skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An unsuccessful (victimless) terrorist is still a terrorist (e.g. someone who blows up a building, but nobody dies, or the bomb doesn't go off), not merely a disgruntled crackpot.

On the other hand, Osama bin Laden is a terrorist, but very far from being mentally ill. His Letter to America[1] clearly outlines the intent and consequence of his actions.

Terrorists are, by definition, a threat -- but mentally ill people are victims (of mental illness, of society, etc); one is fare more likely to feel sympathy for an ill person vs. someone who is deliberately inflicting terror (as a means to an end or otherwise).

Terrorists can be affiliated to a group, but 'mentally ill' is not a group.

And that's a part of the reason why the labels get attached. 'All ____ are terrorists' is a trope where many will easily fill the blank with <group du jour>. But that won't work with 'All _____ are mentally ill'. A mentally ill person is a one-off, an accident. We don't have to solve that problem because there is no systemic problem. It just happens. The best we could do is think how we could help those people, how we could catch them before they slip.

But terrorism, that's warfare, and we respond to warfare with warfare.

That's the connotation. If you are not seeing it - well, the articles discuss this. Overall it's a part of a greater pattern of how politics shapes language, and language shapes thinking. Orwell had it down back in the 50's [2], and not much has changed since.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver

[2]https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...
The timing was brutal. I made the mistake of hanging on with a sinking company until the end of 2001. In 2002 there were so many resumes chasing so few jobs that I wonder if anyone even saw mine. I didn't collect another paycheck until early 2004.
I was working for a biotech when the hammer fell. Got “laid off” though to be honest, I slacked and I was certainly at the top of the list of guys to get rid of.

I spent the next 8 months trying to get a job, I applied to hundreds of jobs, maybe in that time I had 6 interviews. Mostly smaller shops without much money or interesting work.

Finally one day I got a phone interview with a company in New York, I was in Austin at the time. Shockingly they offered me a job after just that phone call, I think I lucked out with knowing some weird parts of c++.

I told myself i would never get fired or laid off again and worked my ass off. First in and last to leave, picked up extra projects. I was a rising star, until that company ran out of money. After surviving 3 rounds of layoffs an old friend called and asked if I wanted to move back to Austin making 30% less, I took it as they were at least not actively going out of business.

Since then my career has grown and I’ve been fine, but that long spell without a job or a future was scary as hell. I hope I never have to go through it again.
>States figured out how to turn automobiles into tanks

So did this disgruntled citizen:

https://youtu.be/PZbG9i1oGPA
There are languages that give you this guarantee, and yet don't require you to write the serialization code by hand.
FWIW I've heard storage units are not necessarily a super profitable business, instead they are a low overhead operation to cover the property tax on land in the outskirts that you're sitting on waiting for appreciation as the city grows. So they only have make up the cost of the cinderblocks to be worthwhile.
Christ..
Well, you can infer that, and people do often infer that from losing a lot of money and then coming back.

But it could be just one-in-a-billion luck.

https://xkcd.com/1827/
but you had to prove the yellow was short.

That sounds like something a dashcam would be able to easily show.
Will briefly share my story, then offer advice:

I was VP Tech at a high profile ad driven startup. We raised $50M (Softbank money in those days). Spent a lot of it scaling up on Sun hardware, ran TV ads, saw tremendous response, then a week later the bottom in the ads business model dropped out. Literally a week later. Amazing.

We went from close to 300 staff in March (60 of which reported to me) to 7 in October. The CEO handled the layoffs.

Most of the developers who reported to me took months to find new jobs.

Many of the non-tech people who had found unique jobs in our business were not able to find similar work again and went to business school or law school.

I had worked day and night to scale up, then worked day and night to scale down. I burned out. I moved, stopped working for pay, lived on savings, went to grad school (in CS) for a while, then finally got back on the horse in 2005.

Some advice- worrying about the next bubble bursting is a distraction, like following the shiny. It is good you are asking the question, but the right plan to be making- a career plan- is what is important, and whether there is a bubble or not is kind of irrelevant.

You might lose your job in the midst of major investment, or you might weather repeated rounds of layoffs. Random things will happen uniquely to YOU. They have to all of us.

The average story is helpful context but it is not your story. Protect and defend yourself. You are the only one who can.
I was so lucky to be in university from 2007 to 2011. When I got out, things were cooling down again...
Even then (buildings for example), I believe some of the work can be done by non-licensed engineers. Stuff like land surveying, some electrical, CAD/modelling work, design of plumbing, heating, etc. can be done without license. I know a few people that aren't licensed but work on condos as engineers. I'm guessing a lot of the stuff has to be reviewed/approved by a licensed engineer, but that could be 1 to 5 licensed:unlicensed for example.
This is amazing and I hope to see things like this extended. There are so many gotchas with glsl that it's hard to get going and something with a really strict compiler would make that a lot less of a burden on an engineer. It would be really cool to see whole program & profiling guided optimization between GPU inputs, shader stages, and GPU outputs.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to use "she didn't grew up with complicated electronics" as an argument for why it's hard to learn using it.

You cannot expect people who aren't used to certain things, to pick up those skills as easily as people who do have prior experience.
I've always imagined for a while that eventually our phones will become our day to day "Grunt" for dumb workstations. I was hoping Linux on DeX would be the start of this.
Samsung DeX by itself is still pretty cool, If I am just doing admin work / SSH it actually works pretty nicely with MS Office and <favouriteSSHProgram> on a full HD monitor with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

I will probably just use this in future for when I am travelling and have to do the occasional document / email etc
Except the military rejected Boston Dynamics for being too loud - I'm not sure of the timing of that decision though so that very well may have been determined after Google sold Boston Dynamics.

Also this reason rings hollow with some of the other stuff Google has attempted with doing business in China.
That would make sense why I've noticed the same sorts of results.
Nelson Joyce is building Tettra to solve the very problem you're describing

Nelson on Twitter - https://twitter.com/nelsonjoyce

Tettra - https://tettra.co

Edit:
I'm not affiliated to him or Tettra in any way. I just follow his Twitter for his transparency and useful insights in building a company. Hence I would happily recommend his product to anyone facing the exact problem
I worked at a large web incubator, we build web sites and applications and helped out clients find funding and tried to support them in other ways. Round after round of layoffs. People were on edge. We had offices around the globe, maybe a dozen or more. The final straw was 9/11, as our largest client was revamping their national hotel chain website. Their occupancy went down to 4% and the whole multi-months-long web site development project was mothballed. I was one of the chosen few to stick around and work in the last office of the company that ended up splitting off into its own company.
2019 Ozone Hole Is the Smallest on Record Since Its Discovery
The volcanic eruption that set the stage for the end of the Roman Republic
How are the people putting the actual, real-world money into these businesses so unable to protect themselves against getting taken to the cleaners by a departing CEO?
I don't see that in there anywhere. More like you can't transfer the material, even to another rights holder, but I still question that. They can't make the sharing of the tools and methods illegal as it'd be against the first amendment.
> "She needs to be protected. She's not a real adult like I am. I, as a real adult, will decide for those who I consider aren't real adults."

I don't see the similarity between that, and what was actually say. It seems you are making assumptions and taking it way out of context.
I abandoned Docker Hub when the stopped allowing you to manually setup automated builds, but instead required that you link your GitHub account that gave them too many privileges. There really isn't a need for Docker Hub since they are many alternatives, including GitLab.
I switched to DDG recently when google stopped showing URLs in search results - that was the last straw for me.
Rio Tinto, for the record, has been accused of war crimes and genocide in Papua New Guinean. Among other horrible and corrupt things.
This is a lot of words to communicate a fairly shallow fantasy.
Reminds me of Bill Ackman and General Growth Properties.
Cold air blowing out the doorway onto passersby is just as inviting as the music.
Avast, NordVPN Breaches Tied to Phantom User Accounts
Bit ironic that all of these articles about how the internet has lost its creativity is always on boring yet slick graphic-designer-cum-ux-designer-in-metropolis looking website.
If Neumann declines the offer what happens here? He feels like the kind of guy who would rather watch it all burn down than sell out.
Buggy and ugly. But not Unix.
I was in my last year of university when it crashed. 'Entry level' job openings were getting high level applicants with 10+ years experience. Of the 37 people in my year, something like 30 stayed on to do PhDs due to the impossibility of landing a job.
Medicaid Reduces Evictions
> found one in fintech in NYC

I'm interested in hearing which, if you care to share.
Something tells me this isn't a whole lot of money for said people...
Where'd you get the idea that a Mars trip is going to involve three years of zero-G?

A Hohmann transfer orbit (minimum energy) will get you there in nine months. SpaceX is targeting a higher energy, shorter trip that'll probably wind up being about six months each way (with Mars gravity in the middle).
This has nothing about designing the solution. Very misleading title.
re: Broadway - it's because the Chinese name is borrowed from NYC's Broadway - 百老匯.

Chinese translators really like to translate names and locations which impart some meaning but still sound kinda similar to actual word. Bai-lao-hui sounds kinda like Broadway to a Chinese person. Also, presumably NYC's Broadway is an avenue of a hundred old people because affluent (older) people go to watch musicals more.
> SpaceX has also never had a flight leave the atmosphere so far.

Uh, what?
Joke aside, it is supposed (I have some interesting bugs at the moment) to be an evaluator for the pure lambda calculus. So, I guess you can encode monads in it, but that is not really the point, and I definitely did not make an example with monads. I'll try to do such an example later.
does anyone know of a cheap service to order large amounts of data by mail on physical media?

I am often interested in some dataset for which I can afford the storage in the form of a hard drive but not in the form of a download through my home connection.

If a service existed that simply offered the following:

* customer provides URL (and optionally hash checksum)

* customer pays, and later receives hard disk drive / SSD drive with the download contained

* democratic pricing for the media, or alternatively send your own media (hence at twice media shipping cost...)

* possibly eventually local brick and mortar locations / affiliate locations to drop off and pick up media, in the larger cities

* preferably without account, although an account is not a large impediment

* definitely not coupled to a financial account in a credit fashion, i.e. no qualms with topping up the account, but the service should not be able to withdraw money from my financial account. i.e. debit only (like the typical european bank cards, yes I know credit cards are available in europe as well...)

This would seem like a profitable side business for many programmer types who have high bandwidth connections (or have access to them and are allowed to use the connection for this purpouse).

If someone builds the software stack for a main portal such that affiliates can advertise their physical location, and their pricing for media, for download and for copying to media, then customers could compare and choose on the basis of price.
It’s funny the kinds of falsehoods that people collectively believe. In CA, I can think of two widespread false beliefs about traffic law from when I was younger (no idea if they are still widespread). One is that it is illegal to drive barefoot. Another is that it is illegal to change lanes in an intersection. That latter one I actually got pulled over for but when the officer went to write the ticket I guess they couldn’t find the vehicle code section for it (because it didn’t exist).
And which tank is superior?

The "killdoser", designed and built by the non-state actor inside the US nation state?

Or the M1 Abrams, designed and built by the US nation state itself?

Even if you build yourself a "killdozer", you are powerless against the US state. Because the tanks that the US nation state built substantially increased the strength and power of that nation state years ago.
Yeah, heck, with DoH, you could almost say there is no internet, only the web. :)
I think it’s a given that Softbank’s involvement means the target market is global, with expansion in EMEA through acquisitions or mergers with other portfolio companies.
This is not just news corps. Its well established scientific fact that we are in a state of environmental crisis and unless there is huge change to so many things in society we will be beyond the point of return.
This is a complete lie.

The idea is to stop people running red lights everywhere, not just at red light locations.

If you run red lights, you should be banned from driving just like if you speed. The roads are unsafe enough as it is.
I spent two years welding ships together at the shipyards in San Diego. Yay fallback skills!

There are times when I miss it. Of all the jobs I've had over the years, it was the most meritocratic. If you did your job well and didn't cause too much rework, they loved you. I don't miss the hazardous/chemically toxic work environment, though. Those two years felt like a decade of wear on my body.
The heading/title should say:

“We reimplemented reddit, but took out the feature of reddit that made reddit a success”

PS: the OP’s site is now super NSFW. I assume someone is tying to prove a point :)
Why not prefix with !s ?

// Ahem.
And if nation-states want to kill 10 million people, that's what nuclear weapons programs are for.
The problem is they are too big to fail: Not having a third-party offering real-time credit checks would tank our debt-driven world economy.

The Government at every level are also customers.

Having the Government nationalise them could be an effective punishment - but is this something you want the Government running instead?
> The idea of paying rent to store things you'd never use to our grandparents was insanity

That’s hoarding by another name. Storage can be used intelligently.

There are things one uses seasonally, or from time to time, where owning makes sense. (For example, my winter wear and scuba gear.)

Using prime real estate to store those items is expensive. If they live in a cheaper zip code, however, that lets one save rent by choosing a smaller apartment in the pricey neighborhood.
If this is your threat model, fork the repo with the Dockerfile and build it yourself.
seems the relevant patent is http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

patented by this guy https://www.intellectualventures.com/buzz/insights/inventor-...
Emails are a mess, especially when chains become unruly. Chat apps help alleviate that.

If anything, OP should consider jumping on IRC.
World of Warcraft Gold & similar in-game currencies are toys.

Bitcoin is not a toy, but follows in the footsteps of those toys (in addition to traditional currencies).
You're in here in post after post accusing me of being a criminal committing serious crimes.

I'm telling you I've committed no crime.

You say I have. You then say I have no proof I am not a criminal.

That's not how it works in this country. I'm presumed innocent. You want to prove I am a criminal, bring it on Griswald. Bring it on. Call the FBI. Call the state officials. Try to get me arrested for the crimes you insist I have committed. Make a big public case of it, as public as possible. Since slander and libel are also problematic aren't they.
Freenode and private servers.
I went skiing in New Zealand. Then I went skiing in Chile. Then I went skiing in Austria.
Because he literally controls everything, from http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/what-happened-at-we-w...

"The S-1 detailed the extent to which Neumann controlled his
company, and had benefited personally from his position: he had bought buildings in which WeWork then took out leases, and received $5.9 million in exchange for selling a set of We-related trademarks to his own company. One clause called for Rebekah to name a successor in the event of Adam’s death."

Rebekah is his wife...
Corrupt? Thief? Say what you will, there is something to be said for having walked away with so much money - legally.
Ancestry Branches Out into Genetic Health Screening
This is not much when considering Neuman took out a $500 million loan earlier this month.[0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/04/report-wework-cofounder-ad...
Users flagged it. Moderators never touched it or even saw it. Probably users flagged it because a closely related story was on the front page all day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21310867. Follow-up or copycat submissions aren't exactly dupes, but people read HN for topics they haven't seen recently, and HN basically never wants two front page submissions about the same thing.

Your comment breaks the site guidelines against insinuating astroturfing without evidence. A story getting flagged is evidence of nothing other than that users flagged the story. Admins conspiring to suppress it? that is pure imagination, and it's pretty nasty to imagine something about someone and then accuse them of being paid to do evil. The guidelines exist to prevent HN from degenerating that way, so please read and follow them when posting here from now on: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
It came from a protonvpn founder, an obviously biased source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn...

but was conveniently never denied by PIA that I could ever find. If it was a lie, it would be easy for them (PIA) to prove under libel laws in the discovery phase of a trial. I'd argue if it was a lie from ProtonVPN, it would have been in PIA's best interests to clear their name. After all, PIA and ProtonVPN are a few of the only providers who've proven in courts they don't have logs of users. We know they're legit because they said so in court under penalty of perjury. Also, the European Commission has investigated these exact claims, and would have privileged access to a lot of the business documents, and found the claims without merit.

Me? Just a happy protonvpn user who finds the oft repeated shilling for PIA dull. If you really want to hate protonvpn, use PIA, or use someone else. Better, don't trust any of them! Setup algo on a digital ocean droplet of your own: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

However, this is meant for running over an untrusted network, not for maintaining internet anonymity. Use Tor for that.
Show HN: Imbue.js – extend vanilla JavaScript and replace bloated libraries
Does it strike anyone as strange how much of the economy seems to be built around bizarre, failed, often seemingly blatant scams nowadays? It almost seems as if no matter how transparently irrational and corrupt these schemes are, what’s important is to maintain the semblance of it all, the specific articulation of power. The CEO, the visionary, the “disruption,” have become almost abstract fetishes, removed from any broader function.
This is the basic feeling I left with as well. In terms of the hypothetical threat presented here (millions of autonomous kill drones), there are actually solid defensive measures that can be taken, even if they may not be absolute (aka stopping evil superman). Some are direct - I.e. microwave/laser/kinetic countermeasures which a nation state could quite easily deploy, whereas others (the more important ones IMO) are indirect - I.e. Monitoring supply chains and persons of interest., following up on anonymous tips (aka clerk at hardware store concerned with customer purchase, or the guy complaining about the secret drone factory noise next door).

The value of the nation state, even confined to this hypothetical scenario, is still there for me. There is far more to this than the one perspective of "techno-horror vs hapless government" presented in the article.
> It does literally everything it did when I bought it and then some because new software came out after it was purchased.

It quite literally does not.

In 2008, I would have felt comfortable running a Snow Leopard machine with Web Sharing enabled accessible over WAN. Then I could throw whatever I wanted into the ~/Sites folder and access it anywhere.

In 2018 I wouldn't dare do this because Snow Leopard's apache is outdated and vulnerable.
Definitely! Engineers don't do all the work. But if you're working in the field, you don't call yourself an engineer unless you're licensed.

(For context: I work in the field and am not a registered engineer, though I studied it in university. I would never call myself an engineer)
>”To be educated person, You have to graduate three universities. The first one should finish your grandfather, the second do your father, and you graduate the third"

Love this

My grand father and father graduated from a university and growing up it was such a given to me that I too would go to college - 0 doubt

But I know people that no one in their family or neighbors has gone to college - and their parents want them to join the military, they don’t push for college or talk about it

Could be money or being realistic
Sometimes "class bias" is rational. Suppose you are hiring a financial advisor trainee who will need to put rich people at ease. You do want someone who looks and sounds high class, for example dressing well and not having visible tattoos.
I really like the mockups in this post. It's so rare that you see discussion of authentication UI/UX.

Speaking of, are there any UI/UX design resources (books, tutorials, blog posts, etc.) on for modern authentication flows (2FA, OAuth, etc.)?

I've been searching for a while and can't seem to find anything substantial. All the design discussion I can find is around protocols/handshakes/security, but nothing about UI/UX best practices and possibilities.
Did the company manage to IPO before it tanked?
Isn’t Softbank about to invest 5bn? 4% of that just for a single individual who’s ostensibly a big part of the reason they tanked a 40bn dollar valuation to a mere 20% of that seems like a literal fuckton to me.

Of course, he may be the reason they now control an 8bn dollar company too, still an incredible valuation I suppose.