skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simple fact that Windows needs to reboot to install updates. Does it suck? Yes! Is it a necessary part of life if you choose to use Windows? Also yes.

People seem to complain about Windows rebooting outside of their control. This fixes that problem, and it's not like most people need their computer to be on when they're asleep anyway.
> how does one tell the difference between...

By talking to people and using your people skills.

> Is there a definition for what constitutes "harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination"?

Yes. It's not a written definition. It's a living and changing definition created by the people who work there and how YOU make them feel. You need to use your people skills in order to extract the definition from your co-workers.

> wouldn't be taken seriously, because such ideas are obviously false.

This is the core of your misunderstanding. The scientific merit of ideas has zero relationship to whether or not you are harassing someone. Anyone who said the offensive things I wrote wouldn't be taken seriously and would be fired because they are offensive. True or not. Obviously true or not. And for all you know, whoever said the above does work for cheap Jews (my apologies if I've offended anyone with this language - I love Jews like everyone else and I hope you can understand I'm using this for illustration purposes only).

> For me, it comes down to whether we want to live in a society where we acknowledge reality, or not. Where people debate ideas, or not.

Look Mom! We are freely debating something right here, right in society!

Don't confuse "Google" (an employer) with "society". No one is forcing you to work at Google nor for your employment status to be determined by their code of conduct.

Even HN has a code of conduct, and yet you seem to be ok debating things here.
At the risk of stating the obvious, if it's only added $2-3 to your bill, then it's only given the energy company $2-3 to build renewable capacity. That's not nearly enough to make any kind of meaningful impact in your carbon footprint (assuming you have somewhat average consumption).
Eboard Secure Mail is a web based private messaging platform that is a more secure communication solution than current email systems. This is a change in the long standing paradigm of the current plethora of email solutions. To be clear this is not email. This is a system that gives you a familiar web-mail like interface but builds into it the ability to only send and receive messages from approved contacts. Along with it’s secure push notification system for new messaging events, it provides a safe and secure solution to the chaotic, expensive and insecure email environment that individuals and businesses operate in today.
Agreed, there should only be Ubuntu.
Anyone got a working requirejs example? does it need a special shim

I'm getting a "Bootstrap dropdown require Popper.js" error
Sure, but knowing where it was most prevalent might give us information about how to promote a better culture.
I'm kind of amazed how Filecoin managed to create such a hype, even though its nothing more than a whitepaper right now.

I mean, there are already 2 or 3 coins that are doing something very similar and already have at least a working prototype (eg Siacoin, Storj), or have an interesting algo like Proof of Storage from Burst. Is there anything that makes Filecoin superior compared to the other's, or is it just that its VC-backed?
I never had any faith in national grid scale batteries powering everything over night. If this is good as it sounds it looks like the future to me, being so much less limited by rare resources.
Theres capitalism, and then theres this current incarnation of American style capitalism. Paid lobbyists (or in this case paid writers) creating laws (or in this case "research") that crush competition/rivals (which capitalism needs to thrive), = American capitalism, (as it currently stands).
It would not surprise me if Google would done something similar with a Marxist or anarchist memo, though. I find it hard to call it left wing bias with that in mind.
firing people because they have to audacity to question whether or not mandatory micro-aggression awareness training is a productive use of their time may be more of an HR nightmare than you expect.
I was able to find no such suggestion. Perhaps you can point it out? Here's the full text of the memo: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...

It starts with "I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse using
stereotypes.", and has many suggestions on how to increase diversity (not just viewpoint diversity), all ideas attributed to the left†.

†I feel compelled to mention I find that left/right are woefully inadequate labels, and serve better as a tool to divide and conquer people so they don't unite on common interests. But they work well-ish enough in this case, and a discussion on this would be long and orthogonal to the topic at hand.

Edit: Reading your other reply, it seems you think any action at all done to increase diversity is affirmative action. That's not what's usually meant by the term.
Regardless of your feelings on the memo... It's ironic that a capitalist and "classic liberal" is relying on labor laws resting on a foundation hard-fought by unions and socialists. That irony is interesting enough to mention in an article.

Just like it would be interesting to point out that a virulent anti-semite hired a Jewish lawyer to defend them... which the press did quite often.

(Not comparing Damore to an anti-semite or anything, just using an example)
ICOs are a new breed of gambling.
Read the comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14988905

I quote several paragraphs from the memo where he argues specifically for that.
I used Semantic-UI and was really impressed but its size was a show-stopper for me. Another thing is although it looks good on desktops, mobile often seems like an afterthought and they do not even have a responsive menu, which means you have to write two menus or resort to some hack if you need a mobile-friendly menu. This issue has been open for forever and the authors have yet to come up with a favorable response. I've since switched to Bootstrap 4 alpha and I'm looking to jump to Bulma now due to some limitations.
> It is interesting how Go seems to be doomed to head down the same path as other languages it accused of being "bloated." No one intends to design a complicated language but the reality is that the problem space is complicated.

It's not surprising, it stems from the arrogance of Go designers who think they can eliminate complexity by deeming it irrelevant and making the user carry the weight of the complexity they refuse to deal with. Simplicity isn't hard, like Rob Pike says, it's a trade off.

If you're not going to have enums in your language for instance, you are forcing your users to implement their own, badly and in incompatible ways.

If you're not going to have generics, well you'll get this stupid situation where users are expected to "augment" the compiler with code generators, leading to an increase in complexity in building a program, or worse, ignoring compile time type checking since it's the path of the least resistance when dealing with generic container types.
Still 30% on my porn websites. Hum, who do i trust, some people making money with stats or my trafic composed of the less tech saavy user ever ?
How is a wall that scrapes you if you brush against it functional?
> things are getting out of hand

I think this is interesting because we have to ask ourselves: what is it that we're worried about? What do we imagine will happen when everybody thinks of themselves as being victimised? Some kind of cultural apocalypse? I doubt it. Our culture will be "weakened" in some ill-defined way and we'll be "beaten" or "taken over" by some other, more confident culture? I don't buy it.

Being a victim is not a purely objective matter. It is part subjective assessment and part social consensus. Social consensus actually determines most of how we react to it. I think at the moment the consensus is undergoing a major change and that feels uncomfortable for those who felt the balance was OK.

When the consensus stabilizes then people who claim victimhood that is without merit will be ignored. Sadly, some legitimate grievances will also be ignored. And the cycle will doubtless continue.

In the meantime probably the great majority of people will continue to NOT think of themselves as victims.
That version dropdown in the navbar will change my life: I give lessons for a framework which in the previous version still used v2.3.2, now I’m sure my students will not look at the wrong documentation.
This is an outgrowth of the media becoming more polarized. I suspect this is at least somewhat related to the re-emergence of yellow journalism in the era of per-article advertising and social media sharing.

I hope some day we find a way to return to an era where the media focused on their overall reputation instead of pushing clickbait as hard as possible.
> The money they'd have to pay out to him is far less than the social (and financial) cost of being blackballed in the media and by various groups.

The person you were replying to was referring to the "continuing PR + HR nightmare inside Google." The public reaction was a problem but the damage to morale and the culture of the company was, one assumes, considered a much bigger threat by management.
Greater use of pinky is a minus. It's your weakest finger.
The Socialist and Communist parties in the US appear to to me, unless you're calling the Democratic party 'left', though I usually trust people have more knowledge than to do that.
Not so much on who's the victim but who can be a victim in the first place.
That's pretty much my take as well. I really like the concepts behind IPFS and FileCoin and I think they're really fine piece of software engineering (well, IPFS is, can't say much about FileCoin yet) but as an other comment pointed out it's a solution in search of a problem.

I tried hard to find a use for IPFS but I failed. I could use it to share files with other people but simply having a publicly reachable web server is simpler and more convenient. People don't have to install IPFS or use a public gateway to get my content.

The cool feature is being able to rehost any content if you want to "cache" it but that's only possible if the original provider decided to host it through IPFS, so there's kind of a chicken-and-egg issue.

I can't really use it for backup either unless I pay a third party to always cache my data, but in this case I might as well use tarnsap, dropbox or something similar and it'll probably be even more straightforward.

So it's a pretty cool piece of tech but sadly I simply have zero practical use for it.
on Ubuntu,

use this PPA
https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
I'm confused. Nil isn't an empty type. Why are you introducing them?
Microsoft had been testing my patience for a while, but Windows 10 was the straw that broke the camels back. I no longer support or use Windows and am a happier/healthier person for it. Ya'll should try it too!

Microsoft is not a good faith actor in the software world, at all. All the "open-source" push they have been doing of late to stem the tide reeks of the 90's... and what frustates me the most is people are so apologetic for them and seem to have forgotten how anti-FOSS they were and are.

The three E's still apply. Don't be fooled.

For those of you who are pragmatic, the place to start is by replacing your AD servers with Samba4. You can then at least get it off your servers even if you still have to support Windows users.
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I think you completely misunderstand me. A bit my fault cause I usually plan out how I argue and I honestly did not expect this type of questioning. I'll reiterate my first comment in that I know the guy's libertarian (I think, definitely not alt right)?

I mean shit, this whole argument has nothing to do with whether I want to listen to his arguments. It was an explanation of how silly things like this happen in the first place where a libertarian gets confused for an alt right person.

Maybe the goat metaphor wasn't the best thing to go for, since the goat lover is an actual goat lover regardless of the other things he does. Maybe framed 7 times with a goat makes more sense? Maybe plain words are better: He's advertised the things people consider alt right, but not the things about him that prove he isn't. The actual alt right notice these discrepancies regardless and correctly identify him.
The contradiction mostly vanishes when you take into account the fact that the left-wing has mostly abandoned social class distinctions in favor of race/gender/cultural distinctions.

A lot of the current conservatism and populism shares similar impulses with the left-wing of 100+ years ago.
Yeah hard to account for that confounding factor. The alt layout is most people's second, learned much more deliberately.
It's not, the real business model here probably looks a lot like rapidshare.
Furthermore, those algorithms are designed to reflect the prevailing winds of the market, if you will. So an unintended (?) bias, plus changes in backlinks, searches, etc. will be reflected in SERP. This happens all the time.

That said, nothing surprises me any more. I'm sure there are plenty of intelligence community "double agents" embedded in the tech Giants with any kind of influence.
Does anybody understand Ubuntu releases?

The update this morning for Ubuntu 17.04 installs git 2.11.0

.. NOT the patched 2.11.3 NOR the latest 2.14.1

Why isn't Ubuntu fully up to date?
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So would you say that Damore is creating a victim identity for himself, or that he is an actual victim?

I can't imagine that you'd say "this company victimizes people for thoughts like mine," in front of the company, and then be surprised when exactly what you described seems to happen.
How irrelevant.
Opteron??????
I remember receiving an email I had written to myself a few years before via this website. It's a simple but nice idea; I hope it won't be discontinued or monetized.
Does that include heating and hot water?

I consume ~8MWh/year in the UK. 1.5MWh of that is electricity, but the other 6.5MWh is gas mostly used in the winter months to keep warm. I set the temperature in my house to 17C (63F). I did go through a previous winter at 15C, but it just became too uncomfortable.
And the elephant in the third room is electromobility.

1MWh charges a Tesla Model S with a 100kWh battery 10 times, giving you 5400km of range.

If two people in a household are commuting 135km/day each for 20 days/month in a Tesla Model S, electrical energy consumption of the household doubles.
Yeah same. In class for engineers (mixed IT/EE) we were 70 students, out of which 69 were male. Note that this Finland, which seems to rank among top 3 in any list about gender equality per country.
My girlfriend has done some work in Antarctica before, she said that it wasn't uncommon to find food ten or twenty years past its use-by-date. This is kind of the next level though.
Ain't nobody got time for that!

Do you have time to share any of your experience with the tools / process that enables you to get this done in a reasonable timeframe? I'm specifcally interested in how these have changed over time - how have changes to tools / process helped get this done faster?
Apple indeed did - so any stacks uploaded to this archive will likely need to not use the color XCMD.
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So which one (from those audited) do you recommend?

It's using fairly well known library (VTE), it's open source so it's not that easy to sneak something in.
Situations when your terminal emulator (it's not a program facing Internet) can be compromised:
1. you have something malicious on your computer,
2. you have something malicious on you server.
But imho in both situations you already have bigger problems than your terminal emulator...
I wish I could do the same but I don't have the time to relearn everything from scratch. Did you use any specific resources in transitioning from windows to linux?
Well $539/yr is not quite the same as $500 for life. Plus, MSDN software should only be used for development, using it e.g. as a workstation would technically be a violation, albeit one that is unenforceable. And yes, I am aware that if you install it in the first year, it will continue to work long after your MSDN license has expired.

My interest is not in "getting it", or "keeping it working", but rather doing everything 100% legally, not through loopholes. Otherwise I might just as well get a Windows 10 LTSB MSDN license key for $25 from people who illegally sell MSDN keys on reddit.

However, I am pleasantly surprised that there is a MSDN tier that only costs $539/yr instead of the $10000/yr (!) it used to cost. Also, apparently now MSDN is available for anyone, previously you had to enter into some kind of business contract with Microsoft, it wasn't available to individuals.
So, the author thinks this is harmfull?:

var area= ( width, height ) => width * height;

If not, it is just clickbait for me.
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Anything he says about his wealth without also releasing his latest tax returns is up for debate. Whether the debate happens or not is a different question.
Ok, just to clear up the confusion (because not all posts in this thread use the same terminology):

Home NAT, which is equivalent to suffix randomization, does NOT afford any privacy.

Carrier Grade NAT, which would be equivalent to prefix randomization (if such a thing existed) DOES afford some privacy, provided that care is taken not to leak other data (through cookies, browser fingerprinting, stylometrics, etc).

I am not currently at home behind a CGNAT, because my ISP is apparently IPv4 rich, but they are planning to switch at some point. I am behind a CGNAT on my mobile. I have no problem doing peer to peer on either using a STUN server I run on a $2 VPS that comes with an IPV4 address. I also tunnel ssh to my home through it when I want to.

The same ISP, if I request an IPv6, will give me the prefix it assigned to me the day I signed up. That's how they roll (They actually play it as a feature - "you pay for a fixed IPv4, but you get a fixed IPv6 for free! without even asking!")

IPv6 allows you to play "equal part" - it's routable, yes, but if everyone was equal we would have mob rule by DDoS attacks way worse than we do now (perhaps everyone is equal and we will have them .... if that's the case, it will stop being the case after a few high profile attacks as such).

Also, 99.9% of the people do not know how to secure their networks or devices. If everything was routable, as you seem to desire, I think we'd be worse off. As it is, the local home NATs provide a bit of security (which no one would have designed - we got lucky they were there because of address scarcity) and the CGNATs/random V4 assignment provide a bit of privacy (which got lip service, but would not have been as effective if not for address scarcity).

My threat model includes "$company can track my whereabouts online regardless of what I do about it". Your threat model seems to be "I can't route to my server without another hop". It's not that one is valid and on is invalid - it's just that they are incompatible with each other.
How can I do it on OSX without brew or port?
> My company sent a mail to all...."we have achieved XX.X percentage of women...we intend to go for YY.Y percentage! ...we didn't do this by hiring women intentionally, we did this by choosing the best people for the job" What crap. The situation now is that even if a man qualifies better than a woman for a job, they would choose a woman for boosting the numbers.

That is literally the opposite of what the email says, unless you think that a) the company is intentionally lying and b) fewer than XX.X percentage of women are qualified for the job. (Since you haven't stated what XX.X is, I am somewhat worried that you think that this is true for all XX.X > 0.)

Also, this idea that there is a total order of humans on "qualified for the job" seems a little naive, as does the idea that your interview process can reliably identify the total order. In every interview process I've been involved with, we're perfectly happy to take anyone who's qualified for the job (and we barely trust our interview process to yield that one bit of information reliably) and interested in the job. If there are multiple candidates, we're usually happy to try to take all of them. If we can't, we're much more interested in finding who's the better fit for the team, including axes like skill gaps on the team and cultural fit, than ranking the successful candidates on who's "better qualified".
what does your score mean?
Or, just getting similar news elsewhere. As a fringe cause (if you will) goes mainstream (so to speak) some of the core infrastructure gets left behind.

You sell yellow widgets. They catch on. I start to sell them as well. I could very likely steal market share from you.
Came here to ask the same thing, running 17.04. I just did an update && dist-upgrade, still have git-2.11.0.

Edit: The package is actually 2.11.0-2 which contains the security patch.
> To be clear, a private company in the US cannot stop you from discussing anything at work but reserves the right to fire you at will, including for discussions it deems unproductive.

There is zero difference in practice. If I'm fired and can't come to work anymore, the discussion has been stopped, no? Happy to be corrected if I'm missing something.
Fair point. But these labels are generally inaccurate.

Trump is clearly not ideological, do calling him right wing doesn't make sense either. He's not going to, out of principle, decide he doesn't have the legal ability to do something he wants.

We obviously need a different political metaphor. I don't know if are ready for one though.
dear microsoft,

would you kindly consider going easy on the buzzwords?

> Performance is a very important requirement in this new world of fast paced innovation and we will continue to invest on Windows 10 Pro for Workstations to enable Windows power users to maximize every aspect of their high-performance device.
I like what Juan had to say, it's good stuff and IPFS has the potential of being very disruptive.

With Filecoin I think what happened in that conversation was that to Juan it wasn't a big deal, it's just one of the things possible in the IPFS paradigm. But since crypto currency is all the rage these days, and this being YC, he was being lead to talk about the money side of it, but I don't think he really gave it much thought, other than that Filecoin is a neat way to trade storage without any paper/fiat currency, across country borders, etc.

To put it another way - IPFS is the thing. Filecoin is just a side-effect. But in our present times, Filecoin is worth actual millions, while IPFS is just a protocol. But it's clearly a fluke, the most important technology/idea here is IPFS.
The big name valley investors got in at 50 cents per FIL in an advisor only pre-raise. The $180mm in the first hour is from your average Joe accredited investor who bought in at like $2.63 per FIL. The price is now $4.50+ for future investors. If there was a liquid resale market, the SV investors have nearly made 10x already. Of course, they cant resale for a while due to vesting and legal restrictions.