skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're glossing over a ton of complexity with your "less random" comparison, because Lund is 2x the population density of Princeton. Given that sidewalks are highly linked to population density, they're probably not a good comparison.

Princeton is also a special case because it's a community that has a lot of fights about trees. Cutting down trees is heavily regulated there, you literally have to apply for a permit to cut down a tree (though I believe there are exemptions for emergencies), and the township and community are committed to the aesthetic of shaded roadways throughout. That almost universally (basically everywhere but right downtown, and even a fair amount there) means planting trees between the sidewalk and the curb, which in turn leads to increased damage to sidewalks from tree roots, so maintaining sidewalks becomes more expensive. It also means that sometimes you have to decide between having a flat sidewalk and doing enough damage that winter might kill a tree that's been growing for 30+ years. Those are things that are important to a lot of people living in town.

I've lived next door to Princeton off and on for 20 of the last 30 years, hence the unnecessary knowledge of their social emphasis on trees. I think it's nice. I haven't seen any complaints about disabled access at the township level, and nothing came up in a quick google search.
That's a cool device, and I thought about getting one -- but for me, I wanted the satisfaction of putting ink to paper.
I was confused by Hedosophia's value proposition after reading that earlier article as well, but NYTimes seems to do a better job of explaining it.

> "For all this, he takes a tidy fee: 20 percent of the $600 million. But if his company acquires a business five to 20 times its size through a reverse merger, he said, the fee is the same as or smaller than a banker’s fee — and it is all in stock, so unlike the banks, Mr. Palihapitiya’s interests are aligned with the company’s."

Ie, the banks charge 7% of the startup's IPO valuation, whereas Hedosophia's sponsors charge a flat 20% of the $600M, regardless of the valuation of the startup it buys. According to the above math, if Hedosophia reverse-merges with a $3B unicorn, the effective fee would only be 4%.
The Electronic Computers, Part 2: Colossus
Technically speaking as far as I can tell huffpo and salon aren't left, they're liberal. They don't actually support any anticapitialist policies, though they do support a number of liberal policies.
Maybe the thing that's changed is Google's assessment of the viability of Tizen or windows phone, or other alternative phone platforms. At this point Google might very well say to Samsung, go ahead and drop Android if you feel the need.
Yeah I think there is a business opportunity for them if they really wanted to give it a go. DuckDuckGo leverages Bing, Yahoo, and a number of other sites. I don't see why Apple can't do something similar and forge similar agreements and then use iOS, Siri, and everything else they have as part of their "ecosystem" to drive searches through their new platform.
Refreshed my memory about when I was calling this "mobility circles" back in 2011. http://blog.rodolphoarruda.pro.br/2011/05/os-tres-circulos-d... (portuguese)
All the other transitions could be handled by virtualization and emulation, and the software and the corresponding data files could be copied between file systems and drives, so if you have built a workflow around a legacy app, you could still access it on new hardware.

But iOS being such a locked down and closed platform means there is currently no way to preserve legacy apps or the data stored within installations. This is why dropping 32bit legacy app support is such a big deal.
You create 2 sets of gatekeepers who have the job of not only gatekeeping, but also taking the other group of gatekeepers down.

Keep both honest.
Sounds good to me. (DuckDuckGo teaming up with Firefox, I mean.)
People are posting comparisons to Kotlin, but for the record here's Chris Lattner's take on the Swift/Kotlin comparison:

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Swift and Kotlin evolved at about the same point in time with the same contemporary languages around them. And so the surface-level syntax does look very similar. … But if you go one level down below the syntax, the semantics are quite different. Kotlin is very reference semantics, it’s a thin layer on top of Java, and so it perpetuates through a lot of the Javaisms in its model.

If we had done an analog to that for Objective-C it would be like, everything is an NSObject and it’s objc_msgSend everywhere, just with parentheses instead of square brackets. And a lot of people would have been happy with that for sure, but that wouldn’t have gotten us the functional features, that wouldn’t have gotten us value semantics, that wouldn’t have gotten us a lot of the safety things that are happening [in Swift].

I think that Kotlin is a great language. I really mean that. Kotlin is a great language, and they’re doing great things. They’re just under a different set of constraints.

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Paise be to HIPPA.
I would reply at length and quote extensively from every section of the book, but 15 years of internet arguments has convinced me there’s really little point and it would be largely a waste of time. If you can even flip through the pages in a few seconds and come to the conclusion that Tufte doesn’t care about how clearly graphics convey data, there’s really nothing I’m going to say that can convince you. So I’ll just leave it at “bae, you cray-cray”.

I can only recommend re-reading the book closely and carefully, ideally spending 5 or 10 minutes really looking at and thinking about each graphic. Maybe start with the first few pages where Tufte lays out his criteria for graphical excellence.

You may also want to look at his 2 subsequent books Envisioning Information and Visual Explanations wherein he goes into considerably more detail about particular aspects and techniques statistical graphics can use to show various types of patterns.

I have probably spent 50 hours over the years studying Tufte’s four data-viz books, and every time I look I find something enlightening, fascinating, or inspiring. Some individual pages reward 30 minutes or more of careful study. If you can’t find anything useful inside, I don’t know what to tell you.
‘A Nasty Name for a Nasty Thing’: A History of Cunt
Dates definitely matter. I am a lazy searcher, so I may search for "How do I do X in KDE". I don't care about results from 2013 because I'm running a recent version. Having the dates there helps ensure I can remain a lazy searcher.
I don't really see how it could do the same thing. It clearly has three restrictions in its text, none of which is present in 0BSD. Number 3 being the one differentiating the 0BSD license from most other licenses.

Also 0BSD is OSI approved, they call it free public license though
I haven't seen the marketing, but the story didn't make it clear. Another poster noted the 4k and face detection, which makes sense as a differentiator.

But uploading 4k from multiple cameras... isn't that going to be a problem for most home users?
Was the site not designed to actually phish?

- The site contains Equifax's heading, uses their branding, and is highly similar to the actual website

- The site is hosted on a domain that is very similar to the actual website and uses Equifax's name

- The site instructs users to enter PII on it under the guise of being Equifax.

It could be argued that the creator of the site created this to determine whether people were being phished by it before activating the actual collection of data.

Additionally, in Chrome, when I fill out the form and get the alert box, when I dismiss the alert box, two requests are made to the domain:

https://securityequifax2017.com/eligibility/images/favicon-3...
https://securityequifax2017.com/eligibility/images/favicon-1...

If an onSubmit handler is attached to the form submit that sets a cookie with this information before showing the alert, then the phished details are transmitted to securityequifax2017.com.

Lawyers will C&D this extremely hard, a very reasonable case can be made that this is impersonation, and a phishing site with malicious intent.

NB: I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE CREATOR'S INTENT. So do not jump at me thinking that I do believe that. I'm just saying that it could be very reasonably and successfully argued, and that nuance and intent could do very little to spurn allegations of impersonation or actual phishing.
I imagine a couple of things work against this; nobody wants to take the pride hit of working for a small sum of money for awhile. Perhaps they imagine they'll have another high-paying job in a month so it's silly to take low pay for 6mo and HOPE the high paying job comes in after that time. Also, what happens if they can't hack it? Suddenly they probably can't even claim unemployment...

It's a good idea, though, it probably just has a few practical barriers.
Or for Apple to buy them ... "search.apple.com"
Hubble discovers a new type of object in solar system
And how open is the administration to taking in Rohingya refugees who've been displaced by the violence?
Not Even Close: The State of Computer Security
- https://vimeo.com/135347162

This talk is both interesting, more or less correct, and absolutely hilarious.
Andrew Gelman's statistics blog
There was no intent to associate you with anything. Your statement here will have to be sufficient for clearing up any concerns about that matter. I am not going to change the title of the post.

I was homeless for nearly six years. I got off the street earlier this month. I was quite open on the internet about my struggles in trying to figure out how to come up with enough earned income to eat. It garnered me damn little sympathy or support and there were an awful lot of people who were quite ugly to me and accused me of things like trying to panhandle the internet.

If the title makes people uncomfortable, well, that is the intention. Maybe you should stop and reconsider your view that gender roles are no problem if you feel so deeply offended by having it put baldly to you that a position that it is fine for women to be groomed to be a wife (from birth) is one that actively makes it difficult for most women to meet their basic needs at some point in their life.

Adieu.
>> the number one way that burglars break into a house is simply through an unlocked door

Is this a statement about criminaity or about stupidity of home owners. As a Europian it is hard to make a difference...
I would like to see an argument for that. With the original scenario, its just an argument for autonomy and that less homogoneity and centralization in governmental structures better represents and distributes power amoung the diversity of the governed. Someone arguing for Brexit and against Calexit would have to do so on other grounds - which I'd be interested to see if they have any weight.
Open any random book in the English language printed in the last 200 years.

All the apostrophes look like a little nine: in contractions like it's, and the possessive 's.

That's the character that was included in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Image: http://www.worldpowersystems.com/J/codes/X3.4-1963/page5.JPG

The glyph appearing in the standard looks like a little 9. It is denoted as "APOS" in parentheses. A reference to it is made in A6.8, calling it "apostrophe".

Wikipedia's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe) page refers to a vertical notch glyph as a "typewriter apostrophe". The normal non-typewriter apostrophe looks like a comma.

Okina? That indicates a glottal stop in some languages none of which are English, and so which were understandably not represented in the American Standard Code.
I thoroughly believe this.

I had a business partner at one time who believed that names mean nothing.

I believe that a great name can - as this post says - lift you up. A bad name can be a real problem. A middling name won't be a problem but won't accelerate you.

I just put alot of "wasted" hours into renaming a product in development because I thought of a better name.
Inside Embark’s mission to make autonomous trucking a reality
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Thank you as I was unaware of this. At quick glance of what you shared, it doesn't seem like most users should be effected by this.

I'm assuming the typical setup is putting your cameras on a router & then using software like Blue Iris if you want to allow remote access to the videos. I would hope no one actually allows someone to connect directly to a camera using the camera's software over the internet.

Am I missing some larger vulnerability?
It's interesting to me that a tweet from a single well respected journalist (@evleaks) can set off a huge chain reaction of coverage.
I wonder how much money Ajit Pai is making on the backend.
What I want is an internal security camera that is smart enough to detect when someone is in distress. something that can record patterns and note deviations. this is all in the idea of monitoring the elderly. something that is simple to setup, where a handful of cameras and such don't break the bank all to give elderly relatives freedom and security
It will be harder if the parts and modules use ad-hoc specifications instead of adhering to some common framework (e.g. 5v or 3.3v power levels, imperial or metric sizing for drive axles, mounting screws, etc.).
With no costs for uploads and $5 per every 250GB it sounds like this is actually probably a pretty nice deal for personal archiving. Of course if you're also downloading a bunch of that stuff you'll hit that 1TB transfer ceiling pretty quickly, but it sounds to me like it could be a reasonably cheap backend for a backup solution – or am I missing something?
what happens if they get hacked again in 2017?
From the introduction document: [1]

> Spaces currently supports v2 of pre-signed URL functionality. Tools and libraries that only support v4 of pre-signed URL functionality will not work.

I had really hoped this would be in place for the launch, but I guess this wasn't a priority. Looking forward to this + EU locations!

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduc...
Looking for proof in these matters is probably a fool's errand (though many seem to undertake it...) As for explanations, that doesn't seem to be out of the question up to some assumptions, as is usually the case with explanations. Anyone choosing to go down the rabbit-hole of solipsism is literally alone with his thoughts.
Very interesting. That's actually a rather strong metric.
I was using make on MS-DOS 2.1 way back in 1987. It's just not for Unix anymore.
You would only lose the RAM and the disk space if the 32bit support is actually needed and installed. What’s better - having unused RAM and your app refusing to launch, or using RAM to run your important legacy app?
Yugoslavia and Spain has nothing to do. For a start, we are a Monarchy .

Maybe you should start with the basics about European history. Yugoslavia had a terrible civil war and they broke in pieces. There was no reason to keep on together. Spain had a more terrible civil war and Spain still exists as it was before.

The history of Catalonia says that they have never really fought for independence. They are always looking for economical benefits. Except anarchist which I think they really want to shock the system, the new-born "Indepes" will never stand up in arms to fight for the independence of Catalonia.
Can you explain the "Pizza in San Francisco" meme? Not sure I get the joke.
Only Scotland voted on their referendum. The rest of the UK didn't nor couldn't vote.

Would you let, let's say, France vote on your general elections to chose the next MP? Would you let a stranger choose the colour of the walls for your living room?

Only Catalans can decide their own fate. It's up to them and no one else whether they stay or leave. I don't care which side wins but there must be a vote.
If somebody downloads source code for a project, fixes a bug, emails that fix to the maintainer, and then tries to sue for copyright infringement, you can be sure that the first question an attorney will ask is "why did you send the fix to the project?" It would be very hard to claim that the contributor didn't expect the project to distribute the fix.

With git, the contributor has an even harder case to make. A pull request is literally a request to incorporate your contribution into the project. If the pull request doesn't include a proposed change to the license, it would be very hard to claim that the fix couldn't be distributed under the terms of the existing license.

I'm not aware of any court rulings directly on the subject. The best I can think of is the Prenda Law case. They sued people for copyright infringement for downloading some porn videos. A few of the people targeted showed evidence that Prenda Law had uploaded the videos themselves, and Prenda Law immediately tried to withdraw their cases. Some of the judges were very upset about that behavior. I'm pretty confident about how a court would handle a case where somebody claimed the contents of their pull request weren't meant to be distributed.

The traditional concerns have been cases where people try to contribute code that actually belongs to their employer, which remains a concern with this CLA-in-the-license approach, or projects interpreting their own licenses in obtuse ways ( https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/11/msg00138.html ).
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/an-after-hours-company-visi...

Use AMP URL above.

Then, either 1. use "Reader Mode" or 2. retrieve html and strip out the Javascript before viewing with browser.

2. in simplest form, something like
curl -o withjs.htm https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/an-after-hours-company-visit-spurs-espionage-charges-1505813401
exec sed '/<p>/,/<\/p/!d' withjs.htm > withoutjs.htm
It can be locked down to only accept Fi SIM cards.
Censoring them doesn't make them go away. It only removes any hope of turning them into not-horrible people, and in the process many controversial but worthwhile ideas are filtered out.

I think individuals should have the tools to disengage from trolls, harassment, spam, etc. (even if it's a catch-all "block everyone that my extended network has blocked" checkbox, or something similar) but I personally want the option to see the dregs of humanity and actively engage with those people.
Snowflake macro photography (2013)
It also feels like many of these "good baker" type businesses can't survive/thrive in areas with relatively low population density -- eg, how many people are willing to drive 15 miles out of their way to said baker?
IIRC, it was on the order of $100k+ per cluster for the Premium offering. Has been several months so I would suggest contacting them to see what it currently is.

For some projects I've been on, that wouldn't be a big deal. For smaller projects it can easily be several times your opex though.

You can run an open source cluster in HA without it though. The big draw for Enterprise is the multi-cluster and HSM support. Anything HSM is typically quite expensive so their pricing really isn't out of line.
How Booking.com manipulates users
You're drawing from quite a lot of assumptions. Consider that until recently, "front-end" work was done mostly on the server.
What do you mean? in the scottish referendum only scots voted, not all brits. Are you saying that all spaniards (not only those living in Catalonia) should vote in the referendum? I don't see how this makes any sense.
IANAL, IANYL, TINLA but I can't imagine that using Equifax's name in your domain, using their branding and IP on your site, impersonating the site very strongly, or even presenting the option to enter sensitive info on your domain will end very well for you. I'd certainly have avoided it, or at least shown good will by having the site on that domain unambiguously say that it's not Equifax.
Definitely GraphQL. Github, Shopify, Yelp and many more are now using GraphQL as their primary public API.
Only residents of Scotland were able to vote in the Scottish referendum, so it’s the same situation as this.
I tell people they're building the global graph of source code.

People without any theoretical background will look confused, but CS people generally understand the deeper implications of this, I think.

I've been supportive of their mission for years, well before any sponsorship. My (unofficial) relationship with Sourcegraph isn't about money. We have shared values, pure and simple.
Hacker News Clone in Universal JavaScript Using React/GraphQL
From the OP, this happened in the public place. There is no expectation of privacy, nor should there be.
> At this point Equifax has repeatedly demonstrated nothing but contempt for people whose information they have compromised.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

They've completely demonstrated incompetence, no contempt needed.
Okay, sorry: the status quo about things that matter.

Climate change, endless war, inequality, etc.

I just don't see the majority of the people doing anything about these issues.
Hi, I am the developer of this project. I think the community could use more realistic examples of how to set up a project using GraphQL so I made this. You can use it as a boilerplate to structure your projects. Let me know what you think!
> I feel that, being a Spanish citizen of legal age, I have the same right to vote on whether I want a part of my country to separate from it. But they won't let us vote, so, why should "we" let them vote?

If a son or daughter of legal age wants to move out of their parents' house, does the rest of the family get to stop them from moving?
That would require ssl certs to be shared to the agency.

Agreeing with everyone though, it's a wrong reason, but I can fathom why someone would do it.
> The problem here in Spain/Catalonia is that Catalonian politicians only want Catalonians to vote.

The same was true of the Scottish referendum. And the Quebec referendums.

I'm not really for or against anything here, but it doesn't make any sense to have everyone vote in a secession referendum. It should be a referendum among the people attempting to secede.

I could see there being a universal referendum on the wording of the referendum and the terms of secession though.
United States is literally on the other side of the world. There are places like Malaysia, a very good friend of Rohingya Muslims, China, Thailand, and others that would be perfect places to accommodate. I am not sure why you think that United States should be a deposit box for all sorts of human miseries from across the globe.
Or I could let someone do it for me; say Google or DDG. I don’t have time for such nonsense. I’m not going to waste time hosting my own version of Apple Music, when I could just use Apple Music.
+1 - i wish it were made in Hugo (which is golang as well and 100x as fast as jekyll).
It’s interesting that vegetarian types that are so obsessed with food purity and GMOs would eat a frankenfood like this.
It's just www.sci-hub.cc which gives a 403 error response: sci-hub.cc, sci-hub.ac and www.sci-hub.ac all work as usual in a brief test.
The make variable interpolator may not be as optimized as the javascript function spawner.
> Princeton is also a special case

Sure, we can go to a random street next town over to New Brunswick: https://goo.gl/maps/uCrkh5fuMC62
Knowledge and intelligence: a mental model
Moderate the 'spam' per-user rather than globally. The main problem that I and most other users have with the anti-free-speech practices is bad categorization. Give users the tools to moderate their own experience (with defaults, so long as they can be disabled, and heck, disable the ability to change them in more repressive countries) and you basically have the problem solved.

I don't want these companies making the "disappear this" judgment calls anymore. They've shown that making those calls dispassionately and objectively isn't all that important to them.
China Arms Upgraded Tianhe-2A Hybrid Supercomputer
The KellyCaster reveals what accessibility means for (musical) instruments