skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That point about Linux distros such as Ubuntu is something I was looking to mention, but I'm not 100% sure I have my facts straight. That said, here's what I believe is the case. ;)

The repositories can be similar to OS X in terms of providing really outdated versions of many packages. The same day Ubuntu releases a new version of the OS, packages can already be over a year out of date from the releases made by the software's developer.

The distros won't update the official repositories with newer versions of software once the version is pinned during the testing phase of the OS, due to the extensive amount of quality assurance that goes into ensuring system-wide stability. Their reasons are justified, but the end result still means you're typically not running the best and latest of anything.

Things are a little more difficult to understand with versioning in Linux. You may have git 2.5.0, but if you're on a release of the distro for which support is still ongoing, those CVEs are probably fixed due to backported security patches that don't bump the software's version number. In this manner, official repositories on Linux distros usually give you outdated software in terms of new features, but keep you entirely up to date in terms of security.

Information for Ubuntu in particular: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

And then... TIL about the backports repository: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
Found it for you (or at least I think you meant 3DM (cracking group) and Denuvo (anti-tamper)):

https://torrentfreak.com/no-more-pirate-games-in-two-years-g...

Additionally some fun facts for games released with the latest Denuvo iterations:

Rise of the Tomb Raider released 28th of January this year, not cracked to date.

Just Cause 3 released December 1st 2015, not cracked to date.

Thats a lot longer than a week or two :)
What's intellectually dishonest about the rule that for something to be considered religion it must have been created "to profess and spread faith"?

Even if you treat FSM most generously purpose of its creation was obviously not that and purpose of largest religions was exactly that.
another interesting aspect is architecture. Leftists like brutalism and modernism, while right-wingers like traditional architecture,

On the other hand, preserving old traditional buildings tends to be a leftist cause, while wanting to bulldoze them and replace them with new modern buildings tends to be a right-wing cause.
That's the issue I have - not so much an immutable part of the filesystem (though I find that bizarre and flawed), but that Apple don't do enough updates fast enough.

I basically think that if Apple want to lock down their ecosystem and prevent folks from updating their own software, then they have a duty to provide timely updates that address security bugs. Currently they don't seem to be doing that.
> It's not necessarily bad

It is necessarily bad if you make yourself (or, more important) your business totally dependent on somebody who is a monopoly supplier.

> doesn't mean that philosophy failed, and the recent resurgence of Macs has proven as much.

I think all the proprietary systems failed, and there were dozens if not hundreds of them. Apple was the only significant survivor, mainly for pseudo-religious reasons.

The only areas where proprietary systems survived are in mainframes (perpetuation of IBM monopoly) and in games consoles (where hardware can be sold at a loss).

If the IBM PC had died, the world of CP/M would have continued....

> the recent resurgence of Macs has proven as much

Not really. The recent resurgence is mainly due to the fact that its lack of serious and/or business software is not the barrier it was when (a) most people can do most things online and (b) it has Unix underneath.
Britain’s scientists must not be gagged
I can't say that I experienced (or saw) many selfie sticks myself. The moments before sunrise at Angkor tend to be dark enough to render selfie sticks pretty useless.
Well, apparently the instagram founders learned to code to get the first version out.
I don't take more than a few pictures on vacation anymore. Ive learned I can enjoy the experience more if I'm not worried about trying to take pics of everything. Better yet, my memories of the experience are better than the pictures I used to take. Giving up "must capture this moment" mentality allows me to be present in the moment. It is very liberating.
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That last one is a myth, though: http://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp
Why can't I as a Pastafarian have faith in reality rather than improbable documents? Or is it only real religion if the stuff you believe in appears nonsense?
Git is not part of the default configuration on OS X. You need to install XCode first.
There's a bigger difference between "Amazon Echo is...turning my kid into a raging asshole" and "Amazon Echo...might be making my kid less polite."
This is just an issue of not going to the usual tourists-infected places in high-traffic seasons though.
Is Echo better than its competition? XBox One, Siri and Google don't reliably understand my kids. They're 4 and 6.
To be fair museums themselves make this worse. I still haven't come across a museum (granted I don't go a lot) that had exhaustive good-quality photographs of all their exhibits available online.

So to give this girl the benefit of the doubt. Maybe this is the only time she'll be in London, she only has a few days, and she's genuinely interested in the art, but taking photos of it to inspect it later allows her to enjoy more of it than hanging around carefully looking at individual pieces at the expense of not seeing any of the others at all, ever.
Welcome to the wonderful world of distros. The big ones backport stuff and lie about version numbering, and somehow that is a feature.
There is lazy photography but there is also involved, artistic, interesting photography.

Not all photography is lazy, and in fact it's a very fun way to experience a place. I just got back from visiting a country for the first time and I had an incredible time going around with my lightweight camera rig (not iPhone).
Well, look at it this way, when creating a SPA, you're running everything in a single place. A single HTML page. In some instances, it makes sense to push the state to the query string, but often it doesn't, and more often still are the occasions developers haven't thought about it. So every time you hit the back button, and weren't where you thought you would be, that's the same issue. SPA frameworks's are getting better at that, but this still happens to me on the daily.
What would it mean for them to interact chalantly with devices? (I'm curious as to your hyphen).
The examples are a misappropriation of a 20th century aesthetic notion to web design.

There may be some similarities but, really, perhaps we need new terminology to describe these things ?
Is Google trying to conquer death?
Yep, I know. What you are basically saying is that you need to turn off some settings and security mechanisms to bypass the integrity of the system. Which is precisely what most folks are doing on OS X - except they have to reboot their system, which I personally find insane. But given this, I don't see the point you are making.

Isn't this security through obfuscation precisely what Apple are doing right now?
By sick, you mean can it become bias to a subspace in the solution space, if so you would "cure" it by re-defining your fitness function to not get "stuck", or fooled by a local maxima.
A wifi antenna should always be vertically oriented because radio waves are polarized, and if you aren't in line with the polarization you'll lose gain.
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> Susan Sontag. It's a pessimistic sentiment that is borne out of insecurity and self-centeredness ("I know what's best for everyone else"), and has nothing to do with the world outside the ego.

That's a pretty terrible summary of Sontag's thesis. Maybe that's what you genuinely took away from her essay, but I can assure you there's a lot more of value in On Photography than that.

It's also a rather dismissive way of taking about perhaps the most famous photographers and filmmaker of the early postmodern era, whose partner also was (and still is) an equally famous photographer.

You don't have to like Sontag, or even agree with her, but you can give her a bit more credit than dismissing everything she wrote as having "nothing to do with the world outside of her ego".
Oh boy - if you do, then please post to HN itself!
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> Of note is how smallpox was used as a weapon: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians, by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race." — Jeffery Amherst

Someone should find those Europeans and punish them. Or at the very least make their descendants feel guilty forever.
> Cognitively I’m not sure a kid gets why you can boss Alexa around but not a person.

Because as a parent you let them to boss you around. Children know difference between person and a dog (or computer program in this case).
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It's accurate over 1 metre squared. I don't think the placement is too large of an issue.
> Obsess about getting your inventions out there
That's what I want to do, but all of the legal advice I got was to do otherwise. At first I thought that losing all that you've built in an instance was a rare event, but the more I talked to business owners and lawyers, I haven't gotten a single advise to release it in any way that would put it outside of my control. And the thing they cited is almost exactly of what OP describes: once someone else has your code, the whole world has it.

And it hurts that I careless about the code - it can be rewritten in a million ways. What I care about is what code does, and the multitude of GloboCorps working on the same issue in vane, and their ability to reproduce our work in months once they understand the secret sauce.
Amazon Prime is going monthly and taking even more direct aim at Netflix
"I can't help but think..." Implied to me that you did miss the joke.
I thought it might. Never heard it until now!
The current state of certificate revocation (CRLs, OCSP and OCSP Stapling)(2016)
I totally see this. I had to scale back more and more of my plans until finally I 'm starting to see some actual traction. Still got a long way to go but I focused on the first part generating leads for my business.
I already use w3m to read hacker news most of the time anyways.
When writing about X, quite often the algorithm that communicates “X” most succinctly ignores considerations “Y” and “Z.”

Sometimes, Y and Z would just get in the way. But then again, sometimes their omission distracts the reader and provokes a lot of bikeshedding.

There is no easy answer, and I often get this balance wrong.

This is, I think, what makes some writers so brilliant: They find a way to present “X” in a clear and strong way without making an absolute hash of “Y” and “Z.”

Such writing is a treasure.
Not explicitly, in the sense that it tells me what can't be done instead of what can
If you live in Europe and plan couple months ahead you can buy international flights with Ryanair or any other budget airline for as little as $50, round trip. So it's perfectly possible for a student to go for a weekend in Paris or London, staying at youth hostels or AirBnB locations. If you don't mind taking a bus it's even cheaper, my friends just booked a bus to London(from North of England, so not quite international, but still) for $7 because they booked it 4 months in advance and the bus leaves at 1am so it's not very popular.
Companies like Apple and Microsoft prevent you from modifying the software installed on your computer to improve your security.

Ironically, when they do that, they also make it difficult, impractical, or impossible for you to upgrade or disable vulnerable software (in this case, an old, insecure version of git with remote-code-execution vulnerability).

People like Richard Stallman have been warning about this sort of thing for decades.
What are they doing instead?
It's not a summary of her thesis, but where it's coming from. Someone else posted this and it does a better job than I do: https://xkcd.com/1314/
The next generation of native advertising: we no longer have spambots, we have real people as submarines as a service.
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It's way better. My Echo understands my 5 year old even with complicated phrases like "Alexa play Secret Agent Man on Spotify". His pronunciation isn't perfect but it still, amazingly, works.
Programming languages are magical. But they're turning programmers into assholes.

Enter INTERCAL [1]. In this programming language you're required to add PLEASE to at least 1/5 of the program's statements, or the program is rejected for being insufficiently polite.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL
Getting started is a phrase often used for tutorials. Tutorials most often are for things that one can actually do.
I feel most of the "social platforms" are more of show-off-right-now platforms
How would they do that? By which I mean, "What technologies would they use to accomplish it and what would their rationale for doing so be?"

It's already been possible to 'hide source' for years on the web, either in the form of compiled swfs for Flash files or, these days runtime code or output spat from server side complexity.

Without a fundamental re-write or philosophical change on the internet though, there's little to fear that 'the majority' of sites would go this route in any imaginable near to mid-term future.

Conversely, anyone paranoid or arrogant enough to do so could do, shooting themselves in the foot a little, now.

Your main concern should be, i'd've thought, messy and compacted code that uses a mashup of irrelevant and bloated frameworks, because that way lies bad habits and obfuscated education...

HTML as is though? i'd not concern myself.
Something I recently learned of is basalt fiber rebar. It won't rust, but I guess on a long enough time frame it will devitrify.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basalt_fiber
The counter argument to this is you pay to use national parks even though you already pay for it. A lot of people don't even go to the parks now. Making them free will mean more tax money from people who don't go to them.

How many people read this research? 1% of America? If it is free then tax payers will have to pay more to make sure it is available. 99% percent will pay to provide things they will never read.

To be clear I think it should be free but want to at least provide some counter point (even if it is paper thin...)
I would look into AllJoyn. I've been playing with it for an IoT application, but haven't attempted to build an Android client yet.

https://allseenalliance.org/framework
Your welcome, glad it will help someone.

Certainly give it a try, I've heard that it works pretty well for ~5 routers for a couple of rooms in an apartment.
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Just to backtrack - the issue here is whether the word 'crazy' is necessarily insulting or not, regardless of context; I never opened for a discussion about anything else.

> I'm not going to be academically precise in my arguments

You're the one who mentioned academia. A citation needn't be "academic", it just needs to be anything that demonstrates what you are saying is true. When I put "citation needed" in quotes, I only meant this. And here's why I think you should do that:

> When someone is called crazy, they're making a parallel to a crazy person...

I don't think this is true, And a since it's clear that people in this thread use the word in a way they believe to be benign, I think it's fairly accusatory.

As such, Without backing this up, you're just throwing around an unsubstantiated insult to anyone with the word 'crazy' in their regular vocabulary. If you want people to stop using the word, why not explain why they should, instead of accusing them as "simplifying the problem in an incredibly brazen and unempathetic way".
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And as has also been asked - why do they symlink to the /usr/bin directory in the first place then?

They have three perfectly reasonable directories they can install into, which is what they recommend that application developers do when installing their software:

/Applications
/Library
/usr/local

So why do they feel the need to link git into /usr/bin? They could link it into /usr/local/bin - the $PATH variable includes this directory already.

You state that plenty of comments explain where the Xcode git actually is, but that misses the point entirely. Why is it linked into /usr/bin?
The list of dropped companies is here, if anyone cares: http://www.nbim.no/en/transparency/news-list/2016/first-coal...
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Depends how far in advance you book and where you're flying from. Poking around www.google.com/flights I found plenty of flights from New York to various cities in Europe in October for less than $450
I'm actually finding the opposite. I used to take no pictures at all, and now we take a nice big camera when we go on vacation. I'm amazed at how little I remembered about the details, and the photos bring that flooding back.

Of course, this assumes there were memorable things happening in the first place. If you just saw the sites and that was it, then the pictures aren't actually any better than any else's pictures... And to be fair, other pictures are usually just about as good for most memories.

A picture of the Kaminarimon gate in Tokyo isn't actually that different between pictures, after all. A picture of a certain event (parade?) with it in the background would be different. And pictures of an event like a wedding would be very unique.
> If it is free then tax payers will have to pay more to make sure it is available.

That's necessarily true. It's true that universities pay for journal subscriptions, but I guess a significant portion (or even all) of that expense is covered by the overheads universities charge grants. Given that a significant number of grants are taxpayer-paid, it's likely that tax payers are already paying for the journal subscriptions. So making them open access will shift the costs around, but it isn't immediately obvious that it will cost the taxpayers more than it currently does.
I agree with you. My anecdotal opinion is that commentary works well where the article is intended to impart information. A lot of HN submissions are of this type because they're posted precisely because someone learnt something from them and often lead to extra information being imparted in the comments. It's true, to a lesser extent in Guardian articles that are simply reporting.

Where it doesn't work well, on HN or news sites, is where the article is intended to influence debate. Whether it's a monad swinging contest on HN or an analysis of the lighter side of Jeremy Corbyn, comments rarely seem to reduce the polarity.

I think this is more of an issue for news sites simply because there is less reporting and more influencing done, somewhat ironically.
I'm not criticizing the act of taking photos while traveling (or, even when not traveling). It is a craft, an art, and a way to record history. I've got no problem with that. The issue is when the act of taking and posting those photos is simply about self-validation that we have a problem. Spending your holiday constantly checking your phone to see if people have liked your latest photos doesn't seem very relaxing.
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> I find these types of criticisms of photography just part of the hipster "backpacker mentality": [...] I see a sunset and I don't upload it to Instagram.

Oh no! I guess I became a hipster! Please, I'll download Instagram, I'm not trying to be snooty, I'm just a guy. I appreciate things like sunsets, I didn't know I had to share them. Most places have sunsets. Maybe I can tweet that you should look at your own? No, to be safe, I'll post an Instagram every day. That way I won't be seen as condescending by random people on Hacker News.
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What am I missing here? What's the logic behind the government's decision in the first place?

Edit: thanks for the clarification HN!
>> If we go home now, we'll just have yet another picture like 7 million other pictures. It means nothing.

If I go somewhere like the Grand Canyon, I don't take a single picture. If I want to see pictures of the Grand Canyon I'll go on the internet and find some professionally shot one and remember that way. I'll let the pros take care of the pictures and I'll just enjoy seeing the real thing with my own eyes.
Many consumer drives tend to omit this feature (or lie about it) because all anybody looks at is size and iops. Nobody sells more consumer drives by advertising that the writeback cache on the drive respects flush commands (and barriers).
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From what I remember reading up on it a while ago (and I'm probably wrong) a large part of the death was not intentional and was probably inevitable (like wise even for the black plague but a lesser degree.. it could have been avoided).

Compare this to the Nazis or various other genocides which were highly avoidable and huge faults of humanity.
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Hopefully this gets fixed, but to be fair, if an attacker can enable the subsystem, download the image, and run the commands to install a miner and run them, you're already beyond screwed.
I guess it comes down to how you see the world. Personally, I'd rather be fully immersed in whatever I am experiencing in real life, and not weighed down by likes and comments on a social media platform.

Edited to add:

I recently came across this quote from Norman Wirzba, a theologian at Duke University:

Media platforms and technological devices are not simply neutral tools that we use to move through life. Their power is much more extensive, because they shape and frame what we perceive and understand the wold to be. When people spend enough time in front of screens, it becomes all but inevitable that the whole world takes on the character of something to be watched. Given the technologies we now have for manipulating screens in whatever fashion we like to suit our own particular tastes, if we find the Mona Lisa boring, no problem. We can run the image through the Fatify app or add the graphics and colors we like to make it amusing or better than the original! Should we be surprised that people often find the world uninteresting and dull?
I missed the sunrise when I was in Cambodia, so I went to Angkor Wat during sunset instead. It was amazing.

The place was almost empty. I walked around for over an hour while the remaining tourists left and then sat at the entrance and shared a beer with my driver. It was such a great experience. I don't think I took any photos either..
It's a machine! You should not teach kids to say please or thank you to machines, but to treat machines how they should be treated. RTFM. So teach them not to destroy the machine.

After warranty expires, teach them how to hack/abuse/overlock/add cool features to the machine.
I think there's a difference. Going to a National Park requires additional resources above just having a National Park. People to assist you, additional infrastructure like bathrooms and campsites, etc. So I think it makes sense you pay extra to actually use the park and tax payers are paying just enough to keep the park established.

However, what's the extra cost in distributing the journal article? Hosting fees? A simple website where the paper author uploads a PDF? It seems like those costs are pretty small
In the book "Thinking Fast and Slow" the author Daniel Kahneman states that we remember our memories and that is one of the main reasons that people take photographs on vacations and such rather than being in the moment and actually experiencing.
» Everyone uses homebrew

Some of us prefer MacPorts. (Not that this changes anything to the argument you're making.)