skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feels like the developers said, "hi, we're starting to get too many of those pesky users, let's make each of them run a bunch of obscure commands just to get started".

Well, I'm not being fair here, the commands are not really obscure (except the ones they made up), and I'm sure they had a reason. But I just recently had to reinstall Arch after many years, and found the new "installer" strange and kind of daunting compared to the old one.
There are approximately 422K people in prison for drug offences (http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.KZS...). Which still leaves 1.9mio for non-drug offences - more than the second country with largest prision population (China, 1.5mio - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2...).
There's a non-zero chance that happened to avoid the duplicate detector. There was no discussion on that submission, so no point in sending you to it.
The fact that this is getting upvoted at all is ridiculous. I saw this thread on Reddit and chalked it up to mob mentality on Reddit, but I'm pretty surprised to find that it is also getting upvoted here.

Let's think critically for a moment: Is it more likely that a 14 year old girl liked the AT&T page in all her days of using Facebook and forgot or that this is normal for Facebook ads that would potentially open them up for a huge lawsuit, after all this is basically libel.

Also check out this author's about section. He's a Google+ fanboy (Google+ is pretty nice, nothing wrong with liking it) and hardly a biased source.

Articles like this and its spread of misinformation highlight the inherent dangers of how easy the Internet has made it for random, misinformed people to get massive reach and it seems that even our "enlightened" community has fallen for it.

I am so disappointed.
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Here it is in Perl6:

[+] ^6

Actually cheated slightly because ^6 creates list from 0..5 :)

So correct match would be...

[+] 1..5

Here's how you would do it in Io:

list(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) reduce(+)

In Rebol there isn't a functional fold/reduce built in. So one way to do the one-liner would be:

x: [1 2 3 4 5] forskip x 2 [insert x '+] x: do next x

Above changes x to 15. Alternatively approach which doesn't clobber x:

x: [1 2 3 4 5] y: [] forall x [repend y [x/1 '+]] take/last y do y

I'm sure someone with more Rebol chops can see other (better!) ways of doing this :)
When people ask me what a hackathon is, I usually send them to http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+a+hackathon - making this link useless.
It can convert all those formats, but it can't convert a .jpeg to a .jpg.
His operational model should have been fine. He should have acted as if he was acting on the DEA's front lawn. He made fatal operational mistakes. If he was somewhere else, he may have even acted more carelessly.

Living somewhere else would be a minor hurdle. SR was an international site. Even without an extradition treaty, the feds would go to the country, say "psst, wanna hit a major international drug dealer?" And local police could bust him, jail him, then deport him, and then the USG could try him too.

If your opsec relies on you laughing from some small country, hoping legal barriers prevent your capture, you've totally failed.

Edit: He should have panicked as soon as agents visited him, but I guess he probably talked himself down. Probably figured "well they already have me or they don't", which, was probably true.
What's up with people about open source X everything?
The problem with that approach is that for most people their lifestyle is adjusted upwards as they get closer to being debt free or having some money. In the end this is a discipline problem, if you commit to some budget now and stick to the plan for the next couple of years you'll be fine, beware of the temptation to change your lifestyle when you reach your goal because it will put you back where you started pretty quickly.
Because the Nobel prizes are inherently political -- scientists and governments alike needed to justify the enormous investment in the LHC, and what better way than a token Nobel award?

The LHC may be worth the investment but the Nobel prizes aren't any indicator of it.
>The award’s real name is the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.” It was not established by Nobel, but supposedly in memory of Nobel. It’s a ruse and a PR trick, and I mean that literally. And it was done completely against the wishes of the Nobel family.

>Members of the Nobel family are among the harshest, most persistent critics of the economics prize, and members of the family have repeatedly called for the prize to be abolished or renamed. In 2001, on the 100th anniversery of the Nobel Prizes, four family members published a letter in the Swedish paper Svenska Dagbladet, arguing that the economics prize degrades and cheapens the real Nobel Prizes.

>Most recently, in 2004, three prominent Swedish scientists and members of the Nobel committee published an open letter in a Swedish newspaper savaging the fraudulent “scientific” credentials of the Swedish Central Bank Prize in Economics. “The economics prize diminishes the value of the other Nobel prizes. If the prize is to be kept, it must be broadened in scope and be disassociated with Nobel,” they wrote in the letter, arguing that achievements of most of the economists who win the prize are so abstract and disconnected from the real world as to utterly meaningless.

If you'd like to read about the history of the scam that is the "Nobel Prize in Economics", there's plenty more in this article:
http://www.alternet.org/economy/there-no-nobel-prize-economi...
I assume that if/when Glass takes off, Google will follow-up with an integrated car-version. Glass is meant to provide non-distracting visual info at a glance and operated hands-free, so it's an obvious platform for cars.

edit: I'm always surprised how little the consumer electronics industry learns from the gaming industry. Games have refined the modern gamepad into something impressive - they force developers to shoehorn their games into the given controls, and adapt those controls to the correct context, and give the user good non-distracting HUD feedback.

Meanwhile, you look at a TV remote or car stereo controls and we're transported back to the bad mistakes of the '80s. Rip out half the controls and just give me some good text-to-speech to tell me the context of what menu I have currently selected.
Agree, the more data points we get access to, the more correct analysis we'll produce at the end.

It's a pity knowing that there's a lot of information stored
already in systems like 23andme, practice fusion, healthtap, etc. but I guess getting access to this data to aggregate it and analyze it would be... mission impossible.
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> It also prohibits residents of certain buildings from renting their accommodations for under 30 days.

That is not how I would summarize the law. It prohibits residents of most buildings from renting for under 30 days. The exclusions are mainly around existing buildings that would violate the law, without Airbnb style rentals, namely university-owned buildings that are used for short-term rentals in the summer and older buildings that are apartment/hotel mixes.
I doubt it: Sunday is not the only day of trash-collection, there are plenty of cleaning stuff in this city. The problem is we (well, the city council) are obsessed with cleanliness to absurd levels. You will be amazed at the number of gardening stuff we have for a city like mine...
Link to actual service website:
https://splice.com
yes. I misused the word, sorry. was thinking codex as a set of strict rules, not set of ideological values and mafia-family bullshit.
How well does that play with ifdef? The problem is rarely what does this macro expand to, but which macro is going to be expanded.
I don't have adblock either and I haven't seen any. I'm probably not a target group for any survey.
It's a nice idea, and it makes sense, but the sample size – 26 people per group, multiplied by 2 for two experiments – is too small to reach any definite conclusions.
"Wrong. 1 reply of "I'm not interested, please don't contact me again." is normal speak."

No. This is no different to spam, it is an unsolicited email for commercial gain for the sender. What you are advocating is that a recipient opts out of an unsolicited contact. That doesn't scale. It places the onus on clearing up the mess on the recipient.

The presence of an email address on the web doesn't confer the right to reply for the sender. It cannot be considered opting into anything. And as such, it should not require a recipient to opt-out.

Don't assume silence means consent.
I've actually worked for someone who had a company-wide email filter for credit card numbers and SSNs.

It was frustrating because it would occasionally catch license keys or foreign phone numbers, but probably a good idea for some groups.
Yesterday, actually. Somehow it passed through the span filter (of course I marked it as spam but still).
As someone on the condo board of a building, I can guarantee you that we don't need any data dump to locate people illegally renting out units in our building. We regularly look on AirBnB and VRBO for units within our building that are easily identifiable through the photographs in the listing and fine anyone in violation of the condo rules.
I disagree, it would be a disaster.

People can barely agree how to store dates independently of JSON, choosing one would be add extra work for implementers, probably not be used by people who prefer other date formats, make JSON un-eval-able, fragment implementations between those that support dates and those that not, and hurt it's reputation as a consistent, simple format.
Yes. One of the investigative tools is correlating presence of a nick online with Tor activity from a suspect. IIRC, they did this on an Anonymous they were tracking a few years ago: watched his physical Internet connection, and observed that the traffic matched his IRC nick's presences.
Of course

It was probably a promotion "like this page to win prizes" or something.

Very easy to have forgotten. "No I never liked AT&T" doesn't cut it. Unless it is seen in the "likes" page that, really, this was never the case.
Actually, based on an interview I heard recently, I'm not so sure they can prioritize payments. They system is very automated and apparently does not presently contain that particular feature.
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I can't really say. Until it completely broke my connectivity I was using the nightly builds and there were sometimes other problems with the battery life (like wireless not really sleeping) so it's not easy to say if the drains were caused by loqui or other stuff.

On the newest 1.2 image I have no data connectivity and can only use it with wifi. As that is normally in places where I have a stationary desktop with a client I am not really using it at the moment.
They are all you, until they start reacting differently to their different inputs and anything stochastic within their simulation, and at which point they stop being "the same" you is basically up to you. The difference between them after a minute or two would probably be nothing compared to the difference between you and you a year ago; if you call the latter "you", the former should probably count too. You wouldn't be aware of being 100 beings, but 100 yous would be aware of existing.

Calculating down to the quantum level is hopefully not necessary (that seems impossible to get efficiently out of any computing substrate physics will let us have). The few people suggesting that physics at that scale impacts consciousness aren't taken very seriously by neuroscientists in general.
> Turing.

2013.

Modern medicine has progressed quite a bit. And please don't bring up fluoroquinolone when I say just "antibiotics".

> Or they may just turn to using bottles or broom handles.

Thanks. I can come up with maybes by myself.
You may have misunderstood me. I wasn't talking about ideal prisons. I said that, in order to be more vindictive than prison (meaning, the prison system as it exists in the US today), corporal punishment would have to be pretty awful.

In other words, our current system uses prison as a means of punishment and vengeance. I'm not saying that's a good thing; I'm just saying that corporal punishment has a very low bar to clear before we can say it's more humane than the awful status quo. (Yes, rape-free prisons would also be an improvement, and probably a more realistically achievable improvement, though I disagree with the methods you suggest.)
The kernel actually patched around that, so kernel developers aren't actually stuck. It's true that older kernels won't build with current make though. I think I remember noticing that Fedora carries a patch that fixes this issue, but am too lazy to check. It's possible other distros do too.

FWIW: Other issues with 3.82 broke things in Android and openembedded too. It wasn't their finest release.
Well, I guess it depends on what your code looks like.

That being said if I'm not sure if some code is being compiled I just add an "#error foo" and rebuild. Or even simpler I just type in some garbage to trigger a compilation error.
Yes! If he goes through her likes, I can almost guarantee that AT&T will be in there.

Most of the complaints around the "Facebook says my friends liked X and they didn't" in the news feed are because they didn't like it at that particular point in time - they liked it at some stage in the past.

This would make sense to call it out if the newsfeed was sorted chronologically, i.e. it was a real time stream... but it's not, and hasn't been for at least two years.

The newsfeed algorithm surfaces the stories it thinks you will find most relevant from the friends you interact with the most, rather than presenting the stream real-time.
Seriously? If you genuinely tried to hire a hitman then you're a danger to society and I'll side with pretty much anyone against you.
Why would it be BS? Really, there are laws and far too many startups gloss right over them and then all shocked and such that it applies to them. Then they double down their idiocy by trying to gen up support from people equally ignorant of the law or just anti-government in general.

So, yeah, court order, the charge will be with tax evasion if they really want to get rough.
That reminds of that commercial for the Universal Technical Institute. It's funny hearing that guy tell me all the great things about "UTI". I probably wouldn't remember the commercial if they had some other boring acronym.
He was left in a very terrible situation and decision. He was facing someone who was willing to destroy many other people's lives (assuming drug dealers would be arrested). If you take that as a given prior, then the step of deciding to prevent that person from hurting others seems like basic self defense (while noting that the USG prevented him from using other measures).

Edit: There's always still the possibility that DPR was aware he wasn't hiring hitmen, but felt it was the best negotiation tactic.
It is reasonable for the government to regulate short-term rentals in regard to health and safety as well as to protect neighbors from the hassles of living next to short-term rentals. This is why zoning laws exist.
Thanks, I forgot to go back to the first page after I read the article.
From the AG's perspective, pretty much everyone in New York renting their place via Airbnb is breaking the law. That their goal is to only go after the flagrant violators doesn't really change the validity of their subpoena.
You cannot trust Mike Elgan with anything. He's an awful Google+ fanboy. Just listen to the latest episode of TWIG on the TWIT network, and you'll see why you can never trust him for any unbiased news on Facebook OR Google.
How to get national press with no budget. There's a science to it.
Does it really matter what 2-3% of a random sampling of people think in a single country? Could this possibly be too sensitive to trying to please too many people?
I rent a lot of cars and I've seen some really bad touchscreens. But the Toyota Camry has a great one (as does the Prius) so it's possible for them not to suck. Hopefully all the car companies will get there soon :)

Off topic, I'm always extremely amused to see cars branded as "limited". "Ooh, this car has more limitations! Sign me up!"
I was not intending to confuse people. This is the first time I posted something on hn. I will give more context when I post something next time. Thanks!
The shallow end of the pool is simple RISC CPUs e.g. Atmel 8-bit AVR. The complete instruction manual is something like 160 pages (compare to x86 at 3k+) and there are tons of beginner resources for doing assembler on those chips.
I was working full-time at the office then full-time from home. Neither can completely replace each other without sacrificing productivity at some point. It all comes down to how flexible your time table is against your professional needs.

It's far more rewarding to drop by the office when it's most efficient (say, for a workshop session with colleagues) and spend the rest of the week at home to get stuff done without constantly being interrupted.

Fairly subjective really.
From the ground up? Well, there's always the source:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectu...

For learning assembly? For MASM I enjoyed this book years ago:

http://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Intel-Based-Computer...

For GAS something like this might be more appropriate:

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Assembly-Language-Richard...

Patterson & Hennessy is used a lot in colleges to teach low-level architecture and assembly:

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Fifth-Quantitati...
It's worth noting that what NY state government does with AirBnB is not necessarily for some people of NY state.
I had the same issue, couldn't see the underwear at all. And finally after seeing the people in pictures, I can see. Internalization requires a lot of effort.
If it were Goldman Sachs refusing to hand over customer data all hell would break loose.
>The law is malleable for a reason; laws often become outdated.

The law in question was pretty much created to stop Airbnb-style short-term rentals.
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Storage devices actually do have several ways of reporting when data is permanently stored, and Linux makes use of them. However, some storage device manufacturers found that if they lied and claimed data was permanently stored when it wasn't quite yet, they got better benchmark results.
It only applies to older users and probably wouldn't explain this case, but Facebook has silently imputed a "like" before, in cases where the user never explicitly liked the page. There used to be a section on your profile where you listed favorite music, books, and films, and at some point a few years ago, they phased that out and did some heuristic processing on what used to be a free-form text field, to convert its contents to the corresponding "likes". That was somewhat annoying, since I hadn't interpreted the act of listing something on my profile as equivalent to a subscription request for that thing's feed.
It's odd that no one has mentioned this, but part of the reason no American thought they looked like "Y-fronts" is because American briefs don't have a Y-front. I have never seen underwear that looks like the first and third example on the rjmetrics site. If you do a comparative images search for "briefs" and "y-front" I think it'll be pretty obvious.
Great advice! I would highly recommend looking into study abroad, even if just for a short time. It's a great experience if you can afford it - I made a lot of friends through this. Alternative Spring Break or volunteering is another good option.
Yes you are absolutely correct, my mistake.
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> When I read a post, I read what is literally being said, and I read between the lines; I look for subtext, and implications. I am not going to stop doing tihs.

But then you need to be prepared to be called out when you are wrong.

> which is that are dodging any attempt to address the subtext and implications in your posts because you want them to go unchallenged.

Because, honestly, their is no subtext. I don't have a firm opinion either way. Any attempt to turn the conversation in any other direction is an attempt by others to push their own agenda.

Let me be clear: I haven't made up my mind.

> You are making these implications, we are challenging them, and you are dodging.

No, that's your imagination.

> tl;dr: kelnos nails it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6520055

No. He's wrong. First, not only is he wrong because of the context of the comment, but he's also wrong in his conclusion.

Sorry, but your making assumptions that aren't true.

The only thing I've gotten out of this conversation is that you can't ask a simple question without your motive being drug into it, and that even if you question other aspects of side, it will be held against you, regardless of your opinions.

tl;dr: You're wrong.
I don't see that the sarcasm is warranted. GNU make, really, is the relevant standard. It's what virtually everyone doing serious work (as opposed to e.g. emitting "makefiles" from some other tool) with make uses. GNU Make is simply more featureful and more performant than the other choices.

One of the features it doesn't have, though, is a first class language for doing non-trivial extensions. Some systems (the kernel Makefiles and Android's build system are really good examples) have stretched make's built-in environmnent past the limit already and might have benefitted from something like this.
And that's a great point he implicitly makes in his "study". With Linux (or any OSS OS for that matter) you strip out all this different services, dig deep into the code, remove lots of stuff and you still get an OS working. Sure, you can't use LibreOffice, but that's not the point.
You cannot get this sort of flexibility with the operating systems you mention. Good luck removing Internet Explorer from freaking Windows.
> There is no need and in some countries that would be against noise pollution laws.

Emergency vehicles are exempt from those laws, as they should be. Safety is more important than your sleep. Trains blow their horns at crossings for the same reason.

Also, I have to laugh at your indignation at someone mowing their lawn at 7am because they are awake but you aren't right after complaining about an empty street at 3am because everyone is asleep.
Post updated. With a very obvious example of who we don't want in our community.
...and so we'll get more of "standard feature (as in, it cannot be opted out of)" - smart glasses!

As another related point, let me remind you that we're having the idea of wearing smart glasses to have a convenient display in front of our eyes. In cars we already have car's glass placed permanently in front of our eyes.
The other side of it is the "entrenched industries" saying "wait, why do we have to meet the building codes for hotels if these Airbnb people don't?"
When "none of the above" wins, it usually means new elections where all old candidates are banned or some other procedure to resolve complete distrust to current politicians.
No it doubt it. I also ran Arch Linux on a Macbook Air 2012 w/ ssd and the bios init time was (way) longer than the Arch linux boot.
Why does he even need to ask her if she liked AT&T? Can't he just go check her list of liked pages?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27568/assembler-ide-simul...
Care to explain why you think it is a fail?
Yup. This is why in Rust macros have to end with a ! (and syntax highlighters know about this). This was a hard call, because it prevents using macros to create forms that look exactly like the built-in ones, but it prevents issues such as the one described in the OP.
Does the information in this article apply to VMs (specifically AWS) or is it only relevant when you're running directly on hardware?