skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite apt, especially currently, when liberals are ever more pushing to break apart and move America away from unity and towards fracturing and disintegration.

There is a reason Switzerland is so successful, it's because its citizenry has a shared and common background and experience. It's not a sole factor or indicator, but it is an absolute necessity and dependency. You will never ever have success without unity and common cause.
An Easier Way to Run Spark Jobs on AWS EMR
"there's no need to configure servers manually" assuming you have a configuration you can trust. Where are these published? And do you trust them?
I still think that better support for contextual identities would be a net-positive across the board for the web, but I have to say that this little stunt gave me a good chuckle. Bravo!
There is obvious value in a having a pure python implementation of a kafka client. Many deployments don't want C extensions or want to use pypy. However, as python's scipy stack has shown, the right python api wrapping C code can have a vibrant community and the speed to boot.
I use Erlang and I like it a bit more than Elixir in general exactly because it is more explicit. It involves slightly more syntax but there is less hidden magic stuff happening behind the scene.
PHP is like Javascript in that both languages are now being used to do what they were not designed for.
There's a weed store about 4 blocks from the Lincoln Square and City Center (Microsoft) buildings in Bellevue. Or so I've heard.
Oh, the irony. So, where is documentation for the super broad plagiarism claims? Nobody wouldn't just buy them at face value, right? No wait, not only did that happen already, also no questions about that have been answered yet. So far we only have this one mailing list bit, that has Meredith talking about how serious plagiarism and then not even acknowledging having been refuted in that instance, as far as I can tell.

How come there seems to be only interest in attacking Appelbaum, and keeping it so murky as to simply strip him of anything he ever did -- and no interest in restoring proper credit to the people he plagiarized from? You can see how that's kind of an elephant on the couch, right? Especially in light of all this posturing about never again looking the other way.

Effectively, this filters out anyone who minds bullshit mixed in with something serious, and doesn't just swallow packages as a whole. This is when sophistry, obedience, blinders and formalized abuse were officially accepted by some -- under the pretense of intelligence, free thought, not looking the other way, and being against abuse. By the time the thunder arrives a connection to this flash of lightning may not seem immediately obvious, but where something like this goes up, fallout must come down.

And I simply don't see how any of that would have been necessary to stand up against abuse and Appelbaum. It didn't have to be this campaign and it didn't all these red flags and fucked up bits. So even if it does help in a way in some respects for some people, as a whole, I find this incredibly immature, fraught with double standards and callousness, entitled and self-righteous -- while calling someone else a narcissist, as if next to narcissist, nothing can be shitty. When you're a victim, you must not be criticized, do not place any obligations yadda yadda. The courts are broken, this is not a mob, we're just sharing.

People say they're not wearing armbands, but then how come they're wearing armbands?

> bullshit persecuted-hacker narrative

Just watching his talks, is anyone honestly claiming he wasn't inconvenient? As a mere "pop hacker"? What talks do you like? Who do you think is playing in that league?
ABI Compliance Checker
IE was the centerpoint of a lot of turf wars between Jim Allchin and Brad Silverberg. Lots of tech was mishandled as nobody could agree what was personal, what was business and what was consumer. A browser had to reach all three, Microsoft tried to apply its existing technologies that talked to all three audiences in a haphazard fashion, and even the government decided it had to stick its thumb into the pie.
If you like that orbit, look into the hopf fibration!
Does Scala.js also include similar "UI toolkit" as Elm? So no need to fall back to other frameworks.
Un-Googled: Trudeau government had Harper web pages removed from search results
My point was we shouldn't have to wait for security checks at all. There are many other high-human density targets for terrorism (buses, trains, buildings, etc.) none of which require security checks. Why are airports / flying any different? Fear mongering by capitalistic stake holders is my opinion. Granted, I'm a jaded American who has to experience the joke that is the TSA. And I haven't experienced Geneva yet (would love to), but 20m is much happier than your average US airport.
"What inspires me is teaching African refugees how to program javascript"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0
There are selection criteria listed at https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/Secure_Open_Source , and, if you think you meet most of the criteria, you can fill out a form to apply.
Large financial institutions still dont play nicely with internet porn, which really isnt that ambiguous legally. I think a lot of it is PR as well. They dont want to be associated with moraly ambiguous industries
Me too. I tried ataxia for about 6 months and hated it, got told about beyond compare, paid for a license after only a few days of the trial .
I'm not convinced that a single UI is desirable for mobile apps. Sure makes sense to share the business logic if you can, but I feel shared UI code will lead to usability compromises.
Is this the company you are referencing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inslaw
While its not outright identity theft, I highly recommend following the instructions at https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/identity_theft to get ahead of the curve.
Also from stolen goods, unless you return them in the same year:

"If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless in the same year, you return it to its rightful owner."
Alternately,

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments

-P "<profile name>" Starts with a given profile name (profile name is case sensitive).
-no-remote Enables running multiple instances of the application with different profiles; [1] used with -P

#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
personal | work | banking | shopping)
firefox -no-remote -P "$1" ;;
*) echo "unknown arg: $1"; return 1; ;;
esac

and either rename profile directories, or the case statement labels,
and optionally associate calls to the script with icons/widgets.
[code not tested, use at own risk, ymmv, etc.]
I found that if you advertise for php programmers you get mostly people working on fairly simple web applications. The more talented programmers would apply when we emphasized that we use php for the front of the backend systems, but we also use Go and node.js for more realtime parts of what is a suite of micro services. once we got them in the door they were happy and productive php programmers
As someone who recently left what was ostensibly a dream job (a tenure-track position at a top university), I largely agree .

Being able to start to avoid the "service" of donating my time to support the paywalled journal system and actually enjoying open source development again (even though I get to do less of it) is the best part.
AR-15s can be used for long range weapons. 5.56 is effective out to 600 yards.

You can even use a different caliber in it like 6.5mm Grendel which is a 1000 yard round.

So you can most certainly use it for rapid follow up shots at long ranges while hunting.
Define "all" media types.
Do you mean something like an example of each and every one of these ?
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf...
The subtle power of high performance computing
Why Didi Chuxing just raised $7B more?
Fuck this noise.

ISIS literally throws gay people off of tall buildings. They are basically already doing as much as they humanly (subhumanly?) can to murder whatever homosexuals exist in their jurisdictions. Pretending like anon is suddenly the bad guy because it might hurt these poor peoples feelings and then they'll lash out by hurting more people is such an inadequate laughable model of the situation that I find it a little appalling.
This is pretty exciting, and the applications are almost unlimited, and many of them highly marketable. Athletics clothing alone is billions of dollars around the world, but this a key too:

""But before we can put these nanorods to good use, we need to be able to control and perfect their size and shape," added Nune, the paper's other corresponding author."

It seems to me that could be a long process, along with the challenges of scaling up manufacturing. Still, at some point, this is going to be a very useful material.
> All the wrappers I've seen so far wrap the old school Win32 API but many modern applications are written in WPF or WinRT. Supporting all three would be difficult.

Worth noting here that Qt does not wrap the native widgets, it implements its own widgets that are skinned in each platform's native style.
Sub-10ms roundtrip audio latency on Android
Methamphetamine is routinely prescribed for ADHD under the brand name Desoxyn, it absolutely has medical use.
>> Doesn't your regex-dna benchmark kind of prove my point? <<

7 days ago, you could have used the data shown on the benchmarks game website to try and make your point to joslin01.

Instead you chose to dismiss the data.

>> acting as if <<

You seem to have confused me with joslin01.
Gone Full Unikernel
> I am the tech-recruiting agency

Your are not only spamming. Neither your touted blog entry nor your fastmail email address do give any hints that you earn provisions for your "help", quite the contrary they sound like you would be a ordinary developer working for one client.

And sorry, you don't get a _good_ job in Switzerland via a german headhunter in his twenties.

> master in CS from one of the top-3 schools in Europe

That would be the Technical University of Munich or Karlsruhe, I guess. It is a bit of a stretch to call this "one of the top-3 schools in Europe". I guess this BS is from the marketing page of the university itself.
"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."
> A paintball could cover the camera lens pretty nicely.

Surely that is illegal (destruction of property or something, with no reference to the fact that it is an FBI camera), whereas preventing the disclosure of something that you won't even acknowledge exists is probably harder to prosecute.
Treat Your Code as a Crime Scene
I've put emoji in commit messages. Git already supports Unicode (mostly). Just make sure you're using a Unicode-aware terminal.
I wonder if one could deduct it if they return the item in the subsequent year instead :)
Congratulations Linode! I've had better support from your staff than Rackspace and thanks for the RAM doubling - will make my life much easier.
Ah. I kind of assumed that Kickstarter et al videos were still at the three people talking into an iPhone. I mean these guys apparently wanted to raise 12 k and probably spent half that on the video.

I always assumed I could grab my great idea and dash off a quick video and go viral - reality is such a bath of cold water
PHP's massive flaw is that it does one thing very well (web-dev), but does everything else rather poorly. It becomes the default choice for projects that start out as a web front-end, but then gets used in other situations where it's ill-suited. A lot of PHP projects have components that are hacked together and work, but are confusing and less-than-ideal from a design perspective.

Threading/asynchronicity comes to mind. I've worked on a few projects that started out as a web-front end, but then needed to do some background processing. Eventually the background process needs to be multi-threaded and the choices are: rewrite your code to support pthread's wrappers classes, use fork and shared memory segments, asynchronous web requests. All those solutions work, but they are much more complicated than the same task would be in most other languages with native threading support.
It is not officially supported, but you can run FreeBSD on Linode. I have been able to get FreeBSD (with ZFS), OpenBSD, and NetBSD running on my Linodes. I tried getting SmartOS working but I haven't gotten the configuration right yet.
As far as I understand it's a bit different trade-off: pre-compiled code with no JIT means faster startup, but a bit reduced performance.
The Josiah Effect: How Moderate Religion Fuels Fundamentalism
"Almost 100% of publicly-known charity is, to some extent, designed to enhance prestige."

Citation needed.

It is perfectly reasonable to donate publicly in an attempt to get more people to also donate to the cause you believe in. If you believe in a cause then it stands to reason you want more people to donate to it. Private donations are a net negative to the cause. But some people prioritize their privacy over the cause they care about.
Pretty sure the IRS is more than willing to deal with MJ businesses - they have an entire setup to let you report "illegal" gains and even keep that secret long before the recent legalization efforts.

Banks, now that's a different story.
I would think another way to avoid the grid problem is to use center point of all the points included in the count. So after grouping by your "chopped" value, you can pretty cheaply calculate the center of that group.
Generative Models
I have a blog, social media accounts

A lot may revealed there. Think about what you post. Vomiting every detail of your life out for the world to see is a good source of feedstock for social engineering against your family and friends.
"Could have gone for citizenship, but didn't. I was never seen as an American."

Perhaps you were not seen as an American because you yourself didn't feel that way? I would think that someone who feels American would apply for citizenship given the opportunity. American citizenship does not bring many additional advantages compared to the green card, in fact, there are some downsides (jury duty, potentially having to pay US taxes even if you leave the country). So, most immigrants apply for US citizenship only if they feel that they belong.

I agree that people asking where your accent is from is really annoying, however, that question doesn't have the same implications as in, say, Germany.
Violent crime in the U.S. may be like Lisa Simpson's "bear rock". The if-it-bleeds-it-leads media makes crime appear to be more common than it actually is. The public then ask for law enforcement to protect them from this threat. When they see the low rates of violent crime around them, they assume it's a result of the increased policing.
The weird thing is, `autocomplete=off` _does_ seem to have the intended effect on my Chrome. OSX 50.0.2661.102. Huh? Was this change made in a later version I haven't gotten yet?
In Nightly you can enable one process per tab by changing dom.ipc.processCount to something like 1000.

It currently has some delay when you open a new tab, and a few quirks here and there, but it's mostly working.
> unless you colocate your own stuff in a locked cage

How much is a locked cage really needed?

To me the risks are really someone messing with your cables and taking you off line, or accidentally pulling a power plug, which is QOS really. Not security. Can't remember when I heard of someone carting off a server or plugging in a cable to the console port (once they have gotten even into the racks and are on cameras) and doing any harm. Even if this does happen it seems fairly remote and not a concern unless you are really doing something so important that you need to lock up the servers. Sure price not being an object why not lock them up.
I think most people are concerned about the response to security incidents around as much as they're concerned about the security incidents themselves.

Improving the manager is certainly a good step but there's a lot of work to be done to regain users' confidence.
Yes. Avoid. Keep snapshots if you have servers with them. All I can say. Ask about their data redundancy, and if servers have RAID. You will not get any clear answer for a reason.

Oh, she praised them 49 days ago, she's a shill as well : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588937
Nope, that’s why my 2006 Realtek card works.
Israeli high-tech company extends hand to Gaza's programmers
This is called the "grandparent scam." It's a common tactic. Your grandfather's a smart guy and avoided it.
Show HN: Gone - The Mobile First Task Management Tool
For me, for sex with a new partner the first time, those are equivalent: nope :)
Very Hot Drinks Are ‘Probable’ Cancer Trigger, Says WHO
I imagined James Franco and Seth Rogan being in charge of Microsoft making that decision while laughing the way they do in movies.
> We make products that our users absolutely love and have seen phenomenal growth, and YC understands that. But it seems like it's very important to them that you are able to clearly articulate what your business will look like in ten years when it's a billion dollar company.

In life in general the "talk a good game" part plays particular significance in people's decision making even if what is being said doesn't hold water. Of course if your idea is super special in some way or you have some other huge advantage that gets peoples attention that doesn't matter but that covers edge cases, not normals.
Given that the TSA is security theater why not improve the theater part? The current production values are so low... everyone wears the same costumes, repeats the same lines, no plot to speak of. No need to shoot for a Tony award... but at least have a few clowns and balloons... or even a "dinner and theater" option where you can at least get a snack. Maybe add a bit of modern drama and have the players fake a big relationship fight every 20 minutes. Or maybe have a "splash lane" where players and audience interact with water balloons. Come on... almost anything would be more fun to watch.
This is really neat, although it does not look slick enough to replace my own hacky word-around:

What I have been doing is creating a separate Chrome application launcher for my different life contexts -- http://lifehacker.com/5611711/create-application-shortcuts-i... I have one for anonymous browsing, one for work, one for personal-real-name, and one for pseudonymous browsing. I renamed the application so I can launch by typing "WorkChrome" or "PersonalChrome" in spotlight search. Each Chrome app then runs with a separate profile, separate cookies, etc. I have a different icon and colored theme for each one, so that I never make a mistake with regards to which I am browsing in. I can have multiple open at the same time and tab switch between them.
> Last time I arrived back into the States, the immigration officers checking passports were full on wearing bullet proof vests.

I assume it's because they are full officers of US Customs and Border control. They are usually armed as well.
Yes, please. I'd be happy with some photos snapped from your phone if you don't want to scan it in. The Matlab code in particular seems intriguing.
I love Vultr. Pretty consistently performs better than competition (like DigitalOcean) for the same price, cheap, haven't had any issues with reliability.

I'd say RamNode is also decent (they do very well in benchmarks) but their support, management and infrastructure is terrible. They were pretty heavily compromised (personal information, passwords etc. leaked) due to a SolusVM vulnerability and refused to remove personal information to prevent it being compromised in the future.
I haven't read it, but maybe the author is using one familiar subject to spark discussion about another less familiar subject?
That's very much true. We've been pushing for more transparency company-wide as a result. It's hard to demonstrate that we'll handle this better without another security incident to be transparent about (and let's all hope we don't get there), but we've been pushing for more transparency overall. On my team this means that we're doing our development in the open, we've switched from an internal Jira to a public waffle.io backlog: https://waffle.io/linode/manager (it's just been prioritized too, we're doing sprint planning in 10 mins).
yes, kinda.
Actually Qt collections are better designed as they work like regular collections in other languages with e.g. copy on write, making regular copies cheap etc. STL is extremely low level and not as well suited for application programming which you typically do with Qt.
To be clear, though, it doesn't cover software, or what you'd need for Arduino-based projects. But it has quite a few sections at the end for micro-processor based projects and communication protocols, etc. I found it to be a good starting point for definitions or ideas, and to then head to the internet for more details.

There's also:
Ladyada interview with Paul Horowitz - The Art of Electronics ...
http://youtu.be/iCI3B5eT9NA
You'd think their managers would see the benefits of paying a fixed cost instead of doing their own hacking/development.
Bleh. As a DevOps guy who is a paramedic, I just cringed at the image of someone sprinting to the computer (I know it's exaggerated - or at least I hope so).

We don't run to cardiac arrests. Walk fast, with a purpose. I fail to see what production issue necessitates me running down the hall at 3am.

And DevOps students should be learning how to prevent (sorry, minimize) this, not conducting fire drills.
It's actually fascinating along those lines how much of a halo is around something that you read everyday and pay attention to. For example I don't read reddit and never have. If I sat on a plane next to someone important from reddit (except for Alexis) I could care less. But if I sat on a plane next to someone from YC (or even a top commenter on HN) I would definitely be all into talking to them because of the halo.
> you have to supply a copy of the Qt Source if requested - the pain being that a link to the official repo is not enough

I don't think this this is true. My googling is now failing me as I just get results about linking of libraries, but I remember reading it's enough to point to the source if it's unmodified in your application.
Biometrics can be fooled, and even if they couldn't they can only verify your identity. They can't verify your volition.
This happened to me as well. My grandmother called my dad because she believe I was in jail and I needed money to get out. She was completely distraught and even after I talked to her, she wasn't convinced that I was safe. It was pretty scary.
" All developers are graduates of accredited online programs that meet the highest international standards."

So I'd need a certification to participate?
What flags do you have particular problems with and what could you see as a replacement for them?
Candles are still magical. Henry Sugar is part of the reason.
In fact, I still don't see much of a reason to upgrade quad core Yorkfield Q9xxx servers except for cheap SSD upgrades. An 8 year old desktop still compares favorably to a $700 laptop (except, of course, for electricity).
Red Hot Chili Peppers Carpool Karaoke
Could you recommend another hosting service with better security practices than Linode?
I've had a few instances up on Vultr for nearly a year now and have nothing but good things to say about them. The OS images they use for their instances are, in my experience, almost completely plain-vanilla (which leads to fewer surprises) and the custom ISO functionality is great if you need to launch an instance on an otherwise unsupported OS.

Their instance performance is better than DO in my experience, though I don't know how they compare to Linode.
If you walk into a USCIS office building in the US they are all wearing bullet proof vests too. I thought it was overkill personally.