skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While on summer camp as a university cadet in the early 1980s, I was fortunate to fly (as a passenger, of course) in the training variant of the Lightning from Binbrook, in Lincolnshire, one of their operational bases.

It has always been hard for me to recall cohesive memories of the flight. In the space of about 3 hours, and as a wet-behind-the-ears 18 year old, I was rushed through ejection seat training, sea survival training, flight suit checks, oxygen mask fitting and the flight itself. I think I also had to be squeezed into an immersion suit - the flight was over the North Sea.

As we taxied out to take off, the prevailing wind and the geometry of the airfield meant that we had to pass the rest of my cadet group as they sat outside in the sun in deckchairs, watching flight operations. I gave them a confident thumbs-up and we were off.

It turned out that I would be the only one of us to get a ride in a Lightning during that summer camp (I'd won the draw that made me the first to go) - some combination of weather and aircraft availability.

Edit: typo
Contributions to private repos are also taken into account.
Vaadin raises $6M in funding to boost the R&D of their user-interface tools
Sometimes a little bit of ceremony helps change existing behaviors and gives people with different perspectives the opportunities to speak up.
For any naysayers, there's no difference between this project and say Hashicorps' images. You're either using upstream, or you're not. But yeah, you probably want a cert.

To be honest, this looks like a cool project. I've always wanted a way to PXE without having to need another host on the LAN.
There's also Stash (now renamed to BitBucket Server (edit: fixed name, as pointed out in the reply)). It does not include some of the features (such as issue tracking), and I think rightly so. I haven't used GitLab for maybe 2 years now, so I can't compare the two.
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That wasn't my point. configure doesn't prevent malicious behaviour, but it would prevent silly mistakes at install time. (unless you actively break out of macro environment)

The point is, technically there isn't anything different between `curl | sh` and installing a system from either a downloaded .iso or a mailed DVD. Both run code from untrusted sources on your computer. But in practice they're very different because of user behaviour and ability to validate data before running. There's a whole spectrum in between and configure&make is somewhere on it.
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They developed all sorts of automated and human-assisted fraud alerting systems. I worked on a couple of them. No details, obviously, but they were good. If the authorities were not doing anything, it was not Betfair's fault.
I wish we can have real city states as I think they have a lot of advantages over large-central states. Easier accountability of the governments, easier mobility and probably less trade restrictions.
As a hobbyist I only commit one small thing a week or so without any issues. I'm curious what stability issues they have for later projects, if you'd care to elucidate?
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> like claiming RAII is "far from optimal", that exception safety is "a constant mental overhead", and that copy and move semantics involve writing "a lot of code". These are fairly outrageous claims

I agree with the OP on all three counts. I don't think RAII is very nice (python-esque with-statement would be nicer IMO), exception safety is really a mental overhead unless you restrict exceptions to a minimum and the copy-assign-move semantics do add a bit of work to every class you introduce.

These are not outrageous claims, they're rather valid opinions. Feel free to disagree but I'm siding with OP on this one.

Overall I dislike C++'s value based semantics, not because it's inherently bad, but it's just so different to any other (reference based) languages that only a small minority of programmers know how to work with them. Attaching complex semantics to types (overloading, templates) and virtual functions/inheritance (when overused) makes reading code much harder and often you need to resort to stepping in the debugger to find out where a function call actually leads.

Well written C++ can be really nice at best, but unfortunately most C++ code bases out there seem to be either a bastard mix of C, Java and C++ styles or over-the-board boost-ey template mess. Neither of these extremes hits the sweet spot.
twit.tv I listen to it's a nice radio level stream of tech
Intellexer released easy to use NLP and text mining REST API service
There are some places which could really benefit from stateless systems, or even local dumb consoles. That's commonplace at air traffic control I hear - it would be good if hospitals had the same.
Interesting. My group of friends seem to routinely come back to the topic of the UK becoming a federation of city-states.

Seems we're not the only ones thinking that way.
Just yesterday I ended up implementing my own mirroring of GitHub repositories. GitLab supports this in EE (new in 8.3), but not CE.

That's not a feature that only large enterprises use–I run an open source GitHub organization and wanted to use GitLab as CI. It works! But I needed to reimplement an EE feature to do it.

To be clear, I don't think there is anything sinister about keeping features behind a paid firewall. That is how software developers have paid their rent for decades. I'm just saying that the EE features are not all "mostly interesting to companies with 100+ employees." Several of them are things I needed as a single open-source developer.

I've debated about buying EE to fill in the gaps, but you sell licenses in packs of 10, and I only need 2 :-)
Feedback has been and always will be a two way street. It's on the critiquer to word their comments in an impersonal, constructive manner just as much as it is on the critiqued to receive comments with grace and poise. Feedback is an active collaboration for a better product and all involved parties are on the hook to contribute in a manner that allows all other parties to also contribute.
There is also https://github.com/diafygi/webrtc-ips ( harmless(?) demo here: https://diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips/ )
Because the thread has turned into a "why I like/dislike GitLab over GitHub", I'll say one thing that keeps sending me back to GitHub is the neat-o desktop client.

I use a command line for everything else in life; but with Git I'm hopeless.
There are now 229 unicorn startups, with $175B in funding and $1.3B valuation
Does someone actually use those kinds of mnemonics as a student, for learning "higher" mathematics or physics?
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>If anything, it'll become a home first for lifestyle entrepreneurs. It's a lovely place to live, it's easy to start a business, and may become a great 3-year "start a business for fun" destination for expats.

It's not that great for that either. Property rents/prices are sky high and cars are all but unaffordable except for the very wealthy.

If you're location independent you might as well pick somewhere with a lower cost of living.

Added to which, the ease of starting a business is something of a trap. You can only go so long before creating some jobs for locals which isn't so much fun if you want to keep your lifestyle business small.
When you think that the New York Metropolitan Area has a bigger GDP than Russia, what you are suggesting (real city states) starts to actually make sense.
apart from the fact that the current openssh issues are pretty much unrelated to crypto code, I'll still stick with not implementing my own crypto, just because

a) I would not have thought of the issue of using a standard library call to load data.
b) nobody would have checked my code and fixed it

so in the end, I'd still be vulnerable while openssh is now fixed.
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My originial unlimited iPhone 3g connection had abuse clauses. Nobody cared when I used tethering to download 20gigs of steam games overnight - but if I was perma torrenting they might have done.

The contractual limits give the company a legal out to deal with use that starts to impact other customers, they are not commonly enforced unless they are looking into a complaint to slow internet and your usage comes up as anomalous and potentially contributory (according to a friend at an ISP at least).
This whole "Geocities museum" site is a gem. Thanks for sharing it.

Main page: http://blog.geocities.institute/

Early Chinese online poetry: http://blog.geocities.institute/archives/5466

Big nostalgia kick from seeing webrings, blingee, clipart homepages mentioned and analysed.
It's sad to hear about your disenchantment. I hope I'm not being presumptuous, but... why don't you do some sport that's more independent? I enjoy kettlebell training, running and playing tennis. For the first two sports, it's entirely on me: I don't need anyone else, and it's all about the joy of the movement. In tennis you need an opponent, but that can just be one other person whom you regularly play with.

I guess there must be a feeling of sunk costs, in that you reached a high level in your martial art(s) of choice. But surely it would be better to do any kind of exercise, just for health and happiness, than to be thwarted by your ego? (When I say your ego is thwarting you, I mean to say that you control your reaction. The groups you mentioned are contemptible, but it is your choice whether you stop exercise entirely because of their malfeasance.)
Those cease and desist orders are toothless. You can either ignore them or write them a nice letter that you didn't violate the copyright and don't plan to in the future.
> I run an open source GitHub organization and wanted to use GitLab as CI. It works! But I needed to reimplement an EE feature to do it.

Is there a reason why you didn't use GitLab.com, which runs EE and thus has Repository Mirroring?

> I'm just saying that the EE features are not all "mostly interesting to companies with 100+ employees." Several of them are things I needed as a single open-source developer.

Fair enough, I'm not saying our judgment of what is and what isn't interesting to smaller/single-person teams is perfect. If the general feedback of the community is that a certain piece of functionality belongs in CE rather than EE, we will consider bringing it to CE. We have done this in the past.
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Perhaps not a federation of city states, but I would definitely be in favour of a federation of England/Scotland/Wales/NI/Dependencies - perhaps even with London as a separate federal part
> Finally, it's not really related, since it's more a feature request, but we'd love to allow external people to fork our repos, but not create completely new ones (or have them validated) because we don't want to host any projects under the sun (there is github and gitlab for that). So far, you either allow both features or none of them.

On a technical level that seems an impossible distinction to make. Someone wanting to host a new project could just fork yours, then make a a commit that deletes everything currently in there, then start their new project.
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also depends on whether it's a mobile plan or not.
Betfair (and the other exchanges) need to have the best fraud and corruption teams to ensure the integrity of their marketplace. As it is possible to lay results on an exchange, it does present ideal opportunity for nefarious betting activity.

With a traditional bookmaker, it's extremely difficult to consistently win large amounts over time and multiple events. The bookmakers just close or severely limit winning accounts.

On an exchange, there's no incentive to limit these winning accounts, whether they're backing or laying. The marketplace needs liquidity.

However, I still think the government(s) who issue gambling licenses may at some point take a view that betting exchanges are no longer legal business ventures, if there is too much evidence of corrupt betting, especially on the lay side.

You may think that once the genie is out of the bottle, there's no way for a government to put it back again by banning or de-licensing exchanges. The exchange just moves offshore to Malta. However, I believe the current Authorised Betting Partner (ABP)[0] debacle happening in British horse racing is evidence that industry bodies could make it very difficult in the future for offshore bookmakers/exchanges to market themselves effectively.

Anyway, my point is, that it's really in Betfair's own self interest to be so hot on fraud and corruption, when they provide (unlicensed) people the ability to lay bets and that the legitimacy of exchanges may be called into question at any time. A prime example of this is what happened to Intrade.[1]

[0] http://www.britishhorseracing.com/press_releases/british-rac...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrade
It's named bitbucket server or something like that - don't confuse it with bitbucket proper.
Certainly, that alone would be a move in the right direction.

> London as a separate federal part

Not the first time I've heard the suggestion of ejecting London from the Union :)
Cricket has long been known to be dirty.

As a fan of the sport, I don't even care anymore. If I ever watch it, I treat the results the same way I would treat WWE matches.
I assume you also 'know' that the founders of Etsy are 75% less smart now that the market valuation of Etsy is 25% of its high.
Market valuation measures nothing but what someone will pay for something today. It doesn't measure how smart or hard you worked.
It also depends where you work and what your ambition is. Not all academics work in US top-ranked institutions.

Personally, I'm tenured and I work very little. I don't do much research anymore. I teach about 10 hours a week, which amounts to 20-30 hours of effective work (including grading, various meetings, administrative work). Besides that, I try to keep up to date with the latest developments that pertain to the subjects I teach. I also try to switch topics regularly so I keep learning new things. I attend research talks and follow my colleagues research.

Because I don't do research, I can't expect any promotion and I feel a bit like an outsider. If I was to do meaningful research, then I would have to neglect some of the teaching, and work much more. I'm not entirely happy with this situation, but it's the best compromise I found.

EDIT: my office mate has a research-only position with almost no administrative overhead. He's not overworked, supervises a couple of phd students and postdoc, and is reasonably well-known in his field.

Just to say that depending on the institution, country and personal ambitions, working conditions can differ greatly.
I'm happy to see the PXE booting scene get a new revival. It's one of those crucial services that's often neglected. It's also not a very "sexy" place to do development in, but boy it's good to see a proper tool emerge.

Fyi, I first heard about Netboot via the cron.weekly newsletter last Sunday, it seems to be a very new project that's only just been released: http://www.cronweekly.com/issue-11/
> If Tennis is dirty, then we can happily say that all major sports are dirty.

Definitely the ones that involve large amounts of money for the players and the betting companies. You'd probably see a lot less corruption if you remove the legality of betting or the exorbitant amounts of money being spent on teams, players, and advertising.

F1 would be a lot more difficult to 'fix', since there's a lot of teams and players; the fixers could only target individual racers to not win, and even then there's chance of accidents and such. Tennis and other two-player sports seem a lot easier.
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Only if the file is served as one large chunk. If sent using Transfer-Encoding: chunked, there is no requirement to provide a Content-Length header, and a HEAD request may not show one.

The way Go's built in HTTP libraries work is that, if you don't attach a Content-Length header yourself, you will automatically send a chunk-encoded response. That's exactly what the OP's server does, and as a result there is no Content-Length to look for.

User-Agents need to defend against this by setting an appropriate upper-limit on the size of the object they want to receive.

Note that there's another obvious way to try to consume bandwidth: host a "file download" that actually just sends a chunk-encoded random byte sequence until the connection closes.
Absolutely you should take the text with a grain of salt. The reasons I chose C are very personal.

I can entertain the idea that my desire for simplicity is just a fad. I suspect that I wouldn't move to something like Python (I use it for other purposes though), because I don't like optimizing. I want a mindset which helps producing code with reasonable productivity, and of which performance I don't need to worry much. But yeah, it's possible that I'll change my mind and write an article about how I was so wrong before :P
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>>Added to which, the ease of starting a business is something of a trap. You can only go so long before creating some jobs for locals which isn't so much fun if you want to keep your lifestyle business small.

What do you mean by starting up a business being a trap?
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I was unaware of this. Thanks for the link.

It seems just about everything is being re-written in Go these days...
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Believe me, I have a pretty good idea how competent or incompetent German courts are.

Still, you're right. This would only work at scale, after quite a long time and cause a lot of damage on the way. The website implementing this would probably also get sued into the ground.

Better get a Netflix subscription and/or install Kodi on some FireTV thingie...
made it explicit that in the show Sherlocks's mind palace 'technique' is actually just a drug trip

This isn't really so.

Sherlock uses the memory palace technique, without drugs, throughout the entire series.

SPOILER-Y STUFF:

The immersion Sherlock goes through in "The Abominable Bride" is of a different nature -- usually he is focused and in control, driving the search, but in this instance he is looking to go deeper, to dream his way to an answer by letting go of external reality. The drugs are an expedient to get him into that state. It's analogous to the difference between searching a database/knowledgebase and losing oneself in a fully immersive VR scenario.

SPOILER:

(It is true that Sherlock told Mycroft that he was doing the mind palace thing, and Mycroft points out that the mind palace is merely a memory technique and this is beyond that, i.e. a drug trip, but given Sherlock's relationship with Mycroft, it isn't surprising that he'd underplay the drugs, is it? Also, I don't think Mycroft knows Sherlock deeply enough to know what Sherlock can do in his mind palace -- may not even know he had one, given how he reacts to Sherlock's mention of it.)

EPISODE SPOILERS FOLLOW:

And, just a few quick reminders: remember, in the regular series, Sherlock's not the only one with a mind palace -- said character refers to his own and says, "You know about Mind Palaces, don’t you, Sherlock?"

And, in that same episode, we also see an active (i.e. non-drugged) Sherlock thinking his way out of a jam -- in his mind, various characters show up to guide him. As one of them says, "It's all well and clever having a Mind Palace but you've only three seconds...to use it.". Another character later on says, "Must be something in this ridiculous memory palace of yours that can calm you down."

(The above examples are on YouTube, but would really spoil some things, so I won't link to them here; there's also a transcript out there, if you want to look it up.)
The downside of Yubikey is that if it was manufactured before April and you used OpenPGP card mode, anyone who manages to steal your Yubikey could use it to log into your servers without needing to know your PIN/password because PIN authentication was completely broken and bypassable on the earlier Yubikeys. YubiCo also heavily downplayed the importance of this issue, claiming in their announcement that it didn't matter because anyone who got hold of your Yubikey could get hold of your PIN anyway. See https://developers.yubico.com/ykneo-openpgp/SecurityAdvisory...
The major issue I see here is that someone can upload and make you share a copyrighted material. It could cost you lots of money. I wouldn't be surprised if it will be abused...
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That's absurd. No matter how much I love what I do, spending more than a certain amount of time at it makes me tired. Tired me makes mistakes that fresh me has to fix. Tired me produces less overall output for the same amount of effort put in. If what I want is to maximise output, stopping to rest is the only rational choice.

Also, the implicit assumption is that, if you love what you do, you don't love doing anything else. I want time to devote to activities other than the work I so love. Much of that time can and does end up producing useful cross-pollination with my day job, but that's just gravy.
The idiotic idea that a license is needed to run software - a power grab by software companies to bypass the doctrine of first sale - is based on the opinion in MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc.[1] that temporary copies made during the normal use of software are require a license. Even though this required ignoring 17 U.S.C. § 117 [2] and later cases like UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Augusto re-affirmed the limitation of first sale, this licensing crap is usually still a derivation of the idea that copying a program into RAM to run it is a "copy" and therefor requires a license.

Except... the John Deere and GM situations potentially add a complication. The software in question is actually firmware, and depending on the implementation it might be running directly from non-volatile memory (flash/EEPROM). If no copy is being made, isn't the entire argument about a license being required invalidated?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAI_Systems_Corp._v._Peak_Comp....

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117
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BuzzFeed's model seems to be "start with the low end, work our way up". They're using listicles to pay for this sort of awesome reporting.
To me it seems more reasonable to draw the insanity line at returning NULL for a successful zero byte allocation.

(While it's true that dereferencing a pointer to a zero byte allocation should probably trigger undefined behavior that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be possible to do the != NULL test to see if the allocation was successful.)