skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article is light on details other than to say he was carrying out “legitimate academic research into security policy following the Arab spring”. Let’s say that someone from say China came to the US to stake out airports and study the US’s airport security protocol. I’m not sure the outcome would be much different. Even if this was all totally above board it Seems a bit naive to think this isn’t something that you should get permission and clearance to do. I think the fact that it’s played out this way makes me think it was probably not strictly academic. I guess I will start DDGing more details.
That's true but also that's means that you can tweak your environment with nix, for instance if you develop in python, while on Ubuntu/Fedora you have to go by hand/pip etc. It's IMO a plus, even if it's "hard to say they are independent pkgs".

I can also add few Gnome Shell extensions, Emacs packages and Vim plugins etc. They may "count less" but when you build your system, for instance via homeManager they count.

Having switched off Ubuntu when Canonical decide to leave desktop (because yes abandon Unity7 means leave desktop, and adding 10+year support to latest LTS means the same) I found a far more up to date system with a bigger package selection than Ubuntu, plus all the advantage of a functional OS (replication, never-brake updates, major distro version included etc)...

I can't really measure accurately nor package coverage nor popularity but I found NixOS all but certainly not an obscure distro... For GuixSD I'm a bit less happy since while I like scheme vs nix, I like Emacs integration and Emacs related packages it really suffer from having too few devs. But not NixOS. NixOS IMO is production-ready and a good choice other RH/Ubuntu for server usage...
Raft is not designed for adversarial use; while it is fault-tolerant, it is not Byzantine fault tolerant. Raft (or Paxos et al) are better suited for wholly-owned distributed databases, where a BFT consensus algorithm like Tendermint would usually be inappropriate because of the overhead of cryptographic operations. If you think a large number of your nodes might get hacked, though, you may want a blockchain anyways :)
If past contacts lead to major disease outbreaks that’d be one hell of an incentive to kill intruders on sight. That’s a short story to pass on to the next generation as well.
I think we should genericise it to “oi! Phone!”
Forget tr/sed, just use `perl -i.original -pe`
Fixers need good air cover.
Please explain to me how the fact that he happens to be American is proven to be causal here?

I guess you make a good point. After all, the missionaries who converted indigenous populations all over the world were all from the USA. Oh wait, no. The vast majority of the Christian missions were founded by Europeans. Arabs converted millions to Islam hundreds of years ago.

But yeah, they were all infected with American arrogance.
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"According to health professionals, the fear of spread of disease by bodies killed by trauma rather than disease is not justified. Among others, Steven Rottman, director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters, said that no scientific evidence exists that bodies of disaster victims increase the risk of epidemics, adding that cadavers posed less risk of contagion than living people."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_risks_from_dead_bodies
The comments here are horrific.

Yes, I don't think we should invade the lives of indigenous people any more than you do. And yes, I think this young man was mistaken and misguided.

But, he went in with the best of intentions, and he died. You just don't believe what he did. Imagine a techie died while trying to teach rails to the homeless (which, I can only assume, some of you might be more sympathetic towards), would you feel the same way?

Edit: p.s. The rails thing is a joke, but not the rest of it.
Is Joe Rogan truly the highest quality content producer? I've seen/heard some of his content, it's quite diffuse wrt information density. Do I really want to listen to 2.5 hour podcast to get what I can in 30 minutes from other podcasters? I also heard him asking Neil deGrasse Tyson about whether the moon landing was faked with a lot of skepticism in his voice...
Do they actually know that though?
I am confused: is this seriously saying that over 30% of "hidden" services were being hosted on the server of one guy named Daniel?... that in a world where the entire point is that you don't know where anything is hosted and you are using tons of indirection through Tor to ensure there is no obvious place to hook all of the traffic or even see packets for timing attacks, it turns out there was a one in three chance that the traffic was being hosted by this one guy named Daniel?
They were armed combatants and the person they killed was a civilian. I can think of loads of people that I could shoot with a bow to protect my interests, and the fact that I have not signed any treaties to not do it doesn't mean I can.
What they did is defend their territory and made it very clear that if he came any closer they would shoot. This is what any nation's coast guard would do. Of course, they would most likely not shoot to kill but this not exactly unreasonable.
> and what kind of society creates what seems to be extreme and violent xenophobia to us

Their first major contact with the outside world was in 1880, when a British colonial administrator kidnapped six of the Sentinelese, two of whom died from disease before they could be returned - and who knows what diseases the other four brought back with them when the British dumped them back on the island.
they probably think it's a good idea because they are able to advertise their product/service to potential customers, thereby increasing their revenue
Since there is a lot of interest in this thread, and also triggered by sclangdon's comment here about the Lammas eco-village in Wales, sharing some terms / URLs which I came across recently, so that people can search for / visit them to get more information on related topics:

- eco-village network

- intentional communities

- https://www.ic.org/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community

The Whole Earth Catalog, which was mentioned by Steve Jobs in his Stanford commencement speech ("Stay hungry. Stay foolish."), was also a great resource for these kinds of things. I was lucky to get to read it when my uncle from the States brought us a copy on a visit. Tons of useful and interesting products and techniques mentioned and described in it, including, e.g. Japanese saws, which I mentioned on HN some time ago.

http://www.wholeearth.com/index.php

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

Excerpt:

[ The Whole Earth Catalog (WEC) was an American counterculture magazine and product catalog published by Stewart Brand several times a year between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. The magazine featured essays and articles, but was primarily focused on product reviews. The editorial focus was on self-sufficiency, ecology, alternative education, "do it yourself" (DIY), and holism, and featured the slogan "access to tools". ]
Yet no word about a Scot being tortured and electrocuted, held in jail for a year.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2604512/jagtar-singh-j...
A techie might teach Rails to a homeless person if that person wants to learn Rails.
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Why would you want to write windows applications in C to begin with?

Heck, if you have a C app and want to port it to windows, you are probably better of just using WSL.
Professional resume writer here that comes with 20 years of experience in recruiting and hiring for tech startups. I have no fear of being replaced by AI anytime soon, and I don't have any knowledge of this company but can certainly vouch for their statement about other resume firms trying to upsell a service based on a shoddy review.

I often have clients that come to me with perfectly good resumes that tell me some online rating system said it was terrible. A resume can be somewhat accurately 'scored' for fit based on matching keywords, but the tech isn't mature enough yet to say if something is simply good or bad.

Not to mention the different tastes from different companies. I write a bit differently depending on who the target audience is for a resume. I don't know if these review companies account for that at all, but they don't seem to.
I'm a bit surprised by that definition of "fair". If you were buying a phone for yourself, would you get a flip phone, then? Or something with a physical keyboard? Both of these are available for $50 or less, I think.
If it was actually against the law to teach Rails to the homeless, in order to protect them? Yeah.
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I realize that they probably have seen some bad things happen from contacts with the outside but I doubt they have an understanding of germ theory of disease yet. I assume they have stories they repeat to one another, maybe songs or warnings they provide to one another to encourage this ruthless xenophobia. I'd love to know what those things are.
"The man who played under the screen name Egor was a nice guy. His rampages in MUD simple expressed a nascent hacker ethic."

I wish to object to these statements.
>b) we've already beaten the brain in straight compute density by many orders of magnitude.

citation needed.

computers are better at arithmetic, sure, but computers can only do things that you can map to arithmetic. I'm given to understand that we don't understand how the brain works well enough to simulate even a very small one. Not because we lack the compute power, but because we don't know what to simulate.

I think there's a lot of evidence that brains are doing something powerful (that we don't yet fully understand) that computers are unable to do. It's quite possible that brains are doing something that can't be done in a practical way with transistors.

In short, I don't know of any solid evidence that the brain is only a turing machine. I mean, brains can be used as a turing machine, but a brain is terrible at that, and can't compete with even really primitive purpose built turing machines.

I mean, I'm not saying that it is theoretically impossible to map what a brain does on to sufficiently powerful silicon, or that we wont figure out, at some point in the future, whatever non-arithmatic primitives the brain uses... just as far as I can tell, we haven't yet, and that means it's likely that a brain is still more powerful in some ways than even our largest computers. (obviously, even a small computer is more powerful when the problem maps cleanly to mathematical primitives. )

>Back then, we've learned something new about nature of human societies. I don't believe the concept of MAD was known before nuclear weapons. The individual human nature didn't change, nor did the social one; it's just that we already know a lot about the former, but we're still discovering the latter.

What if we just got lucky?
> what kind of society creates what seems to be extreme and violent xenophobia to us

A fish has no concept of water, it doesn't know it is in water, it doesn't know there can be existence outside of water, and it doesn't know it depends on water. You cannot possibly deem the culture extreme & violent when it is much like fish, that doesn't know of alternatives.

Most of all, fish will defend themselves against perceived existential threats - fish aren't xenophobic to defend themselves against sharks
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Without sparking a typical science vs. religion debate, the point is that quite likely in his eyes he was trying to perform an act of charity, not of malice.
> Point me to a compiler or interpreter, any of them, that isn't either written in C or written in something that was written in C.

Plenty of languages have self-hosting compilers or interpreters available, which are neither written in C nor written in something written in C.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)#Li...

I'm also pretty sure that some are written in C++, whose implementations are usually also written in C++, and which (while closely related to C) is not C.

> And of course, whatever you play with, it's running on an operating system written in C.

That's obviously not the case if what you are playing with is an OS written in not-C. It's actually not entirely true in plenty of cases, because operating systems that use C range from almost-entirely C (with some assembly) to C-among-other-things (e.g., z/OS and it's mix of PL/X, HLASM, and C/C++.)

> If programming is turtles all the way down, C is the bottom turtle

I’m pretty sure the bottom turtle is native machine code and/or processor microcode.
for a software keyboard, since I've seen several lists of aliases:

```alias ,v='mv'
alias r,='mv'```

Otherwise:

ttyclock
tmux/byobu
pv
ncdu
htop
megadl
webcomix and/or dosage - download webcomics into cbz files for local viewing. Installable via pip.
elinks, links2 - Browsers. especially useful if compiled with javascript support.
nnn
aria2c
grc
most
mlocate (prrovides thelocate and updatedb connands. I can't recall why i like it more than slocate or find-utils)

Generally built-in:

watch
tee
sed (or just use `perl -pi -e`
7z

'Fun' cli programs:

nyancat
sl
cowsay
toilet
ttysolitaire
@dang - is this acceptable on HN? It would really help to understand which groups we’re able to attack and which are frowned upon.
Pretty sure he could wipe out the entire island because of their immune system
There used to be custom report you could run from one of the advanced dashboards that would still give you the email, it was called something unintuitive in the logistics category.
Ok thanks. Note that the subject has moved from the initial questioning of the claim that military leaders "have thought quite long and hard about their moral positions. It is the nature of the business, when sending people to die, to question everything about yourself." Killjoywashere was asked "Do you have any data backing up this claim?"

And in answer was given these 'failures of leadership', which seem to be PR disasters (the problem was not that they happened but that people found out about them - "simply the troops indiscipline becoming known to the public" - things that couldn't possibly be spun as the greatest country on Earth doing God's work) or people not doing their duty.

The moral dimension has entirely disappeared, which rather supports garyhunt's suspicions. Maybe questioning everything about your country is more important than 'questioning everything about yourself'. More important for the hundreds of thousands that were killed, at least.
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Their religion and its proponents teach them to spread the word, they won't take a break. It's what separates Christianity and Islam from the majority of non-proselytizing religions.
Based on the rest of the context of the post, I read "murderers" as extremely tongue-in-cheek.
One word: positioning.

Apple is a luxury product. It is the best. If they started selling not-the-best, it would tarnish their (well-earned, in my opinion) reputation for always making the best.

I use an Android phone and will freely admit that Apple phones are just better. They have better battery life, brighter and larger displays, better manufacturing (no seams, better materials), much better cameras, faster and better-engineered CPUs, a better app ecosystem, and a whole lot of other stuff (better buying experience, better advertising that contributes to the perception of quality, better post-sale support) that combine for a holistic experience of "better" for users.

The way they make money on used is their 30% cut of all app store revenue. You sell any sort of digital goods, whether Candy crush items, digital music, etc., Apple takes ONE THIRD of that. When you consider the size of Apple's installed base of devices, that ends up being a pretty big number.

Also, Google pays Apple a non-trivial amount of money (widely rumored to be hundreds of millions/year) to be the default search engine on iOS. This amount is so large, it's starting to drag down Google's operating margin (read about "traffic acquisition cost" for google). Yet more money from a bigger base of iPhones.
While infectious, Rails doesn't risk killing the homeless.
Also, if private keys were obtained, it's trivial to republish to the same onion address with any changes you want. This is that one scenario where an EV cert that can be revoked has value if you're a non-anonymous hoster. There are other alternative-factor identity verification techniques (e.g. DNS, Alt-Svc HTTP header) but the querying aspect reduces anonymity.
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Look at Japan: 23-day police custody period. After that there’s a 99.99% confession rate. Carlos Ghosn, president of Nissan, seems to have just discovered it: He will be interrogated for 12 days. I would never go to such countries.
This is not xenophobia. It's self defense against idolatry and false gods.
When Indians are killed on Andaman island, is it because of Indian arrogance?
If secrecy/anonymity is important enough to put something on the dark web, using the same assumptions as you might on the public internet is silly.
I have a solid, realistic explanation why you can hear other spacecraft and explosions in movies like Star Wars! ^_^
I didn’t know that death was a proportational or appropiate sentence for this crime. And I am willing to bet that whatever Indian law he violated it wasn’t a capital offence.
Interesting.. I'm sure its probably not true and definitely far fetched but I wonder if this is why the tribe has adopted the practice of converting their living visitors to dead cadavers.
> C++ (which is C, when you start digging).

C++ is not C (it was once implemented as a preprocessor in front of a C compiler, but that's not th same as being C, and it's now more likely to implemented as a self-hosting compiler.)
Like what? It's a very popular tourist destination. Yes, they treat immigrants bad but calling it dangerous for tourists?
It's funny you should mention that... I made a commit a couple of months ago that I never released:
6e898a9db280	matthew
Add tokens to un-subsribe
Sep 18 2018, 2:09 PM

Rolled out, so should be fixed :)
I think you're over estimating how friendly other cultures are to outsiders. There are numerous, numerous cases of greed and ambition leading to the slaughter and enslavement of native peoples by invaders/conquerors. There are also multiple states in the USA where you'd be within your rights to shoot anyone on your property.
I don't see anything about the timeline of these purchases, which seems like a critical detail to me. Most NYC purchases are 1 month+ affairs, and it's not unusual for it to stretch to 3 months or even longer. I'd like to know the date they initiated a property search, went on-contract, and closed the sale.

If you wanted to be sure of closing before the official announcement, you'd have to start your search more like 6 months ahead of time. I doubt even Amazon itself was sure of the location that far in advance. Maybe they had already decided to move there with no knowledge of the HQ2 location at all?

Or have they even closed on these properties? It's more plausible that they could learn the information, start a search, and get a purchase contract signed in a week or two if they were in a rush and not too picky. Then they would be fairly well guaranteed to be able to complete the purchase at a pre-announcement price. Assuming that the announcement does infact affect the price - this isn't that huge of a corporate move for the NYC market. But that also means that the purchases could fall through if there are legal questions about it.
What if these specific homeless were known for killing anybody that came near them. That the government said, stay away from this one very particular group of homeless people (but feel free to go anywhere else that you want, and teach any of the other homeless people, that want to learn, Rails.
doesn't surprise me that the initial layer of obscurity provided by TOR gave people a false sense of security.
I very much like your answer. And I now realize why disliked PyCon that much. There are so much things that can be done in python that I don't necessarily care about. Language is not the most important thing, what I do with it is.

I much more prefer going to a conference about let's say, web dev or machine learning. Once at the conference, I might prefer going to a talk that use python because I know this language better.
People are doing basically everything in Go right now! Front-end web development being the exception (though there is GopherJS...). Projects like Docker, Kubernetes, CockroachDB, Consul (and anything Hashicorp does), Mattermost, and etcd are all being written in Go!

Anecdotally, I've heard people using Go to rewrite some of their Ruby services in which more performance is needed.
hail hydra
It appears he forgot to ask St. Sebastian to bestow him immunity from arrows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sebastian
He was an adventurer. He would go to remote and weird places all the time, usually without any kind of primordial tribespeople to convert. Odds are he was just on another adventure, rather than him feeling that these people really needed jesus.
The best of intentions? To erase their culture and replace it with Chr-stianity? I don't see that as well intentioned.
I found everything I need in NixOS, Arch and in general community-based true distro (true means not a recompilation of another distro). While I often found old software in Ubuntu and Fedora, for instance.

This system scale far more than proprietary one, to the point that after decades proprietary OS choose "repo model" instead of single independent installer (because yes, Play store, Apple Store, Samsung Store, Windows store etc are a limited and limiting repo-model software distribution).

People that say it doesn't scale are IMO two kind: one that produce software no one is really interested to package or people who struggle to being part of a community or do not want being part at all because they want proprietary software...

Another important thing: having an integrated, well functional system is FAR more important than having the latest build from a CI. Software freshness is not a problem to a point that in operation we never trust an unpatched release on anything. Freshness is normally required by crapware devs who produce normally monsters that need a continuous stream of "fixes", like most commercial business softwares so they can't really keep up with a traditional model.
Cool. Sounds like your full grant at the end would have been for ~0.1% of the company, so assuming a 50% dilution over the years, the original grant was in the ~0.2% range. It's a little bit stingy but overall (unfortunately) in line with my expectations of what employee #38 usually is granted.

One more point that confirms one should really go work as employee at a startup for many reasons _except_ the financial outcome expectations.

Thanks!
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Why am I reading these comments? ^_^
I definitely agree. Though I will say, even though I can't easily picture a use case—that fact hasn't entirely convinced me there isn't one.