skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Popular culture has begun to appreciate nerds, but usually only the ones that have exhibited sort of evil tendencies at least some of the time (Zuckerberg, Jobs, etc.). So, a rich nerd who abuses privacy or profits from monopolistic practices is cool, but a nerd without a shitload of money is still just a nerd. Especially if the non-rich nerd is weird and uses weird phones, computers, etc. while treating it like it is an ethical decision rather than just being weird and isolated.

I can't criticize the general public, and kids, too harshly, because while I use Linux and Open Source software almost exclusively on my laptop and desktop, I also use gmail a lot, I have an Android phone (if I could find a decent Firefox phone in the US, I'd switch), I have an active facebook and Twitter account, etc. It's hard to treat these things as inherently dangerous, and thus something to actively avoid, when the world is so tied to them. And, replacing them is hard, because it takes millions of dollars and armies of engineers to build GMail or facebook at scale.

Which is kind of what I'm getting at. Without a mass movement of brilliant hackers, or at least very prolific ones, building open alternatives, we will eventually lose everything resembling privacy, developer freedom, and communities free of marketing. I'm not arguing things are worse or better than they were 20 years ago (that's an extremely complex and nuanced discussion to have, and for every stride forward, there have been dramatic losses), but there was an almost religious fervor behind the development of the Internet. Nearly everything that ran the Internet in the beginning was aggressively free or Open Source software: Apache, BIND, Sendmail, Postfix, QMail, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Perl, PHP, Linux, BSD, etc. Even the web browser, and all the other client software, started out free. It was based on a cultural belief that this thing we were building was meant to be free; a safe haven from state and corporate power, and a place where an individual had a meaningful contribution to make without needing permission.

So, while there's more Open Source and Free software than ever, and more developers building more code in public, I think that religious fervor has faded, and I think it's to our detriment.

I don't know what to do about it, and it may be that I miss the subtleties of what can be done about it (I grew up without the Internet, and learned it as a second language as an almost-adult; maybe there's something positive happening that I don't see or understand). But, I feel vaguely like we (anyone who cares and understands where we're from and where we're heading) should be doing something about it.
The "dismissal", as you call it, is hardly unfair (note, I was an eyewitness to all this, the players were largely in my social circle and I worked for Lisp Machines Inc during that period, heck, we both gave up on Lisp Machines in general at the same time). As DLW relates, RMS didn't do the designs of the new features, he copied some of them. In part I believe this is because he's much more an improver than an innovator when it comes to code and systems. This can have massive qualitative results, like after he took over ITS EMACS, but it deprives him of the cachet of "inventor", for what that's worth.
Lots of previous articles on this, if you want to read more:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hampton%20creek&sort=byDate&pr...
I don't disagree - but there's value in harm reduction, no?
I don't follow. How does supporting RMS' ideals imply you have to adopt his computing habits to the fullest? I don't recall him ever making such a claim. His is mostly to avoid profiling and non-free JavaScript, but not something he insists everyone advocating free software to do.
The author says they chose to identify as a mammal, but I'm pretty sure if you are choosing then it's not real.
Tell me, what's the difference between a mesh network and an ISP?
It tells me that you don't understand or outright reject the very notion of citizenship and the obligations it entails and should be viewed with suspicion by those who still subscribe to it.
Misleading title: It sounds like they just found these turtles when in fact they just researched a group of turtles they already knew about, only to discover the group consisted of two different species - one of which is then of cause "new" to science.

But I guess that means that the group which - as far as I remember - was previously close to extinction before, now is even closer to extinction since there are even fewer of them left :(
> “What a colossal mistake,” Ross said. “I think it’s one of those things that reinforces everything bad about the tech industry, and about Airbnb, that people feel.”

And when tech people respond by thinking this must be an anti-tech conspiracy, they're further reinforcing the feeling.
I guess they still have 1 million plates in some storage facility. Nah, jokes aside: what they actually do is to not only legally, but practically issue their own plates, which would include stamping them. Also, they don't use the reflective background white. So not only they don't need it, they also have reasons to continue with the old variant. (And actually, they might indeed have a huge stock of them. Military supplies are often aquired at ridiculous numbers.)

(PS: Sorry, auto-correct inserted a typo, just fixed)
... and Guardian headlines.
A new model, “The Big Splat”, explains the strange asymmetry of the moon
Many churches and temples in Ogaki have a sign in the window saying "We will under NO CIRCUMSTANCES assist with third-party ancestry investigations (身元調査)." This is largely because parish records (and the analogous paperwork at temples) can leak burakumin status or Korean ancestry, both things which Japanese people have ample reason to not want publicized about them.

A sidenote:

I debated during college (in the US, prior to ever living in Japan, where I've been for about 10 years now).

I was mildly notorious in debate circles for running a particular "case" (proposed instantiation of a government policy supporting the resolution which one would, as the government side of a debate, have to win was beneficial) on any resolution which would support it. For example, the resolution might be "The government shall limit the information it records about it's citizens." One team of the debate has to convince the judge that they have a concrete idea for how to do that. The other team opposes either that concrete idea and/or says "That case doesn't actually support the proposition our opponents are forced to support."

The case was "abolish the koseki", a family register in Japan which was once considered semi-public information (this has been tightened up rather severely, but it still exists and companies often still ask to see yours) and which has a variety of ways to leak extraordinarily sensitive facts about one's family, in addition to being an odious institution for a host of other reasons. I say "notorious" for this case because, by American collegiate standards, the koseki is straight-out evil, and the reason we chose to run this case is because there are few ways to debate in favor of retaining it and all of them require you to be better versed at Japanese politics/policy than my debate partner and I were, which is unlikely to be true of any US debate team picked at random.

I like to believe that my one lasting contribution to debate is convincing a lot of tournament directors to change the traditional wording in resolutions "The government shall $DO_SOMETHING" to "The United States federal government shall $DO_SOMETHING", because when we interpreted the government to mean "Japanese government" the other team invariably said something along the lines of "That's not what the resolution writer intended", to which I would say "You being ignorant of a major first world nation whose internal political issues are well-reflected in the academic literature may make this debate inconvenient for you to win but that does not mean I'm not allowed to pick something which fits within the clear definition of the word 'government.'"

This drove people nuts.

Ten years later I just had to get a copy of my family's koseki to apply for an apartment lease, upon which the renting agent said "Oh, you're American. Do you even know what this is?" Yep -- funny how life works out. (Why does my apartment renting agent need my koseki? To determine whether I'm the right sort of people to live in the really nice apartment we're moving to. Does "right sort of people" sound ominous to you? YEP, exactly as bad as you think it is.)
What I meant was: I want to spent my time with the problems that I must solve, not with by programming language induced problems!

When I really need speed, I always can implement single routines in pure C -- I don't need an STL abstraction for that, that feigns speed to the programmer, but in the end it does not give it to him, because he chose the wrong abstraction. It seems so easy: Just use the STL/std-c++ library and all your speed problems are solved -- but std-libraries do not make a bad programmer a good one -- instead, it creates programmers that invest their time in language specifics instead in data structures and algorithms. So bad programmers will be even worse in the end.
All click-bait titles are direct quotes.
I have not. I got interested in Light Table, but it quickly became obvious that their focus was too divergent from what I consider useful. I really have no interest in an editor built on web technologies. I find some things outright weird, such as on OS X you use ⌘ rather than Ctrl. Why, exactly? Dunno. Anyway, it's an interesting project. But it's something at an awkward angle to what I want in an editor. For other people it's probably the most awesome thing ever.
This is culture transmission, not genetic memory. Whales have the same problem and the same solutions. The grandmothers are very important in both societies.
Clickbait headline to mask an advertisement for Microsoft.
In fact I think this whole story indirectly shows a deep flaw in the structure of markets.

We all realize middle aged people tend to have families and more financial responsibilities as they get older. But it's these years IMO where a person is truly most capable to make a dent in the world.

So we practically lose an entire demographic (the most capable demographic) almost when it comes to disruption. All you get are the people who have risen to the top (VCs) and the people who are just entering at the bottom (just out of school) who participate in this endeavor.

Granted that's making several assumptions, but in general I think one could make a case that this is a flaw that we can't integrate this demographic into more disruptive ventures.
So, following that logic. 90% is nearly 100%. 10% is nearly zero. And 40% and 60% are basically the same, because they are both nearly 50%.
Why do they want you to download something from a non-https server?
Thanks for the tip! Just started the process for qualifying.
That's great for the community, but in a larger sense we should question what the point is of amassing huge concentrated wealth and then giving a small part (or even a large part) back to make isolated positive impacts. Wouldn't it be better if it was impossible to amass that concentration of wealth in the first place? Then the token donations would not be necessary. This is not supposed to be a cynical post, but this pattern is indicative of a general problem with the system.
Just curious, why did you pick the Guardian to call out when it's not even one of the UK's worst offenders for headlines with puns in them (i.e. tabloids)?
Shock and horror: commercial company has a paid value add.

GitHub is not a charity.
Brian Krebs – I'm an investigative reporter. AMA
Dolphins are smart like dolphins. They do not have hands as we have, they have a language really complex, cant talk each other being a several km of distance without any gadget, can voluntarily decide to stop to breath (and move the blood only to the vital organs for a half hour or more), and can "see" perfectly in the dark. Not comparable intelligences.
Stallman has been a bit hard on me in one interaction but I think that is just the way he is if you don't totally match his views.

I very much respect him and I think he has done enormous service with the FSF and arguing for privacy. I also like using the cloud and think a lot about this: secure and private personal and small group clouds. Not too difficult to set up for storage, email, web apps - but conveniences like Google Now are an imposibility unless a very large developer community contributed.
It's not true that openbsd devs don't care about battery life.

Check the recent C-state work by guenther@.
apmd and cpu freq scaling has recently been fixed for multiprocessor system.

But these things can take time to work on new machines. Unlike Linux and Windows, we don't get device drivers written for us by Intel employees in time for their product launch.
Doesn't look polished to the degree I'd expect considering your target market.
> I honestly couldn’t believe that GitHub would be willing to do something that shortsighted, visibly motivated by greed from the cash they thought they could extract from some of their users.

They're a business. C'mon here.
> Interesting that the the military vehicles don't get it.

Note to others: also "civilian", mostly un-marked car models, buses, trucks etc. get the old-style, non reflective plates in our military.

Then again, their layout looks vastly different from civilian plates, so someone forging a BW plate doesn't really gain anything.
I'm not so sure that's true. Nadella is still executing Ballmer's playbook, with a kinder, gentler face.
Probably because the linked article is from The Guardian and contains a pun (scrambled eggs).
I think there's a good argument to be made that personally accumulated wealth spent on experimental projects such as this one is used better than if it were taxed and added to the relatively enormous federal budget. DoD yearly spend is greater than 10x of Zuck's net worth, after all.
So what model is this, I can't seem to tell exactly? Montessori, Sudbury, democratic, anarchistic free? Or just a traditional school with integrated daycare?
Actually stolon is more comparable with Patroni, the core component used by Spilo.

One can call Patroni the HA machine, and Spilo an AWS based infrastructure that uses it. So one can use Patroni for managing Postgres in your own data center.
> I'm not arguing that GCC should violate the ANSI standard; rather it should provide additional guarantees above the what ANSI requires ...

The problem with that approach is that it introduces dependency on the compiler. The original code was ANSI C and thus should compile fine on all compilers compatible with ANSI C, the new code is not as each compiler will decide to handle undefined behavior differently. Either you'll make the exact compiler a hard dependency (i.e. it always has to be compiled with gcc and fails to build with everything else), or it will produce "correct" binaries on some compilers and "incorrect" binaries on others. That's hardly an improvement.

The only way out of this is either to abandon C and use a language with stronger guarantees, or make the ANSI C more strict by adding the guarantees to the standard. Which is not going to happen, I guess.

> The post is claiming that GCC is the worst of them. Certainly my impression is that clang is substantially less aggressive at exploiting UB; I don't know ICC well enough to comment.

GCC is also the most widely, so people tend to spot issues more often.

All this "problem" is a direct consequence of using C without really understanding what guarantees it does and does not provide, and instead driving by a simplified model of the environment. And then getting angry that the simplified model is not really correct.
Ask HN: How does one find links that were posted to HN?
There was a link posted in the last three weeks that had a conversation in the comments I am interested in but I don't know how to search for it other than Google (which isn't yielding anything). I don't know who submitted it.
The idea is to prevent free riders in a commodified market and allow for collective action.

It's actually very similar to a union in that each individual member (or farm) is small and can't have much effect on their own. By organizing collectively you can become more powerful but there's no incentive for any individual member to join.

Think about the "Pork, the other white meat" or all the milk mustache ads. A single farm could never put that together but by working together they can benefit the industry as a whole.

So that's how you end up with these "checkoff" organizations and arguments against right-to-work laws.
Wait, emacs is keyboard friendly? I missed something maybe. Using emacs myself. With evil-mode, that makes it bearable.
"... difficult" was my trying to be minimally polite, I'm quite sure from even our short interactions over the last few days that there's at least an order of magnitude difference. E.g. his baseline does not include "pretty laid back, inclined to go along, to get along".

More like "Do whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like, without regards for consequences, including lethal harm to bystanders." The latter lost him more than a few friends/acquaintances.

Which biography would you be referring to?
"Nah, Jones aside"

What does this phrase mean?
Atom is a slow, bulky, often difficult to manage editor.

It's also the easiest to extend, modify, and generally make into the perfect(if slow) editor.

Also, it has the prettiest themes. But I'd be fooling myself if I didn't say I'm keeping a serious eye on NeoVIM to possibly alleviate me.
Might be an autocorrected "jokes aside"
A case involving raisins[1,2] might start and end to some of this foolishness, but some of these lobbies are pretty powerful. I direct the hemp lovers to look at the lobbying efforts of the cotton folks.

1) http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/22/supreme...

2) http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/horne-v-departmen...
I have been thinking about using Atom, specially because of the pair programming tool atom pair. Any advice before I jump in ?
The map's creators, Viegas and Wattenberg, gave a talk on how they made the visualization at the Eyeo Festival 2012 -- https://vimeo.com/48625144#t=16m55s . They show the experiments that took them from static vector fields to the fading brushstrokes analogy: Static vector field: https://vimeo.com/48625144#t=20m34s | Particles: https://vimeo.com/48625144#t=21m16s | Particles with geographic outlines: https://vimeo.com/48625144#t=21m47s | Warping blocks: https://vimeo.com/48625144#t=22m21s | Static brush strokes: https://vimeo.com/48625144#t=23m16s | Fading brushstrokes: https://vimeo.com/48625144#t=24m57s
The way I like to phrase it is that humans are in a perpetual loop of creating things that make life easier in one way yet inherently more complicated in others. Then the cycle repeats to compensate for the new situation. The more granular your understanding of this in a particular discipline ( it doesn't have to be programming but it can be ) the more valuable you will be. :)
If this works, can it be used as an example for better public schools? Even if it's more expensive, one can argue that the increased productivity of well educated kids outweighs the cost of their education.
IME, that is uncommon. Most have had minimum. YMMV of course
David Cowan, Bessemer Venture Partners, writes infreqently at
http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/ , but it's always a good read and in a voice consistent with Bessemer maintaining an anti-portfolio.
why would you think it's concrete thinking only? car mechanics seems basically the same as software debugging, yes, there is a bit of physical thinking when it's time to take parts out and put parts in, but if the car is not turning on you have to figure out in your mind the "algorithm" that is going on from the key turning to the engine working, and debug each step.

There might be a bit of 3d thinking in figuring out how to, say, measure that in location X of the engine there is current Y, but it's not like you can figure out you have to check the current in that spot without having a clear mental picture of what is going on.

Not to mention remembering that car model X tends to develop fault Y which sometimes causes observable behavior Z, which can be identified by checking A, B, C etc. etc. seems very similar to software engineering to me.
Yes, and the submission guidelines say "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." The difference between "40%" and "nearly half" is not significantly misleading.
Why should a trojan bother to read files or clipboard data when it can read the password directly from the input field? You don't even need a trojan for this purpose, simple XSS at the right spot is sufficient. This means it's irellevant wether you write it on paper or in a file, since the password will be stolen when it's entered. The only thing you can do is to make sure your password is long enough so it can't be guessed, and that's where a password manager will help you.
One point is that his take on the "technological vastness of the future" we now live in has become so circumscribed that his advice WRT to is is getting less and less relevant.

At another level it's making him more and more ignorant, since the price for him to do the research necessary to chart wise paths in things like FSF/GNU governance is so high.

To draw back from the weeds, how can he be "The Hero the Internet Needs" when he is so disconnected from it? Per the essay, his argument has no nuance, it is to not be a part of this thing which, at least to my paranoid mindset, is indeed just as dangerous as portrayed, but which offers vast benefits for being (a careful) part of. Especially for the vast majority of us who, aren't, you know, (any more) a part of the MIT community or the like.

ADDED: Maybe to draw back even further, he's not wise; that doesn't disqualify him from being A Hero of the Internet, but it's a significant thing.
Would that I could upvote multiple times. Thanks for that.
shifting the narrative is what's needed. When I hear people talk about "being rich" these days they aren't talking about owning luxury things but being out of debt with enough time away from work to pursuit other things and enough capital to support having a child.

The big problem is that being unslaved from obligatory wage is quickly being considered to be "rich".
Nice Pivot. Great job guys
Do you also object to people being offered a choice between fines, jail, and community service?

It seems to me that donating blood is similar to community service as an alternative to jail or fines--you are being given the chance to do something generally recognized as good for the community, and that non-convicts are encouraged to and often do volunteer for.
I added the article to Pocket, and while the text is there, all the photos are gone.

I haven't studied the source to see whether Pocket conceivably could have parsed this correctly. But sites really need to make articles play nice with apps that reformat for readability. I tend to skip articles that don't transfer to Pocket (or Safari's readability mode) well. NYTimes is a particularly annoying offender.
This is very weird coming from the Spanish government...
>evidence, perhaps, that old, discriminatory habits may yet be consigned to history.

There's ample evidence with regard to foreigners in Japan already.
That's cool. I assume that holds for any American bill, since they're all the same size?
Why is this being downvoted? It is clear, brief, on topic, and provides key information to clarify any confusion as to the headline.
That's good for browser passwords, but finding out that your 64 character password can't be pasted in the system dialog after erverything is set up is extremely frustrating (there is a hard to find command line workaround though). I think Blizzard enforces the no-paste rule in its Battle.net launcher (that you can't trick) but I'm not 100% sure.