skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of the exercise wouldn't be to intercept the content of emails; it might be to make them switch to another commmunications channel which might be a little more transparent. (Or, failing that, just to disrupt the audit.)
> I think Debian is one of the few Linux distros that can truly call itself an OS, as opposed to just a "distro"

What do you mean by this? Does this mean there's some sort of "value added" that other distros don't have?

Over the years I've migrated from Slackware to Fedora primarily because of their stated goal to deviate from upstream as little as possible, but I'm always willing to explore.
Yeah, drivers are not as good tho. That also counts, am I wrong?
Whether the US is a force for good is a completely different argument than whether it's untrustworthy and/or undemocratic.
You are shifting my claim from it being a possibly necessary criteria, to it being the sole criteria. Worse, you are shifting my claim to be that technical debt somehow guarantees success.

Neither of these are my assertion. I simply assert that time to market is a vital metric. If hitting a vital time to market means making some tradeoffs (what we now call technical debt) then, so be it.

Take your examples, do you really think that Google did not make some tradeoffs? Having seen some of their products (I'm looking squarely at the pieces of crap that were my early phones from them...), I can confidently say they make rash decisions all of the time.

Now, there is a silly double speak that we have in the industry where we say "technical debt" when we really mean just poor work. There is a lot of conflation in the world where these two should not be mixed.
I remember reading this in some article and also remember some kind of debunking of it from a neuroscientist. Tried to find both right now and wasn't really successful but stating it here so if anyone else want to give a shot finding them I know that they exist.
> I'm amazed at how many people wax poetic about how awful it is that they should, say, turn on the light when their car is stopped, but have no problem asking the cops to face people who want to shoot them. And you can say there's no "war on police" because some stats are down, but doesn't that make it a bit hard to explain the parade of crazy people shooting cops simply because they hate them?

Those always existed and are not new or news. They are actually fewer than before.

See the problem here is the argument it is increasing and it is a "war" when literally no part of that argument is based on fact.

I could call the fact I've had my home broken into and physically assaulted in the past by someone who specifically wanted to harm me a "war" against me. I don't do that either.

The difference here is the amount of media coverage it gets, that is literally all of it. If every source of death caused by people got equal coverage, the police would not even be noticed because of how rare it is.

> We're just asking to make our police force worse by driving anyone with better options out of the force, creating a downward spiral. Given how few people would live in a place without cops, this doesn't seem like a solution. One of the things you don't seem to realize is that the police hating culture is one of the things that helps make cops extra edgy and it makes things worse for everybody.

Honestly, based on the criminal acts that have been committed against me in my life, I might as well live in a place without cops. I've had to resolve 100% of the crimes committed against me myself because the cops took 0 positive action to resolve the issues. This stems from bike thefts to breaking & entering & assault on my person.

Cops have stolen my car and scraped off the registration tag when I called them on it.

They've damaged my property and refused to pay for it, arguing that since I don't have a video of the asshole on his motorcycle driving down a back alley and slamming into my fence it didn't happen. Even tho there were 5+ cops in the vicinity who saw him do it.

The police have caused me more harm through malice than actual criminals. However, how many criminal acts like these actually end up in the news? None.

Who ends up paying for this stuff like this? Me.

You can argue cops are the solution if you like, but as far as I can tell, the ledge is currently 0/6 crimes resolved by police. 2/2 acts by police that caused me financial harm.

Similarly, police shoot more unarmed black men than get shot...but hey, its the cops that need protection eh?

Fucking bullshit.
> It seems like amp is trying to give users the same experience you have but without disabling JavaScript. Is that so obviously nefarious?

Given the massive security and privacy flaws of JavaScript, anything that encourages people to leave it enabled is objectively nefarious.
So, What Makes a Good User Story? Part 3
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What is that? On both TweetDeck and the normal Twitter page, when I click a link the target opens in a new page; nothing embedded.
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I always liked jwz's take:

> But in 1999 I took my leave of that whole sick, navel-gazing mess we called the software industry. Now I'm in a more honest line of work: now I sell beer.
Good! We don't need portability in laptops that much anymore. We have smartphones and tablets for that.
Cool, is there a list somewhere?
Yes, same in France
Credit where credit is due, most Microsoft apps, like Skype, work on Mac, iOS, Android, and Windows. I have gravitated to Skype not because it isn't an awful piece of software (it totally is), but because nobody can tell me they can't run it.
Right tool for the right job. Thinking RDBMS is a silver bullet is just as bad as thinking a document database is a silver bullet. There is room in the world for both.
A year ago you said you don't work for the NSA or DoD but know one person who does:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9297990

Are you seriously expecting us to believe that your friend is telling you how the NSA is internally structured and how sensitive foreign operation intelligence programs work?

Plus in another comment of yours you claimed to know how General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle worked behind the scenes but when asked to post more info you never did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10954248

So you're seemingly a Linux admin, but know tons about the inner workings of both military contractors, the DoD, and NSA from your single friend? Seems uhh a stretch, let's just say that.
Hi-- What is the business model you have? I've seen "free" prominently, but I'm sure there has to be a revenue plan in here somewhere given how the website is constructed.
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> by restricting "joins" to only when it's okay to see old data.

So what do you do when it's not OK to see old data? That's when it breaks down.

There are definitely ways around the issues, but you have to make compromises in how you build the application. If you don't make those design decisions early, you find yourself doing it wrong.

In describing large scale systems, a friend of mine said "Imagine a scenario that has a one in a billion chance of happening. On a 10k qps system, it happens almost daily."

That's how this breaks down at scale. Awkward corner cases that don't really seem likely suddenly become daily events.
I am yet to fail into this NoSQL trend.

Yes, SQL does have its issues, but I am yet to work on any project where the relational data model doesn't fit.

Plus all the stuff that we can do at the SQL engine level, specially data validation, is just great for the type of stuff we develop.
So the evil32 people kept the private keys. That's exciting.
This is the cancer treatment of my childhood dreams.
His quote is exactly in response to that. He is not moving there. People act surprised when he says that, so that is his reasoning: he prefers the culture of Texas/Dallas.
Off the top of my head:

- Ease of deployment. It's a standalone binary - I don't have to ensure python and all needed libraries are installed/configured.

- I like Go's standard library - it usually has everything I need to whip up a basic network service easily.

- Better/easier concurrency support.

- It's faster than Python (though that's usually not incredibly important most of the time).
Yes. There are limits to what you can place in an AMP site. Basically, its all static assets, so the entire AMP version is supposed to be cached by Google.
Yes, part of this definitely reminded me of my cousin in NYC. Her husband is some big shot at Goldman Sachs, and their toddlers are raised by a nanny and being pushed into elite schools (yes, as toddlers). Their attitude towards restaurants is basically the same, and her husband has a similar lack of time (he works all his waking hours on the weekdays... and then crashes on the weekend).

Oh, and the kicker: they shop for clothes for their kids exclusively on Amazon. How do they know the clothes will fit? They don't; they order the clothes in every single size Amazon has available. I don't know what they do with the stuff that's the wrong size.
I can confirm, Italian, but I grew up in the US. When I was a kid, we roasted a lot of chickens because la rosticceria wasn't a thing in the neighborhood - in South Philadelphia or then out in the NJ suburbs. When Boston Market opened up, we ate a LOT of that.

It was odd to my folks because it's the most basic of prep, and you could pretty much get a roasted chicken (or many other meats prepped the same way) on the go anywhere in Italy. It's fast food that isn't total shit.
Matt Levine is my favorite writer on Bloomberg View!
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_i...

This forum post has links to some of their financials which are just comical.
I ran into this same issue. I've been quite fond of the idea of external gpus for this exact reason.
> It's a completely reasonable tradeoff as long as you can quantify the risk and quantify the cost (here's a tip for something that scarily few engineering organizations does: track not just time spent on projects, but calculate the cost per feature and report on it; it very quickly changes organisational priorities when managers see that what they thought was a minor change ended up costing $10k engineering time)

Except it's not a tradeoff: you don't get anything for it that you couldn't get from another data store option. Maybe MongoDB was the only option for some things 5 years ago, but it's not now. There are other options that don't leak memory and lose data.

> Do you think we just randomly say "oh, lets just lose data for fun?"

Basically, yes. You're claiming you weighed the benefits agains the tradeoffs, but I'm saying that you can get all those benefits without making a tradeoff.

>As above: Serves crash. So if your system needs to be available, you need according redundancy. The typical additional scaling cost (accounting for a slightly increased risk of simultaneous restarts, requiring a small amount of extra capacity) of dealing with restarts on resource constraints are often perfectly ok. I tend to design all systems I work on to allow as many components at possible to be restarted at will, because you need to be able to accommodate upgrades etc. anyway. If you first do that, then allowing automatic restarts in the case of failure-types where that is acceptable tends to be trivial.

Of course you should build redundancy into the system, but that's to handle unforseen problems, not to handle problems which you know are there from the start.
But for server installations (auto-signing, checking, etc.) you are often directed to GnuPG 1 because "less dependencies". Also "apt install gnupg" / "dnf install gnupg" both give you version 1 on the most recent Ubuntu/Fedora.

For desktop usage many prefer GnuPG 2.0, because they fear compatibility issues that the new 2.1 key storage format could have with 3rd party software, and you can't go back (at least this is the reason why the Homebrew maintainers still default to 2.0, but at least not to version 1 anymore since a few days).

So you have a mess of 3 stable versions, all used by many at the same time.
Have they announced when Hangouts will be discontinued?

First they deprecated SMS on Hangouts. Now they have replicated the video and voice portion. The next shoe to drop will be discontinuing Hangouts.

Ref: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/google-hangouts-7-0-f...
The target application, which the user can define to be whatever they want. Here's launching a Ruby REPL as PID 1:

guix environment --ad-hoc ruby --container -- irb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list is the original version of this, and was created for exactly this - conveying the full fingerprints of openpgp keys.
For my Fish shell comrades, see http://askubuntu.com/a/650192.
Maybe for the lower classes, but the upper class has always had nannies raise their children.
I've heard that there's a negative correlation between people who speak multiple languages, and dementia and Alzheimer's.

I'm wondering if that relates to your anecdote, and how much impact traveling vs languages help.
Yes, and they're not done yet. I think the upper stage is going to get another thrust improvement with the next flight or so.
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Could be a lot of things:

Power consumption, optimization for non-DirectX drivers, AMD could meet the parts demand from Apple.

Apple ha(d) really specific requirements for their machines, so I don't doubt the decision was a result of whatever specification being met by AMD and not Nvidia at the time. Nvidia seems pretty happy in cornering the high-end market and can barely keep the 1000 series in stock at the moment.
The smaller apples seem to be more flavorful as well.
Yup, Facebook dialed back pretty hard on that plan. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12006392
I think the general expectation is that an investment will make you more money than holding cash. A new car and a gold chain are both assets but most people would not call then investments. But that's not a strict definition, because if you intentionally buy cars and gold chains with the intent of using them as a store of wealth, they are technically investments, just really bad ones.
I'm not sure what xj9 was referring to, but it's not how the tool I'm describing (that I'm the primary author of) works.
Has anyone been fired in the last 50 years for any of those epithets?
Rocks and Trees (and trees and rocks)
From Go 1.5.4 to 1.7, I can see that the compilation time has improved. Didn't measure it, though.

However, the binary size didn't change appreciably. From 11129144 bytes, it reduced by 0.00179708340551618345%.
"Gears of War 4 looks amazing in 4K"

Why would you put a 1.920px × 1.080px screenshot next to that?

4K = 4096 × 2160 Pixel
Have you seen any prominent politicians propose substantial cuts to the military budget lately? Or evaluate Christian beliefs negatively, or say the USA is anything other than the greatest nation in the world?

There's a bit more at risk than being fired, too. How about being willing to criticize Islam in public?
Note: The article links to Ars Technica for a copy of the PDF of the case. I prefer not to link to Ars Technica because of their generally poor-quality editorializing in my personal and professional opinion. CMU has a tongue-in-cheek tone but is attentive to the details and context in ways that I believe Ars Technica whiffs on far too often.
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Pretty much right, you don't need a religion or code of conduct to tell you not to be a dick. With the NSA, and many other agencies and organizations, a culture of ends justifying means is highly contagious. Human nature and our reasons for being decent moral persons and speaking the truth instead of a lie, always has some threshold defined by our world view and beliefs. When you deal with scumbags all day, those pesky rules and rights are just in the way of justice some times.
Also blogs often mean fancy HTML etc, something that rarely produce a good reading experience on mobile devices.
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It depends on how valuable the identity is.
I check some characters, for additional security I check some in the middle until I am satisfied with security. The downside is security creep, but verified identities generally grow more secure the older they are (does this grow faster?).

The upside to showing a larger hash is that humans are very good at roughly comparing two things. The difference in casing is probably enough to trigger a conscious check. A visual hash is still better.
They already have two products for SMS: Messenger and Hangouts, and they have deprecated SMS in Hangouts. Now they have two products for video chat.

The linear line through the data points says Hangouts are going away.

Ref: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/google-hangouts-7-0-f...
Debian is currently switched to using gpg2 by default.
Are you referring to the Easy Explorer at the download page?
What else could he be? Don't have the time to enumerate all the reasons but if you entertain this option then a very happy news and silver lining follows ...

> tinfoil

You mean thinking and arriving at conclusions not blared from approved media outlets?
The RethinkDB drivers are phenomenal in 4 to 5 languages.
I think this is a sign they're worried about AMD Polaris. Most people don't realize just how much AMD has turned around the past year. I saw an article recently about people shorting Nvidia.

Full disclosure: I'm an AMD stock holder.
Preventing .NET Garbage Collections with the TryStartNoGCRegion API
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Fair enough. If you think that the housing market is flat, it can still make sense to buy, so that could be considered neutral.
Let's Encrypt: Why create a free, automated, and open CA?
I don't think really think he's a privacy hero, but his points about gawker and denton seem spot on.
My local supermarket (Hannaford) starts discounting after the lunch and dinner rushes by a dollar or two to move the chickens that have been out for more than a couple of hours. Whatever's left gets chilled and sold in the cold case at an additional discount later on that night and the next day. Honestly I think they're a bargain at full price because they're not terrible for you and they're fast - we don't always have time to cook, and given the alternatives, it just makes sense to grab a chicken. As a practical matter, we also get another one on the weekends when we grocery shop, pick it as soon as it comes home and just keep it in a container for a few days to snack on. Even with the added "solution" its way healthier than what we'd otherwise get into.
Maybe also more pesticides and more wax, unless you buy organic.
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I find that on average, rotisserie chickens are so strongly seasoned with spices+herbs that the broth will not be very "chickeny". YMMV
The kind of person with a deep loyalty to the S̶t̶a̶t̶e̶ constitution actually sounds like the kind of person who may try and sunlight what they perceive as an unconstitutional system. Especially if they feel they will be remembered as a patriot for it.

Besides, the private sector pays a lot better than the CIA, and nobody is free from the gravitas of wealth.
The problem is that many people will leave a page if it doesn't load within a few seconds. When someone is hitting your page for the first time (and therefore doesn't have your site's assets cached), it needs to load fast, or you'll lose visitors.
I've opened that pistachio with force. You're better off leaving it closed!

(It seems from my exhaustive studies that pistachios that "won't open" aren't worth opening.)
without the enable password, you can't do much
True, but there are ways you can do something similar on a blog. If you link to the blog post from Twitter, I think that becomes a simple confirmation that the person wrote it.

Or, given this is Snowden, he could GPG sign his blog posts and post his fingerprint to Twitter or something to verify identity.
> But the place where the intermediate programmer tends to get stuck ... is thinking that the difference between a beginner and an expert can be measured in how much stuff you know.

> And at its essence, proficiency is about "why you do things a certain way"—It's the difference between understanding each of the parts of a problem individually, and understanding how the parts fit into the whole.

So I guess it is about stuff you know.

The article then goes into further specifics about how you have to know when to apply what you know.
I would recommend Robert Love's Quora answers as an additional low barrier starting point

http://qr.ae/TNK9UD
Sure. tu quoque is just the specific case of ad hominem being used in this instance. ad hominem is any logical argument which attacks the arguer instead of the argument itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Tu_quoque
I've had nothing but positive experience with RethinkDB drivers. RavenDB has good drivers for some languages, but admittedly not every language is well-supported.

Still, I can't see a situation where I would choose a non-working datastore over a working datastore.
When google recruited at my university 5 years ago, they asked for high school SAT scores. I thought that was weird.
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No. That's the safe, short answer.

Are your customers actually writing SQL for executing against a database or is your app generating SQL? If instead the app's purpose is to provide a "power interface" to access data (read only?) and generate SQL, there are better choices. Use https query parameters to map to parameterized queries (https://blog.codinghorror.com/give-me-parameterized-sql-or-g...) which are a much better design choice.
You know what's interesting to me? Almost everything runs on DC these days. Lights are solid state, just about all electronics have a power supply that converts to DC, even a lot of (admittedly high end) home gadgets use brushless DC motors. The only AC devices I can count in a normal home are the big appliances like electric stoves, HVAC fans, etc. I wonder why there has not been more progress in a DC home distribution standard. Especially because efficiency generally increases with load, all of those little wall warts are less efficient than one big AC to DC converter.
You don't do regular disk clones as part of your backup process?!
The value is more than the price cooked versus DIY. To me it's a bargain because I'll eat something way worse for me if I'm in a rush and there's nothing available. We don't want to stop at McDonalds because I'm running late from work, my wife and daughter had an activity until 6, and we already ate everything in the fridge. Boom, chicken.

EDIT: I don't want to entirely rag on McD's. I lost a bunch of weight when I was in consulting and ate every meal on the run. Of the fast food chains, they have some of the most reasonable items with easy math on the calories. Pro tip: Egg McMuffins and regular cheeseburgers are 300 calories each. I'm not saying it was healthy, but I did control my calories and lose weight. I am likely partially embalmed from the trans fat and sodium though. Hopefully we can agree a supermarket rotisserie chicken is a superior option :)