skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not our government. We spend more on education per student than all OECD nation’s but Switzerland, and have middle of the pack results. Go to Japan or Germany and say we’re doing a good job with our roads. Our municipal governments are among the worst polluters—antiquated sewer systems dump immense amounts of untreated sewage into our waterways each year.
At such odds with the standard HN complaints about people not paying their “fair share” of taxes.
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In this case, you seem to be implying garbage in/ garbage out.

My point is that when you get a good input dataset and there is still some sort of bias in the output, you have to start asking questions on why the results are biased towards one group by examining the variables pertaining to that group.

The position you're starting with seems to be that the output should never be biased, which means you're not really approaching this scientifically and won't stop messing with input sets until you get the output you agree with; not the output which is necessarily true but you disagree with for personal reasons.

You can't just claim "bad data" every time you get a result that doesn't jive with your politics.
Oddly enough I discovered recently that SL still has an ongoing userbase, and a smallish economy of people selling each other models, tools, clothing and various other bits and pieces.

I'm sure the userbase has dropped off massively since the hype phase, and I'd be surprised if anyone's making millions from SL "Real" estate any more, but it seems to still have its niche.

I wonder if ten years down the line BTC will have found a niche like that, where it ticks along unremarkably, just being used rather than hyped.
Hey thanks for the match making!

Major improvement is on the way as we've worked with game artists to make up colorful worlds and agents specificaly for Byte Arena.

It's gonna look like this: [1] (actual rendering of the visualization)

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/jerome.schneider.officiel/videos/19...
> But your information source is limited to English world

Thanks for letting me know I only speak English; I’ll be sure to tell my non-English-speaking relatives that I’ve been speaking to them in English all these years rather than their various languages.
But it is big deal. In worst case scenario, most of Lithuania's land would be no-go zone. Violating Espoo and Aarhus Conventions, lying and covering up accidents, while normal practice in Russia & co countries, it is not in EU. Could you please provide source for "EU checked it and found everything within norms"?
rclone supports encrypted Google Drive folders.
Subsurface does distribute compiled Linux binaries, for a couple of years now:

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/WyrATKUnmrS
Thanks, our project is still very beta and the visualization need indeed some polishing.

Airmash is looking really cool, we'll definitely take a look at it.
How Product Customization Opens New Vistas of Growth for Auto Industry
Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today
"Better to be a dictator than gay" Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF5kIvbQPNo
> the punishment outweighed the facts as we currently know them

How many years is he currently serving?
https://belapan.com/archive/2017/02/07/887716/

Belapan is one of the biggest informational agencies in Belarus.

Российско-израильский блогер Александр Лапшин был задержан в Минске 14 декабря 2016 года по запросу Азербайджана, который объявил его в международный розыск за незаконное посещение Нагорного Карабаха.

The Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin was detained in Minsk on December 14, 2016 at the request of Azerbaijan, who declared him on the international wanted list for illegally visiting Nagorno-Karabakh.

Лукашенко заявил, а Шуневич подтвердил, что Лапшин был задержан в Минске не по инициативе Азербайджана, а потому, что находился в розыске по линии Интерпола. "Мы согласно решению Интерпола его задержали. И согласно всем законам и порядку мы должны его передать Азербайджану.

Lukashenko said, and Shunevich (Minister of Internal Affairs) confirmed that Lapshin was detained in Minsk not on the initiative of Azerbaijan, but because he was wanted by the Interpol line. "We, according to the decision of Interpol, detained him and, according to all laws and order, we must transfer it to Azerbaijan.

Belarus had no interest in this guy and his destiny. He has 3 citizenship (Russia, Israel and Ukraine (denounced)) and got himself in the middle of Azerbaijan-Armenian conflict. All this countries, except for Ukraine wanted Belarus to do something different, release him, transfer him, etc. Belarus just did what international law says and washed the hands off. Right after he was transferred to Azerbaijan he apologized for wrong-doing and was released by the president of Azerbaijan and sent home to Israel.
I played it and it's awesome. Loads instantly, gameplay is a no-brainer, and action is fast :)
From the article:

> Of course what happened here was that Steve Jobs returned to Apple and we suddenly had MacOSX come onto the scene taking at least some air out of the Linux Desktop space.

I really agree with that: if every engineer I know who uses a Mac "because Bash" would use Linux instead, we would have arrived at a decent Linux desktop market-share by now. Kudos Apple.

In saying that, as a desktop Linux user I really don't mind being part of a small user community. I would never switch to MacOSX as it is not (fully) open source, and Windows is nice for running Steam for gaming.
Sure, check the S&P 500 index price. It always dips come December.
This is kind of the "last mile" problem with open-source software. The last few bits of bug fixing and documentation and - most especially - interface polish can be unpleasant. Developers who started a project because of an interest in its core problem domain generally don't want to do those kinds of chores. Sometimes it's because they lack the specific skills to do them well, and don't want to invest lots of time learning how to do something that's still medium reward (at best) for them. Sometimes it's because they just don't want to even if they have the skills, because some other much more interesting problem beckons. They have to be paid to go that last mile.

In the case of web apps, developers get paid to go the last mile - either by an employer or via the market. In the case of Linux server software they also get paid; in this case a Red Hat salary is the most common form. For Linux desktop software, very few get paid. Not nearly enough. OpenOffice/LibreOffice in particular needs and has always needed a ton of work, and almost nobody's paying for it. So it has always been a total tire fire. Random crashes, which then leave a document in a "needs recovery" state permanently no matter how many times it has already been recovered. Formatting and conversion glitches. Features and options that are hard to use even if you can find them among the smoldering dung-pile of other features and options that nobody anywhere has used for years. Staggering memory abuse bogging down the whole system. I'm sure the devs (at least some of them) would love to fix these things, but it's going to be really hard work - often more political than technical in nature - and nobody's paying them enough to go through that misery so they do more rewarding things instead. The result is software that will always lag behind its proprietary competitors in terms of appeal to users - far enough behind that people will actually pay for the difference.

If you want to compete effectively in a market, somebody has to be paid for crossing that last mile, and that means somebody has to do the paying. Nobody is.
Reasonable how? That's a $530T+ valuation at the current number of tokens, or about two times as much as the total global wealth according to Credit Suisse. [0]

[0] https://www.credit-suisse.com/corporate/en/research/research...
Ah, interesting.
I think graphing dogmatism over age is an inverse bell curve on average, with a lot of point variation.
The trouble is "Linux" isn't a desktop OS. Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE are desktop OSes. They're separate OSes even if they are related.

There is hope however. Modern application containers like Flatpak aim to bridge the differences between Linux OSes by being self contained.
Not anymore.

GNOME on Fedora is more consistent and polished than Windows 10.
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It doesn't, so it doesn't know whether your password is incorrect, so if it claims it is incorrect it is saying something it doesn't know for sure.

Also it's technically possible to check the password against all other passwords, it just requires rehashing it for every user in the table, you shouldn't do it obviously.

edit: Even if you would check it, it wouldn't help to answer the question about whether the password or the username is wrong, even if the password is used for a different username you still don't know that it's the right password. So it's a bit strange that it is brought up as an issue that you can't check against other usernames.
Doesn't make a lot of practical sense.

* Sewer & water can be done in a piecemeal fashion, whereas fiber requires complicated & precise connections to make work. Not to mention, needs connection to the electrical grid.

* Sewer & water pipes are typically much deeper underground, not necessary for fiber which doesn't freeze.

* Running fiber along a pipe would be difficult, at best. Typically an underground pneumatic pipe trenching tool pulls flexible copper pipe behind it, for water or gas. Pulling fiber along with it on the outside gets complicated or requires some new type of pipe.
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Disheartened EPA Officials Are Leaving in Droves
I like instant Domain search a lot. Well built

https://instantdomainsearch.com/
Something something correlation causation.
ArangoDB 3.3 GA: DC2DC Replication, Encrypted Backup, Server-Level Replication
Show HN: Open Source Crowdfunding platform
Asset prices usually dip in Dec
This same article keeps popping up about once a week, with the words slightly switched around and in a different magazine. A couple of weeks ago it was the NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/opinion/sunday/intelligen...), before that in the Atlantic, Politico, ProPublica, etc.

The error they make is always the same. I highly recommend this piece: AI 'Bias' Doesn't Mean What Journalists Say it Means https://jacobitemag.com/2017/08/29/a-i-bias-doesnt-mean-what...
Depends on two things: Your space and your privacy requirements. Google Mail works for example if you are willing to trust Google. A lot of email providers offer you a lot of space.
I couldn't agree more. I'm a full time Linux user and have recently switched to AMD because of their awesome open source support. My new system is the most responsive and stable Linux experience I've ever had.

I just recently build a full AMD system (Ryzen 5, Radeon RX 560) and I couldn't be happier. I've had Intel systems that were fine but couldn't keep up with GPU performance. I've also had nvidia systems that were fine performance wise but the closed nvidia driver has been more and more problematic lately (crashes, VSync is off, etc.).

Not only that but it's all free software. When freesync support lands I can't image ever using anything but AMD under Linux.
In the article:
"You gain no security, yet your customers lose clarity."

Oh boohoo. Like it's not on the customers side to know which email it is and which password.

And as many have said, one does gain privacy.
Looking here: https://www.bakom.admin.ch/bakom/en/homepage/telecommunicati...

It seems Swisscom owns some lines, but not all of it. Like some of Swisscom Internet goes on lines that is not owned by them.

I guess a lot of the households in the mountains and other large terrains do not have fiber.

If you look here: https://map.geo.admin.ch/?topic=nga&mobile=false&lang=en&bgL...

Plenty of households have >=100 Mbit/s Internet. This map pretty much covers the same area as "where most Swiss people live."
I've read into this again. 'Replacing' will be clear from context. This was added very recently (2016?) to the homepage by myself and to the official description.

The Manual (the pushed content as well as my stacks of old fashioned paper corrections) is not mentioning it. For the new website it (the description) either will be described as it is right now (unlikely) or rewritten to be easier to understand.
Not that it look deep insight, but I am vindicated. Here come the yadda yadda lawyers. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/22/apple_sued_iphone_c...
Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful
How i keep track of my technological findings
Galaxy note 4 came out in 2014 - it is irrelevant to the conversation of buying a new phone. You can only get removable batteries in a 1 year old flagship or midrange devices now - feel free to buy them if you feel so strongly about it.

Please don’t use accusations like “fanboy” and “suckers like you” it’s rude and in bad faith.

I’ve had about a dozen phones over the last decade including Samsung phones, LG nexus phones, HTC phones and even a Palm Pixi at one point. There is no fanboying here - and you’re just a jerk for making such a pointlessly derailing smear.

By having to rely on the fanboy smear it’s clear that you have nothing else to rely on.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't one of the reasons to join YC is to find ways to get funding? Even in the Standford videos, there's a lot of focus on the topic of raising money.

I think Sam's point (or concern) is with the so-called "Startup-Culture". There's a big focus on...

-1 Presenting a basic idea

-2 Get into Y-Combinator

-3 ???

-4 Profit

Or, I think that's how startups are interpreting what being an entrepreneur is all about.

I think Sam's point is that the product shouldn't be a placebo that happens to raise money. Or, to better say it, you are not here to be good at fundraising. You are here to be good at making a product that will (wait for it) change the world.

I think the success of those so-called unicorns (Dropbox, AirBnb, Twitch, etc.) had caused this problem. There are a lot of investors that are willing to spend away hoping for something to stick and to become profitable. On the other hand, there are a lot of startups who's soul purpose is to be good at selling a 'not fully realized' idea, raise a ton of money, and then cash out. Oh, and have 'fun' while doing it. Why? because it works!

It reminds me of the Hubspot videos with Daniel Lyons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVSLLvHceSA

Now, if someone was banging on my door desperate to give me a crazy amount of money with almost no strings attached to but into my 'shell of a product' I may consider taking the offer. But doing so may benefit me, but could cause harm to those who really have a great world-changing idea.
Homebrew was not the first. There was Fink and MacPorts before it. I would guess it became prominent because of the UX? Sold my mac before Homebrew was around.
I'm one of the authors, AMA.
Also in some cases have access to not well known artists altogether.
That's what I was waiting for sooooooooo long!

A usable open source crowdfunding platform!
If data sprawl is your issue, fix your company processes and the problem will be solved.

GDPR mainly resolves flaws in how companies relying on IT use their customers data. Blocking EU customers is just delaying the inevitable since GDPR equivalents will be established in US or whatever too.
> Encrypted data must be searched locally. This has never been done before

Except, say, by every pop or imap client that caches locally, for decades?
Yes, I know Google Scholar didn't exist in 2002, but there were papers anyway:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=audio+fingerprint&hl=en...
That seems to be one of the explanations provided in the article.
I wish we stopped looking downstream, at this incident level data (arrests, recidivism, criminality in general) and more upstream. How does criminality play out as a function of the make up congress, historical generations, political leans of the administration, etc, etc?
>> People liquidate assets during December Holidays for buying presents, vacationing, and so forth.

Everyone's buying presents at the last possible moment then?
It can be helpful in terminals that support it but it's easy to overdo.

Here, the box/table is literally separating two pieces of info (ordinance+domain) so there's no need to lose all that screen space. And the big logo is obviously unnecessary and probably reduces re-use - seems like I'm dialing into a Renegade BBS circa 1992.

I think there are UX benefits to introducing color and formatting when available, but it's best kept subtle.
One question I have along with the very good question from the OP, do larger companies and governments actually care about security, or are they more interested in doing the proper dance and checking the right boxes to not be held responsible when they're hacked?

It seems irrational to want to learn how to secure systems when their owners don't care about it (and won't pay to secure them) if the risk can be transferred to other parties. I'm sure there's a few organizations that care if their data are stolen, but by and large it's a cost center, and treated accordingly in my experience.
I guess we'll find out during Discovery!
This had to be on purpose, which is quite disappointing.
Are you kidding? Homebrew is basically the first thing I install on OS X as a developer; nothing beats the simplicity of this tool, especially if you prefer to do actual work rather than messing around with compiling etc.
Most of the altcoin market caps you'll see are calculated by their exchange rate to BTC, which is then converted to USD based on the BTC/USD exchange rate.
I try to stick to Wikipedia definition, because people claim racism in a lot of situation where I wouldn't consider it as such: "Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity."

In theory, the discussed comment doesn't claim his race is superior, just stating that in China people are underpaid.

For sure he is projecting stereotypes, but that's not racism, it's a different thing.

Even the legal definition doesn't seem to make that comment fit:

"the term "racial discrimination" shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life."
If you are a veteran or a federal employee, the Dept. of homeland security offers free online courses in network security. The program is very networking specific and you'd have to pay for any certification testing yourself, but the courses will help take you a good chunk of the way in terms of prep and learning. https://fedvte.usalearning.gov/
This is a juvenile BS move that will infest another planet...one that humans have never walked on...with this rich kids car.

With a rich kids car.
If you want to get a really deep understanding, study computer science (e.g. bachelor/master) [1], then specialize by taking all security courses that are offered. Not only will you get a deep understanding of the topic, you will build on solid fundamentals, as well as have people (professors, assistants, trainers) who you can ask anything.

[1] Of course, you can this only freely in a country that remotely cares about the education of its citizens (e.g. most European countries, where you can go to university for a hew hundred Euros per year). Otherwise, the risk of a huge debt is probably not worth it.
Semi-relatedly and unfortunately, AI research is locked-in to NVIDIA (on Linux) because all the big lienar algebra and autodifferentiation frameworks work only with CUDA.
I know this is controversial and you can call me crazy but, Microsoft is doing a pretty damn good job at bringing Linux to the desktop.

Here me out for a second. Let's ignore how Windows 10 spies on you and other side topics.

The real situation is this:

You're a developer who wants to run various Unix / Linux tools. This could be anything from simple tools like grep, to entire development stacks (ruby, python, postgresql, etc.). It could even be graphical tools like Sublime Text.

For that, you could just install any flavor of Linux but it's never that simple.

Often times with web development you're also dealing with images, so now you need a nice image editor. Sure GIMP exists, but it's not in the same league as Photoshop, sorry. Sure, you could run a Windows VM inside of Linux but it's also not as simple as that too.

A lot of us do other things with our computer besides web development. This varies from person to person. Personally I like to play games on occasion and a lot of games won't run on Linux, don't work with Wine and run terribly bad inside of a VM. Dual booting is also an awful user experience.

Perhaps you're interested in creating videos too, or record podcasts, etc.. The audio and video tools on Linux are just no where near tools like Camtasia and Screenflow. Unlike GIMP, there really isn't even a suitable audio or video solution on Linux, and audio requires extremely low latency so you can't run Camtasia in a VM. Dual booting also isn't an option because what if you want to record Linux based web development videos?

Anyways, all of this is solved by Windows right now with the Windows Subsystem for Linux. I can happily play games, record videos, process audio, run Photoshop and do full time Linux based web development (with Docker too) all from a single computer running Windows 10. No VMs or dual booting required, and it's really fast.

If anyone is curious, here's how you can set all of that up: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-wsl-and-mobaxterm-to-cr...
Finally someone addressing real issues.
Have goldman made another announcement or are they still just acting as a clearning house for futures?
This is fantastic. Thanks Massive/Ubisoft.

I never played World in Conflict much (though I do have it), but I was a big fan of Ground Control (arguably the pre-predecessor of World in Conflict).

It was basically my first online game. The feeling of that small community is something I remember fondly to this day. I remember one the members of my clan (The Initiative) always correcting me as my 13 year old self made many a grammar mistake; I'm not a native speaker. That, and many other things, have been formative to me.

Some part of me would truly enjoy seeing the server infrastructure for Ground Control open-sourced as well. Though of course I consider it possible parts of that were controlled by the now-defunct WoN (World Opponent Network) [1].

Thanks for all the fun.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Opponent_Network
If I can help you configure it / set it up, just shoot me a message.

Also: pull requests are always welcome^^
> Belapan is one of the biggest informational agencies in Belarus

Emphasis on "independent". I see a bunch of Belarussian sources saying he had an Interpol warrant out and a bunch of Armenian sources saying he didn't [1]. BBC simply says "Azerbaijan issued an arrest warrant" for Lapshin's arrest [2], with no mention of Interpol. (Note: Interpol's charter bans, at least in theory, disputes of a political nature [3].)

[1] https://armenpress.am/eng/news/878141/lapshin-has-never-been...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/blogs-trending-38804499

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol
No need for quantum mechanics, it's permissible under statistical mechanics. It is incredibly unlikely to happen though (and any way of making it happen necessarily takes a lot of effort).
How are you planning on wearing this on your back? You need to exhast more than 200W of heat, you can't just put that into a backpack!

The battery required would be larger than the FAA will allow on an airplane; the limit is approximately 100 watt-hours and not surprisingly the largest battery I've ever seen in a laptop is 99 watt-hours.