skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://status.slack.com/2015-09/cfcbf70171f9c24c

We rely on slack; we had multiple short outages last week. In slack terms, only a small number of teams were affected, but for us, that meant the whole company.

To be fair, the outages were short, and slack kept us in the loop. But the wider point is that such outages are possible with any SPOF, and if you work in a remote team, you should have a contingency plan to know which of those many alternatives you'll coordinate on when your primary service is down.
The problem with that argument is that the purpose of the CAS use case isn't to wage an air campaign - it is to wage a ground campaign. That mean the plane will have to be able to stick around in the air for more than a trivial amount of time. Which in turn means that there can be hidden or mobile air defences that may get deployed while the fight is ongoing.
Only thing that comes in my mind... http://i.imgur.com/rG0p0b2.gif
> The only computer parts from <2000 that are still worth keeping around today are the keyboards, and maybe the laser printers.

And yet I have a Dell Latitude CPx laptop from that era that is perfectly usable, and common parts are readily available via eBay (RAM, hard drives, battery, screen, etc). No, it's not going to play any modern games and no, it's not a good choice for compiling software. But OpenBSD, Slackware, and Debian all run surprisingly well on it given a light weight window manager. It's a good backup device for when my main laptop (also a "relic", a Dell Latitude D400 from 2003) is unavailable.
I don't think he was saying it was "absolutely" secure or totally or completely. Just that it was the "more secure" method, which is not an absolute. There may not be an absolute in security but there are definitely differences in types of security.
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Sure, dude, let's make a theme which is unusable with JS off.
Also known as: instead of plain HTML let's complicate things as much as we can.
> It might serve to partition search space for another more expensive algorithm

This is what we're doing. We're working on approaches for performing nucleotide sequence alignment using approximate time series representations of vectorised DNA sequences. There are some really elegant lower bounding similarity search methods for time series which generate no false negative alignments, allowing use of more expensive alignment algorithms later on in the search to prune out the false positives.

We've tested a few transformations including Haar wavelets, DFT and PAA and implemented an indexing structure in C++.

Preprint:
https://www.academia.edu/12575290/Alignment_by_numbers_seque... (slightly outdated... Email me for more info)
'Has nothing to do with Islam' and the proven numerous cases of Catholic (among others) priests having sex with boys have nothing to do with Christianity either? I'm on the fence on that one though we can agree it's not ordained in either faith.

The injunctions for illegality and immorality you cite for the Muslim world apply equally to those for Christianity of course.

Reading https://info.publicintelligence.net/HTT-PashtunSexuality.pdf there seems to be a problem for men not being allowed to see the face of potential mates; is this custom associated with Islam or not? Catholic priests are not allowed to marry. What are they supposed to do with their sexual impulses. We know the unconvincing answer.
Nexus phones get security updates every few weeks now. I know I got one this month and one in August on nexus 5. Apparently Samsung said they'll do the same - not sure if they did.
Write your own and keep it simple. It's not that hard.

The ones you can buy however are a nightmare for sure, so are most of the copy-pasted-glued-together ones.
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I know also this one[1] which tries to be as accurate as it can while staying simple.

[1]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Sameboat...
The numbers I can find for operating JAS Gripen is roughly $4700, so there are some modern planes that are only one magnitude cheaper. However, many tend to not prioritize operating costs very high.
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From the good old days of you are going overseas... when not in the field the first rules are , don't stare and shut up. As in, be careful where your about where your eyes are and do not comment without permission.

Simple rules that work for travelers too. There are many cultural issues that don't coincide with Western values and its best to get over any idea our views are superior because you cannot survive with that attitude while in another country.
They're not "concerned scientists working from the inside" anymore when they're making a difference, hence your claim is perhaps valid on its face but misleading! After that they become "megacorporations chasing after advertising-led demand of fake meat" from the cynic's POV.
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Disgustingly, it is a longstanding cultural thing in Afghanistan.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/dancingboys/

Don't let the modernity of 1960s Kabul fool you. I have a teenage student sold into sex slavery in the US. The weak (or in her case, homeless and orphaned) are targeted no matter what the culture. For more moral turpitude, check out Rotherham.

* I work with folks from the US's Office on Trafficking in Persons. It's one of the few programs run by the Department of Health and Human Services that has broad bipartisan support.

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/endtrafficking
It was fixed in 5.1.1 build LMY48M (http://sites.utexas.edu/iso/2015/09/15/android-5-lockscreen-...)
Agreed. The Linux kernel being a good example.

See http://blog.regehr.org/archives/894 , http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/84823/focus=85436 and https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=goto for some discussion and examples.

From Mr Torvalds (as diplomatic as ever...):

>I think goto's are fine, and they are often more readable than large amounts of indentation. That's _especially_ true if the code flow isn't actually naturally indented (in this case it is, so I don't think using goto is in any way _clearer_ than not, but in general goto's can be quite good for readability).

>Of course, in stupid languages like Pascal, where labels cannot be descriptive, goto's can be bad. But that's not the fault of the goto, that's the braindamage of the language designer.
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> sign up for fb

This is exactly the wrong way to deal with this problem. Like the term "identify theft" where liable party is the bank lending to someone without proper identity verification, this shift the responsibility to the victim.

Currently, Mr Shaw (or anybody else in a similar situation) has no relationship with Facebook. From his perspective, Facebook simply stated to libel him. If he instead decided to play into Facebook's game and open an account, the disclaimers in Facebook's ToS probably limit his legal options. Facebook gains a significant legal advantage if you choose to fight by their rules.
I do love her comments about the ship she rode in and her request to not punish an engineer whose work could have gotten her killed.

she sounds very pragmatic and honestly sometimes technical expertise isn't the most valuable trait when your in a field where it still is all very much up in the air as to if it works.
There was a small and relatively unsuccessful F1 racing team around about 10 years ago, who's name I shall not say here. Internally such teams were known as "pit dodgers".

When it came to the design of their gearbox, the work was outsourced (as much of it is in F1 unless you are Ferrari).

The primary gearbox designer did most of the work, however reverse gear proved to be a problem, but rather than fix the problem, it was left to the junior designer who couldn't solve it either, who also left it pretty much unfunctional. This was based on the concept that:

a) Reverse is rarely (if ever needed) (sidenote: disqualified if used in the pits during a race)

b) The "pit dodger" team was unlikely to last the entire race anyway, so the gearbox didn't need to standup to a full race duration anyway. The effort put in to designing the components (i.e. precision) can be reduced to match the expectation of success and failure rate of other third party components. Design and production time can be saved and extra profit made.

Thus lies the lesson of the emergency call feature, or any other feature that designers feel don't really require that much attention because they are rarely used. These features are often handed to junior developers and engineers, because of the fact that people have a tendency to deem lesser-used features as unimportant.

Which is fine of course until you have an emergency and you desparately need to make that emergency call because your, or someone else's life, depends on it. Or you need to reverse out of the way of a damn F1 car coming towards you at 150mph down a straight and you are sitting in the middle of the track. WTF, reverse doesn't engage....oh shiiiiiiit....

TLDR: Features that are very infrequently used are not always the features of least importance.
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I know you can just put a limit on it, but a string much less than 1MB in length entered into an edit field can crash a device with probably 1GB or more RAM? If there's a fixed-length buffer somewhere that's being overflowed, it's absurdly large for a password; and if there isn't and it's actually dynamically allocated, that's still pretty sad. I just can't help but ask "what were the people who designed and wrote this code thinking?"

This bug just happens to have been brought up in a security context, but if other text edit fields elsewhere in the OS and apps will cause crashes too when fed long strings, that's not just a security issue.
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While CPU performance has increased by an order of magnitude, "today's clock rates" aren't any faster than the clock rates we had 10 years ago.
>Of course I haven't used any of these cheap hosting solutions or setup a Wordpress site in a couple years

I think what you'll find has changed in the last few years is that "cheap" hosting isn't limited to shared cPanel type accounts any more.

The basic Linode is $10 per month, and presents a VPS with vastly more capabilities than your basic Bluehost plan.

It's hard to argue such things exist due solely to pricing these days. Rather, they exist largely due to the contingency of developers requiring features such as "1-Click Wordpress install".

You honestly wouldn't believe how often a helpdesk gets a call from someone saying "I'm a web developer and I've sold a website I built to a company on your host. Apparently I need to install something called Filezilla, can you help me with that?"

And that's why Wordpress will never run on Node.
You use the IBAN (International Bank Account Number), which is a 20 digit number that you find on your bank card (it's similar to a credit card number).

Sure, you can't just transfer money to someone's facebook account, but I guess that the inconvenience of having to ask people for their bank account number before you can send them money isn't really that big of a deal.

Especially considering that we are used to paying everything by bank transfer. Things like rent, utilities, parking tickets... any time you get a bill, there's a bank account number on it that you need to transfer the money to. And you just pay it online using the bank's website.

(For paying recurring bills, you can also grant a company permission for "direct debit" for your account, so you don't need to do anything. It sounds risky, but I've never had any fraudulent charges on my account)
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The free audiobook link was incorrect for me. Found it here: http://media.outsideonline.com/designaudio/A%20Dangerous%20W...
Are you aware of the political and societal implications and surroundings of f.x. the cases around Jimmy Savile or Marc Dutroux?

Maybe you should watch some documentaries about that to realize that this is by the same token part of any "culture".
I have to agree

Add to that forgetting a month in a calendar and an Alarm that rings for one second and stops

Almost justifies the extra price for the iPhone
That seems to pop up semi-frequently, It's basically a voluntary "right to forget" provided by the publishers.

http://f.cl.ly/items/1o2k3u2J343O3y3X290J/Image%202014-04-07...

http://harpers.org/robots.txt

https://twitter.com/waxpancake/statuses/453024948475293696
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> I wonder if there's a way to remove the extra nops?

Sure you just have to recompute all the jump destinations and patch the jumps themselves.
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It's a shame this doesn't apply to the original iPad... no OS updates for quite a while, so you can't use the majority of apps (as they don't offer older versions) and the browser regularly crashes.

It was excellent hardware, let down by just becoming obsolete through age.
Besides the facts that Sanddancer and thelibrarian already mentioned, I as a FreeBSD desktop user would like to answer the question in a different way.

> Why isn't FreeBSD suitable for a personal computer / desktop?

Next time you are visiting a BSDCon have a look around. What are the Systems FreeBSD devs are working with and what are the Systems OpenBSD devs are working with? It is not my intention to be polemic, but I think you will see that many FreeBSD devs (in contrast to many OpenBSD devs) are too pragmatic to use their own OS on their desktop and just use OS X.

At least that is my theory, why OpenBSD make a nicer desktop than FreeBSD -- as long as you don't need any FreeBSD features.
> I wonder if there's a way to remove the extra nops?

Yes, technically it would be possible to remove the code instead injecting NOPs. But then I'd have to adjust the jump targets. However, I don't think these NOPs are too bad. Note that goto jumps directly after the NOP ramp of the label, and the NOPs of the goto itself are never reached. The only scenario where NOPs are actually seen by the interpreter is when the natural code path visits a label.

EDIT: Instead re-assembling the bytecode and adjusting jumps, I went to use JUMP_FORWARD(3) instead 7 NOPs now. Note that there are still 4 NOPs left to fill the gap, these however are never executed as they are skipped by the preceding jump instruction.
https://github.com/snoack/python-goto/commit/2b0f5e5069cbb88...
> Significant expertise is required to install, configure (sound, sleep, 3d accelerators, multiple monitors, printers, scanners, projectors), and maintain the os.

Worked out of the box for me (sound autoconfigured, sleep via thinkpad acpi autoconfigured, intel gpu autoconfigured, external monitor via thunderbolt autodetected, one network printer/scanner autodetected via bonjour, other network printer/scanner had driver package from the vendor on the web, were projectors ever a problem?).

Did I do something the wrong way?
I've lost orders of magnitude more time on windows, than on linux. (Embedded linux devices included in the math).
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I'm about -$15,000 after three startup acquisitions (cost of buying stock options when I was laid off/quit).
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You can, quite trivially, measure the total amount of BTC that moved from wallet to wallet. You can't tell what actually moved from entity to entity (at least, not without a lot of work, and probably not without some non-blockchain information). I'm not sure how good the former would serve as a proxy for the latter in your envisioned use case.

Really, if we wanted to stabilize a coin, I think we'd want to be measuring how it's moving relative to other things, which is definitely external info. It would be a challenge to come up with a means of folding these observations into the system in a secure (and ideally trustless) way.
I doubt that without military those inventions, especially the internet wouldn't have been created. Especially if the humongous funding of the military would be completely used for research. In fact we might have seen even more amazing inventions.

In the end there is no way to tell.
You meant JVM.
I don't get it. Firefox and Chrome had ability to install ad blockers for ages. As soon as Apple adds this to iOS they are sudenly the bad gays.
And before they did add this I am sure there were those not happy about that and ranting about the walled garden.

One more thing about accessibility: iOS is head and sholders above pretty much each "modern" this site in this regard.
Understand that PCs were end-user fixable and upgradeable by accident.

The intention was never for you, the person who bought your computer, to be able to pop a new CPU into your Compaq five years later.

Standardized, modular parts were always all about the OEMs, who were all trying to build an industry by cloning the IBM PC. They could have a variety of manufacturers making various components and as long as everybody followed the standards, they could pick and choose parts to create SKUs for various needs and then sell them to you, the end-user.

The fact that a twenty year-old me could spend a summer saving up for the parts to build a brand-new Pentium II computer and then spend an exciting weekend putting it all together was a side effect of all that.

A side effect many of us enjoy, obviously. And a side effect that developed into a small industry of its own, with various companies (even Intel and AMD at times) targeting the "enthusiast builder" community.

When you understand this, though, things like soldered-on memory and CPUs make sense. The reasons why your 1988 Compaq had standardized IDE drives and memory slots are utterly inapplicable to a 2015 MacBook.

I hate the non-hackable place to which PC hardware is headed, but I don't get angry at it.

Almost no other category of consumer good works in the modular way that we nerds wish that everything would. Aside from the fact that they run on the same gasoline you can't put Chevy stuff into a Ford; you can't even put Ford F-150 stuff into a Ford Fusion. Your toaster oven, your ceiling fan, and your lawn mower are the same way.
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Apart from very close species (like incubating passenger pigeon DNA in a fantail pigeon host), is it possible to recreate say a woolly mammoth even assuming you can perfectly reconstruct the DNA itself?

That is, how much of an organism is encoded in the DNA and how much in the mother's body? And yes, this question is derived from GEB[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
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Do you necessarily need to go to the US now? Since you don't have a Visa, that is really complicated. You cannot legally work with a b2 visa, if you do that, it can jeopardize future opportunities in the US. I would not recommend this path, not now at least.

I would recommend you to get more experience in the start-up environment first, get a good resume, and then apply for a H1B in the states, if that's your ultimate goal. If you can't find start-up jobs in Colombia, have you considered moving to São Paulo, Brazil? You're a Mercosul resident so it is easier for you to get a work visa in Brazil than in the US. Brazil is currently going through a crisis, so things aren't easy, but there's still a vibrant entrepreneur market. It's not hard to find technology jobs there. It is a good place to get experience in more modern technologies and in entrepreneurship.
In addition there have been quite a number of studies on diet that show people who follow plant-based diets live longer and have fewer health problems

These studies have a huge flaw though: vegetarians in Western world very often do it for health reasons. Therefore, vegetarians also exercise, smoke and drink less and generally care more about their health compared to omnivores. So called "healthy user bias".

The benefits of vegetarianism disappear when you compare them to other health conscious groups, or when you look at societies where people are vegetarians for religious purposes.

or the research that's been done on the "Blue Zones."

And all Blue Zone diets included meat, by the way. Plus, of course, the research was purely observational.

Look up vegan body builders - you will see that they are not puny at all!

There are hardly any, so they are more an exception than the rule.
I am from the industry on the B2B side and this article rings even more true and much more strongly so on the B2B - industrial internet side of things. Go to any 'messe' (as they call it in Germany) or salon or expo and you see tons of connected/connectable industrial products but when you dig deeper into how those machines/components are going to be integrated, installed, commissioned, used and maintained, it becomes quickly evident that the vendors haven't thought those things through.

The dominant discourse when you talk to many OEMs is that this is a defensive play to be prepared for all those secretive inventions that Google and Apple are making in their X-Labs. They don't know what's coming so they are throwing everything at it to "cloud-wash" and "IoT-wash" their offerings even when their customers are justifiably scared about the risks of cyber-attacks that connected machines bring into their factories and plants.

In short, not enough RoI evident for the investments and changes in processes IoT mandates in the enterprise - especially in the production plants. However, based on my discussion with all the different actors, its likely that we'll find use cases in either Operations Optimization or Asset Optimization.
Or it might be that advanced civilisations use more advanced means of communication. In such a vast universe, clearly superluminal communication speeds, should they be attainable, would be used. Maybe we just need to "tune in" properly.
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What is it with Android that it can't work the way Windows updates work?

Amount of hardware is same as in any laptop. Is Android missing some driver framework or what?
A Formula 1 car is disqualified if its reverse doesn't work (and this is the case for quite some time now). Not sure which team you're referring to, I mean Minardi was sold to Red Bull in 2005, so it has to be before that ;)
Why the hostility? You said that you didn't think this was a longstanding part of Afghani culture and I brought up a documentary that was linked in the article you posted saying that, in fact, pederasty was a longstanding part of Afghani culture. There are plenty of people in Afghanistan who oppose it, but that doesn't mean it's not an accepted part of the culture.

As for "culture", we may be better describing this as a societal failure in the case of Rotherham. Note, I mentioned Rotherham, not Jimmy Savile. The sexual exploitation in Rotherham was disgusting and was allowed to happen for years. It was a failure on the part of the predators (obviously) and a failure on the part of the local governmental structure who largely knew about it.

In the Americas we have cases like my student's. Human trafficking is a big big thing and that it goes on isn't because of isolated individuals but because of large organizations of procurers, pimps, money launderers, etc., who are able to work because so many folks choose to turn a blind eye to it.

Let's be clear, here, I'm not saying that human trafficking or pederasty has widespread acceptance in the West. I am saying that there are cultural (or subcultural, whatever) groups for whom it is acceptable.

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