skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not going to comment on the efficacy of "used" versus "user" in RMS' argument here. However, your comparison to "Democrap", etc. doesn't seem to fit here very well. The former is a shorthand for his entire argument and technically correct. Facebook "users" are "used" by Facebook. This is their business model. The latter is just simple name calling serving no useful purpose.
Poverty in parents is highly predictive of poverty in children. Single motherhood is also correlated with poverty. It's possible that single motherhood increases the chance that a child will also live in poverty as an adult, but the vast majority of the effect is probably explained by generational poverty.
It tells you that your file is corrupted. You can then restore from backups, re-download, or take some other corrective action, such as delete the file, reboot the machine, re-install the operating system, or play Quake 2 to test your RAM and graphics.

Never underestimate the value of a reason to play Quake 2.
The Mystery of Millennial Politics
You have a point, but I believe warping the language from the norms can be different.

I can't know what Stallman meant exactly and what are his intentions, but from reading the text I believe what he tries to do is to either create a neologism (cf. "enforce a meme"), or avoid a word misuse that may lead to some invalid connotations or suggestions (cf. calling a photocopier "xerox"). Probably both, but the latter case is important.

There are a lot of cases where saying an established term for something (with term invented and enforced by marketing/politics) serves in favor of some an agenda, and one may deliberately decide to change the language to combat this. Consider that Stallman's also known to ask to avoid calling copyright infringement as "theft" or "piracy".

Avoiding agendas, almost certainly not the case with "democra[tp]s", as it's just name-calling. Most likely it's the case with "piracy", as using this term mixes in some incorrect allusions. And, while personally I think "useds" instead of "users" isn't a good idea, it's probably somewhere in the gray area in the middle that may have some reasonable justification besides just Stallman trying to pull a strawmen.
Perhaps the companies involved have been told by their lawyers that choosing a password is a legal action, like an electronic signature, that must be performed by a human, letter by letter, to have certain legal ramifications.

It is only stupidity if you assume the only purpose of a password (or a physical key) is security, and not also authorized entry. It may still be a poor engineering solution to the requirement (because engineers were told the solution, to asked to meet the requirement). But it is wrong to assume there is no reason for the requirement.

You can't paste your legally binding electronic signature either, I'll warrant. I've had to type out my name plenty of times, in digital contracts, even though my browser is quite capable of auto-filling.
And they last ten years, then you change the pads for $10 and they go another ten years...
There's a less nefarious explanation (not that I wouldn't put it past Facebook to eavesdrop on the microphone). Her coworker searched or posted about his new "Custom Martin" and this triggered Facebook to show the ads to people he knows.
> Lambdas roamed the earth long before templates.

I'm talking about C++ lambdas, in particular, which are templates under the hood.
At least I got some real fun with my free scroll wheel in another thing than an excel spreadsheet or bad code.
I've been using NTFS on USB sticks and external drivers for over 5 years when using Linux / Windows mixed use. No problems so far. This of course wouldn't mean it's problem free or 'rock solid', but in normal daily use I haven't encountered any. Why? Because meta data journaling. exFAT works as well, but it doesn't journal -> less reliable.
RMS, to some extend, is like the pope. He often says strange things, where many people do not instantly agree. But he won't change his message just to please you, which is what we are used to get from most people, especially politicians. You can count on him and his, at heart, very humanist views. I recently was at one of his keynotes, and we all, including me, could only laugh at his over-and-over usage of words like "the Amazon Swindle" or Service-as-a-Software-Substitute (for SaaS). The "problem" with him, while he sometimes sound ridiculous, he makes me think and sense stuff I otherwise wouldn't have a critical look at. I'd say he does good (to the world) - while not caring if his recipe tastes well.
May be it was a poor choice of words on my side, what I was trying to get across here is that when one reads (or listens to) what he has to say, it feels more like a rebuke than a well constructed and convincing argument (even if it's the absolute truth).
No, people are lazy and poor. Nobody actually likes Dominos.

People who like pizza tend to prefer local varieties that are unique to their area, at least that's been my experience.
if something is free, you are the product

Does that hold true for useds of Gnu, also?
I read it as non-sparse HFS+ disk images (dmg vs sparseimage)
Have you lived in South Korea? They've also got a very strong protest culture for a first world nation.
Obviously this must be an impact of increased mobility and globalization forcing previously isolated economies to compete in larger market, with Airbnb merely riding the wave.

Dwellers of comparatively more well-off cities probably aren’t complaining about tourists driving them out, in other words. In Seoul, for example, monthly rate for a studio on Airbnb right now seems close to what a local would pay for a similar option found via old-school real estate agency[0].

[0] If they could get away without depositing some $xxxxx upfront. Based on experience of a friend who in 2014–2015 rented a studio found via an agency.
Not to rain on the parade but terrible brand Dominos invented the robotic pizza kitchen, not these guys.
Where in the article is "Brexit for Facebook", or anything similar? I don't understand your comment, please clarify.
I do not use "democrap" or "republicant", as they do not promote the discussion or understanding in any way.

However, I did adopt Stallman's "Copy Restriction" (instead of "Copy Protection") and "Digital Restriction Management" (instead of "Digital Right Management") - because they are a much better description of what the concept actually is for 99% of the people.

I started doing this after I told someone that I will not buy a Depeche Mode CD I wanted and was holding in my hand in the store, because it has copy protection; they looked at me completely puzzled, asking "Why wouldn't you want your copy to be protected?", and a little more inquiry revealed that they believed it was a somehow more robust (by virtue of being "protected") than non-copy protected CDs.

Language is a very potent medium of control. You are, indeed, used by facebook when you interact with it, and introducing it into the language is a way to bring it to the surface. He's not using "useds" to be clever. He's bringing it to the surface. It might look stupid to you, but I assure you that you are not immune to this kind of bias (and neither am I). I know that's why he does that, because I've heard him personally explain that when attending one of his talks.

In fact, if you look at the works of Kahenman & Tversky, you see that equivalent questions worded differently get opposite responses from people who we expect to know better (e.g. doctors, pilots, ...).

Stallman is basically trying to counter the (essentially unlimited) bias that the media has against what he believes, and I don't know of any tool that does that better than the rhetorical device(s) he is using.
The thing I love about ActiveRecord is that it makes it easy to, anywhere you want, and at any level of the abstraction stack you want, to just toss in SQL fragments. This gets you the best of both worlds, the fluidity of being able to just define methods on model objects, and the ability to utilize database tech to the fullest. You can take any query and call .to_sql on it and it shows you exactly what it's passing to the database. I prefer Sequel's semantics but ActiveRecord is an excellent workhorse that I have no problems relying on.
The average user might have no redundancy, but they still ought to have a backup. Checksum failure tells them they need to restore.

At the very least, a checksum failure might tell them (or the tech they're consulting) that they have a data problem, rather than, say, an application compatibility problem.
No apology necessary. We made a conscious choice for that not to be so obvious.

I've fallen behind a bit on emails but will send an intro soon.
If you want to run Facebook but want to be privacy conscious (any more suggestions? - this is what I do):

1. Create a separate browser profile for accessing Facebook

2. Run uBlock Origin

3. Don't install the mobile apps - use the mobile web interface

4. Turn your Facebook privacy settings up to 11 (the new max privacy settings are actually good/reasonable) - you can set it up so that you can't be found in search[0], can't be tagged in unwanted posts[4][5]

5. The cookie used to track you via the like buttons is called datr and is set on *.facebook.com if you want to block it in privoxy / squid etc.

6. If you access Facebook using the onion website[1] over Tor[2] they won't know your location or network info

7. Don't like anything and fill in as little information as possible

8. Don't add people you don't know

9. Review apps that have permission to access your profile and info regularly[3]

[0] https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=privacy&section=search...

[1] https://facebookcorewwwi.onion

[2] https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

[3] https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications

[4] https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=timeline&section=expan...

[5] https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=timeline&section=sugge...
NASA to Test an Electric Aircraft
Out of curiosity, what is the difference in a blurb? I was reading about people bemoaning the addition of systemd-resolved as stub resolver by default in Ubuntu 16.10. I get it, but do not have time for the full RFC.

https://lobste.rs/s/edrihm/sad_news_today_systemd_resolved_b...

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/595

(Please understand, I use systemd, just not resolved yet; this is not meant to start a tangential flame; I just realize even though I am one of those idiots who preaches better security and runs his own dnsmasq settings per recommendations of known bloggers, I need more detailed background on DNS.)
Why is Bill Gates a cancer?
The flat sound really emphasises the sibilants, and for me, excessive "mouth noise". I hear a lot of nose whistle and saliva sounds. Maybe I suffer from some misophonia, but it drives me crazy sometimes.
"I think that one factor is that in the Chinese culture, you don't expect everything to be good and available during all seasons."

I don't think that's a cultural thing, and certainly not an ethnic thing. I think it might have something to do with how many generations-removed one is from agrarian life (or close physical/logistical proximity to it)... Growing up in my (very white) hometown in New England, which still had plenty of farms at the time, it was well understood that the good produce was seasonal and not available in chain supermarkets.
This millenium maybe? You know, the one when Internet consumption largely switched from computers with wired connections to mobile with wireless ones. The one when all the media companies started jamming tons of javascript and user interface dark patterns down our throats.

Madox's site is a "small text page"; the WSJ site, even the mobile version, is a stellar scale monolith in comparison.
Wow, you've made a lot of assumptions about me and not very charitable ones. Let me address a few of them:

1. I'm not a TV watcher. The last movie I saw was "Frozen", and before that I can't remember. I'm certainly not motivated to live-out some TV action-hero fantasy. Moreover, your comment has a strong expectation that egocentrism undergirds one's actions. My obligation as a father is think of my family before myself. If you're a parent, I hope share this ethos; if not, I hope you develop it before having children.

2. Even if I were motivated by TV, I'm not sure which action film you're referring to. I missed the one where the dad is leaving the store with the wife and kids, pushing a shopping cart full of groceries, is accosted by "violent criminals out for blood", shoots and possibly kills the criminals in front of the children, then makes their epic retreat to safety in the minivan, with the wife on talking to the 911 operator in between sobs and episodes of panic-induced vomiting. No doubt this happy tale ends with permanent hearing damage for all involved, years of court appearances, legal fees, and a possible prison sentence, and the kids in therapy after witnessing human bloodshed by the time their 4th birthday rolls around. Doesn't sound like a movie I'd like to see.

3. I'm not sure why you've assumed that violent criminals don't exist, or exist to such a limited degree that their presence should be referenced mockingly. In the United States in 2014, "[t]here were an estimated 1,165,383 violent crimes (murder and non-negligent homicides, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults) reported by law enforcement." [1] Surely this ought to at least make one pause to consider how to protect one's family.

4. I also don't understand why you think the presence of witnesses or general availability of law enforcement is indefeasible deterrent to violent crime, especially in light of the recent events in Orlando. [2] Finally, the Supreme Court has even ruled that police, et al., are not obligated to protect you. [3] Even if the police appeared on the scene the very moment a crime were committed, they would still be reacting to violent crime that has already occurred, and have no legal duty to intervene.

Source:

1. https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2015/september/latest-crime...

2. http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/12/us/orlando-nightclub-shooting/

3. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-pol...
When a bank loses money they pay for it. It happens often, for millions, says a friend who works in fraud analysis.
"Orientated" is correct usage in the U.K. version of English:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orientate
You mean like the US?
How about using GNU Social instead of Facebook. https://gnu.io/social/
Contact their tech group and then contact their CEO and show them this article. :)
Really? I'm sure it would seem odd if someone just ran down the list of questions, but I suspect you could easily maneuver the conversation so that a casual acquaintance answers one or two of them.

"Hey, how are you?"

"Pretty good. We're thinking about getting a dog so I went to the shelter this morning."

"Oh really?"

"It's tough to find one that's a good match though."

"Definitely"

"You ever have a dog?"

"Nah, wife's allergic. Had a snake as a kid though...called him Mr. Slithers."
> I'm not being funny, but I thought the Feynman technique was: - Write down the problem. - Think very hard. - Write down the answer.

It's funny, because he was the very antithesis of that.
When pcwalton appears in a C++ thread, we are already past the rustwin point.
Set up your own site, remove any mention of the reference image, watch users continue normally. "Huh, they must have finally gotten rid of that dumb thing."
What I refer to is a certain, observable feature of the american culture. The only breach of civility here is you calling me uncivil. But this sort of moderation is something I've seen often on the HN, so there's nothing to say.
> ...because he wants to shoot himself in the foot as soon as possible.

So... it's almost like he's shooting the foot that feeds him?

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
> we were reassured by the ‘leave’ campaign that a decision to leave the EU would not affect the EU funding ... that Cornwall would not be worse off

That's so immature. They were innocents and bad people deceived them to vote against EU and now they have no funds.
If your and your driver's phone have sent GPS coordinates to facebook it is pretty easy to link you together.

Or you can be linked by the recorded sound.
Actually abstracted further and further until AI takes over and they meet. That is the moment coding will be over.
I think it is the party coming to your door that does the evangelizing and I've yet to have an atheist ring my doorbell.
Could the Scottish Parliament Stop the UK from Leaving the EU?
That's an excellent example of a technical truth.
Yes, we're used for development, marketing, and QA.
People should not pay to learn programming. There are so many free materials online.

The best way to learn is with documentation, which is free, and examples.

A lot of coding 'lessons' are extremely dull, they show you how to make Hello World! then they tell you to try it and oh look, it works! Of course, or it wouldn't be in this book right?

Sometimes documentation is lacking. Sometimes examples are not readily available. These things should be solved. People should pay to fix these things, if they're gonna pay for anything.
It's a preference, not prejudice. Prejudice would be if you see a person and assume they speak a certain way based on other characteristics like age, race, gender, or appearance.

But if you actually hear them speak and don't like their voice, that's not prejudice.
Ultimately they call the shots because they'll judge the developers idea and say yay or nay. All a developer can do is influence and with a given number of battles to fight, password copy and paste may be a long way down there.

It requires getting promoted to management or board level to get the ultimate decision power. Some companies are more progressive when their board chooses to be but they can always revert back if they choose or get taken over.
As much as I dislike Fb (though I am a user and their tracking is disabled through Ublock), Stallman articles are usually "Old man yells at cloud" thing)

So yes, I do use Fb, I do use closed source software and I have better things than to care about my "alleged" freedom. I get more value from those than they get from me, I assure you.
Ask HN: What are the realistic privacy concerns of using a PaaS
I've been looking at some PaaS offerings for my next app, and as it's main value is in the data it collects, I'm considering keeping the data on my own infrastructure.

So a quick question to those with more experience than me: is using something like Firebase going to hurt me down the line? I'm paranoid that if this thing goes well, Google would basically already have my data + a lot more resources and could simply leap frog wherever I'm at. Is this a genuine concern?
Tourists don't usually use schools or social services. This page suggests those make up 50% of the budget:

http://gothamist.com/2013/04/11/interactive_chart_nycs_budge...

(I'm assuming "debt" and "pensions" are allocated proportionally.)
It's not particularly intentional, and NPR mention this in large part as a way of drawing attention to the fact and seeking broader diversity.

NPR grew out of the public broadcasting movement that was emerging in the 1960s (though its roots go deeper), as well as the Baby Boom generation and the democratisation of higher education which had occurred after the 2nd World War. Stir in the Kennedys, Vietnam, the Apollo program, Civil Rights, and Nixon, and you had much of the initial foment from which the project emerged.

NPR has had its largest followings on the coasts -- Boston, New York, Washington, DC, for obvious reasons, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. These are all still flagship stations and regions (though there are many others).

There are also, and I say this as someone who's driven across and through the US several times, many local stations and "translators", which serve rural and outlying areas, which are a fantastic relief from what's otherwise the monotony of rural radio: Christian broadcasting, bad country-western, and increasingly, Spanish-language radio.

(And if you think NPR panders to its audience, you should try listening to these for a change.)

The problem of getting a high-concept, intelligence-oriented, limited-budget network to appeal to what have been its underserved communities: African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, and other segments, is difficult, but you're seeing this. There are programs which try to bridge that divide as well as reach out to younger audiences (how successfully is another question). Latino USA, Glynn Washington's Snap Judgement, and The Moth come to mind.

Arguably, Car Talk was a crossover show for a long time, bringing in the shade-tree / garage mechanic contingent (though I feel it overstayed its welcome). I'm aware that that program had a huge draw from an otherwise atypical audience though, which probably explains its longevity even into reruns.

And finally: NPR is freely available to all. In an age of podcasts and iPhones, all you need is a cheap radio to pick it up, no subscriptions, no fancy hardware, no malware, no surveillance (though yes, those are availble through the various NPR, PRI, PRX, MPR, etc., podcasts, websites, and other online experiences). It's far less, IMO, that NPR targets its core audience as that that's the group to which it appeals and is known. The information provided is certainly democratic and would benefit most. And as I've noted, the network (and its public broadcasting kin) are actively seeking to extend both reach and relevance.

Rather than dismiss this with a smear as you have, what would you see done differently, what do you find missing, and why do (or don't) you listen to public bradcasting?
So is there a reason these are online? [removed link to photos out of concern that it is unrelated to the OP]
I lived on henry street for a while, and I can't say that I know anything about the back end of the distribution network, but I can say this article is missing a lot of things about the front end. The produce is cheaper than a standard western store, but the quality is much more varied. Moreover, the market (in the economic sense) seems really efficient. If you see something cheap in Manhattan chinatown in every store, it might be a really good deal, and just that thing is in season or a lot of it was just delivered. But if something is cheap in just one store, it is probably in bad shape. Stores are willing to sell produce that simply wouldn't be sold in ordinary western stores; and do things I think wouldn't be allowed elsewhere. For example, I have seen one place where if they have baskets of strawberries, and some of the strawberries are getting moldy, they will by hand separate out the non moldy ones, toss the moldy ones, and repackage the baskets. Moreover, the stores don't bother to keep clean at all, you can smell them from a block away. If you like food shopping, and you pay attention, its great, but if you want to just get your food, it is a lot of work. I think most americans do not want this kind of tradeoff.
As mentioned in the article, a large proportion of radio listening is done while driving. A car travelling at highway speeds has 60-70dB of background noise. Dynamic range compression prevents the station from becoming inaudibly quiet or uncomfortably loud in such a noisy environment.

BBC Radio 3 (a national classical music station in the UK) uses heavy dynamic range compression during the drivetime peak, but far less compression during the day. This compromise provides a better experience for both hi-fi and in-car listeners.

Very heavy dynamic range compression was historically useful for AM broadcasters, because it maximised signal strength.
Or, invite them in, and (politely) try to pitch a conversion to atheism. I usually get sooo close, then you see that programming snap back into place (you'll see their expression change to one of terror), and they suddenly have to leave really fast.

Mormons are more fun for this, but Jehovah's Witnesses are a laugh riot.
Here's another solution, a little better than rlwrap:

socat readline,history=file exec:q