skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook recently started sending me notifications that somebody unknown was trying to log into my account, that they'd temporarily blocked it, and later re-enabled it. The emails actually come from Facebook, the problem is that the email address they're contacting me on is one I've never used for Facebook. The email contains a link to log into Facebook to "fix" the situation, but I obviously can't log in. The other link in the email is to unsubscribe from their notifications, but not from Facebook. There is absolutely no way for me to say "yes, this is my email address, and no, it should not be tied to Facebook in any way". There is also no way for me to check what Facebook account is supposedly attached to this email. This feels incredibly underhanded, it's either "join Facebook, or risk having somebody steal an account you never created". So back to the point of the article, Facebook is at the very least passively encouraging this fake profile stuff, and the cynic in me thinks it might not be that passive...
>There's a high performance C++ (with neon simd acceleration) implementation at [0]

DX7 fans (like me) already know your implementation, it is famously used by the Dexed software. Thanks raphlinus, for making the world a better place.
How to design better Android app push notifications in your wireframing tool
How would you know if he had? Or is this some advanced sarcasm.
Leti claims 3D chip breakthrough on 300mm wafers
uBlock Origin and uMatrix are your friends. Here's how it looks for me (zoomed way out): https://tmp.thekyel.com/month/2017.11.14.08.33.1510677203.pn...
No need to go to expensive university to be an artist or philosopher, especially if one acknowledges that probably noone would hire you for that.
And considering the major/minor setup in US education, you could always major in something that is in demand, and minor in philosophy.
Unless one believes that one needs to be pained to make art or thoughtful critique, I think we might get more of it if people were less burdened by student debt.
The ethereum white paper is also quite straightforward to read. https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper
Looks like it still uses a separate window, which is less than ideal, for me at least.
Just a little correction, naturally soured cream isn't spoiled but is fermented by lactic acid bacteria that occur naturally in raw milk. To sour pasteurized cream you don't let it spoil, but introduce the right kind of bacteria.
I can certainly see why multiple branches aren't popular - device fragmentation is bad enough without trying to identify which update branches are affected by some new security bug.

That said, I think companies that require up-to-date devices for security fixes deserve less leeway about the contents of their non-security releases. I've gotten multiple smartphone updates which I considered entirely harmful - they traded cosmetic or vendor-friendly changes against worse battery/performance/usability - and I think "let us break your device or you can't have security" is an unacceptable proposition.
>The net effect was a lot of poorer EU citizens did go to the UK to essentially go on welfare because it was more than they could reasonably earn (if they could even get jobs) in their home countries.

And the UK could have easily told them off.

[2]

>"The Court of Justice points out that, under the [EU freedom of movement] directive, the host member state is not obliged to grant social assistance during the first three months of residence," the ruling reads.

>In case people stay longer than three months but less than five years and have no job, they "must have sufficient resources on their own," the court added.

>"A member state must therefore have the possibility of refusing to grant social benefits to economically inactive Union citizens who exercise their right to freedom of movement solely in order to obtain another member state’s social assistance although they do not have sufficient resources to claim a right of residence," the judges ruled.

>And that situation is untenable.

[3]

EEA (EU+) migrants are contributing more than native citizens, if you believe a study cited by the bbc

>So now the EU doesn't want any discussions on trade and other issues until the UK agrees to a "divorce settlement". The problems with this tactic are that the UK handing over huge sums of cash to the EU was second to immigration as a reason for people to vote Leave and, more importantly, how can you agree on a price for something and then go on to negotiate what you've bought?

Afaik the EU position is, that the divorce bill isn't a price for what the UK will get, it is what the UK owes from its time as a member.

[1]

>The EU hasn’t officially asked for any particular sum of money, but does say that “the United Kingdom must honour its share of the financing of all the obligations undertaken while it was a member”.

>The EU actually needs the money from the UK to balance their own budget so the EU has got a lot to lose here.

But if the EU can deal with the loss of UK money, this would also end the whole UK special deal stuff.

[1]
https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-divorce-bill/

[2]
https://euobserver.com/justice/126466

[3]
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-24813467
State Socialism is not the only form of socialism. Libertarian Socialists predicted in the 19th century that state socialism would lead to tyranny.

Let me share my favourite political quote by Mikhail Bakunin:

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality"

I think the 20th century has proven him correct on both counts. We need both socialism and freedom in equal measure, which is exactly what North-European social democracies are trying to do. Imperfectly still, but it's already better than any alternative I've seen.
I remember that post. I also remember when I first learned that Nigerian scammers are actually for Nigeria. I thought for sure they'd pick a different country than their actual one.
Alright. Is anyone else here using Firefox's master password and found a solution in FF57?

I have been using Master Password+ extension for a very long time, but without it using a master password is hell. I had a lot of other modules, but this one was the reason I was still using firefox.

The annoying password prompt taking focus like popups in IE every time you open the navigator or a website you are not logged in is just crazy. It is annoying enough that I am asking myself if anyone at Mozilla even using Firefox accounts and master passwords.

Does anyone have a nice sync alternative to firefox accounts that include bookmarks and passwords (and it would be even better if I can sync using a git repo)
Mozilla absolutely made the right decision to dump a decade's worth of legacy code to improve performance, and make the future happen now. Let's be real: had they supported legacy extensions, extension developers would ignore porting until Mozilla finally said "that's been long enough, we're removing legacy support". The result is simply that the rough transition happens now instead of a couple of years down the line.

Every popular extension will be ported within a matter of weeks, worst case scenario 2-3 months for those that are unabanonded, but less popular. If you are missing a deal-breaker extension, then don't upgrade yet... how is that a bad thing? "But I want the latest and greatest, super fast Firefox now - with all my extensions!". Talk about wanting to have one's cake and eat it too. The new Firefox wouldn't be new and improved if it was backwards-compatible with the stone age.
Shameless self promotion:

SearchIT is something that I made and use almost everyday
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/searchit/fioambgbh...

You can swap where you are searching easily. Maybe someday I will eventually add more sites, but no promises. It's open source here:
https://github.com/IanBurgan/SearchIT
The fact that the office of the “crony” in question says the investigation has a particular motive is very far from dispositive evidence that that is the motivation.
We have "responsible gun laws" from sea to shining sea and they haven't helped much. Background checks are the greatest false sense of security ever invented. The people who call for responsible gun laws really just want guns banned. Which not coincidentally is what the people who want responsible encryption laws to do also--they have wanted to ban crypto since Zimmerman poked them all in the eye back in the '90s. It truly amazes me that we are even having this debate again!

Either we are free people able to do as we please with our property or we are serfs on a plantation. Free people have both the right to self defense and access to the proper tools without them being dumbed down.
OneTab. It has serious issues, but I haven't found a replacement. Solves the problem of having so many tabs open. And solves my information addiction - usually after I OneTab it I tend not to care about it anymore (even though that wasn't my goal).
> Maybe you've heard of Dota 2 or Overwatch, two massively profitable and popular games with no interactive content behind transactions.

I agree with what you're saying, but there's a small amendment to that: with Overwatch, you can buy loot boxes for extra character skins or sprays. But the impact on the game is minimal[0]. Loot boxes start at $1 each (with volume discounts available), but you also get one for free every time you level up, which happens every 5 games or so[1], in addition to a loot box for every three arcade-mode games you win (up to three boxes per week).

In my mind, this is the right way to do it: the content is good enough to be engaging and worth paying a small amount of money for if you really want a certain skin, but you can also decide never to pay one cent after you initially buy the game and still feel like you're getting the full experience.

[0] There are a couple of cases where certain emotes can make it easy to hide in an unexpected location, affecting gameplay, but they're rare enough that the videos get shared widely, and once they're no longer secret, they don't impact the competitive meta-game measurably. In other words, it's self-correcting: there's no systematic way that buying loot boxes to get all the skins/emotes/sprays/etc. allows you to consistently improve your competitive advantage over other players.

[1] Depends on whether or not you win, how well you personally play in each round, whether you're in a group, etc.
I suspect I got downvoted because I called Vegas "low rent" which was interpreted as a criticism.

That said, its really hard to find reliable trades people there. Plumbers, electricians, carpenters, Etc. My typical experience is that if I manage to find one, after a short while they are over booked with demand. And Vegas has a fairly low cost of living (low rents and house prices) so it would seem that folks who are getting all the work they can handle are doing well.
Chinese Bitcoin mining shutdowns; how is Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin Cash affected?
There's another reason why I want JavaScript in the browser to die:

We haven't had a new browser engine written from scratch since KHTML. Firefox is a descendant of Netscape, Chrome (and Safari) is a descendant of WebKit which is itself a descendant of KHTML, Edge is closed source, but I'm almost sure there's some old IE code in there.

Why?

It's simply too expensive to create a fast (and compatible) JS engine.

If WebAssembly takes off, I hope that one we'll have more than three browser engines around.
I'm guessing this doesn't apply to those who are on KDE?
Is there a way to import bookmarks from Chrome?
I don't mind paying extra if new features are released, including new characters and new schemes. But it seems like the main characters (e.g. Vader, Bobba Fett etc.) should be achievable. I mean, that's kinda the point of buying a franchise game right? You want to play as one of your favorite characters.

This made me look around a bit and I came across this excellent piece explaining how the economy of the game is fucked up: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/11/can-ea-fix-whats-brok.... Maybe they should go the Valve way and hire an actual economist to design their economy?
I can't really articulate why but, for some reason, I don't really see the NRA getting involved in this too deeply. I could see them issuing a statement opposing it or some such but not much beyond that.

(Lifetime member of the NRA but I have no special insight or knowledge.)
Great collection here: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love
This seems to be explained in better detail by https://bo0om.ru/chrome-and-safari-uxss. Working via Google Translate, the claim seems to be that using MHTML and XSLT allows you to bypass the sandboxing rules and inject JavaScript that bypasses the same-origin policy.

The linked blog credits a Chromium patch that led to the discovery of this exploit: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/65...
You can say whatever you want. It's just, as a general rule, impolite to make comments on people's physical appearance even if you mean well and it always has been. Doubly so in the workplace. People are impolite all the time, when you are a married women like I am, intimate details of your uterus suddenly becomes something strangers talk about. Extremely rude, but unfortunately common. Behaving politely in the office is in your best interest.

It's not about "neutering our humanity," it's about etiquette. Defecation is an essential part of humanity and life, yet there's something preventing you from just dropping your pants and taking a shit wherever you happen to be when the urge hits you.

https://hbr.org/2003/12/in-praise-of-boundaries-a-conversati...

>Martin makes a compelling case that business needs more etiquette, not less. Without some formality in social intercourse, she argues, human interactions end up being governed by laws, which are too blunt to guide people through the nuances of personal—or professional—behavior.

"Nice haircut" is pretty benign but best avoided. Many times people feel the need to make rude comments about others but try to disguise it into a backhanded complement. You don't want to be misunderstood.
The biggest change I'm waiting for is fractional scaling support for Gnome under Weyland. This is achievable under X using some combination of integer scaling and xrandr, and Ubuntu 17.04 had support for it out of the box via the gui (not sure of the underlying implementation).

Fortunately this change is expected in Gnome 3.28, which is only a few months away. Having that will mean a lot to those of us using HiDPI displays that aren't quite pixel dense enough for 200% scaling.
It should be noted that there are booleans associated with selinux, the defaults have quite a few booleans that make it easy to allow commonly requested behaviour.

`getsebool -a` and `setsebool` are your friends.
Feature Engineering: The Secret to Data Science
How we build real-time features using Node.js and SocketIO
Bandsintown opens its music event listings to venues and festivals
Are you asking about "linux" meaning a non-Android linux phone?

If you include Android -- I have had a satisfactory experience with both the Samsung Galaxy S6 and LG Nexus 5x. The 5x did bootloop recently but Nexus repaired it (and upgraded to 32GB) beyond the end of their warranty.
The name is brilliant.
You should be aware that this is a very questionable documentary and the makers of the documentary who are now the presenters of the TV show have been credibly accused of faking footage and exploiting the subject.

> Some journalists and film critics have cast doubt on the filmmakers motivations. Kyle Buchanan of MovieLine questions why the filmmakers would begin obsessively documenting Nev's online relationship so early on, and argues that it is highly improbable that media-savvy professionals like the Schulmans and Joost would not use the Internet to research Megan and her family before meeting them. Buchanan and others have suggested that the filmmakers likely discovered the fabrications in Wesselman-Pierce's story earlier than is presented in the film and pretended to be fooled only so that they could exploit her story for the documentary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish_(film)#Authenticity
Sorry, didn't see I got an answer here a few days ago already. Someone else located the bug faster than me and made a bug-report (WebGL being broken - lot of people notice that one ^^). It seems to be fixed already again in nightly, so now it's just waiting for a new developer version to come out.
Similar one I use: cVim https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cvim/ihlenndgcmojh...
Didn't the US try that one already?
More mistakes = more innovation
Reddit is reportedly considering an IPO
The only surprising thing is that people are still surprised
Especially for those of us with Optimus systems (shared frame buffer between intel and Nvidia graphics systems.)

Additionally, some laptops have external displays wired to Nvidia, making it impossible to use intel-only graphics with external displays.
The Chinese sure enforce the hell out of it--"you have illegal crypto on your device!" <bullet to the head>
Pretty amazing.

It seems today people write off those demos as showy, shallow and misleadingly optimistic. But if you think about it, the exact same thing can be said about modern ML demonstrations. A lot of them hint at nearly human-level intelligence, but that's often achieved through careful restriction on the problem domain and by choosing the most successful examples.

Considering that old-school AI was operating on laughable hardware with tiny hand-made datasets, with no crowd-sourcing options... I wonder, did attempts to generalize some of that research fail because the approach was fundamentally flawed, or was it because such efforts themselves weren't as good as initial projects?

I mean, the article on Wikipedia talks about "more realistic level of ambiguity and complexity", but the demonstrated domain is already more complex than 90% of all programming problems I solve on day-to-day basis.

* * *

I though Minsky also did something similar, but with physical blocks and a robotic arm, and without the NLP interface. Anyone knows about that? Or am I making it up? I was looking for info about this recently and couldn't find anything.
The site has incentives to avoid doing that. A crowd-sourced plugin similar to uBlock's 3rd party filters would probably work way better.
No, its impolite to make comments on other people's appearance, even positive, unless you are close to that person.

Please stop making unsolicited comments about my body, please and thank you.
My great-grandmother's recipes include instructions like "use more coals than normal for oven."
Completely agree

(except maybe on music theory, bit more technical of a degree that most people realize)
Don't, please.
Samsung deserves a special shout-out for making their impossible-to-remove apps also impossible to move to remote storage, so their useless garbage takes up a solid amount of device storage even while disabled. It's frustrating how often smartphone customization/upgrading feels like an actively hostile process.
Where did i say i didn't read the article? Tl;DR's are for people to not have to read the article, made by people that have read the article.

I suppose I expect more from someone who has been here for almost 9 years.
Obviously not to discount your experience - but I come from a family of carpenters, on my mom's side, and do not observe the issues you describe in my family. My grandfather, for instance, is still extremely healthy in every way at 82 or so, drinks a glass of wine or pastis every few days, and is generally enjoying retired life.

The main difference is that I am from France, and as such my family enjoyed all of the socialist government policies like weekly hour limits, centralized healthcare, plenty of paid time off, etc.
Alternate universe: JVM was more secure and had better DOM interaction, so Applets won against JavaScript.

The world goes around in circles.
I know plenty of people who despite really, really disliking Donald Trump were very put off by the public discussion of the "pee tape" stuff. They called it kink shaming and said that on its own it shouldn't matter if that is the kind of stuff the President is into. I tend to agree and I think a lot of other sensible people do too.
This looks amazing!
Immigrants typically require sponsorship from a family member with minimum income requirements.

The minimums aren't high, but the sponsor has to make enough to support them, specifically so that they don't require government assistance.
>into what is essentially gambling

I think at this point it's important to differentiate: Loot-Crate systems with resellable content (CS:Go etc) are gambling. Loot-Crate systems without resellable content function by the same mechanism but are different legally.

On the other hand pay-to-win or pay-to-skip are very different from gambling and work by completely different mechanisms. Being ahead of everyone else allows whales to either feel superior or to help fellow players, making the whales feel useful and depended upon. All of these feelings can be hard to get in the offline world, so instead whales pay to get them online.

I'm not condoning predatory microtransaction systems at all, but I think it's important to differentiate them instead of treating them all as if they were gambling
Researcher Seeks to Tame 'Ghost' of Uncertainty in Complex Dynamic Systems
This link works: http://old.pavlok.com/forgotten/ (no https)
As an alternate approach for .NET desktop apps, Electron.NET[0] is a variant of Electron that adds a dotnet backend. Build your UI in the HTML/CSS/JS flavor of your choice and then implement the functionality backing that UI in C#.

Electron.NET is relatively new and I just yesterday published what I think is the first boilerplate sample for it (using React/Typescript/MobX) [1] (note: my sample app currently looks terrible because there’s exactly zero CSS applied, I was hoping to get some of that added later this week having gotten the functional details working first. The demo in the Electron.NET repo replicates the stock Electron demo, if you’d like to start your explorations with pretty first).

[0] https://github.com/ElectronNET/Electron.NET

[1] https://github.com/yoDon/Electron.NET-React-Typescript-MobX
It exists in Gnome 3.26 (IE Fedora 27) with an experimental flag. It works well, with the exception of some blurry text in random apps.
a great one hour program on NPR 1a call-in program on the trades, apprenticeships here:

https://the1a.org/shows/2017-06-12/how-to-earn-six-figures-w...
Huh? Have you been following the news recently. I thought your comment was going to go another way.
College degrees only work as a selection tool for employers since not everyone has one. High school degrees are currently nearly worthless as such a tool since nearly everyone (the current high school graduate rate in the US is about 83%) has one. You still need to get one, of course, since if you don’t have one, people will assume you dropped out either because you got addicted to drugs, or because you’re well below average in intelligence and/or conscientiousness.

College degrees are eventually going to suffer the same fate as the high school diploma due to all the pressure on people to go to college. And eventually, there will be political pressure in the US to make the government pay for universal college the same way it pays for K-12 education. Eventually, we’ll be encouraging extremely marginal students to spend eight years getting a bachelor’s degree and however long it takes such a student to get a master’s degree, and Social Security will collapse since no one will actually be working.
Vimium + Visual mode, OneTab, Free Download Manager Chrome extension, Infinite Scroll for Google™, Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder...and New Tab Draft is the best because it's the draft writing tool that I have to use every day.