skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'd even have to make a point to hide my learning. Only a specific subset of people would be asking how best to allow uploads while ensuring the IP address was masked via Tor. Added with other questions, it'd put me into a pretty narrow group, so even gathering information would need to be masked.

Fortunately, I don't actually want to do anything illegal. That will make it easier. I do kind of want to learn how to set up a hidden service, but just to satisfy my curiosity.
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I agree with you. Thinking further tho, governments don't really have "unlimited resources," they really have the ability to simply take the resources they want from their citizens.

If we build up a government under great leadership that is highly effective, laying all the structure in place for taxation, then we have quite a task in front of us if we later want to dismantle it and switch to private orgs as a result of new leadership that has come in and is wasteful and/or ineffective.

Sadly, this makes me think the least risky strategy over the long-term is to avoid the fire of government in the first place.
this is exactly what's happening with digital media. Optimize for human attention. Direct real time feedback on how people react to your media. Tweak for more attention. Repeat. No intentional malice needed.
Mimimal but useful. I just tried this httpd.lua script with djb's tcpserver and was pleasantly surprised. It is quick and handles large PDFs well enough. I like that there are no third party libraries. If directory listing and output for video could be added I might try using something like this on a local LAN as a replacement for the httpd binary I am using.
if it was behind whonix, all outside traffic would be routed through tor. One of its selling points is that malware running on the VM as root cannot get the real IP (without additional exploits).
if i'm not mistaken, the "Thai" bananas i saw in LA were grown in Guatemala.
Yeah, I'm aware the video itself isn't available. I'd run across it on YouTube a while back, though that version is also down. I've not found a canonical link via the BBC yet though I'd expect there is one.
Agreed. Quitting your job is like a relationship break up.

Talking someone into staying might just get them to say yes, to be nice, then just change their mind and not show up some day.
They are already under scrutiny for where their Haiti relief funds went.

From 2 weeks ago, 170+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15326335
Now I see the english version. I read it with google translate.
https://github.com/dsharlet/ComputerAlgebra (disclaimer: my project) might do what you want, it lets you manipulate expressions and then compile them to "native" .net functions that can be evaluated with high performance.
This rant has some seriously flawed assumptions. Agile is a generic set of values for building software. There's nothing that says you should have no manager, or no code review, tests, and maintenance.

No framework prevents people from using it to make bad decisions. It's a shame that Agile has picked up that reputation.

If you're in a company with these problems, and you're in a position to deal with them...please do some research before condemning it all.
Disclosure: I am friends with the founder.

Gluon is taking a pretty neat approach with javafx (think reactive native with javafx):

http://gluonhq.com/

I haven't browsed their repos but if you were to look for anyone promoting jfx it would be these guys.
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I actually did with my company and anyway it was a bad decision.
JavaFX and swing customization is really not easy and not well documented. JavaFX uses custom XML which make no sense to be honest when you want to do nice design.
And it requires custom CSS too.

Additionally, their design are bad(I mean their Java API).

We spend a whole year making an app with it, at the end we decided move away from it, like the rest of the java community if fact that do not really support desktop applications anymore.
I don't really remember search engines being charitable? My first exposure to the online search arena was human-powered, slow, and expensive. As in, you paid someone to scour the 'net for you and return the results to you.

DMOZ is the only charitable search that I really know of, and I think they are shutting down.
Believe it or not there is still a quarterly publication dedicated to the apple ii

https://juiced.gs
The other popular alternative is to just outsource to a bunch of 'agile developers' you have absolutely no control over in some third world country where the developers can't even speak or write English

...and that's when I stopped reading. Software is used around the world. Software is written around the world. The author only limits himself by adopting this kind of bigoted perspective.
paywall...

Where does he own houses?
My (admittedly brief) comment concerned the original formation of the U.S. Post Office and its long-time role in subsidised communications. Robert McChesney is among those who've addressed this:

In the first generations of the republic, newspapers accounted for between 70 percent and 95 percent of post-office traffic, and newspapers depended upon the post office for the distribution of much of their circulation. A key question facing Congress was what to charge newspapers to be mailed. No one at the time was arguing that newspapers should pay full freight, that the market should rule; the range of debate was between those who argued for a large public subsidy and those who argued that all postage for newspapers should be free, to encourage the production and distribution of a wide range of ideas. The former position won, and it contributed to a massive flowering of print media in the United States throughout the early 19th century. What is most striking about this period, as Paul Starr argues in his new book, The Creation of the Media, is that there wasn't rhetoric about free markets in the media, nor about the sacrosanct rights of commercial interests. That came later.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/McChesney/Waging_Media_Bat...

In his books, McChesney puts strong weight on the role of the post office in the development of early journalism and media, largely in the form of newspapers and magazines.

Related: the USPS subsidised the operation of both railroads and air travel through postal services on both. Trains, through the 1960s, had "post office cars", which not only carried postal mail, but which were mobile sorting offices in which mail was organised, in transit, for its final destination. The development of postal codes, "Zone Instant Postal Codes", better known as "ZIP Codes", in the 1960s, helped phase those out.

Airmail played a role in the establishment of early regularly scheduled air flights.

And if you've ever wondered what the "RMS" in "RMS Titanic" stood for, it's "Royal Mail Ship".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_post_office

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_Code

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmail

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail_Ship
I recently installed Android Oreo on my 6P sans browser. No Google search app, no browser, no Facebook, no Twitter. I still have Slack, email, calendar and SMS for work, maps, Lyft, spothero, Spotify, and podcasts for travel. So far the phone is working great, only had to install aosp browser component to keep apps like Gmail functional.

Elevator rides are very different. I'm curious to see how this will work out in the long run. I figure if it's worth opening up a browser, it's also worth opening up laptop.
- Binary options

- much foreign exchange trading (FOREX).

(Huge racket. In many cases, you're not really buying options; you're betting against the house, which is a bucket shop. The house cheats, and won't pay up if they lose. 40% of Israel's financial sector is this stuff.[1])

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wolves-of-tel-aviv-israels...
Me too. For things like password, you can cycle them. For fields like maiden name, you can't.
But the whole point of being a criminal is to get a lot of money for not much effort. If you have to put that much work into it, you may as well get a job.
It depends on how you use it. If you only friend people who agree with you, then yes, you'll get an echo chamber. If you friend people who say interesting things instead, you won't.
"With the nation snared in what the government says is the worst drug epidemic in its history..."

When have I heard that before?

Maybe during the crack epidemic. Or the meth epidemic. Now it's the opioids' turn.

"But this time it's different," I'm sure.
> There's a reason Java became such a big platform for business applications and it isn't because it cared about fashion fads.

There's a reason why Java completely failed on the desktop: Swing.

> Which do you care more about: it works, or it looks good?

Both. I care about both. And you should too.

But Swing developers got used to only being able to have one. At most.
Regarding your analysis as to the actual usefulness of this spec - or lack thereof - I agree. There's not much substance or detail; the result seems like the bullet points of an initial PowerPoint presentation for such a concept, rather than the final output of a panel attempting to create a proposal meant to be seriously considered and adopted.

As for the rest of your comment... are you really a "working professional in this field"? By that I'm asking whether you are self-employed and playing fast and loose according to your own rules, or if you instead have an established career within the industry for which your professional peers stand beside your methods? I have to believe that honest professionals with a shred of reputability in this field would not be advocating that playing nice, so to speak, is some altruistic gift on the part of the researcher. "Security Researchers", quoted to loosely include "rogue" grey and black hats who think they have free reign to hack in any way they see fit, have gone to jail for what you appear to be claiming is a risk-free "right". It's not black and white, and the courts seem to favour whichever side suits their fancy in each individual case.

It really bothers me to see anyone suggest that any public port on a machine is 100% free reign to abuse. If public-facing access is all it takes to be free game, then I must be morally and legally in the right to pick the door locks of private citizens and businesses, or peel off the face of any ATM in an effort to "gauge its security". The loophole excuse is that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in theory, only covers computer owned by the government and financial institutions. When all moral obligations are ignored, and skirting around lacklustre laws is the only defence, the intentions of some "researchers" quickly become questionable.

Your stance on the subject is probably fairly common in terms of what people want to be labelled as fair game, while in the real world researchers have to dial back a bit and play nice in order to maintain an ounce of respect in the field.
> "[t]here is absolutely NO long term planning, no long term defined deliverables, no schedules in place...."

[this remark does not, as far as i can tell, reflect the OP's assertion about what "Agile" is, but just the sum of their own empirical observations] It fits my experience though, without any exceptions that i can think of.

Indeed, Agile consultants likely view these things as selling points (features rather than bugs) to clients--the less work the client has to do themselves to "get up and running" as an Agile shop, the more attractive it looks executives and the more likely they are to buy the Consultant's services.
> As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and as machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more and more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won’t be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide."

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

http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories.[1] In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two.

"The story, set in a world where humanity lives underground and relies on a giant machine to provide their needs, predicted technologies such as instant messaging and the Internet."

I won't spoil the ending, but you can guess how it plays out.
That would actually still be illegal in Australia (at least, in all the states I've checked). For NSW in particular the The Crimes Act (1900) s91fb[1] states that materials that "appears or are implied to be" child abuse material are legally defined to be child abuse material. The criterion is further expanded by saying that the judgement of whether something qualifies is by "the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults" (among other restrictions). Though, as this article proves, Australian police are particularly well-known for being allowed to break laws for the purposes of an investigation.

Given that loli isn't legal in Australia, I doubt that photorealistic artificial child pornography would fare better.

[1]: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/nsw/conso...
I've experienced what the author describes a few times. Agile is mostly orthogonal to the problems the author describes. The problem is that people get used to that mindset and try to apply "agile principles" to all problems, including ones that are better solved other ways (better architecture, better management, better business plan, better strategic technical vision, empowering technical leaders to say "no", etc.).
These guys clearly weren't around for the introduction of television. If ever there was a technology tailor-made to hijack our minds with, it was TV. It wasn't the end of the world.
Agreed with the crackdown, but not with the "brave" methods. Someone is getting paid to not only look but distribute this all day, everyday. We need to take measures to demolish government institutions that post and distribute this content under the guise of "law enforcement." I read far more articles about police-run sites and forums being shutdown than I read about wild sites being taken down.

This is no better than the "brave" arms smuggling operations of the ATF.
Why are we trying to optimize ourselves to maximize happiness? Of course the hunter gatherers were happier, they evolved their happiness enducing brains slowly in the span of hundreds of thousands of years. In contrast we are living in a fast changing world. I think happiness can no longer keep up as being the proper reward function for success.
It's still a shitshow, believe me. If you can't see it it is only because you don't work with it as often as others.

Google "Windows 10 start button stopped working" and spend a good 20 minutes reading forum posts about the problem. What you'll find is typical of Windows 10: there are no good answers for why it happens, the only consistent solution is to reinstall the OS, and it has been a problem for years and still hasn't been fixed. Meanwhile, they did take the time to remove "Control Panel" as an option when right-clicking the start button, and add a feature that begs you to try Edge when you set another browser as default.
Keybase.io just added encrypted git. Might be worth looking into.
Read the next sentence. It's not bigoted. He's simply pointing out that if you have a team working in English and replace part of it (or add on to it) with a team that can't work in English you'll get crap results. Likewise if you have a product written in English (comments and naming conventions) with English documentation and hand it off to a non-English-speaking team you'll get crap results. This can of course be reversed: if your company is in India writing all its documentation in Hindi it would be silly to hire a Chinese or American team who can't work consistently in Hindi. Etc.

You wouldn't hire a bunch of web developers to write an embedded system in C & assembly. If someone did you'd say that it was idiotic. There's nothing wrong with the web developers, they're great at Javascript, they just don't have the skills needed to do the job.
In Australia it would still be illegal, here's the link for NSW[1]. Maybe it should be reformed to match your idea. But there's a reason why the law is written to make things that are "implied to be" child abuse material to still be child abuse material.

[1]: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/nsw/conso...
Btw, this project started when my sister and I were eating at Panera and decided it would be fun to each write an HN front-end. Hers was largely a project to learn React, which you can see here: http://coribeecroft.com/hacker-news-frontend/

She's looking for work at the moment if anyone knows of someone who might want to hire a somewhat junior but very smart developer with a good sense of humor. See here for more: http://coribeecroft.com
I'm assuming pedophilia isn't profit motivated. I don't really know that, but it seems a good assumption. I'm also not even sure where to begin researching that.
Exactly, SCRUM/agile can't fix any of the things you mentioned.
Congratulations! You’ll love it. We went with solarcity and it was a great decision. I love watching the real-time generation throughout the day.
Thanks! I'll have a look at it for sure. During my phd I developed a tool for reachability analysis of polynomial dynamical systems https://github.com/dreossi/sapo I needed expression manipulation to compute Bernestein coefficients of polynomials
It would have been nice if the article would have done that analysis instead of letting the readers look up statistics.
Update:

Alpha scheduled for end of October:

https://blog.metalpay.com/metal-dev-update-2/
Very cool! I made a native macOS desktop client . It does use a web view to render the article but the article list, comments, voting, commencing, login interactions are all native . http://mackernews.com
Something to try, lower the array size to less than or equal to 10, there's a different representation.
Just search on "dev manager" and agile. You'll come across lots of articles from scrum proponents that attempt to severely downplay the need and role of dev managers and sometimes claim they aren't needed at all in an agile shop.

The one thing they usually don't mention is all the new agile servant leader positions your company will have to hire instead of dev managers.
You can probably just use Google's reverse image search and then look at the "related images" pane on the right.
Discount the rhetoric, count the bodies
If everything else is kept the same (never true), that would be correct. Like everything else in this area of research (which depends upon NHST), you will find conflicting studies if you search. Here are some layperson sources (I didn't bother looking deeper):

http://observer.com/2017/04/study-finds-running-extends-life...

http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20140401/too-much...
When is an Erlang iolist an iovec?
We have about ten engineers, so nowhere near the size where people consider formal methods "appropriate". Nonetheless it's still been incredibly useful for our work.

I'm a pretty huge evangelist of TLA+, but I don't think it's the silver bullet of software correctness. It just happens to be the tool I'm most familiar with and the one I thought could benefit most from a free guide. If people start widely using TLA+, I'll be ecstatic. If people ignore TLA+ but start widely using Alloy, I'll still be ecstatic. Software correctness is a really huge field and there's lots of really cool stuff in it!

Speaking of making methods more accessible, I'm working on a tutorial about Stateful Testing. Hypothesis (https://hypothesis.works) is an absolutely incredible property-based testing library for Python, and I think it could potentially make PBT a mainstream technique. One of the more niche features is that you can define a test state machine that runs by randomly selecting transitions rules and mutating your program state, then running assertions on the new state. It's really neat!
You children are afraid of monsters. All the problems you describe are the ones of your own choice.
Ask HN: Has your YC application had any video views or website hits?
We applied a week before the deadline but in that time we have had no views of our video and no hits to our online demo.

Do they read every application?
I think it's just apathy, politics is mostly a joke here in Australia.
Visual Studio 15.4 has ARM(64) desktop support officially
Thanks, looks interesting. Scriptable in javascript too.

I always note with irony that professionals expect to pay decent money (Bitwig is $400) for software relevant to their trade; the one exception being software pros.
QuickCheck is actually older than the TDD movement!