skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am Italian. And I am happy to find out it was indeed the fault of EU.

Wow, what a relief! I thought we Italian were the problem!

I mean, we voted Democrazia Cristiana for decades, just because it had Cristiana in the name, and which party will do any effort to be re-elected when they know in advance they will be re-elected anyway?

I mean, I always heard bad things about corruption, but the corrupted politicians were elected by us, and corrupted by us as well!

I heard about "voto di scambio" (litteraly: exchange vote) many many times, but I never got it completely: you are granted anonimity in the voting booth, and you vote for a mafioso because you made a promise to him... You have the possibility to counter mafia's power and you vote for him! Are you an idiot or what?

And heroic judges payed with their life the effort to grant us a better country, and in the end they got to subvert that corrupted mess that the First Repubblica was, and we did end up voting for Berlusconi?!? A disgusting divorced guy, mingling with young prostitutes, and calling himself "Anointed of the Lord"?

It's true that the rest of the political class didn't make any effort to attract votes from non extremists. The few times Berlusconi was not governing, the only top priority was about homosexual rights. Nothing personally against it, but in such a catholic nation like Italy you cannot expect it to pass smoothly, and don't you think the whole nation would need some thought about economy and legality?

I don't like the two current top clowns, but I understand they are the "least worse".

And you want to blame Euro?
“The theory claims that Chael wrote 850,000 lines of code, which he says is also wrong, adding there are 68,000 lines of code total in the current software“

If I write a line of code and then revise that line later have I written one line or two?
Great writeup on data migrations. I was wondering whether you did a comparison for this method vs using AWS snowball[1] to export S3 Data and B2 Fireball[2] to ingest it.

[1] - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/create-export...

[2] - https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001918654
We manage to use the app without this problem. Everybody participates willingly.
I don't understand. Shouldn't everyone care about their standard of living? Are you implying that junior developers shouldn't?
I've done the same - replace social media with Kindle. It's so good.

And lock screen notifications are off for all apps. I only see a notification badge when I decide to pick up and unlock my phone.
One of the biggest challenges with IPFS in my mind is the lack of a story around how to delete content.

There may be a variety of reasons to delete things,

- Old packages that you simply don't want to version (think npm or pip)

- Content that is pirated or proprietary or offensive that needs to be removed from the system

But in its current avatar, there isn't an easy way for you to delete data from other people's IPFS hosts in case they choose to host your data. You can delete it from your own. There are solutions proposed with IPNS and pinning etc - but they don't really seem feasible to me last I looked around.

This list as @fwip said is great as a wishlist - but I would love to see them address some of the things needed in making this a much more usable system as well in this roadmap.
Towards quantum-resistant cryptosystems from supersingular elliptic curve isogen [pdf]
The problem is that EU bureaucrats are too impatient to wait multiple generations, therefore they try to speed up the process by schemes like inviting few millions immigrants from Africa and Middle East and then forcing member states to take them, to undermine their national identity. Or try to enforce the same EU wide standards regarding controversial topics such as LGBT rights, abortion, etc. Which of course causes backlash, effectively being counterproductive.
Mind sharing some examples of what Emacs has deprecated for you?
They said they use Cloudflare as well...
But is the size of these wealth transfers comparable? I have the impression, maybe wrong (absolutely no data to confirm it, in fact) that wealth transfers within the EU are much lower than those that would take place between the regions of a single nation.
I can run three displays natively on my Win 10 machine pretty effectively on a small Dell laptop. Linux is pretty poor at multi-screen support from my experience although it might have improved.

As I have a corporate laptop running Win10 I can't install anything except use Cygwin or WSL. It doesn't allow me to run a Linux VM as it has networking issues upon installing Hyper-V or Virtualbox.

So I'm stuck with WSL on Win 10 and appreciate the efforts of others to get X apps running on it.
VS Code does not come with magit... and that in and of itself is a great reason to use Emacs. (This is coming from a daily Vim user) There really is nothing like Magit even as a plugin for VSC. VSC's scm mode is what I'd consider "barely passible". You can do stuff with it, but it's tiny/ugly/not very friendly. And that GitLens plugin doesn't really help with staging files/hunks etc... it's more meta info about past commits.
And I don't think the 40+ crowd is using it either. So it means either teens are using, or snapchat is on borrowed time.
It was a very, very, very well covered story at the time: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/24/edward-... (if you don't like USA Today, which was just the top news source listed in my search results, just poke around for 'snowden airport' around the same time period in your preferred news outlet's archives)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/wikileaks-julian-assang...
Picked up emacs in 1993 in a unix lab because it was the only thing that remotely made sense on these weird X-Windows systems. Was a good choice because I haven't had to learn anything new since. When I met RMS I thanked him for it.
“The theory claims that Chael wrote 850,000 lines of code, which he says is also wrong, adding there are 68,000 lines of code total in the current software”

If I’ve written a line of code and then revise it have I written one or two lines? That seems a silly metric but the difference begs questions.
I don’t know. If I really want that I might bid $110 initially just to put off others from even attempting a bid.

Might cost me money, but I don’t feel bad about that, since I still get my moneys worth.
That's exactly what I say about switching away from Emacs -- the new tools available aren't compelling enough to make me leave what I've been working easily in for 24 years now.

It sounds like you've found something that works. But if you find yourself with a hankering to take a long weekend, lock yourself in a hotel room like John Carmack, and devote that time to really learning Emacs, I encourage you to do so. It should prove quite rewarding.
Uh, personalities like Joe Rogan and Tim Pool have been called far-right[0], then there are also secular muslims who get called "anti-muslim extremists" by SPLC[1]. So unless you want to claim that these aren't "true scotsmen", there are most certainly people who get called far-right, who are anything but.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-A_aNMe1Wk

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maajid_Nawaz#SPLC_claim
The whole idea behind the western world at the moment is to have as little in common as possible. No government, no taxes and especially no regulation is the dream. So why would the average citizen care?
The "bad actors" that you're referring to on YouTube aren't harassing anyone or inciting violence or breaking the YouTube community guidelines in any way. They are simply espousing opinions that you dislike and disagree with.

Sure, YouTube is allowed to do anything they want. But suppressing an open marketplace of ideas isn't in society's best interests. If unpopular opinions were suppressed in the past, the movements for women's rights and gay rights and civil rights would have faced a massive setback. And let's not even get into the question of whether it's in society's best interests for a handful of corporations to arbitrarily decide how to censor the marketplace of ideas.
Assange was granted Ecuadorian citizenship. Since Snowden was destined for Ecuador he likely could have requested the same.
Did you compare it against Wasabi?
> I think the future of the JVM looks more like Kotlin than like Scale or Groovy.

Seems like an odd thing to say because Kotlin looks so much like Groovy. I'm curious what you are thinking of that distinguishes it in terms of direction?
"[Checking] whether European companies were breaking trade embargos" is not the same as government-assisted industrial espionage.
And what about Albanian spies?!?

There and plenty threads about the NSA's, CIA's etc malfeasance.

I humbly submit that this one is about China's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial...

In 1999, Enercon, a German company and leading manufacturer of wind energy equipment, developed a breakthrough generator for wind turbines. After applying for a US patent, it had learned that Kenetech, an American rival, had submitted an almost identical patent application shortly before. By the statement of a former NSA employee, it was later discovered that the NSA had secretly intercepted and monitored Enercon's data communications and conference calls and passed information regarding the new generator to Kenetech.[69] As German intelligence services are forbidden from engaging in industrial or economic espionage, German companies are frequently complaining that this leaves them defenceless against industrial espionage from the United States. According to Wolfgang Hoffmann, a former manager at Bayer, German intelligence services are aware which companies are being targeted by US intelligence agencies, but refuse to inform the companies involved.[70]
This video is excellent. Thanks for sharing it.
I think this is an excellent thorough presentation of WebComponents. One think I didn't quite understand was the first example about which it is said:

"I have created a web component which lazily loads an image once it is fully visible in the browser's viewport"

Once the image is "fully visible", what's the point of "loading it"? Doesn't it go the other way first you load it then it becomes visible?
Oh, memento. Those events fit the climate described in the article.

> Intrusion Truth's controversial approach of anonymously unmasking government-backed hackers and exposing a foreign intelligence agency is something new and seen as a method to put pressure on Chinese companies cooperating with state-sponsored hacking efforts.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-04/intrusion-truth-my... - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjka84/intrusion-... - https://twitter.com/intrusion_truth - https://intrusiontruth.wordpress.com
Wasn't there an article on HN from Atlantic titled "You don't have to like Assange to defend him" like yesterday?..
I find this article obviously hypes this technology, downplays that it is not surprisingly the military, DARPA, who are no doubt bringing us shooting autonomous robots that eventually will have accidents not unlike the already multiple times a year random violence events. That robot went haywire! No one has any responsibility besides this bad, bad, glitchy technology that we unfortunately depend on completely.

I would bet at least some coinage that some or another branch of intelligence networks is already testing this stufff on people who have essentially been disappeared. If they are outright stealing the kidneys of falun gong people, what human sacrifice would china not make to be able to stick a fork in someone's mind and read it?

And if CHINA is doing it, well then everybody else has to keep up!

Good times.

It's bizarre to me that anyone could write an article about this subject and not talk about the mother of all interrogation tools.

We need to defend the right to have an independent mind. If there are black sites and disappeared people, and the spy agencies can pretty much all go hog wild at the moment, where is the governing body that is going to potentially threaten spooks from abusing people horrifically with this stuff?

As I understand it, 5g will have enough bandwidth to have a decent throughput to fingernail sized devices. With a few electrodes could they outright puppet someone?

Why do so few tech articles ever talk about human rights and hype things without even basic analysis? Or it's the same, 'some critics say, it might be bad. oh well.'

And every time, 5 years later, 'oh it turns out google maps actually made a database of everyone's location who used it and then lied about doing that until it was no longer possible. Our motto is don't be evil. Well, not anymore. We don't have to do this interview. GUARDS!'
> we ask Apple to generate a unique deviceID

This is bullshit. You don't ask Apple. Apple enforces this requirement on every single app.
Is getting into a stall a normal, routine part of flying? Were other 737 Max 8's getting into stalls and recovering all the time on a regular basis? I'm curious why these two flights got into a stall in the first place.
When I've started my own businesses, I worked 18 hours a day, 7 days a week. Ma is a slacker by comparison!

But there's no way I'd be willing to devote my every waking minute to someone else's business. So I guess that makes me the slacker...
Here is also the link to the change as introduced in Matplotlib 3, to put it in reference: https://matplotlib.org/users/dflt_style_changes.html
At 10 watts per square foot it’s not going to offset the weight cost, let alone appreciably charge the batteries.
The script doesn't really matter - if you write Russia's name in Russian, but using Latin letters, it would be "Rossiya". Still no "u" there anywhere.
1. because the rest of that sentence/statement wouldn't make much sense without the context

2. because it's newsworthy: historically african americans and women have been excluded from boards. So as the trend begins to shift, this happening is, as an outlier event, newsworthy

3. because having diverse views and voices at the table is better for solving problems. Since business is fundamentally about solving customer problems, it is noteworthy to highlight the swap (african american woman replaces european american man)
> Sea level is stable

What are you talking about? Even the most ardent denialists do not deny sea level is rising. More recent data show the rate of increase is accelerating. Hard to take anything else you say seriously after that.
I did, 14-13 years ago. I would just run mc/mcedit in VT and switch virtual terminals with Alt+F#. I did most of my programming there with mcedit, but switched to X for web browsing. I was writing distro build scripts and networking libraries in C, so I didn't need the browser that often.

I grew up on MS-DOS, so it was not really such a long stretch, to work this way.
But it now gives Google cloud integrated services that will always have the newest features whereas the other cloud providers will have to pay to maintain their in house solutions themselves due to the recent changes in many popular open source license's.

That leapfrogs AWS and azure in feature parity on those services while also funding said services further because they get a cut.

Brilliant move IMO and I think it'll be a boom for improving open source software and increasing competition between the clouds.
?? Put what together? I don’t get it..
Thanks, I was younger and not as interested in world news at the time.
The world is so different now. In my first year of undergrad, you didn't "stumble" on emacs. It was the tool of the demigods that worked on the software you could only read about on usenet. Everyone knew emacs was best, if you could get your admin to install it. It's what we all dreamed of using some day.

So needless to say it was the first thing I tried when I got my shell account. I got stuck in it, couldn't figure anything out, and had to power cycle the terminal before sneaking away sheepishly.

But yeah, emacs is best, and I'm still using it now that I know how to exit.
Redirect your confusion towards that unprofessional media outlet. What Dr. Bouman has to do with this? Read or listen to her interviews, she always highlights that it was a team effort.
No, since that only covers a small amount of what you use. Think about the 40,000 deaths a year. Who pays for that? Not you. The 500,000 seriously injured? Not you. The pollution you cause? Not you. The 3m children with Asthma caused by drivers? Not you. The list goes on...
> I understand the need for government secrecy, spying, and surveillance

There is a place for all these things; but there is distinction between things we know the government has that are not disclosed (eg, the US government has a plan to invade Canada if a crisis warrants it. They might reasonably keep the actual content of the plan secret) vs. secret schemes (it is unknowable what precedent the FISA court has created).

There is a big difference between the two. The first case can be reasonably handled by the democratic process. The second case cannot, and is incompatible with an accountable democracy. People who work against these anti-democratic secrets deserve support even if they are hypocrites; all I ask is that they are effective.

> He worked with the despotic Russian regime...

I find it conspicuous that there is nobody claiming the information in the leaks was false. If the revealing honest thoughts and intentions to the voting public is the scandal (and not the thoughts and intentions themselves) then I don't see why it would influence an election.

If an untimely revelation of facts scuppers the cause, then the cause is not robust and that is the big problem.
Really enjoyed that. Thank you! Bit rushed though, need to read more!
These are opinion pieces, so why wouldn't they publish two presenting opposing ideas?
Yeah pretty sure it was that one.
We did not. Wasabi looks interesting - thanks!
If you come prepared, it's not as bad as you think. Being stack ranked +you're not in the room for that) can lead to stress though. I would say my experiences at MSFT under Gates and Ballmer for stack ranking felt far more capricious than at AMZN.
Aegisub is a very cool software to produce subtitles, but i expend a lot of time syncing. now i sync with lirik and apply styles with aegisub. When i want to produce the video i use ffmpeg. Thank you.
So the guy at the other start knew how to do what you guys didn't? That makes this relevant to cyber-espionage how?
If Tim Hanson has left neuralink that may bode poorly for the company. Definitely curious about the situation and flux in employees.
I've worked at a company that did the sprints, planning, retro, Three Amigos etc.

So glad we don't do any of that at my new company! And it turns out we ship stuff much faster.
Sure, I wasn't saying it was a bad idea, just a bold one. Hard to pull back with the strong statements in the post..."equal collaborators, and not simply a resource to be mined"
Ironically, Romania could have gotten .ru, since it was historically called Rumania in English until around 1970s (and is still called that in many other languages).
I would love to try that, can you share a quick and easy breakdown of how I would do publish that?
I'm one who turns them off. When disabled, you can just hit C-down-mouse-3 (i.e., ctrl-right click) anywhere in a buffer to get the global menu in the form of a pop-up. That works well enough for me for the rare occasions when I want to go spelunking through the menu (mostly to find some obscure Calc op).
If you read the article... It's clear that the author agrees with your statement that the most noteworthy thing about her is her ethnicity and her gender.

>The addition of Alford, an African-American woman, comes as Facebook and other Silicon Valley companies strive for the inclusion of more women and minorities in their boards and throughout their workforces.

That doesn't make it true, but it exactly what the author is intending to point out.

Insert a Jack Nicholson outburst here.
> Even more curious is that IT culture is basically that if you want to get paid what you're worth, you have to quit and go to another company.

From what I've noticed, companies really want to avoid raising salary of an employee in a meaningful way, because it means they will have to increase pay of others also

So 10% increase of salary of 1 employee would eventually equal 10% in crease for the whole team or company, which gets expensive.

This seems to be why they really really hate giving out meaningful raise. They'd rather lose an employee and suffer the consequences, than give 10% raise to one and inevitably end up raising salary for the entire team/company.

And yet, they want to higher senior devs, who obviously left old company to seek higher pay.
That's a good question. Where is the vacuum manufactured? Many have lots of parts manufactured in China. If they're not pretty sophisticated about this outsourcing, they're giving away the store before any hacking even starts.

Maybe there are some vacuums manufactured in USA that have BOM with only generic components from China. That's a good start, but if they just have every technical document dumped in sharepoint then there could still be problems.

If you're actually talking about vacuum cleaner marketers rather than manufacturers, I don't know what to tell you. Disintermediation is. I have more sympathy for middlemen than any consumer has, but that's not much.
Sure if they are available in your country, in my case they are not, so I don't have any experience with those.
In the US, I have seen large flocks of tourists from Europe enjoying their expensive vacations, shopping tours, and gadgets as well.
>When someone says HTML & CSS is terrible I ask them to design something better that lets you represent user interfaces that can adapt across multiple screen sizes, and allow complex layouts that Flexbox and CSS Grid makes possible. It is easy to criticize something if you don't have to worry how you would do it better.

Easy, something like Winforms or one of its successors like whatever they make Win10 apps in. Even the new Unity3D UI stuff is better.
How many people would immediately understand the code sample:

auto h = make_histogram(
axis::regular<>(6, -1.0, 2.0, "x")
);

// fill histogram
auto data = { -10, -0.4, 1.1, 0.3, 1.3 };
std::for_each(data.begin(), data.end(), std::ref(h));

I would have to Google what std::ref does again, and then I have to understand why it is used, etc. The code is short and readable, but understanding it still takes time.
Statisticians do not fit models by hand, they "fit" models in the same way machine learning pratictioners "train" models. "Fitting" in statistics lingo is completely synonymous with "training" in ML lingo. Statisticians were the original ML practitioners.
I do CFD and have really begun experimenting with various colormaps for each project and it has made a significant business impact.

Each color map has a specific type of story it is best at telling and using program defaults is a really bad practice. For the type of phenomena you are trying to highlight and explain there is a color map for that problem and I think this is something that is understudied and under discussed for its impact
It will be a useful tool in the meme generation toolbox.
I'd like you to take a minute and go visit sites like Voat or Gab. Just, hover around there for a bit if you haven't. Those are sites that are exactly what you want: A pure and open marketplace of ideas without any sort of censorship or rules. This is to prove a point.

Which is that an open marketplace of ideas has no value in itself, because the marketplace can be very easily taken over by bad actors if you don't exert some control over your userbase.
https://swiftype.com/
Electricity goes out this morning, :(
But now i realized, you can check it out already with the songs posted, just click the A button below the info, besides the pencil. (i am not a graphic designer, i admit)