skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, though I doubt this is going to be a popular opinion. I've been steadily divesting myself of pretty much all Google products because of these sort of arrogant and obnoxious decisions.

First it was the won't fix VPN + countless other Android bugs, then repeatedly breaking Canvas in Chrome (why do I care about this? well Chrome auto-updates for 99% of users, so when they break canvas they're breaking sites) and not least the numerous platforms and products they introduced and then dropped despite vibrant & loyal user bases.
Please refer to https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/9983. The Networking concepts are completely revamped using this proposal. Links are being replaced with concepts like Network and endpoints. State Distribution and Service Discovery can also be used by the Network plugins to provide an effective multi-host networking solution.
JDK-4513622: keeping a substring of a field prevents GC for object
The Intrinsic Poverty of Thumbs Up/Down Popularity Voting on the Web
> “IT’S all to do with their brains and bodies and chemicals,”

What's funny is that is precisely the reason that girls and boys compete in separate classes in athletics. It's why there's a women's olympic medal in swimming and a men's.

So when are schools going to begin grading the girls on one curve and the boys on their own?
Adults only here!
Except standing outside their house and screaming the contents of the tweets would surely fall closer fulfilling "true threat" doctrine than tweeting from hundreds if not thousands of miles away.
Nobody knows. Nobody even really knows how this works yet.
The concepts of Linking are being revisited via the network revamp proposal with the help of Network Plugins :
https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/9983. With the plugins providing State Distribution and Service Discovery the containers can be effectively linked across multi-host network.
As far as I can tell, you just posted part of a random screengrab from your web browser for no obvious reason. Striking's response suggests that this is actually a reference to a site which, per the OP, is gone forever, along with any chance of getting your joke. So...I'm not really sure what you were expecting.
I see some potential use of this, for example as soon as Google crawlers reach the site I know that it is accessible from outside and I destroy the site.
Nobody said it was OK. It's dubious to call it a threat.
As he said in his blog post (https://38pitches.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/the-world-we-live...), he considered the first couple of comments just harmless joking around, and that's what his "threats of violence" were as well.

I want to date your daughter, I want to take your
daughter to prom, I want to hit on your daughter etc.,
those? Those are guys being dopes and saying what guys
say. This stuff? This is so far off the radar it’s
pathetic.

It's pretty easy to read his "i have many friends that are in or former special forces....." in the same light; joking around, maybe pushing the boundaries a bit but nothing that's egregious. It's a pretty normal response from a father to someone who's being a bit too forward with his daughter.

Graphic descriptions of rape and violence against a minor are a completely different ballpark.

Should he not have made the "special forces" comment? Maybe. That's what showed people that they could get under his skin by making comments about his daughter, so some people took that and escalated quickly. But I don't think anyone would read that as any actual threat, and the people who escalated and graphically described raping his daughter are fully responsible for their own actions.
The little secret on Digital Forensics
You should have your own.

Anything that is done on your employer's computer is OWNED by your employer!

So actually, you should have your personal computer at work, to perform private tasks. Well, no, you shouldn't, you shouldn't perform private tasks at work.
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Yes, I think a lot of people only know of the caricature of Stallman. He has very nuanced views and while he may be personally eccentric he is consistent and usually quite reasonable.
Sony Morpheus virtual reality headset to launch in first half of 2016
Most of these ideas will be an echo chamber for the niche needs of this niche crowd.

HN itself identifies towards the tech-centric crowd, so most of these ideas are already focused around some market + tech (or just tech for some marginal utility).

Granted, some of these ideas sound cool. But why so? It's because of the echo-chamber in that "we" all find them cool on some level, and thus they become niche ideas in fragmented markets with demanding users and no possible financial gain.

This is probably why it was stopped in the first place.
I had a client once who had something similar, although unintentionally. She approached me because her website "kept getting hacked" and she didn't trust the original developers to solve the security problems... And rightly so!

There were two factors that, together, made this happen: first, the admin login form was implemented in JS, and if you went to log in with it with JS disabled, it wouldn't verify your credentials. And it submitted via a GET request. Second, once you were in the admin interface, you could delete content from the site by clicking on an X in the CMS. Which, as was the pattern, presented you with a JS alert() prompt before deleting the content... via a GET request.

Looking at the server logs around the time it got "hacked", you could see GoogleBot happily following all the delete links in the admin interface.
Good on you. What your member did was beyond vile. I have a young daughter, and I'm appalled there are people out there who would event think these things!
Also check your companies' rules and local laws: A work device they probably can take back whenever they want, clone it, might be allowed to look through all files on it, they might have to give its contents up for law suits or audits...

Here in Germany many companies prohibit private use of devices or accounts because they want/need the ability to check their contents without having to worry about breaking privacy laws while doing so.
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Some of the container restart issues related to Links were resolved in 1.4+ & 1.5 releases. Please refer to the thread https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/6350.

Also, the network model is being revamped via https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/9983 to provide a more flexible plugins based Networking system which can also provide multi-host solution that is more powerful than the existing single-host multi-container linking system.
Just found it today, and it's great, but written in javascript, which kills everything that I like in Emacs (I mean Lisp).
Sizing Up VR Headsets: Sony's Morpheus and HTC's Vive
CS degrees didn't even exist at most places until the late 1960s or even the 1970s. So --

Donald Knuth BS,MS mathematics 1960, PhD mathematics 1963

Dennis Ritchie BS physics 1963, PhD applied mathematics 1967

Ken Thompson BS EE 1965, MS EE 1966

and so on for pretty much everyone else in that generation.
Ringio is an interactive data pipe written in Go
Hiding and sweeping under the rug is exactly the best way to manage something like this. In any conflict negotiation, you want to minimize value destroyed. Swept under rug == no reputations are ruined == minimum value is destroyed.

The way you sweep this under the rug is roughly:

* Victims file law suits. Unfortunately, not all do (but it is their civic duty).

* A portion of the law suits have settlements. A typical one might be a few million. The settlement includes a non-disclosure.

Perpetrator is punished in proportion to the level of crime, and has reason to stop. If you get hit 10% of the time, your expected cost per harassment might be a few hundred thousand. That's expensive.

A random selection of victims get big payouts, and a random selection get nothing at all. Damages are big enough to account for this ($5 million is far more than the damage in a single case, and is set to account for the cases lost or not filed). That's not perfect, but nothing at all is still better than less than nothing (which is what happens with public shaming).
EMBERS project can predict the future
Drawing parallels between the physical world and the Internet is bound to be murky.

To begin with, the physical world doesn't have a single standard of ethical or moral behavior, as it varies subtly or greatly by jurisdiction.

The Internet doesn't really have the same territorial boundaries that are presently vital to the functioning of humans in the physical world, either. Of course there has been some legislation on the matter and many have tried to assert jurisdictional power (famously in file sharing cases), but those are all highly volatile concepts.

Indeed, each site chooses its own specific rules and guidelines. They're globally accessible, ad-hoc jurisdictions in of themselves, in many ways.

Finally, the web application platforms themselves are not entirely blameless. They've created highly gamified, bizarro worlds where people are signaled and conditioned to engage in forced and obnoxious "social" behavior that many would consider totally histrionic and narcissistic if done in the physical world. The need to post every picture, to post every vapid thought in a global public bazaar... most humans simply aren't used to such a thing, and evidently cannot cope with the repercussions of it, either.

Governing behavior on the Internet is doomed to end in an ambiguous mess without enacting ID laws that would subvert its purpose.
Ask HN: New hire and computer upgrade policies
What computer options does your computer offer new hires? How do you handle upgrades? As-needed or a fixed schedule?

I can't find too much of this information online it appears, especially for the Austin, TX market.
Vivid: Sound Synthesis in Haskell [video]
I guess there may be some other cases that I can't think of, but the point remains the same; using the same pronoun for "he" and "she" (and "it" in spoken language) doesn't really cause confusion, because that's how the language works. People have been speaking it without having separate pronouns for a long time, and the language has evolved accordingly.

I took a look at a few of the top articles on Helsinki times right now (yes, those don't represent the spoken language very well, but I doubt it matters for this purpose) and some of their top comments. In the articles themselves almost every instance of "hän" (=he/she) referred to someone who had been described or named in the previous sentence. Only in one occasion the person was named in the previous paragraph (there were no other people named in between). In the comments there were some cases with no name/description, but they were commenting on a story about a person (unabomber in this case), so there was no ambiguity there.
First Enterprise App for Apple Watch
/* Return validated output for printing */
static
t_output * val_and_xform
(
int in_cnt /* input item counter, 1 based */
t_input * raw_in /* raw input, immutable, not null */
)
{
...
}

Further examples: https://github.com/roboprog/buzzard/blob/master/bzrt/src/bzr...
This is coming perilously close to victim blaming.

When these horrible tweets are made, there's always a contingent who says that the target should ignore them. You probably should if they are completely anonymous. But if they aren't - have at 'em!
No one seems to like things like racial profiling. But sexual profiling is apparently A-ok.

EDIT: So many downvotes, such lack of rebuttals.
Many things can be learned from what's inside Google, Apple, IBM patents. Learn from what inside patents. It's a great way to spark ideas as opposed to going in blind.
Can you take civil action? Or escalate it to someone higher in the police?
What is the purpose of a website that is inaccessible "from outside"?
The usual suspects riding the PR machine:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-pri...

http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/26/were-no-rock-stars-meet-si...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2886735/it-careers/should-y...
Cards Against Originality
Right, whether you use a native or a web app, you have to trust two things: The developer of the app, and the SSL infrastructure (assuming of course you use https).

A rouge developer or a compromized CA can harm you in any case.

The problem with in-browser encryption is when it replaces https. In that case, you have no insurance that the key hasn't been seen/touched by a man-in-the-middle attacker.

What in-browser-encryption on top of https does is it protects you in the case that the (honest!) app provider has a data breach. They never had your plaintext to begin with.
I don't know if it's okay, but it is a fact that celebrities and common folk are held to different public standards. This has been true since the days of village gossiping to the present where countless publications exist for the sole purpose of serving as trash rags and yellow tabloids on the private lives of high-profile public figures, going day by day without significant legal troubles.
I meant Linear Discriminent Analysis - good answer! I've experienced similar results with PCA vs other methods.
Streaking near a playground without knowing of it and threatening to rape someone's daughter are completely different things. Telling anyone that they want their daughter to bleed into their underwear because you raped them is sickening, intimidating and frankly sexual violence.

Since when did this become acceptable?
What's the idea solution for this? I would drop a cookie and use that to verify admin privileges on each page. Is that right?
Your wording suggests there's a universally accepted standard of what exactly constitutes harassment. As noted in comments below, courts tend to disagree. Personally, I believe that one radfem with agenda and no real proof should not be able to ruin careers and lives by twitter.
Because that's pretty much what he says in his post to comp.compression, where he announces that someone accepted the challenge. Let me quote:

> Before naming the individual and giving additional details of our
> correspondence, I would like to give him some time to analyze the
> data I will be sending him. It would be very easy to point out to
> him the impossibility of his task, but far more interesting to see
> how long he will struggle with the problem before realizing it for
> himself.
>
> I am supposing that one of his fellow co-workers probably referred
> him to my challenge, as I cannot fathom that someone would read the
> comp.compression faq first and then want to participate after
> understanding the futility of the effort. On the other hand, some
> people just don't understand information theory too well.
>
> I'll try to give him a complete explanation of his error after a
> week or so, I guess. :)

So Mike is just smug about how clever he is, how stupid the other
person is, not even suspecting there might be a loophole in the
challenge.

I see no sign of interest in learning what the other person is up
to, or even admitting that there might be something to learn.
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate" />
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0" />

+

Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: 0

+

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

Of course, this won't prevent crawlers which do not honor these headers/meta tags from caching your site, but if you're not in Google's index you're likely not getting traffic from said crawlers.
The incident at PyCon:
Conversation interloper becomes offended on behalf of non-present female children by the contents of a conversation that she was interloping. PyCon staff of course will be sycophantic with upset guests because they hate bad press.

The PyCon incident was a moment of incalculable oversensitivity and probably should just be forgotten when considering the spectrum for which you hope to draw a line on.
I don't see that being implied by the parent comment.
You are the best developer
"I don't know if it's OK"

Here's your answer then. It's not, and it never will be.
Since the early days of home computing I used a mixture of free and commercial software.

Back in the days we had program listings, public domain, freeware, shareware, ....

Then GPL came along and many adopted. Personally I had a phase where I was 100% GPL and writing stuff like M$.

That is all gone for me now and I am even typing this on a Windows 8.1 system, but I do acknowledge that most likely Linux wouldn't ever happened if it wasn't for GNU and the whole (L)GPL eco-system.

Many of the open source advocates that are anti-GPL forget that without it, probably the choice today would have been between commercial UNIX systems and Windows NT.

Android extensions outside AOSP, LLVM derivatives for embedded systems, GPGPUs and most recently Swift are good examples of what happens when you join commercial interests with free code.
Really easy?

...Really?

Edit: Not only would this alter a core and fundamental aspect of how Twitter currently operates but it would certainly be non-trivial to implement in an unobtrusive manner.

Who wants what blocked? Is there a generic 'spam/abuse' filter? Is it on by default? Are those tweets put into a spam/abuse section or entirely unviewable. What happens when someone sends a tweet that is blocked by the filter, are they notified?

Try to clearly define what metrics/identifiers you would use to determine a tweet is offensive and should be blocked and then call this implementation trivial.
The book title is confusing; that's the subtitle:

Use OpenCV in six secrete projects to augment your home, car, phone, eyesight, and any photo or drawing
My guess would be that they want you to share the article but not to leave their site for some other just to see the discussion. Or maybe it's just how the widget was implemented and no one gave it much of a thought.

It would be a cool browser addon or maybe a service that tracks articles online and shows you comments about it from other sites.
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You are thick.
It isn't even true that it's all to do with brains and bodies and chemicals.

Sure there are underlying sex differences, but the best boy at anything is a lot better than the average girl, in the same way the best girl at anything is a lot better than the average boy. Where athletic championships are concerned the differences in the distributions make a difference, but to organize a society around the tails of the distribution is a mistake.

Men are shaped by social expectations as much as anything else, and those expectations are communicated to them violently and in no uncertain terms. To be a successful man you must over-produce so you can take care of your family. You must defend something: your family honour, your country, your personal integrity. And you must do so violently, or you aren't a good man.

These characteristics are pretty much universal, but once upon a time kingship was pretty much a universal characteristic of human societies, and we don't see too many of them around any more. Kingship was also considered "natural" and "inevitable" at the time when it was merely common. So I'd be wary of arguments that simply because beating the hell out of boys and men until they are shaped into a particular mold is common, that it reflects more than relatively weak proclivities on the part of the people being beaten.

Until we recognize that boy's poor performance in school is due to masculinity being socially constructed in ways that fail boys and men academically, we will continue to perpetuate this systemic injustice, and we won't really know what boys and men are capable of.
Nice to see my home country and one of the cities I have spent a great deal of my life on HN.
The big issue, as you note, is that you download normal software once, while with a website you download it every time you visit (modulo caching, of course). With free software, you could download it, audit it, and then feel secure using it for a decade or more; with in-browser crypto you're highly unlikely to load the site, audit the code, then use it every time you use it.

Moreover, this constant redownloading enables user targeting: probably no-one will notice if Google serves a slightly different piece of JavaScript to one user.

That's one of the beauties of signed free software: it's public, and many people can collaborate on ensuring that it's secure.

I don't think that the appcache applies to this case because it's under the web server's partial control.
Blast! That would require our solution to break all known encryption. Then it would be easier to just target Goldman's setup.

A file with output from AES-256("sekrit") would not be random to Goldman. It would appear random to us, until we crack it with a plausible password. Key to randomness is unpredictability. The moment Goldman saves some atmospheric noise on his computer and makes a short pointer to it on his filesystem, is the moment this file loses its claimed unpredictability. Goldman knows this file deeply: He himself has compressed meaningless random data into predictable information that has meaning and purpose, a feat he set out to prove impossible. By simply entering the challenge with real meaningless randomness you make Goldman solve it for you.
I totally agree, the right course of action here is just good ol' fashioned public shaming. There's really no reason to bring the judicial system into this as it would be very taxing on that system to prosecute this type of behavior.

A good deterrent to making these kind of public comments is the social pressure of others around you knowing that you in fact act/think this horrible way.
Note that the article does not do a breakdown by subject, an interesting ommission. It is possible that the data might show girls out performing boys because they are taking easier courses, so in aggregate it looks like they're ahead, since a high grade in $hardsubject is taken as equivalent to a high grade in $easysubject.

Hard to know without the data to analyse for this.
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Career-Related AMA with Brad Feld
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Your experience and particular skills will not be decisive (although we will be working with javascript, nodejs and go), there will be a mentoring period and probably a test project before doing any real work, but I do value attention to detail, intelligence, ability to learn, and ability to get things done.

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You're totally right. If I managed a team of employees and I saw this in the news the next day, there's no way I would keep that person employed.

On an unrelated note, I think you win the best username award :P
You are wrong. It is not appropriate to comment on another person's appearance if that person works for you, or works with you. (Unless their appearance falls below whatever minimum standard your company has).

Women do not appreciate those comments. By making those comments you are being creepy and unacceptable.
Just a visit to their employer by the Secret Service. Don't think it hasn't happened, it once happened to a Kuro5hin contributor.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/12/20/211923/84
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