skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not want -z at all, ever; -z has no business in a tape archiver, as it goes against the core UNIX philosophy of "do one thing, and do it well" [McIlroy].

Implementing UNIX tools inside of other UNIX tools is not how UNIX works; that might be acceptable on Windows, but it sucks on UNIX.

For example,

xz -dvc archive.tar.xz | tar xf -

works everywhere as is, including Linux, while

tar xzf archive.tar.xz

will not work on systems which do not use GNU tar or where GNU tar is not linked with libz, libarchive and liblzma.

GNU way is broken, because it is the Windows way, and Windows is busted.
I think the assumption is that the paths taken are almost identical because the distance to the source is vastly longer than the distance between the detectors.
Rhapsody is Becoming Napster
> I think the TSA's primary job is that of a common door lock. Door locks aren't designed to stop everyone, they are designed to dissuade amateur and opportunistic thieves. The old TSA did a fairly good job of dissuading your average nutter from trying to hijack aircraft.

Pre-TSA non-federal security screening (heck, even pre-1990 gulf crisis security screening of the type adopted in, IIRC, something like the late 1970s in response to the hijackings of the 1960s and 1970s) did that pretty well.
The majority of "no single founder" advice I have heard are from investors, and that obviously includes PG as well. It is important to realize that investors have many incentives to fund companies with more than one founder. Not all of those incentives necessarily align with the incentives of the primary founder.

Being a single founder has some obvious disadvantages, but considering how many times "cofounder disputes" is cited as one of the most common reasons startups die, often by the same set of people with the above advice, I can't help but wonder if the benefit of derisking that particular concern by being a single founder is underappreciated.
Rust: Which everyone seems to know about and I'm sure lots of people will be able to explain why.

So I'll focus on ...
Haxe: Which is known in a few circles, but If I talk to a random person about it they've never heard of it.

Haxe is a garbage collected strictly typed compiled language with type inference. It compiles to a variety of platforms including C++, Javascript, Flash Bytecode, Neko VM bytecode, even PHP. More recently it has been growing support for C#, java, python and lua.

It's just a nice language to use. A combination of the cool features like pattern matching case statements, and the simple tidiness of the basics.

for (minion in party) {
minion.jumpToTheLeft();
}

Just little things like not having 'for (var minion in party)'. It clears the clutter. while still protecting you.

In many respects, when compiling to JavaScript, it serves the niche that Dart and Typescript aim at. I think the fact that it is independent should not be underestimated. Google people tend to use Dart, Microsoft people use TypeScript. Haxe is not on a 'side' people use it because of what it is, not who made it. I'm rather against provenance as a reason to use a language.

The best way to get a good feel for Haxe is to go to http://try.haxe.org and look-at/run some of the examples.
You say based on what information? Zfs in particular, with the safety features (like checksumming) it tries to guarantee, relies on ram not lying to you. http://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/zfs-corruption...
If you turn on email reporting you get an email tagged with [reboot required].
Yeah that was the first thought that popped in my mind. If a big chunk of the market is (still) growing illegally, why would they ever come out and join a marketplace?
If it was China or Russia and they planned to release the information, they wouldn't want anyone to acknowledge their connection to the hacker. Not saying it was them behind this, just that the hacker could have just as much motive to lie about it.
I don't think you know what "existential threat" means. It means your home country itself is in danger. Losing a single carrier only slightly reduces the US's ability to project force around the globe. But even with all carriers gone (not something that's ever going to happen), it would still be folly to attack the US on its own soil.
Modern Perl with Mojolicious makes me happy. Perl has enjoyed yearly releases and with Moose has fantastic OO; also the community is vibrant.
The new crop of young people actually read more than previous generations.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/09/millen...

http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/09/10/younger-americans-and-...
What we talked at the Wan-Ifra virtual reality journalism workshop
> With iMessage, Facetime, Filefault, if it failed, you were were no worse off than if you used something else. In this case, you actually are.

What would someone be better off using?
Looks great, going to show the team tomorrow! Can I ask what it is coded in? Node or something else?
Answer it there - You don't want me to steal your stackoverflow points, do ya ;)
Exactly. Presumably the TSA has been aware of this new system for a decade and it took an airline, concerned over customer satisfaction, to pay to get the ball rolling.
FBI says utility pole surveillance cam locations must be kept secret
To you who are encouraging a proliferation of ignorance and punishing the innocent many for the crimes of a guilty few: this is their goal and you are helping to realize it.
What about ES7? Async await syntax is a game changer
Adding a ZIL device is equivalent to over-provisioning, but with performance impacts in high performance situations
The question of defining "species" was one of the keystone questions used as an example in a philosophy of science course I took. See: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/species/
Hardlinked backups do not work well at all with large files that change frequently, such as video and image editing projects or VM images.
Sands of Time was pretty fun, but it kind of felt too easy (rewinding every mistake). My favorite was the original DOS Prince of Persia, which was one of my favorite games back then!
Go Full Circle with Pebble Time Round Special Editions
Neat! Hadn't come across this tool before but it let me track down a PulseAudio crash that's been bugging me for months. Turns out that it was unloading a shared library whilst executing code from that shared library, which meant that the inevitable crash happened in code that was no longer loaded, and that was why I couldn't get a meaningful backtrace at the time of the crash. The call to dlclose() right before the crash was a huge hint; knowing that was the last library function called made it easy to set a breakpoint and catch it in the act.

Thanks for the tip!
> while people elsewhere are being abused and exploited.

Which of course doesn't include the still completely unsubstantiated plagiarism claims, and answering no questions about that. It doesn't include stunts like "TimeToDieJake" or this: https://twitter.com/Shidash/status/741259721756319744 and whatever else will predictably follow in the wake of sentencing someone as "rapist, sociopath, plagiarist, period", just to start it all off. It doesn't include flagged Jill Bähring's account either, naturally, that's not abusing and exploiting someone and then not even allowing them to defend themselves.

None of this takes away from the other allegiations, but two wrongs still don't make a right, one can be abusive in response to abuse.
I'm very curious to hear more of your thoughts on this. Might they ever show up on a blog at some point in the future?
You should have commented at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11675129 . (-:

Here, however, your audience has launchd, and has had for over a decade, running on top of Mach IPC; and BSD APIs such as kevent() for tracking forking processes.
Scala: I love the mix of FP with OO all on the JVM with access to battle-tested Java libraries. I can also use it on the frontend with https://www.scala-js.org/ and potentially as a lower level system language with http://www.scala-native.org/
Did you even read the article? That's exactly the kind of thing the author claims distribution maintainers protect users from.
So, I remember hearing about LIGO when the first wave was detected, and was excited by it - but I had never heard of it before that.

What other experiments are running that would generate similar excitement from the science community that I probably haven't heard of yet?
DDoS is making it so small players (and very large ones like the IA) can't run web sites anymore. It's time to stop bullshitting this problem and pretending it's going to go away or that you can sign up for a magic cheap plan somewhere and all the problems stop happening. We really, really need to start getting active about solving this problem.

That means building DDoS protection into the nature of the web and all hosting by default (AWS and GCS I'm looking at you), and that means actively prosecuting DDoS attackers.

That also means, if you're a cloud DDoS provider, not helping to protect the sites where these attacks are marketed.
In many countries outside the US NBA league pass is much better than a subscription to the cable service. It's the same for NHL, Baseball & the NFL.

BeIn Sports have excellent streaming of (world) football.

ESPN in many countries has loads of not very popular ESPN constructed events like the X-Z games or whatever.
When ISIS Hackers Call You Out by Name
Firstly using the full name and not the username in the "Newest Members" is just not cool. This should definitely be configurable in profile (first name, first & last, username). You are tying a location to the name and age, which is almost certainly uniquely identifiable.

That aside

Initial search - missing climbing / bouldering

read the text below, assumed if I created an account I could add them into the system, instead found that I could not add it full stop! I have to use some weird feedback form after my account creation has finished. When I try and use this form I get to submit one (one!) skill.

I have a handful of hobbies, the one tied to the account is not one I want to meet people to do (but had to enter one to proceed) and the ones I want to add aren't there yet.

/rant

Suggestions:

Allow adding "unofficial" skills, if they are accepted they become official and match you

Allow removing skills (I may try something and then give up on it)

Do force me to add a skill in signup, don't limit it to just one.

Tell me how many people are using the platform in my area, tell me how many have my interests

Make sharing easy. I may share based on location (lets get this popular in <city>), skill (in the bouldering chats I am in), or friends (this is cool). Before "proper" integration simply dropping that text allows copy paste of well written invites.

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On the whole I like it, this is something I really want to use. Very good quality already, expected UX problems. I understand they may take a while to fix as they reach through to the backend as well as affecting the flow.

Though get the names sorted please (I don't mind matches, just not the web please)
Yes, but to me having a consistent server means having an illumos based server, because that guarantees SVR4, XPG4, SuS and POSIX behavior, as well as that my applications will JustWork(SM), and that my data integrity will be guaranteed.

I can't use ZFS on Linux because the place where I work doesn't allow it, as they are scared of having to support it (and they don't know how), and they're scared of redhat denying them support. On top of that, why would I use ZFS on Linux when I can have the real deal on any illumos or FreeBSD derivative (assuming they would let me)? Again, zero interest in running Linux. I like sleeping through my nights instead of sitting in a priority 1 crisis bridge having a bunch of managers yelling at me, and all because of having problems on Linux I wouldn't be having if I were running SmartOS.
Starve the beast has literally never worked.

I wonder why people believe that cutting budgets will somehow lead to better results. It never happens.
> $9 billion is the statistically expected value

No, $9 billion is the subjective expectation of the party or group of parties willing to pay the most.

(Now, no doubt, they apply some kind of statistical formulae to conclude that that is the statistically expected value, but its also clear that other potential investors are also doing that with different models, and in the case of disagreement, the ones assessing the valuation the highest are, ceteris paribus, the ones with whom a deal will be made. Valuations derived from public market caps have some problems, and may not be justifiable rational expectations, but they are at least some kind of broad consensus. But private-deal-based valuations are inherently inflated by the way deals get made.)
Simple possible explanation: lots of people hacked the DNC servers.
A typical attack mitigation service involves HTTPS termination, and yeah, that's a privacy issue.
I dislike waiting in line (obviously), but I really hate that the wait times are wildly unpredictable. Sometimes it's five minutes, sometimes it's an hour, and the only way to be sure is to arrive at the airport far ahead of time.

This has always struck me as weird since they know almost exactly how many people will be passing through a checkpoint at any given time: the vast majority of tickets are bought >1 week in advance and I'm pretty sure airlines share passenger data with the TSA already. Given this, they should be able to adjust the staffing accordingly to make the wait times incredibly predictable--at least when I fly, all of the lines are rarely open.

Heck, you could even make things slightly better by texting passengers a "security forecast" the night before: "Screening lines are expected to be {short,typical,long} tomorrow. Please arrive {1 hr, 90 min, 2+hr} before your flight.
I don't see a position for a Haskell guru. Do you have an e-mail address we can chat on?
That's a good point!
Markov Chains (2008)
By this logic Apple should have fired Steve Jobs right after his return when he started negotiating with Microsoft for the investment that would save the company from going bankrupt in weeks. Only he was in a position to do that negotiation and the negotiation was necessary, so he was indispensable and "should be let go" before things got worse?

This rule of thumb sounds like madness to put it bluntly.
We're specifically not talking about attacking the carrier with nuclear warheads. We're talking about the US initiating nuclear war in response to a conventional attack on a carrier.

And don't underestimate small countries. In an exercise (a long time ago), a Dutch diesel-electric sub "killed" half a dozen US ships, including a carrier. Nuclear subs aren't much of a threat to a carrier (because they're noisy), but diesel-electrics are one of the few weapons that are known to be able to get close enough, because they can be extremely quiet.
What world? Streaming was not created by Netflix. Netflix could be gone tomorrow, and we'd stream our way around them just fine, just as us cable-cutters stream our way around cable or around HBO to get Game of Thrones, top downloaded show all the way back in 2012 [1].

Netflix just carved the monster wave beautifully like any pro surfer would by building the largest subscription base for it. Good for them. But beyond that, anyone can practically stream anything now. And it's not because of Netflix.

Anecdotally, good TV has always been good TV, and has been king. So as long as Netflix can generate good original content as they have, people will be happy to pay them 10 dollars. You could say this world was created by HBO, but whatever created what, it all traces back to good television, aka content, being king. The underlying technology doesn't really matter. As we can see HBO appears to have caught up just fine.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/game-of-thrones-most-pirated-tv-sho...
There were also talks recently that "NATO may counter cyber attacks with conventional weapons" [1], so hypothetical nation-state attackers would want to downplay their involvement.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-nato-idUSKCN0Z12NE
Just scrub out some J's :p
I'm not sure that's a reasonable interpretation. Is there a such thing as Occam's Taser?
Wasn't there a limit to the number of times you could rewind time and you had to collect some items/defeat enemies to get more rewinds?
Quake 20th anniversary is coming up soon. I'm away on holiday with no PC access. I'm a bit sad I'm going to miss out on the inevitable surge in people on Q1 servers. Anyone here still plays Q1? If you're in the right timezone you can sometimes find a few random chaps on the public servers.

I actually played a couple of months ago and I'm not as good as I remember being, although that might partially be age.
Sure, but could the same be said if a lone female gets into a taxi with a male driver, feels uncomfortable, but doesn't get out? If the taxi driver takes this to imply sexual consent, does saying that only "the most stalwart liberal Westerner" would defend her behavior make the situation any less one-sided?

That scenario is not even remotely comparable to the events that Lovecruft is describing, which have apparently taken place over months or years.

Have you read her post? She and Appelbaum have a history, which she recounts in a way that (perhaps to her credit) doesn't flatter her case. If the events are as she described, then yes, Appelbaum behaved inappropriately and inexcusably. But considering what victims of sexual violence have historically had to face, I don't think much of Lovecruft for even bothering to post this account. It amounts to a lot of whining about a betrayal of personal trust that should have come as no surprise whatsoever.

Based on your statements, I'm guessing that you hold relatively standard conservative Western beliefs regarding the implications of certain interactions between non-married members of the opposite sex.

My values/beliefs aren't relevant here, and I can honestly say they're not contributing to my opinion of what I've read about this case.

It's impossible to be 100% objective, of course, but for the same reason, it's unreasonable to assign 100% of the blame to either party without a much better awareness of exactly just what happened, and of what might have motivated it.
I started reading your comment and around the 3rd line I already knew it was you without looking at your nick :D I am thinking about going back to Guix soon, this was an awesome experience for me even though the philosophy was a bit too "free" for my hardware.
Awesome! We took that detour as well, tried a bunch of other chat apps, but in the end, Slack won out. It's the most mature chat system out there.

With Wisemonk keeping us accountable, we're now able to tackle the negatives of Slack; so eager to learn your experiences.
Still... I'm unhappy with the current selection of offerings.

Reddit lets you see the top posts from the past: hour, day, week, month, year, all time.

Going from one month to a whole year is a huge jump! And personally I almost never look at top posts from the past hour.

I would love to see top posts from the past 3-months and 6-months.
Are you aware of Intel's Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX)? Initially it was buggy, but it has been functional since Broadwell F0 stepping in 2014 (According to Wikipedia).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_Synchronization_...
> I could argue that it's my website and I get to decide what features I want to be usable.

Sure, and you could also argue that it's your website so you'll decide if you want to use a self-signed certificate, or lots of popups, or auto-play video with audio. That doesn't mean the browser has to listen.
nice comparison/analysis of OSRM, ArcGIS, Google Maps and GraphHopper

https://iliauk.com/2016/02/23/millions-of-distances-osrm-pyt...
Someone mentioned their ~breeding startup in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11896916
I wish I had been able to find this a few weeks ago. Was working on a modified login feature where the autocomplete behavior was actually a hinderance to a UX improvement we were working on.
I took a quick read through the so-called "Opposition Playbook". It's just quotes from news articles and stories about Trump. There's no actual guidance or anything internal-looking from what I saw. The huge "CONFIDENTIAL" watermark also seems a bit out of place.
> voting with my dollars to let indies and publishers know the types of game I'd like to see more of

The "aspirational" purchase, which I'm very familiar with.

"Oh man, that's a great sale price, I should totally pick that up." <my "Up Next" category on steam is only 33 long...>
Hanlon's Razor
This isn't really a wrong picture to imagine. In a way, this is what the experiments are trying to measure. You have a mirror and a laser at two points of your lattice (the space itself), and the "region" between them compresses and expands, which makes the laser take a slightly different time to bounce back.

Far away in linear approximation (which is what we saw here), the lattice picture is quite appropriate as a first order analogy.
Since you have direct control of the browser, the simplest answer would be to go to settings and turn off autocomplete entirely.
One of the opening scenes from the transhuman adventure novel Diaspora by Greg Egan involves a robot on the moon tending a large laser interferometer which observes two inspiraling neutron stars. Perhaps my favourite book.
Sure, but then what's to stop them from ceasing to report 6 months later when the lockup period expires and the insiders cash out?
Don't bother with Mandrill. They clearly don't want to keep their transactional email customers and perhaps just want to focus on the marketing piece. After the way they handled mandrill, I wouldn't trust them anyway (and I was a paying client of mandrill). Go with Sendgrid, mailgun etc. for transactional emails.
I disagree with 'pretty similar' and would suggest 'challenging in completely different ways'.
Graphics in a minimum 60 fps context is about 700 times less time sensitive. That's almost three magnitudes difference. On top of that it isn't a major fail if you don't meet the 60 on time, but in audio it is. Furthermore audio tends to be more single thread focused, while graphics is much more multi thread friendly (see your link to llvmpipe and general gpu architectures). Graphics need to shovel around about some hundreds of megabytes per second and is less time critical, whereas audio is ultimately time critical and only needs to produce about 350kb per second for 32 bit stereo (the data difference you already mentioned). That's again some three orders of magnitude of difference. I wouldn't call that similar. Since you can't provide any advise for an alternative to function pointers i must challenge your expertise in audio programming since you seem to project your view from a graphics programming point.
How do you do that? The nature of DDOS is to send multiple requests from multiple locations. It's not easy to counter this if you can't scale up as big as the DDOS is. If you start banning IPs, you are going to also ban legitimate users. (search for "tor and cloudflare")
I always compare this with a mailbox and people get it. When you deposit a letter it just doesn't arrive magically to its destination. People, cars, trucks, trains, boats, and planes are part of the process tve gets your letter delivered. Their eyes usually open wide once understood.
Clickbait headline is clickbaity.

TFA pretty clearly indicates that they're recommending kids be forced to design their own activities to overcome boredom, not have their summer pre-planned by their parents with "chess camp, art school, cooking classes, or tennis lessons."

Since most people only read the headline, as stated this seems like justification for parents depriving their kids of options in a sterile environment (or just banning whatever the latest moral panic is) while telling themselves, "Boredom is good for you!"
2016, Is Big Data Still as “Big”?
What kind of search engine is it? Is it public?