skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are more responsible for what they do than what their company does. I'd invite you to judge your peers more based on their individual choices than who pays them. If you are an American are you responsible for the evil of that nation? You'd probably say no. So goes with your tech friends.
There is a glaring error at the beginning of this article under the "things you cannot do with SDR."

"Listening in on the conversations of Ham operators."

In the US at least, there are many VHF/UHF Ham bands easily received by SDR. I use an Airspy on Mac OS X, and although the software is terrible, there is plenty to listen to.
Zuck is clearly having meticulous plan.

Even his personal photographer seems to reflect his ambitions. He is Charles Ommanney who was the photographer for Bush and Obama’s presidential campaigns.

But he already clearly shows some weaknesses he must overcome.

He seems to go into defensive mode every time someone questions his authenticity and motives. That's not how you tackle obvious weakness in political campaign. He has to learn how to smoothly deflect and turn tables in interviews and personal contacts.

His main problem is almost complete lack of personal charisma.
Oh how I miss those code inspections and refactorings available for Java. Unfortunately I am forced to used Javascript at the moment and this language just plain sucks compared to Java, although Webstorm is trying really hard to support me. I really hope something like Java, or even better Kotlin, will replace Javascript in future for programming browser applications.
I think the search relevance is not that great.

The perceived relevance is worth because I am not seeing any signaling on the home page that I will find anything of value to me. Some things that would help: substantiative content, testimonials, well-written value proposition as seen from my point of view.

I have mixed feelings about the descriptions of the companies. Sometimes I think these are the official blurbs they wrote. Some of them are succinct, other ones are buzzwordy, often I get no idea of where these people are in the process. These blurbs are the only way people are going to understand your search results, providing a unique viewpoint will people a reason to use it.
most of the language in those agreements just says "major bureaus" though, not explicitly which. And major transactions will usually pull all three. Trying to pick only lenders which don't use Equifax (or another bureau) may not even be possible for something like a car or home loan.
The key to understanding Apple is to listen to what they're saying.

They see the Mac like a truck. Yes, most people will buy cars, but we'll always need trucks too.

Further, best as I can tell, Mac continues to grow, both fraction of new sales and installed base.
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> EDIT: ok - whoever downvotes this - please send a comment regarding why you think my comment is inappropriate / not interesting?

Not me, but:

> What the article makes it sound like is that Thiel is against forms of censorship at the level of companies like Google and Amazon, which in a way is fine, right? (Or maybe I misunderstood?).

He's on the board of Facebook, and I don't think I'm pessimistic in assuming that will be a executive factor in his actions.

I also don't think it's unreasonable to suggest he's only being considered for his support and donations to Trump, not for his qualifications (like most Trump appointees).

> Also it sounds like Thiel would very much want to limit the role of the NSA in matters of domestic privacy, which is kind of what everybody wanted Obama to do.

I don't believe anyone is hesitant out of dislike of the concept, but clouded judgement of the individual.
Any *coin fiasco would take the government years to figure out. Nobody is even sure if the laws on the books would cover some of the scenarios that are popping up. A lot of it would be solved if people really understood what they're buying with these ICOs, but many just see it as "magical Internet money that's making cash obsolete".
> Your argument isn't valid because without taxation there would be no public roads to trespass on. At least not federally.

It's perfectly valid if I'm having the argument with someone who wants to pay zero taxes, but is fine using the roads currently in place.

Now, if they're saving up to buy land in Montana and live off the grid - fine, they're trying to work their way out of a circumstance they didn't ask to be placed in. But if someone's an armchair libertarian who hypocritically feeds off the teat they claim to loathe, then I find their argument a bit harder to swallow.
"The next step for the team is to remove dependencies on specific services to pave the road for an easily self-hostable server."
Devtools Playground: Standalone Chrome Devtools for Prototyping and Debugging
Seems like Java9 forces more and more useless boilerplate needed for Jigsaw. Not sure I would call it a progress.
This reminds me that kame.net has a turtle as a logo, but as an incentive to upgrade, when accessed over IPv6, the turtle is animated. So just be grateful the recutils developers didn't have IPv6 when they were looking for inspiration.
Telegram (Messenger)?
Are you saying poor people don't pay income tax?
Opening the black boxes: algorithmic bias and the need for accountability
He's a good operator, but not a great visionary. I'm not sure whether we'll ever see a new ground breaking product again developed by Apple. Most of the stuff they've been doing since 2012 have been minor iterations on existing stuff.
These are a big feature of the current season of "Shark Tank". Kevin O'Leary seems to offer one to many if not most of the contestants.
So is the end game to sell the country to China for market share over there?
Best comment so far - you put words on what disturbs me so much about Urbit. It takes the technobabble to a whole new level. I don't care if they succeed, I want no part of it.
He is discovering what religions (yes all of them) have been saying for years. I don't see any harm in that.

Better than what a lot of other rich scumbags I know do with their time.
Hey, what if I don't have a Sudoku puzzle to provide? Can't you just generate one on the table ? :P
Trump had the ability to make people believe he genuinely cared about them and their problems.
Photos of Windowless Amsterdam Data Center “Atom86” Look Like a Cyberpunk Dream
The Equifax Narrative: Lessons Learned So Far
Trump's crassness, and the fact that the other coastal elites legitimately hate him, makes him seem authentic, despite his background.
Release v1.0.3 of IdeaSpaceVR – Open source CMS for the virtual reality web
Not gonna lie. As a radio guy, our terminology is messed up. My favorite though is using superlatives.

Low Frequency (LF), Medium Frequency (MF), High Frequency (HF).

You'd think that maybe HF is WiFi, but you gotta remember these terms were invented back in the early days of radio. HF is between 3 and 30 MHz.

You have Very High Frequency and Ultra High Frequency, but that only takes us to 3 GHz. 5 GHz Wifi is technically SHF -- or Silly High Frequency.

But we also refer to these frequency bands in terms of MHz, or if we feel like it, wavelengths. Since radio signals travel (effectively) at the speed of light (m/s), we can multiply Hz (1/s) by a distance and get wavelength. (c = f * l). 144 MHz then is the 2 meter band, or VHF as we call it.

Confused yet? Wait until we start talking about baseband and I/Q signals!
An hour is pretty bad don't you think? Pretty sure it would be quicker with github.
The US presidential elections, referendums and UK parliament elections can't be compared equally, so extending the logic like that doesn't make sense.

For the POTUS elections, trump lost on a count of just shy of 2.9million votes, but won by the electoral college.

By applying that logic to the brexit referendum, breaking up over the 5 countries that voted (england, scotland, NI, wales, gibralter) remain would have won. By dividing up the 382 counting areas [0] I'm sure you get a different result too.

For a UK parliament vote, I'm not sure on what the result would be if you took a voter turnout by percentage across the countries, and then evenly distributed the MPs based on those number of votes, but I'm sure someone has done the analysis somewhere.

To go back on topic, my point was (supposed to be) more about how a tyranny of the majority can happen, and does happen, in western countries (with some slightly alternative points such as the fact that majorities aren't always majorities)

[0] https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-s...
Could we actually break government spending down into 10 simple categories?
That's not going to help my current situation, but either way, thanks, that's really good to know.
After reading most of the comments, I think you tell them bluntly what you're thinking.

If they listen to you, maybe they'll quit. If you lose their friendship, you can make new ones who don't work for evil companies.

And if they keep doing evil things for a living but still want to be your friend, maybe you should be the one to end the friendship. I've done that a few times. It gets easier with practice.
Researchers Link CCleaner Hack to Cyberespionage Group
They're really different issues. Deduplication reduces the memory consumption of duplicate strings. Compact strings reduce the memory consumption of ascii strings, regardless of whether they're unique or mostly duplicates.

So depending on your situation, you could want either, both, or neither. There is some overlap, however. If you have a lot of ascii strings but also a high level of duplication, either approach will save some memory, but if deduplication by itself saves x bytes, and compact strings saves y, using both will save a lot less than x + y bytes.

And, like the later poster says, don't use String.intern() for deduplication.
Google's post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15300069
I've been working with JavaScript since February and I want to give you a hug.
He is into something big.

Agreed, and he'd be a fool if he wasted his position on trying to be the President. He has a real capability to become akin to a modern day emperor if he does it right.
Fuchsia kernel RISC-V port: https://github.com/slavaim/riscv-magenta
Say what you will about Trump, but you have to admit he's charismatic...in a bad sense. Republican primaries were all about him being the center of attention with the remarks and banter that caught everyone off-guard.
I never bought into Google/Android. I strongly preferred Java and Android over Obj-C and iOS, but I'd already seen the market fragmentation caused by clones (Windows OEMs), and had a pretty good hunch how it'd play out. I was right.
Once we get to the point where machine learning can develop and deploy exploits/low-level bugs like these will become very interesting, and likely weapons of nation states.
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I found that clang compiled code was requiring more memory on the stack than the same code compiling with gcc. Was it some obscure switch that did that? no idea. However with the Linux kernel you have some tight limitations with regard to stack size. Could the author run his clang compiled kernel? The article does not tell.
Yeah and Zuckerberg pays himself every time he uses Facebook, so are we going to make him delete his account?

If he were to win I think he would be pressured to structure some kind of trust that prevents him from leveraging Facebook's political power in conjunction with the government.
Ngx-admin – Amazing open-source admin dashboard with theme hot reload support
What exhausted mine is the fact broadcast digital FM radio in the US is protected by patent and license encumbered encoding schemes, so there are no open-source decoders for GNU Radio and derivatives.
The specific problem of wrapper around HTTP API have been resolved with WSDL (https://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl) assumming the use of WSDL the only thing a macro could do is equivalent of what an external program that generate a python file implementing the WSDL could do. I have written a php parser with the racket LLAR macro and it doesn't add more than an external tool like bison.

Reducing boilerplater could make your code less buggy (bugs you catch with your eyes) and could make the meaning of the code more clear.

Racket match is realy nice but it will shine if:

- You use a lot of immutable datasctructures.

- Explore shallow tree like data structures.

> and my personal opinion is macros are a meme

As far i has understand macro is already in use as Annotations for java.

In php, programmers developped complex frameworks that generate code (Symfony for instance) before running the user's code even if it isn't a macro per-se it share the same goal.

And i could have mention c++ template, so i don't think macro are a meme they already exists and there is a demand for it.
If anyone's confused, parent is presumably intended for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15302267.
I'm not sure what parts are clang and what parts are LLVM, but I recently did some tests comparing g++ to clang++ for auto-vectorization and they were very on par. I'd even say clang was a little better than g++ with full optimizations turned on on average.

This was on an AVX2 machine, testing the (auto)-vectorization performance of expression templates. Anything with a compile-time unknown stride or a random gather failed horribly with both. Using (semi-)explicit vectorization turned out to be much faster still.
> is how we get SourceForge

SouceForge was never a particularly good site, and once a better one came along everyone moved off it fairly easily.

Seems like working as intended. If Github goes evil like SourceForge did I don't imagine it will be a huge amount of effort to move to another site. In fact it can probably be automated for most projects.
[2 Minutes Maggi] Vue.js Snippet – Simple Counter in 20 Lines of JavaScript
Pipelines, lng ports and gas imports in Europe [pdf]
> Apple has traditionally been very user hostile

Here's an interview with Steve Jobs on privacy regarding location data:

https://youtu.be/39iKLwlUqBo?t=23s

Apple takes care of their users.
Actually, I spoke to a Googler about this a couple months ago, and this is actually false! Despite Google's Chrome/Security teams planning to penalize sites with fake download buttons in early 2016 (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/googl...), a Google employee actually confirmed for me that they weren't against the Ads team's policies, which is why they were still prevalent on sites with Google Ads this past year.

Which presumably means one division of Google could make money on a fake download button ad while another division of Google was penalizing a website for displaying it.

The employee in question said he was going to bring up the concern internally and try to get the policy changed, but I haven't heard anything since.
> companies' products are no longer a reliable predictor, they shouldn't use them.

They really don't have a choice. Every aspect of your "credit score" is governed by law.

One particularly egregious example: banks and credit agencies are FORCED to ignore bankruptcy after 10 years when decided whether to grant a loan to someone. Even if a wealthy person default on a 100M loan, even if he has multiple bankruptcies in his past, banks must ignore them if they are >10 years old.

Credit agencies are private companies, but they play by the government's rules.
I can't see this article as its paywalled. I believe this is the actual statement from the SEC:

https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/statement-clayton-...
Yes. Communicating with telegram from bash is simple.
Check out https://www.curry-software.com/en/blog/telegram_unit_fail/ for example.
Yes. You must have the modem on. Before it would fully disable WiFi modem. Now it simply looks to be off. Perception is that it’s not connecting but keeps modem on to keep pinging routers passively. But again, that’s why I would do it if I were Apple. Not sure why they are doing it for sure.
> The sales numbers compared to their main products is tiny.

In q3, mac sales represented ~12% of revenue which is greater than the iPads ~11%. I wouldn't exactly call it tiny.
Demeanor. Oh, and the small matter of their political positions.
Have you looked into Elm or other strongly typed/functional languages?
> Google's fundamental need is a coherent and competitive OEM ecosystem.

Nope, it doesn't. Because it means it has no means to control OS distribution, updates, and hardware improvements. Google is now entirely dependent on OEMs to deliver Google's software.

Let's say, Google comes up with a great new idea. A true competitor to Apple's AR (well, Google had it a year and half ago), Face ID, camera tech etc. Right now it may take anywhere from a year to five years to get this into the hands of consumers.

The only way to get anything coherent out of the Android ecosystem is to either impose extremely tight controls on major OEMs (Samsung will definitely not agree to that), or become an OEM.
You can usually tell from the NS and SOA records. For example, "dig io ns", "dig io soa", "dig org ns", "dig org soa".

Afilias is the only registry operator i know of that uses nameservers with names like "a0.example.com", and the SOA email address has their name.

TLDs can, and occasionally do, switch from one registry operator to another, though. (After all, that's what .io did.)
Social inequality was one of the biggest topics in the election. It still didn't help to break Merkel's popularity but the whole election campaign of the SPD was centered around that topic.

It appears to me that Germans are very aware of social inequality. Minimum wages and restrictions around contract work were attempts to slow down the trend of growing social inequality. It hasn't stopped it but I think no country has yet found a way to stop/reverse the inequality brought by technology.
I agree, leaders ought to be able to handle these hard questions and still inspire. I'd expand your "answer" to include

"We know this is a tough mission which why we train hard. As leaders it's all of ours goal to get as many of you home alive as possible."

Believe it or not, they do train with techniques to (for example) charge machine gun positions without losing anyone; grenades, covering fire, and leap frogging. Unfortunately people will die, but a well trained team can do a lot.
That's not decentralisation. That's federation.
Simulation reveals unknown friction mechanisms of diamond at the molecular level
I would vote for him. I think he and Sheryl Sandberg realized just propping up establishment politicians is not enough.
Kubernetes: Introducing the Resource Management Working Group
I'm not universally against weapons manufacturing or the defense sector, but if your company is selling weapons to Saudi Arabia (or the US military, really) you should do some serious introspection about whether you are harming the world for your own profit and / or intellectual curiosity.
> Well, one way to address the problem of the tyranny of the majority is to make minority rule plausible. :b

It is in some places - the UK had it in 2010, and technically has it right now too. You can't really do miniority rule in a two party system though.

> a plurality will do for a lot of operations,

a plurality in a two party system seems ironic to me, but I understand your point.
That micro limesdr looks very tempting. Also someone on /r/rtlsdr mentioned PlutoSDR which is also in a similar price range. I need to start to save up!
Mapumental[1] does something like this - it shows how far you can get with public transport from a postcode in a certain amount of time.

[1] https://mapumental.com/)
I partially disagree. You see the property bubble costs represented in the net wealth figures of most other European nations in the form of mortgage debt. For example, that's why Sweden has a median net wealth even lower than Germany, their housing wealth is mostly housing debt. The same is true of eg Denmark, despite their high median income.

Plus, the stagnation and low level of their median net wealth aligns with the other figures/problems I referenced. When you're lauded as Europe's most powerful economy and you fail to see your relatively low median net wealth climb for a decade or more, there is something wrong when it comes to household prosperity / household wealth formation. For example, if we accept a strict premise that Germany's low median net wealth is due to not having seen a big property bubble - then what accounts for those home owners having not paid down a lot of mortgage debt in the last 10+ years and significantly boosting household wealth accordingly? Not to mention, where is the traditional savings formation that one would expect to see outside of home ownership.
Yes. Sorry. Didn't read enough. I think my two examples of stuff-that's-new-since-then remain valid.
That's actually normal and has been in place for quite some time now.
I always had this option off. Now I went into settings and see that it's on. It's frustrating that an upgrade changes things and also requires the user to take specific actions to get it back to how it was (after the upgrade, I had to sign in to the App Store, to Game Center, and a few other things that were already setup).
A question in the [FAQ](https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/faq.html#whyturtles):

> Why is the logo depicting a pair of copulating turtles?
I tried to use Scheme years ago, and I found that no matter how good a language is, writing something to interface with some ugly API or something like that, or debugging an existing one that hasn't been used thoroughly, is a lot of work. Not sure where Racket itself stands these days, since the last time I used it it was called PLT Scheme.
Not the person you're responding to, but when I tried it early this year Alacritty used more CPU and memory than gnome-terminal, and felt less responsive. It was also somewhat glitchy with my usual tmux+text editor configuration. VTE has been around since at least 2002, and in that time it's received a great deal of attention. While I'm always interested in new terminal emulators, catching up to VTE is going to take an awful lot of work.
It's a small thing, but I think JShell might be the feature of Java 9 I'm looking forward to most. When I was developing Python, being able fire up a REPL to poke at your code while you're writing it is a nice quality of life feature.
I used to use a 200mm lens with a reversed 50mm on a Nikon D70, and the focus is difficult. It sounds like the photographer here is using a sort of "spray and pray" technique and using focus-stacking software later.

You actually don't need the telephoto, though. You can get a reversing ring that mounts a prime lens directly to the camera. I took this using a 50mm lens on a full frame body, no focus stacking: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/498/19387253482_cfdb183b3a_c.j...

If you use a shorter focal length lens, you'll get a higher magnification. I've used a 28mm in the past but wasn't very happy with the image quality.
I'm guessing you meant "infix".
I remember reading an article that dug into claims that France took better care of their poor than America. This was true in some areas but overall the quality of life of the American poor was still better in many ways because they had a far wider selection of services and products at far cheaper prices. So although primary services like day care were less subsidized they were able to do much more with the little money they had.

It's easy to gloss over the realities of peoples day-to-day life when comparing countries with different economies and social structures by only looking at high level statistics or only at the more highly visible government services.
This is a perfect opportunity for "distrupting" this sector.

Why is no one stepping up and flipping the business model on credit reporting?