isn't standoffish is into you. That kind of makes life hell for women who want to develop effective friendly working relationships with their colleagues just the same way men do.
Seriously? Mate, you can be sure there are billions of people doing things you could never imagine.
This is such a backwards-looking point of view.

0. The fact is, I want a algo timeline. There are far too many posts in a day for me to read everything.

1. People made the same complaints about Facebook's algorithmic feed. Very few users complain about that anymore (outside of HN, I guess). If anything, without FB's algo feed, users would be overwhelmed with a flood of posts. FB will surface very granular posts like a friend liking something, so we are talking about multiple thousands of potential news feed posts per day. And if FB were to take out that granularity, that means potentially missing tens of highly relevant posts a day.

2. Obviously I don't have any inside info, but I guarantee you Twitter split tested the algorithmic timelines and is also measuring user engagement and they wouldn't have kept this highly complex feature (with probably a whole engineering team dedicated to it) unless there was a big boost.

3. Q1 of 2017, the first quarter they rolled out the algo timeline, user growth accelerated.

4. I don't know a single person with experience growing/measuring consumer web products who thought the algo timeline was a bad idea. It is such an obvious piece of low-hanging fruit.
"We have really cleverly done a thing that no one actually wanted" is the summary
Well

1. Root on Linux is not the same as Admin on Windows. Sorry

2. They do limit Linux playback to 720p, you can not play 1080p or higher streams on linux largely due not having control over the OS.
> I doubt this patent will hold up in court.

Of course the problem with the patent system is, who can afford to court? Even if they get completely pro-bono legal help from someone like the EFF, it's a massive time-sink and also means their game is no longer on sale.
Call be paranoid but I'd rather have a few hypothetical feature-bugs in the systems than security vulns. Just keep the systems in the stable release.
Is it true that South Korea beats the U.S in terms of plastic surgery
Got little time to meet? Get your friends on #LYK and chat whole day
I am failing to see how any of this data proves a gender discrimination based pay gap
Those people think it is a good idea because they can sell the service of gaming it!

People have accepted these timelines as a fait accompli but that's all.
8 coisas que você precisa saber antes de comprar o Galaxy S8
... Misinformation, to more objectively state in my humble opinion, is one step away from an errata and valuable information. Continuing, propaganda is one step away from the usage of shredders for larger print and more compassionate versions remaining on smaller print. But this reply, 'manufactured consent' resonates well in my view, but 'our governance' equalled to that may be one step away from, continuing, more input and feedback from/before a law or regulation and/or its 'mandatory' application vs one re-judged by one's peers to be fair.
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Have you followed the news at all ?
Sorry misread the paper and I meant linear space LZ77
Please go read the patent, it describes an "apparatus and method" that is much more advanced than traditional tiling window managers. The patent doesn't even compare to simple terminal based tiling of sub-shells. It also describes a GUI to control the positions, and describes in detail how it's supposed to work. There is a section "Description of the Related Art" in the patent which makes references to existing (at that time, year 2008) approaches and why they are not good enough. Example: "[...] Windows provides [...] commands which are accessible from the Windows taskbar. However, these commands are not as intuitive as they could be and they do not provide a desired level of control when positioning windows".
> What is it about some shows/movies that would be SO DAMAGING to whole society if a few people would be able to copy them on another device or even give it to a friend?!

American society worships the ultra-successful like cults - the cult of the millionaire - pro athletes, singers and actors.

Hollywood and it's products, therefore, are sacred.
Willie Nelson--who must be an expert marriage because he's done it so many times (at least four times)--once said that rather than get married again, he would just save himself a lot of time and heartache by searching for the most unpleasant woman he could find and then give her half of everything he owned. YMMV
> Actually that's the default mode. If you develop Lisp code with SLIME / GNU Emacs, it talks to a live Lisp system.

So do you dump your image at the end? My understanding is that most people work with files, and execute stuff occasionally while they're editing, then save the files. Next time, you reload from source - you don't start from an image with state. And if you fail to run something, your source and your repl become out of sync.

I've never seen anyone actually doing image-based development in a lisp, despite some lisps supporting it - even in livecoding (music), the standard is to edit a file, then occasionally send parts of the file to a repl.
uBlock vs. uBlock Origin (2015)
Anheuser Busch Inbev Shuts Out Craft Brewers
I've been using CouchDB since 2009 or so and am pretty impressed by the jsonb functionality built into PostgreSQL (the RDBMS I generally use for everything). I'm building an application with an abstracted "store" and will be running benchmarks against both in the next few weeks but so far, it looks like PostgreSQL might be a bit slower when writing jsonb fields. For this application, the ease of using just PostgreSQL (versus a hybrid PostgreSQL/CouchDB back-end) is well worth that slight penalty.
I understand your point for old hardware but I was mostly meaning in a company/school/hospital type of environment where there is adequate hardware. Sorry for not mentioning it before.
The Collector's Fallacy
Great example of beginner-friendly guide to submitting PRs
I think your Windows info is out of date. Windows has been trending toward needing less resources, not more.

Win10 runs with 1GB of RAM. Not sure why anyone would have 512MB, but it runs with that too (though not as well).

Source: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-on-an-old-pc-...
Don't use `isize`, `isize` is not equivalent to C's `int`, but `intptr_t`. Specific sizes would be best, but if you need to copy C's `int`, there's `libc::c_int`.
Are there any interesting stats/graphs or an estimated percentage of US-granted patents that are bullshit?
The whole attack is a wonderful show of incompetence within the IT departments of the compromised companies.
> When businesses venture into the same [barter] waters, especially with products and services that they would normally profit from, the obligation to cut the IRS into the action can occur.

From:

http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0312/the-tax-impl...
Kinda feels the same to me as when they tried to patent Turmeric.
>forest fires are more or less inevitable

But with wide firebreaks they would become just air pollution nuisance, not an emergency.

>because fuel builds up

Its fixing the problem at the source, by removing fuel from future fires. A several km zone where nothing is flammable will stop almost all fires.
Is "psychological halloweenism" a thing?
It absolutely does. I'm helping out on a bespoke app that needs to run on some discount Chinese tablets that are stuck on Android 4.something, and it's easier to target Chrome (which is still being updated) than the OS itself.
(Didn't read tfa)

In my experience, flow state tends to be toxic and socially harmful with time. After weeks of practicing, once you're in, there is no easy way to exit it without sleeping (in the morning you're at risk falling in there again). I discussed this effect elsewhere and it confirmed. Sometimes I forcefully retain my mind in normal mode with "expensive" focus, because further plans require to be communicable and alive. It is not "for free" to me in neither way.

Am I using it wrong? Is meditation and samadhi a better version of the flow in this regard?
Fingerprinting SDN controllers
Regarding reducing run time, zlib/gzip already use a O(n) algorithm (Rabin-Karp rolling hash search), despite being "slow" in comparison with other "pure-hashing" LZ77 implementations (e.g. LZO, LZ4, LZF).

I don't have access to that paper, but "compressing indexes" is likely to be slow, no matter how is implemented: fastest LZ77 using hashing relies on doing few operations per input byte. So no matter if the hash table space could be reduced or not, the speed would not be likely to be faster (anyway, you can trade hash table size vs compression ratio, even without that new technique).
The Australian Constitution does not explicitly protect freedom of expression. However, the High Court has held that an implied freedom of political communication exists as an indispensible part of the system of representative and responsible government created by the Constitution. It operates as a freedom from government restraint, rather than a right conferred directly on individuals.

In Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Wills (1992) 177 CLR 1 and Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v the Commonwealth (1992) 177 CLR 106, the majority of the High Court held that an implied freedom of political communication exists as an incident of the system of representative government established by the Constitution. This was reaffirmed in Unions NSW v New South Wales [2013] HCA 58.

This right is limited by certain laws a.k.a Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
it's really a simple language

i can help you start (amd64), if you want. TIS-100 is a decent start as well
Drowsiness detection with OpenCV