skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The modern regulatory state forces pretty much everyone to do all sorts of things. People are prevented from aging cheese less than 30 days, from having sex with people for money, forced to purchase unwanted health insurance, and penalized if they don't rent or purchase a home. A person can own a piece of land for decades, and suddenly wetland regulation or a community action board can prevent them from using that land.

Why is it bad to impose similar burdens on the Yup'ik?
Nearly 70% of music streamers won't move to paid accounts
This bothers me. People should just call it vim when they mean vim. I suspect most people here haven't actually touched Joy's vi or its closest derivative, nvi.

I don't know where this practice comes from but it feels exactly the same as when people say Unix when they are very obviously talking about GNU/Linux.
I never thought glass was a liquid until 2-XL told me so and got me believing the myth because why would a toy robot LIE to me!?
FBI's Biometric Program Blends Criminal and Non-Criminal Data for 'Efficiency'
Indigenous cultures are kind of a special case because of the whole conquest and genocide thing. You can't say "if you don't like it go back to your home country" when it was taken from them.

THe idea is that indigenous groups are supposed to self-govern as much as possible... but there's no way these tiny middle-of-nowhere towns can build up enough infrastructure to run their own federal government.
Panda 4.1 – Google’s 27th Panda Update – Is Rolling Out
I have seen Ello popping up multiple times on HN. Ok, this is an ad-free social network with a manifesto and you are not the product. This is fine and dandy. But at the end of the day, you need some source of income. Does anyone know what is their business model ?
Emacs isn't superior to Vim in every possible way. I personally find Vim's modal editing hard to let go of. On the other hand, vimscript is an atrocity compared to Elisp. Vimmers have certainly managed to make some amazing extensions to the editor despite that fact, but no tool is perfect; the whole point of an extension layer is to make the tool work the way you want. The defaults aren't necessarily what everyone likes (or ought to like).
It's an artful exaggeration, but if you've ever listened to guys talk about their daily Howard Stern/Colin Cowherd/Joe Rogan habit, it sure sounds like they're talking about a buddy. You might see a famous movie actor in 60 minutes of screentime a year, none of which he's actually revealing himself. Even if you listen to half of the WTF podcasts, you're listening to at least 50 hours of Marc Maron, during which there is an expectation that he'll be authentic and actually offer his subjective view of things (there's an art to this too, of course) - listen to someone that much and I do think that part of the subconscious brain starts thinking of them as an actual acquaintance.
It doesn't need to be made about the arctic circle anyways. While we can argue until the cows come how about hurricanes and the California drought and things like that, there is no ambiguity about the arctic - it has severely warmed and this is having drastic changes on local weather and ecosystems. Salmon aren't an isolated case, every species up there has been severely screwed up.
Battling superbugs with gene-editing system
Hmm. I did kind of enjoy the game as a child, but i cannot see the relevance in this article. Its mostly about some real world semi- adventure camp where you get a star for trying but failing. So. . . . Um . . . . Tech reference aside feom the inital paragraph or two?
What technologies are you using on the backend for this?
Nice look and feel for the UI btw. Should try Meteor for the front-end sometime.
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I know. I've considered proposing (in as much as one can 'propose'; Ask HN, perhaps) a secondary 'meta' comment collection for each article for this reason.

I do get it. HN has a lot of Web devs/designers and website look and feel is something they're passionate and opinionated about. But I do find it a little irritating when discussion about the content of a submission is drowned out by complaints about scrolling.

Thoughts?
Devil's advocate: most OS X systems aren't running exposed services that could be exploited, and if you were running an OS X server you can always re-compile bash manually for something of this severity (and Homebrew/MacPorts make this even easier).

That said, I do think it's ridiculous though how slow Apple is. It's absolutely crazy. I can only hope that Heartbleed and now this are causing some major internal reviews over there...
As an intelligence agency, I imagine that it would be highly desirable for the CIA to have contacts close to FARC.
My internet went down. And I didn't feel like staring at a non-internet enabled computer continually refreshing. So I set an iframe to reload sadtrombone.com with autoplay set to true over and over again.
Great Point
Why dictators are sometimes needed. ISIS makes the case
I too need to know this
Did you try if you can do something else beside the echo on Ubuntu? dhclient runs under an AppArmor profile which tries to keep it in a pretty short leash.
Time for Regulation in the Software Industry?
I meant chemical engineering. Not versed in all the acronyms, I apologize.

Despite the commonly believed myths, tapes are not very durable unless you store them in the right temperature and humidity and the right orientation. And .. what do you know, the same holds true for magnetic drives (with slightly different, though no harder to achieve, environmental conditions).

Tapes are also generally more expensive before the 200TB mark or so these days (you did factor the cost of a drive into your cost saving, did you?) and actually around 400TB if you factor in two drives (which you should, because the tape drive also fails).

Trusting an SSD is stupid. But the economics of backup tapes are very different from what the vast majority of people believe. For 99.9% of the situations, backing up to a magnetic drive is a better solution.
that would be one juicy target to compromise...
Windows 9: Microsoft faces four daunting challenges
wheel trucks being changed at interchange points as necessary

This is still done in trains between China and North Korea, maybe other places, to accomodate for different gauges.
I understand the cynicism about YC and silicon valley. I think it's great to have some critical thoughts about the why and how.

However these lectures are pretty good. I would highly recommend to watch them even if your skeptical about all things silicon valley. Some of the lessons and points of Lecture 2 about focus and intensity also apply to small businesses and large businesses as well.

I thought the ending quote from Henry Ford was great.

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time"
I'm vim guy and I started to watch http://emacsrocks.com/

There are another similar sites?
Useful post
#TrashBucketChallenge
People in Ukraine accepted challenge craze in their own way: right now they have a lot more vital problems than ALS, one of most urgent (excluding Russia intervention) is ubiquitous corruption. So the idea of #TrashBucketChallenge is to catch corrupted official and put him to the trash bucket.
People in Ukraine accepted challenge craze in their own way: right now they have a lot more vital problems than ALS, one of most urgent (excluding Russia intervention) is ubiquitous corruption. So the idea of #TrashBucketChallenge is to catch corrupted official and put him to the trash bucket.
Show HN: Soothe – Uber for Massages
OK, sorry I may have agreed disagreeably. I just want be clear that it needed to be a whole generation beyond at that being a little better and Free wasn't going to be enough which based on WebM/AVC discussion in the past many people seemed to believe.
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Whatever your views on the patent system, I think its worth thinking about companies like this, that just have engineers who do R&D without being backed by big sales and marketing teams. There is a lot of value to business models like this one (and ARM, etc). They don't need to think about users, scaling, marketing, etc, just the technology. Its not good for innovation if the only companies that can make money off R&D are ones that build end-user products to put it into, because ultimately the optimal conditions for many kinds of R&D aren't all that compatible with the conditions in product-focused organizations.
You will be shocked to learn that the Linux kernel is actually much bigger :/
Windows 7 took an unusable performance monster and morphed it into something decently useable. That was no small feat, and many thing could've gone wrong with the wrong focus.

Just look at Windows 8.
Good talk at Strangeloop this year about exactly this. https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/time-series-data-with-ap...

The talk is posted here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovMo5pIMj8M
Very very very cool. I waited for such a tool for a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time
I should probably write a blog or something about this since I've spent quite of time getting Emacs to behaving like Vim with Evil. I went the Prelude route, because it included a lot of cool things out of the box and I felt like I could just customize it a bit. My main goal was to get an Emacs environment that behaved like Vim for working through the SICP using the Geiser plugin. There's surprisingly little that has to be customized to get a well-behaved Emacs.

Here is my prelude customizations:

https://github.com/humana/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/persona...
That sounds like what Max Butler was busted for back in the late 1990's when he wrote a script to patch BIND[1]. It's a great story BTW.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Butler#FBI_investigation.2C...
> there are even people who say it's "work of god" that the wall is still standing

I find it amusing that those same people would probably not be too receptive to a comment that it was the "work of god" that caused the erosion of the cliff and consequent collapse of the other walls of the church.
It's often cheaper for manufacturers of low-cost electronics to minimally test devices before sale, with the expectation that some will die early in their life and be fixed under warranty. Burning in everything you make is expensive, especially if failure rates are fairly low anyway.

Electronics tend to have a bathtub curve of failure, with high failure rates at the beginning of life. It wouldn't surprise me that older CFLs (with much higher market prices) had greater levels of testing/burn in before being shipped, leading to much lower failure rates.
Are you sure you didn't study structural engineering while sleepwalking ? :-)
Yep this is a problem with the CSS from embed.ly. I've already notified the engineers at Genius and I'm hoping they can get it fixed soon.

EDIT: also, because of some weird mixture of CSS rules, this is only a Firefox thing, so you might want to try chrome. Sorry about that!

EDIT2: Okay this should be fixed now! Thanks guys.
... but also fascinating to work on.
Either security works, or forensics works. You can't have both.
Entrepreneur on Fire has been very vocal about their income reports. Making over 200k a month.

Its a pretty good podcast as well.
Simple vs. complex, the WordPress theme dilemma
How long has it been running for?
Apple promised an expansive health app, so why can't women track menstruation?
And how would one go about checking a typical Netgear home wireless router? The only way to manage it is http://192.168.1.1 right?

Or do they typically also offer some kind of shell (telnet? ssh?) access?
Can you elaborate on this statement? "Now that it's possible to write sensible UI components"

I'm curious what improvements you are referring to.
I've always wondered what percentage of water molecules on the earth have always been water molecules, i.e. since they became H20 how many have been separated by chemical processes and later recombined back into water. How you estimate that is beyond me.
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It was running in private-beta for a few months but has only just been released publicly this week.
Where does reinforcement learning come in? I didn't notice it in the writeup?
I agree with you there. Imagine you would be at an actual market with a pile of your books and you would tell people they can take it with them and then later decide if they want to give you a 'donation' for it. I would assume similar results can be seen.

Also going in semantics.. Demanding a 'donation' is a contradiction.
> there are definitely going to be cases where innocent people get hurt as a result

That's only true in a vacuum. Can you think of a case that has no other factors than an encrypted file, where someone, as a result, "got hurt?"
Facebook Messenger is actually a monster hit
You can't say "if you don't like it go back to your home country" when it was taken from them.

You also can't say that if the place with the obnoxious rules is your home country. Which tends to be the majority of people.

"If you don't like it leave" works equally well in both cases tho. ("Equally well" meaning "not very" of course...)
OpenBSD is actually formally reviewed/audited, not just relying on "many eyes." Of course you have to remember that only the base install is covered; software in packages/ports is not included in that.
Yes that's a hard problem but thankfully an automated system would get a pass on that, i.e., for the problems we are trying to solve, any of these answers would be considered a reasonable answer... because it's hard enough to even get to a reasonable answer.
I think the lectures so far aren't exactly inconsistent with your thinking. They're skewed SV and given their origins, why wouldn't they be? But at the same time, the first two lectures have politely/subtly pointed out whats wrong with the scene and taken them down
NGA public GitHub
It's one of those "it's almost technically correct" things to say. It's not necessarily a lie, but it is a parasocial relationship[1] rather than a normal one

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
You're right, but I was suggesting using it for Chinese to English, not English to Chinese.

For product descriptions written in Chinese (especially long ones), an automated English translation can be good enough for the reader to make a purchase decision.
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It reminds me of fiverr crossed with Izea.

On a side note, that logo is blurry as hell.
On their "Why no ads?" blog post/web page they mention at the bottom that they will sell "special features" to users while keeping most things free.

https://ello.co/wtf/post/why-no-ads
I haven't read it myself, but Practical Vim is quite highly regarded:

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Vim-Thought-Pragmatic-Progra...

A whole book of tips
You are confusing a right with a power, granted by consent of the governed, that can be withdrawn and can't rewrite the rules of mathematics. People have rights, and under constitutions written the way the US constitution is written, those rights are not enumerated or limited.

You have a right to use strong encryption because you have not consented to give away that right. The government has no actual rights at all.
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I wouldn't use a program B to circumvent a bug of another program A if not in a exceptional case in which patch of program A cannot be created.

This is exactly the case. If bash has a bug. that must be fixed. And it has been done already. Just update bash in major distributions and the bug is gone.

But still you want to have a tool like sysdig to detect if your system has already been compromised previously and it is out of sysadmin control.
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unfortunately PSOS does not use the current version of parenscript. It is based on an older and modified version.
Show HN: Eyewitness.io – Monitoring for cron, queues and websites
How do you store all your testing devices?
Hi there, we're in the process of getting multiple testing devices (phones/tablets) for iOS and Android development. I don't want to stack them on the corner of a table and was wondering if any of you have a good idea to store them in a clean way? I was thinking of using a wall shelf (something like http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/S99903646/) and use some kind of stands to keep them well organized.

Any ideas are welcome :)
The FreeBSD MAC framework[0] allows you to do exactly this, and I agree that it makes a lot more sense.

So to run a web server as the user myapp (with UID 1234 in this example), you simply load the mac_portacl kernel module and then:

sysctl security.mac.portacl.rules=uid:1234:tcp:80,uid:1234:tcp:443

In Linux it seems I can only assign the right to bind to all privileged ports (with cap_net_bind_service), but once every user has that right, that's essentially the same thing as not having privileged ports at all, and we're back to where we started. O_o

[0] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ma...
Is this log public available ? I would like to dig into it.
How to Setup/Run an OpenBazaar Node on a VPS
This is entering highly subjective territory.

The consensus is that Objective-C's brand of OO is not particularly advanced, and Objective-C as a language is definitely not considered advanced. Keep in mind Paul Graham's essay had Lisp in mind, not a C derivative.

Nevertheless, the post that sparked this thread was a comparison between Swift with Obj-C. Now, even if you consider Obj-C an "advanced language" (which most people do not), it's completely unreasonable to think that a programmer looking at both Swift and Obj-C would disregard the latter because of the Blub paradox. It would be highly... let's say nonstandard to consider Obj-C more advanced than Swift.

Not Blub.
Yeah, we based our MVP off Fiverr. I'll put up a higher quality logo - I'm also not sure about it being placed on a blue background?
Shellshock just 'a blip' says Richard Stallman as Bash bug attacks increase
How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service Product
Extremely well put sir! Go forth and travel young ones!
I think an important thing to consider is that many of the massive number who didn't pay may have read very little and/or been happy not to read the book if there was a charge. That is the number that needs to be compared when comparing the success or failure of free.
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Hi everyone - just 'shipped' my latest website.

Solves a specific problem I've been having managing many other web applications across different servers and providers. I felt there wasnt a good solution to what I needed, so I took the opportunity to create my own.

Please feel free to critique the website and solution - any constructive feedback would be appreciated.
My ancestors are Sicilian, Greek, German and a bunch of other things. I've never met an ancestor who was born outside the US. Can you say to me, "if you don't like it go back to Sicily"?

(Note that I speak no Italian outside the kitchen and I doubt Sicily would let me immigrate.)
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>2) Party hard, roughly 1 night per week, maybe Friday. This works well for many extremely hard working professionals in NYC.

So hard drugs and tons of alcohol? We might have different definitions for partying hard, but that's what I think of when I think of 'hard-working NYC professional'.

Maybe we should chill out on that: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26219187/use-illicit-...

*Note, I have no idea if mercurynews is a decent source of news
If they keep posting links to landing pages that are not related to the headline, just lead to an unrelated call to action, they're likely to get their entire domain banned from HN. That would probably get them some more attention.

After clicking this link, which brutally hijacked the back button in my browser, I can honestly say that I really don't want to click another one! :D
"Take the ex­am­ple of desk­top web browsers. Let’s face it, un­less you’re re­ally slow on the up­take, you’ve out­fit­ted your web browser with an ad blocker. Ha ha, you win! But wait—that means most web ads are only reach­ing those who are re­ally slow on the up­take. So their dol­lars are dis­pro­por­tion­ately im­por­tant in sup­port­ing the con­tent you’re get­ting ad-free. “Not my prob­lem,” you say. Oh re­ally? Since those peo­ple are the only ones fi­nan­cially sup­port­ing the con­tent, pub­lish­ers in­creas­ingly are shap­ing their sto­ries to ap­peal to them. Even­tu­ally, the con­tent you liked—well, didn’t like it enough to pay for it—will be gone.

Why? Be­cause you starved it to death. The im­mutable law re­mains: you can’t get some­thing for noth­ing. The web has been able to de­fer the con­se­quences of this prin­ci­ple by shift­ing the costs of con­tent off read­ers and onto ad­ver­tis­ers. But if read­ers per­ma­nently with­draw as eco­nomic par­tic­i­pants in the writ­ing in­dus­try—i.e., refuse to vote with their wal­lets—then they’ll have no rea­son to protest as the uni­verse of good writ­ing shrinks. (And make no mis­take—it’s al­ready happening.)"

This. So much this. I'm as guilty as anyone else, but I try to remember to disable my adblocker for sites I like.
Yeah, french people are going to have so much fun with this one !
Product-market fit will solve your IT problems. Twitter had laughable infrastructure relative to its growth -- the butt of daily jokes, and it didn't matter at all. They had money to hire the right people and make the changes they needed to.

My advice -- keep it simple. Read http://highscalability.com for stories on how others did it -- see YouTube for lessons on simplicity.
I like the face of this president, looks better than the true one ;-) More smart
Yeah, that is all a bit strange.

But Defence forces being attacked for being in uniform is not unprecedented, even excluding Lee Rigby there have been several incidents http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/world/europe/03frankfurt.h... and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.htm...
You could intercept and then re-emit false market data, then trade against whatever position this puts the users of that data in.

Whether you could do this, and do it without being noticed, I'm not so sure.
I honestly don't want to sit on HN and debate whether my claims about systemic racism are positive or normative with someone who believes I need a philosophical education. That's why I'm bowing out. Good luck.
See also "H Day" when Sweden switched from left to right drive. Retrofitting/replacing buses with doors on the other side was one of the biggest expenses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
Yeah - that would not be an issue for mod_php since it is about DHCP - if you're server gets it's IP from DHCP, then there's a potential issue, but since we're talking about mod_php here (not running PHP as a CGI, just mod_php) then the linked post is not related.
Great fork, well done with nice graphics.
No, I didn't try that, but we happen to be running a custom kernel that doesn't include AppArmor support, as we needed to pull in a newer upstream kernel version. Given this issue, we should probably revisit that decision.
And you switched to emacs due to RMS ;)

Jokes aside, during the 1 or 2 weeks that I forced myself to use emacs (a few years back), I felt that I would get RSI because of the painful default keybindings. Of course, I didn't know of evil back then, so I returned back to using vim.
Do you have any evidence to back up your assertion that CFLs and LEDs are more harmful to manufacture and recycle than incandescents?
How do they reach the right people in these mega corporations to get all these contracts? Wouldn't they need a large, world-class sales team?

I think that's what the article is leaving out. You can't just open for business and have giant corporations beat down your door.
No, iPhone 6+ does not bend
We should put pulseaudio in the init too. That never crashes.