skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In your example, the English had a problem with Germans and people of German descent, that is, their ancestry. Nobody calls San Franciscans, Californians, "coastal people" (vs. Middle Americans), or "city folk" (vs. "country folk"), a race.

Understanding vernacular English is how I knew what you meant, that doesn't mean it's a good idea to poorly use a word that has a more specific meaning when there are plenty of more general words to convey your point.

I also have a problem with prejudice against muslims being called "racist" so using it to refer to San Franciscan localvore attitudes about the rest of the country didn't stand a chance.
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Another security hole of PuTTY is downloads being served over non-SSL.

I should know better and check the sigs using PGP and checksums, but on Windows this is such a drag that I just end up whispering hallelujah praise the Lord, and hoping for the best.

I know it's my fault, but I'd still like SSL :(
Is it an old account from before Google Hangouts? Mine was a new one after that. I think I really understood what should be done but perhaps I missed a step. In any case, creating a Gmail account "fixed" it.
I'm by no means an expert in the field, but if I understand the role of Vulkan correctly, you -- as an application developer -- won't be writing your programs against the Vulkan API.

OpenCL will become a library that is implemented by interacting with the GPU via the Vulkan API, and as an application developer you'd use OpenCL. Or perhaps you'd never again use OpenCL, because someone else develops a better library.

Perhaps someone creates a Haskell library -- which talks to the GPU via the Vulkan API -- that implements a map function that executes in parallel on the GPU. In that case you wouldn't use OpenCL or Vulkan directly at all.
Yeah, I regularly hit 3gb+ even with uBlock. Counting, I have about 30 loaded tabs right now (it's usually more like 100+ when I'm in the middle of doing something), a few hundred unloaded, and 1800 MB RAM used. The tabs tend to pile up when the browser eventually crashes...

This is with tree style tabs, which makes browsing so much more efficient for me that Firefox is the only viable option.
If people would only stop buying stuff they don't need, but that seems to be the driving force of the modern consumer society.

The norm where I live seems to be to purchase new computers, smartphones, etc. every 6-24 months (phones more often compared to computers). Whereas the more frugal people I know mostly purchase new electronics when the old item has truly and utterly died without the possibility of repair.

But assuming that will not change in the near future it seems that selling refurbished electronics at cheaper prices as well as improving the manufacturing process to use less toxic materials, could help quite a bit.

An example of refurbished electronics I saw in the news the other day here in Denmark is http://www.brugteiphones.dk/ buying up old broken iphones, repairing and selling them, they seem to be growing pretty fast.
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I thought the same thing: maybe eventually desktop OSes will have some sort of permission control like on mobile
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I used to be a huge PuTTY (or derative) user, but recently, I've switched to just using the normal OpenSSH command-line client within Cygwin and ConEmu.

While PuTTY is nice, it lacks some features, like proxycommands and stuff which are standard in ~/.ssh/config. Things which can be taken along in a simple & portable fashion.

No disrespect to PuTTY, but I just found myself not really needing it anymore.
Propaganda of what exactly? That we shouldn't trust proprietary software?
When I got my RPi 2, the first thing I did was to make it to boot headlessly in debian and skip all the X window crap. It is a joy to play with it via ssh on a sleek Macbook Air from anywhere in my house. Now I can study how redis works by compiling it in a docker container. Wish I had it in 1980s.
I want to back this up. Just shut it down, and move on. You learned a lot, and maybe next time you will make something that can actually make money and work full time on. Probably not. You'll most likely make something else that fails. That's ok. After that, maybe you'll make something else that can actually make money. Probably not. Rinse and repeat. Eventually, you may or may not succeed. But each time will be more successful, less confusing, and more enjoyable. I know because I've been there, and now I'm very successful. It's worth it.
> 'mui-btn mui-btn-default mui-btn-flat mui-btn-lg'

This would be better implemented via mixins. Eg, the a element has the class 'download-button', which has all the additional visual elements mixed in via sass/less/stylus. There's a small overhead in file size, but it allows you to keep all the visual settings in a single place (the stylesheet) rather than two (the stylesheet and the HTML).
I really RTFM when back against the wall, otherwise I only SkimTFM. I wish embedded manuals, instead of disconnected words, having a REPL, a failing test suite to see how the pieces work together. Brett Victor style.

Maybe it's an overly lazy desire, and nothing will replace the fact that you're willing to focus on reading what people wanted to express about a program. Also, embedded/repl would avoid outdated documentation drift.
OK, I tried the latest version of UT4 in BootCamp on my Macbook w/750M graphics, and it ran pretty well at 60fps with a scattering of High/Med/Low settings at 1680x1050. I'd say that's pretty good for such an early product!
Kind of off topic:

Is there a secure way to download PuTTY? They are hosting on a http page. Though they provide RSA and DSA signatures how would I verify the signatures themselves? I'm kind of new to walking through trust paths. I don't even have any entry point too since nobody I know use public key encryption (I trust the Debian keys already though since I use their distro, maybe I can use that for a starting point?).

My best bet would be to download the signatures and keys from different mirrors and sources to limit the possibility of a successful targeted MITM attack.
The people of the countries that violate agreements, or that don't ratify the agreements in the first place, voting their politicians out of power and replacing them with politicians who believe being a good citizen of the world is more important than making a quick profit or offloading problems on to other countries.

If voting doesn't work then bloody revolution could be an option.
Video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSbPjtY2YPg&feature=youtu.be
So I guess we can say with a high degree of confidence - "That's no moon".
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You can use mixins from the source SASS files to do most of this. I was thinking about formalizing it and including it in the documentation but I wanted to get some feedback first.

https://github.com/amorey/mui/blob/master/src/sass/mui/_butt...
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"Aw, c'mon, nobody has mentioned Aurora yet?"

What on earth does that?

"nobody has mentioned Aurora yet?" you've obviously checked nobody mentioned it, so why not just give us the link and say how it's relevant.

"Aw, c'mon" what the hell is that? Who talks like that? What does "aw" mean? You're disappointed nobody has mentioned something is relevant? Why does that upset you? Why shorten "c'mon" from "come on" like that?

Why post this nonsense? Just give us the link and why it's relevant.
Stricter laws on proper recycling?
It's a perfectly good language and a sensible choice if you need the .net interop. But if you just want to learn a functional language, Haskell or Scala provide much the same features and also have HKT support.
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This is something I can't get out of my head: as a tech user (and as an IT worker), I am an active part of the e-waste problem.

I always find it hard to relate to some tech enthusiasts that often appear to me like compulsive, irresponsible buyers.

I can't help but ask myself: can a culture shift within the IT community lead to raise awareness among the larger public?
'I nudge the door shut with my foot, and sit down. “I have lost patients to all of those treatments,” I tell her quietly.'

But she never lost patients to traditional therapies? What a science-free article. This is the closest the article comes to an argument.

'We now know that many of these therapies are not only unhelpful but are downright dangerous.'

The doctor complaining about the arrogance of the patient in an environment where cancer is becoming more and more common and "modern medicine" can provide no fundamental way to address this.

Also this has nothing to do with Hacker News..
Some things might not be possible to fix. Teaching people to RTFM, for instance. No search engine will be able to replace consistent and comprehensive documentation written by the people who know the system intimately, but it's hard to convince most users, many developers, even, that this is actually worth the effort it takes, both to read and write."

This is compounded by the trend toward instant gratification in pretty much everything.

- In your normal day-to-day work, you're likely to have productivity pressures that limit your ability to do freeform thinking and learning, so you're pressured to solve small problems in a local way.

- Search engines make it possible to find the answer to almost any question you might think of, and that makes it feel less necessary to do a deep dive into some topic.

- ...and trends in technology make it far easier for consumers (and yes, even producers are consumers) to treat every problem with a "single-serving solution"

However, the larger problem is that we naturally do not know what we do not yet know. A deep R into TFM is quite likely to teach something necessary that I didn't already know.

Think, for example, of a beginning programmer who quite successfully builds all the functional requirements of a simple web app, but fails to consider the non-functional requirements because he didn't know that he had to. SQL injection is something orthogonal to the application's actual purpose, so I won't actually think about it until either I'm stung by it, or someone else tells me about it. I wouldn't know to ask otherwise.
Hah, there are more houses than jobs in Berlin, but that doesn't stop people from coming.

There is more than work and housing to make a vibrant city.
I know my company has had many problems that were pinned down to Dropbox hooking some Win32 API functions that we use. I am not familiar with the semantics of hooking, but could it be related to that?
Old cars were more tinkerable and less reliable.

Reliability is a curve; a function of how much maintenance is spent on it.

No question at all that a modern car with zero maintenance will be more reliable than an old car was with zero maintenance. But with a surprisingly small amount of maintenance, an old can can be more reliable than a modern car with the same amount of maintenance. Sure, it'll take a while before one of them fails, but I can (and do) keep a thirty year old car running with maintenance that probably averages to about ten minutes a week. I suspect very strongly that if I spent ten minutes a week maintaining a modern car (which, from what I can tell, would be me looking at the lights on the dashboard to see if the car is asking for more water or oil), it would fail before the old car did.
Ceres could be the Death Star. Or the main component of Hactar.
Either find time and give the v2 a try or shut it down. it is that simple. Just make a decision. Nobody can make this decision for you.
I would try to sell it only if there is something to sell, otherwise it will be waste of time. Do you have significant userbase, some interesting data, and etc? If yes, poke your competitors first.
The produce up the street may have taken less energy, but the produce grown on a small farm 50 miles from you probably required more energy to reach your door than green grapes from the local supermarket shipped in from Chile. Do not discount the efficiency of the modern transportation network.
How does that make it more secure? HTTPS doesn't do anything to stop an attacker accessing the host and changing the contents. If you are concerned by MITMA then download from multiple nations and compare or download the source and build it yourself
The scale of this work is quite impressive but the idea of applying neural nets to chemistry dates to the 80's or 90's, possibly earlier. It all comes down to the quality of the data and whether the model(s) are actually predictive rather than retrospective. Medicinal chemistry is a conservative field, but given the series of "totally remakes the field" events that have occurred over the last 30+ years, some of the resistance is understandable. Gasteiger and Zupan have a survey from 1993: Neural Networks in Chemistry (Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 32,503).

The big thing will be if it helps prevent compounds dying in the clinic, as such late in the day failures are the most expensive. ADME/Tox prediction would be a huge win, although QSAR/QSPR has been fighting this war basically forever. The companies have the data while the researchers have the methods and bodies - getting these two entities to work together have prevented success in the past. Although the data is not as good as one would hope, particularly after the merger mania in pharma have mixed up all the datasets.

Edit: They published a whole book about it in 1999: Neural Networks in Chemistry and Drug Design (Wiley, probably $$). Also thought to add that I have no relationship to his work.
I agree with the article. The differences between 10 year old me on my Commodore 64 and my currently 10 year old son on his Windows 7 computer are astronomical. When I turned my 64 on it was "READY" for me to make it do something. I spent days typing in BASIC and 6502 Assembly source code into it just to play a game. My son has a seemingly infinite supply of videos on YouTube to entertain him. Near infinite supply of free-to-play ready made games (with in-app purchases). There is no natural incentive for him to learn how to produce anything on computers.
Even more confusingly, the Greek name for the body was Io, later allocated to a satellite of Jupiter.

Moon came into Emglish from Danish for 'month'.

Luna was the Roman goddess represented by the body.
What's up with the Material design? Am I the only one who thinks it's just horrible in looks and behavior?
Not to mention the National Reconnaissance Office exerting considerable influence upon the design requirements for NASA's STS program, most notably the size of the orbiter's payload bay.

Obviously co-opting an AGI project in similar fashion would almost certainly be immoral. However, it is worth noting that as a result of NRO's requirements, deploying large payloads such as the Hubble Space Telescope became a reality. Apples and oranges, I suppose.

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>In fact, I'll be so bold to say that the best way for these fears of SMI to come to life is putting the research under tight government control and regulation.

First, in the context of inevitability, it would be preferable to achieve the advent of AGI as the result of careful intent, rather than accidental discovery.

Second, I was not advocating for centralization nor regulation. The private sector should be free to pursue whatever AI research it desires, unencumbered.

What I was advocating for, is a project of massive scale and resources to compete. Despite the drawbacks of government backing, there is no equal in terms of resources and the ability to enforce secrecy or safety protocols.

If we spin up potentially unsafe AGI in the name of research, would you rather have it contained via airgapped servers in some swanky corporate office, or in an underground facility complete with armed guards? No one would accidentally have a cellphone on them in the latter environment.
I've seen a fair bit of poverty in my travels around Africa and elsewhere, but I'm still rather astonished by how utterly and totally low-tech and unorganized this is: it's literally just a bunch of people scrabbling about heaps of garbage on an open field, only that garbage has been carted in from the other side of the world!

For example, you'd think it would be worth it for somebody to set up some sort of smelter where you could bring your cables to get the plastic melted off, but when labor is essentially free and the competition is Darwinian, it's unlikely any scavenger would pay for such a service when they could just sit around an open flame instead.

And for an even more Dantean version of this, Glawegger's Workingman's Death covers a Nigerian slaughterfield in Port Harcourt. (And yes, the footage is pretty damn disturbing.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukSAfBulphU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workingman%27s_Death
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500 error. I don't think this is a site that can handle large amounts of traffic.
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I rest my case.
Government regulation and laws.

Really with pollution the incentive in capitalism is to just pollute, and not deal with waste properly. It is cheaper almost always and following regulations if they even exist usually eats into profit.

I used to work for an environmental engineering firm that had to do some site clean-ups in a previous career. Companies hate being forced to pay to clean up their messes, its one of the big incentives not to pollute, as that certainly eats into profits.

creating less waste is a good goal too (shaving weight from a phone your going to sell millions of saves a lot of resources) or as a consumer buying less means you'll throw away less (swap in an ssd for your hard drive to keep that computer another year..).

Computers and phones keep getting better and better (more energy efficient too), so there is a strong motivation to upgrade (although this is less stong then it used to be).
Proper payment across currencies can become thorny and lead to unintended delays in payment. I noticed this more with bigger companies who insist on payment by cheque and need the figure out the logistics of creating it and mailing it properly for another country or continent.

If they’re not set up to predominantly have their communication done through online, it will be difficult to stay privy of decisions made offline that could affect your delivery of the project. This isn’t so bad with smaller or low-risk projects, but can derail others big time.
One correction: YC funds 120K, 500 Startups funds 100K and then charges a 25K "program fee."
Downloading a file from multiple nations and comparing is more work that downloading it over HTTPS.
QI did a series of questions on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXzi89b3LHw
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It would have been better if the 0.64 release had been pulled, the fixed 0.64 release should have been named 0.65.
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Apparently only a fraction of the waste is recyclable, so if it isn't dumped there it may have to be dumped somewhere else...
I'm always tripped up by 'persistent'. Initially I'm super happy, then I realize it is yet another place-oriented thing :(
It's not. Everything is disconnected from everything, everything requires me to learn a new GUI, my devices are actively preventing me from doing things I want, using data gives me a headache, my tools don't tell me what they can do, making apps is complex, I need to use a 1970s interface to do anything remotely, my Chrome tabs crash all the time, my Android apps crash all the time, iOS is too slow to know whether it's crashed. Computing has become a little superficial in the way we use it, superficial is easy, but anything else is way too hard.
This explains why CryEngine supports Linux but not Mac. CryEngine requires OpenGL 4.3 as that's what was the easiest translation target for CryTek from DirectX 11.
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Evolution, progress, the march of the human race has fundamentally been enabled by our ability to efficiently abstract and encapsulate complexity into building blocks that form the next leap forwards in the advancement of science, knowledge etc. Complexity should only be by necessity not forced on everyone. its just progress
Great site, but the "sell my project" and "find a cofounder" buttons at the top of the page give me a full PHP (well, Whoops-formatted) error listing with stack trace and offending lines of source code. You probably shouldn't have error reporting turned on in production!
Actually, as far as I know teaching subsides research at most (if not all) UK universities.
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This can be simply analytics event tracking.
The best defence is probably not bombing the hell out of nations on the other side of the world to start with.
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No idea, but it does seem the programme has been scaled back. Last year there were 190 organisations accepted, and this year only 137, the fewest since 2007.
I'm not sure if Dropbox is managed code or not. FileSystemWatcher does implement ReadDirectoryChangesW, which would allow them to set specific directories to watch. They may be using change journals instead, though, which function differently.

Either way, I'm fairly certain that checking file properties (as would be done to check whether or not a filter applies) would be registered as opening the file.
Interesting how he 'sharply criticises' while it is his desire, and to a point already an achievement, to do the same thing.
Indeed. I got in there just before the stampede. A short, entertaining read about the dying art of book theft, and a summary of some of the 'characters' of the trade.

Google cache here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:thedabb...
Personally I think it's a huge improvement over flat design. Do you have any specific criticisms, or is it just a subjective aesthetic opinion?
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Pretty nice, but has it English interface?
> I should know better and check the sigs using PGP and checksums

Kind of pointless. If the download has been compromised so have the checksums
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Maybe it's the number of download?
>It's much more low level. And there's no strong type safety remaining.

It seems from the Vulkan Language Ecosystem graphic that they expect new languages to be developed that translate to Vulkan, for those who want to work at a higher level.
Linux Foundation and Tor Project were also not accepted.
How many ways can HN say hypocrite?
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No, you stumbled into the mainstream. The wholesale migration to OOP was complete by the end of the 90s.

But you've probably been doing functional programming within OO languages and not realising it. For example, most of the PHP standard lib is functional. In fact, PHP is really a multi-paradigm language. Python is much closer to a pure OO language.
This appeared mere days after Yahoo's security chief told NSA's new boss, Mike Rogers, that this is exactly what would happen if US, the "freedom loving country", would push for backdoors.

NSA's chief brushed it aside as a non-issue, saying "I'm sure we can find a legal framework" for backdoors to work.

Well, here's your "legal framework", America - from China. How do you like it now? Does taking your own medicine taste good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJZNvEPyjlw
Well, yes, but they're not used as names in common speech, hence my point.
Nor was OGRE, for the second time running. Haskell made it in, though.
Can someone explain to me why O(n^3) is valid for Theta(n^3 + n^2)
Can someone explain to me why O(n^3) is valid for Theta(n^3 + n^2)