skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to think when exactly the GUI was updated. I think somewhere around Vista. You can just check "use all my monitors for the remote session" in the Display tab.

I'll admit that with a triple-monitor setup, I've sometimes wanted to remote in with only a dual-screen setup. So it wasn't perfect for me. It certainly did fine for my 95% use-cases. Having to reconnect to adjust desktop size just was never a big deal for me.

Maybe adjusting sizes is more of an issue for people today. If I was using a laptop and constantly docking/disconnecting external monitors with a large number of active connections, it'd annoy me to have to completely reconnect each time.
The thread I linked describes the limitations of the approach you suggest, in particular, the ability to associate metadata not just with leaf nodes but also internal nodes, and not requiring the names of children to be unique. Of course you can express hierarchies in YAML, but the result ends up being more verbose and more prone to syntax errors; the point of comma-separated trees is to be easier to read and edit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone

In general, those ToS would likely be struck down under precedent. Additionally, it's bad news for an ISP to cut off their low-cost, ethical competition that will only help your cause. Source: I built the internet backbone for this: https://www.nycmesh.net/. If your city is on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point, you can buy data center internet like we did. It runs about $1,000/mo and can serve about as many people (by over-selling the bandwidth 20X as is standard in industry).
They're doing their own investigation, IIRC another reporter is attempting to replicate the findings.
I recently graduated from college and was heavily involved in national hackathons, and this story is just BS. It's so laughably BS that this story can be used as proof of the New York Time's willingness to publish anything that'll hurt Facebook.

Facebook goes to the best schools in the country and hires the best of the best.
While he has a point, it's worth noting that at the same time China's military spending have tripled over the last 10 years [1]. Did Jack Ma say anything about that? Or is he, as a member of the China Communist Party allowed to criticize only US government?

He is an extremely talented person and smart entrepreneur, but it's hard to believe that his US foreign affair statements have no background agenda. It also could be that the main audience for his message is inside China, not outside of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_China
True fact. I think young generation think that COBOL isn't as sexy as working with modern frameworks. Another reason is that COBOL historically hasn't been the most attractive option for young programmers as no one likes to spend the rest of their career doing maintenance work rather than any greenfield development.
Startide Rising is the pnly SF book I remember having intellegent dolphins, good book as I remember. Might dig it out over xmas for a re-read
The way dependencies are distributed (ie. downloaded) won't change a lot, and as they say the distributed model is very important. Maybe you mean how dependencies are installed by the go command?

(As a side note, I don't think there are any plans for exceptions -- for good)
Meaning what you’ve pointed out is clear; the problem was the statement and not material discrimination. “No blacks allowed”, in America at least, was no idle threat.
Case Conversion: IBM PS/2 Model 95 to ATX (2006)
I did some parsing of their other dumpster-fire PR-speak today here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18714352

At this rate, I predict a John Oliver segment taking apart their abuse of the English language in about a month.
Details on Golang mutual TLS authentication vulnerability CVE-2018-16875
>Nicotine is little different from caffeine. Either you ban both, none, or you decide your policy is arbitrary moral posturing supported by no evidence.

They are quite different in their mechanism of action. Caffeine works via Adenosine, Nicotine works via Nicotinic Acetylcholine receptors.
This is a good step forward IMO. Life sentence was pretty harsh for 3 strikes on drug charges - 25 years is still a lot, but this sets the bar for the next iteration to keep getting lower
Supporting push metrics is not a Gap. It is literally the design goal of Prometheus to have a pull based metrics model.
Hi, NicoEchániz, from the LibreRouter team here.

The routers have been tested to work over 3Km links in existing mesh network deployments with very good performance.

Depending on the antennas you use range can be much more, but the LibreRouter is specifically designed for a Mesh setup where links tend to be < 3Km.
You are absolutely right! Just like, eat healthy and exercise. We both know its easier said than done.

I doubt people that come out of long relationships in their 20's or at any age actually think about getting tested.

Imagine you are now in a relationship with my ex. Before getting with my ex I unknowingly contracted Chlamydia. Over the course of our 3 year relationship I infected her, and now she may or may not have given it to you. My solution would make it so the person who infected me would be able to alert me, my ex, and possibly you if you haven't been tested or using condoms.
I think at that point we’re kind of stuck with virtual environments for Python dependencies. I’m not too sure what the best solution is.
This is not 2001. On-page optimization does not work that well anymore. I know how to rank pages but the problem is it is too expensive and time consuming to be worthwhile. You need a lot of quality links and high domain name authority.
the fact that you call Rob Pike "Erik Pike" really reads like the complaints of someone who doesn't do their homework and asks questions that have already been answered in many places.

Generics is a major tell, too, since the Go team's position on generics was always "generics are interesting but we don't know how to make them work well with Go's existing type system". See for example, this blog post from 2009: https://research.swtch.com/generic which references the FAQ answer to the generics problem here: https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics: "Generics are convenient but they come at a cost in complexity in the type system and run-time. We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it."

so I can see why people who have repeatedly answered the same question for years, only to have their answer misrepresented for years, to be annoyed when people who haven't read any prior discussion bring up a point that has been already talked about ad nauseam.
> The bill, which is expected to be debated in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, would only affect federal prisoners accounting for about 10% of the total US prison population.

However I think a lot of the problems with the prison system in the US seems to be in the state/country level.
Top Node.js libraries for machine learning
The interesting thing about the rush is that they're already too late. They're going to have to accept mediocre exits (versus prior expectations), or abandon their IPO plans.

The growing weakness in the IPO markets can be seen eg in the recent Softbank IPO. Globally synchronous growth has become a globally synchronous melt (from housing in Australia & Canada, to EU growth forecasts, to China, and US forecasts eg FedEx today, to commodity markets). Junk stocks like Blue Apron have already burned to the ground. GrubHub has been chopped in half. Facebook is already sporting a value stock-like ~16 forward PE (imagine what it might fetch in a recession, 12 times earnings?).

There are dozens of prominent, younger tech stocks that face a very painful valuation reckoning soon. What are Spotify, Workday, Box, Dropbox, ServiceNow, Twitter, et al worth if you drain all the froth from the market? Is Shopify's billion in sales really worth a $15b market cap, or more like $5b? Is PayPal's modest growth really worth ~50 times earnings, or half that? Trillions in paper wealth are about to be vaporized and all it took was 2.x% interest rates. Welcome to Japan, where rates can never again be allowed to rise because of the debt load (both corporate and fed govt), and the stuck-in-the-mud debt model guarantees perpetually slow growth as the debt eats away at your capital available for productive purposes (just 1/4 annually of our public debt interest cost now would repair all of our infrastructure over a decade, instead we're stuck forever paying for the wildly irresponsible spending from the last ~14 years; 25-50 years from now, that debt will all still be sitting there eating the budget, and or American wealth via currency debasement to paper over it gradually).
Probably at least partly by necessity. Not everyone participating is doing it as their FT job. I'm sure that RedHat is paying a lot of devs to work on these things as a full time job. Even just integrating software from others as packages, etc.
You would. The problem is the gravitational effects are subtle, the planet is very far away, and dim.

To add to the problem. Objects in the outer solar system are spread out more vertically in their orbit. ( Like Pluto which dips far above and below the intermediate plane.

This means there is a relatively large area of they sky it could be in. Due to it's distance, it is not going to reflect much visible light at all either. So instead of being able to just scan across a the invariable plane looking for it we have to look in a large swath of the sky for something very dim, moving very slowly.
The article is focused on Scandinavian countries. Norway has one of the highest rates of electric car ownership in the world (all-electric and plug-in hybrid):

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/25/norway-l...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N...

If anything, the Digital Trends article serves to demonstrate how ineffective the dealerships are in persuading people away from electric cars. Other factors matter more.
My advice is to keep both operating systems. Windows is useful.

Dual booting managed by Ubuntu works fine outside of corner cases with old hardware, and Ubuntu requires significantly less disk space than Windows. I've found 60GB is often enough for a primary and a swap partition in normal circumstances...not storing lots of audio/video/image data.

Another alternative is to buy a small SSD and swap it for the existing SSD/HD holding Windows. Then you can always turn the laptop back into a Windows laptop. I put the old drives in the box for the new drive with a piece of paper listing the Windows Activation Key and the administrative password to the installation...learned from experience.

Don't bet on 18.10 having better performance with your HP. I have a Dell Precision that Dell offered with Linux as an option and is actively supporting. I've had to learn to configure the touchpad with Xinput even though Dell was working on it. The underlying driver has changed four times over the last two years. Each time it does, I have to tweak Xinput (Now, I add commands to ~/.bashrc).

But why not 18.10?

+ Because you'll be upgrading in April 2019, October 2019, and April 2020. The last will be to 20.04LTS. In between, Ubuntu will be testing out alternatives that may or may not go into 20.04LTS.

+ And, things like trackpad and power management get backported to LTS. Those four changes to my Dell trackpad were all while using 16.04LTS.

+ In short, non-LTS releases like 18.10 are not about bug-fixing and LTS releases get bug fixes. That's what "LTS" means.

The reason to run a non-LTS release is if there is an application that requires it. Or for bragging rights. But mostly, non-LTS releases are more work...the first time the trackpad issue on my Dell came up, I discovered there was a fix upstream in September. So I installed Ubuntu 16.10 figuring it would be there. It wasn't. Around March 2017, it showed up in a 16.04 LTS update.
I saw another article on HN [1] where AWS embedded the Polly-text-to-speech technology to read an article. I hope a lot of progress gets made into this where we can have non-computer sounding voices as it still sounds almost awkwardly digital, as well as control the speed of playback, etc.

It'd be a great source of having content read to me while I commute without having the production of a podcast or audible book. There are several times I'd love to have NY Times articles read to me while I wander around the house.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/serverless-and-startups/
Contemptuous scorn seems to be the officially-sanctioned strategy for responding to reasoned critique or even questions about "the go way" within the community.

My favorite example here is this arrogant dismissal of the idea that a one line expression, rather than a 5 line mutating statement, might be preferred for conditionally setting a value:

if expr {
n = trueVal
} else {
n = falseVal
}

> The if-else form, although longer, is unquestionably clearer. A language needs only one conditional control flow construct. [0]

...

n = expr ? trueVal : falseVal

"Unquestionably"

[0] https://golang.org/doc/faq#Does_Go_have_a_ternary_form
That does indicate the writer has an extremely high IQ, to be fair.
The modules workflow is a wreck currently. Defer a while if you can.
yeah, but it's sad that this is basically the only way to get them to do it.
Don't epidemics usually create sick people? I realize the counter-argument will of course be "we don't know the long-term effects," but people have been exposed to aerosolized glycerine/propylene glycol for decades in the form of fog machines at concerts and clubs. Surely if this was the next asbestos we'd be seeing something by now.
Use whatever you like. There’s not one data format that will be perfect in all situations. While S-expressions are more explicit, they also make it more likely that you’ll get a syntax error because of mismatched parentheses. The purpose of this format is to make syntax errors almost impossible (at the expense of possible ambiguity), to favor interactive editing as in the Treemap-o-Matic example I’ve linked.
Maybe asking a hash to the notary will actually make the notary fetch and hash the package if it doesn't know about it yet?

(Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18717766)
It's the volume of nicotine, not presence, that causes the problem.
The "back" proxy was the initial setup with SmartStack, so we went with that for minimal viable first steps. We wanted to make incremental changes, changing as little as possible, for this migration so we could monitor for correctness and performance at every step. The eventual plan is to run Envoy as a front proxy for ingress, and maybe even Envoy <-> Envoy everywhere, where we have Envoy as both a front and back proxy on every service deployment (instance, container, etc.)
Totally agree in principle.

One interesting note - MacOS doesn't have a /usr/bin/python2 (at least, not at the time of this writing). It supplies /usr/bin/python, and also /usr/bin/python2.7.

That might not matter at all, but it's worth noting.
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What do you want to discuss here, then? What could you be interested in about this story if politics is a no go for you?

> And it came out by a US border militia report. I count the hours till it will be picked up by the US political system. DER SPIEGEL is not exactly a conservative magazine.

This observation is true, it's also important -- the very story itself is political, in just the kind of stories that were fabricated. Or maybe the list is cherry picked I don't know, but going by what I see, politics is already part and parcel of this anyway.

If people then on top of that make observations about a country they don't seem to really know much about, I think it's fair enough to correct them. To say nothing is conservative in Germany compared to US standards is like saying in Japan, all people love cartoons, and watch cartoons instead of reading books.
If Facebook is the only way to reach your audience, maybe don't quit it?

It clearly isn't here, so his post would have made more sense outside of Facebook.
"The bill, which is expected to be debated in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, would only affect federal prisoners accounting for about 10% of the total US prison population."

The other 90% of prisoners do not necessarily have them. It really isn't a thing already, even with this.
Dataiku Raises $101M Series C
> The cornerstone of JavaScript is the function.

JavaScript is specified in terms of objects, has richer facilities for dealing with objects than functions, functions are objects but not vice-versa. So, objects are the cornerstone. Callers are free to ignore a function's arity even.
Can personally vouch for the SendX team. I moved from MailChimp to SendX three months back, and it's been absolutely great so far.
I am not sure why are you saying that the customers don't want to run their own instances as they are very lightweight. It makes architecture really flexible as one Prom instance can scrape whole environment. New applications just need to expose /metrics endpoint and set some annotations on their deployment manifests. The main problems with running Prometheus yourself are just storage capacity and query speed.

I played with Cortex for a bit, built my own gateway to match & assign user IDs for incoming Prometheus push requests but from operational perspective running Cortex can be very expensive (if you want it just as a side project) :) GCP Bigtable seems like the best way to store & query data but even the dev instance is prohibitively expensive (last time I checked it was ~1k USD)
> I don't know why I should trust Super Micro investigating Super Micro.

You don't have to.

From the very first sentence of that article: "... an outside investigations firm had found no evidence of any malicious hardware in its current or older-model motherboards."
Learned Vuejs and oh my god it is the best thing that has happened for web development (at least to me) in a very long time.

Before this I used to like Angular 1.x but it was quirky with all the boilerplate code, DI stuff, etc and then I was completely feeling lost and upset with v2 upwards. A friend suggested I try Vue and it turned out to be everything that was missing in Angular 1 and so much better. I feel so happy working with it everyday now!
‘Dead Skunk’ Stench from Marijuana Farms Outrages Californians
Introducing the Office app for Windows 10
Interesting article. Our stack isn't using mongo, but reading these posts give me good ideas for how others manage their software lifecycle. I like their use of a pre-production environment as a step between QA/UAT and production. This allows for a clean trial run of anything new deployed to production, as well as greatly removing any deployment-day surprises.
It's not quite the solution you're looking for but the GMG/Traeger pellet stove/smokers are pretty much this. They've got a controller + fan and auger. You can pretty much set em and leave them alone for a few hours(depending on what temp you're grilling/smoking for).

We've got a small one and it's an amazing little machine, with the bonus of being able to select what type of wood you're burning as well.
These are things that are great for product development and devops and not in fact all that valuable in scientific computing, which is a reason why so much of it gets done in Python.
What do you mean by "decentralized"? Do you mean someone can add a third-party repository and download packages from there? (Then it's been the case for other environments too)

I think decentralized is meant as "there's no central repository" here.
This is awesome - is there any thing similar for Azure? Or possible 3rd party solutions that do the same? We don’t leverage GCP but I am very envious of this feature. Would love the community to help point me in the right direction to get same functionality - mainly not having to maintain and patch Ubuntu 16.0.4 images
Broken on three different browsers.
RDP Man-In-the-Middle – Smile You’re on Camera
Why wouldn’t you be able to outsource database server management? Are you referring to outsourcing schema management?
> ... we generally rely on the goodwill of the companies that wrote out those TOSes/permission request screens.

LOL. The only goodwill they have is towards their bottom line and covering their ass.
>But that does not negate the other 85%

If 15% of military spending was such a wild blunder, what’s makes you so sure the remaining 85% is solid spending?
The purpose of the LibreRouter is to bring to the hardware side what we have accomplished on the software side with LibreMesh. AlterMundi and other partner organizations help build technologies for "geek free" community networks.

General purpose hardware can always be adapted if you have the skills and the money to spend on your project. We work from the global south with global south realities in mind.

A LibreRouter node, with outdoor casing, three sector antennas, GPS module, pigtails, etc. will cost around $150 and will be ready to deploy by non-expert users following simple instructions.
Sure we can all acknowledge those are all deeply complex and intertwined facts about the U.S. and its military strategy and spending. Foreign policy, both diplomatic and militaristic, are also not democratic - I think some people just want to call out "the worlds exemplar of democracy" spending the largest portion of its budget on undemocratic means. We The People want to see something more meaningful domestically from our tax dollars and public debts - if the elite know better, then drop the facades.
You cannot rationalize with someone who is irrational.
Appreciate the comment and Im glad to hear you were tested. But if you don't mind, how often were you getting tested when you were single, do you know if your partner was also tested prior to entering the relationship? Did you get tested together or even consider it?
We were evaluating using MailChimp for our email campaigns, but I am going to raise this with the boss.

Having ToS issues is one thing. Deleting/banning accounts without any notice is another.

Unacceptable.

Major shout out to Stripe. They believed we were in violation of their ToS, notified us immediately, and gave us 7 days to find an alternative including a competitor that would accept our business.

Once I contacted their support, I was able to confirm with them, that in fact, we were in compliance, and the crisis was averted. But had they just shut us off without warning, that would have been a disaster.
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I find it fascinating that programmers like to discuss governance at such great lengths without any reference to the vast knowledge of Political Theory that lies at their fingertips.

At the end of the day, I suppose this is simply yet another form of NIH
I seem to be constantly checking "I never signed up for this mail list" buttons on MailChimp unsubscribe pages. Eventually I got curious if this actually does anything and looked into it; as far as I could tell from their docs, it does nothing but inform the mailer that you are of the opinion that you never subscribed to their list. Very useful.
Recent related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18712622.
Yes, they are both nerve agents, harmless to humans beyond some nootropic effect. No physical dependency.
I'm Tech Lead/maintainer for these images. Happy to answer any questions!
The Ubuntu base image is Ubuntu 16.04, which is an interesting choice. 18.04 LTS has been out for awhile now, so I would have expected it to at least be an option.