skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a nice conspiracy theory it just doesn't have much to do with reality. You don't win people over politically on the internet, especially not by force-feeding identity politics into everything.
Don't worry, look at the bright side. E.g. I heard the US economy enjoys a 4% growth rate and that can only be a good thing! Right?
> Instead, they contract low-cost Chinese manufacturers to provide a custom logo on a drone that already exists. Then Holy Stone puts the drone up on Amazon at a significant markup.

Seems like Amazon is filled with "fake" brands like these. Is just so that if some brand messes up, they can just put out the same product under a new brand?
I think what GP means is make the anchor links easier to find, such that one can right-click somewhere in the UI and copy an anchor link to a comment. I'm not aware that they're available anywhere, presumably you constructed the anchor link manually, or examined the source?
I read that this is federated, but how do I download the software to run my own server? I looked at the FAQ and help and found nothing about it.
Labeling ideas we don't like as "negativity" does not encourage a rational discussion. It's imprecise and often judgemental.
Agree. The Puneri 'patya' (signboards) are an interesting part of the local culture. Punekars (residents of Pune) don't take them seriously. Its all in humour.
Very well written, additional ideas:

* don't buy new phone every year - if it's not cheapest model then nowadays there is almost no difference between 1-2y old phones and most of them can easily last 3,4 or 5 years.

* repair devices instead of throwing away and buying new ones,I you must buy repairable high quality devices

* this might be hard but: consume less, create more - nowadays almost _every_ service is expecting that you'll consume and it's not limited to physical goods - twitter, twitch, facebook, netflix, pinterest, youtube - all of them wants your attention ,you just need to scroll down, refresh, watch watch, read constantly, consume.

* teach your relatives, friends to consume less - this will be insanely hard and you'll be judged as freak so better don't do it ;-)
Over-criminalization is a byproduct of a for-profit prison system.
Agencies are only concerned with speed of putting content online and don't have time for that. Mom and pop, 80% of the internet, are only concerned with getting content online and haven't a clue what anyone is talking about cause they leave that up to their high school age kid for that.

Designers have become "coders" but aren't versed in the area of the science of computers and networking. Thus we have given to us Wordpress, Wix, Squarespace where you, too, can become an internet web site developer!
When I was a child about 20 years ago, I remember going snorkelling near my home in the North Adriatic Sea quite often. I could see crabs, starfish, sea urchins, sea horses, octopuses under rocks and loads of fish.

I went back there recently and was shocked to find the water looked clear but there were no animals left inside except for a few fish and a crab here and there.

This makes me really sad and pessimistic about the future of the planet and its living conditions for all living beings on it.
Imagine you don't already know this though, to really make an informed choice you have to put in all the research just to know the answer to a very simple decision.
Trump to terminate birthright citizenship
Are we wrong to assume fish can't feel pain?
Photoshop also has a video editor built in.
Sounds good, doesn't work.
My son was very proud of himself the day he showed me how the remote worked. Before that, the kids could only see tv if they asked my wife or me.

And they only got kodi.

On my side, I was also very proud, because he was almost seven when it happened !

We managed to « force » them using their toys or play outside instead of spending worthless time in front of a screen. I like to think (hope ?) it’s the right thing to do.
You can do it with Yalp Store [1], it lets you filter apps with/without ads.

[1] https://github.com/yeriomin/YalpStore
C or C++. Everything started with C and the first language for everything will be C.

https://webassembly.org/docs/c-and-c++/

"WebAssembly is being designed to support C and C++ code well, right from the start..."
Human Population has more than doubled in the same timespan (from 3.7 billion to 7.7 billion today).

This is not sustainable. We only have one small planet to live on, and we are destroying it. We are overfishing the oceans, cutting down entire forests to make way for pastures, warming up the planet and acidifying the plastic-filled ocean. Even insect populations are plummeting.

The consequences of this will not be felt by your grandchildren. They will be felt by me and you. They are starting to appear already.

What can we do to change this? This cannot be fixed by individual action. Buying an electric car and using recyclable shopping bags is not enough.

I implore you to be politically active, to consider support for candidates that at least acknowledge that there is a problem. Consider a carbon tax. Consider big, international efforts to clean up our oceans. Consider sexual education efforts in developing nations. Consider carbon re-capture efforts. There's a ton of things we can do, but we have to start doing
I like to be open minded but he does seem to have spent most of his time in academia, and not a lot of time spent on commercial software. So I wonder if its genius or hubris it can be hard to tell the difference.
Erlang/OTP. Failure can be orthogonal to stability, and it doesn't have to be painful.
Bluemix was, IBM Cloud isn't. IBM Cloud is kubernetes based.
On the other hand, $5 is relatively cheap compared to other paid hosting platforms, so clearly people are willing to pay for additional comfort over Github Pages. I seriously don't get how people don't seem to understand that (and I say that as someone who self-hosts a lot of stuff, and thus personally isn't interested paying for a blog, but know plenty people who do).
Was i sounthern Switzerland (Lugano) this spring and was chocked at the difference in cleanliness between Switzerland and Italy. Crossing the border by car, it was like somebody had turn a knob and enabled litter in the background graphics when entering Italy. It was that surreal a difference.
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According to 1st Geochange report (2010), anthropogenic factors don't play significant role in climate change

http://geochange-report.org/index.php?option=com_content&vie...
Strange, when I went to Goa with my wife (then GF) a few years back the locals were more interested in selfies with me. Then again, she tans very well while I was as white as a ghost. ;)
> [...] on the (thankfully excellent) collection of tools that is available for helping us develop good [...]

That statement could also have been made by someone teaching Javascript in 2018 :D

Kinda funny how we 'fix' high-level languages by augmenting them with tools.
Their sales organisation is always available to answer technical questions about the model of aircraft, but nothing of that is relevant to any of the journalists who might enquire in light of the crash, unless they are trying to play armchair accident investigators.
As other comments have noted, you can integrate your (static) blog hosted somewhere else into its platform for free. Other people don't want to mess with setting that up, like having mobile apps, and pay for that extra comfort.
How to Choose a Mobile App Payment Gateway
Different subdomains are different origins. So it's safe.
There are quite a few jobs available which are pure C.

But obviously the industries/domains which require C are not the same as those which require Java/PHP/JS.

In embedded software no-one is going to use Java or PHP, like in mobile/web apps software no-one is going to use C. That being said, Objective C is a pure superset of C (which C++ isn't).
I'm afraid the problem will fix itself soon enough. WW3 could be around the corner according to the people behind the Doomsday Clock. Climate change will cause famine, natural disasters and mass migrations. Poverty, overpriced health care and a lack of common social structure (every man for himself) will lower the life expectancy again after decades of increase.
This is silly to start teaching assembler, You must first learn nand gates ;)
I actually learnt assembler after a being able to code in a few high-level languages. Assembler was a sort of "liberation", an exhilarating feeling of understanding "so, that's it!". Even if you do not spend much time in assembler, being able to write a hello world and a program that prints prime numbers (or some graphical demo) is a valuable knowledge in computing.

Programming without knowing anything about assembler is like driving without having ever opened the hood of your car and changed some oil. Of course, if you are a professional driver you will have specialist mechanicians that take care of all of it, but still it would be ridiculous if you could not do a few simple things.
There's a lot of space to go around though, most of it undeveloped for e.g. agriculture, and a lot of developed space is under-utilized due to focusing on livestock.
What’s not sustainable? The human population doubling again? Or maintaining the current population?

Clearly we have to address climate change but it’s not a growing population that is unsustainable, if anything the progress over the past 50 years has indicated the exact opposite.
> One based indexing is just a design choice, while it complicates interoperation, I find it justified as Lua tables are actually hash tables, so it would be weird to model it upon memory offsets. It reminds me that I am only dealing with a hashmap with integers as keys.

One based indexing isn't just about memory offsets or getting used to it, it makes lots of things a nightmare. Like index-math that involves the modulo operator, which will result in zero values, which are invalid for 1-based indexing. Or turning a 2D or 3D index into a 1D index, which now requires completely unnecessary additions or subtractions of 1s. And other index magic that I frequently need for computer graphics and number crunching.
The Mornging Paper – Out of the Tar Pit (2015)
What do you mean here by "address" ? And indeed "username" ?

Suppose Alice is asking about Indian and Bob replies that it sounds good.

A passive attacker sees TCP/IP packets between Alice's IP address and Signal's and between Bob's IP address and Signal's. They get no other information from this beyond that Alice and Bob use Signal (and perhaps not even that if Signal shares IP addresses with other services)

The Sealed Sender feature makes no difference in that layer

If an attacker has control of Signal's servers (or perhaps Signal's server admins are secretly bad guys) ordinarily they would be able to see the sender and recipient of every message.

With Sealed Sender, the servers don't know the Sender any more, only that the Sender seems to be someone permitted to send messages to this recipient.

You could try to correlate IP addresses to Signal users, but you have absolutely no guarantee that they're correlated, much less that there's a nice 1:1 correspondence.

In a mundane example, Alice proposes Indian food then leaves her office, her phone disconnects from WiFi and goes to a 3G network. The reply from Bob is picked up by Alice using a completely different IP address, because she isn't in the office any more.
I can blame that the of an about page for there being a lack of an about page.
What are React Hooks?
SCADA and Edge Computing
Stewart Brand recently hosted Chris D. Thomas to talk at the Long Now Seminar about anthropocene speciation [0].

The premise is that current wild species are under severe duress due to changing environments, however nature is thriving in the age of extinction.

0. http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/jun/19/are-we-initiating-g...
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I did not say that you start programming in assembler. I just said that it is better to learn some assembler first if you need to learn C.
I guess this might be the first time I've heard of ads being described as a form of abuse. You are probably onto something there. Thanks
welcome to media :D they are all in it to make money!
What are the best backlink methods for SEO?
> Why is Lua an oft-recommended programming language for embedded development if one is not allowed to form opinions on the language?

I have never heard anyone recommend Lua for embedded development. It's an embeddable language in the sense that you can easily embed the entire interpreter in a larger application and extend it. That it happens to be relatively small and easy on memory is a bonus, not a reason to believe that it's a great systems programming language.

I'm not at all surprised that it disappointed you as a language for low level networking code. Most Lua success stories are about its use as a high level glue/scripting/configuration language, letting the application handle the low level code via an API.
they should pay homage by renaming this to The Erlich Bachman
Geologist here! The report in question [1] and supplement [2] seem pretty think-tank-y, but I would say they pass the sniff test to first order (if we have a biologist or ecologist around, they could probably say better). The focus on animals makes it relatively plausible -- these are charismatic and easy to observe, but a lot of the ecological heavy lifting / biogeochemical nutrient cycling is really carried out by microbes, which are are probably doing better. Microbes also represent most of Earth's genetic diversity, and will pretty certainly survive any mass extinction we throw at them.

In any case, the Guardian article is correct in claiming that

>Many scientists believe the world has begun a sixth mass extinction

This is pretty well accepted among geologists and paleontologists, as far as I've seen. Here's one relatively recent perspective on the issue, which covers some of the back-and-forth: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1080.2

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/wwfassets/downloads/lpr2018_full_re...
[2] http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr2018_technical_suppl...
:') ofcourse apple and all the other tech giants out there do nothing of this sort..
How about the vladdin vapor？
Isn't that what the libsignal-protocol-* repositories are about? https://github.com/signalapp?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=libsignal-prot...
This removes the need for the sender to authenticate, so it allows the service to be dumber and not register anything if it doesn't want to. However the sender still connects to the service with a message for someone, so the service can still make the link if it wants. How much is anonymity of sender protected here?
> I've the feeling that Lua became popular mostly based on its implementation, fast, small and self-contained portable C code, and not for the merits of the language itself.

And this is quite fair. Those are fundamental qualities of a new programming language.
Father of primary school aged girls here.

Before the kids came the plan was a low tech kids home, reality then smacked us in the face and we compromised.

Kids have their own Amazon Fire Kids Unlimited tablets. Which is fairly locked down to their age groups and with no internet and only 30 minutes of app & videos allowed on school days, though unlimited books. The weekends are more generous. (I do love parents.amazon.com)

Also added Netflix and BBC Iplayer Kids apps, and they watch BBC's CBeebies channel on the lounge TV occasionally. So normally they never see any ads.

But sometimes shit has hit the fan, and they have to be up late watching a commercial kids channel on TV or borrow my phone to play games then they are exposed to ads.

I then try to explain to them that ads are not necessarily true. They are trying to sell you something that you might not need or is as good as it pretends to be. Don't think that has sunk in yet.

But they seem relatively shielded for now. But they have not got their own phones yet. I dread that day.
Library-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Discovery, Part 1
You say that but local development has to keep it in mind. There's a similar tale about wolves in my side of Europe (more to the west), they've been spotted on occasion. They feed on local livestock though, which is causing direct economic damage (not to mention cleanup). Of course, sheep will also fall into the water and drown on occasion, or end up on their backs and die.
Watson is a brand name, that's all. If you want to dig under the covers what most people think of as Watson, i.e. the sentient being kept locked in the basement it is just marketing. The actual "Watson" services are competent implementations of Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Natural Language Processing, Visual Recognition, and open ended classical statistics and neural network based model generation/execution. It's no more snake oil than Google AI or Microsoft AI.
>Thing is the overwhelming majority of social network users just couldn't be bothered to use other solutions before this

Did you ever stop to think why? It's not like the barrier of entry was high. People simply did not find it worth their time. Chances are, big social media isn't worth their time either, but people are kept there by social pressure and purpose-built addiction mechanisms. And you're spinning it as if this is some kind of positive thing.

Connectivity is like food. The benefits to the person don's scale linearly. Forums and IM were already above the bare minimum. They were like a hearty meal. Social media today is like having a binge eating disorder.
60% of animals or 60% of animal species?
Some companies are willing to harm humans and the environment for profit. I am active against a gas processing project in Israel, planned to be built near residents. Thousands of people joined the battle to protect their water and air against the blind tycoon greed. Government hands are tied by threats and bribe. Press are under incredible pressure to keep silent about the protests.

We demand building the rigs 120km off shore at original drilling spot, without at least harming people directly.

Unfortunately, demands for renewable clean energies have no chance the near future. It would be best to avoid polluting the sea all together
Sadly, I think this is right. The "fix" involves one group of people telling another group of people what to do. That never goes over without a fight. Especially when it will involve land, life and death, and reproductive rights.

I think what we're seeing with government's moving more right wing is the first step of this. These people are already operating on this assumption and plan on being the ones doing the telling.
Actually, bad I/O patterns are still bad with SSDs. They're just less bad. So, while a HDD user maybe has to wait a week for your app to do its thing, the SSD user may only need to wait an hour or two. But if you bothered to do things the right way, either could be done in a few minutes.
Yes, exactly; also, there's an acknowledgement of the influence of "SMALL TALK" at the end of Hewitt, Bishop & Steiger's original 1973 IJCAI paper as it appeared in print (https://eighty-twenty.org/2016/10/12/hewitt-bishop-steiger-i...).

Actors, Smalltalk, Monitors and CSP all co-evolved during the 1970s, with many of the principals visiting each other and exchanging ideas. Retrospectives like Brinch Hansen's (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=155361) spell out some of the lines of influence.
It's mostly to stop people from shopping around for a lower price. You can't sell something for $300 if somebody else is selling the same thing for £150. Amazon will even merge your listings. But if you rebrand it you get your own listing, your own reviews (that you paid for) etc.
Pair with a strong senior developer, and observe as they troubleshoot. Learn troubleshooting and debugging tools like gdb, ldd, nm, strace for Linux, or SysInternals & Visual Studio debugger for Windows. Troubleshooting, debugging and diagnostics are skills in themselves that will stand you in good stead going forward.
Uhh our population is also a huge problem driving that climate change.. wtf?
I actually find it a problem (for myself at least but there probably are many people who feel the same) that we only seem to have Medium-like big-article blogging and Twitter-like SMS-y single-sentence microblogging platforms. I really want a hybrid, something in between, something for short posts but without twitterish post length limits, with markdown and media embedding support, letting you to edit your posts whenever you want and leveraging a HN-like first-class comments feature (instead of a Twitter-like response model). Google+ was the most close to this of what I've seen so far.
It would be really nice to have a browser extension that shows the amount of other reviews every reviewer has in the last n months. Someone with 20+ review can not really be trusted and can be filtered out.

Or even better: If Amazon would spend some of their AI departments time and delete those fake reviews on a daily basis. So tired of them.
Actors for Squeak Smalltalk
Human population by itself is not the measure we should worry about. With enough technological progress, the earth could reasonably sustain 100+ billion people.

The problem lies in the doubling of human population in little more than a generation. The problem lies in that we are not being sustainable with this. We are depleting resources whilst polluting and rapidly changing our environment.

For the moment, we only have one small rock in which to live and breathe. If we have to shit where we eat, then let's at least try to shit cleanly.
> The actual Lua language documentation is provided by another web site that looks like it has been written by an attention-deficit child.

How can you say that? The Lua documentation is on par with Kernighan and Ritchie.
This is what the article says isn't it?
We can`t escape the digitalization. But we can set an example for our kids. Allow them to have some TV or tablet time, while also showing them that there is also a whole other world out there. Nature, board games, outdoor games, books etc. Stimulating imagination.
Just use a shell alias for ssh that does a reset if the ssh command exits with an error code.
Perception Lecture Notes: Depth, Size, and Shape
Shameless plug: as an advisor for DronesBench http://www.dronesbench.it/en, which tests the electro-mechanical compliance of consumer drones, I suggested them to work on test drives of these cheap, dangerous drones to make the general public aware of the low quality level in the market. Their answer was that the general public does not care anyway, it is a war you cannot win because low prices trump all.
Very few countries have such right. In tightly-packed area of tiny countries of Europe such a birthright would have been a total mess. USA is also different, as it does not even know who and how many citizens it has, so it frequently counts them up in "census", whatever it means and how the hell it is even executed.
Bash Datalog: Answering Datalog Queries with Unix Shell Commands
Yes, Nintendo is a bless in this Game as a service, DLC invoking, in-app world.

Truly becoming special by just staying normal.
I graduated university really excited that I understood pointers, and that I could implement about 10 data structures from the ground up. However when I got my first job at a large dotcom, I got treated as an unqualified beginner because I didn't know Java. 20 years later and I have never had to write so much as a line of code in C, and that makes me kind of sad.