skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
get rich or die trying
Thanks. A failsafe with a fallback to a sensible default would seem to have been a pretty basic feature. But as you say... CA.
Trump quietly builds a data juggernaut
Have you considered that you may just be an incredibly gifted athlete?
It would have been great if Qt Charts and Qt Data Visualization were available under LGPL also.
Perhaps not, but I have lost power for a week during a blizzard and it was nice to have a fire-place (redundancy). Disregarding the power-loss scenerio, if my any part of my HVAC system fails, I have space-heaters.
We Have a Serious Problem
"ARM is probably the closest open chip platform out there"

I don't know what you think is open about ARM. AMD even uses the ARM locking-down technology to implement its system management processor.
What did you find laugh out loud funny in Finnegans Wake? (A serious question, I'm not trying to be argumentative.) To me, there were lots of things that were clever or slightly amusing, but nothing near hilarious.

Some examples from the first chapter "oystrygods gaggin fishy-gods" - ok, that's clever turning Ostrogoths and Visigoths into seafood gods. The Willingdone Museyroom section was entertaining enough with "Willingdone" and "Lipoleum" for Wellington and Napoleon. "And a barrowload of guenesis hoer his head" - Guinness the beer and Genesis the book of the bible, clever enough.

I've read a few comments before saying that FW is hilarious. Maybe it's pointless to try to dissect humor, but I'm just not seeing it.
> I very much doubt it. This just comes across as you vastly over-estimating how hard it is to run a server.

What about security updates? Log alerts? Rollbacks? Monitoring? Support for multiple servers? Load balancers? Automated deployments from Git? Atomic web code updates? Ability to destroy and recreate the server from scratch? Setting up a similar staging site with the same versions of everything? None of this is trivial to automate reliably yourself.

I'm not saying it hard to get it working, but it's hard to make it work reliably and scale well. Comparing Heroku to e.g. manually setting up a Digital Ocean instance that you rsync the code across to is missing out on a huge number of details.
Here's a corporate trial. To prosecute their case that a competitor stole some of their trade secrets, they have to reveal to the court what those trade secrets are. ("They stole our secret stuff, but we won't tell you what" doesn't fly in court - even SCO got burned eventually for trying it.)

But you don't want that stuff sitting in a court record that anyone can walk in off the street and ask to see. So part of the record get sealed - not available to the public. It's still available to the judge, and to the (outside) counsel for the other side, and to the appeals judge if things go that far.

And only certain details get protected. One side has to ask for it, and the other side can protest, and the judge has to weigh the protection for the side that wants it sealed against the interest of the public to know what went on. More, a redacted version is (usually?) released eventually.
> an unbundled or streaming subscriber would need to pay $36 a month for ESPN access for them to generate the same revenue they generate through current cable carriage contracts

That subscriber will be worth a lot more once they can be targeted with individually personalized marketing content based on previous TV-watching habits, augmented with third-party data from other digital channels, web browsing history, purchasing history, etc. It's coming; YouTube proves it can be done. It's only a matter of time before we see different business models for the monetization of streaming content on more 'traditional' TV channels as well.

The alternative is a subscription model that would price out many sports fans, or obsolescence followed by slow death for want of revenue.
It's sort of interesting how you imply that individuals would use this service to exploit others. Can you not imagine situations where non-companies would want to use this for their own systems? And do you not think individuals would question the utility of a service that intentionally delayed notifying them of package vulnerabilities? We're not talking about embargoes here either, since Patchwork is scraping from publicly available upstream announcements.
Yeah, $200m doesn't seem to go very far on infrastructure these days. Didn't the SF Bay Bridge come in around $10bn?
Hawking radiation is just spontaneous quantum particle pairs caused by the strong gravitational field, where one reaches escape velocity, reducing the mass of the object. This would still occur, whether you call it Hawking radiation or not.
I have to say you're missing a few years of awesomeness should you take the plunge.
AI personal assistant gone rogue. Meet Reginald
Thanks, I'll definitely give that a look!
i thought the only way you could do this was with Twilio or something
That was my first thought; if I owned a Nest and it stopped working for 2-3 days right now where I live, I'd be in big trouble especially if I weren't home to get a space-heater to temporarily offset the issue
Careful, don't poke the Russian internet troll war machine. Before you know it, this thread will be filled with posts from users with no posting history defending Russia Today's journalistic integrity and/or slighting that of US networks.
I'm glad someone else said it. I work on Azure, so I thought maybe I was just in a bubble, but the various "Death to PaaS" articles not mentioning Azure or AWS seemed odd. Azure App Service is just one of the PaaS services we have, and we're quite healthy. :)
Node.js Buffer knows everything – your traffic, sources, keys and configs
I also think that stable URLs are long overdue.

I have always felt that file extensions make no sense in web pages. Why should I, the visitor, need to be dependent on whether or not you ".asp" or ".php" or ".cgi" or ".flavoroftheweek"? I had a series of bookmarks break entirely because the target site's implementation changed. Fortunately, the site managed to keep all the old root file names so after hacking each bookmarked "/filename.foo" into "/filename.bar", I was able to repair them. (Usually though, that won't work at all. And besides, most people would not even try that, they would assume their bookmarks are lost forever.)

For years at past companies, I put up with corporate E-mails containing literally 12 steps of instructions that say "go to company.net/portal", "click X", "click Y", "click Z", and on and on. Meanwhile I'm thinking: OR, you could invest in a non-crappy content management system that supports URLs of the form "company.net/stable/foobar", allow thousands of employees to click once, go directly to the target and bookmark it forever! Oh, and of course, the pages would change arbitrarily so it didn't even help to save old E-mails with all the instructions.

At the very least, tools should support this. At a previous job, the company overpaid for an "enterprise" bug-tracking system that couldn't even provide "company.net/bugs/123456" for direct-linking to individual bugs, even though this is an obvious case for a stable URL. Returning to any common issue involved an aggravating series of steps every single time.
That doesn't sound too different than the american education system, except without the refund.
Doesn't 'sealed' imply that is retrievable, just not under most circumstances? As opposed to expunged. As I understand it, a court order can allow certain parties to access a 'sealed' record as part of different investigation in the future. It's just that your employer doesn't get to see the whole thing every time they run a background check on you.

Why there isn't a proper threshold cryptosystem and chain of custody of keys for sealed records? Well, that's a different question. The answer is probably along the lines of "the justice system doesn't get tech" or "the people who could demand this don't know about it or don't care enough" or even "thus far the implementation has worked ok...".
Mark Cuban's advice: http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2016/01/mark-cubans-tips-...
This note does not have anything actually new, but I have seen several people who are not aware of that.
Care to elaborate on what happened when you poured water onto your laptop? Which model was it? Do you know why it failed?
Colluding to keep prices low? Usually it's the other way around.
My feeling is they need to come up with something radically new to compete now. No idea what it could be. It'll be interesting to see how this market evolves.
I remember doing this a few companies ago. Except we didn't have a modem, we just found a phone we could send commands to. It had some user interface that would pop up after every sent message, so we rigged up a terrible little hack to press the acknowledge button every few seconds to dismiss it. It worked surprisingly well :)

Photo of this amazing disruptive device: https://i.imgur.com/6MNb19R.jpg
Heart rate over 9000?
Remember, there's a special name for the type of reporting journalists do when they aren't just copying & pasting government and corporate press releases in their news stories: "investigative journalism."

Anything else is just reporting publicly-available information from some official source.

Notice that that's also the first line item to get slashed when budget-cuttin' time rolls around.
My husband raped two women – and I had to answer for his crimes
Suing Spammers for Fun and Profit (2004) [pdf]
Again? This smells like class action for negligence is coming at them this time.
I didn't know about this vulnerability. This just blew my mind. Great work on the PoC!
tcdent didn't say redundancy for a thermostat. For example, a fireplace and some wood is redundancy that covers both thermostat failures and power failures. If you live in dangerous weather as mentioned in the original comment, it would be stupid not to have a Plan B.
Why Netflix and Hulu are so important for Oculus
That sounds good, I can help out if you go opensource.
At least among the engineers and data scientists here, are any of us really surprised? Smart devices, especially ones that learn, can certainly do better on average, but complexity adds edge cases and those worst cases can really matter. Simple things fail simply (when they fail at all).
And don't forget those Terms of Service prevent you from getting the damage to your house fixed.

And most house insurance does not cover flooding / water damage.
Those are not election wins. We are not even close to the peak of the election cycle where the real money gets spent. There certainly are more forces at play, but money plays the key role.
We have two nest thermostats installed at work. I rotate the WiFi keys for our APs quarterly and these things are the biggest pain in the ass to reconnect to the WiFi.

The furnace turns off almost immediately after changing the WiFi key once the Nest loses connectivity. At first I thought it was coincidence but now that I rotate on a strict schedule it's a joke in our office. However, what's not a joke is what happens when the internet goes down. So does our heat.

What the hell, Nest?

Relevant: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
Does amazon cloud drive @5 per month fit the bill? Not sure if the experience matches your expectations.
Bitcoin helped me with servicing my loan in my home country when I was earning in another currency. I escaped foreign exchange fees. Its a use case that a lot of people have but it's unfortunate that the most vocal people telling us bitcoin can't do something are those who don't seem to have that need for its use.
In his show with Bear Grylls he said he can't carry a phone for security reasons as they are too easy to track. So I font know if his desire to have a phone has been overridden as I do recall him insisting on keeping this in his early presidency.

Though I thought not having a phone for anti-tracking is strange as he borrowed his aides phone for the photos. So couldn't 'whoever' simply track his inner circles phones? In which case he may as well carry a phone and an agent secures the phone for anything where tracking could be an issue?
> Coming from pretty heavy background in MSSQL internals, this article is really great.

Do you know of any good resources for the undocumented function fn_dblog? I'm looking to understand the structure of RowLog Contents and Log Record in different Operations/Contexts to reconstruct DDL/DML.

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/inside-the-storage-engin... is a good example but is really just an introduction.
Mine (Gen 2) died a month ago. I charged it up and reset it, and called Nest support. They sent me a replacement even though mine was working again, and included a prepaid return label.

First problem I had with mine, and it was a great support experience.

Anecdata and all. But combined with this story, makes me wonder if they replaced it because they knew it was likely to happen again.
I don't either. I do see evidence of business interests ensuring that the effective tax rate on corporate profits is quite a bit lower than the nominal rate and that this fact will not change regardless of voter preferences.
There must be something keeping track of time in our bodies and brains. I had a neat little lcd alarm clock that I bought as a 13 yr old with my own money, and I had it for almost 30 years. I became so finely tuned to that clock I used to wake up a few seconds before it went off and I would hold the button down. A microsecond blip of the alarm still snuck through but I did this at least once a week for years. Most of the time I would wake a few minutes before. It proved to me long ago that the brain can track time with uncanny precision, given enough conditioning.
> Buried deep in Nest’s 8,000-word service agreement is a section called “Disputes and Arbitration,” which prohibits customers from suing the company or joining a class-action suit.

Though I have no need for a thermostat whatsoever, I kinda like nest. However, I'd love if people went to court with a class action suit against them.

These 'no class action' and 'arbitration' clauses are becoming increasingly common, but I think they probably don't hold up in court - and nor should they, given how much power they put in the hands of the company.
That doesn't seem fair. What's a company supposed to do in that situation? Just close up shop?

Makes me wonder if it would be possible to intentionally drive a company out of business by convincing a bunch of people to use their products incorrectly.
Depending on how you look at it, the advantage is either all of the Perl 5 ecosystem plus whatever Perl 6 brings to the table, or the lack of a disadvantage through not having a large module ecosystem, depending on how charitable you want to be.

Not to mention, you also have Inline::Python[1], and conceivably any other runtimes they want to embed. I think it would be interesting to see what you get by taking the best of class in each ecosystem and using them. It may or may not scale well due to data marshalling, but it's definitely something new (at least the ease of it is) and, IMO, worth looking into.

1: https://github.com/niner/Inline-Python/
Ahhh but you still haven't learned, have you :-)? The repair ended after you replace the Nest.
how does that work as a consumer/very small business?
they have no proof that I'm running their software, they would be never be able to get a warrant to search my premises, and if they ever stepped foot on my property I'd have them done for trespass.

I can believe there's a contractual term in the volume license agreement that allows them the right, but for that they be giving you a significant discount, which seems fair.
As is Microsoft: http://reimagine.microsoft.ca/en-ca/
Why is it bad policy to demand accountability from those who work for us?
Interesting, been using base64-url, is there benchmarks somewhere you have posted?
Yes, but AWS VMs are expensive overall.
If you watch the unhappy early adopter YouTube videos of Nest thermostats, this outcome is pretty predictable. There's a level of quality control you need to put up a web app, which won't physically affect anyone if it happens to crash for awhile. Then there's a much higher level required when you're controlling things in the real world.

This outcome was predictable from the experience of those early adopters.

EDIT: Why couldn't Nest fall back to being a dumb thermostat? Lots of smart device makers should consider having such a fallback.
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It's good to see that someone remembers why libre software IS important. Because you know what you are running on your machine.
I have a manual thermostat, no batteries required. It has worked flawlessly for over 30 years. It has a simple intuitive interface: a switch for "heat" or "cool" and a dial with a pointer to set the desired temperature.

Why make things more complicated than they need to be?
10x Not 10%
He only got 9 months of unpaid leave. Why didn't he get fired permanently?
There's a way to read it that many people miss out on and that is to focus on the sound of reading it out loud. If you scrutinize the meaning of the words, sure, you might learn or discover something, but there's a ton of humor and play and fun to be had just by reading it out loud that most people miss trying to "understand" it.
Does it fit in a big luggage? To travel with it.
Fitbit is next. It is very hard for un-diversified hardware companies to exist once the product becomes commoditized.
The evidence points elsewhere. TLS is such a complex protocol that any new library will make fundamental errors in implementing it and the requisite crypto primitives (of which there are many).

What crypto libraries need is usage and, this usually goes with it, attention from people looking to break them. There are plenty of TLS libraries out there like mbedTLS and the mentioned JSEE, and looking at CVE reports a few years ago you would think these are the most secure libraries in the entire world compared to the constant trickle of issues in OpenSSL. Except when heartbleed got attention and people started looking at these rarely used alternatives they found massive problems. For years, the protocol FSM in JSEE was fatally broken. MbedTLS had and continues to have issues with just basic things like buffer overflows. And often these libraries just plain lack features and timely updates.
So I bought 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD drive. I only come close to the RAM usage when running multiple virtual box instances, I don't use all the disk and it's fast, and my battery still lasts about 10 hours.
Why have I only heard horror stories about the Nest? I see their reviews on Amazon and I see huge problems with this product .
The good thing about unpopular opinions on HN is that they're so widespread among its userbase.
I set up an OBSD laptop, an ancient Dell Inspiron 8000. Based on the experience, I'd like to get a lightweight, cheap, relatively modern laptop. Any recommendations? Cheapest thinkpad I can find?
Go 1.6 Beta 2 is released
The same story from 2014: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/06/03/this-...

Not that it isn't still very, very relevant...
Perl 6 doesn't deserve as many HN postings as it gets. The original Perl was a version of awk and sed on steroids, back at a time when that was fresh and new (the early 90s). Over the years, people realized that "there is more than one way to do it" was a terrible idea, and languages like Python and Ruby were born to be "like Perl, but better." Now even those languages are showing their age, because of the limitations of dynamic typing and weak runtimes. Perl 6 is just more of the same, 15 years too late. Even the most smelly pile of lisp macros still smells as fresh as a rose compared to this toxic pile of syntax.
It shouldn't matter. It says it can read your heart rate. That's what it advertises as. It should be able to do so.

I'm curious if there are legal precedents on how accurate a thing must be to advertise as a being a measurement device.
It's easy if you're talking about food and restaurant related things.
Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Why not just zero buffers on construction; if you can't afford the performance penalty of memset then you could always manage a pool of pre-allocated Buffers in your super performant module, which would make it even more obvious to a casual reader.
> considered to be trustworthy

By who, please, people who don't watch the BBC? The BBC has been in opposition to the UK government once in living memory, back in 2003, and it's still being talked about.
He's smart. Obama did it..twice.

More about it here: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/509026/how-oba...
> No breaks in flow control, it's goto (deprecated) or nothing
> Strongly typed, but arrays of different lengths are different types.
> Casting types is not possible

Those are real frustrations, but, at the same time, they help avoid many of the security and safety issues that have plagued C for decades.

It's not clear if there's a language somewhere between Pascal that's less annoying but more safe while still being simple. But I think it is pretty clear that there is a real trade-off in either direction.

C doesn't get in your way when you know you're doing like Pascal does. But it also doesn't get in the way when you don't know what you're doing.
Uber to Allow Some People with Nonviolent Convictions to Become Drivers
If you've got a VPS like most of us do, you're right.

Unless you can convince your VPS provider to stick the GSM modem in your server rack....
I believe this issue is fixed now.

https://github.com/PatchworkSecurity/cleansweep/issues/8

Could you try running the script again?
Really? The Nest Thermostat should still be able to control your heaters even without internet. https://nest.com/support/article/Do-I-need-Wi-Fi-to-use-Nest
Pajero is not a Portuguese word. People that speech Spanish may smile at it and Nova, but we have plenty of jokes about Kia's BestA, that means both beast, stupid or arrogant.

Anyway, BestA sold pretty well here.
My go-to-awk-guru-friend and I had fun playing with your game---if you couldn't tell by the PRs ;)
Because happy users don't feel motivated to tell people everything is okay. It's a common bias which you have to constantly remind yourself to correct for.
The thermostat doesn't actually control the plant directly. It requests heat or AC by closing a connection. The HVAC controller responds to those requests as it is able to as per its programmed parameters.

You're absolutely right that furnaces aren't designed to run 24/7. But your thermostat can request heat 24/7 and unless the furnace control board is broken, it'll the cycle the system as necessary to keep up with the requests.

Most people never learn this because the systems are designed for peak needs and most days don't get anywhere near peak.
This is my professor
Exactly. They should offer optional plugin hardware with additional sensors for various sports. For example as a scuba diver I would be more likely to buy a GoPro if it could overlay depth, temperature, dive time, and GPS (start and end of dive, obviously not underwater). Motorsports enthusiasts would want an OBD2 interface, etc.