skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The politics of these two groups are very related -- enemies are incredibly joined in politics. If Group A gains power by being against group B, then I _must_ be allowed to talk about the failings of group A -- your attempt to portray that as not allowed is incredibly damaging.

Reactions like yours about "distastefulness" has been the problem with the counterterrorism movement from the very beginning. Counterterrorism is a movement that works like this: there exists a group B of pure evil, they must be fought and opposed, group B is shadowy, includes small numbers of people, and the people who are in it are very similar to much larger groups not in B. This is a priori accepted -- any attempt to disagree with any of the above comments is working against counterterrorism.

What this environment causes is a very real perceived expansion of group B in the eyes of members of group A. It becomes a simple mechanism for leaders of group A to use their relationship to group B to remove any legitimate political voice from other groups C,D...

It is completely fair (and needed) to talk about the flaws of group A's behavior with regard to the concept of group B because the accepted concept of group B includes primarily people who are not in group B! Not doing this has already killed huge numbers of innocent people not in group B. It's sick and it's wrong. It was sick under Obama and it's still sick and wrong.
Yeah, the Llano Estacado is where the world keeps all the spare sky when its not using it.
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I never got why the heat in the tube was not being used as a heat source. You could extract the heat and supply it to surrounding buildings at a cost, thereby cooling the tube. The tech is readily available. It would be a win win situation. Plus it'd be be very environmentally friendly.
Why not just make it easier instead of all the drama?
Quoted from https://xkcd.com/1357/
According to the DIY build instructions, the bottles are cut in half, so they provide horn-like flares, open on both ends.

(Not that this adds any plausibility.)

The technical claim is summarized in this image:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/06/10/18/3521DBE60000057...
True, if IBM's development tools were any indication. Circa 1992, IBM's OS/2 development environment was called C-Set, and, in spite of being a 32-bit compiler, was inferior to Microsoft's Programmer's Workbench (precursor to Visual Studio). For instance, after a compilation, if you double-clicked on an error message, it would open up the source code in a separate editor window, in a proportional typeface. You could not trigger a compilation from this window. You had to make your change, save & close, then go back to the compiler window. Backwards.

There was no Resource Workshop for designing dialog boxes visually. You had to write all the statements in a text editor, and wouldn't see the appearance until compiling and running the program. This slowed down development.

While debugging, I recall trying to step into the GUI part of the application code. This locked up the computer so bad we had to re-install OS/2, a tedious process requiring 22 diskettes.

The IBM documentation was so inscrutable that even for ver. 2 of OS/2, we had to refer to Microsoft's ver. 1 manuals. IBM's support gave an interesting insight into OS/2's downfall. My client had an expensive OS/2 support contract with IBM. The client's contacts were two guys in the PC support section. When I required technical support to answer some obscure and specialized questions about OS/2, it didn't make sense to get the client guys involved, even though they were supposed to be the only official go-between with IBM. So I called IBM with the client's authorization, and impersonated one of the support techs. After a few calls I slipped and used my name. The IBM guy was livid and tore a strip of me, saying that as an independent contractor, I had no business blah blah. Here I was just trying to get a customer up & running.

Authors of their own misfortune.
Docker images is one of the supported formats when exporting packages. Others at the moment are aci, mesos and tarball.
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The code snippet in this rant makes it pretty clear that it was programmer error. You took an obviously-optional value, forced-unwrapped it with no checking at all, then blame the language for this!?
Sorry, but I don't think you understand what a public blockchain is and the improvements/innovations that it requires to sustain a higher volume with faster blocks creation. This is connected to what you said about issuing tokens: last week Status.im (shameless plug: security audited by my company) related transactions caused a DDoS over the Ethereum network, which it means that we need to improve the current blockchains to support the kind of innovations you like.

On the other hand, lowering the barrier for issuing equity or app coins make creating scams or tempting people to run with a lot of money trivial. A recent Fred Wilson's post[1] about this makes the point very clear.

Lastly, not everything can be descentralized because you are challenging computation limitations and/or you need oracles outside the network that are the weakest point of the whole system.

[1] Buyer Beware - VC Fred Wilson on ICOs
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6h7d0j/buyer_bewa...
Yes, or as GP said, "certain immaterial goods".
Could you expand on your reasoning, please.

It seems to me that being sexual harassed by a person in a position of authority over you is unlikely to be that different based on sex but could differ a lot based on some of the characteristics that are often skewed to one sex or the other.

So men in general might feel greater humiliation, perhaps; women might feel more vulnerable: both because of the physical strength of men vs. women in general.
How much heat are we talking about? I'm guessing it wouldn't be enough to use for district heating, the way some industrial waste heat is converted to hot water for homes?
Good point even though I still think I am being ripped when comparing to France.
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So two lines just barely break 30C for a couple months in the year. Not exactly a crisis.
Hi,

I'm pretty much obsessed with productivity and improving how to handle lots and lots of projects at the same time without losing overview.

Tried basically all the apps that claim to help you do that, but I found myself falling back into the bad habits and it didn't really help at all.

I was so frustrated that I basically built my own, which makes it very simple for me to just have all my projects (which can be really a lot) and not lose track of what's actually happening.

Funnily enough, I just posted it here to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14625227

What that allows me to do is to effectively manage my time between projects and not having to worry about deadlines, as the app is just tracking that for me, but in a way that's super simple. Simple color schemes just highlight it all for me.

When it comes to the actual workflow, of course the discipline is a must, you still need that. :)
> I blame the general aversion for assembly programming to the choice of using the 8086 for PC's.

Well, nowadays you can use LLVM instead and achieve portability, at perhaps a small cost in efficiency.
Thank you for all those links!

I had some idea about the Bitcoin blockchain - also succinctly summarized by @tylerswift.

But the Ethereum material is all new to me. It at least sounds more interesting than "the least interesting".
I wonder why NYU Professor of Philosophy Thomas Nagels 2012 book "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False" until this point hasn't been mentioned in this thread?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_and_Cosmos

https://books.google.de/books?id=pOzNcdmhjIYC&printsec=front...
Yup. Or as I like to say: We elect the electable. Qualifications and capabilities are irrelevant. And they we wonder why they're so incompetent.

It's a sad state of affairs really.
Almost as if they want to do no evil. Almost.
Indeed, A and B are not "gapped" if a thumb drive connects to B, and then later the same thumb drive connects to A.

That's the same as being able to send a datagram from B to A over a network.

"Air gapped" is an idiotic term to begin with.

Radio communication such as Wi-Fi is literally air-gapped.

The plates of a capacitor can use air as a dielectric, making them literally air-gapped, yet the cap will pass AC signal, and two adjacent air-gapped inductors can pass signal, as well as power with great efficiency.
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Then next one is July 1st - expendable though.
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yes but that was not the subject of the original comment - "both at work or elsewhere" ... my parents, and parents of most of my friends met in the workplace...

... there's recent legislation in Manchester, where if you talk to a woman on the street she can just accuse you of sexual harassment ... I guess we're running out of places to meet women we actually want to get to know and heading towards a world where your only 'safe' options are a lifetime porn (or sexbot) or waiting for some woman to choose you whether you like it or not ... not a nice place to be in my opinion but good luck to those aiming for it
Not just SpaceX, everything Elon is doing is centered around mars. Yes some of these are a stretch, a big stretch even. Ok a ludicrous stretch. Anyways by company.

SpaceX-pushing rocket tech makes mars a more targetable endevour.

Tesla- better solar panels and better batteries mean you can consume and store more power on be red planet.

Open AI- it's going to be very important to be able to prefab critical systems before any astronauts get there. AI can help there.

Boring Company- Where do you build a home in a place with almost no atmosphere to shield you from radiation? Underground. What's nice and cylindrical and would fit nicely in a tube atop a rocket? Bore segments. Also TBC's bores are being designed with a smaller diameter than your typical bore. Elon says it's so cars can fit in them to revolutionize the LA commute, I see something that can be moduralized and put on top of a heavy lift rocket and used to prefab Martian living quarters.
> The current rise of "bots" that I'm seeing being developed of late seems to forget one really crucial thing about humans, especially in a time of need: We need to talk to another human.

I don't think this is true at all. If the bots were effective problem solvers then there'd be no problem. The issue is not some emotional need for human connection. OP certainly didn't need that - he would have been fine with a bot that correctly identified his email as a security report, forwarded it to the appropriate engineer, and let him know.

The issue is that the bots are completely useless for anything but idiot problems. Frankly, a comparably competent human would be much more frustrating.
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The difference is that Atom lets you build UIs; Emacs lets you mash together some text and images.
If they don't have room available to get cool air/water down to the tube, they don't have room available to get hot air/water up, either.
> I'm interesting in your background: which languages do you use

Scala, Java, C#, Obj-C / Swift, Python, JS.

> what kind of programs do you write?

At work : line of business, database / search / indexing systems, mobile apps, web apps

At home : mobile apps, indie games

> it seems like you're claiming "what's the point of the entire field of mechanical engineering" when you, personally, just want to drive a car (not build one), fly on a plane (not build one) and so on.

You've misunderstood. What I'm claiming is that there are very few tasks at hobby-project scale that C++ is ideally suited for. C++ is a language that's used at team-scale, and is no longer an approachable language for the individual.

In other words, with Java you can build Android apps, with C# you can build Unity games, with Python / JavaScript / Whatever you can build web apps.

What can the individual do with C++ they couldn't do easier faster or better with some other language? Maybe embedded systems - but C seems just as effective for that domain. Likewise for kernel development for obvious reasons.

I actually want a reason to use C++, but "well you can work on Photoshop or high performance computing or HFT plumbing software" is not a helpful answer - both for me and anyone else hoping to pick up Cpp in their spare time.
In quite every system you need to exchange data, and the usage of a medium to move data between the trusted host and the untrusted host is _usually reasonable_ and _common practice_ (traditionally you move data from black to red with less restrictions, while the reverse procedure is more rigorous).

Making a comparison, I’d say air gapping is to networking what galvanic isolation is to circuits: you don’t have direct contact, but there’s information exchange (be it bytes or em fields).

EDIT: I would call a (strictly) isolated computer a tempest-compliant and physically isolated host.
Kind of ironic. My understanding is that personal information is collected (in part) to weed out people who would have histories that make them susceptible to blackmail.
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There may have been 50 other more attractive guys she passed by that day... if you don't take action no level of attraction matters
غدا أول أيام عيد الفطر في كوريا الجنوبية وماليزيا وإندونيسيا
"and we will call it ...this land" around there
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That is a characterization of the right wing base of the counter terrorism movement. There is a huge group of people in the West who believe that Christianity/West and Islam are in a holy war -- these play a large role in defining the actions of the counterterrorism movement. Many many western soldiers will profess that they believe the problem with terrorism is about Islam - and many of those just happen to be Christian's themselves. They might cloak their words but they have slowly over time cemented their positions. Given their actions and the deaths they have caused what reason do you have to claim they are not pursuing a goal of murdering groups of people to extermination? The west has actually started using the word "exterminate" to characterize their goals with regard to ISIS -- the reality is that this goal can be spoken in a narrow term as targeted toward some small specific thing like ISIS -- but it cannot (and does not and has not for a long time) exist as such a narrow specific thing when put into action. Large numbers of innocents are killed as this objective is chased -- and the targeting process only ever expands to include more targets.

If we are generous, we at best could describe western fundamentalists as having the goal of murdering mass groups of people to marginalization -- is that really that different than quoted passage?
No but we haven't seen mass surveillance in any of the leaks.

All we've seen is specifically targeted capabilities with expiration dates.

Penetrating air-gapped networks is exactly the capability one would expect from the CIA and its exactly the capability it should have under its mandate.
Subjectivity versus objectivity is the crux of the issue with standards of behaviour.

I understand a common idea nowadays is the subjective standard of any group member (victim) is considered paramount in assessing conduct. But this descends into meaninglessness because all people tolerate others' conduct at differing levels.

This is why the common law has long assessed standards of behaviour using the "reasonable person" as a hypothetical objective measure of appropriate conduct in the given circumstances.[1]

The commenter may not have the right to decide appropriate behaviour, but at some point we must ask "would the reasonable person in X situation presented with Y conduct be harmed?".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person
It is always amusing when various "debcentralise the X" efforts learn the same hard lessons over and over, namely that when compared to centralised equivalents, decentralisation is more complicated, more difficult to debug and verify correctness, and always more expensive.
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But that's just an hash chain, it has existed for longer than the blockchain. For example, all digital invoices in my country are hash-chained, to prevent the merchant from swapping one for another, and this standard was published before Bitcoin.
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> there's recent legislation in Manchester, where if you talk to a woman on the street she can just accuse you of sexual harassment

Link to the legislation in question? (or maybe news link about it?)
Which is exactly the goal in communist systems. Individuality is discouraged.
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Experience with this club, or experience with some other random club?
You're not wrong:
However, that [regeneraative braking] can only work where trains are accelerating and braking at the same time, on the same electricity sub-station loop.
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At least you shipped something. That's better than I've been able to accomplish, and better than most self-described game developers.
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For a simple AB testing they would need thousands of unique visitors and players for just one test. Just not possible for an indie game I believe
Yup, and people who play instruments in orchestras do tend to experience hearing loss if they don't wear protection.
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Your diagnosis is at odds with the basis of open security.

The primary thing that needs to happen is an accepting of responsibility by those who administer critical systems. Mathematically, what we call a developed "exploit" is really just an existence proof that something is already insecure (hence "PoC or GTFO"). The blame needs to be properly assigned to the developers/integrators of these systems for negligence (currently gross negligence - eg relying on Turing-complete languages) instead of scapegoating those who discover the emperor has no clothes, even despite their underlying motivations and lack of full disclosure.

Nasty exploits have always existed - the worrisome development is the scale of execution brought on by entities with such resources, and the trend of governments becoming overtly adversarial against the people, both their own citizens and foreign individuals.

Even if it were practical (see: China's attitude to imaginary property), having these entities form treaties (ie collude) with one another is not going to resolve this. If anything, treaties will form gentleman's agreements between allies, while enshrining the attacking individuals "of interest" as standard procedure.
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IVR - mentioned but not described in the article. It stands for interactive voice response, which is the industry term for phone trees of all things.

Interesting tidbit which could have benefited from fleshing out in the article, especially since it so accurately describes the current state of voice assistants.
I'm re-reading some comments and it seems some people are disagreeing about the nature of the twitter supporters referenced in the parent post.

Maybe it's possible commenters have never trawled through the twitter mass? I've done so and occasionally tweeted to try and find if the people were real -- many are. I'm not sure how people can disagree that there is merit to the parents characterization if they perform this exercise themselves ...
That seems easier to fight. Go to a superior and alert them. Versus someone with poor credit who might need quick cash. Seems easier to manage.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/13/nottinghamshire-p...

"A police force has become the first in Britain to recognise misogyny as a hate crime ... It also includes ... uninvited verbal contact"

That's now classified as hate crime... while I agree with all other stuff, that little insert there makes a world of difference... it's Nottingham not Manchester, there are undergoing efforts to implement this elsewhere too
I guess Microsoft really were serious about going open source.
I believe those are temperatures in the actual tunnels, a passenger's experience in a crowded tube car will be quite a bit warmer!
I think you misspelled "supporters of recently failed to be elected Western politician". And like you said, which I totally agree with, I've seen not only calls for assassination, cars set on fire, windows smashed, ambulances blocked on the way to the hospitals, but also out right murder attempts, up to actual assassinations.
I made the mistake of registering a .us domain and using my regular phone number, after six months I've started receiving the infamous robo IRS calls. The robot call is listed as being from 1-866-978-6618 and in the voicemail requests that I call back that same number. Online this number is listed as being used for the IRS scam in June 2017. How does a scammer set up an 800 phone number without having it traced back to them? Why is this number still operational after a week of scam calls?
An ababil UAV is larger than a hobbiest drone and the PAC5 apparently missed it and it was downed by a derby missile fired from a near by SPYDER battery.
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I'll take the plane on fire but only if the airline is profitable. A plane on fire where the airline is bankrupt sucks. That was the second part of his comment. Working for a company that's growing with revenue is always better.
Don't let these silicon valley stories fool you. Blame extremists and people who exploit gender relations for money.
Most americans are decent people who do the exact type of behavior you mention, and its not a problem.

Big money leads to terrible behavior due to power differences. Men AND Women willing to take advantage of less powerful people.
I have a female friend who was sexually harrassed by a female VC, and again the same dynamics played out. Its not about gender but primal human desires and power.
Except for "decentralize the source code repository," which makes source code easier to manage.
There are also differences through. No one in West is thrown out of roof for being gay, people can speak against Christianity and holy war without being executed. While wearing too revealing cloth may disadvantage me in workplace due to assumptions, I won't be stoned or whatever. 14 years old boys are not radicalised to by preachers to become martyrs. Those are rather important differences.

Conservative Christian journal I read may whine about men not being head of the families anymore and women not being women anymore, but even they don't dispute voting and property rights.