skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why Gawker wants to pick a fight in public against a chess master with a Stanford JD with huge cache of ammunition in the form of cash.

Gawker did it in the name of free speech by digging up privacy and slandering? Unfortunately being a digital gossip site does not mean it will be exempt from being sued like traditional gossip media such as national enquirer.

And both ancient and modern law codes are on the side of privacy against slandering, rather than on the side of abusing media power in the name of free speech, dated all the way back to the Code of Hammurabi. And suing Gawker is like an high ROI of no-brainer and an act of public service as there are so many precedents of like Hulk Hogan's case.
I wonder if Trump fans don't read things on the Internet as much.
Finally an interesting story and then it’s a cliffhanger...
I would imagine in such a case exploits would be very rare.

It would need to be a very specific exploit and yes there is little scope for what can be exploited as it FPGA is designed for very specific task unlike a general purpose CPU in server.

You would need to have deep knowledge of the HDL to even begin to think up an exploit.
Out of curiosity, what would you say is missing? My one big beef with templates is lack of constraints and somewhat ugly syntax, but hopefully concepts will remedy the former.
You'll Have Debt – Get Used to It
It appears The Iron Isles is finally dead. Undoubtedly it was a great product with so much promise. Alas, even dreams as lofty as The Iron Isles must one day die. LOL
Platform Engineer job Portland
Some feedback:

* Make the price more readily apparent on the landing page

* Tracking the '6,400 sites, apps and games' is great, but it would be good if I could find out if the ones I care about in that list!

* Make the above the fold screenshot bigger, I tried squinting/zooming before I realised I could scroll down

* Can I determine which things are productive/neutral/distractive? As I wouldn't want to buy it if that was static

Looks good though!
Could you not use Groovy for this? Using Groovy isn't harder than using another third-party library.
The problems actually go even deeper than this. It's pretty difficult to make reasonable comparisons using crime data, even when looking across entire regions.

To illustrate this, imagine one region where the baseline crime rate is not extreme, but above average all across the region. Now, think of another place where most of the region is pretty safe, but one pocket of the area has an extremely high rate.

These two regions might have identical crime rates. But which one would you rather live in?

This is why the FBI recommends against using its own numbers to make comparisons like the grandparent's:

"Each year when Crime in the United States is published, many entities—news media, tourism agencies, and other groups with an interest in crime in our Nation—use reported figures to compile rankings of cities and counties. These rankings, however, are merely a quick choice made by the data user; they provide no insight into the many variables that mold the crime in a particular town, city, county, state, region, or other jurisdiction. Consequently, these rankings lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions adversely affecting cities and counties, along with their residents."

Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/...
From 2014 When Imgur took $40MM in Funding : http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/after-five-years-of-bootstr...

"In addition, the Reddit investment will finally formalize the already friendly relationship between the two sites, making them more symbiotic and maybe even more integrated in some way, though Schaaf declined to go into details as to what’s ahead for the two, only saying that there’s no promise of Imgur being Reddit’s “official” image host at this time."
Fuse in Linux also requires a kernel module. It's just that it is available everywhere these days.
Her medication doesn't change her biological makeup, science isn't that good yet. I'm happy to call anyone what they want, but surgery and drugs do not recreate your sex.
Unfortunately this is not true anymore. With the raise of US/UK style neoliberalism various states like Luxembourg, Slovakia, Lichtenstein, Germany, Austria, Ireland ... try to outcompete each other in offering less taxes, less union influence, less labor costs for more jobs and companies regularly blackmail the EU states for more favorable conditions.

E.g. Germany can only hold its current EU stronghold by outcompeting France with much lower labor costs.
How do you measure your fusion events? Does a geiger counter work?
David Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” (2012)
CyborgNest: North Sense
Love the idea! Only suggestion would to be switch "Distractive" to "Unproductive" or "Distracting." I'm sure distractive is technically a word, but this is my first time hearing it. But that's just me. I may just have a limited vocabulary.
Thank you! I'm researching what will be the best way to export data and connect to other apps (IFTTT probably).

In case somebody would like to export the tracked information: it's stored in SQLite in the ~/Library/Application\ Support/Qbserve/ and has a very simple scheme of HistoryLog tables for each month that refer to Activities table that refer to Categories and Apps tables.
It was inevitable. Not because of imgur going bad (did they? They did take some questionable moves regarding direct image links, but can't blame them considering volume). It's because of ye olde adage here on HN. If you your business relies on someone else, be prepared for their moves (to not use harsher words). Large volume of popular reddit-submitted content is imgur based. They have to get (back) that under control. Smarter move would be to outright buy or merge with imgur, considering their content and user base, but that probably have been considered.
I find it interesting that at one time, arterial "plaque" was also considered to be some sort of residue or trash. Analysis of the plaque revealed high levels of cholesterol, so the "trash" was obviously caused by the cholesterol, probably by eating too much of it. This message was no doubt approved by the tobacco industry, which produces a zero-cholesterol product that is nevertheless highly damaging to the arteries.

Now many doctors have changed their understanding: arterial plaques are scar tissue and scar tissue happens to contain a lot of cholesterol. Anything that causes scarring - like high blood pressure - leaves these plaques. So really the plaques are the by-product of an underlying pathology, which themselves create a secondary pathology.

Likewise, perhaps, with Alzheimer's. The plaques in the brain are themselves a by-product of some other pathology. Solve the underlying pathology (or the body's response to it), and you solve Alzheimer's.
Any significant contribution you might have for software engineering in regards to that?

Aside from merely believing that.

I can't even tell what you mean. If I want to rebuild my machine same as before, or deploy build 100s of servers at different points in time with the same setup, reproducibility is necessary.

There's not even one argument against that. If you have any, please oblige us.

Should deployments be a surprise?
May be Nordic states are more sympathetic to single mothers because of the declining population.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/23...
I also had this problems in the past with SNI certs. Very annoying old python bug, it's possible to fix old python but this makes no sense for an Ansible deployment http://stackoverflow.com/a/29099439/756056 Better approach: Use curl to download in some temp directory/file and then extract from there. Curl does not have this errors. Example: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/1716#...

My dream would be that whole Ansible would use rockstable libcurl instead of the requests library which has problems with Certs on (not so) old python versions.
A variation on what you're describing was actually my very first experience with computers. The programs that came with my Apple IIc when I was about 8 years old weren't very interesting to me so I started poking around and playing with BASIC code.

It's kind of funny to think that at the time the sole purpose of my computer was to help me write and run programs I wrote myself.
The LED ones are hardly even warm to the touch (there are LEDs embedded in the "filaments").
Getting a job at a Startup company
What exactly is missing, or better in C#? I'm surprised because I've been programming in OCaml for a long time, and never missed "real" (i.e. non-erased) generics.
I've been using Qbserve for a couple weeks and I'm really happy with it. For me the best feature is just having that little number in the menu bar that shows what percentage of my time has been focused. This, more than any other timer or tracker, has been a simple and effective motivator for me to keep creating.

There are a lot of features I can imagine that would let me slice and dice tracked data better, but for a V1, this is something special.
Sorry about that.

Here is an implementation of ReaderT, how it can transform a Future to provide "local readonly state", and a usage example:

https://gist.github.com/spion/b433a665ca51d6c38e9f

Since its JS, I also added automatic lifting, just to annoy Haskell programmers ;)
Perhaps this post is in response to it, but for those who haven't seen it, here's a video of what happens when you use a hydraulic press to try to fold paper beyond the limit: http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-what-happens-when-you-try-...

It's certainly not what I would have guessed. I would suggest watching the video before reading the text.
I take issue with this, but I don't have a better solution. Being at risk of attack from other inmates is better/worse than the terrifying reality of years of solitary confinement? Solitary confinement is probably up there among my worst nightmares. Evolutionarily, people are simply not meant to be alone with their thoughts for years - especially while simultaneously being kept in a confined space. I have no doubt I would personally go - rather literally - crazy. The idea of unending solitary confinement would, again, I assume, literally drive me to suicide.

So, no, I don't want her to sit at constant risk of physical/sexual assault or worse... but I know years of solitary confinement would permanently fuck with me in an extreme way, so I can't condone it in any fashion.

What to do?!?

Edit: in her own words, the torture of prolonged solitary confinement: http://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2016/may/02/s...

Edit 2: "Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail, at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time. Within two weeks, I was contemplating suicide." <- So, I'm guessing maybe I'm not that far off in assuming I'd end up the same way.
What irked me the most about this email was the lack of ANY sort of excuse/word of sorry.
This looks like a simple way to keep track of time I spend on projects.

It would be perfect if it could also log more details such as what filename/project is open in Sublime, that way I know what I'm working on.
Oh, right, thank you. I've already updated it in the app but forgot the screenshots and texts.
Rapid Fire security games
thanks! that's easy enough :D
This article has actually been around for a while. Explains it really great. But one advice from me is that try to choose only what is sufficient to your project and team. No benefit in being overequipped for a simple job.
This is a hard one: Drop the gamification (badges, points) and find a way to intrinsically motivate a healthy community rather than extrinsically motivate people to game the system.
My experience with Rust's borrow checker is that it can be pretty frustrating for about a week, and then it mostly stays out of the way, only popping up to report dumb bugs. After that, maybe once per 2,500 lines of code written, I still run into a situation that requires some finessing to pass the borrow checker. It's definitely not perfect, and there are known places where the checker needs to be enhanced (and that work is underway in some cases).

Overall, I'm happy to accept the tradeoffs of the borrow checker. I have to deal with a learning curve and the occasional workaround. But I get fast, correct and expressive code. And even though I like to think of myself as being extremely careful about pointer ownership, the borrow checker still catches real problems in my code that would be a nightmare to debug, especially once threads get involved.
So it sounds like this new bulb will have the same problem people complain about with LEDs and CFLs: slow warm-up times. The filament will take longer to warm up to full operating temperature, since you're relying on thermal reflection in the glass to let the heat build up. I guess they could get around this by having a power control circuit in the bulb, to give it a large inrush current to heat up quickly, and then back off once it's warmed up.
yes. Looks like the author is suffering from a severe attack of packagities. :)
You normally write very clearly, but I have no idea what you're getting at with this particular comment.

Is any of this sarcasm? Are you sincerely suggesting that not being able to find someone to work for 1 cent per hour means that there is a labor scarcity?

What's this business about public funding of municipal infrastructure and how does it relate to the conversation at hand?
Microsoft to Ban Common Passwords on Azure
whine whine whine. go make a language of your own then, that way it's going to be perfect and have no flaws. oh wait, you wouldn't even know where to start.
There's a Mac app called Dash that's good for this purpose as well.
I predict that within 10-20 years we will have AI bots that automatically come up with ideas for bots (trivial versions of this surely are already possible) - and that also have an add-on that lets them monitor forums and post "thanks!" notes to any comments mentioning them. I'm curious what people like you, or your descendants, will be doing by then :-)
> art of recruitment

What is this?
Second this. As you seem to focus on software developers as your target audience it would likely be greatly appreciated with an official open dataset and structure thus enabling us to use the data in a much more intelligent way highly specialized for personal workflow.

A built in console/scripting engine would also be a nice to have but not necessary if the data can be exported/extracted.
So let's say you are deploying 10 servers. Are you fine with all of them being different?

Or to get out of computers, you have a drug where they say it cures cancer 100% of the time and no one can reproduce the results, it's fine for you?
The ability to host a silent webm and then link to either gif version or webm version is something you find negative?

My only annoyance there is that sometimes the embed bugs out a bit, but that's mostly firefox's fault.
It's a common way of expressing teh question, does the population serve the economy, or does the economy serve the population?

Put another way, should countries protect workers or owners?

(A false dichotomy, of course, and an oversimplification to boot.)
Would Gawker go bankrupt if the damages were set at $10 million? What about $20 million? $100 million? Why not $1 billion.

Hulk Hogan is already a very wealthy man. Did he truly need many many millions more? Is that just and fair?

Let's say you do something, ANYTHING, that someone takes issue with and brings you to court with a fully staffed legal team. You lose the case. You have to pay millions in damages. Would you keep true to your word that you hope more cases like this happen and that the plaintiffs win those cases too?
I think it's more likely that many of the people know what they are talking about (plenty of the people I've seen talk down about the Midwest are in the group you say understand it -- people who were homeowners and/or has families in the Midwest) and just don't share your preferences.

Why is it so hard for people to accept that not everyone wants the same thing, so that any disagreement offer preferences must be grounded in someone's ignorance?
Study finds women are responsible for half of some online abuse on Twitter in UK
I recall watching the fancy cooling mechanism and fluids in motion. I believe one of them also functioned as a couch of sorts or at least looked like one.
Why would they do that? There's no money in selling gas. Gas stations make all their money now selling food in the convenience store. The gas pumps are just a way to get you into the store. And they're moving upmarket, making custom sandwiches and hot meals, selling fresh fruit bowls, etc.
It logs app window names: you can select the app in the Details table and there's a popover with the "View windows" button. You can also check to show each window as a separate activity.
Even managed co-location is cheaper than AWS when you factor in the egress bandwidth charges at scale.

Another way to do it is to use dedicated servers. The datacenter will take care of repairs and remote hands functions and all you need is to manage the server from the OS level upwards. No need to have technicians in multiple countries, everything can be done remotely.
Twitter abuse – '50% of misogynistic tweets from women'
>But if I were a betting man, I would bet that McDonalds will replace food prep jobs before replacing humans with kiosks in most locations.

Panera Bread proves you wrong. Go into any corporate-owned store (not the franchise ones, they're behind), and they have iPad kiosks for taking your order. The food is still prepared by hand. They frequently even give you a bonus, like a free cookie, if you order with the kiosk instead of going to the human. And the kiosk does a far better job too: there's little or no line, you can easily look up your old orders or favorites and re-order them, you can easily make changes to your order (more or less salt/pepper, more or less lettuce, different bread selection, etc.) which you can't easily do with a human because the human won't present dozens of different options to you when you order, they just ask "what do you want?". Visual communication systems are far more information-dense than verbal ones.
Juniper language home: http://www.juniper-lang.org/index.html
Could you please elaborate? Are you referring to alimony, child support, etc?
Great! The fact that this is private is a huge +1 for me. Looking forward to trying it out! I saw one of your comments on the data being available at ~/Library/Application\ Support/Qbserve/ it would be good if the schema was documented on the site, maybe in a developers section?
There is a requirement of 10 non-math faculty classes (out of 40 classes) to get a degree in Math here. It's not that uncommon I think.
Screw the human contact; I'd rather pay less for my latte and get it made correctly, and more cheaply, by a machine.

For human contact, just have a nice coffee shop with comfy chairs where people can sit around and read, chat, etc. You don't need humans making the food for your human contact, you just need to be in an environment with other human customers.

You can also have a human server who brings the drink you ordered to you. One human can run the whole establishment, filling in in all the ways the robots can't, but letting the robots do the more skilled work. When I go someplace for food or drink, I want to sit down and relax, not talk to the guy prepping the food. And since the food prep necessarily has to be done someplace away from the seating area (because that's where the foaming-milk machine is), I don't see any value in having a human back there when a machine can do it better. Now I do see some value maybe in being able to chat up the girl who brings the drink to me where I'm sitting. But the person behind a counter making the drink, who I can barely even see because there's a giant milk-steaming machine in the way? No, I don't see the value there.
It's possible that wherefoodiesDONTeat could be what more of humanity wants
One major difference in the North East is that many areas have very high property taxes. It isn't uncommon to find similar property taxes to be a tenth of those values in the South.
Amazon bandwidth isn't particularly premium. It's just expensive.
> If you're a web developer, like many here, you can work remotely.

FTFY, unless there is a trove of non-web remote jobs I have been missing.
They can still be diverse to leverage certain strengths as long as there's enough compatibility that you don't have to rewrite everything from scratch. I'm hopeful for lowRISC as the spiritual successor to BS-5000 and i960.
Yes and yes. What's the name of your employer? (Why doesn't HN have a private message facility? Grumble...)
> it should hopefully reduce the FUD around alternatives with better type systems (Scala), if the type system is turing-complete in any case.

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

Alan Perlis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
I've been playing with these ESP8266 devices lately and they're incredible. They sip power, they cost 2 bucks, and are incredibly versatile. Watch these chips in the future. They're really gonna push the envelope for the IoT.
Swift Hack Probe Expands to Up to a Dozen Banks Beyond Bangladesh
What is my monitor size?
Gruber has done more to get high-level Apple people talking publicly answering unscripted questions than maybe anyone else in the media. Read him, learn from him, and like him or not, that's up to you, but at least respect what the guy has done.
Yes - fetch should abort. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequ...

Think about an autocomplete search. Every additional letter should abort the prior ajax call and fire a new one. Right now I'm hammering my server because I want to use fetch().
Scarcity means that a resource is limited and has an opportunity cost, so, yes, of there is any minimum cost, the resources is scarce.
I would suppose that the difference would having these < 500nm wavelength light sources pretty much right up in our faces.
Peter Thiel just gave other billionaires a dangerous blueprint
"Correct" is silly to even discuss relative to this topic.

What you're saying is people's genders are now up for debate but the pronouns are not?

Completely illogical.

And somehow people still believe the "slippery slope" is a fallacy.
If you need the HTML templates to copy you can do so from here: https://github.com/wildbit/postmark-templates

This project seems to be more specific, targeting Node users.
Family structure yes, but I think more about having a social safety net. If your car breaks down, who can give you a ride to work and whatnot.
Google, stop being evil, shut up, and take my money.

Why can't I just pay to opt out of all this crap I don't want, and instead incentivize the businesses they actually get right?
There are some variants of Lisp which are not trivial to port to Common Lisp. Something like Standard Lisp is slightly difficult due to various reasons. Somehing like Interlisp is also difficult, because much of its functions and libraries work quite different from Maclisp/Common Lisp.
Here's the slide deck MySQL used to raise $16M in 2003
I don't want to sound dismissive but why is that a deciding factor over, say, an Android phone? At least the UI should be easier to make snappy with Qt underneath so I'd consider it if I were in the market for a phone.
Thank you, I'll add it a bit later.
Yeah, makes sense. I'll probably just forget about it (but switch banks beforehand!)
The stronger indicator for me is seeing that the software is written for someone's thesis. Typically that means that development stopped on graduation.