skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all of it was "great", but definitevely left their mark on the internet and in society:

Of the top of my head:

- The thousands of memes, from rickrolling to rage comics.

- Dusty the cat

- Project Chanology

- Gamergate

- The Fappening

- Karen, the school bus monitor

- Snakes on a Plane (movie), Cave Story (game) and many others became highly successfull after becoming viral in 4chan.

- Risk of Rain (game), Engine Heart (tabletop rpg) are commercial products that were created by anons with the help of 4chan.

- Many other free quality media being created, from videogames (Katawa Shoujo), to tabletop rpgs (Adeptus Evangelion), wargames, comics, music, etc. [0]

- 9001 lulz/day

[0] I would know more, but I mostly browse /tg/ and /v/ related boards.
Reminds me of the new Metal Gear game - the part about extreme proliferation of nuclear and biological WMDs so even small groups can have more power and be more equal to the big powers than ever before.

Also, private military forces so countries can use them and deny their involvement and small countries can afford top military on demand, creation of a private military industry who will create conflicts just to have business/clients - interesting points...
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Perception is reality. And it seems the perception is that Gahergate is a group of harrasors. You (not you personally) saying it is not will not change that perception.

It seems to me that if you want Gamegate to be taken seriously (though I think it is way to late for that) Gamergate needs to start cleaning out it ranks.

Which highlights the real issue. Gamergate has no central entity. So there are going to be people harrassing under the banner of Gamergate, and you can’t do anything about it. The name is tarnished, full stop. It will be almost impossible for Gamergate to do any good now, assuming it ever wanted to good!
Baidu launches free OCR API (and nobody noticed?)
Proposed encryption policy for government of india [pdf]
Better logging in Nodejs using Bunyan
IDK, that sounds like a false dichotomy. Enterprise security just has you look up the credentials in LDAP on initial connect rather than having everyone use the same credentials last time I checked.
Some advice from Jeff Bezos
In 1993 Caldera purchases Santa Cruise Operations Group, and renamed their collective company to SCO Group.

As noted in my posting replying to you, that doesn't match my memory or Wikipedia, can you provide any citations to support it?
So perhaps in these cases we should place the blame on certain shortcomings of the FTC's regulation rather than the companies who take advantage of the loopholes. I don't agree with the practices of this company, but if the loopholes exist, I'm not sure we have much reason to expect companies to behave any way but capitalistically.
Every time someone uses "SJW" seriously on HN, a puppy dies.
Such a policy puts you at the mercy of every unbalanced person -- or every person with an agenda -- who wanders by. If someone was determined to create the "culturally insensitive tech industry" narrative, they are going to find something, even if they have to make it up. Anyone who genuinely believes that this clock joke was somehow malicious is not the sort of person who was concerned about facts in the first place.
Worse than iOS 6/7, better than iOS 8.0

iOS 9 has the same performance as iOS 8.4
Not directly related to this case, but if anyone is interested in how drug companies lobby watch this: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/under-the-influence/

Basically Medicare, despite it's size, is NOT allowed by the US Government to bargain for favorable prices costing tax payers billions and billions.
Online Multiplayer Hackathon – Free Registration – Prizes to Win
The stagefright bugs gave control over the media-player daemon of Android. This daemon is not running as root, it's even jailed with SELinux, but it has some interesting permissions like microphone-access.

Despite the media hype you can't root your phone with the stagefright bugs and so it wouldn't qualify for the bounty.
Because corporate/business wars are better? People may not end up dying, but they do end up in prison and hit rock bottom from which they can not crawl out of. Which may be worse than death sometimes. Everything is war...
These Weeks in Servo 34
If your engine block is damaged in your Corvette, you'll probably need a whole new engine block. Modern engines are using increasingly exotic materials & construction that are ever less repairable.

Your RAM can be replaced by an expert with the right tools, but computing hardware has become so cheap that it often simply isn't worth hiring an expert to perform serious repairs.
I imagine a lot of customers will avoid getting the "fix" in order to maintain the performance of their cars. There's not much that they can do to force these people to bring their cars back.
If only The Sussman were still alive, we might have a chance to reach satori.
> 4chan has always had a huge problem attracting advertisers due to the ahem nature of its content

According to who?

Remember how cheap the site is to run.

It's like the Pirate Bay guys saying they made no money. Those ads paid big and they raked.
As an immigrant, I do think the American immigration system is broken (especially around H1Bs and for US university grads), but just letting anyone in isn't the solution either and would do more harm than good.
To be fair, they are foreign concepts to a lot of people in general.
> I wouldn't call it 'free speech'. That's what Google is marketing it as, but it's really 'privacy law'.

The two are overlapping. Privacy laws in general are restrictions on free speech, and privacy laws restricting the manner in which true, already publicly disseminated, information -- including on some matters of public concern (and criminal acts are by definition matters of public concern) -- can be disseminated are pretty much the pinnacle of free speech concerns.

> (And the only potential First Amendment issue in the US, is because somehow the Citizens United decision gives our companies Constitutional rights, which is silly.)

It would be equally a First Amendment concern in the US if companies did not have Constitutional rights but were merely vehicles through which individuals (who have Constitutional rights of their own) act.
I have a T430s that I like quite a bit. When I was idly considering buying a T450s to get a higher resolution screen I looked into how easy it would be to upgrade the RAM and hard drive (much cheaper than buying a good one from Lenovo) and was disappointed that it seems much harder to replace them now.
This reminds me of attempts to discredit planned parenthood by pointing out the views of some of the founders. Even if it is true, should something be judged based on where it came from instead of what it currently is?
Tom Cruise parody
JavaScript query language to perform complex object searches
Skype Service Disrupted for Some Users Worldwide
You (not you personally) saying it is not will not change that perception.

Perhaps, but correcting misinformation wherever its seen should be the goal of anyone connected with the movement. Perceptions can change.

Gamers have been a marginalized group for pretty much as long as the hobby has existed, so this is nothing new. People lying about them, their hobby, making fun of them as losers and shut-ins and immature and criminals in training, this is all de rigeur. One more insult on the pile doesn't change much.

>Gamergate needs to start cleaning out it ranks.

How so? Other than shouting down harassers, I'm not sure what action you expect a bunch of people centered around a hashtag and an idea to take.

>It will be almost impossible for Gamergate to do any good now

I'd say they've done quite a lot of good already. Disclosure policies at multiple journalism outfits enacted, FTC rules on paid endorsements being clarified due largely in part to an emailing campaign, hundreds of thousands of dollars raised for various charities...
Not really. It says "exposed on AWS" which these records certainly were stored there, not "exposed by AWS" which would have been misleading and untrue implying AWS did the leaking. Semantics for sure, but not at all misleading.
I've been reading Lewis Dartnell's "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch", and it is exactly what you want. A insightful collection of recipes to bootstrap civilization after a global disaster.

http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/the-book/

I hope I don't get to use it ever, but it is really interesting as it necessarily explains the fundamentals of our current civilization.
Ask HN: What is difference between multiple containers and multiple accounts
An operating system can support multiple accounts. Each account has its own working environment. How does this differ from multiple containers?
GamerGate was sharing photos of Zoe Quinn from her old modeling profile as recently as a month ago. This is a continuous problem.
> If consumer demand doesn't exist there is no problem - everyone already has everything they want. Is it your belief we live in a post-scarcity world? If so, we indeed need no new investment.

I agree with this. We're almost there, not quite yet though. The renewables push and electric vehicles get us over the hump (although housing is going to be something we'll need to figure out).

Although, if you don't have consumer demand, you don't have any need for investment (except perhaps infrastructure, which the government can do; that leaves bonds/treasuries intact as an investment vehicle).

> Then again, the consumption of retirees is also not really a problem.

Ahh! But it is! Retirees consume much less, especially with most of them not having saved enough for retirement. They'll have enough to survive, and that's it (and those who need to depend on their families will be sapping away disposable income that's now re-purposed as non-discretionary living expense).

> I don't know China well, but the idea that the emerging world doesn't have unmet demand is insane. Indians (a nation I know much better) certainly want to consume vastly more than they currently do.

Yes, true. But do they have the income to do so? Without income, you cannot have consumption.
You should probably go back and read the books again, maybe with some more time between readings, and paying more attention to the people and less to the tech. The jaded, alienated Mandella in The Forever War has a lot more to say about the evolution of his society than Rico does.

Armor is yet-another excellent contemporary to both of those books.
risk appetite isn't the same thing as price correlation.
How exactly is the EPA involved?
Be careful what you wish for. Do you think birth control pills or Plan B would exist today (consider Griswold vs Connecticut, 1965) with nationalized drug creation? Do you lament the government didn't spent billions developing a drug to cure homosexuality, once considered a mental illness?
OT, I am too young to remember a time when switching ISPs meant switching email addresses. That is nuts!
If a few incidents by bad actors make a harassment campaign, what does that say for feminism with incidents such as donglegate.
Why? People who do no work have a right to have children.
Right! One of the famous initial iPhone OS exploits involved a vulnerability in LibTiff. Decoding a crafted .tiff in Safari would grant the site's javascript root access.

Read more: https://books.google.com/books?id=1kDcjKcz9GwC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA...
It's weird, because 2channel recently had a big user exodus. A lot of users used desktop clients. Those were banned in a push to monetize. As a result, a lot of 2ch users started lots of 2ch replacement subreddits, the largest being newsokur: https://www.reddit.com/r/newsokur
That headline is just clickbait. It is available from Indian generic manufacturers for around 2 rupees a tablet. That is about 3 cents a tablet.

India makes 80% of the generic drugs used around the world.

If US hospital administrators are paying $750 a tablet, it sounds like the Indians have not bothered to apply for sales approval in the USA due to the low profit margin.
Might actually be better for him, judging by all the immigration horror stories. America is great, but not for most foreigners...
No, and in most cases where it has it, it shouldn't... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
Cast android to browser
Boy loses 50 pounds in 6 months
A terror attack on the streets is a fairly easy thing to plan and you don't need extreme cutting edge technology to pull one off. People do it all the time, just usually not in the west.
>Pretty funny how those innovations don't actually add any value.

They made buying houses a possibility without a huge mountain of cash.
While investors look for gold and bonds as a response to falling equities, they're actually just trying to find 'safety'. That doesn't tell anything about which asset they'll necessarily choose.

Take the EM crisis we've been experiencing. Yes, everything going downhill, but many EM investors bought USD as a 'response'. If USD has problems, maybe certain commodities go up. It's hard to tell.
There are plenty other ways to make money on the internet. Paywalls (stratechery), sponsors (daring fireball), native advertising (buzzfeed). Also maybe we will see rise of better ad networks (the deck) that people will not actually block?

Advertising will survive in some form, hopefully better for all of us than the current mess.
tend to agree. In Michigan, there are no laws requiring owners to pass an emissions test. There use to be in the 80s but they were dissolved in the late 80s. I believe states like California still have them and I know, at least, Illinois has them. In Illinois, it's a simple matter of a test center pulling data from the ODB2 port.
Disney leads a $66M investment in Virtual Reality
Maybe the big drug retailers (CVS/Walgreen/Walmart) could be interested in either owning or partnering with generic makers, as they can derive secondary benefits such as reputation/traffic even if a particular drug is temporarily unprofitable. They could also attempt "premium" generics like what Costco did with the Kirkland brand. You need a player that can benefit in other ways to prevent someone from gaining a monopoly through price manipulation.
http://www.anonymous-japan.org/fake2ch/
Yep, it was a pdf parsing exploit I believe.
You're absolutely right, and FWIW, I'm perfectly clearly on the distinction between correlation and causation, or lack thereof.

But tell me this: if they're not talking about violence, why do the words "violent", "violence" and "violently" occur 23 times in that 1-page summary? The root "aggress" occurs at less than half that rate.

They spend a lot of time implying, suggesting, and speculating on links between "aggressive behavior" and "violent behavior." They were indeed careful to say the research doesn't support a conclusion about violence, however this summary is clearly written to induce the fear that the kind of aggression they're talking about and violent behaviors might be linked.

“Rather, it is the accumulation of risk factors that
tends to lead to aggressive *or violent behavior*.
The research reviewed here demonstrates that violent
video game use is one such risk factor.”

“What researchers need to do now is conduct studies
that look at the effects of video game play in people
at risk for aggression *or violence* due to a
combination of risk factors."

(emphasis mine)

2- They raise "concerns" and conclude that action needs to be taken. The single conclusive action they suggest is one that I just provided evidence for already haven taken place on a large scale for many years.

3- Why are we talking about correlation and causation, when there's no correlation in the first place? That's the root of my question above. Yes, they're only claiming "aggression" and dancing around "violent" behavior, but they explicitly state more research need to be done to see if there are links. So, what is the concern, and why is there a need for research when in reality there is an overall inverse correlation between violent games and violent behavior?

* edited for formatting
Trapped in the system: a sick doctor's story
>I think it's a mistake to believe that ethics is a big part of that equation

Yeah, so it also used to be merely unethical to lie about your business' finances. Its illegal now. Ethics IS a big part of the equation. In fact ethics have been integrated into the laws themselves.

>history backs me up on that

What? History also "backs you up" that exterminating an entire group of people is "valid".
Big Australian banks stun Bitcoin companies by closing their accounts
Uber Goes Unconventional: Using Driver Phones as a Backup Datacenter
Is there similar data for longer periods of time? Seems like it be interesting to see that correlation in periods that include some recessions or am I completely off the mark?
The Sheltered Ones
According to the guy who ran the site. If you think he's lying about that, please put forth some evidence.
First Major Malware Attack on Apple's App Store
I would add Symbian to your list. It was there first.
I'm totally OK with this too! :D
4chan Message Board Sold to Founder of 2Channel, a Japanese Web Culture Pioneer
>"Users within C group (i.e. C2C Sector) may use Encryption for storage and communication.
Encryption algorithms and key sizes will be prescribed by the Government through
Notification from time to time. All citizens (C), including personnel of Government /
Business (G/B) performing non-official / personal functions, are required to store the
plaintexts of the corresponding encrypted information for 90 days from the date of
transaction and provide the verifiable Plain Text to Law and Enforcement Agencies as and
when required as per the provision of the laws of the country."

So you can encrypt your data but any government/business communications must be retained in plan text for 90 days. Nice.
A few days ago, an article was posted how WhatsApp has scaled to nearly a billion users and is still running with only 50 engineers. Isn't running 4chan more impressive feat being run, if I am not wrong, by just one engineer, and that too from a time when web development tools weren't anywhere close to what we have today.
Citation needed, and even if true, posting pictures of someone that they made public years ago is not "harassment".
Before we accept this as gospel, can we confirm a link between psychology and science?
I think the sentiment was intended to be "fuck the military" in general, not "fuck the military from your specific country but leave the rest of the military alone".
Hey, at least people haven't started saying "cuck" here yet. I hate that word so much...
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* In Canada, we used to only ever do tailpipe tests, meaning a defeat device wouldn't be able to fool the testing. *

I think you misunderstand both the testing and the defeat device. We do tailpipe testing here in the US, and the defeat device results in far cleaner tailpipe emissions during said tests. It's not just an OBD data-hiding thing, it actually changes the emissions.

edit - clarification, we may not do tailpipe tests on diesels here, didn't occur to me that gas tests would be different than diesel.
No updates on my Samsung and Asus devices for the last months.
>Systema Software said in a statement that initial reviews indicate Vickery was the only unauthorised user to have accessed the files.

Ashley Madison moment right here.
Not really. A lot of the mods were current or former FYAG/FYAD posters. Only a few were banned, and the big anime witch hunts came much later.

Raspberry Heaven was kind of a splinter from the semi-official SADCHUB. Lowtax never had any influence on either.

RH and ADTRW actually both had their own off-SA fora created to avoid the overall SA attitude, though neither was used much. When moot created 4chan it was more out of the general fascination with 2chan's image boards, particularly /a and /b, which were mostly random (but not 4chan /b random) artwork, without much commentary.
Yep, we can't fedex a server with HIPAA data unless it has encrypted drive. Or mail backup tapes for that matter. But that banker box full of claim statements? Go right ahead.

To be fair, a backup tape can have a couple TB worth of claims whereas a banker box has got maybe 5000 if you pack'em real tight.
Stagefright was not a rootable exploit.
The impact of flashing the fix to the ECU remains to be seen - my instinct is the loss would be in the 10% - 20% range (I have an older TDI VW, with a different engine). Given that these vehicles are typically getting 50 - 55mpg, that still wouldn't make them useless. Obviously disappointing though. I wish we could get Toyota diesels in the US...
> one of the last true bad lands of the internet

Absolutely true, and a great way of putting it.
No one said that it was the most efficient way. I'd love for more private sector or publicly research but alas corporations and the taxpayer doesn't seem to want to fund more.
Volkswagen Denied Deception to E.P.A. For Nearly a Year
I'm no expert, but one hard sub-problem seems to be authentication, the thing that certificate authorities aim to solve. Which encrypted IP standard are you thinking of, and how does it provide authentication?

Not everything needs encryption and there is a real cost to maintaining encryption infrastructure. As those costs decrease, we get more encryption, and perhaps we'll get to a place where everything is encrypted, but I don't think it's especially outrageous that we're not there now.
Yup. When we built our home I had them run two CAT-5 cables to the center of every wall in every room in the house. Yes, lots of cable. Cable is cheap. They did this before insulating and closing the walls, which made it super easy. All cables go to the garage. The garage itself has four cables per wall (hint: never in my life have I parked a car in my garage).

The cables are not brought out to connectors at all. When a need for connectivity appears it is easy to tone a cable through the wall, find the wires, cut through and install a box with connectors.

Thanks to this setup wifi use is kept to a minimum and security is enhanced greatly. It's always fun to watch the reaction of phone company technicians the few times we've changed internet connectivity when they walk into a garage full of computers, lab and cnc equipment and an EIA rack with servers, a large switch, hardware firewall and patch panels. They usually say something like "OK, here's the cable, it might be better if you wire it."
The movie was deeply satirical, but the book wasn't (either that, or the satire was well masked).

For instance, Haldeman (the author of Forever War) is on record stating that Starship Troopers glorifies war, and he's not the only one.
Yup, opening this on my own website (hosted using GitHub's repositories) also gave me an error.
Another one here for whom skype is down is Spain.
I wasn't aware that they made a Fundamentals of Engineering certification exam for web developers.
Apps developers now spend nearly as long in design and testing as they do coding