skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but to be honest, it's ineffectual life. This extra time will be spent being old. Whether you're 70 or 100, you will be frail, dim-witted[1], and unattractive.

I have seldom read such an amazing load of (sorry, to say it this way) bullshit and disdain of the old/being old.

I am in my thirties and I really am in awe the live, the doings, the stories of a lot of elders around me.

Sorry, but how young are you?

Getting older and eventually dying is imho, what defines our humanity. Granted, we have learned to extend live by a reasonably amount and have also, in a lot of cases, learned to lengthen it in a way, that gives people a lot of life-quality during their elder years.

In former times, being 40 to 50 meant you were frail, old, broken by hard work, and so on. Now, in most cases, that happens probably in your 70ies.

Anecdotal: Looking at my stepfather, who is helping us renovate our home and being 78, I wonder, how I will ever be able to do that much, when I am his age. Or my slightly younger stepmother.

By the way, he rides his bicycle for 4.500 miles every year, just for fun...

> If you doubt this, consider that practically any old person would be willing to give up all of their material possessions to inhabit the body of a 20 year-old.

Oh yeah, I really doubt this - I know a lot of older people and most of them would not want this trade in.

You are arguing from a very dangerous standpoint, as you argue, that cognitive decline makes live unworthy (and with that every old person). Thinking your argument through you arrive very fast at a point, where we have to get rid of older people, as their lives are "ineffectual life", I really feel only contempt for this race for efficiency, when it is used to divide people into categories like worthy/unworthy or lives in effectual/ineffectual.

Sorry, but I have to take a stand here, as your inhuman comment is the most upvoted here, standing on top. For me, that stains the whole of this community.

So now, let the downvotes beging. ;-)
Yeah, I wish people would quit using "ad hominem", it's turning into a tell for "people who spend too much time online and still don't know how to disagree".

Still, I think you're really overstating the risk here. The data set doesn't have email addresses and it doesn't list the specific services involved. How would you propose causing real harm to these real people using the data here, in a way that hasn't already been done or tried?

It sounds like he did put a lot of thought in to his decision. You seem to be arguing that he thought about it, and then decided to do it anyway to help his book sales, which would make him a pretty indecent person. Do you really want your opinion to boil down to, "I think this guy is greedy and bad"?

As far as the value of research goes ... well, we don't really know yet. This particular dump, yeah, probably won't add much value to the current body of research. (I personally have much larger dumps, and don't consider myself a researcher ... so it's not like there's a shortage of data available.)

That's the thing about research though. You start off by investigating something and seeing where it leads. Maybe this will be the dump that would encourage developers to start maintaining password blacklists ("Please do not use this password, it is too common"), that would be valuable. Maybe this will just be another straw on the camel's back that eventually leads to everybody giving up on the idea of passwords entirely.

Who knows? It might be valuable, it might not, but it's not dangerous.
License-wise:

- this piece of code is 2BSD-licensed

- it calls out to /bin/sh

- on OS X, /bin/sh is hardlinked to /bin/bash

- OS X's bash is GPLv2

Forking to shell is the only way to reuse bash's code. More often than not I really wish sh were not bash.
It's very impressive that the synthesizer came up with that instruction sequence. The technique used is too slow for general compiler optimization (tens of seconds to an hour for short programs) but useful for specialist problems.

This is worth trying on bit-pushing algorithms such as crypto and compression algorithms. Those use so much CPU time that the effort is justified. It might also be useful for generating code that uses MMX/SSE2/3/4 instructions.
ok, i just tried it again. Still have no clue how to move or fire. That version is too simplistic (just fire a torpedo at X Y and you destroy the klingon) and the bsdgame original is completely arcane. this is what the man page says about movement and targeting:

"""
The course is determined by the Space Inertial Navigation
System [SINS]. As described in Star Fleet Technical Order
TO:02:06:12, the SINS is calibrated, after which it becomes the
base for navigation. If damaged, navigation becomes inaccurate.
When it is fixed, Spock recalibrates it, however, it cannot be
calibrated extremely accurately until you dock at starbase.
"""

looking at the source it validates course as 0 to 360.. so looks like angle. yet 0 goes up. 90 goes up...
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Is there someway we could just prefix these with [systemd-rant]?
> Splitting that into more manageable chunks (syntax in HTTP/2, semantics in HTTP/3), combined with the iterative process

Sounds great!

Just one question: How many versions of the (now flabagasteringly complex) HTTP-protocol will I need to support in my application and libraries? Because as we all know, once deployed on the internet, something will never be updated and will need to be supported forever, meaning you can never obsolete that HTTP/1.1 and /2.0 code.

HTTP/1.1 was a fantastic protocol in that it survived for almost 2 decades unchanged. Here we have HTTP/2.0 and people are already talking about what we will need to add to HTTP/3.0.

If HTTP is going to end up being the new MSIE, we can only blame ourselves because we allowed Google to use its dominance to push a protocol the internet didn't need.
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Actually I am really of the opposite opinion! Since I am not interested in developing games but rather in cross-platform support I think that Silver is what Haxe should have been!
I'm glad my sarcasm is well taken.
Sustainable lifestyle is something we need to achieve anyway. Even with people dieing as they do now.

Death, and worse, the frailty that currently comes with old age, should never be acceptable. Old age is a disease and we should use a lot of resources to try and find a cure.
Linux does not have lost its way. It has truly followed its way, and that's what you got. It was always clear (at least for me and many other people), that if you don't design a system but put it together step by step, you will end up with a mess.

I have always been on the NetBSD side, and it's bright over here. Even FreeBSD suffers from similar problems as Linux, trying to get new features fast. That's just how software development works (or does not), you have to follow proper design to get something for the future.

Linux will always be stuck in past design decisions, and in order to stay compatible, things will need be become more and more complex, until they break.
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> Check this out: https://http2.golang.org/gophertiles

This page confirms that I'm not using Google's trainwreck protocol and tells me the config-parameters I need to ensure I keep my browser this way.

Unfortunately, you're not using HTTP/2 right now. To do so:
Use Firefox Nightly or go to about:config and enable "network.http.spdy.enabled.http2draft"
Use Google Chrome Canary and/or go to chrome://flags/#enable-spdy4 to Enable SPDY/4 (Chrome's name for HTTP/2)

This is quite good, although probably not for the reason the original authors intended.
You're aware that harassment is silencing, right? That's its purpose: to make the other person go away.

In short, I'll pick the one that isn't a cesspit. If you feel differently, try moving to a country like Somalia with no functioning moderation system of any kind and see if you prefer it.
Then they probably should have waited a bit longer with the Germany launch.

Seriously, I check allflicks to see what's new and out of 10 new movies/tvshows almost always 7-8 of them are for kids. They might as well rename their service "Netflix Kids: Germany" or something.

It's one thing only offering a tiny subset of the US catalog but quite another to only add kids stuff. That area has got to be twice or three times the size of the non-kids sections.
Good point.

The less than 60 minutes figure came from a 2008 GAO report:

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08467sp.pdf

The particular passage:

" The Air Force also budgeted $132 million in fiscal years 2007 and 2008 for reliability and maintainability upgrades, $28 million more than the amount budgeted for fiscal years 2006 and 2007. Despite these efforts, the F-22A continues to operate below its expected reliability rates. A key reliability requirement for the F-22A is a 3-hour mean time between maintenance intervals, which is required by the time the program achieves 100,000 operational flying hours, now projected for fiscal year 2010. Mean time between maintenance is defined as the number of operating hours divided by the number of maintenance actions. Currently, the mean time between maintenance is less than 1 hour, or about half of what was expected by the end of system development in December 2005. There has been no significant change reported regarding the current mean time between maintenance since last year’s review"

Wondering about that value and for the sake of being more accurate, always a good thing, I found a "F-22 Assertions and Facts" document used in the US Senate in 2009 to defend the F-22 program. It has substantially different numbers for the F-22.

http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/_files/F22AssertionsAndFa...

About maintenance ratio:

"The F-22 is required to achieve 12.0 direct maintenance man-hours per flight hour (DMMH/FH) at system maturity, which is defined to be when the F-22 fleet has accumulated 100,000 flight hours. In 2008 the F-22 achieved 18.1 DMMH/FH which then improved to 10.5 DMMH/FH in 2009. It’s important to recognize this metric is to be met at system maturity, which is projected to occur in late 2010. So the F-22 is better than the requirement well before maturity."

About F22 reliability:

"Reliability is measured by Mean Time Between Maintenance(MTBM. One of the F-22 Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) is to have an MTBM of 3.0 hours at system maturity, which is defined to be when the F-22 fleet has accumulated 100,000 flight hours. Through 2008, F-22s averaged 2.0 hours MTBM while the fleet has accumulated 50,000 flight hours. The F-22 is on-track to meet or exceed 3.0 hours of MTBM at system maturity, projected to occur in late 2010, and the latest delivered F-22s, known as Lot 6 jets, are exhibiting an MTBM of 3.2 hours."
I agree. My point is that there is a separation between the morality value of the isolated action and the morality value of the action in the context of a law. If we disconnect those two, we have a potential problem caused by "metamorality": We give sound reasoning for anyone to disconnect them too. Who's to say that our moral laws are better or worse than others? Consensus? Then how do we establish the consensus? I think by creating laws. And if we see a great deviation from what we see as "right" or "wrong" and the law, we should then try to change the law. Law is the metalanguage of that consensus you are talking about. Without law, there still is a consensus, but you dont have any means of presenting it, thus rendering it invisible to those who don't see it. In other words, when someone with opposite moral values acts in direct conflict with yours, law is the only thing that gives you a way to prevent those actions. What else could you say to them? After all, they have their own consensus in their minds. And of course, they could choose to ignore the law. You see?
Even if there is a "solution" to aging there will be none to accidents. People not leaving their house to avoid dying in the streets sounds like human culture coming to a standstill.
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I would recommend using/looking at Amazon SQS. It seems to all (or atleast most) of your use cases and is managed so you won't need to deal with yet another system. It is strictly a message queue so you would still need to do some work to get things wired up but it should be straight forward.

Another mention, Amazon Simple Workflow is also something you may want to look at. I haven't used it in any project but seems like it could, sort-of work here. (not particularly sure though).
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Racking my brain, I can think of two reasons: preventing anonymity (people are less of a dick on the internet when their real name is there), and findability (finding your friends while not knowing their internet moniker is hard)
Tizen, Firefox OS and Ubuntu are probably the candidates, but I think Tizen has a combination of things going for it:

1) It's not based on AOSP (unlike Firefox OS)

2) Supports both native and HTML5 apps (Firefox OS apps are limited to HTML5)

3) Backed by Samsung, still a powerful hardware player in most markets. Both Firefox OS and Ubuntu [have had/will have] a tough time getting device manufacturers to adopt their OS, but Tizen doesn't have that problem.
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Kikkoman introduced this bottle in 1961, and a favourite of mine because it's easy to locate and use.
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As a homebrew user I absolutely abhor having to keep around a list of instructions that I've only barely just caught during an install .. things like:

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.rethinkdb.plist
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.rethinkdb.plist

cassandra

To have launchd start cassandra at login:
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/cassandra/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Then to load cassandra now:
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.cassandra.plist

To have launchd start redis at login:
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/redis/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Then to load redis now:
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
Or, if you don't want/need launchctl, you can just run:
redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis.conf

.. and so on and on it goes .. seems like the more things 'improve', the more they stay the same.
I meant that when a user plugs a USB they probably want an immediate popup on the desktop and the ability to manage the files on the drive, or that they want to be able to see the wireless networks and configure them without switching to the root user, or even shutdown the computer with a button on the desktop.

The way this is done is with a message bus and other subsystems (there were consolekit, networkmanager, ...), and these don't really match the "Unix-way" of doing things. Though I don't consider this to be a big issue, some people do.

If you have a minimal distro and install a very basic environment, you'll often have to set up these to work if you want some of the above features. Ubuntu will already have all this set up though.
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A much better explanation, thank you.
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Sensitive sites should use 2-factor authentication by default as your method won't help against keyloggers and other malware. I don't like 2-factor authentication (it's more time consuming and costly to get a throw away phone number than a new single purpose email address to register to a random site), but this method is even less user friendly as you can't expect an average user to remember a random symbol string in few months. What would really improve security situation is a good, easy to use, cross platform, cross device password manager that would be included in major browsers by default.
The real name policy on Facebook is a load of bollocks, IMO. I have a friend who has to use a fake name to keep her stalker away (he threatened to abduct her son and stuff like that), and she's legally required to both keep a low profile on the internet and to report any and all possible interactions with the guy to her solicitor. I know Facebook probably has its reasons (mostly having to do with money, I'm sure), but they have to make exceptions.
Fearing an FBI raid, researcher publishes 10M passwords/usernames
> Whether you're 70 or 100, you will be frail, dim-witted[1], and unattractive

That perspective seems self-centred.

As long as he can still be a source of joy to people around him and makes the world a better place in his own way, I'd say it's a life worth living.
Because each platform has its own wildly different threading semantics? (I don't actually know if this is necessarily true.)
It's easy to casually dismiss Persona's lack of adoption but there is real problems with it. For example it is not easy for hosting providers to deploy (custom domains, domain:443 may not be controlled by the provider, SSL certs, etc).
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Sources are not relevant for what you argue. Yes, Hillberg is a good source. You just misuse him.

The start of this thread was a comment with a link that described how Hitler defied the bankers. That stuff is nonsense. The Nazi economic policy was bonkers, or would have been if it weren’t just a preparation for a war of conquest, which it was. It couldn’t have sustained in peace.

It started with a massive monetary expansion by issuing the so-called "Mefo bills", and went on nicely for a few years. Expropriating the wealth of Jews – and non-Jewish but pacifist or socialist businessmen like Hugo Junkers – helped in the beginning, of course. In just five years after gaining power, the Nazis were annexing their neighbours and confiscating the wealth of Austria and Czechoslovakia, which enabled them to keep going for another year or two.

"How Hitler defied bankers" was more a policy of expropriation – justified by hate and rancour – and then military expansion, rather than economics. Nazi Germany couldn’t operate in peace mode; it had to start a war of conquest and resort to slave labour to keep its economics working.

Drawing parallels with "bankers" and "World Jewry" is a tool in the classic anti-Semitist kit. Hitler hated Jews, as he documented his idea of cleaning Jews away in Mein Kampf. It is disgusting to imply that this is sort of okay because originally Jews were just to be deported, not exterminated, and then Jews brought their misfortune on themselves by some "declaration of war" by "World Jewry" that then "provoked" the extermination.

Yes, read Hillberg. Read Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, particularly chapter 7 about nazification of Germany. And please read the book to the very deserved end.

Not everything that Nazis did was bad or crazy, but much of it was. The economics certainly was. "How Hitler defied the bankers" is no model to build an economic policy, unless you plan to make war.
This is a "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
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I tend to agree with this article in some ways .. I've been using Linux since the days of the minix-list, and have over the years been bothered by exactly the sorts of things that are described here .. it seems every year/new release of my preferred distro (Ubuntu Studio) I have to re-learn things that are not well explained or documented.

So I've just kind of gotten used to using the source. Seriously! If I find something I don't get, I build the package from source, and debug it. This is really the only way I've been able to survive as long without tearing my hair out in frustration over the years.

Its a glib response to the problem, but actually it really works.
The traditional user/group system may be simple, but it is limited. For example, it fails when you have a multi-user desktop system when some people login in locally, and some people login in remotely. What should the permissions on on the camera be?

The way this kind of thing was solved 20 years ago was that you could be given membership of some additional groups when logging in locally.

(The wart is that if you, say, opened the sound device when you were logged in to one of the lab workstations locally, you could pass that file descriptor to another process and keep it open after you'd logged out, and then use it to play Rob Zombie at full volume when some unsuspecting victim was by themselves in the lab at 2am).
Ah, I'm sorry I didn't catch it. Poe'd! :\
The guys who capable of improving modern Linux desktop are using Mac. So we are losing momentum in Linux desktop targeted software or facility.

They are developing in Mac but targeting server software or devops tools. So pretty modern, hot and bleeding edge things are happening in there but not desktop area.

GNOME - Always doing some experiment. No application. Just changing shell. No reliable usability. Call me when they are done. One good thing about GNOME is they care about beauty and elegance.

KDE - They just don't care about beauty of ... anything. But their applications are freaking featureful, reliable and developed by people who actually using it. I can feel they are dogfooding. I saw KF5 screenshots. They still don't care about beauty.

ElementaryOS(Pantheon) - Better than GNOME. They are having and developing actual application like geary and midori. You can feel they are actually dogfooding in contrast to GNOME couterpart.

Unity - I like Unity itself. Very long time user. But Canonical lied to us it's stable but actually alpha stage. One more bad thing is it smells vendor lock-in pretty much. Anyway pretty usable and has big ecosystem(community + vendor).

XMonad - At first time, it just looks like another tiling window manager. More I use it, it feels like 'custom desktop construction kit' if you don't mind learning about some haskell. As you all know, 'kit' is about fun and learning more than actual result. So I'm doing still this dumb like window manager ...
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Spot on. Just writing to add that a hypothesis that may explain part of why you get "lower levels of cognitive performance" as you age, is that you've quite a few more data points in mind to draw on (consciously or not) when processing new information.