skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you operate a private platform that very explicitly does not censor opposing political views even if you could do so within the law then you are very much not against free speech.
Oh now my recent state makes sense. I very recently had an endoscopy after vomiting blood, turned out my stomach lining that had become so inflamed it had slightly torn and had started to bleed. I couldn't really think what it could be, I don't really drink, my diet is good, I exercise daily and I don't get much in the way of negative stress. The only change recently in my life was taking up helping a friend code their app, again not exactly stressful but it did consume the rest of my free time I had outside of work, seems like even a slow burn out can cause health issues.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14388430 and marked it off-topic.
My point was, kernel version should not change with every Android release...
non-survivor bias? We don't know how many spies remain undetected.
It is a general understanding that you hire someone who wants the job and who shows some acceptable level of seriousness to that effort. If someone goes to an interview and messes up that dynamic, many interviewers make a really quick decision in their head and waste the remaining interview time trying to be polite and not mess up the company image. Skills wont matter at that point of time.

Most of the "WTF" events in interviews happen because the interviewer made up their mind already and there is still a lot of time left and is under-prepared to handle the social situation that happens next.
Thanks for following up here, and sorry that my reply is late - too late to make any difference, probably.

Yes, I was at Neil's keynote that you link the slides for. I still do not agree with your conclusions, or maybe rather with how you frame them. OpenCL is not 'being merged into Vulkan'. Rather, 'the next version(s) of OpenCL will align more ('converge') with Vulkan'. For example, you claim 'The Khronos Group are converging OpenCL and Vulkan into a single API: Vulkan.'. I do not get that from either of the Khronos 'clarifications', nor from any of the presentations given last week, nor from any of the discussions I had with people from the various Khronos workgroups, including the OpenCL-related ones.

I've asked a few other people who were there how they perceived the message but haven't heard back yet. Maybe I'm just thick, wouldn't be the first time. But for now I do feel that you're spinning a more sensational story ('OpenCL will go away and be merged into Vulkan!' - on a meta-level, it's a sad reflection on my life that I consider that 'sensational'...) than what is actually going on.
You could try an API key policy. Any calls to the API without a key would be throttled down to normal usage levels.

People can apply for an API key and you can monitor for any abuse.
I don't appreciate the "Elixir is growing" commentary in the title. That's not justified because a person wrote a program in it.
Are you T1 or T2? I was specifically talking about T2s; testing multiple times a day can be useful to get a sense of daily patterns, but those patterns will tend to persist from one month to the next so there's no need to test many times a day every day.
But still, I would rather use xapian over AltaVista. Same technology (inverted index), but stable and much better. Win98 as service is just asking for too much trouble.
And no, not ElasticSearch. No java in the house, C++ is enough.
Twitter is not a discussion forum. It is great as a polished RSS feeds reader & writer combined though. You can share quick messages and respond to people with Twitter, sure, but that is more like texting. Useful as it may be, it's still not the best way to discuss with someone, let alone with several people together. But brevity and repetition make Twitter an ideal medium for propaganda. No wonder some people use it as such.
Has anyone else noticed, that we are failing to distinguish between two very different rights:

1) Free speech
2) Free and anonymous speech

All of the platforms that have big problems support the later. Maybe the problem is anonymity rather than freedom of speech.

It is true that Facebook doesn't really support anonymous speech, but even there, most of the fake news spread was anonymously published.

I imagine that when you read this, a dystopia of national Internet ID cards pops into your mind. However, I don't think this necessarily needs to be. I've been working on a project called push to talk: http://thobbs.cz/push-to-talk/index.html and I hope that the existence of a real persons voice behind the scenes would help. I think that youtube also has an advantage, that the distinction between anonymous speech and non-anonymous speech is clear, and the voice synthesized videos are much less popular.
That comment ended by being heavily upvoted. Please don't break the HN guidelines by taking threads in this inevitably tedious and offtopic direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Microwave Spying – How does it work anyway
> Last time I checked you needed like 500kb of libraries for any scala program compiled to Android. Kotlin is a few kb.

30kb for Scala is the figure elsewhere in this thread and that sounds a lot more in line with my experience. Note that you never have to use e.g. Scala collections if you don't want to (and thanks to typeclasses you can write elegant code that works with both Scala collections and Java ones, so you can reuse libraries across both).

> As far as I know, the way scala treats types and functions make it that sometimes you cannot call scala code from java. Well, you can most times but requieres a lot of wrappers. This doesn't happen in kotlin.

Nope. There's no difference, just kotlin propaganda.
Hey, spoilers!
I do not have an insulin pump and I'm presuming you don't with my response. The pumps I have seen make noise when they are pumping and also have an alarm (I'm not sure if that's from the pump or the reader) if your levels are on either extreme. I'm guessing malfunctioning code would only execute once by pumping too much or not pumping at all and the user would figure it out very quickly.
It was this years awards. http://www.oxiff.com/awards/
Oh come on. The Apple glucose monitor thread has one poster criticising Apple for a cynical money grab because what they should really have done is cure diabetes completely and the only reason they didn't is commercial gain. Honestly, go look. Post by Xoros. There are other cynical takes, one calls Apple's strategy 'cute', but Xoros takes the biscuit.
Is it, though? I mean, really? In an ideal world, I would absolutely love to agree with you.

But, aside from certain forms of speech (hate speech, illegal speech, etc.), Twitter is pretty hands-off with what it allows. So it has given "sunlight and exposure" to people like Trump, and what has it gotten us...? Trump. A man who has used racism, sexism, xenophobia, lies, and false promises to win the US Presidency, and who used Twitter as a major platform for spreading such. How has sunlight and exposure disinfected his toxicity?

Now, sure, doing otherwise would definitely be silencing an opposing view point. But... when that view point is so toxic, why is that necessarily bad? This might be a controversial opinion for me to hold, but I don't believe all view points are created equal, and I don't believe all view points deserve to be heard, or, more to the point, deserve a platform to be heard. I'm not saying choosing is easy, and not fraught with moral peril, but I think the idea of this big free-flow of ideas being the ideal, given the constraints and issues with our society, is... frankly, a little naive.
Like others, I disagree.

First things first, you have actual nursing homes. Folks generally aren't living there by choice: They are there because they need a good amount of medical care. Some would be better off with assisted living (which is too expensive for most folks) or a nurse visiting a home a few times a day (which isn't nearly as common in the US).

Those last options will still exist for folks that have money: I think the home nurse will become more common if the US winds up going toward single-payer healthcare. Again, though, these are in place for folk's medical needs. Our generation might not be able to retire for leisure, but we'll still get sick.

The very last sort of retirement community is the non-medical sort. Many of these are simply apartments that cater towards older folks, though a few likely have a kitchen and/or activity areas. In indiana, these generally offered quiet spaces (no children) and discounted apartments if you met the age requirements. I truly don't see these sorts of things going out of style, even if folks are working instead of being in retirement.
The two-engine A330 has been carrying the same number of passengers as the four-engine A340 for decades :).
I learned that car drivers cannot see motorbikes, so when I'm driving a car, I specifically look for them; every time I check the mirrors, or am waiting to pull out or across, I'm specifically looking for a motorbike, and when I shift lane I turn my head to see what model of motorbike is sitting in my blind spot.
But how is that different from the Google contact lenses from 2014?
That sounds right, but also like an argument against commercial availability just yet in my ears.
I'm really torn on this. Plenty of non-anonymous people have posted some pretty horrible things on Facebook. And it goes the other way, too: there are plenty of people who would feel justifiably threatened and afraid to speak their true feelings if they could not be anonymous, and their contributions are often just as valuable as people who aren't anonymous.
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Exactly my thought. If you like sky scrapers, WHY NOT move the startup capital to LA? Is there any real reason it has to be SF?
> I'm excited to see where it goes.

BREAKING NEWS FROM THE FUTURE (Reuters):

Hundreds of thousands Apple users die within hours after IoT glucose measurement + insulin pump device overdoses insulin during WannaDie cyberattack. Apple urges all surviving users to update the system immediately. Surviving users and family members of deceased will get 10 year full Apple subscription and special $20,000 memorial gift card after signing settlement agreement online. update: WaPo reports that CIA has been aware of the vulnerability for 5 years.
Use Linux and blacklist any package that calls home. Ubuntus Amazon search integration wont be the only black sheep out there.
I'm using ack for that. Works very well.
Hi !
Can you tell a little bit more about the data sources and how they were collected ? If someone wants to keep updating the data ?
As a long time Ford shareholder, this article seems to be applying a cause and effect that is at best speculative. It's important not to confuse share price with company performance, because in the short term the two can have zero correlation.

This move has to do with one thing and one thing only- share price. The Ford family isn't satisfied with the image Fields was giving the company to investors and wants to shake things up in the hopes of jump starting the demand for its stock.

Despite the doom and gloom image portrayed in the article, Ford has actually been wildly profitable for years and is far from struggling. In fact they are coming off a series of the most profitable quarters in company history. This move has little to nothing to do with autonomous car development or electric for that matter, both of which Ford is already investing in heavily.
A cross platform app with React in a monorepo
At the CEO level of large, complex organizations, business experience and acumen, as well as legal and political experience, is much more important than background in specific technologies.
You seem to have missed one very valid option, the middle road, you don't have to trade free time now for free time later, there is in my opinion a happy middle ground to be had (like most thing life, politics being the primary one).

Sure you could argue that you get more free time later if you give up free time now but then you enter into the difficulty of quantifying the quality of the free time. When you are young, active and healthy you might be able to enjoy your free time more or perhaps having more money later in life allows you to do things you enjoy more, either way I feel balance is the key.
Show sorted list with human readable file/foldersize:

du -hs * | sort -h
I can imagine wearing bracelets for each metric you want to monitor, it'll be a sign of health and wealth and be as popular as those snag bands you kids used to wear in the playground.
> Twitter just brought up to the surface what was already there but hidden.

We "know" through pop science that Facebook makes you miserable:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-mentally-strong-pe...

On some level that's a mechanism that's "already there" in everyone, but Facebook is clearly more than a messenger if it influences how we feel. It wouldn't be surprising to find out that Twitter has a negative impact on us as well.

But I agree that there are many systemic problems that Twitter has nothing to do with.
Works for me:

$ < not_existant_file less
bash: not_existant_file: No such file or directory

I just tried this on bash 4.3. Cat remains superfluous in this case.
Perhaps you can't afford to live in the Bay Area. Live elsewhere.
And the columns line has the fan favourite useless use of cat.

[0] http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html
The value proposition is just poor. Not that people love the idea they can be monitored, tracked and recorded anywhere, they just tolerate that, because it is pretty hard to have phone conversation without a mic.

Putting an always on telescreen into your home that offers nothing really is a whole different game.
SaaS Pricing (2013)
p.e. why "Elixir is growing" in the title - because more and more people are building sophisticated and production ready services using Elixir.

Elixir isn't in the Top 50 programming languages yet, but I reckon it will be there in not more than 3 months... and that is respectful given its age.
> Technically they are not yet uploading everything into the cloud

Don't they upload every "Hey, Google!" command to their cloud?

I assume they would upload some background sound to train their algorithms against background noise.
Paying money to LARP as someone who wouldn't pay money for an identity. Pretty much sums up this century so far to me.
So you want something that covers all types of database systems? I don't think any such book exists, but maybe look at the database-oriented courses at CMU, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT ... Those are typically comprehensive and include links to source books/papers.

In particular, look at Joseph M. Hellerstein at CMU: db.cs.berkeley.edu/jmh/ (doesn't load for me at the moment, not sure what's wrong).

Also, the Redbook (prepared by Hellerstein, Bailis and Stonebraker) is great: http://www.redbook.io/ but it's more an update on various topics than introduction.
What about censoring hate speech? Racist speech? Sexist speech? Xenophobic speech? Outright lies? False information? Trump has tweeted all of the above from time to time. What value does that sort of speech have?

You might find the first three to be subjective, and I wouldn't entirely disagree with that, so how about the lies and false information? Should a person in a position of power be permitted to lie to people to sway their opinion? I would have no problem if Twitter were to fact-check Trump's (or anyone else wielding such power) tweets and delete or somehow diminish those that are outright lies, assuming there were checks on such a thing to avoid politicization of that fact checking.
the mortgage interest tax credit is making it harder for millenials to buy homes.
"cal -3" is quite useful, I use it all the time.
To show the week-of-year use "ncal -w". Add "-S" if you want ncal to start weeks on Sunday (crazy!).
Switzerland votes to phase out nuclear power
Google I/O 2017: Key Take-Aways Developers Need to Know
this is why scientists and technologists should run for office. kind of 'if you don't want to do it, you're qualified'.
A city is not obligated to densify. The give is that people start to move to places they can afford to live instead of complaining about what hasn't been handed to them.
Yes, but there are two problems with this particular company:

1. they have grown this mentality where they gather any data they can get their hands on - apologize only when/if caught red handed. (remember google street car password gathering?).

2. the more you use their services the more dependent you become. but google have shown zero care for individual consumers. (who do you call if gmail craps out on you?)
I'm in the same boat and this move both surprises me and disturbs me to an extent. I thought Fields was doing a great job but the market just isn't interested in Ford shares right now. But they've beaten earnings estimates over and over and seemed very serious about developing new tech.

This seems like a knee jerk reaction made by the Ford family out of fear that was unwarranted. But I hope to be proven wrong.
In China, they're about $300-$500 with lithium-ion battery. You can also get a kit (batteries, wheel with motor, wiring/etc) to convert a regular bike even more cheaply. The battery is the high-value part so you can take it out if you park outside overnight.
> how many candidates will enter the next election doing it and how unusual will they be...

2020 is still a while away, but a few leads:

Kanye West:

“Rappers are philosophers of our now, celebrities are the influencers of our now, just look at the president. [Trump] wasn’t in politics and won.”

Mark Zuckerberg:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/zucke...
Users flagged it. That's usually the explanation.
You can, but ssds are internally log structured, you have to overwrite whole free space plus the reserve and then run a TRIM.
As far as I know, they have always been providing a commercial JVM[0] with features that are not in the regular JVM.

[0] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/jrockit/overvie...
Only here as a nomad, but I find Lisbon and Porto to be way nicer than Barcelona. Way more green space, way less pollution. People are incredibly nice and speak English and French way better than in Spain (they sub instead of dub their tv/movies). Same focus on tourism and more nascent tech scene but there are a decent number of cafes to work from. Definitely on its way up, the city is big on supporting tech (eg Web Summit moving to Lisbon)
In eastern europe, we have Paneláky <https://www.google.cz/search?q=sidli%C5%A1t%C4%9B&source=lnm... and the housing prices are low in the panel houses and much higher everywhere else (though no-where nere US levels). You can even buy an apartment in a panel house an hour and a halfs drive outside of prague for $5000USD https://www.sreality.cz/hledani/prodej/byty/ustecky-kraj,lib...
No, you learn derivative libraries-of-the-day; the dude learns paradigms.
Thank you very much for the well written post and sharing your results and thoughts.
A software firewall is useless, the OS can hide from it. You need something external to your machine to be sure.
Show HN: Search platform, get own search for your bookmarks and any resources
Bringing the heavens down to earth: the early history of telescopes
You can avoid literal matches like so:

ps | grep [g]rep

Though it is still a bit terrible.
Judging by your downvotes I guess it is just Google PR out in full force the last couple of days.
"Not really the Baby Boomers fault"

No shit. This article is the 1% dodging pitchforks.
In data=journal mode, data to be written is first written into the journal. Only after the journal is flushed it will be written out to the correct location. Therefore, a crash at any time is fixed by replaying the journal forwards.

Note that the ext3/4 journal is a redo log, not an undo log. Old file contents are not copied into the journal on a write.

Thus, I don't see why shred should be less effective in data=journal mode compared to the other journaling modes.

CoW file systems are a different story. They don't allow you to overwrite physical file contents. You have to set the +C (FL_NOCOW) flag, which is, by principle, only effective for a file that does not have any contents yet. Thus, you can't set +C on an existing file and overwrite it's contents.
>MS Support consistently and repeatedly told me that enterprise allowed me to disable this stuff. If I can't control the egress then I can't verify PCI compliance.

Not that this is necessarily the best solution, but these sound like damages to me.

Perhaps a class-action suit may come of this?
Ask HN: How saturated is the market for offensive security/pentesting?
Answers relevant to the UK would be good, but if not then any info at all would be better than nothing.
It is slower to type too. Just write the command with the file name already.
That's an uncivil swipe. We've warned you a whole bunch of times about this. If you do it again, we will ban you.
There is more to crypto than that, right? The discrete logarithm problem is independent of integer factorization.
Thank goodness, specialist embedded systems are immune from Malware.
Fair enough. I guess I was thinking of shallow burns like sunburn rather than serious ones with destroyed skin. After all, two sentences after the one you've just quoted is If the burn does not have any blisters or broken skin, such as sunburn, a simple moisturiser such as sorbolene is the best treatment - sorbolene is a cream :)
If you're salaried, and get too sick to work, that would be covered. I.e. you're not going to be kicked out of the country like it could happen in the USA. Think of Spain like soft-socialism capitalism (pretty much like most countries in the European Union), with massive worker protection. In case of not being able to work at all, you'll get a for-life pension and full health-care coverage until you die, even if it takes e.g. 50 years.

If you're a Eurozone citizen (not necessarily an E.U. member), you can enjoy that exactly like being a Spanish citizen. For corner cases, e.g. a Briton in the post-Brexit scenario (or someone from countries outside the EU, so you would also require a work visa), working with visa would have same protection as local citizens. In that regard, Spain is quite humanist. So please, talented people from the UK, USA, and from everywhere in the World, you're very welcome to come to Spain and help making this place better! :-)
Journal files. You can begin a transaction, crash, and lose the transaction. But the thing itself will be consistent.

Perhaps there's something funny about the failure modes of non-volatile memory that's different than a disk. Replication can improve things, sure. there's always a chance of a cosmic ray doing something weird to your stuff. That's (so far) a lot less common than a regular old crash.
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At the bottom of the article it briefly mentions bringing back stuff from other planets, and that stuff could include extremophile-like life:

"It is assumed that such life would be hardy - to survive the trip to Earth; not easy - and precautions taken would provide a very high degree of containment."

So yeah, what could go wrong?
> Heinous ideas are important because at the very least - people can define themselves against it.

Heinous ideas are useful for understanding heinous people. Defining oneself against them is what flamewars are made of.

> That's how the brain is designed.

I don't believe in creationism. It's super ironic that throughout the 19th and 20th century many self-proclaimed atheists kept working on the basis of things that actually are intelligent design assumptions.