skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The example you give is frequently used as an example of Wikileaks being the cause of atrocities rather than the one revealing the atrocities.

Wikileaks has been under attack by various governments for a long time, eventually resulting in Assange losing his freedom.

But more importantly, the big news orgs (NYTimes, WaPo, etc.) who had initially partnered with WL on the war logs were pressured into ending their journalistic cooperation with Wikileaks. Both papers went on to assassinate Assange's character at every turn after that, conveniently omitting the unique definition of rape in Swedish law, etc.

In case my point is not clear, the idea is that the NYT should have been proofreading the release to be sure that all of the appropriate redaction occurred, but it couldn't do this because it had already taken sides with the US Government and other corrupt governments against Wikileaks.

Worse yet, the papers follow the lead of US officials in focusing their reporting on Assange's personality while ignoring most of the actual information that was leaked. Regardless of what you think about Assange or WL, it's pretty hard to argue that the so-called journalists from our once-great newspapers did anything but a horrible and irresponsible job of covering the leaked information.

So strong is the intimidation created by the government that even the Snowden leaks could not be accurately published in The Guardian.

How is it possible that people don't see the obvious... things that WL publishes embarrass governments and officials because they reveal very serious crimes. But I suspect nobody will address this last point because like the papers, most opponents of Assange really want the story to be about Assange and not about the deeply concerning information that he heroically made available to us.
I use my CS education every day. The trick was to take the bare minimum of theory and stuff my schedule with Systems:

- Thinking about and fixing bugs related to OS scheduling, like, why doesn’t my time.Sleep work as expected? (Intro to Systems, Operating Systems).

- Understanding the protocol layers involved in a network performance problem; writing network services to RFC specs (Networks and Distributed Systems).

- Selecting, working with, and understanding the limitations of distributed databases (Advanced Distributed Systems).

- Shifting the bulk of tricky computing into pure functions; borrowing design patterns like the state monad (Functional Programming).

- Parsing serialized data (Formal Languages for basic theoretical grounding, Programming Languages for compiler and interpreter implementation).

- Dealing with concurrency and using synchronization primitives (Intro to Systems).

- Awareness of security concerns and techniques, respect for the subtlety of crypto implementation, literacy when reading HN on subjects like ASLR or the Juniper RNG compromise (Intro to Security).

- Basic comfort with C, Make, vim, bash, awk, etc. (Intro to Programming).

The vast majority of my education was spent on programming projects to implement key components up and down the stack. Having a decent understanding of what they’re doing and how to approach writing them has been invaluable. The only thing I truly haven’t touched since college is discrete probability.
Wait, wasn't Java the future of programming?
After being put under duress by many state sponsored attacks, Assange had to resort to a PR stunt strategy. Yes, it is unfortunate, but anyone who was under such attacks and was determined to make such a vital institution as WL survive would have done the same thing.

They attacked WL's journalistic partners, fundraising channels, even forced Assange to hole up in an embassy, as well as (likely) many other attacks.
This piece of shit is still alive? Wow
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They've added USB 3.0 support very lately, 10 years behind. And a non-working UEFI which requires you to use the shell instead of sysinst.

NetBSD is a broken and dead shit. Don't use it. Better FreeBSD.
If you have enough unusual content, perhaps archive.org could arrange to have it taken to them. They seem to have an interest digitizing older, non-digital media.
Also not totally forbidden. In an emergency the german army can be and has been deployed. Emergency like a flood.
But also to help secure conferences, like the G20 in Hamburg.
This was somewhat early in the empire though and had some ridiculous heights. At one point the Praetorian guard (the emperors personal army within Rome) auctioned off their support and caused absolute havok in what is called 'the year of the 4 emperors' (I think this is the same point in time, it's been a while since I've read about it).

However their power diminished a lot as the empire grew and Rome became less relevant. Eventually emperors began to not even visit Rome at all during their lives, and the power of the guard faded to nothing.

At the time I was commenting about they had next to no influence, much like the senate.
his best and most important work is the Gulag Archipelago[0] and everyone should read it. Its an eye opener that shows how life under communism really is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
I’m having trouble thinking of a dynamic language in Python’s class (Ruby, JS, even PHP) that fails your use case here.
Excessive flexibility for optimizers, schedulers, etc. adds a high price to debugging, and it’s not like we have perfect programs that can only be improved in these fancier ways.

Programs are not all written by experts. Performance may be left on the table in areas that have nothing to do with optimizers or schedulers (e.g. picking an absolutely terrible algorithm or not noticing unnecessary memory allocations).

If something must remain “unspecified”, I at least want a debugging tool for that behavior. If something “may” happen, give me a switch to make it happen. If something is data-dependent, show me the data that triggers a different outcome or give me a way to scramble data enough to increase the chance of triggering a change in behavior.
Not true in the US.

You can rent any physical media. No special license required.
You're right, it was Diocletian!
That's an extremely broad statement. Do you really know that much history?
That's what seems to be the case with any existing hair loss products; if you have nearly invisible wisps of hair left, minoxidil and finasteride will rejuvenate those and prevent further hair loss. Not really a cure. If too much hair loss has occurred, you're kinda screwed unless you go the transplant route, which has its own problems.

I do hope for an actual hair loss cure, and I'd pay thousands for it. People treat bald people really different and don't even realize it. Not in necessarily a "bad" way, not like a second-class citizen, but I think bald guys are slightly scarier to the average person, especially if the guy shaves it or keeps it short. Obviously they are also less attractive on average unless they've got the muscle proportion and the jawline to go with it.

It's not all bad since it also means that I'm no longer treated like a "young man" by anyone. But when I wear a hat or a beanie and people don't know that I'm bald, they're a much nicer and women come up to me a lot more. It's like night and day. At least that means there's nothing wrong with my face! :)
This belongs to fluff news. I don't understand why people upvote these links/kind of content.
Seeing that I got my degree over 20 years ago and even then it was from a state school with a horrible comp. sci. department, I am sure my CS degree did nothing for me even for my first job.

I was lucky that by the time I git to college, I already been hacking around with AppleSoft Basic and 65C02 assembly language for six years. I picked up C on my own and that carried me through the first 12 years of my career. Knowledge of algorithms helped me a little bit since we had to do everything from scratch but most modern developers wouldn’t even need that.
Access modifiers are something that I only ever find to get in the way. I've recently moved to Java from Python for work. The underscore convention in python works fine for hiding stuff from the general public namespace, but its still there if you want to explore how some code or module works. Java really annoys me because I can't access implementation details when I'm trying something out in an interactive shell or debugger, even if I'd never access a private/protected variable in production code
Thanks for explaining. I appreciate the reply and respect your position, though I still don’t quite agree.
Generally no, the instructions that get access to many MSRs are privileged since they can affect the way things execute.
This piece of shit is still alive? Wow!

They've added USB 3.0 support very lately, 10 years behind. And a non-working UEFI which requires you to use the shell instead of sysinst.

NetBSD is a broken and dead shit. Don't use it. Better FreeBSD!
This piece of shit is still alive? Wow!

They've added USB 3.0 support very lately, 10 years behind. And a non-working UEFI which requires you to use the shell instead of sysinst.

NetBSD is a broken and dead shit. Don't use it. Better FreeBSD.!
That's funny, but it is wrong. The devil is in the detail. These topics have bedeviled the best statesmen and internet forum moderators we have.
I doubt that parents or students who are spending tens of thousands of dollars on college and more than likely are leaving college with tons of debt are not expecting to be able to learn practical, marketable skills.
> What you have to worry about are the zealots who don’t care about dying as long as they can take their enemies out with them because they think they will have a better life on the other side.

The zealots are usually foot soldiers for states or quasi-states, or groups aspiring to control/creation of states, and most of those groups are similarly rational to states. A random Hamas footsoldier, especially with assurances that his family will then be cared for, may commit a suicide attack, just as a soldier of a name might engage in kamikaze attacks, of in military missions that involve a practical certainty of personal death. But neither the leadership not the groups as units are prone to deliberate self-destruction to maximize damage to enemies.
It would be great if there was a way to rent original contents from different streaming sites. Let's say I want to rent 'Terrace House' and 'Sopranos' on the same night, this website would allow me to do that with one interface and one 'buy' button.
The death penalty. How civil of you.
The XPS 13 appears to be a much better choice than the XPS 15 - standard SSDs, integrated graphics, smaller and light(er).

The 15 I have has two fans: one I presume for the CPU and another for the Nvidia GPU (which I don't use). However, once both have started neither shut off until the machine is suspended. There is a suggestion that this is due to a firmware bug related to suspend/wake and it doesn't happen from cold boot. I haven't tested it out, will give it a go next week.

I've also been used to MacBooks and so the XPS does fall short somewhat in comparison - minor flexing and creaking and much less heat dissipated via the chassis (plastic vs aluminium). I have an Intel i7 in the XPS that appears to consume quite a lot of power. I'd much rather change it for a less powerful, more frugal i5 but alas it is too late.
Python is one of the simplest language you can learn. It is really nicely designed and executed. If simplicity is the goal, Python has that in spades.
No links to the "discussions" in question, so it's basically only the author's word we should trust. I don't.
The ride was also loaded badly with two very heavy passengers in back — exceeding 600 pounds — and a 65 pound kid in front. They need to enforce weight limits even at the risk of “offending” passengers.
The implicit part you're missing is that Python is just nice to work with in a way that JS and PHP aren't (I don't have Ruby experience).

If there's a bunch of languages that meet the baseline functionality, why not choose the most ergonomic of the bunch?
Not directly an answer, but you'll find a lot of stuff on the internet suggesting that intel integrated graphics don't work; as of freebsd 11.2, almost all of them do! Specifically, support was added for broadwell and newer, through drm-next-kmod.
> I’m sure other services are available on Android based devices.

Google Play Movies & TV is available on Android, iOS, and Web. There are plenty of services that aren't tied to major mobile OS providers, too.
Non-AMP link: https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/the-askhistorians-subre...
So... reddit is like every forum on the internet before, if the people who are running or administrating it do not like you, you get banned. The title is clickbait shit as well.
I hate programming, and you should too
Nothing is code signed currently, it's annoying but code signing for Mac and Windows is not cheap.
Someone admitted later than there was actually little or nothing "new" here - maybe a somewhat slicker and more cinematic visualization of expected effects around a black hole, but correct visualizations had already been done before. So the "papers" that came out of this were probably largely just a waste of ink.

I was quite disappointed in the movie myself. It claimed to be quite "sciency" but it was mostly just science fiction, IMO. I kind of liked the robots, though.
It seems like a lot of the bans take the form "I said something reasonable -> Somebody responded offensively -> I replied offensively". This feels at odds with "by simply going about my ways, communicating like a reasonable – but sometimes passionate – person"

Without any citations, it's hard to tell how much of this is excessive moderation, but having somebody else break the rules doesn't provide justification for "responding in kind".
I have to say I'm inclined to trust them, because I've had the exact same experiences. Definitely been harassed by moderators before, been let loose when groveling, and been banned for standing up for myself despite being civil. Of course, it would be nice if the comments were linked.
Or a signal that they actually have many connections...
UK government admits rabies poster gaffe
I deleted mine in 2012, when they were hacked and it was revealed that they were storing passwords as unsalted MD5 hashes.
I’m pretty sure that’s what typescript is.
Think of moderators as shop owners, they reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

When you enter their shop you accept their authority and the fact that you can be thrown out at any point with any explanation.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2000-cons... is the current accepted design; we plan to go further in the future, but wanted something minimal at first. This is likely to land in nightly by the end of the year and be stable sometime early next year.
Syntax highlighting would be really cool.

1MB images should work perfectly fine. It is an image element right?

I have heard that the icons might be a little weird. I've been unable to test it because my install of Linux doesn't use icons. I'd appreciate help with that one if anyone can help.

Thanks for the other feedback.
I'm not a lawyer, but here's the federal wiretapping statute for reference[0].

[0]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511

As you point out, it seems like the interstate commerce hook would be established by his use of the phone network and/or internet.
Free Gems for Clash Royale
What an amazing game. I played for almost a decade as Ascious Alturas and Lyleris Bowstorm. I still remember shooting a friend who was statistically inclined hundreds of times to figure out the damage factors for bows when they were finally introduced. There has never been a game since with such an amazingly interesting player-base.
It's important to remember that all civilizations practiced slavery, and not just in the remote past. African tribes cooperated with Arabic slave traders by selling them prisoners from rival tribes. American Indians practiced slavery; so did the Aztecs. The Barbary pirates captured millions of Europeans, at the very same time that other Europeans were enslaving Africans. Mauritania only abolished slavery a decade ago. And so on. Taking a broad view of history, westerners are no more guilty of enslaving other peoples than anyone else.
Less on the app structure, but more specific to hackernews: the source code is open https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14371189, more pointers in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14371821

The source code of https://lobste.rs/ is also open source and from a feature point-of-view pretty similar.
https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

> building each site from the model data each time a link is clicked would be a huge waste of server resources

It's typically still done. Forums are 90+% read, little write and caching the rendering output gives a huge boost.
‘Greed Came Over Me’: $8M in Rarities Stolen from Pittsburgh Library
Surprising as it may seem, it is possible for someone in a position of authority to disagree and even dislike someone else without stooping to using the powers of their authority position against those that they dislike.

In the real world this is known as "being a mature individual".
Check your sentence diagram.

The extinctness of the dodo is present tense. Therefore, it is an extinct bird.

The dodo was a ground nesting bird that inhabited the island of Mauritius. But it's still extinct.
> Yet many others are extremely valuable to show negative or partial results, results with small effect sizes, and other things.

(the evil?) Elsevier has a similar opinion => https://www.elsevier.com/connect/scientists-we-want-your-neg...
If a passenger who is a minor exposed themself to the camera, would the driver the liable for producing (and distributing) child pornography, if they somehow didn't notice and let it be posted?
The really tragic thing is that the father of the killed 10 year old was a Kansas legislator who voted for a cap on damages (max $300K) when someone is killed due to negligence. A quirk in Kansas law allows for Kansans injured by out-of-state parties to apply the laws of the state where the other party is located. So Scott Schwab parlayed the payout for his son's death from $300,000 to $20 million, all while denying the same to his constituents injured by Kansas companies.

https://www.injuryrelief.com/blog/how-is-representative-scot...
Good. It's quite clear that WikiLeaks is in cahoots with the Russians after the DNC hack, and their collusion with the Trump campaign to try to show their "impartiality" is despicable. I used to have some respect for WikiLeaks, but they are just Russian pawns. Snowden I respect, but not Assange.
Their family owns a construction company that was also named in the legal filings, so I assume they built it.

It defies belief. I don't know how they got insurance for essentially homemade waterslides.
Easy. They write code. Code "works". Cool, ship it. Oh what's that? It has lots of bugs? How much money is it going to make us if we fix them? Eh, maybe we'll get to it. /s

The real productivity win here is that you can hire a bunch of junior engineers out of university for "cheap" that "know" python. After all, why would you train a new hire in a different language for a few weeks or months when that would take a huge amount of time in startup-verse? /s?

It's important to note that the largest push for things like type checking and access control in dynamically-typed, shared-mutable-everything languages are coming from the companies that built themselves quickly on these languages and now need to deal with scaling.
Without context the bans could very well have been warranted.

I'm going to divulge my experience; I am the closest thing to "god" to a small IRC community, I could ban with impunity- but why would I do that? It only serves to either stroke my e-peen of how much power I have (thus- making people dislike you and more willing to go somewhere else) - or I have a legitimate grievance.

There are people in this world that when you try to treat them charitably, if you have some perceived authority over them they do _not_ see you charitably. There are people who /really/ wish to test the bounds of tolerance and patience and there are those who are e-masochists, genuinely trying to illicit bans and grovel about it (if you unban, then they do the same thing again or worse despite claiming they would not).

SO, my position towards the author is one of skepticism, Reddit does indeed have over-zealous moderation in some forums, I really don't doubt that- but if you're a mod of a popular sub and you hand out bans so liberally then eventually you'll push people to another subreddit or platform. Entrenchment to a subreddit basically doesn't happen because it's so easy to pop up something new.
It can happen with various meditation and yogic practices as well, and the effects can be just as severe and long lasting. I suspect that some people’s minds are in an unstable equilibrium that, when perturbed, sends them way off balance, and it is a state that no one would have been privy to before some traumatic experience acted as a trigger.
Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing (2013)
Hmm. I suspect that's because I don't do code signing?
At the time it was the perfect anecdote to the problems facing the empire. I don't think you can judge an idea like that based on what happened after, sure it was not great after the western empire fell but that is a separate issue. That was not exactly the plan! It surely caused a much softer landing for the Empire when it did fall.

And to be clear, there was no 'death to the nonbelievers'. Sure, there where sporadic religious purges as the empire transitioned to Christianity but I don't believe the empire became what we call a theokratie at any point. It was an empire spanning a huge huge area with a lot of different conflicting religions.

In short, I don't think you can singly blame this decision on causing the dark ages and repressed freedom of thought. It stopped a hundred year death spiral, brought stability and did a lot of good.

What really did no good was the consolidation of wealth to huge estate owners who had perverse insentives to withhold men from the armies, not pay taxes and retreat into their own little semi-kingdoms. There lies a greater blame for what happened than this decision.

That and ridiculous, ridiculous amounts of corruption.
Is a shop owner allowed to say to someone: you're a foreigner, I don't want you in my shop? Is a shop owner allowed to say to someone: I don't like the color of your eyes, please leave my shop? Color of skin? Where do you draw the line?

A shop owner has an interest to having you as customer because it directly increases their sales. A Reddit mod doesn't protect commercial interests. In both cases though if your presence allows for opportunity, you'll remain welcome, within social rules of course (HN example [1]). Similar social rules apply on the Internet. I see the Internet as small religious "enclaves". Certain viewpoints are going to be unwelcome or downright impossible to argue otherwise (they differ per "enclave"). For example, if I go to a religious forum or church to defend my -ism (atheism or agnosticism) I likely get banned as troll even if I am very serious and kind. Why? It goes against premises that group -as being part of that- agrees upon. If you go to "A small subreddit inhabited by funky "spiritual" types." those premises also exist, even if they're not logical to you or go against scientific consensus or certain common razors.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html