skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
doesnt this depend on the person or ip of the person searching? I think a generic person search would bring up the more general view that Trump is a crazy old man screaming at his tv
"What if you could comment on a work colleague's electricity bill?"

This was laugh out funny. Thank you for posting this. Cheers.
Surely there’s a way to study this and generate some meaningful statistics on whether Google (and others) actually bury conservative stories. Or maybe it’s already been studied, and either supported or rebutted.
scientists do science?? outrageous!
one thing i immediately noticed is that the line gutter no longer lags during hz scrolling on my phone :)

i'll definitely be pitching in.

something that's always bugged me about the current v5 syntaxes is that colors (and token types) are not consistent across languages.

ideally i would prefer to have a local var, a regex, a builtin colored the same in all languages. not just as a result of carefully tweaked css but because of token/css class uniformity.

any plans to address this in v6?
There are two more libs on Cliki:

https://www.cliki.net/email

And note that CLiki does not cover all that it's out there.
How does this work post-2G, are the phones still not authenticating the network? Or are the operators giving signed fake certs out? Or is is some kind of downgrade attack to 2G?

edit: this 2014 article talks about a downgrade attack with the older stingrays, and a "Hailstorm" kind of device that works without 2G but without details: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/cities-scramble-...

edit 2: It could also be implementation or design flaws, and/or backdoors, in the cellular network, courtesy of network equipment vendors.
Or email me! joanna at copyhackers dot com. happy to provide ebooks to the HN community! and thanks. :)
Android, again, was a complete replacement of the userland tooling developed by the community. For all intents and purposes it is a completely different system.

Even Windows can run Linux apps these days. It still doesn't seem to me that that qualifies as "year of the Linux Desktop" as it is intended.
If you look at the simple but extreme case below (someone named Null) :

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

Maybe you want to be able to appeal to a machine made decision and that it should be reviewed by a human at some point ? But maybe not, at some point, changing your name is probably easier.
> A MITM attack on a static site is definitely possible, maybe even easy, but I'm not going to worry about it unless I have something important to protect.

HTTPS doesn't protect the content of your site from being stolen, it protects your users from hostile third-party content masquerading as yours.
This is awesome. But I feel the audience overlaps with standing desks and not offering a hydraulic standing desk base may be a missed opportunity.
I also love generative art ... mostly .... and I've made quite a bit but .......

The problem I have is generally when it appears to me it didn't require much effort. Making a program that draws random dots, random rectangles, random lines, is almost a rite of passage for new programmers. A lot of generative art looks like hardly many more steps beyond that. Draw 100 rectangle each slightly smaller and rotated from the previous and you get a beautiful spiral.

I know my own rarely take more than 30 minutes each. I just take some existing generator and start tweaking. If I get something mildly pleasing I save it. But I rarely promote it because I feel at some level it was farted out, it was a sketch, a doodle, not a "work" of art.

Of course I know effort is probably not a valid criteria but still, it's sometimes hard not to see what appears to be low-effort generative art as barely more than the random dot/line/rectangle exercise most programmers do early in their learning. Like instead of 100% random colors use HSL and only vary the values 10% from some initial value and suddenly it's "art". (pick light blue and it's snow on the ground, pick light brown and it's sand, pick green and it's grass, pick red/orange/yellow and it's lava). It makes it hard to know when it crossed the line from learning to code to "art".

Of course like I said I still appreciate generative art but for some reason my own block is that I need to perceive effort. It can even be simple but I have to look at it and think something like "That was simple but took a long time to find the right parameters to get it to look that pleasing".

Let me add, it's a pie in the sky dream of mine to have/run/start/manage a kinetic interactive art museum the size of the Exploritorium in SF with constantly new exhibits much of which would be generative art.
If I bought the Civic at least I could discharge the loan through bankruptcy. You're not allowed to do that with education loans. They're the only kind of debt I'm aware of where this is the case and it's unclear to me why we should treat our children any differently than we expect to be treated with regards to debt.

I think there are a lot of issues with the system, not least of which is that it's possible to accrue that much debt without any credit check. But let's not pretend that the system isn't rigged to saddle people with debt.
Looks interesting. I could finally automate the FAQs I receive on regular basis. Like mail filters with a template engine.
the headline is a reasonable abstraction from the legalese which you quoted. if the feature isn't FCC compliant, as taxpayers we are to assume that it exists outside of the law and is thus not something we can depend upon. in any event, it violates the ADA because it isn't disability-compliant in any capacity.
Ask HN: What is the best UI you've seen to convey a fact / information?
Rather than long form information like Wikipedia, have you seen UIs for more concise information? If so, what are they, and what did you like about them?
The easy ask now is for a precision electron-positron collider to study the Higgs itself. Lepton/anti-lepton colliders are as clean as an experiment can be, in stark contrast to hadron colliders, which are as clean as a car accident.

With the improved understanding of the Higgs that we have now, an e+/e- machine can be custom-built to study it in great detail. The Higgs is the newest fundamental particle to physics, and the first/only known scalar. We should expect that it has more to tell us than simply its own existence.

Even when the LHC was being planned, LHC was the discovery machine, and precision experiments were to follow. In my opinion, only when those measurements are complete should we consider a huge leap toward higher energy, unless new accelerator technology emerges.
ACLs Don't (2009) [pdf]
It would be awesome if some of the work that went into this could be integrated into ReMarkable.

I love hand-note taking.
> transition from doing great in classes (learning along an externally designed sequence) to planning and doing your own research may not go smoothly

I would speculate that this is largely because students spend most of their attention on pre-planned classroom-like work and do almost no research-like work during the first 16+ years of their formal schooling.
Bose challenges Sonos with new Alexa-powered smart speaker and soundbars
Could Milters[1] be used to do a lot of what Salmon does?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milter
I didn't immediately see some desktop covering that would make the surface flat and smooth. This is something that some users would have to have - for writing on paper on the desk, and for mousing.

And since I don't want to have to have a special "desk mat" that looks odd and may slide around, I would skip this desk. Perhaps you can devise one that fits the style and provides the flat smooth surface that some of us would want.
Hmm...I've spent decades using BDB and honestly this doesn't jive with my experience at all. I remember the Subversion debacle, but wasn't that resolved before 2005?
Best thing I've ever done as far as college is concerned is

1. Did well in high school to qualify for merit scholarships

2. Chose a top 10 college for my field

3. Get a job starting at >100k per year

Graduated with debt paid off in less than a year

(this is comment is intentionally snarky to point out that "I did X and this is how I avoided loans" stories are usually unique to a person and circumstance, and ignores the very real problem that student loans are opaque, confusing, and intentionally manipulative for young borrowers, which was the point of this article.)
I'm not sure what the relationship between channels and users is. I think it's many-to-many and I'm aware of 3 feed types:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=<username>
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<channel id>
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<playlist id>

Would love to hear if there are more.
What's the proof?

> Mr. Trump’s criticism appeared to be inspired by a segment last night from Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs. During the program, Mr. Dobbs highlighted an article by a conservative website, PJ Media, that said that it had conducted an unscientific study in which 96 percent of Google search results for the word “Trump” were articles from “left-leaning sites.”

Oh boy: an "unscientific study", whatever that is.
>What would be the point of adjusting the algorithm other than picking which results should be surfaced?

Well I like to think they do want to improve the results.
Show HN: Real Time Face Detection on CPU Using Deep Learning
There is no Java requirement.
Climate change will make hundreds of millions more people nutrient deficient
Task Scheduler ALPC exploit high level analysis
> AFAIK all that Dropbox does is sync changes in files between your local filesystem and some cloud server --- which doesn't seem like the sort of functionality that requires anything more than the basic FS API.

The reason syncing requires more than basic FS API is because it's simply won't scale well beyond a handful of files. You need a highly efficient way to monitor file and directory changes, and that's typically not present in a basic FS API.

Case point, I was investigating using restic for backups after Crashplan pulled out of the consumer market, however it uses simple directory and file traversal (basic FS API stuff), which makes it take something like 30-40 minutes to just scan my directory tree and find out nothing changed. Crashplan monitored the filesystem and could perform a backup in seconds.
> Just because you could modify page content does not mean you could transmit that content to an alternate location.

Yes, if I can masquerade as your domain, I can have the data transmitted back to the same server conducting the attack (which is the “same origin”), which can then send it anywhere else.
IRS ruling allows 401(k) student loan benefits
> The fact that RH builds use MozNSS instead of OpenSSL, a constant source of low-level friction and intermittent breakage, doesn't help matters. (Likewise, Debian builds OpenLDAP with GnuTLS.)

But, IIRC, the Debian developers did some work on addressing the gaps, whereas the RH/moznss guys just put their fingers in their ears and said "nobody needs well-performing SSL handling in a server context like OpenSSL provides", and all of their contributions focused purely on the OpenLDAP client-side.

For a long time, I provided builds of OpenLDAP for RHEL3/4/5, and finally on RHEL7 RH's packages were recent enough and didn't have too many mozNSS-related problems to be usable out-the-box in our large OpenLDAP deployment.

I'll have to give the guys who are still there a heads-up and consider reviving my RPM rebuilds for RHEL.
The Github link was a bit hidden on the page, here it is:

https://github.com/google/s2geometry/
Quick note that may be of interest: S² is the mathematical notation for the "2-sphere", aka what we call a sphere in everyday language. I suppose that's explained by this:

> A unique feature of the S2 library is that unlike traditional geographic information systems, which represent data as flat two-dimensional projections (similar to an atlas), the S2 library represents all data on a three-dimensional sphere (similar to a globe).

(S^2 if the superscript character doesn't show up for you.)
If the market would bare a higher cost they would have already charged it. This can only hurt them, through competition, or just that people won't pay a higher price.
I think it's completely and utterly wrong that one person (the advisor) should ever have such absolute power over another (the student).

Just as the OP describes, if the advisor is great, it's fantastic. If they aren't, you are in a world of pain.

I don't regret choosing to do a PhD, but I deeply regret choosing my advisor.
This. Yes, please tell us. I was considering switching to T-Mobile from AT&T. T-Mobile's price point is much better, obviously.
I would like to know this as well!
Google's List of American Inventors
The replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science, 2010-2015
Making it easier to repay student loans with other people’s money will surely fix the student loan crisis.

How could it possibly make it worse?

Sigh.
The scary thing about this is that, while you may have a good "security hygiene" around your devices, you have no control over others who you socialize with.

It's a bit like ending on Facebook even though you have no account: someone posted a picture of you, you got tagged, and now you exist in FB.

All it takes is one person with an infected phone to show up around a table of a private event/conversation and, through no fault of your own, you get recorded.

The moral of the story (that I've been trying to follow for a few years now, quite unsuccessfully I must add), is that if you want a private conversation with someone (or a group of people), you need to keep all devices away.

On the bright side, it has taught me to be very diplomatic in my discussions with others. My default behavior (when I don't slip) is to assume that whatever I say could become public somehow.
Delicious foodies photography images
The lost woods might confuse the algorithm pretty good.
1) Graduated with a fair amount of debt which I used to subsidize global travel and broaden my perspective

2) Refinanced at 1.25%

3) Sat back and watched inflation erode the debt away

(thank you economics degree)
>One suggestion: checked again just now and SBCL is still not production-ready on Windows (for the understandable reason of insufficient volunteers); perhaps the recommendation for that platform should be changed to CCL?

It only has a warning for threading code that has been left there for years. But I use it on windows with no problems.

On the other hand Clozure CL is a very very good implementation with a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong history (emphasis added) being used in production stuff.

But don't limit yourself to SBCL and CCL -- take a look also at ECL, ABCL, CLASP, etc.
Here's a blog post I wrote comparing geofencing algorithms one of which leverages s2. https://medium.com/@buckhx/unwinding-uber-s-most-efficient-s...

In practice, we use s2 for in memory location indexing.
> one thing that's always bugged me about the current v5 syntaxes is that colors (and token types) are not consistent across languages.

Yeah, me too. We're planning to move to something more close to what other editors (ST, Code) do and work with hierarchical token types (variable.local, variable.type.definition) instead of having a set of disjoint types. There remains the problem of some modes simply supporting more features (i.e. if one mode doesn't distinguish definitions from uses and another does, the colors will, depending on the theme, still look different), but it should help unify things quite a bit more.
In this case, the evidence for "doesn't work" would be a REDUCTION in the number of successful companies, not a complete absence of successful companies. And there are so many confounding variables that it is impossible to tease apart the effect of this policy on board membership from every other thing about German law and culture that might affect company success.
Nearly Destroyed by ISIS, the Ancient City of Palmyra Will Reopen in 2019
That paper is talking about user recommendations, not ranking.

Your family member was without a doubt talking about Google News even if they weren't aware of it because results from News are mixed in to generic search results. If you search [trump] on web search then the top part of the page is dedicated entirely to results that come from News, not generic web search.

The idea that Google News is unbiased is unsustainable, simply because humans whitelist news sources. It's not like web search where basically any web page can appear at any location automatically. There is no algorithm for deciding if a website is "news" or not. It's a human judgement.

Google employees have literally cried in company meetings when Trump was elected, only someone very naive would believe these people are going to be neutral about what sources they allow and how they decide which sources are more authoritative than others. Do you believe it's a coincidence that Breitbart never ranks, despite having an Alexa rank essentially the same as the Washington Post, given how Google employees are reported to have acted lately?

Your knowledge of maths is I'm afraid not very relevant to this topic because mathematics is simply a tool. Your family member is evaluating humans and their likely actions, not algorithms, and that is the correct thing to do because it's ultimately humans that control the algorithms. Google employees are perfectly capable of biasing its results and then lying about it to the public, without even being aware that they're doing it.
If you're looking for something like this, but without setting up postfix/sendmail yourself, Anvil has a pretty straightforward API (and it's already hosted on a domain):

https://anvil.works/blog/email-driven-apps

(There's a video example at that link, where I build and deploy a Mailinator-like service from scratch in a couple of minutes.)
If you're not a HNWI I wouldn't bother buying individual bonds (and if you are, you're probably paying someone to do it for you). You can get 99% of the benefit of this full ladder just using a few etfs. Check out $VGSH, $VGIT, $VGLT - expense ratios are only 0.07. But also if you're young you probably shouldn't worry about this. You don't hold many bonds anyway and you shouldn't be trying to time the market - just buy a total bond fund and forget it.

If however, you do want some pizzazz in your bonds, also check out barbells and bullets. The concept is the same as a ladder except you're not equal-weighted across time. And then check out Vanguard's short, intermediate and long corporate bonds and you can do similar things in the corporate space.
The reason might be to add & increase the number of users in any group.
Perhaps I'm being dense and ignorant, but how much use would a blind person have for a handwriting application on a touch-screen device?
Why is there no open source alternative to Android or iOS?
I know; see my other comments on the thread. I was responding directly to "Ubuntu may be easier" to indicate that the distro difference is not the cause of the authors problems. They've clearly got a messed up system or install procedure.
There is no company where the greater interests of the shareholders is aligned with the interests of the voting electorate.
Best Practices for Mobile Form Design
YES! This is the kind of content I love to see on HN!

I see no tip jar OP. Let me know how I can buy you a beer.
Another for the list: a single stray tap on some ad got me (silently) enrolled in some useless service, charged directly to my T-mobile bill.

Workaround: Pay monthly, resist their pressure to sign up for auto-pay. Shift bill payment chore day to third week of each month, to deal with T-mo's 17-day window between billing and overdue dates.

All that said, from what I've seen, the competing providers are worse still.
Just because the call isn't to 911 doesn't mean it wasn't an emergency call.
SMS is not two factor authentication, no matter what ISPs or websites tell you.
Announcing Estimote LTE Beacon
Inside the United Nations’ effort to regulate autonomous “killer robots”
Definitely not Linux Desktop as intended.

Android is indeed quite different.

Chrome OS is somewhat different. Today I use Crouton to run one or more Linux desktops (currently Ubuntu Unity and Xfce) on my Pixelbook. I've blown away an older Ubuntu 16.04 I had. Thinking about blowing away the Ubuntu Unity and keeping only the Xfce. Each Linux desktop takes about 5 GB with a few additional apps installed including LibreOffice, GIMP, Inksacpe, wxMaxima and Eclipse / Java. Using Crouton means my Pixelbook is in "developer mode" (which means rooted).

I look forward to the integrated Linux apps and expect one day I will switch out of developer (rooted) mode back to normal. This is called a "power wash" on the Settings and resets everything for security and verified boot so no unauthorized code can ever execute.
I don't have a subscription currently so I didn't read the full article but I find it almost impossible to get any work done without air-conditioning on a very hot day so limiting their use seems impossible without also impacting productivity and economic output. For this reason the only solution seems to be either a technological breakthrough or the continuation of iterative efficiency gains.
Visited a restaurant in Barcelona. Printed on the bottom of the bill was a message, "Don't tip. We pay our staff fairly". The service was excellent and I very much appreciated not having to do the arithmetic.

Now if someone could just take on the whole 'no tax shown on price tags' thing (I've only ever seen this in the USA). If it's not optional, then include it in the price!
Let's focus more on the worthless wastes of energy like cryptocurrency, and less on life saving ones like air conditioning. The latter does FAR more right than wrong. Should we have more energy efficient machines, and less harmful chemicals? Of course. But out of ALL of the technology to write about, air conditioning contributing to environmental destruction should be on the bottom of the list. When it's 120F inside a tin can house in India, you go tell those people they should be laying off the harmful AC while you're trading imaginary internet coins.
If Google can build a censored search engine for China they can do it for America.

Most likely they already have done so. It's not a secret that Google, Facebook, Twitter etc are run by leftist cucks.
‘Digital shackles’: the unexpected cruelty of ankle monitors