skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they can: Via network interfaces (which can be firewalled). Via shared directories on shared filesystems. Etc. With e.g. LXC the extent of isolation is can be controlled at a very detailed level. In practice, though, very little stuff needs more than a network connection to interact with each others, and very few applications actually have any business interacting with the other applications I run other than in very specific circumstances.

This is not to say that I run everything isolated from everything else. I have a "unsafe" VM for example where I compile and mess around with a lot of public code I don't want to evaluate the security of. To get further into my network from that one still takes a little bit of work. I also group together various things based on tasks.

But random code I don't have a reason to trust won't go straight into my normal user account on my laptop.

Note that a "reason to trust" can be as simple as "has been signed by the Debian packagers" for some systems. It's a trade off.
It is on Google docs ;)
I often need to force restart metro apps gone wild, and I do so in the task manager (didn't know about the finger trick). These are first party apps like Mail also (to be fair, I have to do this in iOS also, no app is perfect!).
That is perhaps a little naive. People attracted by power (i.e., power over other people's lives) are by definition not saints. Expect most of them to be sociopaths, and your expectations would be closer to reality.
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_%28novel%29 , not part of the half dozen KV books I've read either ]

I'd also guess it's not the ability to the the job that's in question, it's the will to do it ethically.

Would you trust the work of someone who's known to cut corners in order to declare the job done?
While I don't disagree with the point that pg is not out to just make loads of money -- he's obviously a really smart guy who has richer pleasures to enjoy than what money can provide, I do disagree with the stated premise that pg does not have a commercial interest in fostering a community like HN. Whether intended or not, it's probably a profoundly important component to yc's branding. Not to mention, it is an absolute goldmine for attracting developers for the startups yc funds (it's not a stretch to see jobs posts as ads of sorts -- the higher the quality of HN's userbase, the higher the quality of potential candidates). It is also an avenue for the startups it funds to gain recognition (e.g., Priceonomics recently started a blog that arguably caters to a very HN-minded audience, indeed starting a blog is an extraordinarily compelling method of advertising the existence of something).

Not that I have a problem with any of that of course -- so long as there's interesting content for me to read I'll stick around. :)
But I did not edited anything, what are you talking about???
> They do specifically say that they're intending to come in at 0.02 degrees or so, which seems to indicate they've considered this.

That won't prevent the craft from contacting the surface at very high speed and beginning to roll. As soon as the roll starts (as soon as linear velocity becomes rotational velocity), the velocity will decline further, which will change the angle of attack and increase the conversion of orbital kinetic energy into centripetal force. Believe me, the craft will disintegrate if it touches the surface at near-orbital speeds, which is implied by the proposed angle of attack.

> Personally, and not speaking as a former NASA Space Shuttle engineer, it seems unlikely that they'll find ground flat enough for this to work.

Yes, but my reason for stating it like that was to focus on one factor and eliminate others for the moment.

> But they're not stupid - I wonder what they're not telling us.

I think the author is someone who thinks about these problems, but not with the benefit of experience in orbital analysis or intuition about the kinds of problems that come up.
To me this raises interesting questions of wider infrastructure regulation. The supply of gas to homes is heavily regulated in every country - but regulations over who owns a seed? No one ever thought such a thing possible.

The same goes for Internet search - if Google goes broke or looses its backups or charges 1 pound a month subscription what happens?

Do we need a law of innovation-to-infrastructure? Once a company achieves some innovation that is sooooo part of the world that it seems like infrastructure, do we prevent it from monetizing the same in some counter productive manner? Do we produce a oversight committee

I squirm inwardly at half those words - but then again my gas supply works, at a affordable rate.
He covered web based IDEs and also having a dev machine to ssh into, most people have either no internet or shitty internet outside of their home and work. How does action.io solve that?
Wouldn't that apply to software & video media as well? AMC sells me a movie, then I copy it and send it to all my friends with no loss in quality for free. Companies then spend tons of money inventing DRM and copy protection techniques. Should Monsanto produce a modified seed that produces seedless fruit? Of course this wouldn't work for products where the seed is the consumable end result (soybean, corn).

It seems like Monsanto's business model is no better than our's (software) when one can copy the product easily and distribute it. The only difference is that there are very few seed manufacturers so Monsanto stands alone at trial. Suppose in the future when seed genetic programmers are as common as indie software shops, should these genetic programmers have similar IP protections that software people take for granted?
That WAS the original argument.
50 to 75 characters would be great but most "mobile optimised" websites don't allow for that. The website linked to in the original post is around 20 per line and takes a paragraph of text and stretches it out over several pages of my phones display.
But I did criticise the content? Everything after the first paragraph is directly criticising the content.
We sure did campaign against the Cybersecurity Act.

However, the Senate was a lot more of an inside game strategy. We focused on an amendment strategy through Sen. Franken's and Sen. Paul's offices (my primary contact was with Sen. Franken's staff): https://www.eff.org/pages/no-digital-big-brother-keep-milita...

The feeling was that we couldn't stop the Cybersecurity Act after CISPA won the House, but we could improve it enough to make the final result slightly less awful. We wanted both acts dead.

We were entirely wrong though. Business interests killed Cybersecurity because of questions of mandates vs. voluntary buy-in. With opposition led by the Chamber of Commerce, the Senate bill died twice to filibusters. Privacy never became an important part of the debate, sadly.

PS - None of this disputes OP's very valid points about the purpose of the site and customer acquisition. However, FFtF is not trying to corral our votes, it's trying to direct our energy away from social media (which DC considers noise) to effective phone calls to our elected officials. Yes, they use their mailing lists to raise funds through donations. So does EFF and other groups engaged on open internet issues.
Enlighten us with your craziness please. No judgement here.
The only browsers you can MITM are Safari and Opera, yes. Stuff like https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/ssl-client-... would be worrisome enough without people creating certificates that, according to anyone's best reading of the standards at the time the software was written, should be globally accepted CA's.
Me too. And I would wish that those people had real integrity.
- The fight for gender equality is exclusively 20th century thing; never happened before

As another poster already commented, and you already acknowledged, the fight for gender equality has been continuing for at least three centuries. It certainly isn't exclusively a 20th century thing.

- Gender equality wasn't imposed in society by an external entity, it was brought about because it was essential

It's certainly not yet proven to be "essential" in any sense of the word that I recognise. Positive, perhaps, but the survival of the species doesn't rest on gender equality. For long periods of history the human race has not had gender equality, and we've survived it. No-one has ever proven that our continued existence (or even prosperity) rests on recognising the rights of others.

- Most societies for most of history were less hostile to homosexuality than the modern West

I'm fairly certain that this is simply wrong too. While there have been some societies in history that have been ambivalent or positive towards homosexuality, the vast majority of societies through history have treated homosexuality as deviant behaviour that should be shunned - most societies that are dominated by Christianity or Islam (which, for obvious reasons, tend to be the societies with the best and most available records) have treated homosexuality as a terrible sin. Even if you look at modern societies, the west is amongst the most inclusive - compare attitudes in Germany, Canada, the US and the UK with attitudes in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, etc.

This isn't to say that the west's attitudes to gender equality and homosexuality couldn't be improved! However, when you massively overstate the scale of the problem, people will generally find it difficult to take seriously whatever else you have to say. We have ways in which we can improve, but things are getting better.
I learned from K&R too, and seriously, no book ever told me how closely arrays and pointers were related (atleast, whatever books I read), as TCPL.
I don't find anything wrong with recommending it to 'programmers' who begin C.
'by that logic' is a phrase i see and immediately judge whoever said it as closedminded who's opinions are now worthless
I guess it's the old saying of absolute power corrupts absolutely. It is very sad though!
Play is begging to be forked, specially as the developers' vision diverges from that of Play 1.2.x users. We have a big ERP app built on Play 1.2 and have no interest in moving to Scala and 2.0. Our version of Play is, for all intents and purposes, a fork.
It's only controversial with regards to sensitive issues like intelligence. Of course humans are indisputably sexually dimorphic (and culturally polymorphic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_humans
The underlying issues do deserve discussion though whether or not the quality of writing (in a blog post) meets your personal standards.
So, that website pulls my least favorite "social justice" trick: pretending that every oppressive action is willful and premeditated. A lot of those issues are very, very subtle from a privileged POV, and it doesn't do a damn bit of good to pretend otherwise.
The issue here is that farmers have been planting crops and saving some of the seed generated for the next season probably from Day 1 in agriculture. Monsanto seeks to insert themselves into this highly efficient process, blocking the replanting of seed and instead extracting for themselves a significant amount of money.

Farmers are free to enter into this relationship since the seeds do conver some advantages in reduced use of pesticides etc. but there is a significant problem with cross-contamination from neighboring crops and through the supply chain so Monsanto ends up suing farmers who never had any intention to use their products in order to get everyone to bow to their will and maintain the agri-business model.
How much jobs we are loosing is not readily apparent. For example you should add almost all inmates and jailors and possibly half of the laweyrs and some of the goverment clerks (especialy the ones hired in branches created over last 20 years) to the unemployed to get the real numbers.

Our societies have a lot of pathological mechanisms for coping with inflow of people of diverse levels of education that have nothing to do.

I sincerely hope that people will be humane enough to create universal wage sooner than later.
My observation of the subject is that many people have an intuition, gut feeling, opinion formed from personal experience, etc. that men and women in general have innate differences that make men (or women) more suitable for certain functions.

Sounds like you'd like to ignore the science to the contrary and just rely on your gut.

You're entitled to that, but I've found science to have a lot of usefulness.
This does not demonstrate any bias unless you decide that we can assume men and women with the same CV are equal in all respects
Magister is Austria not Germany
The benefit of an article like this is that it makes you think about your own actions in a new way. Your are making it about politics by choice. Considering how embedded sexism is that would be a bad choice. Does this match your own experience or not? Is your desire for facts merely confirmation bias for your own anecdotal views.
I don't think that Germans have a "Title-fetish", in general they couldn't care less. I'm working in engineering, having a Physics PhD myself, but titles are never mentioned in daily work.

Politicians on the other hand had always tried to give themselves some additinal credibility by bragging about their alleged academic merits, but searching for plagiatism was not something anyone would seriously had thought to endanger politicians careers.

I mean, it was fun to try and hunt down politicians theses but hardly would have anyone expected that a politician could loose his mandate over them. Furthermore these theses most often had been written in "the old days", and were available only on special request from a few libraries where they were collecting dust for years in some non-publicly-accessible storage room for books no one ever borrows.

But then came Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg, whose thesis (written just 2007) started the whole debate about misgotten degrees in 2011. He had dismissed all charges about having cheated with unprecedented arrogance. Even though claiming to live up to higher standards, himself being a whealthy aristocrat, he had wholesale-copy-pasted the whole work from undisclosed sources, some even produced by the parliament's research service for him.

By additionally handling the resulting public-relations disaster pretty inapt, he gave a unbelieveably strong boost to the plagiatism-finders, who normally would have been ridiculed as nickpicking footnote and quotation-mark-counters. Now they were the judges for the integrity of a large number of public persons.

Anette Schavan is only one of many persons accused of copying a relatively few paragraphs in her thesis, not even on the same scale as Karl-Theodor, this theses would never have created the current public outcry if not preceeded by Karl-Theodor's.

And she's even defended by a lot of academics that claim that this amount of un-disclosed copying, 30 years ago, would be on a level that's would not warrant the whole process that has now started and led to her demissal. I mean, she probably has written that manuscript on a mechanical typewriter, with drafts written by hand, not assisted by a software marking handling quotations automatically!

But universities are under a high pressure to show a merciless approach in re-evaluating these theses, and unfortunately there isn't even a limitation-period after which given titles would be incontestable, and hence what appears to be the current obsession with titles in Germany.

-- References :-)

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg#Doct...

- The "Guttenplag" wiki has a graph (and statistics): 94% of pages, 64% of lines have copies of foreign text without attribution:
http://de.guttenplag.wikia.com/wiki/GuttenPlag_Wiki

- This side shows pages in red that contain foreign material without attribution:
http://schavanplag.wordpress.com/
Note to self: don't try to upvote on mobile phone, it might result in me downvoting a awesome post by accident and no way to fix it.
The difference between Monsanto and Apple is that Monsanto's inventions are non-trivial compared to rounded corners and "slide to unlock" type of utility patents. I doubt anyone without a decent lab could produce any of Monsanto's patents.

I don't see how Monsanto would ruin family farming -- family farming existed centuries before Monsanto was founded. You can still buy non-GMO seeds, the only reason people buy that stuff is to improve yield.
I was fairly sure that NT was originally going to be a microkernel, but it ended up being really slow, so they had to push everything into a more monolithic architecture.
but perhaps there are reasons other than sexist bias for organization that favours one sex over another.
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> With an extremely low average thrust, say, .5 N, the craft would remain in near circular orbit.

Excuse me? To remain in a circular orbit over the airless moon, no thrust is required at all. Read this for a full explanation:

http://arachnoid.com/gravitation_equations/orbital_mechanics...

> The biggest problem seems like it would be the centrifugal force.

Not centrifugal force (a fictional force) but centripetal force, the force produced by the craft's parts being forced to turn against a natural tendency to move away in a straight line. Which, given the problem's velocity, they will begin to do in short order after tearing themselves to pieces.

> It might be possible to overcome this force, especially with a smaller payload.

Not in the described scenario -- even a tiny payload would disintegrate upon touching the surface at orbital velocity. Consider that the orbital velocity for a lunar circular orbit is 1.2 km/s or almost 2700 miles per hour -- that would be Mach 3.5 if there were any air available to give that meaning. Given the proposed approach angle, the contact velocity is nearly the same as the circular orbit velocity given above. There's no way that a craft can safely dissipate that kind of kinetic energy by simply rolling along the lunar surface.

It's way too fast, too much kinetic energy, the idea isn't practical. Sorry, but physics and mathematics say no.
Of course they do. Sexism is a very real issue. It is an issue that directly impacts people's lives.

However I've been to this rodeo before many times, and unfortunately if you get drawn into a discussion that is, at the foundation, based on personal opinion/perspective then you never get anywhere.

You need to try and stick to the science. When the study that the author used as their first point was published there was some great discussion that focused around the science of sexism.
Idea is that you don't loose your universal wage for any reason. So in you scenario you can get 70k if you do nothing or 70k plus what you are worth on the job market of companies that sell to consumers that all have at least 70k at their disposal.
> Since when does people have a right to make a profit, even if their business plan is stupid?

As long as it provides value for the society. If you allow farmers to replant seeds then Monsanto doesn't exist anymore.
Do you think it's better for the society? Well Monsanto isn't probably the best example because it's the worst company I can think of, but you get my point.
That's the same with vaccines, it costs a lot of money to develop, if you allow everyone to copy it then there's no market and no vaccines.
I see gm crops like a software license limited in time, it's not because we agree that you can use my software for a year that you have the right to use it for as long as you want. Don't like this business model ? Then don't use it.

> But if these Monsanto seeds are so effective, then this patent acts as a de-facto tax on a whole range of foods, as unlike Ibuprofen, if they are effective enough to affect competition, "everyone" will need them

So what? If a company build a harvester that improves harvest by 20%, am I entitled to steal it because it distorts the market?

I agree with you these technologies should be public and subsidized by the taxpayers because it benefits everyone. But people don't want to pay for it, and that's their right, so we use private companies that sell it to people willing to pay.
Is there a way to run a distro other than Ubuntu (Fedora, Arch)?

I am planning to buy the x86 version, so it seems like it should be possible to install any distro on it. Is Crouton/ Chrubuntu for ARM version?
Even if you had an amazing 3D printer that could produce iPads, that doesn't mean you can sell it. You bought Microsoft Office, can you just duplicate it and sell it to your coworkers? I'm sure your software "duplicator" can produce exact copies. IANAL either, but I'm pretty sure your argument wouldn't stand up in court if you tried to sell your exact copies of your authorized copy of Microsoft Office.
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Not to speak of the incredible levels of debt people are ready to incur for that degree. It can't be that bit of additional support a university setting will provide compared to self study.
Funny I just watched a documentary a few days ago about Monsanto and how some GM crops strip the lining and the gut causing a myriad of health problems. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnlTYFKBg18 Not sure how much of it is fact though.
Strictly speaking, in Germany you don't use the PhD (Dr.) with your name, you just use your full name. Getting a "Dr." is a name change, while getting a diploma or masters degree is not.
Email became unwieldy when it became a universal communication mechanism. Sending email does not mimic a very important characteristic of post, sending email is free. All abuse would stop if people were required to place a paid-for 'stamp' on each email they sent. Failing that, email will only be replaced by something else that people want to use en-masse, facebook messaging probably.

The idea that you could come up with an alternative messaging solution is beyond silly. Why would people use it? Any migration would require both systems to run in parallel but unless the new system incorporated every feature of the current email infrastructure people would simply not bother. And if it incorporated every feature then the abuse would migrate over too.
I once read an opinion piece in a British engineering journal that suggested one of the reasons Germany is such an engineering powerhouse is in Germany 'engineer' is roughly equivalent in status to 'doctor' while in the UK it's conflated with 'mechanic/repair man' or at best 'office worker'.
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> I, personally, also don't think it's obvious there are infinitely many Mersenne primes.

If I were a better mathematician, I might agree with you. But I can't think of a compelling reason why some percentage of the infinity of primes would not coincide with the infinity of members of (2^n)-1 , 1 <= n <= ∞, thereby creating an infinite set.
What i meant was, everything on a single page and i could just ctrl-F search the list. JSDB.io is neat too for a larger growing list of JS.
Nice try CIA
Handled? I just connected with you up there.
Meanwhile on Google+ https://plus.google.com/+ChrisHadfield/posts/U7UXaTGxVsz
What "shady dealings" is he accused of apart from being Lebanese and expressing an opinion on Bradley Manning?
Do you have something to back your statements?