skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Migrated my personal thinkpad to OpenBSD, other than firefox coughing up now and then - its been smooth so far.

Installing was a breeze, the man pages are well written, never had to run to google much except while partioning.

Also: Never knew sudo was a openBSD project.
I would be happy to sell you a chance to eat, or a chance for medial care, or a chance for housing. Education is as necessary as a public utility. To charge any price for a chance to learn while billing as a product (actually knowing things about the world) is a pure example of fraud.
Those are not mutually exclusive things though, presumably they want to be approached by non-creepy guys (ie ones they happen to like, by whatever measure).

I guess this is just how the human mating game goes. We try to make some things make sense intellectually even though there's probably deeper subconscious and chemical messaging going on.
Based upon the rules [0] I suspect that the title is parsed and that "Show HN" is what moves a submission to that page. Items from |show| can show up on the front page. I believe having the information in the title gives the community the appropriate context for evaluating and commenting on the item.

Then again, my experience is that titles are a poor proxy for content often enough that I try to click on links before commenting on a submission or evaluating it. Often the awesomeness is inversely proportional to the quality of the title. My heuristic is, when in doubt click.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I think this sums it up "Vyapam appears to be a vast societal swindle – one that reveals the hollowness at the heart of practically every Indian state institution: inadequate schools, a crushing shortage of meaningful jobs, a corrupt government, a cynical middle class happy to cheat the system to aid their own children, a compromised and inept police force and a judiciary incapable of enforcing its laws."
> That's the general theme of public discourse... Americans killing Muslims in Iraq are "soldiers", wherears Muslims killing Americans in the US are "terrorists".

Americans aren't killing Muslims in Iraq just because they are muslims. That's a straw-man.

> wherears Muslims killing Americans in the US are "terrorists"

(Some) Muslim extremists certainly are killing americans because of what they are and what they believe in. They are effectively called terrorists because they don't kill soldiers.

They go kill random civilians in the streets.

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

Quit your post-modernist framework which is making you say despicable things frankly.
I mostly disagree with you entirely.

Client side decorations give way more space to the actual content than to waste space for an almost empty titlebar. It allows to combine the titlebar with content from the application itself. You regard them entirely off as a "sin". Very strong language but you don't explain _at all_!

For the file chooser, some never things that were never implemented were added recently: double vs single clicking, renaming and some other super old bug.

Regarding mouse wheel support: What basis do you say that 1) it was removed 2) it was made out of spite?

Too many people have way too much time talking down on the work of others. You go out of your way to imply that GNOME developers are intentionally evil. What the hell.

PS: I agree it needs way more developers. But that's nothing new.
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There is a clear misalignment in the actual goals of the three core groups in universities: Administrators, Professors, Students.

Administrators want to grow the school budget and increase prestige for themselves and the university. Professors want to do research and make an impact in their field, and to their peers. Students want to be able to get a job and have an interesting experience.

In theory all three groups should have as a primary goal the expansion of the circle of knowledge [1] at some level. Administrators by providing a space for professors and students to do that, professors by partly focusing on students' needs and partly by having separate research periods and Students by expanding their own circles.

Reality is, it's all about money, just like everything else. Each group is trying to get the most of it so they can do what they want individually. Everyone is a customer in this scenario.

[1]http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Facebook's disclosure policy reads:

>If you give us reasonable time to respond to your report before making any information public, and make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data, and interruption or degradation of our service during your research, we will not bring any lawsuit against you or ask law enforcement to investigate you.

IANAL: but it could be argued (in court) that he had Facebook's permission to getting the AWS keys. In his opinion (and mine) he made good faith efforts to avoid privacy violations.

Facebook's official disclosure policy has legal weight. There is legal concept (whose name is escaping me) that could apply that in laymen's terms say the official disclosure policy gives him Facebook's tacit approval - I first heard about it in the Oracle v Google where Google argued a blog post congratulating Google provided tacit approval.
Discussed at some length a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10736999
Alibaba avoids being named on U.S. blacklist for fakes
I started using DDG this year. I've found the main thing that drives me back to Google (and frequently) is searching for anything where freshness of results matters; that's where I'm seeing the biggest difference in quality of results.
because Google is more evil than Microsoft?

Joking aside, I think it's perfectly reasonable for a company to offer free services and advice with the condition that the development it fosters is in a company-sponsored, open source software.
I agree strongly with this statement. But most people seem to think that having a subgroup with "verboten" opinions is a liability, not an asset.
I heard something similar too, that Harvard felt they were admitting too many Jews so they started using other criteria instead of just the written tests for admission.

Now they are probably using the subjective tests to attract disadvantaged minorities.
apologies - didn't notice you weren't OP. IMO, the "no true Scotsman" is implied (might be unintentional)
> They are not idiots.

They are indeed.

> If you pay half your annual income, you SHOULD expect to get some damn good service for your money.

No. This is a blatant consumerism. It does not matter even a tiny bit how much do you pay - 1/2 of your income, 100x your income, whatever.

> Schools should be free,

Of course, in an ideal world. But we have to deal with what we have and to make sure it's not destroyed beyond any hope.

Do you expect "some damn good service" when you buy a lottery ticket or when you bet all your money on a horse? Will you harass the jokey for not winning that round?

Tuition fees are paid for an access to an infrastructure. That's it. Not for a degree, not for the better grades, not for a "humane" treatment. Just for a chance to learn and nothing else.
Ok, someone has to say it.

Why.
Thanks for your feedback pixard, glad to hear you've seen the improvements. While you're right a few hours does not a huge metric make, it's also awesome to hear that the changes were that noticeable.

We've added a new feedback tool in the bottom right of the results page, we encourage you to let us know when results aren't up to snuff (or when we really nail it!)

Also be sure to check out the bangs (https://duckduckgo.com/bang) and settings which can be saved to the cloud or via URL using the bookmarklet tool button (https://duckduckgo.com/settings). Those are some favorite features of a lot of our long time users that we feel really add to the experience.
> people who were likely to be dangerous

That's a convenient excuse. The number of civilian causalties in Iraq makes me unlikely to believe it.
Congrats on the release. We'd love to help promote and showcase it on www.indiedb.com we are community run and here to help. We also have VRDB.com In the pipeline which would be cool for this. Keep up the fine work!
> This will not end well for anyone who is not in power.

Or the other way around.
Blackstone's formulation for those who didn't bother to click through:

>"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"

Wise to keep this in mind if you wish to be justice-conscious.
Jolla Ltd closes its C investment round and secures new financing to the company [pdf]
Nice idea about Google tasks.
Personally I've only ever witnessed sexism at play in larger companies, startup culture by it's nature I think is anti-sexist, the highly competitive market for employees combined with the sense of "who gives a shit about genders, we gotta get this thing fixed NOW" kind of makes it a defacto meritocracy.

Not to say that it can't happen in startups of course, just saying in the Perfect World, a startup culture would eliminate it before it even had a chance to take foothold.
Thank you guys, I really appreciate your input.

I didn't intend for this to be a visa discussion, I am more focused on what I should look for in my career from now on. Could you give me some pointers given the facts I stated above? Thanks again everyone!
Some companies are selling 0day for use in LE/Intelligence. Some large vendors might also work with them in the end.
I've tried Evernote earlier (on mobile), found it seemed buggy.
But that's the point. A human society dominates bears. But a solitary human, raised by bears, wouldn't dominate them. So to assume that a single that a solitary AI, "raised" by humans, would somehow be able to conquer us a pretty problematic assumption (on top of a string of other pretty problematic assumptions).
I don't think that it is fair to compare corruption in Portugal (and perhaps in any other Southern European countries) with the kind of corruption described in the article.

Yes, you can find corruption over there and especially a lot of influence and favour trading BUT at least people are aware that it is both criminal and wrong, not a way of life or "the way things work".

EDIT: typo
> Americans aren't killing Muslims in Iraq just because they are muslims.

Then s/Muslims/Iraqis/. But then, what about Palestine, Syria, Lybia, ...? On the other hand, I'm sure they aren't killing Americans because they're Americans either... but because they the agressors.

> They go kill random civilians in the streets.

What would you do, if a technologically-superior country was killing your friends, family, children? They fight any way they can, and hurt us where it hurts us most.

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

Wait, more than 150k civilians were killed in Iraq. I don't recall seeing that many war-crime trials.
7 pretty good reasons for you to go abroad
On an individual scale, you're right. But the fact is almost every corporation, non-profit, and government agency is weak inside the perimeter security stack; once you're in, you're in. A backdoor in networking equipment is a pretty serious problem.
Sounds like an interesting read, do you have link to the article?
If that is the case, Southern European corruption should reduce in the future, because now Catholics are literate too.

India still has terrible public education, so it may take them longer to catch up.
The only surprising thing here is just how out of date the catalog appears to be when compared to the current offerings from these (and many other) vendors.
Most of these products have brochures and commercials on the vendor website and social media pages they aren't overwhelmingly classified.
Most of the usefulness of this service is that you need a NAT gateway if you want instances to be created with private IPs only but also be able to access the internet. The IPv4 point isn't wrong but it misses the mark, I think.

You could put them in super restrictive security groups, sure, but some people just want to say "these don't have a public IP, so it checks off this box" and those people are going to be super happy with this.

There's also the comments about checking off other boxes like central points for IDS, etc.
Hi Temp,

Can you share the region/language you're using and a few sample queries? Feel free to email me at adam@duckduckgo.com if you don't want to share them publicly. We're always looking to improve, and get an understanding of where we're lacking.

We know in this industry there are a lot of challenges surrounding localization and so concrete examples really help!
I've also started wearing a beard in the last 3 years. Maybe the beard is responsible!
Made even more ironic by all the 'feminists' that use sexism as an excuse for special treatment.
Because you don't know what libraries you may depend on in the future when you start a new project. I was a fervent Python 3 supporter, and wrote every of my fresh projects in Python 3 instead of 2, until one day I found I needed LLVM in my project, yet the python port at that time was for 2 only.

I mostly avoid writing Python 3 nowadays, because I don't want to rewrite my project or find painstakingly an alternative solution when I could have just imported a module that runs fine under Python 2.
The ABC of raising your seed round
Can you elaborate why "client-side decorations are a sin that we should know better than to repeat" ? From a subjective user perspective, I like them for enabling controls in titlebar, which paved the way for compact, elegant windows --i.e. height(clientside_titlebar_with_controls) < height(regular_titlebar + menubar + toolbar)--. What's objectively bad about them?

Other than that, describing GTK3 as "the official Gnome 3 toolkit, beg us if you want interoperability" seems pretty accurate. I personally enjoy the experience provided by GNOME 3, but will never, ever, use a GTK app under Windows or Mac OSX. They just look and feel terribly out of place.

However, does GTK have much choice given the resources at hand?

- With the Adwaita theme now being rolled into GTK itself, it's becoming clear the GNOME/GTK folks are not aiming at a good Mac/Windows experience, they're maximizing for Linux + the whole GNOME shebang.

- Could they do otherwise? Qt is backed by a big team at the Qt Company (ex Digia / Nokia / Trolltech) with commercial interest to support big $$$ Windows/Mac-based enterprise apps, while GTK seems maintained by a smaller core team of RedHat/Fedora folks, Canonical not so much, and individual contributors. I think they're just focusing.
>everyone understands the honour it's based on

That's the terrible thing about corruption. Sometimes it's not based in selfishness, but in honor and generosity.

It's just that old ideas about being honorable, a good provider, putting family and friends first and all that, are actually pretty terrible in modern bureaucracies.
Historically the other way round, while much celebrated (4th July, Bastille day) tends to be the statistical anomaly
Didn't openbsd attempt to rewrite sudo recently? There was a point about simplifying its configuration syntax.

Also, as a long time BSD fanboy, I've never considered OpenBSD to be a desktop OS. It's a great OS that I use on routers and servers, but never a desktop. I had a period where I used FreeBSD on my laptop but once I went Linux, I never looked back.
I can see both sides of this argument. On one hand, when you pay £9,000 for an education, you expect to get exactly that - an education, not someone pointing you towards a bunch of information that you could have found yourself with half a dozen Google searches and the wherewithal to do dig through yourself... for free. It brings to mind a quote from Good Will Hunting: "you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!" So I completely understand the mentality that when I pay you £9,000 for an education, I expect you to actively participate in educating me - doubly so when every student in that classroom is paying equally.

On the other hand, I disagree with the sentiment that students feel like they are buying a degree. At least from my perspective, the degree itself is largely meaningless. It's the education piece I'm after. I am buying education via access to a pre-vetted, qualified and educated mentor that I can go to with all questions I have regarding my understandings and misunderstandings. I can do the learning piece myself, but I can't ask YouTube and online course material questions if I don't understand it, or to clarify my understanding of it... and I expect that as long as I meet my obligation to work hard to understand the material you are presenting me with and submit the coursework required for the course, I am indirectly buying that degree - and that withstanding, I expect to get the degree that I not only shed blood, sweat and tears for, but also paid £9,000 for.

As a person, I also demand respect, not because I think the world owes me that, certainly not because I feel like I'm naturally entitled to it, but because I understand just as you do that we all have lives outside of the situation in which we interface. Sometimes those lives get in the way of our best intentions, some days trying to juggle those lives and get to work on time is all but impossible, and just as we are expected to afford respect to those around us, I expect the same affordance, no more, no less. So if my circumstances have prevented me from handing an assignment in on time, I expect some consideration for those circumstances, just as I am expected to afford the professor consideration for not attending class today because their real life prevented them from doing that, and you know what, given that I paid £9,000 to be in that classroom, I do feel like some respect should be given to that.

As a lifelong student, watching the exponential increase in tuition fees and the attitudes of students towards educational systems and vice versa, I find it hard to blame the student. The education system is broken, tuition fees keep going up, the quality of education remains mediocre at best, through no fault of the professors who work hard and get pittance compared to what the university makes off the students. The media constantly bangs the drum of entitlement and consumerism into everyone from an early age; and the media is really just a product of the society that we began building in the 1950's... Guess what? Consequences.
Right now making a mature Unity3d project that was developed for mobile platforms run on WebGL takes 2-4 weeks of developer time to reach feature-complete, semi-stable state. And still, it runs abysmally slow, and hogging at least 1Gb of memory.

After Unity browser plugin was retired a year ago with the whole Netscape plugin architecture, teams that use Unity just better accept the fact that they can't realistically deploy their projects in the browser anymore.
One big upside I can think of would establishing a permanent residency in the country of your employer.

I'm currently working remote for a US based company, and was only able to stay in Ireland for three months on a 90-day visa. There's also a 90 day limit every 180 for US Citizens in the Schengen zone (most EU states, minus UK+Ireland). This is actually a problem I'm actively looking to solve, since I'd like to spend more time there.

I'd imagine that working for an EU company would help when applying for various exemptions or longer stay visa.
Let me finish your question. Why....not? XD
Hey Stinos,

Thanks for the feedback - part of the changes you've noticed are simply due to the fact that we do read threads like this, and we do encourage users to send/share their feedback and examples of where we haven't hit the mark for them; and then actively try and improve that experience.

We've recently streamlined this process by adding a feedback tool on the bottom right of the results page. If you feel we don't quite show the results/experience you were expecting (or if we really really nail it) then we encourage you to share that feedback with us! You can opt-in to how much detail you provide, and as always we don't collect, store and share personally identifiable details.

Thanks for your continued support!
This is pretty much the best thing ever.
In all honesty, I don't care if they (google) track me. I just want to find the right information as fast as possible.
Dropbox have blocked the links due to high traffic. :( anywhere else we can take a butchers?
You are absolutely right, but much like having a personal trainer, or a doctor who tells you to eat/exercise right, you have some responsibility in the matter.

Moreover, if it were the case that less hand-holding helped produce a more market-valuable graduate, then you would rightly expect this.

A lot of incentives in education are woefully misaligned, in my opinion. And I can't really see any simple obvious fixes, but entitlement to knowledge in the form of understanding on the part of students is not one of them.

As Euclid is to have said, "there is no royal road to geometry".
There are still a ton of small businesses out there that do not even know how to setup their business on google so that they show up in a local search. Their websites are not optimized for mobile, so they get a penalty both from google and from users trying to use their website. These simple things are low hanging fruit you can easily do.
> Cyber Hawk exploits over 79 cell phones

i would say: unpublished exploits and backdoors
Because Europe is a socialist, progressive paradise, full to the brim with sunshine and unicorns! /s
> or a chance for medial care

This is exactly how it works. It's called a "postcode lottery" here.

> Education is as necessary as a public utility

Of course it must be free. But when it's not, you're not paying for a product, you're only paying for a chance to learn.

> actually knowing things about the world

It's 100% a students responsibility to learn. Schools can only provide with an access to an infrastructure (and this is what tuition fees are for) and a little, non-intrusive guidance.

Nobody can force the students to learn anything. Nobody can forcefully stuff the knowledge into them. It just does not work this way, and it does not matter how much you do not like it. It's a direct consequence of the human nature.

And most definitely, a degree is not a "product". It's a luxury to be earned, not something "guaranteed".
Traffic, lack of cycle lanes, getting a seat in a pub, people walking too slow, people carrying oversized umbrellas, public transport being too expensive, not enough healthy fast food places, puddles, roadworks, security, carpark prices, coffee prices
Every program attempts to expand until it can display a fireplace. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
I wonder if they would have considered HTML5 if NW.js / Electron had been around when they started.
A single-nucleotide exon found in Arabidopsis
Terraforming – export existing AWS resources to Terraform
> > They are not idiots.

> They are indeed.

This is blatant ignorance.
A lot of (and I would actually argue most) people are solely there to get a piece of paper which lets them have access to a decent job, and they're paying enormous amounts of money (and many times taking on dangerous levels of debt) to get that piece of paper. For all intents and purposes, they ARE paying for a product, and that's how they view it.

College has become a barrier to entry to the job market, and when a system is set up where someone's performance on (sometimes quite arbitrary) classes impacts their ability to get a job, those people aren't going to behave like model students, they're going to optimize for a high grade. I'm frankly quite surprised that this academician author can't understand this.