skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Today, the government's military is so advanced that they'd quickly squash any kind of uprising even if you somehow managed to obtain every legally purchased firearm in the country.

You'd be surprised at how effective guerrilla warfare is.
I think you're misunderstanding what the commenters in this subthread are saying. It's not simply that I don't want to see FPH. I also don't want to see advice animals, documentaries, creepypasta, or jokes. I have nothing against these as forms of content, it's just not what I visit Reddit for.

And even among technology, I have no interest in seeing things about Ruby or Go. Again, it's not that I dislike the languages, it's that they're not professionally relevant to me at the moment so it's not what I visit Reddit for.

So what we need is some way for subreddits to be tagged with their own content: /r/rust about Rust, /r/python about Python, /r/sandersforpresident about Bernie, etc., and some /r/all equivalent that just matches what I'm interested in -- which is exactly what https://reddit.com is for me, right now. I don't need /r/all to be fixed; I have no interest in even seeing "all technology" or "all religion" or "all presidential candidates".

FPH being or not being on /r/all is irrelevant.
The fallacy of believing everything else you read is known as "Gell-Mann Amnesia".

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel...
There's also nowhere to put your arms/elbows on that design. (Which is fine if you're a robot that doesn't lean or move.)
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Never never trust the FBI. That's how they nailed DotCom, instructing him to let them collect 'evidence' against someone else, then they used it against him. Seems like you're in a hornet's nest, and you're not even making any money for your trouble.
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I understand that SO is about building a knowledgebase but isn't it clear that a lot of people view SO as more of a Q&A + forum? When you close a question, it feels like censorship, which is frustrating because continued discussion and up to date answers are almost always expected.

Anyhow, SO isn't the same site it was 5 years ago. It's actually pretty darn toxic for new userbase and seems to cater to the mods themselves.
Even if it was today's hardware, we'd still be getting grainy images from this distance. It might be slightly better, but not the amazing hi-res images people on this thread seem to be expecting. Pluto is really small and far away. It's just a tiny spot even to Hubble.
Well get the hi-res images once new horizons actually does its flyby and once the data is downloaded.
I wonder if there's an archive available. You know, for the many deleted but useful questions and answers.
>It shouldn't be necessary, but there's a generation of people so incredibly entitled and so incredibly insane that they actually need a primer on reality.

We best get used to it, the baby boomers will be with us for a while.
I'm also curious about the price of "high-end" amplifiers. Amplification of electrical signals was solved a long time ago, even before the first home computer was available, and we've not seen a corresponding, dramatic price drop.
That was a big issue for the North in the early years of the Civil War. Southerners were disproportionately represented in the small pre-war standing army and West Point alumnae. So the war starts, and they mostly go home and switch sides; at the same time the northern armies are massively expanding, with a gutted officer pool.
> alias alis='cat ~/.bash_aliases'

That only lists what's in .bash_aliases, along with any comments.

Why not just run alias without arguments? It lists all active aliases, however and whenever they were defined.

$ man bash
/^SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS
...
alias [-p] [name[=value] ...]

"Alias with no arguments or with the -p option prints the list of aliases in the form alias name=value on standard output."
It's incredibly disingenuous to claim that having some guidelines on a private forum (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html) counts as "Internet Censorship".

You are actively supporting hatred by making that argument.

It is not censorship or suppression of speech to tell a bigot that they can no longer borrow your megaphone. The bigot remains free to buy, build, or borrow another megaphone, a fact demonstrated clearly by the rise of voat.

It is morally reprehensible to argue that taking away a privately owned megaphone is equivalent to censorship. It diminishes the meaning of the word, and boils it down to nothing. You should be ashamed of yourself for making such a truly insane and asinine argument.

edit: rory is lying when he claims that the original draft was just me calling him out. I know, I know... it's shocking that somebody who thinks that conde needs to actively support hate speech is a lair, but he is.

edit2: rory, it is BATSHIT FUCKING INSANE that you think that a private entity has some sort of duty to provide their megaphone to any bigot for any purpose.

edit3: rory, you are one of the most entitled human beings on the planet. Reddit owes you nothing.

edit4: i was stuck with editing existing posts because I'm banned from making new posts, and I respect HN enough not to work around their rules.
This makes me wonder if it's just a disconnect in the product that SO is providing - SO is consistently a very useful, high-quality product for me (and I say that as someone who is certainly not googling basic JQuery questions), but I hear this critique often enough that I wonder if there is some major market segment that SO is just completely failing to serve.

I don't think that SO is a bad tool, but it may well be a bad tool for a certain subset of programmers seeking help. I would be interested in figuring out who that segment is and what they want!
The original article on Medium that this article on huffington post reprints was based on a pair of counterfeit Beats headphones. The followup on Medium does the teardown on a real pair of Beats. Not much difference but some improved quality:

https://medium.com/bolt-blog/how-it-s-made-series-yup-our-be...
So you mean to tell me that the pure pursuit of profit does not serve the needs of society?
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I'm very disappointed with Oracle's decision to remove Unsafe. What are they trying to accomplish? They aren't serving anyone by removing it. Who benefits from its removal? What actual user of the JVM or customer of Oracle has ever said "I really like this 10x performance increase from this library that uses Unsafe, but I can't sleep at night thinking my program could seg-fault at any time if something went wrong! Please get rid of Unsafe Oracle! I promise to buy 10x more hardware from you to make up for the difference!"

Java's "write once run anywhere at all costs" philosophy, combined with "be safe at all costs", have kept the JVM locked into server-side Linux applications for a long time, while C# has continued to expand in areas like the mobile space. If it weren't for Java being propped up by Google, Java would hardly exist in the mobile world at all.

C# + the CLR has world class native code integration and escape hatches to drop to unsafe code when performance matters. Java's native integration is absolutely terrible, but at least it had Unsafe, which provided a pragmatic tool for achieving excellent performance on the JVM in a number of scenarios.

Now, look at this comment from an Oracle employee: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2015-Apri...

"Let me be blunt -- sun.misc.Unsafe must die in a fire. It is -- wait for it -- Unsafe. It must go..."

That's some very strong language backed by a simple, ridiculous reason; it's "unsafe". I honestly hope this Oracle employee's ideas die in a fire because they are out of touch with the needs of actual Java programmers, but my hope for that is slim at this point.
"Today, the government's military is so advanced that they'd quickly squash ..."

Would they? They should try doing that now in all the various wars and police actions they are involved in.
Maybe in that future you'll be able to 3D everything but if we lose the right to bare arms don't you think that would limit the supply of arms when that time came?
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I think that there is misconception that more reputation = more money = job which drives this point whoring.

While I don't argue the demonstrated knowledge and skills, having talked to job recruiters, SO is actually very far down their list to my surprise.
He's still alive - just about.

I agree with the point about using the tax to recoup some of the inevitable costs to society as a whole. But, on the issue of using taxation to modify people's behaviour, it doesn't always work as intended.
> We have.

No; you said "Even if various identities are all elevated to an equal level of acceptance", I say, let's do that first, even though it may never be perfect. Unless you're saying "acceptance" itself is some kind of scarce resource? Of course, it's not a great consolation to say "everybody should have access to clean drinking water", but it's a start, kind of the pre-requisite to do anything about it.

> Of course the people doing the spying and the people who fund it will be less affected (but maybe not with the bad state of infosec), that's a given where any power structure is involved.

Call it privilege or structure of power, does it really make a crucial difference?

> How would egalitarianism fix this? I think you're operating under a wholly different definition of egalitarianism than is commonly accepted.

Yeah, mine is the one a Kindergarten child might have: people striving to be fair to one another. Doesn't make everyone the same, doesn't change genetics, but it's still a neat concept.

> Not yet.

Doesn't change the point.

> That's just asymmetry. You can just as easily have it be an oppressed group calling for the internment of a dominant group, which by definition they will not be a part of, and may not even be in contact with if there are factors like apartheid put into play. Calling it "privilege" makes no sense.

Look, whatever. It's still just a word. Call it asymmetry or inequality or structures of power or privilege. It means what it means in the context of people arguing for mass surveillance because they themselves either aren't or think they aren't affected negatively. If you want to talk about some abstract unrelated stuff I'm not interested.

> This is totally ass-backwards: it should be that the disadvantaged group is elevated to the same level of privilege, because more often than not (excluding class) "privilege" simply refers to the baseline that preferably all groups should be held to.

... and because everybody has it ass-backwards, feminists are clamouring for men to be groped all the time? I'm of a mind to just delete my comments to get out of this, this is leading nowhere and adding nothing.
The interstitial for blocked content is implemented on a per-page level. You can test this yourself by creating a test page with an iframe to http://ianfette.org.

Suppose that Chrome just tried to replace the malicious embedded content. What happens when that embedded content is styled with CSS properties to make it hidden from the user?
This makes it almost impossible to exit from the window seat when the seats are filled.
Maybe because when a product "seems" too light, people actually complain about it. Beats is all about perceived value vs actual quality anyway.

Remember when the iPhone 5 was deemed too light?

http://gizmodo.com/5945662/the-weirdest-thing-people-hate-ab...
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I don't understand what this post is implying. If the original article was neutral and information driven then the changes aren't a cover up, maybe you could call it a cover down? The people that read the original article and missed the updates are better off. So what's nefarious about it?
For some reason this immediately reminded me of Larry Nivens Draco Travern: "The Slow Ones". Were a race of aliens had a much slower metabolism than ours, they looked like rocks that slowly over decades where moving toward the tavern across the field to visit. You could communicate with them through email get replies back after a couple of months, to the aliens it was basically instant messaging.
> I think a lesson everyone should have in life is witnessing something first-hand in real life, and then reading about it in the media,

Even better: Saying something to a reporter, and then reading what you supposedly said within quotation marks. (Although perhaps my data is old and things have gotten better since adequate interview-recording equipment is now on every smartphone.)
That's a big question about someone who gives a lot of talks: https://www.youtube.com/results?filters=long&search_query=ja...
"This is a challenge that journalism faces today -- how to fairly update and keep stories current while informing readers as best we can."

I work in and around the media industry, and I don't think most publishers see this as a "challenge" -- they have other things to worry about (like how to survive post-print, how to operate in an Internet ecosystem with Google/Facebook/Twitter/YouTube, etc.)

Instead, I see a lot of excitement around the ability of journalists to update their work after they publish it -- one of the few upsides, in fact, of the Internet, from their standpoint. Just as Wikipedia articles get better over time, some important pieces of journalism do, too -- with the guidance of new information or challenges to the original writing.

But look, the Internet isn't print. You can publish something at a URL, then change that URL's content. That's not a crime and it isn't worrying -- it's built-in to the medium.

Just like nothing makes the moment of publication special, nothing makes the moment of re-publication or re-writing special.

The New Yorker did a nice piece on the Internet archive, who is trying to "solve" this problem by periodically archiving the web. They pointed out that when Tim Berners-Lee invented HTTP, he considered the idea of versioning, but ultimately discarded it.

In 1989, at CERN, the European Particle Physics
Laboratory, in Geneva, Tim Berners-Lee, an English
computer scientist, proposed a hypertext transfer
protocol (HTTP) to link pages on what he called
the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee toyed with the
idea of a time axis for his protocol, too. One
reason it was never developed was the preference
for the most up-to-date information: a bias against
obsolescence. But the chief reason was the premium
placed on ease of use. “We were so young then, and
the Web was so young,” Berners-Lee told me. “I was
trying to get it to go. Preservation was not a
priority. But we’re getting older now.”

You can read the full story here:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb

I think ultimately having a strong and well-supported Internet Archive (if you care, donate: http://archive.org/donate/) is the best possible solution to this "problem". As long as we can go back and see how content evolved over time, we'll be able to study the changes.

And no, media companies are not going to embed Git into their news stories -- most of their visitors don't even know what Git or version control is. And most probably have never even clicked the "revision history" tab in Wikipedia.
I'd say you'd have better luck predicting the weather with a dartboard. But knowing a person's skin color or cultural heritage or gender etc would let you make better predictions, that's a fact.

For building diverse teams I think selecting people based on their skin color would be pretty dumb. Rather pay attention to their background. But you should be putting their skills first in either case.
This has been perhaps the most interesting thing, from a military tactics view, of the latest wars. That a moderately armed insurgency can hold against a very sophisticated military. The limits of smart weapons. In many ways it bolsters the argument that the 2nd amendment, as a bulwark against the emergence of a federal police state, is not actually outdated.
Because a site that is willing to host these kinds of ads may use more than one ad service, and Google may not have detected all the bad ad services.

The fault here lies squarely with the websites. They choose to work with scum. Let them fix the mess instead of blaming Google.
This is some pretty hillarious bureaucracy we're seeing here. First, the world was noticed [0] that google would begin blocking "Unwanted Software", and included a link [1] to their "unwanted software policy". This means that they can claim they gave all the torrent sites good faith notice since february, and even though none of them realized that they would be considered unwanted software, the time ran out, and google quietly swept these sites under the rug. They don't seem to be retracting this, either, which means this is business as usual.

I consider this action to be further proof that "Don't Be Evil" died with Eric Schmidt coming on board. This is stuff I'd expect out of Microsoft, but it still surprises me when Google does it.

0. http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.nl/2015/02/more-protect...

1. https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/company/unwanted-softwa...
Ask HN: Help me change mylife
Presently I live in Indonesia, i have no money and homeless.
I want to start to sell a Software or Game but paypal not available in Indonesia.[1]

I have just two friends I can use their bank account so no credit card, I’m Christian, don’t know much people here[2]

I'm looking for app like gumroad.com so i don’t have to pay for hosting fees and charges just whenever transaction made for their commission.

I eat grasshoppers every morning and I beg people for buy a bottled water to drink.
Thank you very much.

[1] https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Settings/What-to-do-to-Verify-Paypal-Account-from-Indonesia/m-p/964150/highlight/true#M10772

[2] http://ymitraining.com/80-of-indonesias-240-million-citizens-are-muslim-strategic-partner-update-3rd-quarter-2012/
People simply choose the facts they want to hear. On balance, the news industry is rapidly declining and is not rewarded for objective and insightful well researched pieces.

People choose the facts they want

Then they choose where to read the facts they agree with. Feminist blogs and news agencies were quick to highlight a woman being blasted out of tech for her gender and highlighting other related stories of abuse on reddit and in tech, MRA blogs post about how a woman was promoted on gender and her attack on free speech in pursuit of a biased agenda, and some fell in the middle.

Virtually none of these stories generated revenue from consumers directly paying subscription fees. It is ad traffic from people rushing to confirm their own bias.
People put up with a lot of things for a slightly cheaper air ticket.
Right, but the percentage of horse-riders carrying a sword was probably larger.
What about safety? All this stuff the flight attendants get on with about making sure all "cabin baggage is safely stowed either in a bin or beneath the seats" is so you don't trip up on crap in an emergency. Well, I guess thats no longer an issue...
Google ads themselves serve plenty of dodgey ads, go search "$popular_software download" for instance.
Are you genuinely interested in learning how to code and just don't think it would be as fulfilling as operating the business needs?

If not, that might be your issue with getting started with programming. Being an "ideas guy" who is effective at both creating products that add value for their target audience and describing your vision to others so that they can share it is just as valuable as writing code. If you are more interested in strategic vision than writing code maybe you should focus on finding someone technical to share your vision.

Remember, every Jobs needs a Wozniak.
What’s it like to be a teen working in Silicon Valley?
Anyone know what was the custom in the Roman Empire?
Solving programming puzzles (or competitive programming) is a good basis for a deliberate practice plan. There are a lot of sites that provide puzzles of increasing difficulty. So you can work on problems slightly above your current level, which is one of the tenets of DP.

I wrote a blog post on this topic with more details on a specific process: http://www.redgreencode.com/deliberate-practice-for-software...

Khan Academy is a reasonable way to start learning programming, but like other learning sites (Codecademy and others) they focus on learning things the first time, and not as much on getting better. CodingBat (http://codingbat.com/) takes a more drill-oriented approach, which is more effective for learning the basics well. But there's not a lot of content there, in comparison with a puzzle site like SPOJ (http://www.spoj.com/).
Check out the diagrams which accompany the Verge's opinion, http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/9/8924271/only-heartless-crea...

"..a truly nightmarish idea that lives somewhere between Saw and The Twilight Zone ... someone (or a group of someones) had to first think of this idea, create the patent, get approval within the company, and then submit it for approval to an international organizational body on the off chance someone one day thought, "Sure, let's try this." Because true darkness lies within us all."
Not just true of "internet" journalism.

To write accurately about something that you don't understand is hard. You either have to be very vague or take the time required.

If anything, the internet allows you to publish revisions of the original article, allowing you to correct your mistakes. Very hard to do with the traditional newspaper.
Or just change permission to "anyone with link can...">View
The open question that the article didn't touch upon (probably because it's much more complicated) is where to draw the line between what is and isn't the government's business. There are many who don't buy into the "nothing to hide" argument and would nonetheless advocate for the use of a central gun registry. It's not mutually exclusive, it's just a matter of where a person draws their line of privacy. I'd imagine that libertarians are on the far "nothing is anybody's business" end of the spectrum.
Tons of people have gotten in accidents doing things like adjusting the radio or air conditioning. Your car travels 88 feet blind every second you are distracted.