skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also interesting that he (P J Plauger) went to build his career on C/C++.

And he's an award winning SF author - something I had no idea about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._Plauger
That is, in the current system. In the UK there are strict limits on campaign spending that get investigated and enforced, and the limits are low enough that individual contributions are important and corporate donations can only go so far.
That would be a very good point if this was documenting javascript frameworks, but I doubt the usages of "tar" and "find" change too often.
Assuming mind does not go beyond matter ...
Unit Testing Doesn’t Affect Codebases the Way You Would Think
I would very much like to see Gruber's take on it. Because while Marco is a prominent software developer, I dont think he understand Apple "that" much.

Take SD Card as Example.
To me they are going to the way of CD/DVD. I am not a professional photographer, so it is a little hard for me to understand what specific workflow that SD Card is mandatory.
We have 802.11ax and 802.11ay, First being a much improved 802.11ac that should finally mean WiFi doesn't suck ( as much ) and the latter brings 60Ghz direct line of sight transfer and 100s of Gbps. While we are unlikely to see those speed, it is no argument that we are capable of doing 5-10 Gbps wireless transfer now, and even better in the future. So why the need for an SD Card? Your Camera should wirelessly connect to your Computer.

Then there is the Keyboard, I loved the Magic Keyboard. But even then it is not perfect. So not only should Apple NOT try to put scissors back to MBP, they should make something that is better then Magic Keyboard, give the sense of depth, using more or less the height of Butterfly, while being super reliable. The problem with only 5% of MBP have keyboard issues is that the previous MBP had 1%, that is 5X more! They should aim high and have a failure rate of less then 0.5%.

Again it is the same with trackpad. Let as avoid all the discussion of why such a large trackpad. But if they are going to make it stay there, may be an hands on keyboard sensor, we want palm rejection to be 99.999% accurate! Not 98 or 99%.

The list goes on. But Apple is known to be the master of iteration. Or more like Steve Jobs's Apple was known for it. So the next MBP is going to be critical.

Mac is still a 25M unit/ year business. 5th Largest PC Vendor by Unit, likely higher on revenue, possibly the number 1 in profits since Apple make 10x more profits then other PC vendor. ( Doesn't mean Apple is making a lot, it is just other PC vendor are cut throat competition going down to 5% Gross Profit ) So Mac still matters, and will continue to matter for the coming 10 years, despite the Post PC era, and going in a full circle, It is Apple's best chance to take over some PC Market.
Isn't it more like getting the plans to the vault?
A sex robot is not necessarily a male object, nor only a sexual object, imagine having a baby with a robot, and fostering it in the robot artificial uterus? Women would be interested as well or perhaps more than men. Everybody would have more control on their life.

Raising and personalizing robots, by discussing or interacting with you would be sought after also. Robots would be trusted to be truling interested in knowing you and caring for you.

Robots that can earn things weither land or diplomas would be also highly valued by most people.

I think the real breakthrough would be robots that people would like to bring with them into social events.

If a sex robot is like any other sex robot, they will perhaps be mass products one day but people will still see them as being of little value or even sordid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP1A2
My 2c: concern is that btc futures becomes like gold futures which are totally fraudulent and used to manipulate the market. But gold is a bizarro land that’s cash settled vs paper or something super absurd. There’s not really a functional way to short “physical bitcoin” right now that I’m aware of other than participating in the tether scheme. So even if the NY Fed, for instance, came in and blasted the bid on cme btc it’s not clear it would affect the physical market. Overall I think it’s bullish just for increasing exposure of investors to btc.
OK, I see what you mean now. Thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure to think about this more before stabilising the modules.
Yes, the guidelines for safe amount of units per week are basically arbitrary and not based on anything scientific, and vary a lot by country. [1]

For example, where I am from, Canada, the Canada Low Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines state that men should limit their intake to 15 drinks per week, where a drink is defined as 12 oz of 5% beer, 5 oz of 12% wine, or 1.5 oz of 40% spirit.

OP would hardly be exceeding the guidelines if he was from Canada, and not exceeding the guidelines if he was from Fiji.

This is why merely looking at the guidelines is dumb instead of the many other visible factors (personal relationships, weight, athletic performance, academics, etc.)

[1] https://health.spectator.co.uk/the-great-alcohol-cover-up-ho...

[2] http://www.ccsa.ca/Resource%20Library/2012-Canada-Low-Risk-A...
But without dynamic typing and Cheney on the MTA and with a completely different way of managing memory.

And not a scheme.
Why China Is Emerging as a Tech Superpower to Rival the U.S
Says the PhD candidate in hardware security. You may want more low-level details but it's inaccurate characterize it as "marketing". That's just snark. It presents numerous details on the implementation of the SEP throughout the document.
I keep searching for the perfect coding font. And I keep coming back to the classic VGA 8x16.

I don't know what it is about it, but it just looks right.

(It probably has a lot to do with the date of my birth, but then again... who cares why something feels right, when it does?)

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
I would argue that Twitter and Facebook have more that triple the headcount that they need to run their business. That headcount is in sales and marketing and is acquired in order to "monetize" latent value in the customer base. The actual product (that attracted the customer bases) could (and was) be sustained by a far smaller head count focused on the technology and minimal revenue development operations. Essentially .coms are utilities and have developed into rent seeking utilities.
A CMS with no server and 18 lines of configuration
> not even as a reference

How are you supposed to write reference documentation without a section for describing the options which can be referred to by option name?

> The examples should have come first, in the synopsis.

Type with me: / E X A <return>. If anything, perhaps the first manual a man user should read is the manual for their default pager, usually LESS(1).

There are good and bad manpages, but I don't see how the format is truly deficient. Some very complex commands have separate sections for the most and least common options (or groups of related options, if there are subcommands or similar).
Exactly. This happens to me frequently.
>That means your traffic never leaves the safely encrypted confines of Tor, keeping it hidden.

Yeah nope. He says it took a half hour to set up, that means it's not using a wiki dump, but fetching it live. That means the traffic is going from his server to wikimedia's servers, same as if you used tor to visit Wikipedia directly.

If wikimedia set this up themselves, it could be true, but this clearly isn't and can't terminate without touching clearnet.

Never trust the news, even when they cite sources and sound like they know what they're talking about.
I mean that I work with my browser and I write web applications.

Chrome is more than dominant, so I'll use Chrome because my users use - for the most part - Chrome.
You don’t become a billionaire by giving anything away. These people are all psychopath tier manipulators. You can be sure anything they’re giving away (eg Gates/Buffett tax dodge) they’re getting more than equal value in return.
Of course, as people have pointed out already, a user manual is not a tutorial, and the two are distinct and complementary. This is something that one finds in many spheres, from Microsoft operating systems to Linux ones.

One of the things that MSDN and TechNet doco does is have both "X reference" and "using X" sections. Manual pages are reference doco, in this way of organizing things. The BSD worlds put the "using X" doco into what are often called "handbooks" or "guides".

* NetBSD Guide: https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/

* FreeBSD Handbook: https://freebsd.org/doc/handbook/book.html

* DragonFlyBSD Handbook: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/

* TrueOS User Guide: https://www.trueos.org/handbook/trueos.html

* PC-BSD User Guide: http://web.pcbsd.org/doc-archive/10.1.2/html/pcbsd.html (viewable off-line directly in both PDF and HTML forms in /usr/local/share/pcbsd/doc/)

Some parts of the Linux world do the same. upstart had the Upstart Cookbook for example:

* http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/

My nosh toolset comes with user manual pages for the individual commands, written in DocBook XML as I just mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15779321 , and a nosh Guide.

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/tcp-socket-listen.html

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/anatomy-of-regular-soc...

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/chain-loading-cheatshe...

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide.html

The Linux Documentation Project was supposed to contain a wealth of this stuff, but large parts of it are seemingly moribund, and incomplete after decades or woefully outdated. Wikibooks tried to take up the slack with an "anyone can edit" Guide to Unix and a Linux Guide:

* https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Unix

* https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide

For examples and doco that works from the basis of what one usually wants to do, then these handbooks and guides are the places to go, not reference manuals.
Yes, coffee increases anxiety. I only learnt that recently. I'm cutting down on it!
I never really thought about it, but it does make sense as something that falls under the FTC’s purview: you can only have a functional free market if corporations can keep trade secrets from one-another; can negotiate without laying all their own cards on the table; etc. Privacy is a prerequisite to (non-state-owned) capitalism.
They won't throttle. Too many people use a VPN for work from home. If you have to pay extra, fine, but let's be clear that the only changes are monetary ones, not available QOS overall.
Give the film some credit - the "hero" figure was an expert this time, a big step up from "winging it".
I recently decide to read and understand the famous book of Hardy "Introduction to the Number Theory". It is a big book and my strategy is to read it slowly but with perseverance and patience. I think these two points are very important and maybe the key to achieve all our goals.
Nowadays, every thing go fast and we forget to take time to learn or to understand ideas, concepts, etc.
Each time you have some free minutes, do things that help you to achieve your goal. Small steps are very important.
Updated the screen shot. Thanks so much.
The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choic
When you say "with GMail support" I assume that you mean "Handles IMAP".

As you say Thunderbird seems stalled, but despite that it continues to work. So are there specific annoyances you have with it? Or think you'd like added/changed?

Most of the big (graphical) mail-clients are very similar in terms of featuresets, if you ignore the GUI toolokit and similar distractions.

I personally prefer console mail-reading, for many years I used mutt, but then I started to get annoyed that I couldn't script it terribly well. So I wrote my own mail-client, console-based, modal, and scripted with Lua. It works for me, and even has IMAP support, but I suspect it is not so useful for you:

https://lumail.org/

https://github.com/lumail/lumail/
But he’s determined. To destroy society!
For what it's worth, find is truly awful, and tar is just a bit unconventional in terms of option parsing. These are stand-out failures of interface design, for which no documentation would be sufficient for all but the most regular of users.
Four to five bottles of wine a week isn't a non-problem.

We know it it's a problem because OP is asking for help.
You okay?
I'm slowly trying to get better at this, now I'm regularly using a foreign language. The difference between "I'm Steve" and "My name is Steve" seems to be a little jarring for some people.
Bonus: in the linked Twitter thread he specifically says not to trust it, it's just a proof of concept. So of course vice presents it as more secure than the current options
It's more that their actual accounts should probably be shown the door for that behavior.

Nobody's tripping onto HN, seeing that post, and signing up to shitpost.
The guidelines are arbitrary and not based on anything scientific. Stop mentioning them like if he cuts down to 14 units, he's not harming himself, but if he only cuts down to, say, 17 units, he still harming himself.
Anomaly Detection meetup in Milpitas on Dec 5, 2017
Hi everyone!

I'm organizing a meet-up on Tuesday, December 05, 2017, at Milpitas. The tech talk is "Anomaly Detection Techniques and Implementation using Apache Spark", by Maxim Shkarayev. To learn more, please go to: https://www.meetup.com/datariders/events/245338255/

Its a free event. Refreshments will be provided!
B-but it’s called neutrality that means it’s neutral right?
The problem I find with the whole episode is that it would be incredibly naive to think that only VW cheats the emission tests (as apparently also evidenced by the recent news that Fiat Chrysler also did it, with likely many other carmakers doing it as well. There was also news about Samsung cheating the emission tests on their electronic products, but that made no splash whatsoever). Though all the provisions for fining VW and sentencing those guys are theoretically sound in legal terms, I can't help but feel it highly political, just like the EU's crackdown and fines on Google, Microsoft etc. There's basically an implicit trade war and accompanying trade protectionism going on.
English is complex, but it's not unique in that regard.

Polish is "hard" due to genders and cases. English is hard because it is irregular, and it has a lot of loan-words which compound the problem.

(Not that regular verbs make life easier, even languages like Finnish which are genderless and very regular have complications to make life "fun".)
Another day, another confirmation of data leak. Privacy is protected, as they say.

Hareesh
https://dltutuapp.com/
Yeah I used to think anxiety attacks were something I could not get, but then I got into a stint of drinking 1 (!) cup of coffee daily when I was under pressure to get some boring work done, and made a habit out of that for maybe 3 months.

During those months, I experienced anxiety attacks for the first time in my life. I did not realize at first that long term (for me, 3 months) coffee consumption slowly helped drive myself towards constantly doing more than I realistically had the energy to do, somehow triggering these very anxietic episodes couple of times, where I was feeling like I was in danger, it was hard to breath, and I was panicking, I really didn't know what was happening.

Later I realized coffee did this. There are studies of coffee putting the body into a state of fight-or-flee constantly, rising the heart rate and making people very jumpy, so that might explain why this happened.

Also, I've been noticing that drinking coffee tends to over focus my focus on one task and not see to whole picture, so it is very easy to go in one direction too far with a project for example, and just start fine tuning whatever little details come at me, when more better would be to see the big picture again and change directions.

I can hardly see how coffee is a good thing on a global scale, except for the work force who want to do stuff that is not otherwise interesting.
It's public health, so they're talking about an entire population.

If a million people drink no more than 14 units per week we see this much cancer, fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, etc.

If a million people drink no more than 28 units a week we see this much more cancer, etc.

Translating these population level risks back to an individual is hard.

This doesn't mean the numbers are pulled out of thin air.

Don't forget there are many multi-billion dollar industries trying to make people drink more, and stop people drinking less.
If an alien civilization doesn't love puns, then I really don't want to meet them.

The world is already a shitty place. Earth doesn't need to add more species that don't understand or love puns.
As scientist (Molecular Biology background) who has transitioned to being a part-time self-employed developer, how often do you CS/CE people use any of this in real life? Is all this just equivalent to the Chinese imperial civil service examination system [0]?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination
I must admit I'm not a fan of this. I feel like the work could go towards submitting patches to the man pages. The MAN page layout [0] allows for an EXAMPLES section which serves this purpose. Great effort in creating this tool but I think it's replicating functionality already provided by the man pages. I've submitted patches for MAN pages for GNU tools in the past and the creators are very receptive to updates.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Layout
Consider supplementing drinking coffee with taking l-theanine. You can read more about the benefits at https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/wiki/beginners/

Magnesium replenishment also helps, esp. with >2 cups of coffee / day.
I was a bit surprised yesterday to see Chrome using 7GB of RAM. Ouch. A total of 60 Chrome.exe processes, ranging from 30MB to 1.2GB.
Yeah, what I find weird is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coffee_chemicals

More than a thousand chemical compounds in coffee, area of active research. Does this imply that we don't know much about coffee yet?

And more anecdotally, what I find weird is that when I switch from coffee drinking to tea and soft drinks, there seems to be no amount of caffeine intake that make the withdrawal symptoms go away. For me, there certainly is something in coffee besides caffeine that hooks me.
makes littlesnitch freak t.f. out. if websites start doing this kind of networking more often, do i really have to resort to adding a wide open rule for my browser?
Caffeine is a stimulant. One of the things it stimulates are your colonic muscles which can induce peristalsis.
I'm sorry, I'm not sure I see the logic here or what you're trying to say.

> If you have to pay extra, fine, but let's be clear that the only changes are monetary ones,

Are you suggesting that they wouldn't throttle, they'd just block? I'm not sure how this is any better or changes the scenario; you still have to pay to use a service you currently can use just fine.

Blocking, throttling, the end result is the same; you are unable to use the service because the ISP has decided they deserve to be paid for your use of this service. Whether it's a work VPN or a VPN service, there would be no distinguishing.

Plus, we've already seen such muscling from ISPs as they wanted cuts of service profits with regards to the Netflix throttling. Comcast decided "we deserve some payment from Netflix", and forced a contract to be made, all the while consumers were unable to use a service because Comcast decided that "oh, we deserve a cut here."

If VPN usage increased, I see no reason why the same wouldn't happen, regardless of the use. Since there's no singular entity to press on here (as was the case with Netflix), just press on the end-users by means of throttling, or cut it off all together.

We have plenty of historical evidence that ISPs will do whatever they want if they can get away with it, including throttling.
Side note: encrypted DNS is looking quite attractive right now.
Show HN: A Raspberry Pi Lego Rubiks Cube Solving Robot
The real site is https://pogoapp.net/

Linking to producthunt is needlessly indirect and feels spammy; like you're trying to encourage people to voat you up you there.
> This is an attempt not to get rid of privacy protections, but to return to the status quo circa 2014, where privacy was handled using more general laws enforced by the FTC.

Wasn't there a ruling by the 9th Circuit that said the FTC does not have jurisdiction over common carriers, and so, at least in the 9th Circuit, this does not return to the 2014 status quo until after the FCC completes their killing of the 2015 Open Internet Order?
If you're interested, you might like Sapiens (A brief history of Humankind) by Yuval Noah Harari.
I do not. I tried to be as up-front as possible about the sources of the information that I'm referencing because it is

a) Not verifiable

b) Not on the record

I am myself very confused by the comments I've been hearing whilst working here because they are at odds with the typical rhetoric that I've heard from both the Western and Chinese press.
What would you recommend to use for desktop GUI apps written in Go?
A problem is that systems today are too big and complicated for a single person to build and manage. What's the best way to collaborate without loosing the creativity needed to push forward making the system better?
Hmmm, I smell an IG Nobel prize opportunity for an ambitious grad student who is not afraid to get his hands dirty.