skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Not trying to justify this undercover policing)

Here's a different group from the 1980s.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19841227&id=...

They tried to dig up a corpse in order to send the head to a member of the royal family. That may have been posturing, but it's obviously going to draw law enforcement attention.

Here's another group that did dig up a corpse in order to blackmail a family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Newchurch_Guinea_Pigs

There was a bunch of firebombing activity in the 1980s. The animal rights activists said the intent was to create a small fire that would be discovered by smoke detectors, triggering the sprinkler systems, causing water damage. This happened in department stores selling fur coats.

Animal Liberation Front pretty much started in UK, and some people claim it's caused many millions of pounds of economic damage. There are unacceptable levels of harassment and intimidation in some recent animal rights campaigns (and this is partly driven in changes to law which make protesting less legal).

So, police have these spiky things which they probably should be investigating. But it's hard to tell when someone has a "Rats Have Rights" mug whether they're a peaceful protestor using strictly legal means, or if they're going to become radicalised and start doing actions under the name of ALF. And police clearly didn't understand the mostly youthy animal rights movement in UK.

Anti hunt campaigns had uneasy alliances of anarchists, class war activists, and animal rights campaigners. Class War caused extra attention because their newsletter had "page 3 beauties" - photos of police officers who'd been hospitalised after violence, and they'd made many statements about being prepared to use violence against people. (Hunt saboteurs had strict rules about not using violence against people. There was some debate about whether it was okay to use violence to defend yourself if you were attacked by hunt followers.)

There were a bunch of legal, peaceful, campaigning groups that tackled things like vegetarianism and veganism; vivisection; primate rights; farm animal welfare. There were a bunch of groups that appeared to be peaceful but which were used as feeder groups to more extreme groups. (EG the National Front and British National Party set up an animal rights group, campaigning on ritual slaughter, to drive people to their fascistic groups.) And then there were the obvious activist groups who would raid laboratories. Some of those groups tried to use legal loopholes - they would enter a lab, not cause any damage or take any animals but take all the paperwork they could find, then scan and copy as much of the paperwork and then return the papers. Theft requires the intent to permanently deprive the owner. That tactic didn't work, they were caught and prosecuted, and so activists went back to liberating animals and causing as much damage as they could.)

If you're looking for an at the time account you could try to find back issues of "ArkAngel", which had debate and information about activist action.
Yes. Should've included that. The type theory that came from functional languages is moving into the mainstream languages, too.
The give away is the use of "high performing team" which makes me sad that they've essentially identified Tuckman's stages of group development without referencing it (because I really hope they've heard of it).

Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing (and the addition of Mourning) aren't particularly hard concepts to grasp yet all too often in the technology space get ignored. Many of the examples mentioned here of not sorting out how people are going to work together, throwing new tech or people into the team, all impact this concept and push you back down the ladder.

In 6+ years of professional development I've only ever been in one truly high performing team, plenty of people never have. That leadership and management, and they are two distinct things, is so bad about enabling their creation is something that doesn't get nearly enough attention.
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Roughly speaking it levels the playing field. With Open Source smart people and companies that attract smart people get an edge.
By the way. Windows 3.1 is just a fancy GUI for MS DOS :P
A huge panoply of ambient combinations to build.
> I know of no website that contains user-uploaded pictures that allows SVGs.

openclipart.org does exactly that. I don't know if they strip scripts or simply forbid files containing scripts.
I at first read this as "Medication is a good start" and I'm relieved to see on second reading it wasn't that.

I suffer from the same problem though, the 1-2 minute compilation times are just long enough that I constantly distract myself opening and closing HN probably hundreds of times a day, often the content is identical to the previous time of opening, but the occasional nugget is enough that my brain clearly gets something from just opening HN even to just close it immediately that it has become ingrained in my working life.

I'm interested to hear how you use meditation to break that?
> However, even the greatest technology is constrained by cultural circumstances. Chinese character ideograms are too specific. Consequently, the thousands of distinct characters would be difficulat to categorize in molds. And although the more complex characters can often be decomposed into simpler elements, the process of doing so is so unsystematic that mechanising it efficiently proved impossible. True mass printing could only thrive in a culture with a less sophisticated writing system � an alphabet of few characters. Western civilization in the 15th century would be revolutionized with the Dutch goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the movable printing press. Movable type is a reform in the history of printing and contributed much to human civilization.
What you are describing is how things work today. In my experience 'taxpayers' (or 'people' as I like to call them) don't feel like they have any control over how the government spends money and don't vote based on how court cases go (information like that gets lost in the noise of "big issues" come voting time).

What the grandparent is suggesting is making sure that the signal doesn't have to travel as far to have an effect, which is a good thing.
The chip cryptographically signs the transaction, which a magnetic strip can't do. It can do this offline, which an ATM can't.

It's also a great deal more difficult to extract the secret information from the chip; I don't know if anyone has done so yet.
That's actually quite encouraging, so thank you. I've been trying to find a balance between working on OSS contributions + getting better at "CS fundamentals" (I'm a self-taught programmer, so a bit lacking on the algs/data structures side of things). Which is definitely a disadvantage during an interview, and part of the reason I'm hoping to emphasize my OSS contributions more.
actually, there is something that it is not really understood: the 5.9 years period of gravitational constant variation. [1]. Maybe the Earth is passing through such a filament?

[1] http://phys.org/news/2015-04-gravitational-constant-vary.htm...
If your App is written in React Native or Cordova then code-push is your friend...

https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-code-push/
Yeah, I've been doing Scala professionally for 5+ years, and not just stringy types (free monads are everywhere once you start looking for them), so this was a weird thing to read.
Could do with a "[2013]", just to be clear this is an editorial on the history of the problem and solution, rather than "actual news" of a problem just cracked.

(Very interesting regardless though)
I think it's fairly clear that they aren't talking about the entire internet.
> If there are type annotations in the standard package repository

There aren't.

> whether the standard build tool for the language will run that tool on a proposed library release before that library gets uploaded to PyPI

It's optional. If the library maintainer wants to do that then he can.
Caution, that way madness lies. Taken to the extreme, you get antivaxxers and various traps of local optimization.
And in the old sanctuary laws up until the 17th century you were immune to arrest if you reached a place of religious refuge - but would lose all your wealth and be exiled as a pilgrim. Given everyone in other countries knew what it meant when a foreigner arrived in those circumstances they didn't tend to have the best of times.
Not that I want to tell you what to do or not to do in your own kitchen but please be very careful with canned fish from larger cans, use the whole can at once or transfer the contents to another container that you can properly close.
For Javascript:
- https://github.com/feross/standard
- https://github.com/Flet/semistandard

Node: Both of these include a style-enforcement tool that can be scripted via NPM scripts.

For CSS:
http://semantic-ui.com/usage/theming.html

Note: Semantic-UI is a lot like Bootstrap in that it provides a lot of useful visual classes/components. In addition, it can be extended to use custom themes.
Or you could go for the hybrid, of having 10 seconds of reduced performance while the system keeps aggressively loading pages.
Then again RH did a 180 on how they packaged patches etc after Oracle did exactly the same as CentOS had done for years.

Frankly i see a bunch of beats fighting each other for old school territory, with the Linux ecosystem caught in the middle. None of the corporations involved with Linux are white knights, none.
>I think Marrissa will be a great COO, but she lacks the vision.

Remember Fiorina? The same situation of a midlevel absolutely mediocre exec getting lucky at catching a huge wave bringing her straight to the top. Just a female, ie. charming, version of a "Yes"-man.
Perhaps your card marks the use of EMV as optional.

A European-issued card would deny use of the magstripe on an EMV reader. This could possibly by overridden by the cashier, but most won't have the authority to do this. (The merchant takes responsibility for fraud in this case.)
> If you do the math on this (and you don’t have to because the Environmental Justice Foundation already did), you find that one saved dolphin costs 25,824 small tuna, 382 mahi-mahi, 188 wahoo, 82 yellowtail and other large fish, 27 sharks and rays, 1 billfish, 1,193 triggerfish and other small fish, and 0.06 sea turtles.

These numbers aren't consistent with the table, and the link doesn't seem to have the relevant data. According to the numbers in the table, a dolphin costs 138 mahi-mahi. The other numbers become similarly smaller, when comparable.

> You and I can argue about the relative value of dolphins vs. triggerfish all day, but the important take-home message here is that we are protecting animals that are not endangered at the expense of dozens of other species

If that's the important take-home message, it sounds like the writer has already made up his mind about the relative value of dolphins to other species. And it sounds like I disagree with him. I think dolphins are more intelligent than most species, and have more moral worth, and killing hundreds or thousands of other fish to save one dolphin sounds like a potentially good trade.

The writer seems to want to frame this as charismatic versus non-charismatic, but the fact remains that I care about dolphins more than other species, and I don't care that they aren't endangered.

(I'm mostly vegetarian, but even before that, I avoided tuna because I didn't know how much to trust the dolphin-safe label.)

> and some of those other species are endangered.

Which ones, specifically? Mahi-mahi and wahoo aren't, at least. The rest of that list seem to be broad categories with no single conservation status.

Is this a case of "we're protecting a single dolphin at the expense of lots of other non-endangered fish, and also 5% of an endangered turtle"?
Link is going 404...
I'm sorry to be that guy, but if we had more "open" distribution ways for smartphones, something like this wouldn't have happend. Because they would have noticed it early on (to fix it) before anybody else would have.

Now they have to wait before Apple approves their next update.
"Now they gave Google permission to include them for free. What about the smaller services? Who cares about those - loads of news aggregators shut down in response."

Sounds as if it worked out beautifully for Springer - the competition is gone and they are included with Google again.
You need to add "habits" to the equation as well. All of those things exhibit the same properties. We differentiate them by a mix of how many problems it causes for the person, for the person's surroundings, and various moral preconceptions about what one should do. Biochemical changes and responsiveness to raw willpower aren't really useful metrics, because both habits and addictions affect the brain, and the whole point of a good habit is to make something that's resistant to willpower.
Or they could make bathrooms without TVs illegal.
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I really like this article, it's full of good points and it's definitely a huge real problem, but I do think better tools for users are the better (and easier) route to fixing this.

Personally I find every time that my biggest problem beating this is that it makes distraction totally automatic; I open facebook without even thinking about it. I have a reasonably good level of willpower when I'm actively making the decision, but I find as soon as I'm a bit bored or distracted or doing something I don't really want to do then suddenly I'm on my third buzzfeed article that somebody posted on facebook, and half an hour's disappeared down the drain. Painful.

It's the constantly compulsive going to check facebook part that's the real problem, imo, rather than the staying on it too long. I'm not too sure how regulation is really going to help you pull that back, even with the ideas proposed here.

Excellent point about the existing tools not being accessible to the non-tech crowd though, even though the problem is universal; that's definitely been my impression of the current audience. Not sure why though; any idea what they're doing wrong? What do we need to do to get everybody using Build Focus/RescueTime/ForestApp/etc to help your average person stop losing time to facebook too, instead of just the productivity hackers?

[Disclaimer: I'm actually the creator of Build Focus (http://www.buildfocus.io), so I do have a little skin in this game]
Possible! There certainly is a lot that feels inelegant in the dominant model, and nobody has yet proposed a reason that so much of the universe would be so oddly invisible to us.

But (as I just noted in some detail in a different comment here) the "Lambda-CDM" model of a universe evolving in the presence of a cosmological constant and cold dark matter has proven to be quite remarkably consistent under a wide variety of very different observational tests. Everything from supernova data to the cosmic microwave background to large-scale cosmological structure/cluster formation is not just in agreement with the general outline of that model but even gives consistent (and increasingly precise) values for the parameters of the model. (They all lead to pretty much the same value for the percentage of dark matter in the universe, for example. Here's a typical graph from 2003 that I found from a Google image search: https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept09/Einasto/Figures/f... The different-colored ovals near the middle-left represent entirely different observational data.)

So I would love to learn someday that all these weird phenomena are manifestations of some deeper, more elegant truth. (I've done some limited research vaguely connected to the area myself, though that was long ago and my current focus is much less directly relevant to this topic.) But whatever that deeper truth turns out to be, we can have a whole lot of confidence that it will manifest in a way that behaves an awful lot like the dark matter and dark energy models that are being studied today.
It would probably be a good thing to keep archive.org and this credit union thing separate. Right now this could easily be taken as things not going well financially for archive.org.
> Kay Sievers was actually a SUSE employee at the time, IIRC.

Something that can make a guy wonder if the root of the issue is Suse, as apparently that distro has always been "weird". Something that may well be a outcome of a corporate culture that former employees are now bringing with them to others.

As for LP's story not lining up with others. Not surprised. Best i can find the guy has never told a consistent account of things. The goal posts are forever moving.
> It's optional. If the library maintainer wants to do that then he can.

A library with no annotations in PyPI is fine-ish. A library with correct annotations in PyPI is fine. A library with incorrect annotations in PyPI is extremely not-fine.

I'm fine-ish with annotations being optional, but if they're there then their correctness needs to be enforced, otherwise they're worse than useless.
This is the sort of thing that changes peaceful protesters into enemies of the state.
So how do we get some of these benefits if we don't use PyCharm, but use Vim? Are there standalone tools, or VIM plugins?
Have to admit, I am one of the kneejerkers but I come here for comments like yours ;)
I reboot my iPhone 5s every two or four weeks or so. Sometimes that just the easiest way to deal with some bugs (e.g. Airplay issues). Since it happens so infrequently I don't really mind the boot times that much. But all else being equal, of course faster is better than slow :)
I never vote someone down, maybe three or so exception - can I look that up somewhere? That aside the page you linked to contains unscientific and plainly wrong nonsense and clearly shows no understanding of physics. I totally understand that you get downvoted for that content because it does almost the equivalent of saying that air doesn't exist because I can't see it.

That being said, it must be stated first, and bluntly, that we don't think black holes exist. If not even light can get out, how is it the cores of galaxies are shooting out massive amounts of x-rays and material?
Real-time cinematic graphics
This is all known stuff right. Its basically vector format VS bitmap format.
Good point! But the hazard is that the we risk getting FOSS software that is unnecessarily complex to configure because of this.
The demo is made in:

Toolkit - http://vvvv.org
3D Rendering - https://github.com/microdee/Emeshe
Ok, let's discuss the ideas presented in the article. The two forms main forms of regulation suggested near the end of the piece seem to be letting users control the amount of content/notifications that they consume, and flagging users who seem like they are exhibiting signs of addiction.

Most sites do offer options to control the number of notifications, etc, but most people just stick with the defaults anyway. Even if there were an option for "Disable infinite scroll for me because I can't control my procrastination", how many people do you really think would use it?

Likewise, if Zynga et al did implement some kind of flag for users who play too much, do you think it would make a difference? If someone is willing to invest 5 hours clicking a Farmville button, then a popup that says "We noticed that you spent the whole day clicking a button, don't you have something better to do?" probably isn't going to be epiphanic for them. Casinos and some gambling websites are required to do this now, and it hasn't cured gambling addiction yet. Just like adding a perfunctory "Please drink responsibly" to the end of beer commercials has had a small effect.

What could work? In some parts of Asia, security officers will forcibly remove people from cybercafes if they're showing signs of addiction. But most people in the west use home internet, which would make physical enforcement cost prohibitive. Laws could be passed that outright ban certain types of games. But a politician would look pretty silly taking a stand against Mafia Wars on the floor of a legislative body, especially given recent world events.

There might be a great solution, maybe offered in your book recommendation (thanks for that, btw). But it's hard to see what can practically be done about this problem, other than people exerting more self control in a changing world.
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Anything bad in there? Didn't see anything...
Axel Springer should really read up on the Streisand effect. If they hold on a bit longer the whole world will know about these absolutely terrible ad blockers.
Oh I'd missed that, thanks.

Maybe uclinux...? Or qemu - more nesting!
Modification of gravity has been found wanting. See e.g., the bullet cluster, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
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The document makes things wildly unclear as to which versions of IE are actually supported by Microsoft.

In practical terms it's still IE9 and IE11 for a while (so far as I can tell)?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle#gp/Microsoft-I...

I'm sure there is still a load of Windows Vista SP2 machines around...
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ah ok, thanks.
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> I have a beautiful dream sometimes, where I go to work, and I only have to care about supporting Chrome...

Yes I also long for the return of the IE6 days when only one browser mattered and what it did was law. Not.

Seriously folks we've already done software monopolies (not just in browsers either), it always ends up in tears. If a browser is terrible refuse to support it or ask for extra time/money for its support, but do not condone, suggest or recommend browser monopoly.
While working on my last projects I accumulated a collection of pure functions I needed now and then. So I thought, why not write a short pitch as a README and make it public? So here it is.
It would be very nice of you if you could tell me what you think, so I can learn and improve.
Well it's on the record that they also get into sexual relationships with people and then convince them to blow things up. And that's for relatively minor terrorism' that they sponsor.

See ref role of "Anna" here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_McDavid
But anyway, I updated teh post, so people could be aware of this diff.
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What about witness protection then ? I lie about my identity so me having sex with anybody is a rape ? Even if they agreed to have sex with me after they've learn to know me ?
That was a really good video and I say that as someone who is no fan of Jobs.

Did NEXT manage to execute the plan and sell 50k workstations in 1991?
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I just asked if this is a common way to do this, but apparently all the iOS devs felt offended - I will not comment on this.

Thanks for the answer anyway :)
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