skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "It is important to realize-- and this seems to be the films thesis, that secrecy is extremely damaging."

Wow, I guess we watched the same documentary, but I didn't pull that message from that movie at all.

Just seemed like kind of a two front warning to me:

1. Those type of cyber operations are extremely difficult to pull off effectively. Stuxnet did little to damper Iran's progress.

2. Those type of operations are extremely difficult to control. Stuxnet got into the wild, even though its original targets were airgapped networks and industrial machines.
It's definitely seedy, but it doesn't sound like it's illegal. Misrepresenting data is one thing, but circulating misleading data is hard to define and punish.
I would say you have a bad analogy - Craigslist doesn't really have a good way of knowing if somebody is selling something stolen.

AirBNB on the other hand is covering evidence of their customers breaking the law, on purpose.
Can you provide evidence there is no income? They aren't a publicly traded company so I haven't seen their earnings reports...
Medium is all about the content on the web site "medium.com".

Wordpress is software that displays a web site's content.
Certainly not by definition. Consider a hypothetical market with two houses for rent, separately owned, that get rented by the same person. More landlords than renters. Or consider a house for rent owned by an LLC with three partners.
you are absolutely right the two bigest challenges are battery density and regulations.
IANAL, but what if the same keys were also used to encrypt client-attorney communications?
Not sure from the mathematical point of view.

Not a lawyer, but the Burr case seems to imply that the secretary could be compelled by court to translate the cipher (literally decipher) the letter, provided in doing so he was not going to incriminate himself.

If translating a cipher and decrypting a drive is held equivalent, then the subject of this article is likely protected, irrespective of how reprehensible the alleged crime is...
Where is the "issues" section? I wanna read about some gnarly low-level CPython bugs!

Other than that, this is a welcome change.
The central conceit of this article is that gun control as implemented in the US is racist (the NRA is discussed as an advocacy group that is hypocritical and ultimately supports many of these racist laws), which I agree with. That anecdote is not about the NRA, but there are others that are damning in my opinion.

> The NRA, funded (to a significant but unclear degree) by an industry that depends on a huge market for illegal guns to ensure profitability, has called for putting those very same black-market (and, not incidentally often black) customers in prison for extremely long periods of time.

> At the NRA’s May convention, Donald Trump, accepting the group’s endorsement, complained that “President Obama tried to take the guns from law-abiding Americans but has reduced prosecutions of violent criminals who use guns.” Trump, as usual, knew his audience well, and his speech was in line with a recent push by the NRA to double down on foreboding law-and-order talk, warning that liberals, in the name of reform, want to flood the streets with criminals and disarm the citizenry.

> But the NRA has a long history of agitating for harsh sentencing and prison construction. And it has relentlessly warned that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” The notion is not only vigilante but profoundly carceral, grounding the right of certain people to own guns in the criminality of others.

> When a Minnesota police officer shot Philando Castile dead by in his car, he was carrying a legal gun that his girlfriend has said he told the officer he possessed. His bloodied body, viewed by millions online, called the gun rights movement’s bluff: is a black man carrying a gun that he was licensed to carry a “good guy” when he is shot dead by the police? The NRA was criticized, seemingly even by its own members, for, like the officer who shot him, failing to acknowledge Castile’s right to carry.

I think you're kidding yourself if you think the NRA exists to support anyone except for white gun owners and cops.
It's a personal guess, based on knowledge of the ad market, inferences from their firing decisions, and gossip from some friends who know people there.
Actually I miss read the link. The parenthetical is inaccurate, but the rest is exactly what the article alleges.
Apache projects are often direct competitors.

The Apache organisation is about good open source governance, not avoiding internal competition.
How about olive oil? The oils they name there already got a bad rap in the press here for not being very good for you. But olive oil persists.

Also; you have to wonder about these tests... Anecdotal, but too many times I see people take cola light, a light sugar substitute for their tea and veg oil based butter with their 3000 kcal burger & fries & chocolate sunday.

Also, the more I read up about it, I think stress is far more involved than food in a lot of cases. And if you feel you have a lot of stress (some people can handle tons and feel nothing, other get burn out with comparitively little, so it is personal) then I do not think food matters a lot: exercise probably does. Just looking at food is not enough there; weight, stress, genetic factors and exercise have to be equal for all individuals.
> Web source tree browsing that's front and center, that's relatively decent, with OK search.

The source browsing feels barely adequate to me. There are so many simple things they could do to make it better.

• Show file sizes. When I'm exploring a repo I'm unfamiliar with, one thing that's helpful for me is to get a sense of what the code is like. To do this, I want to look at some of the larger files; that's where I'll probably find the more interesting code. As it is I just click around on random files hoping to find something interesting.

• Show real dates instead of the vaguely rounded off "how long ago". If it says "a month ago", well, what is it, two weeks or six? And why not show the time? A couple of times I've been looking for a code change and I didn't remember what day it was but I did remember it was right before lunch, maybe around 11:30 or so. It feels like their priority is a "clean and simple" display as opposed to a useful and informative display.

• Fix the display for code that indents with tabs. It still defaults to 8 columns, which hardly anyone (with a few notable exceptions) likes. And you, the user, can't override this. They did recently start honoring the indent_size setting if you have a .editorconfig file, but that really misses the point. Many of us who use tabs don't want to specify an indent_size. That's one of the virtues of tabs: people who read the code can use whatever indentation they prefer. The indent size for tabs should be a user preference setting. As it is, I started adding indent_size=4 to my .editorconfig files just to get a decent looking display on GitHub.

• Use a readable font on mobile. Courier, really? And not such low contrast! Everything is hard to read on mobile, and they even disabled pinch-zoom so I can't make the text a little bigger.

• Show a directory tree on the left. If I'm exploring a repo, I'd like to get the big picture of the directory layout, and also have an easy way to click around to look at the various directories. As it is, I have to do a lot of back and forth. Google Code had this from the beginning.

Edit: Thank you everyone for the helpful replies! I learned some great tips from you all.
Realistically there's no reason the interface can't simply autoconvert some arbitrary unicode character into a |, and leave that as an extension for anyone to add to whatever arbitrary language

It matters for reading/writing code, having uniform syntax, but it hardly matters for a general user's usage (in fact, I'm just talking about an alias, and its not so troublesome).

And regardless, this special character issue likely exists for any character; I imagine few are consistent among all languages, appearing on all keyboards.

So its just a pick your poison and stick with it situation, and whaddyaknow, English is still the most common internet language, and perl/bash have already ensured that most programmers have had to deal with these characters for decades
wow this is great!
You're conflating two very different things. WordPress.org is open source software that runs a substantial portion of the modern web and do all those things you say. WordPress.com is a hosted blogging SaaS like Blogger. Medium is a WordPress.com competitor, a very important distinction.
first a citizen has to be well enough connected to even get that kind of help.

second, you need to let your connections know you need the help.

third, your still going to take a severe financial and emotional beating.

so sure, its not okay that this is happening. but not everyone is in a position to standup.
>I too would like it if others would meet my needs and I could disregard the needs of all other human beings.

These are not "needs" that are failing to be delivered; the only need a worker serves is the boss' "need" to make profit within capitalism. I care wholly for the needs of humans, not for the needs of the person I'm selling my labour to.

I value your needs, I value what you want. But I do not value the fact that your need must only be satisfied by my being forced to sell my time for your need.

I do not want to be forced. I don't want anyone to be forced. Either way, I would argue that the freedom of the whole world, of all the workers, is more important than desires for new cars, computers, jewellery etc.

When we are producing so many products and yet people cannot afford to live with clean water, clothes or not having to worry about starving, lack of health insurance etc. then I think we have a problem.

Capitalism does not function for the purpose of the needs of humans. Not by a long shot, so please do not frame it that way. It is merely a side effect. And I'm not asking you to value my needs, I'm asking you to value the needs of your fellows and, if you are a working person, yourself.

Again, I do not want to satisfy needs under threat of destitution, poverty and death.
It's mostly Node right now. I started documenting it in more detail (just notes right now) - https://www.findlectures.com/articles/2017/01/22/Software-Ar...
...or perhaps the nation faces threats that are thrawrted by these measures that you speak of.

Obama managed to push affordable care act through despite republican howls. Perhaps there are other reasons for his change of heart on other topics.
I wrote up some more info here on data acquisition here (just notes right now) - https://www.findlectures.com/articles/2017/01/22/Software-Ar...
OK, I will bite. Why JavaScript? What would it bring to an interactive environment that Python does not?
In fact the trend to replace butter with vegetable oils has led people to ingest more trans fats which are provably more dangerous than saturated fat.
Strongly disagree that "Brexit UK" doesn't have an appetite for the exotic.
It just has to be framed as such.

I find the museum experience in London to generally have the flavour of the spoils of a post-imperial shopping trip. Even the most radical intersectional globalized contemporary art stuff can be, and is, consumed and "recuperated" into commodity consumer culture. That's a given, and Brexit doesn't really change that orientation towards the exotic, foreign or just "new".
I built an RC2014 and I really like it. I'm using some of Dr. Scott M Baker's boards (WD37C65 floppy controller and 512k banked RAM/ROM) so I can run CP/M. I'd like to get things set up so I can build CP/M on the RC2014, but for now I'm just starting to learn the tools.

I have a Wyse-55 terminal acting as a display with some ACIA board modifications to allow hardware flow control so it doesn't get overrun. I also have a VFD that'll do 40x15 characters or so, which is narrow for a CP/M system, but I should be able to modify the few programs that'll really make a mess on a narrow screen.

I've got a bunch of pictures on twitter if anyone is interested: https://twitter.com/FeatherOrNot/media
at which point, you are still fucked.
Oh, I don't think strictness is the issue here. Sure, very possibly most vegans/vegetarians eat animal products now and then. It's hard to be 100% perfect, given how society is set up right now.

I agree this is a process that will take decades.

I disagree about the criticism. I think those future generations will be horrified at how we so casually accept the eating of animal products, factory farming, and so forth. (And they might feel some unease at the vegans/vegetarians that are just 99% perfect, too.)

The fact it's only a growing fraction right now doesn't mean the future won't be shocked at the majority today. There are plenty of examples where we are shocked by the majority in the past.
This needs a [2016] in the title
I actually prefer the "time since" method. Don't have to do date maths in your head to see how active the repo/file is.
Great podcast.

The world owes a big THANK YOU to Tomáš Mikolov, one of the creators of Word2Vec[0] and fastText[1], and also to Radim Řehůřek, the interviewer, who is the creator of gensim[1].

The number of software developers and researchers in industry and academia who rely on the work of these two individuals is large and growing every day.

[0] https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/

[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText

[2] https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/
The keyspace of SSNs is only 10^9. I don't think password hashing would help much.
Nah you just whack it.

Most MDMs can wipe the phone or data on it in the event you leave the country.
I thought no reputable vegetable oil brand uses trans fats anymore.
It's less wasteful to spend $20 billion building a pointless wall on the Mexican border than the ~$40 billion in losses this rail is going to eat. I'm glad I'm not a California resident.
Interesting how the graphics in this article are created. It looks like they use http://ai2html.org/ which renders everything but text to a background image, and then places the text in front. It seems the only benefit vs. just rendering the illustrator file to a png is that you can select and copy the text. Perhaps it also allows a future editor to change figures without needing the source Illustrator file.
Under the same general umbrella of "not for all gun owners", I think it's much less of a stretch to point out that the NRA has repeatedly thrown people with mental illness under the bus, unapologetically using terms like "monsters", "lunatics", and "homicidal maniacs", and advocating for such people to be tracked in a national registry [1] [2]. I don't consider that behavior becoming of a civil liberties organization.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Health/nra-takes-fire-stance-mental-il...

[2] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/22/nra-h...
What about coconut oil? :)
Probably more accurate to say that Medium is a glorified Blogger. I'd argue that the two are better at different things and I sometimes cross-post from Blogger to Medium.

But what I find a bit silly is that Medium often gets held up as a journalistic enterprise when it's just a publishing platform, albeit a nice one.
There are over 53,000 people 100 or older in the US. I imagine with a few advances in medicine, that number could increase 10x, or even 100x, within the next half century.
or journalist.
No, you misunderstand. Co-ops are fine at meeting the needs of consumers.
Or to give it an engineering flavor, the ROC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris...

It seems we accept a higher FAR (False Alarm Rate, a diagnostic which gives a false positive) for certain communities (poor people, minorities) than others.

The consequence matters too: even people who support the retributive aspect of the death penalty may reject it in practice because of the excessive false conviction rate.
I would fully recommend against people installing packages from outside their distro. especially crypto related ones.

Do you consider master stable?
i.e. should we consider packaging every master commit?
A century travel was much slower, more difficult and hence less common than it is now.
while i disagree on your point sbout duress, you are absolutely correct about this being a legislative issue, not a technology one.
NET Bundling and Minification
>You could live off the dole, or go be a hobo in the woods somewhere.

These things only come about due to people realising that capitalism without some kind of governmental safety net is utterly barbaric. It is also impractical, from a philanthropic position, even if I do not sell my labour, others must do it, which I believe is still an injustice.

I do not think it is just that someone must choose between selling their labour and living in destitution and poverty, nor do I think it is just that workers are not rewarded fully for their work.

It is entirely forceful for any semblance of a life free from worry about if one can make it to the next month from the money his government gives him. This holds doubly for those working where exploitation is much more visible, such as sweatshops.

Furthermore in order to support those who do not work, one must pay taxes, which cannot well co-exist with the rights of freedom, equality and dubiously property. Read Proudhon's "What is Property?" for something interesting.

Here's an interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNxSHcQqiMc
You mention decentralization a lot, but nothing has really changed. All cpython devs still have a full clone on their machines. GitHub functions as a hub now rather than https://hg.python.org/cpython.
I don't know, I'd find that kind of analysis a lot more fun than living a mundane line for decades just for a chance of learning some interest info.
I have problems remembering a password if I don't use it for a month or two. After 16 months, I'd probably have no idea.
>Medium was a "dream job."

well they were half right
so isn't that ipso facto aid and abetting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiding_and_abetting
> Fix the display for code that indents with tabs.

Hidden feature: you can actually add ?ts=2 (or 4) to the URL. It would be nice to be able to configure it, though.
>Nordic socialism

This is not socialism in any sense of the word. They have a social democracy.
aiding and abetting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiding_and_abetting
Have a read of http://www.snopes.com/2017/02/08/noaa-scientists-climate-cha...
It's a good question, and I didn't mean to be insulting about it - I apologize if is how you took it.

Here's a random paper I just googled up that at least introduces the problem: https://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/2bf67b79-61a2-42fd-b...

The short story: there's an association between declines in social trust and people of different ethnicities living in the same society. It's not clear which way the arrow of causality points, but there is some reason to think that a highly multi-ethnic society leads to decay of social trust (ie defection)
How long is it likely to take for Linux to support these new chips?

I need to build a new system and am trying to gauge how long I should wait after Zen comes on the market.
The crisis of optimism
It's not that I don't want to see it work out, or that I don't expect people would enjoy the ride more than flying. It sounds perfectly pleasant and nice.

But it has a pricetag of $64 billion. How much more exactly are they going to enjoy it, in dollar terms? How much is it worth sticking taxpayers so that wealthy SF<->LA commuters can have a slightly more pleasant experience?
Assuming similarly low pricing, AMD's Naples chip for the servers might spark even more competition. Since it can do up to 32 cores / 64 threads in a single socket, it would compete with dual socket Xeon systems that have much higher motherboard costs, plus the cost of 2 chips.
Reminded me of "Glitch City" in the original pokemon games.

https://youtu.be/86VvAY-Rhzo
TRATO featured as “Startup of the week”
Please elaborate. Just "Don't" begs for more information.
Biggest Product Regret
every government has a right to process a crime, and that takes time.

so its not unlawful until it's unlawful.
If states don't have to enforce federal immigration law then do businesses have to enforce state restrictions?

(Probably yes. If that's what the laws say. I have no idea.)
This is increasingly untrue. Modern consoles like the Xbox One and PS4 guarantee availability of six hardware threads with provisional access to a seventh. This combined with things like VR putting a premium on high FPS has motivated more parallel architectures.

Most game engines architectures have supported limited parallelism in the form of dedicated game simulation and render threads, as well as often having asynchronous processing of audio, network, and IO. More modern engines have task based architectures that allow for parallelism of the game simulation. This is often implemented as a fork-join model around sync points spread throughout the simulation update: pre-physics and post-physics update periods for instance. While it is true that some game logic relies on knowledge of global state and complicated dependencies between entities in the simulation, games can and do find meaningful reductions in CPU wall time.
Housing in NYC is expensive. Zoning laws exist in part to control housing costs. Airbnb is seen as a way to circumvent these laws by facilitating short-term listings in otherwise long-term residential areas.

Airbnb released a detailed snapshot of its NYC listings in order to minimize such concerns and prevent restrictions on its business. However, individuals who had been consistently collecting similar data from Airbnb's website noticed that the snapshot was misleading. Airbnb had instituted a crackdown on "bad" listings immediately prior to the snapshot, but allowed them to return right after.
Not at all, I was merely curious as to what you meant. With regard to this problem, I had heard of it before, and I hope there is some kind of solution. I haven't read the paper yet, but I have a feeling it takes root in petty tribalism and legitimate differences in culture. Thanks.
The point remains; given the size of Automattic/Wordpress.com, it is very understandable how a wordpress.com competitor founded by the creator of blogger could raise large sums of money.
Yeah protesting hasn't really worked that well to date. But do you think people will become more upset if they're told that transiting through airports now requires you to hand over your unlocked phone to a stranger while they go through all of your email, banking, and social media accounts?

It's easy to dismiss data retention laws because they're so far away. But if someone is literally sitting across from you going through your phone? I think (hope) that image will drive the point home a lot better than it has previously.
I understand what you're saying... Bill Bryson rather than the Griswold's.
Hovering over any time on GitHub shows the absolute time.
Each president that expands the president's power manages to forget that he gives those powers to the next person. Which is how Trump now has quite the surveillance apparatus.
Hello! I was one of those annoying "architects" saying no, but it wasn't because only three languages are allowed. When I left the Times about six months ago, systems were actively being developed in the following languages: PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Go, Scala. (And ObjC and Swift, if you want to count those.) Plenty of unmaintained legacy systems in other languages, too. So proposals to add yet another language (Clojure, right?) were I think understandably received with some skepticism. It's not that it couldn't happen, just that there'd have to be a hell of a good reason, and there wasn't. It was unfortunate that months of work were invested before a proposal was written, but that wouldn't have been a very good reason to approve it.

For what it's worth, I agree with almost everything else you said.