skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure in 1998 there was a similar utility such as units; still the Mars Climate Orbiter disaster [1] and the Gimli Glider [2] happened. By Engineers or technical people, not the general public. I'm sure everyday small misunderstandings/errors happen from the disparity.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
We copied the raw image file of the corrupted metadata filesystem (MDT in Lustre lingo) to the ramdisk.

Then we mounted it via loopback and copied the files to tarballs. The bit that was really slow on the spinning disk was reading the millions of files from the metadata FS.

The basic process of the file-level backup is documented here:
https://build.hpdd.intel.com/job/lustre-manual/lastSuccessfu...
Backblaze covers Mac and Windows.
Kind of like a salesman trying to sell you something... Enterprise software companies don't get paid until they say buy, and in the mean time the company hasn't been paid anything.
> Could you name a single company that doesn't follow where the market is and try to monopolises it later?

I think your argument actually supports parent's position, so this "plus" in the next sentence seems out of place :)
> HR also know nothing about tech (and are usually bizarrely proud of it).

This is so true in every industry. My company did work for a big HR firm that specialized in servicing the accounting industry. Every one working for that firm was aggressively ignorant about every aspect of accounting. Having known people in other HR fields, that tends to be true overall. It almost feels like they think that finding out more about the industry they are servicing would somehow lower them to the level of the "peons" they are hiring. This is anecdotal only, of course.
So many teams are hampered by nutcases (Cousins) or one-way players whose deficiencies can't be overcome. Put Curry on many teams and he might score loads, but likely be back in the pack. GSW have got a solid rim protector, great system and buy-in (invaluable), defensive versatility (Draymond and Iguoadala) and a second-fiddle shooter who is pretty outstanding in his own right.

It's no surprise that the other outstanding team in San Antonio also have defensive versatility and a brilliant system.
Then allow the Tor users and watch them carefully. If you think you have a way to definitively tell that some traffic is malicious, why oh why would you interrupt your enemy while they're making a mistake? Do you think they're not going to come back at you from a clearnet IP?

Edit:

> I'm having a hard time seeing what the compensating advantage is. How does not accepting Tor traffic to our "normal" sites lessen the anonymity of Tor traffic to sites where it is important?

The anonymity of Tor depends upon diversity. The more people using Tor for more things, the harder it is to correlate any particular person's traffic.

That being said, it is your website, and if you decide to block Tor you have as much right as your users do to use Tor. But I'd ask you to think about whether you are actually attaining any benefit.
They did take a stake in Airbnb and Uber. They just marked Airbnb up 14%
I thought everybody has seen this "vi assistant" gif by now...
Ubuntu isn't a free software distribution, and this wouldn't actually "fix" the bug. Since the kernel is still proprietary
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Don't think so, it's basically like lock picking a suspect's apartment with a warrant. What is found should be valid evidence, no?
Law enforcement can break the door or call a locksmith and pay him for his service. In this case Cellebrite's the locksmith.
Totally off topic, but...

Am I the only one to think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster when seeing the words "spark" and "zeppelin" together? (This type of air ship is called a "zeppelin" in my native language...)
That could be a threat, just like "don't be evil"...
CloudFlare: 94 percent of the Tor traffic we see is “per se malicious”
I feel the matter isn't "moot". Not because of whether Apple did or didn't help the FBI, and not because of whether or not a precedent was created.

Apple did not make their product weaker (We don't know what hole the FBI found, but it might require physical possession of the device, and Apple could fix it tomorrow. Either way, regardless of what flaws exist now, that number wasn't increased). In addition, there was a national conversation (albeit ignored by most) about whether Apple should make their product less secure. A conversation that actually hit some details. John Oliver did a bit on it, I know several other outlets tried to convey something beyond "Terrorists Bad!/Govt Bad!".

That's something I am glad that happened, and something that wouldn't have happened without the discussion you consider "moot". The answer may no longer be important, but the debate was.
This is ancient news re-implemented. Windows NT had a POSIX layer up to about Windows Server 2003:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
http://brianreiter.org/2010/08/24/the-sad-history-of-the-mic...
yes, perhaps Apple is doing the right thing for the wrong reason. I also think so. However, it's still the right thing and therefore i support them. Even EFF supports them.
> It's sad to see companies that are providing real, important products getting hammered for not meeting potentially impossible expectations

They signed on to those expectations when they took those sky high valuation investments. Thats not going to make the employees feel all that much better, of course
It's called "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".

They also tried to do this with Java, but people were alert.
Do we really think a century of data is a lot? Especially when you are talking about ~20 events per year?

Can you explain why 1850 looks comparable or worse than the 1990s and worse than 2010s so far? I don't see what this proves.

The inputs for "man's impact" in the 1850s would not come close to modern day. If we took that into account, by your logic, the bar charts should explode out the top! But it doesn't. Not even close.

1850 - 1.2B people
2010s - ~7B people and a lot more pollution

From your linked data, the impact of AGW on hurricanes over the last year = 0

Edit: I think you may agree with me that it doesn't point to more extreme weather events. If so - my comment is directed at the parent.
> The feds have gone to ALL device makers and demanded access, using National Security Letters each time to force the manufacturers to enter into their clandestine plan, without any public awareness.

It's a shame this is the top post.

A National Security Letter absolutely cannot do anything like this. NSLs are such a weird HN boogeyman. Absolutely a violation of the first and fourth amendments, but they are administrative subpoenas. They cannot compel the kind of action you're talking about.

There are plenty of ways to twist interpretations of statute to try and make investigative and prosecutorial overreaches legal, but it's ridiculous how often these NSL posts get voted up to "educate" others on a subject the poster clearly hasn't even read up on themselves.
What is the point again? If benign turns of phrase spoken on an internet forum factors into a company's hiring practices in any capacity, I'd say it's pretty much assured that it's a terrible place to work.
Or it's the usual inference-sans-implication that makes for fun eggshell-walking discourse.
I've been puzzling over this all night. I think I finally got your meaning. I have an IoT focus so "target" doesn't have a negative connotation to me. :)
+1 for Backblaze.

Using online backup services is way better, it's accesible from anywhere as far as you have internet. Your data is also being saved redundantly on the data center.
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That being the opposite of my experience. While we're making bland sweeping gestures, I have been having it easy developing on Linux (specifically Bodhi with Moksha DE) while fixing my partner's Windows PC every week because it fails constantly. Hell, Windows can't seem to go from location A to B and change networks without a meltdown. It's an awful OS with awful usability, a file explorer that is awful to use and a file system that makes development feel like physical pain.

There, now we're even. Let's get back to EEE, and the real porblems and advantages with this news.
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A team of sharp developers at Microsoft has been hard at work adapting some
Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of
Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls. Linux geeks can think of it
sort of the inverse of "wine" -- Ubuntu binaries running natively in
Windows. Microsoft calls it their "Windows Subsystem for Linux".

Sounds a lot like Rosetta [0], which Apple used to transition people from PowerPC to Intel.

---

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
He'd have never passed a Google interview. ^_^
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Only that all big Software or hardware companies do this... Apple keeps the doors closed to anything not in their full control, nvidia was pushing for open standards when they were the underdogs and now they have a lot of proprietary stuff, Google with Gtalk/Jabber etc etc. It's pretty ignorant to only paint MS that way imo. I also believe MS is a very different company today with a different strategy because they lost mobile. Maybe that changes again in the future but i worry a lot more about the direction apple is going.
Why do you think they're doing it for the wrong reason? Apple has demonstrated many times their commitment to user privacy, it's not like this was a PR stunt.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11381625
Except mice do not have the same reputation of grossness that cockroaches have. With Disney, mice are even seen as cute (as opposed to rats).

While I don't care about the cockroach name, I think RoachDB would be a suitable "change" if they have to.
ESnext is lagging behind though (12% to >30% for Firefox and Chrome)

On the other hand, i18n API support: http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/esintl/ not done yet, but at >90% it's way better than Safari's 50% and most of the failures seem to be accepting values it should throw errors for in i18n API.
Honestly it's not much better on OS X. The solution to failed npm installs is to keep running npm install until it works. If that doesn't work after about 6 times, wipe out node_modules dir and try again. Npm got lots of laughs at EmberConf this week. Everyone hates it but we all use it because it's what everyone uses.
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It also wasn't free software, which is more important than if it was "open source".
The suspect is alive. They can use his fingerprint for the 6. I think the case here is about the iPod touch, that has a similar security level as an iPhone 5c
> One source says that it's been acceptable to DOS since DOS 2.0

I can confirm that from personal memory.

At the time, the biggest vendor of UNIX-like systems was Microsoft (Xenix), so compatibility was a benefit. They soon sold that product off, though.
My current position offered $X to do a pilot project. They then turned me down---and later called me back when the candidate they chose didn't work out. I took the position.

Companies that want to hire, will hire. Companies that think, "Oh, it'd be nice to hire Jeff Dean maybe" won't hire.
It says you still can't buy Zen Magnets due to nationwide import ban.... so why not just start producing them domestically in the US?
This is just a wild guess which I can't verify at the moment, but have you tried setting the evil bit in your outbound packet headers, as per RFC3514?
He was talking about mpg (miles per gallon). He seems to be a hypermiler.
I first read it as Joan Baez, I almost got happy :D
I've had issues with Mint and USAA, which is a shame because the only features I want are:

- Frequent automated syncing.
- Running balance for recent transactions.

I know when payday is. I know when I'm off track or not.

It's the surprise transactions or expenditures that are easy to skim through but vital to stay on top of finances when everything is automated or paid online.
I'm habitually downvoting any comment that includes the string "M$".

There is no clearer sign of ill will towards other participants (not Microsoft!) and no readiness to engage in a civil, fact-based discussion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11341285

Your claim of misremembering is vacuous. I never claimed Bob called Azer a pussy.

>Just so we're clear, you're saying that if someone fucks you over illegally,

Just so we are clear, I never said that. If you believe otherwise, you'll need to produce a quote. Your hypothetical is baseless as kik was not "fucked over illegally". kik can't produce a Trademark. Azer didn't even know who kik was.

> In fact, once Azer had made it clear that he wasn’t going to change the name, we decided to use a different name for an upcoming package we are going to publish to NPM. We did hope that Azer would change his mind, but we were proceeding under a different package name even when we were told we could have the name Kik. https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breakin...

I may get to the rest later today.
Where is Safari in terms of security? Speed, battery usage, and standards support are one thing, but as far as I know, neither Firefox nor Safari have the robust level of sandboxing and other Chrome security features.
>> The bottom line is, a large number of connected neurons is at the core of human intelligence. Everything else is just details.

That's a great example of the magical thinking that prevails in discussions of neural networks today.

You only need to put your ducks in a row to figure out why it makes no sense. "The brain" you say "has lots of connections". "Therefore, if something has many connections, it's like a brain". I hope that raises a big red flag with bells on for you, 'cause it sure does for me.

Spaghetti carbonara looks a lot like a brain (it's made of fibers and it's an off-white, sticky mess). I've never known it to be intelligent, though maybe it's just too smart for me, eh?
yes, the roles of the actors cycles around, but the script is the same.
I hope you only drive old cars, because newer cars aren't really designed to let the user change anything. You always need to take them to a specialist shop.
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Surface Book and things like the Razer Blade are looking to change that. Honestly your money goes further with Windows hardware, and you can get stuff like the Lenovo mobile workstation with a mobile Xeon CPU and ECC RAM. However, they can't run a blessed OS X. IMO, if Apple really wanted to mess with Microsoft, they could make OS X installable (without EFI hacking and overriding the CPU identifier etc -- yes I've had my fun with OSX86 since 10.5 days) on normal PC hardware. Their hardware would still sell because of the premium build, and they could probably charge $400 for the OS. The Dell XPS stuff is also pretty nice from what I hear.
Any plans to use your new linuxulator to locally deploy and develop linux binaries?
i dont know about YC bots, i know those platforms:
manybot.io, api.ai, chatfuel, wit.ai
Great article, feeds all my prejudices. For example, I'm tempted to link to it in http://akkartik.name/post/modularity at the point where I say that "There seems the very definite possibility that the sorts of programs we humans need to help with our lives on this planet intrinsically require state."
Amen with respect to cycling contracts. Landing a great job is essentially about reducing information asymmetry, and this gives a great means of doing so.
Please don't link to such blogs. They shamelessly refer to the original Reddit comment[0] that had all of the device analysis they blatantly ripped off, only as "One knowledgeable Reddit user has pointed out that the device could be electrolyzing the water" whereas he "pointed out" the whole article.

0.https://np.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/comments/4av9xw/t...
Neither are the magnets. Where did you get that idea?
Did you have any issues with Wifi/Display Brightness/Keybindings when setting up your chromebook? I haven't seen many posts by CB3-131 users and I've been having some issues (posted about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GalliumOS/comments/4colnc/keybindin...)
Agree:)
I came here to make this comment. I found that quote offensive, as both a founder (I’ve started two companies) and angel investor (I “started” zero of these companies!). According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lacob), Joe Lacob has never started a company.
The thing is the CPSC is not killing the demand for the magnets. There are a billion places you can still purchase them online. In fact you can purchase buckyballs in their original packaging at better prices than before from Chinese companies who are simply ripping off the IP of a dead company. The war on magnets faces the same problem as the war on drugs. And similarly, the solution is education, not prohibition.
The feature is there. Change the 4-digit pin in the Preferences to an alphanumeric password, and the iPhone will work exactly as you described.
Nice, although it would be nice to have an idea of the proofs behind.
Great discussion! HackerRank founder here - in-case anyone would like to ask questions about what we have seen in different hiring practices.
It's an import and manufacturing ban. https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/10/03/2014-233...

I think the manufacturing part wasn't mentioned because it's not really feasible to mine neodymium in the US.
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HyPer and MemSQL are in-memory databases. CockroachDB is not. This is a big difference.

And according to HyPer home page, HyPer doesn't look distributed, which is another big difference.
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Did you notice that this thread is about mental strategies?
You think mice and cockroaches evoke the same emotions in the average human?
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>I'm sure in 1998 there was a similar utility such as units; still the Mars Climate Orbiter disaster

The utility did exist then, but a reading of the mishap report[0] for that event makes it clear that NASA was not using it. It looks like someone assigned a constant using the Imperial measure rather than Metric representation of a value. The function that used this constant did not verify the unit of measure, and the constant was likely just a floating point number, not a data type that even stored unit of measure.

I haven't read the Gimli report yet, but it's probably the same story: human error.

Edit: The Gimli Glider [1] was caused by human error.

[0] ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/reports/1999/MCO_report.pdf see page 16

[1] http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19830723-0
So long as you don't use PowerPoint.
All of these are niche topics, they don't come up all the time. e.g: I am doing embedded Linux and wouldn't dream of doing kernel development, it just wouldn't make sense when there are people specialising in that.
That's not quite what I got from it. More like, here's a more robust way to go about writing software, that may end up saving you time in the long run.
Out of curiosity, which ad campaign are you talking about?

Apple ran a fairly successful campaign in a number of highly technical publications shortly after OS X came out pushing the concept OS X was not only Real UNIX(tm) but also that a Mac was the best Unix workstation you could buy. I'm guessing that's the one, it certainly worked on me.

Here's one of the ads: http://www.brainmapping.org/MarkCohen/UNIXad.pdf

I think there where a few others. I seem to recall one showing OS X running matlab.
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You can get something similar by going at near the speed of light. I'm sure future spacefaring generations will figure that one out.
John Baez is Joan Baez's first cousin.
That's why Haskell programmers, for example, try to represent state in clear ways.

The basic mathematical model of functions and values turns out to be able to represent state in several ways: the "monadic" way of composing state transforming functions; the "functional-reactive programming" way of modelling signals and events (which offers interesting solutions to the OP's game problems); various "interpreter" patterns; and so on.

I point this out just because there's a widespread misunderstanding that pure functional programming is somehow opposed to modelling state. It's definitely not. It just involves building state models on the coherent basis of functions and values.

Put simply, in Haskell, when your problem requires state, you can just use the "State" type, just like when you require I/O, you use the "IO" type.
The post is not overly original but it does explain how being safer and how that makes you faster
Let me know what I need to add!
Trendr
Hello,

My team and I would like to showcase an application we made as part of a 3 and a half week project. We're very eager to see what people think of our app so we decided to share it here on HN! Our vision for this app was to empower people within the finance industry by allowing them to visualize correlations between finance sectors and keywords that are trending on Google.

http://trendr.xyz

Please keep in mind that this is an academic proof of concept. There are several issues regarding Google rate limiting our application since there's no real API for Google Trends; it's entirely possible 'new' keywords that are not stored in our graph database will fail to load because the initial data we need from Google won't load.
I nuked win10 after it decided to uninstall a program all by itself
> probably the same story: human error.

Right. Humans are error-prone. That's why you want to remove places where human can make errors, such as unnecessary unit conversions.
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That same phenomenon sort of happens with WINE.
Many software just suggests you: run it under WINE, so they just focus on Windows.

Not that I am against WINE. I think it allows me to just ditch Windows entirely.

I run StarCraft II on WINE 1.9 at a higher framerate than what Windows provides. That was probably the only reason I would use Windows for.
While you said not to reply to such blogs (and I totally agree), you didn't provide any alternative.

Here is the actual indiegogo campaign for the device

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/triton-world-s-first-arti...
I think the uber point of the article is that, even with the help of types, you cannot design the whole type structures until you know the entire picture. Suppose you throw some autonomous to your character (e.g. pathPlanning, preprogrammed behavior, subcomponents moving autonomously otherwise interfering other objects or user input, etc.) then there are many types of state, and you'll design what operation gets which type of state and returns which type of state, and that's essentially the same as how you design with chaining State -> State functions or working with imperative procedures. Sure, types will keep you away from shooting yourself---once you design the whole type chain the compiler will detect if you swap or drop operations inadvertently. But during the stage of your designing the type structure itself, the issue described in the article still exists.
The US government consider magnets unsafe and bans them, but not guns? Guns are just fine but a subset of small bits of metal are not fine.

In the USA, where in 2015 43 children under three years old shot someone or themselves with a gun.*

* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...

Someone needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
There's always someone that doesn't get the joke, my bad.