skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say that while the Scandinavian countries are seen as bastions of gender equality, my personal experience has shown some extraordinary sexism there in academia, far far far more than I've ever experienced in mathematics or physics in the United States. Like men straight-out telling women they don't need to get that science PhD because they'll just drop out to have babies anyway, since all women just want to be mothers above anything else, or a friend being explicitly denied a grad fellowship because her slacker male colleague "has a family to support" so deserves it more (despite fewer publications, fewer grants, behind in the program, stopped showing up to the lab for a while). Scandinavians have an inflated view of their own gender equity (and so does everyone else).

Humans are adaptable.... look at all those women who were competent teachers or nurses even though they'd far prefer something else, forced by economic pressure to take the only jobs allowed...
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Is an update from 14.04 painless or would you recommend reinstalling? I'd like some newer packages but don't really feel like setting up the whole system again with a reinstall.
I had a similar experience upgrading my laptop(though I initiated the upgrade on purpose). Just crapped out, but an apt install -f followed by a dist-upgrade fixed it all and it seems to have worked.
Something like TempleOS, written in Holy C?
Genius! Now this is called innovation.
One thing I've noticed is that xdg-app seems to be only for desktop GUI apps, while snappy works for server software and command-line apps too. To me, that makes it more interesting.
Oh yes, because democracy worked so well for Muslim countries in an US and EU sponsored experiments across Muslim world...

Not all countries can handle democracy, its not a magic cure.
Mozilla will release Firefox directly via snaps

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/04/21/firefox-d...
"apt" has been available since 14.04 (trusty).
It is sort of linked. The working class and middle class will have a better access to meaningful and diverse jobs in diversified free economy compared to a rent seeking one. It will also be in the state's best interest to educate more people for these kinds of jobs in order to grow the economy and keep them off welfare, crime, and violent opposition.
Great article. One small issue. In a group of developers the other night. A young lady walked in, the team of (all males), were asked by her. "Where do you think I should go, where to end up?"

The answer from ALL 10 developers was:
California
California
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California
California
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It's the nature. The weather here, really summer is great, but otherwise, it sucks. We have had months of just cold, rainy ,lousy weather. Nature? Line up to rent a car.

NYC is so crammed with bodies, it's jut not fun. Try to get on the 6 train at 5 PM. I say no more. If that's "fun" for you, I'm assuming that inserting a pointed stick in your eye is too. (IMHO)
Are you on 15.10 or 14.04 LTS? For the latter, I think not until 16.04.1 is released. Otherwise, probably soon.
By default, Windows sends a lot of your information to their servers sometimes without asking you to opt-in.

https://fix10.isleaked.com/
-i is a poor experience and I don't want to do it I every time I delete. Perhaps, all I want is a undo function. That way I don't have to worry about accidentally deleting anything.
Notably, Xenial is also the first release to bring support for s390x architecture (ie mainframes).

[0]: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/08/17/ibm-and-canonical-pla...

[1]: https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/installation-guide/s390x/
I've been running 16.04 beta for the past month on a Thinkpad P70 with a 4k display, and scaling has been great. The OS UI elements (like menu bars) can be scaled to any size.

Most applications seem to work out of the box. The ones that have given me the most problems are a handful of desktop apps implemented in an embedded browser (like Spotify) where I have to set an extra command flag to properly scale.
It's actually a paraphrasing of the Ivey (GM) and Grush-Saunby reports (Ford) from the 1970s. This was several years after Ralph Nader's famous book, Unsafe at Any Speed (1965)

1. http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/tortsprof/files/FordMemo.pd...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed
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Particularly surprising since the US is such a lawsuit-happy country where it seems you can expect some form of compensation even for borderline ridiculous issues. Coffee too hot? Jackpot! Life severely ruined by being wrongfully convicted? Well, sorry about that.
How about letting the people take the lead in changing the system. It won't be what other countries would like to see, but it will probably be a lot better than the experiments you mention.
Of course such attacks are being deployed, but by whom and for what purpose?

Here is an example of one such attack, which the researchers called "Censorship 2.0".

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock...

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Team#Use_by_repressive...
Every article on Hacker News is 101 for some segment of HN'ers. Pick a piece of software and there's a non-trivial probablility that someone who wrote some or all of it has an HN account.

That's not to say it's a great article. But I can see why some people might find it intellectually interesting or useful because it cleared up confusion.

Hacker News is not uniquely immune to Endless September [0]. The expectation regarding dealing with it, using civility, is not unique either. But it is uncommon.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Can we do this systematic?

First massive reduction, to test wether the Eco-System can handle it short term.

If yes, eradication until the diseases have vannished.

Measurement if the ecosystem handles it.
Reintroduction if needed.
If anyone has any issues of Satellite Watch News, Scrambling News, or American hacker, I am interested in digitizing them to PDF to share on archive.org whether you do the scan or I buy them from you to scan. Please let me know!
Heresy. Anything affecting Uber is useless red tape.
While they talk a sharp game of Western education, do not be fooled. I am continually shocked when I meet someone who was educated at Cambridge, but he (and she!) tell me that a women's status in Saudi Arabia is right. Or that a barbaric punishment is proper and correct as it is written in the Quran.

Many of the Saudis who would take a different opinion on women's rights etc, do not live in KSA.
And arguably you'd have to call it last-generation as well, if you recall how long ago those innovations happened but never made it into mainstream. That would label current shells as dark age of tty :). I still cannot accept the fact that we use tty emulators.
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Say what you will about Canonical, their whimsical naming scheme has helped expand my vocabulary of both obscure African mammals and little-used adjectives.
It's a tricky problem. I could see enterprise solutions for private GPS networks that have signed messages similar to an asymmetric JWT signature. That way the message can be passed around and the client can assert if the message has been tampered with.

That approach requires the satellite networks to have knowledge of the key pairs for each client. Not something you'd see the government provide, but a possibility for commercial applications.
Yep, it's quite odd but works, though many dismiss it as the inferior name, no idea why.
NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails. Here’s why
I carried my Raspberry Pi cluster (www.pidramble.com) through the airport four times. All but one time I had to do a slight bit of extra explanation that the hardware and mini rack that held it all together was just a computer. People aren't used to seeing exposed circuit boards anymore.
Would that be handled like most certification processes where the business applies for certification and pays a fee? Or where Amazon randomly selects vendors and tests them, the later seems like it would be more costly than sourcing the products yourself.
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I'm still waiting for any serious competitor to come along with GPU instances. Google Cloud doesn't have them, Azure still hasn't made them available despite announcing them over a year ago, and other cloud providers make you call a salesperson to get a quote on a service that's much more expensive than what you could run yourself with a trip down to Best Buy.

Amazon is still eating everyone's lunch on the GPU front.
Having read through the readme, I think some of the issues outlined could be solved by having a cell-based model like jupyter/ipython.

Basically a command (input) and its corresponding output are tied together as a "cell". The UI could be very like the ipython notebook, where you have a text box for command input and then above it you have a chronological list view of cells. You would also have a good keyboard-shortcut language for navigating back and forward in the cell history, so you could, say, go back and focus a cell which has been running for a while and is now prompting for input.

(Edit: imagine a key sequence like `Alt-b, Alt-b, Ctrl-Enter` meaning "go back two cells and give text focus to that cells input field.". In reality you'd probably want a command language that's more vim-like.)

The cell model would also allow you to truncate output, minimize or maximise the cell display, and a bunch of other UI tricks I can barely think of right now.

Basically each cell would be a little parallel shell of it's own.

If this sounds even remotely compelling, I wouldn't mind writing up a more formal proposal and submitting it as an issue on the repo.
Broadcast.com did more for startups tan all other Yahoo's bets combined. That's what created Mark Cuban.
It's not intended to stop criminals. It's intended for surveillance and tracking of the population.

Otherwise it would be a waste of time and money.
Xbox one dev here - can confirm what my sibling said about the quit button. It immediately suspends (quits) the process. I've poured many hours into the product lifetime cycle of my game.

On the other hand, if you don't hit quit, than hitting home and opening a bunch of other apps is exactly what you'd have to do to get the constrained (minimized) app to force quit while in the background.
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Still not usable, sadly.
This is the canonical writeup about argument injection vulnerabilities:

http://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCode_Unix_WildCards...
Slow? I was under impression that adding records to blockchain is fairly slow...

Was it improved in recent projects to make blockchain more multi-purpose solution?
Yep. Same on the electric BMW i3 btw.
What exactly is hard about revocations in a distributed authentication system?

You have an "owner" that is authenticated (in whatever way) with the distributed system. They have a private key and a certificate, say.

Now, you have a "conversation" or some other activity, which is a growing append-only merkle tree, ie everyone can "append to" a node on their copy of the tree, signed with their HMAC / certificate, and broadcast the result to whoever they want to know about it. It's a merkle tree because if I append to node X, I can prove what state the tree was in when I appended.

So now, one of the operations can be granting/revoking access. The owner starts with the root of the tree and can grant access to others who get the tree to perform some operations. Later on, the owner can revoke some access in any given subtree, by posting this revoke operation on the appropriate node.

It is true that a group can fork the tree and disrespect the owner, and go rogue. This is like forking the blockchain in Bitcoin. This is by design. But if all clients have a dispute resolution procedure (eg use the longest blockchain, or in this case, don't ignore the wishes of owner of the tree) then the rules are enforced. A particular conversation participant may perform an operation "after" its access has been revoked, but when it tries to broadcast it, the other clients will see its vector clock is "later" than the owner's, and reject that operation (something the rogue client will discover itself when it tries to pull updates to the conversation).

An even easier way is to have each conversation have a centralized authority that must be consulted for every action. The authority can have mirrors in case it goes down. But that doesn't mean the AUTHENTICATION has to be centralized, only the authorization to post TO A PARTICULAR CONVERSATION.
Thanks for feedback guys. I agree that in various companies those terms might have a bit different definition.

I wrote this, because I couldn't find anything good enough describing this topic. We often got aks by our our customers or first-time-founders - What is the difference? And why and how they can do it?
Dataminr at $10b.
Oh well. I will create a MVNO in some of the tax heavens. Couple of roaming agreements and we are set. And just issue sim cards at large. It will be more expensive. But doable.
The ID requirement and address requirement were not enforced all that strictly when I was last in Germany.

I bought a 10EUR SIM with a US driver's license (had left my passport in the hostel, and just wrote down the address of the hostel I was staying at).
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I'd recommend breaking down the time lost due to the slower machine, and spelling out how that equates to dollars down the drain. Here's an example (with arbitrary numbers):

"With a 16GB machine, it takes my test suite 5 minutes to run. With 4GB, that suite runs in 20 minutes. I need to run it on average, 10 times a day. So by giving me the 4GB machine, you're having me sit idle for an unnecessary 15 minutes, 10 times a day. So that's 2.5 hours per day that you're paying me to spin around in my chair and surf HackerNews. That's X wasted dollars every day, which is significantly more than the cost of the upgrade from 4GB to 16GB. So you'll save money by giving me a faster machine".

If there's a way to speak dollars-and-cents to the bureaucrats in your org, then there's a better chance of them approving your request.
The fact that this is even uttered is troubling, a business shouldn't be able to intimidate any form of government so easily that the basic premises law and order gets skewed.
>Uh, that's not the worst that can happen. The worst that can happen is that those who actually committed crimes are let off

No the worst that can happen is that someone who actually is innocent fails the polygraph and goes to jail anyway.
All these articles completely disregard the cost of the system - and this is not a trivial problem. The bitcoin blockchain is subsidized by the speculators.

Eventually I think that the solution will kind of relax the 'permisionless' aspect of the system and have some cheap but slightly more centralized timestamping. Just like the PrivaTegrity proposal by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum (I can't find the source for this - but Google finds many articles about it: https://www.google.pl/search?q=privategrity).

The timestamper does not need to know what it is timestamping and additionally timestamping might be distributed across many jurisdictions - so the damage of a rogue timestamper can be limited. And it is only timestamping that requires that wasteful proof-of-work.
Not dangerous at all. Requires high concentrations of reagents to function, can't penetrate cells on it's own, sensitive to pH and solution conditions, protein doesn't aerosolize on it's own, etc. The government regulates how you can use it, but cas9 itself is harmless
Which license?
I feel like I'm losing grip on reality. My installs of Windows 10 have none of these things. Are we just talking about Windows 10 Home here?
The torrent contains the parameters for another neural network, VGG16, that this network makes use of. VGG16 is a network developed by the Visual Geometry Group at Oxford[1]. They released their parameters under CC BY-NC 4.0 to save others from spending 2-3 weeks[2] training the network. Someone else converted those parameters to work with TensorFlow[3], which is what the torrent in this repository is.

I'm interested to see if neural network parameters become the new "binary blob". While in theory you could always retrain the network yourself, actually doing so takes a lot of work fiddling with the network's hyperparameters and requires significant computing resources.

[1] http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/very_deep/

[2] "On a system equipped with four NVIDIA Titan Black GPUs, training a single net took 2–3 weeks depending on the architecture." - arXiv:1409.1556

[3] https://github.com/ry/tensorflow-vgg16
wow, RStudio for free.
> pointless the Yemen war, the support of ISIS and other unsavoury organisations

Not pointless if you follow the politics of the region. Those are all done for breaking Iran's expanding sphere of terror.
>You're comparing individual species with an entire family.

The GP may well have done so, but most extreme proposals are to eliminate parts of the genuses Aedes, Anopholes, and Culex - together about 2% of the genetic diversity of the family Culicidae.

>Countless animals rely on mosquitoes as a valuable food source.

I'd be interested in seeing some concrete evidence that this is true; I've looked unsuccessfully. Seems to me that there are a few hyperspecialized predators, but generally mosquito population dynamics are too unpredictable for this to arise.
Very good points. Amazon linux is pretty popular within AWS, and LTS CentOS and RHEL have huge install bases for larger corporate environments.

For that matter, Ubuntu 14.04 is still supported for another two years, and that's still upstart.
>>You shouldn't need to particularly reward businesses for not breaking the law, surely. You should be able to punish those that break the law sufficiently harshly that breaking the law is not profitable.

This point is very important. But why do we see people tempting to reward businesses which do not break law?

Because, we seldom see the ones breaking the law getting punished severely. What happened to Volkswagen?
The CEO didn't even get the proverbial slap on the wrist, instead he got fucking multi-million dollars in reward! Was Volkswagen forced out of business? Hell no. What happened to Goldman Sachs and other such criminals? Nothing serious. Uber is getting free ride by breaking laws. What happened to it? Nothing.

So, people tend to think that way. Beyond that this is a very serious threat to free and open market economy and even the western democracies. As this is used by the covert and overt opponents and enemies of western free market economy based democracy to push forward their communist (or other equally bad ism) propaganda. It reminds me all that 99% vs 1% propaganda.

And unless, this is fixed, I guess, many general people in the western world will continue to fall prey to their vicious propaganda.
Having two control panels
From my experience in enterprise business intelligence, absolutely yes but more for the tracking rather than the ability to roll back changes. Data lineage is an important concept and is extremely valuable from a compliance perspective. The key would be can your system integrate with existing data sources?

You'll also likely be going up against Informatica if you want to play in the Enterprise space. That said, I'm also interested in a solution like yours as we're rolling out our own automation system but need to keep track of things for compliance reasons.

Would be happy to have a chat.
I'd personally like a way to redirect the output of a running process (either `bg`d or `disown`ed) to a log file. The only way I've come across are horrible hacks using gdb[1] or strace.

This should be easier. Anyone know of any better ways? I'd like to be able to do something like `proclog <pid> <stdout output file> <stderr output file>`.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/593724/redirect-stderr-st...
Just installed it, and looks like you get, Canada, US, and Germany as options for the VPN. Tiny text below the enable button has this:

"Secure proxy provided by SurfEasy Inc., an Opera company based in Canada. By using the service you accept the Terms of Service.
VPN connects to other servers around the world so your connection speed might be affected."

My only gripe with it so far is the VPN is across all tabs, so I have to switch it off to access some of my office VPN sites
Would Ubuntu 20.04 Fiery Fox be considered copyright infringement?
the majority of modern science was created in european illiberal societies.
SmartOS if very nice in theory.
I tried to get SmartOS working on a new Supermicro server and failed, even though I got a lot of help from their awesome community and people at Joyent.

Then I tried Linux (Ubuntu) and everything just worked! It was also very easy to find guides on the web for most things Linux.
It's not really about egalitarianism per se, it's about what roles women are expected/allowed to take, and what roles men are expected/allowed to take. The decision that engineering or programming is a "male" role is a fairly arbitrary one that we've made in the US.

In some countries programming is seen as a good job for women because it's an indoor job, maybe you can be in a predominantly female environment, it involves typing, it's not that prestigious so you're not fighting to climb a career ladder. It's a commodity job so you can enter and leave the workforce as necessary to deal with family issues.

None of these things is really about the work that needs to be done, unless we're talking about work that absolutely requires upper body strength. It's all just framing, perception, almost marketing. That's why I find the gender essentialist stuff nonsense. Why is being a top chef a male job and a home cook a female job? Because one requires bluster? You will often find that in countries with fabulously successful women programmers, mathematicians, scientists, engineers, these jobs are just considered jobs rather than Magical Jobs for Extraordinarily Smart Ninja Rockstars.
One should port it to Telegram as a bot and get $25000 from Durov. Easy money.
If somebody needs a Vagrantfile for testing: https://gist.github.com/therealmarv/555f7efc1c55ffa288bca091...

but it seems even Ubuntus Server are not speedy today (Atlas server are also slow)

(Update) it seems I'm getting an error with it :/

The guest machine entered an invalid state while waiting for it
to boot. Valid states are 'starting, running'. The machine is in the
'gurumeditation' state. Please verify everything is configured
properly and try again.

If the provider you're using has a GUI that comes with it,
it is often helpful to open that and watch the machine, since the
GUI often has more helpful error messages than Vagrant can retrieve.
For example, if you're using VirtualBox, run `vagrant up` while the
VirtualBox GUI is open.

The primary issue for this error is that the provider you're using
is not properly configured. This is very rarely a Vagrant issue.
Oh look, it's the HBDtards.

As a suggestion - do you know that "18" means "Hitler" in some circles? Like, 1=A (because it's the first letter of the English alphabet), 8=H (the 8th letter). A and H - A for Adolf, H for Hitler. Do you think this is going to make people more likely, or less likely, to support the building of this society you propose?

As if that weren't enough, you're on a hiding to nowhere with this in general, I'm afraid.

Suppose you are right. What then? You'll have to stir up so much shit to prove it that there'll be no profit. Sometimes you have to accept second best in the interests of peace. This is especially true when people are involved. "But but but" - no, shut up. There is no "but". This is how people work, and you're stuck with it.

Or suppose you are wrong. And then everybody is justly ignoring you.
Just about, yeah.
Blog post: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~marcotcr/blog/lime/

Paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04938v1.pdf