skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mobile computer tech, here. War story follows.

I handle high single-figures of these adware and/or potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) infestations every week.

Mostly it's Windows 7 and 90% adware/PUPs-centric, occasionally ransomware. In the huge majority of cases, the following will get a computer back up and sorted in a sensible amount of (billable) time:

First, bring known-good copies of AdwCleaner, Junkware Removal Tool, RKill and ComboFix on a thumb drive. Same-day downloads are preferred as some detect out-of-date versions and don't play nice. Shut down computer. Restart in safe mode with command prompt. Run explorer.exe from command prompt. USB typically works as usual, even in safe mode. Run each of the applications above as administrator in the order they are listed. Some will require a reboot to complete their work. The reboot should be in normal mode, subsequent restart(s) to run other cleaner(s) should be in safe mode with command prompt. Diminishing returns will take place after the third of fourth cleaner, and allow 15 minutes for a typical infection.

The longest it's taken me to completely clean a computer of was 7 hours, comprising around 18GB of tat. If it's a severe infection, I will recommend a rebuild from known-good factory media after a Windows Easy Transfer export, assuming there's not too much in the way of user content.

As an up-sell, I also offer a better-than-factory reset where there's a clean Windows 7 installed and no vendor-specific junk on there. Computer vendors aren't as bad as free-to-use software vendors, but there's a reason why a adequate Lenovo laptop can be bought in the UK for 230GBP (including sales tax at 20%). Install, updates, and Windows Easy Transfer will typically be around 2 to 3 hours. It's a hard sell with a cheap laptop, especially since some clients are already preparing to buy a new laptop rather than fix the old one.
I don't understand why AI eliminating jobs is considered a problem. If any job can be done by a computer program it simply means that humanity has outgrown this kind of work and that nobody should do that mindnumbing crap anymore. Let's forget that the word "computer" used to mean "guy who sits in an office of an accounting firm, and adds numbers all day long".
Indeed. I only learned recently just how rampant – not even half of the copies of a "App Store best of the year" game were bought. (https://twitter.com/ustwogames/status/552136427904184320) I wouldn't even have imagined so many people would even jailbreak their phones anymore.
Besides Steam OS, mentioned earlier, people also expect them to be console-like in their compactness and portability, but that's not a hard requirement.
It is very easy to produce linters for Go to find things like unchecked errors, for example https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck
Very likely. I heard an two-way interview on NPR with the editor of the Washington Post, another editor from a prominent UK paper (either the Observer or Guardian, can't remember and can't find the episode, but both are members of the same media group) and the anchor.

The editor of the Observer(?) and WaPo were duking it out because the editor of the Observer admitted that he and his staff were frankly terrified of reprisals, and that it was important to admit that publicly, especially if a paper makes the decision not to republish, and that appealing to "sensitivity" as a reason for not republishing the cartoons was a cop-out. The WaPo editor stood by the "sensitivity" excuses. I obviously completely agree with the former.
Poignant and thought-provoking. Thanks for posting.

The bit about Sinet reminded me of something that I just learned yesterday: that France has a law against denying the Holocaust.

The sentiment behind the law is understandable, but it is difficult not to see a double-standard at work. And, if Hebdo itself really is guilty of invoking that double-standard, then one does have to question the purpose of the "satire".

IMO a policy of good satire encourages the skewering of all ridiculousness, else, it risks becoming nothing more than hateful bigotry directed at a group, and (paraphrasing Sacco) there's really nothing clever or insightful about that. I don't personally know whether this is true of Hebdo, but Sacco seems to be making a thought-worthy point.
As someone not familiar with US universities and fraternities (outside of popular college movies), I have to ask:

Is it mandatory for students to join these fraternities? And if so, why?

I know very little about the subject, as I was never interested in this, but I think here in Austria we have these kinds of fraternities as well, but they are very rare and don't seem particularly interesting. Or maybe that's just me.
I wish the industry set the terminology straight:

Voxelvoid is a block/cube-based - just like Minecraft.

Now, this is an example of an actual real voxel engine: http://www.atomontage.com
Great suggestion, but a little late. :) At 19, no EE experience, and only a few months of experience with C, we barely knew what we were doing. We also managed to fry one computer by turning up the amplifier too high.
To quote the first comment by a "neal":

You lost me the moment I read "Boy Scout motto: Leave it better than you found it". The Boy Scout Motto is actually "Be Prepared"

Which indeed it is, something I took to heart with great results, and it's also not a bad motto for programming, e.g. do solid and comprehensive error handing from the beginning. I don't even remember "Leave it better than you found it.", it was more like leave it as you found it, with of course bonus points for improving it. But, hey, it's wilderness, there's not much "improving" to do there unless it's a permanent camp sort of thing. Unless there's litter or the like to be removed, but I don't remember needing to be told to pick up litter.

Then again, in the '70s the US Boy Scouts were made all modern and relevant, such that you could become an Eagle Scout "without ever camping out, cooking a meal outdoors, or hiking". At least one issue of the Boy Scout Manual replaced the "what to do if you're lost" section with, I kid you not, one page on finding a police officer to help you, complete will illustration.

Membership plummeted, I myself gave up in part because the system changes negated every bit of work I'd done, e.g. "Busted back to Tenderfoot".

So, who knows what today's US Boy Scouts emphasize....
>> "But the level of Satire in question here, was perhaps too much."

There are NO excuses for what happened. None. Just because a certain group of people (no matter who they are) believe something doesn't mean the rest of the world should not offend that belief because some people might not like it. It doesn't matter if that belief is Islam, Judaism, Scientology, or a belief in pigs that fly. I have the right to make fun of it, you have the right to make fun of my beliefs, and no amount of satire justifies violence. We can't live our lives trying not to offend because some people take their beliefs too seriously. I'm Catholic. There are plenty of people who think that's nuts and I understand that. I would never think of hurting them because of it and I would never try to justify anyone who did.
Woah, I stand corrected.

Edit: Although it hasn't opened yet, so what I said might well happen.
Why not do the same with all of technology?

Why do shareholders of big corporations profit from science in a grossly non-proportional way, while more than 50% of world's population has to live on under $2 a day?

It is time for the world's greatest minds to start thinking about how to fix capitalism, because it seems to be seriously broken.

And we need it fixed more than we need e.g. iPhone 7.0, or Google Adwords 2.0.
Did you miss the part about misrepresenting who was who and the purpose of their contact?
If you read the content of that wiki yourself (Carefully), or watch the movie "The Message", you will find out yourself that you are wrong.
Well, people get what they want to hear/read out of religion. Take the old testament, you have enough instances of God-sanctioned large-scale murder to justify most of anything. Some groups have taken inspiration from it, while others have had a completely pacifist outlook. No religion is exempt from that.
Have you ever considered it is theatre? Have you ever considered that it may be directed at the minds of the non-Muslims?

I am a Muslim and frankly find these attempts at "satire" pathetic. Apparently those who find Islam a hair in their globalization ointment can't argue from a position of reason and have to resort to calumny and provocation.
Originally I planned to publish PG packaged as a Chrome app. I spent a lot of time working around Chrome App API security limitations and complicated way of accessing the file system.

Then I found node-webkit. I had PG working in a couple of hours. Using Node.js fs module for file access is almost trivial. In general I try to keep core JS code not tied to Node.js or anything else. PG uses Node.js part of node-webkit only for file access, menus and clipboard. Everything else happens in a browser (embedded Chromium in this case). It would be easy to port PG to another JS-based platform, like atom shell.

Hope this helps.
Warning: This article contains revelations about the deity known as "Santa Claus" which may be disturbing to those who maintain a belief in "Santa Claus" even into adulthood.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven suggests some religious thinking
I wish Hitchens was still with us.

People should read his books - especially God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

RIP, we miss your tact, witty jabs and awesome accent.
Addendum: I save a ninite.com installer to their desktops, renaming it to `Run this every Wednesday`. If they see any `You need to update Flash Player` dialogues, I advise them to close them and only run the desktop icon - this in and of itself saves most people from reinfection.

Edit: typo and formatting.
> I think this comment should be lower down

You actually get two downvotes: if you think a comment should be lower down you can (but shouldn't) upvote all the other comments and downvote the one you think should be lower.

Downvotes are an optimization.
Harvard Law Prof: Requests for trigger warnings limit education about rape law
That's fantastic, as long as there are alternative jobs for those people to go to that they can feasibly perform. This has historically been the case with technology replacing work, but it's not clear whether it's the case this time.

If there's no (or insufficient) jobs for people to go to, in a society that predicates your ability to live a pleasant life on having one, you have a huge social problem. Our current system is not set up to cope with 40% of the population being out of work.
I don't think that is a requirement though, realistically the cost saving on a Windows OEM license will be eclipsed by the reduced game catalog for quite some time.
Is there anyone in France willing to take a paypal payment to buy me a couple of copies and mail them to the USA?
Honesty seems like it would be a good start
I think context is important. What was the context back then vs. today? I would argue that what the author is saying about business environment changing so quickly, especially because of technological advances, makes sense. It might not have made sense back then, but today it probably makes a lot more sense.
We may be close to a breakthrough here... These are researches that I just love to read about. Keep it coming
> This is exactly what racist groups - British National Party - say.

Well, it's true. Don't ad-hominem them, it gives them power (because they can rationally say that you're wrong).

> we should not allow Islamophobic groups to use the Frenh murders to spew their Islamophobe material in mainstream media

I agree. But depictions of Muhammad, insulting as they might be for Muslims, aren't Islamophobic.
That part of the analogy was just part of the "everyone knows what would happen so why do it" rather than a direct equivalent. I presume. Terrible analogy either way.
did I not condemn the attack, and clearly said that at max they should have been ignored, it was after all only satire.
Thanks for the comments. I encourage you to debate the author directly with your views.
Can a non-muslim build a snowman in Saudi Arabia?
Charlie Hebdos fight is not a fight for freedom of expression but against self-censorship. I think a lot media and politicians forget that.

We all deal with self-censorship every day as we live amongst each other. Some people have more courage than others and dare take it "behind enemy lines" where other rules apply.

Freedom of expression is a legal right to express yourself without fearing those in power is going to shut you down or prosecute you. We mostly have that and the only people who can threaten it is the politicians which unfortunately is exactly what some of them are going to do.

We already see the first reactions like this http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

And all over Europe there are people taking advantage of the situation and proposing laws that will actually threaten freedom of expression.
Hey author, link to the parts, with a referrer id and monetize this stuff!
it's almost like he's covertly bundling it into his article
I've read somewhere that the Charlie Hebdo attackers weren't actually very religious either. Didn't visit mosques or read the Quran, but felt separated from society, and looking for some meaning to their life, some way to have impact, they found this. The article claimed they had more in common with Breivik and the Unabomber, or maybe even the Sandy Hook shooter and similar lone gunmen.

It wouldn't surprise me if the same is true for many extremists. ISIS also apparently gets a surprising number of recruits from Europe. People not fitting in looking for a place where they can be appreciated.
Hmn, I agree (about "best I've read so far"). Thank you for the link.

In a related but distinct vein, two thoughts:

Primus. I do not doubt that these murders are a crime and we should grieve and be angry. But why are these murders worth of all this attention, relative to the inattention paid to countless other atrocities? What of children in schools in Palestine (hundreds dead in 2014), or Boko Haram victims in Nigeria (c.f. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30777607 ), or whatever-whatever-I-don't-know-what-because-I'm-part-of-the-problem. And so far this is all trite and obvious, so here's my point: I think there are two reasons. One, innocent if depressing, is that I know for sure I'm not a Palestinian or Nigerian child, but I can imagine myself a French iconoclast loudmouth. And the second, more sinister, is that nobody powerful benefits from focusing our attention on Boko Haram, whereas my list of beneficiaries of the Charlie Hebdo attack can effortlessly start listing European politicans (e.g. Cameron [re crypto] and Hollande).

Secundus. I read much talk of whether or not Islam is a "more violent" religion than "modern" Christianity. Pshaw. The violence doesn't come from religion, the violence comes from poverty and desperation and ego issues and little-to-lose and tribalism. Very few "Christians" (by which I include the non-religious great-great-grandchildren of Christians) lack for potable water or enough to eat, and most have pretty good security of person and property. It's cheap(er) to buy into civilization when civilization buys into you. As that Sacco cartoon says, "we can think about ... what it is about Muslims that makes them unable to laugh off a mere image".
Beg your pardon. I find the exact opposite as true. People today, are generally careful and sensitive about what they say about Jews or black people, because they don't want to be labelled as anti-semitic or racist. Muslims seems to be the only minority you can criticize and be politically correct.

Consider the following statement :

"Maybe most Jews are peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing zionist cancer they must be held responsible"

Is the above sentence racist? anti-semitic? Blood libel? Incitement to hatred and violence? Possibly prosecutable?

Well here is what Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, the head of one of the largest media organisations in the world tweeted a few days back :

"Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible."
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Honestly, and it kinda hurts me to say it, but the belief that blasphemers should be punished is unfortunately a very reasonable interpretation of the Quran. It doesn't take any interpretation at all, it says directly that they should be slain in 33:57-61 for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_blasphemy

Don't get me wrong, the Bible commands the death penalty for a lot of things too, like working on a Sunday for example.
Using Apple's promo material? Really?
It's definitely not ironic or "theatre" for non-muslins. It's taking "politically correct" to the whole new level of "please don't kill me".
It depends if (s)he abandons the project because installing a distro is too hard or (s)he had a legitimate roadblock.
The fundamental issue with your reasoning is that with 7 billions people you will always find someone feeling insulted.

For example, plenty of people believe in reincarnation, don't you think it is slightly insulting that meat eaters (me included) are eating their dead relatives ? Where should you put the boundary ?
If you don't want to build your own, you can buy one:

http://openpandora.org/

Its not just a terminal, though .. ;)
Christians society has not left violence behind, we are just less likely to rationalise it with religion. Although it is not unheard of; just listen to some of the nonesense that George Bush spouted. But is is very naive to believe that violence wouldn't exist if we were all atheists and identified as skeptics.

Humans have an intrinsic capacity for violence. History is littered with examples of groups attacking someone for rape, murder and plunder and then describing it as "gods work". Probably the desire to murder and rape came before the sanctification. Why should we care what the excuse is?
I've heard that this issue will be translated in something like 16 languages, I would be surprised if it wasn't officially distributed abroad, especially in the USA.
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iTunes for Windows is a monster that drains the life out of the PC.

Microsoft Office for Mac OSX was coded with the same evil spirit.

This behavior is unethical but pervasive, and should be outlawed somehow, it hurts everyone. Specially when it comes from the two biggest players in the market.
Saying "it is a personal opinion" doesn't protect you from disagreement, especially if you come off as offensive. The difference is that nobody here is expressing their disagreement by means of an AK-47. Your implied comparison between being downvoted and what happened at Charlie Hebdo is absurd.
> But the level of Satire in question here, was perhaps too much.

Who cares about sensitivities once you cross into satire.

You're effectively arguing that the people that got shot were murdered because 'the level of satire' was too high.

What hurts you is imaginary, killing people is real.

Identifying with a religion to the point that someone insulting your imaginary friend causes a person to commit acts in the real world or to be supportive of such acts is insanity.

If you want a better society then learn that not everybody believes as you do and that the rules governing a religion ONLY applies to those that subscribe to that religion.
"Easy to pull 3rd party libraries" is not particularly positive for a engine/library developer; ideally, you should incur as little dependencies on your users as possible.
Hotter Than Lava, flashbang usage by American police
The face and turban is shaped like a penis
But even in leisure time there are things to achieve, for example learning new skills, exercising and gaining reputation in virtual worlds. I think the concept of "meaning in life" is more flexible than often assumed.
I boggle at people going to that much effort to pirate such cheap games. Is there a region restriction issue?
You can install Windows to partition inside VHD file without using virtualization.

You can use "Refresh your PC" option in Windows 8+.
>the optimization step to not initialize those variables that are written to before used doesn't seem so far away

Determining whether or not variables will be used uninitialized is equivalent to solving the halting problem.
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The liberty to express yourself is not the only liberty in the world. I, You and All of Us have the liberty to be offended as well.

The point is:
-what to do if you are offended? To which I say simply ignore it happened.

-why offend someone in the first place?
>It's merely an uninsightful and flawed analogy with a deeply wrong conclusion.

How so?
If we're going to use medical metaphors for our disaster of a justice system, how about we just admit our prisons are a secondary infection?
I would suggest that on windows you copy all the relevant libraries and headers to your project root and use those, rather than try to "install" them.
Voxels are just the 3d analogue of pixels. No textures or high detail required!

I think this one counts - look at the aliasing on the player's avatar's turret, and the rotating coins.
It sounds like you're talking about the kinds of AI in use today? That's not what the cautions are about, since current "AI" however good at reading individual words or flying drones is not yet capable of human-level thought. The cautions are about trans-sapient AI, which doesn't exist yet. Even if it's simply a beefed up "set of statistical frameworks" linked in the right way to get a computer behave like a human, humans develop and use nuclear weapons, humans go on shooting sprees, humans decide to go to war...