skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the Guardian was first with this (amaze), but TC has a response from MS, http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/microsoft-silences-its-new-... and the Telegraph writes more amusingly, with detail http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/24/microsofts-...
With the exception of systemd versus init, the big ideas are pretty much unchanged. Details around hardware and distribution features should be kept in historical perspective and application context, by which I mean that a 2001 64 megabytes of RAM desktop might be today's embedded system and most people won't have to configure networking over two dial up modems.

For me, the critical issue with technical books is readability and accessibility. If it's in front of me and I enjoy reading it because I'm learning something, that's often good enough. If I were already an expert Linux programmer, then I might have different criteria. I know I ain't.
I'm running vanilla Ubuntu on it (wiped out Chrome OS) with linux-samus kernel (https://github.com/raphael/linux-samus) since the day I bought it - everything is perfect. The fact that AdmiralAsshat already mentioned, that it's the choice of laptop of Linus Torvalds himself should say a lot already.
Recurse Center Is Like Studying Abroad
Well 3 years ago I dealt with 12 data centers spread across the globe, 8000 bare metal servers. Many giant webfarms using RHEL with DB clustering. Having to deal with SAN's and NAS.

Here I am now working entirely with the AWS infrastructure. First we shoved things in Puppet. Then we started shoving things in Git and using Ansible. Maybe development wise things don't seem that different but for an old ops guy like me having to go devops it is changing very fast.

I never said that old technologies are obsolete but, jobs for supporting them fade and we must learn to survive in the new world.
It could be, but the focus is different because I'm not counting on my iPhone to artificially give me the confidence that I lack.
In recent years Australia has had many of their large farms sold to the Chinese, and often times, expensive homes are bought at high prices to only be taken down and built anew.
Why You Need More Verbs on Your CV
Status of Portable Swift code
That's exactly how statistics works.

You make a statement with some degree of confidence (often 95%) and fully expect to be wrong 5% the time.
This essay would benefit from making the particular anthropics used like the Self-Sampling Assumption explicit (and the paradoxical implications of it which leads to rejection by many) and explaining examples like the Doomsday Problem.
Uber’s Colombian speed bumps
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena as close as we have, at least in terms of verifiabily uncompromised.
One should think of these requires as like .h files and the underlying code as something like a .c file. They're public definitions with potentially changing underlying code.

It's good to have small packages. Don't forget that the underlying ECMA script is changing so the implementation of these 'libraries' are (or will be) different over time from what they used to be. If somebody finds a faster way to do the method, then it will be done.

Finally, anybody who has used js in the real world understands how many corner cases there are and how difficult it is to make durable methods (i.e. how to know if an array is empty - which requires like 4 different conditions).
That was how we generally accomplished that enforcement -- see an unlocked machine, write an email to the team list saying "I'm bringing breakfast tomorrow!"
Docker for Windows samba mounts the host filesystem into the VM so samba maps the permissions
Then I'd get confused and think it had something to do with Citrix.
As far as I know it means it is contagious over the network.

If not I have misread and quite a few other people have misunderstood as well I guess.

See for example MongoDB and others that distribute the core under AGPL and the drivers under MIT or something so that you can actually use it for something without having to make your product AGPL licensed as well.

Edit: did some quick googling and found this in another HN thread about some other nice but AGPL licensed software I've never heard about again:

"""The Opa web site says that I cannot: "Firstly, `‘if I'm using AGPL Opa to develop an app does it need to be AGPL, too?’'. Long story short — yes, it does." """ [0]

IANAL but being a nerd I have read a lot of licenses and it seems pretty clear to me that thats what companies has in mind when they license something under AGPL.

Unless someone can prove me wrong I hope we can stop spreading the misconception that AGPL somehow isn't viral.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2928030
Edited the original to include the actual name, sleeping beauty paradox.
"That's not even remotely what was done in the article by my reading."

That's what it was described as in the grandparent:

"This was a study based on "a Financial Times multiple choice survey of 77 high net worth and affluent mainland Chinese individuals, 'admittedly not a statistically significant sample size,'” According to this survey, 9 individuals out of these 77 Chinese bought property in Vancouver."

'mainland Chinese' are a reference class much larger than 'Chinese buyers of Vancouver properties', as they are buying globally. If this description is wrong, then one should correct it - not introduce irrelevancies like how 'well with Bayesian reasoning this sorta small sample is OK!'

"More like: 33% of Somalis * total number of Somalis / total people in Minnesota."

Which is still wrong, since there are lots of Somalis not in Minnesota.
Even with multi providers, DNS issues are a cluster fuck.
How Agencies Are Fighting Back Against Talent Raids by Tech Firms and Marketers
Like Venmo send money features are available without anything but a phone number, as long as people send you more money than you send (mantain positive ballance).
Using polite language to threaten only seems amicable. And believing you have to make threats because of the law doesn't mean you're not an asshole.
I get it, it's a funny joke, but context for the curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlow12sSdmc
I really want to get this one but have a few concerns -

> Malware in BIOS preinstalled by Lenovo
> Is dual core processor sufficient?
Eh, as I remember it they have stuff in multiple AWS regions. Would take a global AWS failure to bring them down. This was my justification for going with them while working somewhere that used AWS.

That said, while it is extremely unlikely it shouldn't be discounted as impossible.
Composing Features and Behaviours in the Elm Architecture
Having said that, are they profitable problems to solve? It doesn't really matter if they're things vital for google now, but if they're profitable and google are well placed to profit from them then it makes sense to do surely.

> Why on earth would Google care about the indoor social robot market?

Why on earth would google care about the home heating market?
How to Jailbreak the Apple TV 4 using Pangu 1.0 for free – iOS jailbreak
You're misrepresenting my suggestion. The idea is to choose the factor size according to the complexity of ECM; the modulus size is irrelevant. So for a 2^80 security level, you choose factors of ~341 bits; relaxing the security to a 2^64-ish place, you can get away with 256-bit factors. This makes index calculus very quick, even on modest hardware, especially considering that the individual logarithm phase---the part you need to do in real-time---is much faster than the whole thing.
I just hope Google learns from Android (the phone) and applies "lessons learned" when they start making androids (real robots).
I ran my non-authoritative DNS server [bind] on a droplet for about a year. But the server crashed every few months. Why? Never figured out. A restart always fixed it.

Later shifted to DO's DNS servers.

Now that that one is down too, just shifted back to domain register's DNS.

Everything is working now.
Expecting open source doesn't mean I wouldn't pay for it. I co-founded a company that is fully open source, so I do understand that money needs to exchange hands to keep this industry flowing. I just believe in freely sharing ideas.
Who's bluffing? I'm not the one claiming that I'd be willing to do something drastic to lower my rent. I'm perfectly happy where I am.

This country is full of low-rent places. If you don't like your rent you don't have to stay in the city. What people want is to be somewhere desirable but not have to pay a premium for being someplace desirable.

That happens briefly when you find a good place that nobody discovered yet. But it never lasts. Eventually people find out. My property taxes have gone up 3 times in 5 years for precisely that reason. It's a small price to pay, IME, to be somewhere you like even if you have to pay extra.
I think the argument is this: given N beings in the universe that want to search for other such beings, if each being assumes they are the median it maximizes the chance that one being finds another. So maybe we are actually the 99th percentile in size, then it's okay that we are looking for larger beings, because the vast majority of beings that really are around the 50th percentile will be looking for larger beings.
There are plenty of pro-police-state judges who would trip over themselves to issue AI-generated warrants. It will not get resolved through the courts.
They do have geo-region (not just AZ) redundancy and failover, which puts them quite a bit above most home-grown company status pages in my experience. But yes, if the problem was for example in R53 it would indeed be better to have an solution without that AWS dependency.
They will keep the bubble going with the help of your tax payer money.
This is my experience, too. I don't expect LibreOffice to have as good a UX as MS Office, but LibreOffice just isn't solid enough. I continue to use it, however.
Twitter is Tay's Parry.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc439

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/when-p...
Sorry if I'm trying to "teach grandma to suck eggs" but can't you just enter the domain in your local hosts file. If it's a network that needs access then presumably you have some sort of proxy/cache that could be seeded with the necessary domain+IP pairing? I suppose these aren't possible if you're trying to demo on someone else's network or in a public space or such.
No, souls != property. People sell their property and get money for it. Generally they do sell to the highest bidder. There is no collective ownership. You have no stake in other people selling their own property. There is no "we". How does a hot RE market imply things arent going to end well? Fairly big jump. Toronto is the only other hot mkt in the vast country of canada. Calgary and other cities are seeing falling RE prices.
Yeah, that would be me lol. I've been dodging that program for a long time now. Briefly tolerated it in a self-contained LISP setup. Had a piece of paper helping me along on basic stuff. (shudders)
For me the links shows the japanese version.

English: http://nianticlabs.com/blog/pokemon-go-first-look/
There are no custom kernel modules, everything is in a stock kernel since 3.10 (which not-so-coincidentally is the minimum supported kernel version).

Containers are run with whatever user you tell it to run as, the default is root because that's the only guarantee.

LXC is also something different. LXC is a set of userland tooling to interact with cgroups and namespaces (which docker used to exec out to). LXC != Linux containers (and indeed there isn't really such a thing as a container like there is a zone or a jail on Solaris and BSD respectively, it's made up)
Also again, no custom kernel modules on BSD.
Focus on solving complex issues with code, not testing and delivering code
apparently the humor of the post was lost on a few people...
The first beta of Graylog v2.0 is now available
That's what you keep an extremely low ttl for.
Something not mentioned here is the relationship between oxygen levels in the atmosphere and the size of animals on a planet. During the era of giant creatures (dinosaurs) the atmosphere was around 35% oxygen, today it is about 21%.
Nobody put us in any room. We're at large. That is the difference.
That is not surprising since the robotics market is already dominated by other companies from Germany, Japan, and Korea. DARPA made the mistake of opening their competition to Korea, and Korea dominated the competition with an innovative robotic design. It was obviously far ahead in terms of practicality and their design could already be used today.

Google is trying to enter a market already dominated and pieced out.
Disney Princess then and Now
If you pay attention to where AppEngine is getting love these days, it's moving towards Google-accessing libraries on VMs, and becoming relatively language-agnostic. The just released Node.js libs, and other languages are coming.
For more fun, my commentary on leftpad code: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2016/03/more-on-npm-leftpad/
I can confirm that. Saw the comment of google rep last year on pixel's forum answering exactly this question.
Oops I think I was a bit unclear. I encrypt my passwords file (which contains other information too, like credit card details and so on), much like how password managers like keepass do, but I do it manually with gpg set to use the blowfish cipher.
Insight from this story: If it is important that a thing be done correctly, it should not be made so easy to do that it will end up being done by people who shouldn't be allowed to do it.

I may have just invented a rule for choosing programming language and systems there.
Take a look at the leftpad code
The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Transit Is Worse
Add this to the manual on how not to do a PR stunt
Docker on Windows (with native Windows containers) is also a very real thing and will ship with the next Windows Server release (you can download a technical preview from Microsoft now).
I find that newer versions of Office (especially 2013 and 2016) support Open Document (e.g., .odt) better than LibreOffice supports Open XML (e.g., .docx).
In my experience, every problem boiled down to some weird MS Office quirk which, quite frankly, even occur among different MSO versions!
Yeah I mean it takes work to do it correctly. I wouldn't call it a cluster fuck.
No[1], because "cybersecurity" is an open-ended non-static target, with human adversaries in the loop, who will adapt to circumstantial changes dynamically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
British judge approves extradition of “flash crash” trader to U.S
Technically speaking that's hardly a failed experiment.
The bot has adapted herself just fine to Twitter, a platform optimized for trolling
> The corpus of what most people find offensive is surprisingly narrow

What do you mean?
Oh, come on. "Tay" is getting flooded with "shock value" tweets in the hope she replicates them, which she apparently is. To pretend that this somehow measures anything about humanity (besides that there are trolls on the internet, and people like to mess with corporate attempts at PR) is silly.
Researchers Claim Correlation Between Terror Attacks, Cyber-Activity
Even at the ends of a spectrum, they remain imperfect and problematic constructs. When I said binary, I intended to continue to imply that they are as pointed out, said to be opposites on one semantic axis. This may have misled you as to my position, laid out in my previous parent^2 comment. At no point did I call them useless.

to timwaagh below, if I had done the research to create coherent enough new constructs I'd be publishing a paper on them, rather than writing a chat answer.
4chan made my day "it's pretty telling that when they turned off its ability to learn it "became a feminist" "

I dislike the fact that they decided to lobotomize the AI this fast without further studying. So it's probably just another markov chain.
Winning Reversi with Monte Carlo Tree Search
Why isn't the conclusion "our population size is the most frequent" versus "largest"?
Didn't Uber just hire Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller (famous for the Jeep hack) a few months ago? Based on that I would have expected them to be at least half-serious about security. Or was that just for PR?
fizzbuzz npm edition:

var zero = require("number-zero");
var hundred = require("number-one-hundred");
var isDivisibleBy5 = require("is-divisible-by-5");
var isDivisibleBy3 = require("is-divisible-by-3");
var isDivisibleBy5and3 = require("is-divisible-by-5-and-3");
var numberToString = require("number-that-is-between-one-and-hundred-to-string");
var fizzbuzz = require("string-fizz-buzz");
var fizz = require("string-fizz");
var buzz = require("string-buzz");
var incrementByOne = require("increment-by-one");
var forLoop = require("for-loop");
var ifCondition = require("if-condition");
var elseIfCondition = require("else-if-condition");
var elseCondition = require("else-condition");
var lessThan = require("less-than");
var print = require("print-string");

forLoop(zero, lessThan(hundred), incrementByOne, function(i) {
condition(isDivisibleBy5and3, print(fizzbuzz),
elseIfCondition(isDivisibleBy3, print(fizz),
elseIfCondition(isDivisibleBy5, print(buzz),
elseCondition(print(numberToString(i))))));
});
Where can I find a "UNIX" distribution to try? :-)

Linux are in every android cell phones, PI, pc, etc.
The mobile games industry is kept afloat by less than 1% of users
This is a good write up for IPC related stuff - http://beej.us/guide/bgipc/output/html/singlepage/bgipc.html
Bob clearly started the vulgarities by dropping a D-bomb (and labeling himself and KIK one) in the opening clause of his second email.

KIK|Bob never intended to act amicably and, in fact, admitted as such in cold text.

>We don't mean to be a dick about it, but...

NPM seems to have ignored this blatant violation of their dispute policy and didn't even engage in conversation.
Wow. To stress the amazing level of customer service, someone there just ran across my comment and reached out - noting that my pricing was set for an older structure, updating me to a far more competitive rate and offering a retroactive credit.

While Amazon has offered some great service, it's never been as good as that.

They really do stand by and provide a superior level of support and assistance if you need it on the technical side as well.

I highly recommend them.
That is the only path not available to the dominating robotics countries of Germany, Japan and Korea who are literally under the gun not to develop such arms and weapons (without approval of the US).
There's no accepted resolution to both Sagan's posited frequency of life and Fermi's paradox other than filters.
Great thought experiment.

I would have thought that a planet's life form, shape and variety would be determined by:

1- the energy output of nearest star

2- the planet's gravity

He barely mentions gravity which is surprising. Earthlings probably wouldn't be as tall with 1.3x more gravity. Maybe life wouldn't even have made it out of water, or much more slowly.

Evolution would mean "heavier" eggs would be harder to carry. The entire evolution process hangs around reproduction so what would that mean?

Same for less gravity - except it would _probably_ be on a smaller planet. Gravity correlates with planet size in the solar system. Would <0.8G be enough to retain water, atmosphere, etc?

Somehow I'm not surprised to find out one day that an intelligent alien life would look a lot like us, on a planet that looks a lot like Earth.
That's the problem with any social network that allows this. Upvoting and downvoting has less to do with whether a comment is correct or true, and more about whether the hivemind behind the community agrees with it.

A great example would be reddit - try posting something there praising a conservative candidate and see how well you do. Then, try posting something praising Bernie Sanders and watch as you ride the wave of upvotes to the front page.

Nothing to do about the correctness of the content. Everything to do with whether the hivemind agrees.
This looks like it could have been inspired by the Cipher Challenge[1] from The Code Book[2], which starts with monoalphabetic substitution problems.

1. http://simonsingh.net/cryptography/cipher-challenge/the-ciph...

2. http://www.amazon.com/The-Code-Book-Science-Cryptography/dp/...
> How does one 'deliberately practice' writing?

I imagine a big part of it is actually not writing but reading. That is, reading things from people who you would like to write like and trying to emulate what they do.

I guess even better would be to write something and have one of those people look it over and give feedback.

> It's not like the most successful writers or writings are the most complicated

It's been said already but this article is about mastery and you seem to be concerned with success which are two very different things.
I'm late to the left-pad discussion. I thought it was considered a bad practice to depend on an external repo as part of your build process. At my company we use Artefactory to host our maven libs. Even if one were removed maven central our builds would continue to work fine (in theory).
Only other FOSS option I know of that's comparable is Calligra Suite. Then just smaller, not trying to be feature complete programs like Abiword and Gnumeric.

There's other good free as in beer options and cheaper alternatives to Microsoft Office though.
As a non-facebook user, I would enjoy just being able to try the service. Email I have so that would be enough for me and I guess a lot of other people as well.
Apple worries about spy technology on servers it buys
Interesting analysis, but after reading the FAQ at the bottom, it rests upon quite a few important hidden assumptions. For example:

>However if there is any hope of finding life on other planets, there must be a huge number of planets with life in the Universe. Therefore, for the case we're interested in...

So during the entire analysis, we were limiting ourselves only to those universes in which we do make alien contact, regardless of how likely that event is.
> "There are, after all, only a finite number of elements in the periodic table..."

That's because we've only discovered or figured out how to make a finite number of them. Is there a reason that other (alien) elements can't exist that we've never been exposed to?
Apple just patented a VR headset
Feel free to code your own
You have misread and other people have misunderstood then.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl clearly explains what the license intends as does the second paragraph in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License.
Recommend AWS Route53 very highly. Route53 also allows you to buy domain names and do lot's of fancy fail-over, geolocation, and CNAME alias at the apex magic.
Recommend Route53 very highly. Route53 also allows you to buy domain names as well and automatically adds the base DNS template.
That police officers get nervous and can be consumed by an adrenaline fueled fight or flight response (while armed) seems to be part of the problem.

I wonder if there's a pharmaceutical solution to this problem that would suppress the adrenaline and the fight or flight response to allow officers to remain cool headed even if someone is threatening them with a gun (or appears to be as was, perhaps, the case in this instance).
I would love to give feedback but I can't even try the application, maybe that's why the comment section here is filled with comments related to Facebook... I'm not the only one who wants to try it out.
Since citus is just an extension, the normal drivers for postgres just work. And those are BSD licensed (well, it's the postgres license, but the difference is essentially nonexistent).
Focus.sh Todo.txt powered extra focus for your terminal
The subsequent application of the law has no bearing on the veracity of the quote as the people who have and are applying the law are in no way bound by anything that Ehrlichman may or may not have said.