skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shouldn't we judge people on what they say and do, and not what you fear they secretly want? Considering Steve Bannon as being essentially similar to Hitler is a failure in reasoning that borders on pathological.
I would like this CEO to tell me this one employee's pay grade. How is this worker high enough on the org chart to be capable of this sort of impact?

A chief surgeon doesn't blame the lab tech when a patient dies, lead council doesn't blame the paralegal for botching a death penalty case. They would consider it a public humiliation to blame an underling, especially a paraprofessional.
Are you trying to equivocate Bannon's views of the role of government with anarchy? Do you apply the same reasoning to anyone advocating for more centralized government control and suggest they want a communist state with complete government control?
It certainly depends on the threat model, but in this case I have to agree with Github---adding at-rest encryption would be unlikely to make their product significantly more secure, and it would certainly be nowhere as secure as Keybase.

With Keybase, the data is encrypted on the client, and the keys stay on the client. Assuming the crypto is done right, there is fundamentally no way for Keybase to read the data, and therefore no way for an attacker to get the data by way of compromising Keybase. The only way for an attacker to get the data is by compromising the client machine, which is a very different threat model.

With the model you're proposing for Github, the data would be encrypted for transfer (via HTTPS or SSH), but then it would be immediately decrypted again on the server. Even if it is encrypted again before it's put onto the disk, fundamentally the key lives on the server (and has to in order to provide Github's feature set) and so an attacker who had compromised the machine would simply grab the key before going after the files on disk. The actual additional security you get is really not that significant.

Personally, I appreciate Github's stance on this. There have been a number of "secure" products (see e.g. Lavabit) that have really been snakeoil because they used the approach above. I'll take honesty over false promises any day---at least with the former, I understand my risk and can take steps to mitigate appropriately.
I have little knowledge about the truth here but I'd heard that this sort of warring stuff only ramped up after agriculture became common, no? Why kill other tribes' members unless they have a hoard of food? I suppose "to reduce competition" is one answer, but if everyone can hunt/gather for enough food, the motivation seems reduced.

OTOH if I can ignore preparation for winter and just raid your village for grain stores, the calculus changes.
Is this a Babel fish?
This camera gives me the absolute creeps. If someone has this in their home I'd ask them to put it in a drawer.
I'll bite. It seems like a number of these would complain about perfectly benign code.

Here's an example I can think of:

b = (a == 0) ? 42 : 42;

A lot of readers are probably thinking this line is absurd and why on earth would a compiler not yell at you and call you a bad human being for writing this?

But let's be creative ... What if each of those 42s are expansions of different macros that vary based on an ifdef? You could have one platform or configuration where it expands to ? 43 : 42, and another where it expands to ? 42 : 42. Since the preprocessor does those expansions early, your compiler doesn't know the difference at the time of generating the warning. I just confirmed this in a small program, replacing the first 42 with FOO, the 2nd with BAR, and #defining them both to 42:

warn.c:9:23: warning: this condition has identical branches [-Wduplicated-branches]
b = (a == 0) ? FOO : BAR;

Overall I would say items in this list are not equally bad. Some of them unambiguously you want to flag. Others are things that people might do intentionally.
https://github.com/sourcelair/xterm.js/pull/938 is the PR does rendering using canvas
Like, no one can? That seems weirdly restrictive. Is it for security reasons?
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Announcing GitPitch 2.0
USC ISI Researchers Poised to Crack the Code on Reducing Workplace Stress
Yes, you have to attempt an arrest first. Poaching is not a capital crime.
someone told me visual studio gives you the virtual thumb option. unfortunately it is hard-coded to a unisex/caucasian thumb in the latest version.
That was my immediate thought on reading the post title. The Circle is almost complete!
The Fight for Identity – solving the human problem. Trust
- You open a project, the terminal is already set in the working directory of your project. It saves you to have to cd to the right directory.

- When you debug, you see the logs of your server at the same time as the stack trace, the breakpoints without having to play with the windows.

- you can put in the vscode project some developers command, like linting, building, launching in debug mode... adding buttons to your interface to run them.

- No need to start two programs, close two programs that you always use together.
I've noticed that with a few of these kind of submissions. Seems there's an attempt to keep the gun control debate out of HN.

To be fair, there wasn't much constructive conversation going on in this thread... as has been par for similar submissions.
Personally I just put together a PowerPoint presentation and stick that up (as many A4 pages!). That seems to work better than the standard wall of text on one massive piece of paper, but can be seen as low effort by some people.
I watched two seconds of that video and thought SHORT $GPRO! checked out the price chart and people are beating me to it already though
It will be excellent to learn of that subject would be fabulous, if they had tutorials or videos pass lin link would be a good contribution
I just tunnel VNC over SSH. SSH is locked to a GPG key stored on a Yubikey, and I use gpg-agent as my SSH agent. VNC only listens to localhost.
That piece is completely different. It's mostly just a factual report. It comes to a much vaguer and more general conclusion:

"Gun violence isn’t one problem, it’s many. And it probably won’t have a single solution, either."

Libresco's piece has a long list of specific policies that she rejects (banning silencers, assault weapons), endorses (personal interventions), or ignores (background checks).
best response was a reply posted soon after:

"I, too, analyze data for a living. Two important differencse between the author and myself. The first is that I understand the difference between a Type I and a Type II error.

There were 13 mass shootings in Australia in the 18 years prior to their imposition of moderately strict gun laws in 1996. There have been 0 since then. 0.

The author finds this to be insufficient evidence in light of the fact that some other things changed in Australia as well. True enough, but it's not like we can randomly assign Australia to the gun-law treatment and keep New Zealand as a control.

The second difference? I've been doing this for almost 45 years now and have a PhD in the subject. The author graduated from Yale with a degree in 2011 in journalism. A note: She recently converted from atheism to catholicism. You should read some of her writings on the topic.

What is a disgrace is that WaPo chose today to publish this nonsense. Truly disgraceful. "
Consider static type checking when adding a new value to the enum. If the switch has a default, then obviously you lose this, but it's nice for the others.
Yes, I think the gun culture is the problem. It's gun culture that is causing youth to walk around with pistols in their pants. Similar youth in UK and Australia use knives instead (arguably safer because you can't accidentally knife someone). Hanging yourself is much harder, it takes a lot more planning and happens slowly (so you have an opportunity to save yourself or be saved) then simply pulling a trigger and it's alllll over.
The € price is ridiculously higher than the $ price. The smaller pixel costs 799€ which includes 19% of taxes (in Germany), the 649$ does not contain taxes. Still that's a difference of 150€ on top of my hat. There's also a fee which manufactures have to pay (GEMA which collects money for artists and so on). Guess they also include that Google Home Mini in this price which is kinda dumb. Not going to buy with such a huge price bump
So if you could choose between saving the lives of five elephants, or preventing the Las Vegas shooting, you'd choose the elephants? That seems to be what you're saying.
I recall the first time I encountered a 'Defender' machine. Up until then the machines had basically all been Space Invader or PacMan derivatives. I must have been 11 or 12 years old and it totally blew me away both virtually - it repeatedly kicked my arse as it took 10p after 10p (British btw) and I was only lasting about 20 seconds each game as I grappled with the controls - and also physically - the noise of the thing was epic! Also getting the high score on Phoenix ranks close to the birth of my children as a life moment. (Obviously I'll deny that if they ask).

As a computer nerd the 1980's was a great time to come of age - ignoring the twin threats of imminent nuclear war and AIDS. A generation saw the home computer become a reality. Particularly in the UK where, thanks to people like Sir Clive, Curry, Furber, Wilson, Hauser as well as the good old BBC, for a couple of years it seemed all to be happening on the doorstep. I felt a similar thrill years later at University when I got into BBS's and using fidonet to send electronic messages that got anywhere in the world within 24 hours.

OK, you kids get off my lawn.
A large number of games released in 1981 defined new genres, which I don't think is very true now. It feels like there were a lot more arcade releases going on in that time too (but perhaps I'm just not seeing new things very often, I don't visit many dedicated arcades). The latest trend I've seen is popular smartphone games in the arcade with enormous screens and ticket spitters; these are pretty fun (the angry birds one with a cannon is definitely worth putting in a few credits), but not terribly exciting.
How 4chan and The_Donald Influence the Fake News Ecosystem
Can anyone post the link to the recorded video once it is uploaded. Thanks in advance.
But does every networked device have ethernet these days? My laptop doesn't, nor does my phone. There are some contexts where Ethernet is more appropriate, but that doesn't mean it's more appropriate everywhere.

> Pushing progress is not an excuse to force transition with cost and effort burden on customers.

You can't make progress without doing some of that.
You can still do that. You just need an adapter. The rest of us will be happy to sacrifice quality we can hardly recognize for better mobility.

Also, this already happened with the Ethernet port.
What defines someone as 'unselfish?'

In my experience, many 'unselfish' people are people that don't take the time to study and understand human nature. Since it's human nature to be 'nice' they default to this behavior and never seem to get the results they are after. Hence the depression.

On the other hand, once you study, you'll learn that principled selfishness is the KEY to getting what you want. Hence better results and less depression.
What do you think majority of the users will do with those $1k-$2k devices—desoldering storage or looking at the pictures of cats and kids?
The CPU or RAM specs alone don't tell much how well the device will perform.
The things no one tells you about working remote
Does it get updates as fast as a Nexus/Pixel?
Comparing a company that gives individuals and small businesses the easiest path, to date, to launch an online presence to reach consumers directly, to a pyramid scheme is ridiculous and transparent when coming from someone who has publicly shorted the stock.

If you're paying attention, there is definitely a trend of smaller individual makers creating successful products and companies around those products that would otherwise not have been possible to bring to market without the ease which Shopify's platform provides.

Citron's report, bases much of their scare tactic on...a Google search? While I do agree Shopify might need to get a tighter control on their affiliates (every affilate marketing program runs into this problem in the beginning) and how they're promoting Shopify, comparing Shopify to Herbalife is ridiculous and a transparent attempt on Citron's part.

Andrew Left's rant (with his used car salesman delivery) and the report (http://www.citronresearch.com/citron-exposes-the-dark-side-o...) in general reeks more of bad affiliate marketing on his part than anything he presents against Shopify. The report itself resembles a classic long form sale page more than a reputable report on a company's prospects.

It's unfortunate the market reacts to such stupidity and he's able to profit off of it.
Thus the researcher will always have something as evidence
That code seems to be for an FPGA devkit for their SoC but using an entirely different CPU core, the Berkeley Rocket Chip.

They're selling coreplex licenses for several hundred thousand dollars (not the one in the linked product page, it isn't for sale yet): https://dev.sifive.com/coreplex-risc-v-ip/buy/rtl/e51_corepl...
When the video ended, I thought I just watched the introduction to a new Black Mirror episode. Really didn't feel at ease.
Ah, it's not the device names that are reserved, it's the username itself.
That's a good point it's also a risk if you use googles phone service although I haven't run into problems if I did I could only communicate via my thinkpad Linux system, Ubuntu won't lock you out of your machine they don't control your login.
Gopro's execution is bad, from a financial perspective.

Like its so bad that even if 100% of the police departments in the US bought body cameras from them, they would still be an unviable long term investment

and since that isn't happening, amongst other possible ways of saturating the market, Google coming in and undermining it should be a serious bearish signal
Most folks I know use Windows Pro and Remote Desktop. VNC and the like are options as well. Then there are the closed source paid commercial options.
Does it have a headphone socket? All I want from my google home devices is better control over the audio, and it seems the only way I can do that is plug it into my own amp.

Edit. Nope. However the latest software lets you change default audio device for media playback to a chromecast audio. That's halfway there - what I'd like is to redirect the entire audio stream (so spoken answers too!)

Alternatively, can we get a software update to add EQ on the google home? At moderate volumes my neighbours can hear the bass through the walls for a home :(
Having never looked at the source, I'm curious about how you build an editor using web technologies. Is it just a big textarea that gets manipulated with JS?
Your comment seems like a troll...lol.

I'm not sure how a Chromebook could "wipe out the network".

In fact, if anything, I'd argue it's less likely to than a Window laptop since Chromebooks are so secure out of the box.

I bought one for my mother a few years ago, and honestly, not having to go over and clean up malware periodically, or ever do Windows Updates, or ever worry about her clicking on dodgy links on the internet has been a Godsend.
In person? When you're actually seeing that it's their thumb and eyes that are being scanned?
Did you read that blog post? He was criticizing DXO for giving the iPhone 8 the highest score ever, not defending Apple. How do you objectively measure bokeh effects? And if you're so defensive of DXO, can you explain why their photo subscores range from 51-89 but that adds up to a 96?
u should b super lucky they are still alive, mine just crapped out and kept showing the image of the people who screwed it and then died.
Translating conversations in real time is cool, but I need that feature how often? I switch my earbuds between my phone and laptop multiple times a day and it's a pain for every pair of bluetooth earbuds ever.

At least Apple tried to solve the problem. Google appears to be acting like Samsung here, adding gimmicks while releasing a lesser product.
Pixel Buds? What does a pixel have to do with an audio device?

Google's branding department, as usual, leaves much to be desired.
Its a dealbreaker for me. Otherwise, I would have considered the phone. I use my headphone jack nearly every day. I have a nice pair of Shure earphones that I use. I have no desire to get some wireless earphones. The headphone jack is small, durable, and ubiquitous. Removing it is idiotic.
Look at the past threads for releases (I wont link, but) they are filled with nothing but praise.
I'm totally non-affiliated with VSCode, but switched from Atom a few months ago and yes, anecdotally it's been an amazingly smooth experience.

I am actually the opposite of you: totally thankful for JS and electron, and I think they are the best possible future for apps.

To be honest, I really think people have an emotional reaction to JS/Electron one because it's seen as a threat to their preferred language, and two because it has all this built up hate due to legitimate past problems. A few years of pretty hectic pace in JS-land and now it's close to greatness, but still very inconsistent, so people still love to hate it. Couple that with some poorly made apps (looking at you Spotify/Slack) and you have a weird sect on HN that now vilifies Electron/JS with totally incorrect arguments about stability and speed (both are very doable with modern practices).

I'm not saying you are this person, or your grievances aren't real. But I'd be happy to put some money on the following points:

1. Electron/JS apps will be more prolific in the next 5 years

2. They will also be clearly the best platform for speed, stability and flexibility due to massive and ever improving ecosystems and dev tools.

Both have been happening, and to be honest, today we're at a point where I think it's a no-brainer to choose JS for just about any complex UI. The problem is you're wading into a fast-changing, diverse ecosystem, and a few wrong choices there can be very painful.
Azure functions now supports Java (in preview)
Kent Beck invented TDD while programming in Smalltalk.

You first extend the environment with tests, then add the code to make them green. All without ever having to restart the "program".
Sorry to be the luddite, but these devices just seem like first-world-only interest to me.

I have no desire to automate my house (I can see why others do). I don't have a home alarm. I have one TV in the house for several kids.

The day planner/shopping list is good, but I pull out my phone instead and speak to it (when I press home button).

Finally, is everyone really comfortable having always-on listening in their home? The convenience/creepy ratio just doesn't seem prudent for me. It's amusing to see how privacy oriented HN is yet these devices are so popular here - they're an unaudited vector into your most private moments.
Is your issue with the conclusions or with the data? Your initial comment seemed to challenge the veracity of the data and the motivations of the author, but the same data is presented on FiveThirtyEight and same research team compiled both.
Opposite feeling here - mutable/persistent images kept me away from Smalltalk.
This is way off-topic and I accept the karma hit...

At night, I'd sit up with my back propped up by pillows. I'd tuck the blanket underneath my feet and tuck it in firmly by my sides. I'd prop a bit of the blanket out away from my chest and I was inside my imaginary monocock, doing laps at Monaco. I'd make the appropriate sound effects as I shifted and accelerated, braked and cornered at the edge of the envelope. Sometimes, I'd push it past the limits of the car and my own ability and would suffer the horrifying crash as a consequence.

Much to the dismay of the missus, I sometimes still do. I just don't usually throw myself off the bed as I imaginary crash.
WaveNet launches in the Google Assistant
Panic Sync Two-Factor Authentication
> Why kill other tribes' members unless they have a hoard of food? I suppose "to reduce competition" is one answer

Yes, and not just for food and similar non-human resources. Reducing competition for mates is a common reason; even well past hunter-gatherer society, killing the men to take the women as mates remained a thing.
Is picking a few cases then concluding it's Google's propensity perhaps a bit hyperbolic?
Except that the comment I'm replying to says -Werror, meaning they would like to turn this warning into a build break. That seems a bit like language fascism to me. (And if it's not a build break, leaving the warning on stderr during a build is noise, which will cause you to ignore more important warnings.)
Tribal warring is common even in apes. Territorialism is especially strong. There are also plenty of things to war over besides food, such as space, shelter, mates, glory, gods, historical feuds, etc. Remember if we don't sacrifice one human before nightfall, the sun won't rise tomorrow.
"And here I'm thinking we banned full auto guns."

They were never banned, just grandfathered. You have been able to buy a full auto gun for a long long time. No one that commits these acts buys a full auto gun legally through NFA.

"They serve no purpose whatsoever for sports use, hunting or self defense."

They are collector items that increase in price every year. You can take them to a gun range and waste ammo. You can use them for self defense like any other gun, Harry Beckwith did just that.

The reason the guns subreddit all flock to see how this person was shooting at such a rapid fire is to see if this was a machine gun (historic event similar to the LA bank robbers) or if he used some other method which would cause such a thing to become banned.
When things get real, like with proliferation of nuclear weapons, no one argues in favor of proliferation. It's only when poor people's lives are at stake, there is a lot of PR to essentially let them get killed with guns and make money in the process, rich can afford to protect themselves.
Show HN: Eclipse Deeplearning4j
Reminded me of similar but simpler product I saw on KS called FOMO
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1784759196/fomo-the-mos...
You guys are making this a really irrational, really emotional "Apple vs Qualcomm" issue. The root of the problem is not that.

The root of the problem is bad patent law. It really doesn't matter what apple does, it doesn't matter if their CEO eats babies, the merits of a patent are irrelevant to whether the company "feels like a baddy."

If you think apple has bad monopolistic practices in its app store, that only reinforces the fact that our system is anticompetitive, and that both Qualcomm should lose its patent as well as potential opening up of the IOS ecosystem.
Does it have a good shopping list? I've had a Home since they were released and used to use the shopping list feature all the time when it was backed by Keep.

At one point they moved it into some web app that I could only access from my phone by spelunking through the Home app. Has that changed?

When it worked, it was great.
Alphabet's Google Chrome Pixel Buds
I'm french, i would like Google to take my money.
From Joel's article:

> That means that our highest priority is removing any obstacles to adoption. Anything that people might use as a reason not to use Trello has to be found and eliminated.

In this case I am weary of using something like this that is free because I have seen so many things in the past that were free only to shutdown rapidly after they grew in size, but with no way to pay for themselves and had to pivot or sell out. So being free is actually an obstacle in adoption.