skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to discount the anti-censorship narrative. I'm merely pointing to another narrative that also exists and is gaining mindshare - demographic issues in tech, inequality caused by tech, tech ignoring government, people in tech being arrogant, etc.
There are plenty of ways to write a bad paper. We've excluded the most extreme ones and left the mainstream ones for you. Read the post and don't make these mistakes!:)
We're super excited with GitLab 8.5. It's much faster, no matter the size of your instance (but especially for larger instances).

The Todos, ability to revert commits and CNAME support for Pages, are things that have been much requested and we're happy to have now.

As always, we're here if anyone has any questions about anything.
Peekr downloads the image you select (container:tag), opens it up and scans it to find known vulnerabilities (from a database of millions of vulnerabilities), then runs the container in isolation trying to detect any behaviour which can be considered malicious or dangerous, such as fork bombing for example.
Don't have to believe everything on the Internet, including me, but I wouldn't be so fast. Ubuntu's interface is so annoying, I've seen many people turned away from Linux because of it and that's just a shame.
I did not. I filed electronically. I might have caught it if I'd reviewed everything but it was a pretty complex return.

Fortunately the audit was simple once I realized what had happened and explained it, but it was overall very time consuming.
How popular is this event? I signed up for it and was surprised by its format (winning teams get investments). Any links to experiences from past events? We should have a HN contingent :-p
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Those stats are very unreliable. Most Linux web browsers (including Chrome) do not send the specific distro they're being used on. Ubuntu patches Firefox to include Ubuntu in its User-Agent, but most other major distros do not.
The scary part is that doesn't appear to be enough anymore. People are fundamentally irrational and are willing to believe the media narrative without attempting to think about the consequences critically.
It's that small hat that you're supposed to change every 30 days.
>I have no speculation on the long-term prospects of the written word.

Marshall McLuhan made such speculation in his book The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

>Now, in the electric age, the very instantaneous nature of co-existence among our technological instruments has created a crisis quite new in human history. Our extended faculties and senses now constitute a single field of experience which demands that they become collectively conscious. Our technologies, like our private senses, now demand an interplay and ratio that makes rational co-existence possible. As long as our technologies were as slow as the wheel or the alphabet or money, the fact that they were separate, closed systems was socially and psychically supportable. This is not true now when sight and sound and movement are simultaneous and global in extent. A ratio of interplay among these extensions of our human functions is now as necessary collectively as it has always been for our private and personal rationality in terms of our private senses or "wits," as they were once called.
Even the standard releases are too stale, in LTS dev tools and compilers are ancient.

I've forgot to mention I've moved to Fedora a year or two back for this reason - got tired of rebuilding/PPA hunting for every part of my OS when I want to use the latest version of tool/lib X.

And once dependencies are too old (very often) prepare to be rebuilding 5+ custom libs and figuring out the differences between debian package/path layout and what the library build uses ... so much wasted time.
FreeBSD is now my preferred OS for learning UNIX.

Different community shapes work for different people: Arch for some, Ubuntu for me, FreeBSD for the author.
I think Colossus: The Forbin project showed that the first law will likely lead to all the other laws including #2 to be violated.
Cell coverage makes absolutely no sense to me. Austria and Switzerland have amazing mobile coverage but at the same time few people living there yet there is 4G everywhere. Might sound like those are small countries, but they are also really spread out and hard to provide service for (lots of mountains). Yet the UK for instance has abysmal mobile coverage even in the densest populated areas.

I can only assume that the general environment is different (regulatory, government subsidies etc.).
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I wasn't slighting Dijkstra but merely commenting on the era of the time.

You can for example see how primitive things were back then by describing "mutable state" as "dynamic" and "immutable" as "static". Dynamic and static these days have entirely different connotations typically more associated with type systems.

Things have moved on and now in 2016 mutable state is increasingly being pushed out of codebases in favour of immutable practices. Recursion is (and always has been) one way of doing that.

:)
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That is my thought as well. Ad-hoc networks, specifically mesh, have always stood out as the correct technology for this problem.
Sorry Amazon, I don't care. And my Amazon Prime is still going bye-bye this year. The prices are always higher than other vendors so the free shipping is all but moot and your other services suck. I can't even get the Music service to work.
I hope you repost this when you've got your first round of stories selected. I'd love to see the quality of writing you receive.

How are submissions going?
There are people in London who are living in an edge only area and the closest they get to fiber is docsis over a few hundred meters.
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I think he meant graphical package managers, not Anaconda.
Well sunlight is around 1kW per square meter energy density, so it doesn't surprise me in the least that this takes .3kW to simulate sunlight.
Data caps should go up as people move to more spectral efficient technologies. Even as carriers fight it, competition slowly makes data caps bigger.
2012 return, I removed a business expense from the return (I thought) but it still sent in the schedule claiming it to offset 1099 income.

It was really a UI bug... it's unclear when you start a segment/form that it is going to be part of your return even if you don't finish it or if you think you cancelled out of the wizard.

The core issue is the complicated tax code, but the UI that handles making the user aware of dependencies that a) must exist, b) should probably not exist is very weak... all dependencies are considered semi-optional and the only check is the "checking your return" step which did not flag the issue in my return.
> But can you really be sure that people that do this stuff as an hobby can deliver this in the quality that you expect and require? Let’s be honest here, probably not.

This must be the most short sighted description of Debian developers I have to see, cause 1) most do packaging as part of their paid job 2) apparently millions of people in the world believe that, yes, these people do a fine job at maintaining those packages. Not to mention those who develop the software they package or those who do academic research about software packaging and dependency resolution. But insulting Debian has become commonplace nowadays.
>if it's only unconsciously influencing me a tiny amount

If it is unconsciously influencing you how would you know if it is only doing so "a tiny amount"?
It won't matter much because there's not much you could do with 5G that you can't do with 3/4G. Internet connection speed is rarely a bottleneck for casual usage now (browsing, watching steaming videos, chatting etc.) For IoT it won't matter too, because for most telemetry/control means even <3G was ok and WiFi/Bluetooth/ZigBee is still preferable solution as all these xG modems cost way too much. To sum up, unless we start steaming virtual reality, I really don't see many benefits of 5G for few/several years to come.
If your work is winding you up to the point of causing severe anxiety, then maybe you should be looking at why you're there in the first place...

I don't know if you've read much self-help, but there's a lot of "you-can't-help-it" contained within. "Letting the moment pass" is a micro-solution to an entire-life size problem.

Speaking as someone who experiences some of the same emotions described in the article, it's far more effective to reduce stress and anxiety by removing non-essential tasks from your list than it is to "just chill". People don't need to "step back every once in a while", they need to learn how to say no.
In my example the car is empty, so there is no first law involved. I probably could have worded it more clearly. :/
Maybe the OP wants to use Firefox?
No. But having met a few assembly coders over the years, every story seems to involve tons of work making something simple happen.

This guy wants a job. That pays money. Are we all going to tell him that assembler is the path to riches? Maybe for 1% of guys out there.
How many people have a token IT guy in their friend network? and how much do they respect what he/she says when it contradicts their familiar narrative? Why have those IT guys not been able to stop their friends from downloading/installing stupid stuff and so on?

Just pointing out that the IT guy may not have much sway over the general population.
That's my point. The amplifier of media, old and new, allows this kind of topic to be a thing, when by all ethical standards, it should not be.
Maybe we shouldn't build computers to be like us
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Why fear the police? They don't put you in prison, the courts do that.

Someone hasn't been paying attention lately. Sandra Bland, arrested for no good reason when she was starting a new job became so depressed she took her own life, after being left in a cell all weekend (on a trivial traffic stop violation).

The police are not your friend and the more interactions you are forced to have with them the worse off you will be.
Does it know how to parse HTML using regexes?
> Why fear the police? [...] The police still have to operate under certain rules.

Like "Don't shoot unarmed innocent people"?
I had a prepaid Telstra SIM in Australia. I speedtested 130 MBit/s on their LTE network. On prepaid, data costs a bit over AU$8/GB. So you can burn through 8 dollars in a minute.
Google?

Most countries need teachers, contact that department of the government and start from there. Get into a school, watch some lessons. Then get a teaching qualification.
This post is pretty damning. I was considering using Mint at some point but after this I will stay away.
data and transport layers are almost always intermingled

In what sense other than NATing, which has been a stop-gap measure to deal with IPv4 address shortage? TCP/UDP sit on top of the network layer, not the data (link) layer. And the two main requirements that TCP/UDP make of the network layer is (1) that all network layer connected devices (interfaces) have a unique address and (2) you can send packets between any two network connected devices (interfaces) in a best-effort way.

What the transport layer adds on top of that is

- multiplexing of network layer addresses (TCP and UDP use port numbers for this) so multiple processes can share a single network layer connection and

- error detection/correction (TCP only) to transform the unreliable (best effort) service the network layer offers into a reliable service.

- Streaming (TCP only): the sender's data stream that a TCP client creates is split into packets and later reassembled.

I think it's a beautiful separation of concerns.
> "It's a desktop environment theme at best"

Cinnamon is more than just a desktop theme, and Mint is more than just Cinnamon. Worth looking into it further.
> The political system is stacked and broken so putting Trump in office won't change much.

that's a dangerous view - trump has shown himself time again to be a good negotiator and has made good, calculated decisions. he has charisma! it's more likely that he would 'get something done' (not for better but for worse, probably) than somebody like ted cruz, who also rails against this political system, but who is more explicit in his disregard for the 'average joe' and is hated by the entire republican delegation to congress
Well, adding people to a project that's already impossibly late will make it even later.

Atari had plenty of people imagining great games; they didn't ship much content that was compelling, and were generally held in contempt by the "real" game programmers (e.g., the folks in the coin-op division).

Also, the 2600 has no screen buffer. It's all real-time raster generation with the CPU in cycle-by-cycle lockstep with the beam. Game design on the 2600 is very tightly bound to what the hardware is capable of. For instance, you can't just say "I want this game to have a spinning blue cube that defends against enemy fire," you have to see if you can make one. If you're a Real Programmer, maybe you can (and you might ship a killer game).

If you're a poser in marketing or management who's wondering what all the fuss about this programming stuff is about and why the hell people are complaining about those blue cubes you demanded, you run the company into the ground doing design that way.
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>...if the unidentified objects appearing near ADIZ over the East China Sea turned out to be F-22 from the U.S., it would be a good opportunity for China's military to practice its ability to find, identify and intercept stealth fighters.

Please pardon my bit of chuckling, but in the past Chinese Air Force pilots can't even intercept a prop-plane without hitting the thing. An F-22? Going to need a lot of practice.

It's nice they can see the F-22 though. It didn't really help in the Middle East that much[1] years ago with the SR-71. But it's something to feed the press!

[1] http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/cargo/19456-fantastic-sr-7...
>>The government says your objection appears to be based on concern for your business model and marketing strategy. Is that true?

> Absolutely not. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is and always has been about our customers.

so it is about marketing :-)

All joking aside though, I agree strongly with this document and I'm both a bit surprised and very happy about their detailed arguments and about the passion they put into this issue.

As a customer I'm happy to see that they are really fighting for me and not giving in, even to the point of refusing a comparatively reasonable request out of fear of producing a precedent.
Regarding the issue of verifiable builds, everyone should read this:

http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html
> where the valuation is underpinned by assets and buying when they are near the bottom

... is still using some data external to the stock charts, which should work great. :)
To be clear, this article is advocating forcing people in poverty into gig economy jobs where there have been issues of low pay, terrible working conditions, and few if any employee protections. As a civilized country we should not demand that people give up their basic rights to earn a living.
Not really even close to fair, unless you're going to claim that Cecil Rhodes' family runs "Rhodesia", Bolivar's family, Columbus, etc. presently.
I think exuberant is quite a charming word to use in that context :)
Driverless cars need detailed and up-to-date map information. After you enter a destination it will need to download and/or update that information.

It wouldn't be a safety issue, though. The car would not start driving to the destination until it had everything it needed.
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The development of the 5g standard and it's deployment is something to look forward to, but one issue that remains is data caps.

We need to remember that the vast majority of people access the Internet primarily through mobile devices and broadband penetration is very low in developing nations.

So even though people have access to high speed internet though mobile networks, data caps act as a hindrance to utilize the service effectively.

The issue that needs to be addressed immediately is making unlimited data available at low costs.
But think of the cost such regulation would cause upon our poor, under-served businesses! There's no way they could survive under such obligations! Won't somebody think of the businesses?!?

And don't forget to conveniently ignore the time cost of each individual taxpayer spending several hours every year doing their taxes (not to mention evaluating dozens of healthcare options...) or paying some business to do their taxes instead.
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He didn't say it was objectionable. He just said it treats the government like a customer. I, for one, would like to live in a country where the government is a servant, not a master.
Where can you LTE for get $20 a month? That is amazingly cheap.
F-22 isn't a "stealth fighter" it is a fighter with stealth features to reduce its radar cross-section and by extension reduce the distance at which it can be detected.

F-117 and B-2 were attempts at making an actual stealth fighter (completely radar neutral) and even an F-117 was shot down by a Isayev S-125 in 1999. I'd imagine China has at least access to that level of technology.

There's also work on infrared detection and optical detection which weren't possible way-back-when, but with access it inexpensive compute power, might now be a viable way to track even a radar neutral aircraft.

All I am saying it, I believe them, but I am also unsurprised. Against a nation like China I wouldn't even trust the B-2 Spirit to remain immune from interceptors, let alone the F-22, and frankly if China and the US ever went to war drones and missiles would likely play a greater role than manned fighters.
Genera was originally developed in ZetaLisp. Later Cmmon Lisp was added and many newer parts of the OS were developed in Common Lisp.
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Cutting-edge science could make mental illness less of a guessing game
Cute, but start by lobbying the Mathematics field and once they do away with ">" the programming field will naturally follow.
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Well, that's fine.

I'll just buy more from AliExpress. Shipping is free, albeit long.
Email sent. I'm totally on board.
> ... for something as boring and pitiful as web?

That hurt me. To call the current technology of web pitiful these days is not fair I think. How it is changing communication in life is impossible to ignore.

I agree with the big trade off of "speed" and productivity ("speed" because, really? How many projects are there that speed is the number one factor and productivity number 2?).
What is Instagram doing?
I use a CPA for my taxes, since I never want to have to deal with an audit myself, but even if I wanted to do my own taxes, I would never use anything Intuit made, ever. My experience with Quicken has forever soured me on that company. Quicken was one of the worst programs I have ever used. Because of their need to sell a yearly version of it, the UI churn and addition of bugs, it got so bad it was nearly unusable for me. (I've been using Moneydancy for years and it's a great replacement for Quicken.)
No. https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1x50xl/time...
This FAQ has more than 1000 words, but these are the words that matter:

The only way to guarantee that such a powerful tool isn’t abused
and doesn’t fall into the wrong hands is to never create it.

Can a court force a company or an individual to create something that does not exist?

China required Google to actively censor search results about sensitive topics, and Google quit China. (They may now be heading back [1].)

Bing stayed in China and silently replaced their organic results with government-approved propaganda [2].

The best way to prevent governments from oppressing their citizens is to refuse to create tools that enable oppression.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/why-go...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/11/bing-censo...
You aren't being paranoid IMO, but there are reasons it is done to some level.

Personally, as for depending on 3rd party npm modules that only implement a few lines of Javascript, I generally avoid doing it as it feels wrong. I also wouldn't say Javascript developers favor tiny dependencies, they are just trying to generally avoid rewriting the same line of code across multiple places since that can obviously create a lot of headaches. While there are ways to handle includes, modules etc, across projects it can get messy fast and cause lots of stability issues, but using small versioned packages generally resolves those issues, at least in my personal experience.

My own basic thoughts:

1. if you only need that code in one project, just create a small module and include it, done.

2. if you want to share that code amongst multiple projects utilize npm private packages, or create a local npm repository/cache.

I generally opt to use npm private packages as it allows for easy reuse internally across multiple projects without having to copy or reimplement code. Plus you can take advantage of versioning them which makes life a lot more flexible and robust.

Also, don't forget there are license terms that can affect which packages you use too, so that has to come into play as well when you are selecting them.
I think even the token IT guy is wondering how the FBI's request to break specific iPhones in their possession is going to undermine iPhone security for everybody.
Frankly, yes on second reading I agree with your assessment. However the whole tone of the article, especially during "scan reading", seems to attempt to tilt the reader's judgement against Apple.
"Suppose Adam is tall and Bob is short. Maybe English ought to have different pronouns for men of different heights (or hair colour, or...). It would help relieve this terrible ambiguity here. And yet we get by without this precision in our pronouns"

Hm... Let me hijack the current state of languages the other way around: why would we have distinctions at all? Why would we need to express distinctively about animate and inanimate, or about the existing number of colors (when the entire spectrum can be botched to fewer hue names), or to make a distinction between single and non-single (English "you" FYI), or a lot of other stupid differences that force us to think about when we're communicating? Why wouldn't we drop them and market this as a feature, emphasizing the fact that we can speak that way "just fine"? Actually, you know what? Why wouldn't we drop communication entirely?! That would be a wonderful final goal, wouldn't it? I may sound like trolling, but it's important to see the whole picture - the goal of the communicating act in its essence is to transmit perceived distinctions. Now, we can shape the language used for this communication by pushing it either in one direction - of evolution (by gaining the ability to make even more distinctions), which is an open end indeed and that may seem overwhelming, or in the other direction - involution, which (hey, good for us -) has only so much to be reduced to!

Science (including the part addressing languages) is a bitch, isn't it? We have one less linguistic aspect available for politics now!
I have anxiety disorder and you have highlighted an insight of mine after examining my condition for a while. The moments that my condition flares up uncontrollably are the moments when I've spent a significant amount of time "thinking". When I spend time with friends I genuinely care about and can relate to, I get so distracted, I almost feel like a normal person.
No 3G, as you say, but Ofcom's mobile coverage checker shows Kendal bathed in 4G EE coverage, with a good chance of good indoor reception. (And if not, a 4G router with decent outdoor antenna should help enormously.)

Or there's always satellite...?