skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tbh Assange/Wikileaks has more credibility in my view than the entire western media establishment put together.
I'm sure you've heard the phrase 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'. Frontiers - even digital ones - make for strange bedfellows.

History is littered with examples like that and it is no coincidence that Edward Snowden ended up in Russia.

Of course you can then use this to tar them but at the same time you have to wonder if it is possible to alienate all of the world at the same time. It's probably much safer for groups like Wikileaks to purposefully ignore some domains (presumably the ones they care less about) than to be an 'equal opportunity employer' and to hit all of the worlds establishment equally hard.
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Define "breach" for a bunch of students and professors who just want to connect to the internet on their personal laptops.
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> literally everybody trades with computers

Quant funds don't trade with computers - in fact, computers trade instead of humans.

> the number of trades you make doesn't determine alpha

No, but it does determine how statistically significant your alpha is. If I make 1 good trade, it might be alpha or it might be a lucky guess. If I make 10000 good trades, it's unlikely to be just a lucky guess.

> certainly no sense to 'alpha becoming beta.'

Trend following used to be "alpha", but now it's considered "beta" - in the sense that everybody can replicate it, and there is no specific "alpha"-based fee warranted for a fund executing trend-following strategies.

> there is no a priori reason that their strategies must or will become public

the more people know about it, the easier the math behind it, and the more broadly it applies, the more chance there is that it becomes "public" knowledge (public in the sense that many industry practitioners working for different funds know about it)

> but compare that to seriously unscalable fields such as venture capital

Well, given that quite a few venture funds are bigger than $10bn [1], I wouldn't call that "seriously unscalable". But in any case, my comparision was to trend following (Winton has about $30bn), global macro (Bridgewater's Pure Alpha has about $50bn), and passive index investing (SPDR S&P 500 ETF is > $100bn).

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2015/03/25/midas-top-...
>The real question is: is a repo purge going to follow from their internal purge? Will they start deleting projects with diverging political views?

They've already done that. https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...

However, they continue to host a mirror of it: https://github.com/ErisBlastar/cplusequality

Not sure why they didn't allow the "official" one but allow the mirror. Guess they just wanted the ability to say they took it down for PR purposes.
Ask HN: Need advice on my first time freelancing which involves fees
For the past few years i was helping my friends and relatives by hosting their websites in my cloud host service. I did those for free only, as the intention was purely to help them.

Now, a freelancing request came through my friend which involves deciding the fee which i need to charge for a small service.

The service requirement is:
Begin AWS instance, install DB, define schemas and upload data(one time process). Then check the AWS instance on a biweekly basis and take some backup of data. Not more than that.

How much should i charge? Requesting your suggestion, as this is my first time freelancing effort which involves money.
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Fusion breakthrough: Chinese maintain plasma at 50M°C for 102 seconds
And in the same 5 years, Internet turned from the mean of free expression and thinking into an instrument of oppression.
Since the beginning I had a dream of doing IE compatibility tests with ReactOS but other options showed up and IE lost its relevance in relevant parts of the Internet.
Any whistleblower ever - or enabler thereof - has been vilified, thrown the book at, alienated, imprisoned, tortured or even murdered.

It's a path that one does not choose lightly.
Really insightful and interesting comment. Thank you!
I don't know about Sweden, but many countries' codes of criminal procedure don't allow trying someone in absentia. Germany, for example.
I'm only guessing here, but I assume that any SaaS that offers a "white-label" service would need to be a domain registrar. Survey Monkey, for example, does this on the platinum pricing plan.
Have you ever written Pascal, Go, or D? That's what fast compilation looks like. The D standard library compiles in 3.5s from scratch.
> (Unstable) Rust lets you catch panics anywhere.

Note that you're replying to the original creator of Rust, he's most likely aware of that discussion.
It's a template called Porto available for 16$ at themeforest. They also forgot to change some default pictures: http://themeforest.net/item/porto-responsive-html5-template/...
Software guys seem really impressionable if the argument is coming from the right sectors. I'd be really interested in learning more about that.
> At times Mr. Assange seems to let his anti-West ideology take over completely. On the night of the Paris attacks last year, which left 130 people dead, @wikileaks tweeted: “At least 39 dead tonight in Paris terror attacks. 250k dead in Syria & Iraq. Both a direct result of US, UK, France feeding Sunni extremists.”

So, here is the thing, I fail to see any radical anti-West ideology in that tweet. I think it is a fairly popular point of view, based on a reasonable interpretation of historical fact, that the involvement of those three countries in the middle east over the last century or so has led to the rise of terrorism in the region. Additionally, recent interventions have definitely not helped. This is, in fact, the kind of point of view that you'd see in mainstream news in plenty of countries around the world.

You could make the argument that the night of the attacks might be poor timing to tweet this if you read as "finally, this countries got what it deserved for so many more dead elsewhere!". But you can also read it as "our leaders have been pursuing bad policy that is hurting hundreds of thousands abroad and actually came back indirectly to hurt us today as well, this is sad and it's sad that it would have been avoidable". That's not any more anti-West than protesting the Vietnam war was un-American. It is also a reasonable thing to bring up when the gut reaction to an attack like this is to escalate violence, even when it is fairly well established that doing so leads to more recruits for terrorist groups.

Also, I wonder how many people wouldn't be a little bit radical and a little bit anti-X-country if they had been persecuted by said country and forced to hole up in an embassy for 3+ years...
Yes, I know pcwalton is and was heavily involved in Rust development. That's why I parenthetically stated that he probably already knew these things (catch_panic is actually newer than the bulk of pcwalton' work on Rust's language and standard library, so there is a small chance he doesn't know about it).

It's still worth noting this point though, for the benefit of other readers.
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As mentioned before if you want a quick way to some minor things with you site like displaying a simple visitor counter, PHP was made for it. But quick also often means dirty. There are frameworks now that will counter the dirtiness though.

As for what is actually "cool" about PHP, I would say nothing, however, I have to admit it is easy to find people willing to work with PHP. So PHP is maybe "cool" like 'Friday' was cool with so many people, I don't know, never been part of the "cool" crowd.
Its still a much harder journey to Australia than Europe.

My point is that the difficulty in making the journey is a major factor. So its not clear cut in deciding how much credit should be assigned to Australia's policy of overseas processing centers.
I just dont do it, and dont do anything on my phone when i am not on the toilet or waiting somewhere where i could not work. Just a little discepline imho.
It is a shame they decided to override the default scroll behaviour.
Γ is a shorthand for the rest of the type environment. Your suggestion would allow the type checker to invent arbitrary phantom declarations.
This memo from 10 years ago shows Yahoo still hasn’t solved its biggest problem
Differences among humans are not analogous to the gap between us and animals. All human beings have equal moral worth. We clearly do not believe the same thing about animals. To make animals morally equal to human beings is completely incompatible with the reality of the world. It's fantastical thinking with potentially destructive consequences, if decisions are made that harm the interests of people in order to help animals.
1) Lots of people eat dog that is bred to be food: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat

2) Based on the article, the horse butcher claims that all their meat was from working horses, but that they were butchered before the "prime" of their life (before 9 years) or after 14 years because the meat is more tender then. These working horses are fed a good diet, so the meat is supposedly good tasting compared to farmed animals who are fed specific food to get them fat & large faster.

The contradictory way in which we see one living creature's value over another is the reason I became a vegetarian. We bred dogs to be (insert reason that's not food) we also bred cows to be (insert reason that is food), We are the factor here, not the animals. Just because we bred animals to be a specific way doesn't itself justify the industrial slaughter of one versus another.

With that said, my choice was: embrace eating dog, or stop eating meat. I chose the latter, but I fully support anyone who chooses the former, but hope they don't do so under the premise that one animal we control is somehow more appropriate to kill and eat than another.
This doesn't bother me as much — FOSS projects don't need a rockstar designer for their website, do they?

Unless a "designer" "developed" the website for them and they got blindsided, which I'm sure happens more than I care to understand. I've seen it happen at well-funded companies — employees claiming they designed something, management had no idea they didn't really do much work at all, etc.
The legal definition is what matters here, specifically the legal definition of the two countries that are most involved, Sweden and the UK.

It has nothing to do with pregnancy and that does not in any way diminish the crime.
I recently used JCommander and found it really easy to use.

BTW being used to how most linux commands work, the use single dashes for long option names puts me off.
Psychedelics are #1 on the list of things I'm really curious about, but am too scared of to ever try for real.
True. But regardless of the details I'm fairly sure they could have done a lot more than they did, especially if they really had those women's interests at heart.
> providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system.

I actually couldn't find that in the new website. I wondered what they're targeting, and I couldn't find it.
I found myself overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content coming out of most places, so I created one that focuses on technology and reducing noise on a weekly basis - about 7,000 subscribers now: http://char.gd
What are the requirements to be a reseller? Can you just sign up as a regular affiliate, focus on getting your other stuff in order while driving zero sales, and then become a registrar?
pcwalton has been heavily involved with Rust since long before anyone remembers, but you're confusing him with Graydon Hoare, Rust's true original author.
The author is a game developer. I don't know what platfirms he worked with, but the console world isn't known for their great compiler support. You are pretty much limited to whatever the official (nda ridden) sdk privides.
I don't usually comment on threads like this, but you guys come off as bad as reddit here. Cancerous.
Unfortunately 'local community leader' is usually synonymous with 'someone that has an agenda'.
There's also another phrase, "tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are". Realpolitik, the firstborn of moral relativism, always comes to backfire.

Wikileaks withholding report on, say, Ecuador, would be understandable in the circumstances. However I find going an extra mile to cooperate with an established dictatorship against its opposition despicable.
I think part of the thing is recognizing patterns of behavior. For example, now that I am 31, I am really getting to know my parents. Things they said when I was 17 all make sense now, because I've seen the patterns again and again in recent years.

Part of is growing up and part of it is more awareness of human nature, and part of it is a lot of reflection. So in a dating relationship, the more time spent with the person, the better. Its also important to learn something about their past relationships. With my ex I wasn't really listening when she said that she was the problem in all her past relationships.

I figured that was all in the past. But in my experience, the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. IMO, people only change under extreme circumstances.
Er, sprawl is sparse. Sprawl is practically by definition 'low-density.'
Send them feedback in IRC (webchat.freenode.net #reactos) or forum (https://www.reactos.org/forum/)
It's actually a negative sum game. It costs money to run a tax system, and that money comes out of taxes too.

So, as a coercive state with guns, if I want to fund some program that costs $1M, I would need to tax much more.
There is also https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/13/103
Why do they override the scroll behaviour?..
From earning Rs 400 per month to leading Rs 250 Cr IPO: the Quick Heal story
There's tons of alternatives to yaourt, thankfully.
RTFM and Keep Your Server Sync with NTP
Macdonalds is interesting because they already have a strong internal training program, and food handling is one of the issues they take care of (to a standard higher than most regimes they operate in).
It is still simply not working for me on chrome.
> Let's hope developers don't abuse std::catch_panic for
> regular Rust code.

This has been taken into account on multiple occasions, and the developers have introduced mechanisms to prevent people from treating `recover` as a general error-handling mechanism: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1323
I don't want my scientists talking about "sacred knowledge." To me that points to a problem with psychedelics.
The parent is discussing both, and I am too; specifically, the parent says,

> we're not allowed to use key auth.

i.e., they're using password based auth.¹ The point of my post is that while certainly users leaving the private key unencrypted isn't good, trading that for password auth leaves you in a worse state overall (IMO).

¹Of course, they could be using an auth scheme that is neither password nor key based. But given that the parent didn't come out and say that, my gut says that's not the case here.
what exactly are you afraid of?
Agreed. But it does not diminish what I wrote above and I highly doubt any organization or individual would be able to make a principled stance against every government in the world at the same time.

Even Ecuador has something to gain from this - immense stature in Latin America for standing up to the USA. The world of politics at that level is pretty complex and I have no idea what made Assange decide the way he did vv Belarus but without having all the facts I'll postpone my judgment and re-iterate that I'd be perfectly happy if some other group would stand up and air Belarus' dirty laundry, assuming there is any dirty laundry left to air.
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In case of Bitcoin pubkeys you don't want to publish them anywhere for privacy reasons (that turn into real physical security reasons once you have enough BTC). Also, notice how pubkeys are normally hidden under hashes and revealed only at spending time. This drastically limits attacks on ECC if/when some weakness in curve math is discovered. And if quantum computer is invented tomorrow, people can safely transition funds to a new signature scheme by introducing 2-phase commitments to safely reveal (now crackable) ECDSA pubkey after another transaction was made with commitment to concrete signature (preventing double-spend attempts using a cracked key).
Same here. I'd be afraid of "losing it".
i see it as just being a catchy title for a book about "Psychedelics and Religious Experiences".
Human is a label we gave to ourselves. Would you discriminate over homo erectus, homo habilis - would you call them non-human animals, would it be okay to use them for medical testing, maybe for food since their flesh doesn't have Neu5Gc?

The only reason why your statements are this speciesist is that no living ancestor of ours that was labeled a different species is alive today.

Otherwise you'd realize that species are a human construct, that there's no better/worse. Yes, that does mean that human as a fully moral being (morality comes from rationality) should try to minimize pain and suffering and destruction of life.

Animal holocaust is happening for thousands of years. Even the holocaust survivors have made comparisons and a lot of them have plant-based diets.
The main problem I have with the whole case is that initially it was dropped, they could have arrested Assange on the spot and be done with it. Only afterwards when the political wheels had made a couple of revolutions did someone decide to re-open the case and prosecute after all. This part does not make sense to me, it seems to indicate that who was involved was important rather than what was done in particular.
One of the best steaks I've ever had was horse meat. Highly underrated.
I understand your response, and think it is good (even scientific) to keep an open mind - fire was once seen as magic too.
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There seems to be a lot of interest in microdosing psychedelics, which might be a good non-scary approach. I found the Tim Ferriss podcast episode about the subject quite interesting: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/03/21/james-fadiman/
if nobody in your family (and you!) don't have predispositions to mental disorders, if you don't become aggressive when drunk etc. then what you can try is following:

in a very comfortable setup (meaning no chance of being disturbed by non-tripping people), ideally with trusty friend who either has a lot of experience or won't use it, you can try half-dose and see how it goes.

btw if you ever smoked weed, how did it work out for you? not in same ballpark, but I would call it similar style, just much more shallow.
>You should show more respect towards them instead of painting them as stupid.

Maybe you didn't see the /s
I always thought autocomplete suggestions and snippets preserved brain cycles. IMHO if you prevent developer exhaustion your code gets better-looking and more maintainable.
But then again I'm a single developer, working on personal projects...
Maybe a variation of arranged marriages would be the way to go - a prospective partner must be approved by both the person being married and their parents - and there must a minimum amount of time spent together so they know each other.

a sexual revolution and do away with arranged marriages would probably destroy culture and replace with consumerism - everyone focusing on being attractive, rather than being virtuous.
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It's carbohydrates and fats together that are the problematic pairing.
There will still be a central IT group, who provide services like the backbone network, university-wide email, authentication etc.

Presumably this department: https://technology.berkeley.edu/about
I'm going to have to find that image now, just to show you the scale of it. Thanks for finding these!
If you guys are ever in Kazakhstan I highly recommend trying horse meat. We love us some delicious horsey:)
So many weasel words.

> and that a system that maintains this illegitimacy, namely democracy, isn’t half as good as most people think.

I don't know what this writer is talking about with his 'democracy'. There's no democracies involved here.

> Filtering isn’t phoniness — it’s civilization.

Lets just be clear. It's a civilization that rains death on innocent people with no trial or oversight from remote control death robots. A very uncivil 'civilization'.
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I'm on my phone data, and if puts me on the east coast instead of the west
Google to sunset its hardware-based search appliance
Point taken, you learn together overtime and discover things. I was more referring to this specific case, where porn and its potential to affect desire/frequency may be an issue. Again, to each his own, they can do what works for them.
Url changed from https://twitter.com/praeclarum/status/690650344217444352, which points to this.
You'll still need to find ways to deal with doxxing and child pornography. Also revenge porn.
> Especially eating it, which is in the natural order of things.

Yeah, those claws that you use to hunt your food down are pretty natural.

Appeal to nature is an argument flaw and if you are rational you shouldn't use it.

Humans ate meat because they saved their energy. Do you know how they saved it? The non-human animals were walking around collecting nutrients so humans didn't have to waste that time. These non-human animals were nutrient packed and it allowed humans to save time, have more offsprings and survive.

Today, there's no energy savings. Today we bring the food to the animals, filtering millions of tons of nutrient filled grains through inefficient bodies that waste almost everything on keeping their temperature - their body warm. It is as far from nature as it gets.

You can't say there's something special about flesh that you need to survive, and there's nothing else that has it.

You like the luxury of eating meat, you like the taste, you like the texture. It is a luxurious activity that you allow yourself to have, ignoring the effects on the environment, ignoring the suffering (and yes there is no such thing as humane murder, rape or slaughter), doing it just for your pleasure. And it recently turned out to be almost an equivalent to cigarette smoking - so it's entirely irrational from a health perspective but that is the case for most of the luxuries.

That's fine with me but don't try to rationalize it, it is in its complete entirety - irrational.

It is also ironic that you pointed out a perfect example of speciesism (humans preferring one species over another) and you couldn't label yourself as a speciesist. It is also ironic how you pointed out the irrationality in other people, not seeing your own when it was right in front of you.
Incredible pictures. I'll do what I can do find that image of the sawmill, I think I have it in a book in storage.
You have a really weird way of phrasing things. "Things really sucked after the war. They don't suck like that now, decades later. The average Vietnamese doesn't like how things are now".

It's hardly surprising that the communist government went crazy-anti-capitalism after having half the country turned to mush by the Americans, but things are getting better. After the war, the communists didn't even allow privately-owned shops, and the economy was awful. They started reversing that and the economy started recovering.

But just because somewhere else is doing better doesn't mean that a place hasn't improved significantly in recent years. That's a boom.