skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It is difficult to tell. But if the bug is preventing you from processing (because you can't save the existing results) then it's essentially down time for new processing. There are also connectivity issues by region and DNS issues. It is difficult to get exact downtime considering partial failures.

That said, this is the second major asia-east1 downtime in 90 days:

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16002
Could you unpack that a bit? You're talking about arity? What's the distinction you're making?
It is very nice to see this effort. I have one suggestion - integrate with WDF APIs instead of the lower level and legacy WDM APIs.
Knowing absolutely nothing about this case, and assuming Sam is 100% right, I think it is a bit unfair for Sam to use his huge PR advantage. Obviously, it's just business, and it's good to see Sam and YC putting their considerable PR weight behind one of their companies, but it's also problematic, especially at this point in time, where it doesn't seem like the other side has done any PR (otherwise this move is perfectly understandable). Maybe Jeremy will withdraw his claim? Maybe he'll take the next settlement offer? Maybe he's an opportunist, but maybe he truly feels he's been unjustly harmed (and maybe both)? And maybe he's just so angry with himself for dropping out that he just can't let it go? Is it really necessary to air this in public, possibly destroying a person's reputation, when you might well win anyway (and it is unlikely that this post would change the outcome one way or the other)? Or is it just a form of deterrence to others?
You may be able to build an elaborate system of dummy network operations to test with, but this system may wind up with bugs that mask what would be errors in the real system. And how to you test against that? A dummy network to test the dummy network operations on? What if the dummy network contains bugs that make it behave significantly different from the real network, in error cases? How do you test for that?

Its turtles all the way down!
One of the things that keeps me in VS (with VsVim) versus actual Vim for C# is that, for strictly typed languages, the autocomplete can't be beat. AFAIK, Vim autocomplete solutions use a relatively dumb autocomplete, while VS knows the types of everything and shows you all of the things you can access and nothing you can't, including changes that haven't actually been compiled yet.

I also think that interactive debugging of any kind is much faster than printing debug messages most of the time. Even if it's just something like Ruby Pry, where you have a command line REPL while stopped on the breakpoint, it feels like a huge time saver when you can be stopped at a particular point and are free to check any variable and step whenever you want. Granted for some cases, like production web sites, there's no alternative to writing debug messages and trying to figure out what happened through them.
Yes, I understand your position, and I hope that you now understand the difference between calgoo and cm2187 claims and understand the context in what you made your comment.
For me, this is gold - To get what you want, deserve what you want. Trust, success, and admiration are earned.
I gave it a photo of a Cylon [0] and it said "I am not really confident, but I think it's a close up of a motorcycle." Close but not really there; Google's reverse image search has a better detection in this case. As an aside, it'd have been really cool if it said it was a picture of a toaster.

[0] http://www.xperiax10.net/wp-content/gallery/cinema_x10/cylon...
I use Vim to wdit markdown and have no problems editing long soft-wrapped lines. Should I?
I think they are very related.
Don’t be a fool, FOIA your school
25-30% conversion to email signup is a very good rate.
Impact, contribution, etc. to an ecosystem.
I agree that the government hates savings, but I'm confused about two of your points. If rates are at or near zero it does not cost 2-3x to buy an item with loan. The indentured part is certainly true though. The government has helped tie everyone to their company. Health insurance and max retirement savings are two of the biggest items that are almost impossible to do outside of your employer.
Google announces Cinder backup support in OpenStack Mitaka
You can point to any product (such as Chrome or Android) and there are a huge number of serious bugs that have not been fixed for over 10 years.

In this case, it is a bug that will only affect people who make certain assumptions. One comment sums it up:

"This 'bug' fundamentally breaks basic assumptions about how AUTO_INCREMENT generally works"

I think there's your problem: making assumptions about how AUTO_INCREMENT works. The documentation doesn't say anywhere that it is guaranteed to never use a deleted key again.
Humans also make mistakes in corner cases. I'm no more afraid of an auto-steering car than a human-steered car.
I certainly would. I don't have a degree either. I've been working in the industry for over 20 years now; nobody cares what I was doing or not doing in the '90s. It is probably harder to get in the door now than it was when I started, but my experience has been that if you know how to code, you want to keep coding, you know how to learn, and you want to keep learning as you go, lack of formal certification will not be an obstacle to your career development. A degree gets you the first job, and experience gets you all the jobs after that. If you can get in and show that you know what you're doing, you can build from there and it doesn't matter how you started. It sounds like you may already have jumped that hurdle.
Parallel. Bram (Vim maintainer) doesn't seem to like Thiago (Neovim lead dev).
I learned vim 15 years ago because I saw its history and realized that if I learned vim, I'd never need to learn another editor's key commands. If you're not going to be programming, spending 20ish hours learning the intricacies of a text editor probably won't get you a return on your time investment.
This is a huge game changer. We have OS X support with React Native Desktop [0], so that means only Linux support is missing!

I've wondered why we haven't seen a React Native Qt, React Native Gtk+, or React Native Elementary yet. But I guess those communities just aren't very interested in what JS people are up to.

[0] https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-desktop
I fancy BuzzFeed quite a bit.Yes the sheer volume and omnipresence can be discerning and irritating.But while they use this model I enjoy the fact that they give serious readers good long form writing too[1].
So keeping apart all of the reasons for why buzzfeed might/will/will-not grow/crash/stalemate in the market.I enjoy serious journalism which they sometimes do add. I hope they someday manage to incorporate that into their business model too.

[1]:https://www.buzzfeed.com/news
Specifically, by default, mail order stores are not required to collect sales tax unless the have a physical presence in the state (retail store, sales office, distribution center, etc.) Quill Corp. v. North Dakota from 1992 is the major SCOTUS case law.

In theory--at least in most states with sales tax--residents are supposed to pay a use tax on out-of-state purchases bought to be used in their state of residence.

A number of states have put pressure on online retailers like Amazon to collect. One of their levers has been to argue that Amazon Associates constitute a physical presence. And Amazon has agreed to collect sales tax (although not for affiliate sales) in several states. Massachusetts for one.
Depression (in this context) would be more perhaps better viewed as part of the family of symptoms of burnout.
> The reality is that apps in every language have security vulnerabilities and bugs, and different languages are more or less susceptible to different classes of bugs.

Memory safety problems are on the whole much more problematic than the types of bugs that other languages admit, especially memory-safe statically typed ones like Rust. That's because they regularly result in remote code execution, which is among the most severe kinds of security issues. Nobody's claiming that Rust eliminates all security vulnerabilities: just a large number of the most severe ones.

> Getting back to my original point, even completely solving the memory safety issue, getting mainstream adoption for Rust will require competing with C++'s other advantages, like its huge ecosystem, and I think it's optimistic to think that will happen in just 3 years.

Sure, no argument there in terms of replacing C++. But I think that the idea that "C++ is too entrenched, other languages won't be able to compete" is very '90s thinking. Look at how dominant C++ was in the '90s compared to its status today. In the early-to-mid-'90s, you wouldn't think of building your company on anything but C++; nowadays, building your company on C++ (outside of a few niches like games or embedded software) is uncommon enough to warrant a blog post.

What I think is likely to happen, if Rust succeeds, is that it will continue the trend of chipping away at C++'s dominance in areas where Rust's advantages are strongest (safety, concurrency, friendliness to newcomers). It won't replace C++ wholesale, of course; C++ is immortal.
Took a few tries but worth it - my son from the other morning:

https://imgur.com/a/w1Uai

Edit: They should have named it CationBot.
$399 in Canada before sales tax. At that price they'll sell dozens if they're lucky.
This made me smile, maybe the future isn't so grim. I hope this doesn't end with an undue amount of fallout for sama such that he's discouraged from doing something like this again should the situation require.
React Native for Windows/XBox
The headline is a reference to a 1958 essay with the same name.
> Why would cash being invested "cause high inflation"?

Because it puts more cash back into the economy. It transfers cash from people who previously hadn't been spending it to people who might not be so reserved.

> If it's being invested, who's to say it isn't in capital goods, thereby reducing cost of goods?

That's just the butterfly effect. It's the equivalent to saying that the fed printing money can cause deflation because people might use all the money to pay down debts and then use what would have been interest on the debts to pay down even more principal. It's theoretically possible, and sometimes it even happens, but you still don't expect printing money to cause deflation in general.
Online shops aren't required to collect sales tax unless they do business in the state that they're delivering to. If a company only exists in California, then only California residents have to pay sales tax. Amazon has warehouses or offices in most states.
I have my doubts about how many of these "disabled" are really "disabled". Certainly some are. Certainly some are not.
Heh. Can definitely vouch for that. I recently put together a links repo cataloging most of the Redux-related ecosystem, and was amazed at how many overlapping or similar libraries there were. 12 different promise middlewares, a couple dozen different side effects plugins, and I don't know _how_ many utilities to generate action creators, reducers, and constants.

The list is over at https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links if you want to look.
> In Europe, this is less of an issue because there are much greater government-sponsored art initiatives, but that sort of thing's been destroyed in the US both nationally and on a state-by-state basis.

Europe has a tradition of state funding; the U.S. has a dying tradition of voluntary funding.
Self driving cars don't have to be perfect. They just have to be safer then driving is today [1].

The real question is if society can handle the unfairness that is death by random software error vs. death by negligent driving. It's easy to blame negligent driving on the driver, we're clearly not negligent so it really doesn't effect us right? But a software error might as well be an act of god, it's something that might actually happen to me!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
How does groff do formulas?
Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Pivotal Release Joint Roadmap for Spinnaker
I am on the team at Microsoft that helped bring UWP to React Native. If there are questions, feel free to AMA.

PS. Many thanks to the Facebook team for building a great platform in React Native and their critical help in helping us bring Windows to the platform.
This is also why I am of afraid of a self driving cars and other such life critical software. There are going to be weird edge cases, what prevents you from reaching them?

Formal systems?
The answer to that is "it's complicated"

In California, you were, in theory, required to pay a "use tax" on any goods purchased from out-of state, that just happened to be equal to sales tax. The reality is that most consumers didn't do this, since the only way to get caught would be if they audited your return.

On top of that, if you maintained a commercial presence in the state you are shipping to, sales tax was required. So, any national retailer that also sells online had to charge sales tax.

Amazon was in a gray area where they had shipping warehouses, but not commercial offices in California. They ended up making some deal a couple of years ago where they would charge sales tax online. I'm not sure what Amazon got out of it though.

So you used to be able to illegally get away with buying online without sales tax in some circumstances, but it is no longer the case for Amazon.
Like http://friendda.org/ ?
Do people actually prefer talking to bots instead of interacting with apps? Bots don't need to be installed usually, so that makes them lower barrier, but neither do websites.

They are useful when you want to query them with tasks that have a lot of degrees of freedom. These tasks may be easier to describe in human language where the user highlights the important parts forgoing the need to have a complicated GUI with lots of buttons. In these cases though, users don't know what the bot is capable off. GUIs are more discoverable because they present possible options with bad GUIs hiding even more possibilities in the submenus. This is one advantage over GUIs I would like to see bots explore.

In my experience however bots are not good at doing the right thing when queried with a task that has a lot of degrees of freedom. I own an Amazon Echo and at times I feel like I am reciting incantations to get it to do things I want from it; this is especially true of Alexa's "skills". If I have to memorize specific commands for the Echo to respond, it becomes a glorified voice operated command line to me. A verbose, inaccurate command line without a man page.
Did you have to spend summers at DoD working for them? How was it?
Yes but how many people drive stoned, drunk, or distracted?

How many people drive aggressively, speeding, or erratically? How many people do dumb things on the road?

As a software engineer I know that there will be bugs and some will likely kill people. But as a driver who has driven many years in less civilized countries, I know that human beings are terrible drivers.

Who would you rather share the road with, computer drivers that drive like your grandma, or a bunch of humans? It's a no-brainer right?
It looks interesting if it works as advertised. (The reviews seem a bit mixed.) But at $799 you'd need to have a pretty compelling use case (like reading an annotating a lot of PDF journal articles) to justify it vs. just annotating articles on a tablet.
Sorry, I didn't want to attack you. I just notice that whenever something works in another country (see healthcare or public infrastructure) a lot of people in the US will say it can't work in the US: Either the US is too big or it's a "socialist" thing and therefore needs to be avoided.

I think this attitude is a big danger for the US. There was a time when the US could teach the world but that time is coming to an end. Other countries have learned whatever advantages the US system has and now they are building on that knowledge and they are sometimes coming up with better solutions. If the US keeps ignoring these developments it will slowly fall behind until it's too late.
dang, can you explain the ranking? How was all of this determined?
Drone races are coming to ESPN thanks to “unprecedented” popularity
Textbooks are usually printed in color and are "sold" as eBooks through vendors that sell 6 months of access. This market is fairly small and already served well by tablets.
New Version of 'January 1, 1970 Bug' Can Brick Pre-IOS 9.3.1 Devices Over Wi-Fi
But autopilot for planes is actually much easier than negotiating traffic with irrational humans with road rage. You can coordinate with air traffic for takeoffs and landings, and there is very little to run into at tens of thousands of feet.
The Looming Threat of Avian Flu
Negative. NeoVim does away with supporting the ancient systems that are important to Bram for some reason. I seriously doubt they will merge.
Must have 2 classes: Piloted and Autonomous.
I hate the formality of contracts, but is there any good procedure early on for avoiding this in the future? It seems every billion dollar company has a "secret" cofounder that shows up when the money does.

Yes get a lawyer involved at the beginning to draw up a partnership agreement with standard vesting terms.

Outside of that no.

All that being said its a slippery slope for every guy "who helped find an office" there's a guy who "prototyped our mobile app" or "wrote the first version of our backend". Its very hard to pick the point where someone becomes a founder.
This would be true only if your driving ability only affected your chance to die, but your driving ability has an effect on everyone else's safety on the road as well!
Pretty good. Can't wait to see how good this tech gets in the next few years.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ty34c02y1mngyrc/Screenshot%202016-...
I'm not really worried about rare luxuries. You're talking about a ubiquitous foodstuff the world over, and we treat it like it's no smarter than a clam. It's variously treated as bycatch to suffer and die in nets, trapped as 'pets' or exhibits (and I think long-term confinement has to be hell for intelligent beings), and eaten the good old fashioned way, by sticking them in a pot.

Focusing on a particular way of killing them that strikes humans as gruesome doesn't interest me as much as the global treatment of them.
A lot of my customers use Ubuntu on their production servers, but I don't really understand why. You're getting the latest stuff, but there's no guarantee that it all works reliably. They invariably come across problems such as imagemagick crashing (on an earlier version of ubuntu), or avconv using up all your memory when converting some ogv files to mp4 (current bug on 14.04), plus a bunch of others.

I always use CentOS on my servers, and have been very happy with it. It's rock solid. I haven't even upgraded to CentOS 7 yet. I just moved to a new server in March and decided to stick with CentOS 6 until systemd becomes a bit more stable.
What are the principles behind getting DARPA grants?
I've been running Ubuntu 14.04 for a couple of months now for my home/dev PC. My experience overall has been excellent. I run VMWare Workstation 12 pro for my test environments.

The only recommendation I have is to never run Ubuntu with an AMD card with their proprietary drivers.
Meeting the Challenges of DevOps Implementation in the Enterprise
Or from the add to cart page. It's $20
No, anyone who generalizes Tinder across all age ranges is wrong. That's what I'm pointing out. I've never seen any woman complain about guys having pics of animals. But if you've seen that, and you're looking at women aged 18-25, then of course you're going to have a different experience than me, because I don't look at those women. And you're not going to see the same things as me if you're not looking at 35-40yo women. What 18-25yo women do or like is completely irrelevant to me, as what 35-40yo women do or like should be completely irrelevant to you.
Great article until they conflated stupid human sports superstition with cephalopod intelligence.
The whole world does not revolve around startups. There are plenty of other jobs and ways to make money in the world. [1]

[1] A bird in hand is worth two in the bush must be his thinking as well.
Yeah, I just built an [internal] CSS documentation system; every item has a fully editable example using CSS in style tags on the page, each with contenteditable applied to allow users to play around with it; editing within the style tag immediately alters the styling of the associated example. Works beautifully, as I have no need to persist anything, and zero JS used. (I get this is an edge case; I've tried using it a couple of times for persisted input and, yeah, not a good idea past simple I/O)
No because negligent driving doesn't just put the driver at risk - it puts everyone else on the road plus pedestrians at risk
Do they rely on the pilot? I was under the impression it was entirely hands off.
So use a TURN server.

TL;DR: Does the same as STUN but also is able to relay video & audio for hosts where STUN fails.

I'm using it in a Android app of mine for video conference and works really good. You can download something like coturn and drop it in a 5$ digitalocean and run with it.

It works for me.
I do wish Amazon would vet the stuff they permit sale of on their site though.

I get the impulse, but there's a reason that Amazon offers its A-to-Z guarantee rather than an a priori vetting process. Because the latter is literally impossible.

How does the vetting even occur? Do we have armies of "compu-physical engineers", imaginary polymaths capable of analyzing any imaginable physical and/or software product for characteristics that should be rejected? If we had such mental deities at our disposal, why would we waste their time vetting gummi penguins for a retail outlet?!?

Given that we won't have a magical vetting army, it'll be exactly like the TSA: enormous costs incurred to vet that the overwhelming majority of stuff is just fine, a bunch of horrible side-effects from false positives, and bad stuff will still slip through whenever someone wants it to.
Ridiculous. Books also burn very easily, so apparently flammability should be an important spec of any e-reader.
Vim code predates a lot of modern best practices. It's not all cruft a la Spolsky's blog post. Some of it is just goo.
Yes, chromebooks can provide a rock solid linux kernel + hardware combination.

Developers can install debian, ubuntu, etc. in a chroot, which all benefit from the kernel and driver stability.

Gad, personally, the amount of time I've saved never having to troubleshoot my chromebook quite a contrast to other laptops.
If STUN does not work, it tries TURN. If TURN does not work, you're not connected to the Internet.

https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/docs/STUN-or-TURN.html
It points out that a lot depends on the driver. I drive attentively, and moreover I like driving. I would never want a self-driving car for myself. However some seem to think that should be the only choice because they can beat accident averages that include drivers who drink, text, do makeup, masturbate, whatever while driving.
Consumer or business grade router that has a built in VPN client. On the consumer side you can often flash OpenWRT/DD WRT/PfSense to add a VPN client.

But for a more reliable setup you want a business-grade router which supports it natively.
So far, just for proof of random stranger concept, it's just on lower traffic beta listing websites, and a few low traffic websites. So, mostly cold web traffic leads, with a possible slightly higher bias to sign up based on the type of site sending them.

A previous venture, while not measured with the same accuracy, had less than half of the conversion of similar traffic at the same stage.
Intel new Quark board debuts as a bargain