skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It follows from your reasoning that it would be unwise to follow a scientist who believes in science, then.
Having used both Marketplace AMIs and non-marketplace (community) AMIs, I find the Marketplace ones to be quite painful to use. I want my tools to be able to go out and get the latest AMI automatically and launch that instance, but it is basically impossible to do this with things in the Marketplace. Amazon makes you jump through a bunch of hoops as if you are paying extra for this marketplace AMI even if it is provided for free.

The nicest experience I've had is with the Ubuntu community AMIs. Ubuntu keeps a listing of their official AMIs[1] and there is a JSON api that they provide so you can fetch that information programtically.

[1]: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/
If operators are just specially named methods, then with strongly-typed generics you can't write generic functions that work on anything that (for example) implements the + operator, because traits (concepts) have to have a specific signature.
I've been battling with Namecheap for over a month now just to try and get the registrant details updated on a handful of .com.au domains I own. Their "support" is hands down the worst I've ever experienced, and the moment I'm able to move every domain I have away from Namecheap to a registrar that actually gives a shit, I'm going to do just that.
Couldn't FB leverage their platform to strike better deals with, in the pizza example, Papa John's competitors? And then shut down Papa John's FB platform (or sunset some critical API functionality)? Facebook could also build their own 'pizza ordering' bot, and then force any pizza vendor to go through that bot (and pay), while simultaneously shutting down any other implementation of the same idea.

Imagine being Venmo and trying to implement Venmo over Messenger now that FB has Payments. Likely not going to happen, and the risk any business takes jumping into a closed platform is huge (especially with FB's history). Just like all of my favorite Spotify plugins that were shutdown and replaced with either no alternative or Spotify's chosen 'replacement'.
I would prefer being stuck without being able to login to my server, compared to potentially having customer support allow someone else to access my server.
Agreed. That's a great point when it is a simple use case, and how I started. Now that I build for Docker Compose out of the gate, it allows me to deploy a composition across a multi-host Docker Swarm (usually just changing the network driver to overlay + utilize labels) with 1 command, and more importantly I do not have to rebuild my container on production. Back in docker 1.9, I found myself running too many variations to get the same behavior that Compose natively handles with the new labels + overlay functionality (reference http://blog.levvel.io/blog-post/running-distributed-docker-s...). I was using `docker run` to deploy across specific hosts using manually-assigned env vars invoked with a docker run:

# docker run -itd --name=AppDeployedToNode1 --env="constraint:node==swarm1.internallevvel.com" busybox

# docker run -itd --name=AppDeployedToNode2 --env="constraint:node==swarm2.internallevvel.com" busybox

# docker run -itd --name=AppDeployedToNode3 --env="constraint:node==swarm3.internallevvel.com" busybox

RabbitMQ Example - https://gist.github.com/jay-johnson/2673ce4df42317667908#fil...

Looking back I feel like it was a lot of effort to deploy 3 busybox instances or that initial RabbitMQ cluster…and that effort to handle the “production deployment case” as early as possible is what set me on the path to the new Docker Compose-centric approach discussed in the link above.
This is a bit off-topic. I noticed the author was listed as one of "Forbes 30 under 30" in 2014. I'm sorry, but I must ask: how? The other folks on the list include the founders of Dropcam, Snapchaat, Stripe, etc., while the author is listed as merely "software engineer at Pinterest" with a great resume of good schools, scholarships and internships. Similarly, there is one other fellow who is simply listed as "security expert". I guess this is more of a critique of Forbes than anything.
This is indeed pretty vauge. The question was, "how will you acquire users?" and the reply was "We have a way to acquire users."

OK, what is that growth strategy?
She invested $80,000 to start the enterprise. Wow. That's quite the upfront cost.
A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight
There's a well documented and researched confidence gap between men and women. While confidence isn't an issue restricted to just women, it is a more prominent issue for them on average. Did a quick search, and here's the first paper I found on the topic. There's a ton more, though I'm not sure which are publicly available.

http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sarsons/files/confidence_fi...

Also, what you're talking about is also called stereotype threat, which is where "people feel themselves to be at risk of conforming to stereotypes about their social group". First step to combating those feelings is often recognizing them!
This post seems to be written by a highly intelligent person, but I fear it comes off as reactionary. They're picking on an example from the slideshow that was posted a few days ago, I believe, and then saying, "This is stupid!"

I would rather have someone take a feature from a very new language, and rather than be reactionary, post about how they felt when they first heard of this feature, ("Weird!", "Wild!" "UH-OH", and then go, "Well, hey, let's see what's it's good for", and try to use the feature. Then, and only then, it would be interesting to read their response of the feature: "I first thought this, but in actuality it saved me a lot of time/came in handy/saved me a ton of lines of code, and hey, it didn't affect anyone else's code!" Or, even, "Yup, just what I expected - yadda yadda - and HERE'S HOW I'D IMPROVE THIS FEATURE SO IT'S MORE OF THE AWESOME"

Then we have something to talk about.

$0.02 and all. Saves a pissing match.
Why does the repo require it? I find the over-use of emoji quite annoying and at times distracting. I don't really see the point of it. It doesn't work as tags because they are usually not matched to the content well enough.
Boko Haram's Child Suicide Bombers…
I love Pittsburgh... but now too many of you know about it... so it's over ;p

My Family is from Pittsburgh, I went to CMU for undergraduate and then graduate school. I helped found/bootstrap a video game company there that did quite well for a few years form 2009-2011. The city is manageable, quirky, tolerant, fun, and affordable. I agree with everything PG says here... including the lack of funding. I was with ModCloth when they had to "move the core team to SF to get investment". My video game company's troubles can be traced to lack of funding (and the CEO used too much personal capital remain objective).

I would add one more negative: a bad airport. The Pittsburgh airport used to be a world-class hub for US-Airways and offered a ton cheap flights everywhere. A good airport is important for attracting talent and business... now this huge airport is less than 1/2 utilized and due to poor mass transit, it's hard to get to (I guess Uber is fixing that for the city). You could be in Philadelphia, DC, and NYC within an hour... but I always opted to drive to save on those overpriced domestic flights tier-2 airports are known for.

There are investors in pittsburgh (like http://www.bluetreealliedangels.com), but they aren't used to investing in "digital" tech. There are some early-stage incubators (http://alphalab.org and some others) but they don't have the network reach to justify their high stake in the company. I would argue that capital exists, but isn't as loose as it is out west. The folks who have it aren't as risky... which might be because they don't have as much to play with, but I think it simply is that they aren't used to the type of businesses Silicon Valley is starting... and that seems too risky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_International_Airpo...
I don't like what the FBI has done, but I'll say what I always say when "responsible" disclosure comes up, for consistency.

Responsible disclosure is a courtesy. Exploits are valuable. Information asymmetry is the name of the game. Apple is not entitled to free labor. If they don't like it they should hire researchers, as the FBI has.
Compiler optimizations are not "bullshit rocket science optimization". You depend on them every day.

None of the optimizations in this tool are "rocket science" compared to the optimizations that GCC, for example, does.
So, can someone fill me in why ASI doesn't cover the missing semi for the Logger.prototype.log value?

I understand this is the case, I just want to know why. The value is set, it seems like it should end the statement.
I think that was poorly explained on their part. Digging deeper into the docs, it looks like Ignition writes unit files that systemd runs; e.g. networkd is still used to configure networking.
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* My thoughts and opinions are current as of 2011, when I moved to San Francisco.
One of the finest data visualization I've seen.
Consent under coercion which most work contracts are implicitly, else how are you going to pay for your living expenses, by necessity require government intervention.
there are less than 500 nuclear reactors in the world. So less than 300 power plants for the 50 years. There have been 2 major catastrophes- i.e. 1 per 13000 reactor/year (or 1 per 8000 power plant/year). Compare that to drunk driving (which almost everybody agrees is unsafe) - 112 million alcohol-impaired driving episodes in US per year produce 13,365 deaths (http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...), ie. 1 death per 8000 drunk driving episodes.
Meta question: Does launch darkly use launch darkly for new features? Or is it mostly stable or branching out into new areas (like the Android support)?
This is not true in the majority of the United States unless you already had felony convictions unrelated to your pizza caper. The misdemeanor petty theft only gets upgraded to a felony if you have a pattern of behavior, and that upgraded felony would only be your first strike.
Reed is supposed to be pretty good.
Our goal is to build a developer-focused platform that gives teams the ability to adopt feature flags as a core part of their dev cycle-- including pretty much all of the use cases described in Fowler's article (ops, permissioning, etc.). Many of our customers are not using us for A/B testing at all.

re: conditionals, DI: our SDKs focus on the base technique (flags based on conditionals), but it's possible to wrap that core with higher-level approaches like DI, etc. We're considering going down that path, but where it makes sense to do so, and not have to re-implement higher-level wrappers for every framework out there. So, e.g.-- in Ruby, I can see us providing higher-level APIs specific to Rails.

Dependent feature flags are also an interesting problem-- we don't have a solution to that yet, but we do spend a lot of time thinking about feature flags, and I hope we'll have something on that front soon :)
Boston is too expensive. Have you looked at real estate prices in Pittsburgh? You can easily get an apartment in a nice neighborhood for less than a bedroom in Dorchester.
Weapons are also valuable, that doesn't give you a free pass to sell arms to gangs.
> most people agree that the Torah had multiple authors

Source? From what I can tell, most religious people disagree with this point.
I find this discovery very interesting when juxtaposed against a similar discovery on the other side of the continent:

"A Revolutionary Discovery in China" by Ian Johnson
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/04/21/revolutionary-dis...

The manuscripts’ importance stems from their particular antiquity. Carbon dating places their burial at about 300 BCE. This was the height of the Warring States Period, an era of turmoil that ran from the fifth to the third centuries BCE. During this time, the Hundred Schools of Thought arose, including Confucianism, which concerns hierarchical relationships and obligations in society; Daoism (or Taoism), and its search to unify with the primordial force called Dao (or Tao); Legalism, which advocated strict adherence to laws; and Mohism, and its egalitarian ideas of impartiality.

...

Do these old texts matter today? They do in several ways. One has to do with the antiquity of China’s written culture. In the West, many classic texts, for example by Homer or stories in the Bible, are widely accepted as having been oral works that later were written down—a view of history picked up by Gu and the antiquity-doubters of the early twentieth century. Even though Gu was sidelined in China, his heirs in the West have tended to dismiss traditional views that important works in China were written down early on, or even composed as written texts. For many of these skeptical Westerners, Chinese efforts to prove the antiquity of their culture is closet chauvinism, or part of a project to glorify the Chinese state by exaggerating the antiquity of Chinese civilization.

But the new discoveries should give pause to this skepticism. Allan argues that the texts were indeed primarily written down, and not transcribed oral tales. Besides the Daodejing, only a few of the texts excavated over the past twenty years have mnemonic devices or rhyme. She writes that even the texts that claim to be speeches of ancient kings originated as literary compositions. And as the Guodian texts show, works like the Daodejing took a written form earlier than skeptics believed, possibly even as early as the traditionalists have always claimed.
The magic of devOps is carting two pagers around.
> "This is hacker news, where people are trying to do difficult things to change the world."

Hahaha, I say this partially in jest, but Hacker News is basically for people to bash on dreamers' ideas.
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Do I need to care about any more configurations when using it along with proguard? Like extra lines in proguard.txt or change of mapping files when uploading to my crash reporting tools?
Of course-- we have a dogfood instance of LaunchDarkly. We use LD as our plan permissioning system (the plans you see on our pricing page are managed by LD). We also use it for ops-- we migrated a key piece of our analytics infrastructure over to DynamoDB, for example, and controlled the rollout of that via a feature flag.

And of course, we'll launch new features behind a flag. I'll admit that we've had two or three occasions where we had to hit the kill switch after a deploy, so I'm rather glad we had a LaunchDarkly for our LaunchDarkly.

[edit] here's a shot of our dogfood instance: https://twitter.com/jkodumal/status/717786744750477312
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A core difference is that in Pittsburgh, you can afford to renovate the knob & tube. In MTV, you can't afford the house in the first place. :) In Hillsboro, you get very reasonable, new blah blah housing, but when you decide to walk to the region's major employer, it's four miles away with half your commute on a fairly bleah road that goes around the airport. And, ah, it's a little culturally isolated unless you drive the 45 minutes to Portland.
Treating "hacking tools" like weapons is a terrible idea. This is the flawed thinking behind the Waasenaar Agreement.
> June 11, 2009 | SINCE the economy hit an iceberg in October, America's biggest banks have felt a bit like shipwreck survivors: required to wear lifebelts provided by the government, despite complaints from some that they could have kept afloat on their own.

http://www.economist.com/node/13832261

> April 16, 2009 | THE WORST nightmare of many bankers, natural capitalists, is being under the direct control of the government. So it's no surprise that American banks want to throw off the yoke of government meddling and pay back any accepted TARP money as soon as possible. Predictably, Goldman Sachs is leading the charge.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2009/04/i_dont_w...
I am not using DHCP.
I'm skeptical that a guy who made his money by "transferring a variety of U.S.-pioneered internet business models to Russia" [1] and then muscling in on Silicon Valley investments like WhatsApp where he "bought a stake from the founders for $125 million within weeks of Facebook snapping up the messaging giant for $19 billion last year" [2] is capable of this kind of engineering project. He's good at making deals but he's not the kind of roll-up-your-sleeves engineer that should be involved with space exploration. I think he's just jealous of Elon Musk and Richard Branson. This seems more like the Spruce Goose than anything else, and in the same vein as Howard Hughes, I'm sure he'll be looking for a giant government grant to pay for his techno-playboy hobbies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Milner

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2015/03/25/yuri-milne...
How does one "believe" in science?
San Bernardino iPhone was hacked using a zero-day exploit
PIT is still struggling, but it's added lots of nonstops and new destinations.

"We currently fly to 54 nonstop destinations on 13 carriers via 171 daily flights, and we will continue adding new routes."

http://flypittsburgh.com/welcome-to-the-next-chapter

PIT's "AirMall" was a fantastic concept. I grew about an hour north of the airport and we'd go shopping at the airport frequently. 9/11 basically killed it and much of the expansion of the airport. The 2008 Recession didn't help, either. AirMall business did eventually bounce back to pre-2001 levels in the last few years. I'll bet that if the gov't ever relaxed the security theater of the TSA, the mall could be booming again.
I've had the opposite experience from you. I don't listen to much broadcast radio any more. I used to use Last.FM's recommender to find new bands to listen to, now I just use Spotify - after a few weeks the "Discover Weekly" playlist is spot on, even with a very eclectic taste in music (http://www.last.fm/user/voltagex/library/tracks?date_preset=...). I've discovered entire genres via Spotify and last.fm and gone to several live events that I wouldn't have even known about without services like these.
The entire thing is pretty scathing - it was also hard to believe that the part about the HP logo wasn't tongue-in-cheek satire, but came from a real logo designer.

Feels a lot like an emperor has no clothes types situation and a lot people pretending there's science behind something that might as well be random.
The FBI is willing to protect you how they see fit only, notwithstanding how that may fit within the bounds of Constitutionality. If you are not willing to give up such rights, the FBI will protect you through any means necessary - through force if it comes to it.
The quote is actually:

> provided information on more than 12 million riders and drivers to various U.S. regulators and on 469 users to state and federal law agencies

The article title is wrong I think -- or am I confused? This sentence sounds like they gave away regulatory information as pointed out here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11484270 -- 469 users were targeted, not 12+ million.

> Uber said it got 415 requests from law enforcement agencies, a majority of which came from state governments, and that it was able to provide data in nearly 85 percent of the cases. A large number of the law enforcement requests were related to fraud investigations or the use of stolen credit cards, according to the report.

My math might be off, but I'm pretty sure 415, 469, and 12m+ are three separate figures... and I'm also pretty sure there were not 12m+ requests for cases related to uber fraud.
A cursory google search says that she's done work[1] in[2] diversity[3] for women, which is a pretty big deal, even if people are tired of hearing about it.

[1]: http://readwrite.com/2014/11/11/tracy-chou-pinterest-enginee...

[2]: http://www.vogue.com/4537369/pinterest-tracy-chou-silicon-va...

[3]: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/07/30/pinterest-dive...
Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata
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Exactly. In fact I have huge doubts about the usage of the term "evidence" here: literacy concerns cannot provide evidence on the time the Biblical texts were written, they simply shed light on the culture at the time. Real evidence in this context means uncovering early copies, comparing Biblical records of events with other accounts etc.
I wonder what the price was.
Science isn't a faith, and even then to combat bias it's testable knowledge is subject to peer review.
> The 'incompetence, corruption and other systematic errors' apply to all large power projects.

I'm not convinced "large power projects" are a good idea in general. I think many small power projects are a better idea. Depending on the geography, micro hydro-electric can be a great power source, with little ecological impact, and no disastrous failure mode.
Yeah, that definition is overly broad. Hazing requires harassment, embarrassment, or some other kind of abuse. Asking someone's underwear color is only harassment if they've got a history of inappropriate behavior, and embarrassment only if they've got serious socialization problems. Neither of which would reasonably be expected to be accounted for when asking the question in this situation.
I work for Basho. Would love to hear more about that use case. Regardless, unstructured data with encoded schema/explicit versioning ftw!
Then the company's decisions on how much to pay their call centre staff has just opened up a possible vector for attack. Simple as that.
The ads are the actual problem. It's entirely possible this is a stopgap solution while they flag the client for manual auditing (or whatever)—manual auditing doesn't scale, so I suspect this is going to be more successful at preventing abuse in the short term.
Really awesome article!
I can't understand Why OpenSSL continues to use it's own PRNG implimentation when we have /dev/urandom and CryptGenRandom which are known to be good. This is basically what BoringSSL does (although if you have rdrand then it will get filtered through a ChaCha20 instance).

I'm pretty sure OpenSSL doesn't even reseed its PRNG on Windows unless the calling application does it so I'm not sure how that's safe either. If you look at applications using OpenSSL like OpenVPN I don't see any calls to the PRNG init function to ensure it has enough entropy. I'm not sure of the security impact of this.