skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out the posters threatening jail for 'like' or 'share' put up publicly around Bangkok during the beginning of this round of unrest back in 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Thailan...
Intel wants to manage your wifi connection. The network drive was disconnected (no shit, I just woke up the machine!).
What happened to hacker ethics? Screw over 39 million people to protest the sorry state of the security of a service they have been using?

Back in the good old days one would have secured the systems instead of harming the victims again.

GhostShell, please stay away from IoT or connected medical devices, I'm afraid you'll kill people just to make a point every security professional already understands.
Lol, why don't we discuss it in the open?
I think it is the matter of the size of the market, particularly in the long run.
The way I understand the motivation behind UBI is that it is inspired by the notion that we have (mostly) automated production of goods and therefore human work has been (mostly) delegated to machines. It is therefore perfectly reasonable for people to receive UBI so they can purchase all the robot-produced goods.

The reason I am skeptical of such a view is that production of goods is a tiny fraction of the work humans actually do. A lot of people these days work on solving problems, not on producing goods. And we are far from being short on problems to solve... Alzheimer's, clean energy, climate change...

Saying that humans should not need to work is like saying: This is it. We're done here. This is the world we want.
My ebike maxes out around 1400W -- that's an actual measurement made with a power meter -- and the fastest speed I've ever seen is 56km/h (and that was with a tailwind). And this is with relatively fast tires (not racing tires, but smooth road tires) and a big fairing!

Given the same tires and aerodynamics, the difference in top speed between 1400W and 1800W is the cube root of 1800/1400, or 1.087 -- you can go 8.7% faster. That gets you to 61km/h. And I bet your aerodynamics and tires are both worse than mine.

So something is out of whack here. My guess is it's a combination of things. Most speedometers in cars read high, many by as much as 10%. So let's say you were really doing 72km/h. Maybe with a full battery you're really getting quite a bit more than 1800W. For my bike to do 72km/h would take at least (72/56)^3 * 1400W = 2800W. It sounds a bit unlikely that you could really get that much, but who knows, it depends on your controller and motor. (You'd think they would have rated it higher, though, if it could really do that.) To really get 80km/h would take over 3800W.
> Not sure why my previous comment was voted down

Same reason mine was. Tedious and predictable Ali fanboys.

It's really nice that he finally got around to expressing some kind of weak regret decades after the event - as if the only reason he didn't apologise at the time was Malcolm got himself killed just before he could do so ("he was killed before I got the chance").

The reality is Ali spent a decade after Malcolm's death fully endorsing and promoting the very organisation that murdered him (after they'd found their replacement mouthpiece, from a sport they had zero respect for, and prior to Ali had zero time for).
> finding developers who know scala

There's a good side to it though. I took my current job because I wanted to use Scala more and my manager admitted (after the fact, sneaky bastard :) that hiring Java+Scala developers helped him filter/attract curious and talented people.
Which link and which bio are you referring to? (I think the shouting adds nothing of value to the comment).
That was my entirely-unthought-through phrase in sending the link to Craig, but I can tell you what I meant by it: I've heard of Ernst Junger and had no idea of that book. I still think it's bizarre and cool that he wrote anything like it (WWI novelist crossed with Philip K. Dick-level bizarre and cool), which is why the comment struck me as a highlight.

But I think NYRB's press exists specifically to bring little-known things to light. Ivy Compton-Burnett, anyone?
It's not the same thing though. The anti-competetive behavior of a company in the telecommunications industry is grounded (literally) in the natural barrier to entry that comes with the immense investment and government authorization involved in land based infrastructure. These are necessary 'practical' monopolies that are purposely created by the state in order to regulate them as public utilizes and because it is impractical to allow multiple overlapping land infrastructures.

Facebook does not fall anywhere close to this category of communications network. There is no barrier to entry created by Facebook's existence. Multiple other social networks can and do exist, and not only that but you can simultaneously participate in all of them. They are not mutually exclusive. Facebook is not a monopoly, it's just really popular.

Finally, Facebook is not a monopoly for the very simple reason that you are not a customer of Facebook. Facebook does not provide you any service that you have paid for in an economic exchange. Facebook's customers are advertisers, and the advertisement industry is anything but a monopoly.
> Bash is the default shell

Not for nigh on a decade, now.

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh/Spec

* https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/07/msg00027.htm...

* https://wiki.debian.org/DashAsBinSh
To be frank, you could achieve immortality, anti-aging, everlasting youth, different bodies and so on. But at 800 years old, you're gonna have one wretched mind.

Nothing will excite you anymore. All those friendships over 800 years? You've had enough misunderstandings and quarrels that you're done talking to those sick bastards. You have probably exchanged a dozen partners by now and you don't want anymore. Sex? All those positions have been tried out. Now its more like a keep-fit regimen. Landing on Mars? That was like a kid trying ice-cream for the first time. Obviously with eternity we can't have everyone giving birth to immortal babies, so reproduction is strictly controlled. You saw a few grandchildren, and they're all grown up now. Everything is a blip in eternity.

No thank you. I'd rather let my mind get garbage collected whenever the time comes.
Hands on Linux sandbox with namespaces and cgroups
This is rad! I have a bunch of LED matrices I currently use https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix for, I need to spend some quality time with Anypixel to see how it compares / if I can combine the two.

I wish that "in browser previewer" link actually led to a usable in browser thing rather than just a folder on GitHub.
There is shopable Instagram. http://digiday.com/brands/four-retailers-tackling-shoppable-...

You also have to ask where does the buying cycle and Instagram intersect: http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/buying-cycle-and-triggers/

The reality is that the ecosystem just isn't there to fully support cost per acquisition based transactions (the name for what your suggesting) in a way that satisfies provider (like Instagram), Brands (like Nike), Platforms (Like amazon, etsy), and Payment processors (this list is huge).
Compliance: https://pages.18f.gov/before-you-ship/

Hiring: https://pages.18f.gov/joining-18f/
I'm having trouble remembering the last time I saw a BSD box during my work day, unless Juniper gear counts. No knock against BSD but seriously how many people are writing POSIX shell scripts because they need their shell scripts to work with Linux, QNX and BSD?
Wouldn't you complain if they'd just pushed it without asking?
I'm waiting for the next chat service to emulate the 'ytalk' and 'talkd' practice of the 1980s to echo all keystrokes to the other party as they're typed, rather than waiting for the user to press send.

"Instant Messaging" indeed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)
'll most likely be downvoted for this, but whilst I sympathise with the plight of those being auto upgraded at inconvenience a small part of me thinks that those users who cannot be bothered to read the important OS information notices, are the ones who may need the upgrade the most.

As parent (+1'ed) notes, the message itself is quite clear in its intent. I would not for a second think that closing the window would infer the "cancel path" as the result.

Yes, they are being too forceful, and Microsoft ought to have given users a clear "I do not want to upgrade, ever" option, yet at the same time Windows 10 represents a significant increase in security, and in these days of massive botnets and what not that is a good thing on a big scale. In a roundabout way, I'm picturing this as forced immunisation for the greater good.
I believe that the way you phrased that second thing is potentially misleading.

Not being allowed to use twitter or "have a smartphone or use a computer with Internet access" (direct quote from wikipedia because I'm not sure whether the internet access part applies to the smartphone part.) was part of the bail. The 4 years were between the time which he was charged (Nov 2012) , and the time that all charges were dismissed (Jan 2016. So, really, closer to 3 years, but that difference doesn't matter all that much).

I believe that someone who did not read what you linked might assume that you meant that it was part of a sentencing for something he was charged with, as opposed to part of the bail.

Indeed, I initially misunderstood your comment in that way.

So, I would like to clarify this potential confusion for anyone else reading your comment, and also let you know that people may be lead to make inaccurate assumptions if you phrase things like that.

In addition, I think your phrase "for disagreeing with feminist" is probably suboptimal / unclear. It is true of course that the things that happened to him were a result of things he said to and about the person(s) in question, but that isn't how a typical person would understand "went to jail for disagreeing with an <X>".

I believe that a typical native English speaker would typically interpret "They were sent to jail for disagreeing with a <X>." to mean that the person was jailed for the opinion that they held or expressed, not for the way they allegedly expressed their disagreement with the <X> in question.

Am I saying that what happened to the person was right? No, that's not what I'm saying.

I'm only saying that I think that the way you said the things, while perhaps technically true in a sense, has a high risk of people misinterpreting it as saying something that is not true.
Right now I am in college, does 18F or USGS have flexible hours or work for me over the summer?

I'd love to get involved, I'm mainly focused in software engineering. It seems like a great cause to partake in.
Sure, we have a lot of ATO/compliance stuff in the open:

https://pages.18f.gov/before-you-ship/

And there's a GitHub repo with an issue tracker that would make for better conversation capturing than HN:

https://github.com/18f/before-you-ship
Agreed. [1]

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3135657
Saying 'not work related' put the options in the millions.
Which ideas did you have and why didn't you follow them (yet)?
It's fine that you're not up to date on who Jacob Appelbaum is, how the Tor community works, or what its origins are. But you should be careful about being strident about topics you're unfamiliar with.
You have a good point.

And to be fair, the misreporting and misrepresentation of the reality in the discourse about windows upgrades caused my pendulum to swing too far in the other direction.

MS is engaging in dark patterns, and that is what needs to be stated clearly, and directly, not the sensationalist, and wrong "windows updated automatically and there was nothing i could do".

> having the close button _agree_ to the changes rather than canceling them.

See that kind of thing is wrong. No such thing happens, period. The window tells you that at the date a change was scheduled, and gives you the options of "change", "cancel", "do now" or "dismiss the information". Closing it does not agree to anything, the agreement was taken implicitly before the window even opened. You're opted in, and given an option to opt out. And that is the dark pattern here.
The Facebook app is a memory hog though, and was causing UI lag in other apps on my phone. I have very little idea how it was doing that, but when I removed it, the lag stopped.
Another tech scandal: Site dedicated to Jacob Applebaum's misconducts
They are already doing it with drivers. Windows 10 will only load Microsoft signed drivers and Windows Server 2016 will only load WHQL signed drivers for which you have to pay a fee.
Nobody is stalking Jacob Appelbaum with night vision goggles.
> People who make a lot of money would more than repay it in taxes, and taxes would have to go up on higher earners

Doesn't that amount to the same thing?
Tor is a product of the Naval Research Laboratories and is continually funded by the US Government.
Anecdotally I can certainly back this up from my own experience. My React based UIs are so much easier to build and maintain than the jQuery stuff they replaced.
> Oh, my kingdom for atomic, history-recording (and replayable) object states!

You might want to check out John McCarthy's Elephant and its follow-ons. http://web.archive.org/web/20130729203501id_/http://itc.conv...

Its not exactly what you want, but it is down that road.
The way I see it, there are multiple grades of free software. There is difference between downloading a linux distro or apache project and downloading some dude's python library from pip.

Any software used on government systems has to go through an accreditation process. This is to prevent you from pulling in some random code that may have security vulnerabilities or backdoors. Just because it is open source doesn't mean it is secure.

As an example, we've had to run security scans on jquery for god's sake and justify every occurence of random number generation to make sure it wasn't used for anything security related....

There are other things like warranty, support, size of the community, etc...

Overall, GSA is one of the best agencies when it comes to open source. It has definitely come a long way, but still a long way to go.
My iPad 3 nags me to install the latest iOS update every single time I unlock it.
> Do you mean 3000 simultaneously in the DOM?

I'm not OP, but they said "We are building huge single page application"

For SPAs, it is not uncommon to use CSS to hide multiple controls (or what would otherwise be entire pages) from the user but leave it in the DOM so you can reveal them as needed. Deciding to hide a DOM subtree vs destroying & rebuilding is a performance balancing act.
Ask HN: Anybody working on anything related to the 911 John Oliver episode?
Or perhaps 911 alternatives?

https://youtu.be/A-XlyB_QQYs
You appear to have no problem with a company building up a profile of your likes and dislikes, so they can try and sell stuff to you. That's fine. Why expect that of others, though?
Even if you're against Snowden and defend the NSA, I believe there really was a big miscalculation about how employees would perceive such program if it was badly implemented, and the potential for misuse and mismanagement of those tools. It sounds like immense negligence combined with hawkish cyber warfare ambitions.

The first thing that comes into my mind, is the cost/benefit estimation of him leaking those things if I were in his shoes. So far he managed to mitigate the cost done to him, and did something he believed would benefit his country.

What I'm curious about is the intelligence costs those leaks generated. Were the documents leaked carefully chosen to limit that damage and still prove those programs were unconstitutional? Or was the damage real?
You'd do better to continue the quote, which goes on to cite one reason (among many) that victims might not contact law enforcement.
So who will be the ass hat who makes plan9 the js library , that like inferno but with ....
What if Microsoft had done Windows 8 differently? (2013)
I live in a large housing coop. The shared parking has a few charging spots. Not using it all that much as there's charging spots at office complex parking at ¤work too.
Yeah, the stuff was probably extremely hard:

http://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-113051-Monitor-Splitter/...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4dCIZAXceQ

Really, difficult. ;)
Your decision is the correct one, but I'm pretty sure that no consumer version of Windows has ever shipped without a requirement that you shouldn't use it for real-time/safety-critical purposes.
Systems Architecture Review
I got a bit confused about halfway through this long article. Could someone please provide a summary or a link to one?

- What instances of Snowden voicing his concerns internally do we now know of?
- Which of these are "old news" and which are "fresh news"?
- How did the NSA respond to each of these cases that we know of?
No Cancel/Later button?!
What does "OK" do, vs Upgrade Now, or the Close [X] button?
Yep, I put water fountains and restaurants in a public accomodation category. They are buildings and businesses explicitly serving the walk-in public.

An independent/small family bakery, or photographer, etc. who may not even have a retail storefront who won't service gay weddings, I would consider "not a real problem" because they really are only limiting their own business by operating that way.
censor : to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable <censor the news>; also : to suppress or delete as objectionable <censor out indecent passages>

censor: to examine books, movies, letters, etc., in order to remove things that are considered to be offensive, immoral, harmful to society, etc.

- http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censor

censor verb [T] us /ˈsen·sər/
› to remove parts of something, such as a book, movie, or letter, that you do not want someone to see or hear:

She opposes efforts to censor the Internet.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/censor

No, government involvement is absolutely not necessary for censorship. If your argument is that you're comfortable with this type of censorship, make that argument, but don't try to redefine the English language to suit your narrative.

> calling someone a racist for saying something isnt censoring them.

> calling someone a bigot for their opinion isnt censoring them

On this we can agree, since that's kinda the point of free speech. The idea isn't to make being a racist or being a bigot acceptable. The idea is to allow people to express any opinion, thought, view they may have without fear of adverse retribution so views that are based on falsehoods or ignorance can be argued against in the open. If a racist knows they'll lose their livelihood for expressing racist views in public, they'll only express them to people who they know will agree with those views. So you end up with a bunch of racists strengthening and confirming each others racist opinions. You suppressed their speech, but in doing so strengthen their views. On the other hand, if the worst you get for expressing a racist view is being told "You idiot. No, that's not actually true, and here's why" you actually stand a chance of getting them, or someone else that may be listening to the conversation to reexamine those views.

You don't cover a festering wound and hope it goes away, you open it up and remove or treat the infection. Pretending it's not there because you don't like it won't fix a thing.

The whole concept behind freedom of speech is so shitty views can come out into the open and get rightly destroyed.
I agree, but there is nothing to be gained personally from doing so. It is like being rude or contemptuous to your waiter.
Good thing places like Burger King are non-profits :-)

Though that was a different time, when you really had to get a job somewhere, and I see their point. Today of course it's easier to do just enough short-term work without a long-term commitment (Upwork, etc) to be functionally solvent without having to resort to fast-food.
Does anyone else feel like IG may be jumping the shark by pushing the business angle so hard? This probably sounds ridiculous given their explosive growth, growth that may seem unstoppable at this point. But, BUT, at what point do we all stop and realize that we are choosing to stare at ads all the time? Seriously, what portion of the posts on IG are either overt ads or veiled (artistic) ads? That percentage seems to grow with every post. Remember where IG started and what it exposed us to? I barely do.
"People under 21 years of age made up over a quarter of the U.S. population (27.1%)"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...)

So the population over 21 is about 230M.
> Saying that humans should not need to work is like saying: This is it. We're done here. This is the world we want.

That's not what's being said. We're not done. This is not the world we want. We should be able to work on Alzheimer's, clean energy and climate change without worrying about where our next meal is coming from.

And, sure, many researches have salaries. But many potential researchers aren't employed, aren't trained, aren't educated. Think of the millions of folks whose passion for helping people, taking care of the planet or tinkering is getting sidelined while they work a cash register to save up for community college. Those people can use a basic income to find a better, more productive, more fulfilling and more useful position in life.
Hi HN! I made this extension a while ago and never got around to publishing it, but I use it all the time so I thought I'd share.

Please let me know what you think. Cheers!
>The M2 growth figures are available and published by Fed sources.

Sorry, typo. I meant M3.

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/US_Federal_Reserve_ceases_to_pu...
there are a number of ways to answer your question, so consider the following only one:

i do research into the underlying pattern of primes, and do so from the intended inference that there does exist an algorithm that returns primes based on configurable inputs

> starts of saying there's no pattern, then shows a pattern

there are many patterns in the prime number sequence

here is a seemingly ludicrous pattern in the sequence of primes 468,395,662,504,823 + 205,619 · 223,092,870 · n, for n = 0 to 23 (o)

but i think when people say things like: If there’s a pattern, it’s inscrutable; from the article they are referring to an ability to answer questions for all primes such as: what is the three thousandth and one prime after 17, or what prime follows and precedes 113; those kinds of questions are currently unanswerable for all numbers efficiently

> How hard have people looked for pattern visually?

the concept of visual is very subjective

numbers are abstract concepts and how you choose to visualise them is simply a matter of choosing how the abstraction you use will appear, i can make any prime number appear anywhere in a visualisation depending on how i configure the visuals

> the way they're displayed (spirals, ovals, wrapping them as square spirals etc)

dreaming up display methods, and developing them, is math

there is a famous question in mathematics called the riemann hypothesis(i)(ii) where one could argue that complex numbers become a clever abstraction for visualising of primes

> I've read about people with mental health issues who somehow are able to tell if a number is prime and assuming that this is accurate then again, unless they are somehow able to run a learned algorithm in their heads stupidly fast they're therefore tapping into something natural.

confirming if a number is prime or composite, what is called a primality test(iii), is a 'solved' problem with an efficient algorithm

(o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%E2%80%93Tao_theorem

(i) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6c6uIyieoo

(ii) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTveQ1ndH1c

(iii) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality_test