skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that the biggest threat to installing Arch Linux on a VM... is all of the other things they installed on to the VM.

Playing games, installing old and new versions of windows, all sorts of things. Even detours in to immortalizing the process of posting 'proof of life' to various places.
There is also something utterly preverse in pretending exploitative "sharing economy" companies create the kind of "value" that should be encouraged, especially as it displaces less exploitative companies.

Which of course is a propagation of the very thing you claim they so nobly rescue these lost souls from!
For starters we can easily talk/communicate to your grandmother and any human in history.

So I assume that you think they fear being found and are not trying to communicate (I find it unlikely they just don't care, as humans we are very interested in working out communications in the most simplest animals and plants)

Yet we have found them with our 'primitive' technology.
There is almost a nomadic pride in knowing the tool itself, and not a bunch of wrapper scripts around it. So if you find yourself on a different box, your 'productivity' isn't reduced as much. For editors such as vim, this really holds true, since it already has 99% of the features you really need built in.
I've had similar thoughts, though my time limit was 5 or 10 years, rather than months.

My other thought was to tie it to current events, so if Iraq was in the news then dig out something from the archive that takes a long view, you'd probably learn more than you would from a list of who died yesterday.
Wow, can't believe they managed to install TempleOS during the stream.
Use policy-rc.d to prevent services from starting automatically
ProtonMail can't be trusted with any decisions about its business going forward, no matter how good their service (of which I still have doubts anyway). I mean, who knows what kind of compromises they will make next if they get "pressured" by the government or whoever to put a backdoor in their service.
I can recommend "Inside North Korea" (National Geographic) where he's treating cataracts in NK.
Some sort of automatic scanners on all cargo and cruise ships.
You might be interested in the inverse burrito-monad tutorial: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~edmo/silliness/burrito_monads.pdf
20 million for 20% - so a post-money valuation of 100 million. About the same as Yummly, and over 20% more than Giphy!
That labour productivity as mentioned will have to be twice or three times as much to make it worth it. If you have 3 kids, sending them to childcare will cost as much as the wages that would be paid in a full time job, even though in the childcare centre one adult is looking after 15 kids, due to taxes and rent.
*Resident of Spain, not Spanish citizen. Big difference. With the exception of the residents of Canary Islands, Ceuta, Mellila, which are part of Spain and the EU, but not part of the EU VAT area.
One of the absolutely necessary things you should have on board is solar panels, to keep your radio alive.

Also, the movie All Is Lost comes to mind.
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Life of Pi, chapter 70 http://www.litcharts.com/lit/life-of-pi/chapter-70
Harman's How to Listen
This kind of thing makes me wonder if there are dozens or hundreds of other cases where people were lost at sea and survived for many months and thousands of miles, but never made it to land so we'll never know.
"In 1993, Netpbm was developed to replace Pbmplus. Netpbm was nothing more than a new release of Pbmplus, and named for the fact that people all over the world would maintain the package by submitting fixes and enhancements over the Net. This was a time when such worldwide collaboration was still novel."

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/history.html
This is my favorite comment :-) After years of programming in enterprise Java, I failed to truly make it enterprise worthy! I'm going to see if I can get an assembly example added per your other comment.
netatalk is likely just a dir name, like netinet or netns.
I think you underestimate how common it is for people to use names other than on their birth certificates, passports or marriage certificates.
My point was that outside of academia we would laugh at any company which expected to hire a PhD and pay them under $50k/year.
When I tried it a few years ago, there was no way to read a stereo wave file :-) Looking at the changelog, it seems it was introduced around version 1.3.0. It was a showstopper for me then. At that time, I could not find an equivalent of SuperCollider's Patterns library which is fantastic : http://doc.sccode.org/Tutorials/A-Practical-Guide/PG_01_Intr...
If I were adrift at sea, I'd spend all that time doing something. Might as well be figuring out how to catch fish.
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Haskell isn't designed for "average people" or "most people" and why should it be?

Real human beings use Haskell every day and love it.

Real human beings are capable of learning about teh scary maths and abstract theories.

You studied philosophy? Are you aware that most people don't understand anything about philosophical theories other than The Secret? Have you thought about how maybe those theories can change people's lives even though they're not aimed at a lowest common denominator? E.g. by being influential in the long run, and also by being intellectually stimulating to people who do bother to learn about it?

Rails-style success is not the goal for Haskell. It is an explicit anti-goal: the motto is "avoid success at all costs."

Terse and rude counterpoint to your thesis: Average people are lazy idiots and designing your language to appeal to them will result in a very popular incoherent mess, like Java and Ruby, and Dijkstra will make pointed remarks at you from his grave.

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
The FBI are a government agency, with some funds, and they had physical access to the devices, for some time.

The devices absolutely cannot be trusted.

Whether a person cares about trusting the FBI or not (or thinks they're happy with just flashing the firmware and replacing the harddrives) is another thing.
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You don't learn an English vocabulary by reading the dictionary, you read literature and see how those words are used in context.

Learning in a vacuum is hard for all but the most abstract thinkers.
I don't read news but I trust I'll hear about it if something truly remarkable does happen. You might call that social filtering.

The reason I stopped reading news is that it's mostly noise: nothing in my life changed whether I knew this or that or not. After reading the paper, I had absolutely no idea of what I had just read. I can read a book at once and digest 90% of it on the first time: the news never stuck. I first dropped reading foreign affairs, then country-wide news, and finally local news, too.

It's not that I'm not interested at all but I prefer a) choose what is worth being interested in and 2) to digest the information in the form of an in-depth analysis later in time when I accidentally bump into (or search for) an article that summarizes something that has been flooding the news for years. Often even the summary doesn't really affect my life in any practical terms, so I skim it quickly to the extent of any academic curiosity I might have for the subject.
It's clear that the author wants me to dislike Sprig and like Josephine, but after reading the entire article I honestly can't articulate a single reason why other than an abstract feeling of wholesomeness. This reads like satire.
Good post.

I recently made a list of words/concepts that made me smarter:

Constructivism, incentive, meta-, inflation, half-life and root cause.

It's not complete, but the ones that came to mind somewhat easily.
Could have been towards one of the "Bonus Points" challenges from the project site ( https://www.twitchintheshell.com/ )
I am always amazed at the authorities reaction to this. In the entire history of modern communications has a terrorist ever announced publicly and in advance that he/she/they are now going to go out to place "xyz" at time "nn:nn" and going to do "some despicable act", so please come arrest me?

There are examples of course about warning about planted explosives etc (The IRA did this all the time), but these never include an invitation to apprehend the actual culprit - but rather as terror tactics in their own right.
more likely people would pay more for a device with confirmed FBI/CIA/NSA implant

a LOT MORE
I belong to a minority community in Pakistan target of regular state backed oppression.In addition to violence and flagrant discrimination the community representatives are also targets for abductions. The community has a rule.It never pays ransom to the kidnappers because this sets a precedent and exposes the representatives all over the country to even more kidnappings. This strategy while it may seem brutal is a necessary one and over the years kidnappings for ransom has gone down. Again, computer security is different, but the principle is same, you dont want to send out the message 'We'll give you money to make you go away' because it just goads even more to resort to such tactics.
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Not sure; I copy-pasted it back from hackernews and it works fine for me.
All this fetishizing of authentic human connections is making my misanthropy flare up.
> low effort

Of course, HN's habit of downvoting posts because of disagreement punishes effort. What do you expect?
Yes, I like it! Only thing I don't understand is '0$state'.
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I remember watching in high school with my family and talking about experiments with my dad. It was a similar experience I had when I watched MacGyver as an elementary schooler. Culture and specifically TV helps shapes and nurtures the passions of the next generation.
A foreshadow of that was Stafford Beer's Project Cybersyn, implemented for the government of Salvador Allende, which was essentially an attempt to use technology to replace the need for markets, without the rigid soviet bureaucracy.

That said, I don't think the balance is quite that one-sided. Technology centralizes in a geographical sense, since it reduces that barrier, but it also allow for the decentralization by allowing small players to access big markets - for example, tech-aware small farmers around here are actually making a decent income by producing for niches, while before only large players could make anything above subsistence income. At the same time, some of the new behemoths are not quite so - they may operate in many markets, but they're often only a small slice of the transaction, and the barrier to entry is not that great. Uber might be large now, but the scale is more from the cash being dumped into it than from the economies of scale, in my opinion. We'll see how that plays out in a few years.
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If they did have that capability they might seize the equipment to maintain the illusion that they did not.

The allied forces did this during the second world war. They could not admit that German encryption had been cracked, so if their only source of knowledge about an event was through breaking of encryption, they would not act on it - even if by doing so, large numbers of civilians would die, because in the long run - far more would be saved by bringing the war to a quicker end.
They actually managed to get TempleOS running! If only briefly. I'm impressed.
The chinese governement will have to change their policies at some point anyway.

Having the great firewall is as a side-effect hurting a lot the tech companies, no-one is actualy outsourcing tech to China. If you compare with India, the difference is massive. I can only think of one chinese tech company who succeeded internationally (AppAnnie), all the others I can think of are just copies of tech companies for the local market. At some point, they will have to choose between having great technology companies and keeping the firewall in place. The more they wait, the harder the choice is going to be for them.
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Quite a few things bug me about this piece.

>I’m on my annual win-a-trip journey, in which I take a university student with me on a trip to the developing world to cover underreported issues.

Firstly, I don't think this is 'under reported', I've seen at least two full length documentaries about this procedure in Nepal, the project has its own Facebook page [0] and a Google search for 'Nepal cataract' turns up lots of trad media results.

Secondly, if the author has taken a student to cover things, why aren't e reading the student's piece ?

Lastly, the author - like most people who haven't undergone this type of surgery - falls into the trap of breathlessly hailing this as a miraculous cure for blindness. It's not. While the restored sight is absolutely better than having cataracts and will indeed cheer you up in the immediate term, the vision provided by the replacement lenses is a far cry from a person's natural vision, for one thing these lenses have a fixed focus. Another issue is the limited life span - eventually they fur up, but don't go hard like UV induced cataracts - which necessitates replacement or laser surgery.

Humans - particularly the kind that live up mountains in Nepal - are adaptable and can cope, but as someone who has had this surgery (and the follow up laser surgery) it annoys me that reportage routinely fails to mention these kinds of things.

In this particular case, it is also quite peculiar that the author fails to point out that handing out a $5 pair of sunglasses would prevent the cataracts in the first place (these are pretty much all UV induced). Education and prevention in this respect are very much under reported.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/cureblindness/
I once put my hand around an urban squirrel's tail. Could have held it if I'd squeezed a bit. It was sitting on a wall munching some garbage, and I just walked straight up to it. Have you ever seen a squirrel do a double-take?

I guess my point is that even slippery little animals aren't as uncatchable as one would expect, if you can take them by surprise.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish... And he'll vote for the man who gave him a fish.
That e-mail went out before I posted here, and I fully intend on providing the answer myself ;). Should've probably made that more obvious. EDIT: Updated with the answer!
(Note - I am from one of the countries invaded and occupied by Britain)

I must come to Britain's defence here - it's behaviour was normal in those times but it did eventually give up most of its "ownership" without actually being defeated in wars. That was pretty amazing.

By modern standards, British behaviour was despicable, but a lot of the invaded countries got enormous benefits - rule of law, economic infrastructure, transport networks etc. Being invaded (not just plundered) by major cultures has generally had good benefits - in the long term - for the invaded nation as they get a lot of the characteristics of the stronger nation.

Again, keep in mind that this is not the modern way of looking at things, which is why we have the United Nations and other international organizations.
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Writing a boolean type to SysFS/GPIO from NodeJS doesn't quite work so I tweaked your example to following similar pattern of the other languages. Thanks.
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Aaron Swartz's take on the news:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001226
Nice tool. Suggestion: make it clear in the README that it can take more than one number; it wasn't clear to me until I read the source.
Yes I agree, but the PIs don't actually have any control over the pay of their postdocs. When I was a PI I wished I could pay more, but I couldn't.
Es entertaining and inspiring they may be, i will never lose the dislike of their method of claiming busted/confirmed as if it were a fact and not just one result of their test setup which may or may not be flawed.
I say this every time "learn to code" comes up, kids should learn to cook. People who can cook a meal from basic ingredients are healthier (than they would have been living on ready meals and takeaways), wealthier because it's cheaper, more relaxed because they have a hobby and more attractive to whatever is the gender of their preference.

Humans have been cooking for thousands and thousands of years, but modern schools have no idea how to teach it, hence the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, etc. So how on Earth can they teach anyone to "code" and should that reallly be priority?

Silicon Valley VCs want everyone to learn to code because it'll be cheap grist for their mill...
This is from the stream that was the target of a botnet right? It'd be interesting if access to the IRC chat is available to compare the ratio of successful hits for this vs Twitch plays Pokemon vs a randomized control to see if there were moments with or without tampering from outside forces.
Can there be treason if they sell it to a non-USA security research company?
See eg http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/colinfreeman/100251070/dav...
Mine http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1553:_Public_Key
Or else what? Or they will stop being indexed by Google? Why would they want that? It makes no sense!
We want to call them one after another, and return a failure if any of them fails, success if they're all succesful

I didn't find that example particularly motivating since I can easily think of a simpler solution: exceptions. (Alternatively, if I was using C, it'd be setjmp()/longjmp(), which perform a very similar style of control flow.)
Cataract surgery is not exactly modern medicine. There are records [1] of cataract surgery as far as 2500 BC, that is, more than 4000 years ago.

[1] http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/42710/InTech-The_history_of_c...
It is hanging out with their buddies.

See http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror#t... and http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20Effective
In resume this [1]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/think-your-skype-mes...
Hey OP, what's the music of this video?
Hey, what's the music of the video? I like it!
Supermin seems quite old. Perhaps an idea that has passed?
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Actually being ignorant of the reality - which is that the upper echelon of "the US Gov't/MilComplex" has had capabilities far, far in advance of modern civil technology, for long enough now that it is a principle governor of the scene - is also one way that the condition persists.

Fact: NSA/et al. have a complete catalog of devices they can easily implant in any consumer/corporate/civil/military computing device. There is a veritable market within these spook agencies, as customers of each other, such that reaching for a phone-book sized volume of catalogs is where the implant selection process starts ..

There is also much evidence that our CPU's are designed for intrusion in the first place. This is the scarier scenario: it doesn't matter how secret you think you are, if you didn't make your own CPU, there's a back door.
That's why science has peer-review community and replicable experiments part of it. Neither would make a good TV obviously, and I doubt that many of their conclusions would be falsified with independent research.
I used to have the same problem, but really they're following the spirit of the scientific process, just not the rigour. "Think of something and try it out" is the fundamental essence; "try it out rigourously" is the follow-on.

My favourite lack of rigour is their lack of statistical knowledge. They had a toast dropper, and were testing the randomness before the mythbusting run. The test toast dropped 7/10 drops on one side. "This is not random enough!", cried Savage, "If it was truly random, it would have been 5 on each side!". Betrays a startling lack of statistical knowledge :) But yes, they have done wonders for promoting the spirit of inquiry.
As a post-doc, I'm not sure people willing to stay in academia care that much about salary. I don't want to be paid a lot, if that was my priority, I would get a job in the industry. What I would like is a stable position where I could engage in mid- to long-term research projects, where I have less pressure and can focus on doing great things even if it means working hard without tangible results for a few years, etc. Salary-wise, I only want to have enough money to not have to worry about it and be able to focus on my research and my life. In many places in the world, $50k/year is largely enough for that.
So the goal is for Haskell to be the Ithkuil of the programming world?

That's a noble idea. Knowing this also makes it easier for me to chose to avoid reading articles about it.
What are the SD companies?
> just a rent-seeking gatekeeper between the restaurant and their customers

Couldn't agree more. I think this central to any discussion about the 'sharing economy'. Uber et al claim to be disrupting established monopolies and their marketing seeks to establish themselves as champions the free market. In reality, they are seeking to build a new monopoly, where they control the information about relationships in a system.

Memory fails me at the moment, but I remember hearing a piece on a podcast recently (it might have been Radiolab) where they discussed how the 'live' view presented by Uber was a prediction coming from their algorithms and that no actual location data was available to the app on your phone until you booked a ride. I thought it was ironic that the new darlings of the free market were operating what was essentially a soviet-style central planning system, albiet with a very modern gloss.