skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minor gripe.

I can't figure out how to make etherpads public by default.

Which rather kills the primary use-case of etherpads for me (frictionless collaborative documents - non-guessable urls are the only authentication)
Sometimes I feel rigorous thinking in software is a form of delusion.

(Possibly related: one of the first thing I noted as a student (in architecture) was the fact of the 'beaten path' vs the ideal of the designated path.)
One potential problem with this in the public sector is that when you have a lot more representatives (potentially anyone), much less scrutiny is given to any one of them. I've seen this in ranked-choice systems. Most people still end up picking the candidate that spends the most money (gets the most exposure), only with even less information about them because the money and coverage is spread more thinly.

And I'm not sure that immediate recall power is really an effective defense. Even in representative systems with transparency, few people make the effort to study issues and track voting records. And who would you delegate to instead? Someone you know even less about, probably.

A "grand election event" with primaries has the benefit of winnowing and focusing attention on a small set of candidates. Unfortunately that also tends to be those with the most money to spend.
There are a number (16?) of vtable lookup-based message-sends for some of the common selectors, but in general, this is the fast path.
Fatih Bit İlaçlama, Fatih Bit İlaçlama Şirketi
Anything that can be done, will be done, to whatever degree people can profit from it, as long as it isn't regulated. If a majority of people are against these privacy violation, then it's simply a failure of the political system to come up with a solution.
This is a endless problem that I am yet to solve. The worst offender for marking legitimate email as spam (or just silently deleting it) is Microsoft. What I have found is certain words will trigger their worse than useless filter (“paypal” or “payment” are two examples).

The people who really know how to get email through are the spammers. One of them should set up a white-hat service offering advice on what to avoid in your email content.

Edit. You might want to consider paying for return path’s certification [1].

1. http://www.returnpath.com/solutions/email-deliverability-opt...
I am not much of a mathematician but I know a little about art and photography. Generally this piece was well written and I don't doubt a lot of it. Two comments though:

Using pictures of swimsuit models is a potentially deeply flawed methodology. Photoshop is of course liberally applied to these images and proportions of many aspects (leg length and waist length being perhaps the most germane here) are thus distorted.

In regards to painting and the arts in general, people talk about the rule of thirds or the golden spiral but artists are not so good about sticking to "rules". The general principle may apply but no one is measuring. Remember that engineers designed guitar amplifiers originally not to cause distortion. Everything changed when Link Wray put a pencil through the cone of his cabinet. ;)
For sure - there's a ton of these services but not a lot of differentiation. There's even a subreddit[1] with over 10k readers based around home services like this mostly copying the same model.

I had no idea about those big players wanting in. Very interesting. Thanks.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/entrepreneurridealong
> Yes, it is. Period. Full Stop. Don't ever check access keys into any repo, public, private or even self-hosted.

Generalizing here (and for the record I agree with your point), is that to a developer, source code is as valuable as anything else, and if a private repo is secure enough for source code, it should be secure enough for access credentials.

I speculate that this is a by product to moving towards a developer-centric engineering culture.
> Obj-C had a form of this with nil calling of methods silently doing nothing (so you end up with methods that "conveniently" don't happen, and don't crash! when the receiver is nil).

For me it is the worst part of Objective-C. Instead of getting a crash at nil, you will get a weird program behavior later because something wasn't called.

And I never use this feature because it complicates code flow and brings no benefits.
Ok, to be more serious for a bit, a goal of the OpenBSD project is to produce a Unix like operating system. To the extent "innovation" is "don't be Unix" it's somewhat counter to project goals.
I have this too. If I try to recall images of people close to me, I get an instinctive flash, which is like an outline. If I try to focus in on the detail, the image disappears.

Happens in dreams to some extent too - I generally dream normally (?) but if I become lucid then everything I try to look at disintegrates.

For the record, I'm a programmer who always wanted to do something artistic. Coming to the realization that I just wouldn't be very good took a long time to accept.
It is still very far from 24 hours.
Oh, but note that all plans are free during the beta period, which will last at least a few months. :)
I'd really love to know. Because if I could get AWS-like service with the ability to have it cut off if my bill gets to say... three times my usual monthly... That'd be worth switching for the peace of mind.
Expecting Short Inferential Distances
> it might be perfect for my parents

If it works as well as advertised, with as little fuss - this is absolutely the go-to Christmas gift for techies to get their parents/grandparents/uncles/etc. It's worth the price tag for me to get my family on a device that I don't have to fiddle with every time I visit.
Handy.

In case this is useful to others:

I have to use Windows 7 at work. I recently found bug.n, a flexible tiling window manager made with AutoHotkey.

https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
I'm going to dodge your question [0] and ask a different one that cuts to the heart of the matter [1]: "Unless I'm mis-reading the datasheet, it seems like the device has a worst-case switching speed of ~8.3 mbit/second. Have you played around with it to try to determine its performance when filtering or routing packets? (As opposed to just switching packets.)."

[0] Thanks much for the other info, though! That's useful stuff.

[1] Sorry for not asking this question in my original post. :(
I keep Chrome around just for the occasion that I ned to use Flash.

Chrome happily installs from an OS X standard account, it does not need to be installed by an administrator. As such, it probably isn't able to put stuff "everywhere".

BTW, maybe it's just me, but I have installed Chrome as its own user. That makes it more difficult for it to spy on my day-to-day activity.
On the opposite end I remember every face I've ever seen (that has been put to a name). I remember most names and faces from each of my elementary classes including pre-school. Completely useless skill as I can't remember other things to save my life unless I read them 100 times over.
Yep. Supporting interop is a growing factor in my choice of product. Unfortunately it's getting harder to find a vendor that is even trying.

I love what Apple has done to push UX as a primary USP - I feel the balance needs to shift somewhat. Other things are valuable too.
I think it is hard to appreciate DDoS until you are the target. About 7 years ago, my business partner made fun of a hacker who was trying to blackmail us and before we knew it, we were under attack. I didn't even know what DDoS was at that time, but I certainly found out. We had an eCommerce site and it was down hard for three days until we found one of the very few companies providing any level of DDoS protection at that time. We finally got the site back up, but the damage was done. We ended up closing down that business a couple months later.
You're conflating the meaning of NULL in that case. That's not a problem of NULL, you're using NULL to represent multiple different things. You can use exceptions to handle that scenario.

cache = {}
getFromCache = (key) ->
return cache[key] if cache[key]?
throw "not found"

doSomethingWithValue = (key) ->
try
value = getFromCache(key)
catch
value = getValueFromNonCache(key)
return _doSomethingWith(value)
Linkedin CEO jeff weiner shares 7 email habits
I remember reading rec.puzzles occasionally in the day when the Sleeping Beauty question was first posed. Coming back after not reading the group was for a couple of weeks was incredibly confused because it was full of minor variants of this single question constructed by people to support their position. I'd not only missed the original question and was thus lacking the context completely, but also had missed the megathread that followed and didn't understand the political undercurrents which would have been obvious if I'd only known who was halfer and who a thirder. It was just crazy.

Here's a great account of how it unfolded: http://www.maproom.co.uk/sb.html
Exposing an AWS key through a public repo happened to me a few years ago and AWS support called me to confirm whether I was aware of the suspicious activity, when I stated I do not know what's going on they immediately blocked the account and told me I wouldn't be responsible for the cost. Mine was actually much worse, the account was billing a thousand dollars every hour. They told me I'd have to sign up again with a different account.. I'm surprised this process was not followed in author's case.
Ha, I'm in heaven again! (thank you)
IANAL, but I highly doubt this would hold up in court by any means for several reasons:

1. Virginia is a "ban the box" state, meaning it is state law that the state or government contractor cannot ask about a criminal background until a formal offer of employment is on the table. Unless of course the job requires prior to extending the offer (i.e. schools can't employ sex offenders, law enforcement jobs don't want convicted felons, etc..).

2. The Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits job discrimination on a criminal background when it comes to race or nationality.

The law seems to have been written with a very broad pen. While I understand there are certain businesses that should not be run by certain convicted felons (i.e. you don't want a daycare center run by someone convicted of molesting children), this law seems like it was written to solve a specific problem and needed a very general approach. Comparably, many states/cities do have restrictions on the types of licenses an individual can get based on their background (commonly referred to a collateral consequences of a conviction - http://www.abacollateralconsequences.org/). For example, some states prohibit the issuing of a real estate license to individuals convicted of fraud.

I don't know if it is a coincidence or not, but this ordinance came into effect a month after the governor of Virginia signed the Ban the Box law.
Orange Pi PC is a $15 single-board computer
Apple with Cisco to make its mobile devices work better on corporate networks
Using any of the btrfs supported RAID levels will improve read performance, and anything but level 1 will improve write performance.

I like Raid10.
Who even cares about spindles anymore?

Need fast? SSD on the PCI bus. Need lots of storage? Spinning disk where you care not about performance.
Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity
> it is state law that the state or government contractor cannot ask about a criminal background until a formal offer of employment is on the table.

What happens if the answer is "Yes, I've been convicted of a serious felony" after a formal offer of employment is on the table?
The Problem with DevOps
Would you mind sharing this information? I live in south bay and have struggled to find a good therapist/MD and have had very little success finding any recommendations.
you could probly edit udev rules to make random be the same device major/minor as urandom
Well, it’s not my favourite brand or anything, the issue I’m just seeing is that I’d like to see a good deal from Google.

And what we’re seeing here is that a lot of people say "this router is awesome", "it does so much and is so cheap", "there’s no other router with that performance", and I’m just here, facepalming.

It’s an upper-mid-range device in an oversaturated market, not something worth hundreds of reviews and articles.

Tbh, I don’t care about AVM – the Fritz!Box 7490 was just the first router I could find with a similar featureset and similar price.

Also, the Google Store is even more empty in many other countries – US, Canada, sometimes UK, NZ and AUS get the nice products. Some european countries still have no Google Books, Google Movies, Google Music, or even the ability to buy Nexus devices.
/tmp is typically but not always a tmpfs mount. Presumptions about where files are or aren't actually written to disk given modern virtual memory is ... somewhat fraught.

It also happens that my /tmp is physically allocated.

And named pipes really and truly work differently (though there can still be buffering).

That said, no joy (though I tracked down the issue above -- configfile setting conflicting with commandline parameters, somewhat annoyingly).
No. They will force you to move.
Would you mind explaining why you think that's a contradiction? The "shellcode" is downloaded over SSL from a very popular repository on github. I'm genuinely interested in your alternative approach to securely downloading and installing programs from source, and why you think this way is problematic.
I'm sad; I didn't know LILO was on its death bed
The Monty Hall problem is actually much better for educating people, as it highlights the bias hidden behind the "50/50" oversimplification. This Sleeping Beauty problem, on the other hand, is phrased to confuse you, so that arguing between the "halfers" and "thirders" boils down to their different assumptions on what is asked, I think.

Similarly, the question "if a tree falls in a forest and nobody's there, does it make a sound?" has two valid answers for two meanings of "sound", an objectivistic "pressure wave" vs. a (somewhat?)solipsistic "consciousness' hearing".
This is the US, there is no left, just far right and extremist / fundamentalist / beyond stupid right. Maybe one of the latter at work here?
Use the "share" button in the top bar to create a sharing link. :)
Lytten – Search Audio and Spoken Content
This is an incredibly powerful rephrasing, kudos. It's perfect, because for all intents and purposes you are "a[nother] person, who cannot tell if anyone [he] has been asked before", even though that other person is "also you."

Very good! The half position is clearly, simply wrong.
yeah but now you are switching your argument from won't work because people cant hold all the issues in their mind to wont work because people will decide to delegate their votes to idiots ??? And hackers.

If you believe that generally democracy works pretty well now then I agree that it isn't a good alternative.

If you don't believe that then it is an interesting alternative. that attempts to solve some of the problems that modern democracy doesn't. Like people who think differently about different topics and want their differing opinions to matter.
VMware touts container management and live migration of virtual machines
196€ or 219$ on amazon.

That’s including shipping. Also available on amazon.co.uk.

Yes, it’s not exactly 200$, but it has more features at the same price.

Essentially, it was just a statement more like "Google is neither producing something new nor disrupting a market".
I'm pretty sure it's common for programmers to be below average visualizers. I was interested in this topic in college and asked around in my software developer friend group and many also didn't visualize well. My unscientific hypothesis is that programming requires a much larger language based memory than visual memory, so people sort themselves based on their skills.

However, this doesn't disqualify you from the arts under any circumstances! You might never be a photorealistic painter, but you might be better at, say, photography, as it's more about elimination of elements, or certain types of illustration (or music but I assume by "artistic" you meant visual arts). And, as usual, it's mostly hard work and only like 10% talent...
Just be charitable in your interpretation. Knodi123 probably wants ex-cons treated well, but doesn't believe that they are not part of society, even without voting rights.

Kids have no voting rights either. Or legal aliens. Or visiting diplomats. Etc.
Celebrating a culture of entrepreneurialism
Suppose I am going to flip a coin and give you money if you guess correctly. On heads I hand you 1$ on tails I hand you 1$ and add 1$ to your bank account without telling you. Now, after flipping the coin I ask you what the heads or tails?

Clearly your going to pick tails. Why? Because it's the more rational choice based on the spoken rules.

Going to sleep and losing memory is really just window dressing. The simple truth is before you went to sleep you should be able to say 1/3 odds of waking up to heads.
Even if you get awakened 99 times with Tails, you have equal probability going down the Heads (1 awakening) or Tails (1/99 awakenings) paths.

So if you awaken with no knowledge of other awakenings, you are equally likely to be on either path, with the coin being Heads or Tails.

You are NOT equally likely to guess that your awakening was due to Heads or Tails however, and that's the paradox.
In the monty hall problem you aren't really changing your belief. You select a door believing that it holds the prize with probability 1/3, and then after the host reveals a door, you still think your door has probability 1/3. So I don't think it's fair to say it fails the "new new information" argument.
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion, not my employer's. Not representing anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google, and my team is oncall for public DNS.)

I believe you have misunderstood what a network AS number is. This identifies your ISP, not your account. So the permanent logs would say something approximating "a level3 user queried news.ycombinator.com".
Do you have a citation or is that just your personal theory?
You can use it to pretend you know everyone in a party even though all you know is their face and name. :)
The vtable-based dispatch (described in detail at http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2011/06/17/objc_e...) is no longer in use.
I don't think I have a very difficult time visualizing things, but I seem to have a hard time describing what people look like. Whenever anyone asks what person X looks like, I always really struggle with the question and rarely give a useful answer beyond things like skin color, hair color, and sometimes height. I don't know why this is at all -- whether my visual memories (maybe of specific people?) are missing fine details, whether I'm just generally lacking in practice in describing people's appearance in words, whether I'm especially inattentive to people's appearance, whether it's a psychological block, or something else. (I don't experience face blindness; I can easily recognize and distinguish people when I see them in person.)
Zeveb's Eleventh Law; you heard it here first.
Well, it wasn’t a "this device is shit", more a "well, the OnHub isn’t really filling any niche, nor disrupting the market – it’s a mediocre product in an oversaturated market".
> People would gain power just by being popular.

This problem already exists. Liquid democracy does not eliminate it, but it should lessen it for a couple of reasons, but probably most importantly because it gives people continuous control over their delegation decision. Right now the election cycles themselves exert tremendous undue influence over political outcomes, an implementation side-effect that is not an inherent property of democracy or particularly reflective of the popular will. Liquid democracy ameliorates this side-effect.

For that reason alone, it is worth serious consideration.
I think it boils down to the thirder position.

P(monday,heads)=0,33 since P(heads)=0,5 and P(monday)=0,67.

This is because we are sampling awakenings, not coin tosses or beauties.

It's like betting on a coin toss, but with a side twist that the bet is evaluated twice (no new toss) when the coin is tails. Hence a majority of evaluations will be on tails:

Guess, Coin, Profit
H, H, +1
H, T, -2
T, H, -1
T, T, +2

Analysis for betting heads: average is +1 + -2 = -1
Betting tails: average is -1 + +2 = +1.

I'd bet tails!
I don't what dimension of left-right you have, but no one that supports individual freedom would fundamentally support the idea that a government can take your business away if you hire a specific person. It's not the individual employer that chooses it, but a tyrannical force.

On the left, while supporting equal opportunities, there'd be simply no reason to support outcasting individuals, especially when many ex-cons were raised in poverty and are URM. You don't have to be like SFiscans(tax breaks for employers that hire ex-cons) to be against this.
but its so fun to blast out buzzwords
The key is that you have to qualify it by repeatedly stating the word 'material'.

There can be arbitrary amounts of psychological suffering that we trade for this material benefit and these are typically just discounted.
Well, there we go. That's unfortunate, but understandable. However, it still allows you to build on decades of work in security engineering (incl old secure UNIX's). The easiest route at this point is putting OpenBSD API on top of a microkernel, pulling security-critical functionality out of main system onto microkernel, and bulletproofing your middleware for these. Additionally, writing the code in a way that lets tools such as Astree Analyzer work on as much of it as possible will knock out many bugs. Compiler tools that automatically transform kernel or user-mode code to make it safer might help. Softbound + CETS comes to mind.

Much to draw on or improve while remaining a UNIX. The microkernel + user-mode virtualization approach has already been done in academia and commercial products. So, it could be done here. Will they? Another matter entirely. I doubt it.

Truth be told, though, I voted for the Xen Dom0 to use OpenBSD because 0-days would be its main concern. And we know which team is the best at removing them from a UNIX codebase. ;)
It really depends on the job and position, but there has to be a justifiable reason why the individual cannot be hired. In theory the jobs that this helps felons get are the blue collar type work (for example, there is no reason a felon should not be allowed to work on a state landscape crew or a state construction team. Prior to ban the box, they may have been automatically excluded. With ban the box, they are not automatically excluded.)