skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A predator like me – a contribution to the sexual harassment discourse
A majority of the people being killed in road accidents are not causative agents in their own deaths - are you unconcerned about that?
Like Watership Down, Plague Dogs was made into an animated film, which can be found available on the intertubes.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084509/
While I dislike this behavior of chrome, you should never be able to set a users password.
"Psst.. You wanna see how far the nefariousness goes? Follow the money.., follow the orb..."

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/8559731/Ge...
The article is really asking "why does the tech industry accept Saudi money?", not "why does Saudi Arabia invest in tech companies?"
Maybe the problem is the point where they exploit their own citizens, enslave foreigners, fund terrorism, and abuse women - not where they do all that and then invest money in US tech industry? Otherwise it sounds like we're ok with all this enslavement, abuse and all, but just to a point - and the breaking point where we say "no more! we really need to have a serious talk about it now!" is buying AAPL stock. Doesn't sound good to me.
"Either I badly misunderstood or the author is asserting that 50% of all websites rely on touch/scroll events being cancellable. That's inflated by at least 100x. Exaggeration is doing no favors here; the rest of the article is pretty rational despite it being clear that the author is pissed off, but this one sentence undermines it.
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The funniest part of this sentence is that it cites no source.
Meanwhile, Google claims very clearly that they analyzed websites and determined pretty much nothing would break.

Given the internet did not break that day, i'm going to go with "They were probably right".

Especially since, unlike this website, they have the crawl data to know.
I had this exact surgery (robot-assisted laproscopic complete nephrectomy) back on September 22nd.

In my case, once the doc got in there, the tumor+kidney was too big and they had to cut a normal open incision to get it out.

So, I ended up with three tiny laproscopic scars and one big 10" scar.
I have been following this judge, Leonie Brinkema for about twenty years. Her court and rulings are interesting and amusing. It seems to me like she lets a lot of nonsense fly to rule in favor of her personal beliefs or patrons or whatever they may be. I think I have caught her applying different rules at times. This might be an abusive technical default judgment, considering the actual value of the works and other issues like process service shenanigans that are common with these judgments.

I would love to hear what her rationale for this dollar amount is. After watching her for so long, the "airplane" level of "unbelievable bs" in her transcripts and rulings makes me want to wager the answer is among: they're my friends; I like this type of plaintiff; this is the order they presented and I simply signed it without consideration or review.
Ok, but he is kind of like a CEO. At the very least...you can see the analogy right?
The librarian is not for a single project, but the entire company. The librarian's job is to make sure that as much information as possible is stored in a manner that is searchable and accessible to all employees who need the information when they need it with minimal effort.
There is something to this argument, but it's ruined.

The author and many others don't like Saudi Arabia and Russia. That's the main reason for advocating a boycott of their investment money, because while the author mentions the poor human rights records of those two countries as the reason, there are plenty of other countries with such records. The main example of which is China, which is of course not mentioned.

The US itself has a poor human rights record on many things, and especially given our current president, had the author been writing from any other country, the US might have been on the list of countries whose money should not be accepted.

I'm not saying the US is as bad as China and Russia and Saudi Arabia. I'm not even saying China is as bad as Russia and Saudi Arabia. I am saying that if you care deeply about this, you should mention more than the easiest targets, if only to avoid the appearance of bias.

The bias also shows itself by considering an entire country as a single entity, when the author says we should not accept Russian investors' money. To justify it, the author says that if a Russian investor has ties to Kremlin-backed companies, they should be off limits. But that probably encompasses a large number of Russian investors. Same as the group of investors with ties to companies funded by US government money (DARPA, NSA, CIA, etc.).
be careful with that Seriously repository. The link to seriouslyjs(dot)org appears to be trying to install malware.
> Today's mapping apps have always, in my experience as a user, failed terribly here: searching for something always shows results in a X mile radius around you; this includes useless results that are behind me, or completely irrelevant due to being hard to get to.

Google maps does have a nice search feature for on the way while you are navigating. https://www.greenbot.com/article/2995423/google-apps/google-...
This is a more interesting angle than merely looking for ROI. The power of social media to bring about unrest is definitely an incentive for regimes to control said social media. OTOH, we are now getting decentralized social media such as Mastodon.
Same answer: simple avarice.

There is a lot of Saudi money and they are willing to invest it. And their money is just as good for hiring programmers and renting servers as anyone else's.
He is the chief of the executive branch, and the commander in chief of the US military, so arguably he is a CEO.
Companies, except Twitter and Kingdom Holdings, take money from Softbank's Vision Fund. This fund incidentally has a lot of backing from the Saudis. Softank is a famous name in the VC and tech circle.

So, I am wondering how many tech startups do a reverse due diligence on the companies offering them money? Is that a normal expected practice?
Blupee gem – Create secure Ethereum apps with one line of Ruby
YAML Idiosyncrasies
No insight into Omega, but natural language interfaces to spreadsheets/databases exist.

Google Sheets has an implementation if you click the explore button in the bottom right hand corner.

I made a dummy spreadsheet with columns name & warehouse, then typed in "how many units of rose gold are there in la" and it got the query right. It even got "how many rose gold units are in los angeles" correct despite the spreadsheet never saying los angeles. But it's pretty easy to trip it up; if you make an item called "rose gold" and "rose gold ring" and ask it for rose gold, it assumes you want the exact match. If you ask it for items in la or sf, it will only give you a count for the first condition. If you ask it about California, it will get confused.

Still pretty impressive for a two column spreadsheet though IMO.
You've got a lot of hubris saying that. You don't think this hasn't been repeated before?

The truth is that a currency gains more utility when people value it more which in turn makes it more valuable. Until you see that you will continue to be blindslided by it's growth.
Not quite, this is just creating the installer ISO. However, macOS is perfectly happy to be installed on an external hard drive or USB drive, and that can be booted on any Mac that supports the macOS version on the drive.
Thoughts on Dremio
This is the classic Simpson's Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
An Open Secret
He still is. Reamde is a fantastic story of the seedy underbelly of World of Warcraft gold.
When I was in my late teens and doing security things on the internet (1992/93) I used the handle Silverweed and everyone assumed it was a pot reference.
Uh, I believe Cmd-Shift-4 saves the image directly to the desktop, then I usually hit one of my hot corners that shows the desktop, grab it, hit the corner again and drop in the image. It's usually pretty quick. I did not know about holding Ctrl copies the file, I'll probably use that more often now because it probably is a little faster. But if you want to save an image you don't have to open up preview to save it or anything.
Similar questions can be asked about our 401Ks/pensions. Our retirements partially ride on the backs of companies that have done no-so-great things to society.
Em may be a relative size, but it's based on a font whose size is specified in points or pixels. Thus it's indirectly a physical measurement too.

Although points are formally defined as a physical size, they really only make sense in their historical context - the printed page.

I think the W3C definitions make the most sense when relating measurements to displays. You are encouraged to use definitions that are flexible but consistent with the context of your display. https://www.w3.org/TR/css-values-3/#absolute-lengths
> which other UIs do you prefer

Well, I haven't flown other glass cockpits. I just find the G1000 clunky and a bit unintuitive, that's why I was wondering whether there are still viable and possibly better competitors out there.
Earn upto $10000 promoting clickbank products without a website
Yes, they very moderately chant "death to America", very moderately openly promise to wipe Israel from the map, very moderately openly finance and arm terrorist organizations, and so on. All very moderately. And of course their nukes that they'll get pretty soon will be also completely moderate.
A new site to share interesting blog posts and get visits
despite the game of thrones "fun" going on there right now

That's simultaneously a reference to George R. R. Martin and Toys for Bob!
The world needs new rules for powerful tech companies
I'm not judging a civilization as a whole, I'm merely blaming it for losing that knowledge.

Also: if islam ever was open (depends very strongly on what you mean by that), it didn't remain so.
I think the answer is that Silicon Valley is all those things. They are caught up in a moral panic. Look at their history: pro women's right's publically, but sexist privately; anti-school choice for the average person, but sends their kids to private school ; reject new water pipeline for farmers because piped water over long distance is unnatural; keeps existing water rights to their cities. Silicon Valley is not and probably never has been virtuous ; it has often virtue signaled.
The alternatives in the US are the judicial and legislative branches.
Yes, that's basically it. I think there are at least two different mistakes that can be made.

When a font is rendered you usually calculate the per-pixel coverage. Mistake one is to interpret those coverage values as if they're sRGB colors (so 50% coverage would be #808080 which is a rather dark gray in sRGB, not mid-gray). That makes text look heavier than it should be, and makes diagonal lines look jaggy.

Mistake two is to blend sRGB colors directly rather than converting them to a linear space first. That can give colored fringes on blended images, because the RGB intensities get skewed.
Go look at the typical contents of a soccer mom's car and you will realize why what you just said is very short-sighted. For some people cars are not just a method to get from A to B in the morning and from B to a in the evening.
What You Should Know About the ‘KRACK’ WiFi Security Weakness
The Andromeda description link explains that there are special OS drivers for it. Anyone know what part of the magic is guest side?
Stack Overflow Developer Desktop Build – 2017
> See that's the bit that's weird to me. My OS drives are small SSD's and the spinning platters are all comfortably full.

You have to remember that you know what you're doing. You know how much space you need and you know how to add more later, so you don't buy more than you need.

The typical person buys a 2TB hard drive because they have "thousands of photos" and the 2TB drive is only $15 more than the 0.5TB drive, even though "thousands of photos" consume like 0.005TB.

And they're rational to do it because they know they aren't good at predicting whether they will fill the smaller drive and it's worth $15 to hedge against the ordeal of adding more storage later.

Which means many people will buy a 2TB drive and use it to store 75GB of data.
By reading this article, you’re mining Bitcoins for others
As opposed to the republican/conservative leaning Congress and Supreme Court (this could get pretty lopsided if something happens to Ruth Bader Ginsburg)?

For example, how many same party congressmen have come out against Trump who aren't planning on a job change or retirement?

Just a note. I'm not taking sides for any political party in my post. Just stating how things look to me in our current branches.
He’s been making stuff successfully for years, well after music made him and the BEP famous.
You don't understand people.

The purpose of political rhetoric is political. The purpose of pro-human-rights language in the west is to change the political order in the west to the advantage of the orators. It is NOT to make things pro-human-rights.

So you're violating the rules. You propose actual change. This is not allowed. You only get to propose putting the current favorites into "power" (for them of course the same rules apply: they don't get to make actual change except on the edges of the sidelines. E.g. assign construction projects to their favorites).

This is as true in San Francisco as it is in Washington.
Some Rules for Historians (1973)
Aw I can't take the quiz?

https://pleasestopnamingvulnerabilities.com/integers.html
So--money is money?

I was going to bring up ethics/morality, but maybe it's all basically dirty?
Apologies, I posted incorrect info. We're only hiring for ONSITE candidates, no REMOTE.
I understand that we should consider the human cost in this sense, but if you're going to appeal to the empathy I have for the people who lose jobs, you can't ignore the people which benefit from the "industries being sent overseas" by receiving those jobs. Of course I'm sad when I see a homeless person in the US, and yes some of them are homeless because their jobs "moved overseas", but those jobs might have helped a few really poor Chinese farmers attain a higher standard of living as factory workers. How do we account for that?
Thought provoking story of the failure of sharing automobiles
You can generally trust your connections to your acquaintances, and companies/personas you know from elsewhere.

It's all the external feeds wanting your attention & commenters throwing in their 2 bits that are the random noise. This is the domain where the propagandists are working, and where there is no and should be no trust. There's no difference between some nobody posting from their personal account, and some nobody posting from their account that they've slapped a logo on. There's no distinguishable difference between 100 nobodies throwing in their heartfelt opinion, and 100 bots repeating the opinion of 1 nobody.
Microsoft Word sizes everything for the printer. What you see on screen is merely an approximation. This actually makes sense, since printers will be more consistent than screens.
Yeah, of course that's probably the reason.
We don't need to imagine. Lots of sites abused autofill in order to prevent password management. That's why autocomplete=off gets stomped.
China Reinvents Literature – Profitably
It's a very efficient way to typeset good looking mathematics. Of course, that's no surprise, because that's what it was built for.
Diplomacy is the art of saying “good dog” until you make it to the rock. We’re not to the rock yet.

I’d agree with your sentiment that they’re too much of an ally for anything meaningful to be done about their investments, but the winds shift quickly.
For people wondering why this might be relevant to HN - I came across this piece while reading about the origins of UC Santa Cruz and thought some of the advice here was insightful and potentially useful to people who write in general. I like this one for instance:

"Once you have fallen in love with your subject write about it as swiftly as possible. Passion grows cold or turns readily to dogma. There is, generally speaking, nothing more disheartening than an historian who has devoted his whole life to one narrowly conceived subject. It is very largely true that the best work - if one takes into account its length and scope - has been done in a remarkably short time."
yep kind of confused to. The silicon valley is a for-profit sector, when they write "diversity, inclusiveness, fairness" and so forth on their banners they are very much qualifying this within a business context.

People need to be a little more honest and accept that those slogans are marketing messages, nobody in the valley is seriously going to turn an investment away for moral reasons
Here is a simple little Python script that uses BeautifulSoup and requests to download all the books from the purchased books page.

http://paste.openstack.org/show/625665/

You of course need to have purchased the books to access that page :)

Using Firefox, I do: File->Save Page As

Then save it. Rename the *.html file to index.html and then run the script.

http://paste.openstack.org/show/625665/

I did this because I was too lazy to click Save As 30+ times :)
You’re thinking of iOS. That doesn’t apply to the Mac.
opp, apparently not haha. Interesting, I guess working at Uber wasn't that great
That happens all the time, and unfortunately it isn't regarded as a bug. There's no specification or agreement that requires font renderers to match up.

Font rendering used to be all about bitmaps, then as TrueType matured it was all about aggressively hinting (and auto-hinting) to fit the pixel grid, and we haven't fully gotten away from that.

Of all the main OSes, I think OS X and iOS do the least hinting, but I don't know if they do no hinting; and many people dislike the blurry text on OS X. (I don't see any complaints about blurriness on iOS, though, where you always have really high screen resolution now.)

It would be technically feasible for all font renderers to product identical output (or at least to provide such an option) but nobody seems to care enough to push for it.
This will continue as long as homeless folks are given a one way bus ticket to land up in west coast from the red states.
Casual Trivia: Watership Down inspired one of the earliest role playing games, Bunnies and Burrows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnies_%26_Burrows
Because some people just want to read the PDF?
I wouldn't say "nobody." I am personally aware of people who have, for example, turned down money from Yuri Milner/DST for reasons that were at least somewhat moral in nature. So it does happen. But these people had other good options so it was really a choice of who they were going to take money from.

It's when you don't have a choice or a questionably moral party offers significantly better terms that it's hard to turn it down.
Java interfaces map to Haskell records
Was flash a standard? Also, flash still works, it's a click away with a button in the location bar for sites that try to use it.
Bizarre that co2 emissions are not mentioned in the article or the first couple of pages of comments here. That's the obvious high bit of why private car culture is unsustainable and immoral.
As far as broadcom and intel drivers. Intel is definately superior. I have both chipsets in my devices, and I've had bugs in broadcom drivers cost me hours more than once.
David Lee files lawsuit against former partner Ron Conway
This sounds exactly like sanctions, and they’re a pretty well-established concept
What's wrong with scaling the entire high-DPI display? At least assuming you mean an OS-level thing that scales up font sizes and UI elements, not just scaling the raw pixels.
Air Force failure enabled Texas gunman to obtain firearms
See also: SchemaSpy
West has been buying oil from ME for decades...
That is a trade no?
> you should mention more than
> the easiest targets, if only
> to avoid the appearance of
> bias

You’re arguing for purity over pragmatism
Chromoscope: the Milky Way in different wavelengths
If I'm editing a Word document, I'm designing something to be printed. If I set zoom to 100% I expect the screen to display the exact size a paper would.

But I'm designing when I'm in Word, it's not necessary or convenient to do all of my work at 1:1 scaling, that's what the ruler is for.
Saudi Oil Fuels the NYT's vehicle. It's time to Ask Why?
Qualcomm has had commercials. Sometimes in pricey spots. They also have or had one or two stadium naming rights. So at least they'd be known by name (vaguely) by a decent percentage of Americans. Though would they know what Qualcomm does at all like even just "something with mobile devices"? No clue.

Not really a retort. Just Qualcomm is at least known perhaps more than all the other companies combined. As little as that's worth.
Plenty of “green” and “social” funds if you’re worried about that, and I note that sovereign wealth funds and public sector pension funds do indeed concern themselves with questions like this
their banners they are very much qualifying this within a business context.
Isolation has been proven not to spread capitalism as well as trade. China, Iran, and more got better at human rights with free trade with free capitalistic societies
I was allowed to use the internet as much as I wanted after 10pm to 2am to avoid tying up the family phone line
> need to be posited than simple avarice.

Are we more likely to see more inherited value come from net negative cash ROI investments? (example - campaign donation) Sure. However, I think it's wrong to assume that just because we return a net positive cash ROI on a financial investment that we shouldn't assume that a non-cash ROI value is achievable.
What Whole Foods are you shopping at that's as cheap as Aldi??!
Update on the Bitcoin SegWit2x hard fork November 14
A sentiment and network analysis of Stranger Things
Regarding the lack of upstream work, a former Qualcomm VP told me that the major reason they minimize any open source work is that their lawyers are paranoid that any accidental IP leak might endanger their patent-related revenue streams (80% of their pre-tax profits are from patent licensing). Given that patents are public information, I'm not sure I understand the exact logic there, but I've seen this general kind of legal paranoia play out before.

Their non-Android Linux BSPs are especially bad since they're frankensteined together from a subset of their AOSP tree with their only concern being to meet the minimal requirements of some high-volume customer contract.
> Why is this complicated?

Because people make investments all of the time that produce more than just currency returns. That's the argument and hence why it's complicated.
We don’t have any moral or ethical ability to police the Saudis or any other foreign state on those issues, and moralizing from afar accomplishes nothing.
But the tech industry and the individuals within it can choose who we do business with, cries of “fiduciary duty” notwithstanding.
> Types (or "type expressions") are expressions whose type is type.

This is only true in dependently typed languages. And even then, soundness requires stratifying types into universes or something similar.

> In other words, types are higher order expressions.

This isn't the meaning of higher order as it applies to programming languages or the standard isomorphism to logic.
Man, you could almost have done this back in pre-CSS days with tables, if you didn't mind setting the total width of the whole thing including margins instead of just the inner width.

<table style="width:75%"> // Total width of all three
<tr>
<th width="50%">LeftMargin</th>
<th width="25%">Main</th>
<th width="25%">RightMargin</th>
</tr>
</table>

How far have we really come?
In web design, at least, there are plenty of relative-size units available to create a scalable, responsive design. Em, rem, %, vw, and vh are all very useful for this. In my designs I almost exclusively use these units, with little to no issues.
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