skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have an account on Nyx. https://www.nyx.net/

"Nyx, the world's oldest Internet Service Provider, is a free public-access ISP that free e-mail, (including webmail), web space, web/domain hosting, a full, uncensored Usenet newsfeed, Linux shell accounts and the usual Unix/linux programming and development tools."

It started out on a PDP system at University of Denver in the eighties. https://www.nyx.net/history.html

I used it in the early nineties as a teenager.
> highly censored

Not sure what you mean by highly censored, I've seen plenty of unpopular opinions on HN and people that were expressing them were never banned, in fact those users were fairly rude without being personal.
Not allowing personal attacks on HN is not just a common courtesy, it protects it users from defamation, falsehoods about their life and kidnapping of topics; those are all reasons that are perfectly compatible with freedom of speech. Detaching a tread is not censoring, I never seen it happen because of uncomfortable opinions but when it becomes hugely off topic it's clearly a valid thing to do.
PGP encryption and decryption
That's a cheap, intellectually-bankrupt addition to the conversation if you don't add anything to back it up. It's hard to believe you wrote it in any sort of good faith.
Cue head explosion...
I read a statistic stating that somewhere around 80% of the violent crime in America takes place in about 5% of the counties.

In other words, there are certain niche demographics in America that are pulling up those gun murder stats, and it's generally not a problem for most people who enjoy 2nd Amendment protections.
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This is both fantastic discussion of the ability to quickly check for vulnerabilities in ways never possible at scale before and also discussion of a little-known vulnerability that even the security experts were not aware of.
The security guys at Imperva Incapsula just wrote up how they protect their system against this here (https://www.incapsula.com/blog/http-host-header-fix.html) – and in their tests, the only vulnerability they found was their own tests. But they wouldn’t have done it until the BlackHat presentation.
You are suggesting he spent time and energy to build a proof of concept whose explicit task was to demonstrate banking theft from browsers, and he chose to never release it but keep it secret, and a friend decided to sell it on the dark web?

And as a malware researcher when he became aware that his proof of concept was indeed being used to conduct fraud, he turned a blind eye?
It has happened in the history of science that people found an elegant theory unifying seemingly disparate phenomena. Or, while learning a subject, it may seem really complicated and confusing, and later, once you have learned it, it may seem simple. But I'm not sure if you would count either of these examples. Can you provide a description of what a counterexample might look like even if it is made up?
Sun's event ports are so similar to kqueue cantrill has said they should have just adopted kqueue.

And there are not different views on zones and jails. They are the same thing. Sun just took the idea of jails and flushed them out further adding a separate network stack for each zone, which jails now also have. But they operate on the same principle and ideas. Jails was bare bones at inception. Jails shared their IP stack with the host, this was before cloud computing and the need for separate network stacks. They both started with being secure and then adding features where the Linux container mess started with features and then continues to try and address the fact they are insecure by design.
So jail and zones are similar.

Porting from FreeBSD to Solaris and vice Versa is easier than you think. If it was insanely hard FreeBSD wouldn't have zfs or Dtrace from Sun. Dtrace was almost single handedly ported by one engineer. An amazing engineer, but he Was the only one. Same with ZFS. And illumos ported the FreeBSD installer. Also done by one individual. All very good engineers but still just one.
Oh please, these guys go on parroting IQ and "race-realism" as if it weren't intellectually bankrupt itself. The guy's apparent obsession with IQ is suspicious enough, not to mention any time I hear about Jordan Peterson it's in the context of alt-right nonsense.

Edit: to make this relevant to the conversation - a white nationalist has a dog in the race when it comes to the idea that "IQ is above all else". IQ has long been used as a reason for, e.g., why there is more poverty in the black community. Why is there more poverty? Simple! Their IQ is low and therefore they're not able to succeed!
There's evidence he knew of Kronos in the wild on his twitter feed. Why wouldn't he alert someone that his research proof of concept had been leaked? Provided the source code to LEA.
St. Croix USVI would be a great place to start a startup. It's on the east coast time zone, and infrastructure is good enough, real estate is cheap (for the Caribbean). There are ample outdoor activities (swimming, snorkeling/diving, kayaking, kitesurfing, fishing, sailing, golf, tennis, yoga, etc).

The incentives of the USVI EDC Program* are quite significant. It's one of the only legal loopholes for US citizens to avoid most income taxes. The main catch is, you have to hire 10 people, including 8 locals (this can include yourself):

- 90% reduction in corporate income tax

- 90% reduction in personal income tax

- 100% exemption on gross receipt tax

- 100% exemption on business property tax

- 100% exemption on excise tax payments

- Reduction in the customs duty from the standard 6% to 1%

- Tax reduction on royalty income from software developed in the USVI and sold to non-US customers

- Availability of rental space at below market rates in the St. Croix and St. Thomas Industrial Parks

* https://www.usvieda.org/incentives/edc-program
https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-di...

I'd like to know your opinion about the neuroticism comment.
> the job of practical engineering is to provide reliable, correct solutions in a timely, in-budget manner

Sure. And I'm sure you'll agree this job is easier to do in direct proportion to the celerity with which we eliminate impractical approaches.
someone please elaborate on this.
Ask HN: What are your plans for the 8/21 eclipse?
Airbnb dominated by professional landlords
We don't know that he created the malware. He is accused of creating it. How hard is it to understand the difference between being accused and being guilty? It's been explained to death here that they are not the same thing.
Indeed - we design systems to operate under the expectation that services are available. We handle their not being available as an exceptional case.

This seems analogous; we should design social structures (or allow social structures to emerge) that assume that individuals are male or female, but which handle the exceptional case of non-cisgendered individuals. Just like a software system that doesn't handle exceptions gracefully, a social system that lacks provisions for these is fundamentally flawed and can fail unexpectedly and potentially catastrophically.
> And as for its impact on you: Do you understand that at this point, I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you? I certainly couldn’t assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face, and even if there were a group of like-minded individuals I could put you with, nobody would be able to collaborate with them. You have just created a textbook hostile workplace environment.

Textbook thoughtcrime punishment. The heretic must be isolated and extirpated, with physical violence for good measure. Don't you dare interact with him, or else you'll be ostracized as well.
There's so much strange hand-wringing in a loud subset of the security community. The DoJ has a 93% conviction rate because they pursue strong cases that usually end in a plea-bargain. The FBI aren't spooks. The evidence will become public. If this guy profited off of banking trojans then I, for one, hope he ends up in the clink.
I'm planning to add share buttons for twitter and FB. Let me kno if you'd like other features or a mobile app?
I would call it cel shaded. But I think a lot of the impact is simply due to the palette and simple aesthetic choices of the designer.
The north countries of Europe are consider as the ones where there is more equality between men and women, and on those countries the ratio women/men in some careers are more far from the 50/50 than in others with less equality between women and men. Why is hat? Some researches think it is a cultural issue others think it is a free choice, people feel more free and chose careers that suits more for them.

50% of our society is below the average height, why would it be wrong to try and make the basketball represent our society?

Maybe short people don't want to play basketball or they are just not good for it because of biological reasons.
This feels like a file system designed for mobile devices, where moving the storage volume would not be a relevant concern in most cases. Based on the design, it should be more responsive, use less CPU and thus less battery.
Where in the link is "race-realism" mentioned?

"These guys", who are you talking about?

It seems to me like you took one look at the guys name and decided you were going to leave a "here be dragons" style comment to sully the conversation. The only problem is that your comment came across as lazy.

You might not like certain followers that you may have come across, you might even be right about them, but it's cheap and nasty to lump someone in with such a disgusting accusation (and done so casually) based on that rather than his own words.

I doubt you'd like to be held to account if someone of questionable character liked a blog post of yours and then someone else plastered you with an identity because of it.
you misspelled best, though it needs to have flaming skulls follow your mouse pointer around to be really great
How to Pay Your Remote Employees: Payment Services Comparison (2016)
Apple and Progressive Web Apps
..consumerism? Also thought of "horror vacui", then found "kenophobia", fear of the empty. (This is assuming that "mu" is meant as in Japanese for emptiness.)
Using Hover to Compromise the Confidentiality of User Input on Android [pdf]
I had to take narcotics into Dubai for a health issue I was facing at the time. You can bet I had the clearly marked prescription bottle with the minimum amount I needed for my trip along with a note from my doctor explaining the medication. The medication was always accompanied by those, too.

As screwed up as drug laws are in the US, they are child's play compared to what some countries have. And once they think that you might be trafficking, you are in for a bad day.
In a functional language lists are immutable, too.
> programmed assembly language in middle school

The kind of assembly programming you do in middle school is a far cry from the difficulty of designing and maintaining an entire program in assembly.
I believe he's talking about punishing the overt act of publishing this large manifesto and the negative consequences that flow from it. Not the thinking or discussing his views.
The solution is to make prosecutors do their job instead of giving them an easy out, violating privacy to boot. Prosecutors could subpoena the bank and access the account's records, then continue chasing the criminals onwards.
Nah, I also allow Axiom of Choice and Tarski-Grothendiek. Everything else is a definition or theorem.
Tell me about it. Reading that made me sick. I don't necessarily agree with the original manifesto, but the idea that "a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face" is an acceptable thing to say is ridiculous.

If this "manifesto" was actually racist and bigoted, it still doesn't excuse violence, or the suggestion of violence. That is FAR worse. It's un-American. We tolerate groups like the KKK or Black Panthers or Westboro Baptist because even if they are vehemently WRONG, they have a right to speak freely.

Not to mention, one person published what they thought at risk of being ostracized by their community and workplace. The other person doesn't work at Google, has 0 real risk, and is just taking the status quo stance and presenting a holier-than-thou approach.

This is all you need to see: "Either political analysis of authoritarian regimes, or interesting facts about science, depending on my mood."

What this means is:

Wahhhh Trump! I'm pretty moody and better than you, so I'll only discuss something if I can look good doing it or I can impress everybody.
The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip
I edited my comment above to make my point more relevant.
> unless it quickly became obvious that it was just a harmless prank

It's not a harmless prank if the normal reaction is to hold the prankster down. Plus, you are relaxing, taking some downtime and some know-it-all-i-am-funny-oh-you-are-not-you-are-the-downer comes and stages an agression for fun. « It's a prank, bro. »
Eurobarometer: Europe's public opinion visualised
Shouldn't even be talking about it. It's simply not an option. Violence is not acceptable. Period. Discussing it as a repercussion for a possibly misguided manifesto is not an option. It's disgusting.
There's also 'no such thing' as SQ (spiritual quotient) and no such thing as VQ (varna quotient) although both have been around and in use longer than our (western) civilisation.
Should Consumer Review disclose the fact that they will review the car when they buy a car from a dealership?
Isn't there a crime problem? The murder rate in PR is like 30% higher than it is in Mexico...
When I said clear discriminator I mean they are binary: either make or female, either black or white. Height or attractiveness are more diffuse for some people you can be tall/attractive but not for others. Gender and race are clear.

In my opinion height or attractiveness play a role in the society (a big role), but it is easier to talk about gender or race because the clear distinction, bigger represented groups and historical reasons.
PR isn’t a country. It’s part of the US.
There are countries that do not care what you think.

In the same fashion they will shrug, say, we don't care, and throw you in jail or take your life away.
Wouldn't they be willing to disclose the purpose then? Why would they keep a training excercise like that secret.
HR is usually not involved in your actual job and they are the only ones at the company who need to know who you are.
Why you think you are right – even if you're wrong
Study finds optimism can lead to inaction
Previous HN discussion around the time of publication just over a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018221
You should read "Give and Take" by Adam Grant. It clearly shows all the benefits of being a Giver rather than a Taker. I've written down my learnings [0], since I really enjoyed reading it.

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/lessons-learned-give-and-take/
This article:

http://www.ofm.wa.gov/researchbriefs/2016/brief079.pdf

shows that 5 counties in the state of Washington account for almost all the state's violent crime.
Why not time dilate? Could make it a variable setting that users can control. At some setting, it'd be fast enough to send commands and win fights without god mode.

Or you could execute the command for a second, then pause the game execution. Make it closer to turn-based Doom.
my eyes my beautiful eyes
It's a search engine, they crawl and update copies of all submissions.
Acid attacks are just part of living in a big city.
> >Essentially, engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers.

> Replace 'engineering' with science, medicine, finance, customer service, politics, retail, programming etc., and it will sound as correct.

Why, so it would! How about that. It's like watching a lightbulb is slowly turning on above your head.
I’ve got one! First, some context:

This is normal assignment unpacking:

>>> a, b = 1, 2
>>> [a, b]
[1, 2]

(Mismatch gives errors)

>>> a, b = [1]
ValueError
>>> a, b = [1, 2, 3]
ValueError

Extra parentheses works too:

>>> (a, b) = [2, 3]
>>> [a, b]
[2, 3]

Unpacking a single value:

>>> (a,) = [4]
>>> a
4

Works without parentheses too:

>>> a, = [5]
>>> a
5

No values does not work:

>>> , = []
SyntaxError

Neither does empty parentheses:

>>> () = []
SyntaxError

Now, the oddity:

>>> [] = []
>>>

This raises no error! Neither does this:

>>> [] = ()
>>>
This chart

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm.htm

shows a wide variation among US states. Curiously, some of the states with the lowest stats have essentially no gun control. So its more complicated that it might seem.
Atlanta?
You can eliminate impractical approaches all day long. At some point you have to start with the practical approach that you know will work a-priori.
Interview with a DeepMind Researcher
Honestly, can you blame them. It's toxic, backbreaking work. Easily dismissed and essential at the same time. Trash collection is the number 1 contributor to public health.
The ‘haves and have-mores’ in digital America
Many on the right now use that terminology to implicitly underscore contradictions in those belief systems.

I think it would be a mistake to believe that they subscribe to those viewpoints. Rather, a core characteristic of conservativism is a desire for rules to be followed and equally enforced. Pointing out places where the left is inconsistent is their way of discrediting those views.
Mind over Mood: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Over-Mood-Change-Changing/dp/0...
> but I'm at a festival

Enjoy NL, at least you have good weather! You're about 10 Km North of here :)
Some of these are pretty simple and not odd, e.g. immutability of tuples, iterator behaviour or modifying collections during iteration.

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Somewhat related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGofLIzX6g
> The heretic must be isolated and extirpated, with physical violence for good measure.

More like "the [heretic] has burned any social capital or respect their coworkers might have had for them, and so no longer are capable of working in a collaborative environment with their peers"
Goto doctor/psychotherapy ?
I don't see how it's more relevant at all. The posted submission simply makes the argument of invalidating EQ while showing the rigor behind IQ as a general predictor.

You decided to turn that into "some horrible people use this to back up some horrible beliefs, therefore this guy is one of them", and then in your edit you went "here is an example of one of those horrible beliefs".

Not to mention the fact that he specifically addresses in his text that IQ is not the only predictor, just an incredibly strong one. However, nothing you said addresses that. Which makes me think that you either didn't read it, or you hoped that your comment would be enough to influence other people to avoid reading his quora answer for themselves.

You're basically still lumping him in with horrible people just because some horrible people might use a subset of his argument out of context to try to back up shitty beliefs.

It's an incredibly disingenuous practice to take a subset of someone's argument, correlate it with a horrible group of people and their arguments and then try to apply that identity to that person.

Again, you'd be disgusted if someone did it to you.
Hard to play a real-time game with a 7 second delay...
This is my experience as well. On the right, extremists tend to sort of "clam up" and just stop engaging in meaningful dialogue. On the left, they tend to attack the person challenging them.

I say this as as extreme libertarian, so I have my share of disagreements with both.
A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge (1984)
The delay is lower for "partners" on Twitch I think, so they can technically support it, just not for every stream.
Is This the End of the Japanese Dominance Over the Euro
Wait, it that answer famous for completely ignoring the question and discussing about some completely unrelated problem in a caricature of the SO community, or is it the one famous by the "you can't parse HTML with regexes" line?

Because if it is the one famous by that line, too bad. I always expected that to became famous as an answer about how to parse HTML, not one about how to decide the kind of a tag.
>Try to hack those who have bounties, please leave the others alone

Is this a joke?

This is awfully close to "if you see something bad happening, just ignore it" which I find rather ridiculous. I think the morally correct thing to do is inform them privately and, if the owners of the site don't respond (or block you, like in this case), go public so that laypersons know their information is not secure.
It happens in Italy as well, no pakistani required. It's just the new low-tech stealth attack weapon for the streets.
Sadly this country has become just fine with many things that will bring its doom. Fiat currency, militarized police, warrantless wiretapping and spying on citizens by the NSA whose charter was to spy on those outside the US, secret rendition to torture people, this will all bloom to end the American experiment.
Java 8 CompletableFuture Tutorial
There's similar if you go north of Brisbane. Turns out, having a ridiculously sparse population is also a good defence against the spread of plant diseases.

There's actually signs somewhere north of BNE telling truckies that they can't take bananas past that point, for example.
Facinating work. How much work for full hidden services?

btw aware of our Python-based Tor implementation, with modifications for full decentralisation and deployment?
https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki
Why not just specifically operate in the market of importing baby formula in China.

You can easily subsidize a flight ticket with a checked luggage full of baby formula and for extra security the mule can go buy the formula him or herself.
This isn't doing what you think though. There are container objects underneath.

For instance "(a, b)" is "a tuple object containing two things, the values named "a" and "b" so you can still refer to them separately. "[a, b]" is a new list with those same elements, not an alias for "(a, b)".
Best use of Twitter Moments I've ever seen.
Hmm, why is that an oddity? Unpacking a list of N items into N variables works fine, where N >= 0.
>IQ has long been used as a reason for, e.g., why there is more poverty in the black community. Why is there more poverty? Simple! Their IQ is low and therefore they're not able to succeed!

Typically the argument isn't whether IQ is a determinant of success; it's whether the observed IQ differences between populations are the result of socio-economic disparity or some inherent racial characteristic. For example, we know that malnourishment (esp. iodine deficiency) and lead exposure are correlated with lower IQ, and malnourishment is also obviously correlated with poverty. But we also know that IQ is highly heritable.
Erlang. BSD license. What's not to love? Great work! Can't wait for its release!
Meh, some people respond to insults with violence. It's not great, but the idea that attacking people verbally is somehow "better" than attacking them physically is wrong.
I'm learning German from my phone's homescreen
So I've been learning German for around 5 months now. I used pimsleur and rosetta stone, and they helped me understand the structure of German in general. Any way things were going well but my vocab was total crap, it was just so darn tiny.

So I made a little app to teach me german words using my wallpaper and widgets. I've added other languages too, not just German. I think you guys will like it:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hieroglyphics-learn-a-language-from-the-homescreen-android/x/16690509#/
I am not an expert in this area. I speculate the rate is important due to hysteresis in the system.