skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This format is unreadable on mobile. There's tons of external content that displays as big white boxes that won't load, and the text alone isn't enough to understand the story.
They have taken money from venture capitalists who will expect a return on their investment via a sale. That is how the entire venture capital system works. This is all a matter of public record tho’ it makes uncomfortable reading for some. Those who fled Github to Gitlab when Microsoft bought the former might now find a critical piece of their workflow owned by Oracle!
So, now for my RSS feeds I use to check for news articles to read in my browser, I'll now have to install an external program/extension just to load the feed, to read these articles in my browser.
> Chinese govt

oh boy
Sort of!

The document uses a JS tool called MarkDeep to convert extended MarkDown into styled HTML. Just look at the source, it's 99% plaintext Markdown.

If you read the MarkDeep docs, you'll find that it has a feature to convert the source into PDF instead. I admit I haven't tried this, though.

If it were up to me, I'd do the transform offline and just serve the static HTML instead. And sure, a link to the PDF just to be nice :)
Had thought that too, seeing all kinds of perforated patterns in fly swatters, now I have on hand an electric tennis racket
The short version is that Naomi Wu was asked to give an interview to Vice. Before doing the interview, she asked that a few ground rules be followed -- as far as I'm aware the main one was that her relationship with her partner not be discussed (as far as I understand the concern was related to a conspiracy theory that Naomi doesn't do her projects herself -- and that her foreign partner does them for her -- which could cause massive political problems for her in China). Vice decided to ask her questions about it anyway, and included those questions in the article (and apparently Naomi didn't know they were going to include them). Naomi then went on to talk about how this was (in her view) a massive breach of ethics, and how it endangered her safety within China (something that she apparently explained to Vice before accepting the interview).

Once the article came out, Naomi tried to get them to remove that section of the article and they didn't respond to any of her emails. She then went on to "dox" one of the reporters (though I have heard that the information she posted was available just by searching his name online).

Sarah Jeong basically attempted to counter this criticism of Vice by saying that she has asked around, and Naomi's concerns are ill-founded (Sarah used to work for Vice, so you could argue that she isn't exactly impartial on this topic). And obviously most media outlets focused on Naomi's doxxing (which to be clear -- is something that shouldn't have been ignored) rather than the original situation with Vice. This evolved into a pretty big argument, and Naomi appears to have come to the conclusion that almost all western media is unethical.

Later Vice apparently asked Patreon to close Naomi's account (as a response to her doxxing one of their employees), and Patreon followed their instructions -- cutting Naomi off from one of her sources of income for her videos. It's apparently very hard to get donations into China (crypto-currencies don't help because you cannot convert them into real money inside China easily).

Hopefully I've explained the situation without letting my position poison the summary.
The problem is when having not enough load in certain areas of the plane its center of gravity gets out of limits. For example it is quite common for small sailplane pilots to load some kilos of lead in designated parts below their feet to balance the plane.
In other news: "Computer Virus Cripples Nvidia Chipmaker TSMC Plants"
Don't underestimate the huge advantage of graduating with zero student debt, which currently averages around $40,000 for graduates.

"they aren't great schools" - by what measure are you using to validate this statement? Most companies do not care where you got your degree, although you will run into asshole gatekeepers (HR) that have their own unjustified bias. The further along you get in your career, the less it matters where you went to school.
Apple chipmaker TSMC hit by virus attack
Right, so JzG clearly had it in for you. And yet somehow their actions ended up getting the exact result you were hoping for (as reported by you).

In the mean time Kalholmann was your best friend ever... and somehow every time they tried something, they got themselves in more trouble and ultimately got sanctioned by the arbitration committee. (also as reported by you)

Yup, right, clearly your narrative makes perfect sense here. Good job, well done. ;-)

( Just because someone doesn't immediately prostrate themselves and profess their undying loyalty to your cause, that doesn't mean they can't effectively be your friend-du-jour. Vice versa, just because someone does say they support you doesn't mean they're automatically competent and able to help.)
But the odds of you guessing wrong are 2/3, so you should switch.
Implementing tail -f
I found Sarah's response to be unconvincing. Sleights-of-word and floaty language that dances around the allegations raised by Naomi.

Given that Naomi Wu ended up being apologized to the last bro-factory to disparage her [1], I think Sarah was attempting, poorly, to hide her own culpability and her own indifference towards the life of one of their sources. And now this... "person" works for the NYTimes.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/naomi-wu-sexy-cyborg-misogyny-silic...
Why? I can't imagine a corporation the size of Google would decide to not buy a company, purely based on what language/framework it uses, assuming that buying the company otherwise makes business sense.
I highly doubt they were.
on the front page already... please check for duplicates before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17686310
Cross compiling inside docker
I'd bet "being on the Rails stack" would carry little weight if they were deciding to acquire them.
As Sharlin says, getting into the prisons. There are other companies, like CorrLinks and AccessCorrections. (I believe CorrLinks has all of the federal prison system, in addition to some states.) These systems can work both ways or one way. For example, federal prisoners can email back and forth via CorrLinks; while some systems, only allow incoming email, which is printed out and provided to the prisoner.
Looking for a Second Earth in the Shadows
Just like how 3D objects make a 2D shadow (or a 2D projection on a screen), you can make a 3D shadow of a 4D object. https://www.fourthdimensionapp.com walks you through this.
Top math laureate gets new medal after prize stolen
> these tools run primarily on Windows, and, without anti-virus protection

Back when I made rocket things, we used an RTOS. Are real-time operating systems (like QNX) not widely used?
Does mindfulness kill motivation?
Poplar study shows trees can be genetically engineered not to spread
It's a treat. It's like a well-produced color mathematical atlas come to life.
Github was a rails platform and google was interested in buying them.
Odds aren't changing at any point. It's as simple as you were initially sitting in a 1/3 "probability block" (the way I like to think of it)... ; and then you shifted over to a 2/3 "probability block."

When or where are any odds changing?
I would take this as 'honest FUD' in that they believe it. The same story reported on the Verge[0] which sums up my take on it.

> These two Chinese companies have been singled out [...] possible ties to Beijing. In 2012, the US House Intelligence Committee named Huawei and [...] ZTE as serious risks [...] claiming that their devices could...

> It’s worth noting that the DNC is likely not working off any new information here, but that organizers may be on high alert for any potential security threats after Russian military officials hacked the committee in 2016.

No nothing really new here, other than the renewed fear.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/3/17649920/dnc-democrats-huawei-zte-devices-ban-china-hacking-threat
The market can not function if the government is taking decisions (or a limited numbers of companies, but they are limited in their capacity to fail by the money they have- unlike government budgets)

The market works when individual people take decisions: because there are many of them, some take risks, and they all talk to eachother.
The relevant term might be fpt-reduction.

Also some NP-COMPLETE problems are not fixed parameter tractable as far as we know, but some are.
Discussed to death:

1st explanation:

You have a 33% chance to pick car right away, if you switch then you lose.

In other words, you have a 33% chance to lose if you always switch.

2nd explanation:

You have a 66% chance to pick goat, game master will eliminate the other goat, if you switch you win
I flagged this comment because I believe it is far outside of appropriate discussion to dehumanize someone in the way your comment does. For other commenters, the original comment before editing said:

"And now this thing works for the NYTimes."

and after an initial edit, it says:

"And now this... 'person' works for the NYTimes."
Btw, "It's either win-win or its lose-lose." is the opposite of a zero-sum game.
This is freakin awesome. SunVox for life
Metamaterial-equipped endoscope reveals your innermost secrets
With adblock, most pages are missing most of their JavaScript.
RIAA Wants to Uncover the 'Music Mafia' Pirates
It sounds like you are trying to solve a partial maxsat problem. Partial maxsat uses two sets of clauses, hard and soft clauses. The hard clauses must be satisfied and the soft clauses are "nice to haves." The goal for the solver is to satisfy all the hard clauses and as many as the soft clauses as possible.

Pysat is a python package for that provides efficient SAT solver APIs and encodings, including a partial maxsat solver.
https://pysathq.github.io/docs/html/index.html

RC2 partial maxsat algorithm: https://pysathq.github.io/docs/html/api/examples/rc2.html
I'd say it's a positioning move by Gitlab to be a better acquisition target for Google. They might have hoped for Microsoft buying them, but since Microsoft beat Google in getting a hold of Github, they now are realigning. Makes sense.
OK, that gets a WOW. The article's discussion of some of the thought that has gone into the collar technology (P2P assessment of when to increase the sensor rate, such as during a hunt, for example) was really interesting.
Also, it's worth mentioning that Naomi was screwed over by MakerBot's founder before, who publically questioned her existence, describing her as "many personas or persons"

The truth is that these people took one look at Naomi, assumed she was a ditz, a slut, or some kind of animal, and figured they could do whatever they wanted to her. Because, hey, it ain't a crime to slaughter a sow.

They forget too easily that treating people like animals, means becoming an animal.

What a way to lose your humanity.
I flagged this comment because it seems to be an obvious violation of the HN guidelines:

* Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
Thank you ! You're right, maybe getting better on what I do know and try to sell solutions not technology.
Spot on! I like to compare it to building mobile apps. You can create an HTML based app that works on Android and iOS but it won’t take advantage of many of the native platform features. Similarly, VMs and block storage will run in any cloud but won’t be optimized for any vendor. It’s portability vs. optimized for the provider.
>They are content-based pages with no reason for making users wait for 8 seconds if JS isn't loaded.

I think you should read my parent comment a little bit closer.
Scream – virtual network sound card for Windows
To Send Emails to Readers, Nytimes Went Serverless
To be clear, I can't find anything in the Vice article that actually talks about Naomi's relationship, marital status or sexual orientation beyond a cursory question about the conspiracy theory. It seems that Vice followed her wishes up until the point that the conspiracy theory was mentioned (which in Naomi's defense would obviously be upsetting).
Sorry, just a bit of silly sarcasm. It wasn't a data exfiltration and user surveillance system like modern music players.
I agree. I have, at different companies, for the last 6 years, asked people to do a small take home problem that should take a couple hours. BTW I'm aware that some people feel like this is a bad idea but I strongly disagree.

I'd love to be really strict on my reviews of the code but I don't have that luxury because the majority of samples fail one of the following tests:

1. Don't compile
2. Crash under trivial input
3. Have trivially detectable race conditions

I spend alot of time recruiting for remote golang developmers who will be working at a fairly massive scale (not Google but a fortune 50/top 50 Alexa rank). I can't say that I've ever had 20 candidates in front of me who could write race free code with the bare minimum of tests.
Pysat does: https://pysathq.github.io/docs/html/index.html
I also try to use the {:system, "MY_VAR"} convention to get around the weird "lets-compile-in-config-values" problem, but unfortunately, it is not supported by many libraries. Even some of the essential libraries, like Ecto, support it for some config variables (db_url), but not for others, which seems crazy to me.

For some dependencies (like exq), I've needed to take them out of the "start" list, and start them manually, hand feeding them the configuration values.

This issue has been the biggest annoyance by far in what is otherwise a really nice platform/ecosystem.
It seems like a simple warning message would go a long way, esp if it included the current recommended command line arguments.
My understanding is all of their digital content is stored and served from their location in SF, although it would be awesome if they started geographically distributing their storage nodes.

http://archive.org/web/petabox.php
Why Are So Many Schools Adopting Drones?
This isn't flamebait.

We got a softball article about a topic from a publisher who has recently violated the very spirit of that topic.

Hypocrisy is hypocrisy and we should know about it, not hide from it.

Also, to be fair, the guidelines say:

>If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
I think of the two evils, the possobility of censorship or mistakes being eternal, I think I prefer the former.

For the same reason I find it comforting that an old fashioned bank transfer can be corrected if I transfer money and make a mistake writing the account number. Mutable history is a powerful feature.
How to receive payments on wordpress site
How would I export these shapes for use in threejs or other web based 3d display?

Can they be exported as gltf format?
Editing circuits is hard enough with complete information. If the intent is to add an exciting extra feature, that seems rather difficult to do via malware. If you're trying to just sabotage a bit, that's more likely -- maybe expose for slightly less time and things are less reliable, etc. Like others said though, it's probably easier to mess with the designs before they go to the Fab.
I hiked the Inca Trail in Peru in the late 90s. Not only was there Pepsi in the Andes, it was even available on the remotest sections of the trail. People wearing flip-flops carried cases of glass-bottled Pepsi and Coke (using just tumplines!) up to various places with the price of course increasing with altitude & remoteness. :)
Can you expand the missing premise?

1. Texts have finite length.
2. ____
3. Therefore, the halting problem does not impact machine translation.
There is a joke that goes like this: A mathematician and an engineer attend a lecture on the 11-dimensional M-theory. At the end of the lecture the mathematician delighted says how much he enjoyed it. The engineer puzzled asks him how anything even makes sense. The mathematician replies "It's easy. Visualize an N-dimensional space, then let N go to 11."
> If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

Please follow the rules.
And what good is "insurance" if you can't see your new doctor due to such bureaucracy, or keep your previous doctor as promised?

Health insurance is not same as health care. Remember that.
There's value in reducing recidivism and escapes. More practically, jails are understaffed, and there's tremendous political value in making Joe Public feel safer.
Moral hazard is thick as molasses in this situation. You are making a distinction without a difference.
How not to talk about climate change
New attack on WPA using PMKID
Styled-components and Framer X
Sure, but that doesn't imply the soul is physical. I am interacting with you through HTTP, but that doesn't make me or you HTTP.
Vice come across as a slimey bag of dicks in most of their actions.
Presumably the policy that iOS apps can only be built on Macs. It is actually against ToS, it is not just that Apple doesn't provide devtools on other operating systems.
Simplistic, but encompassing:

Liberals: It restricts free expression.

Conservatives: The government is picking winners and losers.

As for being a wedge to gradually loosen censorship. The GFC (Great Firewall of China) started with Western companies selling technologies and consulting to the Chinese government that enabled early versions. Did that participation act as a wedge that opened up Chinese society?

As I said at that time, China is the prototype. Now, we have not just these Western companies but also the Chinese selling Great Firewall solutions to other countries. (And the Chinese have the more turnkey systems and a proven track record.)

There's the old but apt adage: "Don't play by their rules."

(Which, by the way, has been modern China's approach to us, the past few decades.

Or, they've been playing by the rules they observed in us, not the ones they were told by us.

Break the law as much as you can. Cost/benefit. Might makes right...)
Stanford EE380 talk by Jon Purdy:

abstract: http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/171115.html

slides: http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/171115-slides.pdf

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IgqJr8jG8M
Maybe you shouldn't have made your email address a cryptic puzzle
Artist's depiction of the RIAA discovering the Music Mafia:

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/023/397/C-658...
I think I need some more information. What I'd like to do is to have a signed certificate that only lets me into the "otterley" account on the remote host, while not letting "jsmith" into my account (only hers) or vice versa.

My understanding of CA principals is that they identify the user or role that requested the signing, but not necessarily the login ID on the server that is allowed to be logged into. Ideally there'd be a 1:1 mapping between the principal and the login ID on the server. I think there's some sshd configuration that needs to be done, but I haven't seen any clear instructions for doing so.

Do you know how to accomplish this?
well I mean, it's very unlikely to have a magnetic core.

That said Wikipedia tells me Mars looses ~.1Kg per second to the solar wind. Bump that up to a Kg/s because the Earth is closer and that still leaves 100 Billion Years before the atmosphere is completely stripped from Earth, so not an immediate concern.
So here's the quote from the article[1]:

> In the past few years, she’s been forced to fend off vile and unfounded conspiracy theories on Reddit and 4chan that suggest a white man has masterminded her career

I think that the main concern is that they refer to it specifically as being a foreign man masterminding her career -- not just a general conspiracy theory.

While I understand them wanting to say it's wrong (which is what they are saying), according to Naomi[2] the idea of a "foreign puppet-master" is a dog-whistle in China (which, from what I've heard, has an incredibly protectionist culture). The idea of a figurehead of Shenzhen's maker culture being controlled by a foreigner would apparently not end well for Naomi.

[1]: I'm not going to link it here, just Google "Naomi Wu vice".
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0dkwwV_iaw&lc=UgxKQJHTXHv9b... -- I don't like this particular YouTuber, but Naomi responds in the comments.
Japanese workers [video]
Sea spray does wonders to aluminium. Add dissimilar metals, air full of electrolyte solution and you’re going to have gremlins. Now you could get around that by disassembling it and packing it in a container. But now you’re paying for the added expense of an aircraft mechanic to reassemble and recertify the aircraft.
My guess would be much simpler: older parents == worse genes. It is already proved that some disorders happen more often to children of parent aged 35+ (Down syndrome for instance)
It'd be better expressed as:

def a_func(input):
if eval(input) == 0:
return 1
else:
return "Nope"

To convert this to a statically typed program, the compiler has to determine what eval(input) returns at compile time, so it knows whether the function has a type signature of int or String.

In general, this is impossible, since eval(input) may not halt.
Technically supporting public keys is mandatory. Of course not only can real world implementations ignore a MUST in the RFC they can also, and more conveniently, just reject all proposed public keys, leaving public key auth as just a stub.

One of the servers I've had the misfortune of using responds to even proposed public key auth by failing all subsequent authentication on that connection. So you need to immediately do password auth if you want to get in. Brilliant.

I presume the WG specifically wanted to see SSH with public keys deployed widely rather than a world where most places upgrade from telnet to SSH with passwords and think that's the job done.
India panel wants localization of cloud storage data
Billions of people truly believe in the existence of a super-natural creature up in the sky. Some devoting time, energy and tons of money.

Not something that should surprise given the scale.
> you can run OS X in a VM. Legally, if you're on a Mac.

This is the infuriating part. You can buy an os x license - but only to run on Apple hw. So you can't legally run it on other hw.

Not sure if this is really enforceable here (Norway) vs consumers due to somewhat strong consumer protection - but it's probably enforceable against businesses, which is bad enough.
FWIW this is really not true. (The bit about stereo vision being required to see 3D.)

When I was in college I was fairly decent on the ping pong table, call it high amateur. I also have very very bad vision - -5 diopters in one eye and -6 in the other. At the time I wore contacts and I was also really really poor. At some point I lost one of my contacts and for six months I was effectively blind in one eye for the purposes of ping pong. It took me about a month, but fairly quickly I was playing at my old level without anything close to stereo vision.
@SquareWheel - there is no reply link on your comment, so I'm replying here. I read your comment and I understand it.

There is no reason to load any JavaScript on a page that only contains some text and images. If the goal is to speed up loading, then blocking unnecessary JS shouldn't break the page. It's clear that page speed is not Google's primary goal with AMP.
GCC?
Aww I was going to add almost exactly the same thing to https://github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver but IA beat me to the punch! I still hope to add decentralized storage and lookup mechanisms to BA eventually, but considering one BA's archive outputs is the Internet Archive, it's less pressing now.
Not looking for a job, but have to say I'm impressed with your product. Looks like a genuinely useful product with a huge market if you can really pull it off. Best of luck!
Heatwave in Europe set to push up UK food prices
Heatwave in Europe set to push up UK food prices

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/03/heatwave-in-europe-set-to-push-up-uk-food-prices?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Submit_to_HN