skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"New surveillance powers will be given to the police and security services, allowing them to access records tracking every UK citizen’s use of the internet without any need for any judicial check, under the provisions of the draft investigatory powers bill unveiled by Theresa May."

Disgusting. That's the end of democracy for them, now that there is no way innocent people can escape having their writings peeped on by a paranoid security state. Can't imagine there will be many alternatives to the mainline parties now.
What is the role of the employer to provide any of these items, these are all archaic fringe benefits that obfuscate a wage and greatly enable large corporations to keep talent from moving to a new start-up.

* The pension based retirement defined benefit plan is a bonus item that originated because the government encouraged it in the 1921 Revenue Act [1] by exempting pensions from being taxed as income. Then when the National Labor Relations Board "interpreted" the law 27 years later to include it as a benefit that was inclusive of employment did it become a larger liability. Large companies were able to absorb the costs of pensions being paid into the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [2] after the 1974 setting of requirements, hurting the ability of small companies to set up comparable benefits. The slow death march of private based pensions follows the incentive curve and the movement to defined contribution for companies enables smaller companies to be more competitive with the big companies [3].

* The medical coverage one vexes me financially, as I do not know how guaranteed this is, of all the things that would be eliminated in a bankruptcy, this is most probable and would save the receiving company a lot of money.

My point here is that the 401k and retirement program free of the company means you create an employee who has more worries about retirement, but is not locked into an employer's retirement pension contribution system.

[1] http://www.ebri.org/publications/facts/index.cfm?fa=0398afac...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corpo...

[3] http://20somethingfinance.com/defined-benefit-vs-defined-con...
I agree it's not the point. It is one of many root causes though. It's a very interesting root cause because that economical situation gives authoritarian regimes, as you call them, the power to be authoritarian.

As an aside, while I used to be hugely concerned about this state of affairs, I am less so now. Maybe because I'm older and know a lot more than I used to. They may have the ability to "punish anyone", but not everyone. And while it is becoming more common in the EU, it is already fact in the US.

My reality is that I am unwilling to do anything about this situation, because I'm already devoting my time to other things - things I know I can influence. If I'm unwilling to do anything, I'm also technically disqualifying myself from advocating a course of action.
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Most individual investors in 401k plans get ripped off. They get funneled into high cost funds, get levied high fees and end up with poor investment options. Then when they finally retire, they get ripped off again by annuity providers.

Pensions are almost always better for the worker. The issues on the employer side are almost always a result of underfunding, or “diversion" of employee funds for some short term crisis.
I may claim that my encryption is breakable (any encryption is breakable), therefore legal. It will just take them 5 years to break it :-)
I don't find it very memorable, aside from it reinforcing the memory that Linus is often a jerk. All the insults and general ranting get in the way of the point, they don't reinforce it.

Compare with some classical technical rants like, say, The UNIX-HATERS Handbook. It has a wonderful ranty tone to it, but it's also full of pretty solid technical information and reasoned technical opinions. The tone makes it memorable without getting in the way of the information. It's far from a reference book, but it's great material. It's an amazing reminder of how much the computer industry loves to forget the past and then eventually reinvent it.

Linus's rant, on the other hand, is about... integer overflow, I guess? And code readability? And I don't think he actually explains anything about either one, so I don't know why he prefers one version to the other, but I know he prefers it really strongly.

Churchill said, "Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions." Similarly, a really good technical rant is one where you call the other person a complete and utter idiot in such a way that they thank you for your help.
2. Ability to model other people as having really different mind-designs

I believe not learning this is a problem in the communities within which I grew up. Bible belt, rural ... The reinforcement of "we should all think/believe/do the same things" seems to come from a lack of exposure to any people or ideas from outside the community; from "isolationism" one could say.
> If you don't like how Linus behaves, then don't deal with him. Noone forces you.

That's a pretty steep hurdle for potential contributors to Linux.

But I suppose that's BSD's gain.
Well, you'd need to force the cargo hold/container open; there's no driver to threaten. Assuming it's locked, you'd need some serious power to do that. A tractor or explosives, perhaps. I don't think many will bother.
>For an idea of what will happen just look at the History Channel.

The History Channel did what most media does and started to appeal to the masses to make money. They're literally producing what people want to watch.

It's like when people complain about shows like American idol, or Honey-Boo-Boo, all the while the shows are crushing the viewership ratings.
Look at the ground that is covered by water it's clearly tidal shore there are patches of water everywhere.
I saw an article that stated the 1% now own slightly more wealth than the rest of the 99% of the population, so I feel like there are untapped resources just waiting to be put to good use. I don't see the need for this continuing farce when there are infrastructure needs and the opportunity to build real and lasting wealth for all of us in the form of a more developed and inclusive society for all.
You don't have to support the Citizens United decision to think that contributing small amounts to political campaigns is effectively speech - because the money is used to promulgate speech (ads), as well as in the more abstract sense that donations are viewed by society as a normal and encouraged outlet for people to promote their viewpoints.

(Of course the humongous donations the decision enabled are also used to promulgate speech, which is why I have some sympathy for it, but there's just a huge difference in practice between giving $1,000 and giving millions.)
Do go on
This is one of those gifs that goes in the archive for a rainy day.
> I still don't see how this is relevant or contributes to the discussion.

This is something you should definitely work on then.
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OK, so "you should stop talking" is bad.

How about, "you should stop talking about how that guy should stop talking"? Does that qualify too?

Does every meta-level have the same problem, or is there a limit to how deep it goes?
That begs the question: isn't fraud important enough that we should have more security on credit card?

2-factor authentication is now a well known process. How come you can still order things with a card number and nothing else whatsoever?

Well, here are my 2 guess, not exclusive:

- fraud prevention is actually a lucrative business, and having better security would destroy a cash cow

- the added security is deemed too hard for a large part of the population, and would raise support cost too much
Besides, you won't have to deal with animal rights groups.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10500724
For anyone that has been around BTC for long enough, this is expected, but also expect more rallies and more crashes.

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FYI. The same people ignoring their fiduciary responsibility are managing your mutual funds.
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I'm afraid that doesn't clarify, because if the overflow_usub code is broken in that sense, then so is the code Linus is advocating for. Do you still think "broken" was the right word to use? Why?
If we vote to leave the EU there is an exit process that takes two years and will lead up to the next election, if it doesn't go well I would say he stands a fair chance of being elected.
I've put together this asciinema demo to show some of 1.9's new features:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit-docker-1_9/blob/master/RE...

feedback welcome @ianmiell
Yes they did, they were making money anyway in their own specific niche, they just wanted a piece of the larger pie and for that they thre out any ideals they had. I am suggesting that NatGeo will go the same way, instead of documentaries on Hyenas or the lifecycle of turtles we will get the history of dragons, the lifecycle of griffins or even the dietary habits of werewolves.
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I don't think it holds true anymore, if you go to any store in the UK now Corn will be well maize, I'm pretty sure the American definition of corn has taken over the common British definition.
We actually have different teams working on each platform, mostly anyway (our iOS and Mac teams have people who rotate between the two in addition to having dedicated members for each). The drop in noticeable forward momentum (at least publicly) on all of our projects over the last several months has been due to getting Teams implemented, everything seems calm on the surface but underneath there's a lot happening.

Our Windows developers will get their day to shine soon enough as well and we hope you'll enjoy the work they've done. :)

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Not sure what I do wrong every time I try D again, I wanted to see the new backtraces worked but I still get:

/bin/bash: line 1: 82501 Segmentation fault: 11 ./main

while I try to call a method on a null variable, which is not that friendly to newcomers.

Sample code:

import std.stdio;

void main()
{
Greetings g = null;
g.hola();
}
Indifference is a power
Yeah, you are right there. The sufficiently-educated-plus-visa-holding population is probably going to be a bit less diverse than the wider general population alright.
The photoelectric effect which led to the discovery of Quantum mechanics is not at all high energy physics and could barely be called an edge case...
Welp, cat's out of the bag. Guess I'll count on this being fixed before the next time I need it.
As opposed to marking 10 people dying as a favourite? They both imply positive feelings towards the tweet being tagged

As mentioned elsewhere if they were trying to get away from the positive connotations "Remember" would be a better name for it
Fun fact about CO, that may sometimes be overlooked: not only is it odourless and poisonous - but it's also highly flammable!
I wasn't talking about post 9/11 issues but the post ww2 settlement and the rise of the USA as a super power.

And I could think of EU country that treat whistle blowers badly or behave badly in pursuit of foreign policy
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This isn't really new, it's just Red Hat being late to the party. From Jun 6, 2012:

"The Linux services will go live on Azure at 4 a.m. EDT on Thursday. At that time, the Azure portal will offer a number of Linux distributions, including Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, OpenSuse 12.01, CentOS 6.2 and Canonical Ubuntu 12.04. Azure users will be able to choose and deploy a Linux distribution from the Microsoft Windows Azure Image Gallery."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/257073/microsoft_to_run_linux...

Or you could always load your own distro of choice in Hyper-V.
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."

The lesson a lot of people are going to learn from this is, "Don't submit any code to Linux." Not submitting code like this is merely going to be a small side effect. Especially since Linus doesn't explain his reasoning so there's no real way to know if the next chunk of code is going to displease him or not.
I don't think the risk is Google harming you for the books you bought, but disclosing the information to a government who may.

For example, a government (China?) may pass a law to force Google to disclose the list of nationals who bought certain books (political book criticising the Chinese government?), and Google may choose to comply to stay in that market.
Sure, it's not cutting edge, but it's one of a bunch of signs recently that Microsoft has turned over a new leaf in the last few years.

Visual Studio's page now mentions Git, a GPLed piece of software built for Linux kernel development. They've come a long way from "GPL is cancer!"
and the accumulated library of pictures, video, etc.
> if your mental model of the scientific community doesn't include "There exist a whole lot of crackpots out there", your mental model of science is wrong.

Do you think this is a failure of your industry? E.g. there don't seem to be a lot of crackpots that go into plumbing or whatever. What is it about physics where it's apparently failing to provide most of the people in the field with adequate training?
Electrum is great, but not very easy to use (since it's desktop). Get Electrum, Mycelium or Breadwallet, depending on your platform. I've heard good things about GreenAddress, and I recommend a ledger hardware wallet. You can use the ledger with Electrum and Mycelium, so you can spend coins from desktop or mobile. I've also imported my Mycelium wallet onto my second ledger, just so I can move coins from the desktop.
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I agree, and I think you're both right that it's generational.
Still think that *ML syntax would fit Rust better.
Unfortunately, sipgati is UK only. I'm in Turkey.
I don't have eOS as a daily driver (I've got the Pantheon desktop on top of Ubuntu as a chroot environment on my Chromebook and a full Elementary VM on another laptop), but I've been playing with it for some time.

One thing that really irks me about the OS is the designers' reluctance to actually let you customize anything. For instance, the lack of a minimize button really bothered me, and I ended up having to install a third-party program called elementaryTweaks just to restore that functionality. The designers have outwardly refused to incorporate any of that and have repeatedly defended the decision to not give us a minimize button:

http://blog.elementary.io/post/131034577721/will-any-of-the-...

http://blog.elementary.io/post/130282384916/i-was-wondering-...

To me, that reeks of Apple's walled-garden "We know better than you do what you want" attitude.
Why do you think a rational actor has no goals, or is somehow emotionless?

The word "converge" has always applied to market responses to new info. Find a news event (e.g., WMT Oct 13-14) and look at the second or minute level movements near that event. It's qualitatively quite similar to Aaronson's theorem.
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506823 I suspect that this is generational/cultural issue. Abusive is codified and differentiation between "abusive language" and actual abuse is lost from people.

>This clearly is abusive language, and would not be tolerated in most professional teams,

Assuming that some people can differentiate between "abusive language" and actual abuse, is it possible to have different work cultures? Some are more masculine and competitive, some are more feminine and people select the work environment they like.
Me too. Like, I think I agree with this post? But I'm not sure it's the best illustration of the phenomenon, or even a good one.
> What are the big differences between Lisp and Smalltalk contra Unix?

Graphically based, the REPL uses the whole OS, developer culture embraced the debugger.

> Unix is also a "dynamic" environment. You can compile and load in new code at runtime. You can inspect running processes. You have access to lots of system parameters via the file system API. And so on.

It just looks similar in the surface, but when one used such a system it is quite poor.

My experience boils down to Oberon, which was Niklaus Wirth version of Mesa/Cedar.

Smaltalk Works, which allowed me to have a glipse of the original Smalltalk.

The way Powershell, .NET, COM and DLLs work together on Windows (even though it is still lacking).

My own research into Xerox PARC systems, as I keep hunting those papers.

So with all of this, what do I mean by only being similar on the surface?

Yes, UNIX CLI experience provides a way to work interactively, pipe data between programs, have them communicate between them (if one makes use of IPC) and a few other things.

Note that not all UNIX have something like /proc.

However it is all text based, even the UI.

The Xerox PARC systems were graphical, the REPL was graphical and could use inline data, think IPython/Playgrounds.

The OS and the REPL being the same language meant that the whole OS was available in the REPL. Since one was running as root on those workstations, you could literal control everything from the REPL.

Like find window X, select text, convert to bold, for example.

Having the same language also meant accessing any OS library was just an import away, no extra steps required.

Imagine having a graphical CLI, where you can write e.g. soname.func(a, b) without extra effort and doing FP data manipulation.

Actually there is a Xerox PARC paper where they research UNIX as dynamic programming environment.

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxparctXNeedsATrueI...
That's one advantage of molten salt reactors: the Xe135 bubbles right out, making load following a lot easier. The Transatomic white paper talks about this on page 44 (pdf): http://www.transatomicpower.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/t...
http://www.coinjar.com/ For Australians, take a look at Coinjar. They accept BPay for deposits & you can withdraw to an Australian bank account once verified. They also offer an EFTPOS card so you can use Bitcoin at most Australian stores. VC funding from Angelcube & Blackbird Ventures.
Much like the Zen ideologies, there is no end state to being a rational human being. You can't just stop at one point and say "That's it, I'm perfectly rational now, therefore..."

Instead, it's more of an ongoing process. The process of identifying your biases and reasoning about them is on-going. You will always have biases, the trick is to make the subconscious influence conscious. To come back to the Zen comparison - the more rational you become, the more you realize you're not rational at all.
Many of you have no issues with the lack of quality in your work.
Unfortunately, /u/yummyfajitas is severely mischaracterizing the point of "rationality". Viz:

>The point of rationality is to detect your own cognitive failures and to recognize and exploit those of others.

This is false. The point of "rationality" is to achieve greater cognitive success: to have your thoughts yield information about the world by allowing the world to move your thoughts. The people who try to do this (such as, in this case, me) do so because we feel like our thoughts and emotions ought to be about stuff. The more I make my emotions be linked to my thoughts and my thoughts be linked to the real world, the less gnawing self-doubt I have to deal with when things go bad, and the more I can enjoy when things go right.

If all you can do was recognize cognitive failures, you will end up an epistemic relativist, which is useless.

If what you care about is exploiting the cognitive failures of others, you're just a jerk.
In practice I've never heard anyone use the word "natural" in regards to price movement in a tradeable product, not in the five years I've been working in the financial industry. Sounds like more of a layman's term, perhaps. But the line between short-term and long-term movements is nearly non-existent since one typically affects the other, and the idea that there is any sense of normal price movement that lies behind all that turbulence is fairly naive.
"most common" does not mean "everyone".

If there are 100 people and 2 are truck drivers, but the other 98 all have different jobs, then truck driver is most common, but there's still not a lot of truck drivers.
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Relax.
They haven't handled the transition to new media and values properly:

1. Their magazine: Almost all magazines have been replaced with websites. Their website dramatically undersells their content. Look at it, really. It's basically like clickhole, but with stories of climate change. The dramatic photography of the magazine is only coming across in about 50% of the photos and the headlines are all clickbait format.

2. Their television presence includes shows like "Drugs, Inc." whose primarily job is to scare old people with re-enactments of drug crimes. Who would pay for that "value"? (I guess people who watch police shows? but what does that saturated market have to do with their brand?)

3. Their youtube stream is a massive quantity of short, low-quality videos. I subscribe and only watch about 1 in 50 of them. Another problem with their videos is so few have narration which I feel is a key feature of travel and wildlife shows.

4. They haven't handled outreach to a younger generation. With all the urban young people (esp. women IMO) who love to travel the world with disposable income (no families, marrying late), NG has no selling relationship with them.

5. The global geopolitical situation is more interesting than ever with worldwide communication, but I don't see NG addressing that. Maybe they are - somewhere? - but their marketing isn't penetrating.

I feel like they could turn it around if they primarily address the youngest generation - perhaps get more involved in the travel and outdoor supplies markets.
>Several people in the channel’s fact-checking department, for example, were terminated on Tuesday, employees said.

What a ridiculous line. "For example". It just so happens that the example they chose to name and print is just right to get the people up-in-arms about Murdoch cutting the fact-checking department, while in reality people from many departments are being cut. We've seen it in this very thread.

I'm no Fox fan, but the left-wing media plays its own games.
Yes, and one of the secret ingredients to the success of the US.

But as decades pass, people seem to want to skip those first steps and jump right to the Federal level and refuse to budge if they cannot get the entire nation to make some leap or another with them.

That evolving 'Everybody or Nobody' attitude is killing one of the strengths of the US system.
Seeing that the fact-checking department was called out specifically gave me a good hearty laugh.
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You can chop down trees in Norway.

However, trees don't necessarily grow unaided in many of the spots on those pictures. Here's a village I know: http://www.winnem.com/Assets/images/frambergkirkesaether.gif shows lots of trees, a century ago there were none there. They were planted in a big campaign around 1950-1970, in places where no tree could grow alone but a dozen together might grow up and shelter each other if tended a bit. All the schoolchildren planted and tended trees.
Wow, so this is THE "MMM" that people are talking about. They took Russians for a ride in the 90s, I didn't think I'd hear this name again.