skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the fact that Dave Cutler who was much more a VMS guy that did not liked Unix/Posix at all may have had an influence on the design of the kernel of windows NT is an explanation?

I must admit I used SFU and IO was all quirkish (buffered IO called in non buffered mode).

But knowing that async IO, threading was radically different from POSIX they may have decided at some point that it was not possible to offer a quirkless API for Posix by conflict of construction, and they dropped it.

I mean for a lot of programmer an IO is an IO, a process a process... but the kernel may thinks differently.

For the record, before I hear the Unix fan boys says that Posix is superior, PyParallel by continium exploits a parallel version of python on windows and have considerable gain from using exactly the heart of Dave Cutler's architecture: multi-threading, async IO...
https://speakerdeck.com/trent/parallelizing-the-python-inter...

I do not say it is the panacea, I say it worths being looked at.

As you guess, thinking that the same cause produces the same effect and if the kernel still use Cutlers architecture around multi threading and asyncio then I expect the ubuntu runtime on windows to have quirks around... asyinc io and multithreading.
I rember at the time when the push for diesel Mrs Thatcher as an ex chemist queried this - asking why not lean burn petrol engines.

This is just another example of Politicians and civil servants making poor judgement on technical matters and a lack of common sense.

The fiasco that is the eu cookie law is another example
> Those people also derived no benefit from their wealth.

Of course they did. You don't have to spend money to benefit from it. You get access to opportunities people without wealth don't have, most important being loans and such means of raising capital.
Now I wonder what the diesel emissions of a 20 year old ford f350 are. A lot, I imagine.
Meaning "three hawks" in Japanese, Mitaka correspondingly emphasizes three themes: improved user experience, better manageability, and better scalability.
Why should Tech Startups attend events like Tech in Asia?
I honestly do not know which plans you refer to. Remember that I mentioned 10GB is worth 10 euros in some other countries (actually less, since I pay 100 Moroccan dirhams, which is less than 10 euros, and yes, it is blazingly fast, I stream Football matches through it). Can you think of any plans even remotely comparable in Germany? I'd switch in a second if there is one; I do not pay for my device and my contract is month-by-month.
There is nearly always a better solution to vim for any specific task but hardly ever for more general cases.

I can remotely edit files with vim. I can edit them locally. I can edit my emails in vim. I can get completion, formatting, documentation, linting, build errors, tags for dozens of languages. If even edits my tmux status line. It handles my todo lists. It does most things poorly (except text editing - text objects are awesome) but it does them all. I suspect the only real alternative is emacs.

If I worked on the same platform in the same programming languages doing the same things every day it would almost certainly be better to use the best available IDE for those exact requirements. I suspect the more complicated boilerplate heavy OO languages and systems with big complicated frameworks probably benefit most from a sophisticated IDE.

If you have a career spanning decades and swap between platforms and either side of the devops line then sometimes it pays to learn tools with longevity and more general applicability. I don't think it is necessary to use vim exclusively but I think there are benefits to being able to use it competently for tasks where an IDE is less suitable.
"A huge guy"...?

New service like uber: "rent a 350 pound Samoan"

VC money please!
You would need to store the biomass somewhere where it doesn't release the captured carbon due to decay. I think the burning is supposed to pay for the process.
Of course, you're right.

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." —Guess Who
According to the metadata in the gem, Rubicon is from 2012. We must download the gem from its site, which is weird, and I couldn't find it on github. I assume it is a dead project.

Derailer's last commit is from Jan 29 2014 so it's another dead project. Too bad because it could be interesting. However, did anybody understand what to do with its output? Example: how do I use http://people.csail.mit.edu/jnear/derailer/example1/ to assess the security of the application?
Continue to Innovate Your Products, or Die a Slow Death
Funny, I would have thought that the wrench comic would have been more popular. But maybe it has become more popular in the recent few years thanks to the advance of cryptography.
I am pretty sure you could make a very, very low power watchdog circuit that only wakes up a GPS receiver and 2G/3G modem when it detects 60+ seconds of continual motion. Otherwise it'd sleep at very low power. This would fit in a $50 CF seatpost.
Tutorial to Setup and Manage an API on AWS (Popup Loft London)
There isn't one contract, but two:

> Customers who buy phones and corresponding no-contract plans through T-Mobile buy into two separate agreements: a month-to-month agreement to buy the phone service and another to purchase the actual device, which can be paid in installments.

The customer wanted to cancel the month-to-month agreement and still pay off the handset in the agreed-upon time:

> According to the court documents, Farhi continued paying T-Mobile for the phones each month, based on the terms in the device agreement.

Nor was the loan for the handset originally from T-Mobile. He:

> signed up for a month-to-month service plan through T-Mobile. The phones cost $2,600, which he agreed to pay in 24 installments, as part of a loan that originated from a company called WebBank. T-Mobile immediately took over servicing of the loan, and told Farhi in a letter that the established terms and pay-off dates would not change.

Going to your comment, this means 1) there was no contract termination, because there were two different contracts, 2) T-Mobile would get paid for providing the financing, and 3) why should this be a corner case at all, especially given T-Mobile's large print which would suggest that the monthly service from T-Mobile won't be connected to a loan agreement with WebBank?
Sure, he's an engineer. Most people who have computer science degrees work in software engineering jobs and wouldn't think of themselves as "computer scientists" since that is a scientific/mathematical academic discipline. (A very small percentage of software engineers are doing work that is both advancing theoretical computer science and building practical engineering solutions but they probably still think of themselves as engineers)
I'm no fan of this sort of trickery.

However, while I was watching the documentary 'Spotlight', which was The Globe's 2002 expose on the Roman Catholic church, it occurred to me - How are good newspapers to survive and turn a profit? Readers are unwilling to pay/subscribe and online ad revenue is falling.

It's a genuine problem and I sure hope some of these newspapers survive and are still around a decade from now. The WSJ, NYT, and WaPos will, but what about some of the the others?
> if you give a tough math problem to 1,000,000 students, and want to have a tutor walk them through the problem, you'd need to have 1,000,000 tutors. But there are probably only 20 types of mistake one can make on a given math problem. So if you had a "choose your own adventure" solution, one math teacher could, in a month, record lessons that reach a hundred million students at a personalized level.

Not quite. There may be 20 different types of mistake you could make on the problem (I would make a lower estimate, personally), but you can make them in several different places, and the influence of a mistake will be felt in the rest of the problem.

Udacity deals with this currently by never assigning complicated problems that might see a mistake in one step show up in a later step; this isn't quite ideal as instruction, but it makes it possible to automate handling the assignments.

Some relevant cartoons:

http://spikedmath.com/240.html

http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3011
Most good GPS receivers will get a signal through an ordinary low cost generic Chinese carbon fiber seatpost. Careful not to get the very cheap ones which are Alu wrapped in a CF laminate.
Thinking out loud here:

1 - try to read from /dev/random.

2 - While 1 has not succeeded, wait and try again

3 - Once it has succeeded, read from /dev/urandom on next reads
I agree on that. Every subscription seems to think everyone is willing to pay $9.99/£10 a month for them.

They are completely bonkers. They have absolutely no idea how people consume news; they still believe I'm going to go there first thing in the morning as my first page and 'read the whole newspaper' or something. And that I'll be subscribed just to them, or something equally idiotic.

I'm willing to pay that £10 for netflix for example, or perhaps 2 or 3 /maximum/ service I use /a lot/ -and that will be reviewed very often- but I'm not going to pay that to everyone whose website I go once a week or so.

What are they thinking? Gimme a subscription for £1/month, and I'll take quite a few of them (possibly more than 20 or 30!!) but I'm not willing to shell out that sort of money for occasional visits.
The metal insert for bottom bracket (BB30 or not) can have an SN. this is permanently glued to the frame.
Model-oriented programming
Yup.

"Prices displayed by a business must be clear, accurate and not misleading to consumers. You should always display the total price of a product or service. When you present prices to your customers, you must state the total price of the good or service as a single figure, which is the minimum total cost that is able to be calculated."

It's illegal not to comply.
Look up the Orange Book certificatoon story after your blood's stopped boiling.

https://gcn.com/Articles/1998/10/26/Former-Microsoft-contrac...
> if the syntax were more python-y

http://convergepl.org/
No one can wear black turtlenecks anymore without the assumption that they are comparing themselves to Steve Jobs - got it.
I keep forgetting the shortcuts
Really expensive bikes you just don't ever lock anywhere in public. I don't know anyone in Vancouver who would lock a $3500 road or mountain bike anywhere. You're either in possession of it or it's in your garage. There are B&E teams who break into garages in metro van looking for peoples' MTB collection, so this doesn't really solve the problem, but then you've got alarm systems, bars on windows, house insurance etc.
I'm willing to take down votes for this position, I don't understand the fuss here, nor to credulity of the actors whom should have (and probably did) know better. If the tests were meant to reflect real-world conditions, they should be be designed to do that -- they clearly weren't, and were only tiny sample of performance from which (wild?) extrapolations were drawn.

Don't have a cry about it, fix the tests. Get together some disinterested parties to design them to capture the behaviour we all apparently expected the current dud tests to measure.

This actually reminds me of how the failure of the bodies responsible for banking oversight cry WOE when the industries they were charged with overseeing did bad things. Failure of real oversight again. And it the same way, we have these same bodies (NOT end users) expecting to be paid for making these mistakes. Who benefits from the fines? Not car owners, not car makers.
I find Vim+shell the best IDE i could have. Mates at work are usually surprised that I code in Java using it, but even they admit that it works for me. To be honest, most of needed features can be quite easily implemented using basic tools, only debugging is a little problem, but I'm already working on it. Honestly I like that I implement it myself, I've got time for it at work, I can learn many interesting things, make everything extremely customized.

Except this I use Vim/shell because IDEs usually are so messy, I must look for stuff, use mouse and so much stuff happens implicitly. Probably it's convenient for someone who doesn't memorize well, but I do. :)
I like the simplification around the three central entities (things, people, organizations). The site seems clean and professional. I think it would be really helpful if you had a LinkedIn OAuth setup to allow users to import their prior "organizations" into your site. That way they would just have give details to the "things" they've worked on (if they hadn't yet been entered by a prior user).
I'm not sure math is a good example, but for grading small code exercises there are systems that map "equivalent" solutions on each other, ignoring whitespace/variable names/simple equivalent operations. This allows the tutors to spend more energy on the long tail of "strange" solutions which needs more individual attention.
Rankdit , the 10 sec. video social network
Strawmen slain and cherries picked!

For example, that bit about inheritance and the wealthy.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stanley-millionaire.htm...
"But if they want to stop paying, they have to call and ask on the phone, no doubt after a long hold time and mandatory sales pitches."

That should be illegal - accept the same channel for sales also for cancellations.
Node.js ES2015/ES6 support
Rankdit , is the new video social network ios app , where users share 10 sec. videos every day to their country walls , to express their life styles , trending topics, talents and valuable moments and to enter an exciting daily challenge with other users around the world to vote for the best video of the day , and let users decide who deserve to be the Next world Celebrity .
WatchESPN (at least their college app). Requires a personal email to cancel, can do everything else on their site. So tired of those guys. They got an extra 20 euro from me by using this too, so I guess it works? (If they want no money from me ever again).
I have a few credit cards dedicated to this purpose, that I cancel when I run into this problem. This article made me realize how messed up it is that we have come to this.
Seems that they are "getting it ready" in a few days.

http://support.open365.io/index.php/en/forum/englishsuport/1...
whoa, the Guess Who where much more radical than I thought.
So let's discuss here! I think these issues are very interesting, and it's fascinating that there exists views that differ so radically when it comes to how wealth should be redistributed (if it should), and when it comes to whether a given fortune is 'deserved'. It is also fascinating to see how different these views are between, say, Europe and the US.

Personally I think Pikettys suggestions make sense if we're trying to truly build a system where the quality and quantity of work performed is as closely mapped to the amount of wealth gained as possible. The nuances are difficult - i.e. how do we deal with the fact that parents want the best education for their children, etc? There must be set some thresholds, and as usual, people will find ways to circumvent those thresholds.

Opinions also differ on how big of a role luck plays. I lean towards the view that noone truly 'deserves' wealth because they are all products of their genes and upbringing, so if someone is lazy, is it truly their 'fault'? They lack certain neurological impulses that other people have, but how were they supposed to gain these impulses in the first place? Maybe the only difference between that person and someone non-lazy and 'successful' is that the successful kid once saw a television show about Thomas Edison which the other kid happened to miss. To me it seems obvious that it is these kinds of coincidences that make a person what s/he is. Then we create environments to make certain coincidences more probable, but there are never any guarantees that your child will not become a heroin addict, develop mental issues, or what have you. And I don't think the child is ever truly 'at fault' although we may phrase it as such in order to try to import the correct neurological pathways in our child's brain.

And the same is true for the occurrences that lead to massive wealth. In many cases it takes genius (which, as I argued above, is a matter of chance IMO) but as many people will attest, genius is only part of it - you also have to be at the right place at the right time.

Given all this it seems unreasonable to me to say that any wealth is 'deserved'. In my view, the only thing that can positively be derived from the concept of wealth is as a motivator for people to innovate. Thus, when wealth becomes something that you inherit, it has less of a sociological purpose.
"Modified phones"? What was this, a VoIP company? Hosting? The article is really vague. VoIP over VPN to a centelized server?
No, not Berkeley, not even the USA. This phenomenon is global.
well, it makes a lot of man in the middle : the HW USB susbsystem, the USB driver, the OS, the driver or the electronic doing the interface. Plus it makes a lot of electromagnetic vulnerabilities (reading/influencing with a magnetic field)

A purely paranoid person would really prefer something with an antenna (to get some noise by detection), some RLC, a defective/chaotic oscillator on the dye of an a SOC that makes it embedded and you can verify by looking with a microscope that you shield in a Faraday cage.

And no, deciphering logic of a microchip with a microscope is not that hard ; almost anyone can do it with a tad of training and some education.
> I think it's just basic human psychology that once you have access to something, you start feeling entitled to it.

I don't think that's true. People don't seem to feel that entitled in the "analog" world. But the digital technology changes the equation, and frankly, I think our "lizard brain" is right on this one.

The marginal cost of producing another copy of digitally encoded product is essentially zero, and it requires zero specialist knowledge. Copying binary data is what computers are made for, it's their basic function. Plus, the Internet lets you scale a digital business to the whole world for (almost) free. Honestly, what feels entitled is expecting that one should be able to scale their business by orders of magnitude while retaining the price.

(And in general, charging for copying data feels a lot like charging for air, but that's another topic.)

But regardless, Coursera is really playing fast and loose with their credibility. It used to be that it was the place you could go to get a decent education on some topic for free, at any time and in your own pace. What it (and other sites like it) turned into is a money-making machine. You get forced to follow a particular schedule ("yadda yadda people can't learn if they're not forced"), the course materials are often available only during the particular time window and disappear as soon as the course ends, and now they're also employing a lot of dark patterns to make sure you can't even find the free courses. All that while talking how their mission is to bring accessible education to the world. Bullshit. They're just making money because media wrote a lot about them and made them look hot.

You know how real revolution in education looks like? It looks like this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561770 - the original article + the comment thread + the links in that comment thread.
I haven't tried Whois before, in this case I came up with dns@bostonglobe.com
I use IDEs for all complex projects where I import stuff from different files and packages, intelligent autocomplete and common git workflow are seamlessly integrated. (I think of Netbeans and IntelliJ)

I use ne (NiceEditor) for all the "on-the-fly" editing where I just need to change simple stuff.
They need to find a business model that isn't based around outright deception to survive. I have zero sympathy for them.
I noticed one of these on the UK National Lottery site recently. It asks you how many weeks you want to play for and defaults the choice to "continuously via direct debit"
Meanwhile, Khan Academy, who really does believe in free education for everyone, is getting better and better...
what Whois service is best to use, or do I have it wrong?
Empathy vs Sympathy
They're renting commercial geostationary Ku transponder capacity (by the kHz) like any commercial TV station.
It's the person on record who should be contacted for legal matters, correspondence, etc.

Essentially, if these things ever get to court if you contacted someone other than the agent they can claim they weren't notified, didn't know, etc, if they are shady, but a registered letter to the registered agent is like the gold standard of having contacted them.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." -Anatole France
> I don't actually expect glibc to break this in the foreseeable future

Would you have said this if Ulrich Drepper was still in charge of glibc? Under his ownership glibc broke all sorts of things that happened to rely on memcpy behaving like memmove[1]. I'm not sure he would have been any more accommodating of non-conforming compilers than of non-conforming flash implementations.

[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518
>btw. I'm pretty sure I heard that glibc broke this behavior sometime recently.

You are perhaps thinking of this: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518

I'm not sure if that change broke glibc memcpy for identical arguments or just ones that were different but overlapped.

This quote suggests that Drepper wouldn't have had any problem breaking things that passed identical arguments to memcpy:

>The existence of code written by people who should never have been allowed to touch a keyboard cannot be allowed to prevent a correct implementation.
That still leaves some good thousands of rich slave owners. Places like Savannah weren't built for poor middle class...
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But glibc hasn't wired it up. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17252
What I'm missing most is collaboration, it's been requested time and time again due to Google Apps having such great support for it.
Blackberrys and some PGP / S/MIME software it seems, and calls deactivated?

https://www.ennetcom.com
Where exactly do I find the science here?