skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My issue is with the no-modification part. This is the exact argument he gives for not using some software - that users are not free to modify the software and hence it is malicious.
No need to be polite. Extremist weirdos are behind essentially all important, groundbreaking, awesome things.

A well mannered "normal" person would have never written the GPL and would have tolerated software that didn't match their politics.

The fringe provides a mandatory function in steering the cultural ship.

Early advocates for things like minimum wages or child labor laws were Molotov cocktail throwing anarchists. Early women suffragists were equally way out there - even by quite permissive modern standards.

Subversives are necessary in order to subvert and often make the world a better place.
All of them work.
Over the years, I have used ( in reverse chronological order ) Mint, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, Suse, Mandrake, Slackware and Yggdrasil.

They were all satisfactory.
You could have mentioned what kind of development you do. Cause image JavaScript developer and I write go/rust sometimes. These things run great in Ubuntu for me. Also I think so Ubuntu has the highest market share among devs so choosing it can be a better option.
Without an on-premise option you wouldn't be able to get in to most organisations that have Lync deployed. Feature wise it wouldn't be too hard to match, but you might go crazy trying to code Outlook/Exchange integrations.
How do you know it is taking place. Maybe it's a "solid" recording of events. You could only perceive time passing.
It's already been brought up in this thread, but I'm concerned that RMS is undermining his own points by distancing himself from reality, allowing him to exaggerate them to the point where nobody takes him seriously anymore.

Nobody on Earth* will restrict themselves to using only websites, operating systems, and software and hardware packages which are fully free and open source. That would be insanely restrictive, and generally speaking -- at the risk of being blunt -- you'd be resorting to consistently using lower-quality, less-supported software a lot of the time†.

I'm sure he's got some valid points, but his approach to modern technology based on them essentially involves reverting back to the days of the extremely early internet, where the actual person-to-person networking was restricted to mailing lists and IRC; two formats which the majority of internet users today likely wouldn't be crazy about compared to the alternatives.

* who wants to be a normal and productive member of modern society

† not that there isn't great F/OSS software out there -- Linux and BSD are absolute wonders compared to Windows, but a lot of the time it's like comparing the GIMP to Photoshop -- there's just more refinement in a piece of software developed by thousands of paid, dedicated, full-time developers over two or so decades.
As far as I'm informed, it's the second type only. You can't even fetch specific package versions (Pacman keeps old packages around if you ever need to downgrade to a previously installed version, but that's it). Of course, I could be missing something there :)

So yeah, you probably won't be using it for a web server or the like, but I wouldn't imply from that that Arch is to insecure to use as a dev machine.

As far as bugs go: There's a testing phase/repo for new packages, so it's not really likely that an upgrade will do much damage (and as I said, you can still downgrade if necessary).
A bit off topic, but the conjur.net domain seems to be a bit broken. https://conjur.net doesn't work properly and it threw an SSL/TLS certificate error the first time I visited. Also, it appears as if your main site doesn't redirect to HTTPS. As a security company my first thought is that if you can't handle these simple things I'm not sure I'm ready to talk to you about more complex matters.
Not as shit as Skype for business
He said "almost certainly".

If Skype could not eavesdrop on calls, they would most certainly say so when ask —because not saying so would make them look bad. It's then a simple matter of probability theory to deduce that their silence most probably means it can eavesdrop on calls.

Affirming a disjunct is perfectly legitimate approximation in this case.
Original publicity materials: https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2017/january...

Paper: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aai8792

This is somewhat different from earlier lines of research into scarless healing in mammals, such as the work based on the biochemistry of MRL mice ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806350/ ).
I too have been quite pleased with Facebook calling over a 3G connection from the Middle East to North America, though I still find that FaceTime voice calls sound better (pending both parties own apple devices)
His success: getting banks to invest so much on him that they did all they can to keep him afloat. Borrowing so much to become "Too big to fail."

Successfull as a con man can be.

Giving the money of his father to an index fund would result in the same or more wealth today. But he got to be so "visible" this way... up to becoming a president for being a known TV face.
Hope and Real Change Blooms
The @verified badge does not really signify a "big enough" name. Back when it was a manual process, unless you were a huge celebrity, you got on the list if you were a member of a media organization and if Twitter happened to contact your comms/social media person to submit a list of employees and Twitter names. People with just a hundred or so followers could be verified this way.

Now that you can apply to be verified, just about anyone can get the blue checkmark. You just have to provide proof of identity and fill out a form. I didn't get verified through the manual process even though I worked at a fairly prominent media org. But working in non-media, I got accepted within a couple days by filling out the form.

Check out @Verified's following-list and you'll see lots of similarly non-influential people on there: https://twitter.com/verified/following
They originate in Taiwan, but they have a company registered in Fountain Valley, California. Company number C1362992, registered since 1986.

http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.as...

Feel free to search for it on the California Secretary of State's website: https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/

If they have legal incorporation in the United States, it is fair game for the FTC to go after their US-based company for failure to protect US consumers. Don't want legal liability in the US for your business activity, don't incorporate in the US.
Not for skype, i've seen spammy messages from tons of contacts, pretty sure it's yet another hole in skype they can't patch https://hub.zhovner.com/geek/how-skype-fixes-security-vulner...
> "who wants to be a normal and productive member of modern society"

Maybe it's just me, but being a "normal" member of any society isn't very appealing.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Max Planck himself said:

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." [1]

[1] - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck
They haven't disavowed the @WLTaskForce account, though.
Regarding your important points:

- All modern distros can run virtualized systems. You just need to install your favorite virtualization software (VirtualBox, qemu, VMWare, etc.).

- No distros have good battery management, at least not really on par with Windows, and certainly not on par with macOS. This is just the unfortunate state of affairs with the Linux kernel. Some of it is due to lack of focus on improving that aspect, and much of it is due to the difficulty of programming power management modes for various bits of hardware (a decent amount of this stuff isn't well-documented, or documented at all, depending on manufacturer). Using "powertop" (on any distro) can help you figure out the things that are eating into your battery and can help you reduce usage. TLP, a set of tools for configuring your system better for longer battery life, can also help, and should be available on most if not all distros.

Personally I run Debian (stretch) as on my main dev laptop, and it's been working well for me for years (well, jessie before stretch existed). I used to run Gentoo years ago, but got tired of long compile times. The flexibility of compiling or not compiling certain features into software just turned out not to be all that useful for me.
> like a bit of malware breaking out of a sandboxes virtual machine

Since you're trying to demonstrate the impossibility of the situation, I think the analogy you're looking for is ransomware breaking out of your computer and kidnapping you.

The data/code/simulation can't suddenly escape the sandbox and materialize into whatever the "reality" is made of. For that reason, it is trivial if we are in a simulation.
BTW, technical requirements for cars are EU-wide. Country specific requirements for "a car sold here must have a DAB radio" are an illegal obstacle for free movement of goods, or a state subsidy to domestic industry.

So, DAB radio won't be in all cars unless DAB radio is an EU wide requirement. Not happening overnight.

Requiring things like winter tyres is OK because they can be installed separately. I'd be happy to insist that all cars in EU must have block heaters and cabin electric outlets, it would surely reduce prices here a bit.
i am building a browser plugin with clojurescript and reagent. i could not be happier. i have easy js interop, i have hot reloading, i have easy state management, i have code optimizations thanks to direct integration to google closure compiler.
In East Germany Stasi (Staats Sicherheit = Homeland Security) informers were normal and productive members of society.
I didn't downvote you, but I think you're being downvoted because you're being a little vague. If Snowden is lying constantly (particularly as you say about the behaviours he exposed) I'd expect the criticism to be more specific than what you said.

Also the "they want to take down the United States" thing is pretty extreme and a bit "InfoWars" sounding, and if you listen to him and his justifications for what he did then it's pretty apparent that this is not something he stands for.
Amazon's point of view is pretty clear. The question was about why anybody else would want to play along.
In a way, "practicality" is the place you arrive at only after considering more extreme, principled points of view. So if his role is to present one philosophical approach to technology, and you decide it's too extreme, at least it was there to make wherever you arrived informed and well-considered.

And certainly for many-- even if they don't embrace his positions with full-throated absolutism, maybe they'll be floating a little more in the direction of his idealisim than it would have without him having him there. And if so, and clearly his principled influence has been influential (and considerably so) for decades, that's a good thing, right?

What would the would look like without his constant "impractical" point of view...? Very different, and more scary, I think.
Netsurf is working on it by shipping with Duktape. Still very experimental, though.
Well, someone who doesn't want to reveal his/her driving habits to Google, NSA et al?
PotPlayer is my favorite media+music player. Inbuilt file seeking interface like potplayer in IINA can be helpful.

Pinning playlist in front to drag and drop additional files is also required.

Support to take screen shot without quality loss.

Any plan to support mp3/flac files?

Thanks for this great app, looking forward for stable release.
I'm surprised there was no test added to ensure this doesn't regress. Any reason why not?
I would like a tool that looks at what people are doing and fills out timesheets automatically. Stop asking your developers what they are working on directly and start looking at their artifacts. For example, if Dev A. just checked in a bunch of code for Project Alpha, there is a good chance they have been working on Project Alpha for the past X hours. If QA person Q just ran a bunch of tests for Project B and updated a spreadsheet, there is a good chance that they have been working on Project B for the past Y hours. Person W just updated a bunch of Wiki pages for Project C? And so on.

Sure, you can't capture everything everyone does, but most of the "timesheets" I've had to fill out in the past could have at least started with this information and allowed me to modify it. I hate filling out timesheets and keeping track of what I do. I'm doing work, something should keep track of that for me.
Surprised people consider tabs and scrollback similarly basic features. As someone using only basic linux terminal emulators like x/u/aterm or urxvt its interesting to see that people consider tabs a basic feature, while I don't know a single term without some scrollback.
Really makes you realize how different people's expectations are.
Ah yes - my flight would be definitely have been pre-ISIS. I distinctly remember seeing Mosul, Baghdad and Basra "nearby" on the in-flight map
Many worthwile causes require effort and sacrifice. A world of free software would most certainly be better, but to get there, some of us may have to suffer extreme inconveniences, such as using lower-quality, less-supported software just to boycott the proprietary stuff.

It's a political choice.
And that's the second comment with the exact same wording: "productive member of society". Productive. Member. Of society. It's got something scary.
Arch Linux doesn't have 'security patches only' option because they exist for older versions. All updates are just updates. You can however restrict a particular package from being upgraded and manually update it.
I rather find youtube is the only google site it would hurt to go without as a user. Google's search quality is not that different compared to competitors, and mail and maps are totally replaceable.
I love cinnamon so that's a big plus on Mint but I didn't love being stuck on an old version of Ubuntu and all the associated core packages/drivers. I had some hardware issues that were fixed by using a more recent version (now on Fedora).

I'm by no means a seasoned Linux veteran though so just explaining that YMMV.
Ah, got it: http://jsfiddle.net/h2yJn/2968/embedded/result/
(though I felt that it's easier to use arrow keys for motion and W/A/S/D for expanding)
Isn't privacy by obscurity just as broken as security by obscurity is? I mean, if it is possible to build such a list from publicly available data, the bad guys already should have one so why not make it public? Or are they planning on building the list from leaked data? The article doesn't talk about the origin of the data.
Sam - How can a student with no technical background go start a startup ? For e.g. - Evan Spiegel from Snap didn't have a programming background neither did Brian Chesky from AirBnB.
>I'd expect the criticism to be more specific than what you said.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/04/the...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/17/either-edwa...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fable-of-edward-snowden-1483...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/5-ways-nsa-leaker-edward-snowdens...

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/snowden-lied-and-acted-out-of-piqu...

>hey want to take down the United States" thing is pretty extreme and a bit "InfoWars" sounding

USG, not US. There's a very specific sort of western libertarian/leftist that believes the US' foreign policy is evil, that the military-intelligence wing is a tool of evil, and that opposing it in any way possible is an unalloyed good. I put all three of them in that camp. You could add the likes of Chomsky to that mix. That doesn't mean they don't like their conception of what America is or could be, but they see America's actions in the world as evil and in need of opposing.
Agreed, I find the current resolution on VR headsets a huge letdown. Actually made worse by the fact that everything else I have these days is retina, 4K, etc so at a very high resolution.
"Skype requires the use of a client program that is not free software; in other words, the users don't control it — it controls them.

A nonfree program denies users freedom, which is unjust in itself. Making the ethical issue sharper, for you to use Skype is to encourage someone else to use Skype, which means you're pressuring someone else to surrender freedom as well. This is plenty of reason to refuse to use Skype, but there are more reasons."

How it pains to read such texts.
"Everything that's not open source is evil."
CSP headers are more often than not: static (bar nonces). Having them be dynamic is really just a bonus to the management aspect you gain here. (You can make sure every page truly only has access to load the sources it needs though).

As far as using the class to do it goes, there are other benefits other than just CSP management: auto cookie upgrades and error messages about poor configuration to name a few.
Yeah, I came here to say this. Ubuntu (esp LTS) if you want "mostly just works, I don't want to spend time maintaining/configuring it", Arch if you're more adventurous and nerdy. Fedora if you are a "just works" person but are doing it on a ThinkPad.
Sorry just saw this, it's the autocert package bradfitz linked to.
I like opinionated software. If scrollback is better implemented on a different layer, leaving it out is reasonable.
But I'm not using tmux because I use i3 as wm which does all the tiling/splitting. Now using a new tmux instance for each of my terminal (can be dozens) only for scrollback seems not the right way though. Any recommendations what would be The Right Way here? Anything that only implements scrollback maybe?
LG signals plan to put Wi-Fi in every appliance it releases in 2017
Azure Cloud Functions vs. AWS Lambda
Another aspect of the AUR that I skipped: The way Pacman packages are set up, it's possible for multiple packages to deliver a certain functionality.

This allows for a great number of AUR packages (the ones ending with "-git", "-hg" or the like) that essentially download/compile a bleeding edge version from the according source versioning repo (e.g. on Github). If they're correctly set up, the system will recognize them as a replacement for another package, that might even be in the main system repos.
The Investigatory Powers Act: Ultimate Guide
Arch (Or any rolling release) isn't just about cutting edge. OS upgrades tend to break stuff depending on your usage (something compiled against the specific kernel version). Updating your computer every few days means you can avoid it entirely.
Build your PiZero Swarm with OTG networking
btw there if you are not totally comfortable with certbot, there is a free monitoring service at https://letsmonitor.org
I don't know if it is a bad thing or a good thing or something in the middle (some advantages but revealing new problems such as the one in the OA). But there is a shift.

Maths example: place notation and Arabic numerals made adding and subtracting very easy (you try adding numbers in roman numerals without translating) but we lost insight into ratio and proportionality concepts. That was around 1200 or so in Europe.
Arch, if you have the time to configure and tweak it. Otherwise, Fedora is quite good & stable with minimal tweaks (check out fedy [1])

[1] https://folkswithhats.org/
who cares?

this happens every generation.

the very things that some of us miss as "details shift" (like books) were the reason for the moral panic when first introduced.

http://www.historytoday.com/frank-furedi/media%E2%80%99s-fir...
How about wire? https://wire.com
How many servers? How are you managing the updates? Are you using it for any 'production' code?
Check out Henri Bergson. The first person to argue that Time is Real.
Greenwald is an occasionally decent writer with a penchant for over-exaggeration and finger pointing. I used to be an ardent fan of The Intercept, but more recently have noticed it becoming far angrier and politically charged. In addition, it seems far more willing to play fast and loose with the truth, lack citation, and generally falsify as much as it accuses. Leading to the current state of the comments section on there where anyone who would rather take a more nuanced pragmatic view of things is called a "shill" by some bleating anti-authoritarian sheep.
Also plenty of proprietary firmware being used on the telecom hardware used to transmit the call
These guys (https://www.patreon.com/LaVagabonde) were/are running a competition to invite a handful of paetrons on board for a week or two. Seems like people go for it (https://youtu.be/zKwjPr9vINM?t=13m42s). GL!
Your use of "open source" in summarising RMS' opinion is rather unfortunate and leads me to think that you don't know his positions very well.
Slackware does indeed work similarly with its SlackBuilds system, albeit with much more minimalism (no dependency resolution is probably the most significant difference). SlackBuilds are also standalone shell scripts, unlike (AFAICT) PKGBUILD scripts (which seem to rely on being invoked by a separate command).

Gentoo is a whole other ballgame, and its packaging system is much closer to a modern-day BSD-style ports tree.

As for the starting environment, Slackware actually takes the opposite approach from Arch: the installer defaults to installing all package sets available, which in the case of the install DVD includes KDE, Xfce, a bunch of other window managers, and a whole lot more. You're of course free to deselect the package sets you don't want (or even individually deselect packages), but Slackware's approach is definitely to start the user off with a fully functional system rather than expect the user to set things up from the bottom up.

Gentoo's somewhere in between those two extremes, at least as far as I remember from last time I installed Gentoo.
Classic Marxist-Leninism: we can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs -- great, unless you're the egg.
> Philosphers like Nicholas Bostrom are arguing that either something will prevent most simulations from reaching a stage where we can or will simulate the past, or we most likely live in a simulation

What do they mean by "simulate the past"? If we're talking actual true-to-history simulations, that is going to require an unprecedented amount of inital data on how the world was in the past. An there's no way for the system to collect all that data, seeing as it's in the past before the omnipotent simulator was created.

On the other hand, if they mean "simulations of some hypothetical past with loose connections to the actual past, Matrix-style", i.e. "they" have the freedom to generate the scenario we're in, why on earth would they choose this one with all the troubles and suffering in the world? Why not make one where everyone's a pony and we all eat rainbows and poop butterflies?

They are running into exactly the same debates that Christian philosophers have been struggling with for millenniae - why is there evil in the world created by God / our hyperintelligent great^{n}grandchildren? Which indicates to me they are much closer to religion than science.
Obvious privacy issues aside, Stallman has always come off - to me - as someone who doesn't really see the bigger picture.

That depends heavily on the definition of "bigger picture". You seem to think practicality is most important, while for someone like rms, the bigger picture is in the realm of ethics and human rights.

That said, everyone's entitled to their own opinion.
key question for amazon:

how many doll houses is a person willing to return in order to make their soap purchase easier?
This. I wish the book would refer to lighttable instead of emacs so as to be considerably more portable and easier to get into.
I recommended that combo to a non technical friend and he's happily scooting along after a short primer on (lein) repl vs (windows) command prompt vs lighttable inline evaluation
Any particular reason to block people from outside the US from downloading it?