skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people still use birds to send data (river rafting photographers): http://origin.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_6209735

also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Why news is bad for you.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...
Some vending machines in Japan are designed to give out free drinks during an emergency [0]. That could be one of the reasons why there are so many well-maintained vending machines everywhere, even in remote areas.

[0] http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/16-things-you-didnt-...
Literally written at the bottom of the article...
There is a hospital ship in San Juan:

https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1334349/usns-co...

It'd be interesting to see a real analysis of the difficulties. Among the first things that come to mind is efficient use of personnel. There is need for medical care there, so there is a decision between having medical people available locally and having them transporting patients.
> What is up with the letter alignment on the B key? On a machine where the keyboard is THE selling point?

The people who care the most about keyboards are touch typists who don't look at the key labels. Moving the B label is because of the low profile TrackPoint which requires a larger notch in the B key. Every recent ThinkPad has this; it's something you'd never notice in actual use, only in photos of keyboards. I had no idea my ThinkPad Yoga 460 and my friend's X1 Carbon had misaligned B labels until people started talking about it WRT the T25, and I certainly don't care about it now.

Definitely agree about the screen resolution; it would be a huge downgrade from the Yoga 460.
Sending a lunar rover to the Tranquility landing site for the 50th anniversary of the manned moon landing would be a nice touch.
User 8xxx here... Slashdot was great while it provided the best daily overview of IT stories. I wonder what changed - I can vaguely recall switching to heise.de and later HN.

Perhaps the way it presented the stories worked better for a few major pieces per day and everyone tries to read "all" interesting stories every day now, so pages with just headlines and broader coverage took over?

I miss the quieter "online life" of the late 90's...
when web developers stop relying on user agent strings and start doing feature detection instead.
NASA wants to spend over $2B per launch on a super heavy lift system called the SLS, that can only lift about twice as much as a Falcon Heavy that costs around $120M a launch.

Maybe it's not NASA's budget, but how it's spent?
umm I think the point is that soldiers are sneaking phones in, and this is an example of bad security enforcement within the defense services, not that defense services shouldn't be heavily regulated internally..
A company would never take the risk of using black market data

I bet LinkedIn does.
I remember, about 20 years ago, having an argument with someone on Slashdot. Then realizing, about 10 messages in, that I actually knew the person I was arguing with. Being able to connect with friends online, being able to make friends through dialogue online... the site was easily the best online community at the time.

Bonus: Even 20 years ago it had better design than Hacker News! (= (Couldn't resist.)
Who runs CoinHive?
The old version of Disk Utility must have been pretty nasty to justify a full rewrite. I remember it getting quite unreliable at some point around 10.7 when with reading/writing disk images. Partly because the UI relied on non-obvious drag & drop / modifier key mashing to do certain things and it didn't have much error handling to clearly explain what went wrong. It wasn't even that good at explaining what operation you were about to perform. The new version (supplemented by using diskutil for advanced stuff) is an improvement in my opinion.
Why not just use the Saturn V designs? Are they that bad?
Forget Bitcoin. Have You Heard of IMFCoin?
There is even a term for this phenomenon: eternal September [1]. It originated as Usenet slang for a period beginning in September 1993, AOL started offering Usenet access to its users which overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Yes, but:

> This proposal is opposed by the Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, Air Force Space Command, and military leaders such as Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Paul Selva, Chief of Staff of the Air Force General David L. Goldfein, and the current commander of Air Force Space Command General John W. Raymond

Also, from a joint perspective it makes no sense to bring this to the level of of Joint Chief. This would however be a perfect thing to talk about amongst the Chiefs as it would involve resources and personnel from across the services. I imagine that kind of thing is already happening, however.
Aren't you describing the market research industry? Intent is the value, predicting intent is the goal.
> I would like to see any intelligent person make the argument that the gag order is a necessary part of due process.

I can't personally fathom an argument that justifies it as necessary to due process, but I can sort of imagine a hand-wavy explanation as to how it's necessary to security against terorrism / drug dealers / pedophiles / for the children / whatever the cause du jour is at the moment.

I'm of the relatively staunch belief that this is what happens when people run around making claims about how 'no right is absolute' over whatever policies they don't like at the time, in the hopes of those rights being abridged to whatever degree they prefer. As much as the 'slippery slope' argument gets deployed against a perceived over-broad expression of civil liberties, the inverse is at least as true -- every time we diminish the absolutism of a civil right we don't like, we make vulnerable the rights that we do.

When we try to put limits on speech, because somebody somewhere is saying something potentially harmful, or allow for exceptions to due process for "really bad people", we poke holes in the fabric of judicial scrutiny that makes all rights viable.
https doesn't pass the referrer
We already do it, so... :D
I also recommend MailHog[0]. I've had nothing but good experiences with it, and it was dirt simple to install.

[0] https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
Okay, we've just entered a loop now. Have a nice day.
SoftBank’s Next 30-Year Vision (2010) [pdf]
I'd imagine you could accomplish very similar results using SQLite and the full-text-search extension (FTS3, 4 or 5). I believe the SQLite FTS modules support a porter-stemming tokenizer, though you may need to remove stop-words yourself. Before FTS5 you also need to write a user-defined function to rank results, but there are numerous libraries which provide good implementations (BM25, e.g.).
You are using Chrome headless therefore you can use group policy to add "file://" to the URL blacklist; see http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#URLBlac...
That's good to know -- as you point out, it's a highly variable function of models/versions, so much so that anecdotal data can actually be useful :)
sicm is great. another subject I would kill to have get this formalized treatment is statistics - so many people play fast and loose with conditional probabilities and expectations it drives me insane.
How hitting a game cartridge unlocks gaming’s weirdest Easter egg
Hmm if they manage to put in a GPU and keep it from overheating it'd be worth considering I suppose.
I don't have a good idea about how this scales. What would something with twice the lift of the Falcon Heavy cost?
Wondering what the legitimate use for this was?
Oracle has a lot of "legacy" customers who have a lot invested in their existing Oracle infrastructure. Oracle wants to migrate these customers to their cloud. For "Enterprise" I see Oracle's biggest competitor being Azure.
I have iPhone 7 for about a year, and it was never issue for me. I dont even carry that dongle. (I usually charge my phone at work where I dont need to use it)
My App Story
I'm not saying the original poster isn't Russian, maybe they are. Does it really matter? If what they are saying isn't true we can contradict it or ignore it right?

However if what is being said is true maybe the bigger problem is not _who_ is saying what but rather that this truth exists to be said and maybe we should do something about that rather than ascribing motives which may or may not be accurate.
"avip" nailed it already, better than I could.

I'm just replying to say that if your username is "pervycreeper", you might reconsider whether to weigh in on exposing a child to anything...
Questioning “The Man”
Fair enough. I only ask because email testing should be able to run in an isolated test network. Perhaps dovcot+postfix in a container may be too much work for some folks.
Dear Olive Garden, Never Change
Recruiter AMA: Typical mistakes that recruiters do when approaching you online
> try performing reads from your network thread and if unavailable

How does this differ from recv(..., MSG_DONTWAIT)?
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As they should, since they won't be able to back up their claims with facts.
Not the OP, but there is no way that I'm aware of to whitelist (or blacklist!) specific channels on youtube. And thanks to HTTPS, I can't even intercept + modify youtube pages at the network level. Thank you, privacy folks, hope you're happy!

Alternatively, there is always kids.youtube.com which is weirdly just an app for Ios/Android. I haven't tried it, and myself have actively disabled/removed all Youtube from being accessible by the younglings. Curated media, decided by me is all they get to watch then.
I have moved to PostgreSQL in all my production apps and never been happier. Looking forward to migrating to 10 by the year end.
>same can be said for US actions over the past decades

Is this really the best response? A deflection? Do you know how tiring it gets? How little it advances discussion?

My peers are being hunted for documenting war crimes but OK US did similar stuff some decades ago so I guess the topic is resolved for good. Wrapped up nicely with a bow for eternity.
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The thing about social media is that if after election Trump would turn out to be the best president in our history. Instead of you, someone else would now cited the post that they said that in November.

The truth is, no one knew at the time. People had their theories, some were proved right, some were proven wrong.

The people who you were responding to are example that your opinion was just one of many. There was hope that perhaps Trump's ego would motivate him to be better than previous presidents. Sadly that didn't happen.
September 2017: The Month in Ransomware
I can trace almost everything that helped me professionally and even many of my tech opinions to something I read on Slashdot. Really the site that influenced me the most.
Scientists Enlist Supercomputers, Machine Learning to Identify Brain Tumors
IIRC you can solve that using CSS for print media.

The browser will display a different CSS to the printer, so to speak.
As an example:

I listen to the radio a lot and have always wanted to make a website with radio schedules like there is for TV. As this data is not available (at least not in France) I scrap [1] each radio website everyday to get it.

[1] Using https://github.com/rchipka/node-osmosis for now
That looks indeed very similar.

We just need the decoder then! :)

So I'm guessing there's definitely some need for a tool like this, right? I mean, being able to "QR-codify" any text and later getting it back could simplify some of these offline-storage actions, right?
The reliability boost that ECC DRAM gives you could be reinterpreted as extra headroom for overclocking the DRAM before it becomes too unstable. Since the parity bits are carried on extra data lines, they aren't subtracting from your usable memory bandwidth so the net effect may be a substantial performance advantage when operating at equivalent reliability levels. The main concern is whether the memory controller can correct errors without a severe latency penalty. The ECC used for DRAM is far simpler than the LDPC used for things like SSDs, so it's probably not an issue. (However, systems halting on the detection of a double bit uncorrectable error would be an inconvenience.)
I'd be interested in this as well. The industry standard, PrinceXML, has a huge licensing fee (currently $3800 per server), but it's also rock solid, handles modern CSS, and has hooks for adding things like headers and footers for pages and tables.
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When you say low-powered ram, are you talking about clock speeds?
I might sign in FB once every few months. We ask people not to put photos of our children on FB. That brought a surprising amount of tension with grandparents etc. It's all fine and understood now, but I remember it being touchy in the beginning.
Buttons at the bottom of the touchpad are not usable with the TrackPoint. Well, you could use them, but you'd have to move your hand down every time you wanted to click. One of the big attractions of the TrackPoint is that you can use it directly from the home row without moving your hands.
I expect that establishing an extrinsic reward (ie: money) will be hugely demotivating and actually diminish activity. Social media become a lot less fun when an hour's worth of effort "earns" you $0.07.

Also, they should expect a tidal wave of bots and fake content. Think about the mess Twitter is in, now add a straight path to cash.
Ditto. It almost felt like Google got its nerd cred from being featured on Slashdot multiple times. BitCoin too (waaaay before it was "popular"), and probably Linux itself.
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles Munger Annotated
Comcast Cable Is Abandoning Customers in the Name of Free Speech
Europe Slams Its Gates: Imperiling Africa – And Its Own Soul
Many years ago, when I was first starting a company with 2 other partners, we used to play a few games of Set every lunch. We did this for months, maybe even a year.

Needless to say, we got really good. After the initial learning curve of "getting" the rules, it becomes almost entirely a game of memory and recognition. You just remember sets, having seen them so often, that you can almost instantly spot them.

It loses a lot of its mathematical shine at this stage, of course, so I consider it less of a mathematical game.
Maybe to avoid confusion with the real Visual Studio? I pernsonally don’t like the new logo. It feels like one of AutoCAD product.
Given we've had black, Asian, Israeli and lesbian astronauts, your politically correct racism is a bit out of tune. The point is made though, that given the atrocious status of Puerto Rico, it's tonedeaf to be announcing new plans for space exploration today.
And this will be flagged on hackernews in 3, 2...

edit: lol i keep getting downvoted for this, but the post got flagged 5 minutes after this prediction. just flag this comment too. flag the whole constitution while you're at it please.
Cool photos of machines.

Photos of other cultures.

Provokes discourse.
Interactions in Fraud Experiments at Lyft
> often creating private or "fake" accounts that only a few friends can see that contrast with their "public" accounts

The younger sister of a family friend called this a "sin-stagram", but some people also call them by the more family-friendly "fun-stagrams" or "funstas". Kind of a hilarious concept, creating multiple social media accounts for multiple sides of your personality.

Coincidentally I was reading an article today about a YouTuber who was doing this same sort of thing. A famous, promoted, well-followed channel with his regular content (music reviews), and secondary accounts for alt-right meme commentary (which was shut down recently).

I guess it makes sense... but for some weird reason I find it weirdly grotesque*. It's like containerization for your life: stream my optimism to my family, stream my partying to my friends, stream my depression to strangers... keep them all separated and you have can maintain (and in the above YouTuber's case, monetize?) multiple digital lives.

Another interesting tidbit was a friend of mine who just graduated med school and started their residency. This person changed the names/handles on all their social media accounts, because patients have a habit of trying to search for their doctors on Facebook and Instagram. Apparently this causes issues from time to time in the doctor/patient relationship, so it's common practice among many in the medical field.

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0. https://www.thefader.com/2017/10/03/needle-drop-deleted-yout...
I'm merely pointing out that the government's support of the space industry shouldn't be characterized by NASA's budget.

There are a lot of ways for the government to support an industry otherwise; an example being many countries' policy on renewable energy and clean transport, for instance.
Omg I can't wait for this! My team and I were just talking about this problem. Just signed up for your waiting list.
I've found what I think is a good compromise. I don't ever post anything (and painfully deleted everything I've ever posted or liked) but I keep my account to stay in touch with some more distant friends via messenger (which can be used separately from facebook).

As for the notification feed, I've disciplined myself to hide permanently uninteresting content (e.g. friend showing off or too politically active). In the end, there's not much left besides annoying ads so I don't feel the urge to go there as often as I used too. Btw, is it me or there are a lot more ads compared to a year ago? I find them very intrusive.
It's a great idea, but two quick reasons:

- Most of us don't know about it

- You have to install postfix
"PragerU YouTube Set to Restricted Mode"

"they currently list 37 PragerU videos-- over 14 percent of our entire collection"

A little bit dramatic in the title.
Free software issues are more important than "convenience". Passively consuming TV shows from a couch is more convenient than developing technical skills and building things online, but one is objectively more useful to society than the other.
> If you know your read and write patterns very well you can effectively use this for nearly asynchronous IO without the pains of AIO and few to none extra threads.

The same is true of plain read/write, barring extra data copies to/from the kernel.

The only reason to ever use AIO is if you're doing direct I/O, in which case mmap doesn't apply.
More contracts for the military-industrial complex?
For even more photos from this set see the photographers site: https://www.sapporo-creation.com/existence
Nice! Looks useful
A steemit like alternative to youtube needs to exist!
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That's a good point, and you're right that NASA's budget will trickle down as support to privatized space companies.

As progress in the industry moves forward, though, I expect we may find other forms of government support, such as what we see in many countries' policies towards renewable energy.
Windows user here - looks pretty neat. I googled around and it appears MS is working on something similar for Windows 10, but I'm not sure if it's going to land as a feature available to power users or rather app developers. For now I'm sticking to my ghetto AutoHotkey make-always-on-top script.

Also, that Unicode domain name looks sweet.
From the article: “Apple gave us this permission years because Apple Watch couldn’t handle our maps rendering. It’s not connected to anything in our current codebase,” Uber’s spokesperson explained.
most of the people there were ruthlessly crushed by Microsoft business tactics

That has to be hyperbole. Even at the height of Microsoft's aggression, there were many professional software devs left uncrushed.
This is not on topic for Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Has anyone else noticed the influx of anti-Russia articles on the WSJ lately?
How many Nicki Minaj videos are set to restricted mode?

While conservative opinion is "not appropriate for the younger audiences..."
It's not really clear to me how PoS is providing any security in Decred above that provided by the PoW.

If a single entity is able to get 51% of the hashrate why can't they effectively control which PoS tickets are selected?

Since the overall reward & transaction fees are distributed between both PoS & PoW, it seems to follow that at there will be fewer PoW miners resulting in less overall security vs. a pure PoW protocol.
I want to know if there are any httperf/seige like tools for email. I would love to blast my server with 100k valid & invalid emails and see how it does.
How nice. I suddenly want to be single again.
Three-Part Plasma Primer W/ Visualizations
Yes, kind of. But it's to be used within a single company.
Much more likely headline: as has happened before to YouTube accounts on all parts of the political spectrum, it turns out that when you express political ideas on YouTube there might be enough people who don't like you and start flagging or filing false copyright claims to get your account restricted or even shut down. The "conservative" bit is a red herring; if you are on YouTube, and you say something that enough people interpret as political, you will be targeted by people who disagree with the politics they think you've espoused.
No. There's a documented list of things that are different. [0] That said, you likely don't have many of these issues in your code, if any. The ideal is for folks who write portable pure Python without relying on implementation-specific details to be able to run on PyPy and CPython without any hacks.

[0] http://pypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cpython_differences.htm...
Are there still machines selling cans of beer? That was one of the highlights of my visit to Tokyo. My host advised me that I must either stand at the machine and drink it or put it away while I walked. No drinking and walking.

I was 14.
We always use MailTrap for our projects. It's a fake SMTP server with a webbased inbox. Nothing to install, you just have to configure some SMTP credentials in your applications. https://mailtrap.io/
I think you misinterpreted my post. I wasn't claiming these were new problems. I was just claiming that now more than ever (since software is eating the world) we need communities like /. raising the alarm. I was also admitting that I underestimated the importance of these things back when I was reading /. as a high schooler in the late 90's (I, too, have a low digit ID on slashdot.)
FWIW, here's the patchset to fix that: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/15/871/
The article states they were rendering maps screens on the phone and shipping the screenshot to the watch to handle performance issues with the watch.
The YouTube Kids app has a really nice interface, but there's no whitelist option unfortunately. I wish there was. It does let you block videos or channels individually, but you can imagine how much good that does on a site as big as YouTube.

As you say, it's also iOS/Android only. No PC option for kids at all.
Is a SMC reset (takes a couple of minutes, max) really equivalent to a complete reinstall of the OS?
Toyota vs. Tesla: Can Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles Compete with Electric Vehicles?