skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, the idea that the Pentagon was hit by a cruise missile on 9/11 is worth brief consideration. But when you dig into it, there's no support, while there's plenty of support for the airliner.

The way I convinced my buddy to get out of that 9/11 conspiracy mode was to ask him questions about the shitty conspiracy theories he thinks US govt comes up with.

For instance:

* Why claim that it was an airplane which hit Pentagon, when they can claim that terrorists got hold of a rocket launcher, or a cruise missile. Since they claim that it was a CIA agent who launched the missile, then it would be even better to claim that there is a 20th terrorist who is hiding among us, and thereby getting more advantage of what they did by claiming conspiracy (i.e. to create an environment of panic in public).

* After I told about the ridiculousness of the 'conspiracy theory' like the point above, they would talk about Hitler's quote "bigger the lie, the more they'd believe it". When I tried to do more research on it, it turns out that there is no documented proof of Hitler claiming bigger unbelievable lies. In fact that quote was used by Hitler to claim the grand Jewish communist conspiracy theory of blaming Germany for the loss of WW1, which he had no proof for. Other than that, that's it.

* Since the purpose of govt officials who conspired is the same as the purpose of 'alleged terrorists', i.e. to create widespread fear and panic (just for a different end goal), literally everything govt did, can be attributed to the terrorists. The terrorists performed the demolition, they destroyed WTC7 after stealing gold, etc etc. This way govt ends up with having an even more foolproof conspiracy. In fact, if the conspiracy theorist questions that by making terrorists do that many things, it would make things more ridiculous, then you can point them to "bigger the lie, more they'd believe it" statement.

* Finally I asked my buddy, "Imagine if I was the person behind the attacks, I was one of the terrorists, how could I convince you that I did it, what proof can I provide you that I did it". Thankfully, my buddy hadn't lost all touch with reality, so he didn't really blame me for being a govt plant. He didn't really respond to me, but as far as I know that was the last time he advocated the conspiracy theories to anyone. And now we laugh at other conspiracy theorists.
Ask HN: Is there a good tool for container resource monitoring?
There are open source tools like heapster which have to be manually deployed. Are there any good SaaS solutions to manage container resource utilisation? Preferably supporting multiple container engines.
On a side note: A point that many a company ignores when they demand some assurance so their software vendor a) can be held liable b) will hand over the source in case of drama, is to give the source code in Escrow.
The number one error these companies make is to think that source code without a reproducible build environment means anything at all.
Reproducibility is not easy. I applaud Debian (and in the older days TrueCrypt) for giving this more exposure.
That show is great. Really hoping the story arc MacMillian into McAfee. That could get really entertaining.
Introducing App Engine Firewall
The Top 7 Startups in YC S17 Demo Day 2
So guys who will you place your bets on personally I think Google will prevail over FB.
Don't think the phone is 100% in house. They're using a base OEM model from someone that happens to have opensource drivers for everything (which makes me think it's an older model).

But even just for the software, it seems low.
I'm admittedly biased, but https://www.vendorhawk.io/ is a good way to manage SaaS vendors. Not many services offer consolidated billing. You'd have to buy all your products through a portal in a reseller like CDW or Insight to have that view.
I don't see why any of those are problematic, all should be protected as free speech. Speech is not violence, it does not have victims and thus should not be in any way a crime no matter how repugnant. No speech should ever be banned.
I agree. But they're not at all part of the city.
Susan Fowler: a hero the Valley doesn't deserve, but one it sorely needs.
You can talk about it all you want. I don't think anyone has begun to come up with a realistic solution. You can't make it against the law to mine, so what else is there?
Violence in Charlottesville leads to soul-searching at ACLU
Sure. But is it to blame for all of societies ills? The freemasons and George Soros, and jewish people, and the pope, and the FSB and most other targets of conspiracy theories are all certainly real.

The question isn't whether criminal conspiracies or secret socieities or various other organizations and people exist, but whether they're all-powerful forces that drive history or not. What drives a conspiracy theorist is the idea that there is some simple explanation for everything that happens. An all-powerful 'enemy' that is the cause of all of the world's ills.

I'm personally a believer, for example, that Putin ordered the FSB to interfere in the election last year and that it had some impact on the outcome. But I think what happened in the election last year was the confluence of a lot of unrelated trends, and wasn't the result of some grand scheme hatched in the Kremlin. Compare that to some of the wilder corners of the twitter-sphere where everything that happened from Snowden to Charlottesville was the result of some FSB operation. At some point it just strains credulity.

On the other side, you have, of course the Trump-ist idea that the entire mass media is engaged in a misinformation campaign backed by the 'deep state' who is attempting the overthrow the president an institute a "globalist" new world order.

I think both sides are operating under the assumption that there is some natural order and stability in American society, and it would just continue indefinitely and peacefully if it weren't for outsiders and people who are otherwise 'un-American" attacking it. The reality is that there are underlying tensions and instabilities that have been festering for decades (or even centuries) and they are becoming harder and harder to ignore for a variety of reasons.

The current crisis in America is one of those things that 'just happened', and people are having a hard time coming to terms with the new reality they're living with and want to find someone to blame.
If the dependency is packaged separately, then you typically wouldn't expect minor version changes in the dependency to affect the contents of the package being built. If there are major changes to the header files being exported or if there's static linking involved then changes are to be expected. But if not, you'd expect the changes to show up in the dynamically linked process image, not the on-disk package.
Thanks for the recommendation, I have just started it.
I would argue that all modern Operating Systems have dark corners and hidden bugs. It is just a question of time until you hit a similar bug on any OS.

I had a similar experience on macOS with Chrome Canary watching a YouTube movie full screen. My laptop simply froze, nothing, except a restart, worked.
It's a relatively new feature (Jan-2016) and it's disabled by default for SSD devices (increased wear). Personally I prefer increased wear over unmountable volumes.
How to Dual Boot Windows 10 and Kali Linux
Wisconsin bill giving $3B incentives to Foxconn advances
Was my first thought as well, and is one of my favorite quotes from the movie -- the movie is fantastic & one of my favorites.

Though I was half way expecting his answer to be, "if you really want to, I'll have my cameras rolling!" =)
The iOS 11 Siri sounds like it's a real person talking, it's amazing. Does anyone know if there's an open-source TTS library available with such quality (or if anyone is working on one, from this paper)?

I would love to have my home speakers announce things in this voice.
SpaceX Will Lose Millions on Its Taiwanese Satellite Launch
Not necessarily everyone, but saturating their addressable market.

Imagine this simplistic model of Netflix's finances: they pay ABC $1M/year for ShowA. They have 100k customers in year 1 @ $10/mo, so (ignoring operational overhead) they can afford the show.

Year 2, Netflix wants to continue paying for ShowA because they want to grow their catalogue. Let's say the price has dropped to $800k because many shows lose value over time. Netflix adds ShowB for $1M, meaning they are paying ABC $1.8M. They now have to add 80k customers to be able to afford the new show + the old show.

Point being: This is highly simplified, but the rate at which they can add content is bounded, in one way, by the rate at which they add customers. In other words, if they aren't growing their subscriber base, the existing subscribers are just paying for a catalogue of content they've already watched, or Netflix has to start expiring old content in favor of using that revenue on new content. The second path is obviously the better one.

This is a fundamental thing in services like this, which is why no single service will ever be a "complete repository" of every piece of content in the world. Individual services can only be complete repositories of content that the company which manages it owns. Which is exactly why I'm bullish on Disney's new service; Disney has the most powerful content library out there, between all of their properties. This service will do extremely well, likely better than Netflix.
This was presented at Interspeech '17 this morning. Maybe the paper is embargoed or something until a later date?
Oh gosh, that's a cakewalk of a commute. Thanks for the details!
The article mentions the realization that it's a different audience and separate from the Disney offering in general (ditto star wars). Sounds like there's a chance they leave that bit aside for different strategies.
Allow me to extrapolate wildly: progress considered harmful ?
Really interesting pictures, although I hope people realize that this was meant to capture interesting things and not really represent the average dinner time in the US. My two favorites are:

"Tuesday: Alex, Sophia, Kathy, David, Claudia, Eva & Ana." [0]

"Wednesday: Nathaniel." [1]

That is a huge table that family has, I mean that's really, really wide. And Nathaniel looks like he likes to party, which I respect.

[0] http://huckcdn.lwlies.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1...

[1] http://huckcdn.lwlies.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1...
It's still a net reduction in the size of the market. Early 2000s your office had a PC and you had one at home. The office computer may remain but the home one is gone for the vast majority of people.
I had a client that asked me to rewrite our software in JS. He didnt know anything about programming but said he preferred JS.
Elon Musk Has a New Battery Rival Packed with His Ex-Employees
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"All problems of scale become a network problem."
Sean Parent
Make calculus feel like something that you yourself could have discovered
This site recommends a program called minersgate. My virus scanner when off on it. Looking online it seems to not legit.
Will AI Change the Face of Marketing?
Then it's not free speech. If you're not free to speak about certain things, you do not have freedom of speech, it is very much all or nothing. Freedom is a binary condition, you either have it, or you don't.
Map Generator for Sketch: Design Map Interfaces with Google Maps and Mapbox
"Reflections on Trusting Trust" - Ken Thompson

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
Maybe for a small subset of the total advertising spend, but for the big players, they can't always be sure which part of their revenue can be attributed to Facebook and which part can be attributed to other sources or which part can be attributed to their sheer scale (everyone knows about Coca Cola, but that won't stop the company from spending big on advertising). Companies like Procter and Gamble started scaling back their Facebook ad spend; they had no idea what their FB ROI was until they actually started scaling back and they realized that it was essentially $0.
Biological parallelisms inside blockchains: Homeostasis, hormesis and more
I'm going to start off saying we NEED Yucca Mountain, BUT you seem to think this stuff is more dangerous than it is. Myself and many others that work with these technologies aren't actually happy about the new John Oliver episode.

> Mining Uranium ore does have a significant environmental impact.

I'm glad you bring that up. To actually understand how much of an impact we need to compare it to things. The human mind isn't good at putting into perspective raw numbers when they are that large, it's just "a lot". When you include the mining of both solar and uranium plants, you actually get around the same total environmental impact. I make this comparison because I've never heard anyone complain about the switch to solar. When we compare to coal mining, fracking, or oil drilling, uranium is tiny. Or even comparing to computers and cell phones.

> The waste, currently held on site at most plants, is another big issue.

I carry a vial of tritium around in my pocket? Why? Because it glows and is a fun conversation. I have no worry about it irradiating my junk because it is a beta emitter that has low penetrating power (~6mm of air). The danger of tritium is soft tissue. So just don't drink it or rub it in your eyes. Granted a leak is more worrisome, but its danger is nowhere near that of the heavy elements. There will always be some waste, but nuclear has done a pretty good job compared to other energy sources because of the fear. Some fear is healthy, especially with this tech. But, again, we NEED Yucca Mountain. There's not much waste, but we should put it in the proper place.

> While newer reactors may not have these problems, the fact is there are problems we weren't aware up that cropped up...

You're discussing concerns about decades old technologies. Remember, that was the same era we were arguing over lead in gasoline, asbestos, and aerosols. Sure, we have problems today, but it isn't the same magnitude. No one in their right mind would shoot a nuclear waste container, or even put it in that small of a container anymore. Things have really changed in the last 50 years, and nuclear tech has been progressing in that time too.

>I don't think that will go away unless someone discovered how to make Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENRs) viable

Call it what it is, cold fusion. I'm not going to hold my breath on that one. But ITER and other fusion facilities are showing promising results. But fusion is not just a different ballpark from fission, it is a completely different game (energy and safety).
Docker seeks to reproduce a functionally equivalent software environment, motivated by version management concerns. Debian is trying to reproduce bitwise identical build products, motivated by security concerns.
If a company has a billion dollars more cash than liabilities, it's worth at least a billion dollars in a M&A deal today. You don't need a bigger fool, just someone who's willing to wind down a business to net assets. See what happened to Yahoo as a creative example of this - the operating business was a net liability, but it owned a good chunk of valuable Alibaba stock that made the stock positive-value, so it got split up, sold off, and wound down.

The dividends don't matter, IMO. It's net assets and net profits that do.
You can include the <svg> directly in HTML source code. No extra requests needed. In some circumstances it might be a better trade-off. Especially when you use a small amount of icons.

Also, you can style each path individually using CSS or SVG. That means you can easily have multi-color icons.
I fear that you're right. It seems so blatantly obvious that employees collectively litigating employment-related claims is a "concerted activity for mutual aid or protection," and thus class action waivers do violate the NLRA. (So why is this even a dispute? Because conservatives.)
What to Do If You Didn't Get into Y Combinator
According to their audited financial statements [0] grants accounted for only $388 million against $917 million in expenses (or about 42%).

[0] https://uwaterloo.ca/finance/sites/ca.finance/files/uploads/...
Automated Theorem Proving, David Plaisted

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcs.1269/full
For a mum from Spain, the difference would be even smaller. She probably wouldn't even notice she was using a different search engine, the results would be pretty similar to Google's.
It's a quite unattractive proposition for ML researchers to work for a company without being able to publish.

I'm guessing Apple simply had to make this change in order to stay in the game.
presumably covered under the common "derivative works" clause
I know I at least am getting skeptical and a bit unsure of the licensing guidelines of font awesome. A fully-MIT product might be a bit reassuring for some people. Font Awesome seems to be more transitioning to wanting everyone to pay for licenses (yes, there's a free model, but they're pushing pro pretty hard)
Reflections on Galbraith’s New Industrial State, 50 Years Later
The CIA attempted to study the possibility of mind control, but that doesn't make it reasonable to assume they ever could, or do, control people's minds. They also studied remote viewing and telepathy, but that doesn't mean the CIA has psychic spies.
JavaScript has eaten my time. It's a really frustrating ecosystem to work in, all the deps, toolchains, build process is extremely fragile.

I'm pushing everything to Python these days and some light front-end in JS where needed. Couldn't be happier!
Matrix is really struggling on funding so they need these kinds of partnerships to allow them to continue making the software better.

For those who are reading this and would like to help out please see the following blog post: https://matrix.org/blog/2017/07/19/status-update/
But it does show what the service looks like, and how it works without Star Wars/Disney.
I believe you're looking for something very much like sysdig cloud.

https://sysdig.com/product/
My local grocery store charges $20 for delivery, with purchases of more than $200 having free delivery. It's not as expensive as you think.
Apple Maps in Singapore is perfect since they added support for public transportation (bus system is a little confusing in Singapore). Now it's so easy to take a bus home when you got lost.
Isn't the practical reality that any course like that will address the theory and essentially deal with more or less toy problems? It would be hard to get into cutting edge research in an online course.

I'm not sure learning about natural language processing or image classification would be all that different--although those problems are arguably better understood and more bounded.

Even a site reliability engineering course isn't really going to give you deep insights into what, say, Google does on a day-to-day basis.
That's an absolutely awful idea. It's great if you want to live in a totalitarian regime, otherwise awful.
For maybe 3-6 months a decade ago I was running XFS on my laptop. My laptop had some sort of flakiness, ISTR it was graphics related, and it would require frequent reboots for a while. I remember one particular instance where after a power cycle a file I was working on an hour prior to it was trashed. That was a real "Oh FFS!" moment and I stopped using XFS.

But, I will say I've had a lot of success using XFS to serve images, particularly tiles. Particularly map tiles that are generated once and then basically static. There it has a lot less overhead when formatted with size=2048, so lots of small files are handled better. Of course, reiserfs was even better, but part of that was with a job I worked on where they just blindly rendered map tiles for the whole earth, and so there were a lot of 50 byte solid blue tiles. Reiser did really well with that, though some deduplication or linking would have been a huge benefit.
Have you calculated how much a car costs compared to a bike?
The best part is if you get off the treadmill for any length of time you get to re-learn it all over again with whatever the new hotness is!
Wow, that's some really dedicated scammer you had there. Looking up your personal info on Facebook and then impersonating your wife to trick you into installing malware is certainly a step further than I've seen anyone go before with something like this.

It's pretty scary to think about really.

However, it also makes me wonder... how was the scammer so dedicated here?

Seems like he or she wasn't the typical opportunist, but someone who actually wanted to hijack your life in particular. Are most scammers this dedicated now? Or did you somehow bump into a more determined criminal than usual?

Because I'm not sure I can see this sort of scam happening to most people. Seems like it'd be a fair bit more work for a scammer than just sending random phishing emails pretending to be the bank or what not.

It's a good warning, but the lengths the scammers went to in order to try and trick you makes me wonder if it was more of a targeted attack rather than the kind most people will encounter online.
What they don't say in this panegyric to node is that..
1. The language (js) is absolutely horrific.
2. node is single threaded and non-blocking/async in I/O for some operations but when blocking requires libuv and gymnastics.
3. It moves too fast for stability. I've encountered huge memory leaks with node at various versions that are terrible to debug.
4. It is designed to the lowest possible specification for development: web developers.
5. js package mgmt and build tools are a running joke.
Not a paper, and not strictly CS, but Mythical Man-Month by Brooks. It solidified the connection in my mind between systems engineering and software engineering. Other readings since then have extended and changed this understanding, but this is where my approach to software development started to mature.
Matt Levine comments on that today, his conclusion: "I don't understand the problem this is solving. IPOs are annoying, but then they end, and you have price discovery and an investor base and a relationship with the capital markets. The problem of going public is not so much going public -- writing a prospectus, doing a roadshow -- as it is being public -- filing quarterly financials, dealing with investors, forever. The SPAC doesn't solve that. It's just an interesting technological gimmick to deal with some of the superficial difficulties of the process. I guess that's what tech companies are into these days."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-24/unicorn-s...
I read this just now, thank you for taking the time!
All these icon collections are great, but I always find missing stuff there, and I don't know how this can be fixed besides complaining (and I don't want to complain when they give it for free).

For example, this one looks really nice, but it only has 'battery' and 'battery-charging'. In an app I work on, I need battery with no charge, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, and charging.

Then I think that this would be small to add, but again I don't want to complain. Then maybe someone will need a battery with a sliding charge, so they can represent as many charge percentages as the pixels allow. And then this becomes a whole other things, and not just an icon collection..
It's hard for me to justify a technology which could do very serious damage to a domain. I did the same, I set up HPKP for my domain and then I've lost my keys (I forget to pay for hosting and server was deactivated). It's not a big deal for me, I'm not really using this domain, but even with this throwaway site I've had problems, when I uploaded some file and sent link to my friend, but he wasn't able to download it, because he was there before.

Blackmailing domain owners with HPKP is a real threat as well. It'll happen, sooner or later, servers are getting owned all the time. Defacing front page is visible. Setting additional header is not.
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