skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How brilliant. How is that a better argument than "if you don't like it here, you might as well kill yourself."?

Oh I see. Because you implicitly value "doing" as better than "not doing", no matter what. So in that case, "living" must be better than "not existing", but definition. Hence you should stay around. How brilliant. Got any more brilliant arguments which are by default true by your own axioms?
That is probably one of the most interesting links I have seen on Hacker News I have seen in several years that I have seen on Hacker News ever probably.
Participating in this seems unwise for publishers but I agree with everyone saying from Facebook's point of view this is smart.
"This situation" is insoluble. As a man you just have to deal with it. That is all there is. Maybe one day family law in the USA and UK will be less one-sided but it will still be the case that no one gives a fucj about men qua men. You just have to keep going.

Run, lift, meditate, keep a gratitude journal but just keep going.
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You can just type anything. Obviously we don't have access to twitter's db
Haven't been able to create an account, bugs out constantly and is very slow. Cool for prototyping but honestly it just highlights why we need engineers.
> Get acces to any museum for free!

Typo (access).

and I don't get an image in the popup: http://imgur.com/RwtBdga

Edit: Firefox 31.6.0
As far as I can tell the hegemony of Google Reader kind of stunted the growth of everything else.
an theory I read was, forcing users to use an app gives better monopoly. users can't drift off to other sites to compare deals; apps will monitor you and study behaviour, and help their marketing strategy; they bug you with deals all the time making you use the app more often than you'd have otherwise( idea from Facebook); flipkart n Amazon did this with the mobile site, flipkart is testing the waters of the next stage by using it's myntra division.
RSS didn't solve the adoption problem, nor the "it just works" problem.
Village Green Project (public air quality display)
As far as I understand, not encrypted by default, and not very secure even when encrypted:

http://www.alexrad.me/discourse/a-264-attack-on-telegram-and...
Imagine if they sent their articles to the supermarket and the supermarket decided how to lay it out and what ads to run. And perhaps also interspersed your articles with articles from other sources you did not vet ahead of time.
Vaguely frustrating that this thread had been taken over by MRAs.

Incredibly frustrating that what started as an OK discussion about male social experiences when I went to bed, now has people willing to fundamentally misrepresent the tenor of conversation because it doesn't occur on their terms. You yourself define "MRAs" as those saying "women did it" which didn't seem to be the majority here. (unless not explicitly saying "this is only the fault of men" is equivalent to blaming women)

I'm sure the tide will change though, as people (ie You) seem to be rolling in wanting to have the same go-nowhere internet arguments again and again rather than discuss things on terms outside their comfortable narratives. You're just priming the pot for the conversations you deride. Thanks buddy!
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Lenovo's Superfish? Prior to that, the Sony rootkit CDs? Pre-installed adware in general? Amazon's thing with the always-on microphone? The Samsung TVs that report all filenames on connected devices back to a server?
U.S. Authorities Near End of AT&T-DirecTV Review, Unlikely to Block Deal
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: Apple Watch Edition
If you're interested in functional JavaScript, raganwald's "JavaScript Allongé"[1] is certainly a nice read. I have also heard great things about "The Little Schemer"[2].

[1] https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge/

[2] http://kysmykseka.net/koti/wizardry/Programming/Lisp/Scheme/...
Absolutely nobody is avoiding reading articles because they take too long to load but they have to have some sort of positive way of describing it.
> We are no less corrupt than we ever were.

I'm not sure. America used to be a lot more diverse in how it was governed. Thought Chicago was too corrupt? Move to California.

More and more issues are becoming federal issues (drugs, bridge maintenance, even), so corruption and injustice becomes a universal problem.
Here is another one for you: If any of the above fails, what about spare parts availability?
That is totally amazing - I did skim the article pretty fast but still was 100% sure I read psychedelics. Strange how your mind works sometimes :-D
I totally agree with you, the website is really slow, most likely because it ended here...
So... is this group text to contacts who are within some radius by GPS position?
Submit 'em all.
Let peer review sort 'em out.
Why tools like Docker, Vagrant, and Ansible are hotter than ever
The last time I read about Telegram people on HN were upset about it's security competition or something like that. IIRC, the gist of it was akin to this:

T: "Our security system is so secure that we'll give you a prize if you manage to break in through the front door"

HN: "But real criminals won't necessarily use the front door. What about other potential points of entry?"

T: "We won't confirm or deny the existence of any other point of entry, and to be clear, the competition is strictly about the security that our front door provides"

Is this still the case?
Yeah, I realize that.
Factom announces its partnership with Bitsapphire
I don't trust borderline malware to uninstall itself.

http://www.imore.com/avoid-mackeeper

> What's more, "uninstalling" MacKeeper doesn't get rid of all of it — you'll find various traces of it in your Mac's system library folder, and they take a bit to get rid of (just search for anything with zeobit or MacKeeper in the name, and you'll turn up files).
However. The privacy level is around the same as on Dropbox. Your hosting company can read your files. And the average Joe probably does a worse job securing his VPS then Dropbox does at securing theirs.
Don't post on HN of all places and claim we don't need programmers...

On a serious note, cool product but we've seen many many many of these sorts of platforms before. They never work outside a niche market simply because programming isn't about typing, but assembling logic.
I would say that 21 is an attempt to extract money from the VC community by pitching Bitcoin as the "next big thing". Given that this announcement doesn't seem to have official Intel press release backing, it's a little shady. I'm also skeptical about them getting to produce a small-run ASIC on Intel's incredibly valuable 22nm FinFET production line.
Haven't we been here before?

http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf

The hard bit of software engineering is not knowing the syntax and typing the lines of code, but the design and problem solving, that abstractions can't solve.

You can make it easier to produce software with better tools, but the fundamental intellectual requirements of software design and implementation will never go away (until you have AIs genuinely powerful enough to write code themselves)
NetBSD also switched over in 6.0 back in 2012.
Do they get paid by shares or salary? I mean is it a viable alternative to having a "job"? I see many people around sitting on multiple boards of companies.
They feel better in the moment, but result in dumber decisions. So they're a lot like alcohol.
Why I'm Coding in Python 3 (Hint: It's About Gratitude.)
Macaulay-style drawn cities
I'm new to Hacker News and wanted to tell you all a little more about our opportunity. See, the ArgusQ platform enables software development organizations to hypothetically test their requirements before coding even begins. We're looking for experienced software reviewers to review functional requirements and develop What If scenarios to help product owners/business analysts think more deeply about their products. Our goal is to help rid the world of poor quality software and catch errors/contradictions/omissions/ambiguities before they get baked into a feature or product. Cool, right?
I see a benefit outside tech circles: I can readily share such a nice presentation form factor to explain to upper management why security and best practices matter. Later on, instead of important issues being hand-waved at meetings, proper steps will be taken care of with management approval.

Please don't underestimate the human work needed to be done along with our tech jobs.
That is five percent of EVE.

The other 95% is spreadsheet manipulation and waiting for your kitchen timer to go off.
The Houston public radio station aired a segment on how the City of Houston was all for installing one of these air quality monitors, at an elementary school no less, but it needed some funding from the state Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which declined. My only question is: Where do I send my check to help get this thing installed in Houston?

http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/news/texas-passes-on-new-p...
Ironically this is the free market working as expected, that the sale value should collapse to exactly the marginal cost of production. Profit can only be maintained by barriers to entry or market differentiation, and there's a constant threat of oversupply with no way to cartelise to reduce oversupply, OPEC-style.
"Look and feel" aside, the site copy (i.e. text content) is way too similar to be a coincidence.
Given the complexity of QEMU and its pace of development, there is likely an endless supply of such bugs for punching through the QEMU emulation layer. The problem is that most of the time, the QEMU process is running in dom0, giving an attacker an opportunity to hijack the hypervisor. Xen offers a more general solution for this: running QEMU in a stub domain. The main problem with that solution right now is that Xen forked QEMU such that the stub domain only supports running QEMU 0.10 or such - the up-to-date version of QEMU (known in Xen as qemu-upstream) is somewhere around 2.2, but it runs the emulation layer as a process in dom0, which exposes the system as a whole to "VENOM" and related attacks on QEMU.
> If we are talking rasterization, isn't an OpenCL/CUDA version pretty much always going to stomp an x86 implementation? While on the ray tracing side, there's little difference?

GPU will stomp CPU on memory-bandwidth alone (GDDR5 RAM is much much faster than DDR3... and when DDR4 catches up in the coming years all the GPUs will switch to HBM and still retain a massive memory bandwidth advantage).

CPU wins due to legacy code and access to huge memory.

In practice, RAM Requirements mean at best, it'd be a OpenCL/CUDA version PLUS CPU to handle the large scenes. I'm sure the OpenCL / CUDA version will be cheaper from a hardware perspective, but once again... developers are very expensive. A decent software development team runs in the millions of $$ / year in costs, let alone a team of GPU-specialist high-performance programmers.

Its things like this why Intel's Knight's Landing GPU chip (which runs x86) actually have a valid market case. Sure, Knights Landing is slower, weaker, and more expensive than the competition. But that x86 compatibility is a major feature that saves developer's time.

Also, when you start doing GPU + CPU computations, the PCIe latency starts to become a major issue. Tasks may complete faster on the CPU than CPU+GPU, because the task is in CPU L1 or L2 Cache.

While if you do CPU+GPU, you push the code out the PCIe and then synchronize the CPU+GPU... then the GPU starts pulling the data into its cache. When the GPU is done the task, its pushed over PCIe AGAIN.

So its a bit tricky task to balance the memory issues and cooperation across cores.
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In more stories villains are male.
You probably already know this - but these CPUs would be absolutely horrible at mining bitcoins.
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>Floppy Disk Controller (FDC)

Why isn't legacy junk like this disabled by default? How many people need a floppy disk controller?

There's something scary about how legacy compatible a lot of FOSS projects are. It just raises the attack surface and leads to stuff like this.
Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles with raytracing on the GPU in 4096 bytes [pdf]
You should optimize your images. These are 6000x4500px 2.4MB PNG images:

http://mrale.ph/talks/goto2015/images/intro-slide.png

http://mrale.ph/talks/goto2015/images/last-slide.png
The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
Read the story of Lithuanian guys breaking the bank!
So when are we allowed to have fun? When there are no homless people? When computers are free? When we reach singularity?
>Everything else being equal, men face far greater issues than their female peers.

This sentiment is part of the problem in my opinion. How shitty you have it isn't a damn competition. I think we should be working to remove these systemic issues for everyone, rather than keeping score on who has had the more challenging game of life.

Edit: I was thinking about your comment. You bring up a legitimate list of concerns that I happen to agree with you on. I just don't really care for the way it was delivered. I think you could win a lot more support if you presented the argument less as a competition for who has it worse, and more as a way to illuminate issues for people who may not be aware or who may have not given these issues much though.
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Also known as a “submarine” article:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Other than taxes, what are the cost associate with having a company in estonia ?

Has any of you already open one ? How was the experience ?
Tencent Is Putting More News Feed Ads Inside Its Blockbuster App WeChat
> They are not (usually) psychopaths, they have feelings and empathy, but are just very good at rationalizing those feelings away.

I'm really glad you made this point, and I'll add that we have to remember that most people can be induced to make callous decisions with the wrong incentive structures and the right pressures from their management. In some environments, behavior we might deem callous is merely institutional for others for pragmatic reasons.

All too often, we forget that when building institutions (commercial, government, etc.), it's critical we don't inadvertently construct systems that give people incentives to do the wrong thing. We have to stop labeling normal people as psychopaths and remind each other we can all act callously under normal circumstances. Not exceptional circumstances, but normal pressures from management and colleagues.

Dan Ariely wrote a good book that tries to explain some of the mechanics: http://danariely.com/tag/the-honest-truth-about-dishonesty/
3 big lessons I learned from running an open source company
Surprisingly, it does - I just knew them for their shady ads and popups which clearly scream "don't install this!", but this website looks absolutely legitimate. Color me surprised.
WTH!
Either start as Mobile only app and be successfull (Eg: Whatsapp)
(or)
Start a Website and gradually introduce mobile apps (Eg: Google)
(or)
Start a retail service, use website as entry point, then introduce mobile apps (Eg: Amazon)

Myntra model is backwards. Start retail, use desktop website, start mobile site, think about mobile app, hate desktops, shutdown desktop website, shutdown mobile site.

I don't get it!!
4 Reasons Email Isn’t Dead and Won’t Die
I'm guessing this. Why even make floppy emulation available? It has no use cases on AWS. Floppy support only exists really for Windows driver install at install time, if you can't slipstream the driver in. They probably tore out a lot of stuff while developing the EC2 infrastructure.
Without prioritising user convenience you do get the best security, mainly because you have zero users to protect

Yes, it could be better, but it's still better than whatsapp, facebook messenger and sms

(I'm a telegram user, and wouldn't be if it didn't sync across devices)
In some ways it's like the adblock debate - and there are JavaScript bitcoin miners (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566365 ) - uselessly slow now, but the concept still holds.

I've collected a few "ad supported" free items (keychains, bags, writing boards, etc.) from various trade shows and conventions, and of those that are still usable, amusingly enough the logo was the first thing to come off from normal wear and tear.
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Upvote because that is a neat line and I laughed! :)

Also comes with a solution for the AI threat. Ship all AI computers to Mars and let then colonize it! Organic life seems useless to AI, it is a easier path to grow on a dead planet, with no atmosphere to filter sun energy.

sama can relax now, we just solved the AI threat problem. :)
> Maybe talk to the guys if she felt comfortable with that, but obviously she didn't. I don't hold that against her.

I do. They weren't going to assault her in public or anything. I'll bet a donut against a Kobe steak that if she (or a friend of hers) politely told those guys that she could hear them and that they were being disrespectful, they would blush and stop with the puerile jokes.
This is a huge hurdle in my opinion. Most of my friends own an iPhone and since I also own one, we group message on iMessage. If I wanted to switch to an Android, I would have to either convince them to switch to WhatsApp, Telegram etc etc or stop being part of that group chat, I think they call this FOMO. So having a bunch of friends with an iPhone that I regularly communicate with is a big pressure to continue buying Apple products.
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I suppose I'll get labled an MRA for this but I've found feminists to be the absolutely least supportive people in my life over the past X years.

When somebody has an ideological belief that you're luckier than they are it's difficult for them to feel empathy for you.
More likely this. AWS has at numerous talks mentioned a slightly franken-xen fork of Xen.
Depends on what are you doing. For any programmer working on a bigger project, where compilation time is greater than 2s, (let's say) 4x more power is superb.

If your code compiles in ~16 seconds, reducing that to 4 would add comfort.

If your code compiles 60 seconds, reducing that to 15 would allow not losing concentration.

If your code compiles in 60 minutes, reducing that to 15 minutes would actually allow to do any work on that (not that it's not possible, but it's really not pleasant).
That's the worst part of it, this process of flagrant violation of the Constitution. In essence, the government has become a treasonous organization in direct violation and contradiction to the Constitution.

If the original authors could define a speedy trial in terms of days and a couple weeks, there is no rational justification for why in this day and age a speedy trial can't be a matter of minutes or hours, or at worst days.

The most dangerous enemy is the one within and the traitor in your midst.
Makers Against Drought
Children should learn J for mathematics starting in first grade. When they have mastered mathematics, they should stop learning J.
Telegram is fantastic with the glaring exception of mandatory read receipts.

Am I the only one that can't stand having people know when I've read their messages? It seems like every major chat platform (except for iMessage) has read receipts enabled without any option to disable them. Why has this become so popular?
Whenever I'm overseas I try to watch whatever local news is available, plus channels like BBC and Russia Today (yes, I know, not great, but RT is entertaining). The portrayal of the US on the news is so out of whack with reality that it's really kind of depressing. Reporting bad news out of the US seems to be a hobby of the world's media, as does misreporting our politics and social issues.

I've worked for foreign companies whose workers would come over for 6-12 months and would enjoy themselves here greatly. Plus, like any tech worker, I work with a lot of H1Bs and first generation immigrants who have very little negative to say about the US and are also quite happy with things. Anecdotal, I know, but so is what you're reading here and seeing in your media.

Anyways, I'm biased (obviously), and have probably written more than anyone cared to read, but I'd still recommend visiting someday. Avoid the urban centers (they don't differ much) and visit our national parks. Places like Yosemite [0] and the Grand Canyon [1] are breathtaking. For some of my former colleagues, just visiting places like Idaho or Utah, where they could be miles and miles away from the nearest person, was enjoyable, as that was something they could never experience back home (and those states are beautiful as well). And if you want to be really alone, visit Alaska.

[0] http://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm
[1] http://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm
The article says that even if you turned off the option, Xen and QEMU have a bug which doesn't actually do that.

Arguing about defaults requires a step back to policy level, which is something for which many projects have trouble finding time and attention.
That's wrong in comparison to Viber/WhatsApp/Skype or just in general?
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How important is the relationship and other interests?

Are you working based on the idea that the relationship is important, and the other side is hard-balling you?

Is walking away that risky that you don't want to do it?

I focus on 'relationship' as you mention being sweet-talked. Are there other interests that this client thinks they have you owing to you, or you owing in them, that make them (or you) behave like this?

If not complex with multiple vested interests, wait until Monday (Mondays are good for breaking news, as people can stew over things on weekends and it gives you weekend planning time), create some really specific criteria for both what you do that is billable and what you think is OK for continuing the contract. If it is far longer than he thinks, then tell him how long it will really take, or do something even more simple and bill on product specification, not hours, and ensure re-billing is done on any change of product specification (which should include testing checklists).

If they decline, then walk away. Don't be sweet talked by someone with no sweets in their pocket.
But feminists aren't the ones enforcing a rigid version of masculinity that discourages men from talking about their problems.
Why indeed. In fact we tried to remove the FDC, but Windows needs it in order to do certain operations like installing some drivers, so there was resistance there.

Anyhow, security bugs happen (in all sorts of devices, old and new), and the important thing is that we fix them quickly and that SELinux mitigates the immediate effects.
I really hope Apple uses this an excuse to add this crapware to their list of malware that OS X blocks the installation of.
It's an interesting read. What I've taken from it and from my own experience is that even though the Confucian scholar may be wise and poor, largely he is happy. My experience in life has been that the times I've been the happiest are the times when I've had the least and haven't been chasing power and wealth. The times when I've been most unhappy are those when by and large I would have outwardly been considered the most successful.

As they say, money... and by extension, power, cannot buy happiness... and for all the retorts to that: The illusion of happiness doesn't count as happiness. The illusion is just a distraction from your own inner turmoil... and it will only distract you for so long before you realize that for all your wealth and power, true happiness lies within.
Twitter is serious about others not using twitter in their domains... "Please don't sue" isn't a real stance on this.
I've worked with the founder of caserails.com. Great guy. If you're a lawyer, check them out.
> I simply wish to point out the obvious - these prejudice are a product of patriarchy.

Since no one can explain what "patriarchy" even is in a concrete way, this is very far from obvious.