skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Use ^d instead of aliasing x to exit)

Use magit in emacs as a git front-end instead of dozens of git aliases. You can continue to use vi or eclipse or whatever for editing. Use dired in emacs to replace a lot of file manipulation aliases.

Replace all your complicated aliases with ^r reverse search. For example, instead of typing

sudo dnf --refresh check-update

I type

^rche

because 'check' is the most distinct string in that command in my mind, and by 'che' bash has already located the last time I typed it in the history. Save lots of history:

HISTSIZE=100000 # Lots of history.
HISTFILESIZE=100000 # Lots of history in the file.
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth # Ignore entries with leading white space and dupes.
HISTIGNORE="ls:ll:cd:fg:j:jobs" # Uninteresting commands to not record in history.
shopt -s histappend # Append history to file, don't overwrite.
shopt -s histverify # Show expanded history before running it.
shopt -s cmdhist # Store multiline cmds as single

Which directory is hiding all the bytes?

alias dux='du -x --max-depth=1 | sort -n'

Machines on the local network:

alias nwho='ping -b -c 2 255.255.255.255 2>&1 | grep "bytes from" | cut -d " " -f 4 | sort | uniq | sed -e "s/://g"'

Set the permissions to allow sharing of files in a directory between users in the same group (probably doesn't work on bsd/osx):

function rwxs {
find $1 -type d | xargs chmod u+rwx,g+rwxs,o+rx
find $1 -type f | xargs chmod ug+rw,o+r
}
This is beautiful. I ended up at the Wikipedia entry for it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph - which has quite a lot of stuff about how the lyrics and music were interpreted from the original inscriptions.

The lyrics translated to English are poignant enough to deserve a reproduction here:

While you live, shine
have no grief at all
life exists only for a short while
and time demands its toll.
What resources should I consume to get a realistic view of industrial development ?
Is the medical community allowed to embrace something for which we as a society don't really know any of the long term consequences?

Will these candy flavored vaporizers get more kids addicted to nicotine?

Do people consume more nicotine with these vaporizers than if they had continued smoking cigarettes?

Is long term nicotine vapor inhalation harmful?
The link to his question seems now thoroughly deleted as opposed to just hidden from all but direct links.

EDIT:

Also reading that question (thanks for the archive link!) that looks like the kind of question I would like to see more of actually. Sure it's somewhat subjective since it'll be experientially dependent but it certainly moves the ball forward in terms of helping someone understand a technology, language or language feature.
On the contrary, as a C# developer I find tons of useful information there especially in advanced issues. And the discussion is also useful because they present solutions from different angles. Perhaps SO is better suited for those on the Desktop frontier rather than mobile or web development.
I think it's saying "Insiders exploit outsiders. Only insiders say they have nothing to hide."
I wouldn't be surprise if this robot writting. Remember that there are several organizations that create fake usernames and personalities, then is easy to taint group opinions by looking like multiple different people saying d
The same thing. The post is correct English but the argument lacks of public context, or make many assumptions to make sense to the casual reader. So probably a robot sticking phrases together or a human that cannot pass the Eliza test
The Secondary Markets Are Becoming the Wild West Again
A license is simply a contract establishing the rules under which you can use, modify, distribute, etc so logically, it seems like you could put whatever terms you wanted. The Beerware license comes to mind in this regard - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerware

Of course, since the non-white-hetero-etc license adds extra requirements beyond those in the GPL, it will not be accepted by the FSF as GPL-compatible. The Beerware license isn't either.

But what it really comes down to is enforcement. To fight misuse legally, you'd need a) a lawyer that'd take the case and b) a judge not to laugh you out of the room. But the Twitter mobs may be the preferred form of enforcement here anyway.

In a professional atmosphere, more and more companies have pre-approved licenses that are okay by default. By going with something non-standard, it means you'll need to get special permission which usually means legal review. I'd wager that most lawyers would discourage you from using this one.. just because it is ambiguous in enforcement, etc.

Further, if you tried to enforce this one within your company, someone would have to ask each of your employees their ethnicity and sexual orientation.. which opens up some HR issues. Imagine your boss saying "don't worry about this, you're gay so you can use it."
> Really, both nicotine and caffeine are terrible stimulants, despite the fact that most people, especially city people and young people, seem to love stimulants. Ephedrine is also a great natural stimulant, still consumed traditionally in China, Central and South Asia.

While I agree that caffeine is less potent / enjoyable than ephedrine, it is far safer. I would certainly not advocate for widespread consumption of ephedrine, as overdose is far easier and more dangerous, especially if mixed with caffeine.
> you do not have the right to say it in my home.

Furthermore, I do have the right to say it "in public".

But, where is that "public" on the internet? I can make a website - a home - and invite other people to come visit me and listen to me ramble, or respond etc. But there is no public space, is there? And if not, should there be?

Most people don't own the homes they live in. Yet the landlord still doesn't get to tell them what to talk about over the dinner table. That's great, but imagine the government sold all sidewalks and public places to private interests, which dictated how you should dress and walk if you want to get out of your home, or to work. Should that be allowed?

Imagine getting thrown out of a mall because someone overheard and disapproved of your conversation there. Does that ever happen? I know there there is no clear line, but that there is one; e.g. if you trail other people and talk to yourself or a friend about them (especially if it's nasty and aggressive) in earshot, that's not exactly cool. But what, other than sanity, would stop all mall owners to agree that anyone e.g. declaring to like the color green should be kicked out, and to hire staff to enforce it? Would that be legal? If it was, should it be? And if it wouldn't be legal, why is that? In what ways, if at all, could or should this applied to the internet?
I personally don't see anything wrong with approaching them as a contractor. You know the applications, and you can set your own rate. If they truly want help they will hire you as a contractor.

I actually was in an identical situation years ago with a former employer years ago. When I got out of college, I went to work for a government contractor for about 3 years doing network administration on a Novell network with cc:Mail. During that time I had upgraded their entire network and built several database systems for them. I later left for a higher paying startup (the first internet bubble in the late 90s). However, I knew the first company still needed help, so I worked out an agreement with them to be a contractor. I would come in 2-3 days a week at night, install updates, manage users, fix desktops, whatever needed to be done. I was making double as a contractor than I was making as an employee. On the down side, I was a 1099 so I was responsible for my taxes, but that wasn't too bad. I did this for about a year, but then burning the candle at both ends I needed some me time so I quit contracting.

It is fairly common in the government world to see employees leave and return as contractors at higher rates.
Stack Overflow incentivizes bad behavior by its users. For instance, I've had questions marked as duplicates with links to entirely other questions... but the person who had the right answer for that other question, along with others on the point gravy train for it were the ones who voted to close my question.

Appealing after adding additional info showing how the questions were different didn't improve anything as the "reviewers" got points by "Reviwing" the appeal-- and denying it, of course.

That was the last time I used Stack Overflow.

You cannot have a community generated content site with community moderation where bad behavior is incentivized and rewarded. (Something that was a serious problem on HN in the past.)
NULL's ability to create security errors in C/C++ is a relatively recent practical concern. (The theory that permits them goes back a long ways, but only recently have the optimizing compilers gone so crazy with unspecified behaviors.) Our concerns with NULL being a bad idea go back farther than that.
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking. Be careful cause it works like magic only the first time.
There are vaporizers that can be fed regular tobacco:

http://vaponic.com/

That one is more intended for mj and needs a torch lighter, so I guess it isn't as convenient as electronic ones, but it's much cheaper.

Disclaimer: I quit smoking before, so I can't really talk from long time experience, just tested it once.
>It's meant to protect speech which the politically powerful find objectionable. It's not about protecting abuse, but protecting ideas.

The loophole, then, is to define ideas the politically powerful find objectionable as abuse.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kraemer

Strongly implies such a license is unenforceable.
The sound is back so I did the experiment now, updates are there.
You say that as if the cost of helping is near zero. What if authorities decided that your hobby project's server was interesting to their investigation, and subsequently showed up at your home with a warrant to seize every electronic device in your home/business, including the server that hosts your business, as well as unrelated things like cell phones, video game consoles, etc?
I downvoted you because I frankly think implying that gun owners, men, Christians and gamers are persecuted in the United States (which was the implication) makes you just as laughable as the same radical feminists you claim to oppose.
We should pay people to study and provide higher compensation for better grades. (However, failing can't be allowed to compromise basic shelter/food needs.)
> I've heard quite a lot of people that talk about post-privacy, and they talk about it in terms of feeling like, you know, it's too late, we're done for, there's just no possibility for privacy left anymore and we just have to get used to it. And this is a pretty fascinating thing, because it seems to me that you never hear a feminist say that we're post-consent because there is rape. And why is that? The reason is that it's bullshit.

> We can't have a post-privacy world until we're post-privilege. So when we cave in our autonomy, then we can sort of say, "well, okay, we don't need privacy anymore, in fact we don't have privacy anymore, and I'm okay with that." Realistically though people are not comfortable with that. Because, if you only look at it from a position of privilege, like, say, white man on a stage, then yeah, maybe post-privacy works out okay for those people. But if you have ever not been, or if you are currently not, a white man with a passport from one of the five good nations in the world, it might not really work out well for you, and in fact it might be designed specifically such that it will continue to not work out well for you, because the structures themselves produce these inequalities.

> So when you hear someone talk about post-privacy, I think it's really important to engage them about their own privilege in the system and what it is they are actually arguing for.

-- Jacob Appelbaum ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3h46EbqhPo&t=7m46s )
Current Situation – Tox Blog
Pirate Bay founders 'cleared of copyright crimes' in Belgium
I'm not sure about cause and effect with logging data and genocides. Ok it made the Nazis job easier in Holland but they killed a lot of people elsewhere. Since those times the amount of data stored on everyone had rocketed and the amount of genocide going on has plummeted - see the graph from Pinker's book - http://i.imgur.com/rFWzUOd.png
When a question is deleted on StackOverflow, it's hidden entirely - direct link or not - except to users with at least 10k in "reputation", and I think to the question asker.

I suspect the link was provided mostly for the users that can still see it. There is an "undelete" link[1] for users with that privilege level, but it takes ten votes to restore the question, with no guarantee that it won't be blown away again right after its restoration.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/3utyRM9.png
Ok, fair enough. I assumed that that was a somewhat trimmed-down version of the actual discussion, for the sake of telling their story briefly.

I didn't imagine that the FBI would literally have a 30-second conversation with someone who claimed to have child porn in their possession, with no actual follow-up or action steps discussed.

But I can see how that would seem problematic if you did take it literally.
Arrays are rather ugly in TOML.
I remember there was an xbox ad that had the unintended consequence of controller the viewer's xbox
> I never want another job again

I hope that the author uses some of his free time to visit an impoverished part of the United States, or a third-world country, as it might encourage him to reconsider this statement from different perspectives.

While this post focuses on the author's job in tech, I believe the author's decision to leave his job has very little to do with his job. The impression I get from the post is that the author is confused about what he wants to do with his life and will probably find himself unhappy in most employment scenarios. Comments on his Patreon page like "I like to start things but I'm really bad at finishing them" and "in general I like to flit around a lot" suggest that there's a lot more here than just a desire not to be a cog in someone else's machine.
Smoking is a rebellion, but getting around that is easy. You just make smoking lame, something only a loser would do. Then you introduce another behaviour that the can substitute as a (safe) way to signal tribal belonging (which is what a rebel really wants).
undeleted because of OP article and it received 10 votes to undelete http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5574241/using-sun-misc-un...

Funny that https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GDm_cAxYInmoHMor-AkStzWv... is top post too.
This book comprises of a series of short stories describing various technically sound accounts of fictional security incidents from the 'hacker's' point of view. The chapter about the malware analyst is my favorite.

http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Network-How-Own-Box/dp/193183...
Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948) was a Supreme Court case that held that racially restrictive covenants (i.e. deed provisions that forbid transferring the property to a black person) were unenforceable as a matter of constitutional law. Similar logic would probably apply here.
Ask HN: 💳 Credit card icon in plain text. How it works?
How much is $100 worth in your home state?
SO started out with a big C# community because the people that built it were C# developers. And perhaps the C# community didn't really have a very good place to go to before.
It is important enough to the Germans that your data (I.e. that required for your identity card) has strict rules concerning a central storage system.

The system works per state, hence if I move from one state to another than my data has to be moved from one state to the next.

I have a friend that works on this system that moves this data over web services.
I mean, I have some sympathy, but that wasn't a question, it didn't have a definitive answer, so it clearly was in violation.

Put the information up in a blog post, or anywhere else. It doesn't have to live on SO to be useful to everyone. SO is really terrified of turning into a reddit or a forum full of "What's the top ten coolest ...?" type questions.
IMO, one thing that'd help would be requiring more close/delete votes for questions with lots of upvotes (and lots of heavily upvoted answers) like this one had.

That said, the question - "Of course the Unsafe class is undocumented, but how can I use it in a real world scenario" - is pretty much the definition of "too broad".

That said, I voted to undelete and reopen, which appears to have succeeded.
I am not sure.

I have an electronic cig at the moment, as it's when I am drunk that I crave cigarettes the most.

wanting to give up smoking is a terrible reason to have a child, though I am sure that's not quite the way you intended that last part to come out.)
At first glance I feared this was an article about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Watt
There are lots of things you can't put as terms in a contract. This is why we have contact law.
A more interesting example: substitute natural numbers with binary trees. After all, they're equivalent. Now univalence would have to implement the binary tree analogue for every function on naturals, in a way that preserves semantics with respect to our conversion function.
Slightly off topic but I'm curious: anyone using Hy for actual projects? What is it like compared to working with normal Python?
These articles are phrased as if they are facts. However, they are just some opinions that some people feel are useful.

Take for instance the idea of the "semantic web", where information is stored neatly into proper html tags. It has turned out that this is not a very useful approach to storing information, and nowadays big search engines use machine learning techniques instead to extract the information.
1 - Embrace? What about just not being overly hostile?

2 - Are kids allowed to smoke? Should we ban sweet wine?

3 - No. Actually less.

4 - Most likely. But the question is if it's more or less harmful than burning packaged cigarrettes.

It shouldn't matter, but I don't smoke or vaporize tobacco.
That is one of the main reasons to own your own data and not to trust some company with it. Just post it on your own blog and link to it instead.
Sex and race are protected classes. What if the license were just no-heteros?
Where would you want cyclists to go exactly? Sidewalks filled with pedestrians? Not every road has a cycling path.
I don't think it is a bot based on the poster's other comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=detcader
ViralNova acquired for $100M, while The Dissolve shuts down
Startups don't need accounting[1].

[1] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119350/amicus-app-how-tec...
Perhaps for C# that is the case, but there are a lot of good questions for other desktop languages that are being deleted or removed because they're 'duplicate questions', even though the so-called 'duplicates' were asking completely different things.
Weird. In the past two years or so, I've answered almost every one of my own answers after an additional day or two of work. Generally, when I think I've exhausted all leads on solving a problem I'll distill everything down into the smallest reproducible setup, do a detailed write-up, and list all what I've done. At best I might get a token up-vote from someone who pities me, but I never get any real attention. There are easier picking out there, after all.

I used to be pretty active on SO and Programmers.SE as a young buck, and back when SO was still pretty new and shiny. Nowadays it just feels like a race to the bottom as someone trying to answer a question. The winning strategy is to post a shitty, incomplete answer and get the upvotes and while that is happening, update to a better, clearer answer, oftentimes poaching content from the guy or gal who took the time to do a detailed, "good" answer. I get the notion of consolidating the answers into that one perfect answer, but working on a good answer and having it poached by the highest voted answer will leave a bad taste in most folks' mouths.

In the case of Programmers.SE, there was a shift in the site topic and, in my opinion, some rather overzealous moderators along with the handful of folks who just seem to sit on the site and close-vote any and everything that does not perfectly align. Always be wary of those that seek power over their fellow man...

StackOverflow and the surrounding sites are a good force overall, don't get me wrong, but as someone who tried to be active and use the site, it leaves a lot to be desired. I'm not interested in answering "How do I do X in jQuery" and I'm not interested in having someone plagiarize me.
"From rape and bdsm, which I can kind of tolerate"

I hope you mean simulated rape (although I'm not sure how people know the difference). Victims don't suddenly become unworthy of your concern because they pass 18.
> (Something that was a serious problem on HN in the past.)

Explain for a newer HN user?
Sure, but the chances of crashing are rather low if you use hands-free soft- and hardware (such as siri to control the call and a headset). If you believe these things should not be allowed, either, because there are too distracting, you should not let children ride with you because they tend to ask way more distracting questions then you saying ("Hey Siri, call XXX").
> This question does not appear to be about programming within the scope defined in the help center.

After reading through the help center info linked, it seems like this question would fit all the requirements in its current form. It's hard to look at past versions since the page doesn't exist on SO anymore, but how was the question originally stated?
>Authenticating access to the service is desirable for many obvious reasons.

Help me out with the obviousness please? Are those reasons more important than deleting child pornography from the web?
After seeing a couple of posts like this, I'd like to provide an alternative perspective:

I no longer actively answer questions on StackOverflow, because it is too hard to find worthwhile questions between all the noise. If someone specifically asks me to answer something, I will do it, but trying to find interesting questions on StackOverflow has become impossible due to the high influx of very low quality material.

There was a period where I'd try to help moderation by closing an deleting questions, but at some point you just realize it's a loosing battle and give up.
Isn't this SO modding a great startup opportunity? Or did someone already do that?
> is pretty much the definition of "too broad".

The rules should be bend when it is appropriate. I'd argue that this is one of those cases.
For lots of missions, images are there if you want them, here's two links:

http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/opportunity.html
http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/
We have a few people that have deployed Hy in production, not that we advice that as Hy is not really stable.

There are however a few projects here and there.
https://github.com/trending?l=hy
What did you think you were doing when you got a grant from the NIH, NSF, or DOE? You entered in a research contract with the government.
the only difference between the current version and the original was that the original had the title "Interesting uses of sun.misc.Unsafe"
In my experience, being broke forced me to quit smoking. It narrows your choices down to one possible outcome. You simply can't afford $15 for 20 cigarettes.
If you're driving, you should always be wary whether or not there's any cyclists around.
No issues, just frame the business side of the conversation such that compensation is discussed from a contracting point of view, and that your previous salary really isn't relevant.