skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Since you are a security researcher, aren't a lot of people of "your breed" using Macs as well?"

I use Linux, BSD's, and custom systems. From what I've gathered, the people using Mac's do it for usability and apps more than anything. The Mac OS is pretty, well-designed components for GUI/desktop on top of a hybrid between a microkernel and UNIX (BSD). Let's ignore their bad choice of microkernel. The real benefit is you get a desktop with comparable usability to Windows, you can pull out command line for full power of the UNIX underneath, it's overall more reliable/consistent than Linux on desktop side, and there's plenty of apps from vendors who target Windows + Mac but not Linux.

So, that's the overall value equation. A UNIXy OS with many apps and nice interface. I considered attempting to secure its foundation, Darwin, at one point but it's a hodgepodge of crap thrown together. Clever way to get a system out the door for Jobs back in the NEXT days. Not so good later on when one is improving foundations. :)

Note: Addressing your other point in a new comment as I can never remember length restriction.
Yes sorry i edited my comment to make that clear. The question is, is a nation without a culture justified?
I don't think I've looked at Facebook like that at all since they started using an algorithmic newsfeed. I was under the impression that that confirmed them as a "power broker" to pretty much everyone. If you're looking for a "utility" or "network connection" I'd direct you to app.net if they're even still in business
I would think it's less about diffusion of blame and more about your last sentence there -- that the big guy can play the game of mutually-assured destruction. They warn of all the collateral damage from having to pay for what they did, and the public is too willing to believe it and/or too unwilling to endure the short-term pain of enforcing the rules.
Your 'perhaps' assertion contradicts what the curators actually said.
This seems to be a far more damning indictment of trending news than curated news or the gullibility of people. Perhaps that is what you're getting at. I have this nagging suspicion that people catalog information based on the subjective believability of headlines without following through to the story, and only click on things because they either A) don't believe the headline, or B) find it enticing enough to want the juicy details.

"Obama bans 'Merry Christmas'" would likely get far more clicks and trend more than "Obama said Happy Holidays yesterday". To me, the problem is in the headline writing, coupled with silly human behaviors and algorithms. Not sure how to solve that problem.

I think Gizmodo's headline on this story is a compelling example of what I'm talking about. "Facebook has a tool used by curators to modify the Trending News section" probably wouldn't get as many clicks.
Well, the New Deal started in 1933 with unemployment at 25%. Five years later, in 1938 it was still at 19%.

Most historians agree that the New Deal was mostly ineffectual at recovery, and that WWII effected real results. (WWII started in 1939, and within two years unemployment was in single digits.)

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That the New Deal was actively harmful (not just ineffectual) in the recovery is a popular opinion, though admittedly not the majority one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Recession_of_1937_and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Harmful

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A further opinion is that it wasn't WWII at all, but rather just the ending of the New Deal and excessive spending itself.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/11/30/the-grea...
That "rubbish" created an industry worth hundreds of millions at the height of Visual BASIC and thousands of programmers were exposed to BASIC as their first language from the late sixties onwards, including Bill Gates. BASIC evolved over the years to become a powerful language to build solid systems with. And unlike Python it could do proper division from the start without loading libraries.
Not the PP, but yes, I am for the most part equally pissed at anyone that injects political editorial bias into otherwise factual news.

And I am also meta-pissed when a bunch of money/power-leaning folks start influencing the propaganda themes of both the bunch of left-leaning folks and the bunch of right-leaning folks. Media consolidation just makes that particular channel wider and deeper.

I am not pissed that there is a conservative talk radio station on my FM spectrum, and no other talker on the dial within range. Their bias is open and obvious. if I don't like it, I can listen to one of the 50 identical Bain Capital/THL Partners (IHeartMedia) or Oaktree Capital Management (Cumulus) stations. And I am pissed about that.
Would be classified as an abuse of privilege. Just as in The Sopranos, having meetings at attorneys and doctors offices.
Can you give an example? I've been writing a bunch of swift recently and I actually find it somewhat more expressive than either of those.
A prison is not a free market, its by definition a place administered and controlled by an entity in order to restrict the liberties of those imprisoned there.
That's basically what the real life effect of the regulation was though.

The "online course" that people had to take was kind of a joke, and most people in the industry think it is an outdated formality.

Crossing all your Ts and dotting you Is in this industry is of course important. Even if something is a stupid formality, you should still do it.

But let's not kid ourselves over how much "useful" information was probably in that course.
Exactly. I am disappointed they're removing function currying/partial application syntax though :(
Not the OP, but I'm someone who leans libertarian, and Trending Topics is one of the reasons I deactivated my Facebook account. I wasn't interested in most of the trending stories, they were often news stories designed to make people sad or angry, and that's not what I want to feel when visiting Facebook. I couldn't find a way to hide that feature either - so like bad advertising, it was always there annoying me.

I would have preferred if the trending topics learned what I was interested in. I'm not averse to curation (either way), but I'd prefer that users were ultimately in control of their own filters. Even if that filter is "never show any politics, only show cat videos".
I would love to work on old cars if I were not living paycheck-to-paycheck. However if I had the free money, well before I started tinkering with old cars, I would probably start scheduling vacations in eastern Africa. I'm not sure what exactly I'd be doing there, but I figure someone's got to have wiring issues or plumbing problems or a broken tractor or something -- anything that I could put my Applied Physics degree towards.

Right now I've got a tutoring side-job; that's basically similar. My work boils down to the fact that I like people and I try to help them with whatever skills I've got.
I have a rarely-used telescope and decided to drag it to the top of a parking deck downtown to view the transit. However, I only brought about 20x (*edit... confused my 80mm aperture with 400mm focal length) magnification.

Mercury basically looked like a speck of dust on the lens.

That said, there is something about the physical process of amateur astronomy that still manages to make the experience meaningful.
I don't know it from the top of my head, but FreeBSD runs Wine iirc and afaik FreeBSD 11 (I know, not OpenBSD) will introduce bhyve, a hugely hyped hypervisor/virtual machine manager supporting among other things Windows Operating Systems, also there should be some improvements to the Linux Emulation Layer.

Also there is this https://github.com/tony/steam-freebsd-client but not sure how good it works.

This might or might not be of interest to you, since chances are it might I thought I'd share. I don't think FreeBSD is much more secure (if any) than some of the better GNU/Linux distributions though. So it's easier to just run Gentoo or something similar.
"But really, at the end of the day, they did this because it was a rush"

Diving isn't really compatible with "a rush", especially not cave or other technical diving. You have to be focused, methodical and patient. It's more meditative than anything, you can't even breath too quickly without risk. While still having to keep track of a lot of things. In "rush" type of activities it's the sensation of almost losing control that is fulfilling, while in technical activities like this it's rather the sensation of being in control.
Any democratic country depends on the quality of public discourse for the effectiveness of its political system, and for this reason many countries have special rules for newspapers and TV.

What's important here is that Facebook is not covered by those laws, simply because it did not exist when the laws were created. In my view it should be covered by those laws.

One defence Facebook might consider is to say that it simply reflects the preferences of its readers algorithmically. However, this article shows that is not the case, and that the company does exercise editorial judgement. Of course, the design of the algorithms is tacit editorialising anyway, so the whole point is moot to me.

While we are considering the fact that FB is a private company (actually a public company), some might be inclined to say that if users realise Facebook cannot be trusted, then they will leave the site causing its revenues to decrease. Other more honest and transparent competitors will take its place. However, in practise there are many reasons to think this won't happen, which is why we have special laws for the press in the first place.
> Showing partial content then asking for payment to read the rest seems like a dishonest tactic, and it kind of is.

How is that dishonest? The alternative would be far worse (demanding payment without a preview of what you're paying for).

The problem with posting paywalled content isn't posting paywalled content. It's the entitled people who can't even be bothered to use well-known workarounds and instead completely derail discussions on political grounds.
The UK sold all it's water companies a while back. It sort of worked out but the bills went up.
> people assume every problem is one to be solved through social engineering.

I actually believe it can solve many problems, but it is not a lowest-energy solution. Nationalist propaganda requires a lot of resources, and as people are seeing that the benefits outweight the costs, they are giving up on it, i believe. I don't know any books about this, I do think it's an interesting subject as well.
I suppose I meant enforcement of a policy that prohibited modifying the news identified by algorithms.
I keep seeing this as Oracle's defence, but it is neither here nor there.

It doesn't make sense to you because you misunderstood the case, and the legal argument. Oracle doesn't need to make a defense, it's already been ruled that Google is infringing.

Now Google has a chance to offer a fair-use defense, and a reasonable fair-use defense is to say, "Google infringed for purposes of interoperability." If they could demonstrate that, then they would win the case.

So when people say Android won't even run standard Java programs, they are giving evidence that Google's interoperability defense will not work in court.
Launching the 2016 State of Rust Survey
The bottom line, though, is that ads DO serve malware. I work for an endpoint protection company and the most common traces we get from our customers are ones that originate from ads on legitimate websites.
Perhaps, but having worked for a government sub-contractor that had precisely this problem, I don't think it's as universally true as you would think.

At that particular company, everything was a "task" and tasks were just thrown at employees as they came. This wasn't just limited to software development either...this applied to customer support and service as well.

Their solution, and the solution the customer (government contractors) was to schedule numerous and regular meetings in order to touch base and monitor progress...which only contributed to the problem.

Also the article itself is actually a case study...
I give you an A for finally coming w/the right answer.I was falling asleep reading all this liberal blather.
And further, how do credit card or other lending companies avoid this (if at all)? Is there additional information or red flags they collect that LendingClub does not?
Another thing your connected home will let you do: watch it burn
Even as an OpenBSD fan, I'm not sure why tptacek was downvoted here. W^X etc. make it harder to write an exploit, but sufficiently-bad bugs can still yield arbitrary code execution. (Or confused-deputy problems allowing escalation to root, etc.; there's more than one way to pwn a box.)

And - architecturally - OpenBSD's kernel isn't that different from Linux, both being UNIX-style kernels; to the extent that OpenBSD's kernel has better security than Linux, it's mostly because OpenBSD tends to have fewer (and, sometimes, better-considered) features.

(There's an interesting argument to be had about Linux+grsecurity vs. OpenBSD - focusing on having some cutting-edge parts vs. solid engineering throughout - but that's not the argument we're having.)
Both C++ and Rust beat C in many cases for various reasons.
One is for current users. Other is for future users :)
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I would argue it's after reproduction, successful reproduction that also has successful reproduction even.

Why do grandparents love their grandchildren? Something noble about human nature and love? Or is it evolutionary advantageous?
> What is the difference of this to doppio? A new approach from some of the doppio authors?

(I contribute to both Javapoly and Doppio)

Javapoly tries to make Doppio easier to use (in my subjective opinion):

* easier loading of jars, classes and Java source code
* a promise based async interface to Java methods
* automatic marshaling of primitive values between JS and Java lands
* a proxy based interface into the Java namespace.
Human civilization's purpose is to survive long enough to finish preparing the machine civilization to take over.
10 At-Risk Emerging Technologies
phashes compute a hash on one image which you can then compare with the hashes for other images; butteraugli computes the difference between two images. If you're trying to find duplicates among a set of images, phashes will work in O(n log n) time and this will run in O(n^2) time, but with more accurate results.
Another genuinely curious:

Any chance your departure from FB coincided with that little social feed experiment they performed to see if they could manipulate people's emotions?
Title: Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense

Date: 2014

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7153657
I will donate to any effort that brings this to court or a political campaign that runs this line.
"Only grip I have is calling Linux anti-security and anti-privacy given how much good work in those used the platform."

That's fair. FWIW I wasn't trying to focus on Linux in my post. I'm grateful for Linux and the volunteers that contribute to it, both the apps and the security work. The work everyone is doing on FOSS lifts all boats. And you're right of course, not all Linux distros are created equal when it comes to security. And my anti-privacy, anti-security sentiment was more pointed at proprietary software, i.e. a lot of iOS apps.
>> But we would have to go and find the same story from a more neutral outlet that wasn’t as biased.
>This is delivered as if it is inherently a bad thing, when it most assuredly is not.

Keep in mind this is a statement quoted by the curator summing up what s/he said they did over a long span of time. Their recollection of what they tended to do is not necessarily reality. They could be lying in that quote to try to soften what they did. And their quest to find something less biased means diddly given the bias across all news.
Curing hepatitis C will spare livers for other patients
Rewriting the Gophers invite form in Go
The CEO of fintech company Lending Club is stepping down
Maybe that's what Google will try to do.
Irrelevant.

FB is a nuclear weapon. Chain reactions that start there can take out society in a blink. That has to be understood and digested by society. Doesn't matter what the actual story of the day getting filtered is.

Trump has subverted the republican party in 8 months. 8 years ago a community organizer subverted the dems in 2 years. Look at Corbyn, Modi, Kejriwal, Joko etc etc Its thanks to social media and the like pressing herd of programmed robots that populate it.

Who knows how fast a Trump 2.0, 3.0 and then a 4.0 will take to rise. Its just going to get more and more efficient. The people who see this play out real time everyday, whether its Trump, ISIS or Star Wars marketing are those curators on the front lines. They fully understand how fast the process can work.

They are totally unprepared and untrained on what to do if things are unravelling. Its not surprising at all that some take it upon themselves to act like control rods.

Time to take a serious look at...China...yes China. Cause control rods are necessary.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747000
Show HN: Lufo, Last Used First Out – jQuery plugin to improve long select menus
It looks like it can be set as part of `gh configure`.

https://github.com/donnemartin/gitsome/blob/47322f4fc1daa956...
Good point. AppScale has always been on GitHub under an Apache 2 license and has customers in production in China.
Apologies, issue touched a nerve.
There wasn't any evidence and there wasn't any implication from the article. It's very different from the VW scandal.
So abiding by that same logic, would you not agree that developing for Android has been a poor career decision up until say, 12 months ago?
UI nitpicking:

These:

$ tmsu tag summer.mp3 music big-jazz mp3

$ tmsu tag --tags "music mp3" foo.mp3 bar.mp3

$ tmsu tag spring.mp3 year=2003

Are confusing. Very non-Unix. They should be:

$ tmsu tag music,mp3,year=2003 summer.mp3
Maybe typescript would be a good thing to experiment with first? You could then get used to types in a familiar language first.
It's one step more complicated than that. GM has 5 year renewable franchises, so theoretically they could just wait 5 years and not renew.

The issue is that many states have laws preventing OEMs from selling directly.

There are similar laws for unions.
In Need of serious help
I am such a novice and someone has managed to hack my entire system which is bad but worse they are posting DDOS's on "my behalf" on a valued member of the hacker community can someone please help me stop this. So far they have sent emails from my account and not are posting a "DDOS" on my instagram account trying tohurt the person i love. PLEASE PLEASE help me stop this
> https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/

FWIW - That's a parody site. However, that's not to disclaim that the Utah data center isn't being built.
What do the Rich really Want?
Mmmm...yes....truly those backwards conservatives don't have any real news.

/me swirls whiskey and tips fedora

Seriously, do you even recognize how condescending you sound?
Yes. They even provide the Jupyter notebooks that power all their analyses so you can re-process and re-analyze the data. I was looking into AGP recently because I had the idea that variance component estimation could be used to quantify how much gut bacteria composition matters, along the lines of GCTA for genes, and they were by far the most open and best dataset around.
Yeah, I feel you—especially on the meta-pissed point. Media consolidation really bothers me. I haven't listened to radio in years and genuinely feel a bad mood start whenever I'm around it.
You can add console-terminal-emulator in the nosh toolset to the list. It's had this since its first version.

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa...

Its manual page (herewith a slightly outdated version) calls out the ISO/IEC 8613-6 parameter separator problem in its section on differences from real terminals and documented standards.

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa...
This seems like a story built specifically for a segment on Fox News where the newscasters feign shock and horror that their news topics aren't being covered by "mainstream media".

Of course trending news is curated. All hell would break loose otherwise.

There is no shortage of rabid political content conservative or otherwise on Facebook. A good part of the end user community would rather not deal with it.
He must've been a Carlin fan (American stand up comedian).
\Theory That's a hypothesis.
Some rules are victimless. Or downright nonsensical. I don't like this tone of moralizing regulation. As if being non-compliant is inherently unjust.
Hint: FB is not the only place that has heavy censorhsip.
Twitter even, for the most part as far as I understand gives you complete control over your feed, with the (minor?) exceptions of promoted tweets and suggested followers.

It's worth noting the candidate who has been most successful (or at least taken advantage of it) on that platform might fit the parent article's definition of conservative (or at least the sort of content they are suppressing).
I imagine this is pretty cool, have you tried it?

Not being able to look at the ball/table is a key part of pinball I find missing from the digital experience, and while VR takes care of this I think I would still miss the physical experience of the controller.

I see someone made a pinball table controller to use with Oculus as soon as it came out[1]; this controller doesn't look heavy enough to have fun tilting properly, but it certainly got me excited to try some VR pinball.

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/1/11345624/pinsim-pinball-fx-...
Isn't your first example actually an example of "voting with your dollar" (or in case of a free product, voting with your usage)?
Regarding the gif being too fast, thanks for the feedback! I've slowed it down 50%, hopefully it's easier to follow.

I'd love to get some more feedback on gitsome, I admit I'm not the best gif-maker :)

A few other updates based on feedback/questions from the community:

* Completions work with zsh, not just bash [1]

* The GitHub-integration commands work regardless of whether you start the gitsome autcompleter shell. Check out the quick reference [2] and full reference [3] of GitHub commands available.

[1] https://github.com/donnemartin/gitsome/issues/2

[2] https://github.com/donnemartin/gitsome#github-integration-co...

[3] https://github.com/donnemartin/gitsome/blob/master/COMMANDS....
And what CS fundamentals do you need to discover Rails, Node, React or django?
The strangest thing happens when you rotate Bezier control points
You probably like breathing too.
I meant my comment in the same spirit as a Southerner means "Bless your heart".

I do believe Ted Unagnt's comment is included in the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU LibrSSL first 30 days along with quite a lot of other oddities.