skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean I doubt he killed Tyrell, but Tyrell did put on the threatening gloves in his apartment, so I'm guessing Elliot wanted to make sure that he walked out of the fsociety building alive. Makes sense he'd go for the gun.

Maybe he used the gun to threaten Tyrell after them finishing their work, and has locked him away somewhere. Maybe he shot to incapacitate him, and Tyrell is passed out in some hospital.
New online ecology of adversarial aggregates: ISIS and beyond (Science Magazine) [pdf]
And yet, YouTube advertises the CC licence. Looks like fraudulent claims to me.
I don't expect much traction with this opinion, but I'd say this change also includes the slow takeover by "brogrammers". It was horrifying watching it start, people who had no real intuitive understanding of technology or interest in it who nonetheless learned enough of the vocation to be able to be effective and get a job. No love for it, no yearn for it, no calling to it. I remember talking to a Google intern who said, "I went into dance but I didn't think it would make a good living so I switched to CS.".

On one hand, I don't want to discourage those people - some of them will find it's their calling and they become passionate about it. Most of them though just clutter up companies with people who can't think all that creatively and are way more interested in their next game of Ultimate or the new bar they're trying tonight than learning a new language or exploring technology. There's no 'itch' when it comes to tech work, just money.

I also feel like it's infected the rest of programming culture in general. Programmers have not traditionally been the sort of people who think you need meetups, whatever-a-thons, code camps, and other social-events-masquerading-as-hacking/tech. And if you apply occam's razor it's much less likely that they've discovered a new, better way of being a hacker/programmer, and more likely they were predisposed to backslapping, social drinking and partying already, so of course that's the kind of stuff they're going to try and spread more of in the industry - just as if you had a more technically-minded person in, say, Sales, who would have a hard time breaking their habits of thinking of things in engineering terms.

It sucks. I thought hacker & nerd culture would grow up and mature, instead it just got squashed out by the brogrammers.
I don't think there's any "effective" advertising as utilities. Where do they say you can store email with them in perpetuity?

One of the biggest problems, I think, is user education: the average user sees these widely-adopted services online and assumes they're equivalent to meatspace, where real utilities have been created over time by institutions -- not private corporations. If anything, we need a legally enforceable way to set up true virtual utilities, or for more people to internalize what the media has been telling anyone who listens carefully for years: your data, once handed over, no longer belongs to you.
Exactly. Also, stability in Linux is a never-ending game. Today it works, tomorrow it breaks.
It's a great trick to get out of jury duty, though.
Yeah, I was blown away as well. But there are startups in the military space just like there are in the civilian space, and he had some unique angle he was going for. I think he was also mostly selling to the secondary market where costs mattered more (Vietnam, Indonesia, etc).
There is no cloud, only other peoples computers.
If you entrust Google with all your data, then yes.
Metaballs (also known as: Blobs)
I suspect that she got an infection which weakened the material, and got through her skull by basically growing its way in instead of scratching. Just a guess since it doesn't give any details.
Oh wow that's a blast from the past. I don't think I've used that in 15 years.

But yeah, like yourself, the first thing I thought of when I saw this title was that old Windows terminal.
I had to Google it too. It's something out of a Vernor Vinge novel, Rainbow's End.
> Is that true though ? It seems to be a recurrent theme

Does it really matter? It's sufficient if many believe it. Apparently I could be wrong, but also you yourself are not taking a clear position if that's the case or not.
Not to be pedantic, but any video you watch is downloaded (even when "streamed"). Having it land in a browser cache folder instead of your desktop is obfuscation at best.

It's odd to me that TOS can dictate to which folder a file is downloaded.
Who cares anyway, algorithmically full time surveillance of the public basically castrates pedophiles, limiting them to fiction.

So the usual will happen, public shaming of the "artist" into some pseudo-religious organization, where he/she/it can be forced by the "believers" to uphold some the marriage/basic-income-for-beauty Contract.
Another horrific social machine from the past.

Could we at least pressure potentially creative persons into something socially useful? He/She/It who makes the biggest scientific contribution of a group of three, gets a good life and "surveilanced" freedom, the median gets publicly outed and "surveilanced" freedom, the least contributing goes to some prison.
Repeat every year.
Running Windows 64-bit in QEMU Emulation Mode
To me this all speaks "zeitgeist", the mindset of an era.

This was New York in the 80s and 90s, the Rudy Giuliani era, "no broken windows", tough on crime mentality. The town was traumatized by more than a thousand murders every year. Everyone was desperate for convicts, from the voters to the attorneys, the politicians and jurors. No one had patience to "due process". It was a war.

That era has been praised as a victory for law enforcement. Black Lives Matter and others are now showing the real cost of it. No wonder Giuliani freaks out about BLM.
Used Bootstrap on our customer-facing portal for years and in a recent rewrite. Additionally, many websites build atop of Bootstrap as the foundation. Almost all of the admin themes on ThemeForest, for example, are built using Bootstrap, and provide rich "app" functionality.
VB6... got so much hate but folks just don't seem to see how useful it's debug mode was.

Oh sure... VB6 and good OO design and modern practices (unit tests, dependency injection, etc) don't mix. But... if you need to sit down and "hack out" a bunch of working code quickly it was pretty hard to beat.

Python with the VB6 ide/debugger experience would likely take the scientific computing field by storm.

I miss it... especially since I've never been able to get "edit & continue" to work at all in Visual Studio.
Yeah, plan 9 did a lot of cool things and fixed many of Unix fundamental warts. Taking the "everything is a file" much further, and namespaces as a fundamental primitive rather than something bolted on afterwards, for starters.

Alas, too little too late, it seems.
Fun fact. Mr Robot S02E01 was doing a scene right around the corner next to AWS NY Loft. Not sure if it was accidental or intentional. I only came to realize until this HN post and looked at what the main character looks like. Yeah the kid with hoodie. He was there.
> Does having a degree make you a better person or a more functional part of society?

I think it would be safe to say that in case of the parent commenter this is true.

It seems obvious that he/she is educated and actually wants to be a part of society.
Higher-order organization of complex networks – Science
A couple of my guy friends have told me they swipe "Yes" on every single girl. I suspect that this isn't too uncommon.
Ubuntu Linux forums hacked
That term doesn't make sense. Streaming a video involves transferring portions of it to your computer. Some portion of the video has to be present in memory on my computer in order for me to see/hear it, which means that the act of watching a video necessitates making at least a partial copy.

You could claim that there's a difference between holding the data in RAM and holding it on disk, but all modern consumer operating systems support virtual memory, which means they can use the hard drive as an extension of RAM if needed. That would mean that it violates the terms of service to watch a video while doing something memory intensive, which could cause portions of the video to be automatically transferred to disk.

I'm not a lawyer, but I question whether this term could be enforceable.
> Most of them though just clutter up companies with people who can't think all that creatively and are way more interested in their next game of Ultimate or the new bar they're trying tonight than learning a new language or exploring technology.

Welcome to being just like every other profession out there. Most people don't like talking about work when they're not on the job. Honestly, the "you can't have a life outside work" attitude is far more toxic to our profession than any kind of "brogrammers".

I remember someone on HN saying they like living in SV because they can go to a bar and end up talking about JavaScript frameworks with some random stranger there. That just horrifies me--the last thing I want to do when I'm relaxing after work is to talk shop! (and, to be fair, there were a number of comments replying to them expressing the same sentiment)
I learn to learn from them to better create copy that improves conversion rates.
I don't know what imaginary language you are imagining that only runs on 1 os and doesn't have libraries in it's ecosystem.
1. be good looking

2. don't be not good looking
> Feels like reinventing the wheel. I'm still can't get why nobody published a RFC for this issue.

They have, back in the "XML is the king of data formats, and WebDAV is the way to build web applications" days. (It sounds something like either the SEARCH or REPORT HTTP method defined for WebDAV.)

Someone proposed a generified version of SEARCH but it didn't go anywhere, that and a few other bits of WebDAV really could use being detached and made useful separately for generic web content.
Paper was published first time several years ago. Lawsuit is mentioned in other article.
Just define it. Also, I'll point out that you've not provided any evidence for YOUR claims that human nature does not change.
If the phone tracked more locally it could not poll GPS until it detects locally that it's moved enough, so if you weren't moving you wouldn't be updating your position very often.

That's how the Android Location service works, unless you intentionally bypass it. You ask the location service to update you when it determines the user has moved X feet.
Thats crazy... So they do have alternative support but they decide not to use it?! I was able to get the video to play by using chromes built in device toolbar. https://img42.com/XL9PR+
Does kubernetes without rkt support pluggable isolation environments? It seems like a pretty cool feature to be able to say "this pod needs to be run under kvm." I'm not well-versed in how good the regular container isolation has become at this point, so maybe it's not as big of an issue these days.
"Gigi" Hadid is of middle-eastern descent. Which if the Liberals who yell at me constantly for being a racist bigot have anything to say is distinctly non-white and middle-easterns are a minority person of color. Or are they like asians now and are only a minority/person of color when it fits the narrative but are considered white and getting "the benefits of being white" when it suits the narrative?

My only issue with the picture would be copyright concerns, but I don't know the copyright status of the photo used. Plus since Material Kit is free, I'm not sure if it would fall under Fair Use or not. IANAL.
If this is all you could take away from it, you are probably a racist.
Your post is a little confusing because:

a) you complain of the brogrammers

b) you complain of the google intern that switched from dance to CS even though one might argue we need many of more of them to respond to (a)

c) you complain of hackathons which have done much to make tech more inviting precisely to people other than brogrammers

d) finally, your view that the person who switched from dance to CS for better job prospects is mostly a menace...this precisely is a bro-perspective...that very thing you complain of!

I can't help but feel you just seem nostalgic of the good old days.
please submit the original source. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12101918
Surely the line "a safe place for your files" is only saying that it's secure from hackers and they won't be deleted by mistake. It says nothing of them being deleted if they're against Google's terms. Similarly Amazon's marketing of a 3 terabyte backup drive - the use of the word backup implies that you shouldn't rely on it as the only copy of your files. It's not a backup if there's only one copy.
Could be that they couldn't attend or some other reason.
In the documentary they said that ~70% of Syrians who made it to the UK were granted asylum. So evidently the UK is doing its own background checks.
pay-walled?
I'm not a big fan of taking the openness in machine learning and making it a web based product, for me the "whoa" moment from the new approachable machine learning frameworks is that I can train a Tensorflow network on my computer then embedded it in an Android/iOS app that'll work offline.

Also, much more minor grievance but I really dislike websites that don't work on my 15" laptop, what's going on here? http://i.imgur.com/q13lCLK.png
Classic Shell is blocked?? Can you give me any info on that? I've never heard of this.
Wrong Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_Act_of_2003

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Handley

That law currently stands.
I think this article characterized the hacker spirit much better than the jargon file's narrow highlighting of a few aspects of one type of hacker.

In a way, the jargon file's definition reflects an early step on the deductive/prescriptive path that led to exactly what the author is lamenting.
YMMV but Wine runs 95% of D3D 9 games just fine.
UK Ministry of Defence x-originating-ip using Office 365
The author does not even try to make arguments about what makes React bad and Web components good.
I expected some strong opinions about this backed by performance benchmarks but all the author cares about is saying that React is bad because it is not a web standard and it was made to fight with google for best engineers!
Really, i failed to see it.
We, at AdPushup, chose React for Visual Editor and i can give many reasons as its justification.

- One way data binding flow (Much easier to learn, implement and debug as compared to more traditional two-way data binding, not to mention Cascading MVC updates that decreases your productivity by a fair margin)

- View render is independent of component state

- render() encapsulates component's every possible UI state

- True reusable components, we have been using many of them in our Visual Editor

- ViewModel is nothing but just an object literal that lives in every component, only if needed. So, no View can be more 'decoupled' with its model.

Further, React docs themselves talk about how React can be mix-and-match with Web Components and both of them are built to solve different problems.

An excerpt from this comment section:

In the second half of the article, the author argues that we should prefer Web Components to React, which is like comparing apples to barrels.

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/webcomponents.html

> Trying to compare and contrast React with WebComponents inevitably results in specious conclusions, because the two libraries are built to solve different problems. WebComponents provide strong encapsulation for reusable components, while React provides a declarative library that keeps the DOM in sync with your data. The two goals are complementary; engineers can mix-and-match the technologies. As a developer, you are free to use React in your WebComponents, or to use WebComponents in React, or both.
Childporn seems to be the trigger here, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. This story illustrates a huge problem facing nearly all social media re child pornography. The laws seem like bright line, but in reality they are no such thing. Nearly everything is a judgment call. Nearly every daily decision is based on vague and uncertain definitions.

(Fyi, I try to avoid the now-popular term "child abuse imagery" because that is both too loaded and too narrow.)

I teach the definition of child porn to forensics students because they will be running into it in the profession. It is massively complicated. My child porn lecture goes as follows: Here are the rules (cases, laws etc). Then I show a series of images and clips that, given the definitions we just went through, cause the cops in the room to reach for their handcuffs. Then I show where the clips are from: popular pg13 movies and TV shows, none of which would ever be considered illegal. I do this to illustrate the lack of bright lines, and how definitions and treatments change based on context.

To avoid uncomfortable discussions best done only in person, let me simply say that there exists a range of material at issue here, from 1 to 10. 1 is stuff that while it trigger flags clearly isn't illegal. 10 is stuff where there is no debate. The law declares everything above 5 a crime, but nothing below 8 is ever prosecuted absent political pressure (webeweb et al). To be safe, Google moves against anything a 3, as happened here. So there is a range of stuff, from 3 to 8, that may or may not be illegal. It will be deleted/reported by the likes of Google but will never result in prosecution.

This is yet another a horrible story of an artist suddenly finding himself in that gray area between 3 and 7. His stuff is probably not illegal, but nobody can say for certain. Google has chosen to run in fear, but we outsiders, most of whom have not seen the material, tend to side with the artist against the big evil corporation. And nobody want to speak openly for fear of the labels that attach. It's a messy area full of emotions and pitfalls. Society needs to address this problem.
The point he's making, is that just because you're into "technology" now as you say, it doesn't make you a hacker. The hacker definition is changing slowly.
See also: The Corner
I almost always find the most interesting people I work with aren't the ones who are "nerds for nerds sake". I was at CMU SCS, but the two best engineers I know from undergrad studied Philosophy and Political Science. I've worked with some fantastic converted-lawyers over the years.

Writing code is a skill, and it's as much writing as code. Different life experiences give you different advantages in applying a particular skill to a particular problem, and the inability to recognize that is your shortcoming.

> I thought hacker & nerd culture would grow up and mature, instead it just got squashed out by the brogrammers.

It got squashed by both ends. A friend of mine in school wrote an op/ed in the newspaper on how "Geek culture" and "Greek culture" were two sides of the same coin, and I can't help but notice how this repeats itself constantly.
This isn't about "monothesism". It's about the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, with a strong focus on Christianity. They are related branches from the same root religion, and have their source in the same part of the world, with a relatively recent basis, evolutionary speaking.

A serious analysis would ponder the transition from the Ancient Canaanite religion through Abraham's rejection of idol worship, and the strictly monotheistic Judaism developed during the Babylonian captivity.

A serious analysis would look at other monotheistic religions, like Zoroastrianism and Sikhism.

A serious analysis would consider why so much of the world was polytheistic, before the spread of the Abrahamic religions.

A serious analysis would compare us not to the silverback gorilla but to our closest living kin, the bonobos and the chimpanzees. So close, and yet with very different social and sexual behaviors both from us and each other.

I'm not even sure how to understand the part about infanticide. The quote from Num. 31:17-18 looks like a call for ethnic cleansing, leaving only the virgin girls. It's not, strictly speaking, infanticide. Regarding infanticide in general, and quoting Laila Williamson from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide "Infanticide has been practiced on every continent and by people on every level of cultural complexity, from hunter gatherers to high civilizations, including our own ancestors. Rather than being an exception, then, it has been the rule." That Wikipedia page then says "Judaism prohibits infanticide", "Christianity rejects infanticide", and "Islam Infanticide is explicitly prohibited by the Qur'an".

This is not a serious study. This comes across as one of those just-so stories that evolutionary psychologists seem to love to put together.
Came here to make roughly this same assertion. As soon as I started reading about 'art' I was like well... the only reason google would pop it and not say anything is because it contained pedophilia material/underage 'art' and they probably wont be able to make an official statement until a police investigation results in either the material being released/oked or the guy getting charged.

Or the alternative, google didn't want to continue hosting the questionable content since it resides on their servers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12096250 (488 points, 257 comments)
Does adding more characters to the Enigma rotors improve crypto strength?
Further evidence the Saudi government is a terrorist organization/family/cabal and did/may have had very good understanding of 9/11
prior to the attacks.

It's also further evidence that our continuing to uphold them as a model ally is absurd in the face of how we purport to feel about human rights.

Edit: even this document puts the word "ally" in quotes when speaking about Saudi Arabia.

Edit 2: upon further reading, not only may they have had knowledge of it, but they may have provided material support to the hijackers after they arrived in the US. Is there further information about this anywhere credible?

Edit 3: most information about the actions of these people after September 11 is still redacted.

Edit final: this release is pretty damning, although I'm not an expert in this field. There is maybe an angle here? Is the US government about to distance itself from SA? Or is something more damning about to become public? Tin-foil theories to be sure, but I feel like things like this rarely get released without a FOIA fight.
Three Types of Readers and the Most Transcendent Form of Reading Is Non-Reading
Well for instance, Atom and VSCode have ~50ms (or ~49x) more input latency than editors written in C (source: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ )

But maybe we are willing to accept 50x worse performance and higher memory requirements and slower startup time because the language is nice and guarantees correctness....Well no, it is javascript, not Haskell or Lisp. So, what is the win here? Why have we collectively decided javascript is a good tool for making applications for the desktop?
Keep in mind you can get Fields medal only if you are under 40 years old. That's more likely when going into academia maths straight away, without enjoying relatively lucrative industry jobs like most of IMO contestants I know do.
Thanks for pointing out that share button issue. Should be fixed now!
On the other hand, the historical record: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RMS-Emac...
What? It was ridiculously far removed from reality. First, he eats 3x10mg morphine pills. Morphine has a terrible oral bioavailability (and morphine pills are relatively rare). Any self-respecting drug user would at least google some basics. He talks about "withdrawal" and having to avoid being sick, so takes Suboxone (buprenorphine) which is stronger than his regular morphine dose! It's pure fantasy.

Also, he has an attractive drug dealer girl that just comes over to give him free drugs and screw him? I'm sure this happens. But I doubt it's remotely representative to say that happens to introverted semiautistic "hackers".