skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to follow this to its logical conclusion, the webserver may be running Apache or Nginx on Linux,
but there are likely to be proprietary blobs in the drivers and the firmware is probably closed. Plus, much of the hosting company's networking hardware is probably running proprietary software.

IANANE (I Am Not A Network Engineer) but I imagine with open firmware like Coreboot and networking distros like Cumulus and pfSense (BSD) and the whole Open Compute Project it might be possible to run a completely open-source hosting company. Well, no. Your UPS's and other auxiliary hardware are probably running closed OSes. Darn.
If you're paying attention to prevent collisions then it's not a passive job. And if I got into a car to find the 'driver' dividing their attention between the road and their novel then I would get right out again.
Demonstrates Breakthrough Performance of Next-Generation “Zen” Processor Core
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12312825
Gggbb
Nice! Bought it.
I am very disappointed that Mozilla's only login option is GitHub.

Why? Because I have deleted my GitHub account after testimonials that GitHub participates in a hunt against white males. See these two quotes:

> "They are trying to control culture, interviewing and firing. Scary times at the company without a seasoned leader. While their efforts are admirable it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white' which makes things challenging" - An employee

> "Some of the biggest barrier to progress are white women" - GitHub's Head of Diversity - see http://uk.businessinsider.com/diversity-guru-discusses-white...

The whole discussion is there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067

Let's remember what fairness is:

- To hire, promote and make rich the people who work the best, not because they are black, born in India or because they're females.

- Not giving women the right of ending a male's career. Upon accusation of sexism/discrimination, check they're guilty before firing them (unless they want to purge based on assumption of discrimination). I'm absolutely not satisfied with the resignation/layoff of recent CEOs based on simple accusations. In this list:

- Brendan Eich (Mozilla) was fired without proof,

- Tom Presten-Werner (GitHub) was resigned without proof,

- Adria Richards was fired upon the single testimonial of a woman.

GitHub chooses to use racist promotions, it's ok, it's a private company, they make money the way they want.

But Mozilla is another story. It's a charity and an asset to the freedom of the world. Forcing everyone into approving of GitHub's policy is dishonest. That won't surprise me after they kicked Brendan Eich out without proof of guilt.
I think the message is "regardless of what techniques, tools and analyzers you are using right now, more errors can still be found by applying just another tool".
The wording of this is down right irresponsible.

Talk about the potential to mislead people that don't question and test the ongoing state of software.

If you think you absolutely secure - you more likely to be(come) absolutely insecure.

There's a reason developers of the better quality security focused software out there are the same people that are quick to point out potential flaws or weaker surfaces of their designs...
> Among other things, their update hooks use unserialize(), which allows for some fun exploitation techniques

S-s-surely not?
Mozilla turning off personas
Blood and repression is the norm for empires, from Sumeria down through. The new thing is being ashamed of it.
Two things:

1- link the post to the URL instead of creating a post with a link in the description.
2- Link is not working.
Hola chrome extension VPN - works for couple of websites I dont have access to.
Name one country that has similar laws. I very literally know of no other country.

Britain, Canada, the EU and Japan all have Hate Speech laws. Hate speech laws are laws restricting speech for being nothing more than speech.
Comparing ASO Tools for Suggested App Keywords
> Serialisation is its own problem. Should have nothing to do with IPC.

Yes and no. There's significant utility to standardizing serialization in your IPC layer. IPC consists of exchanging domain-specific messages, so the message types can be specified in a header shared between endpoints, and data gets serialized in a standard format.

The IPC API then simply reduces to sending/receiving data to/from endpoints, like channels in CPS. And ideally it should be higher-order so you can send an endpoint to another endpoint.

So you don't need to standardize the serialization, but then you just get a plethora of incompatible formats.
These are the right questions to be asking! Yes, there has been some talk -- but not remotely enough. At present, the vast majority of work in the vehicle-automation space is being done by, well, vehicle people. The assumption is that driverless vehicles will slot into the existing infrastructure with minimal modification. There's a fair amount of consideration being given to vehicle-to-infrastructure communications (so that vehicles can notify traffic signals that they are approaching, for example), but relatively little consideration being given to how the roadways will actually _physically_ evolve.

Personally, I expect that this evolution will be roughly as significant as what was catalysed by the horseless carriage.
The Turing Tapes
Microservices Weekly (Issue #37): Let's Encrypt
Thanks, we try to talk to users as much as possible.

What you're referring to is the autoplay of related tracks. Great feature for background listening - not so much for your use case :)

You can turn it off by going to the options screen. Go to the "person" icon tab, then the 3 dots button on the top right. De-select "Autoplay related tracks".

Any other feedback and I'd love to hear it. You can always DM me on Twitter @colemercer as well, I keep it open.
In 1989 I had to walk down to the lab to use a terminal to check my messages and this effectively limited my email checking to 1-2 days per week. Those ... might not have been the days actually. But there were some high points.
I work in adtech. We all use adblockers, and the rise in their use is a good thing. Digital ads (especially video) are out of control and blocking is necessary to combat the terrible user experience and security risks.

However, ads also sustain all the services and content we consume for free and there are clearly common sense standards we can agree to: fast, non-intrusive, secure, static, etc. Any ad vendor that meets these guidelines should be let through (after a transparent vetting process and routine checkups).

Blocking everything just because it's an ad takes away any moral high ground from adblockers and doesn't do anything but hurt the entire ecosystem. A more nuanced approach would let good vendors through which would in turn start to encourage those behaviors by publishers and advertisers, creating progress all through the industry while letting companies stay in business.

It's not advertising we hate, it's the ad experience. Improving that experience is the ultimate goal, not engaging in endless war.
The biggest problem with density is _cost_. Even if we "liberalize housing regulations", density in America still means housing prices 2x-4x higher than current averages.

Wages can't support that -- most people can barely afford housing today as it is. Even higher tech industry wages can't support that in many places. (Even in my small-town-Midwest city, tech wages don't cover "downtown" cost of living)

Until we get serious about planning density for people who work for a living, this problem will only get worse. If you just let cities get bigger on their own with "less regulations", developers will build cities full of penthouses (as they do today). Sure, millionaires will save some cash, but 99% of the population will still forever be priced out, and therefore be driving in from elsewhere
And yet, the US has a long history of domain seizures...
Adblock Plus is doing a marketing stunt: Claiming to have "the community" on their side and making hand-wavy arguments on FTC regulations that are based on nothing at all. While their only goal still is to make Facebook pay them just like Google does, because the minute Facebook pays up they will start unblocking their ads.

So can we please just decide for once and for all that Adblock Plus is a commercial, mafia like, practice extorting publishers and quit the grassroots bullshit?
There is a good body of research around 'Programming by Demonstration' or 'Programming by Example': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_by_demonstration

From my own experience doing some research into it, I found the lack of 'common sense' to be the biggest stumbling block; it is hard to detect if the program you generated is a nonsensical 'catchall' solution.

Incidentally, this led me to the paper with the best ever title:
How to Wreck a Nice Beach You Sing Calm Incense
http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Publications/Wreck-a-Nice-B...
It is interesting how everyone wants to portray themselves as a victim. "I was persecuted for pursuing this very popular agenda, please ignore all the overwhelming support I got and pretend I am a victim". The idea that the British empire was an empire of evil and hatred has been the only acceptable view for decades, and is the standard story taught starting at least 3 decades back. You were not persecuted for supporting the majority view.
Why not just configure fetchmail or your MUA to retrieve mails less frequently?
Better yet, set the X coordinate of the sphere to 94
Two ways it's better: it sets the expectation with the sender that you won't get an immediate response, and it provides a better option for those without the discipline/self-control
I think delivering messages 3 times a day is the wrong approach. There is a need for synchronous communications, it just should not be chat channels you are connected to all day long.

One preferable idea would be to use notification channels that would reduce significantly the noise you receive from your pairs. I speak at length about the idea here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/channels-best-way-handle-inte...
Interesting. A car that could "drone" in some contexts. Leave your parking lot and wait closer for instance. No need for high speed, complex collision avoidance. Only 10mph private neighborhood mobility. That could be a nice selling point. Something like the Tesla thing, just better.
> Thus being German I stopped attending Coursera courses as soon as free Statements of Accomplishment were dropped.

Did you feel that being able to list the free statements of accomplishment has some specific value to you as an employee or a job seeker? (But, presumably, not sufficient value to pay for a certificate?)

Otherwise, it seems a bit of an odd attitude. Do you avoid reading books for educational purposes or watching videos on professional topics because you don't get a certificate for doing so?

I do get that there's value in some certifications. But, except for some limited circumstances (continuing education requirements, as something to show in the absence of a traditional degree) my impression is that Coursera certifications don't have a lot of value. Which has been sort of their problem.
I pulled in behind someone at a gas station to fuel up as they pulled up to the building to get something inside. They had been inside for seconds when thick black smoke started billowing from the engine compartment. In minutes all the plastic and oil that used to be in the car was suspended in the blackest cloud of smoke I have ever seen, stretching into the sky.

I hate to think what would have happened if it started while they were fueling with three other cars tightly bunched around it. But the most poignant moment in the event was standing outside as the station attendant calmly called the fire department:

"Hi, I am at the Shell station on Walker. We have a car on fire here again."

Again, like it's a regular occurrence.
An argument against that I have seen in other threads and I find particularly interesting is that by providing an option to pay to block ads, you'd be greatly diminishing the strength of the ad network since the people that would see ads are not the ones that are willing to pay for their stuff.
I think a better example of the evilness of the British Empire is the Irish experience in the 19th century. You lose the "excuse" of racism and are left with religious sectarianism and sheer greed for the policy.

The British put inhumane and genocidal policies in place, starving millions in a land of plenty.
Uber and Volvo partner up, robot ride-sharing starts this summer
The investment of effort and time you would need to put into the study of a serious book, whether for enjoyment or self-education, especially of an over 1000-page book like this one, seems to me incomparably bigger than a few dozen dollars you would have to pay for it. If, on the other hand, all you want is to have it on your bookshelf - just in case, then, of course, the book may end up being merely an expensive souvenir.
Or better yet, use Shift+Escape.
I didn't feel that the author was really from the Midwest. The inspiration article felt like a self-mockery which is what made it special... but the Burger King stuff was where this really started to sound like the outside looking in. I felt the need to apply some actual midwestern(Detroit, MI) thoughts/barbs. =)
Why can't someone just check their email 3 times a day? Wouldn't that accomplish the same effect?
The Winner Take All economy is a circle jerk.

Palo Alto is successful because you can't make an exit from 49.5 states.
> Well there really is only one country in the world that has 'Freedom of Speech' codified into law.

Even China has "freedom of speech" coded in their constitution. Granted, many of the countries with "free speech" in the books don't actually have it in practice, but that doesn't validate your claim.
Your comment makes no sense. You are telling us that increased supply drives up prices?
On the conceptual level, this seems great, because it removes the expectations of a timely response from both parties (sender and receiver). However, other (more immediate) channels will probably get used instead, precisely where this app would be most valuable.
Agreed, even handing this over to NATO countries would be preferred to the noble but false idea that "every country is equal!"
that could happen in the office as well
Do you expect them to say "Don't buy our product"?:)
It responds to a call by accepting the connection and a payload (video) before the user has decided whether to "accept" the call?

"... since it is phone only for now."

For now?

Yikes.
Explore Saydnaya: Inside a Syrian Torture Prison
I appreciate that she took a stand for what she believes in. I hope that someone of her calibur will also express how the carribean has so few natives or tribes being pocketed in little corners of many american countries. But I appreciate any effort to understand and reach for justice
> The new thing is being ashamed of it.

Which is a development I very much welcome.
This is a great opportunity to mention that we have a bug bounty program, as well: https://hackerone.com/paragonie

(Take note of the "average time to resolution".)
They are using it for navigation not lane following. You can supplement GPS with dead reckoning for tunnels etc, but high quality maps let's a car be aware of landmarks and then use them to figure out where in the world they are. EX: With enough precision there is plenty of information in the picture to figure out where it's located. http://socialforest.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Forest-Gr...
I wonder if they could add sensors for fire detection to an ICE vehicle, or if the fact that it literally contains thousands of fires a second, belches smoke out the exhaust pipe, and has internal components at hundreds of degrees makes this impossible?
Nice. Also cool that Google Docs now lets you save as ePub

http://venturebeat.com/2016/03/08/google-docs-now-lets-you-e...
Interesting - I understand that there are a number of factors that go into stock trading; what does the bot use to determine buy/sell?
Hm. Lots of people believed that the British Empire was absolutely fantastic. In reality, though it brought lots of trade to Britain, I don't think there was much interaction with the Empire for the normal person on the street.

If they had actually known what atrocities had been committed in order to get them that rubber or cotton would they have been so happy about it? I think modern shame is very much the product of modern access to information.

(To counter that point, most people can reasonably be expected to know where their bananas and palm oil came from and they still buy them)
I don't think we can agree to this.

Ads do not sustain the free services I use; I object to advertising, full stop.

You are welcome to think your free services are essential, I will disagree with you in most of the cases that are ad supported.
I'd love to see MS force a showdown over this: since the EU is dumb enough to run all their computers on Windows, MS could force them to make an exception for them, or else. What's the EU going to do when all their government computers suddenly shut down? Toss Satya in jail? He's in the US. You don't make yourself completely and utterly dependent on someone and then tell them how to behave.
I Miss Being Bipolar
You clearly haven't worked in a commercial closed source setting.
Every link on that page worked for me.
Let's be clear here though: it's not western imperial states, it's all imperial states throughout all of history, and all countries behave very differently at home compared to abroad.
Can there be more than one @ or whitespace? If not you could use:

/^[^@\s]+@[^@\s]+$/

Filtering out emails with multiple @'s and whitespace seems like an obvious win to help prevent typos and copy-paste errors.
That's because they are letting people work remote who shouldn't be working remote, either through ignorance or some attempt at "equality".
For me it is the advertising I hate. I really don't want/need adverts in my life. If I want to find about new products or see reviews, I can search them out or read about them in publications I like or ask my friends.
I agree with the basic premise, but it seems to me that those two cities in particular are quite different.

New York definitely has its NIMBY crowd, and people will scream about development in certain places under certain situations, but on the whole it seems to be an entirely different culture towards growth. As a longtime NYC resident, my feeling at least is that everyone here basically agrees on the premise that they are going to live in a giant, incredibly dense, tall, interconnected city that looks like a city. People might lament loss of historic buildings, get annoyed by the aesthetics of cookie cutter towers, or get seriously concerned at lower income people being ignored by builders, but we do get that we live in a big city.

From the outside, it seems like the Bay Area is completely schizophrenic. San Francisco has obvious big city problems that seem largely unaddressed. The Valley is completely dominated by automobile-scale planning with a way of life based on four story office parks surrounded by parking lots, a fundamentally broken model. And the people with real money seem to want to continue some fantasy that everyone is living in a bucolic nature preserve rather than the choked up global megacity that clearly surrounds them.

I have little doubt that NYC will, in fact, just get much much bigger over the next 20 years, and will generally have the same fundamental structure and urban fabric. The Valley on the other hand seems like it's going to need to change course.
I think you're talking about AdBlock Plus, not AdBlock, which is a different product by different people.
Projects like Chromium and ChakraCore are not being written in anyone's "spare time." It would be nice if people would stop conflating Open Source with unpaid hobby work. The projects analyzed in this story represent billions in paid labor.
Another is you can reset the iOS App Store by tapping on any of the bottom menu buttons 10 times. It's actually useful sometimes when apps won't download.
I prefer http://BlackHoleCloud.com . You get your own VPN server(s) in the cities that you choose so there is no fighting for bandwidth, and no other vpn subscriber will try to hack into your computer. It also comes with your choice of tiny hardware firewalls. The smallest one fits on a keychain. You can put up to 64 devices on the VPN at no extra cost. Oh, and it has Tor built in if you want it and the firewall blocks ads like a PiHole.
>Well there really is only one country in the world that has 'Freedom of Speech' codified into law.

That statement is so absurd that this can only be Poe's law in effect. Freedom of Speech is a requirement for a functioning democracy, and consequently plenty of countries have freedom of speech codified into law.

Of course different countries limit this freedom differently. In a US cinema you can't shout "Fire" if there is no fire, or "I just got a national security letter" if there is a national security letter. In a German cinema you can't shout "The holocaust never happened" or "Kill all muslims". But within reasonable bounds both countries guarantee freedom of speech.
A car driving around with no human inside poses less risk to human life than a car driving around with a human inside who is unable to control the car.
New York is dead though. Forget it. It had its day and failed. Its all about SF and Austin now.
I have read that in my country, one of the reasons why metro systems (and perhaps bus too), which for now are state-owned, are not more automated/driverless, is workers' union pressure for it not to happen. In fact one line was fully automated (but still had conductors just to open and close doors) but the system was scrapped some years ago; the official reason was that the system was obsolete, but many people think that additionally, there was some lobbying for automation to be removed instead of modernized (which would have been more economical in the longer term).

What I mean is that there are more than technical and legal challenges to self-driving transportation systems, especially when those systems currently employ human drivers who are obviously not willing to lose their jobs.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10884893
>Most marketers are already using over 100 software programs

Get out of here. I can't imagine this article being front page without brigading.
That 20% sounds about right to me. I'm much more efficient when I work from home. My commute is walking across my kitchen to my office. Lunch break is getting up to get a salad or sandwich from said kitchen. I can work an 8 hour day in 8-9 hours total including breaks for lunch etc.

There is no way to do that in the Boston area where I live if I have to drive to a office. Commutes here are usually about an hour per 20 miles driven during rush hour. That makes an 8 hour work day more like 10-11 hours. So somewhere between 20% and 25% makes up the difference.
No, but new construction is never cheap. If you want affordable housing or business space you'd need to invent a way to make more old buildings.
It's hard to figure out which are the good points and which are hyperbole. "EDSAC was the second electronic digital stored-program computer to go into regular service" and with "the world's first assembler" dating from 1949, says the Wikipedia reference. As such, many languages can be traced back to that "Most Godawful Computer on Earth (TM)".

Or, "4. ALGOL60 [4] had many nice features of languages today but was too theoretical: only existed on paper." Yet its reference 4, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60#ALGOL_60_implementati... , lists a number of ALGOL60 implementations even in the 1960s.