skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty clear that Al-Qaeda etc accomplished at least some of their goals. The 9/11 attack drew the US into Afghanistan and Iraq. And chaos in Iraq has been a huge factor in the growth of ISIS. 9/11 has also corroded respect for the US Constitution. The CIA got into torture, and the NSA maxed out its intercept and analysis capabilities.

So yes, it "sadly looks like the terrorists have won" :(

Edit: Deleted "('just a piece of paper' according to W)".
Or the fact that you can no longer directly save articles from the Facebook iOS app to 3rd party read it later apps like Instapaper.
Fantastic, I really enjoyed it.
World of Tanks is exponentially less reliant on latency than an FPS, right?

Honestly, I immediately smell naivete BS when someone says "the solution is simple"...
Its less of a job, and more a tour of duty before moving on to greener pastures.
One requirement he likely wants to avert is the legal requirement for non profits to give away 5% of their assets every year.
You are right on the quoting thing. I could have sworn it said "shortly before" but it said "just before". My mistake. Although those are almost semantically identical so I am a little confused on why you are calling it out in such specificity.

>They did not use the day or week of the Boston Bombing as their baseline. Don't misrepresent the research.

Snowden's leaks came out less than two months after the largest terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11. Since they are measuring monthly stats, they are using either the month of or the month after the Boston bombings as part of their "just before" time frame. If you look at all those number, the 3 million is really the biggest outlier. Isn't it possible that views for these terrorist related pages generally falls between 2 and 2.5 million with 20-50% jumps in page views in the aftermath of large terrorist attacks?
That seems... inefficient. Basically, instead of reading the readme, you suggest going to gitter to be told to read the readme?

I think I could streamline that process a bit.
Host the mail server on DO then download and delete it (heh, a use for POP!) from that to a server in your house.
But the people of the world do exist within man-drawn squares, with vastly diverse internal situations. I don't think that it's obviously more ethical to employ someone in China for 12c an hour, over someone in Nebraska for $12. It's debatable, sure, but hardly a foregone conclusion.

In my own country of S. Korea, the greatest economic boon of the 60s and 70s was mobilization of our cheap labor to create and export ourselves goods like wigs and textiles, plywood, etc. This allowed local corporations to reap the margins, and the profits stayed within the country (chaebol are another matter...). With outsourcing, the profits go the multinational corporation, and none of the increased margins made possible by the cheap labor ever gets distributed to the country of the laborers.
If they do harass you, you won't know that it's related to this. Also, it could only trigger I'm certain combinations with other things.
It says on border.gov.au:

The Business Visitor stream is for people travelling to Australia for a short business visit. This includes making a general business or employment enquiry, negotiations or participating in a conference.
There's a good argument that the existence of the state itself exerts a specific aggravated case of the tragedy of commons on the entire society over which it projects coercive power.

https://www.libertariannews.org/2012/07/15/the-state-is-a-tr...

In light of this it's pretty amusing that it keeps being discussed as a reason states are great/acceptable/necessary/tolerable.

I guess all propaganda is funny if you don't take it for granted.
While it seems like developers don't care, as many comments mention it is about the trade-off between resources like money, time to ship.
Recently, in our project architecture group meeting a senior architect said that the approach we have taken on our project is not architecturally 'pure' but it is 'pragmatic'.
Thanks for your reply. That's an argument about 'sex sells' though. Like car exhibitions or Microsoft Xbox conventions using scantily clad women.

What I meant (and I think the parent of my post was talking about, though I could be wrong) is the old chestnut that the sex/adult industry innovated or popularized all kinds of technologies.
That could reasonably be considered fraud. If I was Amazon, I'd pursue them, publicly.
Instagram insists littergram app is renamed
Perhaps it was meant to be a testing endpoint and got skipped while removing and releasing?
The Guardian’s new image management system
Is a 1930's house really equivalent in value to a 2016 house though? I would expect that the price increase is at least partially due to us know having nicer/bigger houses (bay area excepted).
I don't even really trust that they _did_ hack it. Could just be a safe way out when they realized apple wouldn't back down.
When Quasar was very young we had something very similar to Erlang's reduction-based preemption; we later disabled it in favor of preemption on communication only. The reason is this: suppose you have n cores. Now, suppose you have a single fiber that hogs the core for a while. If this occurrence is rare, reduction/time-slice preemption doesn't really help, because the scheduler has n kernel threads, and one of them would steal the tasks scheduled on the thread running the "runaway" fiber and all is well.

If, on the other hand this behavior is very common, and the number of fibers exhibiting it is k, then if k > n, then you're in trouble no matter what scheduling or preemption you do. k fibers that constantly ask for CPU they can't have (because k > n) means that work is getting delayed and you're well out of soft realtime territory.

So since n is small (say 8-60), and the number of fibers is large (10K-1M or more), the number of fibers that can reasonably often require a lot of CPU (and reduction/time-slice preemption) is very small compared to the total number of fibers, and those would be special, well-known, fibers anyway (remember that if a fiber needs a lot of CPU only occasionally, the many-threaded scheduler handles that gracefully even without preemption as long as most other fibers are well-behaved). In that case rather than base the scheduler designed for ~1M fibers around the behavior of ~10 fibers just doesn't make sense. It is far more efficient to simply run that CPU-hungry code in plain-old kernel threads, and let the kernel worry about their scheduling. In Quasar, unlike in Erlang, it's very simple to choose whether code should run in a user-mode-scheduled fiber or in a kernel-scheduled heavyweight thread, and so, after seeing that turning on reduction-based preemption had no positive effect in practice, we turned that feature off.
I don't know if that can be done. There's going to be two causes to that, capacitance in the line you're plugging in or there being a DC offset from the device. The amplifier should filter out both of those in the long term pretty easily with some capacitive coupling. However that will lead to a sharp peak when you plug it in, that makes the speakers pop.

You might be able to require a sense line however, and then the amplifier can keep a timed relay on the plug before it actually starts amplifying the signal.
$2B Company in only 2 years -Find out how slack did it
This is only for Americans right? And what if I run my own email server? Can I be forced to hand over my own emails after 180 days? Are they allowed to hack the server in my basement?
mirimir, that W quote is false.

http://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/bush-the-constitution-a-god...

Please check your facts before spreading false rumors. Thanks!
Self Driving Cars – Are We There Yet?
I have no idea what it is, I catch myself doing it too. I ask myself why am I not just paying for this instead of building it / doing with out?

Whenever I think rationally I almost always opt to buy software vs make it myself.
Misfortune Cookie Exploit – mass vulnerability in home routers
When I used to play games like this the popular technique was to dos your connection, then just kill you and take your stuff while you're trying to reconnect.
The server is the model and the controller. The client is the view, and marshals input to the controller. Doing it any other way is bananas.
Boaty McBoat-Face
That isn't a SpaceX concept—it was proposed by some NASA people.
This is basically the story:

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/payscale-ratings-rank-spacex-te...

Yes. Working for and with people who want to change the world is, in many ways, its own reward. It's definitely possible to get burned out, and you do work hard, but there has never been a week that went by where I thought to myself, "I'm not doing anything worthwhile here", or even, "I'm not contributing positively".

I used to work for a financial services company. I made 150% of what I make at SpaceX for at least as many hours a week. The difference was, at the end of those weeks, I would look back and realize that if I did my job right, I was doing nothing other than making rich people richer.
Yes and that is why I think it's a new business model to make games not last long on the PC. At least the multiplayer part.

They promote the shit out of games before release and expect them to expire a few weeks after. Reducing operational costs. They also don't have to develop and maintain an anti-cheat, a better server-side structure, and they can close down most servers.

I think it was a unexpected consequence of a bad console port to pc that proved to be quite lucrative. And now they know people will keep buying no matter what, hence the new disposable pc game business model.

Basically, if you play on a PC you're screwed. Another reason not to buy a console or support games like the division on the pc.
It's also broken if it simply selects for people who can only code well - with little-to-no insight into how well they collaborate and work with a team.
It's not a chain reaction.
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Much of the advice around startups is actually centered around the idea of "fooling yourself" or "faking it 'til you make it" or other strategies of positive thinking. Working on a startup is a rollercoaster of emotions and using these strategies can be helpful. Real wisdom may be found in knowing when to fool (lie to) yourself and when not to.
What is the best part about being a Software Engineer?
Better, if you read the article.
Fintech: Paymill enters into a strategic insolvency and is looking for a buyer
Can you please post an equivalent Java program for comparison?
It should be slightly sweet - but only from the lactose in the milk.

Anyway for anyone that wants to taste the real deal - take a gallon of milk (produced without antibiotics), boil, wait to cool to 48 C, add starter,wrap in a blanket, wait 1 day, put cloth on a mesh strainer, put the resulting yogurt in the strainer, wait.

DO NOT THROW AWAY the strained liquid - the so called acid whey. When chilled to the point of freezing it is great refreshing drink.
Possibly related to a bunch of stock phrases/tokens that aren't allowed? As referenced in recent "ISIS Beer Fund" articles?

https://www.inverse.com/article/13700-i-wrote-isis-beer-fund...
Docker on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5
Demo videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxpGZwOjYpo6rAigcM77c5A
It's not every day that you come across such rave comments about a "Show HN" kind of thing. Congratulations to the dev.

I'm not familiar with enterprise / Excel requirements & use cases. Could someone explain why is this such a great product [1]. I wrongly assumed that excel champs won't be comfortable dealing with SQL because they are either non-engineers or have been away from programming for way too long.

[1] No offense to the author, I'd love to understand what the enthusiasm is all about.
Apple and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Drop in iPhone Sales
Why posting on HN felt like a boxing match – Comic Included
I've never really understood why people bother with dependent claims when in a sense only the independent claim counts.

http://patentlyo.com/patent/2008/05/theory-of-depen.html shows some reasons, but I don't find them terribly compelling.

Would one of our resident lawyers like to enlighten me? Is it really simply tactical, and in a perfect world they wouldn't be needed at all?
Goldman Sachs Bank
Sadly, this is probably still trackable.
I have a feeling that I'll be cleaning fingerprints off this quite often.
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 3
End of Golden Era for Investors Spells Troubles
The Human Brain as a Word Cloud, on a Shared Drive
TripAdvisor does something similar, on the mobile web app you can only view the top 3 reviews and need to download their app to see the rest.

I'm sure some exec thought this would be a great idea to get more downloads, but when I'm out looking for a restaurant I'm not going to waste my time and data waiting for their 112mb (iOS) app to download. I'll just base my decision on the reviews I see or go to one of the many other review sites.
> you should have received a signed notice attached to your plan stating that no permit was required. That would prevent them from requiring one later.

Awww, that's cute. Have you never dealt with an American civil 'servant' before? They can lie, cheat and steal and not get fired. They can browse porn during the work day and not get fired. They can drive drunk, refuse to resign and get a sitting governor indicted for refraining to send them more money. Being a public employee in the United States is tantamount to being a demigod.
"I fear that if I use the wrong words or visit the wrong websites, I'll trigger some automated system and will be put on some kind of watch list that will change my life"

I'm afraid you've got caught up in a modern-day hysteria. Nobody is watching you or cares anything about what text messages you type or websites you visit.
If the bad guys can disrupt one clock, they can probably disrupt all the clocks you have, whether that's three or twenty.
> A full time career that doesn't pay enough to buy a home. And they say software developers are overpaid.

The average salary for a "software developer" job posting in my city (Charlotte, NC) is $101k. The average income in Charlotte is $53k. The median home value is $167k. 60% of the value of a home in a year is pretty good.

I've also lived in Sydney, Mannheim, San Francisco, and Seattle, and I noticed similar economics in each of these places (where the salary of software developers tended to be quite high relative to the average income). Do you perhaps live somewhere with a very different trend?

Sources:

- http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=software+developer&l1=charlo...

- http://www.bestplaces.net/economy/city/north_carolina/charlo...

- http://www.zillow.com/charlotte-nc/home-values/
Apple employee found dead on company campus
Hire characters, not skill sets. My most important questions in interviews
> I don't know how these corruptions manifest themselves, but if for example a single bit gets flipped every now and then somewhere (probably a naive assumption), a CPU that had a 0b11111111 nop instruction and 8 reset instructions at 0b01111111, 0b10111111, 0b11011111 etc., you could interleave your code with tons of nop instructions to minimize the possibility of executing corrupted code. You'd then be more likely to reset than to execute something that will lead to further corruption.

I like this. It's functional, yet wildly impractical.
I found flights to New York on flychecker at € 638
> America has it particularly bad because a good portion of the population doesn't believe in regulations _at all_.

I don't think our crappy regulations are properly blameable on the people who believe regulations are crappy, but rather on the sort of people we hire and retain as civil servants. 'Good enough for government work,' I'm told, used to be praise; it sure isn't any longer. Nowadays both civil servants and employees of large corporations are bureaucrats first, servants second (if at all).
> DTLS and QUIC

And, of course, the mother of all datagram encryption protocols - the IPsec suite (ESP, IKE 2). It works with IP packets, but it can be very easily repurposed for UDP.
Funny to see my old blog post mysteriously resurface on the front page. I should note that IANAL but have spoken to many lawyers about this post over the years and am happy to answer any questions I can about it.
There seems to be a wholescale hysterical neurosis around the entire issue. The narrative on HackerNews is that every piece of electronic communication is monitored and stored. The majority of HackerNews contributors actually believe this.
Qatar National Bank 1.5 Gb archive leaked online
Who Was Ramanujan?
If the op is altering his behavior in the same way that matches everyone else, he should be fine... Right?
> The people at fault here are those employers that did not let their employees have lunch breaks.

> We need regulations because some people are scumbags.

I'm not certain why we need lunch-break regulations at all. If one doesn't want to work under one set of working conditions, choose a job with another set. After years of hopeless complaining and misery I did so awhile back and I've never been happier.

Be active, not passive.
Sounds more like DRM than prevention of sabotage. Like in printer ink heads...

"Attention! Counterfeit hydraulics system installed. F-35 disabled until genuine system purchased".

This would stop people buying cheap F-35 spare parts from China on ebay and trying to save a couple of million dollars.
I think he's referring to Power Query / Get & Transform
"I am sure government will also target the Libertarians and anti-authoritarian people."

This is a wild and extreme accusation with no evidence whatsoever. Welcome to HackerNews.
How to Run an Ad Unit Exhaustion Analysis Using AdNgin
After every VC, every founder, just everybody is talking about AI and bots Fred is a bit late to the game but better late than never. Or maybe writing about the Blockchain kept him back.
It might be naive, but then again I don't think games development has ever been easy. I'm constantly amazed by the skills of games devs, they just seem to surpass anything done for business applications.

If a company wants to attract competitive gamers, then they have to develop games you can't cheat in during competitions. Right now, the most reliable way of doing so is server side, with all the challenges that entails. Otherwise, they have to install what essentially amounts to rootkits - which isn't exactly what most gamers want to encourage.
One could reasonably make this same point about EULAs. From time to time, I'll read the EULA and, no, it doesn't take so long after you skip all of the "PRODUCT OFFERED WITHOUT WARRANTY," and "COMPANY CORP MAY HEREIN BE REFERRED TO AS 'WE' OR 'US'".

You just skip to the part about fees, termination policy, what they'll do with your data, and call it a day.
Yeah, I was always waiting for prediction engines to kick into high gear on aggregators, recommending posts, subs, or even filtering comments based on what you seem to like.

They could also harvest data on how often people click through a headline, how long they scroll through a comments page, how long until they move to the next item...

So in addition to having more voting options on an aggregator, I also want a separate aggregator that's purely driven by behavioral data, like average clickthroughs and time on page.
Stanford engineers build wind tunnel for birds paving the way for better drones
IEEE spectrum had a nice article very recently http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/how-to-kill-a-su...
IANAL (just the OP) but - imagine you invent a self driving car, and you'd like to patent it. Your lawyer tells you not to read prior art, because you don't want to be liable for willful infringement. Also you've been living in a cave, so you don't really know what prior art there is out there. You write claims like this:

Independent claim: Self driving car. (You really hope you get this, but it's so broad, you probably won't).

First dependent claim: The previous claim, where in the self driving mechanism is an actuator applied to a gas pedal. (Now you're going after the specific way you accomplished the broad problem - hopefully, even if someone's patented a self driving car before, they did it some other way, so you can protect your preferred category of solutions, and force competitors to take a different approach).

Second dependent claim: the first dependent claim, where the actuator is a brick. (If all else fails, you've at least protected the precise mechanism that you used - not enough to keep out a competitor, but at least enough to preserve your unique solution).

The patent office will often strike the independent claims but leave some dependent claims around, so you craft them strategically to get at least some protection.
Rust has plans for a `become` operator for tail call optimization.
Why is this comment down-voted?

In democracy, you can spend money on a PR campaign to sway many millions of votes your way.

And as another commenter noted, once a candidate is in place, lobbyists can pay to get proper legislation passed.

Finally, voting is rigged in any place where voting computers are installed, which appears to be a lot of places. Again, for the right money, you can completely change the course of an election.
This is more a sign of the power of the media than anything else. The media is looking for a story. There's very little that's compelling out there. Terrorism keeps popping up because it gets clicks. Soon enough there will be another Kardashian or another Adrian Peterson to take the collective mind on to the next distraction.
You can't diff between 2.47 and 2.48 and see what changed? Or is that a binary part you don't have source access to?
RabbitMQ is ok in single server and has lots of flexibility but struggles at high throughput ( > 100k/sec) and the clustering setup is not great. There are also lots of edge case bugs.

If you don't need persistence, look at using nats.io which is a much more stable and reliable pub/sub system. You can build persistence on top of it or wait a few months until they finish their new project STAN.
Paranoia is an entirely healthy response to this heinous intrusion into our human rights.

My anecdote - I'm Australian, lived in USA for decades, moved to Europe after 9/11. Every time I visit the USA it is an hours-long ordeal to explain, in fine detail, why I have the views I have, why I follow Snowden, why I participate in European hacker cultures, why my laptop is covered in security-conference-related stickers, etc. etc. During this process there is always the implied threat of imprisonment without due process. All my stuff is gone through. They find nothing, because I am not a threat in any way, other than that I freely associate with those aspects of society and culture which 'the mainstream' find mysterious, confusing, and scary.

So, I don't go to the USA much. Its about as much fun to get there as driving into a brick wall.
Because, due to recent leaks, they now understand the implications from a purely selfish perspective.
That and the fact that it sounds good, makes it perfect
I don't think Unity does it any more, but it wasn't that long ago when Unity used Xamarin to be able to run on iOS, Android and PS4. Now they do it with il2cpp I think.

Also, it seems you have no idea what you're talking about. Xamarin gives you access to the same native APIs that you use when developing a native app. You still need to know the native API if you want to build an iOS app. Xamarin.Forms helps, but doesn't support everything.
Sex sells far more than its own depiction.