skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a rather tongue in cheek comment. The assessment of value changes depending on where you begin your inquiry; if you look only at the immediate situation than effectively yes, these lawyers have provided a tangible public service.

On the other-hand the entire branch of law in this case is providing no-benefit to civilization and it's only acts as a funnel for the transfer of wealth between entities (lawyers facilitate this transfer and benefit from it's continued practice which is definitionally parasitic since nothing of value is being created in the process).
That's a problem with all open source software though. Heartbleed comes to mind. This problem may be compounded a bit by the fact that npm has such a low barrier to entry due to its simplicity.

Though saying other open source software is secure due to a higher barrier to entry feels like security by obscurity. Particularly since that higher barrier is often not higher because it's insisted on being high quality tested code, but just because it involves greater complexity in actually submitting it to be distributed.
Has anyone looked at the big list o' Powershell aliases? This is from the section containing wget and curl:

...

// Porting note: #if !UNIX is used to disable alises for cmdlets which conflict with Linux / OS X

#if !UNIX

// ac is a native command on OS X

new SessionStateAliasEntry("ac",
"Add-Content", "", ScopedItemOptions.ReadOnly | ScopedItemOptions.AllScope),

...

new SessionStateAliasEntry("cpp",
"Copy-ItemProperty", "", ScopedItemOptions.ReadOnly | ScopedItemOptions.AllScope),

new SessionStateAliasEntry("diff",
"Compare-Object", "", ScopedItemOptions.ReadOnly | ScopedItemOptions.AllScope),

...
I wonder why people are ok with buying. For most people buying a house is a bad investment. Unless you're very wealthy a house is going to represent a big chunk of your net worth which means you're not going to have a diversified portfolio and you're going to be borrowing money to buy it. Few ordinary investors would contemplate making a highly leveraged investment in the stock market but seem to think it becomes a good idea with housing.

Historically housing also tends to underperform the stock market when you take all costs into account (taxes, maintenance, strata fees, etc.). It's also a highly illiquid asset and tends to correlate with economic conditions (e.g. in an economic downturn you risk losing your job and facing a negative equity trap to move to find another one).

Some people derive enjoyment from owning their own home and if that's the case then maybe the financial downsides still make sense for them. For me I'd rather not have any of the hassles involved with home ownership and let my landlord deal with them. Personally owning a house seems like an unappealing prospect and it would have to be not just a neutral financial decision but a heavily net positive one for me to consider it.
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which is why i dont even go out and buy things like gold bars, large diamonds, etc because they are essentially bait for thieves

the NSA has collected all of our bait, and put it in one insecure location.

If they had built fort knox of network security maybe there would be less concern about data getting out, but regardless of how secure it is, it never needed to be collected, certainly not collected then stored insecurely.
The courts may not buy it, but I don't think it will be for the reason you say (protecting authors' free speech).

I think the argument against that would be "the authors are free to protect their content, but users can't be forced to use that protection", similar to how someone is allowed to insult you, but you can't be forced to listen to those insults.

In other words, content owners will be free to use whatever DRM mechanism they wish, but it wouldn't be illegal for someone to break it, if they can do that. And that's basically EFF's argument, too.

I think this is similar to how some Courts have said that advertisers are free to show ads up in your face, but you're also totally free to block them. Maybe the EFF can use that argument in Courts as a more "practical" analogy to make the judge understand.
Ouch, so it is. We'll get right on it...
Your comment ignores the major integration that PowerShell does provide: .NET. PowerShell can invoke any .NET code and work with the objects returned therefrom. Yes, it has terrible integration with text-based tools, because it's not a text-based shell. It has great integration with the .NET object-based environment, because it's a .NET object-based shell.

(This is also completely ignoring the fact that you can still call any executable; you'll just receive a bunch of strings back. The only failing here is that PowerShell doesn't have the developed string-manipulation tools like sed, awk, etc. because working with text is typically unnecessary.)
I think this is a valid question--not sure why people want to bury this post, because I'm interested to hear this out.

I think it's the same argument and laws that apply against emails. Some say that it's equally "first amendment" to block emails and phone calls. (IANAL) [0]

[0] http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/spam
Careful — I don't know if GitHub will want you to refrain from judging people by their skin colour, c.f. http://www.businessinsider.com/github-the-full-inside-story-...
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I'd say that it's not just spin and trying to be closer to what Intel's architecture is.

The FP contention between the cores in a Bulldozer module makes all recent AMD chips perform objectively worse in most benchmarks than their peers from Intel.

Intel's architecture isn't a priori a goal to achieve. Intel's performance in real-world workloads is a good goal.

There are some heavily-threaded, integer-heavy workloads that Bulldozer and related parts are still incredibly competitive at, even compared to current-gen Intel parts. For the right workload, a Bulldozer-family processor can be a real screamer and they are priced incredibly aggressively. We should recognize, though, that the architecture is high performance only for these specific workloads.

Perhaps AMD should have pursued more innovative architectures. I am not saying that Intel's is perfect. But it is important to note that for current general purpose computing workloads, Intel's architecture is superior to Bulldozer.
Let's be very clear here.

This is not true:

No copyright notice == Public Domain.

Everything You make gets Your copyright by default. This means the default is: nobody can use what You make.

You can put other copyright terms on your works by adding a copyright notice.

You can put something in the Public Domain by adding a notice to your work.

Things can also become Public Domain automatically after a certain amount of time. But that time has been extended several times in the US to something unreasonable: like 75 years after the death of the author. You can thank Disney/Mickey Mouse for that.
http://www.johnsonbatterytech.com/
You can! The FCC requires wireless providers to transmit all 911 calls, including those from phones with no service.

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/911-wireless-services
you can call 911 even without a sim card
>Shooting fleeing people in the back is not okay, unless there is some imminent danger

Yes it is. Don't want to get shot? Drop on the ground and surrender.
I really like it - a couple of opinions though - the time could be extended just a bit, maybe its my pre-coffee state but I sometimes needed a couple more seconds just to think about the name. Also consider changing the scoring to be relative - getting on the right continent would be worth something - for some of these you could guess close enough that if you went and looked at a map for that guess you would be close enough to find the city - but it was still technically too far to count. Agree with someone else that your total score should be shown somewhere.
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> Unless they spend most of their code fighting the framework to accomplish their actual task. Which happens rather often.

You can't make things foolproof. Fools are very clever.
It's not pretty, but you can: https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/the-shell-challen...
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A lot of big companies have R&D offices in Russia, e.g. Intel or Deutsche Bank. I don't think there are many startups here yet
Don't hire if they can't write code during the interview in the language they would be working with. Technical discussion and even pseudocode are not substitutes.
You can still call 911.

Take your SIM card out and give it a shot (kidding, don't...).
Slightly unrelated - Mustafa Al-Bassam, the researcher quoted, was TFlow, one of the younger LulzSec members.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Al-Bassam
And now I know what I'm doing tonight.
> As in, the Free Software Foundation wouldn't be interested in participating in the for-profit software market.

You are mistaken. The FSF does not object to making a profit with software. In fact, they have been selling software themselves. It's about free as in freedom, not about free as in beer.
I wonder if it would be possible to somehow "tunnel" external calls through this.
Mary Sue would like a word with you.
No one said anything about removing locks. My point is exactly that- no one is ever truly 100% secure. In my opinion that makes it only a matter of time and willpower for some nefarious group to have access to the largest tracking database of all time. Which is exactly why we should never have started collection in the first place. There has never been an attack prevented from this information, so why is it being collected?
> Rust is still far too young for something like ABI stability

Without question.

The interesting question to me is (if starting again) whether ABI stability/compatibility is something that is necessary or desirable for userspace citizens to interoperate with each other and the kernel.
I feel the key sentence is “Our strains, to the extent that we can test them, won’t escape,
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clicking the on small islands seems to be too hard but other than that a great idea.
How did you feel about it showing up in the critically acclaimed film, Hackers? That was my first exposure to it.
It's already "a lose" for you, because you are giving the company your free time in order for it to make more profit.

When you are burned out after 10 years of working 12 hour days, will the company keep you employed?
Sadly, in my case, it's closer to 90-95%.

The new rule is if I don't know who it is via caller ID (by having an existing contact show), I immediately decline the call. If they leave no voicemail, that's it. If they leave a voicemail, I listen. 95% of those are the robocaller messages, in which then the number is added to a robocaller contact that is blocked -- and now contains close to 300 phone numbers.
Awesome! I've already "cut the cord". Soon I might "snip the SIM".
The fee also has to incorporate the possibility of losing the case, since it was taken on contingency.
This made me cringe a little.
The `Alias:` listed is a virtual path provider. So just run:

Get-ChildItem Alias:

For the profile path, it's stored under the variable `$profile`.
It really is annoying that the battery issues are so persistent. That's the main thing that has kept me from even going to a store to check one out.

I've been stalking /r/surface and I've been seeing complaints about this for over 6 months. Apparently it's more Intel's fault than Microsoft's, but still very disappointing. I love the form factor and I want to support Microsoft lately.
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I don't think it's odd from an employer's point of view. I accept all requests that may offer some value to me in the future.

I used to dedicate some time to replying to the messages that follow but they became a bit overwhelming.
I've done "VPNs" using sshuttle https://www.unixmen.com/sshuttle-poor-mans-vpn-ssh/

Basically, if you have SSH access to a machine and Python is installed on the endpoint, you can set up a "VPN" over SSH. To me, this is much easier to set up. You can get by most of the time by having a vanilla Linux installation on a cheap VPS without any additional work.
I wonder what it is about Google Voice (or my backend T-Mobile number) that results in me rarely getting these? I never get these on my ~10yr old Google Voice number, and my ~2yr old T-Mobile number gets a random call maybe three times a year.

I don't take any special steps against spam calls.. what might i be doing different? I don't get it.
Full PDF (not open access): http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7537/pdf/nature14...

Auxotrophy[1] been exploited for years to select for engineered organisms. Reverse mutation to prototrophic strain is often an issue. This work by Mandell, et al., is novel because it relies on the organism being auxotrophic for a non-standard amino acid, L-4,49-biphenylalanine. It's cool the system is stable.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxotrophy
Pandoc is damn good, but that's not my primary reason for using Markdown.

I choose markdown primarily because it's readable.
Always a fun read. The Hacker Manifesto reminds us that computing culture stands at a crossroads: between hobbyists and academia, between bedroom programmers and industry, between hackers, and, well, hackers, although both appear on either side of the fence.

While sinister and angsty in tone, this is ultimately a tale of someone discovering the wonders of computing, much as I, and many others did - although I never broke into anything, save my iPod.

From the FSF to MS to the demoscene, we're all computing, and many of us have a spark of feelings this piece evokes - a natural curiosity, a desire to push the boundaries, to see what's possible, and a bit of rebeliousness. It's what separates the hackers (both kinds) and the hobbyists and the wannabes, from those who don't have that feeling, the people for whom this is a 9-5 job, who grind out StrategyObjectFactoryFactorySingletonFactories, and when they get home want to think about anything but programming.

In short, that spark is what separates those who really care about computing from those who just want to get their job done and forget about it.

As usual with any broad, sweeping statements I make, I may be wrong.
This was actually read at one of our local events here after Aaron Swartz died. https://vimeo.com/57438877
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Yes or no question: Is it deemed too difficult for a user to create their own aliases, based on their own needs?

Why should anyone have to make a "mental shift"? The answer is not because UNIX is incompatible with other systems. The answer is more likely because Microsoft Windows is a proprietary commercial product; its sales and marketing staff have traditonally sought to discredit UNIX. Having followed Windows from 3.11 onwards I would argue that it is "different" and incompatible by design. The "mental shift" is intentional and strategic, but not at all necessary.

Why were there no plans to make PowerShell free and open source and publicly available initially? That's a rhetorical question of sorts.

UNIX as the OS that generally "runs the internet" has become better known and more popular in recent years as a result of several factors. That's why MS has to make the moves they're making. keywords: "has to"
But not none, if legislation is needed it will probably mirror the CAN SPAM Act which be an improvement but probably doesn't go far enough for the HN crowd.
Perhaps add a rate of scoring? Total score / no. of attempts.

And, if possible, a magnifying glass to the cursor.

Thanks for the game, really enjoyed it!
It is, but remember these are all unsecured loans without income verification, and both LendingClub and the investors are taking a piece of the profit. Both LC and Prosper now offer 6% loans to 720+ FICOs with the (unverified, as the FA states) income to support it. The lowest may have been 10-12 back then but I remember being surprised because it was less than half my CC rate and I was expecting high teens. I was using it for CC consolidation so really anything below the ~28.99% I was paying was a pretty big win.
The screen pixels or the camera pixels?
The problem with that is that it breaks existing scripts. If you have to update old scripts, why try to maintain the legacy stuff in the first place.
> Don't do dialogue. Their job isn't to chat it's to do.

I think you are wrong. An exceptional programmer who cannot communicate is basically useless.
Pleased, because I think I'm the answer to the trivia question "What was the first email address to ever appear in a major movie credit roll". Sad, because, damn, is that a bad movie.
Thanks and yes that's the plan.

Over time as it collects more data I will be able to identify trends, identify repeat postings, etc. And it should be able to identify various companies based off keywords. So for example some companies have foosball tables as a popular benefit listed in the ads, that would narrow down the companies, coupled with location and social help, this should be effective.
I remember a rumour about a HPC-APU from AMD which would combine 16 Zen cores with a Vega GPU and HBM (High Bandwith Memory) as a L4 cache. I know a L4 cache would be much slower than a L3 cache, but I'm curious, could HBM as a L4 cache be one of the reasons why they didn't use a unified L3 cache?

Disclaimer: I don't know sh*t about hardware design as you can probably guess from my posting. ;o)
Excellent advice. ESR's ideology is vile, he tries to inject it into everything, and he has no shame. He regularly judges and bullies people on the color of their skin, gender, nationality and religion, and he's certainly not qualified as a "hacker".

https://twitter.com/iaincollins/status/719687723590762496

‏@iaincollins Iain Collins Retweeted $30,000 Logout CSRF

TIL ESR is a racist white supremacist and his neo-pagan self description is a dog whistle (see thread for more)

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/719621538257903616

https://www.dropbox.com/s/002k6yy1mzqkd70/Screenshot%202016-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Russ_Nelson#Blacks_are_la...

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/gun-linux
but isn't that the point ? If recompiling takes a long time, you don't want to recompile, if all you want to do is add a few function calls to explore an api or inspect state.

cern uses a c interpreter for real. This is just bringing it to a wider audience with a friendlier interface.

i wonder if it works with cuda... http://llvm.org/docs/CompileCudaWithLLVM.html
The smallest pre-IC computer is probably an aerospace computer. These computers are very interesting, but almost totally neglected. For instance, in 1960 Atlas ICBMs (nuclear missiles) were guided by a computer that was a two foot cube and weighed 240 pounds. Side note: PROM memories were invented for this computer, so missiles could be aimed at different targets in the field.

In 1962, Arma created the first microcomputer, or at least the first computer with that name. The Arma Micro Computer was a general-purpose aerospace computer built from transistors and transfluxors (two-hole core memory with a cool name). The computer was a tiny 0.4 cubic feet and 20 pounds. It was a 22-bit machine; while we now think word sizes must be a power of 2, back then people used whatever word size gave them the accuracy they needed.
Or, what, like they, uh, "adapt" in some way, like a process of "evolution" or something?
Being close to the issue is often a disadvantage.

I don't know enough to say whether that is the case here, but I trust the opinion of a non-profit organization established to defend my rights over an ex-NSA security firm CTO whom I admittedly know nothing about except what I just looked up.
Issuing a disk read every time you need to decrypt data sent over a VPN is not feasible in the slightest. At best you could only keep the key derived from the password, but that's all you'd need to decrypt the traffic.
Can you try again? It is working, but we've had a temporary glitch on DNSimple.

If it doesn't work right away, try http://demo.django-cms.org.
This is why generally I don't buy Amazon stuff for my kindle. 99% of my kindle contains stuff that was either free in the first place (ibilio, gutenberg proj, etc) or was purchased without DRM installed.

I made an exception with Audible but I'm going to cancel it because while I love the idea of Audible, I've been racking up freebees every month and not pulling the trigger because I just don't have the time.
Obviously, but by working more hours a day supply increases even though there aren't more trucks. The same thing will happen with large pools of shared autonomous cars--each car doing more work per day even though there are less cars.
Recruiters. Find me a company that believes this, and I'll actually reply to you.
The last picture in the article implies to me that it's running windows, is that the case, or did I misunderstand something?
Because 99% of web dev code is the same stuff and 99% of the time it doesn't need to be rewritten. You don't need your own implementation of URL rules, user authentication and roles, testing suites, database driver or ORM, request parsing, csrf protection, session handling....

I can buy a book on Django/Flask/Symfony/Spring/Express. I can't buy a book about your homebrew 30k LOC "non-framework" which does all the same things plus an additional customized CRUD layer.

> Nobody sees any other kind of application written by a previous programmer and cries "oh no! I am entirely at the mercy of this previous programmer! If only they had used one of the dozen competing frameworks this tragedy could have been avoided."

If a large majority of the code you've been given to maintain could instead be handled by well known, well documented project with thousands of eyes fixing bugs and adding features, you would probably say the same thing.

Imagine inheriting a java codebase of a simple POS system with a UI. Except instead of using Swing or AWT or I don't know what else, the entire UI is custom written in OpenGL. And instead of using any of the standard sorting or ArrayList implementation, they write their own, which are similar, but not identical (and often have 0 tests).
At a previous employer, #2 was a requirement from HR. It made the process more defensible should someone claim bias and/or favoritism.
If you are going to argue that Microsoft is out on a new EEE trip you are going to have a hard time now that it releases everything as Open Source.