skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget MSpaint which is the "go to" place to dump a screenshot after pressing PrintScreen or ALT-PrintScreen (window capture) and pasting into it. And also quick annotations.

God forbid people have useful, compact tool for quick image manipulations! But it competes with 3D Paint so IT HAS TO GO.

That's right. New Windows 10 removes mspaint.
I tried it. I personally didn't find it very intuitive.
I think out of these three, T-Mobile is the best. Your own example demonstrates it. Anyway, it was always the only sensible option for users of N900, N9 and so on.
This thread is already insane in that the metaphor is getting more complicated than what it was trying to explain, but...

...trying to minimise one's carbon footprint is, quite obviously, an iterated prisoner's dilemma: you can observe other's behaviour every day (and vice versa) and react accordingly.

The problem is that nobody plays it with a single other person, but with "all of humanity" instead. Any change in others' behaviour will almost certainly be only gradual, and not accessible to daily perception.
Dave Churchill, who is heavily involved in the StarCraft AI scene, posted this in the StarCraft AI Facebook group:

"Hey everyone, I just wanted to make a quick statement about this article that was posted in WIRED. If Tom had told me that his intention for this article was to focus on the loss of ANY bot, Facebook or not, I would not have given him the information that I did to write this article. I am normally a huge fan of Tom's AI articles, but I think that this is a shameful clickbait title that focuses on the wrong side of the story.

It turns out that there may actually be a bug with how Facebook's serialization library interacted with our tournament environment, causing their strategy selection to not work properly, causing a huge drop in performance for their bot. We will be investigating this over the next few days to see if it was my mistake in setting things up that caused this, or if maybe something as simple as a windows firewall setting to be at fault. Unfortunately with competitions like this, competitors do not have access to our tournament environment / machines to fully 100% test all of their code on, and sometimes issues like this can arise.
I appreciate Facebook's effort in this competition and applaud them for actually having the balls to submit an open source bot, knowing the scrutiny they would face if it wasn't already superhuman. It's a real shame that this is what media chooses to focus on. Tom also asked me what time the results would officially be made public so that the article could be released at the same time, but instead the article ended up being published 7am the next morning so everyone could wake up to the headline :( Also the word "quietly" implies some sort of sneaking around on the part of Facebook, when their registration has been publicly visible for months.

Note: There is nothing factually incorrect in this article, I just believe its focus is in poor taste, and hurts the SCAI community as a whole, and unfairly singles out a single competitor."
I mean I'm as upset about the breech as anyone but would you rather they not fix it? You can't complain when something gets hacked and then turn around and complain when they fix it.
One step closer to that "permanent record" our middle school teachers warned us about. Who is going to be the wanker who gets rich doing this to all the middle schoolers of the next generation I wonder. I am glad it's not me.
Don't forget instruction cache misses.
To quote a dialog I once overheard at a marathon's finish line:

"You run a marathon and smoke?"

"It's better than just smoking."
My offer letter says that I'm legally forbidden from disclosing the terms of my compensation. You should just fill in the salary boxes that you are under a legal obligation not to do so.
What do girls want? (after being socialized for their entire young lives to only express and develop interests in traditionally "feminine" pursuits) might turn out to be a quite different question from What's the best way to encourage girls to see themselves as being equally capable as boys in technical areas?"
I mean "ironic" in the sense that the country everyone likes to paint as the most reckless polluter and constant scourge in any and all departments of humanity is now the leading green proponent. Meanwhile the US, home of the EPA, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and a host of other things that simply don't exist in China, is now mutating into a monster that's looking for ways to use more coal, to blow up more mountains, to slash any and all regulations.

> They difference is they'd prefer to conquer economically rather than with military force.

This is what Japan did post World War II and for the most part it worked out pretty well. Not a shot fired, and yet culturally and economically they're right up there with every G8 country. Japanese televisions showing Japanese cartoons all across the world.

In constrast, Russia, a country that's larger, more populated, and in a unique position to bridge Asia and Europe, is an irrelevant backwater country. Nobody in their right mind would want to own a Russian television or watch Russian shows unless they're Russian in the first place. It's a shame because Russia could have turned into something amazing instead of the place it is today.

Sadly the United States seems to be heading in the Russia direction while China is heading in the Japan direction.
ah. the Xeon goes on the heavy workstation. got it. thanks.
That looks like third-party reverse engineering. Which is commendable, but it's not the default state.

Straight from the rpi-open-firmware repo:

> Does it boot Linux? Yes, with some conditions. You can boot a very minimal version of Linux without the firmware and get it to work with UART and eMMC. Support for USB, DMA, and Ethernet are in the works.

The default firmware and Raspbian environment involve many non-free blobs.
Yep. This would be a clear trademark violation. Even a C&D from a lawyer should do the trick.
Are any of these any good? I don't know anything beyond the basics, but I'd like to learn.
The distinction seems important to me. One has a clear definition and the other could be imagined to mean anything the reader wants. That's alright if everyone already understands and agrees with you, but it makes disagreement useless. Since climate change is so political, there are lot of exaggerations flying around, so you have to be careful.

I think I know that when you said "anthropocentric", you really meant "anthropogenic" but I really had to think hard to see if you were using a clever word to make a point about our own perception of human life. Eventually I decided it was just a spelling mistake but it took effort and I'm still not sure. So trying to be accurate is helpful if you're going for understanding rather than just expressing a feeling.
If you go down this path, be sure to inform AWS that you’re pentesting on their platform. They’ll likely be fine with it, but you don’t want to wind up in hot water for not disclosing this up front.
They should make a GTA sequel where your nemesis is a random pedestrian that you ran over in a previous game without even noticing.
From what I have read, that US policy started with Reagan, who was elected president in 1981. And the Soviets, as communists, were quite clear their long-term objective was to communize the whole world.
The top comment on the Zcash post from yesterday (!) has a good theory on why Zcash is posted about so often:

"Is it just me or are more and more stories which look like fluff pieces for ZCash coming up on the HN frontpage? If they were a startup, I'd guess they were prepping for an IPO/acquisition. Most of them have titles with rhetorical questions, and come across as marketing pieces more than anything else.

Really weird."

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15430668
Android has supported home screen widgets and activity shortcuts since forever. Live tiles are hardly better, they're just a very Metro-y approach to the same feature.
No birth certificate? Those are, iirc, public records.
I think what they mean is "We really need a [primary communications device] for hackers." A netbook isn't suitable for that.
Identify as or are boys biologically?
Every single country that has become wealthy has seen a drop in reproduction rates to rates lower than what's necessary to keep population numbers steady–except the US because somehow they managed to be become more religious with time.

Meaning you can make excellent progress towards your goal without committing injustices on an industrial scale. Instead, you get to work on empowering women and bringing education, economic opportunity, and health care to everyone.

Yeah!
Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded to Richard Thaler
That's not how business continuity works. You don't just pull the plug on your vendor when its a critical component of your business (or in this case, a public service).

What are you going to do if you have a dispute with your payment processor? Just stop processing payments while you switch providers? Its like no one here has run a legitimate business before.
> 19 min read

I do not think so.
- Um maybe I am stupid but you can't simply just post things on Pypi and have contributors involved pypi is a final step????

If you have any contributors you have it on github (normally) or any other git you want and then push it to pypi. THis is why any major library of Python is developed on Github.

I actually don't use github for anything except my public open source code, but almost every single Python library is on github and then pushed to pypi as a final step.
I think the phrase "financial independence" has a lot to offer as a description of a mode of living that poor communities generally do not display. A lot of poor people spend a sort of weighted average of the earnings of their family group -- if your personal income happens to be down right now, you can borrow money from someone who's having an up period. This is what winston_smith is referring to when he says "in some poor communities, there's a strong ethic of sharing good fortune", and it's a different concept than "money is good".
I agree, but I think broadcast is a misleading term. They were buying ads on websites. And their buy footprint is very small. To say, as the media has insinuated, the Russians swayed the election by buying $100K in Facebook ads is disingenuous and alarmist.
I was at a local bar who has instructed their staff to not pickup when GrubHub calls since they place orders off an obsolete menu and refuse to fix it leaving the bar & end customer pissed off.
I don't mean using the fingerprint as a key.

I mean that if you can produce a fingerprint image corresponding to a blockchain hash and it matches your fingerprint 20 years later, and this is linked to 20 years worth of blockchain recorded credential information, I would find that very compelling evidence that you are who you say you are.
Show HN: Baseball-Stats.net; a web reference of common baseball statistics
It's a stream processing language:

http://hirzels.com/martin/papers/spe16-river.pdf
"Apples and bananas are basically the same thing because they're both fruit."
Why MS didn't create a UWP emulator or wrapper for Windows 7 is beyond me. No Windows 7 compatibility is the main reason my company isn't bothering with UWP for our desktop software.
You can still measure the total amount of hashpower applied. Someone could add arbitrarily many blocks but you can calculate how much it cost for them to do it.
Improving the kernel timers API
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Is yours one of the 257 startups rejected by TechCrunch Battlefield Australia?
There are market forces behind renewables already. Wind and solar is getting cheaper and cheaper. Coal and oil are getting more expensive.
So the solution is train 50 million people and tell them to move to large cities? Will the government pay for the move, or no? What about the skyrocketing rents in the large cities with the large influx? What about their homes and land they own now? Write it off? What exactly would you train them to do?

That's got a lot of red flags in the details. Ignoring that, it doesn't sound anywhere near ideal solution. I would expect something better. I think getting the federal government into building things again instead of contracting it out would be a start, similar to FDR's works programs. I'm sure it will get a lot of resistance, but the same way we've been doing things isn't working.
I'm not sure I'd generally refer to those as implants, but point taken.
> When have they ever done that?

During the AMD vs. Kernel maintainers mailing list slapfight?

It all was discussed there.

> The Linux devs are not doing a singular thing to actively make AMD's life more difficult. AMD is begging them to do something that makes their life more difficult, and they are saying, "no".

AMD has provided a fully working driver with abstraction layers fully implemented, and has offered to pay devs to continue to maintain it.

The maintainers would have had zero extra work.

> If the Linux devs suddenly decide they will compromise to make proprietary software more convenient, then I, the user, will lose freedom. The stubbornness of the Linux team is not just for them, it is for me, for you, and for anyone who uses Linux.

Yes, and that's why the Linux kernel's license is being enforced against OEMs that sell proprietary forks of the kernel and refuse to publish source code...

Oh wait, Torvalds actually support those OEMs. And complains about people who fight them.

> That is the entire premise of Free Software

What good is free software if it is broken?

As I mentioned before, AMD published a fully working solution under GPL, with all functionality there.

I could have much better functionality today, and better stability, and it would all be open.

Instead I have to use proprietary code, because the alternative is an unusable system.

This is ideology limiting my freedom.
Facebook's 'StarCraft' AI was defeated by hobbyists
> And you do know that Torvalds considers the best option to find a compromise with the company, and slowly work on that?

Yet, the kernel dev team do not want this particular compromise. It would go against the design they prefer to work with.

> And yet, where is Ubuntu 16.04 now?

Why are we talking about Ubuntu 16.04? Oh, right, you are trying to run AMDGPU-pro, and that is the specific distro version that AMD chose to support. Are you mad at the Linux devs or mad at AMD?

> I want the in-kernel functionality to be stable and LTS, but additional user-space functionality to be the most recent.

> That kind of modularity is only possible if you actually have a modular system.

Those are entirely reasonable things to want, but you aren't likely to find them with Linux. Linux is monolithic. It sounds like what you want is FreeBSD, with the support from AMD that Linux is getting. Currently, FreeBSD isn't very popular, so AMD chooses to ignore it.

> Yet, with Linux, users get worse software, later, with more breakages, and half their hardware doesn't work.

That has not been my experience during the years I have spent using Linux. In fact, I have experienced better software, sooner, with fewer breakages (especially in NixOS), and the vast majority of my hardware works. The only hardware that doesn't work are sound cards or obscure wifi adapters that have only incompatible proprietary drivers (I actually ran out of those. All my wifi adapters currently work without effort.). So sound cards are the only issue I have left. That's it. I have a nice USB DAC anyway.
Correct, but this doesn't appear to be group chat. This appears to be individual chat and the timing attacks based on their online presence. Group chat, by default, is going to seriously hinder one's ability to remain private.
They practically did. I bought a Windows phone for $30 a couple years ago.
That hard drive storage expansion you have experienced in the past few times is not sustainable. Hard disk platters are reaching a limit. SSD could beat that but they are way more expensive than HDD for the same storage space.
The title is true even if the part is 1% better than the next fastest part.
How a Silicon Valley Striver Became the Alt-Right's Tech Hero
Quick question: for my side project I currently pay money monthly for both Cloud9 and GitHub, but I am very open to switching tools. One of the things I love about storing code in the cloud and manipulating code in the cloud is that absolutely nothing needs to touch my local machine, which means I'm free to use (almost) whatever machine I want with (almost) any browser or (almost) any platform I want. It also means switching costs are next to nil, since I don't have to worry about if it runs on a Mac or Windows or what native tooling I have.

However, a big problem I've discovered with Cloud9 is that it doesn't run on iOS and there are seemingly no plans to make that happen. I'm beginning to transfer over a lot of my work to an iPad, and with the incredible power offered by modern iOS systems, not supporting the platform seems a huge miss.

I see in your slides you're working on a web IDE for GitLab, and in some of the comments on the open issue, iOS is mentioned. Can you answer if mobile platforms like iOS are really in the roadmap?

As a paid customer, I'd switch in a heartbeat if I could use the same IDE on my Mac, PC, and iPad.
Couldnt agree more with that you said. Desktops/laptops are very different mechanisms for delivering content. Its alot harder to be the one in control when using a smartphone because of how closed off the app ecosystem is. Its very difficult to mod the software on phones compared to on a desktop/laptop. Cellphones are instruments of control. Laptops and computers are instruments of creation.
Oh? How are people paying rent?
Congratulations on launch and I really, really want you guys to succeed.

However, the copy below is a little off-putting.

>Jewelbots patent pending bluetooth connection takes friendship to the next level by responding to your besties whenever you are together.

a) What's the patentable invention here? If it's a programmable watch or something like that, I'd be very scared.
b) Your target audience should be encouraged to share and experiment, which is the opposite of what the currently broken patent system does.

I'm not complaining about the fact that you have patents as much as the advertising that you hold them.
Cardio, esp. even a short 10 minute run in the morning does it for me. I do drink coffee though, trying to get off of it lol.
In figure 3, the edge between P0 and Q1 is labeled: "1-simplex (edge) P, R choose 0,2".

Should that be "1-simplex (edge) P, Q choose 0,1"?
Physicists Just Broke a New Quantum Record for Measuring with Light
Thats precisely why we should only use Free and Open document formats. They have a much higher likelihood to make it in the long term.
Thanks for sharing your reasoning. I can't say I'm on the same page when it comes to femininity, though there's no reason to get into that here. I do see where you're coming from and appreciate the time and effort you're putting towards making it a reality. It is a pretty cool product to boot. If you ever do a programmable digital pet, I'll be all over that.
Direct proxy, no transparent, client -> privoxy -> squid -> http(s) sites. I trust Squid at the tip a lot more. Forwarding Privoxy to another proxy is easy. Read the Forwarding section of the Privoxy manual. Setup Privoxy how you want. Forward to Squid. Follow: https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/DynamicSslCert

You should then have the perfect proxy centipede. For bonus fun use dnsmasq and blacklist domains via DNS too.

Things get much more complex if you want to do things transparently. Now you have to monkey with iptables. The idea is similar though. Start with Privoxy getting all HTTP traffic on a router. Forward to Squid. Have Squids dynamic SSL cert on your client devices.
Many of them are on some sort of government assistance with part time or low paying jobs. Also it would be 10 million over 5 cities. That has big problems in and of itself.

>Also there is no rule that big problems can't have simple solutions.

No, but if the solution was simple, it would have been solved already.
Correct me if I'm wrong: no one is selling any 7nm chips right now, and no one is even selling 10nm chips right now, and no one will before the end of 2017.

Also worth noting, intel's 14nm is significantly smaller than samsung's 14nm: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/how-do-global-foundries...

So I don't think the answer is really that simple and straight-forward.

EDIT: I was wrong, Samsung is manufacturing commercially available SoCs on its "10nm" process. But in my defense, it's comparable to Intel's 14nm process.
Researchers report reversal of current flow in a quantum system
I can completely disregard the rest of the review if the reviewer does not know how to present benchmark graphs properly.
They do this to keep the door open. ProductHunt uses: We decided to take a different path.
Those are some great tips.
Idk why you are getting downvoted, because you are obviously right.
You are not the only one. And some regions of the world, like Japan, heavily prefer physical books to digital ones.
Isn't it an agenda to call the consensus reality an "agenda"? I'm not being facetious, but that discourse has fallen the point where simple statements of reality are politicized has dumbed the entire discourse.
>No one likes copying the SQL command to a SQL IDE, making some changes, running it to make sure it works, and then copying it back to source.

Tbh thats currently my preferred methodology, just because it's usually nicer to clean up a mistaken query in something like sequel-pro, and its generally easy to verify correct output visually

And I've had to do the same thing with ORMs like sqlalchemy, and the only real difference is I first have to get the ORM to tell me what it generated (which is a pain, sometimes).
Quantum Supremacy Is Only Months Away, Says Google Team
They want honest wage for honest work. Pretty straight forward. The government sure subsidizes industry in California, New England and coastal cities, why not middle America?
> What happened to these techniques that the US allegedly adopted after WW2?

What happened was the war against reason. Having empirical knowledge about what works didn't count for squat with the people who were making those appointments. It might even have been a negative. The people who got ahead were the ones who could project the "real American tough guy" image, no matter how fake it was or what obvious psychopathic tendencies came attached to it.

Now for the really bad news. The same kind of people (if not worse) are in charge again, and they're focused on domestic "threats" instead of international ones.
Yeah, I made the original hack for a lightning talk after seeing playerpiano for Python (I wanted something similar but for bash). I wanted to show a terminal session, wanted to talk as I did it, and didn't wanted to get distracted by typos. For a lightning talk, there is no time for questions and you need to go "quickly" through the material.

My use case for doitlive really is lightning talks.
MIT Wizards Invent Tech That Sees Around Corners
Coal is dead due to the economies of natural gas. Besides, China uses coal like crazy, and we pay China to do so, so as far as the atmosphere goes, the US not using coal doesn't really matter that much.
I've wondered if the gimmick distracts people from the presentation. It's a comfortable way for me to present the talk, but maybe it's not so good for the people following along.
Regardless of whether I agree or not on the tactics used by this drug company, that definitely is some creative thinking.
A Tricky JavaScript Interview Question Asked by Google and Amazon