skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was about to write the same thing. Many articles have fake information.

For instance, someone might edit an article to say that a person was a known political extremist. Someone else might write an article (not on Wikipedia) saying the same thing (after having read the Wikipedia article). Years later, if the information is questioned on Wikipedia, then editors will add a reference to the off-wiki article, and everyone will be happy. Circular fake news, with truth going down the plughole. The entropic heat death of information.
I like SoftEther, too. Braoad support of protocols (including OpenVPN) works well, too.
When they said

>I have to produce an events application with a UI similar to this: http://i.imgur.com/e0R1Kp5.png

I read that as "I have to produce an events application with a UI similar to OP, here's what mine looks like". Probably this is what confused you as well.
What you're forgetting is radioactive underpants were considered kooky even in their time - these were the homeopaths and creationists of their time. I don't think our common-sense beliefs as humans haven't changed as radically as you might think over the past thousand years. I'd bathe in a filthy river if the alternative was just not bathing ever. I can see why people did it. I'd tolerate streets full of manure if it'd mean we didn't have to walk for days between towns. These things aren't ideal, but not crazy, just humans living in difficult circumstances.
This is my main issue with the new header. Now I'll have to get used to not being to distinguish between the two anymore.
Microsoft Windows 10 update: New design ditches several classic features
AOL Instant Messenger - 1997
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Instant_Messenger
It's also useful when the text makes no sense, is offensive, outdated and/or just plain wrong, so with repetition they can always say "that's how we always did it so it's right" to shun off the people who grow up, think for themselves and start questioning the texts.
I didn't see anything in the article text that references what you are talking about. Did I miss it?
Scientists and engineers are just people. They can be moved to good or evil or anything in between just like anyone else.
SoftEther: A Faster, Secure, Drop-In Replacement for OpenVPN
I don't understand. What was the lie?
Off topic, but what does it mean to self fund a PhD? Does that mean that they don't receive a stipend or salary the way most graduate students do? Does this mean the lab they are working in isn't responsible for funding them?
I'm sure you have company. Amongst that company: people I've fired for doing just this. [unprintable] with my information and you're gone.
The only reason to do this is because you don't have another job lined up where you're allowed to do what you're paid for, yet, but are doing your best to find one.

I sympathize with your plight, but if you can't do the job, you can't keep cashing the checks.
Bring Back the Original GitHub Bar
Probably as long as it was patched for security updates but tbpfh, trusting a random stranger on the internet for security advice is likely unwise.
And this is why I haven't set up 2FA: I don't trust them (or Google) not to abuse my phone number.
They don't even need to have a long lifespan. They could have the same or even shorter lifespans than humans but use generation ships, or go in to some kind of stasis, or they could send out robotic drones or von Neumann probes.
How about manipulating spacetime at a distance? Maybe fold your planet into your star in a dimension currently inaccessible to humans.

I know, I know, it's space opera stuff.
probably our entire conception of psychology and psychiatry will go a radical change. To think we still do electroshock therapy (lets induce a seizure in the brain and hope for the best!), have no idea how it works, and this is still considered by professionals as one of the most effective therapies for chronic depression is just evidence of how little we know about the brain.
Quake 2 and Quake 3.

So far, it's the cleanest code I've ever worked with while still being very self-contained.
I read that draconian language myself back when the buzz first started about Paypal, too. I don't understand how convenience is so valuable that you'd put your whole account at risk.
Is it possible to use this along with the smartphone app (i.e., by "registering" with the same phone number) or does this CLI effectively represent an independent registration which would supersede the one on the phone? The README said something specific on this – so I assume it's the latter?
"His charitable work begun only very recently."

Oh you mean his tax deduction schemes?

"Before that, he was a cold and ruthless money making machine."

The world is going to suffer for decades under the proprietary NSA infected umbrella of his software. His ruthless machine lives on without him, he never turned it off.

Just wait and see, all this open sourcing from MS will increase and many will fall for the trap (embrace/extend), and then when the days of extenquish come around those of us who took the effort to transition to FOSS ecosystems will be far ahead of the game.

RMS is right. You either control the program or the program controls you.
Many names put out there, but not much substantiation. If you are going to drop a name, could you explain why it is well written/engineered?
I trust Digital Ocean much more than I trust PrivateInternetAccess. I also don't want to be associated with the other traffic going through PIA or similar VPNs.
Death Anxiety Makes Us Hate People Who Are Different
http://www.jclark.com/sp/
Maybe

- The Prince: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince

- The Art of War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War
Yes.

I ask what he thinks of the unverified allegations that President Trump was compromised during visits to Russia. The dossier of claims, compiled by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, was published just a day before we meet. “Clearly, blackmail is a weapon in the KGB arsenal,” Barsky shrugs. “If they could use it, they would. The only question is whether our new president was foolish enough to do any of that stuff.” Today’s Russian security services seem to think in much the same way as his old handlers in the KGB, he says. “That’s the thing with big organisations anywhere: they’re very resistant to change.”

And

In the 1980s, Barsky’s most interesting potential recruits were radical rightwing ideologues; here, Soviet agents would pose as activists from the radical right. “There was one individual I reported on who I’m convinced would have fallen for that, because he was so strongly rightwing,” he says.

I think it would be unusual not to have asked at least the first (and I don't think Trump is a Russian agent).
Good point, namely that doing less is the best way to avoid creating bugs. Which screws up many a metric. But you need scare quotes around "good developer."
Great sharing - the slides are really insightful on some of the strategic aspects of company building. Even having been in the startup world for quite some time - I hadn't seen some of these points articulated so clearly.
How Resilience Works
I've learned quite a bit from reading through the Laravel source - https://github.com/illuminate

edit for details: The authors are quite meticulous (notoriously, every comment in a multi-line comment is 3 characters less than the previous) and stick to the "convention over configuration" mantra no doubt inspired by Ruby on Rails. It's interesting to see how they create abstractions to simplify so many common web dev tasks.
Or for hard wood install some good quality casters?
With the widespread adoption of the term "fake news", I'm wondering what you mean by "fake information" as opposed to wrong, or false, or mistaken, or in more subtle cases, from a different perspective (think "freedom fighter" vs "terrorist"). "fake" to me implies purposeful deception. Is that what you mean here?
If the "structure, sequence, and organization" of APIs is a copyrightable work in its own right, then couldn't Google make a GPL-licensed derivative SSO (Android's API) but put their implementation under a separate license? Has anyone done a legal analysis of how the GPL's copyleft provisions would apply to this new kind of copyrighted work?
Yes indeed! Or they could be a BSG-like space-nomad armada drifting in look for a new homeworld. Or a Borg-like space-faring colony.

Those are just silly popular Sci-fi series scenarios and already they do to "You Need FTL to Attack the Earth" what the Vehrmacht did to the Maginot line.

We can't be debating SETI's happy-go-lucky talk-to-aliens plans at that sort of level. These guys need to be reminded, we may be alone in the universe but they're not alone on this planet. Even if there was no risk at all, unilaterally deciding to try and contact an alien species on behalf of all humankind is insanely irresponsible.
You've heard it here first: libertarianism means supporting Mad Max bandit kleptocracy.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." -- Arthur C. Clarke
Thanks! If you have any questions I'm happy to try to answer them.
What sort of opportunity are you imagining?

I trade cards with vendor sales reps and support people who visit. They have my info so they can let me know about new products or obsolescence issues, and I have their info so I can call them for support and product information.
They mean "destablilize" as in "the fat pigs at the top will lose power", which is incidentally what everyone else wants.
It's more subtle than that. The way United States copyright law is structured is that it tends to have simple, broad rules for what is subject to copyright, and then has several exceptions that limit the copyright owner's exclusive rights.

The tendency is to put the complexity and special cases in those exceptions and to keep the basic rules for what is subject to copyright simple.

Under current law and current Supreme Court precedent, for written works (including computer programs) that standard is essentially that if it is original and it has some creativity it is subject to copyright. The level of required creativity is very low. I believe the Supreme Court used the phrase "modicum of creativity" or something similar.

Microsoft's argument was that APIs can qualify under these simple, broad rules as interpreted by current precedent, and so the district court went too far in saying that APIs cannot be subject to copyright.

They did not argue that this means that Oracle should be able to prevent Google's copying. They believed that one or more of the exceptions (fair use, the merger doctrine, and some others they mention in their brief) could apply.

Their argument on destabilizing the software industry didn't have anything to do with APIs specifically. Essentially it was that the reasons the district court used to exclude the APIs from being copyrightable would likely apply to much more, calling in question a large part of the idea of copyright for computer programs. That would undermine pretty much all software licensing, both proprietary and open source.

It's worth reading their brief, as I've done some summarizing and simplifying that probably distorts some of the arguments. The Ars article you cited links to it.
The press and the general public
ICQ Instant Messenger - 1996
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ
I mean, that in and of itself ain't really ironic. Lots of cloud providers out there just resell abstractions around / improvements upon other cloud providers. Cloud66 is one with which I'm familiar; their whole business model revolves around wrapping AWS with CloudFoundry-like deployment mechanisms specifically for Ruby codebases (and Docker containers, but I never interacted with them in that capacity).
Fukushima nuclear reactor radiation at highest level since 2011 meltdown
I've spent a lot of time reading C sources. Standouts are nginx, mbed TLS, Amazon s2n. Clean coding styles, consistent in checking function return values (very important! significant source of vulnerabilities in C software), comments where due, no hacks.

Among the most convoluted source codes I've read is Tor. It works (apparently), and it isn't even very insecure per se (the code is littered with hard asserts that will abort code execution if an expected condition isn't met), but it is unnecessarily dense. Example: I use software to analyze the call graph (which function calls which function) and when I ask it to find potentially recursive loops (A() calls B() calls A() etc) it spews out tens of thousands of potential recursions.

By comparison, mbed TLS only has a couple of these, and a large project like OpenSSL 50 or so.

Conversely, C software that isn't consistent in error signaling (return -1 on error in function A, return 0 in function B, set parameter int* err in function C, etc), doesn't perform due error checking, whose call graph is spaghetti, mindlessly performs multiplication (leading to overflows with certain inputs), uses signed or unsigned int where size_t is better suited, are usually susceptible to bugs and abuse (vulnerabilities). The projects I mentioned are very clean in this regard.
Well isn't that a coincidence. Extracting money through state granted limited monopoly rights and lobbying for big government contracts at the same time. Oracle is really living the crony capitalist dream.
Not completely inaccurate.

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/September/9/
Recent events have convinced me not to follow such a course of action. Most of the media seems more intent on printing fake news that fits their agenda than honest investigation, leading to the more sarcastic among us to refer to WaPo as Jeff Bezos' blog, etc. The media has a lot to do to recover their standing in my eyes before I'll read their work, much less pay them for it.
So do I, but even that seems non-deterministic. FB is thoroughly awful, but still somewhat useful to me.
The Deming solution - re auto workers - was to constantly rotate all workers through different teams, then statistically judge (after accumulating years of repair records for individual cars) which individuals consistently dragged their teams down. You need a lot of data for this to work, obviously; but it does work.
What does copyright law care about software compatibility?
Societies' values change and evolve, there's nothing wrong with that.
Yes, but that's exactly my point. If current review time is 1 day, should it mean that expedited review currently should be shorter than that?
Those stories involve immigration. Cruise ship workers don't do that. They will the world and return home to tell all their friends about the experience.
Ask HN: Is there some active project/startup working on fake news issue?
There are lots of article related to identifying fake news, but is there some system deployed or a community driven project tackling the issue.
Wikipedia policy is such that slanderous claims like that about living people should be (and usually are) immediately reverted.
It's interesting that they list Perl and PHP as if they are the same language or language family. They list ML and Haskell with Lisp and Scheme but CaML separately from ML. It doesn't make the list much less useful, but it's a little surprising.
I've always used it more as a natural conversation closer personally.
So much for the tolerant left! ;)
PKD loved Gnosticism, and many of his books feature variations on Gnostic mythology and metaphysics, even going back to earlier works such as Three Stigmata and UBIK, both of which put forth "false creator" mythologies.

My favourite underrated PKD novel is Galactic Pot-Healer, which is a really fun read. This time the false creator is Glimmung, a large whale-like creature that claims to have godlike powers, and which is attempting to remotely contact a number of artisans across the galaxy that it needs to rebuild its physical presence on a far-away planet. The mythos is weirder and a bit less darkly dystopian this time, and the whole thing is crazy from beginning to end. Highly recommended.
I hope that history judges us more kindly than we judge history.

There's no question that today, and for the best part of the past 150 years, we find Calhoun's views absolutely abhorrent and reprehensible. For us, there is no question about it.

Calhoun, and most everyone else in human history, lived in a different time. We now "know" that slavery is inherently wrong, but Calhoun, for example, didn't see it that way. He literally believed he was doing a good thing. We now find that paternalistic, condescending, and abhorrent. Even in his own time, Calhoun's views were becoming outdated.

But there is not, and never has been, an oracle anyone could consult to find the Truth about what is Good and Right. Even seemingly objective religious oracles of the Truth About Morality are subject to interpretation. We all had to muddle our own way through it. Our consciences were all formed by the society we lived in and, no doubt, by our self interest.

I have no doubt that hundreds of years from now, when social norms have evolved in ways we can't imagine, people will find our views abhorrent and reprehensible too. I hope they do not dismiss us human sewers on that basis alone.

At any rate, I think that when you dismiss figures of the past as human sewers, you overlook just how past atrocities happened, which makes it easier for them to happen in the here and now.
> You have not been paying attention. Maybe consider accepting the advice of experts?

Nothing on the article's website suggests an affiliation or particular interest with security issues. This kind of patronising tone directed at people asking for help is the single most unpleasant part of the IT security industry.
Edward Snowden Coming Back to US?
No, they did not. How do I know? Because I'm still working on Solaris almost nine years later along with many others. Same manager, same projects.

Staffing levels in some areas was changed as was publicly announced.

See also http://www.esteem.co.uk/news-events/oracle-solaris-whats-goi...

Disclaimer: these are my opinions and not those of my employer.
Really nice how you pulled off name + email + website in one line.
Works if your culture is good. Only. (Doesn't necessarily preserve that culture though.)
Word-for-word blogspam of

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2017/02/020.html
So in other words the prospect of an FTL weapon is irrelevant?
Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
Things Developers Should Know About SQL Server (2013)
there's also quite a few open-source apps on F-DROID which are merely wrappers around the mobile site. I've been using "FaceSlim" for a while.
Nobody pays for Netflix; they just use their cousin's/sister's/girlfriend's/etc.'s account.
Is Edge + the new Windows Application Guard similar in protection?
I question the value of throwing out all mention of the past simply because the people in the past don't meet today's societal standards.
Yes, that looks like an awful paper.

However, pardon me but why should "the president" (of the US, I presume?) be the person to report first contact to? Is the US president somehow representing the entire species, now?
As an iOS user, I always assumed QR code reading was just built into Android's camera app. Is that not so?
the sort of things that go on at Yale these days

What do you mean by this?
It's just a higher priority queue, they can both be fast but the expedited review will always be fast.
How on earth could I have completely missed this movie. I just watched it, and as movies go, it was very good.
No. Everything that gets linked to GPL has to be GPL.
I've done my resume in CSS for a decade now (with print media styles to generate a PDF) for this reason.

I don't currently use business cards but if that changed would probably do the same.
"bing around a bit..."

Lol is that really a thing?
My point is that it's perfectly fine for corporations to just maximize shareholder value, as long as it's within a legal framework provided by democratically elected governments. That's precisely the purpose of governments, to guide society into a direction that's beneficial for the public as a whole, and they are elected based on their promises in this regard.
This is an example of what Jo Freeman famously called "The Tyranny of Structurelessness": http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
I think they mean mischaracterising PayPal in its capacity as a payment method, rather than mischaracterising PayPal to be a payment method.
Sorry, we will have only binary & atom-thick appraisals of historic figures in the US today. John Calhoun == Bad; Grace Hopper == Good. And that's all you need to know.

The ones doing the renaming have no independent convictions of their own. Or for that matter, much insight into or sympathy for, the differing views of others, let alone others from different times or places.

What they do have instead is a hyperactive self-righteousness gland, which is easily tickled to orgasm by the thought of them being on the right side, the side of the angels, in any conflict. It is what passes for their conscience. This explains the drive to cast all historic conflicts in the most reductive & simplistic way possible. So much the easier to spooge over how progressive they are for hating on the wrong side

John C. Calhoun is a person without mention of whom any history of early 19th century America would be incomplete. Yet, he can be dismissed with infantile invective ("human sewer"), as though he, like all antebellum Southerners was a monodimensional cartoon villain, like Decepticons who had an abiding interest in...cotton.

I am cheered by the fact that more and more normal citizens are seeing this performative outrage pantomime for the chauvinism-of-viewpoint that it is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619868

and several other similar stories:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Snowden%20russia&sort=byDate&d...
What I meant by starting a "foundation" is setting up a non-profit company on paper. I have nowhere near the financials to fund it though.

But yes, I agree, this is not productive at all. My bad.
On one hand, it was Sun that introduced that idea.

On the other hand, Oracle seems to have embraced it.
I believe he means when he responded "Yes" to the final question (as in "Yes, I have the PDF file for the business card"), he was lying and had nothing. So he quickly searched SO and found what he needed.

Sometimes, that's just what Stack Overflow is there for: a quickly accessible CYA!
It's all very subjective. Both dependent on attitudes, as you suggest, but also dependent on who the subject is: wretch, king, deposed king, and so on.
Explain GitHub
Definitely not. Honestly I'm not worried about people seeing the backend code either. I'm sure there are exceptions but it's been my experience that the data is by far the most valuable asset for web/sass applications.
One could argue the question is way too vague. What is a "well written/engineered" software to begin with?
Animation Student Makes a Film from Thousands of Desktop Screenshots
I'm pretty sure there's a poster of her at my local Microcenter, alongside the likes of Dan Bricklin.
What can I subscribe to, to hear about news like that in a more systematic fashion? I mean, monitoring all CVEs might be a little to much for somebody who isn't full time security professional, but there surely must be some reasonable compromise between that and position like "this browser is secure because tptacek said so".

I don't mean anything against tptacek personally, but without any substantial grounding this is as good as believing Keith Alexander/Michael Rogers/Vladimir Putin/Osama bin Laden/coin toss. In fact, coin toss might be the most secure of all, as I surely know it doesn't try to fool me on purpose.
"Loosely", ha. I would argue only thing they share is the one word in the title.

It's a great book. It's interesting (in the context of this discussion) that it's a satiric dystopia in which the main character spends most of the book in a drug-induced dream about being in a future utopia that turns out to be a Huxleyian dystopia that's even worse than the present day.