skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And where do you see IP address in that big list of things to consider?

And how does the IP address (unlesss coupled with other data) identify you personally (as opposed to your PC or company network)? Hint: it doesn’t.

Also: if the IP you send to everyone on the internet is “your” personal, private data, who owns that data when your DHCP lease expires and someone else gets it? See how that doesn’t work? At all? Good good.

Yeah that IP address, unless coupled with other data, says nothing about you personally. I thought this much would be blatantly obvious to anyone even remotely competent on a techie site like HN.

In short: it doesn’t work that way which you hysterical anti-GDPR fanatics are mindlessly repeating.

If so, we’d have to shut down the entire internet and ban all server logs.
Would runaway trim be the thing they were reacting to? It seems to me the trim was pitching down due to the design of the stall system. I’m imagining they were getting erroneous stall warnings due to the AOA sensor feeding bad data. If I’m in an aircraft and I’m getting stall warnings, stick shakers, and stick pushers I’m definitely not going to run runaway trim memory items.
Consider FreeBSD and its ports model. You'll be building your own ports from sources but you needn't touch another package someone else built, if you don't want to.
This UN tribunal has been active since 2006, spent $300M, and has convicted just 3 people in that time.

Given Cambodia is uninterested in pursuing these charges for the sake of their political stability, I wonder if continuing is ultimately worthwhile.
I am a non-CS engineer - have a masters in Auto Systems - programming has always been part of all/most courses I took. Granted, I am probably pretty poor at things like JS and others as I never really used them, but we used a lot of things like MATLAB/ OCTAVE, Python and a few others in our coursework and work life. I have transitioned out of auto sector into consulting side (non-CS) of things, so now use a lot of data analytics and BI tools including Python, Tableau etc.
Bokeh interactive tools are much nicer than matplotlib and its children. Also it has a js backend so you can more easily integrate into a website.
> In the modern equivalent, the software (designer) succeeds, when the user does what the software wants

After all that's what the creators always wanted, sometimes more, sometimes less successful. Thinking of myself, I found technology much more addictive 15-20 years ago. I cannot seriously imagine myself playing these very stupid online games that are full of add-ons you need to buy and weird, unnecessary instructions to 'guide' the user.

Most really addictive things were created by accident like Flappy bird or HN.
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> Even people fleeing from countries like Iraq, because their lives were in danger due to helping the US.

Well obviously this isn't very useful and may need to be rethought if true. I don't know much about this claim though so I'll read more on it.

> Trump employed a policy sledgehammer

Look, these things aren't easy. May be it is a disproportionate response but I've lived through a period of fear when muslim terrorists bombed/shot up malls and universities in my country. In one incident, two armed civilians (an Israeli and a native) were able to shoot some terrorists and save some innocent lives. A once safe country ended up with us having to lock our offices during the day when business should be conducted. I am a lottle biased on the issue and that's why I took such a hardliner position on it.
A good comparison is degrees Celsius, which are just as arbitrary/unscientific (the standard metric unit is the Kelvin). Somehow people around the world get along fine using Celsius.

You don't realize how arbitrary Fahrenheit and Celsius are until you try cooking at altitude. When I make breakfast in a particular town I frequent, it takes almost an extra minute to boil an egg.
ReasonML evaluation order gotcha
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What blockchain can learn from open source
Thanks, that gives me hope.
Windows 7? I thought Windows Vista was the highly successful recruiting tool for the Windows XP Fan Club.
That’s how this sort of play works. It’s about capturing a percentage who don’t notice - plus those who do notice but see their time as too valuable to justify spending the time to request a refund.

I believe It’s unlikely that anyone would ever welcome a totally unexpected charge to their credit card.
> is that apparently the metric system was opposed in the US based on religious reasons.

As you will discover people often use religion as an excuse for things they anyway want to do. Usually they are people who only pay lip service to their religion.

Someone didn't want to use Metric. Religion doesn't actually have anything to do with it.

> That is mind-boggling.

It shouldn't be. I assume you are surprised that religion is involved in this, but actually it is not. If they were Atheist they would have the same objection, just using different words.

Basically you need to distinguish between people being people, and people acting in a certain way because of religion. This is an example of the former.
The noise-dive Apple's software has taken, it might fall under the "treats like crap".
Turning legacy databases into event sources
Personal data could be anything like your SSN, CC# or other secrets.

Personal behavior is a more specific classification like "user scratches his butt every morning" or "user picks nose".

In the context of Office Applications it's going to be even more specific things like "user always tries to click on URLs in emails before CTRL+clicking them."
More importantly, the wings are manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy. Historically Boeing kept the wings in house because they were considered the most important part.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries also has a commuter jet, and I still think it's just a matter of time until they build something bigger. At least by the time the Dreamliner is up for a replacement.
Sounds like AppImages would satisfy all your requirements.
The article seems to be mostly about “hard” sciences, where ”discoveries” are not about getting some p<0.05
The main obstacle is cultural. Even contemplating the building of nuclear weapons is considered a deep disrespect to the memory of the people who died in the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There would be a lot of domestic opposition to any such project, and it might even be difficult to recruit people and companies to contribute to it, because involvement in that work could harm their reputation. But they definitely aren't lacking the technological, material, or financial ability.

(Source: lived in Japan and discussed this with various engineers there)
Gonna be totally honest: From the headline and Google’s previous behavior, my first thought was “Huh, I didn’t expect them to shut GCP down already...”

(To be clear, they are not shutting down GCP, this is just a leadership transition)
>hard drive

Found your problem!
One of the things that really struck me about this article was that many of these weird architectures make a lot more sense if you're programming them in assembly language (or lisp in the case of the lisp machine). It's kind of amazing how much architectural variation it's possible to abstract away with C, but maybe it's not always the best idea to do so. If I'm writing assembler, a 36-bit machine word isn't a hard concept to grasp. But if I'm writing C, the idea that my int might have 36 bits sometimes, on some platforms, and I have to code around that possibility, is a major drag. I think this article really exposes the limits of the notion of C as a portable assembler.
I guess the next redefinition will happen if and when there's detectable drift in "fundamental" constants?

And until then, all the metric fanbois will constantly tell you that metric is superior to imperial because its measurements are immutable. Until suddenly they are.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties#Casualt... was interesting, sorting by 'Deaths as % of population'. About 5% of the total population of the central powers was killed, compared to a bit more than 1% of the allied powers.

About 2-3% of the total US population died during the American Civil War.
My Jeep is a bizarre combination of metric and SAE. ISS needs to have two sets of tools[0]. NASA lost the Mars Climate Orbiter due to confusion over the units of measure[1]. Patients are given the wrong dosages[2].

It seems safe to say it's a point of ongoing friction, especially on things like international trade.

[0]: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/12391/iss-nuts-and...
[1]: https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco991110.html
[2]: https://www.chihaklaw.com/Articles/Confusion-over-metric-mea...
Yeah, I don't think it's really an issue. Physicists only convert things to hours/days/years when disseminating results to a broader audience, when doing the actual physics everything is microseconds or megaseconds or whatever.
And it won't last very long at all unless someone else boosts it.
Well I for one would love to have that kind of energy at this age. He's getting close to the average life expectancy by now so all in all it's fair to say he has lived a fairly healthy life? At this given moment he might not be though and we won't know unless something happens.
Ten years ago I would not have said this, but Outlook is really pretty solid. Pretty fast, uses hardly any RAM, excellent Calendar integration (big deal for me), extremely flexible account setup.

I swear half of the clients on the market turn out to support only a small list of authentication methods, or don't let you specify port!

It is of course overkill though if you have one email account and only process a couple emails a day.
I suppose this is a consequence of making all future versions of Windows essentially free by adopting "Windows as a Service" release process. When everyone upgrades to Windows 10 there won't be anyone left to buy it anymore so they need a new source of income to replace that.
Some of you may like this interview with Arthur Conan Doyle, he explains why he created the Sherlock Holmes novels

Rough summary: previously the detective genre had detectives ultimately point out the perpetrator without actually explaining to the reader how and why they came to this conclusion, i.e. the detectives and perpetrators were simple roles in a story, and the story never actually described the process of investigation, which the Sherlock Holmes novels did, irrespective of whether they were realistic or not... Then he starts ranting about spirituality and ghosts and other quackery, like his own "experiences", ... I guess fantasy has its positives and negatives

https://youtu.be/rZFdH76H1lA
After the latest google cloud fiasco, this move was necessary.

But I'm not sure taking the "Oracle guy" is a good idea. Maybe I'm wrong. Oracle probably has some good people.
There's a great episode of "Masters of Scale" with Diane Greene where she talks about her time at VMWare and then about how she ended up taking the job of leading Google Cloud. https://mastersofscale.com/diane-greene-look-sideways/
Just another step towards the inevitable announcement of a "free," "promotion-supported" version of Windows. For decades, the beige-box industry was supported by doing things like including trialware antivirus, browser search bars, and shareware games on top of the OS. Why shouldn't Microsoft put the crapware on the machine directly, and eliminate the middle man?

I would hope that this would allow them to split the codebase, and make other, paid versions (professional, enterprise) that didn't have ANY of the tracking or advertising -- and didn't require extensive GPO manipulation to turn off -- but that's probably too much to ask.
Missed one! Spotify just released their own dataviz library yesterday https://labs.spotify.com/2018/11/15/introducing-chartify-eas...
Lots of things. They're basically the same walled garden you get from Apple, Google, or Microsoft, only with a different gardener. They're also ludicrously inflexible in that they don't allow multiple versions of the same application to be installed, install applications to different disks, or often even get timely updates when a developer makes a change.

I agree that "installers" are not a good paradigm either, but a lot of Windows software can be had in portable (or at least non-installer) form.
> Problem is that all desktop email clients aren't designed that way, they want you to have a very small limited subset of email....

I have over 20 years of email stored locally in Postbox. I've kept every non-spam email since I first got online in 1997. I regularly use it to search for things people sent me (or I sent them) months or even years ago. It's really not a problem at all.

I've got Postbox open right now and it's using 625MB RAM. (That's a lot compared to the Eudora days, but I have 16GB RAM now.)

A desktop client on your laptop also means you can write emails & be able to search your email history while in flight mode, and queue the messages to be sent when you land & have WiFi again.
But this just leads back to my original point - the motives or authority of the speaker for an idea should have little weight into whether or not it's valid or sound. If there is bad information or a biased approach, that would be easy to root out when focused on the facts and logic in a vacuum.

Editorializing or investigation into possible motives and the like puts the discussion on something that is not as important.
Well, first, almost everything Donald says is a lie or an exaggeration and I doubt he sleeps 4-5 hours a night. Maybe on some nights but only he knows how much he sleeps. Second, I don't know how healthy he is, he seems like his mental faculties have declined drastically over the years. I watched some earlier Donald interviews and he was a lot more articulate and certainly seemed a whole lot more thoughtful, he was bragging less, etc. He totally lost that ability to control himself.
Today, stripe removed dashboard functionality that stopped us doing business
TLDR. Business impacting dashboard functionality removed. Need a drop in replacement for stripe. Oh, and support sucks.

We use a couple of stripe integrations for our website and have probably done £50k of transactions in the last few months.

Stripe has basic inventory management through products, SKUs, quantities and attributes.

Today, a non technical member of my team went to amend and add product availability. The options for editing or creating product/SKU inventory were gone, this looked like a broken dashboard.

Stripe support wasn’t good. At all. Email and phone are basically a messaging service with a robotic sounding “we’ll get back to you in 24h” - in fairness their reply was quicker. Just unhelpful.

They told me that the API had changed. I told them we weren’t talking about the API, we use the dashboard.

Then it transpires that their support advice of deleting and creating a product wouldn’t work either, both new and edit product were affected.

Then an apparent escalation reveals that this is apparently a deliberate change and the functionality has been removed. Super.

Now we apparently have to write our own front end to stripe to just update quantity or even set it active or not.

Aside from an obvious regression in functionality, support clearly hadn’t been briefed and sent us chasing our tales for a few unproductive hours.

Guess we’re not using stripe anymore.

HN: what’s a good stripe replacement?
In addition to boosters, Japan is the only nation to have launched a practical solar sail spacecraft[1]. They've also got another spacecraft[2] orbiting an asteroid with the intent of returning a sample from it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS

[2]http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/
Thanks. Both #1 and #2 require a constitutional amendment, right?
The new CEO is the former President of Product Development at Oracle...I wanna puke. Oracle has some of the most hated products in the industry. I hope he's able to adapt to Google's style and not the other way around.
Thunderbird works very well for me and with the new (to me?) CalDAV/CardDAV plugins, it is able to sync with my remote repo seamlessly for appointments and contacts in addition to email. I recommend it highly.
My first reaction was "What a weird way to announce they're shutting dow...oh!"
24 and 60 do make sense because they are highly composite numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number
Wow, I planned on only skimming the article because I figured it was clickbait... Loved every minute of this piece.
If my actions generate the data then it's my data, decoupled from my identity or not. Without my actions there's no data for them, ergo it's my data.

If they'd like to give me some consideration for my data I'd be happy to entertain their offer. (Being granted the right to use the software, in cases where I'm paying for the license, doesn't constitute consideration to me.)
Celsius is a particularly bad metric unit. It doesn't have enough units in the range most commonly encountered by humans, and it goes negative, which is also to be avoided in a good unit.

So you end up needing negatives, and decimals.
I already do that.

I've been a member for a while now. And we even ran a domaition drive for a local food nonprofit, and our COO would match to a nonprofit org we said. More to the FSF.
I wonder if it's possible to use it with modern hardware. May be someone will make a modern Windows 2000 distribution with backported drivers and fixed vulnerabilities. Source code was leaked, so should be possible.
Soon, I will have targeted ads on my coffee mugs... This is getting out of control.
"The US car industry is notorious for poor engineering standards and quality,"

Engineering standards are * very broadly* similar, worldwide, as auto companies do have to design and sell a vehicle for multiple markets. What was lacking in the U.S. is the actual execution of the build quality. You can engineer something to be really good, but if you don't build it well, there's no point.

A very good example of this is the year 2000 Ford Focus. It was winning car of the year/ best quality awards in Europe, while it was noted for having the most amount of recalls in the U.S for a Ford. Broadly the same product with some localized differences, built separately in EU and the U.S. - completely different execution/ build quality.
No. I have no desire to have my primary means of installing software be to compile from source. That's retarded. Literally retarded, in that it is a backward concept from the before-times.
I wonder if raising prices quite a bit would have helped.
That's probably true, I haven't touched the AdBlocker extension in a while and I get anti-ad block modals all the time. Probably time to look into an updated list with a working anti-ad block blocker
This isn't the first time Google has gone outside the company for a top leadership role. Vic Gundotra was another one--and that didn't work out too well.

But this is happening with increasing frequency even for mid-level leadership positions, and it is showing more and more in the culture.
This is a great letter. I do want to pause on this, though, about doctors prescribing opiates:

"The epidemic would have been avoidable if doctors as a whole had adopted a more critical and thoughtful approach"

He could be totally right about causes of that problem in that time. Currently, though, drug companies offer all kinds of financial incentives anyone that will increase drugs use in ways ranging from BS studies to incorrect info in textbooks to actual prescriptions. I've also read they give free samples.

Examples I found in quick DuckDuckGo:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/04/11/medical-resea...

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/us/medical-marketing-trea...

http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1883449,0...

This stuff could've been going on a long time. Maybe back when the push to use addictive drugs started. Or maybe that was just bad science like author says with the current push involving massive amounts of corruption. I say don't forget what's going on in any current debate about drugs, though.
Likely New House Science Chair Seeks to Move Away from “Suspicion” of Science
I just use "Windows Firewall Control" as a front end for the built in windows firewall and have it set up to default deny all.
I'm actually one of those paranoid doofus. I have a few 2 TB backup hard drives encrypted with Truecrypt (before the Truecrypt devs decided to abandon the project), and I can't remember the password...

I tried to brute-force it using John The Ripper, but after a few hours trying to configure it with a dictionary, I just gave up. I'll need to get back to it some day !
> You’re American until you travel to Iran then you’re subhuman?

That's obviously very ill informed (I'd like a link to this or a pointer to such incidents if you don't mind).

However, could there be more to the story? If there's a threat that the individual(s) might have been radicalized (and there are enough instances where this has been the case), then Americans might have to be smarter about whether they can allow you back into society without severe scrutiny or even detainment where evidence supports it (curious if there's sufficient legislation to resolve this though).
Downvoters should reconsider; whether you agree with it or not, this comment is a valuable alternative point of view in the discussion.
> The only evidence for this is Nobel Prizes won, split up by decade, and polled!? Biology, arguably one of the most exciting fields right now, doesn't even get considered in the Nobel Prizes! You can get a Nobel Prize in medicine/physiology for biology-related efforts (see GFP), but there's no Nobel Prize for plant-related biology (that's what the Kyoto medal is for, which isn't mentioned here?!?)

It's also a metric that lags by decades, the authors say that "This is too few to get a good quality estimate for the 1990s, and so we didn’t survey those prizes." So even if this metric is useful, it is measuring what was going on in academia through the 1980s.
Yeah, they do actually. I really like AppImage, it's a shame they aren't really embraced at all by the community. Good luck getting them to show up with icons in your file manager (even Nitrux, which supposedly embraces AppImages, can't seem to do it).
Likes: A simple likes server for the web running in Node
His Twitter timestamps lend some credence to his claims about his sleep. Not that anyone could believe he's doing anything productive in those hours.
Really great idea! I just signed up and selected "Interested" for many courses but I still don't have any study buddies. How many courses do I need to select? Also, are you planning on maybe including an option to select a subtopic to look for buddies for instead of simply by course?
That lock screen really chaps my jimmies. Either tell me what you want to tell me or shove off.
I learned using pencils. Angle wasn't a problem then.
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luac is the Lua compiler, not a reflection of what language the engine is written in. I'm not saying it doesn't call a compiler written in C, but executing a binary named `luac` doesn't mean that it does https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/luac.html
That's basically it. I find that it serves three functions: one is making the other person feel heard, two is making sure I actually understand what they're saying (misunderstandings are more common than I think!), and three is forcing me to put my own response on hold. That last bit is huge. I had no idea how reactive I was in conversation, and what a detriment it is to communication.
which ship?
John Wharton, Microprocessor Architect, Has Died
better than a micro soft!

/har har har

But seriously, I still refer to even SSDs as hard drives. Spinning rust or memory chips. They're interchangable right now, until spinning rust phases out completely.
There's also Vaex for big(ger) data visualization.