skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha. I think we have established that such a silly distinction is clearly not relevant. What about the illegals in the country? Are they subject to being targeted? How about their illegal children born in the commission of a crime? Those aren't Americans, so they can be targeted? Remember, we wisely suspended the Posse Comitatus
shoes -> whose :)
Yes.

> formerly known as tame()

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2015-pledge/mgp00002.h...
Canon iP6700D Driver
Yes. From the second page:

>- formerly known as tame()
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Apps on LTE, mobile web on wifi
At least one issue is perception of the NSA by the talented people that the NSA needs to recruit. At the time I graduated CS undergrad in 2010, the NSA was still seen as "Sketchy, but good (and reliable) on the balance." Post-Snowden, views have changed. If the NSA can't do a better job of public relations, nobody is going to want to work for them, and then this defensive work won't be done as well.
Companies are very quiet (usually, the company linked in the article is an exception to that rule) about being extorted.
You were correct.
Oh my mistake, I skipped the "About Openbsd" slide because I already knew what openbsd was :).
Typical of what? Obviosity? We've got a poster here claiming that business are "going to" get exploited, and in the meantime, non-theoretically (consider reading the Wikipedia [1] article on "strawman"), the U.S. Govt is making productive use of exploits today.

You're the one trying to shut down discussion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
What does this offer over Atom and its built-in markdown preview plugin?
Great comment. Ride the wave, or watch it from the shore.
"Kozmo did not charge delivery fees and I believe had their own warehouses/inventory."

I'd forgotten about the warehouses. Kozmo might have worked if the market was as big as it is now ... and possibly looked at ways to become profitable.

"in 1999 the company had revenue of $3.5 million, with a resulting net loss of $26.3 million.[5] The company raised about $250 million,"

There was a lot of VC money thrown around but the number of employees and scale... 1100 employees and 18 locations. I would have thought it would have been best to win high values cities then expand gradually.
> your machine is being periodically asked to provide identifying information, and you have it configured to automatically comply.

That is true for cookies, but trackers also use active and passive fingerprinting that does not provide a way to configure whether your machine automatically "provides identifying information".
By definition, an engineer is someone who works on an engine. Unless we go back to steam powered computers, we're going to need a new name.
Dialyzer is a really nice tool for Erlang. I think Python might be getting something similar in the coming revisions but Erlang has had it for a while.

Here is a more concise and approachable intro on the topic:

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/dialyzer
Yes the key is keep learning - unless you keep up you will end up on the scrap heap very quickly.

I am not quite as old (45) and I still love learning new things, but it does take more effort than when I was younger.
My high school used to screen this film in the auditorium once a year. Every math class would head over and watch it.

A good memory.
OpenBSD is not unique here; Solaris has a "whole-system approach" to development as well, and has had the ability for programs and admins to easily do privilege drop or provide privilege separation for many years now.

Not only that, Solaris allows you to wrap programs without any source modifications easily using ppriv to drop or add privileges as required.

Almost every slide in the presentation that talks about how you would use the proposed pledge() interface applies to Solaris' privileges model as well.

Some relevant examples:

http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/security/solaris.ht...
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23823_01/html/816-4863/ch3priv-25...

Solaris' role-based access control and advanced privileges model even lets you implement things like only allowing someone to become 'root' if both them and another person logs in at the same time. Think of the "two-keys required to unlock this door" sort of approach to security:

https://blogs.oracle.com/gbrunett/entry/enforcing_a_two_man_...
Highly recommended. Awesome campaign!
As someone who works in VR this is something I've been thinking about a lot. We need an open platform for creating and sharing VR content which is 3D rendered. WebAssembly + WebVR + WebGL might be the beginning of that platform.
This "newspeak" with regard to government activity (and the intelligence apparatus especially) bothers me. It enables soundbites where government officials can say things like "no, we don't collect X", with essentially no real repurcussions by the other (legislative, judicial) branches of government that are supposed to keep them in check.

You can see some discomfort with this status quo in some of the questions that people like Senator Wyden pose to officials from the executive branch, but unless you already have the secret decoder ring (which CNN and their ilk at least pretend to not have) you miss the point entirely if you just follow the popular news. This makes it easy to gain popular support for agencies like the NSA since topics like this are of minor interest to most of the voting base, and most people won't dig deep enough to see what they really mean when they say things like that.

I really hope that we get something equivalent to the Church commision in the next decade or so to mitigate the potential damage that could result from our current intelligence apparatus, but I'm not too hopeful. I feel like the information that Snowden provided was our best chance for that, but I don't see enough popular support to convince our elected representitives that it's in their best interests.
CryptoKids America's Future Codemakers and Codebreakers
It may not apply in this case, but it's absolutely a real thing. It's a method used by a lot of "polite" internet harrassment and forum trolls, for example, by demanding that people re-justify themselves on things that have already been discussed to death.

An example in practice is the talk page for Gamergate on Wikipedia, where organized brigades of trolls spent so much time re-asking the same questions over and over that at least for a while (I haven't checked if it's still the case) the mods there started topic-banning anyone who posted something already answered in the FAQ on the page.
Blocking third-party cookies breaks some websites, including some bank websites. Then again, Safari on iOS and OS X defaults to only allowing first-party cookies and websites must surely want their services to work on iOS..

Mozilla tried to adopt Safari's cookie policy for Firefox, but backed down when the ad industry turned up the heat:

https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2013/02/25/firefox-getting-...

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2495739/internet/ad-ind...
Underground Below Ulaanbaatar: Homelessness in Mongolia's Capital City (2009)
Time for software vendors to plug the zero day holes.

More generally, need some assurances.

In addition, need some good zero day detection means.
Thanks, I usually do for older materials like this one, but got lazy this time.
Where do you live, and what is your bank? That certainly doesn't sound like a Parisian experience.
check out angel.co jobs section. 2417 full-time jobs under sales.
Is it really easier to have memory leaks here than in any other garbage-collected language with first-class functions and closures? If you stick references to objects somewhere permanent, you will leak them. If you don't, you won't....
There is the third option which is start your own business and don’t work for anyone. Not the easiest option, but you don’t need to worry about ageism.
Isn't the price of stock for the residential leasing firm already high enough to reflect expected profits?

In other words, you have to pay a lot to get your share of the (somewhat) risk-free profits, and they might not be worth the cost.
That turned out to be not that great of an idea, and it's changed in Python 3.5: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0479/
I recall there being quite a few Yahoo employees and execs with McKinsey backgrounds. I think many of them were on previous projects that Yahoo hired them for.

If this is the case, I hope they get better results this time.
Not sure I'd be referencing a study by EPI....

There are several reasons why the Top 1% has done so much better, says Josh Bivens, EPI’s research and policy director. These include tax cuts for the rich, deregulation of Wall Street and big increases in executive compensation. At the same time, the weakening of unions and the failure of the minimum wage to keep up with inflation depressed the wages of the middle class.
You are. The geography and neighborhood probably wouldn't allow for it and there are other nearby places to park and hike to the sign (if that's where people need to be).

The shuttle idea is probably the best bet at the moment and the way it should be - the community and local gov't working together to solve issues rather than being petty, vindictive and somehow getting their way by having it changed on Google Maps as if it were a top secret military base and not just a pain in the ass to park.
Eh, don't ever say things that aren't correct. It's not wrong to say that something is a way of approximating or whatever; use your linguistic qualifiers. If you need more space, ask for it, or say less and write a second essay/article/whatever.

Footnotes are much better used for pointing people to further reading material.
Simple QSF-Trees: An Efficient and Salable Spatial Access Method (1999)
How does it compare to MacDown and Mou?
The main problem with the DOM API is that when used from JS it's a pain, because it was designed largely by people wanting to do DOM in XML documents in Java on the server side; the use on the web was considered less important at the time. Many of the resulting issues (e.g. lack of use of options objects when it would be appropriate, numeric "enums" etc), flow from this historical accident.
`My own experience working in Australia (as an Australian) in innovative technology was extreme wariness of tech: it's an expense, not an investment.`

Imagine working in Security. 'Yes, this costs money and will bring in zero revenue for your company...'
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I believe the parent may have been referring to Stuxnet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

It is indeed possible that if the NSA used a very different strategy with vulnerabilities, Iran might be further along with its nuclear weapons development.
I'll agree. In the office I work in (Florida) I would say half the employees are 40+ (I'm one of them) and we're doing Android development. On my own team, I'm the youngest at 46 (and ironically, the one with the most seniority on my team). I work with people who have 30 to 40 years of experience in the computer industry but only a few with Android. And it's worked out just fine for us.
Google Open-Sources the Machine Learning of Photos Search, Smart Reply and More
In relation to mitigations, what are the "Loudmouth Linus" and "recent article in Washington Post" references about?
> IMHO that's the killer app of the browser... for all it's faults, the HTML+CSS rendering engine is a superior UI description api than anything previously devised.

Except it's horrifically slow. It was never designed for widespread dynamic update, and to work around it we have to go to great lengths like having a virtual DOM. Combine that with the widespread incompatibility of different implementations, and I have trouble seeing it as a good UI framework at all, let alone a superior one.
> Sea Lioning, as I understand it, refers to a person derailing a discussion to which they are not a direct party.

That's what that email (very politely) did, though, didn't it?

However well-intended it was meant, it was a reply to "please be considerate about your costumes" with (to paraphrase much more bluntly) "well, why should we care about college students being offensive or inoffensive?".

It's the kind of thing that is worth discussing in the abstract, but it would be hard to argue it's not tangential to the original topic.
No, these are not apodments.
Apodments are the minimum legally rentable unit. The shared area in an apodment is the kitchen only. It can only be shared by 7 units. It is not designed as a social space, and not treated as one per your linked article. It's a hallway and a place to heat up noodles.

This article is talking about larger units, each with their own kitchen, and a large shared area designed for social use.
I'm wondering how does this work in a world of plugins? (for example Windows/oSX world, where programs like Autodesk 3DSMax/Maya, Adobe Photoshop, etc. use plugins)?

Or applications that embed many utils into one?
You can use either Atlassian markup or Markdown to edit Confluence pages, it just takes a few extra keystrokes and I can't remember how to do it right at the moment. Not a piece of cake like Github/Stackoverflow, but at least it's possible.
That is absolutely not normal.
We (Aus) and especially NZ (due to population size / spread I assume) are often the testing ground for tech advancements like this. Once proven and stable, they are rolled out to the rest of the world.
First Breakthrough Prize Explains Special Theory of Relatively
As a 34 year old I always like hearing of people who actually manage to pull off a long career, it gives me hope.

If you notice, a lot of these people in that article are in hardware design: electrical engineering, probably Verilog and the like. A lot of that work has successfully been outsourced which I think is the real cause of the decline. I suspect it didn't look like it was a particularly bad field to be in until it suddenly wasn't.

It's a long way from webdev though. And yeah these are presumably smart guys who could pick up webdev, but could they make the career transition without getting bumped back down to Junior by the hiring manager? And who wants to hire a 45 year old junior web developer?

There was an article recently about YCombinator shifting its investments to biotech. Suppose webdev dried up and all the funding started flowing to biotech. I'm sure I could learn what I'd need to know and I bet you could too, but could we head over to the biotech companies and sell ourselves as "middle aged web guys, self taught biotech engineers (no experience)?"
A few notes on that implementation, since I have some firsthand experience with both the implementation and its removal:

1) "For addons only" is an important qualification. It means you don't have to worry about sandboxing at all, since addons are already all-powerful (or at least were at the time).

2) It added a _lot_ of complexity throughout the DOM. There are tons of places in the web platform that basically assume you have a "JS value" and things fall apart if that's not the case. Most simply, what happens if python code sets document.body.onclick and then JS code reads it, or vice versa? It's possible that this complexity and the resulting performance impact is worth carrying around if the use cases are compelling enough, but they just weren't.

3) The python implementation in question did not have a good solution for the problem of cross-language cycles. Those were solved for JS and C++ in Firefox by creating a cycle collector that tightly integrates with the JS GC and the refcounting system the C++ side uses. But that was only possible due to full control over the JS GC implementation (and hence the ability to change it to flag objects as "only owned by C++ stuff" and whatnot). Doing the same thing with Python would be a nontrivial undertaking, just for the C++ and Python bits. Dealing with cycles that involve all three languages would be _quite_ hard.
> I really hope twitter somehow makes money.

Twitter made $502.4 million this last quarter. Wall Street's problem with Twitter isn't a lack of revenue, it's a lack of growth.

> I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain.

Twitter would make less than it does now if it switched to a subscription model. How many people would be willing to pay $50 a year for Twitter? Lets be ultra generous and say a million. That's only $50 million a year in revenue.
Very good news! It is exciting. I am looking forward to this.
Linus is gonna need some ice for that burn on page 3! Jeez!
Cheers! I turned 54 this year, still programming, still having fun. That's the key I suppose, being interested in learning more which for me right now is computational vision. There really are too many fascinating things in the world than I have time to learn properly.

On the other hand I often feel like the bar for keeping up can be extremely low ... at work I am back to using Unix-derived systems after some 30 years. And emacs, again 30+ years. And C++, over 20 years. You get the picture.

I usually have to resort to my own projects to learn something really different.
33 and I still "flat" with other people. I've lived with same couple for over 5 years now in two seperate places. We've stayed together as it were as we get on and can manage our lives without annoying each other. The only reason to do it, it halves the cost of everything i.e rent, power, water and internet.

If I had't been so stupid with my finances in my twenties I might be in a different place but I would be wasting money without knowing it.

I've been lucky with the flatmates I have now. I've had some average ones before and I'm not sure If I will do it for much longer but it has it's upsides.
Wasn't sure who to reply to but thanks for all the clarifications!
That reminds me of a joke I read the other day:

Bystander: "Oh my god, this man is dying! Is anyone here a doctor!?"
Vegan: "I'm a vegan"
It's not much different than seccomp/systrace/apparmor/grsec rbac/selinux in that regard. It's per process. So sure, if the plugin forks it could pledge(). Much the same way the plugin could seccomp once forked. Otherwise the plugins rules would be applied to the application.

All the same, even if the app used it with most syscalls enabled, it would reduce the attack surface.
That's not a change to the iterator protocol. It's a change to 'StopIteration handling inside generators'.

The following will still raise a StopIteration in Python 3.5+:

>>> next(iter([]))
It was very polite of the parent to misspell it Snwoden to give you room to make a truthful denial.
Something I've been thinking about - why do we deserve the chance to not have to work long hours/multiple jobs? Most of the world has no such opportunity. They spend long hours for even the chance to put food on the table, with no internet access or modern luxuries that we have! They would give so much even for access to that. Meanwhile, it seems most Americans feel entitled to not only their high standard of living but a relaxed (in comparison) work environment and scheduling freedom.

Perhaps the answer is that we all need to adjust to the reality that such freedoms only come with hard work, good planning, and some luck. It seems to be the reality that most of the world has already dealt with.
Just google it.
Jitter-type images are among the more staggeringly annoying.

I'll admit I've been known to abuse animations myself. When G+ introduced "cover photos" always visible on profile pages which couldn't be hidden and filled upwards of half the screen, I compiled a set of the most annoying animated gifs I could find. Out of protest.
I think this is the tail wagging the dog here, akin to saying that easy access to violent video games makes people violent.

Culture can affect mood, but I think mood affects culture much more strongly than the other way around. We mostly seek out things that validate the way we already feel inside, not go, "I'm feeling pretty crappy today, let me go watch some cat vids to cheer me up." If something comes along that doesn't feed into our current state, we tend to ignore it.

We had the Internet for a lot longer than we've had cat videos. It wasn't that we couldn't have had them or that none existed, they just weren't all that popular. There was a definite turn in the 2000s where people, and the Internet, suddenly got a lot happier.

My theory is that Internetting before Facebook was mostly a solitary thing that loners would do to get away from lives they otherwise hated. With Facebook the masses came, and so everyone all of a sudden had to cater to a wider audience. People who really do want to get away from humanity have their 4chans, but they're in the minority now. Reddit would have been a very different place in the late nineties.
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Google Cardboard's NY Times Experiment Just Hooked a Generation on VR
You are right, people that already use Atom probably have a solution inside the editor. I use a different set of tools and sometimes need something I can use to edit my markdown files with a as-close-as-possible github preview.
Yes, exactly right, the corruption of Qing institutions led to ineffective governance and impoverished people, giving rise to the Taiping Civil War. In fact, the seeds of the 1911 revolution were planted when a retired soldier of the Taiping army told of his stories to the children in his village, one of whom was Sun Yat Sen[1], who was a leader of the revolution that finally overturned the Qing.

Chinese soldiers and chinese equipment, though outdated by the standards of the time, are perfectly capable of defeating European military, on the off chance when they were sufficiently organised[2][3]. The heroes of the late Qing Empire shone, because around them, their colleagues lie low in the depths of corruption and incompetence. It's like a game of Starcraft, even with a bigger army, and bigger economy, an inexperienced player making a couple of mistakes will lose the game quite easily to a more experienced one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion#Affectness_o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taku_Forts_(1859)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cầu_Giấy_(Paper_Brid...

For historical interest, during the high point of the Ming empire, junks achieved in battle, decisive victories over Portguese caravels armed with cannons[3][4].

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tunmen

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Xicaowan
Those people you deride as 'digging things up' also really push the envelope when it comes to tech. Both the mining and agricultural sectors are lapping it up. I used to work for an agricultural telemetry startup and there's a ton of interest in the sector - depictions of farmers as backwood yokels who are fearful of technological change are bad stereotypes.

Yes, the internet here is expensive and slow. You can thank the current government for it's intentional blocking of better infrastructure there. But just because the internet is comparatively slow here doesn't mean that the country is a backwater overall. The internet in the US is amazingly fast... if you're in the right spot. It's fucking awful if you're in a bad spot. Yet we don't paint the US as a technological backwater.
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