skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is complicated! Yes, America is very different to the rest of the western democracies, in that it's typical that the loser pays attorneys' fees in civil cases in other countries, but this is not true in the US. So you can bankrupt someone by filing many lawsuits against them, even if you lose them all, assuming you had more money than them to start with.

However! That is totally not what happened here. "Loser pays" would not help because Thiel/etc won the case, I think rightly so. A case can't be frivolous if you win a huge judgement.

So I agree with you that there doesn't seem to be anything dramatically concerning about this case, though I'd still argue that there's a gigantic "money wins" problem in the US due to lack of "loser pays" rules.
Keep an eye on project Valhalla.
Agreed, I was making $70k as new-grad at RIM in Waterloo in 2012. Though when the grandparent says Montreal is 12 hours away, do they mean driving? That would imply they are somewhere like Windsor or Charlottetown.

That said, it could be Vancouver, I remember getting an offer from Arista in 2013 for about $78k + some stock.
>>> to the point that imgur has its own community based upon the site

The interesting thing is there are a ton of people who are on Imgur that have no idea Reddit exists and vice versa. A lot of people on Reddit have no idea Imgur has its own thriving community.
Not certified by FCC/Industry Canada for sale but there is a (risky) work around or just buy one off ebay https://together.jolla.com/question/78081/shipping-to-canada...
Back then these books for home micros were targeted to children so you had cartoons and funny drawings explaining programming concepts.

Some of these books are still available. Usborne put a bunch of their old ones from the 80's for free online:

http://www.usborne.com/catalogue/feature-page/computer-and-c...

See their assembly book, "Machine Code for Beginners"
Or you can do like me: Redefine marriage as "living together in a committed relationship". The piece of paper is irrelevant, the way the people live is what matters.
I actually kill lobsters with a knife before eating them.

Argh. Horror.
Unfortunately you are pointing directly at a major reason why the world forgot about Bradley Manning the war crimes exposer: she changed her name to Chelsea Manning and the media story changed to transgenderism / trans rights.

So, basically the media story and the name changed / got more complex, and a lot of people got left behind / quit caring.
History lives on when you're riding the internet:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010203210800/http://www.fucked...
While you can do lots of horrible things with generics (cough typenum [1] cough), it has a rather strict rule that prevents it from ever having the same degree of freedom as C++ template has. In particular, this entire thing is correctly type-checked and you won't see hacks like SFINAE. Probably things like this should be encapsulated in a separate crate, reviewed and maintained by the community.

[1] http://paholg.com/typenum/typenum/index.html
What does Hillary Clinton have to do with anything?
Not specifically Rundeck, no. I don't think anyone has written a blog post on that yet.

Depending on how you're using Jenkins, Rundeck may not be a feature-for-feature replacement. You'll have to weigh Rundeck's feature set against your specific requirements.
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I have not been a big fan of Ansible due to some critical bugs (at least in 1.x) and the way how its community core committers are treating community requests like this.

For one: Ansible 1.x cannot even print out the syntax error file and line number in the offending Playbook. [1] And their core committers ignored the issue and refuse to backport the basic debugging requirement after issue being opened 2 years.

That itself, is a deal breaker for me.

[1]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5797

Edit: Downvoting me doesn't make this issue go away. What was requested is a simple basic debugging requirement - any mature syntax tree parsers should be able to do it.
The breach was public, but at the time it was only known to include password hashes, without even associated email addresses, so it was not a big deal. https://www.troyhunt.com/observations-and-thoughts-on-the-li...
Wouldn't requiring more parking just worsen the traffic problem you mention?

Planners are finally realizing the requiring parking spaces subsidizes car use, making transit less viable, worsening traffic.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/business/economy/15view...
I'm one of the authors of the article.
Quick answer: The data shows that if you're a journalist about to write your next article, you're likely to get more views if you write it about Clinton rather than Trump. It's true that Trump got more pageviews overall, but that seems to be mostly because way more articles were written about him in the first place.

Long Answer: In the article we suggest that if publishers would have written more articles about Clinton, they would have received more page views, because in the data we observe posts on Clinton receive more page views on average. Similarly, we suggest writing more articles on Bernie Sanders would have caused an increase in referrals from social and search. As with all non-experimental approaches to causal inference, valid conclusions require strong assumptions. In the case of this analysis, we assume that the average number of page views that articles on a candidate receives is independent of the number of articles written on that candidate. If it were the case that writing more articles on Clinton, and fewer on Trump, would have caused Clinton articles to receive fewer views, and Trump articles to receive more, then our conclusions might be wrong.
Would you say that Peter Thiel was "a blueprint" for what happened to Mother Jones? It seems like the system has worked like this for a long time.
You are right.

FPGAs are software that runs on dedicated ASICs, just like microcontrollers and CPUs.

The difference is the software may be partitioned to run on a large number of simple cores or one big complex core or anything in between.

As software, it's vulnerable to bugs and intrusion. You may gain some obscurity, but professionals know that's non-enduring.
I live in Michigan and work remotely for a company in the bay area. I highly recommend it.
No it started when 4chan allowed WebM
"Daring Fireball does it" has to be the worst possible comparison imaginable. Gruber has super differentiated, high editorial value content that folks will pay a premium to put their message next to. Imgur is about as far away from that as possible. They have to try to make money, it's crazy to sit here and think you know better than they do on this. Don't you think if they could make enough money doing what you think, they would do that instead? They are in a tough industry. They host images (relatively expensive), they have almost no user information for targeting, most visitors never come back to a page again, and most of the content posted is super low value. Unfortunately, this is the result.
You're on completely the wrong track with FPGAs; many of them, and certainly the ones you'd want for a webserver, are a single package larger than that quarter. They usually have high static power consumption as well.

FPGAs are never what you want if you want to 'just run a program'. They seem to be widely misunderstood as a silver bullet when really they're more of a duct tape solution to certain far corners of the problem space.

The people suggesting the ESP8266 are on the right track.
When I look at the coverage, it seems like the news outlets are obsessed because Trump doesn't fit their world view. He caters for a demographic that those outlets have left behind. The page views aren't overly high because what he says isn't as outrageous as they think.
The quarrel, I think, is that APCs are not tanks. Completely different vehicles, designed for completely different missions.
The little suckers on the tentacles are a pain to deal with. They can even get stuck in your mouth if you eat it wrong.
"Originally ray's code "latched" onto the open access point and requested an IP address just to prove the WiFi was truly open; but various laws govern connecting anonymously to private WiFi networks, so the project was changed to simply identify their presence."

Interesting, I hadn't heard about that. Are these US Laws? Is this the Richard Stanley ruling?

(and just a random observation, what's the deal with the footer here? "© 1999 LiveJournal, Inc." The post seems to be from earlier this year, has LiveJournal really not updated things in that long?)
The guys going infantry were the best of the platoon by far. With the exception of one or two nobody seemed bad or outright undesirable, just slightly below what I had expected.
Wow, I'm impressed! This takes coding to a whole new level...
we concluded education fixes poverty because it was politically obvious and popular -- still is.
Another narrative is that Imgur got tired of its roots and created their own community, that for some people was better than Reddit in more or less any conceivable way.
As far as I can tell, Kamon is an application monitoring system - what do you monitor? I am curious as I have never felt the need to monitor apps this way (but I have never worked on HFT apps obviously).
Regular expressions are not Turing complete, yet a regular expression can have exponential complexity.

So the property "not Turing complete" does not give you anything practical.

A better approach is to have a scheduler which is fair, and which gives the compiler the cycles it deserves, even if it needs many of them.
>Imgur forgot its roots as a dumb image host

I think they are just the most recent organization to figure out that there's no viable standalone business model in "dumb image host".
By that criteria neither Go nor Python can be considered systems languages. Maybe you could implement some basic code to bootstrap CPython in Cython or RPython, I'm not entirely sure, but neither of those are really Python. The only garbage collected languages that I'm aware of that can implement a full OS stack are LISP, Red and maybe Smalltalk.
Who in turn look like they're using fastly for their cdn judging by them sharing the exact same pops.

(Guessing they use the fastly private cdn or have some sort of deal with them considering the imgix branded cages on their blog).

https://docs.imgix.com/guides/cdn-guidelines

https://www.fastly.com/network-map
Esperanto's underlying desire for language simplification is still worth keeping in mind. Perhaps a standardized, simplified, "minimum viable English" could be identified and declared to be socially acceptable "because we say so." Non-native speakers might find such an MVE to be easier to learn and more comfortable to use.

The easy part would be to develop a set of tweaks to the more-arcane grammatical- and spelling rules of English, using crowd-sourced suggestions. For example --- and as a language purist it pains me deeply to say this:

+ Allow they and their (and even there) to be used as singular generic pronouns; so, for example, Any student can learn to speak English if they put there mind to it.

+ Allow there to be used as a possessive (vice their).

+ Allow consistent apostrophes for possessives; so, for example, The spread of English is hindered by some of it's fussy rules (which in currently-standard usage is incorrect).

This might be a useful project for someone working in linguistics: Collect and organize real-world examples of how people actually use English in non-standard ways, then propose a subset of those examples as MVE.

The hard part would be convincing the world that it's just as socially acceptable to speak and write MVE as it is to speak and write "standard" English.
Yep, though the fussiness of OTA (over-the-air) TV and radio broadcasts was probably quite inspirational. Rowan Atkinson explored OTA in a Mr. Bean skit:

https://youtu.be/Sm3_qEMTdc4
> FPGAs are software that runs on dedicated ASICs, just like microcontrollers and CPUs.

What? This either doesn't make sense or is wrong.

> The difference is the software may be partitioned to run on a large number of simple cores or one big complex core or anything in between.

Nothing to do with FPGAs; you wouldn't necessarily have anything resembling a CPU core at all in there.

A critical advantage of FPGAs for security is that logic is inherently "partitioned": there's no stack to smash, no heap, and no easy way to write over variables that are used for something else. Even if you do manage an exploit, you can't make it persistent as the FPGA may not have the capability to overwrite its own bitstream.
Agree with the first part. I was mainly referring to why is it ok to out him because he's a billionaire - doesn't seem to be in the public's best interest, regardless of one's status.

Similar to the argument Gawker made about the tape - I don't want (or need) to see a HH sex tape any more than one of my neighbor.
Imgur was able to pivot from a simple image hosting service to a standalone community. Many people browse imgur every day without ever having visited reddit. That's no small feat, and definitely much easier to monetize than dumb image host.
They lost because a billionaire, who didn't like them for reasons entirely independent of the merits of the case, spent time and resources canvassing for opportunities to punish Gawker.

As Thiel himself said, "even someone like Terry Bollea who is a millionaire and famous and a successful person didn’t quite have the resources to do this alone."

Thiel also said that, but for his involvement the plaintiffs would have accepted a pittance. The outcome is largely a consequence of an the intervention of an outside party, not merely the merits of the case itself.
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I was not happy with features and UX of other productivity trackers. Most of the time tracking software is made for controlling employees or for billing clients and I just wanted an automated productivity measurement.

I tried RescueTime before but it was too expensive for its functionality ($72-108/year) and also collected all my tracked data on their servers. There is standalone ManicTime on Windows but OS X standalone trackers lack features and most of them are not automatic.

So I started to play with OS X accessibility and got promising results pretty fast. Then there were about 14 months of writing some code once in a week or two and 3 months of almost full time polishing and gathering feedback.

Now it's marketing time. Qbserve did well on PH but almost no other sites picked it from there. This week I pitched about 70 journalists and bloggers who write about Mac or productivity apps but the results are not clear yet.

I'll be very grateful for advices on how to promote it better and overall feedback. Thank you!
> alter table on a large database can take days

There's a lot to migrations in these various implementations but in short: every variant of alter table is an "online" operation (meaning it doesn't hold an exclusive lock) in InnoDB as of MySQL 5.6 and it's possible with various well-supported third party tools before that. For Postgres: most migrations can be done online and those that do hold a lock are typically constant time.

Admittedly migration has been a big problem in the past but that hasn't been true for years now.

> the expensive part of reads is finding the row on disk

Hopefully most SQL queries in an optimised setup are not finding a row on disk! The difference between reading the whole row from on-disk heap storage and reading the interesting part of it from an index in memory is in fact considerable: 1000x or more - and obviously far worse if you have to scan through any of the heap storage.

> amount of data sent over the network doesn't matter either in 99% of cases

It actually matters hugely in the case of JSON blob storage because it all has to be doubly deserialised on the other end - first from the db's wire protocol and then from JSON. There are many apps out there for which JSON serialisation is a bottleneck (for the CPU, not the network) - that's why there are so many "fast JSON" libraries.

Good point - you could mitigate this by using something quicker. I haven't seen anywhere do that - the ability to read the database with other tools is normally useful

> most databases put the whole row in the log anyway so it doesn't matter

re: this whole topic - I'm not proposing switching a JSON blob with a table for which every JSON field was reified into a column. I'm comparing to a normalised design with narrow tables (most tables have fewer than 5 columns). The other stuff about serialisation applies.
> Plan 9 sure puts a lot of trust in the network.

I don't know how true that really is. It certainly trusts that the network is there, and after authentication/authorisation it trusts that network devices are not malicious — but that's no different from anything else.

I do think that there's some excellent work yet to be done in authenticating local networks. How do I know that the DHCP server I'm talking to is the right DHCP server for my network? How do I know that the WiFi access point I'm talking to actually is who it says it is?

Really, that is a specific instance of the broader problem of naming. I don't have an answer, but I'd love to read some attempts to get at the answer.
>If your argument is that the shopper is so overwhelmed by advertising that he just can't help but choose poorly --- well, that's the dividing line between conservatism and liberalism.

You're free to believe that most humans are capable of making healthy eating choices by their own free will if you want (not trying to be catty, and I'm not sure that was the point you were communicating, just how I interpreted your comment), but the data overwhelmingly suggests otherwise.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/US...

At a certain point I believe it is important to protect people from themselves. Being too proud to admit that "humans can be taken advantage of using certain hacks/tricks" makes society as a whole weaker.

>Actually I believe that there is truth to both sides, but either side taken to the extreme leads to absurdity. Full faith in the individual, and full faith in government, are each flawed.

You and I agree on this point 100%. Currently I believe the FDA has allowed too much leeway with the food industry. I'm not foolish enough to think that it couldn't easily swing too far in the other direction as well.
I bet if you really tried, you could have shaved that commute down a little.~
I think that was his point, different people can define the same word in multiple ways. Just because you/your favourite source says one thing, doesn't mean everyone else agrees, for better or worse.
To play Devil's advocate, how about because "humoring" is usually a way to hold off extreme self-righteousness, shaming, and so on from the humor'd party.

Moral discussions like these are not like most discussions on HN. People's opinions and comments come loaded with assertions of moral absolutism, and as above, are usually an attempt to shame the parent commenter.

If Chelsea Manning prefers to be called "her," that's fine with me. But I appreciate being brow-beaten by people who have placed themselves on a morally superior plane as much as I like being told I'm going to hell by any number of religious leaders who also like to place themselves on high, asserting that their beliefs make them inherently better than others.

I'm of the belief that what people do in a consenting, non-harmful fashion with, to, and about themselves and willing participants is not only fine, but none of my business. But the squeaky wheels are always those who believe that they have somehow been harmed by your discord with their moral self-righteousness - no matter which side of a position they find themselves.

Devil's advocate, though.
I think you're missing the point. It's not about electronic book vs physical book (If I misunterstood you, sorry and dismiss this post).
It's more about the sources on the internet, I don't know many people who read complete books on the computer but rather just read relevant sections somewhere online. While this isn't bad per se, you often miss important details due to different sources (and therefore different views/reader assumptions, ...).
I remember when in school I was being told how bad was the life of people in feudal Europe because of all the taxes that kings, church and local lords took from people.. I wonder what would these people think about our, much higher, taxes.
It is, but that's not what Thiel is trying to do. He is backing an unrelated lawsuit in an effort to squash them. The action that he had a problem with, them outing him, is in no way illegal, so he got into a proxy war against them. That is unquestionably unethical. The ethical thing for him to do would be to come at them head on in the public arena.
First google hit is of course someone doing exactly that: http://www.jopdesign.com/

Some ARM processors have had the ability to natively execute JVM bytecode for a while, but AFAIK it's not very popular and limited to some smartcards.
I said it's unfair to single out and potentially antagonize a group while the problem is more prevalent across many different groups. I don't see any contradiction here. Sorry...
really? every test I've had allowed me to use the internet. Is this common?
The most precise reference for a kilogram in the whole world? It's approximately in Paris, more or less- we care about precise weights, not precise locations. /s
But you don't have to store and serve all the content from Amazon or your own platform. You can easily set up aggressive caching, in a network you control, backed by S3.

And you pay premium for premium bandwidth. You can't just assume that all your users will have a good experience if you buy hardware and bandwidth from the cheapest providers around.
Well, it's not JUST "because I can" I suppose. IoT type applications that use FPGA could have a small footprint webserver running, so one could turn the lights off just using a browser (or something like that)
Gawker defended posting Hogan's sex tape even when a judge told them to take it down, AND also condemned people for the fappening. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Also check out NovaSparks: http://www.novasparks.com/aboutus/career.html
Overdosed on heroin on his private yacht with a hooker next to him, probably one of the better ways to go.
Yes, that's what it means. I guess read the paper to find out how; another comment linked to https://gist.github.com/rgrig/b4cdaed3ed9a70dbdb6f158f14b572... as an example.
It's a 'super-pity' that the tablet failed. I have one and like it a lot!

(<3 to jolla for trying to provide a more open and friendly ecosystem, wish you were a billion-euro-strong company)
The metropolitan area is basically the 2nd or third most dangerous city in the US (behind Detroit and sometimes New Orleans).

This is not only incorrect, it's perhaps the most notorious example of the problems caused by comparing cities at a level smaller than the MSA. The St. Louis MSA is, in fact, about middle of the pack on crime. See here:

http://www.bestplaces.net/docs/studies/crime3.aspx

And here:

http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bettencourt/urban_observatory/vio...

The division between St. Louis City and St. Louis County creates a lot of issues for this region, but the fact that you could make your comment with such confidence demonstrates that the area's primary challenge is image marketing.
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Counters, times and such. These are to be sent to a service like InfluxDB and monitored with a tool such as Grafana.
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When swerving you should not apply the brake. It will cause you to lose control in the swerve.
First, it's not about the time spent compiling. And also not a scheduling problem.

Secondly, the eBPF constraints put the language even lower in the hierarchy than regular expressions.