skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No power generation facility is passively safe for an extended period of time. Solar panels will leech harmful chemicals into the environment if they sit long enough. Coal plants will degrade and leech. Dams will degrade and fall apart. So it all depends on how long you think it is necessary to define as "passively safe". It is passively safe for 72 hours and then it will require an externally housed pool to be refilled. In the event of an incident something like that will be monitored very carefully, so it really doesn't have to be completely passive for very long.
I've seen plenty of articles about the potential negative impacts of fracking, but does anyone have a well-written piece on domestic fracking's upsides? Cheap gas as economic stimulus and a lessening dependence on foreign oil seem like they hold some sway on the issue.
The only good thing that OOP brings to the table is, in my opinion, access control.
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Perhaps you could set up a Twilio number to receive the texts.
There are laws against speeding, running red lights, drinking while driving, doing drugs, and all types of things that are done every day. Laws are not sufficient.
Isn't this basically event driven programming?
And then you discover that there are a LOT of craptastic DNS resolvers, middle boxes, AND ISP DNS servers out there that happily ignore or rewrite TTLs. With a high-volume web service, you can have a 1 minute TTL, change your A records, and still see a lovely long tail of traffic hitting the old IP for HOURS.
I am not surprised by their negligence. I interviewed there once and they did not seem professional.
My argument is that there is no line...
When you buy Apple stuff, you are also buying Apple ideas. Part of that is the idea that Apple controls your phone or computer to make sure that you have an Apple experience. You are giving up power to Apple to make choices for you. This is why, despite having many friends with Apple stuff and knowing how great it is, I will probably never own Apple again. I hate giving up my right to choose how I use the stuff I own.
I'm willing to bet there are pro-porn people that also want to enforce the status quo on public bathrooms.
'Creepy' is right.

I wonder how many people refrained from using an otherwise-useful mailing list because of someone they didn't want thinking about the color of their underwear.

I further wonder if reluctance to talk about their underwear color publicly impacts different genders disproportionately.
The issue is that Namecheap was the one that fucked up here, and now is not the time to emphasize "you should really be prepared for us fucking up in this manner". It's victim blaming. It looks shitty. The argument I refer to isn't "you should have offsite backups". The argument is that Namecheap is implicitly victim blaming, and they're not going to convince many people that they aren't.
My example was of someone who says "I'm an atheist", not someone who "walks around saying" that.

I was thinking specifically of http://www.salon.com/2013/05/22/tornado_survivor_to_wolf_bli... . The news reporter Wolf Blitzer asked a tornado survivor if she "thanks the Lord" for her survival. Quoting that article:

> Vitsmun hesitates for a moment and smiles. “I — I’m actually an atheist,” she said, laughing off the awkward moment.

This brought her into the spotlight, with Rush Limbaugh declaring she must be the only atheist in Oklahoma ( http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/05/22/media_elites_co... ) and Glenn Beck saying it was a setup (http://www.salon.com/2013/05/23/glenn_beck_cnn_interview_wit... ).

A better example would be teacher-lead mandatory school prayer, which has been illegal for decades, but it still occurs. Here's an example of a family which sued the school over mandatory prayer http://www.rawstory.com/2015/02/georgia-public-school-teache... . They did so anonymously for fear of retribution.

Again, this is not someone who goes around saying "I am an atheist" but is instead someone who will likely face retribution for saying "I am an atheist" even once in public (or in private to a school official) in order to complain about illegal school practices.

Neither of these two occurrences are "kind of immature" nor the result of an activist speaking to people.
namecheap PR is going all guns
John Carmack is such an inspiration. It was his early blog that taught me the techniques for raycast engines. I was working at an educational software company in my home town, we were doing a 2D educational game for Famous Five on a Treasure Island. I convinced my boss to allow me to make the bit where they go into a dungeon to be 3D, and I wrote a raycast engine for it. Not long after that, I used it to get my first job in the London games industry as a Playstation 1 lead programmer!

His willingness to share what he's learned must have given many programmers a boost, as it did with me. Well deserved.
More like "Prescriboflex 101" , "Xyloprescribex 101", enjoy the buffet at the baseball game etc
setting it via a meta-tag kind of defeats the purpose of course. It's much easier to inject a policy clearing meta tag (or change an existing one to contain something invalid) than it is to forge a non-strict header.
The answer to "I don't know my password and I don't know my security question/answer" is, "Sorry, for security reasons we can't help you access this account, you'll need to create a new account." This isn't a problem for banks, why is it a problem for tech companies?
Not all actor based languages can broadcast messages to e every actor. Example: Erlang sends messages to a given process. To broadcast to many processes you must know the pids of all of them. Or send to a "bus" process that knows the pids of every one else. Performance bonus (maybe) if the bus knows which process will be interested in a given message. Not much different than having a central registry of objects acting as a bus and dispatching method calls. Furthermore you can have tight coupling with message passing too.
If the world is simulated then "real" time simulation speed does not have any influence on our experiences inside simulation. For all we know the next-up world can have different dimensionality from ours or no at all.
> I don't want to appeal to gender stereotypes [...]

...a whole bunch of prose appealing to gender stereotypes.

If society is, in fact, "feminizing", it's a far safer place for the vast majority of humans than it was before. And out of that safety come a whole bunch of voices that weren't traditionally given much credence.

To the extent that this is a phenomenon that is spilling outward from the US, I think it's simply the fact that a lot of people have platforms that never did before. The discourse is becoming a lot more complex because of it. It's old white men like Stephen Fry that have to grow up and get used to it. Welcome to the great democratization of speech.

Let's face it, it's been a white man's world for a long time, where the cultural discourse has centered around the tastes of the dominant viewpoint, regardless of the fact that it might not actually be particularly empowering to people who have identities that are increasingly divergent (and yes, I realize that Fry is no stranger to this). The appeal to Shakespeare rings a bit hollow from that perspective. Shakespeare's great, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's beyond criticism to say that maybe the elevation of his works and their themes hasn't exactly been democratic.

In case you're wondering, I don't advocate for a society that attempts to shelter people. It's fine to push back and say, "no, we're a place where even unpopular, hurtful people are allowed to speak" and "no, we're a place where we're going to deal with tough issues head on". But that's an argument that isn't won in perpetuity, it has to be continually negotiated. And I'm more than a bit amused to see people squirm when confronted with the reality that they now have to negotiate with people whose viewpoints have traditionally been given little to no credence.
Here's a simple idea that would render these "bathroom bills" null and void. Neuter them, if you will.

Stop building multi-occupant public restrooms with a gender designation, and instead build several single-occupant public restrooms with no gender designation.

Added bonus: Not only do we disarm these attempts to discriminate against transgendered people, we also avoid all the social awkwardness that comes from multi-occupant restrooms. Like the loud person talking on their cell phone. Or the smells of other people doing their thing.

(Retrofitting would be expensive, but don't make that part mandatory.)
"Better be safe than sorry" - namecheap for when you lose your stuff on their services.

I don't think the best way to respond to a public vent is "Here's what you should have done instead". Responses might be technically correct but they lack empathy for the customer.
Couldn't upvote this enough. Rabid, unreasonable and blind faith in OOP is just awful. Just because its Object Orientated programming, doesn't mean its good. Quite the opposite, it's highly likely that it wasn't implemented properly, its impossible to maintain and ultimately a complete waste of money.
> I simply don't understand what is the huge effort in using the restroom appropriate to your physical gender, and simply avoid the psychological conflict with the rest of the population.

I suspect you haven't really been paying attention and are just submitting your gut feeling here. For example, in attempting to prevent your hypothetical "sexual fantasy" scenario, here's one real consequence of this law:

https://twitter.com/JayShef/status/712845760287494144

The simple fact is any real problems caused in bathrooms are already covered by harassment laws. These new laws take away a freedom people already had, and I'm not really aware of any real problems caused by people having those freedoms. Are you? What problems have these laws solved? Hypothetical situations don't count.
Then lets create unigender bathrooms and be done with it.
If your establishment is big enough to have multiple person facilities, you can add a single bathroom as well. Even smaller restaurants seem to have a individual handicap or family washroom. Then label it "toilet" and who cares who uses it.

The whole "men identifying as women in the washroom with little girls" thing is a big red herring rally cry for a very vocal group (based on a single case of a male pedophile who did not id as a woman). So raising headlines against this, regardless if it's judged appropriate, is good as far as I'm concerned.
We don't want to create a solution for rich countries only; our goal is to make this accessible to caregivers on a global scale. NGOs like MSF are in need of equally qualitative solutions. We're aiming to start a pilot project end of this year.
What is "physical gender"? If a person looks like a man, acts like a man, and thinks of themselves as a man, do women really want this person in the women's bathroom just because they were born with two X chromosomes?

How can such a person "simply avoid the psychological conflict" when a law mandates their choice of bathroom based on their genes? The bathroom of least conflict is illegal for them to enter!
Sometimes I think Sanders is just the anti-Trump. And while I think Trump likely would normalize if elected, my feeling is Sanders has more real intention behind his rhetoric.

What I mean by opposite sides of the same coin is that neither, if elected, would deliver on their unrealistic goals and policies they have set themselves up for. So, I feel their maneuvering, if either is elected will lead to disappointment by the electorate.

The immediate problem with fracturing as I see it is unregulated wastewater discharge. They need to regulate that. They don't need to throw out the baby with the bath(waste)water.
There's definitely a problem with confirmation bias. The G regularly moderates fact-based non-abusive comments that challenge the party line - especially on its own rather peculiar brand of feminism.

At the same time it doesn't moderate comments that are simple insults if they agree with its angle on other topics, such as its aggressively institutionalised dislike of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

This seems to be part of an attempt to link commenters who don't agree with the official line with the worst excesses of online trolling.

It's a rather nasty move, and trying to pretend it's a scientific analysis doesn't make the G look good.
I hate to break it to you, but "uniform" security standards that are out there in the open would be like a whole can of worms.

That is like showing someone "here's a lock and what's inside of it."

In time, someone will pick that lock.

Uniformity is what you don't need, nor would you want to know the nuances of how security and privacy are handled at a company so that you know exactly what holes need to be exposed.

You can't standardize security. It's way too risky.
As with most tools it's depending on what you want to do with it. Storm is meant to handle streaming data. It's wonderful for low latency big data applications. You can check out the benchmarks for it at Yahoo Developer Tumblr https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/135321837876/benchmarking-s...
No. They'll switch to YouPorn and the others that will be happy to have xHamster's clicks. And if they all follow xHamster's lead, they'll learn how to use VPNs.

Then the whole thing will burn itself out from outrage fatigue and be dropped.
I'm torn, because I don't really want to dignify this comment with a response... but here goes.

Your 'concern' for trans* people is transparently false, or at least misguided. I don't see how allowing someone to live with their gender identity is 'adding stress' to them: outing someone's trans status by forcing them legally to use the wrong restroom is... itself insane, and in no way 'protects' trans people.

But if you're arguing in bad faith, and are not merely confused... well, please don't try to wrap this up as an issue of concern for trans people; the law compels, it takes away liberty. Claiming it's somehow in trans* people's interests is about 50-100 years out of date: you don't protect people by taking away their rights! That's paternalistic and wrong. And somehow suggesting that the freedom to choose the bathroom of your gender is making people commit suicide... that's your argument, right? Well, I just hope you're being facetious and I'm missing the irony.
So, you might say the musicians who are more business savvy (they release independently in one way or another) can do well for themselves. The ones who let someone else take care of that stuff get screwed.
Ever heard of a plea deal? He was obligated to 'admit wrongdoing' in order to get a reduced sentence. Sure, he could have stuck to his guns, but, jail has very bad internet.
Just confirmed with our CTO. He was able to turn MFA off on our root AWS account over the phone.
That's definitely why they're doing it, and it's a good idea for a business to hedge it's bets this way. (Zynga would be sunk if Facebook ever blocked them, being dependent on one platform is a huge risk.)

But the likelihood that Microsoft would ever fully disallow third party install on Windows is nonexistent.
Then clearly we should live in an anarchy. Like, what's your point?
From the article: "If the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame wants to be taken seriously, they need to put their books out in the public. They need to fucking become transparent"

Am I missing some deeper story? They have an 82 page form 990 on their own website. Most non-profits don't disclose anywhere near as much, and few post it on their own site.

https://rockhall.com/media/assets/files/form990.pdf
We need automated security protocols with real humans only for emergencies, edge cases, or where things go wrong.

There is no reason for Namecheap to have a human in the loop for this, at this stage.
>> "Also Skrillex - his label had no interest in his bleep-blonk-screech-BASS DROP tunes and he set it free online and got that avenue going - now he's got his own label and millions in the bank."

Financially I think artists like Skrillex (EDM producers in general) are incredibly lucky. Production costs are practically zero. You buy a DAW and some monitors and you can do everything at home on your laptop. You don't need to pay a band, all revenue is yours. And on top of that touring costs are minimal (a midi controller and a laptop) so you're extracting the maximum profit from each show. If you want a financially successful career in music this is probably the most sure route to take.

Edit: A lot of people responding are bringing up the point that production costs for most genres are now relatively low. While that's true when it comes to actually making money from the music that's much easier in electronic music for the reasons I gave above (one person, very little gear to drag around, no band to pay).
A company I have worked for tried this, changing a few single bathrooms from M and W to unisex. The women protested because cleanliness went way down. They went back to M and W after 2 weeks.
Erm, why should any suspect ever be paying for a procedure they did not order nor consent to?
I use Arq to backup all my stuff hourly to my NAS at home through SFTP and the NAS then backups the most important stuff to AWS daily. That works really well and keeps the cost really low because i need the NAS anyway for streaming media an such.
He was also pissed because they wanted to charge him $10k per ticket to the event for his bandmates:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/arts/music/after-his-induc...
Hacking Calculords
Just one big drag with some tobacco. (i don't smoke so maybe nicotine also has a say) although I've had plain as well and I remember it being somewhat the same.

I have never taken LSD so I can't really say for sure but it just sounds more relatable. Maybe something in between?

Some of the things I vaguely remember:
There are fractals, although not as strong as people suggest on lsd.
If i close my eyes it's like I'm going through different scenes (kinda like a dream I guess).
Sound and touch feeling kind of echos
Events are somewhat quantized or it's like you can see them before they happen/react to them
Mild synthesisa (it doesn't seem as strong as people who say they have it is)
Some mild out of body experiences (I've had stronger out of body experiences without)
Sound volume becomes meaningless so I can't tell if a sound is close or distant
Very vivid side vision hallucinations like I can see my friends gaming or whatever in my side vision but when i look I realize they went out to the grocery store
Almost human like facial expression in cats

Without drugs I've had:
Out of body experiences
Different household ish sounds, usually slamming sounds
People talking (although mostly gibberish) as if i'm at a party
Explosions and sometimes screams (sometimes my name)
Seeing bodies and faces in for instance piles of clothes or similar randomness
lots of programming related experiences where I think I can program in real life (I thought stack overflows would cause my consciousness to pop and reset)
sudden "messages" such as i see an image of my fridge being on fire so I have to run and check.
I've had ghost-like people (I don't believe in ghosts) pull my skin, feet, etc
Sudden bizarre realizations with strong visuals and sometimes out of body experiences that show how to solve them (for instance I thought a programming problem I couldn't solve was caused by my kitchen chairs not being aligned properly to the table)
I thought I was talking to people telepathically (mostly people I know online)

Fortunately I don't have much of this anymore but when I do it's a lot easier to handle than before. I dropped out of college because of this and I wasn't particularly good with school in general so it really really helps reading and understanding how the brain and technology works.

This is something I've always wanted to talk about. I keep most of this kind of secret as I don't really like talking about some of the experiences I had and I don't like feeling as if I'm bragging about it so a throwaway account turns out to be a nice idea.
> 4. With thissaid, we've used this as a learning example and additional training has been provided to the individual involved

This is not the correct solution. What's to prevent the next new person from making the same mistake?

If it shouldn't happen, don't make it possible to happen. Put in place a technical solution that doesn't allow it happen. And if there is some special case where it still needs to be possible, make it that it needs a secondary signoff from a senior team member.

People will always be fallible.
In 2014 I was able to bypass .htaccess restrictions of a site hosted on Namecheap using social engineering through the live chat... Twice.

All I had to do was tell the chat operator I was having some issue with .htaccess and .htpasswd until they offered to delete it temporarily. In the few minutes between them deleting it and reuploading it, you're free to do whatever you want.

I reported this and was told it was resolved (I guess with new policies).
Pretty sure you can run the ObjC runtime on Linux quite easily. You just won't have the Cocoa libraries. Foundation would be useful for sure, though.
Some garbage collectors are very sloppy in their job just after hours, not years.. Especially when the heap is too big. :-/
Yeah, unfortunately I feel like in their rush to catch up to other modern tech companies, they picked up a few of other companies' bad habits. Insisting on constant telemetry feels like it's plucked from the Google playbook, and I really hope Microsoft changes their stance on it at some point.
which is a good thing.

if a few years ago somebody said "just copy all your private data to some place on the internet... but encrypt it first" you would take it for the crazy argument it is.
You need to keep them connected periodically otherwise if you lose it without reconnecting... lost.

For backblaze it's even less time.
Well, crime's gone down since the 80's, so maybe he has a point! I'm joking of course, but I think OP's point is similarly ridiculous.
Ok great, thanks for your explanation!
One option is to look at when the user last logged in. I would be a lot less pissed if an account that I've never touched in 10 years got compromised... I'm probably going to remember my info for recent accounts and want it to be difficult to social engineering those
I agree. I stopped checking Facebook in December. I'm happier and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. All my real friends know how to get in touch with me and do. Everyone else was never really a friend anyway.
FlashX: An SSD-based graph processing engine for billion-node graphs
>defending rich countries like Japan or Germany, does not

I am all for non-interventionist policies, but I am not so sure this is so black-and-white. There is definitely a benefit to protecting our allies and ensuring democratic societies remain as democratic as possible. The amount that it benefits you on a day to day basis is probably impossible to quantify, but there is definitely a benefit at a very high level, economically speaking.