skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even I can say you're totally wrong already in the first claims.

Al Qaida has/had quite a bit of popular support in Saudi Arabia -- AND the explicit goal to overthrow the Saudi royal family. If you check history, that is what makes you top-of-the-list to most any dictatorial junta!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Qaeda_in_Saudi_Arabia#Ideolo...

"Like al-Qaeda, it opposes the Al Saud monarchy.[8] AQAP was formed in January 2009 from a merger of al Qaeda's Yemeni and Saudi branches.[1] The Saudi group had been effectively suppressed by the Saudi government, forcing its members to seek sanctuary in Yemen."

I write this because I want to point out:

It is disgustingly dishonest to blame a country for what a dozen individuals do, like you do with the 9/11 terrorists. If we allow that "reasoning", how should the world judge all Muslims considering the millions of murders/rapes/etc in Sudan? (At least those Muslims from the large part of the Muslim world where the criticism about [Sudan's violations of] human rights is ignored or claimed to be a western conspiracy.)
Ask HN: Where can I get free wordpress themes legally?
I was able to log in with my university credentials and get free access.
Whether the data presents an exponential curve, parabolic curve, or logarithmic curve, it doesn't change the analysis though.
The FSF considers any software that respects "the Four Freedoms" (freedom to run for any purpose, freedom to study and modify, freedom to redistribute, and freedom to redistribute your changes) to be "Free Software". None of the freedoms in question require copyleft. Copyleft is a strategic choice to preserve these freedoms and make it easier to build software that does respect them compared to software that does not.
Yes, and she answered the question in a different thread.
I disagree. After more than a decade of "good vs. evil" and "either with us or with the enemy" propaganda, what the audience needs is the precise opposite of this type of chart.
Actually, there's an even better solution: simply give the kernel a userspace address range which will be zeroed on fork. There's simply no reason at all why this address range should be restricted to exactly 4KB or a multiple thereof (one could imagine the kernel doing some page-table tricks to avoid a full memset() for large areas, but that's an optimization that can be added transparently to an API that supports arbitrary address ranges).

The futex API (including set_tid_address) is precedence for this kind of syscall.
I translated it to the following graph. No nodes, bad relationship. You can copy the source to: http://graphviz-dev.appspot.com/

Image at: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByAekPg2AgZoQUFGdl8yd1h3SWs/...

digraph g{

AlQaida -> Iran [style="dashed" arrowhead="none"]

AlQaida -> Hamas [style="dashed" arrowhead="none"]

Iran -> Egypt [style="dashed" arrowhead="none"]

Egypt -> Iraq [arrowhead="none"]

Egypt -> Israel [arrowhead="none"]

PalestinianAuthority -> Egypt [style="dashed"
arrowhead="none"]

SaudiArabia -> Egypt [arrowhead="none"]

US -> Egypt [arrowhead="none"]

Hamas -> Hezbollah [style="dashed" arrowhead="none"]

Hamas -> Iran [style="dashed" arrowhead="none"]

Hamas -> Iraq [style="dashed" arrowhead="none"]

Hamas -> PalestinianAuthority [style="dashed"
arrowhead="none"]

Hamas -> SaudiArabia [style="dashed" arrowhead="none"]

Hamas -> Turkey [arrowhead="none"]

Hezbollah -> Iran [arrowhead="none"]

Hezbollah -> Iraq [arrowhead="none"]

Hezbollah -> PalestinianAuthority [style="dashed"
arrowhead="none"]

Hezbollah -> Turkey [style="dashed" arrowhead="none"]

Hezbollah -> Syria [arrowhead="none"]

Iran -> Iraq [arrowhead="none"]

Iran -> PalestinianAuthority [style="dashed"
arrowhead="none"]

Iran -> Syria [arrowhead="none"]

Iraq -> PalestinianAuthority [arrowhead="none"]

Iraq -> Syria [arrowhead="none"]

Iraq -> US [arrowhead="none"]

ISIS

Israel -> SaudiArabia [style="dashed" arrowhead="none"]

Israel -> Turkey [style="dashed" arrowhead="none"]

Israel -> US [arrowhead="none"]

SaudiArabia -> PalestinianAuthority [arrowhead="none"]

Turkey -> PalestinianAuthority [arrowhead="none"]

Syria -> PalestinianAuthority [style="dashed"
arrowhead="none"]

US -> PalestinianAuthority [style="dashed"
arrowhead="none"]

Syria -> Turkey [style="dashed" arrowhead="none"]

US -> SaudiArabia [arrowhead="none"]

}
This is hardly an issue with a system that by design allows payment reversals. If you get defrauded, just chargeback.
If you choose a job whose necessity will disappear in the future, then it's bad luck for you. Better job choice next time. For me this argument is the same as coachmen complaining about cars taking away their jobs.
I may be a kid (24) but I also remember those days from learning Pascal :)
WordPress' official theme directory is the best place. Otherwise you run the risk of having malware secretly implanted in your site:
https://wordpress.org/themes/
Thanks! We've had enough people complain about the back button, we'll remove that.
>This is due to iOS' behavior of automatically joining networks whose name (not MAC address) it recognizes, such as “linksys” or “attwifi”.

Discriminating by MAC addresses would not help at all. MAC addresses are trivial to spoof, even though they are "in hardware".

It would be cool if we had a standardized trust-on-first-use cryptographic authentication model for wireless APs, like we do with SSH right now. You connect to the AP, it sends you its pubkey, your phone says "Do you want to trust AP with key AB:CD:BE:EF...". The discriminating paranoid person can choose to make sure this is the right key hash, and the average person gets at least limited protection from later AP spoofing attacks.
Step 1: buy a Mac :-/
I don't know anything about this stuff, but I wonder - is it completely improbable that "Al Qaida" could actually be a group of agent provocateurs invented by some part of the military/industrial complex to scare up support for their actions?
Conspiracy and an off-by-one error
If the shared URL changes, the moderator that changed the post should also re-attribute the submission to the person that suggested the new link. When this happens, the system should auto-post 'the original submission: ShortURL by USER has been modified to ShortURL as suggested by NEW USER.'
A few months ago, kens wrote a detailed black-box analysis about the penalization system. http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854 (920 points, 235 days ago, 190 comments)

But many articles are flagged by users, don't assume that all the penalties/kills are dew to moderators actions.
Based on what the other comments suggest, does the page look the same to everyone?

Here's what it looks like for me: https://gist.github.com/jaxbot/a11d55ddaa12901162e5
Faults in Linux 2.6
The best test of an organization isn't when they win an election, it is if they step down when they lose one.

If they "can't" lose elections (because of military control, media control, just not holding any more elections and/or election cheating), they aren't better than... well, Putin or Hamas.

In this case, we also have all that about celebrating the murdering of civilians and organised official antisemitism copied from both religious sources and the Nazis(!).

Edit: I might add that Austria got sanctioned in the EU over Jörg Haider's political party and its democratic result. Hamas must be at least a factor of hundred worse.
Aren't 12,000 of the 18,000 mostly overseas jobs at Nokia Devices in Finland? And 6000 doesn't seem that high based on the churn at most big tech companies between people leaving, layoffs and firings.

And it's kinda funny that Satya would've himself been on a work visa when he worked at Sun or at Microsoft, perhaps the senator is implying that poor Ballmer shouldn't have been laid off and replaced with a foreign worker? :)

Looks like a flamebait headline and article by the same guy at ComputerWorld who seems to be on a crusade against H1B, as part of a personal crusade or for page views (these articles seems to invariably make it to the Slashdot front page).

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=computerworld+h...
Very much true.

But the same has been said about defense spending and the current administration has cut back on Pentagon budget and has signaled that more cuts are on the way.

Of course those military suppliers - who have vastly outsized lobbying might, compared to anyone outside of energy and pharmaceutical companies - won't go down without a fight.

Case in point:

One of those companies: Raytheon RTN +0.74%, maker of
Tomahawk [1] missiles and other military gadgets. In January,
the Navy proposed the company end production of new
Tomahawks in 2017 . Its stockpile of about 3,000 of the
missiles is more than the 2,300 that have been fired in
all combat operations combined.

Raytheon is warning that if it shuts down production
of the Tomahawk and the U.S. finds itself in a situation
where it needs more of them, it will be complicated and
expensive to get production going again.

"Raytheon contends that halting its Tomahawk production
line in Tucson, Ariz., ahead of the 2019 upgrades
would drive some suppliers out of business, and push
engineers to other sectors, eroding the military’s
ability to field an important weapon. The company
sent the Pentagon a list of a dozen companies that
Raytheon executives believe could close or be forced
to leave the defense sector, according to people
familiar with the situation."[2]

If defense suppliers can be tamed, so can be prison guard unions and law enforcement unions.

The criminal justice system and the incarceration complex are no longer in the purview of reasonable actors and decision makers.

Watch Bill Maher's monologue on the increased militarization of local law enforcement( I know he can be hyperbolic sometimes, but not here. )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8qBTy0HWWI

NYPD officers just choked dead a Staten Island man who was allegedly selling tax-free contraband cigarettes, for
resisting arrest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/nyregion/staten-island-man...

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZEYOSRiQno

[1]
Tomahawk component suppliers and sites where the missiles
were fired:

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/MK-CN552_TOMAHA_G_...

[2]
Defense Companies Warn: Cutting Military Spending Can Be Expensive

http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/07/03/defen...
Your "The Saudi government doesn't support Al Qaeda" sounds like a joke in bad taste, I mean come on? the CIA confirmed the majority of ISIS are Saudis, 9/11 had many Saudi terrorists, Bin Laden was Saudi, ISIS is being funded by Saudi and Qatar, to mention Saddam in the current situation sounds like an intentional misleading propaganda to say the least.
I've been thinking about this subject for a few years now. Like many HN'ers, I work deep inside the tech industry. I'm also fortunate enough to have watched the operations of dozens of different companies.

I think the real problem here is that the tech industry does not know how to manage their workers. I'm not talking about managing projects, or how to coach or train. I mean the whole thing. The technology sector of the economy has no idea of exactly how many workers, in what configuration, it needs for accomplishing any job.

Weird situation, I know. But where that leaves us is a lot of "open" job positions that are little more than unfulfilled wishes. Sure would be nice to have another 40 guys on the helpdesk. Would that be as nice as 10 more developers? Who knows? Or -- we've got that big government project coming up, so we'll need at least 500 IT workers. Why do we need it? Who knows? It's a big project. It should have a lot of people on it, right?

The implications of this is that there's a huge downward pressure on wages. People want a certain number of tech workers, but there's no market pressure to hire them or even to lay them off if they've hired too many. They just want a certain number. So what they really want is really cheap, disposable workers that they can easily swap in and out as the political winds inside a company changes. The U.S. labor market isn't really geared for that.
Removed the history pushstate, everyone should be happy now!
I wonder why I was downvoted. Tough crowd.
"I see the future of "resource coins" as being efficient mechanisms for p2p resource distribution." -- Agree. This is totally valid and can definitely work; it's kind of a special purpose currency or intermediate currency then. Just a way to measure the value of a service, like storing stuff.

I'm still not convinced that you could actually use that revenue as a value in itself, like, storing it for later use. To be fair, I did not read the paper. If you would get existing coins for sharing a resource, that could work ... if you only rely on the mining process to earn value, it won't.
Income Inequality Is Falling Globally
The problem is that the default price of consumption on the internet has become FREE.

Just because the price to transmit content on the internet is negligible, doesn't mean the price to PRODUCE it is also negligible.

It's one of the most severe problems with the internet...its default business model isn't realistic.
It looks like the Voynich manuscript for programming.
You are not messy enough.
Because they are nazis.
You write as if it doesn't matter that ISIS have been kicked out of AlQ?

(The last I read, ISIS was fighting with all the other rebel groups in Syria? I thought that included AlQ? Also, is that really Saudi policy?! [Saudi A do send weapons to other rebels!] )

(sam88 is a three hours old account.)
Ummm how about the part where after these fair and free elections they eliminated the rest of the government through killing them or running them out of town?

Would you mind addressing what part of legitimate democracy that is?
Flagged for meta noise.

I'm pretty sure one of the guidelines is to email in for these kind of questions rather than polluting the frontpage with these kind of posts.
Remote file inclusion (RFI)

Brute force FTP accounts

Brute force logins, eg wordpress login
Mastercoin pays its developers using currency created in the first block, in a system of bounties managed by the Mastercoin foundation. You can contribute a patch and get paid. Go read on their website, it's interesting.
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The idea that the regime in East Germany was an example of Socialism is simply preposterous.
Looks exactly like that to me.
I agree, but it's an absolute fallacy that consumption is free. In fact, it is more much more expensive with ads:

1. The advertisers who pay for it all still get their money from us, but baked into prices of the things we buy from them. There is no free lunch.

2. The overhead cost of advertising is huge and we pay for that too. Ad systems and data collection systems, ad engineers and people like the author. Ad agencies. Creative agencies. Ad tracking. Marketing departments.

3. We pay the opportunity cost of a product that cannot put users first because they live or die by giving advertisers what they want (what we want only indirectly and secondarily, if at all). This includes both the cost of lost privacy as well as well as design that optimizes advertising revenue. As has been said, we are more Google's products than we are their customers.

4. We pay the social costs. Democracy and the free market assume people make voting and purchasing decisions based on facts and reason. Advertising is predominantly about manipulation and deceit. To me this is the most expensive cost of all.

Added together, we are paying a lot more for "free" web content and services than if we could just straight up pay web sites for straight-up ad-free versions. A system to make that convenient is possible, but we're too hooked on ads to even try.

[This is a condensed version of a more detailed case with reference links that I made here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773]

"Everyone gets that advertising is what powers the internet, and that our favorite sites wouldn’t exist without it."

The author nails the two sources of the problem, that advertising drives the internet, and that everyone believes we have no choice.
I am the guy. And this is not a joke. And the fact that I am making fun of academia is not co-incidental. The point is that I am using academia's own insights to bridge a major gap. Academia (say Theoretical Computer Scientists) don't take their next-door neighbors (the Linguists) seriously. This is why they can never invent what they want: the mind. If they ever collaborated, the singularity would be long behind us.
Convert the report to pdf and upload it to https://pdf.yt/
The 80's and the height of D&D hysteria was over 25 years ago.

This may not have been "D&D hysteria", but when I was at CTY in the mid-'90s, role-playing games were banned. Hence, the infamous role-playing-game-with-playing-cards, "Scum: the Masquerade".

That may have been there for practical reasons, though. As it was explained to me, the fear was that people would have a less social experience if holed up playing games all weekend.
As a Russian, I'd like to say I'm deeply sorry for the losses of passengers' families. Whoever did this is a complete monster. Many russians do not support any war or aggression against Ukraine and many are convinced, that Russian government is in some way responsible for this tragedy.

I personally believe we, as people, will never know the truth as to who did it - was it Ukrainians or the rebels or the Russians. However, this is the direct result of the existence of states and governments. We are taxed to build weapons and go to war for some private and corporate interests we have nothing in common with. Those weapons were built for our money. If each and every person was asked separately "would you like to give us 10% of your income to build these deadly weapons and support the rebels in Ukraine or would you like to keep this money for your family" nobody would give it away voluntarily. Taxation and states are at the root of this evil and it is at moments like these that I can see it as clear as ever.
Unless the plane crash was due to a software bug, this story, however important it is, has no place here. I appreciate your interest and concern but this isn't the right forum.
Time is my only limited resource. Which is why it is poorly presented. Don't forget to notice that along-side Escher (which took 2 years to invent) I am maintaining

https://github.com/gocircuit/circuit

Which is a major piece of software that earns me my salary. if you kickstart what I want to be a non-profit software research foundation, gocircuit.org and escher.io, then the doc would be brilliant and interactive in no time flat :)
Even better. For a measly 10.000 in tuition I can access the article!
My first thought was "Was this article written by Fat Neil???"

I'll get deservedly downvoted for an off topic joke, but this time I don't care :)
You're right. Question is rather how does one issue a receipt if you're exchanging bitcoins for goods. You can't, since it's not a legal tender. So how do they do it if they're not using 3rd party which proceeds them with cash?
Not incidentally. The Voynich manuscript simply demonstrates that if you mix concepts at all scales of visual perception (color, texture, page organization, etc.) the document looks un-intelligible yet familiar. Incidentally, so do Escher's painting, and so does my documentation (to you). Now think about why? Think about Escher-Godel-Bach, think think :)
An article on global warming by Michael Crichton was killed a few hours ago.
Full text: https://pdf.yt/d/1dKWAxs03AvnYqkt
> In theory, the `whois example.com` command should fail with NXDOMAIN (Non-eXisting Domain) error

Huh? No, it shouldn't. Example domains are, according to the RFC, permanently registered to IANA, although not through the "normal channels" (I suppose they don't have to pay for them).

example.com and other example domains resolve correctly wherever you are. They are not treated specially in any way (or shouldn't be, according to the RFC) aside from that they're permanently registered to IANA and that application developers should understand that they're example domains. The RFC does not prevent IANA from running any services on example domains, and they choose to run an HTTP server.
BBC iPlayer and Online Services DOWN for over 4 hours
I think that at least the edited entries should be marked as such! (Maybe in the footer with a small link to reveal the original.)
It says he uses a Macbook Air but doesn't mention whether or not he hooks up an external monitor sometimes.
Yes: At a smentic linguistic level. Not as a physical substance. At which point you ask: What is a physical substance formally? Well, that depends on your dictionary of the world. Cognition is relative, people don't get that :) There is no absolute knowledge. There are only interpretations of individual participants. And our programming languages have to reflect that.
This is pretty damnig circumstantial evidence that Apple has put in government backdoors.
Thanks for that. It sounds very reasonable.
‘SpaceX Effect’ Fuels Efficiency Push in Launch Services Market
"U.S. Senator accuses Microsoft of not treating workers as the generic cogs they are"

"'When I go down to the market to get some workers, I always check the label', says the Senator, 'it's our patriotic duty to acquire locally produced workers'"
looks like someone did http://pdf.yt/d/1dKWAxs03AvnYqkt
It looks familiar to every other language you know and yet to no one in specific. That's the point: It unifies them all as a common denominator and you have to break out of your conventional thinking to see the differences. Alternatively, you have to try to write many programs in Escher and then you will gradually start "getting it"
That's kind of the point: the same social niche had the power to create a company with shops on many high streets playing tabletop games with little figures and lots of dice.

So for parent comment to suggest that it's obvious for D&D to have stayed so small is a bit odd. It had potential to be much bigger than it was.

I'm not sure if the not-great animation series helped or hindered D&D uptake.
This headline makes zero sense. Doesn't everything live on energy?
"I'm perfectly fine with them changing to a better sourced URL and a more accurate title"

I can see how this behavior can bring some benefits. However, what if the mods just change the urls in order to point to their own blogs? Or to blogs where the opinion expressed shares their view or supports the interests of whoever? That behavior can dangerously lead to manipulation.

I do not like the fact that I can see some news in the front page with 200 votes and the article that I read is not the one that received those 200 hundreds votes.

I also do not like at all the attribution issue that you mentioned.
Rules, safety measures, trade offs and system design interest me. Software isn't the only thing that can be hacked or engineered.
HN is just about software "bugs" now?

This is a systems bug based on an underestimation of a technical bug, i.e. that flying 1,000 feet over a 32,000 feet restricted altitude was considered "safe" given the hardware used. Such an assumption ended up being wrong. OTOH, the OP makes the point that diverting flights isn't as simply as moving the joystick in a different direction, given the nature of crowded airspace and routes. It's also interesting to note, as the OP does, that flights at lower altitudes were routinely conducted over Afghanistan and Iraq.

I actually think the OP is overstating his case though...but I posted it here because I know there are flight enthusiasts who care about the details, such as whether 1,000 ft. above a restricted altitude is not much more reckless than speeding 63 mph over 65.

HN will be a sad place if it concerns itself only with bugs in pure logic, and not all the bugs and misunderstandings of details and mechanics that exist outside of software code.