skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope - I can remember it quite vividly.

Train from Trieste to Ljubljana - stops in the middle of nowhere. After an hour or so troops turn up and surround the train, I remember watching them assemble the heavy machine gun and point it in the general direction of our carriage (mind you, the soldiers involved looked completely bored, so I didn't feel that threatened).

A chap who looked like a border guard came through with people who looked like officers (and who were in a supremely bad mood). Much shouting, waiving of pistols and people looking genuinely scared. After another couple of hours train continues on its way with everyone very puzzled.

No idea what it was about and my traveling companions hadn't encountered anything like that there before and subsequent border crossings in the next few days (e.g. Yugoslavia -> Hungary) were completely uneventful.

I can date it pretty well as it was about a week before the Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea - I'm from the North East of Scotland and was worried that people I knew might have been involved. So it was about the 1st July 1988.
As long as Martin is still alive Game of Thrones will get an ending.
I agree you can't implement a strong password hash on some legacy systems and that replacing them is capital intensive which may not even be possible in some cases. However, that doesn't stop good security procedures to isolate those systems, add layers in front of them and minimize the attack vectors. Even the act of air gapping certain legacy systems is the right move, it at least minimizes the attack vectors, and can keep costs reasonable.

So if the company cares about security there are ways to layer it in and provide a robust solution (albeit not necessarily ideal), but many times they just don't care enough to make it a priority.
Creating a dev bootcamp is not easy. I was there in almost the very beginning as a guest instructor. It's hard. Hack Reactor did a great job overall. It helped change the lives of many. The ROI is 200-300% over traditional CS degrees.
See also https://www.netlify.com/ ... Not sure on exact differences between the two, maybe someone who's used one or the other can chime in?
But presumably some sort of bug would have. Broken is broken. If Rust correctly deduces the intent leading to the bad dereference, then it's REALLY GOOD! :)

( no snark; I hope you get my point )

Ironically, reliability is actually a value of merit with 'C'/C++ - in cases. It's just that the ways of doing that seem rather inaccessible these days, or the flow of people past seeing them is not working out.

I don't think there will ever be a way around developing proper test vectors. It's quite interesting work but it tends to go unrewarded.
Firefox and Pale Moon both have "Open Link in New Private Window".

IE has some kind of private browsing option as well, but I don't know what would be the equivalent way to invoke it.
I love C, but I think we really have to stop building all kinds of shared libraries in C. Important code which needs to be secure and solid can't be built on C anymore, it puts everybody at risk. Just look at the disaster OpenSSL has been.

I think Rust would be create for building common crypto infrastructure and things such as crypto currency. It seems risky to me to build something like Bitcoin with C++ where millions can easily be at stake if the system doesn't work.

I am an application programmer so I might not be the primary target, but I started programming with Swift and although it isn't the same as Rust it has some similarities. A lot stricter language than C++, C, Lua, Python and Objective-C which have have used most in the past. So many bugs are caught at compile time. I used to be skeptical towards static typing, primarily because languages like C++ and Java made types so awful to work with. But with the newer OOP languages with more functional inspiration, it is getting easier to deal with strict typing.

You don't have to chose between productivity and safety so much anymore.
So we destroy an entire news outlet conglomeration?

That strikes me as overreach. There's clearly a privacy question here, but the video is real, the words are real, and the events actually happened.

I've never seen the video. I don't care. Hogan's sex life is not interesting to me. People already masterbate to him.

I'm struggling to understand how a large amount of damage was dealt.
You decimated those make believe opponents who don't exist.
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Similarity isn't a clear-cut yes/no question, but the NT kernel is so similar to UNIX that it was able to adopt a second syscall ABI compatible with Linux. Present operating systems are basically a monoculture in terms of high-level design decisions; Rob Pike complained eloquently about this in 2000, and outside of possibly unikernel development (which still usually has a libc/unix-like layer implementing at least a filesystem) little has changed since: http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf
We've changed the title to (what appears to be) a representative sentence from the article.
I have a Sansa Clip something or other for MP3. It's cheap, and sounds nice.

I have an NDS and a PSP for handheld gaming. I used to have a 3DS, but wasn't enjoying it that much. (I might get another).

I have an iPhone4s. I'm looking to replace that, probably with Android. But I prefer small phones (eg HTC Wildfire+ size) and they're all massive now. With a bluetooth keyboard it's sort of usable.
Or they're just using a bunch of SELECT * WHERE X queries and then filtering the results in their favorite programming language
Wow. Thank you for such a detailed response. I may come back and have questions about this later (but I don't want to presume...)

I think Re #1 - that I did treat them differently is probably right. I almost went back and edited my original question a few seconds after I posted it. I noticed that I blushed (a lot) when women would say risque things vs. guys. They noticed too - and ganged up on me a little about it. There were probably more instances of this. I need to think about it some more.

Thank you.
Wow. Sort of thought so (that it could be world wide), but interesting to hear it. And shit.
> the article says that Intel is working on a standard to let those pins be used for analog audio

In that case, the article is wrong because the USB 3.1 spec already supports analog audio via the Audio Adapter Accessory Mode. Whether this phone supports this mode is unclear, but it's part of the existing spec explicitly to allow passive USB-C to 3.5mm adapters

Official spec: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/

page 166 of the USB-C spec: http://www.those.ch/designtechnik/wp-content/uploads/2014/08...
The more I learn about history, and the more I learn about the world around us, the less I believe the popular fashionable ideas that our ancestors were so stupid and we're so smart about everything because everything's "different" and we've got so much science that we've just got science coming out our ears or something. There's an awful lot of things like that we've torn down in the past 50 years and it doesn't tend to become clear for a decade or three that that was a bad idea, so everything thinks they've gotten away with it when they haven't necessarily.

Keep your eyes out in the next 10-20 on the wisdom of easy and prolific debt because we're so much smarter than our ancestors who viewed it with suspicion, for instance. We've already been served some wake up calls but as near as I can tell we've hit the "snooze" button.
"Site Reliability Engineer", I think.
Even if the conference would have been sponsored by a British organization this would have resulted in the same outcome no matter what she described in her post.
> There's a brave new world of pro-billionaires media awaiting us.

As opposed to the brave world of billion-dollar news corporations destroying millionaires.

For context, you really should have published Mr. Parker's defense: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/sean-p...
Are you implying that to be a good developer you need to live in a place where 50$/h is considered entry level?
No, it wasn't always like this.
> Work email actively, with an active complaint it can stem to personal email.

I think this is pretty dissimilar from the hypothetical I raised, that being screening the personal email of all potential hires.
> You can be tracked without bidirectional calls

No, you can be fingerprinted and what not, but being tracked requires you send the data somewhere.
"In the end, I didn’t get a single offer through a raw application. Every single offer came through a referral of some kind. (This I did not expect, and strongly influences the advice I’d give to a job-seeker.)"

" Haseeb Qureshi says:
04/23/2016 at 9:53 am

I’ll be writing more about this in my subsequent blog post. But if you have no connections at all in SV, then I might say that if you’re set on SV as a place to work (sounds like you’re on the fence?) I’d recommend mass applying, and also moving here to start interacting with folks and getting to know people. Building a network is so, so valuable for getting a foot in the door."

Unless this guy is some type of programming prodigy, who in only two years of self learning, somehow blew away all top companies, only to be turned down, then what happened was that he has friends in high places that helped sway their decision.

To be completely honest, the entire article smells like a marketing campaign for TripleByte and AppAcademy. Google wanting to put him on the C++ team, after two years coding in Rails? Get the hell out of here.
Python has come a long way, but for domain reasons, the significant whitespace isn't my primary beef. Packaging is, because I haven't captured all the gnosis yet.
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It was, though. "Will Yahoo's patents go to a troll?" or something close to that.
Shuttleworth inquired with you personally?
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> I've never encountered anyone who understood typical second year graduate level mathematics without formal training.

I've known one such person. He skipped Math 55 at Harvard as a freshman because it was too basic for him.

He's such an extreme outlier though that there's almost nothing to learn from his case other than to marvel at it.
Taking this question seriously, is there any legal system that has ever operated like that? What would it entail?

A state monopoly on legal services where lawyers are assigned by lot? A system of "loser pays legal costs" where lawyers bid for likely wins/profitable cases?
While a decent guideline, MISRA does not guarantee correctitude. There are many ways you can twist code that MISRA will not complain but the code will be wholly broken.

I do not know what kind of unsafe memory access happened in their systems, but you can do all sorts of memory opperations and as long as the explicit typecasts are a-ok misra won't flinch.
to be fair, I felt pretty much the same as I did at the end of Primer
> In certain cases, the wealthier party to the litigation should be obliged to pay an amount of money equal to their own expenditures on legal fees into a trust run by the court, which would ensure the less-wealthy party gets equally-solid representation and would prevent a lot of the bullying-by-lawsuit that goes on.

Sounds like that could be gamed by lawyers to turn into a full-employment-for-lawyers act.
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How about a wealthy media company acting in a way that exposes them to liability, relying the inability of those they have victimized to seek redress?
"Why are you visiting Canada?"

"On vacation."

Done.
As a C++ developer for 13 years I got to say that language just makes screwing up so much easier. The last year I've been coding Swift and man it is so much easier to avoid so many pitfalls in C++. I could write page upon page about all the problems with C++ and how those problems don't exist in modern languages like Swift and Rust.

Programming languages isn't just fashion, we invent them because we thing we can solve old problems in better ways.

Most of my co-workes doing C++ never even wanted to look at the alternatives. Being the only thing they have ever done, they don't even realize how bad it is. They have just internalized it.
>for which the ISP often nags by redirecting plain http connections to their nag-page or sending me emails

My phone ISP nags me too. After I buy a booster pack (see nearby comment by me) because the main one got over early, I get unwanted calls from them selling more offers. Have to tell them I'm not interested.
The key rule that Gawker broke here was "Don't make powerful enemies"

Gawker's reputation and missteps aside, this is not a rule any respectable journalism organization would agree with.
You entirely missed my point.

Replace "child" with "garden" and "sweets" with "weeds". If you try to starve the weeds taking over your garden by not watering your garden, you'll have only weeds left.

You need to attack the root of the problem, be it literally roots, or by voting warmongers out of office.
I'm not saying that this type of vengeance and cash driven attack on media outlets is a good thing but...

I've seen news companies destroy hundreds of people and companies to gain readership and/or for other more political motives. Seems fair that they should have the table turned on them from time to time no?

Perhaps the remaining media companies will now be more diligent about who and what they report on.
Yeah, I'm very intrigued by unikernels myself; as far as I know, I'm the first person to have gotten an Iron web app running on Rumprun. I figured I'm the first because I had to send patches to make it work :)

I guess my point is that even if vague designs are relatively a monoculture, that still means that anything that fits inside that box is going to be reasonable to port over. And I'm glad that it's so easy to not use the standard library for other cases; my little kernel doesn't yet have processes or files, and Rust works for it just fine. Well, it doesn't have them yet, anyway... hopefully soon.
That's exactly right, we have already lost.

Can you imagine the outcry if we had a system where lawyers were randomly assigned to cases, and paid according to some fixed schedule (eg seniority)?

Yet wouldn't you want a world like that? Where whenever some matter arose, it wouldn't matter whether you were rich or poor, you would get some random lawyer, as would your opponent?

As to whether better lawyers get paid more, I need evidence to believe that. I'm no expert, but it seems to me the quality of legal work has a lot to do with how much time is available to do it, which pretty much depends on budget.

Whenever I've dealt with a certain class of (suited) professional, I've never gotten the sense that one guy would come up with something that another guy wouldn't, given the time. If there was doubt on an issue (typically tax related) both accountants would say so, and suggest spending time on research. If there was something aggressive (again tax deals) evert accountant seemed to think so. Same with lawyers, I've never come across some line of reasoning that seemed like it wouldn't have been uncovered by every lawyer, given enough time. And also they tend to defer to specialty experts whenever they are at the end of their knowledge, so it all feels pretty standard.
That, too.
"Whataboutism" is the bedrock of a legal system like ours. It's how you consider the consequences of a law in different edge cases that aren't as clear-cut as the current case.
We can't force people to use the stable version of Rust. But it does exist. And we're working on bringing the most popular nightly features to stable as soon as possible.

In any case, even if you're using nightly your code won't break nearly as much as it did pre-1.0. We use nightly in Servo and we've been through dozens of Rust upgrades that sailed through without a hitch--and we have 150+ dependencies.
Neither are particularly helpful. It's all just noise.
Police in America are a cesspool of scum, dishonor, poor judgement, poor impulse control, and sociopathic behavior. It's not every cop, but on the other hand it's also the system as a whole, which does affect every cop. Police are not good. They are not to be trusted. They are a barely controlled monster that we ostensibly hold the leash to but increasingly are getting bitten by.

It shouldn't be normal to be constantly filled with rage by the actions of police officers. It shouldn't be normal to silently celebrate whenever a police officer is killed. It shouldn't be normal to have to consciously put on an exaggeratedly compliant persona when interacting with police so they don't kill you. It shouldn't be normal to be a law abiding citizen who actively avoids any interaction with police because you might end up in jail or dead. It shouldn't be normal to have to refuse to talk to police because they can and will use anything you say against you if they feel so inclined, even if you're completely innocent of anything. But it is normal. And that needs to stop.
I had actually written a post a few months back[1] that bares a remarkable similarity to this one. It's encouraging to see others have, and are, coming to similar conclusions. Remember that each person who learns these methods now improves a round of interviews in the future.

1: https://blog.benroux.me/4-steps-to-making-your-interview-suc...
Or just implement Loser Pays.
Giving a talk at a conference is fine. Getting paid to give a talk at a conference is for many (most?) categories of conference employment and hence not fine.
Huh? All I get is a small, not really annoying popup. I have seen stuff that was way more irritating.
You got me as to why this is. Dude, I tried back in the day - Ada, MODULA, all those.

Maybe the "badass 'C' hax0r" meme was stronger than I realized. But I think a lot of it was just switching cost.
Kindof ironic it's allowed everywhere like this presidential race.
Thiel is a billionaire, he could destroy many companies out of pure spite. If a startup founder looks at him wrong he could throw millions of dollars at one of their competitors, or pay someone to start a competitor purely for vengence. This may be petty, but it's entirely legal.

It seems like you're discussing a situation other than this case, but I can't figure out what it is. The court ruled that Gawker unlawfully invaded someone's privacy. They are clearly in the wrong no matter how you look at it. This isn't a case of rich people abusing the court system or using money to gain an unfair advantage. This is justice being done in the service of revenge, which is the usual way in which justice gets done.

I'm going to stick by the idea that people can use their money however they want within the boundaries of the law. The idea of not making powerful enemies is sound because there are countless ways that someone can use resources to make life difficult for someone else. It would be impossible to outlaw all of them, and you wouldn't want that even if it could be done.

I'd still love to hear how Thiel using his money to bring about a just outcome does harm to the integrity of the legal system.
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Before being so rude, had you considered the possibility, however small it may be, of the phone or reader hardware malfunctioning in some way?
What's interesting is that the ISO standard for NFC is derived from ISO 7816 standard for chip cards; and, NFC has to transmit at 13.56MHz while chips have a wired connection. I'm not sure what is going on there exactly, but it doesn't make much sense (at least before diggin' deeply into the specs).
> 3.5mm jacks are analogue, and they're everywhere

>As soon as headphones are digital, manufacturers can start locking down headphones.

The article is unclear, but the USB3.1 spec does specifically support analog audio over USB-C explicitly for compatibility with 3.5mm audio headsets. So if Motorola don't support this mode then you may have a point. But right now it's unclear exactly what this phone supports

> they'll put a 2.5mm jack on the phone, or cut the 3.5mm jack in half

If I need a passive adapter for my existing headsets, I'd rather get a USB-C port which supports analog audio. Atleast then my adapters would be standardized.
It was an open request to the community from his blog post. I emailed him first, that's how conversation started.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/?s=government
I loaded the database dump in my ELK stack, did some magic and can confirm: All pins are included.
Also, my pin is in there. What should I do now? Panic and run in a circle?
OMG - mine is in there! Probably, I really didn't look because reasons. ;)
Rape culture is a man problem. Why aren’t more men speaking up?
appears similar to skeleton. whats the tldr differences?
You have control over who you email or invite to a Hangout. You do not have control over who you connect with in an online game.

You're trying to reason this through from a technology perspective, which is not how others are thinking about it. What matters more is the perception, not the software that makes it happen. We think of Gchat, email and hangouts as private communication. But playing an online game is more like being in a public space, so we have less expectation of privacy. Online games already have mechanisms for reporting toxic players, so you know going in: someone else may look at what I said.
I wanted to register to try the product but you do not allow me to try it or even register without Credit card, and now I am stuck on https://monitorbook.com/plan_type_form (page to enter credit card detils) even when I go to monitorbook.com it redirects me there. Gross.
There is no editor equivalent

It depends on what you are working on. A non-trivial part of my job involves working with domain expert scientists and taking their very clever, but badly written, code that solves some hard problem and turning it into fast, efficient and usable code.
You make it sound like $50/hr devs are stupid and not able to devise such a clever trick but reality is not like that.

Sure there is a difference but it's not in your example, the pre-uploading feature was hardly there in the first app versions and it's not something that some smart iOS dev invents on a whim and bakes into an app, it's a deliberate feature requiring collaboration between several teams.

Most of all, features like that are created because there are (amazing) devs whose sole job is to make the app better, and they've been doing it for what, 6 years now.
I guess it's time to move to a 5-digit PIN in order to prevent this sort of leak from being feasible in the future.
I assume he finds it crass because the story has not finished unfolding and it's too early to completely condemn the company.
Me too, wherefore two separate efforts:

* Brave has built in no-script support, and NoScript is a top add-on for other browsers.

* WebAssembly.

You're welcome! :-P
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> I've recently been going through temporal logics. If only more programmers were aware of the beauty of the proof of weak fairness. And its implications in system specifications.

I'm a mathematician and have read about temporal logic. What beautiful proof of weak fairness do you mean here?
To me this looks like a submarine article for Amplemarket. Reading between the lines, John had trouble with sales on Monitorbook, so he created Amplemarket and used it to increase growth.

If that's the case it's doubly remarkable, but keeping that information secret seems sleazy. Am I crazy for thinking that?
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So I downloaded this thinking it was a hoax but my PIN is totally in there. I immediately deleted the file but I'm wondering what liability I might have now for receiving stolen data? Even more stupidly I did this on my employer's computer, hope this doesn't get me fired!
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