skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one frustrated with Meetup.com? Melitix is being created out of that frustration. We're building a better, modern meetup platform and looking for feedback from people interested in helping get it right.
Dude, they bought Nervana like yesterday.

Nervana has its own silicon, but I doubt they will tape out.
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Indeed, that's common practice with Galera.

Percona xtradb cluster provides a clustercheck service script listening on port 9200 (http).
> > You can no longer use editor/IDE features like go to definition.
> Not a problem with a good editor.

What editor are you thinking of that can jump from HTTP client API calls to the corresponding handler on the server?
Basic income seems to do quite well.
Stick with what you're good at. You're not Rock Paper Shotgun.
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And then something happens and market 'corrects' itself. Before investing, it can be useful to know the post-market-corrected value of any asset.
MouseJack: Injecting Keystrokes in Wireless Mice
Clickbait promises Hillary on video with ISIS leader, gives malware instead
I wonder how much ridership data you could infer by reverse engineering the app and systematically querying the API. For example by looking at the rate that cars become available/unavailable and extrapolating rides from that.
I think this is valid. I'm the type of person who works in bursts. Some things are conducive to this and others aren't. To be honest I feel like regular office hours are not at all, but its the best system we have when coordination needs to happen.
There are other uses for oil besides gasoline that are not going to be displaced anytime soon. Jet fuel, home heating(could be if solar gets exceptionally cheap, but unlikely anytime soon), asphalt, plastics, etc. Those uses alone probably can't support oil at even its current depressed prices, but it will hardly be worthless for decades to come.
Anything regarded as "industry standard" in some quasi-niche engineering field.

I guess that doesn't count as home use. Personally, I've been on Linux for over a decade. I don't feel like I'm missing out on any "killer apps", but there's always some odd bit of software that only works on Windows - like the freeware RC helicopter simulator I use. Wine's great.

It's just the path of least resistance for most people.
Link to affected devices: https://www.bastille.net/affected-devices
Dude. I work in 2 jobs where the act of hearing any sentence with more than one multi-sylable word is like trying to find my Ashton-Tate manuals in the attic.
I worked at a law firm from 1997 to 2001. I was a person who liked gizmos and wrote programs for them as a programmer analyst. Whenever someone got a Gizmo like a Royal PDA with Datalink abilities to sync with Outlook they sent me to help. I even bought a Timex Datalink watch. There was Windows CE devices, and PalmPilots too. I had worked on a web based docket calendar and some of these devices had a calendar that synced with Outlook.

Apple had the Newton but poor handwriting recognition. Palmpilots had something like shorthand, but also a pop-up keyboard or an external keyboard as well.

I remember working with the Davinci devices as well.

It is good to see the start of the market, before Palm.

The Timex Datalink was the original smart watch and they even had apps for it, but it didn't have much in the way of memory and synced with Outlook using a program that only worked in Windows 95 unless you had the notebook adapter.
Intent figures greatly in legal circumstances. If you intended for your cat to accept a EULA by installing special hardware to enable it, you're almost certainly responsible. If the cat did it accidentally, maybe not - the hard part would be proving it was the cat and not yourself.
It's not a matter of screen readers catching up, it's a matter of blind folks not having the latest tech or being stuck on an ancient version of a screen reader/browser combo. They maybe don't have helpful IT resources in their lives or money to help them upgrade? It's actually a big bummer. There is virtue in making pages that gracefully degrade but still deliver the goods on legacy platforms.

I believe the :checked pseudo-selector is only useful on radio and checkbox. It's just serendipitous that the common visual ordering matches the useful DOM element ordering for CSS styling in those cases.

I would expect label to come earlier in the DOM for other types of form elements so we could be compliant with the WCAG and we would still rely on the for attribute to link the two tags together for the screen readers.
Lightning might be pleasant but it's got some shortcomings:

- The springs are in the device instead of in the cable, so your $700 device wears out instead of your $5 cable
- It only has 8 pins
- It's intentionally locked down to ensure Apple has control

USB Type-C is more open, more durable, and more powerful
This sounds like a good idea. But, it may not be possible in most of the hard sciences. Imagine writing an 800-word layman's summary for some results in string theory.
I agree with your assessment of the legislation.

It's true that Sen. Lieberman, in coordination with Sen. Snowe, threatened a filibuster. At the time, Sen. Lieberman was an independent, not a Democrat. So, it was an independent and a Republican.

I know that's splitting hairs, but these are valid hairs to split.
The Lifetime Distribution of Health Care Costs http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/
I was saying it was stupid going through a sales associate but you can still buy a developer edition for 3000.
Saudi Aramco's IPO would never have happened without Prince Mohammad bin Salman (Salman might be the king, and Mohammad bin Nayef might be the crown prince, but MbS is "Mr. Everything") consolidating power and courtiers.

Okay, HN, crush my expectations. How is MbS not actually the liberal reformer that western media fawns over and says he is?

Also, what odds do you you have on rival factions in the House of Saud ganging up on MbS and pulling a King Faisal? I have 15/1 odds that the other princes will at least attempt to push him out of prominence (they probably won't kill him)--the Saudi royal family has 15,000 princes, after all.

Finally, I think that "perestroika, GCC style" might be the best or the worst thing to happen in the Middle East in over 50 years. Think about it. Iran has used its large, wealthy, well-educated population (80 million people) to maintain a geopolitical foothold in the Middle East and Central Asia, even under crushing international sanctions. With an absolute theocratic monarchy, an old-world economic structure based on clan ties, and a population of only 32 million (21 million if you subtract out the expatriate population), Saudi has been able to amass otherworldly concentrations of wealth. Imagine how much change those Saudi trillions could do for the country, the region and the world at large the if MbS's dream of a post-oil economy and economic liberalization came through. (Plus, Saudi gets on the good side of the west so it doesn't have to worry about sanctions.) Imagine if Saudi's population boomed and became more and more educated. 40, 50, 60 million. Imagine how the geopolitical fisticuffs with the Ayatollah and the Revolutionary Guard might turn into a détente, or get even worse.
I've definitely heard of it! Would I need to know Python well to use it? (Not opposed to getting better at Python, obviously, but just a consideration for my partner)
As a heavy forum user (since the late 90s), I find reddit supplanted them. Reddit is basically every forum I've ever been a part of, all on a single website. More importantly, it's every forum I didn't even know existed, on a single website. I found many niche hobbies and interests I wouldn't have otherwise found thanks to reddit.

I think that's why reddit grew so large, so quick. It does what forums do (provides similar discussions), except better.
All the comments about how restrictive and troublesome the Great Firewall is, yet probably 50% or more of the malicious/unwanted traffic I see coming into my networks (and those of my customers) every day is coming from China.

If you have a web service you want to make available to .cn, perhaps you should try running your web servers on port 25/TCP instead. That seems to be pretty much wide open through the GFW.
Are you sure UBI is a leftist idea? The things that go along with UBI read like a right-wing wishlist: eliminate the minimum wage, discontinue welfare and unemployment benefits, and end the food stamp program. In its place, the free market would determine how best to spend basic income.
I had a team member explain the project vastly differently to me. Can you provide a link that LE is only for personal/casual use?

As a webhost we have offered SSL certificates to customers for ages. Unless it's free you will see very little uptake. Which eliminates the main purpose for LE to exist, from what I was told.

I also have a rather compelling use case for far more than 20 subdomain certificates a week, but there is absolutely no "market" for that use-case - it simply increases Internet security. Which was the entire stated goal of the project, I thought.

First I've heard that LE is only for personal use :)
HEIST: HTTP Encrypted Information Can Be Stolen Through TCP-Windows [video]
Hijacking top comment, haskellbook.com did more wonders for me than LYAH. HN fawns over that book, surprised it isn't already mentioned.

The book is also a pedagogical feat.
This post introduced me to a concept I had never seen before.

Not the content though. Instead I'm referring to some new web chicanery with the janky popup that appears when you mouse your mouse off the page in preparation for navigating back.

Normally these just invite you to join an email list or whatever.

But this one seems to be actually personalized based on referer - I saw "Sorry to do this to you HN.". I had instinctively closed it as always before it struck me this is the first time I've ever seen that.

I guess there's some kind of database somewhere of referers, with a groovy customized "sorry you're leaving" phrase for each one?
Perhaps because in both fashion and IT, the surface appearance conceals a tremendous amount of underlying complexity.

Fashion signals, well, virtually everything about social interactions. A tremendously complex world. Including, for that matter, whether or not you care about fashion trends, and quite possibly, why you might or might not (you're not in the game, you've quit the game, you're so fabulously successful you don't need to play the game, you couldn't play the game if you wanted to, ...)

In IT, TLAs, ETLAs, buzzwords, slogans, brands, companies, tool names, etc., all speak to what you know, or very often, don't know. It's not possible to transmit deep understanding instantaneously, so we're left with other means of trying to impart significance.

Crucially, the fact that clothing and IT fashion are so superficial (of necessity) means they can be game, and that those who are good at following just the surface messages can dive in. Some quite effectively. But they're not communicating the originally intended meaning.
I obviously thought so otherwise I wouldn't have said it.
Got any examples of SaaS providers who don't have low limits on their free tier offerings?

Personally I think you're badly mis-categorizing LetsEncrypt there - it's not like they're trying to bug you into signing up for a $29/month "Personal Plan" or a $199/month "Professional Plan" by keeping their limits low. They're giving their service away for free, and trying hard to only exclude the very edge cases of people who need way more resources to satisfy than the 99%.

If you've got a plan that requires hundreds of ssl certs per week to operate, and you don't have a revenue stream to pay for them, your plan needs more work. Just 'cause someone offers "free coffee", doesn't mean you can make a business out of showing up with a pickup truck full of 44gal drums and demand to have them fill you up for free so you can give it away to the customers at your restaurant...
Lobsters gets this right where you have to provide a reason from a drop down when downvoting
Many restrooms that aren't in a hallway still open inwards in my area.
Oh damn the SPIDER is really cool. It checks the bag quality of the airship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86EAzvXrESg It's like a cross between a roomba and those magnetic scrubby brushes you use for fishtanks.
You have to be careful to tune your xinetd script to increase the cps and per_source limits accordingly to the load that your pool of servers generate with this proxy forwarding.

Assuming that all servers that need to connect to MySQL have this local tcp 3306 proxy setup, each time you increase your pool of servers the load of incoming check requests increase as well.

Xinetd is quite nasty and by default will stop responding to requests for like 10 seconds after some defaults. This will effectively "block" your whole database connection flows, especially when you restart services at batch during a rolling update, and under some other circumstances...
Well, I'm glad you do report the vulnerabilities you find. Maybe it's my own naive, optimistic worldview, but I profoundly disagree with your stance that a researcher is not obligated to report. I think it is a matter of public safety. If you found out a particular restaurant was selling food with dangerously high levels of lead, aren't you obligated to tell someone, anyone for the public good? If you don't, you aren't as culpable as the restaurant serving this food, but that's still a lot of damage you could have prevented at no real cost to yourself.

I understand morality is subjective, but that's my 2 cents on the matter.

EDIT: about the vulnerabilities you didn't disclose, I really can't understand why not. Why not just send an email to the maintainer: "hey, when I do X I cause a buffer overflow"? You don't even have to help them fix it. You probably won't answer this, but can you tell me why you wouldn't disclose a vulnerability?
Steven Pinker doesn't think so (see any of his talks or articles relating to his book The Sense of Style and the curse of knowledge). It would be much closer to the truth to say that many of these papers are nearly opaque to other specialists in the same field. There is, of course, the jargon of precision, which is at least in a sense unavoidable, but most of the problem actually stems from failing to understand that most people, even in your own narrow field, haven't been recently immersed in the same small body of highly-specific literature, etc., that you've been swimming in for the past several weeks, months or years.
They hire a replacement.

How do American companies cover a few weeks of leave? That's too short to hire a replacement but often too long to just let things slide.
This is such a neat hack! I wasn't able to figure out how to get a padlock at the start of the spoofed domain, but as an example, chuck this in your browser bar `عربي.امارات/google.com/test/test` (no need to hit enter)

*edit: HN removed the unicode lock. It was after the .com
But sometimes the point of downvoting is to bury a comment so that it doesn't dominate the discussion. If downvoting required a reply it would achieve the opposite effect.
Custom domain for GH Pages actually allowed even if you don't have a paid subscription.

https://help.github.com/articles/using-a-custom-domain-with-...
It was originally a right wing idea, often known as mincome (minimum income) or a reverse tax. Milton Friedman was one of the earliest proponents of the idea.
> For me the real issue is the licensing.

Sure. Wanting to own physical books to avoid issues of broken licensing model or issues of service centralization isn't the same thing as wanting physical books because dead-tree ones supposedly feel better than their electronic counterparts.

The latter is simply untrue, only a means to hijack industry standards, sell propaganda, and profit from it.

IMHO, electronic books can easily have a great reading experience (much, much better) if only books/manuscripts related software was let in the open for people to innovate upon. Or made a part of the web, a first class citizen, with decentralization, accessibility etc.

I pretty much agree with you that existing options have a lot of deliberate problems but do not think that the solution to all of those is in physical books. I'd rather push for books and web being coalesced into a single unified resource that is both accessible and open.

My friend & I even started a community/foundation that we plan to build on some of these ideas:

https://bubbl.in/about

> Amazon deleting copies of 1984 and other books from every kindle on the planet paints a precedent that should be taken very seriously.

I hadn't heard about this before! And what's even worse is that Amazon was allowed to acquire the .book TLD and with that own a very very large piece of "public property" for peanuts. I guess there was very little reportage by media on this. But then such is life lately.

> There are more trees _today_ than in the 1950s because of the paper industry…

That's an interesting thread to go after. My tryst with physical books was almost a decade ago, and the industry I knew locally then was quite different from what you describe here. If the world gives up on ebooks like the talk of the town is lately, I'm pretty sure there will be an "impact" that would no longer hide under the design of industry.
The only responsive argument I can come up with based on your original comment depends on you not knowing what the term "responsible disclosure" means, and instead trying to back out its meaning from the individual words "responsible" and "disclosure". But that's not what the term means.

A good shorthand definition for "responsible disclosure" is "report to the vendor, and only to the vendor, and disclose to nobody else until the vendor chooses to release a patch, and even then not until a window of time chosen by the vendor elapses."

Maybe you thought I was saying "the only way to disclose responsibly is to honor a formal duty to the vendors of insecure software". No, that was not my argument. If you thought it was, well, that's a pretty great demonstration of how the term is Orwellian, isn't it?

Or I could be missing part of your argument (it was quite terse, after all). Maybe you could fill in some details.
Really? Anything?

It's not that I don't believe Linux is that reliable. I use it daily.

I don't believe any software is that reliable.

Maybe you're not using it?
This is what Purdue Pharmaceuticals said about Oxycontin
First of all, this technology combined with the personalized manufacturing process is pretty incredible. Are there any plans to go beyond two stages of release? Or have the technology work for longer timeframes like 8 hours? Or an XR version, where a total amount is continuously released over a longer timeframe? These would all be desirable.

Additionally are there plans to have other nootropics included on your supplement list? I'm sure r/nootropics would love to experiment with this if the cost is reasonable and the methods of release are interesting.
There is a Nvidia Maxwell assembler https://github.com/NervanaSystems/maxas

But yeah this isn't production ready
getting a license is not hard or hostile.

the fact that you have to do _anything_ is a problem... also dealing with mainland providers can be challenging.
Shell languages are great at doing interactive programming. Few non-shell languages can match the convenience, flexibility, and expressiveness in that domain. Of course, in any other domain (scripts) they are awful.
Of course not. I am in undergrad.

But I think Alan Kay has been "exposed" to computer science, and I follow his logic, based on my limited scope of knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc
I don't disagree with your overall point but it's important to point out that the example translates to the real world just fine. There's no requirement that a childcare facility be able to accommodate children with special needs. They must be accessible for the disabled (parking, ramps, etc.) but caring for someone with developmental disabilities requires different training, staffing and accommodations.
And now I've subscribed to HNReplies - we'll see what happens. But regardless, thanks @dangrossman.
The only right career is owning a small farm with sufficient output to provide for one's family. Everything else is supplemental.
I do not report all the vulnerabilities I find, as I just said.

I confess to being a bit mystified as to how work I do on my own time, uncompensated by anyone else, which work does not create new vulnerabilities but instead merely informs me as to their existence, somehow creates an obligation for me to act on behalf of the vendors who managed to create those vulnerabilities in the first place.

Perhaps you have not had the pleasure of trying to report a vulnerability, losing several hours just trying to find the correct place to send the vulnerability, being completely unable to find a channel with which to send the vulnerability without putting the plaintext for it on the Internet in email or some dopey web form, only to get a response from first-line tech support asking for a license or serial number so they can provide customer support.

Clearly, you have not had the experience of being threatened with lawsuits for reporting vulnerabilities --- not in software running on someone else's servers (which, absent a bug bounty, you do not in the US have a legal right to test) but on software you download and run and test on your own machine. I have had that experience.

No. Finding vulnerabilities does not obligate someone to report them. I can understand why you wish it did. But it does not.
Cannot speak for the cause, but the prices are distorted. I was taken to ER a couple of months ago and x-ray of chest cost $3500 and CT of chest $5500. The equivalent prices at the private sector of my home country would have been $70 and $120 and I could have gotten those done just as quickly as in ER in US.
Everything in a computer can be interpreted as a stream of bytes. For most things an object is a better interpretation.
Agree or disagree with the politics otherwise rampant therein, subreddits like /r/KotakuInAction seem to do a good job of cataloging some instances of this (ex. [1][2] and basically anything else in their [CENSORSHIP] tag/flair). Granted, this is likely not the best source, due to the fairly political nature of such subreddits, as well as that I haven't checked many of these to verify the accuracy of them; I just occasionally like to see what different sides of the debate(s) are up to.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/378smw/a_jo...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/390bni/user...
I think that Planet feeds are the Right Thing, more right than some official, centralised blog. They may be part of Web 1.0 (or was it 2.0, actually?), but they're part of what was great.
Too many columns and talk about it.....

My take: one single column that the rendering visible area can figure out how to render. No hidden agenda. only and just information worth reading: learning, discussing, agreeing ir disagreeing.

(my first papers were from a teletext or a stencil or a typewriter they were of the information I wish for to read today at least 3-4 times a week. instead of 3-4 days go by for one.)

Bring back the pure unadulterated brain output.
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OpenJDK Subprojects and Investigations
Uber's going to fail big because it failed big in China?

I think it's pretty well established that western companies can continue to be extremely successful while failing in China. Google (meaning search, gmail, maps, docs, youtube), facebook, dropbox, twitter, instagram...
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