skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the solutions are coming, and we're beginning to see the seeds of that with stuff like DarkMail protocol, TPB's upcoming anti-censorship browser, the P2P Twitter alternative, Twister.

However, I think the big problem with these will be adoption. I that first off before the masses move to such services, the current status quo needs to become quite bad. Bittorent adoption grew because the MPAA kept killing stuff like Napster and Kazaa, and then they got the government to seize all streaming website domains, to the point where nobody had an alternative except using Bittorent. If TPB can't be accessed anymore, it will push millions to use TPB's upcoming browser.

There's another problem with some of these. They are stand-alone apps. I think what will get us the "encrypted by default Internet" and much better privacy and anonymity will emerge out of the Bitcoin community.

Something like http://www.ethereum.org which plans to build an Internet-like platform might give us that. The reason this might become more popular is that it's not just an app. It's a platform on which you'll see all sorts of very secure and private apps appear, to the point where most of your "Internet usage" is done on that platform, whether it's for visiting your most important websites, or chatting with friends or e-mailing them. I think that's how we'll get that secure by default Internet.

I'm skeptical of IETF and the like fixing the current Internet, because I think there are too many stakeholders in the current Internet that will fight against any serious changes to how the Internet works. I fully expect Google, for example, to fight against any proposal for anonymity. So the real changes will have to happen bottom-up, rather than top-down, and grow naturally. Hopefully this won't take too long, though.
While I'm not going to get into good or bad about vegan/meat eaters, you do know that the China Study has been heavily criticised for selective data picking right? Thus, just because he was part of it doesn't mean he is a reliable source.

I've included the link below as a starting point for the criticism of the China Study. There is a good bit of scientific literature on it as well (am at work, don't have the links handy)

http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/07/the-china-study-fact-or-fal...
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

Yes I mean in the browser. The convolution (edge-detection) is definitely possible in WebGL, and the dynamic programming algorithm probably is, so you could probably get sufficient performance in the browser to do this on multiple images in real time.
You're right, I have no experience with waf, and I'm not dismissing it. I'm saying much, if not most, criticism of make is unfounded and misplaced.

Want a zip file? Use a command like "git archive -o foo.zip HEAD".

Why do you insist on having a single tool do all your tasks? A good craftsman has an arsenal of tools and picks the right one for each job.
As the other commenter said, this is pretty much just the US, I just didn't realize the article wasn't talking globally.
Then you should stop complaining that people consider you liars. :-)
Awesome tool to help you sell anything
Yes we have had this problem with many seemingly fine BRL transactions being refused. Given the small volume we do just gave up on it for now and charge them in USD.
> It's also a tiny and unpopular subsection of the feminist movement.

Is it? Pretty much every discussion here about women in IT is quickly dominated by those voices. See e.g. the recent "bro pages" hate.
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Got a siphon? You are underneath the Earth and we're on top of it so I suppose it'll naturally drain through the pipe anyway!

Sunny as well I expect? I am looking at the grey clouds and horrendous weather out of the window here.

Wish I could visit!
If this was two major banks

You can stop right there, as Bitcoin is nowhere near the place where it is equivalent in any way, shape, or form to "two major banks". If it was, your critique would be valid. Since, instead, it's more like a bank startup, these kinds of disruptions are expected and encouraging, because it allows third-parties to see how difficulties are resolved, and how robust Bitcoin is or is becoming.

P.s. I have never owned, mined, or otherwise installed or used any software related to Bitcoins. I have no horse in this race whatsoever.
The lack of generics in Go is hugely over-hyped as a problem.

There are generic lists (slices & arrays), there are generic maps (dictionaries). You can build a hell of a lot on top of that.

To generalize logic, Go's interfaces are amazing.

There are some huge projects out there using Go, and not hurt by the lack of generics. Perhaps you've heard of Docker?

I work on Juju[1], a Go project that is over 200,000 lines of code. There's only a handful of places where generics would have made things a little easier, and it's never been "OMG this is so awful because we don't have generics".

And this is coming from a guy who spent his first 14 years programming in C++ and C#, so it's not like I'm not used to generics. You just write code in a different way. Sometimes you can't get around it when you need a containery class, so you use interface{} and cast the result, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

[1] http://juju.ubuntu.com
It was more to point out that with or without regulation there is still risk. Regulation is not the panacea that some people think it is and regulating bitcoin will not make it better, it will just make it more difficult for people to work with it in those areas it is regulated. Plus regulation would barely be worth the paper it was written on as avoiding it would be a simple case of not operating directly within its jurisdiction. If people from that jurisdiction use your service that is their option but the regulations will not protect them so they should make their own plans.

Regulation can work, however it should not absolve users of responsibility for vetting their investments or financial service providers.
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Free of charge? I was under the impression that Google pays a huge amount of money for that.
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That clarifies things a lot, thank you.
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I'm gonna give it to you straight: I would never trust your website based on your decision not to hire a designer, I don't see anything done here that hasn't already been done by thousands of others, and the uppercase Y is tacky as shit.

I wish you all the best, but I think that you have some serious work to do on your project – starting with the fact that you're hitting the user over the head with a faux credit card form while loading insecure content on an otherwise HTTPS website.
As you said elsewhere in the thread its calories-in, calories-out.

This simple fact is a very big win for science, but it is very unpopular - no one likes to actually calculate calories, so a lot of people prescribe to dubious unbalanced diets that sound convincing by catering to their food preferences and aesthetics.

No regulation short of destroying consumer choice and imposing an approved-foods-list will defeat obesity. Trying to just limit sugar is pointless because industry and consumers will substitute the current form of sugar for something else, raising the cost of food in the meantime, which will hurt the poor. (Just like an import quota on sugar in the US has not reduced consumption of sweets, because sugar got substituted for HFCS).

I think the best way to solve obesity is to find some chemicals that satisfy appetite easily and cheaply or sweeteners that are as good or better tasting than sugars, but are not caloric. (Aspartame is very sweet, but tastes significantly worse than sugar).
It's almost certainly hand crafted.
I'm still amazed that it's 2014 and they come up with such dishonest slides like: http://talks.golang.org/2014/research.slide#24

No, you don't have to pick between "slow programmers, slow compilers and bloated binaries, or slow execution". people have been telling them that since what ... 5 years?
Both FireFox and Chrome have been preventing that since around 2011; the pasted url is stripped of the "javascript:" part. But now the malicious instructions tell users to press "j" before pasting the url (which is missing the "j" at the start), which prevents the browsers from detecting and stripping the protocol, thus allowing the script execution.
if Mozilla goes to the "other side" so be it, but guess what

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvaaGhfjrgs
"Severance package was on an average 3 months basic component of salary, which is like 6 weeks full pay."

That's not bad - probably more than most people would get here in the UK.
I've been on the receiving end of a layoff like that,but I've also seen it done vastly differently.

Our place has been through a couple of rounds of layoffs (as the result of outsourcing). Both went through lengthy - I'm talking months - periods of "consultation" where the company worked with employee reps to try to make sure the correct people were retained (both in terms of looking for opportunities for voluntary redundancy and seeing whether affected people could be reallocated to other areas), and for those who were going to be let go there was a lot of help in terms of career advice, working with external companies looking for new recruits etc, to try to make the process as pain-free as possible.

Unsurprisingly, the effects of those two approaches are vastly different both for those who are made redundant and for those who stay. I get the impression that many of the smarter companies, at least in the UK, are beginning to recognise this.
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I recently finished a great course on iTunes university on the history of architecture. Bricks and mortar architecture not software. Now I'm searching for another good course.

I also have a yearly training budget at work that I've never gotten around to using. If you had a yearly training budget what would you use it for?
Indeed, success is only potential times ability to work with other people.

I still wonder what sort of company or business environment Linus works in.

Nobody would have heard of general relativity if einstein would not have been let working in his labs for long hours.

Often you'll have a very skilled technician and you will have to give him more space to achieve more work than other, but at some point, you still have to make this person work a little with others to make this one guy's contribution more valuable.

Apart from that, I still believe we don't give enough chance to introvert types so that they can channel their work and prove their worth. Linux is a success mostly because Linus managed to channel his talent, but there are many untold stories nobody will remember about a talented guy that just gave up trying. I'm still siding with Linus because the system tend to not work properly for talented people in general. I'm sure he must have some sort of anger and frustration issue, and that mail somehow shows it.
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>You are arguing "this isn't Unix!!!" but that is the whole point. You can win an argument with a mountain climber by pointing out he is going downhill, but not a skier; since for a skier, going downhill is the point.

Besides Linux is not UNIX either. And it's 2014 already, we found that some UNIX choices (like "don't dictate policy" in X Server were bad) and others led to underpowered tools.

It's not like we're still on text terminals, running 2-3 daemons at most, each with simple needs, and most of our work is constrained in the textual domain.
TL;DR: a 3 line exercise in bash argument munging.

t="${!#}"
c=("ssh" "-t" "${@:1:$(($#-1))}" "${t%:*}" "cd ${t##*:}; \$SHELL -l")
"${c[@]}"

That's literally the whole repo.
You do seem insensitive. Fuck their missed projections. Let all the managers quit for their failure. Did you look at the financials? Why are you pretending that you have the slightest clue what's going on in their business? If the employees were in charge like they ought to be, they could deal with their business properly and almost certainly avoid this fucking travesty. Tens of thousands of people losing their jobs is fucking bullshit.
echo "cd /your/favorite/folder" >> ~/.bashrc
Thanks man for the straight response. & thanks for your wishes. & u must know that Things repeat on internet. Every other product of today is somewhere similar to some project from yesterday. & the uppercase Y reminds us on why we exist. You may not like it, and i accept it, but many other users do.

The Faux Credit card, as mentioned, its a simple demo to see on buying actually takes place at our platform.

but thanks anyways for your time and response.
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There are 3rd party candidates...
After a bunch of "sports players" which are not as waterproof as I'd like, the marketing is working on me. Disappointment is the norm in this niche.
According to article 'One analyst has estimated that IBM will cut 13,000 of its more than 434,000 workers'.

Not sure how many (what percentage) is in India and how many are affected.
>When the term "Linux" is used in general, we mean a unix. The distinction has only ever a trademark thing.

Not really. The implementation of the kernel, userland features etc are quite different between traditional derived unices and Linux.

But it sure is a full blown POSIX.
As much as I like to shit on Cisco and the price on their devices, according to the engineers I've spoken to, they have a great work-life balance. As far as big companies go it's one of the few I wouldn't mind working for.
The law in the UK actually specifies that consultation has to happen during redundancy:

https://www.gov.uk/redundant-your-rights/consultation
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you'll certainly take more risks if you don't experience the downside

The entire reason VCs give you the money is to take more risk. That's, literally, the point.

So you do understand things correctly, yet came to the wrong conclusion that VC were somehow being wronged by this.
Everyone "goes along with it" because they've evaluated it and decided it fits their uses cases too.

Redhat does not have the power to force anyone to adopt systemd.
It looked like Internet Explorer was a permanent browser monopoly just over a decade ago.

I remember noting it was odd in the late 90s that IE was free on computers (because they were all Windows...) yet half the people I knew paid money for this Netscape thing.
This is exactly it. The people that are responsible never pay the price.
Modern Linux distributions don't tend to honor "The UNIX philosophy" is a common theme these days, or so it is said by a vocal group. The GNU tools tend to be more feature rich then many of their counterparts, often with performance advantages and usability but more is more and more code tends to mean more bugs. Fedora is in many ways the leader of this, it and Ubuntu are symbolic to those folks.

The irony here is that they can go fork all of this stuff, it's not like none of it has forked before, if they don't like redhat they can run something else. Getting passed off and forking is also the UNIX way
Not yeah I dont know why I thought this was about twitter so I only wrote follower (close semantics, and wiktionary listed both). So it's an i10n CRUD controller :)
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Did you ever notice that when someone says "I don't want to seem/sound/look XXXXX", they follow it with a statement that can be perceived that way.

You do seem full of hatred. If the employees had started IBM, bought out their division or otherwise owned the business, I'd agree with everything you say. In this case, management should also be sacked - On the other hand, maybe part of management's failure was hiring too many employees?
Supercell profits jump as mobile gaming grows (Revenue $892M, EBITDA $464M)
I hate blogging.
One guy suggested that he become the CEO of Canon, because everyone would think that the company printed a lot of misspelled signs.

Branding genius. Could work.
This is the best written post in this whole thread. a+
For redundancy, 3 months is fairly common in the UK, and if certain conditions are met you can receive those 3 months pay free of tax.
That's true, but I've never actually seen anyone call 'has' like that. Plus, Perl's behavior on lists makes sense (always flatten) if there's no mucking around with prototypes, so that's much less confusing than the behavior in the article.
Classic HN answer
Heh, marketing disaster!
Maybe you should read the article

> "Announced today including managers"

This is the failing X86 based server business (STG) which IBM has sold off to Lenovo, most likely duplicate test/support staff which Lenovo already have. They aren't just trimming - the departments are closing down.
Sometimes It Pays to Be a Jerk
Funny if it was Mount Gox trying to prove a point.
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If you are an Emacs user, Tramp does this, e.g. you can open a file like:

/user@example.com:/some/remote/path/file.dat

Directory navigation (dired) works too, you can also open a shell in the remote directory (M-x shell)
In the movie 'Her', Alan Watts gets mentioned as someone Samantha and her fellow OSes are studying.
i find my balance in sports, that require 100% attention

It's not a sport but I recommend cooking, doing Legos (have you tried EV3?), etc as a way to connect to physical things.
I read it as "jQuery".
OTOH I lost 20Kg eating lots of fruit (evil addictive fructose in there) and no meat.

Any one-sided diet can work if your awareness rises. More wholesome diets might even work better in the long run.
> They've certainly called themselves a unix (in the generic, no trademark),

At one point, they probably were a Unix. But Unix as a place and Unix as a goal are two very different things. Both skiers and mountainclimbers find themselves at the tops of mountains.

> When the term "Linux" is used in general, we mean a unix.

You mean a Unix. I mean Linux. There is no "we".

> So yes, refugees from Windows coming over to distros that have always been unix(-like) and trying to change them into the some sort of Windows-like junk is a problem.

I don't believe you. Where are these vanguard Unix-style Linux distros? RHEL? Adopting systemd. Debian? Adopting systemd. SUSE? Adopting systemd. These are distributions from the days of old. They have formed a consensus that systemd-style Linux is the future.

I mean I think it is fair to say that the Linux community is divided on this issue. But characterizing the systemd/dbus/ufs folks as "Windows refugees" is totally inaccurate. Systemd has the backing of important community members of the Linux community.
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It's common amongst professionals or senior managers (sometimes even 6 months) - but the vast majority of people will be on statutory redundancy pay:

https://www.gov.uk/redundant-your-rights/redundancy-pay
I didn't like the protest.

It was way too US-centric politically motivated anti-governement. The people behind claimed to believe in "privacy is a human right", but only addressed the privacy violations of the "Big Bad Gubernment".

I'm all for a pro-privacy protest, not for a libertarian anti-government protest disguised as one.

The SOPA/PIPA protests were about standing up to the copyright mafia as well as the authorities, something that was mirrored by the European ACTA protests.

This protest was totally one-sided, ignoring 50% of the privacy issue, especially as it is perceived outside the US, where Google, Facebook e.a. stand shoulder to shoulder with the US government in their efforts to tear down privacy rights.
This article massively overstates what is occurring here, these people are members of staff involved with the part of the business which has been sold to Lenovo and surprise surprise Lenovo already has their own departments handling most of this stuff.
Interesting. Most of my work with Systemd has been via CoreOS, which is linked to GregKH, who was actually a SuSE dude.
Internet search has led to a market where, if Google doesn't like you, you don't exist. Are you sure this is the example you want to roll with?
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Curious to know, what's the hurdle or bottleneck in the process? Is it a regulatory issue or a technical one?

Been following-up with @sw (at Stripe Australia) on USD support for months now, but still waiting to see any indication.
>You don't see any real argument for preferring freedom over restrictions when it comes to harmless activities?

Yes, I don't. I take a more philosophocal stance to the issue of society than "freedom above everything". That's not to say I'm against freedom, but I understand that they are nuances to that.

For one, everybody acting the way he pleases, even in areas that seem innocuous or totally a personal choice, can have potentially harmful impact to society at large.

Who's to say what's harmless? This requires a notion of harm, and harm to one's customs/preferred way of life/kind of society he wants, is also a kind of harm.

Even something as basic as the right to eat whatever you want (e.g consequences for obesity rates, social welfare costs, etc). So it depends on what the priorities are. Not everybody, and not every culture, puts the individual ahead of society. Nor it is self-evidently right to do so.

>That you're allowed to post this comment is a social norm. Not allowing you would also be a social norm. Is there no real argument for why you should be allowed to comment?

Well, not really. If the goal of the forum was "total openess and free expression for all", there would be an argument against disallowing certain people/comments.

But if a team, X, built a forum for a specific purpose, why should they allow anyone not aligned with that purpose to post in it? People make choices, not only about how they personally live, but also about how other people shall behave if they want to use/live in etc what they've built, from a country to a web forum.
Excel 2013 already does have built-in Instagram filters! (sort of)

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Yes, the slippery slope of a non-profit with great track record earning more money to fund its activities that are beneficial to society at large by inconveniencing some portion of its users by unobtrusive ads. The horror!
Protesting on the streets in the US doesn't work.

Unlike much of Europe, where the streets are used for walking and small cars, we have these big roads and big cars. These roads are for driving. Even the town squares in all the cities I've lived in were optimized for vehicles.

Now, we can take this to the streets. But all that does is piss off every man and woman trying to live their life and work and get groceries.
> I would definitely have had trouble with a "trophy" wife

"Trophy" wife does NOT mean "not intelligent".
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Alternatively, you could keep a tmux session open on the server and just attach it on connect. That way you can have everything arranged just the way you left it on disconnect. Same applications running, multiple windows, splits, etc. And you don't even need to start a new shell on connect.

ssh user@host -t tmux attach

You can add an alias for it.

alias backtowork='ssh -t user@host tmux attach -t worksession'

The last argument allows you to attach a chosen session if you have more than one running.