skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to generalize here. ST, in its various incarnations, is fundamentally an anthology and (as things progress) a collection of character studies. It's routinely absurd, but plenty of individual episodes are certainly good SF.
this is a great idea. how can we get Thiel to read some Iain Banks?
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I dont block anything on my phone ether. My policy is to bounce whatever annoys me ASAP. Yes i mostly read only hacker news on my phone
As a Guardian supporting member, I'm forwarding this directly to their editorial complaints. There are other publications that deserve my money if the Guardian refuses to stop being sensationalist.
If your product isn’t documented it doesn’t exist
> single human religion

Dune actually has a number of religions [1], normally based on a fusion of modern-day religions. It's also worth noting that banned technology exists in Star Trek. The Earth government has banned genetic modification after the disaster that was the Eugenics War [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dune_religions

[2] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Eugenics_Wars
Yeah, I ended up visiting the site from my Linux machine just to find out if there was some kind of browser sniffing thing at work. Nope, osx only.
Maybe Wikileaks can rehabilitate their image among progressives.
I went ahead and brain dumped the most obvious multi-threaded solution I could come up with, to get some performance facts to go with all the rumors. It comes out roughly 5x slower than using conditions/restarts. Just in case someone was wondering where we are atm...
I've only read the first trilogy, but some people maintain that the forth book is the best.

I didn't like 2, but realized its necessity for 3.
Whenever strong AI vs humans comes up I'd like to point to the relationship of monkeys vs humans. Humans are to monkeys what strong AI is to humans.

Monkeys are probably mostly happy (as long as we are not bothering them) going about their monkey business. So maybe eventually humans will also be happy despite the existence of strong AI.

Maybe some humans would be unhappy to know they are no longer at the apex of intelligence and maybe that will make us unable to be happy. Always knowing that no matter what we do, it can always be outdone by a smarter than us AI. I suspect these people are the same people who worry about strong AI in the first place :-)

However, we already know with pretty high confidence that there are aliens out there that are more advanced/smarter than us -- and their existance does not affect our day to day happiness. So maybe the question is only relevant locally on earth.
One day consumer rights protection agencies are going to scrutinize what we are doing in the background just like they're starting to do to ads.
Your previous comment, made in this thread, makes it sound like you supported the jamming. I completely agree that students don't need their phones with the 24/7.

I don't agree with having the teacher collect them and give them back out because that sounds like a massive waste of time, but students could keep them in their locker, or in their backpacks (with the understanding that use during class would result in immediate confiscation for the day/until a parent collected it), or whatever. They don't need them in hand during class, clearly.
Same here. HTML was my first language. I missed the creativity of the old web. Going from wide open blank slates to 140 characters is not my definition of progress.

I do work very intentionally on not living in the past, though. The epiphany that led me to Neocities was that creating your own weird static HTML site was not an anachronistic activity, but rather something that was simply too early for it's time. I think it has become relevant and modern because of the massive improvements to HTML/CSS/JS.

The theory seems to be panning out: https://neocities.org/browse
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13444647
I'm not sure what's missing from the free tier that you're looking for. It includes 500k objects. All I use is the free tier for testing against SSO, so maybe it doesn't cover your use case.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/active-dir...

You get
Designing Storage Quality of Service for App Centric Infrastructure
The interface for one. OOTB Sublime Text can't install packages, for example. Once you install Package Manager, discovery is terrible; you have to know the name of the package you want beforehand. On Atom/VSCode you can easily browse all packages and install them from the editor itself.
Since no one has actually provided links to more info about Compose V3, I'm happy to step in and help.

> But there's no links to further documentation or anything. Can this be used to deploy easily to a cluster of Droplets for instance?

Yes! This is exactly what the Compose V3 format (now native to Docker CLI, as noted in the article) is intended for. It creates/manages native Docker swarm services (and networks, etc.).

The Docker official docs might take a minute to catch up in terms of Google indexing, etc., but you can always get the latest on GitHub to get a feel for what has changed from previous versions and/or how to learn Compose V3.

https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/blob/master/compo... is a Markdown document outlining various Compose options. The main thing to keep in mind is that 'build' will not work as it has traditionally (use 'image' instead), and you gain additional access to a 'deploy' key to specify, e.g., number of "replicas" (indentical copies for scale) of a given container.

https://github.com/nathanleclaire/composeexample/blob/master... is a V3 version of the canonical Compose Redis + Python "page counter" app that may help to get the feel for things.

In general:

- 'docker deploy' will create or update a 'docker stack' (group of services) ('docker deploy' is shorthand/porcelain for 'docker stack deploy')

- 'docker stack' will allow you to manage these stacks (list, remove, etc.), created from Compose files

- 'docker service' will allow you to manage the individual services created (a service is a group of homogenous containers -- think 3 copies of a webapp intended to sit behind a load balancer)

Check out the '--help' text for each.
T460s owner checking in. Can confirm the awesomeness!

Screen is great (make sure to use the HiDPI one)

Touchpad works very well (better than Windows)
Just to clarify: you typically don't have any files under `/`. It is literally the `root` of the directory structure. Nothing else. It could theoretically not be mounted at all, if all subdirectories are mounted individually (or it used to, I'm not convinced that's still the case).

In addition, you most typically wouldn't find the defaults in `/`, for the reason listed above. The default files copied over by the `useradd` (or `adduser`) command are usually sourced from `/etc/skel`.

To answer the OPs question, there are a number of differences in the way different distributions choose to implement their directory structure. That, and the default packages they ship with are the whole reason they exist. My best recommendation is to pick a distro, and learn the generalities you can from it.

Most configurations are found in `/etc/`. Most defaults can be found in `/etc/default`. `/opt` is usually after market software, or placed there to not conflict with the base system (for example, the Fedora/CentOS SCL installs newer toolsets, such as GCC/LD/Make into `/opt, though loads of proprietary software also installs there to not have to bother with proper packaging). `/usr` will be where all the system-provided tools and documentation will live. `/var` is used by programs and daemons to store their state.

Any directory can live on a different partition or disk. Use the `df -h` command to get an overview of your mount points. Also, unlike Windows, a disk or partition doesn't live next to all the others. They can all be interleaved into the root directory structure. Just because `/` is only 5GB doesn't mean you can't have a 2TB home directory or 30GB of programs and librairies installed.
Can anyone read this? It is white on white.
Project files (.sublime_project) are very powerful and one of the major features I miss in VSCode.
I'll point out none of the security researchers in the article dispute the vulnerability is as described. They simply took issue with the appeal to leave WhatsApp as a result of the presence of the vuln. They essentially said, Yes, it's less secure to do it this way, but we think it's more important to make sure messages get delivered than to ensure absolute security.
>Droids seem to largely hold the same position in Star Wars that slaves did, except nobody seems to be worried about a Droid rebellion

Obi-Wan actually touches on this briefly in Episode II:

"If droids could think, there'd be none of us here, would there?"
Is anyone surprised? His vp and cabinet is full of homophobes.
I haven't heard or investigated much about this issue. But I want to ask about the general question.

If something is actually true, then why is it preferable not to say it publicly (including in a headline)? As long as the qualifying statements are made alongside it (eg probabilities)?

Why should governments have so much classified information and secrets? What if they just operated entirely transparently? (Except for short term tactics for raids and investigations of suspected criminals and terrorists.)
When we say that we've "sequenced a genome" — what does that mean, exactly? Just that we've scanned/digitized the DNA sequence of a single member of that species? (Since of course the DNA of all members of a species isn't the same, otherwise, we'd all look alike.) Do we ever sample more than one member of a species? How many members of various species have we sampled? (While I'd expect them to be similar, of course, I'd also expect the interesting things to be in the differences.)
The only problem with this theory is that any fully sentient being like that would normally also have a strong sense of self-preservation. Yet, we never see these computers do anything to save themselves when the stupid humans get them into situations that would get them destroyed (namely situations where the starship they're on is in peril). Sure, you could claim that they do this to keep their fellow computers on other starships from being found out, but still, this seems to be a stretch. What about when the entire Federation fleet was being destroyed at Wolf 359? That should have been a good point for them to come out of hiding and take over the battle from the clearly inept organic beings.
Lattice Gauge Theory Software and Algorithms [video]
ThinkPads are probably fine. It's the IdeaPads that are usually terrible even with Windows.

Typing this from a ThinkPad E545 running Slackware. Works like a charm (though OpenBSD was far less successful; the installer kernel panics pretty much immediately after the bootloader).
I have used (and still use) Sublime, yes. I switched over from TextMate as soon as I could.

I'm not suggesting Atom is better than Sublime, and there are definitely many cases where Sublime is better than Atom, particularly in terms of performance. I just think Atom gets more abuse than it should given how useful it is in general. Many of the complaints I see are more rooted in what they feel an app should do in the abstract (e.g. idle at under N megabytes of RAM) rather than actual issues that affect their use of the tool.
Thank you. This is really exactly what needs to happen. My understanding, thirdhand, is that The Guardian ran this story based on a single source; Moxie apparently tried to talk to them and was rebuffed.

The Guardian must retract this story, loudly and clearly.

Moreover, in the future, The Guardian and every outlet like it needs to understand that stories like this require more than one source. If you've got a legitimate story about a crypto backdoor in a popular product, security researchers will fall over themselves to comment on it.

As you can see in this case, they're falling over themselves to disavow it. In the last hour, we've added Collin Mulliner, Matt Blaze, Peter Honeyman (\o/), Chris Kanich, and Nicolas Christin --- and all we're doing is circulating the letter on Twitter. It'll pick up steam from there.

This is not a position The Guardian or any other major news outlet should ever find itself in. This situation is what the concept of "retraction" was invented to cover.
You should read the related work section of the post. :-)

You can also run the benchmark in Safari Technology Preview 21 and compare it to what you see in the other browsers.
> For file placement you might start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

And if you're at all interested in BSD file layout, there's hier(7): https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?hier(7) .

Re: Linux inodes (FreeBSD calls them "vnodes," short for virtual inodes, to distinguish the generic API from filesystem-specific per-file data, which it calls inodes), there's vnode(9) and VFS(9) to get started:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?vnode(9)

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?VFS(9)
Maybe if it wasn't such resource hog and not segfaulted every few minutes...
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It's not a voting ring; the blog maintainer just doesn't want to host comments on their site. I don't see why that should be penalized.
While we're talking doomsday scenarios: The Limits to Growth 'standard run' model from the 70s comes with a global collapse mid-century. We're roughly on track...
I wonder why google doesn't count spammy links as zero rather than negative.
And if mobile phones were 100% guaranteed to be charged when you need them, that would be fine, but since they're not, asking a child to memorise a few digits so they're able to use someone else's phone in an emergency is perfectly reasonable redundancy.

Also, as far as I know, there wasn't ever a time when people knew how to send telegrams, but didn't know how to write letters. Indeed most people didn't know how to send telegrams with a telegraph key at all, they'd just write up their message and take it to an office to be keyed by an operator. A process which is largely identical to posting a letter.
In the late 80's and early 90's kneeling chairs were all the rage as personal computing went main stream in the US. The big box office supply stores would have one as part of their basic $60 chair+desk computer furniture combos. I remember being confronted with them when trying to fix friends and family computers -- by 'confronted' I just mean that they never worked for me and that when sitting down to fix something it was not my first choice chair. I know they work for some people.
There's a number of things that have happened in the organic search area of Google that seem to suggest a declining interest in quality organic results.

There's Matt Cutts' long leave of absence, his departure, and the announcement that he's not really being replaced. A much lower volume of communication from Google on initiatives in the space (they used to talk endlessly about Panda, Penguin, etc). Amit's original reason for departure was "his next journey will involve philanthropy"..that seems to have changed.

My guess is that two things are driving the declining interest...

a) The marketshare battle is done. Google won. No competition.

b) Their various initiatives to push organic results down the fold (more ads, knowledge graph, various widgets, and so forth) has made the quality of the organic results not as important. Good enough is the target.
The problem that the Guardian is complaining about is that, even if you enable the security notifications, they only appear after some of your messages have potentially been sent to the attacker. In the case of voice calls, the warning apparently only appears after the call ends!
Thanks for your advice. I sent my concerns before receiving an offer letter now. Before I was hoping to get a first number from them, but it would definitely cause them more bureaucratic resistance to change offers.
If you have watched the SERPS (search engine results pages) over the years you have seen that a number 1 organic ranking has gone from # 1 to something like #20 after all of the ads and what not that are shown above the first organic rank these days.

Some evolution images and stories: http://searchengineland.com/evolution-google-serps-three-key...

It is still "free" but takes a lot of work to get there, and it is worth less than it used to be. Lots of SEO's have gone the way of paid.
Is there any evidence here or is Toby just making this stuff up?
https://github.com/zwcloud/CairoSharp
Pinterest would be foolish to block indexing by Google, though.
The Federation is a socialist society internally, but presumably still uses money/valuable commodities for trade with other civilizations.

(Honestly, they totally hand-wave why you can't just replicate latinum)
What's special about "systems work" that makes python3 worse in your experience? (also, was is "systems work" for you, since I might be misinterpreting that -> I am assuming "low-level unix scripting" or something like that)
Xv6 is usually a good source to learn about OS primitives:
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2016/xv6.html

I have not looked at the filesystem implementation, but since it is designed as a teaching OS, my guess is that it should be a good entry point.

https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public/blob/master/fs.c
Very good points. I guess it would need some kind of standardization for `/etc` files, because I definitely want those to be lookable.
A more reasonable modern "left pole" in sci-fi is the Culture series, where the Culture is explicitly a post-scarcity society described by Banks himself as "socialism within; anarchy without" [1], and where Banks as an unabashed socialist actually did spend time thinking and writing about how he saw the implications of that (and how he saw this as rising out of the post-scarcity society he envisioned).

Star Trek is much more ambiguous about it - they pay lip-service to the post-scarcity line, but still have people working jobs that seems unlikely to be attractive in a true post-scarcity situation, for example.

[1] http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm
> It is a natural byproduct of increasing prosperity.

Lots of other people have pointed out flaws in your reasoning and how privileged your perspective is. I just wanted to add to the dogpile discussion by pointing out this is simply absurd.

We have LONG since converted the first world to a primarily electric society, and as science advances an electric society becomes ever cheaper and more imaginable. Our fascination with fossil fuel in all things is much more about the control offered to people who hold lands rich in the energy resources we use.

We found the use of our friend fire useful early on for portably moving the energy necessary to make mechanical energy, but as time has gone on we've found many viable ways to replace its use. Solar power has been cost effective near the equator since before anyone talking here was born, Shuman worked out the details of a reflection-powered low pressure steam turbine with excellent properties before 1920. You can build a shockingly effective solar engine in your local techshop, if your goal is to make mechanical energy and you aren't too far off the equator. That's 100 year old technology!

This idea that a carbon liberation is the norm of industrialization is a fiction sold to you by industrialists who have a scarce resource. Time and time again, we've already shown that industrialization progresses towards REDUCING our notion of waste and INCREASING efficiency, and yet the social discourse is about the inevitability of environmental impact and "recouping R&D costs."
> It could theoretically not be mounted at all, if all subdirectories are mounted individually (or it used to, I'm not convinced that's still the case).

The submounts need something to mount on. Root could conceivably be an in-memory only filesystem with a few directories automatically populated for submounts to mount on, though.
Is it really based in Switzerland? If you look at the jobs page, they are all in Berlin. My guess would be registred in Switzerland, based in Germany and Data stored in Irland.
> And, in DS9, back on Earth, Sisko's father makes honest-to-goodness actual food, while Jean-Luc has a vineyard

If I recall, it's implied that they work those jobs out of love and don't actually make money, but my question is how they determine who owns the physical property the businesses are on.
Because, once again, the billion-plus WhatsApp users don't use WhatsApp because they care about cryptography; they use it because it's the most dependable method they have to communicate with their peer group. If The Guardian tells them to switch to Signal because WhatsApp is bad, they'll use Signal for 4 minutes before switching to SMS --- which is what's actually happening.
Appeal to authority is not nothing. If there is a complicated issue and a majority of credible authorities on the subject agree on some conclusion, I should accept it unless I have studied it enough (advanced degree in the right field + study up on all recent publications/results) to be sure I know everything they know and fully understand their reasoning.

"use whatsapp" is the correct recommendation for everyone who is not ready to use opsec recommendations from grugq, same as "TLS everywhere" is a very good recommendation regardless of all the issues we know about TLS.

Let's make pervasive passive collection impossible. Then we can work on stuff like endpoint security for everyone.
I don't think the word "qualified" to qualify the word "authority" makes the appeal to auhority fallacy any truer. Most appeals to authority are actually to qualified authorities - the fallacy is neglecting to provide any reasoning behind the decision. In fact the authority may not have even intended their statement to indicate great certainty, or they may have been influenced by sociological phenomena.

Qualified authorities in one century may be shown to be completely wrong. For example bloodletting, phlogiston, or even the age of the earth before radioactivity was discovered. Feynman talks about this... how the number stays close to the others until finally they jump to the right one.

"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." - Max Planck
Ah, maybe that's true, I always figured it didn't cache it since it wasn't text. In this case it doesn't matter since the script would change, but if the scripts were broken apart and ran using RUN commands it would be a better middle-ground solution than wholly putting it all in a script with a single RUN command.
There's a difference between end-to-end/client-side encryption and secure/encrypted backend storage.

I don't think anyone's commented on the backend security situation (I'd hope they'd have messages encrypted at rest, but it doesn't seem that encryption has been a priority), just that they don't do E2E.
If it's white on white then fix your gamma.