skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are misinterpreting Pascal's example. He's saying that because 'u' is a variable with a declared type (uint32_t), it can still be used as that type even after it is written to with another type. He then claims that were it an "allocated object" with no declared type, the effective type would change to the type of the most recent write (float), and thus it could no longer be used as the original type (uint32_t).

I'm not sure he's right, though. The quoted part of the standard says "stored into an object having no declared type through an lvalue having having a type that is not a character type". I would think that "through an lvalue" is referring only to the case given in the bug report, where the store is expressed as "*ptr = val", and not to the case where ptr is used as an argument to memcpy(). Am I wrong?
Also sounds like a great type of business to have to write off a bunch of equipment and a shop on your taxes.
Cert rotation every 3 months is a feature, IMHO. It encourages you to automate everything related to rotation.
> "court papers filed with the plea deal stated Petraeus in 2011 unlawfully gave Broadwell the black books of classified information including identities of covert officers, code word information, war strategy, intelligence capabilities, diplomatic talks and information from high-level White House National Security Council meetings."

> "Petraeus then lied to the FBI about it, the court papers said."

source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/former-cia-director-petr...

Clinton choosing to use a private email server was a big mistake, but Petraeus' actions are MUCH worse. Not even in the same category. He's lucky he did not end up in jail.
Supply and demand law mandates a wage increase if there is a shortage of workers
Swiss group reveals plans for underground freight network
It takes a special kind of project member persona to handhold a newcomer from the "asking questions phase" of wanting to be a programmer, to the "seeking answers for themselves" stage of being a programmer and if you're lucky you'll have a member of your project that excels at handholding a new user all the way up to the "gives answers to newcomers" stage, thus completing the unicorn life cycle. But these are rare and in only one instance have I actually meet such a member of a project.
This Startup Becoming India’s Biggest Personal Assistant Platform
From the article (which is partially reproduced and fleshed out with additional chapters in the book) a lot of the mocking seemed to concern involvement:

"Their first one-on-one meeting took place in the Oval Office four months later, after McChrystal got the Afghanistan job, and it didn't go much better. 'It was a 10-minute photo op,' says an adviser to McChrystal. 'Obama clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was. Here's the guy who's going to run his fucking war, but he didn't seem very engaged. The Boss [McChrystal] was pretty disappointed.'"

And for what it's worth, when you're dealing with things like this:

"In February, the day before the doomed offensive in Marja, McChrystal even drove over to the president's palace to get him to sign off on what would be the largest military operation of the year. Karzai's staff, however, insisted that the president was sleeping off a cold and could not be disturbed. After several hours of haggling, McChrystal finally enlisted the aid of Afghanistan's defense minister, who persuaded Karzai's people to wake the president from his nap."

Then I'd probably be in a less than charitable mood concerning the entire enterprise. To repeat, they had to argue with the staff of the president of the country whose insurgency we were fighting that being involved in starting a long-planned and massive offensive was more important than a nap. (And that's not getting into the comments about drug use)

Biden was exactly right, the entire thing was a cluster%^@# and a terrible idea to invest more in. But in the absence of a resolute US president who tells the military "No, you can't send in more troops"? Well, the military's going to do what it does: fight. And press for more fighting.

PS: The amount of backstabbing between different military cliques, Congress, different cliques in the State Department, and the Executive staff was also mind boggling.
Musl 1.1.13 released
Thanks for the response Dean. One also needs to be careful if picking stuff up without the owner's permission, as it is technically theft. Granted that prosecution is unlikely.

Maybe councils would be prepared to pay for the "reporting stuff that others have dumped" aspect? If not, they might pay for a "report stuff that needs our attention" aspect: using Curbit's infrastructure to provide a stream of pictures of pot holes, broken signs, etc. with attached time/GPS coordinates?
To the downvoter...you do realize that the article includes several screenshots of his work...?

His work looks clean to me...I'll leave it at that...
Best i can tell, group MMS is something Apple drummed up that has no formal spec.

Anyways, the reason why these chat systems can be more reliable is that they do not have to deal with crossing network boundaries.

If you send and SMS or MMS, it may have to be handed between carrier networks.

With a Whatsapp message, stays within their server farm.
> The outcome is certainly more unique [...]

"Unique" admits no qualification. A thing cannot be "more unique," "less unique," "very unique," and so forth. A thing is either unique, or it is not.
How+Interactive+Play+Can+Improve+Academic+Performance
C++ STL Video Lectures
Investing and Setting-Up Business in Vietnam
> Your mortgage originator is not even remotely, no matter how convincing you are, going to underwrite a loan with a mortgage payment of 55% of your after tax income.

Not in 2016 at least.
Shut Up About the Universe
I just set up Let's Encrypt on a number of my sites.

I'll take an automated process I run via cronjob and that requires no manual intervention, over a process that requires I touch it once a year.

The decision (to me) is a no-brainer.
“Adventure for Me Is the Moments of Awe”; What's Your Definition of Adventure?
I don't get it. She used a personal account for official business. That's against policy, I get that part. But why are we punishing her by releasing all of those e-mails to the general public? That sounds like a very unorthodox punishment.
It's fun to search for "Syria" then go the second last page and read a curious e-mail from Sept. 2009 about "the first known case of a successful social media campaign in Syria"..
Then a few pages later, June 2010 - "Bay Area execs seek to open doors with Syria" about a trip that Hillary's staff took part in including the infamous Jared Cohen whom Julian Assange talked about in one of his rants (https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/).

One could weave a compelling conspiracy theory if one were so inclined.
"Stuart: Oooh Sheldon, I'm afraid you couldn't be more wrong.

Sheldon: More wrong? Wrong is an absolute state and not subject to gradation.

Stuart: Of course it is. It is a little wrong to say a tomato is a vegetable, it is very wrong to say it is a suspension bridge."
The author doesn't say why this is worrisome. He just says he's worried "that the PKI front-end (auth.startssl.com) is now hosted within a Chinese Antivirus Company, who uses a Chinese ISP for 2 months and that there hasn't been any news around".

The article could certainly use a bit more connecting-the-dots to show how he gets from "they're hosted in China" to "I won't use them anymore".
Firebase Foundations for AngularJS
Get familiar with them first.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-c...
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-edison-layoffs-2015021...

Nobody suggested that the probability of at least one of these people getting a decent job down the road is zero.

A huge percentage of them in their 40s, 50s will not get anything even close. Please take some time to become familiar with ageism in the IT industry to understand why this is the case.

What is it that you don't buy? Exactly.

That they didn't really lose their jobs? That they were not really replaced that by the temporary immigrants on H1-B visas that they trained? That most of them didn't find better paying jobs within the week after being laid off? That many of these families will not suffer a huge drop in living standard?
>...The problem with fission waste isn't necessarily the quantity of radiation, but the fact that the timescales are far beyond what humanity can count on.

Nuclear waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

Eventually it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

>...That said, I'm convinced we'll have to deal with it. Fusion will be ready when the uranium runs out.

With breeder reactors, we could run the world on nuclear power and have enough fuel for tens of thousands of years. By then I would hope fusion would be ready.
I just posted the first four videos to a new course I’m working on. It’s called Firebase Foundations.

A lot of my Angular students loved using Firebase as they went through my Angular Course, so I thought it would be cool to extract just the Firebase content out into its own course so that more people can experience what it’s like to use Firebase with AngularJS.

This course is intended for people that have at least some familiarity with Angular and want to take advantage of Firebase’s authentication, database, security, and hosting features.
Personally, I upvoted it because I think it very succinctly highlights the importance of community in a lot of disciplines.

Alan wants to bypass all the long-term give-and-take investment in the writing community and somehow still become well-respected and famous within that same community. I think we've all come across those types.
Don't Alienate Open Source Contributors
IIRC, in America items placed near bins, used for regular refuse pick up fit into the legal category of "abandoned" property, and are thus pretty much fair game...or are treated as such for all practical purposes...

Where I live that seems to be the case...no one cares...

That is, unless local (city) codes legislate differently...
It's the result of Freedom of Information Act requests. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controve...
Sure, if you can afford the $42 per month. If you aren't making much, $9-11 per hour, that's a sizable chunk of money. More so if you have children.

The company I worked for that did this "helped" us meet goals by offering discounts at a gym that not only wasn't available in the area, but still cost too much after discount for the low-level employees. This was the norm for most of such benefits. They first raised the standard price of insurance, then offered the "bonus" if we did the bloodwork and met the goals.

Since people were used to getting such "benefits" from the company (It was obvious people were out of touch with the lives of their employees), the benefit didn't upset people as much as being fined for not going along with the company plans. Their "escape plan" for disabilities was that you'd not get charged if you had a form from your doctor saying the measurements were impossible for you to meet. Most people were very bitter at the fine and many did it simply because they couldn't afford the increase.
Nah, the median person has 2 legs, the mean person has less than 2 legs.
Councils picking up and disposing of stuff is paid for by the council. Councils are your customer.

Collect stats on the number and type of items picked up per council. If you get any traction, tell the councils it will cost X$ to keep the service running in their area.
>Hint: it involves a Chinese company

Isn't saying that a bit wrong? at least point on the hint that it is having connections with a state-owned company.
I personally have a serious problem dealing with the state of china's telecommunications. It's about as close to evil as you can get. I'm not saying other state actors are much better but, I'm just saying ...
If you dislike him that much, call him NNT. It's a fun way of trivializing what he says.

I actually think Taleb some very important things to say. Or at least, he seems to be the loudest and most popular of the folks who are talking about epistemology, and it's an important topic. I think it's reasonable to call him Taleb, without specifying a first name, because there's no other Taleb that makes sense in this context (no other Talebs that have authored a book called "Antifragile"). You didn't experience any confusion, did you?
https://www.tushare.com/ tried the game for some time, couldn't make it profitable.
People are people. The obnoxious ones stand out more.

This is also a field where poor quality work can put sensitive information at risk or cost others their jobs. If someone is writing production code carelessly, I think it's OK to be firm (but not personal) about what needs to happen next.

If someone is being rude in a learning environment, it's just ego, competition, and/or poor social adjustment.
Sure you "can" do a lot of things, but a green card application requires sponsorship - not something you can do unilaterally

Main problem with H1b is low wages and lack of mobility - lose your job and you're out.
>"at least half of all people are at or below median"

Take the median of

1 2 5 5 5 5 8 9 11 23 58 46 48 37 28 67 39

Much less than half of the numbers are at or below the the median of 5.

(also median would be a bad way to get an average for this set.)
Can someone post a link to the comparison with other columnar database storage layer?
A moment of silence to your PCI cards.
I don't often put my Windows PC at uptime for more than a week...
GOOGLE JUST CALLED IPHONE AN ONE-NOTE PIANO
Even the basic nonprogrammable Honeywell digital thermostat is smarter than most people realize. It is actually monitoring how well the system has been working and planning ahead so that it will not cycle too fast or switch over to the second fuel source unnecessarily. They have put a lot of thought into these.
I use Let's Encrypt DNS validation. This does not require you to run anything on your server. You just need to have a way to distribute cert to your servers.
I think the Nest is okay, overpriced but nice-to-look-at thermostat. It's easy to use and easy to set up, and I haven't had any problems yet. There are a few failures, namely lack of access to data, which forced me to download the data myself and store it, violating the 10-day rule but I don't care. I would love for them to actually try to catch me.

The bigger failure is the Dropcam. The acquisition has made the product much worse. The new Nest app is really slow and crashes all the time. Currently, one of my $200 cameras won't connect to the wifi, and I no idea why, but I'm so furious I don't care.

I hate to say this, but the entire acquisition was a complete failure.
The extremely low physical security of Hillary's server probably outweighs all of this.

It was just sitting in an office. A single person could have literally kicked in the door and waltzed off with a huge cache of state secrets, and we probably wouldn't even have a video tape of the theft.

The server was not secure enough to be storing state secrets. There's no arguing against this.
Sorry, but you just don't get the fact that SAM is reactive/functional and what benefits you can drive from it.
That was a long way to go to get to a Ficciones reference. The Pierre Menard's Don Quixote and the Library of Babel are probably my favorite Borges stories, and I do think they're applicable to the author's point. I just can't help but feel that it was a painful process to get there.
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Yup. I signed up with an account to play with it once. Never used it after the initial week. I wonder how many others of that 125k were just drive by test drives.
Why anything to do with Qihoo is worrying: https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-appl...

It's proven in the past that they're not a security company for anything that deals with protecting yourself against snooping by the Chinese state and will negatively affect your security.

Seeing this in relation to free SSL intended to be deployed all over the internet. Yeah, that is worrying.
Smalltalk messages/methods:

a in: set.
2 * 4.

Just sayin'
> Clinton choosing to use a private email server was a big mistake, but Petraeus' actions are MUCH worse. Not even in the same category.

Always great to hear from people who know how open investigations will be resolved.

To be clear: HRC is accused not only of conducting official business in a manner that was completely unauthorized from an infosec perspective and in direct violation of both IC standards and a Presidential Executive Order; she also apparently ordered a subordinate who needed to send her classified materials to "turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure" [0]. To me this sounds like her giving a direct order to mishandle classified information.

It sounds like you're on Team Hillary and that's fine, we all have our political opinions. I do not think that your characterization of Petraeus' actions as "MUCH worse" than HRC's is accurate, either in terms of a reasonable-person evaluation of the severity of each respective (alleged in HRC's case) infraction or in terms of how the IC punishes these kinds of transgressions. They are normally merciless when it comes to people intentionally violating the integrity of classified information systems. Merciless.

[0]: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-department-releases-more-c...
LinkedIn is bloody awful. I get email notifications and then i click them and they ask me to sign in.

Yeah, no thanks. I don't think looking up my password just to sign in is worth using the app on mobile.
Indeed. It's a filter.

Somewhat related, I've been considering putting my birth year (IGY) at the top of my resume. I'd rather someone silently bitbucket my resume than show up for a useless interview.
Creating Volume Heatmaps from Plot Data
> some of the emails contained information that was classified at the time she sent/received them.

As far as I can tell, the article to which you refer says nothing of the sort. It says that the email contains information which was classified after the fact. The article is based on the Inspector General's letter (http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/01/20/2016.01.14.-....), which says the same thing. Do you have evidence that the information was classified at the time it was mailed to her server? Her campaign says it was not.
Another alternative is the way D does it. Its the same idea as `not in` but instead of adding a 2 keyword operator and non-standard usage of negation (`not` instead of `!`) it is simply: `!in`
No- You're giving a person a choice between (1) getting to lounge around all day and play xbox or (2) earning 20% more income above BI by working hard all week doing an unpleasant and belittling job in a grocery store.
'Curated' implies ongoing maintenance, and not just a brain-dump.
We spend time optimizing JavaScriptCore's build time. It's a hard problem and it's important when managing such a large project. People inevitably have to do clean builds and that sucks when you have >400k lines of C++ code.

So, naturally, we want to avoid building JSC twice. ;-)
ffmpeg can utilize streams, in both input and output. The trouble comes from different codecs and containers, especially on output. Some formats aren't append-only—the prime example being MP4 + h.264—and so ffmpeg needs to be able to write to a seekable output device, ruling out streaming output in those cases.
A decorator must be applied to a function or class, whereas a context manager can wrap an arbitrary section of code. So, it depends on how you want the tool to be used. I don't think there's a clear best design.
You are asserting that she did this to avoid oversight. If that were truly the case, wouldn't she have had a drastic hard drive failure and unreliable backups? That model has worked for IT departments for years.

Isn't it far more likely that she instructed someone on her staff to instruct someone in the back office to instruct some underpaid admin to just "make crap work so I can stop using dialup?"

I know we cannot prove a negative, but I'd bet $100 she couldn't edit an /etc/sendmail.cf without bricking it. (I know that's not your point, I just find it an amusing thought.)

Edit: parent was edited and my reply appears nonsensical. The parent stated that the server was set up to avoid oversight, which I do not believe has been established as true.
All leaders build their fortune on the efforts of other people, pretty much by definition.
Can't resist commenting...

I'm very forgiving by nature..

I often nod when people are speaking to me...not because I realize they're making a point I agree with...rather it's to keep from obstructing the point they're trying to make..

Point: Don't let a small human mistake distract you from an opportunity to learn something...
It depends on the subsidiary. My little corner maintains close ties with Google's engineering tools, job ladder, promotion process, etc. for the express purpose of enabling easier hires/transfers from Google. So really it's up to the subsidiary as to how they choose to behave.
Ah! not sure how I confused median and mean :-/
As posted above by someone else: http://www.bls.gov/opub/regional_reports/200908_silicon_vall...
Look at the top of this thread from the post from:

http://www.bls.gov/opub/regional_reports/200908_silicon_vall...
It all started in the 1980s and personal computers. Boys who were nerds and socially inept got personal computers from their parents as something to learn with. Before that it was mostly women who got into programming. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

The problem is when you are socially inept. Or rather lack social and people skills. You don't tend to be as friendly with other people who ask questions etc. Now not every programmer is socially inept. Just that some programmers have a high level of intelligence at the sacrifice of social and people skills.

For example during the BBS era there was a series of computer wars between platforms and debates. In modern times it is war between frameworks and programming languages.

No, not every programmer is like that. Programming is stressful at times, and it depends on how well you handle the stress. Sometimes the stress makes programmers angry and snap at people asking them questions because they feel they should have read the manual or documentation or used a help file or something instead of asking them something they could have looked up.

Me I was always glad to help others out as a programmer. I didn't have much in social skills and people skills and I was a nerd, but I always tried to answer questions in a friendly manner. I saw other programmers who did not and it did not go well for them so I adapted. I mentored others how to program.

Most of the programmers are unfriendly towards new coders because they are competition, and they are not at the level of the programmer yet. It is called biting the noob, and you find it on Internet Forums on programming. Noob being new coder or new person. It is just that they have been a programmer for X amount of years, and some new coder comes along and wants to learn what took them X years to learn. It is a process of trial and error, and learning from your mistakes. At first you will write sloppy code and learn how to write better code later.

You find the same thing from people who are experts at Linux and the new Linux user asks them questions, and they tell them to read the manual or man pages.