skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off the top of my head?

Oklahoma City

Dylann Roof

The asshole who drove his car into a group of counterprotestors
> I'm sorry, but get real. People use technology because it assists and speeds up areas of their life.

Get real: people waste a lot more time on 'tech' than they save, compared to doing without. The goal of most of those 'techs' is to take up as much of your time as possible, that's the foundation of their business.
This is disingenuous. Bitcoin is very anti-anonymous. Tor is rather anonymous. Saying that perfect anonymity does not exist because there's always some bits leaking to an omniscient entity is not helpful.

ProtonMail should support Monero. For now, I pay using a group of Monero wallets I churn every few hours and xmr.to. I suppose Bitcoin is the least common denominator in that sense.
ZoneMTA, open source outbound SMTP, out of beta after 100M emails sent
If forced to supply the XX one-word answer for which one Netflix is than it is entertainment. Doubt it's very useful to reduce things to one word in general though. Both entertainment and technology would delineate it from a car company though I guess.
So my data are the product but not me? Where's the distinction?
Disassembling .NET Code with BenchmarkDotNet
The statement 'it is the expected behavior if your mental model is accurate enough' is a tautology.
News shows up in the Top Stories carousel, not all blogs. If the news is so newsworthy the Top Stories carousel is the right space.
Not for store of value / protection against currency debasement.
I've been working on something similar (Headless Chrome via DevTools protocol) called Webfriend. It is a Python wrapper to the DevTools protocol, as well as a simplified imperative scripting environment which is specifically built for ease of use by people with a technical-but-not-programming background (lovingly called Friendscript).

It's by no means done, but it is functional and I'm hoping to see the project grow beyond a toy if there's interest in the community.

Things to note:

- Documentation is there, but there are gaps (especially w.r.t. the Python API.) I'll eventually get around to wrestling with Sphinx, et. al., but have not as of yet.

- Targets Google Chrome / Chromium 58.x - 60.x. No testing outside of those versions has occurred.

- Is Chrome only for the moment, but may evolve to work with WebDriver and other browser APIs in the future.

https://github.com/ghetzel/webfriend

Also, PRs and issues are welcome, but my time to work on this is limited at the moment (which does speak to the point made elsewhere about corporate backing vs. individual maintainers, but this was built largely to scratch an itch.)
Thank you, that was a really helpful comment! That seems to have been the problem. I had Visual Studio installed already and I just reran an installer and that gave me the option to install F#. That I needed to run the installer for visual studio again, that I couldn't just install F# support some other way, that just wasn't clear to me.

I have to say that messing around in visual studio in F# just now was extremely painful. I had to press shift+enter to add a new line, just enter did nothing. Tab didn't indent. I don't know what indents. I don't know what key does the job backspace is supposed to do (delete the previous character). I don't really understand why everything is so hard. I don't have this problem with Visual Studio C++ files. O_o

To be honest I'd prefer using VS Code to write F# and build from the command line, do you know of any good getting started guides? I'll check the VS Code extension documents, maybe now that I have it working in VS Code this will be easier.

Thank you for your help so far!
As a researcher, I think he is dismissive of Blum's work.

Let's take a moment to change perspective:

Imagine you worked for years on something and finally uploaded it on ArXiv, waiting for the community to weigh in. The following characters appear:

1. Someone known in the field does not bother reading it but says you are probably wrong, bets money on you being wrong and says he does not want to be bothered with it. How would you feel?

2. Someone else known in the community starts collating information/comments to help verify the proof or find instructive mistakes.

3. Another mathematician also believes Blum is wrong just because it is statistically likely, and does not want to spend time on something that will most likely lead nowhere. She keeps this opinion to herself and simply does not engage with the material. If approached, she declines to comment because she says he did not have time to check the proof.

Aaronson went for option 1 and in my highly personal opinion, it's the worst of the ones listed. It's standing at the sidelines being snarky. Just because he may as well be right does not make this behaviour any better.

It is the equivalent of laughing in an undergrad lecture when someone asks a naive question.
The looming crisis for American cashiers
"Television Delivers People" (1973) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfnm5XHsHkc
We ran into a number of issues with Helm when deploying - failures leading us to have to rollback, with rollbacks then failing, requiring manual changes to unblock.

I think that for third-party packages and related templating (which seems like the original use-case) it works well, but I would be wary of using it for high-res deploys of our own stuff.
This is great, but it's sobering to see how hard it is to get a nice, "complete" PDF screenshot out of a modern site.

Here's a quick hack: https://gist.github.com/rcarmo/cf698b52832d0ec356c147cf9c9ad...

I'm using The Verge for testing because it lazy loads images, and am being clumsy about the scrolling, but it mostly works - I can get 90% of the images to show on the finished PDF.

What I can't seem to get right, though, is creating a single-page PDF where the page height matches the document height perfectly - it always seems to be off by a bit, at least on this site (mine works fine, _sometimes_).

Anyone got an idea of why this is so?
This could be an interesting idea. Since cell signal is usually not available, I wonder if I can use a GPS signal? I don't know how the GPS in my phone really works. I think it must use cellular data and not a true GPS signal.
What I really need is an open source alternative to Sketch app (in electron?)
I can understand wine or beer -- I was mostly referring to water instead of a sugary soda. But pairing an appropriate wine with seafood or a good steak does enhance the experience.

However, in my case, my schedule (and budget, and family factors) keep me from restaurants, except for an occasional lunch out at work. And then alcohol is verboten if I'm going back to work afterwards.
This is spot on. Apple is going to start making self-driving cars; does this make them an automotive company? No, they are still a technology company and frankly who cares? The real story here is how Netflix went from swapping DVD's for you to spending $7B on content alone.
My point is that by and large, the parent poster was correct.

A lack of complete uniformity across the industry does not mean he's wrong.
It is harder than that though. Monero has an issue in that everyone is only doing ringsize=3 transactions, providing little anonymity. If you buy from an exchange then turn around and sell it back, even with different amounts, you will be on a shortlist of suspects.

To do Monero properly you need to wait a while (at least hours, better days) while churning to other addresses, being sure to keep your ringsize and fees looking like everyone else's. Hopefully they will raise the ringsize minimum to 10 in the upcoming hardfork - that will go some way towards fixing the problem.

For now, I bet there will be cases of people happily bouncing to Monero via Shapeshift and getting busted.
So tell me, how do i replace around 5 different group chats i have on messenger which can have anywhere between 5-10 people in each chat?

You throw a party and get to talk to everyone. I mean come on, we used to socialize before social networks.
We are thinking about this. The problem is privacy. AMP can pre-render a page from publisher X without publisher X learning that this happened.

This is important for avoiding that you e.g. would suddenly see re-marketing ads for pages that you have never clicked.
Politicians and unions have been renting mobs of protesters since there were politicians and unions
Or, perhaps, just maybe people have different social lives and expectations within a social group that yours don't share. Just maybe.
Repo source: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop
Can you elaborate? I found Kubernetes ingresses to be one of the most pleasant parts - we use the `nginx-ingress` from helm and it works very well. Not exactly an industrial github-strength load balancer, but it will get you a long way surely?
Well, Cloudflare is a US company where no political ideologies are criminal, and I'm personally of the opinion that if your political order is so fragile that it can't survive the free expression of some reprehensible ideas, you've got bigger problems than "those people are saying something awful."

Either way, like I said - I was actually fine with them being a dumb pipe. I don't think they should be acting as an arm of the law in the first place, I was just making the point that most companies usually don't make a principled stand on free speech with respect to actual crimes with identifiable victims (e.g. DDoS or even copyright infringement), but then censor someone based on their political ideology / incorrect beliefs.
ProtonMail has supported bitcoin for a long time too; I'm not sure why they're only announcing it now. I payed for my ProtonMail account at least 6 months ago with BTC...
Festool is going to acquire Sawstop. Looks like these are going to be some really nice saws.

http://toolguyd.com/sawstop-to-be-acquired-by-festool-parent...
That's the rhetoric of "the pressing 'demand' that must be satisfied". Each time I ask where the mass that actually 'demanded' something is, I get no answer.
The fact the Securities and Exchange Commission is seriously looking at ICO tokens is, to me at least, additional proof that this technology is here to stay.

That said, the SEC has also said that in many cases these ICO tokens can be classified as securities, and therefor going forward, could be subject to all the same laws and regulations [0]. This turns ICO's from something a startup can offer fairly easily, to something that requires a team of expensive lawyers to do properly.

Maybe Lawyers should take note that this could be a promising opportunity for future business?

[0] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-131
It actually didn't seem idiomatic... I suspect that english is not their first language and they might not have realized they were being rude.
I left a job due to it's mission. I worked for a (very, very large) adtech exchange. Their motto was "we keep the internet free." I couldn't reconcile the fact that 80% of engineers used ad blocker while working on the technology it fought against.
Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 Election
The Holocaust doesn't count?

Now I know you're a racist piece of shit.
Perhaps more perspective is needed before composing such blog post (undergrad, had single intern). Seems the norm now is once you've walked 100m, stop and write about your amazing journey.

My selfish considerations for a startup:

Can I remote
Does it matter

If you're working on something that matters, and you need help, and you're accidentally reading this... please drop me a line.
TunnelBlick comes with a tun/tap kext that is signed. This is not required on systems where Apple already has tun/tap support compiled in (not sure when that started, but it's been a long time)

From the known issues page:

"If you are running on OS X 10.6.8 or higher and using OpenVPN 2.3.4 or higher and using a TUN device, the default Tunnelblick setting to "Load Tun Automatically" (on the "Advanced" settings window) will avoid this problem by not loading the tun kext — OS X's built-in "utun" device will be used instead of a "tun" device."
Ok Everyone, I realized my mistake, no need to keep downvoting, sheesh
LFS feels like a dead project. The project presents itself as a "book."

Some of the provided tarballs are riddled with old vulnerabilities (and served over insecure channels (!!!) with no integrity checks), and thus it is relegated to educational purposes only, and should not be used for building a secure, general purpose system.

Does it support SATA and UEFI boot disks yet?
asciio is the true answer :) In fact I love using pure ASCII diagram in my emails, text memos, etc :)

https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Asciio

As it's not completely obvious, Asciio will save to plain text if you simply use the .txt extension, and else its own binary editable format.

Asciio is present in Debian/Ubuntu repositories.
Can you send email back from the addresses the email was sent to? I think when I was looking into it, ProtonMail caps how many aliases you can create; making it not that good for catchall.
i thought Daphne Koller taught CS228. probabilistic graphical models. It was very very grueling when i took it in 05.
Going by the engineering salaries they seem to value tech quite a bit. I haven't heard that Netflix hired a bunch of IT vendors to deliver next-gen delivery platform, the way Sony / Warner Bros etc do.
Device delivers new DNA or RNA into living skin cells to change their function
As opposed to which fiat currency?
I think what your looking for is called range lock.
When a query sort or filter rows using a range predicate. If using repeatable read isolation. A range lock is created to detect conflict with another transaction inserting new matching row.
timestamp = now

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so antifa = anti-fascists, right?

By fascists we are talking about the white supremacists fascists with Nazi flags and salutes that staged violence in Charlottesville last weekend?

If you openly glorify Nazi-ism then I'm going to assume that you would kill a few million people you don't like, given any political power. Incidentally a person was killed by fascists.

Given that background, whats wrong with being against fascists?

Now that you mention it, I am an anti-fascist and still firmly committed to non-violence.
Any clarification on how you expect such arguments to be used? Otherwise your claims are completely out of left field, because most approaches are not anything along those lines.
I assume they're not on hacker news. I was speaking from a hacker's viewpoint (the person I'm responding to and myself), not for every person on the planet.
There are dozens of browser extensions that just hide the newsfeed. No need to go through all that labor.
Fxe-rs: binary execution across Linux mount-namespaces
Staggering costs like these are exactly why Disney is actually in a great position to start its own streaming service. It is already one of the biggest media companies in the world, and has ownership of tons of IP beloved worldwide.

I'm all for competition so I hope both companies succeed, but its pretty evident that Netflix needed Disney more than Disney needed Netflix.

I'm also all for the democratization of great content thats happening on YouTube et al.
Most cell phones can position just using GPS. There's a wide assortment of mapping applications that store data on the device.

The cellular network is mostly used to speed up finding the first position (Assisted GPS).
I started my own T-shirt company in 24 hours and made $0
Thats exacly how I did it, and than the creation of a new cached file was handled by a PHP script ran as the 404 errorHandler which output the image to both the browser and file system.

Still pretty dangerous stuff i.e. ?size=10000x2000000
The emotional cost of being a startup founder
Really exciting stuff, happy to see the Github team launch this.

Kubernetes is becoming the goto for folks needing both their own physical metal presence and cloud footprint too. And the magic of Kubernetes is that it has APIs that can actually give teams the confidence to run and reuse deployment strategies in all environments. Even across clouds.

If you are like Github and want to use Kubernetes across clouds (AWS, Azure, etc) & bare metal and do deploy/customize that infra using Terraform checkout CoreOS Tectonic[1]. It also tackles more of the subtle things that aren't covered in this article like cluster management, LDAP/SAML authentication, user authorization, etc.

[1] https://coreos.com/tectonic
I'm not trying to stick it to the man. When I pass on certain safety features it's for practical reasons. I don't like side view mirrors with blind spot detection -- it'll lull me in to not checking over my shoulder if I ever have to drive a car without that feature (or the feature fails). Same thing with wearing a bike helmet, while it sounds excessively vain I have an afro that gets completely destroyed by a helmet, so I don't wear those. At the end of the day I want to be able to opt-in or opt-out of safety features based on a set of personal calculations.
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We're mainly using these things for screenshots of existing corporate intranet tools that are then surfaced to slack. Headless chrome is finally giving us screenshots that are actually authentically what you would actually see on the screen. PhantomJS came close but still has issues.
Low corporate tax rates and laughing young people are the harbingers of WW3?
I also adopted a similar approach, where I unfollowed ALL my firends so that none of them will show up in newsfeed.

Then I added the few ones I truly wanted to know about to the "Close friends" list which allows you to activate notifications for everything they post.

Now when I log in I only see a bunch of notifications which have a very handy "Mark all as read" link, and I only click further when I see a non-meme status update or an interesting share from them.

I can always search someone and go to their profile, or click on a firend list and see what certain group is up to. And I still find messenger useful, except for the forced "Add to your day" part, from which I daily hide any friends "day" as they post it without opening it (hold click to show that option). I'm about 1 year like this and it has been great, don't feel like I'm missing anything.
They value tech, but Netflix without their proprietary content is just a dumb pipe. In comparison to, say, a telco it's not very different -- nothing more than a commodity.

The tech stack in itself can be cool for an engineer to work on, but business wise it has little value. The only way to progress in this market is to focus on content. That's what makes (or breaks) a service.
That may be the origin of this particular phrasing, but the idea is much older:

In 1973, the artist Richard Serra made a film called Television Delivers People which declares "You are the product of TV" [0]

Key to Noam Chomsky's _Manufacturing Consent_ (1988) is the idea that advertising-supported media caters to the desires of the advertiser, not the media consumer [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Delivers_People
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
Contrast this to HBO's budget which is ~2B$ I believe and they generally cost 15$+\month. Netflix is just getting started in ripping up the old order.
Clojure for Rubyists – Accessing the GitHub API [video]
While pretty, whatever generated it appears to have removed the semantic information that it's text from it. (All of the "characters" are actual SVG paths, not actual text.)
You're mixing highly subjective aspects that I don't find worthwhile to debate here ("the job sucks") and that I disagree with. No, the job doesn't suck more than other career choices. Sorry you feel that way, maybe consider changing jobs?

> But can you fundamentally change the job so that it is desirable to the general population?

But it's not the general population we're talking about; that's a straw man. We just must strive to create a work environment that's not hostile to women and which doesn't discriminate against them based on prejudice. And yes, not excluding a segment of the population just because of irrelevant biological traits is desirable and worth the effort.

> Your overall point may be true, but your logic seems flawed

To me it's logically flawed to claim there's a biological impediment and when shown cases where women are successful, to suddenly claim "of course, they do it for the money in third-world countries!" as if this somehow explained biological differences. Money is not a biological factor, it's a societal one! The logical disconnect is so pronounced that it must point to an emotional blind spot.
Holy shit, they really did pay? I had no idea.
Every time electron apps come up, I bring up slack. It's currently using 1.3GB on my machine. I've got Spotify open too, with another 800MB. Adding another 8GB is easy at the lower levels, but I've got 32GB of ram in this machine, and regularly have to kill slack and spotify when compiling to get back 2-3GB.
Advertisers use terminology that matches the user as the product. They talk about "inventory" and that means page views. They talk about "supply side" and that means people who come to gawk. They talk about "demand side" and that means advertisers.

Facebook knows who pays the bills, and they kowtow to those people.

The system is entirely set up to sell users to advertisers. Content is merely there to allow them harvest users. That's how the whole chain operates.
This assumes the recipients have consistent addresses, and requires significant additional time and labour. Why would he drop Facebook in favour of snail mail, when e-mails (a more convenient version of the same thing) provided an inadequate solution for him in the past?

You can put just as much time and thought into an email as you can a letter. Technology is not the issue here, merely etiquette.
The article says that email doesn't receive much funding but many companies have invested a lot in email.
> sells it to advertisers and others interested in the data

Advertisers don't care about the data, they care about converting you into a customer. Data happens to be the medium in which the exchange happens. Just like I don't buy a whole convenience store - I buy a soda from a convenience store - I am buying customers from Facebook's social media network. So, yes, it's appropriate to say "YOU are the product".
> Chatterjee’s wife belongs to an East Bengal family – he, on the other hand, is a ghoti (from West Bengal), and he acknowledges the superior cooking of the eastern lot.

In my entire life, I have never seen an authentic traditional Bengali restaurant in the US - either West Bengal or East Bengali cuisine (excluding Bangladeshi, which is more like Punjabi food[0]). I am told there is a single one in the Bay Area about an hour and a half from San Francisco, but I have not been able to visit it.

This isn't just the US - I'm in London now, where one only just recently opened up, and I'm dying to try it - but it's still the first in a city full of Indian and Bengali people.

It's really sad, because both West Bengal and East Bengali have dramatically different but wonderful (in their own ways) cuisines, but there's no way for people to experience either one short of befriending a Bengali person and being invited to dinner at their place.

Restaurants are already very risky and unprofitable businesses, so I doubt it would be a successful venture for someone to introduce an Indian cuisine to the Western market that's not what people expect (Punjabi or South Indian), but I really wish it existed.

[0] The terminology here is admittedly confusing, but "Bangladeshi" is different from "East Bengali" in this context, even though the eastern part of Bengal is now Bangladesh. The reasons behind this terminology go back to the first partition of Bengal in 1905.
You don't get decentralized compute with ethereum.