skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When programming, variables should be self-explanatory. However, things you re-type constantly (copy -> cp, remove -> rm, variable data -> /var) are fine to abbreviate with logical abbreviations.

I don't have trouble understanding dev, /svc and /pkg because they're already common abbreviations. The gn and PA_VMAR_ROOT I'd have to look up, but if I'm using it constantly, I don't mind needing to learn. I mean, I needed to learn to use Vim, too, and now I'd never want anything else.
https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/issues/948
I'm not really seeing the difference between m = E / c^2 rather than E = mc^2. Isn't c just a proportionality constant that we can set to 1 by choosing different units?[1] Then you are saying that E = m suggests something different than m = E.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units
I know it’s not as lightweight as a container system, but I’ve had quite good experiences on this front with virt-manager (and it’s associated command-line tools virsh, virt-install et al).

It’s straightforward to spin up fresh local virtual machines, and you get access to the full KVM infrastructure if you need it.
I find it strange that a huge number of governments aren't falling over themselves to get Tesla to build one of the roughly 100 needed giga factories in their country.

Pay for it to be built, give crazy good loan deals etc. whatever it costs really to have energy independance has got to be worth it.
PHILOSOPHY Plato
Now? Give me a fucking break.

Big US companies, and all US companies, big and small, have always choosen, and very carefully, what sorts of content they want to distribute, what sorts of image they want to portray, what sorts of causes they want to publicly support, and what their public imagine will be. You were never able to find atheist content in a Christian bookstore, you could only buy the censored version of CDs from Walmart, you couldn't find pornography at K-Mart, The Disney Channel never broadcasted any politically incorrect material, and you couldn't buy t-shirts with "inflammatory religious or supremacist content" in Old Navy. Even the original Geocities had strong content restrictions​.

Are you loudly complaining Old Navy doesn't sell a "Hitler was right" shirt? Are you complaining about the "censorship" going on at the Museum of Fine Arts since they don't have a white supremacist exhibit?

In fact, pornography is legal and YouTube does not allow pornography. Why aren't you already up in arms about that "censorship."
Coding for a serverless future
Well after talking to some of their tech guys we determined that we have different definitions for the work "fixed".
Government Spyware Targets Mexican Journalists and Their Families
Workflow Automation in Git with Basic Commands
:emoji1: :emoji2: This doesn't seem like joke.

Though it probably should.

Ref 14585129
Multi-currency bank account
Murder, for one.
Kodak's Super8 revival is leading a new wave of retro nostalgia UK
Recruiters usually aren't good at programming. If they were - in most cases - they wouldn't be recruiting, but writing code... So their "identification of good programmers" is somehow limited...
Selling the entire lot to a domain vendor is the quickest way out but you would get peanuts, also because with so many new extensions approved recently, nude domains are pretty worthless apart of premium .com. You may target industry-related players, though, for the most attractive ones in your portfolio: placing one or two for a few thousand dollars to the end user would extract some value from the otherwise inanimate dross.
One Model to Learn Them All
Wow, that's a great pearltrees.com replacement!

Can I use it personally/privately already?

Can I selfhost it?

Can you make it available on GitHub?

Can you make the CTA-Button (call-to-action) more visible?
I haven't edited links, but would you consider making editing/moderation similar/better than wikipedia?

What about import/export, that would be a killer feature and allow you to keep your site closed-source, but make FOSS clients that asynchronously add/receive benefit.

Try marketing at more visibly at http://alternativeto.net/software/pearltrees/
Does empty rhetoric over data sharing slow science? Curated data digest
Lol, what. At least these kids are at home on their computers instead of out doing drugs.
AMRAs are like physical documents with an instruction to the information guardian, with a signature from the information owner, authorising access.

A lot of it is electronic these days, and is automated to the point that an individual authorises access by clicking a link in an email that calls an endpoint that in turn releases a token and URL to the requestor to view the appropriate records.
I imagine he means that participants might want kill one another when the pool of cash becomes large enough.
Depending on when your stoner friends got started, they may or may not be self-reporting accurately. From the same link :

> Our findings suggest that regular cannabis use before age 18 y predicts impairment, but others have found effects only for younger ages (10, 15). Given that the brain undergoes dynamic changes from the onset of puberty through early adulthood (37, 38), this developmental period should be the focus of future research on the age(s) at which harm occurs.

Age of onset is a particularly important variable as it pertains to cannabis-induced cognitive impairment. I doubt cannabis is perfectly safe and harmless at any age, but it has consistently been shown to be both more harmful and less reversible to younger brains in development.
“This ‘Twitter for voice’ app is the most fun I’ve had on social media in years”
> They never had Latin alphabet. Kazakhstan (as a state, part of USSR) was using Turkic Alphabet in its initial 13 years of existence.

> I wouldn't consider Turkic as a Latin alphabet. It uses some Latin glyphs but so does Cyrillyc.

Alphabets based on Latin are typically called Latin alphabets. Turkey uses the Latin alphabet as does English and Polish, despite them all having different variations.
Dev Release: Xfce Settings 4.13.1
Australia is the world leader in roof top solar PV installations per household.

http://theconversation.com/factcheck-qanda-is-australia-the-...

And now that the technology is cost competitive, there are many plans afoot: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-29/australia-on-cusp-of-l...
HorseAnalytics. Dressage. More Accurate Positioning. Task. Part 1
No one on HN has ever run a social network? I think you're talking to the wrong demographic here.

I used to run an online community in the late 90s early 2000s which would now be called a social network. Some people used real names, some people used pseudonyms, and some people used both. There was no "disaster".
Can you link to it / describe it?
This is supposed to be what backports is for, but it’s very much a volunteer effort. It would definitely be good to see the Debian project commit to supporting a set of leaf packages on a rolling basis in stable. Fragmenting the project in this way might just be too much work for the maintainers though. How many different Debian installs can you realistically support?
They also have several offense sides, none of which are tightly coordinated. :)
Yes, but "left wife for secretary" not necessary implys cheating. (even though it is likely)
The definitions won't be outsourced, but the psychological trauma involved in doing the actual moderation certainly will be.
I'm not one to defend our pollies, but these same "utterly devoid of morals" parties are the same that put in place home solar energy subsidies that have resulted in Australia being the world leader in rooftop solar uptake.
> While I'm not 100% sure about the legal situation in the US, I'm pretty sure regular householder's rights apply.

Not sure about that. Some places (like malls or train stations, possibly others) are considered public places to some extent.
Oh, please don't...

I've seen CI systems broken because of Unicode in git commit lines... :-/
Top 5 Analytics/Data Mining Programming Languages
Social Cooling – How big data is increasing pressure to conform
That's an interesting thought. Here's another: why standardize? Each team's needs are likely to be different and may change over time.
The NSA now has a GitHub account now
Top 6 changes in Docker 17.05 CE
"Linked list" usually refers to a very specific structure (regardless of language, or whether it is implemented as pointers or arrays or whatever) - one in which to find the middle element you have to traverse at least half the list.

Singly linked list or doubly linked lists are still considered linked lists. Skip lists, even though they technically are lists of linked items, are not generally considered a "linked list" data structure.
Comparison of Roomba 860 vs. 880 Vacuum
And they'll steal your phone number from your friends' phones and add it your account without your knowledge. Every once in a while I log in to FB and it will ask me if I want to share my phone number with them, with my number conveniently pre-entered in the input field. I never gave them my number.
Local librarian doesn't dictate culture and content to the whole world.
I really don't understand it, to be honest I think it's unbelievable. I'd say we, as in the IT community, shouldn't touch anything coming out of the NSA with a 10 feet pole, even if we're absolutely sure it's not some kind of morally dubious attack tool.

Fuck the NSA!
You can't leave facebook. They will never delete your data, even if you ask them nicely.
That policy exists because of EU and US data protection laws for children under the age of 13. Facebook cannot legally allow them on their website without significantly changing the way their data is handled and requiring parental consent.

Facebook most likely doesn't mind the current state of affairs where preteens lie about their age (hook 'em early), but they do not officially condone it.
If you write very nicely to Roche they'll likely send you a copy which looks very impressive if you've room to pin it up.

http://www.roche.com/sustainability/what_we_do/for_communiti...
Just tested on both a 4k 13" Windows Display and a 2K 15" Mac Display - yes I see what you mean. That is pretty bad, though I've never noticed that before.
I was specifically answering to a sentence starting with "If you use GMail with several accounts and POP3". My point is that, if you are already using GMail, then just use your GMail address to avoid the delay in fetching other POP3 accounts.
"Multiply by π for small, known teams, doing a new job,
by π^2 for unknown teams,
and √π for known teams who have already started, know their work and have a good track record."

http://alistair.cockburn.us/The+magic+of+pi+for+project+mana...
Whole Foods Deal Shows Amazon’s Prodigious Tolerance for Risk
Well, they would be, being estimates. If they were right they'd be facts. The problem with estimation is that people view estimates as fact, when (according to Steve McConnell) all estimates should come with a variance of + or - 4.

I like to present my estimates using the cone of uncertainty, which demonstrates their fallibility well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_Uncertainty
Emoji might actually be usefull for quick oversight, but how can you include a reference to an issue for every commit? What if you are just adding more tests?
If I can go to a bar and talk to people without revealing my full (or real) identity, then why can't I do the same online? "Real name policies" don't make any sense to me. The meatspace analogies are all flawed. The pretty server at the bakery doesn't know my name, and she doesn't need to. We can be perfectly civil to one another without crossing that boundary.
LinqToSolr – use LINQ to obtain data from Solr
Save your .txt files with CRLF(Windows) line endings, not LF (Linux) or CR (Mac). Your txt files should now work on all (relevant) OS.
Employers are usually required by law to inspect your ID upon hiring you. There is no requirement to show any proof of audit. This is certainly the case in the Netherlands.
So far, no they aren't. Not even close. Not that there isn't any violence from the left, but not nearly as much.

But using the left/right simplified political spectrum is a terrible metric in any case. If there was ever a time to at least use the compass metric to differentiate between authoritarian/libertarian opinions as well as left/right it is now. It can be hard to realize as an American but judged globally you are comparing far right authoritarians to centre or even centre-right authoritarians as if they were opposites.
Seeker Central – Crowdsourced Shopping
There are plenty of cheap yet decent foam mattresses on Amazon. Check out the "Lucid" ones. They have a variety of firmness to choose from ... I don't use it as a daily sleeper but slept on one recently and it was quite nice. Plus it's one fifth of the price of Casper or traditional inner spring ones.

If you really want to score a deal on one, find the one you want and track it via CamelCamelCamel. The prices change daily and if you're patient, you can get it for 30-35% less than the top line price.
Delivery Hero IPO to raise nearly 1B euros
How Did Health Care Get to Be Such a Mess?
Actually not so much, I basically only use the phone on the move, 99% of the other things I do them in my laptop. I even do more laptop calls (skype, hangouts) than phone calls.
> I think we are, in the context of what I was responding to there.

I respectfully beg to differ. At best, you've made quite gratuitous assumptions on impact to workflow realignment, which assumes requirements traceability and formal verification was even a thing this team was already familiar with. Sure, some teams may already operate with constraints like that, but we're talking about this team, which may or may not conform to your standards definition; all other teams are irrelevant.

> No, you're not. Unless you have produced an already catastrophically ill-designed product...

The phrase ill-designed product is objectively meaningful in the context of hard requirements. Until this legal judgement, ADA compliance simply wasn't a requirement...hindsight is 20/20.

Suffice it to say we know nothing of their team's competency, existing architecture, scale of product, workflow complexity, verification process, level of impact, funding availability, etc. In other words, we know absolutely nothing, so it's unsurprising that you're struggling to see where the cost is. From a risk management perspective, you've taken an optimistic hand-waving stance in the face of so many uncertainties. With the courts involved and legal mandate on the table, do you really think the game being played hasn't changed? For the sake of this web dev team, I hope you're correct.
Send them an email? Call them? Send them a postcard? Send a text message?
>Well most of the abuse is from the right, so most of the correct action will be towards the right

^ lmao this guy.
Doesn't all debt reduce lifetime wealth?
> What you describe is the rule in most Western countries.

Say what now? Is the UK the only western country you've visited? because what they describe for Australia is not the rule of mainland western europe, serious insulation and at least double paned windows was the standard in the 90s.
This article is very poor.

The actual report this comes from is here:

http://cmeaustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/160708...

Note how they pick the one stat where AU prices are high. They say 'excluding taxes'.

Looking at the full report a lot of Australian prices INCLUDING TAX are actually fairly cheap.
Becoming Who We Need to Be
I'm more worried about government getting involved than some loss of efficiency.
Frankly speaking, my observations on the actions and expectations by various "democratic governments" around the world lead me to conclude that the world as we know it is fast moving to "totalitarian democratic regimes", where instead of one totalitarian leader/pack controlling and oppressing people for generations (like in the case of dictatorships), we have the illusion that we have the freedom to vote out and vote in different parties/leaders, who eventually toe the lines of the previous elected governments and end up making things even worse overall. Maybe I was naive and ignorant and all this was happening all along over decades and centuries.

The increasing tilt in the balance of power toward the state, on the balance of power equation between the state and the individual, is quite alarming. It seems to me that world over, we're allowing monopolistic views and policies to grow, to the detriment of common people. Terror and terrorism are very useful for those in power to gain even more power. Terrorists who claim to fight for freedom are winning by showing practically that those in power are continually curbing our freedoms. With such policies, tech companies are just joining forces with "democratic oppressive governments" in making them more powerful.

I do not see a clear and easy solution for these problems.
Tree Shake Lodash with Webpack, Jest and Typescript
Just stumbled on an example of MAC address databases being abused by marketers
Hi guys,

Here is what I found to back the claim that MAC, and IMEI databases are being actively abused for marketers.

Here, an SMS marketing company presents a case where they matched 350000 real world persons by buying access rights to such a database. The company selling access in question is "NPO Analitika," which sounds like a name of a state company.

In Russian : http://www.e-pepper.ru/news/kejs-ispolzovanie-mac-adresa-telefona-dlya-vychisleniya-klienta-v-tolpe.html
Also be aware your own IP does not get stolen, or that people do not 'wiggle' themselves or manipulate you into owning part of your IP. I've had multiple attempts of people trying this. One outright stole my source code and rebranded and tried to market it, another, well, don't get me started.

There are a lot of bastards out there. Hindsight is 20/20, but there were multiple cases where things didn't feel right, I ignored that and went ahead anyway, and everything went sideways.

Always trust your spider-sense!
You should store all the passwords in one file.
> Upon the completion of this offering, the holders of the outstanding shares of Class B common stock will collectively hold approximately 98.1% of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock...

Blue Apron is selling Class A common stock to the public.
As the author of the article, I would agree with you on that. Still, I would love to see it grow to some extent to allow Vue developers to find jobs more easily and CTO's to see its value, while still managing to hold a good community and not messing the framework up.
HEADLINE: improve website/doc to ease install process

DESCRIPTION: installing Debian should be a straightforward process for average Joes and Jannes, that's not the case currently. The process to acquire the proper ISO and have it on a bootable USB stick/SD card is overly complicated (because the information is hidden, missing or incomplete).

As an average Joe, when you visit debian.org there is no obvious place to click to get the latest stable ISO. The default (in a tiny box in the upper right corner on the homepage) is a net-install ISO. net-install are sub-optimal for users who require special firmware for their network card (dvd-1 amd64 should be the default).

You should consider that the default install process for most desktop users will consist of installing Debian from a USB stick on an amd64 system. Once the the right ISO is properly put forward, you should provide clear and detailed info on how to properly transfer the ISO to the USB stick and make it bootable.

Etcher is a free/libre, cross-platform, user-friendly, straightforward GUI (over "dd" iirc) that takes care of the process of making a bootable drive. It should be promoted and made part of the install doc.

Same goes for SD-card installs, many single-board computer enthusiasts (who are not necessarily tech savvy) renounce trying to make a bootable SD card themselves and simply buy a pre-installed one. Simply because the information isn't provided in a straightforward fashion on Debian website and they are not offered with a relatively simple process .

no, using "dd" from the CLI isn't simple: as a Joe you must care about many concepts that are un-obvious (wait what does it mean "the volume is mounted" ? how do I unmount it ? how do I identify the proper volume ? fuck I unmounted the drive, it won't auto-mount anymore ! file-system ? what are you talking about ? MBR ? DOS-compat...)

ROLE/AFFILIATION: electronics engineer, based in Europe, involved in local initiatives to promote free software (LuGs, crypto parties, hacker spaces,...)

Thank you for your awesome work, I wouldn't be involved in promoting free/libre operating systems if it wasn't for Debian (a great community project that cares for users rights/freedoms and provides an overall simple desktop experience).
How about Apple purchases Porsche and Netflix. That will make more sense.
Give them a big enough Library and they would.
Your comment is basically saying you think the high standards and customer experience that Whole Foods has cultivated will stop under Amazon's leadership.

If that's the case, and there is sufficient demand, another "Whole Foods" will sprout and fill that market demand.
There is an interesting theory that deer ticks and associated diseases are in a symbiosis with deer by damaging predators and competing species that haven't co-evolved.

This tick/disease would be at the maxima of such a natural selection, able to achieve symbiosis perfectly with herbivores it hasn't co-evolved with. A biased probability sort of coincidence. ;)
A related question: can privacy be quantified? And if so, how? On what bases?

Thoughts I've had:

Total quantity of data available?

Ability to define boundaries?

Ability to enforce those boundaries?

Knowledge of what boundaries to even define?

Who knows what about a person?

How many agents know what?

How aware is the subject of actual knowlesdgee?

How rapidly can that knowledge be further transferred?

Does the surveillor know more of the subject than the subject?

Can the subject access that knowledge?

Can others?

What level of benefit (or harm) can be transacted on the basis of surveillance? Does this accrue to the subject or others?
One of the reasons I can't seem to buy groceries online no matter how lazy I feel like being.
Beginning Machine Learning – A Few Resources [Subjective]
> "Happy" is a funny word though. Google is legally obligated to release kernel changes and legally forbidden from shipping kernels that incorporate other people's GPL-incompatible drivers.

I suppose the OP was also talking about the changes done to improve linux for datacenter workflows, afaik there is no obligation to release the changes there.
> It had significant whitespace and some other Python-inspired idioms like array comprehensions and object comprehensions.

Modern JS has standard HoFs (on arrays) and an iteration protocol.

> undeclared vars leaking to global scope

Strict mode (which syntactic ES6 features enable by default e.g. class contents are in strict mode always).

> baroque keywords like "with"

Which can trivially be linted away.

> ES6 did borrow many good features from CS

Not really from CS, rather from similar (much older) sources CS got them from.
MMX is not really dead - how else would you do byte level integer processing?
AFAIK the later SIMD instructions are all float based
> Prettier parses your JavaScript into an AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) and pretty-prints the AST, completely ignoring any of the original formatting*. Say hello to completely consistent syntax!

That's excellent. Thanks for the recommendation.
This is true only insofar as libraries use promises, and your code uses promises. They're still pretty annoying in my experience.

There are still some other cases where the mess of brackets is overkill, other than callback hell.
Generating the dodecahedron rotation group with python