skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parent doesn't propose to "expand the definition of the word 'troll' to include 'authors decrying trolling'". He proposes defining trolls as "as anyone who posts inflammatory, bad faith, needlessly aggressive, insulting, false, or otherwise unproductive content".

If you assume that the word troll does not mean "anyone who posts inflammatory, bad faith, needlessly aggressive, insulting, false, or otherwise unproductive content" then someone claiming it does is pretty clearly expanding the definition of the word.

Which is as (or close) to how it has always been defined, and how the authors of TFA use it.

I actually disagree with both of these assertions. Sometimes people expand the word troll to encompass too large a group, but that doesn't necessarily change the definition and I definitely don't see how the article uses it in that manner.

Though, I can definitely understand the desire to expand the definition of the word 'troll' into usefulness. It does make it easier to dismiss other's complaints.
Eh. The biggest thing Linux had going for it in terms of winning market share was running on commodity x86 parts in a time period when the commercial Unices weren't touching it, and x86 made really strong gains in beating everybody else at performance per dollar.
Given the existence of exception handling, I would rather apply the pattern:

;; Plain old ANSI Lisp

(let* ((x (or (foo) (error "..."))))
(y (or (bar x) (error "bar ..."))
...)
body)

I mean, if, in the end, we are going to "error out", rather than just forward-propagate `nil`.

If we are going to just propagate `nil`, then if we have an `iflet` that tests the last variable, we can do:

(iflet ((x (expr))
(y (if x (bar x))
(z (if y (foo x y))) ;; z is tested by iflet
...)

it's just a bit verbose. That can be condensed with a simpler macro that doesn't have the err stuff.
Rolling updates
"legitimate software" sounds a bit like "legitimate ideas"
When people started complaining about internet privacy.

But remember, the Chief Human Resources Officer historically isn't on the side of employees. I'm of the view point that the CPO (*) isn't on the side of consumers. But it looks good to have one.

(Sorry to all of the Chief Petty Officers)
> If the military remains the most-trusted branch of government that's a bad thing.

Agreed, but I think the thing driving it isn't really the size of the defense budget. I think it's the All-Volunteer Force.

During the Vietnam era, U.S. military spending was much higher as a percentage of total GDP than it is today -- around 10%, compared to ~4.5% today (see http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1900_2020...). But the military's reputation for competence was much lower then. Why?

Because back then lots of Americans had first-hand experience with the military, or knew someone within one degree of separation who did. So they knew that people in the military were just like people anywhere else -- that generals could be principled or venal, officers clever or clueless, soldiers motivated or lazy. They knew it because they'd lived alongside all these people in the ranks, and personal experience doesn't leave a lot of room for mystique.

We're now more than four decades in to an all-volunteer force, though, which means that the days when a broad slice of the population had seen the realities of the military up close are slipping out of living memory. Today's average American knows the military only at a distant remove, heavily mediated by hoorah propaganda (just watch an NFL game) that emphasizes the idea that Soldiers -- who we are supposed to refer to with a capital S now, just to drive home the point -- are a breed apart from ordinary workaday people.

As a civilian who grew up in a military family, I see this happening and it worries me profoundly. History has not been kind to democracies that turn their soldiers into a remote, unaccountable elite. They tend not to be democracies for too much longer.
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> This is a new take on open-source development where it is out in the open, yet secret.

Hasn't this always been the way Android operates? Developed in secret, source thrown over the wall every release?
Even the latest versions of Ubuntu install Node 0.10. This is a known thing in the Node community which is why we use tj/n or NVM.
I don't recall this happening, are you referring to chromeos and android? Can you share some links if you're not?
I've really turned on Wikileaks. Itd be one thing if all the major powers had equivalent leaks publishing, but focusing on the US basically serves Chinese and Russian interests far more than it does the citizens of the US. String obfuscation isn't stemming from some corrupt deal that needs sunlight... this is just doing a disservice to their original mission.
FWIW, CRISPR isn't a great analogy. It's a well understood mechanism, and not really all that different from standard genome editing techniques like restriction enzymes, zinc-finger nucleases, etc. It's new and flashy and super powerful -- and the applications of CRISPR are still being discovered -- but the mechanism is understood and simple.
Maybe they will lower the data caps and then ask you if you are willing to sell your data in exchange for more data...
Hey jwr!

We found that buying a 3D printer was essential. They only cost a few hundred dollars and instead of getting a piece for $50 in a couple days, we can print something for a couple dollars in a few hours.

For testing the final design, we still use 3D print services to get really nice prints. But for the initial iteration it's nice to do it as quickly and as cheaply as possible.

Sidenote: We also rigged up a system so that we can run the 3D printer over night and print multiple parts. We will probably write a post on that.
So, you don't want Ubuntu to recommend a laptop anywhere? Or you want them to recommend the best valued laptop for each country?

Just trying to follow what you're saying... It seems like you described what's wrong with selecting the XPS, then here you describe why the XPS would be a good choice after all.
It's much harder to leak Russian stuff because a lot of it is in paper form. After Snowden revelations, Russians returned to typewriters for all their top secret stuff [0]:

>A source at Russia's Federal Guard Service (FSO), which is in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications and protecting President Vladimir Putin, claimed that the return to typewriters has been prompted by the publication of secret documents by WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing website, as well as Edward Snowden, the fugitive US intelligence contractor.

>The FSO is looking to spend 486,000 roubles – around £10,000 – on a number of electric typewriters, according to the site of state procurement agency, zakupki.gov.ru. The notice included ribbons for German-made Triumph Adlew TWEN 180 typewriters, although it was not clear if the typewriters themselves were this kind.

>“After scandals with the distribution of secret documents by WikiLeaks, the exposes by Edward Snowden, reports about Dmitry Medvedev being listened in on during his visit to the G20 summit in London, it has been decided to expand the practice of creating paper documents.”

>Unlike printers, every typewriter has its own individual pattern of type so it is possible to link every document to a machine used to type it.

Now, their hacking tools are obviously not in paper form but I bet they're much more tightly controlled than the CIA/NSA tools. They probably have a much smaller team of people who have access to such tools so it's much harder for them to leak. It's also easier to do counterintelligence on people who do have access and you can bet every one of those people is monitored to some degree.

US has thousands of contractors who work for CIA/NSA/DIA and other intelligence agencies and many, supposedly, can easily walk out with some of the most sensitive documents that the USG possesses. [1] One of these contractors, supposedly, leaked out these files to WikiLeaks [2]. FBI is now on a hunt to figure out who it was.

Russians don't have a huge network of contractors. I couldn't find the exact figure but by a quick estimation, Russians have 100x less people doing the intelligence work. They also have much, much smaller budgets because of their economy. So it's easier for them to keep secrets from leaking.

CIA probably (most definitely?) has moles inside of FSB so FSB secrets do leak. Just not to WikiLeaks.

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1017...

[1] http://www.federaltimes.com/articles/fbi-arrests-contractor-...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/authorities-questioning-cia-con...
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Organize packagers

- DESCRIPTION: We have aptitude, apt-get, apt, dpkg, snap, npm, pip, etcetera. I really don't care where they should go as long as permissions are not set to superuser unnecessarily. I would love some default organization imposed by Ubuntu to get order in this chaos. Define standard locations for these package managers.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: IoT

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Make sure all sensors work

- DESCRIPTION: Out of the box working Yoga 900 with rotating functionality, flipping 180 degrees, etc. Would be great.
You're not wrong but your statement could be misinterpreted to say that OP is a shitty person. I'm sure that's not what you mean.
What's the purpose of all those localhost ping lines in the delete script?
1. It depends on where the work is shipped. Global trade between countries with similar minimum wages and labor laws is a net positive because it takes advantage of the varying resources of other countries without exploiting labor. Yet when a country has a vastly different economy, it can be not fair at all. For example, minimum wage in Mexico is $0.48/hr, and their quality of life is very low. How is it fair to the world when a richer country facilitates the poorer country's poor labor laws by shipping all its work to the poor country, all while gutting the richer country's middle class? It just leads to a race to the bottom to see which country can offer the cheapest labor.

2. It can be stopped. The US was an economic powerhouse before globalization, and had an incredibly powerful middle class with a high quality of life. What China has done is use the money from outsourcing into creating its own internal industries, which is why their economy is rising all across the board, while in the US we've been outsourcing our industries to the point where only the capital owners who exploit globalization are seeing an increase in quality of life. If we stop that, the globalists will suffer but our middle class will rise. As far as competition goes, what does it matter if we have the "strongest market" or whatever if the majority of people don't benefit from it?
Polonium in tea, or "slaps" while in Guantanamo or solitary confinement like Manning?
Ad industry person here.

It's not really aggregate data in the sense that any records about you are still individually separated. You're not anonymized by getting mixed into a bigger pool of data points.

The usual rule is that the buyer won't get your records by name but will know more or less where you live, how old you are, political leanings, hobbies and interests, etc.

So you have some anonymized ID number or set of cookies attached to you. However, if you think about it, from the perspective of the advertiser your name is one of the less valuable things about you.

So... you might be anonymous by name, but the name thing is a bit of a red herring.
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> yet continue hiring white male whiteboard challenge mavericks.

Is that even true? Are you counting Asians and light-complexioned immigrants the same as American white people in this context?
It is not entirely obvious that such extrapolations would succeed. GAN is not a new idea (new in the context of deep learning) but automatic generation of adversarial samples is a known and exploited subject (even e.g. in the field of evolutionary strategies). So this is still the promise: look, it works on the images but there are all these wonderful applications possible. Its 2017 now, I'll check back in 2019 to see if anything has changed.
if consumer business you can create a 1 page google survey for $50-$75

or..

1. I created a lead page with a question/pain point/offer.

2. added 3 benefits with 3 bullets each.

3. connected a button from the lead form to a page with a

3 page wufoo.com form.

4. page one click 1 option choice or checkboxes.

5. page 2 enter some information

6. page lead info.

7. used those leads to get an idea if there's a market.

then call or email them back.
Linux isn't as good as it gets, but it moves significantly faster than pretty much any other software project. The majority of the code is hardware driver/support, and it's relatively well understood in terms of performance now. Linux today is not much like Linux 10 years ago.

Making something better than Linux in some way isn't hard. Making something consistently and sustainably better in enough ways, at the rate Linux moves, is a very hard task.
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Anil Dash actually wrote a great article about this. The short summary is you need real humans doing the moderating. All the tooling you create should be about enhancing those humans.

http://anildash.com/2011/07/if-your-websites-full-of-asshole...
> I remember reading that Amazon review of "The Story About Ping" shortly after it was published...

I think you mean "shortly after it appeared on Amazon" since the book was old when I was a kid in the 1960s, pre Internet and pre Amazon.

(Or your commend extends the April 1 tradition, which is cool).
Ooo, yea the connector, that was tough! We have a proprietary design there so we can't share everything but I will include some info on the connector in the next posts of this blog series :).
Having used the cats library in anger... I think for Clojure it'd probably be better to make a couple specific monads to handle, e.g., either-ing. Talking about monads abstractly really requires type support, I've come to believe. It can be done otherwise, but it gets really complicated.
> I’ve noted in countless skimmer stories here, the simplest way to protect yourself from ATM skimming is to cover your hand when entering your PIN. That’s because most skimmers rely on hidden cameras to steal the victim’s PIN. As easy as this is, you’d be amazed at how many people fail to take this basic precaution.

I wonder how hard it is for a trained eye to guess the PIN when typed this way.
Perhaps you could even do it with a neural network.
Problem is the current system is the worst of both worlds: spammers will continue to create new fake accounts.

Honest people get shut up - or outed.
Workers co-ops predate the USSR, one of the oldest the Co-Operative Group was founded in 1844 and is still going. Whilst what you say sounds terrible it's also far from the only working model such organisation could follow.
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I just grabbed an example at random there. It's not really an excessive example of nesting, but, at the time I didn't grok threading.

I think the data being manipulated is a cloudformation response or something, so, the structure isn't something I'm in control of.

I actually changed it from `(:status (:status ...` in the original, which is even dumber naming, so that it wouldn't look like a typo. Real life programming is thoroughly unglamorous I guess.
It is not 5-10 people.

It is 3-5 in a 2 bed apartment.

This is extremely common in SF and is perfectly legal.
It brings up reversible computing as a way to not require any energy.

What would a reversible computer look like? Could I run Firefox on it?
The future? The System/38 (aka AS/400 aka iSeries aka System i) had capabilities from the beginning, almost 40 years ago.
MathJax CDN shutting down on April 30, 2017
Clojure is interesting in a lot of ways. I've toyed with it a lot, but what actually keeps me from using it much is how tightly coupled it is with the JVM. I know this is its big selling point for a lot of people but for me personally I don't enjoy having to know Java's APIs and ecosystems to get things done.

Is anyone else out there like me who wishes there was a standalone clojure implementation that wasn't a hosted language? Add a modern package manager on top of that like cargo or mix and I would love to write new projects in it, because clojure itself is a very pleasant experience.
I think you're overestimating people's need for encouragement. Slashdot cleverly gives out moderator points occasionally, not regularly, which gives users the experience of wanting them but not having them.

Slashdot sets lower and upper bounds on comment scores and lets readers set a threshold. Promoting good posts has more impact than demoting bad ones, so you'd probably just ignore all but the worst off-topic posts.

Making someone's votes count less would strongly discourage voting more often.
Would love a citation there, if you can find it.
> But iOS is closed source even though parts of it are also open source?

Android will run ( and performs all the expected smartphone functions ) using only open-source.

iOS won't boot using only open-source.

I'm not a fan of Android in general but reluctantly continue using it with that distinction as consolation.
If these issues are anything to go by, there most certainly is a demand:

* https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1494

* https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1243

* https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1516

Did you not realize what vinnes meant by "Ubuntu Subsystem for Windows"?
What prevents them from doing both?
Highly recommend LightTable. its perfect for clojure.
This device should have a switching regulator in order to manage the variable voltage coming out of the battery to then power the phone, which means FCC testing is required.

Generally speaking testing labs will run a series of common tests that satisfy the various regulatory agencies. In other words, you don't have to run four separate sets of tests to obtain UL, FCC, CE and TUV. I've done this dozens of times over the years.
What you're describing isn't a union. What you're describing in a professional association that helps protect workers who make ethical decisions that land somewhere awkward.

You don't get the power of a union without the self-interest that makes a union.
Up to and including becoming a fucking nursery. Complete with crying and singing kids for Christ sake.

I get it, nurseries are expensive and you may not have someone to dump the kids to (or money for Netflix).

Shouldn't nurseries be subsidised instead?
Assuming you're in the west, move abroad. You can probably stretch your money for a year or two and live very well. There, you can work or do whatever you want.
I meant to be blunt, not rude. The reason is that we have a lot of crap that is spent and controlled by a small group of people well outside our control in Washington (regardless of political party).

With $20 trillion in debt, we need to start cutting things and giving control back to the states and cities. If we don't start now, then as interest rates rise, the interest payments on the debt will crowd out things we need. I'd rather

There's ton's of other crap to cut out of the budget, and I'm not trying to take a political stance here, but just because the government gives me cheese doesn't mean that's the best way.

Looking at the location in the article (Lower Peach Tree, AL) is poor as it gets (and is unincorporated). But somewhere along the line, the people of that state of Alabama decided that supporting the Crimson tide was more important than internet connectivity. Why should someone in NYC or LA, or anywhere outside of AL have to pay for that decision?

I live in Houston, where we have horrible roads (seriously, ask anyone who's ever been here). But when you ask people if they'd like to raise taxes to have better roads, the answer is no (I'd pay more, but clearly I'm in the minority). Should I make you pay for our roads because we don't want to?
honest question: does wikileaks not have necessary connections in China to collect the intel and stuff?
you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villian...
There's suspicion that Assange no longer has control over Wiki Leaks.
3-5 to start ;)
Show HN: My Interactive ClojureScript book
Ask HN: Who does presentation interviews?
There are many different ways to interview prospective programmers: Whiteboard interviews, take-home-projects, pair programming interviews, etc. One type of interview that I think I'll do the best at is the presentation interview.

The presentation interview is when instead of trying to impress the company with writing radix sort from memory, you impress them with a 30 minute presentation on a project you've built.

I only know of one company that interviews this way, and that is genius (formerly rap genius). What are the other companies that hire this way?
one powerful tool in our arsenal, then. Sounds like something that could foster world wars :)
Everyday items that produce radiation should you be worried about your health
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I don't think we can cut off trolls because of free speech. Its not even a good idea as some trolls aren't even trolls, they are just loud. Instead, if personal filters were controlled via browser settings or something independent of the actual provider, you could maintain privacy yet have nice content as well. An AI filter would be a good candidate for that.
Did they promise not to analyze my browser history to figure out what kind of consumer I am, how much money I have, whether I have kids, etc, and then rent access to that information through a targeted ad delivery service?

Gonna guess no. This seems like an empty promise designed to fool people who just don't understand how "selling browser history" is actually implemented.
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I actually consider this a Bad Thing. Monosystems are not a desirable thing, and nobody (except GitHub) wants a world where all open source projects are hosted on GitHub. Now, Git itself being a DVCS mitigates the downsides of this a little bit, but still... I think it's better to live in a world where you can use GitHub, Bitbucket, CodePlex, GitLab, SourceForge, etc., instead of narrowing things down to pretty much just GitHub.

Nothing against GH per-se... we're paying customers and fairly happy with their service. But I still don't want to see their competition going away.
The point is that your pizza co-op can only exist as a non-dominant form of organization in a wealthy society. Once it becomes the dominant form, everything goes to hell. There isn't a single country in the history of this civilization where this wasn't proven true. Now, you could argue that we're not "cultured" enough to live onder such utopia, but my retort will be that you need to figure out a way to experiment with it at scale first without subjecting everyone to what you think (but, obviously, not _know_) is better. As they used to say back in the day in the Soviet Union "test it on dogs first". Even Lenin (patron saint of communist revolutionaries and a murderous dictator) ended up realizing he's wrong about collectivism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy

"Exploitation of workers" is actually the greatest thing about the West. Those workers wouldn't even be able to care for themselves if they weren't "exploited", and by creating the societal pressure to do so, through moderate poverty (very few people in the US know what real, actual poverty is), and general disapproval of leisurely lifestyle, you motivate people to be productive, which ultimately benfits society. Then, once they acquire a modicum of wealth and property, they get to "exploit" others by paying them a mutually agreed upon fee in order to have some work done.

I'm technically a "worker" who is quite happy to be "exploited" by my capitalist overlords, as long as I get paid a few hundred thousand dollars a year. Sure, they make millions, and I make much less but so what?