skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was 12 I was the hub for FidoNet mail in my smallish town. I was tweaking the settings before heading on vacation. We left the next morning, and returned a week later. We came home to an official notice from the police to contact them immediately. My parents did, and pretty soon 2 police officers showed up at our door.

They wanted to know who had been "hacking" from the second line in the house. It turns out I forgot to enter the area code for the FidoNet long distance number, and some poor souls had been getting a phone call at 3am with "strange noises", which auto-dialed every minute for 3 hours straight.

The police had disconnected the line, and I had to spend an hour explaining to the police officers what a BBS is, and what FidoNet is. I remember trying to draw a diagram, but it was in vain. In the end they just left confused, reconnected the line and I promised to be more careful in future.
Beware Spurious Correlations
Oracle says trial wasn’t fair, it should have known about Google Play for Chrome
The irony here is that I would say most companies are, in one way or another, driven by consumption. Our present economic system, generally speaking, relies income earned in jobs to fuel this consumption.

If everyone is obsoleted, who will have the income to consume what the robots and fancy technology produce? I personally don't see the current business / economic system being very well prepared for the possibility of a post-consumer economy.
Will domains still be taken offline for various "copyright" reasons?
I watched Zootopia with my gf, and I was surprised to see torture so normalized that the two "good guy" protagonists do a deal with the mob to torture some creature to advance the plot, and it's played up for laughs.
First GopherCon 2016 videos have been posted
In swimming your lane is determined by your seed time. In events with multiple heats it gets more complex, but the fastest people are in the middle lanes.
Make Your Python Code More Readable with Custom Exception Classes
Air quality is awful in NYC. It's the only city in the U.S. where I've had an Asthma exacerbation.
Which alternative search engine do you use that doesn't have ads and/or pull results from Google?
I'm sure that there is a happy medium to be found; a modicum of organisation and discipline must surely save more money by avoiding confusion and wasted time than it costs. How much effort does it take to use a linter? To crank the compiler warnings up to maximum? -- versus the time wasted bug hunting and in heroic struggles with spaghetti-monster codebases...
It pulls images from Docker Hub when you type `hyper pull`.

It supports volumes so that you can save persistent data in a volume.
Wow where there is a will there is a way! Creative writing is a really good skill to develop, I learnt a bit more about it from here: http://www.hobbyfinda.com/creative-writing/ and knowing you can really publish your writing without having to depend on other people is really helpful.
I raise you: "Pay ten bucks to only get messages delivered to you once a day!"
Frankly ever since the issue first showed up on a news site, i have held that legacy gTLDs should be moved under .us, and that new gTLDs should not be issued.

Then it would be up to each nation to enact rules for their part of the net, and nothing more.

Right now, if i happen to access a .com that is operated by a non-US entity, am i subject to the rules of USA, the nation of origin of said entity, or where they happen to have their servers housed?
Or maybe its more accurate to say, the prices will be high so the appropriate label will be "luxury." I'm seeing "luxury" 2-bedrooms going up in the Bay Area with linoleum bathroom flooring. "Luxury" is all in the eye of the beholder.
No, there are a C130s in civilian service.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lockheed_C-130_Hercu...

Lockheed also makes a civilian version of the C130 called L-100.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-100_Hercules

And they've announced a new civilian version based on the C130 Super Hercules called the LM-100j.
I don't think there's tension between urban planning and liberalizing housing regulations. Developers today don't have any certainty because any random citizen or group can challenge any development on any basis. What should happen is there should be a plan and guidelines and anyone developing within those guidelines is immune to random challenges.

Look at this bullshit in Oakland for example:

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/08/local-coalition-c...

The developer plans to replace a dilapidated 2-story building with a much larger building in central Oakland, but the "local" "community" which consists of people who don't even live in that neighborhood want to extort a bunch of "community benefits" i.e. sacks full of money, or else they'll tie it up in courts forever.

Here's an example of another shakedown in Oakland where the electrical workers' union will take you to court over CEQA until you've hired enough electricians to satisfy them.

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/05/appeal-challenges...
Keeping the car in its lane is overrated. Any human who drives in snow knows the rules. If there are other cars around, center yourself with respect to them. If there are not, lanes are irrelevant. Even many narrow side streets in snowless areas force you to improvise in a similar way to handle oncoming cars.
My Review of the Best Paper Awards from USENIX Security 2016
Correct, glad someone understood it.
How TED Prototypes Inspiring UX: Q&A with UX Architect Michael McWatters
Railway Orientated Programming
You have the same problem in the ccTLDs.
As opposed to human-driven cars, which keep going and run you over?
Check.torproject.org and IPv6
You can't get rid of the individual mandate without completely destroying the whole law.

It's the unpopular part of the law. But pretty much anything that works is going to have some unpopular component that needs to be swallowed in order for the whole thing to work.

When Republicans talk about getting rid of the individual mandate, it's because they are, in actuality, trying to kill the law. When Democrats talk about it, I really don't know what's going through their heads. Leftist wonks like Krugman or Klein keep on telling them exactly why it's needed.
Air quality in NYC is primarily caused by things west of there.
It seems like the "Watch" feature would actually take care of this. If both people are watching the same chat, they would both get real time notifications, and could chat in real time. The app limits how many threads you can be watching, though, trying to force you to actively opt-in to things that you want to pay attention to because they are directly relevant to what you are doing right now.
First, since the AST is so simple to walk programmatically, one could write a simple check for that kind of bug in, I'm guessing, a few lines of Lisp.

Second, just because you can come up with a bug that can be written in a language doesn't mean the language doesn't prevent all sorts of other bugs.

All languages can have bugs written in them. That's not the point.
I think they were saying they lack the self control to avoid buying the family size in the first place.
I'm new to the CLR build system myself, and have sort of gotten stuck on project formatting. The F# side seems to have some newer build systems, and are trying to go towards a simpler build/project system.

For dependencies see Paket[1]. It allows versioning, and only the parent dependencies not the entire dependency tree.

For building much like Gradle there is FAKE [2]. It's an F# DSL for build tasks, and has type safety etc. But I've seen examples with C# project as well.

[1] https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/getting-started.html
[2] http://fsharp.github.io/FAKE/
In my opinion, the key asset Uber has is their driver network. Like you say, anyone can build a similar app pretty quickly, but who will use it if there are no rides available? They've paid so much into user acquisition precisely so it is more appealing for drivers to join the network.

In this light, the CMU investment makes a ton of sense. It's going to be extremely difficult for any other competitor to get the critical mass of drivers that makes grabbing a ride a <5min request, except in the case of driverless cars. GM (as an example) could quickly put them out of business by partnering with google and deploying thousands of self-driving cabs in a city and slapping an uber-like app on it. There's no other way to get that many drivers.

Obviously the above example is a longer-term threat, so to say that anyone can just build an app and outcompete Uber is missing where the real value in Uber lies.
What's the difference between existing VPS providers like DO?
Uber to introduce self-driving cars in Pittsburgh
I was addressing incorrect assumption that longer parental leave would require the raising of taxes. I should have also been clearer that I wasn't talking about the US government(s) but for Europe and the rest of the world: Nowhere (that I know of) is the parental salary/income paid directly via taxes or by the government. Instead, the laws state that your employer should continue paying you a certain percentage of your salary while you are on maternal/paternal leave. This percentage is usually 100% , some countries have a time-based fall-off (amount decreases to X% after N weeks)
So get rid of the camper and ATVs, take 1500 sq feet off the house, REALLY evaluate if your wife's job covers the costs of it, drive an old car, at least buy frozen food at Sam's/Costco rather than Burger King and it's quite different, isn't it?

Kids' college? They'll have to do it themselves. Hopefully, there's one near enough to work out, or they can qualify for scholarships.

But, of course, drinking beer at work outweighs all that...
Isn't that like asking "So who builds the assembly lines, then?" way back when?
I have low-income friends who have no more access to health care now than they did 8 years ago. They either wade through Medicaid paperwork, or have huge deductible plans, or just have no insurance at all. (I don't know what they are doing about the penalty.)
I don't think this is a problem that generalized ad blockers should be attempting to solve, as it's a completely different breed of advertisement. Maybe there could be a separate project for tackling disguised ads on big sites, but otherwise trying to solve a very nuanced problem using a broad approach is going to be an endless headache and perhaps futile.

I have no reservations about blocking disguised ads. Advertisers have abused their position for far too long, and it's pretty clear that disguised ads are only going to make the web more of a mess of infotainment or advertainment.

I ended up writing my own Chrome extension to remove Facebook's suggested posts, as it actually isn't that complicated if you simply crawl the DOM on element inserts. There's probably a performance hit, but not enough for me to really notice.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/suggest-me-not/cel...
I'd agree that the US housing and derivatives markets are in a much better position than in 2007-2008. Atleast people who are getting mortgages now have some form of documentation, and risk manages are being asked to do their jobs.

The crisis now is that, and this is just my opinion, low rates are here to stay. with the amount of money in the system, people are being priced out of homes and as time goes on the amount by which they are priced out in the big cities is only going to grow.

As an aside...

I'm not a lawyer but I've heard people say My cousin Vinny is the most accurate court room movie ever. In a similar vein, I'd nominate the Big Short as one of the more accurate wall street movies ever made.

It showed the lone wolf who not only saw the coming crash, this was far and away the easiest part, but figured out how to profit form it by getting the banks to write him a CDS.

The two smart kids working out of their garage that were smart enough to succeed despite all their mistakes.

The hedge fund who did an incredible amount of due diligence, going to properties, knocking on doors, talking to people inside the industry to put together the pieces that no one else could.

The wall street sales guy who sold the CDS knowing that it might bankrupt his company but figured he'd make a killing on his commissions long before that happened.

And the most accurate part of the movie was that it showed the anguish that each of these people went through. They'd seen something no one else had, been right about it, had the event happen and even then everyone else continued to plug their ears and pretend nothing was going on while they continued to bleed money each month.
It really did a good job of showing that you can be right about everything and still not make money if the rest of the market continues to act insane.

In 2007 there really was a sense that people knew things were way out of hand but everyone was thinking, "If I can just get one or two more years on the bonus cycle, I'll be able to get out". To be fair, this type of thinking probably ins't going away anytime soon.
I understand how much I'm influenced which is why I dislike adverts so much.
You can land a C130 on snow and sand dunes.

You aren't going to be landing anything in a marsh lighter than air aircraft need still a proper landing zone.
Shouldn't we as humans bury the longer past and move on and look at the present-day scenario? I know many will say - "What about justice to our ancestors?". Justice is done to them when their children(descendants) do not suffer similar injustice and/or live a better life. How many parents want their kids to live in a war-waging world?

I understand what she did was very hard work. But what's the point? People who raise these issues now probably and unintentionally end up generating hatred amongst individuals who might otherwise be perfectly fine with each other. Then there are people who get emotionally touched, take an absolute stand and create an uprising. The people (experts) who raised the issue first get sidelined. The govt tries to control the situation and gets labelled as oppressive. Politicians and media take control now. It goes on and then starts a racial and a religious divide and all the wars in the world. The true purpose is lost and what exists past those wars is just pieces of hazy truth mixed with spiced up vigilantism.

The British did very bad and evil things in the past. But why not talk about evil things performed now by another powerful and smart country that uses methods incomprehendible to most people.
Because technology also leads to better "things" that cost more but overall provide more value for the money.

Think of it this way: if you wanted to replicate the average life of someone who lives in the 1950's, it would be cheaper than today (I know housing kinda screws that up). No internet, a basic car without all the electronics and safety gear, no computer, smaller house, rarely flying anywhere, etc.

The trade off with improved productivity is this: you can either work less and make the same amount or you can work the same amount and make more. Most people choose the later.
AMD stated for a while (march or so) that they maybe have small shipments in december, but the bulk of shipments will realy only start in Q1 2017.

Anyway, the first benchmark is promising, and I hope Zen can also keep up with Broadwell performance in other benchmarks/workloads, as well as in power efficency.
Parts of it look way too noisy, like TV static.
Much of it is, because they had to squeeze big concepts like those from Multics into very small minicomputers. I don't know how much memory they had on their PDP-7, but for the original PDP-11 it would have been 64K each for data and instructions, with some of that almost certainly taken for the memory mapped hardware (one of the 11's innovations). The PDP-11/45 allowed a user program the same, with 8K taken from normal data space for the stack.
I think the website states it well:"Say goodbye to VMs
Unlike traditional IaaS where containers run in VMs, you will only work with containers in HYPER_. However, containers are protected by hardware-enforced isolation, meaning that they are as secure as a VM."
Posting My Location
Whatever you come up with will be a remix of things you've experienced in life, from actual things you've done to conversations you've had. If you want a breadth of ideas then having a breadth of experiences is one solution; talk to different people, visit different places, read different books and even change how you experience those (try an audiobook or speed reading if you’re used to reading a book at a leisurely pace).

Once this starts collating in your head you can brainstorm ideas on your own or in a group. One caveat is that ideas in this early stage should not be filtered: think of something, write it down, repeat. I’ve seen far too many brainstorm and public discussions drum up ho-hum solutions to problems because taboos and political correctness got in the way of interesting ideas. Such ideas may be stupid or even offensive but they can be a catalyst for much better solutions.
No. Fastest swimmers are seeded in the center lanes, slowest in the outside lanes.
Hezbollah Drone Is a Warning to the U.S
I was wondering the same. Why are they giving away the idea before they have delivered the product?
The 50m free
Most residential streets in Pittsburgh, as in a great deal of the rest of the world, do not have lane markings, though many are two-way and have parked cars on one or both sides of the road. Pittsburgh provides an additional difficulty, that many of these roads are too narrow for what is asked of them.

Here's a typical example, rather on the roomy side: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4435279,-79.8936687,3a,75y,9...

One of the tricks of driving in an older city with on-street parking is weaving in and out of unused spots to make way for oncoming vehicles that have no means to move over themselves—or won't, for fear of clipping a side-view mirror, or because they can't bring themselves to care about how little space they've left for others. Sometimes you have to stop and wait for one car to make its way through a tight stretch before going through yourself, rather like pulling up to a one-lane bridge that has been generated at runtime.

The trouble is that the lanes have to be imagined with respect to the current conditions, bearing in mind what other drivers are likely to expect of you; knowledge of the road is not enough.

This is a social problem as well as a technical one, and I will be interested to see the solutions.
I wait for when Facebook will make the "sponsored content" indication a canvas, present in every content but only filled-in on those sponsored content. Facebook control the DOM, they can use every technique to make the detection harder to the end where we will need AI classifier.
That is awesome. Truly an inspired set of changes at Microsoft lately.
Yes, the are valid e-mail addresses that contain whitespace or multiple @s.

Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Valid_email_addr... > gives the following example:

"very.(),:;<>[]\".VERY.\"very@\\ \"very\".unusual"@strange.example.com
I am still of the opinion that the government's maximums for its lending are too high at 417k to 1.8m depending where you live.
The $1M Question
I would say, that in this case, with the 50\50 false positive ratio, it is quite manageable, i.e. for every 2 analyzer messages, there is 1 interesting issue in the source code.
Pay fifteen bucks for the message, we'll refund the customer their $10, and deliver the message RIGHT NOW!
As a human on this planet with fundamental rights I get to control what goes into my brain. I'm #sorrynotsorry if that is inconvenient for your business model.
Sounds like the author is confusing correlation with causation.

The fact that the biggest cities have enjoyed growth during the last few years doesn't necessarily imply that making them even bigger will produce even more growth in the future.
Except it was the British Empire that persecuted slavery and brought to an end the slave trade far in advance of other nations.

What people forget is that the norms of the past are not the same as the norms of today. At one time, slavery was normal across vast swathes of the planet. That it isn't today, is in part due to a moral revolution that took place in Britain and resulted in a policy change by the British empire - despite its own commercial interests - to abolish slavery and the trade in slaves, even while nearly all other countries in the world at the time were totally fine with it.
Okay, and how you authenticate against private repositories?

Sounds pretty cool with distributed volumes, so they can unlike EBS be mounted to multiple containers?
Ruby’s Reputation
I Bought a Company That Makes Me $30,000 a Month (it Was Notify)
What this page really needs is code comparisons showing why exactly CMS Airship is better than the competition. While I mostly believe the comparison chart, it just doesn't look very convincing.

Shouldn't be any kind of a challenge to demonstrate than your code quality is (or at least appears to be) better than Drupals, Joomlas and WPs.
Maybe PowerShell will finally get some traction :)
> There's a recurring theme where people think the C language's design is good for systems programming, even today. These people think that someone sat down, thought of every tradeoff, and made the best ones for system programming.

Or, people think that a good practical language can only come from using it to solve real problems and iterating on the design. Sitting down and conjuring up the perfect language just does not work.

Now, I am the first to agree that C has plenty of flaws. For one, the integer types are just a mess. I will be happy if something can replace it, but so far most attempts have ended up either too slow or too complicated.
That ... is pretty jarring. Their arguments boil down to:

a) No one wants to use a "minor" language, so it will never get traction

b) It's slow (citation: the Benchmarks Game)

c) Static and dynamic analysis can find anything anyways, so what's the point?

First off, anyone who is seriously citing the Benchmarks Game as to making a definitive declaration of whether a language is slow or fast is intellectually dishonest. It's a game (as its name illustrates), so it reflects more the effort that people put in to try to optimize code rather than a comparison of "idiomatic" code. A case in point: the fastest program in C uses SSE intrinsics for its implementation.

Given that they're selling a static analyzer, I would expect them to make the case for analysis. However, it's worth addressing the limitations. Almost no project has 100% test coverage, and even having test coverage isn't necessarily a cure for having no problems (IOC still found undefined overflows in SQLite, which is the only open source project I know of to have 100% line and branch coverage in their test suite). To my knowledge, there still exists no tools that can identify strict-aliasing violations or ODR violations. It's also worth minding Dijkstra's aphorism: testing cannot prove the absence of bugs, only their presence. Static analysis in C/C++ has to face the additional problem of the inability to write a precise pointer analysis--something that Rust's type-safety would fix.
Suburbia is all about cost per square foot. It's not going anywhere. It'll just be apartments rather than single family detatched.

At least in the US, we're not exactly constrained by land availability. And as you may notice, the sustainability of NYC and SF style property prices isn't guaranteed.
Uber's Self-Driving Car Plans Involve a Trucking Startup, Report Says
How on earth does this make sense? It's not Facebook that messes with your system, it's your system that messes with their product. If you would actually pay for their product you might be able to make the argument that you should be allowed to use it as you'd like, but you don't. You're using something free of charge and then interfere with how they create their revenue.