skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You and others like you who take this line of argument are either ignorant of, or willfully pretend away, the abusive/spying household member problem.
Try NixOS.

The Wiki/Manual isn't quite there yet, but it's so manageable that that isn't important right away.

> having to randomly boot from a USB stick to rescue my system from some update with untested consequences.

Just imagine: Your OS broke after installing an update. You reboot, and pick the second to last GRUB/syslinux entry, and literally boot into the system you had before.
She served her time and was released. Attacking her for being a felon is insulting and childish.

You can disagree with why she leaked all you like, but this honestly comes across as petty politics.
What about walls? And how would you target only one room in a hotel? Multiple intersecting beams?
the intervals being important is one of the problems with its notation. But then we have Ornette and Andriessen and many others after them who write otherwise; free-er with emphasis on different elements or structural shapes. Obviously, the terminology depends on the composer, but in old classical music up to about 1960, that is true. After that, there was a lot of linguistic variation. The sharps flats thing is really confusing, especially to learners. Then there is the whole transposition thing. (on different instruments) And all of this because composers want to make sure their music will sound almost exactly the same each time it is played so we all know who to give credit to. The cool thing and the progressive thing would be to let go of that idea of attribution and reproduction being the key thing. It is very colonial, not very artistic, actually. In my view, we should always be reaching for something as artists, and the underlying philosophy has been revealed to be outdated- not aspirational for our world today, and rather elitist. It would be cool to have more people like you working on new notation systems that open up the field.
True, but then you have to develop in Lisp :p

I'm kidding, I'm kidding. But on the other hand, related to your example: the Windows APIs are in my opinion awful. Look at that CreateWindowEx call...
At the time I supported Manning's actions ... But 10 minutes spent perusing her Twitter feed...

It's a nice message to send to people that having the courage to do what they believe is right will be heavily second-guessed by people who dislike emoji.
> Its one of those axioms of software development I've learned, in order to do good work you have to do mountains worth of waste work.

It suggests an obvious question though: can we do better? Can we avoid having to do "mountains worth of waste work" before getting to do the "good work", or is the former a necessary prerequisite for the latter?
No, not at all.

If you've ever served in a public position, you'd realize not only the general kinds of values one must have in service, but the differing sets of values people in different branches must have.

The level of integrity of most of these people is far beyond what you'll find on the street, or even in 'high tech'. I've worked in 'public service' - and when entering in the private sector workforce, well, everyone seems really quite self-interested and kind of greedy in comparison.

The CIA is not a 'tool of the government' - they are there for American citizens - and others quite frankly.

The 'whistle blower' who blew the whistle on Abu Garib prison was well protected by the US Army/Gov, because he was actually a whistle-blower.

Manning, a lowly private, released gigabytes of information wherein he (well a 'he' then ...) didn't even know the contents thereof. Mounds and mounds of sensitive information. This is 'treason' point blank. His only saving grace is that he was at least earnest in his belief he was doing the right thing, i.e. he wasn't selling secrets to the Russians or what not.

Ironically - most of the leaks did not reveal malfeasance by the US diplomatic corps - just the opposite. The 'Arab Spring' was partly launched by this exposition - as Arab citizens saw how ridiculously corrupt most of their regimes were, as validated by the attempts by the US diplomats to try to bring some sense to the region. Not a single 'scandal' was uncovered by the cables at least (of course, the video of the attack helicopter was contentious).

She's served her time, she's out, which is fine and good - but she's still convicted of some very bad crimes and serious breach of trust, and it's beyond ripe that Harvard - or any organization - would honour this person in this regard.
This is an interesting theoretical idea. All Science is great.

But today, today we have massive issues with the 3rd world poor with micro-nutrient deficiencies.

This makes no difference, wow 200 million people goes to 240 million people sometime in the far future if we do nothing.

How about we solve the real issue, micro-nutrients in the 3rd world poor instead.

It's not sexy like, big scary global warming. And it has simple boring solutions.

But today we can save lives cheaply and it creates long term solutions (lacking micro-nutrients in children reduces IQ, stopping this happening help pulls people out of poverty permanently)

Frankly if you are worried about this, then your priorities/morals are shot.
Without Chelsea Manning we would not have known about the “collateral murder” video. The entire military colludes to cover up this kind of information. What she did was release information to the public, which ought to be public knowledge, and as far as I’m aware, despite the bluster of “aiding the enemy”, nobody has been killed or harmed as a result of the leaks.
>>Well, majority of software developers don't do side projects

Most do. The fact that bulk of the software infrastructure from tools to top notch production software is open source says something.

>>especially not those in high paid difficult positions.

If its really about money, then there are better ways to get paid in a software company.

>>Those people put all strength they have into work itself.

Which is often a placeholder for a side project.

>>Employers don't even care all that much about side projects. So, it is safe bet.

But doing these projects does make you a fairly good programmer, and you tend to gravitate towards valuable work and hence good pay.

>>just about only reusable from teenage years is linux internals.

Bad news. Starting early matters. Want to build a good retirement fund? Want to play big leagues sports? Want to be a concert musician? Want to be a doctor? In fact want to be big in anything? Most certainly you have to start early.

>>It is basically assumption that...

Nobody made such an assumption. We only said a particular group A(mostly nerds) starts early and works hard. What the other group is for them to decide.

Note, Nerds is a group of people irrespective of gender, race, or other identity(even nationality or religion).

It just comes down to one thing. You can't progress beyond a point without work. Reservations only take you that far.
Unless of course all people using facebook are just damn idiots and don't know what they're getting themselves into!

I invite you to read (or preferably watch) your Ibsen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enemy_of_the_People
This is not the issue. The patent clause is not about React, it is about the whole Facebook organization.
I think she's naive and not very credible when she advocates things like:
-dismantling the CIA
-dismantling the presidency
-the notion that the CIA dictates what Harvard teaches
-no borders

And that's just from the last week or so. She doesn't strike me as someone with very nuanced positions.

edit: case in point https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/903326954266517504
Yeah, London, where not being of the "correct" religion can get you killed in some areas!
(I know, religion is not a race, etc....my point is that mixed places are not necessarily more tolerant)
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4 billion is fine.
What happens if your program has a few thousand floats?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect It's definitely possible for electromagnetic radiation to cause audible sounds. The thing that's confusing me is what sort of motive one would have to do this.
If I read this correctly, the "Enterprise Grid" section hints at one technical reason for this move. Slack recently announced[0] a new feature that allows multiple teams, err "Workspaces", to share a channel. This violates the uniqueness of @usernames within the namespace of the shared channel, e.g. both teams having a "@john".

This announcement anticipates (a) getting developers to use surrogate UIDs instead of @username for mentions, and (b) that their clients will only use display names in the future and rely on specific UI elements to distinguish ambiguous ones.

[0] https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/network-effects-gett...
Looks like a nice reference for optimizing layout - haven't done much of that but I'll save this if I ever need to.

One note - the color scheme/presentation on the bars is kind of confusing (what do white bars mean vs. faded out bars ? I'm assuming one is no results and the other is not triggered ?)
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Please, make it possible to directly report or ban automated DM messages from bots/apps.
I'm always confused about "Guidelines" and "FAQ". It seems that whenever I have a question about HN, I need to consult both, because it is not clear at all which site covers which question.

Maybe "Guidelines" and "FAQ" should simply be merged?

Edit: Opened an "Ask HN" submission about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15255270
Okay you're right. Still buying a Chromebook increases its sail numbers which does mean advertisement.
Have you ever tried NixOS?

Nix takes the clean install to an elegant extreme. You can totally break your install, and then boot the exact system you had before just by picking the GRUB entry. It's amazing.
I agree that it should not be part of the equation - but in our present media landscape, it absolutely is.

Her being transgender will ultimately have a lot to do with public perception.

There is quite a big movement right now to promote the rights of transgendered people, it's like the late 1980's for gay people - wherein stereotypes were being fought against, and issues brought into public discussion.

In the era of 'social justice media' - these bits of identity are all part of the presentation.

Some will regard the 'transgender' as even a deeper transgression of 'norms and values' and to others it might engender deeper sympathies - nevertheless, it definitely adds a dynamic to the story.
Ask HN: [Meta]: Should “Guidelines” and “FAQ” Be Merged?
I'm always confused about "Guidelines" and "FAQ". It seems that whenever I have a question about HN, I need to consult both, because it is not clear at all which site covers which question.

Maybe "Guidelines" and "FAQ" should simply be merged?
Wondering the same. Is gecko just very good or is it no data?

A few sentences on top explaining what one is looking at and what it means would be a good idea.
It's not confidence that I'm secure, it's a belief that this software development process makes me more secure.

You and your friend down there seemingly have more faith that a closed source process, what, would have identified this bug before it was deployed? Why? That it would have been found by good actors first? Why? That it would have been fixed promptly? Why? Announced with disclosure of its existence and ramifications? Why?

It's not a money question for this stuff either. There are hundreds if not thousands of paid engineers for known good-actors all working to break and responsibly disclose security issues in the same software stack I use.

The only thing you know about the comings and goings of closed source software is when public disclosure happens (and it's later fixed). Why would I be more confident in that process? It's not good enough.
As are Ruby and Python. I can't remember the last time I used Bash for scripting
I wasn't making a claim, merely lampooning yours.
Never understood the value of ports and adaptors. If you want isolation in a layered design, use a service façade and a service interface.

Layers are a lot easier to comprehend than hexagons. That makes other tasks easier, like planning deployment of layers into tiers, through which routes are similarly linear.
True. It's all about extortion.
Santeria spells, or too many mojitos.

Joking aside, mostly likely overpowered microwave espionage equipment they got from Russians a long time ago, and that is still in use.

Google "US Embassy microwave moscow" to find out what happened back in the 70s.
I think you're missing my point. Google and Facebook are conditioning the population to say no big deal. It's creeping normalcy. Remember when Sergei was trying to make peeps comfortable with Gmail? [para-phrasing here:] "It's not a person reading your email, it's just a robot." Well now the robot is a neural net and I'm pretty convinced (if it's not already) that neural net will start feeding data to other nets built by other powerful institutions that decide whether you get higher education, loans, whether you're likely to be guilty or innocent, &c. Didn't provide enough data, well hell, that's suspicious, throw a red flag.

And people will accept it because we're pragmatic. And those who don't just need to grow up and start pleasing the AI.

A whole new industry will pop up from the ones training nets in the first place. Hey do this and that and our calculations will read you better, you'll get the results you want. We just suggest you don't talk about these things at all, don't shop at these stores, don't have this name or be associated with that demographic ...
She did what she did because she was depressed that a since-repealed law forced her to live a lie or lose her job, and her friendship with Assange helped with the alienation.

She recognizes what she did was wrong, plead guilty to half the charges, and served her time.

Snowden fled to China to leak what he did and then defected to Russia. He barely acknowledges the damage he did to US intelligence, and insists he was right in doing it.
Well, I for one don't think that people have to be 'bright' to have integrity, that said, I'm not sure she has a lot of integrity.

I think what she did was very, very wrong, but I'm also sympathetic - she was pretty young. Young people do dumb things sometimes.
Here is an idea for you Ryan: perhaps you could tie the money setting to an article's reach... that way you make everyone an owner of the page and strive for highest quality together. That's a more dynamic setup that rewards high quality - in the article as well as the comment section.
The population was not consulted prior to the war on Iraq, or afterwards, neither is the CIA answerable to the people. It operates in secret, at the behest of the government, it’s not a democratic or public institution.

The video attack was “contentious”? If it was Russians say, attacking American Journalists in that manner you would not say it’s “contentious”.

During the Arab spring, the US government did what it usually does, support the dictators right until the very end, even when it was clear their time was up. Eg in Egypt. And when a ne military dictator comes in, (Sisi), the US diplomatic and military support resumes like normal, no matter how terrible his human rights record.
I agree that's the end-game but recently I've revised my expected timetable.

I fully expected that my daughters, now 12 and 13, might never need to own cars. My wife even thinks they may never need to learn to drive. I now think that's unrealistic. It's true that for 95%+ of most journeys, self driving cars would be fine, but that last 5% or less really matters even if for only a minority of journeys. Finding a parking space can be very hard and our current streets, curbs and driveways aren't designed for self-driving vehicles. Rural settings can also be highly challenging.

I think the big changes initially will be road haulage because companies can re-engineer pickup and drop-off points to be highly autonomous friendly and automated. Next will be companies like Uber and Lyft providing driverless cabs from and to designated points. Then a gradual demographic trend to less car ownership, but driverless cars for the masses are going to take at least a decade to come IMHO. The last 10m is really tough in too many common scenarios.
From a product perspective, it seems like a big decision and discussion about it may be insightful to those building other products.

From an engineering perspective, those who have Slack API integrations may be affected.
that was broadcast in 1965-1968.

Male same sex activity started to be decriminalised in the UK in 1967, but there were still many restrictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_King...
Ask HN: Any dumb phone with proper CardDAV/CalDAV worth considering?
Bit worried about all privacy issues arising from owning smart phone in any form, I am considering getting a brick that doesn't know how to do much. Having CardDAV and CalDAV functioning properly would be a huge plus. Is there anything on the market worth considering?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the...
Lyft will be the first taxi company with self driving cars at scale. With this investment, they won’t bother with other markets till they have US sorted out.
this is very true.
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> Imagine working all night and getting paid the same as someone who works half as much.

Isn't that the ideal?

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/28/435583328/episo...
This is not macOS. According to the screenshot of the latest build, it doesn't look like it even boots all the way to a shell. It is unlikely to ever help you with mobile app publishing.
The day after it happened, three years before WikiLeaks published the video:

https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DEED81E3E...

Doesn't seem like a cover up to me.
Uber has been updating its app by adding new feature
IMHO this is a clear indication that something is desperately wrong with the law.
I think you're misunderstanding what GP means by "linux" on purpose.
Things will become interesting in the near future as Powershell 6, which is cross platform, is released and becomes available on Linux distros.
I said this in a previous thread [1], but I'll restate here:

Your face or fingerprint is neither your username nor your password. It's a form of identity. The combination of username and password is another form of identity. A certificate chain is another form of identity. Not all forms of identity are separated into two components like username and password. And different forms of identity have different properties and applicability.

Trying to shoehorn a form of identity like a face or a fingerprint into the username/password template is counterproductive and will only add unnecessary confusion. Please stop. Dumbing down security and removing the nuance is how people get it horribly wrong.

Security is very dependent on context. Authenticating with a phone is very different from authenticating over the internet which is very different from authenticating in a situation where you're physically present with another human being (credit card, bank teller, etc). Authentication schemes need to be designed for the specific use case in which they're used and no rule is universal.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15233454
> Can USA wake up one day and decide to impose a 40% tariff without repercussions? Aren't there rules and international trade agreements backed by enforcement mechanisms?

You could debate how far the US could go with it before there are serious repercussions. However, several of the big auto-making countries go a great distance out of their way to shield their own domestic auto industries from foreign competition at home, including Germany and Japan. The US should behave exactly as they do and for exactly the same reasons.

What has the US gained by allowing foreign auto competitors such equal footing? Japan and Germany are widely regarded as having the two best auto industries overall, it has clearly has worked out just fine for them (insert the replies about correlation/causation). Why is the US held to a very different standard than China, Germany and Japan (3 of the 4 largest economies) when it comes to trade? That should and will end by necessity, whether it's a Trump or a Bernie Sanders that does it. It's a cultural wave that can't be stopped.

The US should use every lever at its disposal to compete, including strategically manipulating the global reserve currency (eg it's crazy that the US isn't running a $2 trillion, ten year, infrastructure QE program; the USD as the global reserve currency is unlikely to last more than a few more decades, we should leverage it while we have it to increase US competitiveness).
The incidental effects of power are quite like the effects of addiction; the addict will lie, cheat, steal, and even murder in order to maintain their addiction.

When you threaten someone's power, strange things will happen to you.
- Does the CIA provide a net positive or negative effect on the globe?
- There are alternative political systems available
- I'd be surprised if the CIA didn't exert influence over Harvard
- Borders are a modern development.
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Like bringing it to China?
(IANAL) But you didn't use React so you never accepted that Patents file?
Violations can be excused the first time, but after 40 years of malice, it's safe to say it's just evil.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a paid alternative to Facebook?
This is HN, and we have all read about the evil walled garden, and how the users become a product, and privacy concerns about ads.
So, I'm wondering why isn't there a sane alternative to Facebook that doesn't use a different monetizing strategy?
Like creating a freemium platform where, they make money by selling space for high res photos and videos, letting them run a managed blog, etc..

Is the network effect that hard to beat?
Apple needs to solve it in Apple's garden, which runs by different rules.

Unlike other mobile operating systems, iOS prioritizes protecting the user's privacy. The real user, not just any household member or employer who might have physical access to the device.

In your described solution, what prevents an abusive/sneaky household member from posing as the user and supplying those "user-configurable" keys without the knowledge of the real user? Nothing? That answer wouldn't be good enough for the Apple "garden" as you call it.
Does this mean the binaries also won't have the headers (or just the source?).

IMO, Caddy project should simply stop providing binaries for free. Those who want to provide this as a community service may do so for others. This is generally how it is for most of the software. Binaries and packages are maintained by distributions and not upstream authors..
That's sad. I hoped due to their similarity, it might be possible to run Xcode and Apploader (or whatever it's called) on PureDarwin.
By preventing attacks I meant preventing them from being successful -- not preemptively preventing them from happening.

Besides, select "foil", right click "Look up": (OS X Dictionary): prevent

So, not a native speaker, and there might still be some nuance of preventing from even being considered (avert?) in "foil", and you could be technically correct.

http://static.damnlol.com/media/5c5c06b2d9e1d4e9b66725f86dab...
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

Your comment is spoken like somebody whose salary depends on ignoring the reality of what the CIA and US Military do and in whose interests they actually work.

To everybody else, underlying assumption that the CIA and the US military have any moral standing at all is plainly wrong.

Chelsea Manning knew this - and was brave enough to do something about it. Her actions were good, and she deserves our respect.