skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While changes may be afoot, the one-party system has bred open and notorious corruption and censorship for 30+ years. The Party is also jeopardizing the global economy with its treatment of the market correction, mostly in the interest of defending its own position. I don't think negative American sentiment towards the Party is entirely misplaced.
Scandal Erupts in Unregulated World of Fantasy Sports
Yes, I realize that player owned percentages is a huge advantage (to bet against the field thus having a better chance of coming up). But not player pricing.
Humans are worse than radiation for Chernobyl animals
>That's right, that terribly communist government suppressing its people and free speech, is actually responsible for lifting 500 million people out of poverty over the last 30 years.

There isn't anything recognizably communist about the Chinese system aside from the name. And the big spurt of growth didn't start until Deng's market-based reforms of the '70s.

So a better way to put it would be "After its Marxist fantasy economics resulted in the starvation of more than forty million Chinese people, the government wisely switched to capitalism, which lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty."
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These discussions remind me of the debate over caller ID in California. California was one of the last states to have Caller ID.

On the opposing side were battered women's advocacy groups arguing that Caller ID would make it impossible for a woman to hide her location from her tormentor.

See http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/15/nyregion/popularity-of-cal... for a general discussion about this.

the most vehement opposition has come from advocates for battered women and other victims whose safety might depend on being able to call help lines or domestic-violence shelters anonymously. One Caller I.D. option lists numbers for calls that have been made as well as for calls received; thus an abusive husband, for example, could tell if his wife had called for help. And if such a victim has left home, Caller I.D. might help the abuser track her down if she or her children called. 'A Step Backward'

And among the groups that wanted it were, you guessed it, battered women's advocacy groups who argued that Caller ID would put an end to harassing phone calls!

Both sides gave tearful testimony to the California PUC.
It says HP is trying to buy market share. That strategy doesn't tend to work well long-term when your shareholders catch on.
Brackets to become code editor of Dreamweaver
Diesels are great for having a wide spread of torque from very low RPM which makes them very tractable for everyday driving. Race cars have different priorities. They need maximum power which generally results in a very peaky engine. They substitute a highly skilled driver for tractability.
Indeed, intents could address this beautifully, and even better we wouldn't need to shove a third party script for every like/share button out there, which would be a big win for the web as a whole.
Usually in the $250 range, unless you decide to go completely nuts on the keycaps. Then, well, the sky's the limit these days.
Both ChuckMcM and I were remarking on how people actually use the Web, whereas when you write:

"But is that really what we want to be supporting?"

you are instead remarking about how things should be. Maybe there is some alternate universe where utopia has been established and people pay a lot of money to support good content. However, I would suggest that you read Clay Shirky's remarks on the death of print:

"When you have an audience mostly made up of nostalgists, there’s not much market demand for unvarnished truth. This kind of boosterism wouldn’t matter so much if it were only reaching weepy journos whose careers started in the Reagan administration. But the toxic runoff from CJR and Nieman’s form of unpaid PR is poisoning the minds of 19-year-olds."

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2014/06/nostalgia-and-newspaper...

There was a long time, during the 1990s and early 00s, when it seemed it might be possible for newspapers to gain revenue by publishing on the web, but we now know that is impossible.

See also "This is why the news media is dying: global online ad revenue is $40 billion"

Combine that with “Google Controls 44 Percent Of Global Online Advertising“.

That leaves at most $25 billion for every content site in the world. Pathetic. Consider that television advertising in the USA is $160 billion a year.

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/this-is-why-the-news-me...

Again, my comments are more about how people actually use the web, rather than how they should use the web.
I find lots of other brands exploit sex to sell, and I find them all exploitative. AA were particularly egregious, and this article is about them going bankrupt, so I'm talking about them here as they are the subject of the article. Don't assume that because I didn't mention other fashion labels that I don't care about their practices either.

I say they are exploitative because they reduce women to mere objects with which to sell clothing. As has been pointed out in a number of sources, many of the ads they ran were literally just soft porn, in fact many of the women didn't have much if any clothing on at all.

This in turn exploited the minds of young women to make them want to fit the type of ultra-skinny, skimpily clad models who appeared to want to have sex at the drop of a hat. They were just one of the brands who helped increase raunch culture, made many women feel their bodies were inadequate and, though they may protest, did not portray a positive message about sex.

If they were going to show a positive message about sex, then they could have at least shown models with a variety of body types. But then again, you've got to ask why sex seemed to be their ONLY real hook to sell their clothing.

So that's my reasoning, feel free to disagree but I think a large number of people across the globe tend to agree with my assessment of American Apparrel, including the UK Advertising Standards Board who repeatedly made them take down their ads.
My reading is that, if I followed the default install instructions (that is included on the CD Liner), that OpenBSD has not been remotely exploitable in the last 16+ versions.

By default OpenBSD has not opened up and ports, daemons, sockets, or other resources that would allow a remote attacker to exploit it.

If I wish to start making changes to the default install, that is, modifying /etc/rc.local to start enabling daemons/services, then I need to take responsibility for those changes, and ensure that I stay current with the security issues associated with those daemons/services.
The point being that if we lack the political ability to simply not kill an innocent person, then more complex things such as updated gun regulations are likely impossible.
The issue is with DPI scaling, not even something I found OBS to do properly with it's window capture
OSS University
https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel

Read the bit about Lisp. Explains what Amazon did And how it went wrong.
Thanks. You would definitely make the great colleague/leader, and I would hire you!
Daily Fantasy Sports probably wont go the way of poker for a couple of reasons:

1. DraftKings and FanDual are US based companies, most of the big poker sites were not.

2. There is an exception for fantasy sports in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. You can debate whether Daily Fantasy Sports should qualify, but unlike poker it is at least starting on legal ground.

3. Daily Fantasy Sports has buyins from the NFL, NFLPA, individual teams, ESPN, the major broadcast networks, etc. Lots of peoples' hands have been greased from all of the money DraftKings and FanDual have been spending on promotion.
Sure, from a security perspective, there's no requirement that 0 be the only UID that can bind to privileged ports. But by doing what you suggest, you've created a privileged user that can create privileged processes. The author states:

"It is no longer a catastrophe if an unprivileged process binds to transport layer ports less than 1024."

except that -from a security perspective- it kind of is. :)

Edit: To put a finer point on this and make it more explicit: Permitting unprivileged users to bind to "privileged" ports changes a service crash bug from a DoS into a complete service takeover.
Yep, exactly. I am not opposed to advertising that is clearly marked as such and is hosted form the server that I intended to connect to as long as it's not doing anything shady with my computer.
Lessons learned from working at Continuum
This!

Especially the example of Google and Amazon is misleading. Most of those requests are assets which are loaded from a CDN, which is highly reliable compared to the application code.
I don't think Facebook advertises that it's a horribly bad service for domestic violence victims, etc. If they did, this policy would be more justified.
> the government pays the soldiers/airmen/marines/sailors a wage for their services. Those service members and their families then use that money to purchase other services. This helps bolster the overall american economy.

> the government pays contractors to provide all the food/water/clothing/bullets/office equipment/communication equipment/whatever needed to conduct war. This creates jobs, which helps the american economy.

> the government contracts flights from airlines to transport troops to and from warzones. this creates more jobs and helps bolster the airline industry.

Couldn't we just instead cut a check to all those people who would have been involved? That would free up their time to go do something productive, and they'd still have the cash in hand to stimulate the economy or whatever. Wouldn't we be even better off? Even in the worse case, where they take the money and do nothing, it would be a wash.

Also both of you and OP mention "dessert countries" but afaik we have no real plans to bomb or invade Switzerland.
You mean like oprofile, dtrace, system tap, cachegrind, etc.?
The Vallejo kidnappings [pdf]
2-Year RCT of Caloric Restriction: Feasibility and Effects
dat headline tho...
I love it!
Ask HN: Dealing with a Toxic Co-Worker
How do you deal with a toxic developer co-worker?

I've been working with one for some time now, and I'm really tired of it. I just don't know what I should do. Moving on and finding another job is something I only want to consider as a last resort, and I am afraid that if I do nothing, then I see no alternative, on the other side, I feel like if I do something, I may be forced to move on.

Background:
The employee is quite capable, and they were hired in as a top developer. Our manager respects their opinion about technical matters, and is a thought leader on how we should build our applications. The employee's biggest issue is their personality. They constantly belittle other employees, usually to a coworker after they have left their office, when this employee dislikes work they have done. Anytime someone screws up in the organization that person is an idiot or worse. For someone who is supposed to be a technical leader, they set a poor example for other developers to follow.

This person is favored by our manager because they get things done when there is pressure. I know this employee has been counseled by our manager on more than one occasion. Afterwards, his attitude improves for a few weeks before falling back into old habits.

I am just not sure what to do. I have a few options.

1. I could speak directly with my manager. I am concerned about this, because my manager has a big mouth, and I cannot trust that my complaint would be 100% confidential

2. I could go above my manager. Probably not an option here. My manager and his boss are close. I think it would make things even worse

3. File a complaint with HR. This seems like the best option, but I have my reservations about going down this route.

4. Just leave. I would really rather not do this. I do enjoy most of my job, and I worry that the grass may not be greener on the other side.

5. Shut up and do nothing about it. Is an option but I would still feel miserable.
The Ideal Mathematician (1998) [pdf]
This is absolutely not true historically. I don't know what their privacy policies are now, but they have a track record of changing them with very little fanfare.
> I certainly wouldn't argue that the web should be real-name only, but nor do I believe everyone always has an automatic right to post on privately-owned websites using pseudonyms.

For a lot of people, Facebook is "The Web". That's all or almost all they use. The less tech-literate ones don't even know "the web", they connect to Facebook. They get their news from Facebook. They communicate on Facebook. Everything they do online, they do on Facebook.

Like someone mentioned above, when you get big enough you start to have responsibilities. When your actions affect and your voice is heard by billions of people, you're no longer "some random privately-owned website"... you're a supergiant with the ability to affect the entire world.
Let's just say that when Xkcd made that estimate, it seemed pretty good to a lot of people.
Why I can't wait for affordable electric cars
I am sick and tired of paying repair bills for internal combustion engines. Water pump went out today, mechanic said might as well replace that timing belt, serpentine belt etc. Should probably fix that annoying oil leak while your at it. $1,600.

Think of all the things that break on these cars: cooling system, lubrication system, valves, pistons, crankshaft, heater core, transmission, CV joints, belts, hoses - on and on.

I'm thinking these all electric cars will easily go 300,000 - 400,000 miles without issue. Sure you'll have tires, maybe a new battery, other minor stuff. There is a whole economy around internal combustion engines, auto parts stores, mechanics, customization etc.
I use one of these (model's a bit different, but pretty close) every day to write and edit text. I emulate Jef Raskin's Canon Cat navigation model on the trackpad buttons, and it works exceptionally well. If the demand was there, I'd make a commercial version of my text editor to be used with these keyboards. Best thing for writers I've ever used.
I doubt HP is losing a dime on their switch pricing, unless HP is even less efficient than I expect them to be. Other vendors beat HP handily on price with identical hardware specs. Cisco has gotten fat on ridiculous margins, and it's doubtful that they will be able to survive in a marketplace where merchant silicon drives commodity switches.
I agree. The standard of living in the first world countries will meet the third world countries in the middle. This explains why wages haven't increased significantly in the past 25 years in the US.

Where it gets interesting is when equilibrium has been reached.
How I beat depression
s/computer/dynamic medium/g
LinkedIn's Dishonest Design Is Now a $13M Problem
Good job dodging those landmines. It's always nice to hear him talk about this stuff. What I would like even more is to just hear people knowledgeable about this kind of stuff just chat. Doesn't even have to be able what they're good at. I just want to witness their mindset.
In Germany, making a copy of your own ID is probably legal but requesting a copy is illegal, as is making a copy if you are not the owner, with only very limited exceptions (e.g. some parts of government, for some financial transactions).

(Completely ignoring the fact that real name policies are legally dubious as well)
The trickiness (and the whole reason fast track is a thing) is that Japan agreeing on A likely depends on the US agreeing on B (which depends on Vietnam agreeing on C)

It's hard to do compromise if the compromise itself isn't voted in. And when you're talking about 12 Nations...

OTOH breaking down legislation into smaller chunks to pass is definitely a good idea that isn't applied often enough (see immigration). Though that too can be tricky. For example you can't have the universal healthcare mandate without the preexisting condition refusal ban ( I have cancer and can't get health insurance , and now I'm being taxed??)
Updater for Trello
How is not using a real name "giving up social networking entirely"?
Google Close to Investment in Messaging Startup Symphony
The real-name local facebook group for my small town is a cesspool, so ymmv.
One of the best commentaries I've seen on the matter of "authentic" or "real" names policies comes from Yonatan Zunger, chief architect of Google's Google+ social network.

I've had plenty of disagreement with Google and Yonatan over many aspects of G+, and have given both the company and him much grief on multiple counts, including Real Names (Google's varient of Facebook's policy), though I'll also note that Yonatan's generally heard me out quite patiently. But his comments strike me as wise and hard-won, painful knowledge:

https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/WegYVNkZQqq

In practice, the forced revelation of information makes individual privilege and power more important. When everyone has to play with their cards on the table, so to speak, then people who feel like they can be themselves without consequence do so freely -- these generally being people with support groups of like-minded people, and who are neither economically nor physically vulnerable. People who are more vulnerable to consequences use concealment as a method of protection: it makes it possible to speak freely about controversial subjects, or even about any subjects, without fear of harassment.

That's quite an evolution of opinion. I respect Yonatan deeply for both conceiving of, and publicly stating it.
Did filing for bankruptcy become suddenly kitschy and ironically hip?
Startup the shit out of city problems
I have nothing against them, they are an organization founded by smart MBAs with a strong focus on software and finance. Some of their media companies are a bit derivative, but what would you expect from a finance company. The organization is run by detail oriented, anal-retentive founders who know how to edit a team. Sometimes though, I think they get a bit lost in repackaging other peoples content, and in their haste, miss a few titular details.
He would've came out and just tried again. Pretty much every single case of white-collar crime or crimes like this have a repeat offense. Not to mention his site also gave a venue to hire hitmen. Also, the FBI is probably going to end up using him as a asset tbh.
This pitch reminded me of the cartoon in beginning of the documentary Terms and Conditions May Apply - a concise documentary related to the topic of how your data can be used by the company whose services you are using. The cartoon may be good to use too.

1. Cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y2M8BUcXG4

2. Documentary site: http://tacma.net/
Neuron DNA Contains 1500 Unique Mutations-Far More Than Previously Thought
"However, out of this wonderfully frustrating evolution of JavaScript I think things are beginning to settle down."

React - first commit May 29, 2013

Flux - first commit July 23, 2014

ExpressJS - first commit July 31, 2012

RethinkDB - first commit Oct 3, 2009

Yeah, I doubt it.
A variation: Caps-Lock swapped with Backspace. This has worked well for me.
No the downvotes are because a hipster clothes company filing for bankruptcy has nothing to do with basic income drivel.
If that was what Facebook did that would be fine (I think it's silly, but it doesn't have any real downsides, so I don't care), but it is not.
Combined row-based and columnar storage in PostgreSQL 9.5
Note: I'm having a lot of fun with Erlang. I'm very, very far from being an Erlang expert, but I'm having a lot of fun working on my little Erlang project.

I don't read Armstrong's commentary as a criticism of the concept of an OS. I read it as the assertion that if you have specialized needs, the general-purpose code in most OS's is not-infrequently a poor fit for your application.

Erlang still heavily relies on the hardware abstraction and device drivers provided by modern OS's, and still makes use of OS services, it just makes use of fewer of those services than some other software projects.
Noncompetes would be one way. They are based in Washington which unlike California allows noncompete agreements.
The most important thing is public vs friends. And they've always had those basic settings for a long time... so again not sure what the big issue is.

You can still just not put things online or not be friends with someone to protect yourself if you don't want to configure privacy settings.
'Total failure' is a pretty strong description. 'Dominant text messaging billing structure for over a decade' comes closer. And I think it's an important distinction that per-message charges disappeared because they were out-competed by flat plans, not because people weren't willing to pay per-message fees.
This whole situation was bound to happen. As others have pointed out, this is an unregulated industry. I think DFS as a whole will be better off as a result this - since they'll be forced to securely store player pick data that can't be accessed by anyone other than the contest participant until the contest starts. FanDuel and DraftKings already have very strict internal rules about this, but I don't think their tech enforces those rules.. yet. Kind of surprising really when they're spending $15M a week on ads.

From there, I think the debate will turn into whether employees at one DFS site should be allowed to play on other sites (actually, that debates already on).

I, for one, think they should be able to. It gives employees the opportunity to experience what it's like to be a user of a similar product. It lets them stay up to date on their competition. And I just think it keeps people inspired. If you really like this stuff - enough that you want to work at a company that makes it - I think it's motivating to experience that when you can't use your own product due to its nature.

However, I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority. I think I actually saw that FD and DK have already banned their employees (in the wake of this) from playing on each others sites.

But to me.. that's silly. If you make it impossible for employees at DK to have access to the data ahead of time and vice versa, then there's really no unfair advantage. Plus, if their products weren't the exact same (and products in this industry WILL diverge), then it also wouldn't matter.
If one and only one UID can bind to a given port (much the way other service access is limited by UID or GID), then you're reducing overall attack surface:

1. You're eliminating entire classes of root-level processes.

2. You're restricting all other non-root processes from accessing those port(s).
Here's a video of the interview with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter from Charlie Rose. He introduces Jobs as "Pixar's chairman and CEO".

https://youtu.be/w0Vvl_ByCXM?t=1m44s
That unrecognisably non-communist system still has huge elements of central planning, government control, censorship, and price fixing.

It's hardly a free market paradise.

If you want a free market paradise with minimal government, try Somalia.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4017147.stm
PG writes that Glossip's best hope might be for the Supreme Court (I presume he is referring to the U.S. Supreme Court) to intervene.

My first thought in response to that was, "What about a presidential pardon?" Then I realized this was a state case, and so the power of clemency lies with governor Mary Fallin, who has rejected calls for clemency. Shame on her!
The Price Is Right: What Advertising Does to TV
You can require users to identify themselves in a "meaningful way," even in the way that they go by to some of their friends and acquaintances. People aren't arguing that. The point is that the name that they go by doesn't have to have any relation to a _legal_ name. (You'd be surprised at how many people you know whose legal names are different than what they go by in real life.)