skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C'mon, Digital Ocean, why are you so evil?
1. I just signed up at DigitalOcean. Brand new account!

2. Then I payed 5 USD in order to... I don't know, they asked, I payed.

3. Then I saw a lock message of "Verification Process" - Waited for 30 minutes.

4. I opened a nice and friendly ticket support asking why in the hell they are taking an eternity to verify my account, this ticket below (original at http://prntscr.com/gzfqu6)

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Hello DO team,

I am a brannnnd new user, I was happy when I sign up on you.

BUT, Whyyyyyy do you have this "Reviewing process" of a brannnd new account? There's nothing to review here. I sign up, I payed, gooo forward!

I was looking for a AWS alternative, but cmon....

I am jumping the window right now because of you... Ahhhhhhhhh.... Puft.

No, kidding. I am still here. Please answer me. I am waiting for get my servers UP, my client is waiting as well. Huuuurrrrryyy up Dude.

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5. Then I received en email 5 minutes later with this kind words below

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Hi There,

We've finished reviewing your account and cannot allow you access
to the DigitalOcean platform. This decision is final and no other
information is required.

Regards,

Trust & Safety
DigitalOcean Suppor

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5. If I try to open DigitalOcean site, I get an "account loocked" message like this: http://prntscr.com/gzfr7y

6. Whyyyyyy, Jesus, whyyyyyyy? They might have regex filter: "There's AWS letters in the ticket support? Ban!"
Tried right now; QtCreator and chromium are still broken. Curiously, the former is super tiny and the latter huge!
About jGRASP

jGRASP is a lightweight development environment, created specifically to provide automatic generation of software visualizations to improve the comprehensibility of software. jGRASP is implemented in Java, and runs on all platforms with a Java Virtual Machine (Java version 1.5 or higher). jGRASP produces Control Structure Diagrams (CSDs) for Java, C, C++, Objective-C, Python, Ada, and VHDL; Complexity Profile Graphs (CPGs) for Java and Ada; UML class diagrams for Java; and has dynamic object viewers and a viewer canvas that work in conjunction with an integrated debugger and workbench for Java. The viewers include a data structure identifier mechanism which recognizes objects that represent traditional data structures such as stacks, queues, linked lists, binary trees, and hash tables, and then displays them in an intuitive textbook-like presentation view.

jGRASP is developed by the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University.
I tried using it on Fedora 26, where it's the default. It worked well. I tried to install binary Nvidia drivers since that's supposedly possible with some hackery, but couldn't get it to work.
More complex or more complete?
I don't know if this adds or subtracts from your dystopian view, but the act of training the machine would introduce the same reasoning/bias flaws one has.

(see the MIT moral machine)
We will absolutely tackle these languages. We're releasing German for English speakers currently in order to learn better how more customers respond to the methods we're using, and German is more complex grammatically for English speakers than romance languages. Also, I didn't speak any German and I think it's important to use your product yourself.

Personally I want very much to return to Japanese myself some day. As I mentioned in the post, I studied it for several months. It is an interesting question of how best to approach learning kana and kanji, since that's a pretty difficult thing to get fast at. Memorizing a few hundred symbols isn't super hard, but getting so good at them that you can sight-read takes a lot of time and can be frustrating.

I would disagree that learning any language is easy enough, with or without learning a new writing system. That's sort of like saying that learning the piano is easy enough compared to the violin, just because it's always on key. It's still a lot of work before anyone wants to listen to you play.

No matter what language you learn, if you want to become somewhat fluent, you need to memorize several thousand abstract words, new sounds, new grammar rules, etc. It's always a lot of work in absolute terms. I only bring this up because I feel that it's somewhat harmful to say learning a language can be "easy". It often results in people trying to learn, inevitably finding out that it's still a lot of work and then giving up while blaming themselves for being "bad at languages".
Not eliminating. Just recognizing it more.
> Men favour beauty whilst women look for brains

I must seem really dumb.
I can also vouch for the effectiveness of Pimsleur, especially when used in combination with Duolingo to take care of reading/writing and vocab. I had a much easier time when I landed in France because of all the time I put in listening/speaking along the recordings, which is frankly amazing because it's just a fixed set of 30 minute audio lessons, not customized at all!
Interesting, Kaspersky is constantly maligned for simply being USED by Russian spy agencies, or "having associations with" them. Russia and China now demand audits of security software from the USA. Countries build their own national Linuxes now that Windows phones home all your passwords, for the CIA and NSA to easily backdoor or get via an order.

So, why would anyone trust a spy agency's software? Only if it's all open source.
In my experience, (1) is actually really hard to find. The subtitles (of translated english movies) are always subtly different than the audio.
Data Center Costs as a Driving Force for Energy Efficiency: Part 1
I would wager it's intentional.
There is also more scrutiny once you are public. Staying private can keep the authorities at bay.
At least it is repeatable and measurable. But yours isn't.

I'm not sure it's dystopian. Maybe human decision making will be considered art. That's an awesome thing, but not necessary what you do in workplace.
I do a ton of work with CMS's, building sites for non-technical clients who manage their site without much knowledge of HTML, CSS, or any coding/encoding (even markdown would be a bit much for some of my users).

The big win that you get with a block-based system (as opposed to 1 big chunk of HTML) is that it allows us to build out the content editing interface in a way that is very "guided" for the user... like, if there is a photo gallyer, we have a repeating list of slides and they have fields for a photo and a caption. Then on the front-end we can build our HTML+CSS markup around those specific fields. You can't do that easily with 1 big chunk of HTML.
Yeah...based on what I've actually seen in studies about this topic before that weren't Tinder specific, there's essentially no chance that this is true.
So, you agree it is taxation?

(Genuinely not clear to me, not trying to be snarky.)

FWIW when I last researched the issue (maybe 3 years ago) there was also funding from direct taxation used for BBC activities; it was in the published accounts at least.
Do you accept American Engineers? /s

I found the piece to be wonderful. I don't do large scale storage work, so I'm very un-knowledgeable in the area, but it's great to see someone else's struggles other than Amazon or a backup service. And it is yet another indicator that the BBC cares about quality content instead of just pushing up some stock price.

Thanks for you write up
Am I missing the “read more” link or is the whole story just one quote?
> Uber and Lyft were causing a net decrease in public transportation use

Darned consumer choice getting in the way of multi-billion dollar political handouts again [1].

[1] https://www.utrc2.org/publications/final-second-avenue-subwa...
> So I would imagine the GC that you're referring to is working on the blocks marked with TRIM.

Not necessarily. Since flash doesn't support in-place modification of data, any change to a portion of a file (or other FS data structure) that writes less than a contiguous 16MB (depending on the flash) will create a need for GC on the drive with or without TRIM. You can put a drive into a state of needing to do a lot of GC even without changing the quantity of live data.
Weapons of Math Destruction is also a good resource on this topic, about how bias is already being encoded in "black box" algorithms that has real effects on things like the availability of credit.
Your comment isn't very clear, as it's not clear what "socially conservative" assumptions you're alluding to. (As others have pointed out, casual sex, which as I understand is Tinder's main use case, isn't generally looked highly upon by those of a conservative stance.)

If you're saying that Tinder's interface in some way encourages the assymetries the article mentions--men judging more on appearance and women judging more on career prospects, etc.--then perhaps you should explain how, because as far as I know the interface works the same for men and women.
"Some value" might be your standard, but that doesn't mean the choice is capital-efficient.
I think you mean RNDIS?
My morning alarm clocks.
How Fine-Grained Password Policies Can Help
This is an interesting take, but I think part of what makes us human is our inability to disassociate our “domain knowledge” from our sense of self.

Much domain knowledge is in some sense innate or even subconscious, picked up in the field. I think it would be more efficient just to spy on people’s thoughts (and work) in some manner if there is a fear they could misapply their knowledge or leave a critical process hanging.
I had tried spacemacs for a few months, it was nice overall, but everything seemed to be a little bit slower there than in vim, so I eventually switched back to vim.
If you don't need any binary drivers, and can live with libinput (touchpad support is still really bad, mouse is fine though) I'd say go for it.

I've been using wayland for ~6 months now and except for the aforementioned limitations it has been working flawlessly for me.
New neural network teaches itself Go, spanks the pros
When I see these exercises, I think it would be more fun to just play the drums to boost my brain. Here's an article collating studies on rhythm playing and brain effects:

https://www.google.com.pe/amp/s/m.mic.com/articles/amp/89363...

(i do play drums, synth, and guitar.)
Globalisation has marginalised many regions in the rich world
Denuvo’s DRM now being cracked within hours of release
Origin of Elements in the Solar System
> How do you know that? The 2008 was led by public borrowing

Equity versus debt.
Some people disagree but I think most say the stock photos should have alternative text. The photo is there for a reason, to convey something, and the text should indicate that (though usually not explicitly). Usually you don't use "photo" in alt text, the assistive technology will announce "image" with the text, and usually you don't want to call attention to the fact that an image is a stock photo. "Businessman smiling" or "smiling man in suit" would probably be good. You might add some adjectives that help convey why the image was used, "peaceful sunset over mountain."

The goal is not so much to make the best experience for the assistive technology user but to provide as close to the same experience as possible, bullshit marketing crap and all.
Why are air combat kills so rare?
Ask HN: What screensharing software could replace Screenhero on GNU/Linux?
Specifically, I'm basically forced to work within a MacOS or Windows environment in order to work with Screenhero. I've been searching for three months for an alternative and I'm curious what alternatives existing that include multi-pointer/control, cross-platform and are lightweight?

Thanks :)
I run it on Fedora 25. It's nice, but Firefox still uses xwayland and tends to crash the entire session too often. This may be my ancient video card, or it may be xwayland or some combination. Everything else works quite well and I'm looking forward to Fedora 27 which will hopefully fix my issue.

Firefox IMHO really needs to get native Wayland support out of the box. Not sure if Fedora is using the wayland version of LibreOffice, but it should be by now.
Indeed. The most universal and affordable transportation is walking or cycling, and any sort of expansion in protected bicycle infrastructure is met with extreme opposition.
Depends. As long as investors feel the company is using the capital better than the investor can the stock price will reward the move.
I've read a lot of TPR(S) and also Krashen, whose research I believe the system is based on. It is somewhat difficult to use some of this theory over video, but we often discuss what we can take from ideas like this to help beginning speakers when they don't have a wide vocabulary they can access. I'm curious if using TPR(S) helped you learn a language? I own a few books on it, but I haven't seen it actually widely implemented.
Tinder seems to be the paleo diet of dating.
Not a chance. To google means "to search online [using a search engine]".

Have you never witnessed someone googling something using Bing?
I love the concept, I am not so sure if I like the term.
Tightening the leash on fake service dogs
That's Axios for you.
I did this before (manual screenshooting). It'll take 1-2 weeks of full dev work. If you are looking for a quick solution, $7 is less than what I pay at starbucks.
Not really seeing anything in the Go standard library for https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/ht..., most of which we need for microservices.
These simply didn't have market penetration and network effects in the Indias and Indonesias of the world. Probably did not have a dominant network even in the US. Maybe they we a bit ahead of their time of easy internet availability anytime.

The other innovation was WhatsApp used phone numbers already stored on phone address book as identifiers, allowing rapid user onboarding and spread without much effort by the user. Again maybe these others happened before the smartphone revolution making this possible
The opposite. Government entities suck up all the world's crypto experts leaving very few working in the publics interest.
> Have you actually tried? You sound like you're used to Windows where if you change a single piece of hardware the whole OS goes to pieces and needs to be re-installed or go through a painful process of driver searching.

Haha I didn't come here to be a win fanboy, but have you ever actually done this? I build all my own machines and I have removed a windows boot drive from a system, replaced the motherboard and all major components, put the drive back in and booted successfully without making any changes at all. I've done this on NT, XP and 7. Have not yet done it on 10. Some things will definitely not work right, and you will for sure have to update some drivers, but in all likelihood it will boot. It helps if you uninstall the board-specific drivers (chipset, etc) prior to the teardown, but I have done it both ways.
For a lot of users it was their first SMS to Web interface.
The person who named this group is either really clueless or really clever, I don't know which.

"I used to stand for something, I forgot what that could be. There's a lot of me inside you, maybe you're afraid to see"
U.S. lawmakers want to regulate political ads on Facebook, Google and Twitter
So much for that "winner take all" narrative.
Any chance you implement bitcoin/blockchain payments. So I can pay you through code and then programmatically get my token?
Hi there,

I'm in the same boat as you with working on a startup while working so I can attest that it is definitely stressful. But it's definitely possible to build up your mental resilience.

I practice Nichiren Buddhism and chant daily to keep my spirits up. Happy to share my experience with you. I also read quite a bit of different sorts of material as well.

For actionable advice, the easiest thing you can do at this very moment is to take deep breaths (not-related to Nichiren Buddhism but which I found useful as well) and really let your mind wander about the great things that have come your way through life. Many people are significantly less fortunate than we are to be here. The fact that I can do so much with my time is what I feel thankful for.
The article specifically portrays women as less superficial, which OP was saying didn't match personal experiences (in America) but that it could be because it was done in the UK. Cultural differences could definitely cause something like that. Although personally I think it's probably just bullshit.
I switched over during fedora 24 and haven't had any issues in a long time. By now the original bugs I had have been ironed out
This is interesting, and kind of odd.

The article claims the failure of previous brain-training studies came from choosing the wrong techniques, but the evidence on dual n-back specifically has been conflicted for quite a while; this isn't the first study on it.

What's interesting here is that a lot of the best results on dual n-back in the past have concluded that it's mostly promising to fight cognitive decline or boost recovery. Previous work on boosting memory in young, mentally-healthy people has come up with basically nothing.

I'm hoping that this is the better and more-powerful study, and that n-back does boost general working memory. But the cynic in me is wondering if the chosen working-memory metric was simply more vulnerable to training effects from n-back than from complex span.

https://www.gwern.net/DNB-meta-analysis
This doesn't happen in practice though. 99% of adults realize that different performance leads to difference in salary. 99% of adults can understand why their coworker gets paid more than them.

The "market solution" only awards to the best negotiators.
I would love to get away from Android, but this is helping as much as Ubuntu on Windows is helping to get away from Windows.

If you'd want debian natively this also was possible for a while, next to the option to have it run on a compatibility mode on top of your android kernel but does not even require root. Both methods supporting apt-get, X, and whatever else runs on ARM.

Then there is also the Ubuntu phone project (which i assume is pretty much dead meanwhile) which has no Android in the mix at all. Except a possible compatibility layer for apps.

Also its not a half-assed linux. Its just a linux that uses weird libraries to build their environment on which are not compatible with your desktop like environments.
Yes they will allow for a degree of inefficiency if it removes human factor.

The reasoning will go, yes we are losing $1 on every automated transaction, but we can make more of them, and we certainly avert one $10,000 corruption case and one $100,000 case where we get sued for human decision.

You can't sue machine learning algorighm (that how it would go). But human, you can, even frivolously.
> It is estimated that data centers consume between three and five percent of the world's power. Apparently, bigger is better when it comes to data center operations.

This is only going to increase as the world becomes more and more digitally driven. I bet we'll see a lot of consolidation in the upcoming years. There will still be smaller "edge" data centers in key markets, but the strategy of building large 200MW+ data centers is here to stay.

> Another strategy that data center operators are using to become more energy efficient is to look for natural resources to benefit. Google for example is pumping seawater into one of their data centers. At Microsoft, engineers are exploring housing data centers underwater. Technically speaking, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, computer scientists have found that by slashing the common queries or "caches" energy consumption can be greatly reduced.

I wonder if larger energy savings will come from the software side of things or from the traditional mechanical engineering side (more efficient cooling systems/electric power infrastructures). Either way, its definitely an interesting industry to keep an eye on.
I'd say that Ubuntu MATE (16.04) with the redmond layout and advanced menu enabled is the best alternative to Windows 7 I've yet seen in a Linux distro.
Why Are So Many Monsters Hybrids?
They must know some chemistry surely, like weathering effects on concrete; effects of potential chemical spills, eg on roadways, metal-concrete-surfacing interactions.

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Samsung also has a webkit-Javascript based SDK as well. It's actually pretty good as it exposes a lot of OS functionality in the JavaScript API. It might be the best option right now.
My apologies. I misunderstood you.
> Users are allowed to think it's censorship once they lose their value or become a liability.

To someone who happened to live under a de facto Soviet occupation (not de jure, after all it was just a "requested friendly intervention with the noble intent of suppressing the rising nation-wide anti-people criminal elements, that just kind of somehow happened to last for a few decades"), this kind of wording (and the associated themes) sound indeed very familiar.

But it's interesting to see how many HN users don't see this as troubling at all, at least judging by the dozen (-s?) of downvotes that my original comment earned me since posting, not even mentioning how quickly other people that somehow dared to draw a parallel between censorship and the other, friendly kind of censorship got quickly downvoted into white five minutes from posting.
Can you explain how VCs are a pipe for Fed money?
It definitely has a larger impact with language ecosystems like Rust's and Go's.
> The Ubuntu GNOME flavor has been discontinued. If you are using Ubuntu GNOME, you will be upgraded to Ubuntu. Choose the Ubuntu session from the cog on the login screen if you would like the default Ubuntu experience.

Installing "gnome-session" should provide the default GNOME desktop (the default GNOME is a heavily modified one). I have not upgraded yet, so have not tried, but read on OMGUbuntu.
Worst is that some information is only provided in the comments and not in the documentation itself.
Usually what people mean by deterrence is the idea that people won't commit crimes because of the fear of punishment weighted by the risk of getting caught. I don't think that has much real effect, because the risk of getting caught is generally low. I'm talking about something somewhat different, which is that we use punishment of certain conduct to reinforce (or to establish) the social norm that the conduct is bad and shameful.

Take something like sexual harassment. Overt sexual harassment was much more common in the 1980s than today. One could hypothesize that this is because we started punishing sexual harassment by firing people for doing it. That begs the question: would men sexually harass their coworkers if there was no risk of punishment? Most men would say no. But are men today just better people than men 40 years ago? Probably not. Rather, what we've done through punishment is create a social norm. In most people, violating a social norm creates negative feelings even in the absence of punishment.

What I'm describing is like deterrence, but different in important ways. Classic deterrence suggests a rational calculus: if the benefit is greater than the punishment weighted by the risk of getting caught, people will engage in the behavior. That suggests that you can decrease crime through harsher sentences and more aggressive enforcement. But that doesn't square with observed reality: in many European countries, for example, the maximum sentence for murder is only 15 years, but people commit far fewer murders than in the U.S.

If you view the point of the criminal justice system as establishing social norms, then the length of punishment and aggressiveness of enforcement matter a lot less. So long as both are enough to clearly establish the social norm, that's sufficient to discourage ordinary people from engaging in the undesirable conduct.
Experiments in free-space optics go even further back. In 1963, a group of amateur radio operators established a laser comms link at 190km:

http://www.modulatedlight.org/eos/operation_red_line_gallery...