skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The anti-Microsoft zeitgeist that you could find at the top of pretty much any thread, even if it was about something completely unrelated.

Just a side comment, I feel like Hacker News is going this way with Facebook a little. Posts that tangentially mention Facebook, there's usually a high-rated comment about how Facebook is evil and since the user left Facebook their life has improved. Those "I don't even own a TV"-like posts are a bit grating as the top comment on every thread, but hey maybe like you say, it's really pushing towards a better future in the end.
They were attacking the market in a sense as it relied on latency of information to determine prices. Certainly I'd dub these gentlemen posthumously as hackers, maybe they were the first.
Sobelow: Security-Focused Static Analysis for the Phoenix Framework
Wouldn't all of the private groups and secret messages make it worse? School for me was cliquey enough as it was, without the assistance of technology. It seems this would blow that up by an order of magnitude..
Could you please not post if it's not going to be civil and substantive, like the guidelines ask?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
io_getevents lets you submit a bunch of I/O operations via io_submit, and then wait synchronously for one (or some) of them to complete.
Will Messenger Lose Out to Snapchat, Instagram Through 2021?
ahh, the anti-bitcoin sentiment is alive and well here still
Probably low.
Cause the Pentium chip doesn't send info back to Russian intelligence services?

The US has a lot to lose by linking tech firms to intelligence services, but in this case - when an agent of one gov't is hacking another gov't, links to intelligence services are suitable for discussion.
That is what Pence is telling his wife.. Im going to the moon baby Ill be back later
One of our rules for all learning reviews after an incident: "Plan for a world where we are all just as stupid as we are today"

An action item to fix something can never be "don't make that mistake again." You have to make a change to the system to find and prevent the error, not a change to the people in the system.
I enjoyed Slashdot every single day as a passive reader but not as an user. I never received feedback from the founders when I pointed them to incorrect facts in their news and the never corrected the posts there. I specially rember an important security issue discovered by the company where I worked (Core Security Technologies) that was mistakenly reported as if was found by CERT. You can say that this is very common but at that time Slashdot was the top influential place in the community and security wise.
You forgot to mention that unlike my 2011 MBP you can't open the thing up anymore whereas I'm still free to put 16 GB of Ram and an SSD into a 6 year old machine and make it fly again.
It's because of the iPhone-ization of all of its products. Making hardware changes and releasing software updates yearly is going to take a very long time to stabilize as a practice.

Event with all of their employees, they can't truly make a unique premium product every year.
"The funny part is, that there is NO EDGE FOR WINDOWS. Precisely, Edge is for Windows 10 only, which is the minority of all Windows devices today."

Bizarrely, Microsoft Edge is not supported for Windows Server, which is the edition that Microsoft license for virtual desktop infrastructure. Want a modern browser on your remote Windows desktop? You can't have the Microsoft one.
We have Melitta Bar Cubes in the office and they are quite good.
It's more time consuming to close )}]]})}. With ))) we just repeatedly type ))) until the cursor jumps to the target opening paren we are trying to close. With a mixture of different parens we have to interrupt what we are doing and determine the correct parens which will continue the closing sequence.
Children have wildly different capabilities. I've seen quite a few who probably wouldn't be able to read at age three. As the father of two highly intelligent kids myself (according to a few unprompted remarks by a number of people), I don't see what the rush is either. Kids are kids, let them play! They can be serious the rest of their lives. If they are intelligent enough to read at three they'll be fine anyway....
It's a multi-faceted problem to be sure, people need to take responsibility for themselves, and I think the trend over time is for people to become more sophisticated about truthiness. The problem is that we are right in the thick of a publishing revolution where the traditional signals about the quality of information are out the window, and the flow of information is so much broader and more diversified, leading to an explosion of confirmation bias and worldview silos. Google and Facebook are right at the center of this, and making the problem worse with AMP and video-jacking, and personalizing feeds to optimize purely for engagement.

Using old terminology like "media outlet" does nothing to address the problem, all it does is frame the issue in a way that supports the narrative that these companies are mere aggregators that can bear no responsibility for the information they are disseminating.

Well, frankly, that's bullshit. You have to look at the actual effects in order to make any kind of reasonable judgement on the situation. Google and Facebook are a huge contributor to the fake news problem, and despite how difficult and maybe intractable the problem is, they are also uniquely positioned to be able to make a difference. They deserve to be held to a higher standard, and regardless of their protests, they at least have the resources to try harder.
I lived in PR for a few years. Almost everyone I met (thousands of people) had family in the mainland (and had been up there to visit them at least once). I was told that there were more Puerto Ricans on the mainland than in PR. I'm just imaging what would happen if everyone (or the majority) left PR to go live with their families in NY or Florida or wherever... for sure the debt would never get paid back since the tax base would be gone, the villages would quickly disappear as the fast growing plant life took things back over, the resorts would have to close unless they brought in a lot of Dominicans to fill the positions... it's crazy to think about, but I could totally see it happening.
I use mercurial subrepos. I think the official advice of “have a thin super project with all real code in subrepos” (as opposed to eg a project repo with code and a subrepo in it for some library) is quite key.
Kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch.
Honestly all the great apple devs from the early 2ks have either moved into consulting or entrepreneurial activity or, more likely and worryingly, they've been promoted into management roles at apple where they're managing a team of engineers not quite as good as they were. You see this everywhere, at every company. That's my guess.
I didn't say that ONLY smart people live in SV, I said we need more engineers in DC... Yes I live here now, but I'm not from here. So that's misreading my intent.
That and what it means to have "protection".
Are some of the tasks on the Codility lessons basically senior level?
Hi,

First, to clarify, I have previously tutored Stanford PHD students and have done native IOS programming in Objective C and every version of Swift. I also do full stack Unity AR/VR in C# and have programmed in numerous other languages.

Have been going through the Codility lesson "tasks" to prepare for a coding interview...which has not been fun and has not seemed very reasonable.

Sometimes, although the algo I wrote passed the test cases, the "correctness" and "performance" test have been tough. Basically there is a lot of ambiguity in the requirements in the overview of the algo request and then some of the edge cases that are input into the algo have been really unexpected. Plus the Codility pages don't really show very clearly what the input was.

I have seen example coding interviews at Google that are SOOOOOOO much easier than what I have done and have been asked to do on Codility.

Thus, basically, once I am hitting 100 percent on every Codility test, it seems as though I would be considered skilled enough at writing algorithms to be a senior level programmer at any company.

I say that partially because I wasn't planning on rushing to senior level programming level. Already a little tired of sprinting up flights of levels of difficulty after years of learning and doing native IOS programming.

So, is that basically the situation? Does completing every algo at 100 percent on Codility basically say that a programmer is generally at senior level in algorithm programming?

Thanks in advance for productive answers.
Myopia and Intelligence in a Sample of Undergraduate Students (2011) [pdf]
If I come across data I want/need, why should I have to highlight, copy, and read from my clipboard? It's much more elegant to have automation do this.
I was just reading about something similar in the "Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?" post

Joel Spolsky's point: They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15407114
I have the T470P with 7700HQ and 2560x1440, it is brilliant.

I can't fault anything on it that.
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The reasoning is probably pretty similar to why all browsers claim to be "Mozilla".
The Eratosthenes sieve is pretty basic. I would expect any programmer to be able to do it on the whiteboard. Now the quadratic sieve, that is a challenge. The GNFS even more so.
FEMA is used to dropping massive quantities of supplies "at the doorstep" and relies on local infrastructure to distribute it.

Apparently there are 10,000 containers in port but no way to distribute the goods. No drivers, no gas for trucks, and no passable roads to drive on.

You can't rebuilt the islands electrical grid in a couple weeks, when first you have to rebuild the roads, which you can't build because there's no one there to build them because there's no food or water.

I'd say the devastation is truly shocking. It's not particularly shocking that the recovery is just getting started and that they are facing absolutely enourmous logistical problems compounded by the pre-existing state and very poor readiness for this level of event.
Would you please comment civilly and substantively or not at all?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
another teaser that not teasing at all... was
Submission of direct link to YouTube video here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15411754

My comment[0] copied from there:

From Wikipedia[1]:

Magic Leap ...

... working on a head-mounted virtual retinal
display which superimposes 3D computer-generated
imagery over real world objects, by projecting a
digital light field into the user's eye

... raised $1.4 billion from a list of investors
including Google and China's Alibaba Group.

... estimated ... worth $4.5 billion.

... has not released a product to the market.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15412190

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap
That's not an explanation, and that's clearly someone trying to show off their work that happens to be on your kid (aka use them as an ad), not a friend trying to post a picture of the two of you at a party.
Distraction from Las Vegas.
I have yet to find anything quite as nice as SSMS for Postgres, but Navicat for PostgreSQL is pretty good. It's not free, but its not expensive and has features I feel are worth paying for such as being able to diff schemas or data across DBs on different servers.
are you the real saurik?
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Heropunch: dex the world
There is plenty of literature. None of it necessarily agrees with the rest, but Agile proponents over the past 15+ years have produced a copious body of literature. If you disown all of that literature, then all you are left with is some pseudo-religious principles, tenets and values, which is not useful for someone trying to improve a development org. It also make evaluation of its effectiveness impossible as there's no agreement on what's being evaluated.

Living and breathing values and principles entails putting something in to practice which means you need to put a stake in the ground as to "how", instead of just repeating platitudes. If you can't find three people who all agree on what "living and breathing the Agile values" means, then you can't practice Agile at team scale.
Software issues among all of Apple's products have become much more numerous in recent years. I don't want to get down voted for putting the blame on Tim Cook, but I do not believe he has been a positive influence on the quality of their software.

It's sad, really. My first Mac was a late 2009 MacBook Pro. I remember craving the machine before I finally splurged. After I bought it, I used nothing but a Mac for the next 6 years of my life. Those 6 years were some of the happiest times I've ever had using a computer. Everything worked flawlessly. The build quality of the machines I bought was pristine.

At the end of those 6 years my MacBook was getting buggier with each update, as was my iPhone. I ended up buying a Surface Book. I'm back on Windows for the first time since XP, and while I'm sure I made the right decision, I can't help look back 5 years ago and think that maybe the golden age is over.
Why would anyone be stupid enough to broadcast location? Ever see independence day? Might be better off not knowing... though .. I think i'd be almost willing to give up life on earth to know... just because I'm curious as hell.
What's a "white national"
What subset of those people aren’t using a mobile-based banking system like Mpresa but do have the IT infrastructure to operate a cryptocurrency?

I’m all for helping spread modern infrastructure around but it seems like the current cryptocurrencies are taking on significant overhead to solve problems which aren’t pressing for very many people.
Since this article is about "workstations", it should have only considered ECC-enabled systems. Since it didn't (hardly mentioned ECC in fact) it's a useless article IMHO.
That didn't work for me. Was it patched already?

{"status":400,"statusText":"Bad Request","errors":[{"field":["url"],"location":"query","messages":["\"url\" must be a valid uri with a scheme matching the http|https pattern"],"types":["string.uriCustomScheme"]}]}
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New photocatalyst nanomaterial can extract hydrogen fuel from seawater
Hey, I'd love to talk to you more about your issues with getting over to puppeteer. I'm working on a product that separates application infrastructure from Chrome as it's nightmare to try and scale with.

I've written somewhat extensively about the deployment approaches here: https://hackernoon.com/more-than-you-want-to-know-about-head...
Gay marriage: David Cameron introduced that, but more Conservative MPs voted against it than voted for it. It passed because of 90% of the Labour MPs supporting it

here are the numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_(Same_Sex_Couples)_Ac...

And if I'm specifically talking about Theresa May's tenure, then that's after David Cameron's leadership.

"support the NHS" is a much vaguer statement, but I don't think that's entirely true either, see e.g.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=doctors+fight+jeremy+hunt
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nhs+privatisation+virgin+c...
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=winter+hospital+crisis

My opinion is that the Conservative party currently does not "support" the NHS, but would not dare move openly against it, that would cost far to many votes. Rather they follow, the model of "defund, induce crisis, introduce a privatised solution"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/27/government-delibe...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-deficit-cr...

https://nhsreality.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/thats-the-standa...
Fortunately, SpaceX begins production of their moon lander in 6-9 months!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQ0jBKH36Y

Edit: realized you were probably referring to this when you said BFS.
These sieves are indeed much more complex, but are not really related to the sieve of Erathostenes except in name. Not clear why you bring them up.
Ask HN: API or service to connect, read and publish to major social networks?
I'm about to embark on a project to create a social media management portal for a client. It requires integrations with about 15 most popular social networks. And for each of them, we would need OAuth support, being able to read comments, posts and messages, being able to respond to posts, comments and messages, and publish posts.

I would really really like to avoid maintaining these APIs myself and was hoping there’d be a reliable third-party service that I could use.

Here’re some of the networks we’re looking to connect to:

- [ ] LinkedIn
- [ ] Reddit
- [ ] Google+
- [ ] Twitter
- [ ] Facebook
- [ ] Pinterest
- [ ] Tumblr
- [ ] Instagram
- [ ] YouTube
- [ ] FourSquare

Does anyone know of an API or service we could use here?
> most of them aren't rapists, murderers, and child molesters.

I assume there are also a lot of people in prison that aren't rapists or murderers but still cause a lot of troubles if left to their own device. What should be done with these ones? I agree prison is cruel and inhuman and I'm all for better detention conditions, but I don't think it's realistic to suggest we should leave these people walk freely (or to suggest that they don't exist). What are the alternatives?
A new app lets you invest your spare change into Bitcoin
> couldn’t even align the ‘B’ properly.

That's because of the low profile TrackPoint. The upper notch on the B key is larger than it was on older ThinkPads with the high profile TrackPoint.

This is nothing new; every recent ThinkPad with the low profile TrackPoint has the B label offset like this. It's not something you notice when actually using the machine: I've been using a ThinkPad Yoga 460 for most of this year, and never realized the B label was offset until I saw people talking about it when the T25 keyboard photos were leaked.

Unlike the high profile TrackPoints on all my previous ThinkPads, the low profile one never leaves a smudge on the screen. I'll take that over a perfectly aligned key label any day.
Why isn't this a 10.13.1 update?
I wrote one that just takes a list of XPath queries and returns the set. It also accepts an object with properties set to XPath and returns the JSON object populated with the results of the XPath. Obviously you would need to end the XPath in text() or @attribute.
A new way of blogging about Ocaml
Nor is Visual Studio for Mac - it's just repackaged Xamarin Studio.
There's been two stories on Snopes that haven't been able to be verified by anyone else online. They ignore many, many inquiries on the matter.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9423/did-charli...

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2094/is-a-write...
Just download it and try it out. It's not that hard. No reason for conspiracy theories.
> Puny 5 mod points once every few months is not a way to instill a sense of belonging. Imagine being able to upvote a post or a comment on HN only once a month, and passively watch random stuff of questionable quality float up the rest of the time. That ruined /. for me and I suspect I wasn't alone in that.

To be fair, they pretty much invented user moderation, Slashdot was an early experiment with user curated discussions. That they never saw past the 5 mod points is understandable, it was a foundation the site was based on, and seeing past one's foundations can be hard.

They also had to likely balance against malicious users, who were a less small % of the user base than on other sites.
Direct/Cloudless File Transfer
We're a young startup that creates a direct, vpn-like-connection between two parties so that data can be transferred securely, quickly and reliably. We're looking for feedback to create an even better product. Try it out hackers. Cheers.
The idea that this demands explanation is somewhat outrageous. Everyone has had unflattering photographs taken of them, and most people know how it feels to be embarrassed by a bad photo. I'm sure you know what it feels like to have pictures of you laughed at.

Some pictures are seriously confidence sapping, and others are downright ruinous. Even pictures that don't seem terrible to the outsider, can seem just as bad to a person who lacks confidence to begin with, even if irrationally so.
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You all are doing good work too.
Maybe other life forms have other life spans. If they get 100000 years old the speed of light limit may not be a big issue for them - at least when only traveling around their own galaxy.
Go for an AMD chip, you get 60-128 general purpose Pcie lanes.
What % of your city's population attends philosophy meetups or skeptics groups? Would you say it's more than 0.1% ?

As for university talks, at least at my university they were attended by a tiny minority of students. Most students went only to the lectures they had to for class and did something else in their free time than go to more lectures. Outside of students and the occasional professor, it was rare for these talks to be attended by anyone else, unless someone really famous was talking -- even then, only a small minority of the people in the surrounding area would even hear of these events, much less bother to go.

The sad fact is that most people, in the US at least, aren't very interested in intellectual pursuits like this. They'd much rather go to a ballgame, party, watch TV, or hang out at the bar.
New Shepard far too big, with far too much delta V for a moon lander. It’s design parameters are all wrong. Also SpaceX has a perfectly suitable propulsion system in the SuperDracos.

The truth is none of the existing or currently planned systems, other than BFR, would make any sense as lunar landers. They’re just not designed for it. Dragon and Orion are Apollo Command Module replacements, not LEM replacements. For lunar landings and excursions we’d need a new vehicle along the lines of the LEM. Lightweight, vacuum only, reusable and refuelable with an ‘infinitely’ restartable engine. SLS would be perfectly capable of launching such a vehicle, in fact that’s exactly the sort of thing it’s designed for.
> On a weekly basis, the Mac won't wake from sleep and requires a hard reboot. The Time Machine backups get corrupted at least every other month and require a full backup from scratch. Sometimes the audio just quits working when I wake from sleep.

No defense to Apples SW problems, but it sounds like you may have a hardware problem. You should take your computer into Apple and see if you can get it fixed or replaced.
from stealing underpants obviously
>>In today's world of mass surveillance, corporate consolidation of internet infrastructure, and the call for censorship of speech on the web

I am going to have to call you out.

I had a low-digit ID on /.

We (people like me) have been calling this out for FUCKING DECADES.

I feel that we can talk about generational millenials etc.. but we can also call out DIGITAL millenials; those who thing they know what the fuck is up just because they "work at facebook"

I have been a whistle against NSA router backdoors since 1997...

So nobody wanted to hear it then - and the giants have surpassed me - and I concede...

but to think that this is some freaking revelation is bullshit.

We have been talking about it for literally decades. FFS FB threatened to sue me for that which I revealed even here on HN.

Today's "world" has been here since the 70s.
Why stop him at the moon? I heard the Oort cloud has great golf courses.
I heard that he also said that President Trump was too chicken to spend 10 years on the moon too.