skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If governments are eventually forced to abandon the special privileges afforded by law to religions because of satirical mock-religions, then I think the country as a whole benefits.

I don't think it's so easy to disentangle freedom of expression and freedom of conscience from what some consider 'special privileges'. Of course, this varies widely by country. Some of the comments here might be talking past each other because everyone has a different idea about what might count as 'special' privileges.
Actually, fortunately you are incorrect here. While certain kinds of sexual harassment are not criminal, groping is certainly a crime.

I'm pretty sure threatening to destroy someone's career to force sex is a crime. If you succeed, it's rape which is quite a serious crime.

Even if you just file a report, it's important to establish a pattern of abuse for when the person inevitably crosses the line and goes to court. This is far more serious than chicken nuggets; the fact that people are willing to liken it to something like that is very troubling and indicative of how deep the problem runs: many people don't even see it as a problem.
so if I pay, why do they ever give files back? Seems always better to just keep the files and keep asking for more money. i.e. replying to spam just tells spammer your email address is valid. Paying ransom just lets ransomer know you have money. Unless there IS an ebay type rating system, why care about your rep?
On the contrary, I would argue that most new web platform features have been designed with more thought for security. We generally ask for user permission first before divulging data, for example. Some new features help mitigate past mistakes, too, like Content Security Policies.
Deepjazz: AI-generated 'jazz'
Sexual objectification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_objectification#Sexual_...
That's not harassment, that's assault.
Show HN: Is your startup fundable (fun calculator)
Was start-up really simply the word for new businesses in (american?) English?

I heard it only for the business you describe, but lately every newly created design/tech-consultancy here calls itself a start-up.
The thing that bemuses me about TfL is a similar public run arrangement was recently encouraged and proposed for another part of England. It was blocked at the last minute. London definitely gets special treatment, even when it goes against the narrative.
Hack Back: A DIY Guide
Yep. I don't get the extreme stance on this of not taking pictures, where people are like "oh no! no one's actually experiencing anything except via their phones! you need to stop taking pictures!"

Sure, there are people who can go to extremes, and it doesn't take a smartphone to do it. I remember when my mother would basically leave the camcorder on constantly for any event involving her kids, and take 30 rolls of pictures (literally hundreds of pictures) on every trip we went on. She now has crates of pictures and 8mm video she's never had the energy to properly sort through. She still takes tons of pictures, but now they become files on a computer, so they're much easier to sort and keep track of.

But you can just take a couple of pictures quickly, when the mood strikes you, and then go back to enjoying the experience. That quick picture literally took maybe 10 seconds for you to take. Oh no! I didn't experience the moment for 10 seconds! I'm wasting my life, according to these people!

No, I'm creating an artifact to help me remember what happened in the future because my memory is crap because I shove mental models of software architecture into it all day.
Does OS X have something like update-alternatives on Debian?
Radeonsi: enable GLSL 4.20 and therefore OpenGL 4.2
Wouldn't micropayments theoretically be done with 100% human interaction? (As in, I click on an article, like it, and click on the tip button?) Wouldn't that be relatively hard to actually game, short of actually stealing money from me?
Definitely don't read any singularity related sci-fi, or watch Ghost In The Shell, then -- there are no answers to these questions to be found there. Only more questions. Entertaining but sometimes disturbing questions.
Merge branch 'vulkan'
"misv" means "micro-ISV", right?
On the Road: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
I hate how copyright now lasts indefinitely. There are many papers from the 50's by people who are dead, and these companies are still claiming ownership over them. Copyright should last a relatively short time, and maybe be even shorter if you don't pay a fee to get it extended. Perhaps even a special exemption for scientific research.

If you could read all papers published 10 years ago for free, that would be incredible, even if it still cost $35 to read a new paper.

See the science section here: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2016/pre-1976

>1959 was another noteworthy year for science. C. P. Snow presented The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, an influential lecture about the gulf between the sciences and the humanities. The programming language COBOL was developed. Martin Gardner published the Three Prisoners Problem, a probability theory paradox, in his “Mathematical Games” column in Scientific American. Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison published Searching for Interstellar Communications, a foundational work for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, in the journal Nature.

>If you follow the link from Nature above (and you do not have a subscription or institutional access), you will see that this 1959 article is behind a paywall. You can purchase it for $32. A distressing number of scientific articles from 1959 require payment or a subscription or account, including those in major journals such as Science and JAMA. And the institutional access that many top scientists enjoy is not guaranteed—even institutions such as Harvard have considered canceling their subscriptions because they could no longer afford the escalating prices of major journal subscriptions.
How We Used Docker to Lower Test Run Times from 1 Hour to 10 Minutes
You should read the Italian news coverage. Marco Marsala points out that the problem is fake, that (as several people also noted on Hacker News) the command mentioned has been benign since 2006, and that Ansible doesn't permit this anyway. He observes that "serious administrators" would know this, but apparently there were no such people at ServerFault answering his question because otherwise they'd have spotted such a blatant error ("altrimenti saprebbero che quanto ho descritto non può accadere").

* http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2016/04/15/news/cancella...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11500711

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11497590

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514666
Agreed. And it'll be hard to re-claim right-of-way especially near growing towns. It'll cost billions to rebuild anywhere near the previous height of traffic. And it'll be needed especially as growth creates traffic that clogs roads.

Here in Iowa (again) some of our rail right-of-way was repurposed as 'trails on rails' which means they paved an asphalt strip down the middle and called it a trail. Seemed like a good idea- it already goes near/through/between rural towns where folks can use a good trail.

They never funded their maintenance(!) so 20 years later most are only a shadow of their original form - rutted shattered asphalt fragments with small trees growing haphazardly everywhere; gopher holes make it dangerous even for equestrian use.

But good news! it can be reclaimed for rail again when needed.
Which one is more expensive
> Actually it's 3 examples, which I think is enough to show a bias towards one of two sides (c'mon, nobody chooses one side out of two 3 times in a row accidentally, and if he chose a side with equal probability for each example - yeah right - the result we got is a 1 in 8 event, so not a great support for that hypothesis),

That is a straw man argument, as you can see nowhere I claim that he chose his examples randomly. Quite the opposite as you quote directly, I think he chose his example to speak to his target audience.

> again, come on, his target audience will be familiar with their fellow extremists' arguments just as much as it will be familiar with the other side's extremists.

Perhaps, but this is a writing style issue. Anyway sure, it's a valid point you could ask of the writer to always perfectly balance his examples between minority and majority viewpoints of his readership. I don't think the "come on" is warranted though, do you really feel it's that obvious that the author should consider this instead of considering for example the sting the nice black/white examples that he uses give?

As to what you think of your comment, I didn't ask what you thought about your comment. I asked whether you realized your argument was exaggerated. I didn't downvote your reply nor do I think a moderator should remove it. I was just curious as to why you would be artificially polarizing this discussion.
I read the whole article and didn't find any explanation what "KU" was. Now I find here that it means "Kindle Unlimited" but I still have no idea what it is. Some kind of subscription service?

I buy a lot of Kindle books but never seen any "Unlimited" offer, perhaps something that is US only?
I think that the unreliability has entered the public consciousness fairly recently, so we'll see how that goes. Polygraphs offer a more positive example, as well as breathalyzers. [0]

[0] http://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2009/11/breathalyzer-sour...
Small businesses (or SMEs, even) are categories that include start-ups, though—at least during one phase of a start-up's lifecycle. There is no single "advice for small businesses" (except maybe "pursue grants"?) because different SMEs have different trajectories, and thus different spending/hiring/etc. strategies.

There really does need to be a term for "SME pursuing a growth-heavy strategy, to the degree that's possible without outside assistance."
There is a problem with only thinking logically about such issues. Humans are messy and not entirely rational creatures. We're constantly seeking dominance over one another and weird emotional games come into this. No one wants to be reduced to an emblem. No one wants to be subject to a stereotype, even a positive one. In the end, we all want to be genuinely related to as people.

Strong signals of dominance, emotion, and sexuality should be experienced consensually. The reason why the "bro" stereotype is so annoying, is the apparent insistence on the others around them to feel or act a certain way. The reason why politics and political discussions are so unpleasant is that dominance instincts are brought to the fore by necessity.

I think a truly consensual society should be without the feeling of witch-hunts. I'm not sure if that's possible for human beings, though. Maybe Mao was right, and "All power comes from the end of a gun." In the end it's all the hegemony of one "tribe" over another.
This is false. If all they did was host pdfs everyone would just use arxiv.

See http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-scie... for a good overview of all the sides here.
Kai's Power Goo?
Indeed. The Drudge Report was already well-known in news junkie circles when it leaked Isikoff's Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky stunner in 1998!
A command line tool like Git can be written in any programming language that has implementations capable of generating native code.

Even then, Mercurial is implemented in Python and quite usable
Why Uber for “X” is Failing
PostgreSQL-XL 9.5r1
Microtransactions enable microfraud .. which can then be algorithmically multiplied into losing serious money.

The decisions "is this fraud" and "am I prepared to pay for this" end up needing to be taken by humans, because the automated systems can be endlessly probed for weaknesses and predictability.
Those really are not the same thing at all.

Nobody that has any sort of voice says that if you are playing video games you are anti-women/minority/whatever like they were with DnD and Satanism. There are people that say there is disparity in representation of genders in video games, and that's hard to dispute, but not that the act of playing them is an act against any of those groups.
It's possible to affect positive change without being burdened by personal or historical guilt.
Get iOS 9.3.1, iOS 9.3.2, iOS 9.3.3
Not sure about the 4s specifically, but there are all kinds of apps that do it on the iPhone using the GPU (so, if GPUImage works on 4s, they should too). In fact Apple also provides a built-in one...
Spoiler alert. Use Nim.
> the rail itself kept in a weird thing called National Rail that has an odd public/private structure that I don't understand

No, it wasn't. The rail itself was sold off as Railtrack.

Following on from the Hatfield crash, after which it spent £580 million on repairing similar track faults as which caused the Hatfield crash, and a few hundred million more on compensation, which led to the failure of the company and it entered "railway administration" (essentially a special form of administration created along with the privatisation of the railways to avoid the railway ceasing operating when in administration). Network Rail then bought Railtrack in 2002, bringing the railway infrastructure back into public hands. Railtrack was then subsequently liquidated.
> Actually it's more to do with air resistance. It increases exponentially at higher speeds. You also don't burn less by driving really slow, since the engine burns some amount of fuel just by running at any speed. 40 mph is the sweet spot, supposedly.

Actually, the sweet spot is dependent on the design and condition of the car. I'm not sure where exactly it is, but I think you are right that it is usually around 40.

> Driving at the speed limit will definitely save you more fuel than speeding.

How does a number on a sign affect how much fuel I'm burning? If, as you indicated, the sweet spot for my car is 40 but the speed limit is 30, how am I saving fuel by going 30 instead of 40? What if the speed limit is 65? If they drop it to 60 am I suddenly using more fuel? If they increase it to 70 can I now go faster without using more? The speed limit is totally irrelevant to fuel consumption.
Nope, I just use photography and "to instragram" interchangeably as people use to google for search although everybody* knows that there's more search engines out there.

* artistic exaggeration ;)
Lessons in growth engineering: How we doubled sign ups from Pin landing pages
How a Diode Changed My Life
Who would bother to click the tip button?

Why couldn't the site play games with the tip button by hiding it under other links or routing repeated clicks to it?

If it requires human interaction, the simple fact that you've asked the user imposes a nuisance cost. There's a reason that app store purchase bottom tier of pricing floats around the $1 range and not the $0.01 range.
How large do you want your training set to be to get it to peel potatoes properly? :)
"East West Rail Link is a planned railway route linking the Great Western Main Line, Oxford, Bicester, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Cambridge, Ipswich and Norwich in England using part of the former Varsity Line. The western section from Oxford to Bedford was approved by the Government in November 2011, with completion expected in 2019."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_West_Rail_Link
I remember it was male, Japanese and non-photographer. But hey, it's not a too strange concept :)
This scam isn't victimless.

First, it depletes the pot awaiting actual no-shit real hard-working authors who supply a product people want.

Secondly, Amazon react by trying to engineer algorithmic anti-scam measures, which end up catching the aforementioned hard-working authors instead of the scammers. For example:

http://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2016/03/amazon-may-they-cho...

(TLDR: Walter Jon Williams is a respected author, who has been bringing out his backlist of out-of-print novels as ebooks. Amazon's anti-scam measure yanked all his books off sale -- right after he'd released them and run a marketing campaign -- for the crime of having a table of contents at the end of the books. Because that was easier to automate than, say, collecting actual pages-viewed metrics as a basis for payment instead of just checking the last-page-bookmarked.)
They could publish online for much lower cost, under a CC licence.

Current profits are extortionate, to say nothing about the bullying tactics employed by Elsevier, who abuse a monopoly and force libraries and other institutions to take a lot of publications they do not want to access those they do want.
Yeah, but parent wrote:

>It's such a non-traditional way to start in the Silicon Valley.
Can you explain what exactly OS X gets right - which other operating system ABIs are involved?
How cheap does solar power need to get before it takes over the world?
> Electric vehicles are many times simpler than their gas-powered cousins

What does engine complexity have to do with driving complexity? I imagine that a computer would drive a car using interfaces analogous to those we use; namely gas, brake, steer (and I guess a shifter to put it in drive).
I grew up in Derbyshire and remember being taught at a young age about the village of Eyam that quarantined itself when the plague arrived on an infected parcel of damp cloth from London.

"It's hard to imagine that the quiet village of Eyam, off the A623 in Derbyshire, could have such a fascinating, yet tragic story to tell. But .... at the end of August 1665 bubonic plague arrived at the house of the village tailor George Viccars, via a parcel of cloth from London. The cloth was damp and was hung out in front of the fire to dry, thus releasing the plague infested fleas. On 7th September 1665, George Viccars, the first plague victim, died of a raging fever. As the plague took hold and decimated the villagers it was decided to hold the church services outdoors at nearby Cucklett Delf and, on the advice of rector William Mompesson and the previous incumbent Thomas Stanley, villagers stayed within the confines of the village to minimize the spread of the disease. Cucklett Delf was also the secret meeting place of sweethearts Emmott Sydall, from Eyam, and Rowland Torre, who was from a neighbouring village. They would call to each other across the rocks, until Emmott Sydall herself became a victim of the plague. Six of the eight Sydall family died, and their neighbours lost nine family members."

"To minimize cross infection, food and other supplies were left outside the village, at either the Boundary Stones, or at Mompesson's Well, high above the village. The Earl of Devonshire, who lived at Chatsworth House, freely donated food and medical supplies. For all other goods, money, as payment, was either purified by the running water in the well or was left in vinegar soaked holes. The Riley graves, close to Riley House Farm and approximately 1/2 mile from the village house the bodies of the husband and six children of farmer Elizabeth Hancock. All died within a week of each other. Because of the high risk of infecting her neighbours she had the traumatic task of burying them all herself. Even more tragic is that the infection probably came to her family when she helped bury another villager's body. Twelve months after the death of George Vicars, the plague was still claiming its victims, and on 25th August 1666 Catherine Mompesson, wife of the recently appointed rector William Mompesson (aged 28) , died of the plague. She had loyally stayed with her husband and tended the sick, only to become a victim herself."

"The Plague in Eyam raged for 14 months and claimed the lives of at least 260 villagers. By 1st November 1666 it had run its course and claimed its last victim. Eyam's selfless villagers, with their strong Christian convictions, had shown immense personal courage and self sacrifice. They had prevented the plague from spreading to other parishes, but many paid the ultimate price for their commitment."

http://www.beautifulbritain.co.uk/htm/outandabout/eyam.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyam
Doesn't your boss have a remote desktop viewer?
I agree with you when you say that any joke is ok. When you choose the right environment it is ok to make a funeral joke, but not in you grandpa's funeral, you see where I'm going?
You can not make jokes about different sexes in your workplace. You have to draw this line. It is very innapropriate.
(This is said by a particular who believes that the only line in humour should be traced by oneself)
I think you missed the author's point. The point to me was mainly the lies that photos tell. OP posted on IG representing that he was (presumably) calmly relaxing with some coffee while watching the sunrise, when in fact he was part of a herd trying to snap a photo like this.

The secondary point is that constructing that lie ends up removing people from the moment. I think this is the weaker point as people have been taking pictures for a long time... but it is true that the population that does this has increased manyfold, since everyone with a smart phone can participate.
1) He is clearly hiring based on a fetish he has.

That's a pretty strong, even in terms of your analysis. Would you have thought he had a fetish if all of his hires were black men?
Oh, yes, sorry and now it’s too late to fix (both that and the horrible formatting). Though I suppose it would have been a compile-time error, so at least it shouldn’t be exploitable :')
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill I don't see the difference.
I find it tragic that we set federal standards for our public schools and yet place the majority of the financial burden on the local municipalities. That a (public) school's success is correlated so strongly with local property taxes is a real serious problem that should be addressed by federal intervention and better appropriation of funds.
> If you utilize tools like valgrind, poison data that is released to pools, follow strict coding conventions, heavily test-cover your code, and become gdb-savvy, corruption bugs become not that expensive.

Watch Herb Sutter's CppCon 2015 presentation.

Apparently among the top of C++ developers that managed a ticket to get there, only 1% of the audience uses such tools.
Or unless the neighboring countries follow suit.
One would hope that when you have left the school playground and entered the "real world", you have developed enough sense of empathy and social skills to understand the long-term benefit of treating people with respect, ie how you would want to be treated yourself. We do spend much time and effort drilling this into infants after all.

Those who don't, ie who find it ok to use/abuse others (or can't stop themselves) for personal profit/pleasure, I would term social freeloaders.

It's sad that this seems to extend to middle age in some people. And that grown-up institutions need processes to deal with problems that should have been sorted out in kindergarten.
Well seeing that the expected value of trying to erase something from the Internet for any sum of money appears to be 0, I'd say replacing the administration is a safer bet.
I've had to do this several times before, simply because I'm often with people (i.e. parents or friends) who don't have the patience for me to stop at every placard and read the context, they just want to take in everything for a few seconds and move on.

I often have to take pictures of this stuff and not read it until later just so I don't lose sight of them.
Scams like this are why we can't every have nice things. Not for very long anyway.

Sigh. I guess I'll put that novel on the back burner, again.
Rebuilding the 747 at 35,000 feet
For 95%+ of small businesses in the world, it's "small businesses with no VC involved, and who intent to stay small" [1].

Startups in the SV notion of the term don't even compare in number, even in the US. Heck, every accounting firm you see, it's such as "small business". Every local grocery store. Every restaurant. Every ice cream parlor. Every jewelry maker. The list goes on and on...

[1] Well, they wouldn't say no to striking it big, but it's not like SV founders dreaming of $10B exit.