skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short answer: this dries up any dissent. But if you think THIS is what stops people from organizing politically then you're wrong: the intelligence agencies have done a lot worse. They've dabbled with human experimentation in the 50's, sabotaged civil rights movements in the 60's, propagandized anti-Soviet literature in the 70's, and so on. This is another step in the long line of government abuses in the land of the free.
> you use wrong words

Intentionally, that's the point! It's absurd that some words are "right" and some are "wrong", when they essentially mean the same thing - a murderer killing others, for some definition of others.
Based on discussions we have had with women in tech at https://keepwomen.com, it's not just sexism, but many women leave tech due to working conditions (low salary, no advancement), work-life balance (too much travelling, commuting), or the company environment (poor cultural "fit"). Some solutions for retaining women in tech are e.g. flexible working hours, personal development opportunities and workforce diversity.
Yeah, I've noticed a few issues, particularly with copying bytes via context menus, sometimes the sub menus don't appear. Ah well, overall I'm glad they went in this direction as now I can use it on my MacBook without having to get X11.
Paying directly for primarily or secondary schools is very rare in UK, the vast majority of teachers are paid indirectly via taxation. With my own children I've found the quality of primary school teaching to be excellent given they start on around 20k GBP here and work very long hours.
I really want to read this but on my iPad the page spazes out and keeps scrolling to the top.
Why the Humanities Are Booming
DDG has been my search engine of choice for the past few years and in my experience it is pretty rare that I have to use google for better results. In general I'm quite happy with it.

One thing I would love to see as a feature is the ability to add under settings a list of sites I'd prefer not to see any results from.

For example experts-exchange where they want you to sign up to see the answer. There's also a bunch of scraping websites that don't have actual answers which just pollute the results. Being able to suppress that kind of site would be wonderful.

I'm aware you can use an option on the search itself, problem is that the list of sites I like to remove from the search is too long to type each time.
Each time I'm reading stories like these, I'm glad I avoided both sides of what's described here. Clueless students that takes everything for granted and will put the minimum amount of effort learning anything. And, the boring teacher who thinks classes are only an unimportant part of the mandatory stuff he has to do to continue doing what he likes.

Where I've been studying, they removed the teachers, the classes and the grades (kind of). Learning is stimulated by peers and projects; correction and 'exams' are done by a computer (no negotiations with "unjust" grades, you failed == you failed); classes are optional and you usually don't need them to succeed on the projects. In results, you get interested people in classes when you explain something, and if you do your job well, they won't come to bother you after that. And from the students' side, you get motivated teammates that won't complain and try to help each others when you are crashing on a crazy deadline on a Sunday night at 11:42pm.

Damn that was great. I wish it could be easily done with other fields and not only in software engineering.
Typical annual fees: 9k
Typical class size: 25 x 3 years = 75 undergrads per course
Typical income for the university: 675k per course per year
Typical lecturer/researcher salary: 35k
Number of lecturers: 6
Total income less salary: ~ 0.5 million/yr

More students means more money.

So it's not just students who feel entitled. There's been a trend for years now of bullshit fill-up-the-hall "academic" courses with limited job prospects which only exist to part students from their cash.

Of course the real picture is more complicated. On the minus side there are expenses, but on the plus side many departments hoover up astonishing sums in national and sometimes corporate research funding.

The bottom line is that universities sweat students and lecturers and researchers for cash, and could afford to be more generous with everyone.
Yo, dawg, I heard ya like Von Neumann architecture.
will the people who are going to argue that the US is not a police state please step forward and address this damning evidence

Unfortunately, it's difficult to point out the high-powered shilling for authority that happens on HN because the biggest shills wield incredible influence (and karma).

One learns not to poke the bear.
I haven't noticed speed issues. But I have noticed the relevancy issues. If the first 5 search results in DDG don't seem relevant. I just bang out a google search ("!g").
Yes, I'm aware of COINTELPRO and the like-- and I know that similar programs exist now as well. Kind of odd how the "bastion of democracy" can't stop doing unabashedly anti-democratic things over the course of decades.
Where is this happening on a regular basis except in Muslim countries?

Also FWIW I think my local news sources tend to write about it in about the same way they write about other forms of terrorism.
What about docker .vs. real system administration?...
I was very surprised to learn about a city of that size in Europe that long ago! And I've never heard of the culture either - got to do some more reading... ;-)
Keep in mind that people start using a new product because it solves a problem for them, in DDG's case it's privacy issues with other search engines (and apparently exposing yourself to information outside of your filter bubble, which I didn't think about before this thread, but could be an interesting marketing avenue for DDG employees here ;-) ). For a new product, these people are early adopters, because the product is generally still raw or rough around the edges (or in your words, inferior), but it still solves a problem that is very real for them.

The big question for DDG, is can that product grow up, clean up their offering to users other than early adopters, and move into mainstream use? That's the question posed in the original article, and also the big challenge facing DDG for the future.

To your point about not being interested in integrating an inferior product into your life, hoping that it improves in the future, have you ever been an early adopter for another product, or participated in a Kickstarter campaign? If so, you're helping that company improve and refine their future offerings to customers. You don't have to do it for DDG if it doesn't meet your needs, but consider this point of view when commenting on its inferiority.
I moved on to GVim. I set it up as I liked and I don't miss Sublime. I'm hoping this will be my last editor switch.
Show HN: Semantic Resume – Markdown-To-HTML Resume with Semantic Markup
Can you say more about the high powered shilling for authority that happens on HN? I've been around for quite a while and I can't say that I've seen such a thing... maybe a few no-name easy-to-detect shills in certain hot national security and geopolitical topics, sure, but that's to be expected.
According to Ian Lance Taylor's recent post, there are no current plans for go2: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/ydeLGm2S...
I can sort of see removing specific drivers known to cause problems. But removing 3rd party PDF readers seems like a very sinister abuse of power! (Microsoft have an official document viewer in the "Windows Store").
> Oh, did someone port Vim-fireplace to emacs?

They did! And because Emacs has a time machine module, they did it before vim-fireplace existed, the bastards!
Upvoted, you explained it very well.

One other comment:

> A soldier that would do the same would be charged with war-crime, and it happened.

I'm sadly afraid this doesn't happens enough.
>"It takes a lot of introspection to see one’s internalized stereotypes."

I think she hit spot on with this - But that bit was directed at men, when the reality is that it goes both ways.

The problem is that it's a cycle hard to break from - it's not just men being sexist, it's women being unconsciously sexist towards themselves because they grew up in a sexist environment.

That's why you need to raise awareness, to make men AND women more aware of their thoughts and actions which they did not know were a result of sexism. Gotta break the pattern.
I seem to have missed the part of university where we were learning things not yet in published books. If you think that undergraduates are reaching the cutting edge of research as part of their reguarly scheduled syllabus, I don't know what to say to correct this impression.

You seem to forget that not every university is Stanford, where there are true leading experts that students can engage with beyond the context of class. There is no global university level. The trope of students conducting cutting edge research as undergrads is based on a few outliers who are widely publisied. The experience for the vast majority of us down in the trenches however is limited to the simplified model of physics that is safe for undergrads. Basing your expectations for a university education on the behavior of the top %0.001 of students is like expeciting your minivan to handle as well as a Grand-Prix racecar.

My question to you is then "Why the hell did society decide to co-opt researches into passing on the information, rather than create a new class of specialists like society has done for every other field of human endevor?"
I've found it locks up on Linux sometimes. Like I found Clementine when I was stuck on Windows. Having worked with QT, and it's asynchronous'ness, I can see it's easy to make dead lock mistakes, and I think that is probably what is happening.
So, to be fair, that £9,000 per student is clearly not going to the faculty. Do you think a lecturer teaching a 300-person class is making some £2.7M/year?

> “Hey student – all I’m asking for is a little respect, seeing as how much you pay makes no difference to my wages, yet the level of support I am forced to offer you takes up 80% of my time despite the fact that teaching still only equates to 33% of my workload. But I’ll be in the office until 9pm anyway because if I don’t publish two papers by the end of the year, I’ll be fired”.

There are people getting rich off of the university scam, but it isn't the faculty. And the people who are getting rich are clever enough to stay hidden and let the students think they're overpaying the faculty.

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-31715020
My old manager did this kind of shit to female coworkers all the time. He'd insist they put "earmuffs" on if he was going to say something he thought was too dirty/inappropriate/whatever. He was a sexist piece of garbage anyway, but he didn't see how condescending and annoying it was for the women.

He did the same thing to female sales reps - insisted we give them extra help above and beyond what he'd want us to do for men. Very glad I got out of retail hell.
I can get covered by dust, vegetation etc. and need excavation to be found, just like fossils underground
A very interesting caveat from the paper:

"It is important to note that it is assumed that the victim is wearing the WAD on the wrist of the preferred hand used to interact with keyboards.
In fact, in our attack scenario it would be harder, if not impossible, for the attacker to infer keystrokes if the victim is right-handed but is wearing the
WAD on the left hand for example."

A WAD is any wearable arm band device.
It can get covered by dust, vegetation etc. and need excavation to be found, just like fossils underground
The thing is, democracy doesn't work on a scale as large as the United States. (By not work I mean the people are far to the left of the elite with their redistributionist policies, and that's unacceptable to the people in power.) So either you have countries directly managing public opinion like China/Russia, or you have countries covertly managing public opinion like the United States. Essentially, you have to choose Brave New World or 1984 if you want to manage a "democracy".
What you say about 'if the female is attracted' is incredibly wrong, and I can speak from personal experience (as a guy). It's NOT about attraction, its about being, well, creepy. I didn't find this out till I started hitting the gym more and gay men started hitting on me more often (I'm straight and happily married for the record, so it's not about me being attracted or not). Here's what I learned:

If the guy is direct and has a positive attitude I say no but I take it as a compliment. It's like a feather in my cap (someone thinks I look good!). If the guy is being weird and indirect about it that gets creepy (and sometimes a little scary). The difference is that the positive guy usually takes the hint if I'm not interested. If they don't take the hint they BECOME creepy. The creepy guy is either so indirect that there's no clear way to give a hint, or just refuses to take the hint at all.

As I said before, since I'm straight this isn't about whether I'm attracted to the person or not. It's about someone acting in a way that feels creepy or not. It's about whether boundaries are being crossed. Finally, I'll end by saying that you can be hit on by a good looking person in a creepy way, and flirted with by an ugly person in a very positive way. It's all about attitude.
Summary:using the motion sensors in the smartwatch, they can figure out which keys you are pressing, and thus read your passwords.
Turn off visual-line-mode, maybe? The fringe shows line wrapping indicators, which probably isn't good here.
I definitely wouldn't spend money on buying a sublime license today. Development definitely seems to have stalled.

If you want a premium ide and/or text editor look at ones https://www.jetbrains.com/ has to offer. I am a polygot so I paid for the intellij Ultimate license which covers all the languages I code in.

But there a lot of excellent FREE / Open source editors out there too, consider these before spending any money:

https://code.visualstudio.com/

https://atom.io/

http://spacemacs.org/
> Among the Linux-users I know, OpenBSD has a reputation for being very cryptic and, well, hardcore.
I only played around on several occasions with OpenBSD but I always found it a lot easier and transparenter than Linux.
Even older users can get into this habit. I started with Unix before the web existed. Man pages (or books) were usually the only documentation.

Then Google, and StackOverflow, and others came along and it was very easy to slip into the habit of just searching for answers.

When you use OpenBSD there isn't necessarily a lot to be found online, other than mailing list archives. But remember to look at the man pages and the OpenBSD FAQ[1] they will usually have the answers you need.

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/
Just open it in reader mode. (The button on the left in the url field)
>In Europe, it strongly depends on the fraction of Orthodox population.

Wait, what? Mind unpacking that idea a bit?
Thanks, it is the intended behavior. It has been useful for me a few times when the fire didn't align properly. There is no function for making the fire bigger and smaller yet.
I'd love there to be a "I'm a developer" mode: I know it goes against the point of not tracking people but there are so many tech words that are common nouns etc, and providing a bit of context would prevent a lot of g! searches from me (see example: https://twitter.com/mrspeaker/status/672115832772784128/phot...)
Xbox Live pummeled by DDoS attack; hacker group claims responsibility
Your approach seems sensible as a freelancer. Hope it works out for you! But I don't think it would work for someone who's full-time employed looking for another full-time employer:

1. People can't just take two weeks off to go code for another company.

2. With so many other candidates out there, a company is typically not going to bother with an "eccentric" who refuses to interview. (not saying you are eccentric, just that's how you'll appear next to the other 100 traditional "interview me I need a job!" applicants)

I've seen #2 play out in real life. Company interviewed a guy who refused to do any code on a whiteboard, even simple fizzbuzzy stuff, pointing to his multi-decade resume full of big name companies and high-profile projects as proof that he's good. The company's response was basically "OK, there's the door".
They could also use this as another signal of the quality of a link for other users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu

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

I don't know the exact dates that are relevant here, but as recently as the late 80s people were bucking totalitarian oppression via violence.
Anyone reading CVE's for code in safer languages vs unsafe ones would disagree. The evidence would support them, too.
>how many would be for releasing all of them?

I'm not sure; haven't made a survey. Probably most. It doesn't matter in any case.
Science. And science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT.
Yes, MOC and QT's C+++ is really an awful thing. Copperspice being just normal C++ is interesting. Have to see what happens. But for me, C is where my heart is, so there is still two + that need to go for me. ;-)
That's annoying. Evernote doesn't have the actually useful bits of Skitch (iOS photo editing, annotating maps, annotating web pages, etc.)
Cox found liable in 'safe harbors' case against BMG
You should hear militant (physical/philosophical) materialists react to the use of the word "energy" in a yoga class. ;)
Sounds like you need to hack together a search engine for hackers.
Submodules and even subtrees can be useful ways to link repos. But, I'm wary of commit ids as versions. From a commit id you can't tell if the version you can is after the version that fixed a security issues. You can't tell what version of the interface to the package you're using. The meaning we are able to pull from and even compare with version number is missing. And, submodules are pinned to commit ids.
You express this better than I.
Outlook “letterbomb” exploit could auto-open attacks in e-mail
Beyond the Pill: Data Is the New Drug
This is the first mention I've seen of flink on HN.
Because I'm managing them and I talk to them and watch them work every day.
"currently maintained" seems to imply that this is a recent thing, so just to point out, millert has been maintaining sudo since before 1994.
> The market for software engineers is different from the market for - let's say - actors. Especially for senior developers there is way more demand than there is supply.

The "undersupply of engineers" meme again! This is a simplification. Supply and demand are measured at a given price. There may be way more demand than supply at one price (salary), but supply and demand is balanced at a more appropriate salary.
haha oops! feel sorry for people who spent 30-40 bucks on buying the book . thanks @mindcrime
I didn't bustle. A commenter expressed confusion about the meaning of the term, and I provided the common academic definition. Others are welcome to list the full range of colloquial uses.

I would, however, note that a physicist would bustle if someone tried to use the word energy with a different meaning when trying to understand a physical process. In this case, the only way to understand what it is that feminists want when it comes to sexism, is to understand what we mean when we use the word, which is also its academic meaning. For example, if you think feminists are against sexism (which we are), but also understand sexism to mean "treating men and women differently", then you'd be completely confused as to our goals. Perhaps you'd think that our goal is to erase the differences between the sexes. That would indeed be a silly goal, and you may be right in getting angry that intelligent people think such rubbish. While in fact, our goal is very clear: correct the gross imbalance of power between the sexes. To achieve that, we seek to uncover the mechanism which perpetuates it, which we call sexism. Thankfully, the academic community has been studying sexism for a few decades, and we now know a thing or two about it.

No reason to be angry. In fact, if you understood what feminists mean when we say sexism (which hopefully you now do), I think you'd be far less angry.
Marketers did not build the tracking systems. Developers built them and then website owners decided they were happy to deploy them. Everyone had to accept the proposal at least implicitly for us to get to where we are today.

You could say that Google, specifically, has so much power in web-advertising that no content site could walk away from them if they don't like how they behave but I don't think this is the case.
They moved it to 1.7 because it didn't get completed in time. You can see the source code here: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/dev.ssa (In particular, https://github.com/golang/go/compare/dev.ssa is interesting).

It's not clear to me what work is left, but hopefully it gets merged super early in the 1.7 cycle.
Not really enough to go on here. Are these unlocked phones? Which models? I seem to recall that many old dumb phones had official, proprietary interfaces for downloading data off them.
Some people command respect, others get respect without asking because they deserve it, some are ignored one way or the other, being kind of neutral persons, and some get disrespect for a lot of little things they are not aware of, and some get outright scorn because they deserve it and know it. This has nothing to with gender.

As a male, I've always tried to be someone who deserved respect. My first impression of Lea Verou is that she deserves respect and possibly something in her bearing gives off the impression that she commands it (that last part is pure speculation to make my point.)

I've noticed a lot of complainers of either gender aren't getting respect for the little things they are not very conscious of (and this is another reason for the disrespect - little self-awareness,) things like being late, doing sloppy work, gossiping, being greedy or careless with common resources, making inappropriate comments, and so on. I'm not saying there isn't gender discrimination, but I feel there are other factors that should be considered as well.
Shouldn't the server log incoming pushes so you can find when the commit arrived, not just when the commit claims to have been made?

Maybe they don't, but this seems like something they ought to do.
"My god the rational agent model is so bloody stupid but it makes calculations feasible, that's literally the only reason we use it nowadays ..."

I find myself surprisingly often having to remind people that a world in which 64GB of RAM, 16 cores, a dozen terabytes of storage, and programming environments that let people harness all of these things, can all come out to a budget within reach of a middle-class individual who really wants it, is a VERY recent development, one still sinking in to the rest of the world. Rational agents have really always been known to be false, but good luck in 1980 getting an economist to write any sort of simulation of 100 million agents doing something slightly irrational to see what happens. They're going to face some pretty stiff competition for the supercomputer time that would represent... and the supercomputer in question would still be grossly underpowered compared to modern systems, so it would take some clever programming too.

Even as clock speeds may have frozen, even in the last 5 years there has been a noticeable drop in the price of computing power.

Beating up past economists for using the rational agent model is like getting beaten by people 50 years in our future for not just using AIs to solve problems, just because the phone in their pocket is populated by a couple dozen human-intelligent entities running locally, to say nothing of the civilization in "the cloud".
Or the 79 cell phone models with no security in the first place. Lots of phones 10+ years ago didn't really bother.