skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your erstwhile instructor seems to be a professional troll, which is probably good work if you can get it, but I'm not joking. GP's comment casts the options available to him in the following duality: either

1. push [his] theoretical children into this race, or

2. let them eat into precious time to figure things out.

Whatever my opinion of the article under discussion, I can only agree with its author that option 1 is a horrible mistake whose consequences for his children may accurately be called lifelong impairment.

Option 2 is no better, and it only even seems that way if you don't think about it too hard. It implicitly accepts the premise, not that childhood is precious (which it is), but that childhood is precious because, and in the way that, academia claims it is. That's toxic as hell, and it will poison any parenting that proceeds from it.

Specifically: He won't be able to relax around his kids, because he'll always have that nagging ambivalence that he's doing wrong by them, failing to equip them to compete as functional adults in a world which does not care about them, and that will come through in his actions. It can't not, and his kids will pick up on it, because a young child's parents are by far the most important things in her world which are not actually her, and she notices everything about everything they do. She won't intuit any of the paragraph I just wrote, of course, because you have to be old and jaded and cynical for that. She'll just know her daddy is never happy or comfortable or relaxed when he's around her, and with the unconscious, inevitable egotism of the very young, she will assume that's because of something to do with her. And she'll almost certainly never get over that.

I don't know that I agree with David Benatar that bringing a child into the world is invariably harmful to the child. But I certainly have a hard time arguing other than that it's harmful to bring a child into the world to endure the kind of parenting I've just described -- hence my advice to GP.

A better third option, if anyone's interested, would be to opt out of the entire nonsense and raise your kids without reference to it. The trouble is that you are not more powerful than the society in which you exist, and it is interested in your kids whether you like it or not. You might find or make an enclave, and a method, in which to raise them without having them be too badly stunted by its more pernicious influences; people have done it before, are doing it now, and will no doubt continue to do so. Perhaps you will be among them. But it's not implausible that your notional kids are better off never having existed at all, if you're not even equipped to recognize the need to be willing to make the attempt.
Welp, now I feel sad. But I think Scott makes a really good point in this post.
Rich, White and Refusing Vaccinations
The biggest obstacle to enacting fascist surveillance and control over western society is getting the relevant laws through the legislature. And I don't mean laws like "all communication must be monitored, but rather "criticism of the Supreme Leader is punishable by death." Without that, none of the rest gets you to fascism. With that, all of the rest could be built in short order.

I think the paranoia over potential tyrannical uses of this stuff to be misplaced. If you want to avoid tyranny, you need to prevent your leadership from being taken over by a tyrant. That's not to say that ubiquitous surveillance and such is not a worry, just that the worry isn't that it will turn our countries into Nazi Germany 2.0.
Securely control a remote docker daemon using ssh forwarding. No SSL needed
> Unfortunately, given how slowly bonsai trees grow, this is not an event that can be staged annually. If it were, every artisan’s top trees would become redundant.

It's refreshing to feel the scale of slower-paced rewards compared to today's expectations of near-instantaneous rewards.
David Miranda is alive and free. I won't defend what was done to him, but if that's on your list as among the worst anti-freedom things the government does to its enemies, we're doing great.
No, it simply means they are popular, which is not the same thing as "right".
They passed the FREEDOM Act back in June instead of just ending the program by doing nothing. The one time that doing nothing would've been good, they did something... sigh
Who can handle this scale of an attack?
I also built something similar, however instead of ripping of Spotify UI, which I personally find terrible, I made a "power user" UI that is album-centric (they way I listen to music), keyboard navigable and has a powerful filtering "omnibar".
Check it out at: https://github.com/knoopx/headbang
Hi Ultimatt,

I was saddened when I saw that someone who loves Perl 6 used the word 'moron'. It is "closely tied with the American eugenics movement" according to wikipedia and is a deprecated diagnostic categorization of someone having a mental age of 8-12 years old -- an audience we supposedly wish to attract, not repel.

I'm not at all meaning any moral judgement. I've used such words myself in the past in much more terrible and significant ways. I'm just feeling low about how unkind we can sometimes be to others and sad to see these few opportunities on HN to discuss Perl 6 ending up sidetracked not only by what might be called trolling but also by seeing P6ers (including me sometimes) making things worse.

I thank you for and want to help sustain your passion about the technical aspects of Perl 6. I'm also hoping to encourage more compassionate ways of connecting with all folk, including trolls, and to being passionate about that too.

And a merry new year to all. :)
Ah, got it. I am used to C++, where accessing the non-active member of the union is undefined behavior. Thank you.
Take it from you and put it in evidence? Sure, but that is a time limited thing. The court will either rule it is your TV, and they should give it back to you, or it is ruled as stolen and given back to the proper owner. The part where they keep it is obviously wrong.
That's got nothing to do with jurisdiction and standing, and everything to do with the people in charge denying that it takes place.

Could you link to which specific leaked info says that they secretly modified US systems?

How would a court looking at more laws have stopped whatever happened?
The common use cases - downloading zip files, photographs, mp3s - tend to reward this behavior, because it lets a user casually just click on a bunch of download links and accumulate them in the Downloads folder. They never have to click on any spooky dialog boxes. Ideally 'dll' and 'exe' would be blacklisted from this...
IIRC Chrome will begin downloading an EXE in the background while the prompt is open, so you don't even lose time to the confirmation window.
To add to this, I recommend reading how Jack, or the person Jack told to write this email presented the layoff:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10379948

In the most charitable light, I believe Jack doesn't want to be seen as a villain. In a less charitable light.... I think most people can read between the lines.

Those can't or do not wish to see any ominous signs here, tend to be still working at the company. Willful ignorance of this kind is completely understandable, in my mind, since few wish to bite the hand that feeds them.
>"The government of Mexico is among the most corrupt and least trusted in the world" That is an extraordinary claim that demands evidence.

Sure GP's comment reads a tad hyperbolic. However, Mexico is certainly perceived to be fairly corrupt.

It appears in the bottom half of the 2014 Corruptions Perception Index (CPI), ranked at Rank 103 out of 174 countries.

https://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results
I cite him extensively in the introduction, as it was a direct inspiration, and we share a bunch of code.
Depends on how ready you want it to be, and how much free time I have. At least for the 'up to the keyboard working' version should be maybe a month max, after that, it depends on how fast I can get new code written.
There are a number of both secure and insecure schemes for this, all depending on how secure you deem your communication channels.

At the end of the day, you really need to send the data and/or checksums across enough independent channels that you can be statistically certain the recipient has more valid/secure data/checksums than invalid.
The law says (assuming I'm understanding properly) if a crime was committed with property, then that property automatically belongs to the government.

The government says "this property belongs to us. You have no rights in it, because a crime was committed with it. Therefore, you have no constitutional protections. Prove that it's yours, and to do so, you must prove that no crime was committed."
Color harmony and color design
It creates an obvious conflict of interest. The cops now have a reason to abuse their power. They get paid.
That's a low bar to hurtle. :-)

That said, the SS20 was from the before time when 10Mb ethernet was standard. There were 100Mb SBus add-on cards of various configs which worked very well, and I recall SX and LX fiber 1Gb cards that I never used. I had a lot of experience with OC-3 (155Mb) ATM on the SS-20 (nice setup), and there was an OC-12 card (622Mb) that pretty much crushed all the CPU you could throw at it just to move packets. Those were really intended for the 600-series servers, so not surprising.
Some scientists fear superintelligent machines could pose a threat to humanity
I would be happy to get feedback of any kind at any stage, it's just going to be in a very very rough draft for a few weeks yet. So if you like very very rough drafts, please give it a read and open some issues! Otherwise, you may want to wait a bit.
The comment I chided wasn't 10798178 (which indeed was fine), but an uncivil reply to it which its author subsequently deleted. The deletion is what made this confusing. You should see "[deleted]" just above my comment upthread—that's a stand-in for the post I was replying to.
Only persons have the presumption of not being guilty. Not property. The government can claim crimes all they want, they just can't claim a person committed a crime (and punish them for it).

This is all about shifting the burden of proof to the accused. Allowing the money to be charged separately does that, or so courts have ruled.

(Insert above disclaimer here.)
Agreed. Another possibility would be a hybrid approach with delivery trucks acting as mobile distribution centers. Trucks could be loaded with drones and packages, park in rural areas and let the drones take care of the last mile.
The technical committee isn't necessary unless you've already asked and been told "no".

The ftpmasters and the apt maintainers would be the appropriate pair of contacts.
Ty for the upvotes ^^
CTTE is when you have a dispute over a technical decision. From my reading above comments, there is no conflict but just lack of interest.
Headbang: another personal music streaming webapp (Node.js+react)
Today I just released my take on personal music streaming. Some days ago "Phan An" released Koel (https://github.com/phanan/koel) and made me smile because I already started a similar project time ago, however instead of ripping of Spotify UI, which I personally find terrible, I made a "power user" UI that is album-centric (they way I listen music to), keyboard navigable and has a powerful filtering "omnibar". Check it out, it is just one "npm install" away!
This game is actually really fun and stable for an open source game. I can't believe I haven't tried it before now. It even mapped out the buttons for my Afterglow controller without any adjustment required. That's a refreshing surprise since most of my Linux games on Steam don't even recognize the controller.
> So the progress we've made in the United States through laws and regulations regarding race and gender is a lie then?

It's a very misleading sort of progress. It helps many people believe that we're post-racial and that sexism doesn't happen.
That's a misunderstanding of how HN works. Upvotes don't determine everything here, because the main value of the site—intellectual curiosity—would quickly be overwhelmed if they did. Drama, gossip, and outrage routinely drive more upvotes, even among groups of smart people. So
HN is a constitutional democracy: mostly driven by upvotes, but with checks and balances to mitigate the bad effects. The HN guidelines are the constitution and moderation is one of the checks.
It doesn't jump straight to that. The intermediate steps usually involve one or more of:

1) A political ideology (Nazism, Communism, Islamism)

2) A real external threat (Communism, Capitalism, Islamism)

3) Sanctions or economic depression (Weimar Germany, Russia today)

The real external threat is essentially a sociopolitical system that propagates itself inside the turf of another sociopolitical system. This leads to far-right war hawks, and then center-right, issuing xenophobic statements. The step before "supporting supreme leaders" is usually "suppressing enemy ideologies". Like McCarthyism in USA or anti Muslim sentiment today. Or Iran's hatred of the USA and the Shah prior to their revolution. Or Soviet hatred of capitalist bourgeouis. Or Ukraine's hatred of communists. And so forth and so on.

Once "the enemy" is identified, the crackdown begins, which leads to more clamps on civil liberties. Then you might want to read the poem attributed to Martin Niemoller:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Jumpstart Automotive's VP and Internet Brands/CarsDirect
The comments in the article actually do a pretty good job of conveying various points of view: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/bert...

I live north of King County, so I don't have any personal insights beyond what I've already posted. My main concern is how much responsibility the state will have to bear for cost overruns. SR99 is technically a state-level project, even though it has little relevance to anyone outside Seattle. It's safe to say Seattle will try very hard to make the rest of us pay for their mistakes.
Critique of venture capitalists for not working to change things at home
Interesting. I'm on 48 (beta) / OS X and can't get this to work, though.
China passes law requiring companies hand over encryption keys
It's not an OCR error - the error appears in the original. If you look at Page 8 of the scanned PDF[1], it says:

filep = create(name, mode)

[1] http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Mc...
Also, for using a system that's allegedly broken, the US is the country that has been the most innovative in terms of software for decades in a row now.

I'd say that's despite our patent system, not because of it. I suspect we could be even more innovative -- and indeed, recover some of the edge we've lost in recent years -- by at least killing software and business-method patents... and frankly I wouldn't be opposed to throwing out the entirety of the US patent system. (Which is of course impossible, even if there was US political will to do so, given foreign treaties and obligations in that area.)
What is the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture?
It's not hard at all to find these drugs today, despite them being banned. I doubt a slight increase in DUI (which I don't think would be born out) would outweigh pulling the rug from underneath organized crime in all of the Americas. Alcohol is a hard drug, despite being legal, and causes a lot more violent and destructive behavior than pretty much all illegal drugs.

The vast majority of people don't do heroin because it's bad for you, not because it's illegal.

Could organized crime find other markets? Definitely. But no illegal market compares in size to the drug market, particularly the US drug market. Guns are already legal, kidnapping and extortion are much riskier and less repeatable, the explosives market is small and gets the national security establishment on your case.
Not exactly an answer to your question, but this will be useful for the interpretation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0
Re the 8th, https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=100051333946330... seems to say that it does apply.

Re the 5th, https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=527393711501700... seems to say it does apply, but only for "real" property (land).

https://www.pennlawreview.com/print/163-U-Pa-L-Rev-867.pdf seems to have a good summary of the legal aspects here.
David Icke Obama the NWO Chosen One
I'm not sure what to say to this absurd nonsense, in the same way that I wasn't sure how to deal with the kids in my elementary school who really believed that Santa Clause was real. Just telling them they are wrong doesn't help.
The New Masters of the Universe: From Silicon Valley, a New Elite Is Coming
Is there any empirical evidence to the contrary? Do these studies show that the increased R&D spending, VC investments, etc., are there specifically due to patent protection, and would otherwise not happen without? It seems crazy to think that would be true.

As much as I hate to defend big pharma, I can at least understand their need to patent things: billions of dollars in research scuttled in an instant after a new drug comes on the market and everyone and their mother copies it. But for many fields (such as software) that argument just doesn't apply.

And on top of that, when I think about the money wasted on defending patent suits (and often settling because it's more costly to win), and the money wasted on filing for patents in the first place (both in legal fees, and lost productivity tying up people's time documenting things for patent lawyers and reviewing findings)... I really can't see how our patent system actually makes us more innovative.
I really wish people in Pakistan understood this.
We need to fix the election finance system.

That's attacking the symptoms without looking at the real problem. All of this political gridlock is baked into the system. Separation of powers, first-past-the-post, non-proportional representation, electoral redistricting carried out by the party in power (can you say conflict of interest?).
I'm not sure what you mean? I have seen plenty of stable and fun open source games (esp. while HappyPenguin.org website was still live). I have also seen a lot of shitty games, both open and closed source (take a look at Google Play). I'd say that ratio is probably the same.
The argument you're imagining makes no sense, but it isn't my argument. My argument isn't that FB has an obligation in our system to provide free internet to people nor is it that rejecting FB here is in every possible respect better. My argument is that FB is lying when they present their motives as being about the interests of the poor citizens.
That's precisely what Matternet (mentioned in the article) is planning! An internet...but for Matter. Sorry.
Um, structs?

typedef struct {
pid_t pid;
int status;
} wait_t;

wait_t status = wait();
MIT's Enigma – A New Blockchain Project
Would banning known venues for such communication make it go away? No, it would just make it harder to track. So many officials wanting to appear like they're doing something, but it's all security theater. Now taking it to the point of directly attacking the first Amendment? Scary times.
The Art of (Cyber) War
I build a couple of “apps” every day. This is how I do it
Tagged unions are often used in C to provide a form of Sum Type.
FWIW, Snowdrift.coop is trying to create a donor-based system for public goods that is as close as one could get to being sustainable in the way tax-based systems are. A voluntary tax can never match an imposed tax, but a social pledge and organized system can make voluntary much more feasible than it is otherwise in the status quo…
Nice photos!

I just got back from a trip to Zion National Park where I shot the Milky Way one night. It was clearly visible with the naked eye every night.

National Parks are a great place for night photography because they're usually 10s to 100s of square miles with no lights. Even Joshua Tree which is near Palm Springs is pretty good. You can see the light from both Vegas and Los Angeles from it, but in the right spot in the park you get some very dark skies.
That may have been true 5 years ago, but a lot of the newer services require developers to just read the documentation, not have a serious amount of background in the setup of the service they are using. Look at things like ECS and Lambda for compute, SQS for messaging etc.
If you love such games, take a look at Secret Maryo (another open-source Mario clone):

http://www.secretmaryo.org/
> at least the Cyrillic ... ones have fairly low transliteration ambiguity.

Tell it to Chebyshev, Chebychev, Chebysheff, Chebyshov, Tchebychev, Tchebycheff, Tschebyschev, Tschebyschef, and Tschebyscheff.
Link to the talk:
https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7174-lifting_the_fog_on_red_star...
I'm on stable OSX and it works for me.
Awesome article.

My take on this is that 'interesting' graph problems tend to be NP-(.*), or reduce to a handful of well-known standards. Some of these standards, like breadth-first traversal, work quickly and are therefore standard interview questions. Other standard solutions, like page-rank, are effectively eigenvalue problems which take N^3 time to find the true solution. N^3 is generally too slow for large-scale production systems, though, so we end up introducing some randomness and battering the algorithm into an almost-linear time approximation algorithm that can run on a thousand machines no problem; this is where Pregel comes from.

As someone who loves playing with graph algorithms, I would absolutely love to be wrong in this world-view, and learn that mine eyes have been carefully shielded from the beautiful variety of graph problems that aren't in one of these three classes... So I'll make a resolution to try to keep my eyes open for surprises in 2016.
Really bad consequence of the current/same directory being in the library search path. It's similar to why, on Linux/Unix, it's bad practice to include "." in your PATH (or LD_LIBRARY_PATH). I know including same-directory libraries can make things more convenient, but it should be something that an app explicitly needs to want and enable, not something that just happens.
Green threads.
Supertux definitely does have that effect (I hate it ;). I only played the original Mario in emulators, so I can't tell you whether it's copied from original.
I read somewhere that the purpose of monks for society was to meditate outside of the demands and temptations of daily life, allowing them to make the wisest and clearheaded decisions. Jack Dorsey kind of reminds me of that.
It didn't collapse but it was severely damaged.
I think this all agrees with what I'm saying. It's not the NSA that's the tyrannical worry, it's the crazy politicians saying that we should only accept Christian refugees.

Regarding your poem, it's the "coming for" people that's the big problem, not merely the ability. If you don't want the government to "come for" people, you need to make sure the people in charge won't do that. It's not very useful to try to make it so they can't
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"This program was found to be corrosive to the integrity of our justice system, incompatible with American values, and thus we are terminating it immediately"

vs.

"We're keeping the money, LoL"
What Will a Computer 100M Times as Fast as a Regular One Do for Gamers?
Really? I'm on Chrome 47.0.2526.106 and OS X 10.11, works fine for me, takes me to some 404 page.