skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should probably reserve judgment until more information comes to light. It's possible he was having a mental breakdown and did not have an accurate conception of reality.

He says he was given bail, which implies he was arrested. Arrests are usually a matter of public record. Is there any data on the record supporting this?
I'm not sure I understand how that continues for very long. Once the clerks no longer have customers, they can just call people over and the queue will redistribute. If they're not doing that, presumably it's because they're doing something else that takes priority, like replacing the till or handling a problem with a previous transaction.

It only seems like it would be a problem at businesses with bad staff.
Governments deterring businessmen and tourists with cumbersome visa requirements
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It would never happen, the money from ads is too lucrative for management to do something like that.
I've got a hypothesis, but it's kinda out-there. It has to do with shifting time priorities across society.

The generations that grew up in the 50s-80s could be reasonably confident that the world a decade later would be more or less what it was before. Fashions would change, social movements would get started, more home appliances would be introduced, but as long as nuclear war never happened, the basic economic underpinnings of society wouldn't change too much. And so it made sense for them to buy things for the long term, because the purchase they made now would still be relevant & useful in 20 years.

Starting with the Netscape's IPO in 1995 and perhaps exacerbated by the fall of communism in the early 90s, that changed. Even before they came of age, Millenials had witnessed the dot-com boom & crash (in which many of their elders lost their life savings); obsolescence of PCs every 2-4 years; 9/11; the rise of MP3 sharing and then its clampdown; the rise of cellphones, their replacement by smartphones, and then the 1-2 year upgrade cycle of continually getting a new smartphone; the 2008 financial crisis; manufacturing jobs moving from the U.S. to Japan to India to Bangladesh to China to Southeast Asia; and the rise of sharing-economy companies providing services that you previously needed to buy a product for. Many have also been personally burned by investments in skills that were supposed to be a sure thing, like taking on $100K in student loan debt and not being able to get a job afterwards or landing your dream job and then being fired or laid off 3 months later.

The combined effect of all these is to send the message that the future is not worth planning for. There will be better products on the market in 2 years. There will be new services. That skillset that's so hot right now may be completely obsolete. The education that everyone says is crucial to your future won't get you a damn thing. The financial investment that's up 400% now may crash to zero tomorrow. You may have to move to a new city to find work, or to follow a significant other who needs to find work.

When the future becomes radically unpredictable, it makes sense to buy for the here-and-now, because the durable product you carefully invested in may be useless anyway.
Nice read! I'd really like to know when we can expect the next post to be published.
> All this of course to ‘better serve you’ and ‘for your convenience’, those two sentence fragments are like little alarm bells that you’re about to be screwed.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks this way when I see those words.
Not sure whether to take that as a compliment, which is a sad reflection on the state of both the UK and NL.
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I've been in the same boat as you very recently (top client unexpectedly had to let me go because of low budget, when I was confident it would be fine through the early part of 2016). And I quite understand struggling to pay rent all of a sudden. Not fun! All I can say is, it gets better! Network like crazy, reach out to everyone you know: old clients, former coworkers, even people who offer the same services you do. You might be able to pick up work they're overloaded with, or talk to a past client at just the right time when they're ready to do another project. Also as other people have said, there are great job boards out there (WeWorkRemotely, etc.). Another thing you can try doing is blogging about some of the work you've done, problems you've solved, etc. -- never hurts to include content marketing in your "personal brand" efforts.
I disagree because things like flappy tests are a "smell" that could lead to discovering a deeper problem. We simply don't know ahead of time that the payoff won't be worth the effort in such a situation. If you can't explain what's wrong, that's bad.
Adding some screenshots examples to the README would be good.

There's a bunch here for those who didn't dig through the repo (many are at huge resolutions for those on mobile 10k x 7k pixels and such):

https://github.com/MauriceGit/Delaunay_Triangulation/tree/ma...
Could be a variety of reasons. Not everyone is interested in being beholden to a single company. Just like an investment portfolio, it can be a worthwhile to have a diversified income strategy.
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It's not lost on me that I'm reading and writing this on an Ubuntu desktop. Thank you, Ian. RIP.
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Why do they need to be complete, unambiguous and consistent? Religion isn't math (and even math isn't complete). It isn't physics either (and even physics -- and certainly its interpretations -- can be quite ambiguous).

For a broad introduction to the subject, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_hermeneutics

I found this external overview of allegorical interpretation of the bible: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1256-allegorical-...

For a more internal view, see the writings of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avivah_Gottlieb_Zornberg
What's next, a turing complete Javascript?

We'll all get downvoted if someone misses the sarcasm. :)
Well, yes... downvoted because it's the kind of copy-pasted drama mongering you find on r/news, where people pile on millennials and wax about the 'state of the world' because of a small, vocal minority, mainly on college campuses. It's not serious analysis...
Education and monitoring are important, but they're no good without experience.
[Moglen] said "You mean The United States government is, from now on, going to keep a list of everybody every American knows. Do you think by any chance that should require a law?" And he just laugh because they did it in a press release in the middle of the night on Wednesday when it was raining

https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-...
I'm likely not the target consumer, but I bought my smart TV almost exactly a year ago (12/26/2014). Most of the apps that came with it don't function anymore. It seemed like every other day I would turn it on and have a message stating "Support for [feature X] will be discontinued on [date]". It's not even hooked up to the internet anymore.

It, along with my phone that continues crashing and the useless smartwatch I sold, have convinced me to never buy another Samsung product.
"Widely adopted" is not a synonym for "known by the average consumer".
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looks like someone who was trolling @imurdock:

https://archive.is/KTesC
When back doors backfire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813524
One thing me and a friend frequently do is record each other sets every now and then.

I've heard some people get pretty good advice posting form check videos on reddit's fitness board, and 4chan's /fit/.
I thought about this some more, and much of the criticism in the article boils down to preferring more deadlifts and fewer squats. Stronglifts argues that you'll be doing so many squats that you won't need more deadlifts, and that doing more will cause you to stall unnecessarily. The article suggests you want more deadlifts, and to cut back on the squats so you won't stall unnecessarily.

Given your goals and which lifts you prefer, I think it's totally reasonable to trade out some squats for deadlifts.
> I found myself on top of a tall building at which point I had the clarity to figure out I really should talk to a suicide hotline.
Unfortunately I didn't know the number and internet abroad was impossible to get at the time,

I'm really sorry you had that experience. And I'm so so glad that you didn't die that night.

I wanted to let you know that there is work currently happening (in the UK) to prevent death by suicide from tall buildings. For example, in Gloucestershire we're trying to get multi-story car parks to put up signs for the Samaritans as a short term measure. Longer term we want to try to improve safety of the building, perhaps though planning control, or through asking owners to retro-fit fences.

Alongside that we're trying to improve health services to be more responsive for people at risk of suicide, especially men.

(If anyone has any ideas about useful suicide prevention measures please feel free to email me via the email in my profile).

> so I ended up calling 911. Funny that, it turns out when you do that in california, you are considered a "danger to yourself" and must be arrested.

This is something about mental health that people often don't understand: sometimes it's provided by police in a police van or a police cell. They have very little training in MH. In the UK things are slowly changing. The police have a power under the MH act to detain people and take them to a place of safety to be assessed by doctors. In many parts of the country that place of safety is a police cell, but some areas have specialist Section 136 suites. (Section 136 of the MH Act).

Thank you for having the courage to speak about your experiences. It sounds like a difficult time was made very much worse - it sounds awful.
Let's assume for a moment that we can create a society with the most perfect law-making government, and that all laws are now perfect, and they're perfectly enforced.

Would people still want privacy?

I believe that the answer is yes. Simply because there will always be the fear that things may change. You only need one imperfect law or law enforcer and you need privacy to protect you. There will never be a point where we can give up privacy, even if everything else is perfect.

Also, arguably, if there were perfect laws then the fact people have privacy or don't have privacy would make no difference so we might as well have it.
There is an alternative idea that the police accidentally killed him and are trying to make it look like a suicide. They probably had his phone after all. I'd like to see if twitter can get up geocoded info on where those tweets were sent from... If it's the police station rather than Mr Murdock's house...

What happens in a case like this where the police are possibly suspects in a death?
That is mostly a property of Twitter. It disallows crawling by archive.org, and very few others have the capacity to keep up with the massive amounts of data it generates.
Nice to see the update and I'm very interested in how many people they determine deserve compensation, and why them (if there is any distinction between severely affected and no-big-deal effects). The error seems "basic"...in the sense that everyone who knows devops knows how to prevent it, but according to their account, the circumstances were extreme (plus, it was the holidays) and so mistakes were made. Just like how only a seemingly moron of a surgeon could operate on the wrong limb of the wrong patient...but such catastrophic mistakes often happen when the ER is in a state of chaos.
Reminds me of this similar disaster of a Kickstarter project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloud-guys/plug-the-bra...

It's far too easy for these projects to take the backers for a ride either through malice or sheer incompetence, with very little scope for reimbursement.
While an expected response, it's hard to forgive Valve for taking 5 days for any official acknowledgement of the issue (not even a Tweet on the Steam Support Twitter accounts, which you would expect to be the primary source of information), especially since personal information leaked.

To quote a NeoGAF moderator:

> To be honest, I think people would have been willing to give them 5 days (irrespective of what the professionally appropriate timeframe was) if their initial response wasn't so tone-deaf.
Your frustration is justified. I think it's the responsibility of the maintainer who bumps the major version to include a checklist of things to do to upgrade to the new major version.
Thank you, that last part said it better than I ever could.

>A lot of it is good, well-founded bitching that the Linux community can absolutely do nothing about (we don't have access to hardware specifications we don't have, that simple
What happened to the Debian post, too?
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Use some common sense. For how many values of $x that would be the subject of an interview question are 5 year olds going to be better than grandmothers?
Everything he states in that article points to privacy being a defense against unchecked power, for which the simplest long-term solution is check the power, not admit defeat to unchecked power and shore up your defenses.
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A person only fails when he/she stops trying.
Whenever I see top level comments where people are saying "this is what you get for not going with X", I am more and more convinced that a competitor is doing this. I for one am not leaving Linode. I JUST recommended to several new clients to setup at Linode and I've already had to explain that server setup is halted because of this attack. Did I recommend moving away from Linode? Nope. Did I hang my head in shame or stutter when I delivered the news, feeling it would reflect poorly on me or Linode? Nope. I told my clients this is the best place for them and I stick by it. Just because there are scumbags specifically attacking your service right now, doesn't mean another service is better, or that your service is poor. It just means that hey, news flash, there are scumbags in the world.
You are the problem. You are unable to use context with words. Your emotional reaction is without any thought, and leads to the worse of abuses known to our history. Take a long look in the mirror and commit to thinking before you let your incorrect emotional association to words be used out of context.
When visiting this blog post on my Android phone, the ads (or something) redirect me to a page with popups telling me my phone has a virus and encouraging me to install an app to 'clean' it, using Google branding on some dodgy domain. I seem to get a different one each time.

Reported it at https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ but mentioning here so that others don't fall victim to it.
1. What exactly is arrogance?

Arrogance can be perceived as an offensive display of superiority. We can have straight forward manifestations of arrogance but also comes in a disguised or cloaked form.

2. How do you detect arrogance?

If it's straight forward it is easy. But sometimes is well concealed behind actions, irony or even gentle words. I believe that we detect (or display for the matter) arrogance from a set of behavioral traits more than anything else.

3. Why some (we?) people become arrogant?

Because we are not wise.-

The Socratic paradox goes like "I know one thing: that I know nothing". Socrates believed that he is the wisest man in Athens because he knows that he does not know while others falsely believe that they know. Pythia (the famous oracle of Ancient Greece) confirms that Socrates is the wisest man in Athens.

What Socrates was trying to say gets a lot clearer by Aristotle a couple of decades later, when he writes "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.". Shakespeare in 1603 A.D. in As you like it writes one of my favorite rhymes: "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

Combining all the above, we can say that smart doesn't make wise. Wisdom comes through experience and careful unselfish study. Smart is good, shiny but can get us easily out of our way. Wisdom is what we should be aim at.

Then the question becomes: What is wisdom? And Socrates replies "The act of making wise decisions". Which decisions are wise? "The ones that do not hurt your spirit". Socrates believes - like Christ- that even if actively attacked, we should avoid attacking-back because it will ultimately cause us anger and hurt our pure spirit. Socrates says that every human has the obligation to keep his spirit as pure as possible: no anger, no fights, no fears, etc.

4. Is it always bad?

Yes. It is always bad.

5. If so, how do you avoid being arrogant?

See answer No 3.
"Lets take for Leadership decides to incur technical debt to allow a faster entry into market, Development Team Lead decides this is unacceptable, and does not take on the Technical Debt, but instead does things 'The Right Way'. This leads to competitors entering the market first, snagging customers and mindshare, which eventually leads to the company going under."

To be honest, how often does this actually happen? I'd doubt it happens often enough to worry about it. Most startups aren't doing anything that special, and so this whole, "We have to move at twice the speed of light or we're all dead!" attitude doesn't belong anywhere.
I offer two version of my software - a system that can be run offline at your faculty and a version that is basically cloud based. The two versions are aimed at different types of users. It works well as an approach.

The cause of Jacques complaint is that it is very hard to sell a perpetual offline version at the true economic value of the software. In my case the customer would need to pay 72x the monthly cost for the value to me to be equivalent. Everytime I discuss this with a customer they don't want to pay anywhere near this amount. I know much more about how likely a customer is to keep using a product long term than the customer :)
It's slow, but not poor quality.
> That's not really an answer.

If Ormandy violated Google's vuln disclosure policies, he would no longer be doing security research at Google. Ormandy is still doing security research at Google. Therefore, he did not violate Google's vuln disclosure policies.

> (It looks like extensions in the store are signed by Google, not the developer, so they can update themselves if needed. Or at least that's what https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/packaging#upload seems to imply).

They might be able to do that. Read the whole page. You'll see that extension authors can decide to either upload an already-signed extension (as is done with Android), or let Google sign it for them.

Assume that AVG -seeing as how they're a security software company- is uncomfortable with keeping their code signing keys on Google's servers, and is uploading already-signed packages to Google. [0] What's your answer to the question I posed in my previous comment? Feel free to take some time to think through your answer.

[0] This means that Google can't silently replace the code that their client uploaded with code of their own choosing. [1]

[1] And -I mean- it would be EXTREMELY bad news if Google did use the signing keys they're -presumably- (for some devs) holding in escrow to replace a dev's code with some other code that Google thinks is better. That's an enormous violation of trust. I don't think you understand how very serious that would be.
Don't let rage cloud your judgement. If you want to be useful to whatever cause Ian was fighting for, you have to wait until it is clear what he would like you to do. Right now we know nothing.
The Client Problem
Fai0verflow: Linux on the PS4 [video]
Not so sure I really disagree. If I had to guess, I'd think there are a lot more people working on the Linux kernel in aggregate than on either the Windows kernel or the OS X kernel.
> Being muscular is neither a necessary or sufficient condition for being physically fit.

"Fit" for men is fairly muscular, because moderate amounts of physical effort by a man will result in some muscles. "Fit" for women is not muscular, because women do not put on muscle easily the way that men do.

Fit for men doesn't mean looking like a body builder, but it also doesn't mean having the same muscle mass as a woman of equal height.

> so why should lifting weights be a factor in the attractiveness of men.

Because strength is masculine. The standard for masculine attractiveness is basically unchanged for millenia. Look at ancient Greek statues. The idealized male physique is muscular and lean. This physique indicates health and athletic ability, and therefore good genetics as well as good ability to provide and protect.

> I will grant that some women do want muscular men, but I don't think it's that big a factor for most women.

Women will marry physically unfit men, and ugly men, and also mean men, and men with all kinds of other negative traits. That doesn't mean that these aren't factors in women's choices. It means that 1) you can't generalize from "some women" to "most women" just because it fits with your narrative, and 2) women can look past any factor if other factors outweigh it (men can do the same).

I'm short. I don't pretend that height isn't a factor in attractiveness to women, though. It's a huge factor, despite the fact that some (even many) women marry short men.
HN black bar?

Rest peacefully Ian.
You will be missed.
A full-time job implies a commitment of at least several months, possibly years. That isn’t a commitment I’d walk into lightly, could take many weeks of research and interviews. This guy needs to pay rent.
This trend was already well underway in the 70's. Especially in things like consumer electronics, vehicles and furniture. Cheap credit drove it in the US, miniaturization (Moore's law) and cheap overseas labor added to it and drove it abroad.

You can see it clearly in things like tool and machinery quality. 60's stuff is nigh on indestructible and still in use today, 70's stuff is gone as if it never existed.
Yeah, your first paragraph will fall on deaf ears here. All white tech nerds.
I would not want to hire, nor work with anyone who felt that their job was "done" simply because they made a comment to someone at some time.
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Valve did make an official statement to the press on the day of[0].

[0] http://www.pcgamer.com/warning-steam-is-revealing-private-ac...
The best way to change the behavior of any institution is to defund it and cut their income off at the root. The beauty of Bitcoin is that there is no such easy kill switch like this. This is the current money systems worst bug, and (sometimes) the current money system's greatest feature: the ability to press a kill switch on any organization, legitimate or otherwise. There are some organizations which by their very nature can be agreed upon to be truly unsavory and need to be be defunded at every opportunity. It's not so black and white. Wikileaks likes to complain about the banking blockade, but entirely overlooks how the banks can also cut off any number of unsavory organizations at the root which is why the banks have persisted for some time.

This is not rooting for the banks, but it is also not rooting for bitcoin either, where for it not for the criminals latching on to Bitcoin at such an early stage, it would not have gained the media hysteria it has in recent years.
To what extent is that because of price increases? I used to work in higher ed; I think we were able to negotiate a not-as-heart-attack-inducing increase over what we used to pay for the number of licenses we had, but since leaving there I have no idea if there have been further increases. I know the increase at one school was substantial enough that they threw the Adobe rep off of campus.
From Andre 3000: "Baby boy you're only funky as your last cut, you focus on the past your ass'll be a has what"