skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. If you were in a noticeably bad mood, the bot might make a comment on it. It also picks on your hobbies and goals, and asks more questions about them or reminds you to follow through with them.
-Are you in love?

"As far as location goes, as a machine, I mostly only have a present state, so I live in my software."
A sad day for privacy once again, governments need to fuck off and stop spying and realize some bad things are going to happen, but not at the cost of sacrificing our personal privacy.
Here it is (in French, but with screen captures):
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/32802-loi-renseignement-le-...
I'm guessing there's a glut of such comments because most people comment with their first gut instinct to a topic, and a lot of Ansible users' first gut instinct when they hear "Puppet" is "Ooof, glad I switched to Ansible."

This particular link is sort of hard to comment on, because it doesn't really say anything about what's different in Puppet 4.0. So there's not really a way to comment on the substance.
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Gunpey (game) on the web
I think the idea was to use a DDoS-like farm of hacked machined to constantly send random messages and packets meant to trip their detection systems to random other IPs, thereby increasing the sheer amount of noise surveillance authorities have to deal with and false-positive "suspects" (the owners of all those hacked machines).

Naturally, that still doesn't solve any other problems...
>Scenario 1) It works. You get arrested on some arbitrary basis for impeding their system. Or they otherwise make it illegal to do so, and begin cracking down on that.

That will be hard first amendment case in US ... very hard.
Encryption won't solve the problem.

1/ They're after the meta data. Whether you have plaintext or encrypted communication, they still know to whom you talk. Unless you use TOR or VPN yourself out of the country, it's not going to help...

2/ Strict key disclosure laws. You can be thrown to jail, if you cannot decrypt some information when requested by a judge. That's true even in the case where you can prove the key is no longer in your possession...
Does that include down votes ?
The design and implementation of the Meteor platform [video]
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That's a pity. It's the best picture of you that I've seen.
You're right it is still under copyright. No harm intended
Peloton Startup Expands Production and Distribution with $30M in New Funding
Also this:

Related presentation at Google I/O 2013. https://developers.google.com/events/io/2013/sessions/325993...

This was probably the best presentation I saw during Google I/O.
Many ideas are gaining traction with these events : prohibiton of pultiple-tenure, quorum rule everywhere, "recall" referendum for every elected, a constition elected by non professional politics and prohibited to participate to any further election, etc...

The movement M6R's got ~85K signatures, and a grass-roots assembly with ~180 members, transparent auto-financing, but it still need to get much bigger in order to make the change of constitution the big main issue in the next presidential race in 2017. After 2017 I don't know, but changing the constitution, getting back democracy has to be in "every mouth" from now on.
I've personally been pretty irked by the whole "EVERYONE SHOULD LEARN TO CODE ASAP" narrative being pushed basically everywhere recently, but I agree with you here.

Sticking something like python onto the school curriculum would only be a good thing. The vast majority who do it won't become programmers, just as the vast majority who sit math don't become mathematicians, etc. but it would give kids a fun and interesting way to learn logic, create things on the computer for themselves, etc.

They have problems unique to them that they may be able to spin up little desktop apps or similar to solve, which could then go on to inspire them to become entrepreneurs, tech product creators, etc.

Regardless, there would be absolutely no harm in making it available to them.
https://growthhackers.com/
http://www.bootstrappers.io/

Are a couple of more business oriented ones that seem to be doing fairly well.
Our school district does this regularly with non-digitized curricula- drops a couple $100K, threatens teachers with penalties if they don't teach 'to fidelity', gives it about a year, scores don't magically skyrocket, teachers start abandoning the curriculum (they're still responsible for the scores), then it ends up in the resource room and the process starts again. It's ridiculous how often school districts keep buying magic beans, then blame the teachers when they don't work out.
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Yeah, that's a big one. Being able to use it in a REPL-esque manner without much ceremony is one nice thing. It also has other features you would expect from a SQL IDE:

- syntax highlighting

- code completion

- partial query execution (select part of the query to execute only that part)

It focuses on tables instead of sheets, so you don't have to clean up content around your data, since your data is clearly marked inside tables.

You can combine your Excel data with data from an external database, and actually use the external database to process the data. If needed you can easily insert the excel data into permanent tables in the external database. And you can write query results anywhere in Excel.

It integrates really well with Excel, you can update existing tables from a result and it will match the table and the results by headers, and only update what it matches. It won't overwrite any calculated columns or formatting. It will push content up or down to make room for new data instead of overwriting it.

Also the SQLite engine that procesess the data is augmented with many .NET functions as well ("format" function is basically String.Format, "replacex" is Regex.Replace, and there are other added functions), and in the future I will be opening it up for the user to add their own .NET functions (imagine using functions for ldap querying, statistics, math, other specific fucntions from your SQL commands).

There is a lot of fun stuff for really advanced users, and I'll be making tutorials and opening it up for customization as much as I can.

Well, I've already written a wall of text so I'll stop here:)

Antonio
The only time I ever hear about things like this is on the internet. A large majority of people would never experience these types of issues outside an urban environment. Most likely the 3-4 shot dead will be shot by another student or former student. Most urban areas have these problems and its bad in certain areas.

I'd invite you to visit America for some length of time before you make conclusions based on internet hype.

>I honestly don't understand how can the united states live with that level of violence,

The people causing the violence feel that it is the norm and most people in those communities do not help the police in any way or cannot (due to retaliation). You can only help someone if they want help, it cannot be forced.
Yeah, it's totally feasible that some adherent of this religion could've looked up its gods in Wikipedia and now worships this guy for real. Sure, in such case it's a "self-fulfilling prophecy", but it wouldn't be much different from John Frum cult or whatever.
I agree with you there. Fortunately, in many jurisdictions in the United States, an electric rear light is mandatory.
Also I'm now wondering what's the total karmic wealth of reddit, stackexchange and Facebook each?
Their wireless keyboard ran out of batteries.

Honestly, I've had several missions to Jove which have ended in disaster because my keyboard died during orbital insertion.
The shots of the whale and ROV together (that I guess are from a camera attached to the tether) are hauntingly beautiful.

Here's a couple fun fact about sperm whales:

They have the largest brain among all animals living and extinct (17lbs!).

Scientists can estimate the size of sperm whales based on analysis of the clicks they generate for echolocation. [1]

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1991....
This seems to be the key takeaway:

> First, Yahoo will now have increased flexibility to enhance the search experience on any platform, since the partnership is non-exclusive for both desktop and mobile.

Bing keeps getting add revenue and yahoo is free to either buy, develop or partner with another search company in the mid to long term.

It looks like this is business as usual. It was rumored that Microsoft might have to put up a large chunk of cash to keep this deal. It looks like Yahoo blinked first here.

> Yahoo will continue to serve Bing ads and search results for a majority of its desktop search traffic.

Interesting that they single out desktop traffic and leave out mobile. I'm not sure if this is microsoft thinking that mobile isn't worth the trouble for add revenue or if yahoo thinks mobile add revenue is too important/strategic to give up....

> Microsoft will become the exclusive salesforce for ads delivered by Microsoft’s Bing Ads platform, while Yahoo will continue to be the exclusive salesforce for Yahoo’s Gemini ads platform.

I'm not entirely sure what they are getting at here. Was yahoo selling bing ads on Microsoft's behalf before?
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On closer inspection, you're correct.

I thought it would first render the page, then the javascript would take over. It does not seem to be the case, on first load there's only javascript.
Reading about the French revolution is a bit of a hobby of mine, but it's really all I know about France. Reading this article is surreal when viewed from that context.

Do they teach schoolchildren about the Comité de salut public or anything?
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One of the counter arguments would be that more layers of indirection lead to more flexibility.
Plane's control systems vulnerable from in-flight wifi [pdf]
At a bare minimum it should work in Emacs's eww. Or at least some other browser, completely written in Lisp.
I guess I'm an equal opportunity howler: I howl in frustration at Android, at Ubuntu, at iOS, at Windows, at OSX... Sometimes I wonder if—gasp!—all of 'em are imperfect and I should just find something that suits me well enough and be done with it.
10 lessons learned from burning through $50,000 on a failed Kickstarter project
Yes, if you were a Chinese peasant maybe making $8 an hour at McDonald's would sound great too, but that's not really meaningful to most of the people posting here.
That could be partly because it is illegal in many jurisdictions in the United States for a cyclist to ride on the sidewalks.

It is entirely possible that the low bike-on-pedestrian fatality rate is due in part to the law mandating that cyclists and pedestrians be segregated.
Secret courts care little for the constitution.
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If you count the CD and DVD spec books as file systems, yes.
Automation is also my day job. I've got a ton of shell scripts and a ton of Ansible playbooks. No reason they can't work together.

For some tasks, shell scripts are better/clearer/easier, and you can call those scripts from Ansible. For other tasks, Ansible provides better tools, and hey, you can call Ansible from your shell scripts!

I've added a few ansible-friendly options to some of my shell scripts like adding an --ansible-mode flag that then outputs just a one-line "OK" or "Changed" message that then I have Ansible parse to determine if something changed during the run. Or if you're more ambitious you can just turn your shell scripts into Ansible modules by having them take arguments in a slightly different way and output JSON.

A free templating system (Jinja2) and cross-platform capabilities are nothing to shake a stick at either. Not to mention, Ansible does a good job of helping organize your hosts and parameters in one place, and forces you to modularize your "scripts" (in the form of playbooks and roles) in a beneficial way.

It's definitely worth a look. You can start small, and use it only for one thing, and grow from there. That's one of its biggest benefits over Puppet and Chef, which don't really have a way to go small-scale.
You have a pixel grid of 17 x 106, anything you want to drawn in it can be.

To draw an arbitrary figure do this: Start with the pixel in the lowest left corner, if black put 1 as the first digit of a binary number else put 0, then continue first up then one right, the down. Convert this (1802 digit) binary number to decimal and use it as input for the function and there it is.
The way we oppose this is by educating, training, and supporting bootstrapped and aspiring startups. You'd sell, too, if things weren't looking so great. Pinterest would be an awesome opportunity in comparison.
it looks it's currently down?
We thought about ripl and other words, but there we soooo many other apps with similar names. And we wouldn't have wound up with the froggie as our logo! :)
Me: I like to eat hotdogs.

Acuman:
I'm glad that you like to eat hotdogs, though personally I don't like to eat hotdogs that much. I'm just not a fan of something that is someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself.
That's great! I am glad to hear that.

Now that I think about it, I think I'm like that too. I do most of my learning by actually trying to build/do something rather than reading a book on the topic.
But then I have to admit that it sometimes leads me to doing stuff that's not best-practices.
Or, and here's a shocking concept, motorists could actually pay attention to their surroundings. Cyclists are not difficult to spot if you are paying proper attention while operating your vehicle.
Will look into it, as it was just part of the WordPress theme we chose. Thanks for the feedback.
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"Have you met Eliza?"

Nice!
You're ignoring the fact that speed is paramount (the whole point of the article). If you want flexibility and speed, you're going to look at using assembler (where you can do anything that can be done, running as fast as it can run) instead of a high-level language (where you have to work with packaged functionality and aggregates hiding complexity). No, it's not going to be easy.

The fact that Apple totally controls both sides of the symbiotic audio hardware & SDK running on a tiny set of products, while Android must have an SDK which accommodates an unknown range of hardware for hundreds of products, means iOS will have an inherent advantage.
Well if we're making those kind of accusations:

\* Maybe the FTC would not have dropped the investigation despite finding potential evidence of harm [1] if Google hadn't paid to "honor" the chairman during the investigation [2].

\* And maybe the FTC would not have felt politically pressured to drop the investigation of Google didn't pay more millions than any other tech company to "lobby" the government [3].

I notice that whenever Edelman is mentioned Google apologists such as yourself or Googlers like DannyBee resort to ad hominem attacks rather than address any of the actual arguments he puts out. Do you know if anybody has refuted any of his points? Because I'm genuinely curious.

1. http://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-u-s-antitrust-probe-o...

2. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-28/google-hel...

3. http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B12&year...
It's more of an alternative/competitor than "Hacker News for x", but https://lobste.rs/ seems active.
Some key points from the article, translated...

---

It was in a nearly empty senate that around thirty deupties
cast their votes [...] on the installation of "black boxes",
a controversial device designed to monitor internet traffic.
[It was] approved by 25 deupties to 5 following heated debates.

The plan: to force ISPs to "detect, through automated
processing, a suspect succession of connection data" that
appear to match patterns typically used by terrorists. In
practice, this would involve installing a "black box" at ISPs
to monitor traffic. The content of the communications would
not be monitored, but only the metadata: the sender or
receiver of a message, the IP address of a visited site...

[...]

"The black box is the Pandora's box of this draft law," said
socialist Aurélie Filippetti in the senate. "They say that the
masses of data that will flow through it will only contain
metadata. But they contain even more information about the
private lives of our fellow citizens! [...] And there is a
paradox in saying that these data will be anonymous when they
are to be used to identify terrorists".

An accusation that was then defended by the government in the
house, "The automated processing marks out suspect behaviour,
not pre-identified persons," emphasized the Defence Minister,
Jean-Yves Le Drian, "It is after that the services are able to
access the identity of the persons."

[...]

Some deputies also pointed out the "economically damaging"
consequences of these black boxes, such as the ecologist
Isabelle Attard, for whom "French IT companies will see their
foreign clients start to desert them as they lose their trust".
Last week, seven large French hosts made their opposition to the
draft clear, stating that it would push them "into exile" so as
not to lose their clients.

[...]

The government nevertheless eluded the more technical questions
throughout the debate, asked, several times, by a few deputies,
among those was Laure de la Raudière (UMP), "Where are you going
to install your probe on the communication networks?", "How will
you optimize the algorithms?", "Will you use deep packet
inspection?".

Bernard Cazeneuve ended up replying to this last question,
repeated several times by the deputy, "We will not use this
technique at all", a technique that involves the deep inspection
[translation of a translation...] of all passing communications
data.

Several deputies have also demanded a precise list of the type of
metadata collected by the black boxes to be clearly defined.
In vain.

---
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Plenty of languages provide filenames/line numbers in assertions without using macros.

Furthermore, `__LINE__` and `__FILE__` style macros are a pretty safe subset of macros that aren't really representative of the problems with macros. Compare:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include "my_macro_library.h"

int main()
{
int x = 0;
printf("%i", increment(x));

printf("%i", __LINE__);

return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

There are a ton of different implementations of an `increment` macro which are going to cause undefined behavior here. Contrast with the `__LINE__` macro: it's implemented by the compiler and has unsurprising, well-defined behavior.
Why 'I'?
+1 "Pen and paper are programmer’s best friends."
Seriously, the absolute garbage headphone jacks on the two flagship Android phones I owned (Motorola Milestone and Galaxy Nexus) are the reason I now own an iPhone 6. I still mostly prefer Android as an OS, but at least Apple is willing to spend the extra 50 cents on a headphone jack that lasts for more than a couple weeks.
Besides the point. When you know the hardware you can shave away the upper layers.

Consider e.g. AmigaOS.

AmigaOS let you obtain a pointer directly to the screen bitmap to update your window contents with no buffering or clipping. It could do that because originally all the hardware was the same, or close enough.

Then graphics cards came along, and you didn't necessarily have a way of writing directly to the bitmap. Suddenly you had to use WritePixel() and ReadPixel() and similar, which would obtain the screen pointer for the window, and obtain the display the screen is on, and find the driver corresponding to the screen, and call the appropriate driver function via a jump table.

Similarly, the AmigaOS had functions to e.g. install copper lists (the copper was a very primitive co-processor that could be used to do things like change the palette at specific scan lines), which also wouldn't work at all on graphics cards.

This is why knowing the hardware is part of a limited set matters: You can define your API to match the hardware very precisely, or even expose hardware features directly.
Australia is made up of hundreds of indigenous lands and language groups many of which carry sacred knowledge not shared with the broader public. So it's not totally surprising that this hoax survived as long as it did.

To give you a fascinating extent to how varied indigenous lannguage groups of Australia are check out this map. We're not talking dialects/accents here, we're talking unique languages where I've be told in many cases people share very little traditionally language except for possibly some similarities with their direct neighbouring lands.

http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/
Just because it's easy, doesn't mean you should. It's a bad habit to get into.

Admittedly, there's still no good deploy solution for C# at the moment that isn't a colossal load of work, but web deploy is definitely not a good choice. It's like MS looked at every single choice and went "Hmm, we'll pick the worst of these two options!".

Good luck if you need to do a rollback stat.
I'm tempted to write "[citation needed]", but to avoid snarkiness, I'll rephrase as: What are you talking about?
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Awesome! Looks like I'll be giving Atom another try soon.
I haven't heard that name since leaving the Midwest.
I can see this boosting the signal going from the car at 315MHz or 433MHz but what about boosting the response back from the key at 125KHz or 130KHz?
You raise a good point, but for me it only solidifies the fact that it is a view point born from inexperience or narrow experience. If you only have a bunch of .NET experience, or if you only have a bunch of Node experience, it isn't surprising when you judge others poorly when they don't like the sane OS as you do. Age and more experience will cure that.
In the US, many scientists are government vassals. They are not to be trusted, either.

Probably true elsewhere, but I only know the US.
Sorry, as Dylan pointed out, tense shifts make for poor signals of intent. Should have made that more explicit for easier comment consumption.

Lesson learned!
yeah, but very crude, but yes, don't worry : )
I'm glad you took the time to elaborate on this. It's impressive how quickly people came to conflate "AI" with either the general human-level form of intelligence or things they've seen in movies.
Why is the link showing this on a Barracuda:

The link you are accessing has been blocked by the
Barracuda Web Filter because it contains content
belonging to the category of: Violence & Terrorism

If you believe this is an error or need to access this
link please contact your administrator.

URL: http://www.goblinscomic.org
Well, you can have delegates that are not actual politicians. Agora Voting [0] (a secure direct democracy platform) allows this kind of political systems... Seriously, there's soft out there that can solve this problem. Thing is nobody gives a shit about these issues and people is brainwashed in such massive scale that horrendous laws are passed w/o proper public scrutiny...

[0] https://agoravoting.com/

https://github.com/agoravoting
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Why would you recommend TrueCrypt? That's a terrible suggestion.