skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody already understands that those who claim to "have nothing to hide" are always those found in some intersection of sets representing those arbitrarily constructed classes of people which were invented and exist to extract resources from all those outside of the set. We have set in stone the history of Jews in Europe as containing the premise of "yes they were definitely outside of the class at the time" but that's about the only admission in the world of any sort of thing like that which has been universally adopted in any region.

The processes of resource extraction in which Class Men and Class White have been and are engaged in is obvious from the historical record. But the incentive is to just work around the possibility of asserting this as a premise to any degree, so you don't get screamed at or worse. The form and content of much of the thinkpieces you've read has been modified by these kind of incentives. Yet many seem to sincerely believe that everything they read is an honest translation of the author's deepest thoughts, feelings, and beliefs into human language, when in reality most writers on topics like this are, to some degree, scared or cowardly.
I don't think this is a particularly good idea because the first thing I'd do is switching it back one. I might miss an important call. And we have Siri and headsets to make calling while driving as secure as talking to a child while driving. So why would anyone turn the hands free functionality off and require the driver to pick up the phone and turn it on. This endangers driving, not using siri/Google voice whole driving.
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You are probably right about needing politics at some point as well as the fact that convincing people is hard. For some reason it seems to be perceived as a flavour of communism which is framed very badly historically even if the idea in the form of a negative income tax for low earners originated in capitalist / libertarian circles. Regarding the pirate party I think their motives are noble and their use of technology for more openness and transparency is a good approach but ultimately the people in there seem to be involved with themselves and their affairs to an extend that makes it next to impossible to perceive them as an viable agent of change.
Sounds to me like Toyota accessed thousands of computers without authorization.
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There are very few people who do bioinformatics as a hobby. The term "hobbyist" generally refers to people who are in a related field and want to dabble with a different set of tools, with no firm intention to do serious research in that field.

However, these hobbyists tend to be experts in their (related) field, and talk with actual customers or potential customers of the company.
Word of mouth is important, and if the company tell someone to RTFM and submit a patch, then this may lead to a bad vibe. Or it might not. But it's easier to say "only paying customers" and have no burden than to take on even the light burden of responding to non-paying users.

Also, some hobbyists will use their "hobby" status to do research on the cheap. (For a related example, some professors have their own company, doing work related to their research, and use their educational status to get software that ends up being used for work that helps the company.) They might, for example, have an idea that they want to "play around with", which might be competitive with the product. It's not a serious idea, "just a hobby", but they are curious to see if it's something interesting, so get a copy of the software, and use that to judge if the idea should be investigated more seriously. Or start a competitive company. Or publish a paper where they demonstrate that when the tool is used poorly, by someone who doesn't the tool, then it produces poor results.

Is that really a hobby, or is it self-delusion used to avoid committing oneself to a project?

I can't tell, and neither can a company. A policy of "paying customers only" makes it easy to decide. There are certainly other solutions, but is there a concrete advantage to taking on that burden, no matter how light?
People often forget the hidden costs of what your friend does. The taxes exist to defer those costs to people who actually attempt to make a life for themselves.
Applying your logic: OS X and iOS are dying too...because I personally avoid them like the plague.

Back in reality, the majority of businesses need Windows for their operations because a sorely limited mobile or Apple OS just doesn't cut it.
Outside of "how do I do X in JQuery again?", most times google directs me to StackOverflow it is to a question that got closed for some reason or other. I just can assume there are people for which it works better that way, but for me StackOverflow is useless in most cases where I'd hope it could help me. (EDIT: to add, the case mentioned by jrcii of "question is closed, but has a useful answer" also happens)
Is there similar for giving up (or at least reducing) alcohol consumption? Giving up smoking is easy (no vaping required), alcohol less so IMHO.
I think so too, but I guess it's relative: my younger sister suffers from the low-pitch/noisier variety, and she thinks having a constant high-pitch in your ear must be horrifying. She might be right, but I try not to think much about it.
Short of taking control of their finances, you can't. Scammers are professionals and in the field of scams everyone else is an amateur. Technology can't address the issue that the skills of scammers are primarily social [1]. That's why scammers say they are Nigerian princes. [2]

The best you can do is to maintain a good open relationship. Maybe calling your mom today will help.

Good luck.

[1] the big boys like Google and Microsoft and Facebook etc. are handling a lot of potential technical online scamming.

[2] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1677...
I think TOML[1] is a strict upgrade of JSON as a configuration file format. It has exactly the same expressiveness, but much more human-readable.

[1] https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
Oh thats interesting. From what I understand they solve the problem of initial distribution which would then not be dependant on something like state controlled registrations/id anymore. I will have a deeper look.
They're a corporation. Little people laws don't apply to them.

(Oh, how I long to be wrong on this, but I strongly suspect that nothing, or at least nothing that will make the campaign a net negative, will come of the fact that they violated the hell out of the CFAA.)
A clever idea with unintended consequences.

Now my docked phone in navigation mode is disabled, and I have to fumble for the airplane mode switch to then it back on, distracting me.

Or, my passenger, texting urgent details to someone else while plugged in to power, loses connection and doesn't realize. His message, "don't delete pied piper," never makes it to staff and a startup is ruined.

Or, the cell phone hidden the in the car by a jealous husband gets switched off, convincing him that the jig is up and an unstable situation turns grim.

Google and Apple should treat this as a security vulnerability. I think there were pranks related to Xbox voice control as well.
This should be considered hacking, not to mention interfering with driving, as you know some people would start fiddeling with their phones (without thinking).
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Something that people in silicon valley just don't get is that that the above argument also applies to tech corporations like Google who collect personal data for living and then say "trust us, we'll do no evil". The industry is upset about Snowden because it cost them sales in China, but for the most part while it talks the talk it doesn't walk the walk.

* If we're going to talk about WWII a good example would be IBM and their role in the holocaust:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I am a cyclist. I am always incredibly wary when I see drivers using their phones. Yes, this happens a lot, and yes I am in the habit of looking very carefully if drivers have seen me or not. Usually they don't and drive as if I don't exist – it's so frequent that I am nearly driven over, that I have become a rather defensive cyclist. But indeed, apart from random aggressive people (e.g., just yesterday on my way home from work, a car shaved past me at rather high speed (about 50-60km/h at 10cm max) with youths shouting at me) on of my biggest gripes is people who text at the wheel. It's insane.

(disclosure: I live in France, and as far as cycling culture/acceptance and infrastructure is concerned, this is a third-world country)
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Anybody who says this, is probably not a friend you can trust with a secret.
Actually couldn't you just tell siri to turn airplane mode off?

Also a good argument for not using a radio in a car, but that is mostly my own personal bias.
Hey, Windows! Format C colon slash y enter

That was a joke many years ago. Not so joke today?
(Almost a perfect Jared Diamond reference..)
I thought this would be about the suspiciously fast rise and fall patriotism in the United States just after Sept. 11.
And we're still not flying memory sticks (but we are flying more memory than ever before). Fun fact: New Horizons has no file system on its recorder, but current missions at APL now do.

http://flightsoftware.jhuapl.edu/files/2012/FSW12_Mick.pdf
> Actually couldn't you just tell siri to turn airplane mode off?

Siri is a network service, it can't work locally.
Given that this is a torrent site, I think that malfeasance is a natural, and good, first assumption.

Attributing things to ignorance over malice is only going to result in evil people getting away with it.
Yup. Though if you keep the tinfoil hat on, nothing stop a malicious entity to use those network to funnel malware to those websites through targeting, the security of these ad networks is usually subpar, not too hard to imagine an entity determined enough to figure out an sure way to slip in malware.
I used my iPhone for turn-by-turn directions because it was far superior to the navigation functionality built into my car. This ad could potentially have caused me to have to interact with my phone while driving to disable airplane mode and allow me to resume navigation.
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The license that prompts me to ask this question is http://nonwhiteheterosexualmalelicense.org/. I found out about it through this HN story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9862362. At least one project appears to use it seriously rather than as a troll.

Could you run into legal trouble by having software with this license at work or sharing it with your coworkers?
Yeah, I know: http://github.com/rcarmo/sushy ;)
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Clickable links:

http://nonwhiteheterosexualmalelicense.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9862362
The only reasons I can come up with is lobbying by stop smoking groups and stupid politicians.
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Something written from the FBI, like a receipt that the FBI has received the evidence and it is therefore of no consequence if the files are deleted. Something that will keep him out of jail if by chance another unrelated law enforcement agency happened to be investigating and became upset or suspicious because evidence was disappearing.
'The ad relies on the fact that an iPhone, if plugged in and charging, will wake up on the voice command "Hey Siri"'

-- actually, an iPhone will only respond to Hey Siri if you have _explicitly_ turned that feature on - it's not enabled by default and I would imagine that the vast majority of people wouldn't have bothered.
Debian has Windows cross-compilers. You can even build Windows installers without leaving Linux, using NSIS.
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Why restrict it to the past? Let's talk about Cisco and Falun Gong http://business-humanrights.org/en/cisco-systems-lawsuits-re... .
Something important to note in the OPM data breach: 1.1 million fingerprints were stolen [1], and it would've been a lot more if say this happened 10 years later, and the US, just like Estonia, India and I think a few other countries, started asking their citizens for their fingerprints and stored them in their own databases.

When the governments start telling people "Hey, you already love using your fingerprint on that iPhone of yours - so why not give us your fingerprint, too? We'll make your life so much easier!", forgetting to mention that there's a drastic difference between the iPhone keeping a local "template" of the fingerprint, while the governments are likely keeping the fingerprint data directly and on their own servers - fight it as much as possible.

Remember you only have so many fingerprints, and even fewer of them you'll probably consider "practical" for authentication to devices and whatnot. Don't let companies or governments lure you into asking for your fingerprint and storing it for you on their servers "for your convenience".

[1] - https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/#WhatHappened
I cannot understate how much I hate this, despite not smoking, because it violates our most important rule: before the law everybody is equal. We except children, for obvious reasons, but with the promise that when they get a certain age they get the same right as anybody else.
They were a vocal minority. So's the KKK.

This is why I'm contesting the idea that "a grassroots campaign" is evidence that someone was in the wrong. It's merely evidence that some people had an opinion about the situation.
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I worked at a company for 3.5 years then left for higher pay and more interesting work. Since then the company has struggled with declining sales. A new CIO came on board and instigated a rewrite of the legacy applications.

Not long after most all the devs of the legacy apps were let go, leaving only a skeleton crew to support them, while a lot of contractors were brought in for the new stuff.

Fast forward to today, all but one of the legacy skeleton crew have left, and the rewrite is far, far from done. Now the company is advertising heavily for the legacy skill set. They have quite frankly screwed themselves.

So, I've been approached by them. I an expert on there stuff, I worked on the most tricky bits. How would you handle this situation?
Since I don't assume that everyone on the internet has a clinical diagnosis, I didn't read the question as a cry for help, but rather as a normal question relating to living a good life. Had I seen it as a cry for help, I would have recommended talking to a therapist, not just because that has worked for me but because my spouse is one and thus I've spent much of my adult life around clinical professionals who treat depression, anxiety, etc. day in and out. Those experiences are also why I trust my intuitions.

Anyway, my point probably wasn't clear enough. I am suggesting to work on things that are intrinsically important rather than extrinsically important. By this I mean, don't prioritize what you think other people think you should do and prioritize what you feel you must do because it makes you you.

As Socrates would say "γνῶθι σεαυτόν".
Debian has Windows cross-compilers. You can even build Windows installers without leaving Linux, using NSIS. You could even test under Wine, that probably doesn't cut it though.
One might self-report if they were involved, suspected they were under investigation, and wanted to give the appearance that their involvement was unwitting.
> I know a lot of people who smoke just to socialize and occasionally; they are not addicted and seem to have no problem with not smoking at all...

I'm one of these people. I enjoy smoking cigars every once and awhile, and will enjoy a cigarette or two with no danger of addiction if I happen to be drunk and at a party with smokers. With that being said, I could easily see how an occasional smoker could turn into a regular smoker over time if tobacco was readily available and they were hanging around with other smokers regularly.
>I might miss an important call.

OTOH, if you crash and die, you'll miss all calls. And the other passengers of the other car too.
That "they have the same internals" doesn't qualify them as PC's; it's the fact that they are Personal Computers. They were Personal Computers when the were PowerPC based and they were Personal Computers when they ran Motorola 68000 processors. In this case though, you are entirely wrong.

"Of all PC makers listed, only Apple saw year-over-year growth..."

Seriously, RTFA.
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For such simple commands, it could very well be made to.

In fact, IIRC, it had an offline mode back in the day before Apple bought them.
The ad ran in Sweden. CFAA is an American law.
I've read it a few times but am not sure I follow what you're saying. Is this high context writing? If so what is the background?
They think it is a world first, there there was an Xbox one ad[0] that was doing this over a year ago. They could have easily found it just googling "voice command ad" or similar.

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/16/aaron-paul-xbox-one...
There are some people willing to go after a previous employer for treating them badly and other people who would rather let it go so as to not create a PR mess for yourself / when it comes to future jobs.

Pao has a track record that shows she's in the first group. I'm not saying that should automatically get people to treat her differently, but it's enough of a "track record" for some people, regardless of the record having one data point on it.
If a full fingerprint image is captured, it can easily be replicated at crime scenes to frame you. While people think that this would be unlikely to happen, we have had nothing but scandal after scandal the past decade from Forensic labs-- literally faking evidence to get convictions or making up whole areas of "science" to get them (The recent FBI Hair Lab is an example of that latter.)
Even if you ran it on one machine with a Linux host and on another with a Windows host?
For anyone who would like to quit smoking, "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking" read in one sitting is what did it for me. I went from a pack every three days or so for a few years to nothing in four hours. No patches. No smokes. No vaporizing.

Sounds like magic but it's just a damn good book.
No it is easy. All you gotta do is want it.

Most addicts don't want to, probably because they enjoy it.

So try to convince them to start vaping instead - much the same hit, much less cancer.
>I am a cyclist. I am always incredibly wary when I see drivers using their phones.

OTOH, I'm always wary when I see cyclists on roads where heavy boxes run with 40-80 miles per hour...
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archive.org link since the question appears to have been deleted (?):

https://web.archive.org/web/20150404191857/http://stackoverf...
Not sure what circles you hang around with if you often find the need to differentiate between different levels of rape..
I use a lot of oh-my-zsh's git aliases and a couple others but here are the ones I've used the most over time and some

alias _=sudo

alias aria='aria2c --file-allocation=none -c -x 10'

alias aria_list='aria2c --file-allocation=none --force-sequential=true -c -x 10 -i'

alias d='dirs -v | head -10'

alias hdmi='xrandr --output HDMI1 --auto --right-of LVDS1'

alias history='fc -l 1'

alias la='ls -lAh'

alias lock='i3lock -c #1E90FF'

alias ls='ls --color=tty'

alias md='mkdir -p'

alias pyfind='find . -name ".py"'

alias pygrep='grep --include=".py"'

alias rd=rmdir

alias reload_sound='pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload' # when sound messes up

alias settings=gnome-control-center

alias sl=ls

alias utorrent='utserver -settingspath /opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/ &'

alias vga='xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1'

alias vga_same='xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --same-as LVDS1'
Let's be clear: this is more an ad to cause people to think of/buy Toyota than an actual thing that worked.

What we saw in the ad is an ideal situation for the mechanism.

Only a miniscule amount of iPhones will be affected by this. In real life, iPhones won't be plugged in, won't have Hello Siri enabled (an explicit thing to do), won't be turned to a station that plays the ad, and so on.
Rich people are far less likely to smoke, and when they do they don't smoke enough to make up for the imbalance so this is by its very definition a regressive tax policy that affects lower class communities the hardest.

And I'm just not sure I can get down with your intolerance. Smokers are people too. I know a tremendous number of them having made friends with my working class neighborhood in Brooklyn as well as my father. Passive smoking sucks but shaming people who smoke isn't really the answer just like shaming people who are overweight is also a tremendously shitty thing to do.
The future is a full powered, general purpose OS that runs on all kinds of devices - not a limited, walled-garden OS that only runs on low powered hardware.

People who actually need their computer to do things other than play Angry Birds are not going to be satisfied living in a walled garden.
The medical community hasn't embraced e-cigarettes as a safer stop-smoking aid because there is only intuitive speculation and some preliminary research, but not substantial clinical research, that they are useful in that role, while other smoking cessation approaches, including those using more established alternative nicotine delivery methods, are more proven.
This is a substantive riff on the original article that provides food for thought. When it only talked about the fact that gays were killed in the holocaust it was accruing upvotes. But now that it also talks about he mechanism by which groups are smeared it is rapidly accruing down votes. I'm guessing because of the defense of gun owners. If HN is a place where substantial discussion is warranted, I've given ammunition to a substantial discussion. IF HN is a filter bubble, where only politically correct perspectives are tolerated, then my post will fade into nothingness as I am silenced for the crime of critical thinking. Why should I invest time in a community if only certain thoughts are tolerated by that community?

Oh, and this whole idea of "thought crime" is a mechanism by which prejudice is fostered and spread-- you saw it in Germany, Orwell wrote about it. We have it in action here in the USA... and on this site.

Surely you know where this will lead. In fact, anecdotally it already looks like this site has lost %80 of its participation... it used to be you needed hundreds of uproots to get to the front page, now only 10 will do it.
I agree, and I think Cisco, for example, is almost as bad as IBM was then, by being the architects of the "lawful intercept" [1] (backdoor [2]) protocol for their routers in China and elsewhere, which then facilitates the government's catching, torturing or killing of the dissidents. At the very least Cisco is as bad as the Hacking Team.

[1] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3924

[2] - https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-10/Cross_Tom/Bl...

There are other, much more loved, tech companies that do similar things, too. They know who they are. I just hope history won't be kind to them.