skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(This was a reply to a now-deleted comment.)

>Is there actually a widespread "life and death" issues here? There have some very publicized cases, but I have yet to see any data that there this is a significant problem beyond having the police called to your house or getting bunch of pizzas delivered that you didn't order. That said, there are definitely dangers with governments who deny basic human rights.

>The bank account issue is really more just about normal identity theft and isn't really part of the topic either.

>I should add that things like "harassment" do not qualify here as those are normal parts of everyday life anyway regardless if your personal information gets revealed online.

>Are we sure we're not just participating in the typical online habit of blowing regular issues into 10 alarm fires?

>beyond having the police called to your house

That's understating the danger of the situation due to the militarization of US police (and also their duty to respond to what they think is a real threat).

These "SWATing" attempts usually go like this:

"Help, someone's being held hostage at [X] address, they have rifles"

SWAT team arrives and kicks in the door, guns blazing, kills all your pets [1], and might shoot you too [2]. So far there hasn't been a human death from SWAT hoaxes, just animals and injuries, but it'll probably happen at some point.

Is this a "widespread" problem? I don't know. In the communities I've been in, it is, though it probably isn't for the Internet at large.

Even ignoring the risks of SWATing, though, there are so many people out there who will try to find your personal information and make your life a living hell on a daily basis due to online disagreements. I deal with such people on a daily basis. Anonymity is absolutely critical and me to others who might cross paths with sociopaths and "e-road rage" types.

[1] https://archive.is/nu4Lv

[2] http://www.theblaze.com/news/2015/07/16/swatting-prank-ends-...
The page says that NFS support is present, but is beta quality.
Maybe simple queries like "Select where" are intuitive for non-programmers but once you start joining tables things get pretty ugly. Also, the syntax for UPDATE is totally different from INSERT although they do similar things. Why does UPDATE use key value pairs but INSERT uses list of column names followed by list of values?

Since Javascript is the best programming language ever (so I hear :-) ) maybe using Javascript syntax and objects would be nice.
I don't think he's saying desktop computing is irrelevant. I think he's saying which OS you use to access the internet is irrelevant.

I read your comment on a mobile device, and switched to my laptop to write this comment. Two different operating systems, same internet.
Does an OS necessarily need to function without being connected to the Internet? Is there anything wrong with a definition of OS that includes "Internet connectivity"? How does Internet connectivity differ from hard disk connectivity, RAM connectivity, floppy disk connectivity, etc? That brings up questions of what the word "function" means. My phone will technically function without any wireless connection, but then it's not really a phone, is it? The Echo will turn on without an Internet connection, at least far enough to be able to say "I'm sorry, I don't have an Internet connection" most likely.

It's the ages old question: is Linux an OS? No, it's a kernel. Is Ubuntu an OS? No, it's a distribution. Is Gnome an OS? No, it's a desktop environment.

You could say with a straight face that Alexa is an OS that's designed to run cloud software. The OS works without a connection, but the user land might not.
One possibility is that, if you get in earlier, as the company grows you're more likely to be promoted to more senior positions, which might be good for professional development. Relatedly, you're more likely to work on a larger variety of things since there isn't enough manpower to let you specialize, which can help develop a larger skillset.

Whether they balance unpaid overtime/stress, however, can be iffy. If you can get in without the bad parts, though, it can be good (but that's less start-up and more small company).
An important distinction: many of those who killed someone in Chicago ended up in jail. Mike Brown's, Eric Garner's and Tamir Rice's killers are all walking free.

There's some context for you, but I'm guessing that's not what you were after.
Windows is still not very developer friendly. Devs like to use their command line tools: bash, zsh, tmux, git, etc. They like their Vim and Emacs configs, not everyone uses Visual Studio monstrosity. Devs want to be in control, there's no good alternatives on Windows for things like Karabiner, Hammerspoon and Alfred.
I was just like you. For many years I thought Windows is the best. Until one day I broke out of my bubble. I feel free, nothing will make me go back. Unless MSFT decides to make it compatible with Linux.
Why Oakland Police Turned Down Predictive Policing
Aren't most (many?) adults professionals? Most college-educated people I know spend most of their working hours in front of a computer not a smartphone.
Padlock.io – A minimalist open source password manager
There is so much novelty one encounters when traveling, on multiple levels. I definitely recommend everyone to travel and visit new places as much/often as possible, even in their own country.

Of course, I'm not talking about candy tripping in Ibiza.
While YMMV there is an interesting difference to policing in the UK and the USA.

In the UK, the officer calls you "sir" or "ma'am" and you call then whatever you want to ("occifer" and "cuntstable"
being perennial favourites).

In the US, you call the officer "sir" or "ma'am" and they call you whatever they feel like (my interactions have almost always been polite, but I've witnessed "boy", "punk", "shithead")

Edit: see also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_cop
The Irrational Fear of JavaScript “Script Kiddies”
I did read it, yes, and I'm not particularly impressed by an anti-Microsoft rant from a 20-year-old usenet flamewar.

Of interest is his third paragraph, the one that starts "in _every_ field ..." and it really makes me wonder if he had ever actually dealt with enterprise software at all.
No C extensions boo.
Time to shift?
Not all startups are like that. The one I work at (in San Diego, not SV) has a better work-life balance than a lot of non-startups I know. I very rarely work past 5pm.
That's all well and good when it was subs like FPH that were easily ignored. The thing that threatened to chase me off of reddit was the_donald. Not because I was "offended"(the new code word for calling someone a pussy), but because it was shitty content that pissed me off. And they figured out how to jack the algorithm to make their sub the most prominent content. I joined reddit for the science and tech, not to be a hit count on some shill's advert campaign.

Losing your target audience is a problem for any company. Free speech is a right insofar as the government cannot ban speech. Private property is a right. Reddit cannot ban me from saying what I want in real life, but they totally have the right to not allow me to say it on their property.
White paper downloads for elderly people. For some reason their interface underreports conversions though. But we've tied their traffic directly to purchases! One note though.. like some other channels you're buying a mixed bag. There is a lot of low quality traffic, but the diamonds in the rough do make up for it.
I believe he's referring to Amazon's pilot program for part-time employees doing 30 hour workweeks:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/08/26...
They are now back to 8 hour shifts, as the two year pilot ended with the close of 2016.
There are many other kinds of service dogs (and animals).
Why the Technology in Rogue One Is So Old-Fashioned
I think you're talking past the parent, whose point is that our universe's physics may not be polynomial time computable (or computable at all, for that matter).
> Nobody is under any obligation to interact with people around them, and nobody deserves to be shamed for wanting to live their own lives and let other people live theirs.

This illustrates a pretty big cultural difference to me, as an Australian. The US is very big on individualism in what mostly seems to be an "every man for himself" kind of way. It's strong enough that I've seen people reject things that would be in their own interest solely because it removes a little of their autonomy (I talked to someone who rejected universal healthcare solely because they would no longer have the choice to have no healthcare at all).

At home in Australia, we're not all perfect, we don't all love each other but we seem to be more happy to accept things that benefit us as a country (like healthcare, support for the disabled, unemployment support, consumer rights, employment regulation). We live our lives and we let others live theirs but I think we tend to help each other out a little more, knowing that we'll need help ourselves sometime.
Marketing seeks to destroy the meaning of useful technical jargon.

The term Operating System is a good example. Most people have no idea what an OS actually is. They think it is all of the stuff bundled with the OS.

Similarly in the 1980's the term Relational Database was used in marketing materials to describe any micro computer database product that was for sale.
The average murder clearance rate in the USA was about 64% in 2015 [1] so I'm highly skeptical of your claim that 80-90% of murders are not a mystery.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/395069137/open-cases-why-one-t...
the linked repo doesn't really contain all the erlang code. its mostly designed to pull and build the actual projects. hence the "Shell code"
Hello. I really like this idea and just watched a debate and did enjoy it.

I do like the idea of it of aggregated and real time feedback from the viewers however, My only suggestion is to make the cheers and jeers a little less intrusive. I'm just not that interested in the peanut gallery and, (for me) it interferes with the fluidity of the very short time frame people have to talk.

Great work though - I'm very interested to see how this does.
Alexa has a fundamental short coming that stops them from being a robust operating system like the writer describes: the cognitive load in memorizing all possible variations of 3rd party apps on their platform. Siri might have greater difficulty with natural language processing than Alexa, but I never have to think much about the word order or phrasing. With Alexa, I'm constantly feeling like I'm playing MadLibs with my eyes closed.

That being said, the openness of their platform is a huge benefit, and the main reason I have one. I for one am very interested in seeing which improves first: Siri's natural language processing, or Alexa's contextual matching of their api.

I know Google Now wins in a lot of areas, and there is a group of people that have no problem using them, but overall sentiment seems to be one of distrust in giving them an always on microphone
From the post:

> Later, I switched to use Nvidia’s Autopilot...

So I guess he didn't use the MNIST CNN model.
I took a 1/3 pay cut to work at a startup because I believe in what the company is trying to do. That's the only reason I keep doing what I do, because the long term goal for the company is in line with my beliefs. Even though I commute for 2+ hours each way, work long hours, and am on call 24/7 for the last 3 years. At some point it may become too much, or another offer might be more interesting, but at the moment, I believe very much in what the company is trying to do.
Great to see sysdig and falco used in this way! For another earlier discussion of monitoring the behavior of intruders using sysdig, check out https://sysdig.com/blog/fishing-for-hackers/.
Agree, that sentence doesn't make sense. But I think the point is simply that accessing data doesn't have any overhead, so you benchmarking your disks. Given the design, that seems likely.

> Also - what's the protection mechanism for files? If there is none, I literally have no idea what the purpose of this FS is. Under what circumstances would I need a giant slow data storage tier that has no redundancy to speak of?

Caches, that's what makes me interested in this (having to cache lots of images). We're using mogilefs for this currently.
When you want to do code email campaigns this is the service to use.
It would be good to start experimenting with handicap stones to understand how many stones stronger the bot is.

http://senseis.xmp.net/?Handicap

Also experimenting with a new ranking system beyond 9 dan.
It's a well thought out config for Emacs. A layer is just a list of use package statements with some config to make it work with the leader concept and vim bindings if that's set.

You can still install Melpa packages quite easily and you can still bind keys however you want. It's still Emacs.
I agree but I am more pessimistic about it. There are 2 inter-related factors that will stop AGI from occurring at the level we all dream of: Competition and Specialization. An AGI is not something that will occur in a vacuum. It will be developed and created in the world we all are living in. The one with dirt and mortgages and greedy people. More importantly, it will come about in a world where half of the people are dumber than average. The AGI does not need to solve the Riemann-Zeta hypothesis. It just needs to afford to have it's owners/creators bills paid and maybe make some on the side for profit. That is all that it needs to do. Yes, it can do more, a lot more, but it only needs to be a little bit smarter than the average human so that it's owners can scam us by proxy. Look at the Ashley Madison hack. You had real human men paying real world dollars to suss out if they were talking to a bot or not. That's all that AGI really needs to do to sustain itself over a short time interval. How long a time interval do you want it to go for will then add the complexity and get it to 'human' levels of general intelligence as it tries to deal with rarer and less common failure modes (like itself getting hacked in the Ashley Madison case). AGIs will have to fork out of the super-targeted AIs that we now have that make monetary sense. That will take a lot of time and money to do this, and the returns on the investments are uncertain to me.
Yeah, I'm not saying smartphones aren't good or significant. Just that they haven't replaced desktop-computing -- just added to it. The article says things like

"Android and iOS have replaced Windows in importance"

But Windows still seems plenty-important, to me. I don't see how one replaced the other, it's just that mobile is under more dynamic development right now because it's new.
> I had gotten a ticket for obstructing the intersection
> I was fighting it

I hope you lost.
Show HN: TeleMMO - An MMORPG that's a telegram bot
Hi there! I started this project about 2 weeks ago, came here to show a very early version. It's a telegram bot that is a MMORPG game for you to play alone or with groups.

If you wanna try it out just add @telemmo_bot on telegram. It's pretty straightforward after that.

For more information, bug reporting and feedback I'll leave the link of the subreddit I've created for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/telemmo/comments/5lq25w/welcome/
AFAIK the system is installed near a water source (wells, rivers).

The distance refers to the supply chain and logistics involved shipping Slingshot to the villages, installing, and maintaining.
I wonder why the Grumpy Fibonacci is so much slower than CPython for 1 thread. Seems weird given Grumpy is compiled.
Minio is small, can run one node in a container on your dev laptop.

Leo is a large, distributed, no-SPOF thing, only makes sense if you have multiple boxes and want high reliability at the cost of some redundancy.

Both happen to talk S3, but that's it.
Monitoring Thrift RPC framework
Battery Cell Production Begins at the Gigafactory
That's interesting to hear because I was reading the Software Project Survival Guide and it said that, at the time, Microsoft knew the value of quality because their tester to developer ratio was 1 to 1. Higher quality code had a ratio of up to 4 testers per developer. Low quality code is usually the opposite ratio, 1 tester for every 3-4 developers.
not this time. Think of all of the buyers - people wanting bitcoin. Now think of who is selling at this price - I don't see a compelling reason to sell. More buyers and not enough sellers = price goes up.

"It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower" - William O'Neil
How MailChimp Grew
This is interesting, because SSIDs are not callsigns and not allocated or registered anywhere. Who's to say the enterprise network's claim on the SSID is more legitimate than the attacker's?
Not surprised but definitely saddened a bit. Because at this point I doubt anything is going to dispel the conspiracy for you if you think it's that widespread. Anyone who disagrees will merely be "in on it".
Yeah, I don't know, maybe I'm just lucky, but I haven't had to spend much time getting hardware to work in recent years. Certainly not on Ubuntu. It really does Just Work.

I run Arch nowadays and that is certainly not as turn-key as Ubuntu, but there's just too much "magic" in Ubuntu and I was tired of it. But Apple folks should like that sort of thing...
I am not sure that SeaweedFS and IPFS fit the same use case, IPFS seems like it wants to a bedrock layer of a newer style of internet. SeaweedFS is more of a Blob store. So comparing them might be possible but also might not be the right idea.
Bad guy is always more fun, Tie Fighter is better than X-wing, but being annoying griefer guy is not.

Except in WWII games. During the early days of WWIIonline there were a few people who took playing german units a little too seriously and were quietly asked, told, to stop. I was a member of a german squad that rarely participated in mass offensives specifically to avoid confrontations with die-hard "recreationists".
I very much enjoy using D and want it to succeed but this statement along with finding "everyday uses" for things (e.g. using zeromq) are huge drawbacks to buying into it. I'll still advocate but it's not easy sometimes
Another good "types of player" article applied to Magic: the Gathering: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/ti....
Look how NetCrunch integrates with Twitter to send messages or even tweets
This seems like an odd engineering choice. Presumably the effort to create a python->go translator would be non-trivial. Why not just start rewriting components into Go, and migrating them out of Python, leaving python as essentially the presentation layer at most?
Yeah, you should listen to the Invisibilia podcast episode, the way they talk about it, this is the Freudian way of analyzing behavior, and it's not very popular anymore.
> the Udacity "Self-Driving Car Engineer" nanodegree

That looks like a great course by the way, thanks for sharing.
I've seen various members of the Royal Family in cars round Edinburgh and was always surprised at how low key the security was - usually a Jag with the VIP and a trailing black Range Rover.
I used play Eve-Online, a game renowned for scamming and bad behaviour. In-game and on the forums scammers would often defend their behavior stating Eve was just a game, an outlet to explore the bad side of themselves - to 'be the bad guy'. Then I heard about scamming groups who would invite potential marks into a 'bonus room' on voice chat, where the player was promised treasures and in-game money if they won. After listening to one of these 'bonus rooms' it became patently obvious that some of these scammers were utter vicious bullies and this was more than a game to them. Once the target joined the voice chat a bunch of the scammers friends would join also to goad and laugh; the targets were belittled, manipulated and often became distressed. Sometimes they would be asked to perform humiliating tasks to win back the money they had lost (sometimes you could even hear their own children in the room).
Bitcoin at an all-time high
There is always censorship on every platform. Always. If the platform itself is not moderating, then the abuse and harassment that naturally evolves will. People from marginalized communities will stay silent or avoid the platform out of fear of being harassed. That too, is a form of censorship.

So when debating whether these platforms should have moderation policies, and how far they should go, one needs to ask if they value diverse points of view more, or harassment and hate speech more.
I'm not advocating use of C, just pointing out a simpler way to check dependencies.

To answer your question though, the advantage of using C is certainly not the notorious bad-habits standard library. C is fun and productive exactly where there's just you and some bits and bytes to bang around. Coding in the small. Not platforms and architectures.
I agree with you. Alexa is an interface that ties APIs together. Defining OS as software that connects hardware to interfaces seems so reductive that it seems any software could be regarded as an operating system. Is there any software that doesn't access any hardware resources?
It seems interesting but my concern is that it's just another Unladen Swallow.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/for-a-more...

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jan/18/travel-bro...
Here is discussion on the effort to move Inkscape to GitHub: https://github.com/inkscape/inkscape/wiki/Migrate-Launchpad-...
Well, I think advocates of UBI arguing that it would encourage growth by stimulating spending are ignoring the fact that a tax-funded UBI would take money from elsewhere. It doesn't necessarily matter what advocates of UBI say about its suppose growth-boosting effects or what have you - the parent post was saying that Econ 101 understanding affirms that redistributive policies increase inflation, and I disagree. I should definitely qualify that with the caveat that I'm talking about Monetarist Econ 101, where V is stable in the long run, and Q is determined by overall productivity. Therefore P is roughly proportional to M. Sure, there's short-term effects, but over the long run, by Monetarist Econ 101, a UBI, if funded out of tax revenues, shouldn't cause inflation.
Indian government set to endorse Universal Basic Income
I'd like to see more experiments with a 4-day/8-hour work week.

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/396527/case-32-hour-...
https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
Facebook: PHP -> HipHop

Google: Python -> Go
Transmute: documented, input validating APIs for any framework in Python
I'm a professional, working a technical role for one of the largest tech companies in the world. I'm using a MacBook, but I've done a (proof of concept) week of work entirely from an iPhone SE. Some of my coworkers use Red Hat, some use Windows. I know one guy working on an iPad Pro, although he's a little less technical than the rest of us so most of his day is spent in PowerPoint.

But my job mainly consists of interacting with remote machines through a web browser or SSH. Thanks to the Internet, I don't need to worry about what physical form factor my machine is. If all you need is Word, Excel, a web browser, and email, you're basically set no matter where you go.

Desktops are less relevant today than ever before. For many people, the desktop OS is just a VM host and their browser is the real "OS".
Most commands are pretty obvious and easy, but some of them aren't. For instance, the phone locator. The command is something like, "Alexa, tell trackr to locate my phone." But my wife and I can never remember that when we need to locate a phone, and we have to figure out it out all over again.

I assume that people have to call for emergency services less often than we misplace our phones, so I'm sure it's even harder to remember the exact verbiage for that.
That's a question I have as well. I'm guessing they have a very massive cpython codebase, and the trade-off was worth it.