skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm beginning to believe the basic left/right divide is founded on the inability to handle context.

Though it's probably just a secondary effect of defending the indefensible, which makes context, like facts, inconvenient.

The post was clearly attacking "fact-checking" as a partisan activity. Snopes and Politifact type sites are under attack by the right wing, because fake news is a right-wing problem.

There's no point parsing into exactly how "fake" each bit of news is. Nothing made up by Macedonian teenagers is any crazier than stuff Trump has repeated on camera. As soon as you bring objectivity into things then it's going to make Trump look bad.

They've elected a brazen liar, who lies about stupid stuff he doesn't even need to lie about, and instead of owning that, they're now telling us that 1984 is a warning about people not accepting lies from their government.

Even in the twisted world we now live in, that is shocking.
Don't agree with that at all. I have over 300 Linux games on Steam, and there's a wide variety of games. Sure, it's lacking the big AAA releases that make the headlines, but in my opinion, those are the 'cookie-cutter' type games that don't have much intellectual value. There are many indie and small developers creating interesting games, and with Unity and other big engines supporting Linux now, it's a relatively small hurdle for them to release their games on Linux, and there are many of them.

I also had a GPU passthrough VM setup, but the only time I used it in the last year was to play Overwatch - a cookie-cutter shooter. I play the occasional game in Wine, but there's no shortage of engaging native Linux games.
Instead of `unfuckgitremote`, why not just use `git push -u`?
this article is 2 years old.
The Tide Is Turning Against Big Tech’s Monopolies
That's fair enough, but the numbers you give are neither the absolute nor the relative consequences.

You can't draw any conclusions from simply comparing the medians. On one hand that completely ignores any confounding variables which could lead to either over- or underestimation of the true difference. And on the other hand the medians may not be particularly meaningful. For example, if the effect only occurred in the top 25%ile of employees, the median would stay the same even if all of the ones in open plan offices were sick for the entire year.

If you took the mean instead of the median the difference would already be 8.1 - 4.9 = 3.2 days.
You might want to try to stop telling people what they may or may not do. You want to stifle possibly valid criticism with dogma by comparing the healthy and informatve discussion here with 'anti-vaxxers'.

Adding to that, nobody in the top 10 root comments is actually "discouraging people from protecting themselves".
Lack of GUI tooling at the same level as it is available on Windows, macOS, PS4, XBox and Nintendo.

The game developers culture is based on making money of IP, outsourcing game development tasks, not about sharing the code and making the world a better place.

On commercial platforms, the GPU and OS vendors even fly tech support to AAA studios to work around driver issues.
it's like blaming the assembly line worker for a badly designed car.

Software engineers don't solve problems, they implement solutions someone else thinks will solve a problem.
This scenario is a fun thought experiment in science fiction stories, but this is so astronomically unlikely, you can plan around it. It is fairly stupid to make plans for this kind of scenario, because you will probably die before it gets that bad. You live in a city? You will be dead long before "things got really bad". The worst case scenario worth planning for is a totalitarian government. Martial law that gets extended indefinitely, and a general that becomes "President". There would be famine generally, and loads of people will starve to death. But independent roving warlord raiding bandit tribes ("feral" authorities) like in Mad Max? Not happening.
There's no way to discuss anything remotely related to government without it turning into a debate over with team is being noble/evil.
I bought a Shield not too long ago and I love it. But the $200 price point didn't make it a simple purchase -- I was reluctant to shell out that cash. I've bought a Chromecast, FireTV, etc, and they all end up being quite a bit of a letdown. So it was risky to dive into another device at a much higher price point. So $250 -- even higher than the shield -- is really pushing that comfort zone further.

And again, I'm so glad I bought the Shield. It's not without it's issues, but I love it. But I'd still be very reluctant buying something even more expensive.
I've used IPVS a lot in the past and it worked well in a lot of ways. We had a number of problems with ldirectord getting wedged after months of uptime, and the tools are all a little primitive, but IPVS itself works quite well. The amount of traffic it can handle, especially in the "direct routing" configuration, is stunning.

But, I can't imagine going back to it from haproxy. Haproxy allows so many other things including nice status page, agent and service checks, SSL termination, great monitoring (we use Influxdb/telegraf/grafana and Icinga2), and really advanced routing of requests (SNI, path, pretty much anything in the requests).
The browser is part of Android, as are the apps. Input is slightly better on cameras that have a touch screen.
It's certainly not perfect, but I generally use Morningstar for checking funds and prices.

They still use Flash for some parts (like portfolio x-ray), but it's not the needed for the simpler charts.
Cool, I've seen this mentioned as a potential reason, so it's good to hear of a real-world example
What kinds of projects do you use it for?
Please correct spelling--"God is a BOT" in this hed not a bit.
I think that people these days are not as comfortable with being on their own as they were years ago. I grew up in the 1970s and 80s and as we weren't continually interconnected with everyone else we spent a fair amount on time on our own. You became accustomed to planning ahead, travelling on your own to meet your friends with no communication, if they weren't there you either went home again or tried someone else's house.

There were also, I think, more people into hobbies such as stamp collecting and model making. They were fairly solitary for much of the time.

I've nothing scientific behind this but it seems to fit with what I see, we don't feel lonely and lost if we don't have continual stimulation.
I think gold diggers and prostitutes are a thing in practically every society or culture. "Outsiders" in most societies are also burdened with negative perceptions by the "insiders."

China is a huge country and we cannot generalise on any matter, except perhaps that history shows that vast nations crumble soon enough. Their very size seems to bring out inherent hurdles. This not just applies to China but all such similarly big countries... unless going forward we can evolve sufficiently to stave of death by a thousand paper cuts, but I'm not optimistic there...
Woah cool, can you share your scripts? Would love to have something like this.
Hi,

(I work on the Frictionless Data specifications and tooling at Open Knowledge International.)

Thanks. We are working on the website at present [1], and we are trying to manage a balance of targeting technical and non-technical users, which is hard to get right.

About momentum - I can address that. We have seen significant momentum in the last 2 years, around open data / government transparency / civic tech ( our natural environment - see https://okfn.org for details ), around scientific / academic research via our work enabled by a grant from Sloan [2]( see http://frictionlessdata.io/case-studies/ for a small selection, more reports coming ), and in general around data wrangling and data science efforts (including integration of Table Schema [3] with Pandas [4]).

In terms of big data / machine learning - we have not actively worked in that space to present.

In terms of Julia, and other languages, we have a Julia library in development via our Tool Fund [5], and this will add to implementations [6] in PHP, Java, R, Clojure which are already underway via the Tool Fund, and accompany the Python, Javascript and Ruby implementations that we maintain directly at Open Knowledge International.

[1]: https://github.com/frictionlessdata/frictionlessdata.io/issu...
[2]: https://sloan.org
[3]: http://specs.frictionlessdata.io/table-schema/
[4]: https://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/generated/p...
[5]: http://toolfund.frictionlessdata.io
[6]: https://github.com/frictionlessdata
What do you mean by moderately serious. Side channels are mostly a software level issue. SGX doesn't try to solve them at the moment. If you mean attack the hardware security in general that'd require decapping the chip itself, right?
Perhaps they will gradually lower its contrast like a bad hn post, until nobody notices it fade away.
With software the material you construct your creations influences the means. Architects most certainly do argue about whether they should use cross-laminated timber, reinforced concrete, glulam, or steel. They talk about these things and write long pieces on them. The materials influence the design of the building.

They don't talk about it on blogs on the Internet because that's not where the audience is. But they do talk about this.
I don't think it's about open-offices or not: Work environments just don't reflect work anymore.

There isn't any rational reason for knowledge workers to go to an office every day. Socializing and building a cult around a company might be the only reasons. But IDK if these are enough to justify an office.

There must be another solution we aren't aware of yet.
I do it fairly often.
While "just enforcing `make_shared`" wouldn't solve all the memory safety issues, it actually can be somewhat practical to "just avoid using any (or most) C++ elements that can access invalid (or uninitialized) memory", instead using the safe, compatible substitutes in the SaferCPlusPlus[1] library.

[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus
None of this works for you as a person if your easily look up-able information can be used to apply for credit.

In a high trust society you are extremely vulnerable to this stuff. Low trust societies do not have this problem in the same way.

The major problem really is that high trust society credit etc are optimising for sign up rate. Any kind of serious personal authentication mechanism will seriously impact conversion rate, which is the giant dashboard they have on the wall. There are whole teams of people whose job it is to make sign ups and conversions better. The fraud team is much smaller and as long as it doesn't impact the top line numbers too much they will be ignored.
Feels like "Live Reconfiguration" is at least partially true for ES + relational dbs
Yeah, I agree. Each has the odd thing the other doesn't but it is hard to justify the cost of SQL Server over Postgres
Why are you being so confrontational? Seriously. We're discussing web frameworks. This isn't needed on HN, or anywhere. I come here to avoid all the negativity on the web. You enjoy React, we get it. Relax.
They have no regard for what is helpful to the common person. All they care about is dismantling what the previous administration did and pleasing special interests.
It's the typical Google development cycle. Build a great product, don't get enough users, engineers lose interest and boom the product is basically sunset. Years later it is either revived or cancelled outright.
Many hotel systems (at least Marriott/Hilton/IHG/Choice) have system’s that allow transactions with only the 15 or 16 digit card number and expiration. No need for name/billing address/zip/PIN or CVV code.

I assume it’s due to old systems and hotel chains not having enough incentive to modernize systems because the vast majority of hotels are franchised, so if there is a chargeback, it’s the franchisee that pays, while the hotel chain still gets their royalty %.

Edit: to avoid cancelation or no show fees, you can even make reservations with a fake card # (4111 1111 1111 1111) and unless the hotel has a deposit policy where they test the card to see if it has the funds it takes a payment to make sure the card has at least $x amount of money, then you can pretty much get away with not showing up at no expense.
As with all things, it's not black & white.

If I'm load balancing http or terminating https I'm not going to use HAproxy. HAproxy is very powerful but overkill.
HexChat parting on Ctrl+w is probably one of the main reasons that drove me to use a TUI IRC client like weechat.
I see a place for both of them in my toolbox.

Go still makes network code and certain models of concurrency stupidly simple.

Rust is more of a replacement for C/C++ for me.
that's funny, at work (a large, well known & appreciated software company) contract workers take pride in coming to work at 11h+ or just not coming in unless really required
Just guessing here, but watch for a significant date: July 16th, 2019.

That's the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. It's also 6-12 months on from the projected date of Musk's translunar tourist trip on a Falcon Heavy (which I'm willing to bet will be delayed a few months, minimum, because no new launch vehicle ever flies on time, especially a crew-rated one).

I don't expect a lunar landing in 2020. It'd require the development of a new lunar module, space suits, and a mission profile and training in only two years, which is almost certainly very difficult if not impossible (not only for today's sclerotic NASA but also for SpaceX — agile management will only get you so far). It'd also require at least two Falcon Heavy launches to put the stack in Lunar orbit — Falcon Heavy, even in non-reusable form, has a significantly smaller payload than Saturn V. But a circumlunar flag-waving flight (sans lander) over the anniversary of Apollo 11 is entirely possible, using a single Falcon Heavy and Dragon 2.

It's also a date within the term in office of Donald Trump (or Mike Pence, depending who's in the Oval Office by then), which means there's some chance of convincing the current POTUS that he can get to make a historic phone call in front of the TV cameras. Trump is of an age to have young-adult memories of Apollo and I can't see the idea not appealing to him if he can find a way to take credit for it.
One could say the same thing about injecting chemical and biological agents into newborn children. Circumcision is no less a lifesaving health issue than vaccination. Are you also shocked that people kill and eat animals? Are you also shocked about the biology of sex? Maybe you should examine what makes you "shocked" about medical treatments that bolster the health and wellness of human beings.
What’s New with Server-Side Rendering in React 16
Show HN: Turning thoughts and prayers into crypto coin charity support
that sounds amazing. any chance you'd share some photos?
Murder rate is often gamed for political reasons as well, half the bodies that show up at our office can be coin flipped into either "suicide" or "suspicious" and it often depends on how much money the family has as anything else.
If I had a crystal ball back in the 90's that would have predicted this, I would simply had thrown it away thinking it was broken. Simply astounding. MS went from the 'monopoly' everyone loved to hate to this.
Bravo!
How are the results ranked?

It would be nice to have possibility to specify the course starting date like 'in 7 days', 'in 30 days', etc.
Probably Not for my use cases. If I really wanted sql server then I most likely will consider azure's hosted sql offerings.

One thing I'm not so clear with , however, is linux support for sql server clients. More specifically Django?
"in the traditional way" - maybe it is in nontraditional way.
I also remember the brutal marketing against the "cancer" of Microsoft.
Mostly referring to the "tiny people".
Without write libraries it's a dead product.

What surprises me is how fast HEIF files are on my iPhone 7 Plus (instantaneous browsing through photo library on iPhone. No different to JPEGs), yet how sluggish it is on my 2017 MBP 13". Select a .heic on your Mac and spacebar-preview it. Then select another one in the same folder and you'll see it takes a good few seconds (depending on size of image).
Hi all. I decided to stop lurking and actually try to post something. I am hoping this effort could actually help people. Please let me know your thoughts about how I can make it better, be more transparent, and of course any other comments you have. Thanks.
Interactive coin offering [pdf]
> "free software" is indeed an (intentionally) confusing name meant to discredit "open source".

That's factually wrong. The word "free software" was invented before.
UHD choice is interesting. I have one 29" 1080p screen now and trying to decide between two side by side, a 4k, or an ultra wide or even curved screen
There was a word I ran across that perfectly describes how western financial firms operate and it is "Bezzle." The Bezzle is that low-ethics mode of operation where all extraneous costs are off-loaded to bagholders like you and me and whoever else isn't "them". The Bezzle doesn't concern itself with your problems or your legal hassles, even if it caused them, as long as there is plausible deniability. The government operates in much the same fashion because the government is made up of the same types of weasels as the financial industry is.
"Moocha" is the colloquial Tamil word for urine. I giggled like a child.
As other posters have pointed out, 'problematic' is code for 'acceptable by left politics'. This is generally pretty well known. Narrowing things down to 'acceptable by left and fact checked' (adding fact checking to claim legitimacy) is very different from 'fact checked'.
The zip code at gas pumps is not just a poor security measure, it also blocks international travellers like me from obtaining any fuel sometimes!!!
Without any GPU support sadly.
It works. I don't like reading such long tweets though. Why couldn't it be like 180?
I have a FireTV Stick that I bought during the introductory offer to Prime customers for $19.95. I love it at that price. It does exactly what I wanted it to do, which is provide Netflix/Prime/Hulu/YouTube/Pandora without having to turn on the bigger "smart" Blu Ray player or plug a computer into the TV.

It's when we start talking about hundreds of dollars that I start asking myself, "Do I really need another device when I have a laptop, a desktop, a TV stick thingy, a smart Blu Ray player, a tablet, an Xbox, and a phone?"
Following the world of individual developers for years, I would have to disagree with you. If they can cover the basic users, i.e. get it shipping at profit, there's definitely a way to make this product work. Just look at the GP2X, GPH, GPD Pocket, Pyra Handheld, Open Pandora, Caanoo handhelds, for example .. the users are there.
How is there not any Khan Academy results in any of the searches?
I seems to me that Google are 'damned if they do, and damned if they don't'.

They get loads of stick for linking to fake news, but if they try to do something about it they get loads of stick for 'trying to control what we see'.

The biggest culprit in the spreading of fake news is ourselves. The number of times I see friends spreading stories on Facebook that smell false on first viewing, and can be shown to be false with a 20 second Google search is amazing.

Nobody can be arsed to spend a tiny bit of time fact checking and when you call them out on it they just shrug and give the feeble 'just in case' excuse.
Are Climate Models Overstating Warming?
http://repo.openpandora.org/

^^ this is something no other game console has.
> I doubt it would gain traction because almost everything enumerated in this post is a developer concern, not a user concern

I'm not sure this is true. My Mom doesn't really know the difference between an app and a website, but if I showed her the Facebook web app instead of the Facebook iPhone app I'm sure she would complain that it was not quite as responsive or didn't implement the same touch gestures.
Don't forget "igt".
With N=2 and testing all variables we conclude that working does not make you sick and keeps you healthy.
throw2016's account is 474 days old and has a karma of 663 - that doesn't look like a "fresh anonymous account".
Identity theft means a specific thing. It doesn't mean someone is pretending to be physically you. what did I just read?
How often are you running those commands elsewhere?
> The bodies of modern DSLRs are jampacked with every kind of knob, control, button, dial, and dongle that you can possibly think of. ... But in practice, 95% of users aren't using 95% of these adjusters 95% of the time.

Amen. I've been casually shooting with a Nikon D70 and now a D7000 for around 15 years now. Here's an illustrated guide to every single physical control on the D7000, which isn't even a high-end camera:

http://kenrockwell.com/nikon/d7000/users-guide/controls.htm

...and for many of those I'd need to read the manual to find out what they even do (Fn? Lv?) and I struggle to find any reason I'd need to twiddle with, say, the image compression (QUAL) so urgently that it needs a dedicated shortcut button.
I'm like Jyn Erso when it comes to these open office plans--I rebel! It's easy for me to eat a lot of gas-inducing foods and then just do what I do best! Nobody likes people who fart.
Maybe the e.GO Life is interesting for you?

http://e-go-mobile.com/en/models/e.go-life/

It starts from EUR 15900 (or EUR 11900 if you discount the federal "E-Prämie") and production will start next year. (Disclaimer: I'm indirectly affiliated with e.Go)
Isn't it obvious? Twitter is a dopamine pump combined with a misunderstanding machine that has gamified the cult of personality.

Familiar readers feel a reward for their constant interpretive skimming of aborted thoughts, outsiders project the worst kind of interpretation to feel superior, as it automatically turns everything you post into a shareable post card with your face on it.
Lithium, Fuelling the New Millennium
The cases given are already under regulatory protection and so have their own terminology. There are kinds of thefts which leave the bit trail pointing to someone, when they shouldn't be. If the bit trail is not crossing major regulatory boundaries, but is affecting things like what Google knows about someone's personal preference or what items Facebook decides to show in his/her feed, or some personally incriminating things is done to them in the digital world (ex the recent post about upwork), the fact that folks may trust the bit trail more than they trust the person can be damaging esply if in-person contact is not the norm. In all these cases it involves someone taking an identifying token and pretending to be you for a while. The taking is done without permission, so it amounts to stealing. So I don't see a particular harm in bucketing this category of activity as "identity theft".
You've got the directions of the arrow of time and cause and effect backwards.

"Free Software" and "Copyleft" came WAY first. "Open Software" came later, and was meant to intentionally and personally discredit RMS, "free software" and "Copyleft".
This is so true. For a website so heavily focussed on content, tech is only a small part of the game. Case point is youtube, though the tech challange with youtube is more complex. Nevertheless, youtube now has to survive on business deals and cannot depend on tech alone, unlike google search.
What about the term "identity theft" suggests that you should be on the hook?
As has been said before, the problem with pandas is the confusing and hard-to-remember python API.
It would be great if this were possible, but unfortunately, even relatively novel and interesting bug posts will be indiscriminately closed on Stack Overflow. You can bet that it will be aggressively closed as a duplicate or as "unclear" or "too general". That is the fate of the vast majority of new posts there.