skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I don't agree with you, but in my family we always sang this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIRtrR7LW7g

The traditional lyrics just seem a bit bland compared with all that sweetness.
Are you in the Canadian market?
How is it different than using a SoftHSM?
IntelliJ Products New Subscription Model
They're a company you can contact to dispatch a car to take you where you want to go that charges you by distance traveled. If that's not a taxi, I don't know what is.
It's also really hard to prove the absence of theft, e.g., of things like trade secrets in strategy, customer lists, and financial models. The consequence is that even if you're in the right, you can spend several hundred thousand on legal fees before you can get out of a case.
Just wanted to highlight a very important advice on the article:

You do not reach [work life] balance by reducing work. You reach balance by finding a passion that draws you out of work.
Why Platforms Now Compete with Industrial Firms
I'd classify that as an "8x increase" instead of "improvement".
I could give you my list of companies I know of that won't do things like that with their hardware.

My list contains one name.

For some reason, this company on my list remains a hated company for some geeks. Something about overly restrictive control of the platform, but for me it means having control over my own data, because the platform tries its damnedest to keep bad players from getting inappropriate access.

I won't give the list because doing so seems like a cheap shot. But I think everyone knows what company is on it.

I'm not saying this is the only such company. It's just the one I know of. Others may have longer lists.
Dell looks good right now. From what Ive been hearing they're QA is at Lenovo levels.
Some "ideas" are, if they qualify as trade secrets (think Coke's formula). Other's are free to reverse engineer those ideas, but a former employer/vendor/customer exposed to those ideas under an NDA can come after you for misappropriating their qualifying ideas.
Or sub-plot line in a Bill & Ted adventure.
It seems the takeaway is that if you're going to sign a contract because you're concerned about copyright/patent infringement, then you should get an IP lawyer because law is weird (and also make sure they're aware if you think there's an question about the validity of the copyright/patent claim).
Your Very Own Polaris Nuclear Submarine for $7
"Despite the discrepancies, a fix shouldn't involve major changes. "It could be something very small," said Carder, who's the interim director of West Virginia University's Center for Alternative Fuels....

"It can simply be a change in the fuel injection strategy. What might be realized is a penalty in fuel economy in order to get these systems more active, to lower the emissions levels."

Fix is likely not that big of a deal... but what about the impact on the consumers who paid for a car with a certain performance level and are now left with a diminished product?

I have several colleagues who have VW TDIs that are distraught. Many of them are very well informed consumers who took pride in purchasing a more environmentally friendly car at a higher premium. The car might be able to meet those environmental standards but the price tag no longer seems justifiable.
Musk is doing more for improving lives than most, with jumpstarting the transition to electric cars, and pushing solar power hard. And one of the complaints in the article is "you can't even get a decent internet connection" and guess what one of Musk's big projects with SpaceX is!

But he ignores all of that, and concentrates entirely on a single offhanded remark by the guy. That's incredibly dishonest.

And if he's that dishonest about Musk, what about the others he discusses? I don't know them well enough to say whether they're being fairly represented or not. But I do know that I can't trust the author to get it right.
Some services are reporting problems now. Starting with the same set as last time such as Heroku and lots of services that depend on it:

https://statusgator.io/events
Poll: Desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
This question has been asked before, for example in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730762 but that was more than two years ago, and it would be interesting to see if there are any changes.
ElementaryOS
Mageia
Manjaro
PCLinuxOS
RHEL
Ubuntu (or any of its variants)
Other (specify below)
Isn't that the guy that fucked the pig?
>> The claim is not really about "motivating" people to create, but making it easier to make a living off their works.

Ask a random author, musician, or artist how easy it is to make a living, and how much copyright law helps them. And if you do get a positive response, ask how having it apply for more than 10 years helps them.
Developers Need to Embrace Artificial Intelligence
Read the text, and find it rather troublesome that the author is constrained to thinking of advertising and invasions of privacy as such a new phenomenon. Yes, I get that it has advanced significantly. New players, etc.

However, I did a CTRL+F of both the article and these comments and don't see one mention of Acxiom.

The social pressure comparison to tobacco might be workable, but until there's significant "sin taxes" put on web ads, I don't think there's quite the same motivation for change.
i used to use that same function pointer cast trick to execute bytes from memory a long time ago.

you should find that it fails in most modern execution environments...

in legacy/desktop windows you can virtualalloc things to be executable but the same is not true in the general case, and this code doesn't do that.

even a long time ago (before windows 8, ios etc.) i wasn't able to just execute things on the stack or heap reliably and had to write code that explicitly allocated executable memory.
NeoKylin: The Chinese OS the government wants to replace Windows
6 reasons why you should prototype
Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013)
>the world hate against the US will keep raising

And some day in the future there might be a single European candidate that may run on an anti-US platform. Or maybe not.
I currently track a lot of this through my project StatusGator which alerts you on outages: https://statusgator.io.

Most of the historical data isn't shown publicly but I could probably do something with that.
Possibly, but that doesn't seem like it would produce very reliable data though.
Ask HN: Whatever happened to the C++ Grandmaster Certification course?
What happened? The http://www.cppgm.org/ website shows dates from 2014 and the forum link is defunct. Does anyone have the story on what happened to the C++ GM certification?
This is a great piece, but I have to post a correction for this: "It boils down to this: fake websites serving real ads to fake traffic for real money."

There are, in fact, also real websites serving real ads to fake traffic for real money. When publishers promise an advertiser impressions or downloads or some other metric on a campaign, and then the traffic fails to materialize, the marketing department can always call in the bots. It happens at some of the biggest and most reputable sites out there, and what's crazy is the agencies (middlemen who buy ads on behalf of publishers) know it and don't care because hey, the metrics got met and they got paid their cut!
No, he just says you don't discuss it. It's my ideal salary. Who else get's to decide what my ideal salary is other than me?
It does have criteria for listing.

>A piece of music needs to have been notable, popular, or memorable to be deemed the "worst ever", or it would be unlikely to top all-time public polls a few years after it was released.

That whittles down the infinite amount of music composed and recorded to a manageable list from which the worst songs can be found.
How to Bypass iOS 9 Content Blocking
Yes, there is a google research department. Research occurs there and also in other parts of the company. It's not as well defined as MSR, though- the research department is fully embedded within the company's products. This is not mutually exclusive with "full-time research" although I don't think that sort of distinction really matters much.
I've been working pretty much exclusively with Angular for the past 18 months on some high volume financial processing systems. Shipped 3 codebases that would probably be considered 'large'. It's been one of the best development experiences I've ever had.

The learning curve is steep, but when you get into the groove, when it finally clicks, then you can really take off with it.

I love the tooling (node, Yeoman, Grunt, jshint, karma, protractor etc.). While not perfect, it's definitely helped me write better, more readable code.

The one article that helped me get to my 'gotcha' stage was this one by Todd Motto: http://toddmotto.com/rethinking-angular-js-controllers/
Why would Vogue show an SSD ad at all? What does Vogue know about SSDs? Nothing. Why would I think that an ad for SSDs on Vogue tells me anything about the quality of the SSD they're hocking? It's non-information and communicates nothing about the product beyond the fact that it exists. Anyone who knows what an SSD is knows where they can buy an SSD - what I really want to know is which SSD should I buy and an SSD ad on Vogue doesn't give me any information in that regard.
How does that play out when you're a parent with a spouse and 4 children?
More Elevated Errors with DynamoDB in AWS US-East
http://status.aws.amazon.com/

This looks similar to how Sunday's issue started. Let's hope it's not as bad.
What I found striking was how much I could agree with the list of music considered the worst, but following the footer link to the list of songs considered the best I disagree with 90% of the songs on that list.
Why would Notepad be any better than Google Docs in this instance?
And go where?
Translation isn't very good, not as good as online tools like Google Translate which I find myself visiting quite often.
It's certainly changed but the question is if it's better.

I did play with the beta version of Mac Word and it was beautiful but buggy right up until the last release. And honestly, I was editing primarily bulleted lists and was enraged that it somehow to this day couldn't do that consistently (copy/paste across lines does unexpected things, indentation seems to differ on every single line, and the, er, list goes on).

And then the final version came and a LOG-IN screen appeared after Word's characteristically-long launch (presumably because they have to launch an entire Windows VM or something on the Mac). That's it; you can't do anything else. So I enter what I think is my log-in ID and password and it sits there spinning for a LONG time with no functional way to cancel aside from force-quitting, and then it eventually says the log-in is incorrect. Apparently I needed some other account but it wouldn't tell me why my choice didn't work.

So, Office became pretty but worse in every practical respect and far worse in some brand new ways. Seems to me Microsoft is about the same it has always been.
Silicon Valley boycotting Modi constitutes 'economic war against India'
Time machine?

Or find something you like to do with your kids.
I have heard once you have children, you only have time for one hobby. True?
Are diesel vehicles actually more environmentally friendly? It sure doesn't seem that way driving behind one.
Since the copyright of the song is proven not to be valid, please pay any any revenues that you ripped off people back to them (including interest) or if it proves to be too complicated to find them all, at least transfer this money into a fund for helping people defend against dubious copyright claims.

Thanks.
5 reasons not to upgrade to iOS 9
Can this algorithm beat an executive recruiter?
Have You Tried Floating? (POV)
Your complaints have nothing to do with Vogue, but with the uselessness of an ad in general. Even if a site were talking about SSDs, you wouldn't need an ad to tell you about them, would you?
Tracking ownership doesn't make the Rust compiler slow. Compiling Rust is already faster in general than compiling C++ (where the lack of a module system and code explosion from templates is absolutely killer), with the caveat that the Rust compiler hasn't yet implemented incremental recompilation and so subsequent compilations can be slower than subsequent compilations in C++ if your C++ build system is reusing artifacts intelligently. Incremental compilation in Rust is slated for after the middle-end overhaul which is currently ongoing.
In addition to earlier suggestions, it could have been negotiated into the contract at the start, especially as doing it when hired appears 'costless' the the company at that time, especially when well worded "If the company decide to downsize for reason XX out of Party B's control or control of their direct manager, ..., etc".
I wouldn't go as far as claiming that US agencies are putting gag orders on such investigations.

Symantec did a very extensive study on Stuxnet they were the ones that confirmed that it was intended to damage the centrifuges by fooling the industrial motor controllers.

What is more likely is that a national intelligence organization will use the local security vendors for counter intelligence purposes i.e. tipping them to suspected cyber intelligence operations that they've identified through other means.

This is a much more likely scenario than simply telling them not to talk about certain malware, it's easier to enforce and it provides them with both deniability and a more favorable outcome.

Geopolitics also play an important role here, different vendors have different market share in different regions.
Kaspersky for example is more common in lower income countries, as well as countries that are under direct US sanctions like Syria or Iran, or countries to which US companies will have hard time exporting too or developing their market due to past relations.

So when you have a virus that infects many machines in Iran or Syria it's if any of the computers will be running fully licensed and supported commercial anti-virus software it wont be Symantec or McAfee that they'll be running but rather Kaspersky or any other non-US/Western software.
I don't feel deprived of comedy in general because anyone can redistribute some list of a few hundred jokes without repercussion. Good comedy, however, is hard to come by. I've heard it all before and now I need to look for niche domains like language intersection to find novel jokes.
Yeah, Apple is like that. They charge you a pretty penny, but then they don't feel the urge to nickel-and-dime you through backdoors like this.

The problem with crapware on Wintel is that Microsoft and Intel consumed all the profit from the industry, commoditizing their compliments - OEMs. OEMs then found themselves in a race to the bottom, which has entirely shaped the field and brought about the behavior we've seen. Android is now facing the same problem on mobile - a race to the bottom among the OEMs is bound to produce all kinds of shady behavior.

Apple stayed out of this game entirely, they have thick margins which gives them means to pursue their religion of design, UX, and whatever else they think helps them keep their high-ground spot.
Crowdsourcing the #AppEnabledHome – GE, Ubuntu/Canonical, FirstBuild
There certainly aren't many good ones. And even if you don't care about the quality of comedy, any layman can compare the comedy industry to another industry that does have such protections, like, say, film or software, and see a huge gap.
Making Standardization Bodies Irrelevant and Crowdsourcing Standards
This seems to be a tooling issue. Given the right hooks, it should be much easier to profile and debug this sort of issue than chasing memory leaks in other languages.

This is like trying to debug leaks in C with printf. It is just not done. Where's Haskell's valgrind-like tool?
Carder may be surprised at the "hullabaloo" now because he released the results 18 months ago, but I have had a hell of a time finding any written documentation of their technique.

Was their research limited to observing the effects on cars as they were driven around (something they did), or were they able to dump and analyze the firmware as well? The EFF wrote a story talking about how the DMCA made it hard for researchers, but didn't actually mention the barriers (if any) in this case.

If anyone has links to the written research or an understanding of how hard it is to get at the firmware controlling these emissions, I'd love to read it.
I really like Angular and have been able to pick it up faster than other frameworks. Mainly because its a complete framework as opposed to having to mix it with other frameworks like Backbone or React has to do with Express or Ampersand
My only gripe is having so much code in the HTML that it makes it nearly unreadable. Maybe this is just the people I've worked with who do this. I think most of this could/should be put in separate controllers?
See also this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10263766, which concerns the linked article at Computerworld.
This is assuming they won't grow much past $50bn right?
I won't speak to the sarcasm-as-argument response, but I will say that there is a sentiment behind it that I do agree with.

I say - with differing commentary after the first 4-5 sentences - in every class I teach:

"I don't like the phrase 'best practice'. I won't use it. It's presumptuous and condescending. What's best for me might suck for you. Who am I to know your business requirements? There is only one true 'best practice', in my view, and that is simply to have practices that you and your team follow that serve to further your business goals and meet your business requirements. SharePoint isn't a best practice, but a system to support a corporate culture of collaboration or information sharing is a practice that many businesses can agree with. jQuery isn't a best practice, but using a framework that improves your team's productivity and helps it to meet your business' requirements - that's a good practice to follow."

We need a new phrase that gets the point across without the cognitive burden of being condescending and presumptuous. Consensus practice? Common practice? Popular practice? I don't know. But I know that "best" is a superlative that is too often used to disguise a marketing goal or to dazzle the listener/reader into accepting the superiority of the person using it.
> ads being indistinguishable from the surrounding content

I think this is an improvement, compared to the current situation of ads getting in the way of the content I want to read.
I've seen something similar more than once on HN but my google-fu is failing. What other similar services are out there that'll let you smartly scrape a page into a spreadsheet.

In the past, I've tried Google spreadsheets with "ImportXML" option but got frustrated after a bit and resorted to python.
The Austrian economist Ludwig Lachmann once walked into the colloquium room at New York University, where the blackboard displayed this quotation: “When it comes to the future, one word says it all: You never know. – Y. Berra.”

Having built much of his economics on the unknowability of the future, Lachmann noticed the quote. However, having lived in South Africa for decades and being unfamiliar with the wit and wisdom of the former New York Yankees catcher, he pondered the chalk inscription for a bit, turned to those assembled, and in his heavy accent said, “I’m afraid I’m not familiar with the works of Professor Berra.”
Or they might write something, change their mind and enter something else

Facebook explicitly does that (log every field input even if never "submitted") and uses unsubmitted thoughts to build more detailed models of you.

The "trace-per-character" behavior terrified me when Google Suggest first launched. It's a neat tech example, but there's no way people can understand "everything I type, live, as I type, will be recorded forever." Then they made it default Chrome bar and default google search behavior. Average users (heck, even technical users) have little idea how much data internet services capture about them though non-explicit interactions.
Xkcd's Simplewriter
He's referring to the German connection. A leap but also undeniable that many Americans do not have positive associations with the word "uber. Still the era was not Germany's worst... But the worst was born in it (the Weimar Republic) where reactionaries took root and exploded.
We can agree to disagree that Nintendo is wrong for attempting to prevent people from advertising pirated copies of their games. It wouldn't be considered legal in any other medium, so I'm not sure why it should be here.

Nintendo didn't bring it down for displaying it publicly, Nintendo brought it down for modding a pirated rom:

>By making a derivative work using Nintendo's IP, and then displaying Nintendo's IP on your YouTube channel, you have violated Nintendo's exclusive rights.
Are any other manufacturers under suspicion? You'd think the incentives are similar for the large players, and they are certainly all able to do this kind of trick.
I agree somewhat with what you're trying to do, but I really dislike the way you're doing it.

For example, I'm one of those developers that customise my development environment heavily and that have spent 99.99999% of my life using a regular keyboard (ie. not on a laptop). Now you want me to use a vanilla environment + laptop keyboard, which combined roughly means that you're going to divide my development speed somewhere by 4 to 10. Nevermind that the laptop you're going to give me will probably be a half-broken extra that's both underpowered and unmaintained...

Of course all interviews are a negotiation, so the onus would have been on me to inform you of these factors.
In Europe a large fraction of new cars are sold as employee leasning cars. The tax regulations e.g. in Sweden mean that it's only viable to pick an environmentally friendly car, which is basically a CO2 emissions value. As an example the treshold in Sweden is 120g/km.

Almost every manufacturer have 2 liter disel models that (just) barely come in under 120g/km, including several VW models such as the Passat. So while a slight increase in fuel consumption might not be much, it could be a huge blow to european sales: if a Passat jumps just a tiny bit in consumptions, CO2 emissions are likely to stray above 120g/km meaning sales will effectively be cut in half (assuming half the buyers of new cars are those who need to get under 120g/km)

To illustrate how tight the margins are, the current model of Volvo V70 with the 2 liter "D4" diesel has offer a special 120g version with 16" wheels in because the standard 17" wheels would be an inch wider, and the resulting increase in drag makes the CO2 emission value 121g/km!
That's the same damn thing.
Apparently, SHA-1 is pretty slow compared to others, about 20x slower than the fastest hash algorithms out there.

https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash

You would think, that if it's just being used as a checksum, anything that passes https://code.google.com/p/smhasher/wiki/SMHasher with high marks would be sufficient.
The spouse and 4 children are part of the passion outside of work? :)
They emit less CO2 per kilometer but much more particulates (this is why they have a filter), which is worse health wise.
I like Mitiril, but the way you manage your view layer doesn't work for me. I've tried several "build a Dom in code" approaches before, and they haven't proven to be very maintainable in the long run, especially for larger and more complex solutions. Additionally, the cost of migrating an app is much much higher.

So while this post is mostly FUD, your points are valid, I feel all frameworks come with a tradeoff.
US companies would simply not be able to work with that data e.g. via a browser while sitting in the US to perform any form of data analysis, customer support and what not.

They would require a local presence, local staffing.
All I hear is a very short tick sound.
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