skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry to hear of Mr. Hammond's early passing. My family had a couple computers before, but the first computer that was really mine was a Gateway 2000 486/33. I think I got it around 1991 or 1992. The first and only time I've ever bought MS Windows in a retail box was Windows 3.0 for an older 386sx/16... The Gateway was the first of a continual sequence of machines that shipped with a Windows license built in.

For the time, the machine was relatively sophisticated. It had 8MB of memory and an ATI Mach 8 based graphics accelerator that was basically a single board combination of an 8514/A clone and a VGA Wonder. It drove the upgrade 15" monitor fairly well at 1024x768x8bpp. Over the life of the machine, I added a 400MB disk, a CD-ROM, a 17" monitor and converted it over to Linux 0.9something. It made a fairly reasonable low-end Linux workstation for a kid studying computer science.

Where the machine started to age was in memory capacity and bus bandwidth. Our machine was bought just before VLB became common, so all I/O had to be done over a 1984-era 8MHz 16-bit bus. This particularly killed video performance for anything beyond 8bpp. The 8MB of RAM was also pretty thin by the time Linux was running with X and Emacs. Emacs got the nickname 'Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping' for a good reason, as far as I could tell. Neither of those issues could be addressed without effectively replacing the entire machine, so I wound up replacing it with a later Micron P5-100. Either way, the Gateway was a great machine and very formative for me. RIP, Mr. Hammond.
San Francisco 2015 Election Results – Prop F and Prop I Defeated
Looks interesting. A bit of explanation and background would be useful for those not familiar with Pharo. As I've mentioned before, a major IT publisher offers not a single book on Pharo or even Smalltalk where publication dates range no further than 1999. Have I missed a later one aside from the excellent 'Pharo by Example' and 'Deep into Pharo' available free online? I believe the community is buzzing but somehow I don't get that impression from without the inner circle of enthusiasts. Seems a pity.
This can be done even easier. Find popular product on ebay, list same product for 5 bucks less and when you receive order, order from real merchant with stolen paypal account.
Keep in mind that this is natural shrinking of glaciers that's been going on for 10,000 years. Nothing to do with the newer AGW.
With you on the move IT / High tech out of the UK bit (also already had talks with our accountants & lawyers to relocate our company away from the UK).

One part of the "snooper's charter" is that it makes the ISPs / providers liable ("their duty") to store the content of I-Net sessions and provide access to this data for service, police & the tax office (not clear how all of these entities will share the data between each other or with the outside).

De facto this makes any end-to-end encryption or zero-knowledge services impossible to provide from the UK. If this propagates across EU / US / other countries it will bring an end to many cloud-based services & many saving governments & commercial are planning or envisioning for the next years. Wild guess estimate in damages to the UK (five years) - £100Billion + long term effects.

It seems the group of people pushing on this piece of legislation so heavily since years have not learned a bit from what is / has been happening in the UK and elsewhere for many years across industries (alternative reality: they want to create an very large income stream for themselves. This will nevertheless be most likely be short-lived at the cost of the overall UK economy / competitiveness - short- & long-term).

What has been proven over-and-over again in the UK (and certainly elsewhere as well) is that government or similar oversight is not working and is constantly abused by those given access to these means when large financial amounts / incentives are available to those who "bend" these processes / regulations / e.a. to their own benefit. At the same time those so far do not have to fear any reprisal / punishment. This is another shortcoming and clearly demonstrates that the true intentions of this legislation must be completely different from the labeling publicly provided - I'm talking about punishment along the line given to so called "hackers" in the UK / US - 10 years min. - but wait - it was the UK just recently that has removed all punishment for breaking the law 100'000s of times by some of its services (they couldn't make it legal without due process through the parliament so they just removed the punishment).

Let's have a brief look into how well "oversight" works in the UK:

- News of the World (data / access sold off by government employees)

- UK Mis-selling saga with PPI - unique case as almost £30Billion in compensations have been granted - non-working financial oversight

- Gold fixing scandal - non-working financial oversight for many years / decade

- FX fixing scandal - non-working financial oversight for many years / decade

- Bailouts / 2008 financial crisis - non-working financial oversight for many years

- NHS data leaks - no due process and proper data protection

- plenty more to add ...

... crime and abuse of the rules happens when an opportunity is provided with incentives and no reprisal.

IMHO - that is the biggest danger from all these almost limitless surveillance laws and powers provided without checks.
Interview with Managing Director of E-Mail Security Company
I had a feeling this would happen. Containerisation as a trend has just as much to offer desktop OSes as it does for cloud clusters.
I'd counter with: complaining something doesn't exist, without making any effort to see if in fact it does exist, is the real "moronic act of hubris" here
Suicide often removes a crushing burden on loved ones, in the case of incurable disease and heavy medical bills. It cuts both ways.
> The bill will not say unbreakable encryption is illegal.

It's already being planned, see:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10498280
Sketch-Flavored Auto Layout-Like Constraints
I'm surprised to read this, because I feel like I understand what Linus is ranting about, and while he's probably right, he's right about such a minor and easily disposed-with point that I'm surprised to see him invest so much emotion in it.

He could have just said "overflow_usub? no, not in 2015." and everyone would have agreed with him.
Azure is the OS. Red hat's stuff is the application.
So you've stereotyped over three hundred million people to be "self-absorbed Title IX crybabies for whom every opinion they disagree with is 'literally rape'."

I still don't see how this is relevant or contributes to the discussion.
This seems pretty easy to mitigate If the merchant enforces a rule like if this is your first N orders, require the shipping and billing to match, or more loosely, an alternative address you've registered with your CC

Nowadays it is very easy to register an alternative address with your CC that the merchant can verify so besides that bit of friction I don't see the merchant losing much business.
Wait. "Broken" code?
> But if I choose to make a contribution to Linux, even a few years from now, I will remember what practices to avoid through my memories of this and previous rants.

This reads like fantastic satire.
Here are the emails in full. Shocking stuff.

http://jimromenesko.com/2015/11/03/layoffs-begin-at-national...

"We will evolve. We will create impact. We will change the world."

Just fuck off.
This image is interesting but lacks any context (including what the asterisk is for which is what initially bugged me) so I searched and found the actual story which has the graphic and explains what it means including that the asterisks indicates: "We used data from the Census Bureau, which has two catch-all categories: "managers not elsewhere classified" and "salespersons not elsewhere classified." Because those categories are broad and vague to the point of meaninglessness, we excluded them from our map." http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-t...
It is great for us. Better APIs, more stability, clear wind behind our backs for a more digitization, more tax payers, more transparency, no middlemen, more things in white.

The Government software isn't very simple to use if you have switched jobs, have HRA to claim, or have more deductions than you have declared to the employer.

Many people miss out on deductions (such as 80TTA) which we automatically account for.

Plus we reduce data entry mistakes, and the other things I pointed out in the original comment.
Yet Another Boingo HotSpot Loophole for Free Wi-Fi at Airports
Left and right are increasingly meaningless labels.
These days it is more pro-establishment vs anti-establishment.

For example, the most vocal people on privacy are an amalgam of independent thinkers on the "left" (The Guardian, etc) and independent thinkers on the "right" (Ron Paul, etc.)

While the "leftist" Hillary Clinton calls Snowden a traitor (so do a lot of "right"-wing people, too).
True, but the electoral logic that says Labour must be a centre-right party to get elected is the electoral logic of 1997, mixed with a heady selection of conscious and unconscious biases.

In reality I don't think anybody is qualified to state as fact that Corbyn is "unelectable". To me it's much more likely a statement intended to influence rather than inform.
I live in Utah. Its now coined "silicon slopes". There are a lot of tech companies out here. Driving down the highway, most of the billboards are "I'm an awesome tech company and we are hiring".
Makes sense when you realize Novell and word perfect were headquartered in Utah, and both are essentually gone now leaving all their former employees scattered around the state starting companies.
I'm a bit confused, the Wikipedia link says it was shut down in 1997 and makes no mention of bitcoin. Is it the same company or is MMM now being used as a generic term?
The portion that is subject to income taxes (employee salaries) is not subject to corporate taxes. Salaries are a cost for the company and only the profits are subject to corporate income tax.
It's a very blue collar job concentrated in mid-low to low income areas. There is a heavy separation here.I went to visit family of my girfriend's in El Paso and was surprised to find out a good portion of her uncles and cousins were all truck drivers. If you don't generally hang out with blue collar types, you aren't likely to meet any truck drivers, but once you go into an area where income is on the lower end of middle class you will likely find that they are fairly ubiquitous.
Agreed. I used to use so-called "stable" distros for the longest time because that's what our installed software was supported on. But when I couldn't use the latest and greatest development tools (emacs for instance), it became really annoying doing my development. So I switched (from RHEL/CentOS) to Fedora for my day-to-day development. I can't say I've run into any show stopper issues, our software and the supporting software run just fine on it and I'm a happier, more productive developer.
And I disagree with your explanation. The journalist isn't simply committing a fallacy or misinterpreting an argument. The journalist went out of their way to accuse a political demographic of malicious intent. Out-group dynamics like this is something people actively shape (as demonstrated by the Robber Caves Experiment). Maybe we ought to classify it under something other than immaturity. But we can't chalk it up to laziness, mental fatigue, or #justPeopleThings as if it were an accident.

> do you realize that you're now going for a very emotional attack on my comment?

Honestly, I don't know what you're trying to prove here. My comment is invalid because I expressed embarrassment? lol?

Errata regarding your other threads. LW members call themselves "aspiring rationalists" to remind themselves that they have not yet "outgrown humanity" [0]. You also seem to confuse logic and rationality. When economists talk about rational agents, they're discussing an agent which employs a decision making algorithm consistent with the VonNeuman Morgenstern Utility Theorem [1].

[0] http://lesswrong.com/lw/h8/tsuyoku_naritai_i_want_to_become_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Morgenster...
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or downright honest, so I'll just put it out there: we've had cloud providers offering both for at least 5+ years.
A Startup Develops an App Which Can Hide Private Messages in Any Messenger
"I hired a certified tax professional; he had never handled ISOs before and got it wrong."

OK, don't got hire just any professional. Maybe check on their experience first. ;-)
>Why is it that people...get so incredibly hurt when others...point out how abusive they are?

Because they don't think it's abusive. If it isn't (I personally think it is), then pointing "out how abusive they are" comes off as passive aggressively saying they shouldn't express themselves in a certain way. That is effectively telling them they can not speak certain things that they feel are an important part of their ability to express certain ideas. It may as well be needless censorship, in their minds.

Clearly the best response would be to calmly explain why expressing themselves in that way is important. But they're on the defensive, and honestly think aggression is a good way to express themselves, so -in their minds- why should they be calm about it?
Meta-analysis of 375k individuals identifies 38 susceptibility loci for migraine
I also think we need to take the obvious step to prevent pedophiles - ban children.
Like most OCaml libraries, Irmin can be used in the browser by compiling your program with js_of_ocaml.

My `irmin-js` experiment provides a Javascript API to Irmin, so you can write your application in Javascript too, rather than OCaml. My JS isn't very good though; here's what my example code ended up looking like:

https://github.com/talex5/irmin-js/blob/master/examples/test...
It's a largely unknowable question, since it's just in the eye of the beholder. It could be purely a "let's wring whatever value we can get out of the brand until it's a dried-up husk and throw it aside".

Or it could be a, "Look, this isn't a very well-run business, there's a lot of redundancy, and a lot of investment in prestige initiatives that don't bring in a lot of revenue, so let's trim things down and focus on higher-margin operations, and then see how we can leverage the brand across the rest of the organization".

I mean, both of my scenarios are effectively very similar, one just assumes malice, the other good corporate stewardship. It's hard to know.
I need to look it up, but I thought that it was because of Lisp machines licensing, and only running on custom hardware, that the PC with Unix (C) won. If Lisp had been implemented to run atop the cheap PC, it would have run faster with each hardware iteration, and may have won market share. Now I play with Shen and PicoLisp, which can run on anything almost.
Stepping from Matlab to Python
>I'm most curious on the age / background of those in this thread who do find it hurtful and offensive.

Me too. I feel that there is generational shift.

For me, abusive means that someone picks you as a permanent target and treats you badly consistently.

I'm completely fine with people calling me with names over some issues when it's clear that they are fighting against me over some specific issue. I'm allowed to use strong words as well. When the subjects changes, there is no hostility. That's how you know you are dealing with emotional person who is not abusing you.

Picking up text fragments and analyzing one email for triggers that can be labeled as "abusive" seems so weird. I guess I feel that there is difference between "abusive language" and abusive and others don't see it.
when you confuse theory and hypothesis, you prove you have zero understanding of the Scientific Method.
I'm not sure what you consider shady but several US exchanges are licensed under NY state banking regulations, which seem to be very strict (ItBit and Gemini, I believe, among others that are undergoing the separate bitlicense process).
Seems to have been somewhat successful; JMLR is listed higher than ML in most rankings I can find.
As I understand, this rule is up to the merchant, so most might choose not to follow it. What I meant to say, that tools to prevent such fraud exists, it only needs to be used more often.

"i fail to see how this stop hackers, who use stolen ebay/paypal accounts."

It won't. But this article says nothing about stolen Ebay/Paypal accounts, that's completely different problem.
Pew Survey: U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious
> Frankly i don't know what is more complicated, given that with a web form you have one computer talking to another, several exchanges of data, and computing of same (request form, transfer form, render form, transfer inputs).

With a fax machine you also have two computers talking to one another: the fax machines. Then, after the two computers talk and deliver a low quality copy of a document using a very slow communication mechanism that doesn't have any encryption, a person then must take the contents of the document and input this into a computer system.

If the document is filled out incorrectly--for instance, a name is missing--the data entry person has to communicate with the original submitter this mistake.

There are also the accessibility issues inherent to the medium of paper. How difficult is it for a blind man to fill out a paper form?

With a Web form, users can check themselves whether or not rooms are available. The form can determine if there are errors before it is submitted so no further communication needs to be made. It can be built in an accessible manner so that the blind can use it. Even people without the use of their hands can use it given text to speech technology today. Encryption can be added to the process, no paper or ink is used (reducing the cost of the transaction on both ends), and no landline (or access to a landline) is required on the user's end.

Even a very simple form submission system that does nothing but replicate the fax machine form would still be better than the fax just due to the ability to encrypt the communication and accessibility issues.
that's why this benchmark seems irrelevant.
Web, Google and Internet Tax Unsuccessful Attempts to Tax the Digital Economy
Because it's a very divisive issue. Obviously I cannot guarantee that he had posts submitted that are critical of him but I would be very surprised that a fairly high-profile post (high enough to be featured on HN) had anything but nearly universal acclaim, given how it tends to polarize crowds.
>a LOT of people are going to be reaching retirement age without the funds necessary to sustain an even remotely pleasant lifestyle

Your inane snark about "the 1%" aside (whom, by definition, own the big bucket of money. Not exactly a revelation), I agree that the lack of money that most people have saved for retirement is going to be a disaster. It's equally bad up here in Canada.
Original title "Quasi-Polynomial Algorithm for Graphic Isomorphism Proposed" should be "Graph" instead of "Graphic"
At least in most of Europe that is not an option. There's no opt-out of national pension systems, except perhaps for entrepreneurs.

On the plus side, your future pension is not dependent on the success of your employer, a much larger crisis (as in Greece now) is required before your retirement is in danger.

On the minus side, it's dependent on the success and long-term planning of the country, and any kind of early retirement may be impossible/harshly penalized.

Personally I would prefer to handle it on my own, but on the whole I really appreciate that everyone is guaranteed a stable and healthy retirement.
You are exhibiting a case of failing in the "2. Ability to model other people as having really different mind-designs." The author is a psychologist, not a statistician. When he talks about thinking probabilistically, he is not talking about sitting down and doing the math. He is talking about recognizing that there is no such thing as certainty and understanding that even very unlikely outcomes may occasionally occur. It is about making reasonable rational decisions in an uncertain world, hedging uncertainty if possible, and generally being OK with it.
11. The "halving" that is anticipated to take place sometime in 2016 is suddenly not so far off in the future.
I don't understand your point. Perhaps you could make it more clear rather than hide behind sarcasm.

The article uses the word 'will' indicating a future tense to the layoffs i.e. they have not yet occurred. It then goes on to mention that the fact-checking department had employees terminated on tuesday, past-tense. Thus indicating they had already been laid off and others would follow. No other department is mentioned with regard to having already been terminated.

If I have misunderstood your point please clarify.

Edit: so igetspam has not responded but I immediately went to - 1 which indicates to me that igetspam is using multiple accounts to down vote commenter that disagree with him. I'm. Not sure if this is against the rules but it indicates the type of person that igetspam is. The score has changed now but my point stands that igetspam is a vote manipulator.
Man up and get your Scrote'n'Tote: The Satchel of Life
Also, should the EFF score some victories, it would set a precedence and spread to other countries (spying agencies seem to follow the US)
Most to be replaced by automated cars, digitalization and robotics the next 10 years. Then what?
> I think the main thing missing for me is built-in
> vendoring, to not be dependent on a third party
> (crates.io).

You can use git dependencies if you'd prefer, which can go to whatever domain you'd like.

(Also, you only need to hit crates.io to fetch the packages you don't have, after that initial download, it shouldn't need to touch the network again until you've modified your dependencies.)
Food stamps are not very solid. I know because my father had to temporarily avail himself of the program a few years back.

If I recall correctly he received about $80 a month for a single person which is not enough to even purchase the necessities of a healthy and balanced diet, really. I was paying his mortgage and he was fortunate that he had siblings who could supplement his meager allotment until he could find employment far below his education level and previous salary.

He had lost his job due to, from what I could tell, the early onset of Parkinson's and a heartless employer who would rather dosh a loyal employee of 20+ years than accept the continued employment of an employee with the condition.
Yes taking Malcolm Tucker as a guide to appropriate English usage is not a good idea.
Isn't it nice that we're now discussing newtonian physics using layman's terms in order to keep you from being wrong?
Online schools 'worse than traditional teachers'
From the original Linus email

"And yes, you still could have overflow issues if the whole "hlen +
xyz" expression overflows, but quite frankly, the "overflow_usub()"
code had that too"
You know you've been up too long when you write graph as graphic, even though you've written a paper on graph theory XD.
Is there a good alternative?

I planned to subscribe after I moved house, but the Murdoch purchase was announced in-between.
That's not what the first line of the article says:

"The National Geographic Society of Washington will lay off about 180 of its 2,000 employees in a cost-cutting move that follows the sale of its famous magazine and other assets to a company controlled by Rupert Murdoch."