skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many long years ago now in a past life, I was a network security guy for a big research university. Overall, that was a pretty fun job: universities make for a target rich environment. The downside was we that we were responsible for handling DMCA complaints to the university (this was a relatively new law and p2p sharing was just starting to become mainstream).

We'd take the complaint, check the netflow logs to verify that the IP in question really was running file sharing software at the same time, turn off the Ethernet port, report them to the Dean of Students, turn them back on after the deans talked to them, etc., etc.

My boss at the time was sick of doing the RIAA's dirty work for them (back then the RIAA was way more vigorous about enforcement than the MPAA. I don't remember why). So he decided that we were going to make a web site to give step-by-step instructions with screenshots to show how to disable file uploading in every p2p client available. We didn't care what the kids were downloading because the DMCA complaints only came in from uploads.

So fast-forward a year or so and the site is pretty popular. We'd get asked by at least one or two other universities a week if they could copy our instructions locally for their students. Being a university, of course we would encourage it and only ask for attribution for the copyrighted text and images.

Every now and then, I'd Google around and see who was using our instructions, and one day I noticed a .com show up in the results, which was unusual. I don't remember what the name of the site was, but it was some site trying to convince people that copyright infringement is bad and the music industry really are the good guys, etc. I know for sure we didn't get any requests from anyone like that, so I did some digging.

The site didn't have a DMCA contact listed (as required), so it took some serious digging to find out who really owned the site. As I'm sure you've guessed by now, it was owned and operated by none other than the Recording Industry Association of America. They had stolen the entire site, text, screenshots and all, removed our copyright information, and rebranded the pages, claiming the work as their own.

I dug through my email to find the most recent takedown notice they had sent us, changed all the names to reflect the current situation and fired it off to the RIAA's General Counsel. About 10m later, I got a phone call from a very concerned attorney. I genuinely couldn't stop laughing as he was talking, so I referred the matter to our attorneys and thought no more of it.

It sucks to know that your career has peaked so early. It's all been downhill from there.
Bouncy Castle: Open Source Development and Sustainability [pdf]
Negotiation Tactics from FBI’s Best Hostage Negotiator
Someone posted a transcript from their chat room where they discussed it. It was literally in response to that twitter user who was so offended about his weak map joke. Its laughable really. The level of stupidity is just insane.
> Getting into a routine is a big thing (and a thing I struggle with sometimes) with improving health and well-being (imo).

I will also add -- at the risk of stating the obvious -- having a community (real or virtual) of people who share like priorities helps as well. It's a lot harder to skip your daily bike ride if you're riding with other people, et cetera.

(An anecdote from my personal life: I have a "race car" and I also race bicycles. The apparent health of the two communities diverges dramatically with age -- so much so that as a relatively young person, I remind myself that I should work extra hard to remain a part of one community, even if it's at the expense of the other...)
I don't know how they bootstrapped, but startups in Israel have repeatably same problems. Good technology, not so good business leadership, and zero hr skills. It's a known issue, that founders seek help with the minute they start interviewing people and getting frustrated from the pipeline, or the candidate reactions. This company (called 'added value') is unique since it provides a precise solution to that stage in a startups life and they phase out when you get to a certain size, helping the startup hire full time hr. They deliver results, and word travels fast.
Ha ha I was thinking more just somewhere else in USA / UK / Europe etc.
he's got you there, tptacek
Ok let me rephrase: The speed benefit of C++ not always matters. At Google scale, sure. For most intents and purposes, probably not.

Otherwise, totally agreed.
This is all anecdotal evidence of course, but my exposure to this sort of office culture has been much more negative than what you described. Every place I've ever worked, I've played video games or done other fun stuff with my coworkers, sometimes as a part of every day. Nothing wrong with that, I wouldn't have had it any other way. This is the norm, but I don't think this is what people are talking about in this thread.

The negative variant of "come work here, we have video games in the office!" happens when there is an expectation from management (or even just the rest of the team) that everyone is going to participate in Mandatory Team Playtime whether they enjoy it or not. And the 1-2 hours of Mandatory Team Playtime always means that you have to stay at work for an additional 1-2 hours just to get your job done. Or maybe Mandatory Team Playtime is a consolation prize for making you work through the weekend.
Their position on CO2 hasn't changed all that much. The major issue for them is particulates and other side effects from burning coal. However, switching to renewables and/or anything non-coal is something that would also help with the air quality problem they have. And there's been alot of diplomacy pushing them towards that anyway so why not sign up.
Just subscribe to some health related magazine. You'll learn a lot regarding generic well being, pretty standard things. Then you can choose were and when to dig for more (nutrition, exercise, relaxing, etc.)
Their slack channel transcript where they made the decision was posted. They literally took those two twitter users opinions at face value. Thats right, the people who were so offended by his weak map joke. Its so incredibly stupid.
Fully autonomous weapons are going to come, and the squeamishness around it is going to disappear when its necessity becomes apparent in a shooting war.

We already have autonomous weapons, their called mines. Even these can be somewhat targetable, in particular with antivehicle mines.

The most immediately plausible development in autonomous weapons I've read is in anti-shipping and anti-radiation missles. Israeli Areospace new anti-radiation weapon is a loitering drone than can autonomously target fire control radars.[0] Lockheed's new LRASM[1] is designed to loiter in an area and automatically identify and target enemy ships within an area. However, it right now asks for permission to conduct the attack. So we're just a firmware upgrade from fully autonomous with that weapon.

In both these cases, autonomous weapons aren't really troublesome. Fire control radars send out a very different signal than civilian radars, and so are explicitly a military target. Furthermore even civilian radar could be considered a legitimate target if you don't want to be observed at all, as opposed to be seen but impossible to shoot down.

Antishipping historically has explicitly allowed targeting of both military and civilian ships. So just as long as you can identify the vessel as not being yours using an electrolytically sensors, it's permissible to sink it.

The real problem with autonomous weapons tend to be when their deployed on land, especially when civilians are around. In the sea, and in the air even, there's no one around.

[0] http://defense-update.com/20160215_loitering-weapons.html

[1] http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1634058-navy-wea...
Can you point to any specific book that's approachable to someone that's completely unfamiliar with the topic? This seems fascinating.
You could always try unlocking the door with your key first.
But it's not a direct consequence, that's the point. It's an indirect one, completely dependent on other people trying to renature it and drink it - ignoring warning labels like this one: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/warning-label...
Fuck, France is getting worst since March http://stats.labs.apnic.net/v6perf/FR :(
What does full compensation mean? The public market rate? Or the prison market rate because the risks and negative aspects of hiring prisoners mean that the demand for prisoners is low?
Honestly, when I submitted this, this comment is what scared me the most. A tinpot intellectual economy is what I fear when I teach my kids to play by the rules (and watch them struggle.)

There's this hacker tension: teach them to hack the system (and effectively teach them to cheat) or recognize the disease and do things ethically. It's an easy decision to focus on doing the right thing, but it's hard not feeling like a sap if the world goes the way of some libertarian Nirvana where cheating is just survival of the fittest by any other name.
If you'd actually read about this, you would see that the agreement is binding as it was made within the framework of an existing treaty. However, it may not be binding on the next administration unless ratified by the Senate.
"And I need you to write it in PHP because it's cheaper"

(not hating on modern PHP, just its reputation and 'outsourceability')
1. Should journalists write articles about how company X made €Y in profits last year? What about self-employed/single-person-companies?

2. As it was stated properly anonymized data would only allow faceting by absolute income and researchers are interested in many other facets.

3. I'm not from Norway (know some people there) so might be mistaken, but as far as I understand only 3 things are public: income, asset-value, tax. Income and asset structure (income may be wage or interest, assets might be cash in a sock/bank, shares or a house) are not disclosed. Health insurers ask you certain questions about your family health (e.g. any known cancer cases for 2 generations or whatever) and it is contract violation and possibly criminal offense to lie. More on this in side note.

4. The very reason a lot of corruption is gotten away with is simply capacity of tax authorities to dig deep, not the clever routing itself.

Side note: As far as I have observed, it is more or less cultural habit in Scandinavia to be obsessed with what I call "what would others think?". Practically this surfaces in two areas: 1. being really conservative about what is considered acceptable (count number of house colors in a neighbourhood :) ) 2. attempts to be better than your neighbour, which increases welfare
At work we are forced to spend some of our free time writing "commercial interesting" articles mostly of topics that doesn't say a lot to me. It's something that I (and a lot of my coworkers) dread a lot.

On the other hand I have my own blog where I have the freedom to write about what I want and when I want. I'm having a lot more fun when writing for the latter.

I also get a lot more reactions regarding articles that I write for my own so I assume that fun or interest also shows in the quality of my writings.
Ask HN: I created a new GitHub project, and I need some suggestions and ideas
I am a Junior programmer. Recently, I had an ideas of improving development efficiency and saving our time.
So I start new Github project named "Sloth", https://github.com/coolcooldee/sloth . Sloth is A tool to generate scaffold code from SQL databases. You just need to specify your application database may be used.
Until now, Sloth 1.0 has been finished . It accomplished several goals：

Generate Model–View–Controller Code

Generate CRUD Code

Generate API DOC

Provide Many Kinds Of Data Access With JDBC ：Mybatis、JOOQ、Spring JDBC
Sloth1.0 is effective in my daily work !
Currently, I plan to develop Sloth 2.0 . So I would like to listen to your more experienced suggestions and interesting ideas about new features in Sloth 2.0 .
What is your opinion on the schedule and next steps we proposed？Look forward to your feedbacks and suggestions soon.
Thank you for your understanding and your attention to this matter.
I suppose even if you are attracted to one of them, you might not admit it, because that could make thinks awkward between you in the future.

So they ask you, not because they want to know the truth, but because they want your assurance that nothing will change in the relationship between you.
The graphics are output at arbitrary resolutions, which can be demanding. Also IIRC the GameCube GPU had an architecture different from mainstream PC hardware of the time.
I wasn't claiming statistics or individual differences don't exist.

From the point of view of outcomes and efficiency it's better to approach people as individuals and not as statistics, or even worse, statistics with moral binning into good and bad. The logical argument is that humans are complex and it takes a lot of time to gather sufficient data to be correct.

I can dig out references if you like but medical facilities which focus more on individual-to-individal interactions rather than on factory like throughput work better.
Something always bugs me about this criticism:

#1 arguably makes sense. Unless "null" were a "type" (which it isn't), the other possible options for this ("undefined", or "string", "number", "array", etc.) all make less sense.

#2 is expected/correct.

#3 makes sense if you accept that the "+" operator aggressively casts its arguments to strings when they are anything other than two numbers. Arguably that's a bad design, but it's not unexpected or unpredictable.

The one completely unexplainable "+" behavior I know of in JS (i.e., a recent node/v8) is the second of these:

> [] + {}
'[object Object]' // makes sense because the string representation of [] is ''
> {} + []
0 // ???
> var x = {} + []
undefined
> x
'[object Object]' // but assigning to a variable first makes sense again
> who voluntarily decides to give up their soverignity?

Everyone who chooses not to live in anarchy; it's a very normal and healthy thing to do.

Groups of people cooperate to agree on rules that achieve situations far superior to anarchy, where might makes right and little progress is made. My various levels of localities "give up" sovereignty to national government, which "gives up" sovereignty to international institutions. My person "gives up" sovereignty to all of the above. That way we can coordinate things on a local, national, and international scale as needed, from taxes to trade to health care to nuclear disarmament.

In this case, Europeans felt the need to agree on rules to prevent a race to the bottom in tax benefits to corporations. Everyone benefits by following these rules.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there really aren't those (diseases) out to get you...

Alternatively -- are you paranoid enough?

(Ah, this is the same old news first published last year, iirc. This was from January. This is from January 2015: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/... )

Edit: To see more discussion over the last 18 months, google: teixobactin site:news.ycombinator.com. This seems the biggest story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852487
Well if you go by their announcement then it seems they decided they owe their ticket holders. They are now offering refunds. I wonder why..
18th line, "there is more context around it on twitter but that’s the basic gist".

So, again, referencing the tweets & subjects preceding their announcement as context aren't unreasonable as Golden says there's more context on Twitter. Emily Rose, notably, unleashed a series of tweets at them until they capitulated. It's still not the official word you're seeking, but to ignore it seems willfully dismissive.

Moreover, in what manner would a direct affirmation or counterpoint by the Nodevember organizers be advantageous to them? I'm not trying to be conspiratorial about it; being quiet and vague is the far more diplomatic path. It's not in Nodevember's interests to be precise with the particularities of the disinvitation, nor are we, as outsiders, owed any sort of particular explaination. But neither were any details provided to Crockford for him to ameliorate. "It is a mystery to me too." per https://paulstraw.svbtle.com/crockford
I think there is some truth to this, but it isn't universally true. I have spent a lot of years trying to sort out certain things and I am finding myself blogging more these days on various topics. I remain interested in exploring and communicating about a number of different things.

Different strokes for different folks.
Three years seems like an unreasonable timespan. They might end up with people who have little to no social skills with that kind of policy. I don't mean to say that not abstaining for that length of time is abnormal, but young people who are the most adept and skilled with new technologies are bound to find themselves in a situation where they take a hit. I wonder if the drug tests after that are regularly scheduled or if they take you at your word once you're hired.
How did Dan, Joe, and Shane get started on sqlite? Were they volunteers or paid?

(I attended a Google talk you gave probably 10 years ago, and I remember that you mentioned you had paid people to work on sqlite. I thought that was interesting for open source software!)
I peak around ~160 wpm, just practice. Work on 0 mistake and then after that speed.
That's an entirely separate issue. Exercising your contractual right to default on a mortgage is not corruption or cheating. It's all out in the open and recorded in public records.
If we really take security seriously then we should be talking about LAN of things. Anything that requires a connection to the internet and that takes firmware upgrades from the manufacturer and hides data from the user/owner is a security threat not a security agent.

We are still living in a corporation centric paradigm and until we start talking about user centric systems any talk about security and privacy is a joke.
Sent a MMS to +16502851713 from AUS and haven't received any form of response as yet (20 mins ago).
MMS, possible, not likely with SMS...
Are you related to a Dennis by chance? Cool service, definitely adding the number to my contacts!
Assuming you pay for your hosting in whatevercoins and only connect to it over TOR, you aren't at risk, right?
> They would rather not deal with it since their business is renting cars.

Every company's business is collecting data on their customers. It's very widespread.

> Any word that gets out that they even use that data without your permission is going to be very bad press

I disagree. Word on such behavior gets out all the time and few people care.
Pardon ? Qu'est ce que le science technologique ?
Notably, that's one reason there so little investment in antibiotic r&d. The concern is that sales of a new antibiotic could be very limited because of this very concern.
How to Diagnose the Fault of Power Transformer Secondary Winding
Great points; thanks.
Only from after WWII. Before you would rather have German, French and Russian (learn about Terman and look why Chomsky got funded).
Show HN: Hacker News electron app with improved readability
Yes, a package.json is good to get the required dependencies. This article is about possible dependencies that help in cases where you all the possible would mean a huge load on the system.
If you are fighting an army in uniforms, your targets have like bull eyes painted on them. But if you look at all the modern conflicts since the viet nam war, how do you tell the difference between a viet peasant and a viet cong, between an afghan villager and a taliban, between a kurd fighter and an ISIS fighter?

I doubt we are that close. Recognizing road signs and making judgement calls on the above are not the same order of magnitude of complexity.

Remotely controlled infantry, that would be more realistic.
The github hosts the OS X build as well as files needed to build the Hacker News App on any platform supported by electron.
Is HN being censored? Why is this not on the front page, with 611 votes as of right now?
4hourworkweek podcast, he has some interesting guests. former us national gymnastics coach, people that competed in ultramarathons, scientist who created drugs similar to steroids.

youtube for workout: athlean-x

joe rogan youtube channel <powerfuljre>, had on Rhonda Patrick (phd in biomedical science) for a few eps (3-4 hr each) talking about vitamins

if you buy vitamins you have to research the specific ingredient (cheap forms of magnesium, calcium, etc that don't get absorbed).
W3C Blockchains and the Web Workshop Report
Thinking Evil Thoughts
Where's the text writeup? The previous 4 parts had one.
Stupid requirements lead to poor hiring. It's the government's own fault. I always wonder how much of their workforce a company like Google would have to fire if they drug tested.
I wondered why Samsung seems to be going hard into not just IoT, but also into cloud (by buying Joyent).

IoT is going to be the new "convergence", isn't it? Technical and business people get really excited, lots of effort is invested, and then average people just shrug, because it turns out that the tech doesn't solve an actual problem they they have.
> (India, North America, Europe - most of Africa, the Middle East are already English as international lang.

Most of that number only learn English as a second language. Second languages are much more amenable to change than native ones.
There are many things about health and well-being that are specific to the person. You can find all sorts of ideas (many based loosely on science, others anecdotal) from just about anywhere - books, blogs, youtube, etc.

Really though, you have to find what works for you personally. Take any idea - let's say you decide that you want to know if eating less red meat is good for you. You can read a hundred studies that have conflicting results. Or you can try eating less or none of it yourself and see how you feel. You feel great? Awesome. Now you know! You don't feel any different? Again, that's awesome. Now you know you need to eat a little more red meat.

One example for me was pull-ups (the exercise). I always assumed you had to do them overhand with a medium-wide grip. They never "clicked" with me and I could never feel good doing them. After 10+ years of doing them the same way, I finally saw a video where a guy explained how different people might need to use different grip styles to feel it best. I tried several of the different grips and found what works for me. No study or book would be able to tell me which grip style I should use. It was just something I had to learn for myself.

For something more science-based, check out examine.com[1]. Anytime I read about a supplement or chemical that's supposed to be amazing, I go read examine.com and find out what the studies say.

[1] http://examine.com/supplements/
Yes, Virginia, You Can Estimate That
Yes, the missing dependencies would show up at runtime. Which is a valid and important concern, however: It would be possible (though probably inadvisable) to implement an automatic download of missing dependencies.
Let me emphasize that there's no CPU chip in the Alto - the CPU is made up of dozens of TTL chips on three different boards. We're tracing the individual microcode instructions that the Alto is running. As Animats points out, this would be deep inside a modern chip.
When to repeat yourself
Ah yes, back in the good old days, when college was super cheap, when everyone with a college degree was guaranteed a job, and when wages were increasing steadily so that they didn't need a college degree to get a pay increase.

Those good old days?
As with the previous parts, the text writeup will be a few days after the video. I'm not as fast at writing as Marc is with video editing :-)
More colleges should institute honor codes, and rigorously enforce them.