skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this context, gratuitous means unwarranted.

I can't imagine a situation when that degree of negativity is more warranted than when one of the world's most successful IT companies' undoubtedly most skilled executives and network engineers only in 2015 realized what the rest of the computer networking community has been talking about for more than 20 years.
On the other hand, the Copenhagen subway does not have any drivers.
well said. :)
Or how Carlin put it - "The planet is fine. The people are fucked."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovbF0D2wySI
Nixos (https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/) goes one step further and eliminates `/bin` and `/usr` further (except for `/usr/bin/env` and `/bin/sh`!), putting all binaries in package-specific directories and constructing a PATH including all individual package `/bin`s.
What is glossed over by most of western media is that SK was a right wing dictatorship until the 90s. And to this day holds a very conservative and paternal attitude.

Likely the reason it gets a pass is because it has the shit can that is NK next door.

In a sense the Korean peninsula is the cold war in a microcosm.
Panel: Type Systems and Much More
Have to wonder if it forms a feedback loop:

- Asians are getting higher scores than others, so they're required to get higher scores to be admitted.

- Parents of the next generation know that their children need even higher scores, so they force their children to work continuously harder.
>> "For instance, in many countries, if you get paid unemployment you lose it when you find employment. This means you might need a very high income to make it worthwhile, because you'll be losing the benefits as well as your free time."

Obviously I don't know which countries you're referring to but in the UK the way it works is that while on job seekers allowance you can work up to 16 hours per week and still receive the benefit. It's not perfect but I think it's designed to prevent the problem you're describing.
The complaint argues that elite schools “that use race-neutral admissions” have far higher Asian-American enrollment than Harvard. At California Institute of Technology, for instance, about 40% of undergraduates are Asian-American, about twice that at Harvard.

Interestingly, Ron Unz did a lengthy expose on this issue in 2012, and arrived at similar conclusions:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-...

He found ample evidence of anti-Asian quotas at Harvard, Yale, and other elite institutions, and perhaps more controversial, evidence of what appears to be a form of affirmative action in favor of Jews:

In fact, Harvard reported that 45.0 percent of its undergraduates in 2011 were white Americans, but since Jews were 25 percent of the student body, the enrollment of non-Jewish whites might have been as low as 20 percent, though the true figure was probably somewhat higher.51 The Jewish levels for Yale and Columbia were also around 25 percent, while white Gentiles were 22 percent at the former and just 15 percent at the latter. The remainder of the Ivy League followed this same general pattern.

Jews comprise a mere 2% of the population yet a massive 25% of the student body at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. The contrast with Caltech and UC schools with more merit-based admissions processes is quite stark:

But Caltech’s current undergraduates are just 5.5 percent Jewish, and the figure seems to have been around this level for some years; meanwhile, Asian enrollment is 39 percent, or seven times larger. It is intriguing that the school which admits students based on the strictest, most objective academic standards has by a very wide margin the lowest Jewish enrollment for any elite university.

Let us next turn to the five most selective campuses of the University of California system, whose admissions standards shifted substantially toward objective meritocracy following the 1996 passage of Prop. 209. The average Jewish enrollment is just over 8 percent, or roughly one-third that of the 25 percent found at Harvard and most of the Ivy League, whose admissions standards are supposedly far tougher. Meanwhile, some 40 percent of the students on these UC campuses are Asian, a figure almost five times as high. Once again, almost no elite university in the country has a Jewish enrollment as low as the average for these highly selective UC campuses

(Unz himself is Jewish, in case you're wondering.)
Simpler still would be everything in /bin. At least one distro does that, forget which.
the problem with communism was that it tried almost 100% government management and planning. Private iniative was forbidden, even in the areas in which it would be useful. (source: I grew up in a socialist/communist country)

In that manner, capitalism with guaranteed income is different. You want to be rich, go ahead amd try your chances at trade, entrepreneurship etc. You see a market opportunity - go ahead and kickstart it. On the other hamd, if you lack a capability, or you prefer to do things that nobody will want to pay you for (art, raising children etc), the govrnment will keep you covered.

Obviously there are problems to it, especially today when production costs are expensive. And there are implementation problems as well. But still, one system is the ultimate oppression, another one is ultimate freedom.

Btw. The running joke in communism was: "yeah, our system is perfect, it's just the implememtation that sucks". I believe that communism was impossible to get implemented correctky, whereas capitalism + minimum income can be. Not today, but in a few years when the goods will be even cheaper.
Hah world peace.

I'm curious to why people thought I deserved downvoting. I think it's a reasonable question. When ever I hear "Free Software" said to the layman, it's ALWAYS followed up by "free as in freedom." Then they describe what that "freedom" means to them.

It'd be easier to have just one step of clarification than multiple.
I don't know how a machine program is going to drive in my city, many times you have to read the other driver face to know if he is going to respect the norms.

I propose the following challange for those cars, try to cross Arc de triomphe in Paris, or any similar place in my city and prove you risk your life reasonably, it is not so far a experience from poker.
Why only for cyclists? Why not collect data from multiple sources: reports from pedestrians, driver, security cameras facing intersections...
No live demo?

Some better examples of business dashboards: http://www.fusioncharts.com/dashboards/
That example affirms the power of "show, don't tell." Those pages, in the raw, assure the novice or insecure writer that even experts revise and resubmit.

RIP, Zissner.
Using ES6 Modules with Webpack
I still recall the shitstorm that was PGP. A 128-bit public key encryption system as a downloadable binary. My first encounter with the insanity that is international politics.
Sorry if I'm missing something, but what does that have to do with the Berenstein Bears article which this is a comment to?
reminded - our professors at the University love their Asian students (Russian Universities got a lot foreign Asian(China) students in the recent decade) because, as one professor put it, "they are hard-working and eager to learn, not lazy arrogant bums like you people were back then".
Developer Insider: The Witcher 3 Was Downgraded from 2013 – Features Taken Out
I don't understand why they thought it was a good idea to resort to a foreign word to describe freedom. It might make sense in America but not the rest of the English speaking world. I think freedom & liberty are immediately comprehensible in the context of software.
I've had PayPal freeze an account and ask for two metric tons of paperwork to unfreeze it 48 hours before launching a SaaS business. Postponed the launch by a week, not such a big deal compared to if had been the other way around. I learned my lesson to be very careful on who I rely on for my business.

That said, I'm only careful in proportion to the risk: why spend much time reading random reviews for a small purchase?

Especially (to go back to the subject of the thread) if it's to buy something from a big brand like Google: I'm certain to find both good and bad reviews, both fake and real. I'll just try and see by myself. Small risk for me. Huge risk for Amazon...
Which is why they are no longer RTAs in police reports in the UK (Road Traffic Accident) but RTIs, or Incidents.
Of course, by "cost savings" you're essentially talking about a whole new lot of jobs lost.
The metal that brought you cheap flights
i am doing a phd now and i think of it this way: most likely no one is ever going to read your papers and certainly not your thesis
Finding Missing FOREIGN KEYs in PostgreSQL
JS is a mess because it's prototype based, to start.

It's internals are prototype based. The user-visible layer is essentially class-based, but lacks syntactic support for both inheritance and composition.
EU Mobile operators plan to block online advertising to force Google to pay
With languages like PHP, it wouldn't surprise me :-)
The article doesn't mention the fact that 78% of people in Botswana are ethnically Tswana and speak Tswana, which is a level of homogeneity that is almost unheard of in Sub-Saharan Africa. On the other hand, nearby Lesotho and Swaziland are even less diverse, and are doing far worse, so it's obviously not the only factor.
But there will be far fewer cars, as it's no longer necessary to own one. Less parking space, narrower paved roads (Traffic will also be more efficient), less car sustained industry overall.
>x is a library concern in y, not a language concern.

The end user doesn't really care. The line between the standard library and the language is usually invisible.
Great work - what you are doing is amazing.

It strikes me that you have a very similar model to Watsi (which I am also a massive fan of).

I was wondering if you had any interest in extending your reach to the Pacific Islands. The islands are unfortunately constantly in varying states of disrepair and are regularly exposed to harsh environments, particularly tropical storms.

A recent example was cyclone Pam which resulted in a tremendous amount of devastation to Vanuatu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Pam

I currently reside in New Zealand and wondered if there would possibly be any opportunities to work with you guys in any way to achieve such an objective (possibly through collaboration with local networks).
They make slightly less than the median tax filer. The difference is potentially significant (I have no idea what the statistics are)
It will require a big leap of technology for this to work in europe. American roads are ready for robot drivers though.
Isn't Harvard allowed to do this as a private institution? What's the education department going to do about it?
> the game that allows children to build worlds made out of blocks

It's so weird to me that Minecraft has become a "children's game". Nobody thought of it that way in the beginning, when the alpha started getting really popular on Reddit and elsewhere. That perception must've started some time after the 1.0 release, in 2012.

Nothing about the game changed to make it more kid-friendly. That's just the culture that developed around it.
Bgst: a command-line client to BigStash
This totally made me want to pack my stuff and go see these amazing places..
I think the problem is that in addition to affirmative action, asians are being compared against other asians rather than against the candidate pool at large (thus effectively having quotas).
average != median. They make slightly less than the median tax filer.
This is actually how I always pictured the technology of the future. (Same as when I think about the interface from Minority Report - i.e. Tom Cruise is just gesturing around aimlessly, not able to actually do what he's trying to.)

Who would have thought that when it came to mobile tech, we actually WOULDN'T have figured it out! Just click around and hope you don't destroy anything. It actually is just like it looks in scifi films :)
Oh, pity operators. They have their infrastructure founded by their customers, and big, bad Google doesn't want to pay for the thing that customers already pay one more time.

On the other hand, somehow I like the idea of a hit at advertisement industry.
Smart cards/hardware tokens try to not make themselves easy targets, and many such microcontrollers have attempts (of varying success) to defend against limited degrees of physical access and make attacks evident. But in any case, given sufficient time and resources, the attacker will always win.

Bottom line: It depends largely on who stole it and for how long - however, if someone knew enough to target stealing your hardware token/smart card, you are under targeted attack and your key's probably toast: revoke it.

I would also gently caution that the elliptic curve routines provided by NXP should not be used over special prime fields (elliptic curves that are fast in software, i.e. just about everything except Brainpool) as they abuse the large (RSA) multiplier whose side-channel blinding was not designed for non-random fields. (Unless they've rewritten it since I last saw it?)
No More Free Thoughts – The Cost of Professionalism
Basic income is a kind of Quantitative Easing for people instead of for banks. If they can create money out of nothing for banks they can do it for everybody.

That said, I remember this article about a well known futuristic society that possibly made the transition to a post scarcity world http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/11/18/star_trek_eco...
I'd personally be happy to live in that kind of world.

Where we are and where they are are known, how to perform the transition is still to be understood.
I've given up on VPNs...they just seem to be so flaky that after you pay your one year subscription fee, they are then blocked by the government.

I just use Bing (disclosure: MS employee but would like search engine choice).
Tons of resources about Rust, the blazingly fast systems programming language
Harvard is subsidized by the govt (in the form of low interest loans to students) and via grant money for research.
The logic of child porn legislation seems to mimic that of drug laws. Catching the suppliers are hard (multiple jurisdictions etc) so instead catch the consumers and so hope to dry up the market.

Thing is that we are dealing with a mangled sex drive here, and you can't get any more basic than that (the sex drive can even override the drive for self preservation).

The only way to really solve the problem would be to find a way to test for it clinically, and some way to rectify the problem at a neural level. But i wonder what other devils we will uncork if we ever get the means to do so...
This is completely inacceptable.

Preaching water and drinking wine, eh?

If they’d really want some kind of tracking, they could have used a locally installed system like piwik, as the largest issue with tracking comes when the data from many sites is combined.
It's partly location. Asian-Americans are more heavily concentrated on the West Coast (hence Caltech and UC's high Asian admissions). Jews are more heavily concentrated on the East Coast (hence Harvard, Yale and Columbia's high Jewish admissions).
Yeah, they are pretty weak in describing how the actual hack works. 2 thumbs down!
I'm not sure of the specific reasons in this case. I think it was to do with possible internal host discovery. (I'm not sure how that would work in practice. Yes you can use traceroute, but I'm not sure how that would work behind nat, without forcing a client to open up a port first)

Possibly its to do with worry about smurf attacks, but then most firewalls > 2004 should deal with that gracefully.(old company though...)

Have a look here, its an easy read and has a nice list:

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/icmp-attacks/
I grew up with these Lada jokes and for me Ladas were just something ridiculous and for some reason I can only remember them in this godawful cream colour tinged with rust around every possible edge. Then a couple of years back I visited Georgia and Armenia and I saw moderately well maintained Ladas in black and I have to say there was something very charming about them! Tbilisi can be pretty hilly and steep and I was pretty surprised to see Ladas zipping up and down them with ease, side by side with shiny BMWs and Mercedes[1]. I also loved the GAZ Volga, I think they're a bit rarer though.

[1] there's heaps of new-ish Mercedes, BMW, Audi etc (many right-hand drive) in Georgia which is confusing as it's not a wealthy country at all. I got talking to an Insurance guy who'd told me this is because Georgia is the end of the line for a chain of insurance fraud starting in the UK\Germany, where cars would be "stolen", claimed on insurance and then moved on + re-registered somehow in the next country. This process is repeated until they ended up in Georgia and were sold for a knockdown price because they'd already recouped their money many times over. Ex-USSR countries are really interesting and I'd thoroughly recommend them for a visit, just learn a couple of phrases in the local language or Russian to make things a little smoother :)
Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
And they also include JavaScript from https://ethn.io/, the relative privacy value of which you can judge for yourself, and whose parent company, I note in the footer, was bought by Facebook...
Would you defend Harvard if they had a de-facto quota for Jewish applicants? This is a trick question. Harvard (and other Ivy League schools) did discriminate against Jews[1], and their justifications were quite similar to what we're hearing today. These universities switched from grades and test scores to a more "holistic" evaluation, allowing them to surreptitiously limit the number of Jewish students. The game is the same, only the names have changed.

Use all the rationalizations and euphemisms you want, but the truth is this: Ivy League schools are rejecting many of their most-qualified applicants solely because of their race[2]. These policies need to end.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerus_clausus#Numerus_clausus...

2. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
> The problem is that a basic income to (say) the 150m people in the civilian labor force x the ~$23k poverty line income would be about $3.4 trillion

There's no need to introduce it all at once. Call it a "Citizen's Dividend" instead of a "Basic Income" and start it at around $30 a week. This can replace a lot of lower welfare payments and, given to everybody - not just workers, would only cost $450 billion or so.

It can also be used to introduce more money into the supply and gives you much finer grained control over inflation, for example. It can slowly be increased up until it becomes enough of a basic income for some people (not everyone would be happy with the same level of income, obviously).

As a concept, it also promotes the idea that you're an active member of society. As your society becomes wealthier, you benefit directly. There are a lot of pluses to the general idea.
For me, it only matters for a strange use case. We wanted to put one up during a community/neighbourhood festival and it was somewhat icky so we didn't.
Would be fun to see them in bars, too. I know at least one patron that'll probably put one up someday.
No I don't mean pushing patches to your App, I mean critical system libraries.

Because they are baked into the container, to do critical patches you need to rebake the image.

The Docker bit will be mostly painless, unless you've don't something stupid, however the bits around the app can and will changes.

The amount of times I've tried to use a build job from 3-6months ago and it fails horrifically is far too often.
When "everyone" says "Use node" and every problem you need solve is solvable by googling "nodejs $problem" without anyone every anywhere mentioning iojs as a viable option, you can still be curious about your own tech-stach without knowing about the existence of forks.

I think you suffer from a too simplistic view of things.
A statistician's initial experiences of Git/GitHub
You can see the same in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan - perfect tarmac in the capital, but outside of it, the road is lousy, even on transit routes (Iran-Uzbekistan) - we cycled there in 2013: http://poab.org/log/c/0/60#2
I've had GA's domains redirected to 0.0.0.0 in HOSTS ever since I knew of them.

It's also another one of these single-page-apps that require JavaScript to display any content at all.

I think with such a design they're clearly not targeting the sort of privacy levels that more users on HN than the Internet in general expect.
Someone needs to redub that Minority Report scene with error messages and frustrated tom cruise unable to achieve anything.

Or the star trek computer mis-hearing what everyone says.
So I had a go on my tablet on wifi. I selected continue and so got all the default news sources.

I then went on to additionally select 4 tech sources.

The content seems to show up nicely in a two column feed but there are a few issues I'm still having. Firstly, I don't seem to be able to turn off sources. I seem to be able to delete items but not the sources themselves. There seem to be duplicate items, for example the guardian homepage shows up twice with no clear difference.

Finally, tapping an item just seems to take me to the homepage for that source, not the article.

This is the news reader I made and use myself: http://www.serializer.io and it's what I'll continue using.

I do like the look of the site but I think that it could be more reactive on mobile. As outlined above I think I'm either not getting it or there are some functionality issues.
given federation is going the way off the dodo, if you do decide to set up a server, you are going to need people on that server to talk to. or else it's an echo chamber.

so while it may be that you have a client that you use for android, if you want to talk to other people, you are going to need a client that supports the features they want.

what i am telling you is, is that the clients are a crapshoot that all support their own subsections of features. finding clients that people will use, for every platform is a massive timesink.

my advice therefore, is to pick a nice webclient.
Warren Buffett on Bubbles and Excess Leverage
Maybe ping depesz (http://www.depesz.com/) about it. He has that great "waiting for postgres X.X" column at his blog, where he illustrates new things.
Because he was soaring on a hillside while you were riding your mountain bike down the trail.
> Right now, they probably watch more YouTube than regular TV.

That must be tough.
I first discovered Minecraft through a YouTube video. I started playing it a few months after it was first released and it was essential to watch videos and hit the wiki to figure out how to even play it. I stopped playing regularly when they "broke" cart boosters but occasionally watch videos to "keep up" on the game.

Amongst the people I know who watch a lot of Minecraft videos, there seem to be a few key elements: staying "seeped" in an environment they love, picking up new approaches and ideas for their own play, and also getting a vicarious gameplay experience they can't get in real life (because they don't have enough MC playing friends or they're not "into" the game enough).
> Aaaah ВАЗ aka VAZ aka Lada.

a.k.a Fiat 124

BTW, Ladas were (still are) exported to the West and did reasonably well as low-cost vehicles.