skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you really want to "badassify" your shell, check out twosheds, a library that I wrote for making shells in Python. [1] My motivation was that learning bash scripting sucks, and it's hard to do many things that should be easy (like automatically running a command when certain conditions change). With twosheds, it's just Python, so the limit is your imagination.

twosheds still needs some work to get POSIX compliance, but it's already usable enough that I've replaced bash with my custom shell, Shell, which I've hacked to, among other things, print a ton on information on Git's status and the file system-- I never type git status or ls anymore. [2] If this sounds interesting, I encourage you to fork it and give it a try.

[1]: https://github.com/Ceasar/twosheds

[2]: https://github.com/Ceasar/Shell
This is very different from traveling, including the special feeling of being humbled in nature for prolonged periods. I get that pretty often, especially when sailing solo.

Disassociation can take multiple forms but is the sort of thing where you might look in a mirror and see [what feels like] someone else, think freely of your normal identity (particularly with regards to social identity), or in extreme cases lose any grounding basis for sensory input entirely.

Further reading: sensory deprivation, ketamine.
Here is the thing. Bash is the default on most of the servers you are going to have to work on,. Centos, RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Arch,. etc. So knowing and using Bash is kind of like knowing English in the business world.

Of course, don't let that detract from the usefulness of other shells out there. They can be fun and educational.
When I read the title my first thought was that it would be a majoritarian system without districts: everyone votes for one candidate from the list and the top N candidates get elected to parliament. This would solve two main problems:

* The problem of the majority "choking" the minority in each district in the ordinary majoritarian system

* The problem of partisanship tending towards mergers and eventually a dual-party equilibrium in the proportional electoral system

I'm pretty sure this idea is not new and even has a name. And I'm wondering what potential drawbacks such a system could have.
Dude. Optimize for your 99% use case. I spend ten minutes a week on someone else's machine. Does that really make it a bad idea to remove warts and add niceties to my machine? Assuming you aren't literally a stump it should be easy enough to go back to the defaults.
Any system that isn't a very narrow form of representative democracy requires a massive re-write of the constitution. That is not a reason to not consider them.

In a delegative democracy, decision making is a lot more fluid than in the current system. You can buy or coerce someone for one specific issue, but the impact of that will be lower than buying a Senator. That makes intimidation and bribery less effective from the onset, and it can be mitigated further depending on the exact implementation. Either way, just like in the current system, there can be checks and balances to reduce the likelihood of it happening.
I called them and there was a policy change or something. Customer service was really friendly. Now my choices include registering for an educational license or renewing as an individual.
Geography of Incarceration in the United States
I switched from oh-my-zsh to [Prezto][1] and I couldn't be happier. I hope this is useful to some of you.

[1]: https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
Permission to "view and fork" is not the same as permission to copy and paste into a proprietary software product (i.e. this may not be legit for use by "enterprise" developers)
For what, an unthought of innovation?
Yeah, but to avoid detection, botnets register random character domain names that are not going to appear legitimate, so this would be a nice tool in their arsenal.
Here is an excellent video about the overview effect: https://vimeo.com/55073825 (best watched on a (very) large screen)
> One of the biggest issues with this system would be that a rich company or individual could buy large blocks of votes on a particular issue.

Whereas now a rich company/individual can just buy a politician.
Except that image isn't accessible to anyone except the owner, or MAYBE the NSA.

But I'm pretty sure the NSA doesn't care about looking at some random guy's ass.

In the unlikely case that they do need to investigate the ass for national security reasons, they aren't going to disseminate the picture to the world, similar to how they don't disseminate intelligence data.

Which means the ONLY way the public will see the ass-picture is if:
a) The ass is of interest to national security
AND
b) The ass is of such concern to national security it is stored in the NSA's internal ass-database
AND
c) There exists some kind of ass-Snowden that leaks all the asses in the NSA arsenal.

...why does anyone care about this?
Agreed.

I would add 'grep' in there as an absolute must have.

The sed, grep, awk holy trinity will allow you to do pretty much any type of text manipulation and searching that you can imagine.
I don't know why I'm trying, but here we go:

Personal virtues are characteristics valued as promoting collective and individual greatness. The opposite of virtue is vice.[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue
How many of these suits are successful? I know often an agreement is reached at it is not public. It would be great to know.
Thanks for the kind words!

Our operational funding comes from investors and philanthropists (https://watsi.org/faq#how-does-watsi-fund-its-day-to-day-ope...). You can see them all on our About page (just tab over from team to "Founding Donors"): https://watsi.org/about
Weird, they color the word asciilands but don't link it anywhere. Couldn't figure out how to actually play. A Google search just gives the blog, which just seems to have dev entries.
How do you know if the individual being tested doesn't see a face? You have to trust them when they say "no face here"... May as well just ask "are you human?"
all of your bullet points are excellent advice, but:

having timestamps in my prompts has helped me straighten out what I did to get myself into a situation across a few different windows of a tmux session.

having all nonzero return codes show up automatically because of tweaking my oh-my-zsh configuration has definitely saved me time here and there.

root on my machines looks completely different visually compared to my regular user account(s) and this has stopped me from doing dumb things as root, again, while bouncing around in a tmux session.
On Safari 7 at OSX file is downloaded as f.txt.json.
And an iOS app I wrote back in 2008. It's defunct now, but these guys were aware of it when it was still a going concern, and used the name anyway.
Lyft Accuses Former COO of Stealing Confidential Documents Before Joining Uber
> Imagine Rush Limbaugh having the power to vote on behalf of millions of people.

If his vote is identical to what they'd vote on their own, what difference does it make?
Right, sure - but you definitely - well, probably ;) - still want iTerm2!

For Linux, try terminator: http://gnometerminator.blogspot.co.uk/p/introduction.html , or your package manager. There are doubtless tons of other options.
Who connects to a newly registered website you've told no one about?
The automated analysis is pretty useful. How would you know if someone is robbing you until it's after the fact? I would like it as a stand alone program too.
Using the world's most common shell in a standard configuration comes with benefits, too. Incredible portability of your code & experience.

Plus shells that try to be too smart or do too much always break, leaving you debugging your shell. Shoot me now.
It is not clear for me if I can visualize from my phone what the camera is visualizing or just see a notification.
Google Announces Cloud Container Engine Using Kubernetes
I hope they destroy each other!
Parameters I'm not sure, but there was a hot minute back before Rails 2.0 shipped where it was using them:

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/0cac2806a6fd9f1f63cdce...

That 2007 commit rolled back to just using slashes.
I'm guessing that at facebook scale a GC would be expensive.
100% agreed. Consider this to prevent the lock-in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8563103
Nothing wrong with trying to make linux run on a toaster

Some people just enjoy an odd challenge!
NgAria – Automatically make angular apps more accessible
At least in the case of a politician you can usually look at their voting record and see if that matches what you expected them to do.
Unnamed social network (#deHashed for now)

A p2p social network that utilizes djb's curve25519 crypto elements for a fully anonymous network. Almost all networking avoids the use of servers(a DHT server is used to locate initial nodes). A distributed hash table is used to route messages to avoid metadata tagging. All networks are established with ephemeral DH, all operations use authenticated & signed packets. All networking is over UDP for now.

New connections are made person to person using QR codes on screen which are also DH encrypted PKI signatures used as DH keys. Connections can also be established by exchanging random word sentences or having a friend sign your signature and vouch. Either way, we avoid all MITM attacks.

I have a few ideas to monetize, inluding secure distribution of content (micro payments), integration with bitcoin and opt-in advertising. Again, users can participate as they like and we won't ever force content on users without asking first.

Aiming for basic functional iOS and OSX beta in December.
Monchilla acquired by Xero accounting software
With Powerful Software comes ever-tempting Yak Shaving.
SO, do this to vote for full-time legislators. There could be a tree of proxy voting, where some folks proxy with a trusted relative, their minister or a local politico. They could vote their bloc on up the food chain, until somebody wins say 1M votes - they become a legislator?
I really enjoyed the tone of this paper. If only more technical articles can be written in a matter-of-fact voice like this.
This picture will remain in the cloud for eternity.

When assial recognition software becomes more prevalent, they can use this image to match his identity to future crimes (in which he leaves an ass print behind).
BORAT: Bathroom Occupancy Remote Awareness Technology (Wanelo Engineering Blog)
Items 87-93 of the lawsuit are very interesting. They imply that VanderZanden convinced other Lyft employees to abandon ship to start a startup...but then they join Uber instead?

Item 27 is probably the first legal usage of "acqui-hire" ever.
I tend to wonder if our minds have a connection to Earth's magnetic field, perhaps using it as a sort of external hardrive at times, but if that was the case I wonder why the lunar astronauts didn't (literally) lose their minds.

One of the God Helmet scientists (Michael Persinger) hinted at that in one of his lectures I saw, a coincidental synchronicity with the planet's magnetic field, almost akin to the saltiness of our blood being the same as the oceans.
By expensive, not just capital costs, but costs around operating them - they weren't as reliably configurable, health-checkable, and instrumentable as we'd want, and Proxygen (and a later L4 load balancer) were.

Also the previous load balancers had constraints we weren't willing to accept - they required special connectivity to our networks, we could not use particular combinations of options, and we had to rely on vendors to solve problems that most of their customers were not encountering and/or able to detect.
Funny. We're all so (justifiably) afraid of NSA and Google violating our privacy that we don't even consider the ways we do it to ourselves.
I thought so as well, but then why release a c++ lib that's supposedly core to your infra ?
To address (1): Make it possible for voters to voluntarily release their voting records, verifiable and atomically.
> Jim Crow laws limited people's rights, legalization expands people's rights. Jim Crow laws was an arbitrary governmental restriction, legalization removes the arbitrary governmental restriction.

As far as I know, those objections are irrelevant -- there is nothing saying "expanding people rights" or "removing governmental restrictions" are preferable compared to the opposite acts. As long as two acts of law both abide by US constitutional rules, they are equal in "goodness".
Independently, without seeing this thread, I had already posted this today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8563103

I would definitely participate as a contributer, if it's open-source. I'll email you.

By the way, I have already tried Meteor which relies on MongoDB. However, Firebase allows you to read and write data at any arbitrary location. MongoDB, on the contrary, expects you to have some basic "collections" and write complete documents in there. Anything that is on a deeper level inside is called "embedded document" and the support for common operations is much worse.
They also have severe oxygen deprivation, don't they?
>because treaties ratified by the US have almost constitutional standing in legal terms, and need to be formally derogated rather than legislated away.

As a matter of domestic law, that's not the case. Treaties are on the same level as federal legislation and the last in time controls. There are a series of court cases that disfavor implied abrogragation under comity principles, but if a later-in-time statute is in clear and unavoidable conflict with an earlier treaty, the statute controls.
The Letter Spirit project (a Douglas Hofstadter thing) is sort of in that vein, but less prosaic in its objectives.
I was originally hired at my current company to migrate our on-premise servers to Office 365, so I was not involved in the decision to actually select a service.

Microsoft had already considered OneDrive for Business (SkyDrive Pro at the time) a finished product. Two years of hell has proven otherwise. Personally I still view OneDrive as an MVP, though I will concede it has gotten a little better over time.

Microsoft has also failed to provide notification of a new feature rolling out several times, causing confusion with end-users. At best, I'll get a brief message in the Office 365 admin portal that says "Within the next 4 months, we'll be rolling out x, y, and z features." I'm glad that I know months in advance of a new feature, but not knowing any type of specific time frame really puts us at a disadvantage.

New features are awesome and I am more than willing to try them out if I know they're still not totally ready. Ultimately what really irritates me is when companies tout a product as "enterprise-ready" that is still riddled with bugs.
You remind me of a Japanese artist that envisioned the movements he was going to make to make his painting for a long time and then when he finally started moving the painting was done extremely fast. I forgot his name but I thought it was fascinating. I agonize over the first line of whatever I have to write for a long time but once that first line is done the rest goes easy.
Me too. I despise how Lyft and Uber servers always take my request without offering stupid excuses why they can't come to where I'm at, unlike the cab companies. I hate that they never have a problem billing my credit card, unlike yellow taxis. And I especially dislike that I can usually get an estimate of my fare ahead of time, so that it's not in the driver's best interest to take me from SOMA to North Beach via Daly City - unlike the cabbies.

I'm sorry, but I just can't have this conversation non-sarcastically. Both companies offer _so_ much better service than their predecessors that I can't understand the desire to go back to the bad old days.
Compared to google scale which can handle it just fine ? :)))
Why do you definitely still want iTerm2?

The only feature that I find even remotely compelling is mouse support, but so few programs handle mouse input that it largely doesn't matter. People always mention split panes, but I've never had a desire to vertically split my terminal window. If I ever did have such a desire, I'd probably just use tmux. And yes, iTerm2 claims to have some form of tmux integration, but I believe that's basically just using iTerm2 split panes to represent tmux panes, and I don't get why that's any better than just using tmux directly.

So besides mouse support and split panes, what does iTerm2 offer that Terminal.app doesn't? Some of the answers I've heard in the past are "256 colors" and "color themes", both of which Terminal.app supports.
Do you think bandwidth is a limiting factor here in practice? FiOS, for example, has plans ranging from 25 to 75 M bits/sec.

My impression is that having a sensing apparatus to sense and process would be more of a limiting factor. A skull sensor that detects, say 20K neurons, with 1 ms resolution would only use 20M bits/sec.
Right, NEC3's 'solution' to obscure zones by signing hashes effectively just renames zones that probably come from some small collection ('www', 'ftp', 'ns', 'smtp', 'ilo') and not secure for the same reason hashing phone numbers is ineffective.

Arguments that administrators can choose names with large entropy would miss the point as it puts an undue burden on administrators and users to use 'bizarre' names.

Further arguments that you can brute force names using normal ol' A records also miss the point. The difference is online versus offline enumeration.

> it's based on RSA PKCS1v15

Eww. I had no idea. Next you'll tell me the root key's public exponent is 3. Gross.

> If your most important adversary is GCHQ and NSA, then the Internet is far more threatened by the deployment of DNSSEC than it is by DNSSEC's absence.

Not sure it makes too much of a difference in this case... you can't trust non-signed DNS records if your adversary is NSA/GCHQ, and you can't trust typical PKI to bail you out either.
This sounds a lot like the theory that humans used to have more separate brain hemispheres (pre- corpus colossum), and thus had a higher prevalence of schizophrenia (messages from the right side of the brain to the left, perceived as coming from "outside the self") which was interpreted as a voice of God.
Having written stuff to manage cameras, it can be a relief to buy something that just uploads stuff and you don't need to manage squat besides a credit card.
Only if you see a stigma in understanding and improving your mental health.
This means direct brain interface to computer which means the technology for the matrix is here, albeit not yet solid, but hey, pretty cool. Once upon a time, we had nothing but 4bit computers with 128bytes, and here we are today, in about 40-50years.
Steam is well known to allow one refund per customer with close to "no questions asked" before cracking down.
Hold your horses :) We're talking about surface-level stimulation of neurons. It is huge leap to go from that to inner-level communication. Even if the physics were possible, what are the chances that the two people's neural structures would be compatible enough for a direct connection? Each person's memory at a particular region is almost certainly completely different. Would it even make sense to try to map signals in that way?
nope, golang can't handle google either, it would be to expensive for them too.
Design by committee generally leads to poor results. A much better approach is the competition method, where e.g. the public is asked for proposals to secure DNS as in the AES, eSTREAM, PHC, and CAESAR competitions.

DNSSEC was not "design by committee" -- it was "design by multiple committees, all stuck in the 1990s." And this is what we get.

Personally I say: DNSCurve > DNS > DNSSEC. I would support a DNS security competition, even if DNSCurve (which I've deployed) were not selected. DNSSEC wouldn't stand a chance in a public competition.
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1871 is a kind of digital startup incubator community thing:

http://www.1871.com/about-1871/
Extra software that is never used does not increase complexity. A Linux distribution is not a large, complex project. I'm guessing your heat loss analogy is about performance? Do benchmarks and get back to me.

If all you want to do is serve (not run) web content, put it on Geocities. Creating your own Geocities is not more secure or easier.
Interesting Ball
Note that the defendant is VanderZanden, not Uber.
Ah! Good point about the reciprocating mass. I did wonder why they suggested them for marine and aviation (semi-static rpm) applications but not cars etc.

Coupled to a automatic or CVT gearbox it may get around this problem.

I do think that your point about it lacking VVTL is somewhat amusing though.
Not really. They had been living in the area previously and Neij was married.
Possibly. But it seems to me to hinge upon whether surface-level signals can convey the information of interest. How deep is the cortex and how far in can we detect signals? What kind of resolution is practical or even possible in theory? I would imagine the electromagnetics get fairly fuzzy fast, depending on your time resolution.
Sure - but addressing social & public needs is the responsibility of government, not private corporations.

Tax arbitrage strategies can be shutdown by governments. Transparency would be a good start. Require every listed corporation to diagram all of their corporate/llc vehicles worldwide and their interdependencies. Require balance sheets and cash flow statements for each of these entities.
Which has totally failed, because the site is still up, youth perspectives against copyright law are at all time highs, the movement is expanding to physical fabrication, and in Europe, Australia and New Zealand we even have growing political outreach (Pirate Party, Wikileaks Party, etc.).
I've tried using iTerm2's tmux support and found it to actually be less friendly than just using tmux directly. Definitely a YMMV thing, I suppose, but I was seriously baffled.

One thing I heard from several people in a previous discussion is that iTerm2 makes a thin outline around the terminal window and since they often have overlapping terminal windows (that are presumably opaque with black backgrounds), Terminal wasn't as usable. This has changed with Yosemite's Terminal, though.
Starbucks does have a enticing reward platform but what they also have is the ability to fill your account using your credit card. So they only have access to as much money as I'm willing to give them and from the exact source that I want. What does it matter to me if I use my cc at Starbucks 5 times or put the same amount of money into my starbucks account to use later.
You don't have to audit code to find security holes in an operating system. You audit the operating system. This is not rocket science, nor laborious.
Compare "Are you sure you want to run 'lol.jpg', downloaded from hackers.com a minute ago?" With "Are you sure you want to run 'Windows Security Update 3.1', downloaded from update.microsoft.com a minute ago?". It would be even greater if that second alert showed that a certificate guarantees the file to come from a Microsoft site (would it, if this attack succeeded?)

The more you make your malware look like legit, the likelier that people fall for it. It's not a huge difference, but I guess more people would fall for the latter.

[and of course, it is unlikely that microsoft.com is suspectible to this attack. I don't even know whether it works anywhere at all anymore (from a comment elsewhere in this thread, Google fixed it on their site)]
> When inlining everything there is no control over the prioritization of resources.

You can use split points to divide up your code, only the resources in a given split point are loaded. Example: If the user is viewing your 'Sign up' page, then only the resources for the 'Sign up' page will be loaded.

> Large files like images can block the rendering of your layout

Only small to medium files are inlined. Large files are downloaded as usual.