skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. And that's not theoretical.

In Japan they did just that (after a few hours had passed already). They asked for some document (don't remember what), I pulled it from something similar to a file folder and handed to them. Was then asked to leave everything in the room and escorted back.

They found a list of phone numbers and addresses and asked what those were. They were for Prometric test centers. I was trying to get a Compaq certification at a time, Had already done two tests, was missing the third. I couldn't wait until after I came back from vacation due to a deadline, so had to take the third one there. Had to explain all this in Portuguese to a Spanish translator, to get that translated to Japanese.

I'm still amazed that they let me in. Took the test in Tokyo. Then HP bought Compaq. Poof the certification went.

I was even asked if I was religious. I had this postcard with a christian theme from my grandma to my aunt.
I find this creepy. I completely agree with policing your employees when they self-identify themselves as such (e.g., with RiotFoo name tags). This is normal.

What is not normal is asking prospective employees for their user id and making decisions based off of the chat logs attached to it. I mean, it makes sense, but it seems like an invasion of privacy.

Would it be fair for YC to make decisions based off of the HN comment logs of YC applicants?

Sometimes you do stupid things and I believe you shouldn't be forever in the future held accountable for what you said in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
its a game, I don't understand why everyone has to play the same way?

this is coming from an EVE player.. you can be whoever you want in EVE nobody is going to tell you not to be an asshole.
No need for a dead iPhone: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+6s+Teardown/48170#s10...
>There is a reason Blizzard GMs are almost routinely respectful.

In my experience they tend to go far beyond respectful, Blizzard has by far the nicest customer service staff I've come upon anywhere.
> ..41 [Secret Service personnel] are receiving some level of discipline.

This sort of behaviour shouldn't be a disciplinary matter - it should be a criminal matter.
The purpose of ICTS process is to establish that you will not be deported from your destination country. When they put the sticker on the passport it means that they are satisfied that you have the correct visa/visa waiver to enter. If you get deported then the airline has to repatriate you at their expense.
As a MINI owner, you can bump me up a few slots thanks to BMW.
Why suburbia sucks
The use case example on their site can be done for free with 3 camels, so I wonder what their customers are actually tracking with monitorbook?
> But lv2 and JACK are C APIs, so that's incentive for me to learn C, not Rust.

Maybe, but it might be an incentive to learn just enough C that you can wrap the C interface in Rust. The point of having an API is to have well defined behavior at a particular boundary, which can reduce quite a bit (but not eliminate) a lot of the reasons to use the language it was implemented in on the caller side.

I suspect learning rust will probably make you familiar enough with the basics of C that you won't have to do much specific C learning to use most libraries.
If this is a business software, once the sale is done, users are going to pick it up because they pretty much have to. But the sale can easily fail in the first place if the product does not have a feature that particular customer wants, and the competing offering does.
Horrible. There should be some disarmament fund. I.e. one that buys such patents and releases them for free, neutralizing their potential danger.

Imagine some state selling a pile of old nuclear weapons to the highest bidder, no matter who that is...

> The best outcome, for Yahoo and all of us, would be for a company like Google, Microsoft or Facebook to buy the whole shebang. While it might give one of those already mighty powers even more leverage, those firms are more likely to retain them as assets in the mutually-assured-destruction game played by the titans of tech when they consider suits against each other.

MAD analogy doesn't really help. While two power states with nuclear weapons are in some balance through MAD, states without them are instantly at a disadvantage. They aren't part of MAD scheme. Same goes for someone small pitted against such monster as MS. They simply can't defend themselves against massive patent aggression attacks.

Plus, MS can easily sell those patents to patent trolls which serve as their privateers with nothing to lose, thus bypassing MAD even against big opponents (it's like big state backing mercenaries which aren't officially affiliated with them, but really do their bidding).

So unless someone with good intentions buys these patetns and disarms them, it will be a problem either way.
No amount of stress is excuse for bad behavior just like no amount of alcohol is excuse for rape, drunk driving, involuntary manslaughter, etc.
I think it's blunt honesty that many of us can resonate with.

Thank diety I'm a white male, but we're no longer "exempt" from this behavior anymore either. I can only begin to imagine the emotions of a targeted demographic.

It's obvious there's a larger problem when young children of all walks of life know that something "bad" is happening when they see a police officer. If the system wasn't so vile they would be happy and thankful to see a police officer because they are "good" people who provide "protection". You know, like how kids feel about firemen.

Have you ever met a child that was terrified a fireman was going to burn down their house?
Different people enjoy different things. Not all people are like you.

I appreciate good film-making as an exercise in light and shadow, cutting and camera movement, sound and vision. But most pop movies are not made like that; they're mechanically constructed with all the art of a fast food meal. The only payoff they have is their short story, and it takes so little hinting to make it too obvious.

I'm not a fan of any actor in particular. I don't go to see a movie because an actor portrays a part. And I certainly don't go to the movies to watch people's expressions.
What's amazing is how often people are shocked by it when I use it. It's, what, almost 2 years old? I get it when I'm at a gas station in the middle of nowhere in New Zealand, but just a day or two ago I used it at some retailer in the SF Bay Area and they had never seen anyone use their phone to pay before.

It still sucks that you can't rely on it being at most places, though, because it means you still have to carry a credit card or cash if you're out for a run or bike ride and might want to grab a snack.
I have been following the Gawker case and if the prosecutors can adjust the case in such a way to avoid insurance it tells me that either Gawker didn't have the right kind of insurance or that the insurance company found Gawker liable in such a way that they lost the right to coverage. Either way, that is a Gawker problem and not a problem of legal precedent.
I don't like the approach you're proposing. The ability of people to share the space around them seems like the most basic of the "rights" you could have. "[A] space should not be controlled entirely by the people who just happen to be there at the moment" feels to close to encouraging uninvited and unwanted guests to take over communities and reshape them.

Like, imagine if suddenly the fishing community decided to come en masse to HN and start talking and upvoting only fishing-related stories, while downvoting / flagging everything else. I think the present HN community should have the (moral) right to tell them to go and find their own spot, instead of taking over someone else's.
> And that's precisely the point, if you don't have that money (and this can be quite a lot) then you're out of luck.

I'm just cautioning extrapolating from that, to the conclusion that the party with more money wins the lawsuit. That's only true up to a certain baseline.

> And that's just civil proceedings, in criminal proceedings the odds are stacked even worse against a defendant without funds.

Maybe. The DOJ's conviction rate isn't appreciably different between divisions, including white collar crime: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao/legacy/2011... (all around 90%).
Mazda would be much lower on their already low spot on the list if not for the Mazda 6.

Though my RX-7 is a beast to maintain, financially. I imagine they're only tracking models that are still current for the past 10 years.

Also some 'common' but lower-volume brands are not on the list at all (Alfa Romeo is a notable exception here)
It basically seems that the more competitive a game, the more toxic the community will be. And that in turn gets squared, if not cubed, by how easily game mechanics can be used to troll or grief.

Never mind that if a game has both a story element and a competitive element, the story element will over time deteriorate to placate the competitive side's complaints about balance and whatsnot.
42 Percent of an Electric Car Revolution from a Plug-In Prius
check_mk is a very useful monitoring system which doesn't seem to be included: http://mathias-kettner.com/check_mk.html
It's a bit early but would love to see how electric cars change the auto maintenance space...
Ask HN: How to avoid “technolust”?
So I got this issue where I completely fetishize new laptops, phones, tech gear. I always got to have the latest phone, laptop, best monitor, everything as soon as they come out. The problem is that most of my stuff is already 'good enough' and recent.

I don't know the official term for it, but I call it technolust. Anyone have any tips on combatting this behavior?
> Not by the definition we use overseas. Family and business associates of terrorists are legitimate targets.

Erm... right. You realize that's against the Geneva convention and is the definition of a war crime in the US Military. You literally can be court martialled if you did something like that.

When the Navy Seals stormed Bin Laden's home, how many children did they kill? Answer: Zero. Did they kill Bin Laden's wife? No. They didn't. She was let go. The entire family that was staying at Bin Laden's house, hiding with him, were kept safe by the Seals.

What's your military background where you can say this sort of stuff with confidence? Methinks you've been reading a bit too many articles and don't have enough experience on your own to create an opinion.
>I don't think Blizzard has ever been a part of that scene (competitive WoW, anyone?)

Arenas? starcraft? WC3?
Zoom Zoom.

(Seriously, does anyone think Mazdas are boring? Do you drive?)
I wasn't saying it was an excuse. I was just saying that it could point the way to identifying a larger problem. And why the hyperbolic analogy with rape, manslaughter, etc.??
It bothers me that people have to already know their rights to be able to take advantage of them.

On one hand, due process. I can see that the option to waive one's rights might be occasionally beneficial, but mostly to the police/border force, rather that to the individual. Police do at least have to tell someone their basic rights, but I find it really difficult to understand people who think that it makes sense to try to deny anyone due process by not doing that (see the Boston Bombers).

On the other hand, there are positive rights mentioned here, like the right to go to a hotel to get some sleep. It doesn't seem likely that anyone would know about it unless they were told, so why don't we tell them at the appropriate time? Again, time constraints might mean that in some cases people don't want to take advantage of their rights, but I'm disappointed at how much worse the author's experience was than it should have been.
What feature could we add to GitLab so that downloads are easier?
The C code is forced to use a function pointer and hence do dynamic virtual calls for each comparison, while Rust and C++ can use generics/templates to get static dispatch (and hence inlining, constant folding etc.). You can see C vs. C++ in http://www.martin-ueding.de/en/programming/qsort/index.html , and Rust is likely to be similar to C++.
Are there any downsides to Amplemarket with your experience with them so far?
Of course, because you can be 100% sure that your C++ program does not contain any subtle undefined behavior that was already disallowed in the C++98 standard and which next decade's more advanced optimizing compilers would turn into hilarious machine code.
On a recent trip, I think it was in Copenhagen, many vendors who used square-like setups also had a bluetooth-or-something connected round dongle paired with their tablet they used for NFC and EMV payments (as many of those terminals are mag stripe only without the dongle). Quite cool.

https://squareup.com/contactless-chip-reader
I ran it, no google ban
What terrible working conditions. Management monitors your off duty leisure activity and uses that to evaluate your on duty performance.
I'm not sure there is anything new here... Ubuntu did start down the path of getting FIPS-140-2 and EAL, but I don't believe it was ever completed. The main reason for this, is paying users aren't screaming for it. It is a signficant investment, for a low return.

There has been a number of external efforts for STIG compliance, but nothing formal. You can find a bunch of them on github.

Most of the technical items that Major raises aren't really issues IMO.

- Services starting by default: Don't like it, use policyrc.d to stop it. This can be done as part of the install, or via ansible prior to installing packages.
- AIDE doing a full scan: Change the config, but as a default - covering everything is safer than leaving gaps (considering his effort is part of an Ansible project, this would seem logical!)
- Verifying packages: Don't purely rely on the package manager for this! Use tripwire which is explicitly designed for this.. and debsums (with -a, that was omitted in the article [but isn't perfect])
- Firewall, permissive by default for most installations is perfectly acceptable. That is what post-install config is for. The target audience of Ubuntu server is cloud, where IaaS provided firewalls (security groups) provide the default protection, and for baremetals there should really be hardware firewalls as the 1st line of defence. However, doing # ufw default deny , switches to whitelist
- LSM, AppArmor is a pretty good default. But selinux can be switched pretty easily. The main issue against selinux is that many find it hard to use, which means that systems are left insecure. As an out of the box solution, AppArmor does provide some confinement which for many is enough. When was the last time you saw a how-to that prefixed with disabling the LSM (not as common as it used to be).

Generally, the out-of-box security experience isn't awful as it fits the majority of the users. Hardening for per-deployment basis is expected, but there hasn't been enough standardisation around this - which the ansible work Major is doing will be a good contribution.

Whilst I'm a bit down on the actual content of this article, I'm really excited that Major is working on this and it is a good thing for Ubuntu when his work has finished.

-- former Ubuntu Server Engineering Manager and current cloud/security.
Death to all fanatics!
Well I am going to have to say pure electrics might fare better but we will need ten years of playing with the tech to know for sure. All the electronics are going to be fun. Almost all the unusual entries are engine related.

Before anyone runs off in celebration of pure EVs just note the number of vehicles being sampled. Issue arise from defects for sure, as they do for wear and tear. However a lot of issues on older cars are because of lack of care. One of the reasons manufactures like BMW include service for 4x50 is so that even the leased cars would get serviced.

There are a few exaggerated entries on the list, one I know of is the Nissan Murano. Its listed quite high but that might have been because of the CVT issues faced in 05-07 that were remedied with Nissan extending the warranties.
I often feel the same way too, but not because of difficulty of configuration -- in fact, in this case, you would have to figure out how to configure each of the five tools, so if anything things become trickier on that front.
> But I've seen it often enough in Delhi suburbs

That's not city and Google doesn't plan to go beyond the major parts of the city for now.
> What's wrong with Thiel destroying things out of spite?

We appear to have isolated our point of disagreement. I'm afraid I can only say, if you can't answer this for yourself, I can't answer it for you.
Wiki says it is proprietary..
Because it gets abused by so many. It's used to track, to annoy (popups, autoplay and all that crap), it often breaks hyperlinks (you can't link to content that is loaded by JS code instead of by clicking a link), it blows my data cap on mobile, it heats my CPU, and it drains my battery.

If I start my browser with JS enabled, it takes a few days and Firefox is at 100% CPU continuously, making my laptop battery last 2 instead of 5 hours, and if you start a packet sniffer, you see how all kinds of tabs are constantly reporting back to their mothership what I am doing.

That is why I keep JS disabled.

Also, most things that can be improved in websites (not to be confused with web apps) with JS would be better implemented as browser functionality.
Deis Workflow Basics, Part Three
Boring suburbs in boring states are cheaper to live in. Seems the market places quite a premium on excitement.
I ran it at work. Please don't do that :)
Redox may be exactly what you're looking for: http://www.redox-os.org/

And there are others: http://wiki.osdev.org/Rust
I see your point and approve of your charitable reading. Still, there's no interpretation of the HN guidelines by which inflammatory rhetoric like that belongs here, and it isn't a defense of police abuses to point this out.

Like most of you, we get mad when we read these articles. At the same time, HN calls for thoughtful discourse, not blaring or venting. There's no contradiction here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
"I've seen instances in some departments where the police just stand on the victim until all the life is gone, or the paramedics never arrive, or the paramedics just nonchalantly go through motions but never attempt resuscitating."

What do you do for a living that causes you to see these things firsthand, if you don't mind me asking? What happens when you report them?
I don't see how #4 is an illustration of how the process was tainted. People seem to assume Thiel and his lawyers acted on their own to make sure Gawker's insurance wouldn't cover the settlement, but why do we think Hogan would be any less amenable to giving up a few million in order to destroy Gawker? He's just as motivated to see them bankrupt as Thiel is, just less capable of funding lawsuits.
IMO, static doesn't have to have a correlation to being simpler.

HTML, CSS, JS, and media are all static assets but you're welcome to request whatever datatypes you want behind the scenes via AJAX and/or CORs.

The benefits are entirely in the rendering speeds of an optimized web server and cache layer. Also, this approach plays extremely nicely with CDNs.

Difficulties can arise if you have to begin dealing with versioning of your assets to avoid cache invalidation, but that's what a proper build process can add to the static site.
I don't think anyone ever bought an rx7 for its reliability :) They optimized for smiles-per-kilometer.
If I'm not mistaken, Paul Lockhart was also self-taught. If I recall correctly, he met Ernst Strauss at some point, who introduced him to Erdos who then somehow managed to get him admitted to the graduate program at UCLA (he dropped out of undergrad). He had published before being accepted to graduate school.
In this particular case, my understanding is, the fully static code is just the frontend, in other words to not render HTML from your Web Server to the Browsers.
If they could go to some sort of common holding organization bound by contract to never sell them and to only use them for defense that seems like it would resolve this problem.
Riot also has a long history of abusive employees.
>The problem is if even one person decides to troll in a game then the rest of the players really have no choice.

Why is this? I've played online FPS and RTS games for about 15 years now and have never felt like I "had no choice" when it came to engaging with trolls or joining in their behavior. Granted my only experience with MOBAs is Heroes of the Storm, but is LoL that much different?
The relevant blog post:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/vitaly/gone-in-six-charac...
by extension, the Fappenning was public interest, too. But somehow Gawker is saying "In the summer of 2014, anonymous hackers flooded the internet with private nude photos of major (and minor) celebrities. Two years later, new details show the FBI thinks they identified Jennifer Lawrence’s hacker. But no one’s facing charges."
Excited to see better support for App Cache and Service Workers. I still have a bad taste in my mouth from trying to integrate them into one of my applications.
There's actually significant learning value in time spent figuring out legacy systems and linking them together. Doing ad-hoc reporting is the IT equivalent of being a short order cook.

Do it long enough, and you learn how to make almost anything from nothing.

And that should be considered an employable skill....
Love your site design. it's clean and easy to read, great presentation. Do you just whip up a new design from scratch each time you create a book or did you hire someone or purchase off the shelf? Curious as these things take me forever..
India's Deadly Entrance Exams
Ok - Bob invents something. Bob visits venture capitalists, Bob shows patent. VC's say: here is many money. Bob! form the company for patent! Bob makes company. VC's say : given patent to company; Bob you get 49% we get 51%. Bob, he is cryin', but Bob - he do! Then COMPANY have patent, patent have MONEY, many many good sales! Incentive fulfilled! Company tank. Bob say "give patent to others" VC say : auction patent. THE END.
2009-2013 as well, (accredited) state school (of which I am a resident), cost me a little less than $10,000 per year for a Computer Engineering degree. However, my junior year, engineering classes level 300 and above increased by 25%, continually increasing per year until they were 100% more expensive. I narrowly dodged that bullet.

Perhaps the west coast is cheaper? $50,000 per year seems like lunacy to me.
Yes I did look for Alfa in the list, I wasn't surprised it wasn't there, as in my experience it'd be so far off the top of the chart, the others would look tiny in comparison.

I loved our Alfa, but my word was it expensive to maintain (and broke a LOT).
Tough to trust this analysis... For example Cadillac is the #3 worst brand yet there are no Cadillac models in the worst 20 models.
> Yet we persist in exploring, not because these things are easy, but because they are hard.

That's a reason to go, not to stay. We like the challenge of going where nobody ever went before, but we almost always come back. When a mountain climber reaches a peak for the first time, he spends a few minutes to enjoy the view, but then he climbs down.
This is an issue I'm having- eventually there are no solutions manuals, and the people that can (or are willing) to answer my questions become few and far between on math.stackexchange.com
Can US broadband be considered free market? Cellular (and satellite?) is limited by frequency allocations and wired is limited by franchise agreements.
The looks to be more about infrastructure monitoring... less about application monitoring (i.e. New Relic / AppDynamics, and synthetics)
Wrong Ben -- that's Ben Thompson, not Benedict Evans.
I ran it using private Safari mode (akin to Incognito in Chrome). There were naturally no consequences to my Google Account, nor my IP Address.