skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Family and the community. But go ahead and label us evil because apparently our core Libertarian "ethos" is that we want the sick and infirm to "die".

Meanwhile, on the state's watch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan
Yes. Embedded engineers do this every day.

BTW the Broadcom part is heavily subsidized.
One of the best UIs I've seen crossing over this line of death was the HTTP Basic Auth popdown in Opera 12. I've always wondered why that UI concept was never taken up by other browsers.

... will try and find a screenshot

Edit: Couldn't find one so just installed it myself: https://pageshot.net/images/4af15a26-6eb8-45a2-b4d5-ed6ea19a...

Edit2: dom0 beat me to it below also

Edit3: reword
In the Shopping Cart of a Food Stamp Household: Lots of Soda
Productivity is also stopped cold by SELinux :P
She's Cài Yīngwén in HP, according to Wikipedia.
According to what I read on Language Log (Victor Mair's posts), pinyin also made it massively easier to teach literacy. So the tradeoff could well have been totally worth it just for the literacy gains, and the historical roots might not matter as much.
This. My day-to-day code has probably doubled in efficiency every 2-4 years since the mid 90's.

Granted, a decade of that was chasing hardware trends, but the earlier optimizations stack too.
The "donations" in this case aren't really donations. They're being paid in exchange for their blood plasma.

So I don't see the comparison to pro-bono legal firms.
That might not be totally true. The US govt likes to sneak secret things into comm satellites. For example gps satellites also contain hardware to detect nuclear detonations and track missile launches.

Just speculation, but there could easily be earth viewing spy telescopes, wide band radio capture, or space weapons tacked on these
I didn't know about :r in combination with !. That's neat. I typically use :r for reading a file into the current buffer (instead of cp <file> <new>). Thanks for sharing.

I don't find myself using ! commands when I know there are multiple commands that I need to run (like your last example). That's usually when I'll suspend and then use the command line.

Could you elaborate on "wreak havoc on your vim session?" I wasn't aware that suspending the process and bringing it back into the fg would harm anything.
I've had a DL in 7 states so far. Yes some were good. Your mileage may vary though.
> How would a typical user know that?

I think that's basically the main problem: there is no way to get a typical user to understand security implications of anything without having that user give up before reaching that point...
I don't see how that point has any value. It's kind of like calling Social Security a ponzi/pyramid scheme. It's only true if children cease to exist. Similarly here, your point only has value if sickness and accidents cease to exist. But that won't happen. The market for health insurance naturally exists already. And the incentives for increasing health care costs are very much what the ACA is about - those incentives are being affected by things like the ACA rewarding quality-of-care instead of fee-for-service, etc.
I had the joy of using the XT/370. It was extremely cool to see the "mainframe" run in a box. But it was dog slow compared to a single user session on the mainframe (which IIRC was a 4341).

The 360/370 is/was an incredible architecture. It supported virtualization decades before anyone outside a small group of people even knew what that was. The instruction set was rich and easy to use which was important as a lot of stuff got written in it directly those days. Unlike Unix which was mostly written in C most of the 370 OSes of the time were written in assembly.
Vax
The post there doesn't seem too convincing. I understand how important Gimp is, in a world where Adobe owns the scene of image editing, but others may not know that well.

I feel the post really should be conveying what they will be providing if they reach their patreon marker. A better competitor to Photoshop, Paint.net. What features will be worked on, etc. Its gotta market itself in some way.
Here is to the Thinkers – A Variation
you either don't understand what the word shill means, or are making an ad hominem attack.
They have released videos of RTS crashing etc. so they have been pretty up front about everything
I was reading a bit through the mailing list and it seemed that the GIMP development team had bit off a bit more than they could swallow at that time. This is what I've got from it:

* They rewrite the core of the software to allow a lot of new features.

* The developers could not agree on all critical details on how to proceed.

* Some developers got frustrated because things were not going their way or proceeding too slowly.

* The new model of how things work makes much of the old code obsolete.

* There are a lot of modules which need to be rewritten to use the new core.

* Before thinking about releasing the new GIMP >50% of the total work has to be done making transition hard.

* Due to its 'unique' interface a lot of people don't like the GIMP even if it would do everything they need.

* Designing and implementing a new interface is another pain point.

Considering that currently the GIMP is at a critical point in its development, a full-time developer could really be the pivotal element in making it succeed. I don't know much about this particular developer, though.
The domain part is protected from that, though as shown in grenoire's link there are other reasons to distrust the address bar.
Related text:

>> "NextMuni data is transmitted via AT&T’s wireless cell phone network. As Muni was the first transit agency to adopt the system, the NextMuni infrastructure installed in 2002 only had the capacity to use a 2G wireless network – a now outdated technology which AT&T is deactivating nationwide."
All of that assume there are plates on the car. If the seller left his plates on the car, well, that was a mistake. If you sell a car private-party, you should take the plates off. It's on the buyer to ensure the car is properly tagged. Most states off short-term tags for just this reason (transporting newly purchased cars that haven't had registration updated).
> 8. alt-w - delete the word behind of the cursor

He means “ctrl-w”. But since that only works in bash, not in Emacs or other tools with Emacs key bindings, it makes more sense to use (in his terminology) “alt-backspace”. This does the same thing, and works both in the shell and in Emacs-like environments.
Holders of F and J visas do pay taxes in the US, though they may also be liable for taxes in their home countries. (Depending on treaties with their home countries, they may or may not be better off than a regular US taxpayer.)

You may be thinking of the rule requiring American citizens to pay taxes over their worldwide income, not only their US income. That rule applies to American citizens as well as permanent residents ("green-card holders"), but generally not to anyone in the US on a temporary visa. That means that someone in the US on a temporary visa will generally be paying US taxes over any income from a job or business they have in the US, but if they have, e.g., income from renting out real estate in another country, that income may be taxed in that other country, but not in the US. Only US citizens and permanent residents are required to report any such foreign income in the US and pay taxes over it, even when they move abroad (with some exemptions).

FATCA is not as onerous as you describe for most regular people. As a US taxpayer (whether a citizen or permanent or temporary resident), you have to report foreign bank accounts that at any point during the year contain more than the equivalent of something like $10,000. That's it. There is no requirement (as far as I'm aware) to report "every single foreign transaction."

You're right that retirement planning can be complicated for immigrants and temporary visitors. Many countries have rules like the US, where you have to pay into the system for a certain number of years before you become eligible for social-security payments in old age. So for many immigrants retirement becomes a patchwork of sources (a bit of social security, a bit of foreign social security, and otherwise savings in whatever accounts are available in the US and abroad.)
One that is always telling me I weigh too much :( I don't pee on my scale man.
That means it was a closed, proprietary system that was reverse engineered & emulated. Different from an open system that doesn't require that. Also more efficient in hardware if any clones port original design.
> It is indeed proprietary because it does indeed have an owner.

You are using the term proprietary incorrectly, probably out of simple ignorance. The software does not have an "owner" who has power of the users; the LGPL means all users have complete control over the software.

Please read this carefully before spreading more misinformation:

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.en.html
If you want to use git from within vim, go no further than Fugitive.
> We wrote a first paper about it back in 2015. We've spent 2016 going back and doing a better implementation of the idea.

Ah OK, I guess I remember the 2015 news and thought it a "done deal" rather than a POC/WIP. Thanks.
Well, on second thought let's say less than 5%. 1% would only be about an hour of that trip.
>"So yes, that is the standard Libertarian answer. But the problem is that it is in direct opposition to the philosophy of looking after oneself. How can you give charity if you're looking after yourself?"

I'm not sure who or what has been creating a vilified image of the Libertarian for you. Libertarianism has nothing to do with "looking after oneself", and you're probably just dressing up the word "selfish" by stating that. It has everything to do with consent, and freedom from coercion. Now, what kind of world we choose to make after those principles dictates what kind of society we are in right now.

Also, what the other person said. You're posting a link that is making commentary about Objectivism, not Libertarianism.
The end of the (excellent) article mentions IBM's next minicomputers were 80386-based. Which were these?
AppArmor is a DAC+MAC and SELinux is an RBAC+MAC. AppArmor is not nearly as powerful. Grsec is much more effective than AppArmor at preventing a wide range of attacks, but SELinux is more or less king.
The Next Big Thing in Smartphones? The Software
It would have been cool to see an animation of how these seven satellites move in their orbits (as well as the final completed constellation).
Ah yes. Thank you for the correction.
The article is nice but a small part of it rubs me the wrong way:

> I know there are some cool newcomers out there like zsh and fish, but after trying others out I always found that some of my utilities were missing or ill-replaced.

First of all bash was first released in 1989 and zsh arrived just 1 year later so zsh is in no way a newcomer.

Secondly zsh is almost strictly a bash superset so I don't know what he was missing (or what he found "ill-replaced").
Where have I been these past few years?
Well, I listened to the samples, and I've done a whole lot of SSB on HF over the past 40 years. The codec is a huge achievement, but most SSB signals sound much more natural. I'm not ready to say the codec is equally intelligible, but it certainly is good.

I think a better metric is spectral power for equal intelligibility. Over an HF channel, given 2700 Hz bandwidth (nominal for SSB, although you can go narrower), and a given level of transmitter power, say 100W PEP on the SSB side, then take 100W PEP and whatever error-correcting modem you can come up with that fits in 2700 HZ on the digital side, what does it sound like? What is the intelligibility comparison?

There are a lot of factors in play here, BER, power level, channel fading, etc. It's not clear to me that a system that is good when it works but suffers total drop outs if it loses bits is better than an analog system that suffers noise floor variations but at least gives you something.
ACA had impacts on employer plans as well. It is not crazy to suggest that the excessive rise in health care costs across the board is due to the ACA in large part, even if your plan is employer sponsored.
Virtually all languages use semantic digits to represent numbers. Just like the way you used "a little over 1000 emoji", instead of "a little over one thousand emoji". There's 10 "semantic" digits to the 26 "phonetic" letters on a keyboard.
Is your startup a cryptocoin?
I'm curious what HN thinks about building a cryptocoin as a startup. Are you working on an altcoin professionally, as a hobby, or thinking about it?

I've heard of ICOs, but haven't done much research into them yet. What do you think about pre-mined coins? And/or is it better to fund development with a portion of the block reward? Or would you take a different approach, like I think Factom is run more like a traditional business with products and services.
Installing untrusted software of dubious origin to run at highest privilege levels is not a security best practice.
Yes, I'd like to see a paint.net for Linux or mac
> Create regulations that turn ordinary people in to "bad" people, then grab some of their money to make them "good" again. What a system!

Darn!! You just basically described what racketeering is, no??
If only it worked in Linux.

As an aside, I've tried Krita, but am too used to how things work in Gimp, particularly the shortcuts. How different is Paint.net?
Cellphone number pad input is very well-suited to Japanese: each key is a row of kana. When I type Japanese on my phone, I always use the number pad input these days.
Pipes are pretty prevalent in PowerShell too.
It's a chicken-and-egg problem. When most people write in "phonetic" script, people stop using ambiguous words that sound alike, so these words fade away, which further strengthens the adoption of phonetic script.

If everyone around you uses Chinese characters, there's little incentive to avoid homophones, so they will remain a part of literary language, reinforcing the use of Chinese characters.
>"Not unlike the way that (for example) local road maintenance in a particular city is typically funded by citizens of that city, who always have the option to leave should they tire of paying the taxes the fund said maintenance."

The state is completely different in this regard. There is no meaningful piece of land on earth where you could settle and be free from a state. Even if it's arid desert and no one would contemplate living there, if you were to start a thriving community there and the residents start making money or break the outer-state's laws, they will impose on you.

You really have no option when it comes to settling and making your own community.

Or on other planets for that matter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
First of all, we're talking about plasma and not whole blood - the difference is important.

> An adequate and reliable supply of safe blood can be assured by a stable base of regular, voluntary, unpaid blood donors.

An adequate and reliable supply of plasma cannot be assured by a stable base of unpaid plasma donors - countries that pay for donations run a surplus and end up supplying it to countries that don't, because the latter don't produce enough.

> if the screenings were totally reliable why would we bother asking for risky behaviours ?

Because it saves time (and money) to be able to rule out people who are ineligible for blood donation before they ever get their blood drawn. You might think, "how could a person who has had Hepatitis A not know that they are ineligible to give blood?", but the answer is that this happens all the time.

Screening questions are there as a cost-saving measure; they're not intended to catch anything that blood testing wouldn't, and they're already arguably overly conservative in the screening stage as it is.

> What about the window between an infection by the HIV and the production of antibodies ?
>

(A) For plasma, you don't test for antibodies - you test for viral load.

(B) The window is incredibly short. The chance of someone donating plasma within a few days of being infected with HIV and having a viral load high enough to transmit HIV but also not test positive is minuscule. At that point, there are far bigger risks to worry about, like the many things that you can't test for (and which the patient may not know they have). Risk management isn't about eliminating risk; it's about systematically and contextually evaluating the appropriate levels of risk.
I recommend to install mc (Midnigth Commander) and bash-completion (if bash is your shell of choice) as first terminal tools.

mc allows to explore system efficiently while not standing in my way, because I can always press ctrl-O and get my shell back.

bash-completion saves time on typing of commands.

Other tools I install often are htop (better ps) and strace.
Using C from Elixir with NIFs (2015)
I wasn't so much commenting on the release date when I said "newcomers." Mostly commenting on my personal experience. I've been using bash for a long time and only recently have I seen zsh get so popular. It's entirely possible that only the people I know have only recently taken an interest in it.

I would have to run zsh again to remember the pieces that I didn't like. I might have been able to configure my way around it, but I do remember things not working as I expected them to.
Some of my friends work in embedded development, so I have at least a second-hand feeling of what it's like to have to get the code work with only 64k of RAM.

To be fair, most of the problems these people seem to face are relatively simple (at least a lot of the time) compared to writing multi-threaded web servers with two database backends (one relational, one NoSQL) using 47 different varieties of XML to represent the same data, but in slightly different ways that only become apparent once one has spent a few weeks reading the specs before going to sleep, until one dreams of the perfect file or something.

I know embedded developers have their own fair share of troubling problems; I am so glad that even the worst bug I could ever come up with would be unable to endanger human lives. I start transpiring like a hippo just thinking about a user being really unhappy with a piece of code that I wrote; I seriously don't want to know what it's like if your bug has killed people.

(Embedded development covers a wide range of problems, of course, but inevitably, some of those are going to have to do with transporting human beings across an ocean, safely, or something like that. I do not envy the people that have to write that kind of code.)
Two other interesting news stories right next to this one

http://abcnews.go.com/US/bus-drivers-working-alongside-silic...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/working-fast-food-jobs-16-hours-day...

Is this the "american dream" ?
On paper, yes. But it really depends on the workload. At the end of the day, if you're architecting appropriately it's apple's and oranges. SATA/NL-SAS drives excel at large streaming workloads - think video rendering, storing large ISOs, video surveillance, database dumps.

SSDs are highly transactional workloads like databases or most back-end systems for applications or virtual machines.

You RARELY see the two used for the same type of workload unless someone has money to burn and wants to standardize on SSD and doesn't care about cost. SATA/NL-SAS being used for a workload that should be on SSD generally results in someone getting fired and the original system being forklift replaced.
I doubt that rich people are trying to get into the US (and make their worldwide income subject to taxation).
For those not wanting to watch 14 minutes of video, here is the author's blog post explaining the vulnerability: https://tobi.rocks/2016/04/whats-app-retransmission-vulnerab...
Paint.NET is nice, but I prefer to use free software and to not use a closed source operating system from Microsoft.
especially when compared the the new H1B threshold at 100K

What on Earth are you talking about? That $100K threshold is designed to target body shops.

There are a class of employers which are H-1B dependent; generally, those with at least 15% of their employees on the visa. Currently, H-1Bs with a salary of at least $60K are not counted toward that 15%. The bill will change this to $100K salary.

It is possible to hire a H-1B for $50k under the current laws if that is market rate for the relevant position.
It's not a career, it's a gig.

Example of a gig being a paid appearance on TV as a talking head proffering some expertise - you have to make enough noise for people to remember you and the need for your services. Compare that to a career of someone like a nurse or airline pilot - they sure are welcome to go to nursing and airline conferences to remind people about importance of nursing and air travel as well as discuss the current issues facing both fields (sometimes even on TV), but it's not a requirement to keep collecting a paycheck.
Trades of goods are equivalent to currency.
Wouldn't be a dream if it as real, now wouldn't it ?
I was acquainted with a couple from Ohio somewhere. At times the husband would 'donate' blood in order to afford gas money to be able to drive to an entry level job at some warehouse or something. It was a pretty sad sounding story. On the other hand, I can admire their will to do what it takes to earn some money the hard way.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13392730
Regarding macOS and bash, it is slightly remiss of the article to not at least mention that the version of bash in macOS is

1. Ancient.

2. Will most likely never be updated by Apple

(Most GNU- and Linux-based systems, and also Windows, on the other hand, continue to use the latest versions.)
Yeah, and microSD cards run at 3V3. The problem is that a phone usually has better filtering capacitors, which the Pi lacks and thus any noise from the power line directly goes from 5V down to 3V3. Oh, and people usually buy the 2-5$ range of power adaptors from Amazon, I'm amazed that no one has managed to burn down their house with this stuff.
Don't Give Silicon Valley More H1B Visas
That can be seen as a positive thing - it's hard to make money as an investor in this ecosystem by just following the groupthink, therefore the contrarians stand to make the most money.
Did pilot's mobile phone play a role in EgyptAir 804 crash?
It's what the other article says, for in flight message (single tick), if the key changes it might be reencrypted with a new key if the recipient key changes.

If there's a double-tick it's too late, and it won't reencrypt. In practice, unless you have a very long monologue, only one message would "leak", not the full discussion.

(after the key changes you'll get a warning if you have the settings to show cryptographic details enabled).
I believe I read that Xiaomi has an ecosystem model where they sell phones as loss-leaders at low margins in order to build their brand and capture customers for high margin software. I don't think that's going to work as they don't own the operating system.
Update (May 31, 2016)

Facebook responded to my white-hat report

"[...] We were previously aware of the issue and might change it in the future, but for now it's not something we're actively working on changing.[...]"
zsh was quite popular when I first went spelunking in *NIX-land (2005). oh-my-zsh, which was a decent boost to zsh popularity, seems to have been around since 2009 (http://ohmyz.sh/).

zsh has always been held back by the "default browser"-syndrome: Linux and Mac OS both come with "good enough" default shells, so few people actually want to go through the effort of switching.

Especially since there is a bit of a learning curve to becoming more productive with zsh than you already are with bash.
I habe 0+ which isn't rare but still in high dem and.