skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kettering Cosmos: How school children exposed Soviet secret
Has Desktop Internet Use Peaked?
I don't know if I would call that the opposite of cinema, but it's certainly a huge difference.

I wonder what this would mwan mean for all the actors who prefer stage to film. Would they shoot up in demand? What would that mean for theater in general?
I have two kids, a son 5 and a daughter 8 who spend a lot lot of their free time on Minecraft(pocket edition on Kindle Fires). I'm kind of amazed at the kind of stuff they come up with. My daughter mostly uses for "artwork" building sculptures and statues and things like that, basically an extension of the drawing she does when she's not on her Kindle. That was basically my expectation when I got Minecraft for them as I was familiar with the "virtual lego" aspect of it, but my son has really surprised me. He uses pressure plates, switches, dynamite, red stone, etc to build all these little machines(my daughter does too, but not to the same extent). Looking closely at what he builds I didn't expect my 5 year old to have the kind of grasp on programming-like logic.

I had originally set up a Raspberry Pi to hopefully teach him some beginning programming(my daughter has a Chromebook with regular Linux installed, and I've taught her some Python and HTML) with Scratch, but he had not interest in it at all, but he did find Minecraft on the Pi and for the first few days both kids where gathered around it until I put in on their Kindles to give them a newer version and one where they can play together.
I'm from South America and I didn't know this either, and I also pronounced like English word "mate", lol
Costs are important too... Valuations are generally based on both.
This is a great letter from Microsoft Nouveau and I applaud them for taking a stand. It's on us as citizens to exercise our rights and bring about change and reform.

I think we should also remember those that took a stand early and paid the price, such as former Quest CEO Joseph Nacchio who was run under the bus for not being an accomplice to the NSA [1].

1. https://www.rt.com/usa/qwest-ceo-nsa-jail-604/
One aspect is that in the 1800s the federal government had maybe 5% of the power it has today.

So congress had far less product to sell.
Can confirm that this also happened to me.
This is the same thing I was asking. As much as I like the idea of declarative functional package manager what value does it provide if you are just building docker images?
Definitely, I've seen those kind of refactorings too, but what I mean is that one isn't allowed to fix the architectural problems that make it hard or impossible to implement what's requested. The existing design didn't anticipate certain things which are now impossible to implement without compromising the architecture.
I wish they had kept the GNOME application names (Nautilus, File-roller, ...) that I am familiar with instead of renaming them. Sure, they are forks, but spiritually similar. Perhaps "MATE Nautilus," etc., would have been fine.
Which economy has crashed?
In the paper, they dismiss the example of "if you score 90 and above" as incorrect use of "and" (or too vague to turn into any formal logic).

However, looking at your summary, it suddenly sticks out that this issue could actually be connected with the tendency to use set manipulation. "If you score 90 and above", and I suspect many other seemingly abusive uses of "and", can turn out to be perfectly valid if you consider them as (infinite) set manipulations. However, I'm not sure which of the two explanations is closer to the actual cognitive processes behind such a phrase. Seems to me that humans are naturally comfortable with many set manipulations, while current computers require fairly elaborate abstractions in order to deal with them as sets, especially infinite. This might be one of the gnarly parts of human -> machine translation.
I've got a hard wired IoT type network in my lab and a spare network port on my desktop is connected to it for debugging/testing. So in network/interfaces that port is 'iface eth1 inet static' versus 'auto eth0' for the port that connects to the house LAN. During boot, eth1 gets its IP address right away (it's static) and so all the mounts for NFS systems try to use it as the only connected network. Eventually the eth0 network is up but not after whining about booting in "restricted" mode.
Is it really necessary to make programming more accessible to non-programmers? (this is how interpret some of the introduction about making programming easier to a 'beginner')

How is it different from making structural engineering more accessible to non-structural engineers, dentistry more accessible to non-dentists, etc?

Take my latter question not so literally—I mean to ask what is wrong with everyone having their own profession as a result of their passions/natural talent?
"Go to definition" works great in vscode. I tried it with golang and it also has the feature to show definitions inline :)
OpenBSD isn't the only system that's avoided gcc5 due to the breaking C++ ABI changes.
IPFS reflects the truth of the public internet (and public speech/media in general): With IPFS, and any other internet technology, you can choose to stop sharing data with others, but you can't force other people to stop sharing copies they already have (except through some means outside the protocol, such as DDoS or the law).

I think a design goal of IPFS is that if you publish your nude photos to your personal IPFS node, it wont be sent to another node unless they explicitly request it by content-address. So you can use it to share sensitive data, and you can always layer encryption on top. [1]

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47
Video cards supported swapping palettes out in real time.

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_S...

> Back then video cards could only render 256 colors at a time, so a palette of selected colors was used. But the programmer could change this palette at will, and all the onscreen colors would instantly change to match. It was fast, and took virtually no memory. Thus began the era of color cycling.
If you’re using a relatively recent version of OS X, Quicktime Player is mostly just a first-party front end for the Quicktime-replacing AV frameworks that got ported to OS X from iOS a few versions back. It probably keeps the Quicktime name only for legacy reasons and so upgraders aren’t confused as to where the default media player disappeared to.
This article is idealism that's not grounded in anything close to reality. The real problem is the demand side of the equation ensures things like Facebook and Comcast are more likely to succeed to point they drown out everything else with network, legacy, and development pace effects. Anything they build must consider and conquer that problem in its design/implementation to succeed. A better, centralized offering that respects users rights down to the company's charter and license agreement is an easier start.

Funny they mentioned Diaspora. I predicted very accurately what would happen to them sometime around 2011 on Schneier's blog:

"Diaspora is a joke. The thing is being designed, analyzed and implemented primarily by amateurs. A truly safe social network must be designed by people with expertise in cryptography, protocol analysis, secure software design, and low-defect implementation. Throw some testing and UI people in there to boot. I like that there's people trying on this, but I wouldn't trust anything that project produces. The independent reviews we've gotten so far confirmed my suspicions.

As for secure/private social networking, I don't know if there's really a way to do it that would take off. Non-paid internet services depend mainly on ad revenue. An advantage of current social networking sites is that analysis allows targeted advertising & brings in lots of revenue. Take that away & you get very little revenue in comparison. This is a problem if you are running a secure web service with tons of cryptography in it, which takes MUCH more resources to achieve performance of something like FB."

People want these independent, private, secure spaces but are unwilling to pay for them. Most of their friends and family probably are both unwilling to pay and unwilling to use them. Plus, you have to recreate most of the usefulness of modern web platforms. You have to do all that... very expensively to develop and run I'll add... while making almost no money on almost no users. Good luck.
Maybe if the advertising worked on the princple, that negative advertising about, or even mention of another candidate or party was banned, so that candidates would be forced to campaign on there own positions and party lines, instead of the incessant muck raking and smearing that the circus has descended to today.

In many countries competitive advertising that mentions other brands etc, is banned.
Fair enough, understand.
There's no lawsuits yet. This is the continuation of a PR battle.

If something does go to court the government will probably just stop doing it and try something else (the government loses in this sense but only very narrowly).

A lot of these "tools" won't stand up to scrutiny by the Supreme Court because they are so broadly applied, and then the game would stop. Easier just to lose dmall battles but to keep the game going.
>CAS is a job best done by relatively slow, but well armored aircraft flying low and slow.

That was true, but it's not true any more. Modern targeting pods (like the Siper XR pods on the B-1) mean you can get the same situational awareness from much farther away. Between targeting pods and laser guided weapons the A-10 is obsolete.

Low and slow is dangerous. Aircraft defenses (lasers, flares, chaff, ECM) haven't been evolving as quickly as threats at low altitudes. Not by a long shot. You're fine against a dozen guys with rusty AK-47s and RPG-7s, but once you start fighting armies equipped with something like Pantsir or NASAMS you're in big trouble.
I wouldn't know how to write something that "summarizes how I (as the computer) should move Pacman in relation to the presence or absence of other thing." I can't figure out what that's supposed to mean. Given the image shown, I would have said "if PacMan reaches a wall, the computer should not continue moving PacMan in that direction."

Also, why anthropomorphize the computer? And why are we "summarizing" instead of instructing the computer? The question asked for a declarative solution and then is surprised that the children gave declarative answers. [edit: I misread what was being said in that portion of the paper and that portion of has been replaced by this bit in square brackets]

The experiment seems extremely sloppy. It can't possibly show what it purports to show, there's way too much in the design of the study that could have biased the results, the sample sizes tiny, the task unclear, and the quantitative analysis subjective.
I've seen a couple of mentions of Oracle in this thread, implying Oracle would sue over copying of APIs I imagine. Is there any basis to the FUD here? What APIs did robovm copy?
All you have proven is that it would be equally ridiculous to say "a tech hub would have happened with or without the sun" or "a tech hub would have happened with or without the earth."

Though one may not credit the federal government for the creation of an industry, it is ridiculous to say that such an industry would exist without the government's existence. Govennment is a necessary prerequisite even if it deserves no "credit".
Correct.

I pay to chill and have an expert give me an exact and defined experience when watching movies.

If I want stress, I'll play computer games and get the added benefits of making (stressful) decisions.

We've have recorded vision for a century. Yet mp3's still have their massive market. Video changed the radio star, but didn't kill it. Same will happen with VR.
Correct.

I pay to chill and have an expert give me an experience when watching movies.

If I want stress, I'll play computer games.

We've have recorded vision for a century. Yet mp3's still have their massive market. Video changed the radio star, but didn't kill it. Same will happen with VR.
There exist alternatives to get the content out in a way they control. Yet, they sure as hell aren't using them. If they won't, why would they expect most users that care less to use even more complex stuff for social networks and such? Substantiates my main comment here quite nicely. Just from a source I didn't expect. ;)
Building a defense to Liberty based on outrage is what does not scale. Though I'm not sure you can get citizens to read 150,000+ pages of legalese a year. Hell, we can't even get our Representatives to do that.
From the way the article describes the Minecraft community development, I thought it was possible that the choice of telnet was deliberate. It's easier to log in to, for one- no key configuration. And while the connection is insecure, I would bet a lot that nothing of value can be accessed from the people actually telnetting in- I bet that all non-game related write permissions are limited to SSH users. And if they are hacked, then they are (probably) inconvenienced, think about their passwords, and really understand why people use this thing SSH instead of telnet.

It seems pretty genius to me.
Had the feds not been so abusive, many of the people who are completely lawful wouldn't be at the point of being okay with the feds having a hard time. I think going tit for tat would be fine, but I totally understand why some people are saying "okay, screw it, we'll just make something no one can get into".
I'd say that the people doing it (and that enjoy watching it happen) are trying to downplay it (to themselves as well as others) by calling it a "prank." It toes the line of actually ordering a hit on someone.

The intent is obviously not to kill the target, but I also doubt that the perpetrators would feel any remorse if it ended up in a death (they would rationalize it away as the police's fault, not their own).

It's classification as a prank by the (teenager, gamer, 4chan, etc) culture that encourages this isn't helped by the fact that this is just an escalation of other "use a phone call to rain disorder onto someone's life" pranks:

* Placing large pizza delivery orders for the target.

* For a while you could order free boxes off of the USPS website, and I remember it being a thing where people would get a group to order a ton of boxes and send them to someone.

Many people from that sub-culture see swatting as basically the "nuclear weapon" of those types of revenge "pranks." I can't say that I've personally witnessed the escalation to SWAT'ing, but it seems to be people from that sub-culture/mindset that see SWAT'ing as a funny joke to throw at someone that annoys them.
Reminds me how non-programmers quickly pick up the vectorization of R and programmers keep writing loops.
> "They aren’t looking for a guaranteed $1M, they want a chance at $1B or $100B. This is really weird, because software business that are profitable might not be fundable."

Huh. Sounds like an inefficiency on the funding side. Or is it that these biz's profitability typically enable self-funding? Why does a profitable startup that doesn't have VC-style growth potential need funding?
HTTPWatch + Watir.
GitHub repo to generate list of 100's of companies with their at Twitter url
i3bar with JSON and Conky
The Arsenic Eaters of Styria
Did YOU get the point? Maybe Medicine and Physics and Law shouldn't be so complicated also?
It's pretty difficult to call an aircraft "vaporware" when over 100 are in service at this point.
Another Kestrel: https://kestrel.soe.ucsc.edu/
On the growth of CRAN packages
From a Schneier blog thread:

"Retroshare has enough layers of security that the even the nsa will have to work really hard if they want to get in there." (Benni from Germany)

"And it's written in a risky language using shoddy libraries on platforms NSA has 0-days and automated attack systems for. I'm sure that this combination will be "really hard" for NSA to penetrate. ;)" (Nick P.)

It's a nice idea and little project worth some development, though. I agree it's the closest thing, outside Freenet, to what the OP describes. It needs to be clean-slated in a safer, but low-level, language with the risky libraries substituted or improved. The protocols will need to be verified and implemented by high-assurance security community. Covert channel analysis. The works. Then, it will be good enough to stop many high-strength attackers enough to matter.

Of course, anything like that will be throttled and filtered by ISP's. Might be best to start disguising the traffic as HTTPS connections or something like my homebrew solutions did.
I work as a teaching assistant in a compsci 101 lab - I found this paper to be incredibly eye opening, and will hopefully help me link the intuitive thoughts people have with the specific language features they should be using. We just did a lab on lists and for loops, and this paper basically clarified what the issue most people were actually having, that they wanted to operate on the list in aggregate. While this paper does seem to be looking at potential changes for new languages, it's useful for more than that.

And what makes you think that these potential new language features won't make it easier for experienced programmers as well? Sure, everyone will eventually get their head around iterative loops, but should we not be using the most efficient language for our brains? At the end of the day, a non intuitive concept will have inherent overhead.
Is it just me or is OpenBSD's ldapd the only LDAP server with bcrypt password hashing built-in?

I've seen extensions/plugins for the other guys, but not built-in

Also, nice to see pledge in the smtp server and mutt, and ChaCha20 in IPSEC
Here is a link to an html export of the jupyter notebook I made for the many-time-pad experiment: https://kyleterry.com/natas11.html
The problem is we've been getting these markdown stories every month for a year, now. At this point they seem pretty meaningless and arbitrary in terms of whether they signal an imminent crash.

In other words, these stories are interesting, but about as valuable as a signal as the "imminent tech bubble crash" stories we've been getting every year since 2008.
All art is based upon the past.
Ageism is an irrational pox on an industry that prides itself on being rational.
USC Law School Commencement Speech – Charlie Munger
No, R and Python are separate kernels (think compiler). You can mix Shell and Python or Shell and R though.
Wow, that's the simplest release notes page I've ever seen. Alright, well, good work to LibreSSL team on continuing to improve an important piece of software. :)
This idea isn't a new one. I vaguely remember reading such a suggestion in The People's Almanac (I think vol 2), published in 1978. I have it somewhere in my library but I'm on a trip right now so it isn't at hand; I wonder if any other HN reader's have it? It would be interesting to compare previous suggestions for boundary changes to this latest one. Would we find that we needed to change the boundaries every couple of decades? How would that work?

Further, I can't imagine a state like Texas signing up for being split in two. ("Don't Mess With Texas" has been it's anti-litter campaign for 30 years.)
Report: Apple quietly reveals support for WebRTC
Very interesting observation.
So, apart from the icon, how does that resemble Notepad?
IMO, MATE on Linux Mint has been wonderful for the last year or so.

Would recommend for desktop.
Correct, they're all 64-bit linux. We might use some Rust on 32-bit soon though. So this is interesting to us.
You make a great point about Avatar. After all these years, it is still the the only real 3D movie. It seemed like we were on the brink of great 3D, but no one else could even match Avatar.
It looks like it's missing a license file. Would you mind if you specified a free software license for your project?
Unless they do GPU's you are wasting time. You wouldn't make but a buck or so.
> Why isn't that a good example?

Because we allow judges to hand down sentences in order to maintain the decorum of the courtroom.

> It shows in the United States there are people that can arbitrarily add months to your jail sentence for insulting them, or simply send you to jail if you happen to do it while being in the same room they're in.

Not specific people, specific officers of the court who are performing the duties which pertain to being such. You could insult a judge outside of a courtroom all you want and they wouldn't be able to do any more about it than any other private person. Even less, actually, given that the judge is a "public official" under the law and, therefore, the Sullivan "actual malice" standard applies, which makes it substantially more difficult for someone to prove defamation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_malice
And the article misleads about the state of lobbying today, for example:

> lobbyists who take out lawmakers for expensive lunches

A lobbyist who buys an expensive lunch for a lawmaker (member of Congress) is committing a federal offense under the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007. The rule is so strict that if a member of Congress is attending a public event with food at a lobbying org, the org cannot provide utensils, unless the member of Congress pays for their food.

Executive Order 13490 also prohibits all executive branch political appointees from receiving gifts of any kind from lobbyists, including lunch.

The 1999 Supreme Court decision was the right one, as it struck down an interpretation that was obviously too broad. The article names Scalia since he wrote the opinion, but the vote was 9-0! (Obviously this was back in the good old days when the Supreme Court still had 9 justices.)
Understand, but no, even law enforcement, military, etc. are trained to never say anything; this isn't just to protect the greater good either, don't do it.
i'm talking about the 12" retina macbook that has no glowing apple on the lid.
Please tell me that was an intentional pun, Agent 99.
Unless you're trying to raise money, and then valuation by investors is suddenly important.
I think that ultimately would lead to a pretty sad situation for future historians, despite how great it may seem for the present. At least we have the trash and various discarded bits of previous civilizations to study and learn from. In the future with everything encrypted and secured as it is today, there might not be much left.
Medcann
And your sales aren't leading to profitability.
Generally, very little is "turned on by default" which sets this OS apart.

Where are you getting your rc.conf?

This looks reasonably conservative: 1 line.

/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-6/src/etc/rc.conf:

rc_configured=NO
As someone in my early 20s, I can say the young innovator myth also severely hurts the youth.

When you're told you need to achieve X by 30, you may end up destroying relationships, having health issues and depression.
Medicine and physics are not purely human constructs tho.
You can do okay on a DO VPN for say $20/month. I did this for a while but it was only me and a few friends, and when we wanted to use a modpack I moved the server an oldish computer in my house as it needed more grunt.

Calculating the power costs put it at about $30/month in electricity, ignoring all the time wasted getting it running.
Simply uninstall from the Control Panel > Programs & Features. Done!
It makes sense though in an industry full of irrational and ephemeral products and services.

If you are trying to get in and get out you don't want experienced people who are going to ask a lot of questions. You want young, naive people who are willing to play the lottery.
Sure. That's what we did with numerical notation. We switched to a positional decimal system that even fifth graders can understand and do operations with.
You sound paranoid.
Has YC never heard of a flat organization that makes decisions by consensus rather than a top-down way?
Say what you will but I still prefer the VAX to Windows.