skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote the original comment (but logged into the wrong account, woops).

You make a good point about commentary, and it seems like the NEA Four would like to cast art specifically in that light, but of course any narrow pigeonholing of art is bound to fail.

I would quibble with your statement that artist would create art for the sake of the client, state, or church. Certainly they were patronized but that influence while significant doesn't tell the whole story. The contemporary concept of the working artist and the relationship to the public was revolutionized by Warhol. This article only mentions him twice in passing, so again I don't really take it that seriously.

I would suggest Sol Lewitt as a ceiling painter, but not sure where that rabbit hole would take us.
So says the script's own front matter, and it is at least better than nothing.
It might be. The stuff I've read suggests developing it was a difficult project and Harris is the only one that has such a product. Seems unlikely if all it's doing is jamming.
Yesterday’s technologies, today’s problems
So just take a ZFS snapshot and give Tarsnap the snapshot to back it up?
Bernie Sanders and Tammy Baldwin are pretty consistent when it comes to supporting privacy and the internet. They were actually the only two Senators who voted against the "Freedom" Act [1] who also supported net neutrality [2]. Both also voted against the "Patriot" Act in 2001, while they served in the House [3].

[1] http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c...

[2] http://www.baldwin.senate.gov/press-releases/us-senator-tamm... & http://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/to-protect-...

[3] http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll398.xml
One easier way to detect (without jamming afterwards), for iOS at least, is to install the "Fing" app, connect to the wifi and scan the network. Then you will know the connected devices and their names. Chances are that cameras will have easy to recognize names on them. EDIT: you'll get the MAC address too, so you can compare if they match camera companies.
There are reasons not to like CISA. I'm pretty irritated by it: I think organizations like Fight For The Future organized a campaign against CISPA based on a whole lot of FUD, and for their efforts got us a law that actually justifies (a very little bit) of that FUD.

Unlike CISPA, CISA allows shared information to be used for law enforcement purposes. Ideally, threat information shared with the government should be used solely to improve defenses and prevent breaches; instead, anyone who shares data now needs to be cognizant of the other uses to which it will be put.
> A woman can treat a man like a disposable garbage bag

I always hear people bring this up and I've never actually seen it unless the guy is overly aggressive (i.e. grabbing her ass). And if the guy is awkward women treat him with pity, not hostility.
It's come a long way in the last six months. Pivotal have devoted a team of 3 or 4 pairs to it, so progress is at a fast clip now.

Almost every team in Cloud Foundry has switched to using it and some projects out of Pivotal Labs are tinkering with it too.

I think that once the resources ecosystem grows and it becomes more approachable for beginners, Concourse has massive potential.
OK, but the major advantage you've suggested for Chinese typography, that the meaning of written words drifts much less over hundreds of year by allowing fast-change sound to change independently, is much less valuable today, right? Modern tech means we expect less drift overall, and less problems for a given amount of drift. Furthermore, the cost of drift is not felt by the people using the language at the time, so this advantage won't influence the choices people make.
Experienced readers of alphabetic languages recognise words by pattern matching their shape. That is, you do not individually decipher the characters that make up a word, but you pattern match on (mostly) the ascenders and descenders, and then maybe sanity check first and last characters.

That greatly speeds up reading, but also makes it hard to discover typos, in particular characters inside of words that have no as-/descenders.

In this way, alphabetic writing is maybe more accessible - novice readers can decipher character by character and map to phonemes, thus having a way to understand all words; experts pattern match and read faster.
Not so on social media, however, which makes this election really interesting: we'll be able to see to what extent the old guard (broadcast news networks) reigns supreme.
The bill was online for two days before voting. I looked at sections of it. Any Congressman could have read in advance. It was very long and had lots of number amounts. Only an expert could tell if these were increases or decreases.
Not to mention the DNC.
How Santa Claus Ended Up on U.S. Military’s Radar
> the bootloader fuse will still be blown on this

What does that mean?
On the other hand, if not for the previous several hundred years of western europeans pointing rifles...
Most of those are pretty standard on phones.

- Closed envelope: No idea
- Compose
- No idea either
- Delete
- Reply
- Reply to all
- Forward
- Flag. The meaning of this changes, but not the overall idea.

The problem is, WTF are those doing in an desktop application?
I think his lawyer undoubtably knows this and is under no illusion that he has a monopoly over his services. Shkreli might have to use him for a few hours though which is more than enough to make the joke worth it.
Sure, but the script speed-reading advantage only comes at the level of having single symbols for single meaning. Once you need to combine symbols to get the (additional) meanings, you're not any faster than phonetics.
> Even when you educate them they're so shell shocked by the news that they're willing to let the powers that be shepherd them into servitude. We're all megafucked.

The shell shocked attitude that's followed by complacency is exactly, "We're all megafucked," possibly in other words.

It's exactly that attitude that we need to steer away from, no matter how grim the landscape looks. That's step 1 to change.
This is a joke. It's not real. Com'on people.
Alex Suraci was working less than 50M from Dmitry Kalinin when Concourse was born and put to work on the Diego team. So in a way it comes as no surprise.
That just sets the responses cache control headers. It doesn't put anything in the edge cache
Just get a small million dollar loan from your father :)
I read from a reliable source I cannot immediately recall that she in fact did not post anything jihadist or even inflammatory on any social media account of hers.

are you repeating a convenient falsehood or am I? in other words -- do you have a source that verified she in fact posted jihadist anything, anywhere?
The PC analogy is a good one...and this is exactly why I moved to Macs after a decade of building and upgrading "Frankenstein's monster" PCs at great expense (time and money). With my first Mac I started to treat computers as a means to an end, as opposed to an end in itself. I wanted to start using computers to produce things - graphics, music, websites, apps. I got bored of endlessly tinkering with the hardware itself.

High-end Apple computers have always targeted the producer rather than the consumer. I look back to the days of upgrading graphics cards, heatsinks, power supplies etc, and wish that I'd spent that time honing other skills that would serve me better in later life.
To disable all cameras that only save data to the "cloud", like dropcam and many others, you can also just temporarily disconnect the cable or phone wire on the outside of the house.
Law enforcement outside of cyber security? OK, I did miss that. Thanks.
Agreed. I'd actually go through my Facebook feed and hide domains of clickbait articles. They spring up like weeds though. Unworthy and buzzfeed are not even scratching by the surface. I haven't been so good at it lately (just don't find Facebook interesting enough to visit, mainly) and my whole entire feed is just back to that shit. The maintenance effort isn't worth putting up with to be using Facebook, to be honest.
I like the massive fanfare the script makes when it finds a camera.
Meet Navaak the Iranian Music Streaming App
Whether huge states vs lots of small states are desirable or not is another topic entirely though.
Move fast and break stuff doesn't work for infrastructure projects. If you cannot get good PR on day 1 then delay until you can.
Cortana is the name of an AI in Halo series. That's why Microsoft chose it.
Apart from a couple models of Android phones, one from Moto, one from LG IIRC, that claim to be especially rugged, all phones from top quality OEMs will be about the same. They use the same glass, touch sensors, and displays. iPhones have an advantage in the US because there are a limited number of models and they have a large market share, so repair services are widely available.

Apple almost went to sapphire crystal for screens. But it was unclear how much that would help, compared with the cost and complication of making that much sapphire.
More likely "Walk up to a Linux system and find this issue isn't even relevant as a bootloader password is not even configured in the first place"
if correcting one's attitude is step one, what is step two? voting? what real victories have been won on this front recently? and i'm not advocating for extremism nor am i advocating for complacency, the game just seems stacked with zero possibility of change.
I really admire much of Banksy's work. There's a clear, relevant, intent behind his work -- and it's clear that he's put significant thought and work behind his pieces and he has a clearly developed artistic talent and skill set.

He's not an amazing artist to me, but I think he's clever, and I respect his work.
Increases. There have been very few true "cuts" at the Federal level in the last few generations.

The secret is Baseline Budgeting[1].

If your agency got $100 this year, you ask for $110 next year and that becomes the "baseline." Now when the actual budget negotiations happen, you may only get $105. Most people would call this a 5% increase but instead they consider it a (roughly) 5% cut from the baseline.

This is how the government can claim they're "cutting the budget" while still spending more than last year.

For a bonus, imagine the above agency is sympathetic - like the food stamp program - and requests $200 next year. When some Congressperson says "No wait, you only need $110," they're accused of "cutting food stamps in half" and "wanting people to starve!" It's effective for tearing apart the other person, not effective for actually getting things done.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseline_(budgeting)
Not all plastics are safe for human ingestion, and if you disperse them in the wild, that's where they end up sooner or later.
Why Are Projects Always Behind Schedule?
Law enforcement can use indicators to RESPOND TO, PREVENT or MITIGATE "an imminent threat of death, serious bodily harm, or serious economic harm" (e.g. almost anything), but can only use it to assist in the PROSECUTION of identity theft, trade secret theft, or espionage.

(PCNA had broader language that enabled prosecutions of a variety of crimes with indicator data).

Again, CISPA, the bill FFTF takes credit for killing, had none of this language.
I don't know -- I think we're all pretty lucky to have had the advances in optical technology and associated manufacturing of said technology that allowed 641A to exist.
Anyone know how to find out who wrote the bill?
I was just explaining to a colleague the best ways to get acces to shell utilities like awk/sed, as a Windows user. In the balance of ease of setup vs functionality I had recommended the git bash application. This looks even better (for 2016).
Wouldn't that stop you using their Wifi, presumably included as part of the listing? That's probably another surveillance risk to be fair, but I think most people expect it and tolerate that risk.
Except controlled side effects are a godsend, even for meat and potatoes.
HTC Vive to demo a 'very big' breakthrough in VR at CES
More than that, Libre- is a very inward-facing name. It's not AwesomeOffice, FriendlyOffice or PowerfulOffice. It's "LibreOffice", something that simply doesn't make any sense to most English speakers.

The implication is "we choose this as our adjective, because we care more about our ideology than the quality of your user experience". Ok, the ideology says that "because we build our software like this, you get a better user experience", and I have a lot of sympathy with that. But by the time you have to explain the name like this, you've lost the potential user's attention.

(OTOH, I also suck at software naming so probably shouldn't preach.)
"Remove Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC Chair" http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/remove-debbie-wasserman?sou... 40,491 signatures so far
> So from the point of view of art-as-marketing, you couldn't do that.

And now you've circled back around to what I think I'm poorly stating as a central point. Modern art exists only as a way to sink wealth into physical goods. It doesn't have to be good, it doesn't have to mean anything, it just has to be expensive and likely to grow in value.
I'd be more irked by the comment she made about your balls hanging down your pant leg. Sounds like sexual harassment to me, if it were me wouldn't let a boss speak to me in that fashion- male or female.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10746895

Hack into a Linux Computer by Hitting the
Backspace 28 Times (vice.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10747267

Bypass Authentication by pressing backspace
28 times in Grub2 (hmarco.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10750188

Press Backspace 28 times to own unlucky Grub-by
Linux boxes (theregister.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10750708

Hack any linux system by hitting Backspace
key 28 times (lifehacker.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10756662

0 Day Bug in Grub2 Hack into a Linux Computer
Just by Pressing Backspace 28 Time (haktuts.in)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10759191

Hack into a Linux Computer by Hitting the
Backspace 28 Times (vice.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10759885

Press Backspace 28 times to own unlucky
Grub-by Linux boxes (theregister.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10762417

Log into most any Linux system by hitting
backspace 28 times (engadget.com)
Congratulations.

This free advice is worth what you paid for it.

1. You will screw up. Unless you screw up profoundly, everything will turn out better than you can imagine. Even if you screw up profoundly, everything will probably turn out all right.

2. It's great to have plans. They won't survive the opening phase of the battle. An infant quickly becomes a person. But it takes forever compared to your plans. Montessori is years away. No amount of "good parenting" can short circuit that. There's years of changing diapers and little sleep and having no clue before it comes. Enjoy the moment. Enjoy not having a clue. No parent does, some people just don't realize it.

3. Your child will be a child even when they're six one with a black belt. We're all children at heart. Take advantage of the excuse to act like one.

4. Your child is not you. Their grades are their grades not yours. Their team wins the soccer match. You don't. Your child isn't better when someone else does worse. Parent and pursue your own interests.

It's fun and wonderful and hard. You will need grow,too. You will.

Good luck.
If you're in a location where that language is spoken, it's probably reasonable to assume you have a method of translation available (like a dictionary). It's much harder to look up icons. You could try to make an exception for laundry, but you'll encounter so many different interfaces over the course of the day, and if they all had their own icon language it would be hopeless. Text is much more universal.
There is no way to have actually read the short text of CISA and come away with the conclusion that it "lets major industry players like MS / Google / Apple give the fed access to all the personal info they record without investigators needing a warrant and with no liability on the companies part".

No part of this summary squares with the text of the bill: not the kinds of information shared, nor the methods by which it's shared. Just for absolute ground-floor starters, CISA private->government sharing is PUSH, not PULL, and there is no mechanism whatsoever for the government to request (even by asking nicely) any indicator data.

Wherever you got this summary from, they just fucking made it up.
I said foreign wars, so US would qualify not any of the areas you mentioned.

The Black Death ended in 1353, so your timeframe is way off. And yes, total GDP was down, but per capita GDP was up as much as 35% in some areas which is a massive difference for the time period. Standard of living actually fell as populations recovered, though agricultural efficency had improved. 1350 + 250 = 1600, 1350 + 150 = 1500.
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There is a fair bit of context behind this work. Some pointers:

1) Introduction. Receiving / sending packets with high throughput is hard:

* https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-receive-a-million-packets...

2) Achieving low latency is also hard, quick intro to kernel bypass proprietary solution OpenOnload:

* https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-achieve-low-latency/

3) Oh, you want to do kernel bypass in open source? All of off-the-shelve open source solutions take over the whole network card.

* https://blog.cloudflare.com/kernel-bypass/

4) Proposal for solving the problem in open source: the partial kernel bypass patch proposal to netmap:

* https://blog.cloudflare.com/single-rx-queue-kernel-bypass-wi...

5) It's there! The (updated) patch had been merged!

* https://blog.cloudflare.com/partial-kernel-bypass-merged-net...
This should not be a revelation though. Granted, back when the Internet wasn't so popular, the risk for people like you and me, or for small companies, was relatively low. Partly because the value of Internet-accessible information was relatively low, too -- twenty years ago, if I bought a backdoored home router, all the Evil Guys would get access to would be really bad code snippets and a few folders of porn pics.

But the fact that people with access to your infrastructure also had access to your data was more or less well known ever since "the beginning", and it's also why internetworks other than the Internet were a thing for a long time.

> And yet, as a whole, we de facto continue to trust in opaque entities that provide valuable yet likely compromised services because it is convenient.

Don't forget the scarcity of alternatives though. It takes a lot of money to come up with a credible alternative to Juniper and Cisco. Siphoning personal data is what sells nowadays, not protecting it.
I like this because presumably it is not illegal to do so.
Neat. The release notes contain a reference to a statement I wasn't aware of - DROP OWNED BY. Usually I place a DROP TABLE IF EXISTS at the top when trying new things out, but that requires a list of all tables which is somewhat tedious to type. DROP OWNED BY solves that elegantly.
Not really surprising, is it? At least right now (don't know how it was in the past) their FAQ are clear that normal chats are only encrypted between client and server, and you have to activate secret chats for client-to-client crypto.
Google has been making so many cloud (platform) related announcements lately!

I love their service & it makes me happy to see them ramp up their efforts to provide an even better experience & product line.
Same here. Threads like these completely alienate me, feels like a completely different world. I can't image a software developer getting more than a 100K per year (non-freelance), it's not rocket science or anything.
This is a simple extension for Google Chrome Browser that let you read the top news from Y Combinator Hacker News.

This extension was created using the official Hacker News Api: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
" in many of its strains catholicism is so exalted you're only supposed to have an eternal soul, your body is filthy."

Um, nope. That's called Manichaeism and it was condemned by the Catholic Church as long ago as the 5th century. The body is considered sacred in Catholic beliefs, but it doesn't have any special symbolism that would make something like Piss Christ make sense.
There's a group of tech volunteers working on apps to try to help out his campaign. I'm sure they would welcome any additional help from HN people.
Haskell Basics: How to Loop
This startup aims to reduce chronic diseases
All three are problems with performance on a von Neumann machine. So there are three main reasons why Haskell is not a great language for expressing high-performance computation algorithms. Since CS is a branch of maths, performance isn't that big a deal; the important thing is that the result is computable. The performance may be an interesting property, but so is line count and purity and ease of writing proofs and doing analysis on the code!

Speaking more pragmatically, outside of CS study, most of the programs I write do not require me to write high-performance algorithms – they tend to be very I/O bound, and call out to external libraries/services for the data crunching. When I need performance (because of course I do at times), there is an amazing library that lets me write C code in Haskell[1]. The fact that some sections of my program is performance critical doesn't mean I have to write the entire program in C. I can write just the performance critical parts in C.

[1]: https://github.com/fpco/inline-c/blob/master/README.md
>The whole point of common lisp, the reason it has survived since the beginning of time, is that the language was designed so that language innovation happened by people developing libraries for it.

And that "whole point" hasn't worked very well as to the availability of a rich library ecosystem and/or adoption. So, while it's a nice trait to have, it's perhaps too much of a burden.

>But mass adoption isn't always the goal.

True, but it's not like CL was designed like some researchy or experimental project that doesn't care about mass adoption.
Related: For curated list of the 100 largest atrocities, ranked by largest loss of life, check out Matthew White's The Great Big Book of Horrible Things [0]

It grew out of his website, Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century, and while he is not an historian by profession (I believe he's a librarian), the book is very well researched (lots of footnotes, citations, etc.) and IMO, "fun" to read. (Only because of his style of writing, obviously not about the content)

Each event is a relatively short read, with decent background provided, though the book is quite long overall.

Spoiler: One of the items on the list is Caesar's Gallic Wars, and there are many dedicated to various events that transpired the Roman {Republic, Empire}

0. http://www.bookofhorriblethings.com/

1. http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm
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150$ for the parts he listed is not very expensive if he needs DDR2 which is unfortunate because it is too old and hard to get. But, i had a Q9550 QuadCore in 2009 that used DDR2 too which was quite common just 6 years ago.
Perhaps my word choice was off. The difference I see is that the original comment invites did not go to one common group.

For instance the person I got mine from is a mid-career technical founder in the midwest who's hard working but not rich or well known. Personally I am not yet a successful founder and have minimal connections in the Bay Area. I attributed getting it to being at the right place at the right time.