skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Treaties. The nebulous amount of treaties across the world, specifically with the US can make it incredibly easy for just about anyone to be subject to its jurisdiction in some manner. As long as the US is politically active and persuasive enough to get foreign governments into these agreements, their reach will extend very far. As an aside, it's part of why Britain's EU Exit is such a mess; all the treaties and agreements formerly drawn up were based on Britain in the EU - those agreements were discussed for years before being agreed upon. There are thousands of discussion points and it takes a really long time.

As to why keep attacking KAT? (or any other torrent site for that matter?) To scare your average citizen. When Napster was huge in the US and the RIAA got involved, you'd have almost daily stories in newspapers or on TV about the RIAA suing college students, high school students, etc, with huge lawsuits. You'd think this would result in a revolt against the RIAA, but the reality is that these had sticking power in the US courts. Most US citizens, despite the relative wealth they have compared to other countries, could not pay off the few thousand dollar per song fines they would receive if sued. Most couldn't even afford a single $1000 fine. The idea for the RIAA/MPAA wasn't that you need to stop every download every - it's that you need to make a big enough splash to scare the majority of citizens into not downloading.

While many streaming and download services have arisen since that time, offering cheap and legal options for on-demand shows/music, the companies still would rather that stuff went back to the way it was, with only their authorized publishers being the source for media. Attacking torrent sources isn't about recouping loss from piracy - it's about recouping losses from the media conglomerates' inability to rapidly adjust to new technology, and the change in how many citizens choose to get their entertainment.
Yes, they do. And the difference is that it takes FAR more work to understand what Rails is doing than, say, Flask. Part of it is that Rails hides things from you. Part of it is that Rails is simply more complex. all of it makes it harder to reason about Rails.
It's almost like the website is designed to let you filter out crap you don't want/care to look at. If we assume the site's self-professed label of "front-page of the internet" is correct, it shouldn't be surprising that the total of its content reflects the content of the internet as a whole.

Hate to break it to you, but porn is pretty popular on the internet at large, not just on reddit. Racist people exist, and will flock to any platform where they can freely express their shitty ideas.

Pardon the hyperbole, but your prejudice towards all users of reddit is like to claiming that all people who use the internet are closet porn addicts and KKK members.

Generalizations don't help anyone, and they make you look just as closed-minded as the racists you dislike so much.
I don't think anyone's claiming you can't use your system's API in Rust, to do things like gain root privileges. Just that Rust makes memory bugs and race conditions near impossible.
No confirmed technical details yet AFAIK, but it's rumored to be 450-475 mm^2 versus the old 600mm^2. It's also very probably a die-harvest (cores disabled).
Interview with maintainer of Wine
I am inclined to agree that it's not necessarily "wrong" - but mainly because I don't believe it to be a black and white issue. Self-segregation is beneficial to the individual - they feel like part of the group, and that reduces stress. But it certainly feels like there may be societal factors that force people to make that choice, and those may be negative. Likewise, diversity seems to me like something to be sought out. If I am only surrounded by people who are very much like me, I tend to only see problems from one perspective, or have my own personal biases reinforced.

As with most things, it is not as simple as "this is wrong." There's a lot to consider, and to me, it isn't the self-segregation that we should fight, but rather, it might be the case that we should fight the root cause of the desire to self-segregate.
How are companies selling food, transportation and health care gonna make money if the cost of living is zero?
Odoo Q&A is an open source clone of stackoverflow:
https://www.odoo.com/page/community-builder

It has three mode: forum, Q&A (clone of SO), share links (like HN)
Err, a black hole having an electric charge and spinning would, I think, produce a magnetic field, but it would m not be a monopole. It would be a magnetic dipole, like an electron.
This can't be upvoted enough. Drugs and alcohol are great, but they should be used to celebrate good times, not to overcome bad ones.
Again, you malign the entire field with such unsubstantiated claims that "the experience did not". You do not know the field. You do not know what people do in the field. You simply don't have the knowledge to make that assertion.

This is identical to the casual arrogance of the smart but uninformed, which is why I keep reading that interpretation into your comments. You have said nothing which convinces me that you are informed, even to a undergraduate level, of the field.

Drug discovery is a highly multidisciplinary field with "outsiders" constantly entering the field. There is no wall. There are large pits. Some look enticing. It's taken a lot of time, toil, tears, and cash to map out the pits. Many of them are well-known, via papers and books, or word-of-mouth. New ones keep appearing as we map thing out.

This is like a newcomer from out of state who arrives, and before even looking at a map exclaims "you yokels should go that way, because this looks like region X back home, and we've figured out how to get through X in the 1970s." Only, the locals respond "yes, new people often think that, but we figured out back in the 1920s how to get through the area, have since built a four-lane highway through it, and if you go that way you're going to fall into quicksand."

The idea that an outsider with different experience can provide fresh insight is enticing. But software developers with agile experience who work in drug discovery is not an outsider view.

My reaction isn't "us vs. them", it's annoyance over people who don't do their homework.
> allow the previous employee to leave

Ideally the previous employee would feel an obligation (or incentive) to finish as strong as possible, and to help with the recruiting effort for the new hire (and to maximize knowledge transfer).

Mature people understand that sometimes work styles can differ and talented people are not always a good culture fit. So unless the outbound manager is truly immature or unfit to be in the position at all, much is to be gained by being respectful and transparent.
> But to be clear, my initial thought wasn't about exception handling but rather about ubiquitous use of RAII for all sorts of stuff that needs to get done at the end of a scope.

I agree with you on that. It turns out that, say, having a lock guard automatically release a lock when it falls out of scope can cause a ton of trouble when it falls out of scope in a place the programmer overlooked.
> hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare

Anyone facing issues with Cloudflare's captcha. Not just for this site, I have faced this issue with other sites too.
Only around 50% of the time I am able to get past their captcha, most other times I just get frustrated and close the page.
Rust doesn't prevent race conditions–it prevents data races.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html
How is this shit post the top post right now? Uhg.
Ah it seems you're right http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/226604-intels-next-genera...
:) Maybe it's the water as I now live in the Chicago area.
Find a side project! I felt the same and decided to write a book and make a few games and other applications. I've never felt stuck since I began those projects.
9 times out of 10...if you did not major in Engineering or Science, Law, or Medicine then you should not be going to college. It is a waste of money and most importantly time.
Says "GunboatDiplomat"[1]... ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy
you realize i am talking about current events, right? show me robert byrd's twitter postings please - vs. trump and duke.

if you truly believe that today's democrat party, the one with the black president, is pro-slavery and pro-racism, well, good riddance then.
A Phishing Field Guide
Why Pokemon Go might be Google for the real world
Six benefits of a learning record store
Agreed. Reddit is a very large, diverse group of separate communities. Trying to enforce a cohesive culture throughout reddit is doomed to fail, or at least will lead to a lot of strife and a loss of fringe groups.

It's like how politicians and media in the USA are always trying (and failing) to impose upon the citizens some country-wide cohesive cultural identity and feeling of belonging. The USA is too big, with too many different regional cultures and ideals. Doomed to fail, and you'll just annoy everyone in the process.
> I'd like to be something...

How do you define happiness and meaning? Pick a path and realize the path may change, that's OK.

On this subject, Marshall Goldsmith is masterful > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7EJfWRv0VA
If that maters, use slightly smaller networks.
Irrelevant now, but it's worked great in Wine since it was released. Undertale is one of my favorite games of all time, I'm sure you'll love it :)
Self-build PC cooler with oil
The peachoid does indeed exist, and is as represented in popular media you may have seen on streaming services. :) They actually just repainted it.
Most of that is its stake in Alibaba (15%, currently worth ~$31B...).
See "Brownshirts"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
While I agree with the premise that our culture is (at least partially) to blame, I want to clarify something about my post. When I use the word minority, I do not mean "there are fewer women. Rather, I mean it in the way that the census bureau would mean it: women are underrepresented in our society. There are fewer women in politics, and positions of power, than there are men. Women may outnumber us, but if they are not in positions of influence, where their needs and concerns are being represented, they still qualify as a minority. Minority is not exactly the best word to use, because it conjures that image of a small group standing up to a big group, but it is the common parlance term for the idea of a group that is underrepresented in our society, unfortunately.
Right. Until your documentation gets co-opted by this external, third-party, for-profit company. The Q&A site is fantastic. But this new documentation thing is going to be a nightmare.
Fabric Integration for React Native on Android
New KAT address
Knowledge can have inherent value, and not all countries have the same sky-high college price tags that many privately owned US institutions do. College as career training is a relatively new concept, and not a very solid one at that. Skills can be trained, but higher education can bring much deeper qualities to students. Philosophy, fine art, and other humanities may not be direct paths to employment, but they will make a more well-rounded, world-exposed candidate.

If you are posting from a country with cost-restrictive higher education though, I can empathize with your perspective.
Does anyone believe that torrentling can be contained?
I'm sorry, I can't capture such a complicated issue with a pithy example. You will have to settle for my illustrative one.

The most general definition of the restriction is that C++ code cannot throw exceptions through exception unsafe code. How do you know if your C++ function was called from exception unsafe code? You can't!

So it's only ever safe to throw an exception when you are expecting it to be caught immediately i.e. you can use exceptions as glorified error codes, but not much else.

In Django I can throw a Http404 exception from deep inside a view and the server will come up with a 404 response. I can assert and the client will get a 500 error but the server won't go down. This is the real power of exceptions, and God help anybody who tries to do it in C++.
The Science paper is here: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/07/20/scien...
Demand-Side Business Dynamism
This is the key bit:

"This paper argues that the decline in mobility, dynamism, and entrepreneurship is a result of declining labor demand since 2000. When it is hard to find another job, employed workers stay at the jobs they have, impairing their ascent up the job ladder and the accompanying wage growth over careers that historically led to the middle class. Declining entrepreneurship can also be explained by workers’ reluctance to leave large, stable incumbents to start their own firm or to work at a start-up when they cannot be assured that they will have a more stable job to return to. Thus, we find that the concentration of employment in old firms and in large firms mirrors the timing of declining labor mobility due to declining demand."
But nothing prevents people from building such a presence mechanism as an app, or using browser notifications. The point is that with WebRTC the hardest bit is taken care of. The number of people who have the skills to meaningfully innovate on the surrounding UI and capabilities is vastly greater than the number of people who'd be able to come up with usable video calling.
So temporary bigotry is ok then?

If he'd really wanted a temporary ban (which would still, obviously, be indefensible), he'd have set out clear criteria for when it would end.

Someone who casually throws out insane and bigoted policy proposals, without showing any evidence whatsoever of having seriously thought them through, is not fit to be President. I don't have much time for people who act as apologists for this kind of behavior and help to maintain the illusion that what Trump says is anywhere in the ballpark of actual political discourse. This is a crisis. Every time someone makes bogus arguments for taking Trump seriously as a political figure, we're edging closer to a disaster that could take decades to recover from. It's not fun and games at this point. History will judge us. And your pro-Trump comments will be on record forever.
+1 to number 3. It's been a life changer for me. I'm working on these principles now.
As the article notes, Mr. Thiel is positioning himself to make a lot of money should Mr. Trump become president. I see this as business as usual in Washington: billionaires making deals with other billionaires to rule America.
That's a tough one. Ideally there would be a role that would be more appropriate. Some people end up in a manager role but would be better suited for a different role with elevated status but perhaps not leading a team.

Manager roles often have pretty vaguely defined success metrics, and people manage (and prefer to be managed) in quite different ways, so perhaps someone like you describe would perform better in a role with a much more narrowly defined criterion for success.
the problem is, you can't really avoid this kind of race condition. Not in a pre-emptive system. You can't stat a file and open it at the same time: the whole point of the stat is to see if you SHOULD open it. The best you could do is maybe stat the file after you open it. But I'm not sure what other problems that would cause.
Thank You for Your (US Digital) Service
The vulnerability described in the C program (race condition in filesystem which leads an attacker to write to a file they should have no access to) is absolutely possible to write in rust.

I was attempting to parody the line that you see around here every time a vulernable C program is shown, that rust is magic pixie dust that removes all security issues. (This is exactly the type of bug that memory safe languages are still vulnerable to.)

(One could argue setuid is the real problem though.)
Several webrtc services offers persistent chats at a URL you define. There's plenty of room for improvement there, but webrtc lowers the barrier dramatically by solving many of the hard parts.
For sure - I certainly wouldn't expect that it'd come close in hosting costs, but when the author is as snarky as he was about how cheap, then he should expect to be called out.

And besides (leaving aside the numerous other 'issues' with the claim, as well discussed here) is "My $200/mo stack performs better than a $4000/mo stack" really that much worse than $100?
Experimental Drive Fits 500 Terabits on a Postage Stamp
Why People Leave Managers, Not Companies
Yahoo! has three major assets: its stake in Alibaba (worth about $32B), its stake in Yahoo! Japan (worth about $8.5B), and its core internet business. Verizon would only be buying that last piece.
I feel ya. I became a doctor after many years of "following the path to glory", but then became very depressed and felt my life suddenly became too defined. My life had lost all of its magic. I finished residency just for the money, as I had nothing else in mind to do. Then I lived with my mother for 2 years, drinking too much and doing nothing much other than teaching 8 hours a week at the local community college to be able to pay my bills.

Then I decided "what the fuck, screw medicine", and decided to do something radically different. So now I own an escape room business, and every day I hit the ground running and eager. It's struggling a bit, and might not survive. But at the moment I'm living my life for myself, so I'm willing to take the bad with the good.

Good luck!
kat.am looks very dodgy, it goes out of its way to appear to be a full working site while in reality search is broken, and browsing past ~3rd page usually puts you back on the main. Then there is a distinct lack of advertising/popup spam = why would anyone run this out of goodness of his heart other than as a honeypot?

no profit motive
Bullshit. The first makes them have less power and profit less, the second do the opposite. It's a "fair" choice, don't you think? At least if you are the billionare owner that don't care with anyone and pretends that he is pursuing an open world.
We are experiencing this issue also. Contacted SendGrid support and had them switch our traffic to different IP's.

Wish they would have communicated this in advance, or even update their status page.
If you don't have a lot of responsibilities then you should do something fun and risky. Go outside of your routine and get perspective. Go on a crazy trip, talk to interesting strangers etc. Get off the internet :)
That's what I assumed, but I didn't know if people of Kazakhstan have a negative view of how Arabs live. Thanks!
The Most Impossible Technology from Star Trek
Well, yeah. People move to other languages and then build a RoR-inspired framework, instead of trying other alternatives.
It's good to see examples from both sides. That being said, what the above mentions is Republican doctrine, as opposed to isolated cases of politicians(on either side) simply blindly furthering their political careers.
Google Hangouts with people who have it and where it works (not a given), and talky.io (webrtc) with my mom (we tried repeatedly to get Skype and Hangouts to work between her and my computers, and neither worked properly).

talky.io is great as long as you have a new enough browser, especially as you can pass people a link and they won't need to install anything new.
How science can help us make AI less creepy and more trustworthy
Hopefully Twitter told her that isn't acceptable. I'm pretty Milo has been asked to cool it before.
I think "implement" is misleading. The brazillian justice asked to use the same mechanism the US gov already use ;)
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12142461
Do not go back to university. Focus on gaining a skill, one that allows you to add value and solve problems for people. I'd much rather be able to fix your AC than do your HR compliance.

Unfortunately in America, working on your own is problematic due to disastrous health insurance system, and low wages for labor, and small business being unable to compete with multinational giants. This pushes people to seek comfort of corporations unless they're able to raise funds to start a business.

Trust your ancestry. People were either farmers or artisans until very recently. I think working in a corporate setting is swimming upstream for all but a certain type of personality.
HW & SW engineers (I'm one, I assumed many or most here are as well).
Can you elaborate on what you would recommend re: #2?
Notwendige Utensilien für dieses Projekt: Spezialkleber, Silikon, Plexiglas und Spiritus - weitere Werkzeuge wie Stichsäge oder Trockner je nach Bedarf.

Stichsäge oder Trockner je nach Bedarf - I burst out laughing when I read that. No decent hacking project can truly be called a hack without a hacksaw and a heat gun, as needed!
Hopefully this will sink Verizon.
I should sell my vz shares
One could say that there is an expectation that only other tinder users will discover you. Kinda like going to a bar or a strip club, which are activities that your community may disapprove of. Thus, you only encounter members outside of your community, or community members who are cool with it.
That is its strength for broad appeal - there's the concept of bazaars and warrens that Reddit hits squarely on the head.
I'm not sure how you can have one thing without the other.
"Read Pressfield's "The War of Art." It's cheap, it's short, and it's helpful. "Tomorrow" is really dangerous thinking when there's not an actual deadline. You'll be saying tomorrow for years at a time, without actually moving the needle."

+1 to all of this. The War of Art is excellent, as is the advice about "tomorrow".
Did you ever consider being a sort of traveling physician to underserved people? I always imagined this as the adventurous route for doctors.
> This strategy backfired immensely when the Donald Trump subreddit ended up being the only one reporting on the news.

Say what you will about republicans, but they often end up being the biggest defenders of constitutional rights.

Democrats on the other hand (aka "progressives") are always looking for ways to limit constitutional rights in order to create a "safer society" and stable "social climate". Just look at Europe - where "hate speech" can get you arrested or your door kicked down, and guns are completely banned.
> Bans, yes, people get punished for breaking the rules. But having your posts quietly vanish without warning?

This comment particularly stuck out to me.

Very few other communication platforms of Reddit's ilk will go through the process of shadowbanning users - that is - the user still has full functionality of the site, however their comments are not visible to other users; only themselves. To an unknowing user, it appears no action has been taken on their account.

It is a shockingly effective means of silencing dissenters or those who disagree with the majority; and this punishment has extended far beyond those who speak abusively/offensively. The nefarious part is wasting the user's time as well.
A bad marriage is taking place.
Can you name many other world-class cities where one needs a car to comfortably survive? I've been to many such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, and London, and most people don't own cars in any of those.
The future is fewer people writing code?
Which orientation will a square float?
Check out the book "How to Find Fulfilling Work" by Roman Krznaric. Literally changed my life.

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