skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Reddit was one of the places they had to wall off Watson from data-mining, because it devolved into foul-mouthed memes. I wish they hadn't, nothing would be better than a billion dollar piece of technology deciding to reenact Sean Connery Jeopardy skits, on Jeopardy.

[2001 HAL voice]: I have a question about the penis mightier. Does it work?
how to access the BigQuery data?

I get this screen

Welcome to BigQuery!
What is BigQuery?

but it doesn't show the data.
Yes, and I grew up in Florida where shooting off fireworks more exciting than sparklers and snakes, without a license, was illegal. As a loyal firework-American, I lived under the threat that my bootleg North Carolina bottlerockets could land me in jail.

Many Americans have no legal way to practice the traditional craft of moonshine. There are penalties for getting caught with even a part of a still. In Florida it's a http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-08-05/news/fl-wilton-m...
Three UK politicians hacked while using open WiFi networks
The fact that Google doesn't have the power to throw you in prison or kill you makes a lot of difference. Governments maintain a de jure monopoly on force and therefore we are at more risk from a government's ability to suppress us using our information than Google's ability to effectively influence people's purchases.
Germany won’t spare Greek pain – it has an interest in breaking us
The original right to bear arms is about being able to stand up to an oppressive government. It's not something you are supposed to need in daily life, it's something you are supposed to need when your government decides that tax rates are 85%, curfew is 8pm, all electronic communication is banned, and any soldier is allowed to live in your home and rape any civilian.

The right to bear arms is ideally one you never need, but it's essential as a contingency plan. We've yet to see a government that didn't exercise horrible abuses of power and the right to bear arms hopefully keeps some of that in check.
I wonder if politicians have started to notice how much power a few browser makers have? Protecting Mozilla is so important for the future of the web.
How does one go about doing that? I know how to program, but I have written anything which do 'intelligent' stuff.
ID prefixing won't prevent component internals from leaking to event listeners, querySelector results, TreeWalkers/NodeIterators, innerHTML, and many other APIs.

Native shadow DOM allows me to write components with strict encapsulation on pair with the built-ins such as <button> or <input>, neither framework comes even close to that.

Styles defined inside shadow DOM are always scoped to the local shadow tree, so there is really no need for style[scoped]. Chrome and Opera (and maybe Firefox) support CSS encapsulation inside shadow DOM making the CSS preprocessors less needed.
Trust me, it will be.

RedHat, Microsoft and Google are backing it. The chances of it disappearing are minimal.
I've never noticed that before, but it's possible that you both had added functions in different places:

foo() ... ; original

bar() ... ; added by alice
foo() ...

foo() ...
bar() ... ; added by bob

I haven't tried it, but I could imagine that being seen as separate text additions, and ending up with duplicates if git thinks it needs to merge them:

bar() ... ; alice
foo() ... ; original
bar() ... ; bob

You mentioned using `git pull`, which will actually merge things if it thinks it's necessary -- which can lead to tree differences. In practice, I've found it helpful to NEVER USE `git pull`. Rather, I advise using:

git checkout master
git fetch origin
git merge origin/master --ff-only

This will ensure that git only does "fast-forward" merges, and does not end up accidentally merging things - and keeps 'origin' as the system-of-record for what's been merged.
This is a terrible argument, mostly because it allows for the persecution of minorities. "You're a filthy commie?!? Isn't that something you want to hide!?!"

Freedom of speech (the human right, not the legal right) should allow you to have as many harebrained ideas as you'd like, and be as vocal as you'd like. You should be able to talk about your sex life, and you should be allowed to let other people watch you have sex (which you are, on both counts -- your friends examples kind of suck).
And that's exactly the same type of argument as "I don't care about privacy because I have nothing to hide."
> so lots of popular music

This is the problem. I saw someone ask the other day, "What kind of speakers do professional audio engineers use to make master recordings?" And the answer was to buy the lousiest chinese made boombox from Walmart. Pop music mastering is done so it sounds good everywhere, including on the cheapest radios. That's how the loudness wars got started, because the most effective way to make something sound decent on poor speakers is to maximize the loudness.

Rather than pop music either have the people compare something with more range. If they don't like classical music, have them listening to a movie and see if they can clearly hear whispered dialog while not having their ears blown out by an explosion.
There is actually quality and good engineering in Apple products. Beats headphones do not have anything technically new.
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0-day Adobe Flash remote code execution exploit. No patch is available
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I cringe at the thought this will work.

My first thought when I first heard about this a few months ago was comment in bad taste I had made to a Libyan about why Italy would never get rid of Berlusconi he'll never die; he'll just start harvesting organs from young N. Africans (Italy invaded and traditionally had a colonial relationship with Libya).

At the time I meant it tongue in cheek. Now we've found out that injecting ourselves with baby smoothies reverses ageing. Great.
You'll need to set up a project in BigQuery first. (you don't have to give billing information to use the free quota)
You said

> It is one thing to torture bad guys to save millions of lives. It is quite another to accept that you have crushed the testicels of five year old boys for no reason.

I asked when torture has ever saved "millions of lives"? It hasn't. Ever. Period.

I also questioned your simplistic view of the world with "good guys" and "bad guys". I ask do the "good guys" not become "bad guys" the moment they torture the "bad guys"? Or do they have some inherent "good" that prevents them becoming "bad guys".
* Contra your argument, the piece retains Pao's claim that she left because of differences on the direction of the company.

* The Altman quote that was removed favors Pao's supporters. Removing it makes her plight less sympathetic.

* Contra your argument, the petition not only remains in the final story, but has its own graf.

* Contra your argument, the piece retains the concern about Victoria's firing.

* The relocation of Reddit's employees was a Yishan Wong initiative, as was the salary negotiation policy.

There is virtually no news story that you can't attack for "leaving out facts". You might not like this reported news story, but it is not an opinion piece.
How about an older white male, from a business background, who was openly trying to institute censorship and monetization and was unabashedly ignorant of Reddit culture? I'm fairly confident that a CEO like that would have been significantly more hated by Redditors. The issue wasn't race or gender, it was culture.
> In a world where people are even TEXTing while driving, pulling over to answer a phone is what most people would do, right?

Maybe you only know completely insensitive and inconsiderate jerks, but most of the drivers I know abhor texting/calling while driving. Don't turn your problem into everybody's problem.
Deliberate omission of facts that don't fit a particular opinion is a form of advocacy for that opinion.

The NYT is entitled to their opinion, but I think it should be expressed in an editorial, not used to choose what facts to report.
Sony had a minidisk player out in 92' the first iPod came out in 01'. I never personally compared the 2 apples to apples[0] but from memory and having owned both, the ipod held more songs, had a better ui, was easier to use and you could store music with no additional cost(i.e. no need to buy disks).

> The iPod was really poor in comparison.

Do you mean the audio quality? What specifically was worse about it?

[0]pun intended.
If you're physically weaker than the other person, it's pretty clear how it's worse. Two people with guns is a much more even match than two different-sized people without guns. And that's ignoring the criminals-will-still-have-guns argument.
An organized, self-interested group, establishing their own sets of laws and customs?

What, exactly, do you think nations are?
I don't think there's anything quite like that, but Nim seems to be a better fit than OCaml.
It will be really great when microcontrollers are made in todays advanced nodes. Besides becoming more powerful their low power consumption will be ideal for new applications like IOT and sensors everywhere.
All the sites listed were unblocked on Chrome 43.0.2357.132 (64-bit) for OS X.
I doubt it. In a lot of ways she created her own problems.

What they need is someone who focuses on the business side. People on reddit shouldn't care who the CEO is, and they wouldn't if they didn't feel the CEO was making the site worse.
2,097,152K ought to be enough for anybody?

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/operating-syste...

Exceeding 2gb of ram in your desktop 10 years ago had limited benefits, now that's about a minimum computers ship with and even 4gb can be insufficient.

More memory and better processors makes phones more useful to the extent they are now trending towards becoming full-featured desktop computers themselves, the extra ram isn't for "today's app ecosystem" it's breathing space against a more demanding generation of apps and usage.
got it running!

I just did a query for my reddit handle and it took 6.5 seconds to retrieve all of my comments. Kind of a snowden moment but this is super interesting, first time I played with Big Query.

Would love to run some google API for sentiment analysis.
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For context in regards to journalism, the linked article offers "related" content. Looking at what TechRaptor believes to be relevant, recently TechRaptor in their editorial Reddit Banhammer [1] took the position:

CEO Ellen Pao of popular social media site Reddit seems to have more up her sleeve after a failed gender discrimination lawsuit. After new anti-harassment terms have been laid down, subreddits have mysteriously vanished. Of the subreddits that have been banned, /r/fatpeoplehate was among the largest. For those readers unfamiliar with what a subreddit is, think of them like mini communities.

One might think that we’re better off without bile aimed solely at a targeted group, but something doesn’t sit well with me.

The phrase "up her sleeve" has no positive connotation in this context. More importantly, the same history of alleged gender discrimination that the linked article claims is irrelevant to The New York Times's reporting forms an important part of TechRaptor's position regarding her actions in Reddit Banhammer. Indeed it ends with the conspiracy suggesting:

How do you readers feel about Reddit’s censorship with the banning of certain subreddits and would you agree they were justified? Or is this part of something bigger?

TechRaptor's position appears to more about The New York Times's interpretation of events than about the relevance of the facts about Ms. Pao's history when interpreting events.

[1]: techraptor.net/content/reddit-banhammer-crack
"Associated Press caused a major uproar when they reported Hilary Clinton was running a homebrew email server from her home. This story was updated numerous times throughout the day with archive sites not catching all of it, though ZDNet has a very good run down of the situation with screenshots of the original. By the end of the day the story was about the Benghazi email probe instead of the original story about running a homebrew email that was essentially disproven once people looked into it."

That story was not only not disproven, but not even contested.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/hillary-clinton-says-she-did-op...
Well, I have nothing to hide and would probably give you my nudes if I have nothing else to do.
If you're going to make an argument that this piece is "pro-censorship", you're going to have to support it with evidence from the text. I just took the time to reread it, and I do not see support for censorship in it.
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"In the past, almost everybody travelled on the left side of the road because that was the most sensible option for feudal, violent societies... Furthermore, a right-handed person finds it easier to mount a horse from the left side of the horse"

I think this still applies today: the majority of people are right eye dominant and it makes sense having the dominant eye closer to the oncoming traffic, and the majority of people will find it easier to mount bicycles and motorcycles from the side of the road rather than the centre of the road. I wonder if there are any statistics on the safety implications of switching to driving on the right.
> The fact that there are so many of these situations points towards a different and bigger problem in society and I would much rather energy was spent on fixing them than treating symptoms with firearms.

Of course there's a bigger problem. But I would much rather own a gun and actually be able to protect myself and my family, than refuse to have a gun on principle and just pray that one day I get to effect all of society. The latter is like refusing to wear a seat belt, because people should really be driving safely.
Kijini claims to identify disease using 30 seconds of speech
in a world where storytelling and example is more important than statistics and hard numbers, this story will be used in the future as an example instead of an exception.
Post should be updated to link to this instead of huff po.
> How they treated other subs is off topic for the question of why FPH was banned. Fact is, they banned it due to brigading and off site harassment etc. Whether you are personally convinced by the evidence kind of doesn't matter. They have no onus to share it all with you anyway.

No evidence was given, so you don't know either.

You are correct in that they are free to do as they choose with the website they own, but not taking into consideration your userbase's opinion of your actions seems like not an optimal recipe for success. Treat your users, who produce all your content and manage the majority of your business through voluntary moderation with zero respect, authoritatively decide what is "on or off topic for discussion", and see what happens.

> If you were aware of the reasoning behind the ban - that it was because of alleged brigading, and not because of just hateful content, then that makes your post above (trying to make readers of your comment believe that it was arbitrary due to an offensive sub) quite deceptive.

Oh I'm aware of the stated reasoning, and I:

a) reject it on the grounds that it is not consistently applied. If <subreddit x> is banned because of <rule y>, but that rule doesn't apply everywhere, then it wasn't actually banned because of <rule y>, because a "selectively enforced" rule is not really a rule. They're trying to use unemotional logical reason to explain their actions, but they are not acting logically.

b) don't believe them, in part because the statement that reddit is not intended to be a place for free speech, which is most definitely a change from the original culture and spirit.

> As it happens they many times explicitly explained why SRS no longer meets the bar for banning under their current policy.

I'm not at all aware of the details of this but I would like to learn - is this common knowledge?

> Further, even without them explicitly saying why they did not ban SRS, it is not inconsistent - it is merely incomplete.

I disagree. srs is infamous for brigading, and this behavior can be easily observed. So, if brigading is grounds for banning, then srs should be banned. If brigading is just one aspect of a complicated formula, then provide some background. Or, if you want to exercise your right (as the platform owner) to completely control all content, then simply state that outright. Or don't, and just continue to subtly move in that direction without discussing it, and see what happens, which I'd argue is exactly what has happened here. What happens is, your users (a significant portion at least) revolt, the story ends up being splashed through mainstream media including financial news, and before too long someone "resigns", "because their growth targets were inconsistent with management". (Do you believe that one also?)
Egyptians 2600 years ago circumnavigated Africa in 2.5 years. I guess technology has not improved much over time ;-)
I could swear that I've read this exact article before...
That's basically the way foreign trade with China has always worked, particularly sea-trade. The Portuguese were consigned to stay on Macau, and trade via a guild of registered Chinese merchants in Canton, the Cohong. Later the English and others got in on the deal. And then, unhappy with the restrictions of the system, and crack-downs on smuggling opium, from 1840 to 1914 damn near every western merchant power engaged in trade wars and gunboat diplomacy to wrest free-trade agreements and other concessions.
And this is persecution (in the meaningful sense) because ... why? Or are you changing the topic to complain about NJ gun laws?

I mean, I'm from Florida. Moonshine is illegal in Florida. Even owning part of a still is illegal. Here's a report of someone charged with "among other counts, possession of more than a gallon of illegal liquor and possession of a still", which are "third-degree felonies, which carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison" http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-08-05/news/fl-wilton-m... .

Owning an unauthorized still in NJ is also illegal. Here's an arrest from a couple years back - http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/police_medford_man_... .

If you think that gun owners, and moonshiners, are both persecuted due to complex or draconian laws, then your definition of persecuted is rather meaningless.
You won't have to remember that people cheat or lie. The currency system takes care of it.

Lying is a crime. Refusing to communicate is an hindrance. Fortunately, the incentives for being transparent will far out-weight any benefit privacy could provide.

Privacy is why racism and LGBH issues exist in the first place. Tolerance sets in very quickly when constantly exposed to reality.

Likewise, privacy sustains the need to hide skeleton in the closet and conceal past mistakes. When everyone is exposed, it just becomes commonplace and they're not that remarkable anymore. If anything, it will be easier to understand why and how mistakes happen, and we'll be able to reduce their occurrence significantly. Today, the worst problems/mistakes are those people are working the hardest to conceal. Don't you see how that's a problem?

Privacy doesn't cure the underlying fear of being exposed. It gives you a sensation of safety in a society that's inherently broken. No wonder shameless people are so successful. Privacy, again, is the cause of that imbalance. Get rid of privacy, and people will start accepting the imperfect person they are.

I'm not advocating a complete switch today. I need people to understand that privacy is not a sustainable long-term solution, and that we need to make important changes to society that will facilitate the eventual switch to total transparency. It's not like you have a choice, transparency will be imposed on you whether you want it or not. The sooner you take steps to facilitate and embrace the switch, the easier and smoother the process will be.

A good analogy for that is fossil fuel. I don't suggest that everyone switch to electric cars today, but we have to take steps to prepare for an eventual switch. Like privacy, we can only use so much fossil fuel before it's gone.
>Makes me wonder how bad one of these people would have to screw up in order NOT to get the happy handwave as they're booted.

Meh. It's traditional. There's nothing to be gained from running down your outgoing CEO. Besides, they hired her, so the worse she looks the worse their own judgement looks.
I have no idea either, I would also love for someone to chime in with some first steps.
I think that America's urban poverty and drug war are bigger factors.
there is a straight Kierkegaardian element in that behavior, crowd vs people.
"The author of this post is using v0.17 but the latest Kubernetes version is v0.21 and soon v1.0 will be out"

Thanks for the heads-up. I was trying to keep up with Kubernetes development a few months ago and then lost track. Looks like 1.0 will be released on July 21 http://www.kuberneteslaunch.com/ Looking forward to this.
I agree the grid issues are a major constraint on new wind turbine. But is there actually evidence that they cannot be reliably integrated in the grid? Is Denmark's grid actually unstable?

At least in the UK the grid operators simply refuses connections if their is not enough grid capacity in the locality of a proposed wind farm. It is surely a problem, but one that is well understood. And paying people to dump power is a method of maintaining the grid in unusual conditions; it is just a bit unpleasant. Excess capacity is an unintended consequence of having free fuel!
It's against the rules to use the titles of HN submissions to editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The wars being fought today are asymmetrical and, in many cases, ideological.

Yep, and an attempted takeover in the USA would also be asymmetrical and ideological.
This bit me in a library of mine. Some third-party code I used was using long as memory offsets which failed on Windows 8. Unfortunately I was developing on Windows 7, so it didn't get noticed until the customer stumbled over it. :( (Fortunately said third-party code had an update that switched to ptrdiff_t in all the right places, so it was an easy fix.)

I'm a Unix person, so the notion of long being less than word-length seems pretty silly to me, but I understand why they did it, sort of.
Haha, cynical but true. Reminds me of this: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Free-State-govt-We-pa... (R40m is ~$3,211,291)
You sound like one of those people that latch on to those shoot from the hip blog posts without doing any analysis of the issue yourself or visiting a site that does it for you. That binary blob was inactive and had to be proactively turned on in the settings screen. So was it really an issue? No, but the vocal minority of anti-Google people made sure to spoon feed the run of the mill and non tech savvy media outlets about it.

As for turning off all phishing and malware alerts - why would you? Google gave you a warning about a site. If you would like to ignore it then click the link below and continue onto the site. If you would like to use a browser that doesn't care then go ahead and switch.
I've heard that theory before, but I've not seen any evidence for it, and it seems directly contradicted by this quote from Boswell's "Life of Johnson" (early 1700s):

"He related to me the following minute anecdote of this period: 'In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. When I returned to Lichfield, after having been in London, my mother asked me, whether I was one of those who gave the wall, or those who took it. NOW it is fixed that every man keeps to the right; or, if one is taking the wall, another yields it; and it is never a dispute.'"
> My version of "fending off" includes an end goal where you're no longer under attack and don't have to hide out in caves.

Vietnam.