skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality appears to be as you have stated (some CVEs that apply).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10471912

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/mast...

Because there have been, of course, many more
security bugs found in Xen over the last years (as the numbering of this XSA suggests). True, majority of these didn't affect Qubes OS, sometimes by pure luck, sometimes because of the extra prudence we
applied, many other times because of the architectural decisions we made.
> massively popular (for PC games)

And there's the problem. "Massively popular for PC games", at the time, would equate to "a serious flop for a first-party console game". People would buy an NES so their kids could play a popular game. Almost nobody who didn't already have one would buy a PC for similar reasons. And anyone who already had a PC almost certainly already had a console as well, so there'd be no meaningful additional market in PC ports. Nintendo had every reason in the world to make the decision they did, and none whatsoever to do otherwise.

> graphics and gameplay that were what I would consider SNES-like

You might, but no one else would. The Keen series's graphics are better than the NES could manage until very late into its lifecycle if at all, but they're certainly not up to what the SNES could do, even without the Mode 7 coprocessor.
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Perhaps as a tourist you haven't been traveling at peak times? I've visited DC for work, and been traveling at normal commuting times, and it's been hell. The NYC subway also has a huge list of issues, but when you factor in the respective sizes of the systems, DC's is considerably worse.
DC Metro is not that bad. I have rode the metro/subway in NYC, Bay area, and London. DC is clean and easy to get around compared to those areas in my opinion. The knock on the DC Metro might be that it is getting more expensive and it no open as late as NYC or London.
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Sandstorm works decently on mobile browsers, they do test it. But how well different Sandstorm apps work on mobile depends on those apps.

It's also possible to use native apps that sync to Sandstorm. My Tiny Tiny RSS instance on Sandstorm I can access through a native Android app, for instance.
> you can't fit more trains on the track no matter what control "protocol" you use.

This is false, CBTC has greatly increased L train capacity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_of_the_New_York_Cit...

The Canarsie line is two-tracked and doesn't have any mechanism for passing besides single-tracking (also, no tail tracks at the Manhattan terminus).
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The anti-cheating system is really the one aspect of a locked platform that benefits consumers by ensuring that people you play against are also locked down.

Valve's anti-cheat seems to be merely OK and may have a false positive problem.
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I would assume it's for clarity, but I've never seen this either.
This is great. There is a fundamental problem with social media: There is no self growth. It is all about researching other people. You end up learning more about others and nothing about yourself. A feedback loop back towards your self growth is missing
Living in the DC metro area I see two big issues with Metro service: 1- there are four different jurisdictions (VA, MD, DC, and the Feds) all trying to agree on every little thing and all trying to get their piece of the pie, and 2- people have to use Metro. Traffic on I-66/495/395 is so ungodly bad that even when Metro is single-track for repairs it's still on par or even slightly faster than traffic. And that's on a good traffic day; it's worse when it's raining. Not to mention the standard issue with finding and paying out the nose for parking once you've driven into DC. Metro doesn't have a huge incentive to provide better service because even with ridership being down 5% it's probably not going to dip much further since Metro riders have no alternative.

I think DC is also semi-unique in the makeup of its commuters since inside the beltway is such a hub for employers and a large number of employees are happy to have an hour+ commute each way. The cost of real estate is so ridiculously high around here that you don't start seeing 3+ BR townhomes becoming accessible on anything other than a VP+ salary until about 15 miles out from downtown DC. If you want a freestanding home over 1000sft the affordability distance becomes 20+ miles.

From what I've seen a vast majority of people will do whatever contortions they need to in their personal lives to get and keep a government/ government contractor job because those jobs have incredible stability (contractor not as much as working directly for the government, however that depends on what contractor you work for). Once you've got the coveted federal job you're happy to live in a basement 20 miles from the city on your entry-level pay tier because if you can just grin and bear it long enough you'll be almost guaranteed employment for life. Those employees can, do, and will continue to use Metro despite every problem it has because sitting in their car on I66 for an hour is not a viable alternative.
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It's not meant to be Super Mario Brothers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bros.
207 time more massive than an electron - so if you could replace electrons with muons the resulting atom would me much smaller, so nuclei would be closer and therefore fusion easier. Possibly...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion
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What excites you MOST about the Force Awakens?Comment on video and win 2 movie tix
100k subscribers isn't 100k fans. A fan, in the past, would be someone who shelled out $15 for your album and goes to your shows. A "fan" in this context is some guy who stopped by your youtube video, hit skip on your ad, clicked subscribe, watched a little and left and maybe checks out your next video or two.

The monetization per fan here is pretty stark. You would get a few bucks in pocket from the first example and next to nothing from the second.

Selling 500,000 records is decent cash. Getting 500,000 views of a jokey video that caters to kids or the easily distracted isn't.
Anybody knows what "nonoperational" means. Are those simply shutdown collecting space dust?

Leaving aside if it's allowed/legal .. I wonder if it's possible to establish communication with a nonoperational satellite, and what tools are required to do so
Can we use Jenkins for that?
Seriously. I've been following this project for a while. Sooo good!
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I develop for Android using Xamarin/C# with Visual Studio. I don't have any of the IDE related issues you have, but there are a whole host of problems with Xamarin too, so the grass isn't necessarily greener on this side. Plus, Xamarin/C# are fairly pricey, even with the student discount I get.

I will say that the IDE/Environment are first class, however.
It's a fine line on PC. There was some recent controversy over a relatively obscure title called "osu!" which did things like take screenshots, upload file contents, and upload a list of running processes, which many gamers were fairly upset about. Since a PC can do so much more than a console, there are privacy and security implications that anti-cheat systems have to take into consideration.
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If you want to figure that out, here is an estimate for the cost of building a Death Star: http://www.centives.net/S/2012/how-much-would-it-cost-to-bui...

TL;DR At 2012 prices, about $852,000,000,000,000,000
The funny thing is that because the Flint River water is so acidic, it's corroding the hell out of the water pipes (which is where the lead is coming from). They have done 11.5 years worth of damage in 16 months.

Assuming the article's figures of a 50 year lifespan and $1.5 billion replacement cost [1], that works out to an additional $306 million of damage from this whole fiasco.

The whole "emergency manager" thing is ridiculous and this only underscores the problem. It's absurd from both a health and a financial standpoint.

http://flintwaterstudy.org/2015/09/research-update-corrosivi...
That's really a ridiculous argument.

The lifespan of drinking water system infrastructure is anywhere from 50-100 years -- far to long to pay as you go or accumulate money to pay for repairs later. The way you fix infrastructure is with bonds, which the public owned entity has a major advantage in doing, as it has a tax base to secure the bond as well as tax exempt status.

The other infrastructure issue is that older water & sewer systems were designed for the primarily urban needs of 100 years ago. Because of the growth in suburban communities, you have a patchwork of infrastructure with varying levels of coordination between them.

Funding issues become more difficult as a service base shrinks. This particular situation is clearly a bad engineering decision exacerbated by the city being broke. If an engineer signed off on it, he should lose his PE. If some political hack signed off on it, they need to be fired or charged with negligence.
I'm an M.D. and let me first say this is not medical advice :). I long ago called bunk on the mainstream view on cholesterol and cholesterol lowering drugs. I think there will be a time in the future when doctors look back on it with a "what the heck were we thinking" kind of retrospective smugness.

That stated, familial hypercholesterolemia is a different thing and it's no joke. It's been a long time since med school but I think in this case the cholesterol gets high enough that it actually is a plumbing problem. That is your arteries will get gummed up with all that extra cholesterol.

By all means do your research but don't let denial prevent you from treating this properly. Listen to your doc or get a second opinion
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If you are interested in a detailed breakdown of everything that's been happening over the past year or so, I would suggest reading Michigan Radio's excellent coverage: http://michiganradio.org/term/flint-water

Full disclosure: my wife works as a reporter Michigan Radio, but generally doesn't cover Flint.
I think they are referring to the big businesses that are either consuming the water supply or polluting the water supply.
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probably because JS logo has also similar colors: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/voodootikigod/logo.js/mast...
Does this laptop include the (hardware?) modifications required to protect from Intel Management Engine or not? That would be something novel that might justify the higher price.
I'd rather have immutable data, and no shared state in concurrent apps, but to each and their own.

Just remember that there is no big conceptual difference between blocking and locking, which is what you end up doing when having shared mutable state.

Recommending anyone to check out CSP (like in Go & Clojure/script (the latter also with immutable data)) or Actors (like in Erlang, Elixir).
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You can also compute the factorials at compile time with templates:

template<int64_t n> int64_t fact() { return n * fact<n-1>(); }
template<> int64_t fact<0>() { return 1; }

The book "Modern C++ design" from Alexandrescu extensively covers that kind of stuff.

There might even be a way to use a loop and constexprs.
I just had a click round that website. It's just the kind of place that I avoid like the plague. It seems hopelessly biased, as does the author. I didn't come across one link to an scientific study, and it was immediately obvious that there's a serious anti animal products agenda going on and no disclaimer.

Avoid.
Bash reads code from a stream, and doesn't read the entire stream before executing the code.

However, the stream pointer isn't its instruction pointer in the script. A backwards branch (such as the end of a while loop, or a call to a function defined earlier) does not rewind the stream to that piece of text.

> But then again, shell script is in a different class of language I'd say.

Not much different in this regard from how, say, Common Lisp (load "file.lisp") processes the top-level forms in the file.

(defvar *counter* 0)

(defun addmore ()
(format t "hi ~s~%" (incf *counter*))
(with-open-file (f "addmore.lisp" :direction :output :if-exists :append)
(write-line "(addmore)" f)))

$ clisp addmore.lisp
hi 1
WARNING: OPEN: #<INPUT BUFFERED FILE-STREAM CHARACTER #P"addmore.lisp" @8>
already points to file "/home/kaz/test/addmore.lisp", opening the
file again for :OUTPUT may produce unexpected results
Open the file anyway
hi 2
WARNING: OPEN: #<INPUT BUFFERED FILE-STREAM CHARACTER #P"addmore.lisp" @9>
already points to file "/home/kaz/test/addmore.lisp", opening the
file again for :OUTPUT may produce unexpected results
Open the file anyway
hi 3
WARNING: OPEN: #<INPUT BUFFERED FILE-STREAM CHARACTER #P"addmore.lisp" @10>
already points to file "/home/kaz/test/addmore.lisp", opening the
file again for :OUTPUT may produce unexpected results
Open the file anyway
hi 4
WARNING: OPEN: #<INPUT BUFFERED FILE-STREAM CHARACTER #P"addmore.lisp" @11>
already points to file "/home/kaz/test/addmore.lisp", opening the
file again for :OUTPUT may produce unexpected results
Open the file anyway
hi 5
And the water, it sounds like it's substantially more corrosive than their previous water supply.
You want a statically typed Lisp dialect?

Why don't you just declare your list, say, x, as having type (List Any) where Any is the most general type? (car x) would then have type Any at compile time (i.e you don't know its type), so you can't take its square root or cons it onto a list of type (List Int), but you could still print it or cons it onto another list of type (List Any).

(List Any) then has to be distinct from (List ?x) where ?x is an undetermined type. If y is of type (List ?x) and your function contains (sqrt (car y)), you can infer that ?x is a numeric type and y is a list containing only that type of elements.
For ships it's similar between the two; sub-light speeds are handled by engines that shoves stuff out the back to propel the ship forward and light speeds handled by magical technology that plays with space/time.

From conversations in the movies I'm led to believe the Death Stars followed the same premise. For that amount of mass it has to be impressive technology though.
>DD-WRT uses the wifi chip vendor's firmware blob to drive the hardware, which is certified by the vendor.

At least for many Atheros-based chipsets they use ath9k instead of the vendor blobs.
The thing about metro is that 98+% of the time it's quite good, but when it's bad it tends to _really_ melt down.

When the New York subway has a bad day, you're 20 minutes late. When Metro has a bad day you can be 1-2 hours late.

It's also pretty lousy on weekends, especially if you have to switch lines it can be 5x slower than a car.
OS here is open source, this is pretty significant since they plan to offer MIT licensed versions of lots of their internal tools and SDK's. The C++ compiler is an attempt at capturing the HPC market by providing tools to convert 90% of CUDA code to portable C++ that can run on AMD and NVidia cards. Lots of bare metal GPU access stuff too, so lots more control for Game developers. Lots of goodies.
What exactly is the point? People streaming music on the internet? Is that front-page material?

Sorry, if I sound ignorant, but I don't get it and I am living in Berlin...
This isn't the first time they've had water problems. My grandmother's been boiling water there for years because of previous problems.
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> Just remember that there is no big conceptual difference between blocking and locking, which is what you end up doing when having shared mutable state.

Conceptually, yes, but the incredibly low overhead of CPU atomics compared to message passing (especially on x86) mean that theory and practice are very different.
Great comments and an interesting story, thanks for sharing!
I don't know, jaywalking is not a crime in my country and yet most people my generation have been educated to pay respect to the law of physic.

Sure the inattentive driver may be an asshole that should not be allowed to drive a car - but he is the one in the 1+ ton tin can and if does not see you, you lose.

Younger generation are crazy to me, I see them crossing the street without even looking up, anywhere, at any time without any consideration for their visibility. I'm one of those inattentive, selfish, driver and it scares me to death.

So what about self-preservation on the road until we get those fancy autonomous cars ? Car can and should drive more slowly, but pedestrians also need to look where they are going. If the street were an industry setting, health and safety regulation would probably prevent you to move if any vehicle was moving at all, even if they were all autonomous. And you would have to go through gory induction video of what happens if you don't respect that rule and either the machine fails or you underestimated inertia.

[1] Sometimes I'm looking at a parking spot, sometimes I'm looking at that cyclist that is tailgating me and will crash in my car if I'm taking slowing down too fast. Sometimes the visibility is not great, sometimes my 2 year old is making a mess. Autonomous car have sensors everywhere but a human driven car only has 1, a very powerful one, but just one.
No, as someone who rode the Metro in DC daily for 8 years until I left the region 18 months ago, it is far, far worse than NYC Subway.

The reason is simple. It was completely hijacked by a union who turned themselves into a "good old boys club" for people from the poor neighborhoods who were born and raised in DC and educated in it's horrifically bad public school system.

The union once treated the management as the enemy, but once there was no more money left to squeeze from the system itself, they began treating the riders as the enemy. Fares were raised every 6 months by the time I left, and the system continued to degrade.

The racial statistics of the system are clearly indicative of a racial bias in hiring which is a direct result of the good old boy hiring system.

New mechanics are iced out in the same way the new managers were by the salary doubling overtime culture the employees practice. Because to them, a single mechanic working 12 hour shifts is better than two mechanics working 8 hour shifts, despite the former costing the same and doing far, far less than the latter to keep the system operational.

I support unions in the private sector. But my experience dealing with the DC Metro has made me loathe them in any public monopoly where consumers have no way to choose a competitor when the union gets out of hand and starts siphoning money from them.

My favorite, glaring example which is a tiny sliver of what occurs courtesy of the union:

A bus driver, several years ago, randomly pulled his bus over when he saw a person in a "McGruff the crime dog" costume talking to children about drugs. He assaulted McGruff, and then got back on his bus and continued operations.

The union forced the WMATA to rehire him, WITH BACKPAY. He still works there, serving the public. He also had a previous felony record.
One hard drive? One 1TB laptop hard drive?

I sure hope that's not the configuration they RTM with, because they're going to have a lot of people upset about disk failure and data loss if they do.
What do you mean? They asked you to compute something but expected you to use a lookup table instead?
The NYC subway works surprisingly well, considering that some of the tech that runs it is 100 years old [1]. :)

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/this-is-why-the-new-york-city-...
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality instructed Flint residents to flush their tap for 2 minutes before sampling the water which under-represented the amount of lead in the water. The EPA doesn't explicitly forbid flushing but doesn't recommend it.

http://flintwaterstudy.org/
Do you even know if "big businesses" are even a major consumer of water in Flint? In a city (as opposed to an agricultural area), residential users are probably the primary water users. In any case, even if that were true, how is that relevant to the city charging too low a price for water to be able to replace aging lead pipes?
Or a huge number of early Wii titles...

Really makes me shiver :S
"A plant-based diet is a diet of any animal (including humans) based on foods derived from plants, including vegetables, whole grains, legumes and fruits, but with few or no animal products."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant-based_diet
Thank you for your perspective. I am very wary of treading the "mainstream medicine doesn't know shit and drugs are bad" path, and for that reason I very much appreciate a contrary view. My plan is to give it a few months and see if fixing some of my sub optimal lifestyle makes a difference or not.

I figure if I fix my sleep, cut the sugar and other crap and if necessary change my SFA to PUFA ratio and it doesn't get much better in 6 months then I'll have to take the pills. But I owe it to myself to try first.
I've lived in the DC area for 2.5 years and even during that short time we have seen a big increase in delays and complete service outages, and have had several electrical fires including an entire substation that has to be replaced. Service after 10 pm and on weekends is a total crapshoot.
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> The sad part is, the people are still hell bent on supporting the companies that destroyed the town. Michigan in general is like this, its why they don't allow Tesla vehicle sales.

I grew up outside of Flint, and I agree. There's this weird cognitive dissonance going on there because these companies supported so many families for so long. There's a sort of one-way loyalty going on. I knew so many friends and family that worked in the auto industry for years, and were all laid off when it went downhill years back. I'm talking about lots of people with nothing more than a high school diploma (or not even) -- jobless now at 30 or 40. Yet for some reason there's still this loyalty to GM, etc... that big auto is gonna turn things around and come back to save the day.
It's frequently referred to as an example of a wasteland, but not referred to as a place of possibility.
Does anyone know the extent that the surrounding townships would be impacted by this? My parents live just outside of Flint, but the article only mentions that Flint is impacted.
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Nixon is frequently given credit for several "left wing" initiatives like the EPA; Carter doesn't get nearly enough for his aggressive deregulation.
The lack of planning and forethought is criminal for the taxes we're paying.
Yes it would have. But as I said in one of the other comments, they are doing something about this in 2.x releases. And this reference is from 2.x release's documentation.

Wish we had it back then. We are currently on 1.4.
I wonder how would they deal with co-ed showers and sauna's in mainland Europe where you can have a 65 year old man steaming next to a 22 year old woman both naked and no one bats an eye.
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