skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've gone from viewing the people in the database as maliciously motivated cheating jerks who deserved their outing to complete lame asses I simply feel sorry for. Very few of the women on the database were actually real. They charged for deleting data and never did. Every successive revelation makes the AM users look like chumps and AM employees look like incompetent fools.

I would have thought such a security breach would have taken down the entire business model but nope they're still going. I'm sure a lot more senior staff will have to step down in order to rebrand at some point so they can distance themselves from this disaster.
Thank you for not being a jackass who starts preaching to me about what I should or should not be doing with absolutely no knowledge of my work or my use case.

I'm so glad you avoided doing that.
If you're worried about the state, then you should be worried about Executive Order 6102, which would equate gold hoarding to prison time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

Holding anything more than 5 oz of gold was illegal between FDR and Nixon.

Nah man, Gold ain't worth it. Historically it has been seized by the State, and in "modern times" (after Nixon rescinded EO 6102) it's price has been horribly irregular and subpar other investments.

Even lowly Bonds have better long-term investment value.
Thank you. I was going mad trying to comprehend what the phrase "dumping anti-virus" means.
I have quite a few things in mind for the immediate future. Organizationally, I want to get the D Language Foundation rolling as an organizational mothership of the language. Technically, I want to focus on: (a) completely defining the language - fuzzy corners such as the meaning of "shared" are a liability; (b) offer a solid experience to users who don't want a garbage collector; and (c) design more libraries using the fledgling Design by Introspection technique.

(EDIT sorry, submitted too soon) With regard to targeted users and uses, D is an ample language that could be used for a large range (heh) of applications. I want to make sure the core language and libraries offers a solid support on which various applications, frameworks, and libraries can build.
The game industry isn't just AAA(arguably AAA died a while ago).

I know many gamdevs using Unity, LUA, Javascript, Gamemaker and a ton of other options.
Source: the libcontainer release announcement: https://blog.docker.com/2014/03/docker-0-9-introducing-execu...

"""
Thanks to libcontainer, Docker out of the box can now manipulate namespaces, control groups, capabilities, apparmor profiles, network interfaces and firewalling rules – all in a consistent and predictable way, and without depending on LXC or any other userland package. This drastically reduces the number of moving parts, and insulates Docker from the side-effects introduced across versions and distributions of LXC. In fact, libcontainer delivered such a boost to stability that we decided to make it the default.
"""
One of the first things I'm looking at in Go and Rust is compatibility with C. I haven't used D, but this page makes it look as good or better from that perspective:

http://dlang.org/interfaceToC.html

Can anyone comment further?
One of these things is not like the others...
You have your dates wrong. The US antitrust case was settled in 2001. Back then, there still was no real competitor to IE: Netscape had disbanded and Mozilla was still releasing only the full suite. Webkit did not exist (its predecessor KHTML was kinda crappy) and Chrome wouldn't be released before 2008. There is a line of thinking that says MS stopped working on the browser not just because they had killed Netscape, but because the antitrust case turned that market into a minefield. In any case, they had a full decade of dominance post-antitrust.

In any case, the whole process took about 3 years. Quite a lot in technology terms, but not really that long. 3 years from now, I don't see Google going anywhere nor any competitor taking over -- technology in search hasn't changed much in the last 5 years, if anybody could take a real shot at unseating google they would have done it by now.
If you really, really must have the latest and greatest of some package, you can always use the IUS Community's RPM repos for RHEL/CentOS (it's run my Rackspace for their servers).[1]

But, we're talking about enterprise here, no young hip startups. Enterprise wants stability over everything else, young hip startups want the new shiny.

There are huge amount of Java 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5 applications still running in Enterprise all around the world with zero issues. Most of the time it doesn't make financial sense to re-build or spend time debugging an upgrade just to have the latest runtime.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it".

[1] https://iuscommunity.org/pages/About.html
My experience with debian inside virtualbox on my local machine has been perfect. I've also had no issues with running it on vsphere, but I haven't tried with vmware workstation.
That was my approach as well. It helped my productivity immensely, but I do notice that I'm slightly less aware of current events.
Wait til they deploy their self driving cars and sell all that data to the relevant government.
Just curious--I believe that you can use WeChat to book a ride using some of Uber's competitors. Can you book an Uber using WeChat?
Maybe dating/relationship sites should be required to disclose numbers to prevent fraud.
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It should be clear to anyone paying attention that Google is using their dominance in search to support their businesses at the expense of their competitors.

Just do a search for "Chicago Hotel" on a desktop browser. Unless you have a gargantuan screen, you will not see a single organic result. You will be given a list of paid ads, and then links to Google's local results. Clicking one of those local results will take you to another screen where you will see more paid ads, a Google Map, and a few seemingly organic results. But if you click on one of these "organic" results, Google then shows you a page where you can book a hotel room - and pay Google a fee for that.
Let me tell you this, I worked in the adult industry and I absolutely despised working with dating sites. Ashley Madison, Adult Friend Finder, etc because of this issue. They employed hundreds of staff who's main job was to pretend to be interested women messaging non-paying members enticing them to upgrade their free memberships to be able to respond back or what-have-you-not and then once the customer was paying, they stopped and moved onto the next.

That's shady business no matter what you think. I personally have zero empathy for Ashley Madison and for what's happening to them.

Edit://

Adult Friend Finder actually pays an absurdly higher payout for referrals whom happen to be women, because they don't get many women signing up.
If quicksort always takes the first element in the array as the pivot, then an array that is already sorted is the worst case.
tldr; anything beyond unstyled, purely textual HTML in a single column, without plugins (and definitely without javascript) is objectively wrong and bad and people shouldn't be allowed to do it. I'm assuming images are fine but I wouldn't be surprised if not.

The last paragraph in this manifesto is the author pre-complaining about every possible change that will be made in HTML in the future. How much more "hipster yells at clouds" can you get?

As I too am a Person On The Internet, allow me to retort:

HTML was never entirely about displaying plain text, but content. That that content is primarily text doesn't imply it must be primarily text. That train left the station when img tags became a thing.

The ability to embed plugins was a breakthrough, not a mistake. Plugins are the reason video on the web is possible, and video on the web is revolutionary for sharing culture and expression. Flash and Java applets, for all their faults, allowed applications to be accessible by URL, and thanks to HTML5/Canvas and tools like asm.js and whatever-to-js transpilers, we're on the verge of having the web become a network of hyperlinked applications. When you think about the ramifications of that, it's a really big deal.

To want to forbid the web from even reaching the complexity and richness of HTML 1.0 is, frankly, asinine and presumptuous. Notwithstanding that, yes, simple text-based sites have a place and, yes, most uses of javascript to display simple text are kind of pointless and absurd, the author is wrong to want to limit the world's creativity and the web's expressive potential to the boundaries of his own personal elitist prejudice.
1. I read you were rewriting the GC, is that still on track?

2. is there any plan to include Mobile(mainly iOS/Android) in the D roadmap?

3. any plans to safely use the standard library with GC disabled?
HTTP Status Cats API
In this context there is no right to "free speech" either.

People misuse both the terms "trigger" and "free speech" in massive amounts.
That would be the equivalent of people buying more eggs after a salmonella outbreak.
>Standard Oil held down prices which was good in theory for customers, but it was devastating for competitors and their employees

Uh, are you saying that Standard Oil should have made business decisions based on what was good for their competitors? This starts to get into collusion.

And I understand that the theory was that Standard Oil would hold prices down, running at a loss in order to kill off all competition, then raise prices as high as it wanted in a non-competitive market. But this doesn't seem to apply to Google's situation as customers can easily move to searching Amazon, eBay, etc. when shopping.
Google Chrome Will Start Auto-Pausing Video Advertisements
It seems like you changed your point then.

If you meant to say that "it has nothing to do with web design" then you should have said that instead of trying to defend "competent web designers" as if competence actually had anything to do with it.
Sorry for my laziness. A bit of googling reveals:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/ubers...

and

http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/24/ubers-wechat-drama-exposes...

Apparently they've been blocked from WeChat...
> It seems the revelation there are no women on AM is far worse business-wise than the security breach (Maybe not legally).

Is it really true though? The estimates were, what, 1,400 available women in total? It's anecdotal but there are thousands of accounts online of people saying they were able to hook up with women and a few who even ended up marrying the woman they hooked it up. Seems a great deal of those would either have to be made up or the estimate people came up with is wildly wrong.

I'm not entirely convinced yet.
Factual impossibility [1] doesn't do much in the court of law, let alone to help a jilted lover feel less betrayed, one would think.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossibility_defense
I count 3 "media or news" companies in the Winter 14 YC batch[1], 1 in S13, 2 in W13, and 3 in S12. Interestingly Quora isn't listed - not sure what year they went and did it.

But I don't see any particular bias against media/news plays.

[1] http://yclist.com/
OK, so then you talked to someone at Netflix, and they said, what, "umm... well, we just replaced our anti-virus product with this other thing called SentinelOne that isn't really an anti-virus product", and then you looked at their site and called them and decided they totally weren't an anti-virus product? And that the real story here was that this was the death knell for anti-virus, or the beginning of "post-AV anti-malware", or something?

Clearly you have technical chops. But the most technical part of your article, concerning whatever technology somehow separates this product from the rest of the industry (let alone makes it "not anti-virus"), is this single line:

"Its end-point security doesn’t rely on signatures, it monitors every process on a device to check for irregularities and does not perform on-system scans or require massive updates like anti-virus..."

If SentinelOne is doing something truly new, something that merits coverage from tech journalists, it would be nice to read about it.

And btw, you said earlier, "When I contacted SentinelOne after the interview they said they couldn't even go on the record about the Netflix contract", which is an odd thing for them to have told you, since they have a Netflix logo and an official statement from them under the testimonials section of http://www.sentinelone.com/?show_epp=true -- wait a minute, in fact the quote from your article is a word-for-word match for the testimonial on SentinelOne's site: "The direction we decided to go was with a company called SentinelOne, who we’ve been working with for year and a half. They were a true replacement for end-point protection".

Your contact at Netflix must've been reading from Rob Fry's script...
So business as usual then?

Edit: not sure why I'm getting downvoted. There was a study that showed food recalls have an impact on purchasing but it wasn't huge, people certainly didn't stop. Though I can't find the article I had read a long time ago about this.

Oh well.
Ask HN: Why astronauts don't see random images randomly?
If light goes to space after hitting the earth, why astronauts don't see random images?
Absolutely, I've found the debian community to be one of the best out there as far as support goes.
Why its absolutely essential that your kid should start a business
Setting SElinux on enforcing mode on a desktop is almost impossible.
Doesn't a sorted array trigger the worst case in that case? Either ascending or decending. It's one of the reasons not to choose the first element as the pivot, iirc.

A much more interesting case is the median-of-three pivot. (Namely, median of first / middle / last elements). You can still do it, however.
> I think the site did change over the years.

The site has changed, even though the site has always had people posting terrible stuff. If we call "c" the force of the people "crap" on the site, you could say there has been a gradual increase in c_{root-mean-square}, even though c_{peak-to-peak} hasn't changed much.

This is probably an inevitable outcome of any unmoderated forum in the long-term. Small kernels of confrontation, hatred, and faction/tribalism are going to push away the more moderate posters, eventually concentrating the problem.

edit: fixed leftover-word-from-previous-draft error
I couldn't agree more with your statement. Pratchett was the best for me.
Your wording there 'massive probs' is disingenuous. What I said was simply "works better", I never said anything about major problems. In fact, I specifically said the other distro's can be made to work just as well, but it takes more effort.

But to answer your question, I've found desktop performance to be better in Ubuntu for the same specs, many distro's don't play well with pause/unpause (it can cause time skew that messes with things like https certs), and things of that nature. Then of course there's the "easy install", although a few other distro's feature it as well.

Nothing that doesn't have fixes, but as someone who is more interested in getting the work done than tinkering with the linux install, I just go with Ubuntu.
Hey, thanks for the comment. I'll be updating the readme this weekend, i just haven't got round to it yet :)
moot was active on Raspberry Heaven, SA's anime forum IRC chat/DC hub, when 2chan.net was really popular there. He didn't start it in isolation and decide to post on SA - most or all of the original mods and users were from RH.

I don't have logs from when it was first started but here's a fun quote from a few weeks after:
[2003-10-14 02:51] <rizzou> hey moot - there's this cool website at http://www.4chan.net/ you should check it out. it's really looking like the next big thing, you know?

A few days later 4chan started killing the shared server it was hosted on by fellow SA forums member nem (I remember seeing load averages of like 80000), and had to find its own home.
I disagree with the statement that it reads like a love letter, but I very much agree that you should clarify what's meant by "the post-AV anti-malware game"..

It comes across as a wannabe-buzzword, and something of a contradiction. Further, I can't find any reference elsewhere.
This is why I come here.
It really comes down to "Enterprise code better work or we won't upgrade". Its a straight migration issue, and that makes them an easy choice for an enterprise platform. It is amazing how many little programs cannot be broken.

Now, I do wish they had done a "classic" emulation with a go forward API of .NET, but I guess that would have been hyper-difficult given the players.
Good question! Using "better" for complex things without explicitly labeling the measurement axes is fluff (https://xkcd.com/833/).
That's fair. It's a Unity game. I need to update that page to reflect that it's been removed from iOS (not willing to keep paying Apple), and it's free everywhere else.

I decided it was more valuable as a portfolio piece than as product with abysmal sales (couldn't afford to market it; not sure if it would have helped anyway), so I made it free.

You can play it with the Unity web plugin (I know) here: http://luciangames.itch.io/oware.

I only posted it here because it's a game with no text whatsoever, and I found that to be a really interesting design constraint. But maybe I'm the only one.
Why autopause when I can just use firefoxs built in adblocker or just adblock? I'll never give my parents a browser with ads, because they'll click them and get a virus.
What I found problematic (unless I'm missing something) was the suggestion that your day-to-day user should be in the wheel group: if that's the case, once your user is compromised the attacker can edit .bashrc to change $PATH and use a patched sudo to take over the machine.

IMHO "sudo" (or "doas") should be used from a different user, by switching to a different VT. Or at least only allowing certain commands for you day to day user.
> They didn't drop 16 bit support until Windows Vista! I mean, was there aby big chance of a 286 running Windows XP?

XP didn't run on 16-bit, it just allowed running 16-bit apps. Why? Well, loads of applications still used 16-bit installers, for instance. If it ain't broken, don't fix it, etc.

Also, Microsoft didn't drop 16-bit support deliberately. The Virtual 8086 mode (a CPU feature) doesn't work on x86-64.
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Ask HN: HN User AMA's
I'm a big fan of AMA's on Reddit, and a prominent NodeJS[0] dev created a repo on Github about doing AMA's in issues on the repo and I enjoyed that.

So I am interested in users here too.. So lets try to do a multi-HN AMA. Just make a child comment to this post telling a little about yourself, and then anyone can respond to it asking questions.
Not saying that at all. You might as well claim that I said it was good that forty million european civilians died in the war because in the end we won. It's quite the turn of wording.

No the point is we used the weapons when they were way less destructive and found them reprehensible. Imagine finding this out at the megaton level. When these weapons were used we had lots of uncertainty. There was lots of ignorance. Some involved in their development were not sure they'd consume the atmosphere or not. We simply were ignorant about a lot of things regarding them.

On balance though I think they resulted in more good than bad, given the alternative and in addition to the lessons learned.
Remedy and Funatics developed popular games. Though it's not said what they used "D" for.

Remedy is responsible for Alan Wake and Max Payne, Funatics for Cultures, Zanzarah, among others.
I want to see the robot :'(
Your eye focuses light onto your retina. Same way all the other light in the world works.
>Uh, are you saying that Standard Oil should have made business decisions based on what was good for their competitors? This starts to get into collusion.

This is exactly what some critics of antitrust law say happens:

> Under the Antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful “intent to monopolize”; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for “unfair competition” or “restraint of trade”; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for “collusion” or “conspiracy.”
Even if this jewelry were made out of glass and steel, it wouldn't be mistaken for costume jewelry. If you look at pave in costume jewelry, there's usually a lot of setting/metal between the stones, and the stones are usually the same size, and the variation from stone to stone (color, type, shape, etc) is minimized. This makes it easy to mass-manufacture.
If you take a close look at the JAR jewelry (https://s3.amazonaws.com/beautifulnow_production/uploads/cke...) each stone is slightly different, and perfectly sized/chosen to fit in its own little space. There are areas along broad sections of the petal where you might have a few smaller stones perfectly nestled among larger stones -- this gives the impression of a more organic piece, that just sprung out of the ground, plated in diamonds.

These are actually examples higher-end jewelry (real gold and diamonds, although mass-manufactured): http://slimages.macys.com/is/image/MCY/products/5/optimized/...

http://www.wixonjewelers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/rose... in a similar pave style.
You can see all the diamonds are identical, you can see the settings clearly (more metal/space to work with, easier to set)

This is another example of pave with better coverage: http://i00.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v4/1383610324_1/Full-stones-... Still, uniform diamonds, each one is interchangeable with every other one. In the JAR jewelry, it's obvious that each diamond was carefully chosen for its place, the settings are harder to do, and there's more color variation throughout.

There's obviously more to it than that, but that might be a good thing to look for when you're considering the artistry that went into these. Also, keep in mind, they're not really meant to be worn like day-to-day "jewelry" jewelry we're used to seeing around. They're more like tiny pieces of elaborate gemstone art.
[Comment above](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135598) says journalist met Netflix guy at Black Hat.
D would be definitely helped by a large corporate sponsor. I think the foundation will make the language a more serious alternative for such adoption.

Competition is good for all involved. Rust and C++ are the competitors closer to the same turf. I think we have a solid value proposition and several ways to enhance it and differentiate ourselves. Time will tell.
[0]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/amas
You're right but Google continues to maintain that they are operating in a vigorously competitive environment. The minute they drop this assertion they will be the focus of antitrust investigations around the world.
Also keep in mind that the whole affair thing was a branding change done in 2009 so many who signed up before may not have been looking for that. Then you have stories about people who were looking for a discrete relationship and wasn't commuting adultery they just needed to be discrete because of personal reasons (like living in a country that imprisons or executes people who are gay).

Plus anyone can add someone to the service AND there are plenty of people who enjoy the trill of simply looking and not doing anything.

So yeah I don't think it's a slam dunk that they're all "cheating jerks". Though I'm sure plenty are :)
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