skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>None of the misogynistic toolbags have been chased from their homes, none of them have been confronted with credible threats to their lives and their families. It has not happened. The notion that it has is fictional at its core.

Going to stop you here. [0] A prominent member of #GG was doxed and fearing for her children she took a hiatus from the internet/movement altogether. She's also received several lovely pictures of her face covered in semen and was constantly harassed for being a prominent part of Gamergate.

However unlike you and people like you being so quick to assign fault to GG for anything bad that happens to you, she didn't give fault to the anti-GG side, but rather the individual who did it.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2tbbkg/a_fi...
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Slowing down, without lights, unexpectedly in traffic while modern day humans pay no attention to driving by using their phone? Seems totally likely to cause an accident.
Why don't the other suppliers jump back in when the price gets jacked up?
It may at one point had so, but multiple nations had (sometimes recent) historical campaigns to define a national language and stamp out the rest.
Building a rope bridge with quadcopter drones
Apple handles the refund processes completely.
Randi doesn't really expose frauds in a dramatic way. He infers how such tricks could be done, sets up an experiment that will prevent such tricks, and then lets the frauds fall on their own sword.

They'll either "have a bad day" or decline. To date, no one has claimed the foundation's million dollar prize.
I raise you a Lomcovak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomcovak
Michigan sues HP over $49M project that's still not done after 10 years
Doesn't make it any less true though. It's really easy to act on what you believe is unethical if you have plenty of money just in case it turns sour. Not everyone has that luxury. You can say everyone should be act ethical and I agree but I also understand in the many cases where they don't think they can.
The Importance of Donald Trump
Reminds me of the story of Prahlad Jani.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahlad_Jani
But capital is also political power. The capitalists interact with the system that structures their markets, their property rights, their contract law, their regulations, their hierarchies etc. The system itself is a strange loop which ultimately leads to contradictions. A capitalist acting in their rational self interest modifies the system in order to improve it for their own ends. This inevitably means deviations from the neoclassical ideal.

If there's one useful idea from the marxists, it's that the dominant modes of economic activity of the day determine the structures of our institutions, not the other way around. It may not be completely true, but the way capital dominates all other forms of power in the world is fundamentally troublesome. Capitalism eats itself, and every crisis requires a lot of bloodshed and suffering from the unpropertied in order to keep the system going forward.
True, since he did make some kind of agreement with Ghost (if I recall correctly) basically making a partnership on that end.
The numbers you need are in the article: $10M loss over 8 years (2007-present), ~45 cases/year.

In order to break even, they need to increase the cost of a course of treatment by about ~$28k/patient.

The new price doubles the price to about ~$50k/patient, which is still short of this number (but bleeding $3k*45 patients = $135k/year is much more manageable than bleeding $1M dollars a year).
I dunno how it is in the states, but in some nations giving leftovers etc away is a problematic process because of food safety regulations.
I remember the point in my career when I started having to routinely sign non-disclosure agreements, put "proprietary" labels on my writing, and meet with attorneys regarding agreements and contracts. I gradually realized that all real managers and executives routinely work with information which can't be shared - much of it specifically being hidden from coworkers. Combine that with all the competing interests (maximize profit & minimize costs for all the major stockholders and investors vs. all the employees). And so, eventually, I finally realized that "honesty" and "integrity" in the corporate workplace are largely an intentional illusion. If someone believes in that their workplace is "moral", it tells me that he is either someone insignificant in the company or someone who has, like most executives, adopted a "business value system" which is usually very "Ann Rand-ish" and "free market" usually with some "personal responsibility" thrown in (it helps to ease the cognitive dissonance when justified by "they deserved it" and dehumanized by "markets")

Addendum: I've spent more than a decade in open source, so anyone who tells me that I should try that is just drinking the kool-aid.
Unless the aliens have a quantum computer, in which case they'd have no trouble decrypting the messages.
> Well of course. Any attempt at helping one person hurts another person. If you give someone a free house, you put a builder out of work. If you give someone free food, you put a farmer out of work. <

I'm not sure i follow. Someone would have had to build something or farm something in the first place for it to be given away.
SWF source code from the Imgur hack
Someone posted the deobfuscated source of the malware/DDOS swf from the Imgur 4chan redirect hack to Reddit:

http://pastebin.com/ytfKq2Mw
Companies don't incorporate in Delaware for tax benefits, they do it for the well-understood legal system around business law and predictable courts.
This isn't unusual for a pharma company, or any other big company for that matter.

Transfer/keep/develop the IP in a low-tax jurisdiction and then have their US/Canadian/whatever division pay a licensing fee to the corp in that low-tax jurisdiction.
If the net result is that I can't install OpenWRT on my router in Australia, then yes, that's really bad.
While I have no doubt that the channels Lemur is using are fairly secure, why is the key ever leaving the box from which is is going to be used?

If you have the OpenSSL utility, you can generate the certificates right on the box where you're going to use the cert, and only have to move around the public portions of the key. It seems like it would be fairly trivial for Lemur to do with just a SSH shell, or an agent.

Someone care to edumacate me?
Sure. I don't think anyone is arguing that we should fire up a Symbolics machine in 2015 and try to get work done on it.

Rather, it's the spirit of the machines - inspectable and programmable from the ground up - that's worth preserving.
Except I think Peter misses the point. He's asserts technology is moving "to slowly" or "to inefficiently" and doesn't seem to have any appreciation for the prerequisites for forward motion. And he dismisses out of hand anything people have done while that foundation is being build. As if having them sit idly by would have been a better use of their time?

Imagine you're building a castle, and you've got a quarry full of people cutting the stones to build it, and then you chastise the carpenters who are working on decorative woodwork because there is not enough castle yet to work on.

Sure, Google has spent a ton of money building an ad network and figuring out how to get people to click on ads. They have also spent a ton of money on building phone OSes, and build tools, and efficient data centers, and self driving cars.

Not everyone can work on curing cancer or creating durable political institutions that survive local corruption. So what do they spend their time on? Building tools, or using those tools to build interesting things which feeds back into better tools.

I didn't see any appreciation of the foundational work that has to happen in order for progress to be made in that interview.
You don't always have a choice: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2316/2216487046_b7ca640f56_o....

Plus, we live in cloud la la land these days. You have no idea how any of your machines/VMs are connected together. We can assume nothing.
If nothing else it's impressive that over a quarter billion people were able to download a file that large in such a short period of time.
I agree. My blood isn't any different than a Europeans' or an Americans', so why duplicate the approval process? It can't be unsafe for one and safe for another just because some imaginary line has been crossed.

It would also help to reduce drug shortages if stock could be more easily transferred.
Migration from ASP.NET to Rails
Or gmail could introduce a 'make me feel powerful!' button that adds in more downward facing terms
Not really. Instapaper's design was such that you had to look at the site — with all the ads — at least once to save the page to it. This was by design. Instapaper users wouldn't see ads on subsequent pages or on subsequent viewings, though.
Anyone who's paid attention to biotech stocks in the last year or so knows that there is some very volatile movement. Anything related to thera-, pharma-, bio- has been swinging up and down wildly. I'd really like to know why it's been behaving like that.
Are we still allowed to use the old APIs?

See http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/
The tax deduction just cancels out the tax liability from receiving that money.
The FDA was the big lever that Skreli was attempting to use to skew the market in his favor.

If the FDA weren't so powerful, flawed, and easily corruptible, the strategy would make no sense.
Translation: "Ad blocking is turning out to be way more popular than we expected, and it's making some rich friends of mine very scared."

Even I'm surprised at how popular ad blocking is becoming. I would not have expected the general public to be willing to actually pay money to block ads.

Of course, when you have ads that try to take over my browser (Android), won't go away when you hit the "go away" button (iOS), or ads that suddenly play loud audio (both), I guess it's no surprise that even the general public now regards online ads as a nuisance to be blocked.

I have to admit, I have uninstalled quite a few apps recently because of offensively-intrusive advertising.
>well-understood legal system around business law and predictable courts.

I think Ireland has these as well. Laws and rulings will be in English, so American execs can easily grok what's going on without having to get pesky translations.
Nevertheless, just because it's "easier" doesn't mean that it's actually done - there are plenty of arsehole rich folks who could spread their money around more. A rich person being nice is still a person being nice.
Can you give an example of a client handling a partition?
Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from 'doomsday' Arctic seed vault
I think the simplest way to understand the zeitgeist is this quote:

Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden:
Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful.
The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
-- Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
> Or gmail could introduce a 'make me feel powerful!' button that adds in more downward facing terms

Gmail, if you could introduce a 'make me feel powerful!' button that adds in more downward facing terms, that would be greeeeeat, mmmmmmmkay?
There's a difference between chrome and ff multiprocess. The sandbox model (at least on linux) in chrome is better than anything else available right now. They're pretty much the reason that kernel-level sandbox is available to us now.
In practice, rolling your own strengthened/salted hash is probably fine if you use a decent hash function, but why bother? The code already exists to do it for you, and using a standard function allows for better interop and portability.

It will also (likely) have been designed and/or checked by people with domain knowledge, and so is more likely to avoid subtle attacks - just repeating a hash function n times might not offer the security you expect (e.g. 2DES is barely any stronger than a single DES pass - you need 3DES to make much of a difference).
The Edge of Horror
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
S/he said "non-profit" and "donors".
Don't endangered species contribute some portion of new pharmaceuticals each year? Didn't we just finish unraveling the complex dynamics of a bee's flight, which our previous models couldn't explain?

My impression was always that the study of ecology and such is a big driver for technology, and by extension the economy and quality of life.
Dropbox co-mingling users' pics in camera upload folders? Uh oh
This is the direct and real damage of the government allowing the fiction known as intellectual property to continue to exist.
I think there may be a counterintuitive situation where incremental improvement in hardware is worse than no improvement.

Consider how much extra performance game developers are able to wring out of a console after a few years' experience. If the hardware is absolutely stable, and there's no expectation that it can get faster, then people do make a big effort on software.
Hey @bobfunk how do i contact you concerning your app - netlify.

Really great use case
capitalism is capital-ism which is predicated on literally: the more capital you have, the more revenue you get in return (which lets you buy more capital, which lets you sell more things and receive more revenue).

Except, these days, nobody needs to continue buying capital or purchasing labor with their revenue. You can sit back on your unlimited money makers, receive hundreds of billions of dollars in profit, then just hoard it. In a knowledge/skills economy, you can't grow by throwing money at people (since only a chosen few hundred or few thousand are driving things forward anyway). In fact, once you're at virtual peak productivity, investing more would only make things worse due to increased internal coordination costs (meetings! knowledge sharing!) and internal politicking (no—I want to run the new project and I'll turn everybody else against you until it happens!).

If you don't have a use for $100 billion dollars today, why would you turn around and invest it to get $500 billion dollars you also have no use for?
i'll see you and raise you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Ivan
> The creator of peace, one of the most popular iOS ad blocking apps, just pulled his app after a day and a half because it "didn't feel right" to him.

We assume he was paid off.
> Do you see the same thing happening in India, or are they managing to preserve local tradition alongside the mainstream?

It is complex! Some dialects are dying out, but the regions seem to be clustering around the 22 'scheduled languages'. In Karnataka (population ~ 60 million) for example, there are at least 4 dialects of Kannada. With the proliferation of social media, TV, and cinema, two things are happening: (1) the non-majority dialects are losing out to a 'standardized' mean similar to the Wisconsin-mean in the US, (2) paradoxically, non-standard dialects are gaining popularity because of their quirks. This is similar to how Irish dialects are highlighted in movies like Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, In Bruges, etc. giving them more visibility than it would otherwise get. Another analogy is how we all know about Minnesotan 'dialects' and Californian dude-isms from Coen brothers' explorations of these themes.

The primary bulwark against the disappearance of dialects and languages in India is just the largeness of the masses of people who speak these languages. For example, Bhojpuri, a dialect that is different from standardized movie/TV 'Hindi' has tens of millions of speakers.

Somehow standardized languages seem to co-exist with dialects in much of India.

It is nearly impossible that any of the 22 languages will die out in the next few centuries. Even most dialects will survive because of the strength in numbers. (Note, the 22 languages includes Sanskrit, which like Latin and classical Greek has in some sense 'died out'. But the masses never 'spoke' Sanskrit, it was more of a formalized language for literature and administration.)

Edit: By Wisconsin-mean, I mean General American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American
And would probably make just about any marketer and/or lawyer run screaming...
Eventually: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.B...
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What makes jackfruit trees such a sight to behold is how much fruit is accessible at waist/shoulder height (along with, of course, its sheer size).
And you can still have GC problem. Google ran into that with their Dalvik VM in Android.
I'm reminded of another similar saying (paraphrased): "If you outlaw free operating systems, only outlaws will have free operating systems."

Also, http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
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A quick google suggests you can survive longer than 8 days without water, if you're not moving or eating.
Google Hires Oyster “Netflix for EBooks” Team
I had a bad taste in my mouth too. It's kind of crazy that we as developers have a tarnished view of open source code due to where the repository is hosted. If GitHub/Bitbucket start bundling malware into binaries one day will we tarnish all of the developers/companies open sourcing there too? I don't for a second anticipate it happening, but I'm sourceforge was considered great back in its hayday.
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I can assist you in the coordination of the event.
How often is that considered, outside of mobile platforms?

Never.

Flash Player should be a crime against humanity based on its energy usage alone.
It used to be a browser just went to the destination and showed you what was there. This was fast. Now every time you visit a site, a giant war goes on behind the scenes between what the site wants to force you to see and what you actually want to see. This may have something to do with it.
I am from the Kerala state in India where this fruit is in abundance. My home has 2 of those big trees.

About the pulled pork reference , I have had pulled pork in Arizona Phoenix where I work now. The unripe jackfruit do not taste like that. Just an "unripe" taste that's all. Unripe fruit has lot of milky sticky liquid oozing from the hives inside the fruit.

In its unripe form , its used for frying , something like potato sticks lookalike. In its ripe form its mixed with beef and made into squishy form. Keralites eat a lot of beef,unlike other states in India. (where beef is banned)

The seeds of the jackfruit , ( a single fruit has hundreds of seeds ) is used to make curry mixed with sour mango and sun dried shrimp. The outer casing of the jackfruit is re purposed as food to the cows. The jackfruit wood is good for carpentry and is used to make door , almirahs , windows in Kerala homes.

Probably the author is just an author. Might not have experience with the real fruit and do not know much about India as is with many western countries.
Whoosh?
Your example doesn't obviously support this, but reminded me of Mark Twain's

"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
You throw the number (1/10,000 chance) like it's low but I think that's fairly high. You cite crashing motorcycles but the total US deaths by traffic accidents was close to 1/10,000 in the most recent years [1]. You ask if we want to ban motorcycles but motorcyles aren't used to murder people, we ban or heavily regulate lots of things that are more generally harmful (explosives, lead, asbestos, radium, DDT, CFCs, etc.) many of which caused fewer deaths than firearms when they were legal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
The sentence "If you need to spend 100k per year on drugs to live and you cannot make 100k per year, then the free market has decided that your life is not worth the cost because you are not creating 100k worth of value to trade 100k worth of drugs you are taking out of the market" is simply not true.

The free market doesn't say anything about the worth of a life being only equal to how much an individual can earn. It says the market price of something is equal to what people are willing to pay for it. We have things like insurance that allow us to have more medical care than we could afford as individuals, and that is completely within the concept of a free market.
With a lot of IaaS environments you don't have direct access to the box doing TLS termination. In our case since we heavily use AWS ELBs, generating certificates directly on the box isn't an option. Moreover when you need to deploy onto many servers you generally run into the same issues with moving keys around that Lemur attempts to make easier/safer.
About FreeRTOS:

> First, I don't like their policy: the license states that it's forbidden to compare FreeRTOS to any other kernel! (...)

> FreeRTOS may not be used for any competitive or comparative purpose, including the publication of any form of run time or compile time metric, without the express permission of Real Time Engineers Ltd. (this is the norm within the industry and is intended to ensure information accuracy)

It's quite abusive an probably not legal.
Win10's OEM licensing is forcing the restart of 2GB DDR3 module production:
http://www.dramexchange.com/WeeklyResearch/Post/2/4118.html
Well, if it’s fully autonomous as many suspect, the UI would be dramatically simplified compared to Tesla.

Passengers would only need direct access to comfort controls, media playback, and an interactive map. I wouldn’t be surprised to see just a single large touch screen on the dashboard, with Siri listening for your directions.
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They're trying to fleece insurance companies. Guess who pays for that? Save your $25 copay, you'll need it to pay your 40% (low end) year-over-year premium increases.
Indeed.

Which just means it's a doubly worthwhile project :)

But seriously, this is the promise of computing we're talking about. It had to be put on hold for a while, because when you're dealing with a resource-constrained machine like an early 8-bit micro, IBM PC, or Mac, you're going to have to ship tightly optimised binaries and use non-native dev tools.

So, given that no-one ships such a machine today, where are there priorities?
I saw Patty Wagstaff do one in her 300S aerobatics plane..
Responding to increasing regulatory risks doesn't seem like a particularly emotional response.
It would be more accurate to say that people will be people. Greed is not limited to capitalists. Greed, lust for money, and the need for power are observable across all political, social, and governmental systems.
Yeah... author should read Hackers before writing another word about history of computing, there is hardly a correct sentence in that blog post - http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Anniversar...
But ... https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-licences-private-hire-taxis-londo...

License cost is 154 GBP (200 bucks) annually in London. Not a million. I maybe misunderstanding a lot of the cost issues in taxi services but it seems the medallion cost is a huge racket - but that's hardly a global issue?
Yeah, I remember buying minecraft from all the 4chan viral, weeks after survival mode was announced (and infinite mode was to be released).

Nowadays, I feel proud of it. Although Minecraft isn't "my kind of game", I feel like I made a difference in the game industry/panorama.
In a similar vein there is also CloudFlare's cfssl[0]. I'm curious to hear what people think about the differences.

0 - https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl
Welcome to the Streisand effect.

While it was extensions for browsers etc, it was one thing. But now Apple (take note) has built it into their most talked about product.

And given how the media production and apple products are intertwined, suddenly the media people sit up, take notes, and start talking/writing about it.
Keeping people alive in a first-world country shouldn't rely on the whims of private charity.