skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll copy and paste my comment from earlier:

> Reaching into content windows is forbidden [modulo CPOWs] in multiprocess Firefox. That alone is going to break tons of addons. This necessitates a redesign. Since a major redesign is necessary anyway, it makes sense to future-proof the architecture so that addons will work in perpetuity. Ultimately, this ends up being friendlier to addon developers, since addons will break once instead of again and again as the architecture evolves.
I can't help but wonder if all the negative press Amazon is getting is just because of "a few bad applies".

Of course there's selection bias, but the reviews for Amazon on Glassdoor [0] don't seem that bad compared to other companies.

0 - http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Amazon-com-Reviews-E6036.ht...
A 19-year-old just scored $1.25M in venture funding for chip design
> I think skilled biological actors use this overfitting to get really good at things without knowing how things actually work.

Perhaps that's the mechanism behind intuition?
Isn't avoiding wars kind of a big deal?
How is it home row oriented? (Admittedly, I only used in-browser search for "home" and found nothing.)

Since moving from the home row has such a massively destructive, measured, and reproducedly measured effect on productivity and geek credibility, I've always thought that editors should accept no other keypresses than those on the home row. Every keyboard key that isn't caps lock, asdfghjkl;' or enter should be a key chord. (And not a key sequence, because that would not be productive: a real key chord.)

The next step is to release a physical keyboard that has exactly 10 keys, since moving the forefingers to press G and H, and moving the pinkies to press caps lock, apostrophe, and return is such a tremendous affront to good taste.

And editors should refuse to accept mouse input, as well. Ideally, touching the mouse would cause an electric shock, but that would require hardware modification.
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This doesn't prove anything. Lanes are added a decade or more after there is a need and these cities are generally growing anyway with an existing growing demand that isn't being met by current infrastructure.

With this extra congestion it is moving more people than before.
Airfare isn't falling because the domestic airlines a) have a triopoly and b) have learned not to compete on marketshare, so capacity isn't increasing as much. The big 3 have become much more disciplined when it comes to revenue management.
I lived in LA for quite some time. The 10/405 interchange cannot under any normal circumstances be declared a work of art, unless in an ironic, soul-destroying sense of immense fuck-upery.

LA would have all the space it needs if freeways were one way. Yeah, I'm serious. Separate the two directions of traffic by a city block or two and suddenly four lanes will fit in more places, the interchanges become less complex, and there's no spillover delays from rubbernecking the other side of the freeway.

Also, they only recently realized that freeways need to obey the pressure principle: lots of exits, few entrances with meters and long acceleration lanes. That discourages short-distance trips and gives many outlets for relieving congestion in the case of accidents. Long acceleration lanes reduce merge pressure and help reduce the jamming caused by fast traffic hitting slower traffic.
> the idea that someone with the same name could wipe me from all of google's results is ridiculous to say the least

Yup, it is ridiculous. It is also not what happens, not what the law provides for and not what the article is talking about.
You're absolutely right, as indeed pcwalton says above - but it's a step in the right direction from "let anybody have access to anything they feel like".
Allow enterprise users to generate firefox executables with additional trusted certificates and distribute that on their machines instead of the original?
Who is made worse off by the FasTrak HOV lane arrangement? People who can't afford the HOV lanes will remain stuck in traffic like they always were, although there will be less traffic than there used to be, because the people who can afford to use the new HOV lanes are no longer in the normal lanes.

Some people are made better off, and nobody is made worse off.
> Plus is there evidence of issues around this in the wild?

Is there evidence of browser RCEs in the wild? Yes.
I have never worked within the UN, but I have worked for companies small and large, like many others here I am certain, and have seen the loss of quality of purpose and people happen many times.

With a company, it is possible for a good leader to come in and start cleaning up shop with either a buzz axe of a scalpel. Even at small companies, I have seen places where a small subset of an organization get cancerous or hardened by a bad director, and then when a new CEO comes in (often because an investment firm takes over) that director is given the boot quite quickly. Often this director is allowed to remain because the previous CEO is somehow related or friends with that person, and once that pressure or corruption is gone, then that director is no longer protected.

In the case of the UN, if I were to surmise, it is impossible to do so because so many of the corruptions are external. It is possible that nobody is capable of actually cleaning things up because one country or a group of countries want to keep making sure that one of their friends live high on the hog at taxpayer expense without doing anything valuable, hence the terrible personal actions listed in the article. Dealing with these external corruptions are basically impossible in a modern political climate in many nations, and of course globally.

I don't have the connections, influence, intellectual capability, or any kind of power to disrupt such massive forces. I wonder, does anyone? Is it possible to disrupt such a thing without revolutionary action in a large number of countries? With the internet, many things seem possible, but it seems that the only way to make change happen is to go into meatspace. The internet seems to delay that from happening in most instances (although it does seem to have the effect of keeping the fire burning when they start).

This post is more of me speaking to my frustration than anything else.
the wording struck me as really unfortunate

You're right. In hindsight I should have been clearer about the issue I was trying to address there. I am clearer in the bug bounty page on the tarsnap website, but my blog is written in less formal language, and I allowed myself to slip from informal into imprecise.
One thing to keep in mind in this kind of discussion is that the US is really big. It has 13,500 school districts. Its population is almost half that of all of Europe. Put another way, it has a population roughly the same size as Germany, France, the UK, Italy and Spain all put together.

Among other factors that result from thus, there's a lot more variance in experience across US schools than there are in many European nations.

In my experience at a (well-off) US public school, I had some teachers who were annoyed at my reading ahead/knowing things before they were taught, a select few who encouraged it, and a majority of teachers who mostly ignored me.

Edit: It's -> Its
Yes. I'd also expect there to be unexpected consequences. The child might become socially isolated. They might experience an existential crisis the likes of which cannot be experienced by a mouse. There's no assurance that such a child grows to be a successful adult. The child might engage in risky behavior and experience a handicapping trauma. There's also a possibility that such a child grows up to be a psychopath. With these possibilities come a responsibility for emotional stability that might be difficult to provide by many parents.

Still, I'd do it. Homo sapiens sapiens will evolve. My child is almost 3 yrs old.
That depends on what you want out of the "distributed" aspect. If all you care about is offline access to the repo, and like the fact that everyone's checkout is effectively a backup of what's on the central server, then centralization doesn't really take away from the distributed nature.

Even if you consider the SPOF-y nature of something like GitHub, more savvy git users will realize that if GitHub was down for an extended period of time, they could push their repo somewhere else that's public, like Bitbucket, or their own server, and keep working and allowing other people to collaborate. And for shorter downtime of the central server (where you might feel like setting up an alternate is too much effort), everyone can still get work done, they just can't collaborate as effectively until things are restored.
A surprising number of "NASA engineers" from JSC became astronauts. When working at JSC, these engineers interact with the astronauts, and having a senior astronaut on your side is an advantage.

Additionally, a large proportion of astronauts apply multiple times before selection, although 14 times is probably a record.
I worked on a similar project for a while (the poorly-named Phlisped), and I came to many of the same conclusions as these guys did. A few notes:

I'm not sure reducing keystrokes is a useful measure. I can't think of a better one, though, so at least it's something quantifiable.

Pure tree editing, with no text editor to fall back to, is important. I didn't even use textual output, while it sounds like these guys did. They also used javascript, which is interesting since it has so much syntax. Lisp seems like a natural choice to me since the tree structure is readily apparent.

Dogfooding is critical, and it's very natural for a project like this. When I got to that point, I learned so much about what was really important in an editor. Like macros -- those helped so much.

Keyboard-based editing of trees is possible, but it takes significant effort to make it feel decently natural.

Collaboration is definitely the most important thing people in this area need to learn. There are dozens of projects similar to this one, and they're generally created by solo programmers (like I did) or by pairs (like Prune). Tree-based editing will never take off until a group of like-minded programmers gets together and makes it happen. I've been pulled away into an unrelated project, but if I were to come back to this, my first move would be to get some collaborators.
because the third leak was mentioned in the article

>Minutes ago, the hackers also posted a third data dump.
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I don't get it. What does that even mean? It's 5x as big and has 5x the population? Do you realize what you are saying here?

Yeah, it's always a longer process. You still gotta start at some point. 30 years behind Amsterdam and the clock is still clicking on for the process to actually start. Tomorrow it will be 30 years and 1 day without action.

(I'll just say it to be very clear here: when I say Amsterdam, really it's all of the Netherlands, to slightly varying degree.)
Stock market plummets more than 530 points, its worst one-day drop since 2008
Flowers for Algernon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon
Read How to Win Friends and Influence People

This is a tremendous, potentially life-changing book with a title that is unfortunately a huge turnoff.

This is a book that very much should not be judged by its cover.
Technically it's an ahead-of-time compiler, unlike Java's Hotspot which actually does just-in-time compilation.
Almost everyone in the world is better off than they were 100 years ago. That does not make it easier for those at the bottom.
XFS has recently-ish (depending on your definition of recently) had a significant workover in this area.

Before this, EXT4 was the king of metadata-intensive workloads. Nowadays XFS wins.

I'm guessing you used the older code (rhel/centos pre-6.3 perhaps?) and ran into this issue.
Async is fantastic if you do a lot of I/O and you have to scale. For instance if you have a web service that makes a lot of network calls.

In our particular case, and oversimplifying, the app is a smart router. Take a request, farm out pieces of it to multiple other servers, aggregate responses. Some of those requests finish in 5ms, some take several seconds, which is a crappy pattern to deal with. Today's not a particularly busy day, so we're doing about 70 req/sec/VM at 5% CPU on a dual core VM. In load tests I've had it up to 300 req/sec/VM with no problems. It actually bottlenecked our 10Gb network cards before the the CPU maxed out.

I haven't tried running the actual app without async because it would be a major rewrite. But I did some benchmarking making lots of parallel HTTP calls with threads vs async, and found that async was 10-20x faster and used less CPU.
Amsterdam has ~1.5m people in the metro area while LA has ~18m (more than The Netherlands in total!). They're just not comparable in terms of infrastructure. LA is also growing very rapidly (it's added 2 Amsterdam's worth of people since just 1990!) which makes it difficult to properly plan infrastructure.
I've been working on something similar for ClojureScript (Plastic editor package for Atom)
https://github.com/darwin/plastic
Just raise the tolls until the traffic jam goes away. If the revenue is used to build better public transit, most people won't need a car to get to work.

A "24-hour train that goes to every business and every home in the area" is not necessary to achieve this. It is very easy to live without a car in many of the cities which implement congestion tolls, and they don't have 24-hour train service straight to everyone's front door. Trains or buses within walking distance of most people's homes and workplaces, which operate from say 5AM to midnight, would be sufficient, and that is exactly what most great cities in the world have.
So, how long until my 5-figure position in UCO gets back to June levels?

https://www.google.com/finance?cid=14807175
> A more forthcoming query from you that 1) showed that you had done your homework (you clearly haven't), 2) told me what you know and don't know, and 3) told me which precise points you don't understand or aren't yet willing to believe would -- naturally -- have produced a more useful answer from me.

Actually, this response is already sufficiently useful. This is not an area that I have researched, nor is it one that I intend to spend much time on, so I appreciate the list that you've put together. I listened to most of Stephen Hsu's talk and liked it (he sounds like he's well-versed with the research, and he used sufficiently "small words" to be understandable).
It's damn hard to get in legal trouble for being your own janitor. The same is not true of accounting or law.
If you press people about why they don't like taking the bus, you get some interesting answers, usually containing some riff on the phrase "those people". It's pretty shitty.
Thank you Downs-Thomson paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs%E2%80%93Thomson_paradox

Seoul actually removed an urban freeway. Result? Less traffic congestion:

http://grist.org/infrastructure/2011-04-04-seoul-korea-tears...

Go figure.
I found the wording a bit strange too. Perhaps mention why and that you can choose a charity to donate it to even if you were from those countries?

Anyway. Hope someone wins. A write-up would make interesting reading.
Just change the wording. They aren't problem countries. Our governments don't get along, is all.

It's not the exclusion he has a problem with.

If you visit Iran, or meet any Iranians, you'll quickly realize the land and the people are not problems at all. They actually tend to go out of their way to be inclusive, because they know how brainwashed we are into thinking they are a "problem country", and they are eager to correct that.
The buses in LA are awful. They're subject to the same traffic commuters deal with AND also makes stops every couple blocks. The questionable cleanliness and sharing tight quarters with unsavory people is to be expected in a city that doesn't consider mass transit an viable option.
With that in mind it's both expected and perfectly fine if addon developers are up in arms about this change, as long as it doesn't stop Mozilla from designing a new API in the open while listening to the developers. Hostile feedback is still feedback.
I've also heard of "happy churn", where the customer no longer needs your services (e.g. when a dating site's customers get married).
If nothing else, there are oil producers in those indices, too...
You're right they are not comparable in infrastructure, there are no dedicated bike lanes forming a connected network, but there are surely lots of dead pedestrians and car carnage.
> It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a program with good use of data types, will be free from many common bugs. Unfortunately, the common practice in web programming seems to ignore this maxim.

Web Programming = One Giant Hack built on hacks.
+1 for rage.
Coffee mugs that make me LOL
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The question here was "Is debt good?". My observation was that debt is acceptable --and even good-- if, and only if, the person or organization has a historical track record and culture of efficient use of capital and will, in fact, continue to use capital efficiently after incurring further debt.

The examples I provided are but a few from a huge list showing we are not efficient. In that context, yes, the examples are absolutely relevant. I have personally been involved in several government contract bids where I saw how government actors, systems and procedures managed to pay twice as much than market rate for items being procured. The waste present in government spending is likely to be of staggering proportions.

It's like borrowing money to buy a truck for your business and paying twice market rate for the truck. The reality is that this hypothetical business probably wouldn't have needed extra cash had it been responsible about capital utilization throughout it's history.
It also makes carpooling more attractive since you can split the cost (or it might be waived).
Being an astronaut for NASA would be more interesting if NASA had a functioning launch system. NASA still has too many astronauts. They had something like 140 at peak; now they're down to 46 or so.

Once Space-X gets their Falcon/Dragon system man-rated, this may change.
I've run bcache-backed databases in production for about a year or so - it's been absolutely rock solid, and I'm very happy with it.

We spent a lot of time prototyping basically every SSD caching tech that existed at the time and bcache was the clear winner (note that dm-cache, the tech underpinning lvm-cache was pretty immature at the time).

You do need a workload with a fairly reasonable cache hitrate to get the best out of it, but that's obviously true of all such technologies.
If only there was some way to move a large number of people a mile a minute...

Of course, it wouldn't be built in the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_S1,_BCR
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Actually you can AOT compile C# down to machine code. I haven't tried it, but they've been pushing it pretty heavily for a while now.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx
No, because I do not believe you can isolate the effect of a gene modification to just "increasing intelligence" without side or downstream effects. We can barely determine how the brain works or explain how to treat mental disorders or why treatments do or do not work.

I owe it to my child not put them through that because I alone have the desire to make them relatively more intelligent.

There is also evidence that stimulants can aid in concentration and learning, but I wouldn't force that on a child that didn't want to deal with the side effects.
I have to say, I don't really understand your criticisms as you've presented them, perhaps I'm missing something.

The "brainy mice" are pretty clearly the ones with the inhibited PDE4B enzyme. What is it you're mocking here, the use of the buzzwordy phrase?

> at least make the primary source available.

They give the contact information of the researcher and cite the paper, mentioning that it is available upon request. How does its open availability fall under the responsibility of the journalist?
There are legion ways to mitigate expelled CO2. But probably the cheapest is just to leave it in the ground.
Where is "here"?
Is it not obvious that you're going to get general-purpose search engines which explicitly do not operate in Europe that exist for the sole purpose of finding information that's been erased from Google under the 'Right to be Forgotten'?

In particular, search engines which prioritize/highlight information which has been erased making it easier to find things people wanted to keep hidden?

For background checks, I expect a whole cottage industry will spring up of extra-European companies which provide European employers with background information that's hidden on the continent.

It's not so much the ideal that the EC holds (that people have a right to be judged on their present rather than on an unaudited collection of searchable details from the past -- an ideal I can agree with), but that there seem to be a surprisingly large number of people who think the strategy they've adopted will actually be effective. It seems blindingly obvious to me (and I expect many other people who have been responding to you) that the inevitable outcome is going to be far far more effective at calling out things people would rather have forgotten than things as they stood before the ruling.

To me it seems as if a startlingly large group of people has said, effectively, "this ideal is so important that we must take drastic action that guarantees we can never achieve it".
To be fair my observations are solely based off n~= 20 flights through generally smaller airports, but I have seen extreme reluctance on the part of TSA staff to pass people through the metal detectors, especially during times like holidays. I do agree that the security theater surrounding the x-ray bag scanners is also a significant issue and might be the primary bottleneck at other airports or at different times.
The real "problem" with Capitalism is that the effects of the trade-offs being made are either not felt directly by the perpetrators or the feedback loop is too long that you end up in a "slowly boiling frog" situation.

If the person that reaps all of the money for a particular business makes enough money off of the venture that they can insulate themselves from the consequences, that is a failure of Capitalism. For example, someone lives in a community that depends on a particular waterway. They make a bunch of money by skimping on correct disposal of toxic waste, instead dumping it into the waterway. Once they've "made it," they take the money and leave the area. They are no longer feeling the effects of their actions, instead they are forcing them onto others. This is the legacy of Capitalism.