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I flicked through the book and to be honest, I was disappointed by it. Perhaps it's nice as a curiosity for beginners, but I really doubt whether forensic analysts or penetration testers would really benefit from it. I'd assume that they're already pretty decent programmers in some language, so I don't really see the point of the book. Showing the libraries? I doubt that python-nmap with its less than 1K LOC (mostly just parsing XML) is worth mentioning, same goes for the terrible and mostly unmaintained mechanize. Scrapy went unmentioned though... also, the social engineering section seems lacking. No mention of Social Engineering Toolkit?
This is intellectually dangerous ground, as the author points out, mainly because it asks us to reason -- to form a theory of mind -- about creatures who have minds significantly different than our own. As the author also points out, it's easy to fall into either the scoffer or booster categories: we either want to dismiss animal intelligence completely or overstate it.

So when I got to this, "a psychological secret sauce—that makes humans different from other animals. The list of candidates is long: tool use, cultural transmission, the ability to imagine the future or to understand other minds, and so on. But every one of these abilities shows up in at least some other species in at least some form."

I had to bail out. No other species has a true persistent language. Yes, bits and pieces are here and there -- there's no doubt animals communicate, sometimes even about complex things. And there very well be some sort of oral history. But true language in the way we use it? (Insert long discussion here about what that means)

Nope. So this article comes down into the "modified booster" category: it's so amazing and special simply because we don't understand it all

I honestly believe that what our species needs is a sliding scale of sentience. You can call that a ladder if you want, but no matter how you do it? I'm not going to eat a monkey, but I'd eat a cow. Or a fish. Somehow we need to sort that all out, and whether that involves a complex web of indicators or not, the result is going to be a sliding scale, like it or not.
Especially given the current H1B situation. It looks like almost anyone with a PhD and a good immigration lawyer can get an O1, even if they're being hired as an entry-level developer or another position that clearly doesn't require extraordinary skills.
There's Bitnami, but I frankly never used their 'appliances' on a long term basis.
Serious question: my fiancee is thinking of pursuing a PhD in the humanities field. She has a BA, MA and MPhil, and the natural next step is to get a PhD

She has consistently been among the top 5% of every academic institution she has been in. Her GRE is 333, and she has several research papers under her belt.

Would it make sense for her to get a PhD? Or is the job market too terrible in the humanities?
I rather like the concept, but I can see it having some interested and unanticipated side effects if you allow people to select their delegate by category rather than individual bill by individual bill. The person that decides whether people's delegates for voting on (e.g.) an act related to surveillance default to being the delegate they selected for "civil liberties" or the delegate they selected for "national security" actually ends up with rather a large degree of executive power, despite probably having a lower profile than the leader of an executive regular parliamentary or presidential system. Of course, there's a reasonable argument that this is still much more transparent and fair (and reversible) than, for example, coalition bargaining, but it is a system I'd like to see used in practice more in bodies like trade unions before we decide it's the solution to national governance.
An extremely popular and innovative musician, media presence, and successful businessman whose success can be said to be boundary breaking in lots of ways and whose views on technology as it relates to the musical business has often been contentious, has died.

And it's off-topic for hacker news because?
Great article, thanks for sharing this. I have a question: how would you tell your so to "move on" after you are gone? Was this even brought up ? I'd imagine this to be a very difficult, yet necessary conversation to have.
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> It looks like Ubuntu 16.04 comes with Nginx 1.9.15, which is both not the latest stable release (it's a development, aka MAINLINE, release, although Nginx development branch is pretty stable)

The stable branch will fork from the mainline branch shortly. The version shipped in 16.04 is very close to what the stable will be, because the fork hadn't taken place before 16.04's release. I expect there to be very few changes, which is why (as someone else pointed out) we expect to update 16.04 to the stable branch as soon as it is available.

> The ppa[1] notes there's a newer version[2] also

That's just noting that the version released in 16.04 is newer than the version provided in the PPA.

> Nginx's own development PPA

Actually it's a PPA maintained by a team that care about Nginx's availability in Ubuntu. In this case, the uploads to that PPA were made by the very same person who looks after the official Ubuntu Nginx packages available to Ubuntu users by default.
South Korea is definitely not about weather :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_South_Korea#Age

"The main cause of South Korea's relatively high suicide rate is due to the elderly's substantially high suicide rate, which is significantly dragging up the otherwise relatively low average rate. This is due to poor elderly people killing themselves not to be a burden on their families,..."
This is wrong and have nothing to do with "successful white people" and quite frankly your remark is racist.

Their ancestors were hunters and this gave them purpose in life as well as good diet which led to much happier life. Now they have nothing to do except watch TV and sit on their couch and eat bad food. Of course they are unhappy, you would be too.
“Over the last year Google detected nearly 800,000 compromised websites”
Cheap effective ads and crappy pages and groups that drive traffic. I see no value in Facebook other than as marketing tool.
wow, talk about ego. i disagree with pretty much your whole post, especially with conclusions you draw (abdicate? really?) and with most of the site you cite. (PEP501 is madness, never heard of it until now.)

i think you should abdicate from posting on HN about Python. you introduce conflict where there was only laziness. go to politics, leave engineers out of it.
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Vagrant or virt-builder, I guess.

With virt-builder we are trying to persuade Linux distros to start publishing high quality metadata about their cloud and VM images. Then virt-builder will just pull down those images automatically. It's been a very long and slow process. So far we can only support Ubuntu, OpenSuSE and (coming shortly) CentOS.

Even though Red Hat sponsors the project, we've still not managed to get either Fedora or RHEL to publish metadata, after 2+ years of trying. But I believe this method of publishing metadata is the way to make the whole process sustainable long term.

Edit: I should say I didn't read your original posting closely enough. It sounds as if you're looking for fully formed applications (eg. PostgreSQL or whatever) in appliances. Personally I wouldn't use an existing appliance like that for trust reasons (also the reason I'm not over-keen on half-baked Docker repositories), but with virt-builder you can do something like:

$ virt-builder centos-7.2 --install postgresql-server

which will provision a PostgreSQL VM on your local machine in a minute or two. (And yes, it does work as non-root)
> Imagine you have a box of Lego, and you build a house, and you keep it. And you keep making new houses, and never breaking the old ones. What happens? "The box gets empty, Daddy." Good, yes. And can you make new houses then? "No, not really." So we're like a Lego houses, and when we die our pieces get broken up and put back in the box. We die, and new babies can be born. It is the wheel of life.

I am stealing this.
It's a common tactic used by governments to push a restriction under a (often emotional) motive that looks legitimate at first and then extend it further.

"We need to do this or that because terrorism and won't somebody please think of the children."

"Well, now that it's in place, it would be a shame not to use it against illegal <insert something harmless or subversive here>."

And usually they manage to design laws so that diverting their use doesn't require passing through parliament again.
Because sooner or later he'd run out of countries to hide in and he would have to flee to Alpha Centauri.

Still, blind guess, it's safe to say that he is more corageous than you.
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> Fascinating long read, which gives a lot of insight in the struggles of daily life in these remote parts of our world

I find articles like this highly annoying. I see the headline, think "if it's not the darkness, I wonder what is" and click the link expecting to find the answer. Instead of the answer, however, I get a fluffy human-interest piece that I simply do not care about.

How about we stop with crap like this, I don't need to hear a story, just the facts please. I've wasted several minutes on this story and still have no clue what the real reason is.
One of them was my grandmother
And what would she do with this new title? This should be the main thing that
determines whether it's worth it.
I have no clue what the advantages of OSBoxes are but I know what like about Vagrant: being able to see how the box is provisioned

Rather than having a VM be some magical preconfigured black box, I can peak at the Vagrantfile to see all the steps to convert a stock Linux host into a database/cache/MQ/xyz. From a security perspective it's much nicer too as one can reduce the level of trust to: 1) Do I trust the root box? 2) Do I trust the subsequent commands?
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The point of the boat isn't to be a Budgie the Helicopter style cash machine, is it? It has a serious purpose.

Why does it have to appeal to 4 year olds, who have zero understanding of or interest in what it does? Why does it require an infantile name to appeal to kids who are old enough to be interested in what it does?

The only reason this is even any kind of issue is because of the way internet works, where all kinds of pointless immature stupidity is given far more time of day than it deserves, because newspaper sites have to fill themselves with something.

Edit: Oh dear. Looks like I hit a nerve with some people. :( ∗sad mcsadface∗
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Facebook in full anticipation of this problem has hired former DARPA head Regina Dugan, to lead a major R&D effort to ensure that click happens. As Brother Zuckerberg has said there is nothing more important than that click, if the world is to remain open and connected.
Related: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2076552-google-deepmind...

Google DeepMind AI navigates a Doom-like 3D maze just by looking

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01783
I have issues with employment restrictions, more on the public to private transition. A public sector job in almost any fashion is not going to pay as much as a private sector finance job. n years is overly punitive for someone who is likely not paid very well to begin with. Let's say you reduce it down to jobs only above a certain level. You will absolutely see a shift in how people pursue promotions and probably introduce a disincentive to even enter the field at a senior level.
>First off, this is nothing like how elections work. People are still run by representatives in democratic countries.

It's partially true this isn't how elections work, but I think what the article was trying to get by or at least what I got out of it is that the process was democratic and in similar ways democracy fails. Now this is somewhat subjective and entirely dependent on what you call democracy. It's funny I read this now as I had just started reading a new book I got titled Our Republican Constitution by Randy E. Barnett (great read by the way.) The writer is talking about the American constitution.

Once when Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the framers had devised he answered famously "a republic, if you can keep it." This was in contrast to a democracy which the writer says they didn't wholly disagree with, but having an excess of democracy had created problems.

The author states two conflicting paradigms a Democratic Constitution and a Republican Constitution. He states these are not reflections of what we see as the democratic and republican parties that the USA has today as both parties have believers of both viewpoints. His main distinction that I perceived from reading was that the Democratic Constitution perceived what was constitutional or law by the "majority". Well the alternative to that doesn't seem like it would be anything good it's quite the contrary. The alternative as he states is The Republican Constitution (what he states was the founders paradigm) which has the basis of constitutionality on whether each "individual" had there basic rights. In some cases throughout american history majority rule hasn't favored the individual e.g. racial segregation. In cases where majority rule opposes the inalienable rights of the individual I feel democracy fails and as I stated before that's the one part that I could agree with the journalist that democracy isn't always the best solution to a problem.
From the article:

> Like native people all around the Arctic — and all over the world — Greenlanders were seeing the deadly effects of rapid modernization and unprecedented cultural interference. [...] Between 1970 and 1980, the suicide rate there quadrupled to about seven times the U.S. rate (it's still about six times higher).

> Her observations are in line with something psychologists and sociologists think is fundamental to the causes of suicide in Greenland. When communities are disrupted, like Kangeq was, families start to collapse. There's an increase in alcoholism, child neglect and physical abuse, all of which are risk factors for suicide. Later, people who didn't get the love and support they needed as children find it difficult to cope with the routine heartbreak of dating, and a breakup becomes the final insult in a lifetime of hurt.
> It's so pathetic that we as a society waste so much time and energy on non-essential stuff instead of curing major killers.

It's just as important to live as it is to not die.
Christianity has never been about not suffering. Many early disciples had painful endings to their lives and went through many hardships. God was with them in their pain, not their ticket to a problem-free life, on their journey to heaven where "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more" [Revelation 21:4].

One women I know that was sick in cancer said it like this to a friend of mine: I have been with him [Jesus] too long to leave Him now.
Regarding this issue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Action_against_academ...
Why don't you use Facebook. I urge you to give up isolation, give it a try and participate in Brother Zuck's vision for an open and connected world.
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I understand this point of view, and this was also my usual approach. The reason I stopped was that the result was unmanageable systems. If you wanted to change something that you had configured on system level a year before, or even just wanted to replicate it, it became a major overhead. More creative modifications could also sometimes cause conflicts on larger upgrades.

So instead, I keep my systems small. I do not install anything I don't need, and do not touch something that is not necessary. On my laptop, I have 3 "full" applications, 15 convenience tools from homebrew (bash, git, nmap, ...) and 3 kernel extensions (including one of my own) installed. Nothing else that counts as a system-wide modification. Most of my servers are completely stock Alpine, Arch or Ubuntu systems, only running static binaries I provided.

All this saves me from dependency hell, and means that I do not need to hesitate to wipe a machine for whatever reason. It takes me 5 minutes to set a new one up, including my local own work environment.

There's a different between having control (which I have, including on my OS X machine), and actually practicing it.
To be honest, the whole site is a homage to bad design clichés. It took me a great deal more patience to navigate around than I'd normally gift a website. But then I suspect this is aimed more at home users rather the enterprise, which might explain some of the gaudy gimmicks.
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can you explain the comment on relevance a bit more? You said it twice but I'm not seeing your point.

Regarding the Director's double speak I think it is relevant. The FBI or federal government is still not the owner. Regardless of whether the device was seized or surrendered the property is still owned by the county.

> What he's saying is "we want it both ways". We don't want to take away security for users, we just want to make it easier for someone who's not the owner of the phone to get into it.
I'd like to see a single-player bot that can do human-level speedruns and/or beat stuff like https://www.twitch.tv/blooditekrypto/v/30795033

Baby steps. Beating other bots in deathmatch is a good start. I love that they only use the rocket launcher, giving the careless bot an equal chance of blowing itself up.

Parsing what's on the screen in Doom is potentially a lot easier than in modern games: since there is no texture filtering or anti-aliasing, and due to the 2.5D perspective, most vertical runs of pixels on the screen map exactly to (linearly?) scaled columns in wall textures or sprites. I would not be surprised if you could come up with a fairly simple algorithm to determine the exact position and orientation of the player and the objects on screen within the map, without any real AI/learning involved.
The article seems to push the idea that we think less of animals and that should change, but I don't think it's clear that the motive behind us humans pulverizing the animal kingdom is because we think we're superior to them. The reasons are mostly that they have stuff we want, and we just ... take it. For millions of years we've used fire to burn their tasty meat, and tools to shred them into usefulness, so it's pretty clear we're at the top at their expense. At the same time, we can see our ancestors (and still many natives around the world) held a deep connection to nature.

I don't think the problem is not recognizing the complexity of the animal mind, especially mammals. The problem is that we can't stop. Nothing has stopped humans in the past, and now feeling sorry won't change anything either. We can just hope technology will outgrow the pace of our need to exploit animals, because I don't think it will stop otherwise if we're realistic. We'll quickly recognize animal minds, and eat them without a problem, unless we get some lab steak.
Norway is a Nato member, but Sweden and Finland aren't.
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The actual answer, like always is: it depends.
If you are working for a startup looking desperately for product market fit, by all means optimize for developer performance! That 11% percent gain is noise if you are in the right product-market and growing accordingly.

But. Give that startup some time and it's not a startup any more. That 11% sure looks tasty now!

I hope we can all agree on that.

Now, here's the actually interesting bit: Almost all the posts on the internet people write and/or pay attention to, revolve around startups.
Startups are hip and cool!
And then all the poor enterprise developers like me read that stuff and get the wrong ideas.
We have entirely different problems, mostly related to moving data into other people's heads, not so much about the machine.

And yet, here I am, reading HN...
Wow, pro mini looks exactly like a teensy. They sould really show some attribution to the original hardware designers...

see also: https://arduinohistory.github.io/#when-did-arduino-begin-and...
Everything in this article is purely from an american point of view. It's not exactly news worthy that it's a bad system. Also forgotten in there is the journey part of it instead only focusing on it like it was an illogical move in some non-existent game to maximize ones total life earnings. Apart from those pretty big gripes it was an interesting read, just a bit one-dimensional.
Who had canons? The state.

Now that I know is not true, there were (wealthy) private individuals owned canons. Heck, that the Congress has the power to "To ... grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal" acknowledges that private entities had armed ships.

Partly armed is correct, and a screwup there helped ensure that Washington, D.C. got burned in 1814 (too much bureaucracy in issuing flints etc.).

But it's also the case that, as you note, "all able bodied men 16 and older served in the militia", and as is still the law, all who are 17-44 years of age are members of it: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/311 (and in modern legal interpretation, men is generally read as men and women).

But these quibbles aside, your general thrust is correct. So much so, per Galvin's The Minute Men: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution http://www.amazon.com/The-Minute-Men-Realities-Revolution/dp... the British in Massachusetts were completely outclassed in war fighting experience, they'd put garrison troops there, and many of our men had gained experience in what we call the French and Indian War.
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I would distinguish Hearthstone (a.k.a Wizard Poker) from the rest; Hearthstone is fundamentally a gambling game.

However, I would also distinguish the "in-game" gambling in Hearthstone from CSGO because there is no legitimate or practical way to monetize your card collection. Once (or if) you have all the cards, there is little incentive to keep buying packs as you can only play with cards. In CSGO however, there is always the potential to open a new valuable skin that can be sold.
Most people grieve after someone dies. Some have a harder time than others. Being religious or not has hardly to do with it.

Being Christian has nothing to do with either believing that God has its hand in everything that governs your one personal life, or that it will actively intervene in a perceptible way, either believing that death is a punishment or a lesson or easy stuff or anything of this sort.

Although one may always add such opinions, or bigotry, to any kind of faith (be it Christian or not).

I mean, you may believe in God, or not, that won't stop the world. That won't make life different than what it is: you live, you die, shit happens, for some reason, or just because of no reason particular to you.

The core of being Christian is believing in the Credo (which is sort of crazy, indeed, and that's totally accepted) and following Jesus way (and even Brian's one - you know: always look at the bright side of life) and spirit. Which requires some sort of introspection, observation, patience, love, etc. Not to say it's easy either.

Then you add what tradition (catholic, eastern, orthodox, protestant, or so many others) you're in, or you've chosen.

What you believe is one thing. That should logically not prevent you from living and seeking.

(Catholic writing here)