skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, not really. Subaru sponsored tests on these harnesses, and nearly all of them failed, except for one:

http://www.sosubaru.com/dog-safety-harness.htm

Dog safety harnesses don't get anywhere near the scrutiny seat belts do.
That wording doesn't indicate that. Having nuance does not mean something must stop being true, and the nuance could apply to other behaviors not in that small list.

But I think what you're asking is probably true anyway. If you go to a country where homophobia is the norm, then saying something homophobic isn't really 'toxic' in the same way. It's a more mundane kind of bad.
It's fairly easy to get a tourist visa to almost any country. Just get proof of intent to exit/entry, and documentation that you can support yourself for the extent of the trip, and you can go anywhere no matter what your nationality (almost).

Thus applying for a tourist visa then overstaying is often the easiest way to illegally immigrate---especially in a country like the USA, where there are plenty of non-standard jobs available to do where no one is asking for ID or work status.
It feels like 1994 again! Just rcp an HTML file from my workstation to the web server!
Does anyone have any additional info on #4?
>Suspicion and empirical evidence cannot prove something is optimal.

what are you talking about? where did i say such a thing?
In general no, as they are filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy, meaning that the majority of those liabilities will be washed away.
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There is pop-sci reporting on this at http://www.wired.co.uk/article/universe-first-life-carbon-pl... and http://www.eartharchives.org/sharebars/231
> Things have changed a lot since the pre-1.0 days.

The instability of the pre-1.0 days left a very bad impression on many people who tried Rust then. They came to know Rust as a compile-today-but-not-tomorrow kind of language. What, if anything, is being done to try to inform these people that the situation has changed, to encourage them to try Rust again? What's being done to restore Rust's reputation?
Clearly this is because of user error. I use it everyday, never had a problem with it at all.
So basically, you're an idiot. Don't blame that on the system.
tl;dr: Slashdot and SourceForge have a new owner which removed all this nonsense from those sites - including the adware.

I believe the average HN reader - including you - should be interested in this then: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...
I wouldn't say they're equivalent.

I find a private, rich entity shutting down a media company much scarier than a media company publishing facts.
Secret Service Employees Punished For Illegally Accessing Congressman's Data
Most of the cases ACLU is involved in are against the government, not private entities.
We've made steady improvements here, so depending on when you checked, it might be much better.

The real improvements will come when incremental compilation lands. The precursor requirements are just landing now; so it won't be immediately here, but it will be soonish.
For those who don't see anything wrong with this because Gawker is Gawker, I present to you a very similar case involving Mother Jones:

http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/10/billionaire-sued...

The story they reported was 100% correct, but they were still sued by the billionaire political donor that was the subject of the story. The case was eventually thrown out of court, yet it still cost Mother Jones $2.5m to defend themselves. That was enough to drive them to the brink of bankruptcy.
> What about that video of Mitt Romney at a private campaign event, where he said some horrible stuff about poor people? That was a private video, probably made illegally.

And Romney had the right to sue.He didn't what you're point ?
I agree with you, and my point was that the ultra-rich influencing the media isn't new, and is actually more visible in this case than it normally is.
Isn't Rust's biggest advantage is safety , I make websites with golang , I can't stand the nil-ness and all the mutation mess I easily get myself into, could use a safer type system.

Sometimes you just need safety and correctness .
> I'm in awe that some sales person was able to sell Walmart, Target, BestBuy, CVS and all these other stingy retailers on a payment system like CurrentC/MCX.

It's not as hard as you'd think. I previously worked for a start up that sold Walmart on a POS system that was absolutely terrible (the codebase didn't even have any tests). The big retailers like Walmart have a sort of "throw money at everything and see what sticks" approach to technology. They regularly sign contracts to try out new tech but only in one or two stores. If it works well, they scale up to more stores, but that almost never happens.
GPUs aren't panacea.
Such generalizations are wrong and will have you rearchitecture approaches after GPU io bottlenecks.
I browse with javascript off by default and manage per-site settings with noscript. Ideally, sites would gracefully still work without javascript, but in a world of "rich webapps" I compromise.

At least maps.google.com let's you know, "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page. Enable JavaScript to see Google Maps."

Instagram is just a blank white page.
"Sovereign" might have been the wrong choice of words, then. It's not a binary thing -- sovereignty is a leaky abstraction that groups together a very wide range of different statuses. US states are not 100% sovereign, but what I was getting at was that they are, in many but not all respects, more similar to sovereign nations than to administrative subdivisions of a country. They have totally independent legal systems, budgets, administration, and so on. Even in countries in Europe that are also federations, the level of sovereignty of the sub-entities is usually less (in Germany, for example, criminal law is handled centrally, not delegated to Lands).

One notable exception is the sub-entities of the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland), which have a high degree of autonomy.

As for the historical bit, we have simply had more time than you :). The current push for European integration only started after the war - 70 years ago. It's been going on in America for over 200 years, and our last major internal war was 150 years ago.

I'm not disputing your sentiment, though. I think anything that improves freedom of movement for people is great, and I'm happy that Europe has been moving steadily in that direction since the war.
This is the main reason. Also legacy. I work on a lot of embedded code for $AUTO_MANUFACTOR some of our code bases go back to the 90's.

The code base is so modified by macros/typedefs its hardly even C anymore.

Not to mention the LLVM has to support the embedded device you are targeting. And Rust's support of legacy CPU's (8008, 8080, 80386, 68000) are lacking.
Well, great stories happen to those who can tell them; I'm sure there's interesting POV to be explored if they dig deep. That said, considering the average Hollywood film, I wouldn't bet on it.
Virtually everything here also applies to Debian. aide, postfix, and debsums are completely unmodified from Debian in Ubuntu. dpkg is virtually the same.

The only part that is different is that Debian doesn't enable either apparmor or selinux by default and selinux on Ubuntu is slightly different than on Debian.
"press outlet" . That billionnaire didn't force Gawker to act like scum. Good riddance.
Why are we throwing away all the work done on static & dynamic analysis tools for C programs in this kind of discussions? Programmers are crippled just for picking C? Come on..
Aluminum is pretty terrible with salt. Chloride disrupts the surface layer.

Cool experiment to prove it: put copper sulfate (bright blue root killer crystals, available in the plumbing section of a hardware store) in water until you get a blue solution. Add aluminum foil. Observe that there is no reaction. Add chloride (table salt or hydrochloric acid) and watch the reaction start. (you get copper powder)
It used to be called advertising, then marketing, then evengelizing and now advocacy, yes
Rust can, somewhat is already and ultimately will beat C on performance, due to way better guarantees on pointer non-aliasing. See eg. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/146159/is-fortran-faster-...

Other than that Rust has way better zero-cost abstractions, so in practice allows writing faster code, as in C there are sanity limits after which you give up and write slower, but easier to manage code, as macro processor sucks, and type system is trying to stab you in the back at every step.

Good example is `qsort`: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/c_standard_library/c_function_...
Allegedly the most recent owners have reversed the earlier policies and are trying to reclaim SourceForge's previous sterling reputation, FYI. Seems reasonably credible.

That said, I'm one of those people who bothers to check the signatures on binaries before installing them, so as long as I trust the signature and dev, doesn't much matter to me if I downloaded it from xxx-malware-binaries.biz.ru.
> "never mind 5 years of claimed SQL experience at a big company" - you can easily have that without touching JOIN.

Most of my experience with SQL comes from being a game designer with access to analytics database - so, not exactly a lot.

But how the hell would you not touch join even a single time while working with SQL for 5 years?!
They've been bought by a different company since then, and they've cleaned it up. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11860752
Ziff Davis has possible plans to buy Kotaku:

http://www.recode.net/2016/6/10/11904892/memom-here-s-what-z...

Of course, whether those sites should be saved is another question. Some have some good content, but some are exactly the kind of low quality, often legally shaky muckraking that got Gawker sued into oblivion in the first place.
Adjudicating between two private parties. Or are you advocating for privately-owned courts?
That would require software and software is hard.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-visa-system-100-computer-experts...

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2490412/database-admini...
Jacob Appelbaum no longer monochrom ambassador
How is it crass? Are we supposed to have a period of mourning for the fraud that Holmes unleashed on the world with potentially life threatening implications?
> If you get hired for many companies, they'll do a background check. Would you consider that overreach? And how is this any different?

> As long as the information isn't completely unrelated to their job function, and it's not discriminatory, it seems reasonable to use all the information at your disposal to reduce that risk.

Does it seem reasonable for Google to analyze the personal email accounts of their employees? If not, how is that any different from what's being discussed here?
> A lot of questionable things are becoming illegal to publish lately.

Come on. What goes on in a slaughterhouse affects all meat-eaters. It's a matter of public interest. But what happens in Hulk Hogan's bedroom between 2 consenting adults? And something that we all expect to keep private (except the exhibitionist types)? Not in the public interest at all. Would you call upskirt photos in the public interest? Or spycams in public bathrooms?
For those not familiar League of Legends is played fairly competitively and usually 5v5 (10 players per game). The only thing that matters in ranked play is whether your team wins or loses.

League has one of the most toxic communities I have ever been a part of. The problem is if even one person decides to troll in a game then the rest of the players really have no choice.

Also I would like to think if you work for Riot you actively try to improve the community. Otherwise I'd fire you too. There is a reason Blizzard GMs are almost routinely respectful.
This is basically why I ditched Rust as soon as I found out about Nim. No mental gymnastics making me feel like I should be part of a group mind, super fast, super small binaries, optional GC, and memory unsafe stuff allowed with standard pointers and alloc/free available with or without the GC on elsewhere. I suspect Rust would be better for avionics and other high-value systems though, replacing Ada...
Hilary Clinton's search results manipulated by Sourcefeed, not Google
How does that explain Uber's data breach?
I feel you, but one problem is that it is often hard to rank libraries best to worst. 20 may be a bit much, but still -- one library may be the most popular, another fastest, another correctly handles this one specific unusual case, another works well with large objects, another has more convenient interface for your case, etc.

What would be ideal is if there was useful information about such things available right on the aggregator site -- Amazon style reviews wouldn't be too useful here tbh, ideally one would like to see multiple comparisons from people like you who tried or at least looked at a few of them.
Nice service, but too expensive to be honest.
My static websites (built with middleman) are hosted in Amazon S3 as a static website bucket and have a Cloudfront distribution in front of it. I use `middleman s3_sync` to deploy the build in one command and it takes care of everything, even Cloudfront invalidation. All for just a few pennies per month.

Anyway, keep up the good work.
I fully agree. There are even people who think the singularity will be coming within 10-15 years. The state of AI or machine learning if you want is far from what we see in the news.
The court doesn't even have to rule against the journalist for the legal costs to destroy a media organisation. By example, this exact thing happened to Mother Jones:

http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/10/billionaire-sued...
Pretty crazy to me that they would act "toxic" on their own companies game, personal account or not. In my opinion thats just asking for trouble.
As a web developer I feel sometime solution like that remove the understanding of how the internet works. This script can be replaced by a tiny shell script, that runs a rsync of the dev folder to your server, and I think it is important to know basic scripting like that even for a front end dev. I have to say that I haven't tried the script but I haven't seen anything impressive from the presentation video.
My biggest problem with this is that Speakers at conferences are NOT paid. This has to be the biggest lie ever told.

I know some 'conferences' are small and for the good of the development community. Then the entrance fee should be free.

I have been to conferences that paid nothing or 'honorarium' amounts to speakers, but they charge THOUSANDS of dollars to enter. PLUS expensive Hotels.

This is what everyone should say when asked to speak at a conference: NO SPEC WORK. SHUT UP- PAY ME.
Doing scenes with "word salad" is something improv actors do as a practice tool, as well as scenes where each actor only has a single word or simple phrase they can use as dialog. The latter is often part of a performance for an improv troupe.
How do you get the feedback necessary to check your learning? With programming you have techniques to check your work at some level. But that's not the case with math.
I think what it's trying to convey is that when an employee was a toxic gamer, they were also a toxic employee.
And to make it even more complex, we have no idea what portion of the fired employees were toxic. You can be fired for a lot of reasons.
> New hires share their personal handle because that is the only handle they have; i.e., they have not played games on their company-provided accounts yet.

So, are you saying that once they acquire a company provided account their personal ones are no longer audited? That doesn't seem to be the case at all.
You're right - for microbenchmarks, the difference between Rust and C is going to be in how the solution is implemented, because the languages have such similar performance characteristics. This is why your original comment that Rust is not as performant as C is quite silly. You look rather hypocritical turning around and pointing it out when someone links to a microbenchmark on which Rust outperforms C.
At the end, the guy asked for my passport and attached a "Security cleared" sticker to it.

FWIW, Virgin has slapped tons of these on my passport without such an interview. They appear to be applied once you have answered the mandatory questions around your baggage (i.e. did you pack it yourself? are there any prohibited items?)
Why is this being downvoted? I think it's a valid point. Being an Asian-American in tech, it pains me to see that SV doesn't have an accurate representation (both in number and in stereotypes) of us on the show.
Happens all the time. I keep running into stories from people that grew up in a poor household, or is a parent in the same situation. And always the parent will sacrifice a meal or similar to make sure that the kids get to eat.

In nature, getting between a mother and her baby is perhaps one of the most dangerous situations you can be in. very few predators, unless they are out of options, consider humans a viable meal. But even ruminants will potentially attack you to defend their young.

Trying to treat humans as cold calculators of utility is perhaps the worst idea economists have clung to over the years.
The Tower of Panama
الإتصال والتواصل
I read the whole article, this is definitely a very different thing than providing a fake car bomb and recording the guy pushing the detonator.

In this case we see a long and concerted effort to implicate these brothers in a plot that they apparently knew nothing about. They were convicted, it seems, primarily based on the jihadist videos they watched (which were played for the jury, which included a parent who lost their son in Afghanistan, who later commented how one of the videos showing Americans being shot made him think it was his son being shot).

And even worse, in this case it seems like it was as much (if not primarily) about winning political points, for example, for then US Attorney Chris Christie.

So while I had read about some more clear-cut cases which seemed to involve an appropriate use of under-cover officers and informants, this case certainly seems to go far beyond that point, and exploited emotional jurists to win a very dubious conviction.
Both of which have accents, one heavier than the other. Is that fair?
As I understand it, Gawker considered the racist remarks so uninteresting they didn't even include them in their original edit or coverage of the sex tape. They only became public as a result of Hulk Hogan suing.
Their point is that while toxic players were DISPROPORTIONATELY toxic employees, it's not the case that a MAJORITY of toxic players were toxic employees.
Google: Charges of altering search results to help Hillary Clinton simply false
This seems like a completely reasonable approach. New IT at scale is often more of a risk than a benefit for companies like Walmart.
The author also landed a job paying 6 figures after the program. To me it sounds like she got exactly what she paid for, the process just wasn't as perfectly amazing as she had hoped. She claims she could've done it without the program, but that's a pretty easy claim to make with no way of backing it.
Russia Arrests 50 People in the Bust of the Largest Ever Hacking Ring
Yes, unless there is something legally binding, even in the face of bankruptcy, to keep a patent defensive, all justification of patents as defensive is BS.

Every company eventually goes out of business. When that happens, they tend to sell their assets, which includes "defensive" patents.

Calling a patent defensive would be like calling a gun defensive. Your use may be defensive, but the item itself is not defensive.
Yeah, given that the CPU load for the C lines are listed as

100% 95% 95% 95%

on a quadcore, I'm going to say "not one thread".

Edit: to be helpful, rather than just obnoxious, (<3) the C version uses open mp pragmas, so it looks single-threaded.
This isn't common knowledge amongst travellers, but if you have travelled to the US at least once since 2008 and have a valid ESTA, you can use automated passport control like the US citizens now - saves a ton of time and from having to queue up in the longer line.
What? while sure you might not need a database if you have under 10k rows, if you want any amount of resiliency storing data in memory is a huge mistake as if the current instance of the application fails your done for.
That's a pretty exact description of a Canadian service I had until recently as well. It's not just India.
Reminds me of how the Daily Mail is the most popular newspaper in the UK (and also has rather questionable quality stories and reporting):

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/mail-titles-overtake-sun-becom...

But yeah, a company being profitable (especially a media one) doesn't mean it's a good thing for society.
Hmmm....

Do you need to see how everyone's private life is, or is this just curiosity?

Sure, if you can live with the unnecessary consequences of how some people might react when their private lives are exposed - Ashley Madison Hack[0] provides a salient recent example [1].

Furthermore, it is obvious to many that some marriages are all for appearances. But they are also for children. They're also to appease nuclear and extended family. I don't understand the line of thinking where you could justify needing to know which other families are staying together "for the children" or "to keep their parents happy."

Is it any of your business?

Humans have kept their thoughts to themselves throughout their entire history (citation needed). Because the data collection practices of the Internet deceive the average person into giving their private thoughts to a SERP or telemetry-ridden OS, that gives you the right to "rip the bandaid" off everyone?

[0]: http://fusion.net/story/195787/whats-going-on-with-ashley-ma...
[1]: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-ashely-madison...
For myself this is the money quote of that worthy posting:

"There are effectively three string types in the Python [3] world: bytes, Unicode strings, and strings. And there are inconsistencies among them. For example, sys.path() returns bytes on Unix, but strings on other operating systems. In addition, cgi.parse_multipart() returns strings on Python 3, which is just wrong."

It'd be edifying to read about how this is a better situation (in python 3 versus 2) and/or how it might be ameliorated.
There is no problem with the next thing. You can report about the sex tape, what is happening (because what was happening is also reprehensible) without releasing the tape itself. You know, they reported on Snowden's leaks and Panama Papers without releasing them. It's not impossible by any means.
This is the same reason I ended up with S3/Cloudfront as well. A while ago, I was moving my site from GitHub Pages. I wanted HTTPS for my custom domain and more control over how my site was cached. I looked at Surge and, as much as I loved their defaults and CLI tool, that $13/mo price tag was too high.
Well, if you are familiar enough with the languages in question, you can look for what appear to be submissions that appear to use mostly idiomatic expressions of the language. Alternatively, if you are more interested in maximum possible performance, you can confirm both are making use of advanced techniques for quicker execution, but that's probably much harder to judge.
Email accounts have an expectation of privacy, since they are person-to-person communication. In-game chat on public servers does not have an expectation of privacy, since it's public to all connected.
I'd think that toxic people don't tend to be long-term thinkers.
Gawker files bankruptcy after Hogan lawsuit as Ziff Davis shows interest
Curious if you have an opinion on Gawker's chances on appeal. Is it true that the appellate court has already ruled that the video was newsworthy and so Gawker's chances are quite strong? Would the bankruptcy go on long enough to provide Gawker time to prevail as an independent entity?