skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can partially thank the media for this. They like to sway opinion on issues for profit. Look at all the cartoons and TV shows and movies from the 80's and 90's demonizing Arabs to make way for the endless middle east wars.

The endless stream of crime dramas that make it clear the police never do wrong and if you make it to a trial you are certainly guilty. We have a prison industry in this country that is predatory to everyone but especially the poorer uneducated classes, and crime dramas are their commercials.
I can recommend Publii CMS https://getpublii.com
> does it actually identify specific individuals?

Some do.

> Suspect caught in China at concert after being detected by face recognition tech

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/12/17229530/china-facial-rec...

> Chinese Facial Recognition System Would Fine Jaywalkers By Text

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...

But I don't believe a camera at a supermarket is able to do that. Only if you use digital payment, or online shopping.
Out to fuck over competitors, not users (because to microsoft’s business, users = customers). Google is actively making users’ lives worse.
You can walk the network and crash all nodes with listening sockets, this ruins pretty much everything. There's some non-public infrastructure that would perhaps make mining continue, but non-listening nodes can't exist without sockets, and neither can SPV nodes.
The 1921 Devastation of Black Wall Street (2017)
1. SAN is an already used an abbreviation for something that has been in the tech world for a while, and well, would be hard to search for.

2. No multi-line support?

What about JSON5?
Show HN: HayScout – Privacy first search engine funded by subscriptions
This demo is apparently using a bombe that is a recreation of the original. Does anybody know when it was made or how faithful it is to the originals? I recall reading that the bombes were essentially hand-built, one-offs, each one slightly different from the others as improvements were made and, what plans there were, weren't complete.
The `xdotool` is available in the https://brew.sh so you can just use the provided `desktop-pause.sh` script with a shortcut which does exactly that - "grabs the active window and sends stop/continue signals to that window".
Here you go from a few hours ago.

"China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4B citizens"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18026060

They aren't even waiting 24 hours.
Matlab does have code generation though. Dunno if the library you use supports it, but most code can be exported to C++ or Cuda code.
Creator here.

I’ve always wanted a search engine that doesn’t harvest and sell my data, doesn’t track what I do and doesn’t display ads. HayScout is my attempt at providing such a service.

It uses Bing to source results and requires a monthly subscription from users(limited free use). Still early days but I wanted to share my progress and ask for any feedback.

Thanks!
I had 3 stones in my right salivary gland which I dropped when I was 12 or something like that. My experience was: (1) since it was insanely painful and I could feel it with my hand (just above my neck) I kept pushing it forward and forward which made channels inside my right salivary gland to get larger and it's still (after ~10 years) larger than my left gland. (2) My mom never believed me that there is something there, he thought I'm just sick and that's the lymph node. When I finally took the stone out of there with my own effort, she was like "haha there is no way that came out of your mouth, that's probably just leftover food in your mouth". Thankfully my doctor knew better. (3) Every time the stone kept getting smaller (the first one was like ginormous, the third one was barely visible) but I think the smaller the stone, the sharper it gets and god that third one was so fucking painful.
Should have a look at Linux Security Summit 2018, lots of work still pending.
>IPFS also includes a thing where nodes are given preferential treatment based on seed/leech ratio - so you're incentivized to help host content

so you're disincentivized from using the service
Actually no. Vanguard has a different arrangement from pretty much any company in that it is owned by the funds it manages. As such any return vanguard earns for shareholders is money they charged the shareholders in the first place. At best it is a zero sum game, and more likely it is inefficient.
Do you have to use an Open Source OS to be a FOSS contributor?
Insomnia has a better design than postman, but lack the habillity to transfer data from one request to another... So I am still with postman.
It cannot

Source: I worked in a related field for five years, and evaluated a lot of technologies from major players.
Social platform.
> While the octopus has a large central brain in its head, it also has a unique network of smaller ‘brains’ within each of its arms. It’s just what these creatures need to coordinate the mind-boggling complexity of eight prehensile arms and hundreds of sensitive suckers, which provide the octopus with the equivalent of opposable thumbs (roboticists have been taking note).

A neurological network of loosely-coupled semi-autonomous subsystems...
This is the true of all problems with humanity.

>think before sharing

>recycle

>wear seat belts

>be considerate

>stretch

>drink water regularly

>brush regularly

None of this scales, and none of it will ever scale, because humanity is designed to not follow that.

Human beings are an aggregate of all sorts of behavior, ranging from complimentary to those in active pursuit of mutual annihilation.

Any system/solution which expects uniformity in behavior or choice, is dead on arrival.

Unfortunately that leaves solutions that target biology and neural processing/heuristics.

Our businesses and science is actively about hacking brains and influencing choices.
LOL, all the people saying the the name is horrible.
I noticed that the QR Code for this payment method is unusually large. The underlying text string is quite long compared to the strings for things like Bitcoin addresses, social media profile URLs, etc.
> even what she thinks

I don't think the cameras can track your mind. I think it is a little bit of exaggeration, and refers to e.g. knowing one's political leanings by analyzing online accounts.
It needs a diff review system like Phabricators Differential
this explanation actually makes sense as to a possible use case for this tech. thanks!
I’ve served on 3 juries. Two acquitted, and in each case the facts made the case.

The hardest case was the one that was “not guilty”. The defendant was almost certainly guilty of manslaughter. But for reasons that don’t matter, aspects (time) of key evidence could not be evaluated, which created doubt.

It was a moving experience.
You're joking right? It's hard to catch typed sarcasm...

If not - then maybe this should help explain how Vanilla JS works ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
You are right about the open-core. However, in that blog-post, Sid mentioned that we are an open-source company and remarked that open-core is the more accurate term.
Other than the assertions in the blog post it's not really clear why we should believe this version of events. Consider this article, which suggests the opposite: https://web.archive.org/web/20150108121957/http://go.bloombe...
"Caffeinated Chocolate"... But doesn't chocolate already contain caffeine?
Ah yeah that makes more sense, thanks. I thought they were just arguing that we should stick with winter time, without moving things by an hour.
Your two sentences contradict each other. If Ballmer's implementations were unpopular with employees, why did he hold office for so long?

What I'm saying is, employees don't get to decide how a company is run.
I dropped out of a PhD in philosophy and am now a software developer. Tinkering with some of my old papers is my main hobby these days. I also have little kids, so I don't get a lot of time for it, but I'm hoping to have at least one significant item ready for publication in the next year or so.
>CCTV may be widespread in China but the USA and UK are still way out in front[0]

That's extremely misleading to the point of being propaganda, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. The vast majority of the CCTV's in the US aren't hooked up to any kind of network that delivers data back to the federal (or even state/local) government. They are just security cameras purchased by companies for their own security. That difference is critical because they're not allowing tracking. (NOTE: I speak for the US, the UK could be significantly different)

>Lastly, for the suppression of the guy who uncovered party corruption, just look at the treatment of Snowden or many other whistle blowers.

Whataboutism and Snowden wasn't uncovering corruption. He was revealing the gross freedom the NSA is permitted to act with under the current US laws.
You can present your own project (https://bisratyalew.github.io/Google/) in the Show HN category, see https://news.ycombinator.com/show

Leave out the 'Interesting' and 'Check the Site' in the title. By submitting it's implied that you think it's important/news-worthy.

input = input.replace(" ", "+");
input = input.replace("=", "%3D");
input = input.replace("&", "%26");

Using URI encoding methods is better than maintaining a short list of replacements here, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
>>> The game never needs to rotate any geometry

Fixed geometry was the first thing I noticed ;)

Could probably even increase level size manyfold and would still run quite smoothly. For large generated mazes. With this phenomenal skin-crawling sound design. Would make a very immersive "escape" labyrinth game!
Saturn’s Hexagon: Cassini’s Perspective on the Planet’s Pointy Polar Vortex
For self-hosters like me, I like and recommend Gitea [1] (based on gog). Same workflow as GitHub, but in your own hands. You can open it up to the masses or keep it close to the vest, your call. A Docker version is available, but its Go-ness makes it super easy (and even lighter) to deploy on its own anyway.

[1] https://gitea.io/en-us/
>This could have been waaaaay worse

The cost of the attack would far exceed ~80k USD in bitcoin block rewards because it requires a substantial amount of hashing power to have a realistic chance of successfully producing a block that reaches consensus and is added to the canonical chain.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/technology/scan-or-scam...
But it's a false premise. It seems like petting a dog on the way to the vet. The petting just calms the dog down, but has no effect on the inevitability of his situation.

So what value is a useless and pointless gesture that appears to be a marketing/public relations tactic?
>"Stuff like lambdas weren’t born in some hipster language, they came from JavaScript"

Lambdas are actually so hipster that they were cool before we even had programming languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus

As far as I know, Lisp was the first language to actually implement the idea. I actually struggle to think of any language concepts that were introduced by Javascript.

I also tend to disagree with the overall sentiment that new languages aren't a good way to influence programming. Haskell, for example, is quite a departure from a language like C. I don't think we would've ended up with the great, proven options we have today if everything was just incremental changes on some base. Sometimes you need to rethink things from scratch. It's part of the reason we don't have one language that fits perfectly for all problem sets.
Since using Atom for years now I am not up2date in regards to Sublime Text. Does it have a Git integration, or is this the tool that should be used instead of a editor integration?
I agree, essentially. It's actually fascinating how broken something can be and have multi million dollar a day trading volume. It shows a complete disconnect between what exists (the network), and what is being marketed (the product, the dream, the market).
Funny you should mention that - alacritty just merged their scrollback feature branch into master a couple of days ago.
https://youtu.be/pwn3gIipCjU
Well, it is propaganda.
> The cost of the attack would far exceed ~80k USD in bitcoin block rewards because it requires a substantial amount of hashing power to have a realistic chance of successfully producing a block that reaches consensus and is added to the canonical chain.

No, the cost is simply $80k on average to find a block, or around $5k for BCash. If the cost to produce a block exceeded its value substantially, it would be on a whole unprofitable for Bitcoin miners to continue existing at this point in time (network difficulty, bitcoin price).
What I didn't see in the white paper, is whether the contents of each file are checksummed?

It seems only the metadata is checksummed.

I have used ZFS and the ability to run a check on the entire set of metadata and actual files is very reassuring (though it is definitely time consuming).
> For Java, JavaScript, Go, C++, Python, TypeScript and Proto files, you’ll see result suggestions indicating whether the match is an entity such as a class, method, enum, or field.

Apparently they forgot about Flutter users.
Hey Jon, Sublime Team.

Is there a way to make the "Staged Files" view appear at the top of the tool? Preferably above "Working Directory" ?
Yes, the comparison with the episode looks unreasonable. Still, it sounds that Apple processes personal data without any possibility to opt-out.
Cool, and good for you.

Peeked @ your blog... As someone who leans toward medical non-interventionism, I'm looking forward to reading up on your health regime.

And of course, I do hope that you'll consider saying/writing more about how and why you came to develop/adopt your wealth maintenance strategy. For example, when I saw GSB, I thought, "Oh, yeah, that makes sense." But maybe being an alum has nothing to do w/ your approach.

Cheers!
If you pay for it you get the dark theme, which is reasonable, people have bills to pay.
1. Do you have any kind of formal training?
2. Are you willing to relocate back to the DACH region?
Google has shutdown lots of things.

Google Reader
iGoogle
Google Talk
Google Health
Knol
Picnik
Buzz
AARDVARK
Sidewiki
Notebook
Wave
Dictionary
Labs
SearchWiki
Video
Dodgeball
Jaiku
Lively
Answers
Page Creator

I won't even mention how bad android sucks with devices never seeing security patches, updates or new releases.

I'm just not a fan of choosing sides. Already saw google code die, why would i want them to own or have heavy influence over gitlab?
>The comment above though probably meant the true communism, i.e. society without money.

Why would you think that? The term "communist experiment" implies that it's one being conducted right now. There are no states with even hints of plans for this "true communism" you speak of.
Perhaps it's just because GitHub came first?

The market segment of web hosted Git repositories was a relatively new and small market segment when GitHub got started back in 2008.

GitLab didn't appear until 2011, and at the time it didn't feel to me like a direct competitor. So GitHub had quite a bit of extra time to establish its presence and capture a large share of a growing market.

For a large chunk of GitHub's users, GitHub fulfills their needs well enough that they don't feel much motivation to make a change. Even if GitLab is better than GitHub for a person or company, it has to be better enough to be worth the pain of switching.

And I think for most users, that just isn't the case. Speaking anecdotally, there are some things about GitLab I like more than GitHub. And if I were starting out, I'd likely pick GitLab. But all of my code is on GitHub, and although I pay a monthly fee for private repos, it's small enough that it doesn't bother me.
Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut
I hear it fairly often in discussions about passives that operate in a frequency range excluding DC. If the geometry defines the frequencies, the upper and lower frequency limits will have a fixed ratio as you scale the device up/down. For instance, textbook directional couplers typically have octave range (1-2GHz, 2-4GHz, 10-20GHz) while "clever" couplers can have decade range (1-10GHz) or more. Similar stories apply to cavity or microstrip filters/resonators.

Since frequency and bandwidth are banner specs the terms often leak into the names themselves -- someone might advertise a "multi-decade coupler" and compare it to "octave couplers." You can readily find examples on google.

Harmonics are a key concern in RF but I usually hear the terms "fundamental, second, third, etc" used to refer to them and it would sound odd to my ear if someone used "octave" in that context.
I honestly think you should think about this carefully, and that you might want to consider doing something else. If you really think you want to write software I suggest that you find a job doing customer support and work your way towards your goals. I started in support, did qa, and eventually became an engineer.
The actual killer confessed, I think that is already a "flag".
Does this work for Aqua applications as well?

I'm thinking we'd like to use something like Hammerspoon or AppleScript to fetch the PID of the currently focused window.

https://www.hammerspoon.org
Sure. In Go, this was one of the details that cemented my love for the language. Imagine you have a multiline list, sorted alphabetically.

strs = [
"a",
"b",
"c"
]

If you don't have a trailing comma (looking at you, JSON), when you add a new item, you have to make changes on two lines:

strs = [
"a",
"b",
"c", // Change 1.
"d" // Change 2.
]

On the other hand, when you have obligatory trailing comma on multiline lists, there is only one change:

strs = [
"a",
"b",
"c", // No change, since the comma was already there.
"d", // Change 1.
]
AI gliders learn to fly using air currents, just like birds
Getting offtopic here but arguably the best thing about the growing prevalence of VR is that it's forcing everyone to focus on maximum latency rather than frame throughput, and so that godawful stutter is finally being exorcised from our rendering stacks.
Why? We are not chinese. We don't live in china. I'm more worried about censorship in the US and especially europe since europeans seem so intent on bringing their censorship to the US and the entire world. At least the chinese censorship affects their country mostly.

> I see this pattern every time there's a critical article about China.

Because we get the same story about china multiple times in a day.

Just from "abc.net.au" within the past 19 hours. The same story has been pushed onto the frontpage.

"China’s all-seeing surveillance network"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18030655

"China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4B citizens"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18026060

I'd called this propaganda rather than news.

> let's focus on the ridiculous and crazy to be put it mildly things going on in China.

Why? If china wanted to export their dictatorship to the US, I can see why we should be concerned. But they aren't. It's primarily europe and segments of puritanical leftists and rightist in the US along with parts of the tech leadership.

It's fine to have a story about china once in a while, but multiple times daily just reeks of propaganda.
I don't know why this was down voted so far it was killed so I vouched for it.

It is however a bit obscure. Perhaps this could be rephrased in more common HN terms as "the octopus's genetic mechanism quite aggressively uses epigenetic mechanisms" or "calls genetic 'subroutines' in ways unfamiliar in chordates (like us).

I found it weird that the article called the octopus' brain morphology "weird" given that we really only have one other model (again, that of vertebrates) to follow. Though there are more vertebrates by far, perhaps the octopus makes more sense and we are the centralised weirdos?
Vapid seems like what I am after, a super simple CMS for "brochure" sites.

Using page templates might allow www.surrealcms.com to manage a blog. Builtin blogging is planned for version 7.1.

Hugo + Netlify is the direction I am going now but that still seems overkill.
The specific instance related to Godaddy that was the straw that broke things was the SOPA fiasco. Google has done many similar things, it could be argued even far worse things, and it's somehow survived so far. But to think it's any better of a company is to be myopic.

Well, I am in no hurry with Flutter, we will see how things turn out in the next few years.
I'm surprised that you would lump Go in as a "super-tanker" language. I find it incredibly small and simplistic when compared to something like Rust. I think it actually has fewer keywords than C.
Looks like magit, without the very good editor integration that makes magit awesome. Seems nice tho.
Modern Mallard: Modded Zapper and Patch Board to Play NES Duck Hunt on Modern TV
I hate this title. It implies first that Linus was the target of the abuse and that he is stepping aside permanently. New Yorker strikes again...
Gitlab _could_ be a brilliant SaaS product. It has many more features than github, Runner integration allows simple and easy building, instead of having to bust out to circleCI.

As a self hosted product, it is difficult to be beaten.

but as a Saas product, its just horribly unreliable.

In the last two months it has improved, but there are still outages every two weeks or so. (https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus) I'm hoping that with this extra cash, they'll be hiring in some infrastructure people (people who will look at this in horror: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/11/proposed-server-purchase... ) who actually know how to make a stable platform using _proven "boring"_ stuff, not sexy slow and supposedly HA stuff like Ceph and forcing it to serve NFS.
Srguments which start with "it is immoral to force people to give up their property" ignore the initial origin of that property, and frequently several steps of conquest and theft in between.
Contentful (https://www.contentful.com) was originally a Show HN called StorageRoom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616041

It's now a series C startup with over 200 employees and customers like Spotify, WeWork, Samsung, Nike, Jack in the Box, The British Museum

(I work there)
>> It also provides partitioning mechanisms that make it possible to simultaneously process public and sensitive information on the same computer, within two completely isolated software environments, in order to avoid the risk of sensitive information leaking onto the public network.

> Just don't. Please don't. You can have the most sane architecture, but there's a whole pile of s..tack underneath. You can't even trust a modern CPU.

Wasn't it determined in 1974 that you can't successfully do that using conventionally developed software, even without the bloated modern "stack?"

Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis:

https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/publications/conference-pap...

Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation:

https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf
Richard Browning's suit is even more impressive, but presumably infeasible to do with electricity with current technology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DafoDiRvGLM
> "I’ve served on 3 juries. Two acquitted, and in each case the facts made the case."

> "The hardest case was the one that was “not guilty”."

Would you clarify? I read the first paragraph as there was one guilty verdict, yet the second paragraph implies there was only one not guilty verdict. Did you perhaps intend two convicted, or alternatively, in the second paragraph, one of the cases that were not guilty?