skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only use case I've had for these personally is having a global config "constant" which can be reloaded behind a mutex. unsafe + Box::new() + mem::transmute() on a static mutable pointer. I believe I copied this from Servo based on a suggestion on IRC.

IIRC this was pre-1.0 Rust, so there's probably a better way to do it now.
Apple Ruling Is a Retaliation for US Unjustified Fines on EU Banks
> ... intentional pun?

I believe his management made the pun when they bought the nerf guns for the "hit our targets" campaign.
Using BleachBit on servers, smashing devices with hammers to destroy hard drives, and straight up losing dozens of devices with classified information on them? At best its got some real subpar optics, and even being charitable and assuming no ill intent, it looks bumbling and incompetent.
It would help if you would be explicit, e.g. "REMOTE (U.S. only)".

I nearly missed that when looking to apply.

> Candidates across the country are welcome to apply, but we’d prefer if you’re located in or near the Phoenix or San Francisco metropolitan area.
Finding about nutrition and health online is worse than searching for PHP sample code that doesn't suck.

There's a lot of opinions, some based on facts and research, some based on empirical studies and some based on pure misinterpretation of actual science. You are better of paying a visit to a good nutritionist who can provide you with a tailored diet to suit your body and lifestyle.
Appbot Riley: la sécurité à domicile
That's not their fault. Tor IPs habe shitty reputation because of the users on it.
That does look like a great tool! If we were on all InnoDB I'd probably try switching over to it instead of LVM snapshot-based backups right now. (Since it can do incremental, mostly.) We have a bunch of large MyISAM tables though (MyISAM used because the tables are read-only, so read speed is the only real consideration), so those would have to be handled separately. I could always xtrabackup all the innodb stuff and then just file copy the myisam tables separately though, since I know they won't be changing.

Hmm, may have to give it a try! Thanks.
Just before where you found that quote the text is a link to another article that talks about those things.
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Don't stop yourself
"When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well — you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.” ― Bill Hicks
This is why very few companies care.
Interestingly enough, Nikola Tesla discussed the concept of "telautomatons" for use in war in his 1900 article: "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy."

http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1900-06-00.htm
Crypto, Diversity and a Week at the MIT Media Lab
There are some SMS chatbots which answer questions, but few can handle a stateful conversation, even at the level of "do you want fries with that".
It's important for the subscription revenue - which comes from their parents.
> long term career prospects

I doubt many young people even want "long term" prospects anymore.
I thought polygraphs were so well discredited by now that no-one used them; is the FBI still screening with them? What sort of questions are they asking and disqualifying you on?
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is also a total mind fuck.
It most certainly does not cost $1.38/customer to subsidize (minimial) server costs of an SMS bot.
Linux/Mirai ELF, when malware is recycled could be still dangerous
Hurdles faced by the adroit developers as a startup founder
It's a reference to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpvTPhyLSNY#t=48s
"use when necessary" is really hard to achieve I think. Will be easier to make a policy to keep the medicine use under control rather than change people's mentality over over-prescribing (includes both doctors and patients - all are guilty)
> - a combined washer/dryer blackbox where dirty clothes go in and clean, dry clothes come out

These exist and seem to be the standard laundry device in Japan from my (limited) experience. Any time I've used them my clothes come out quite damp, and an air drying step is required.
It should just throw NPE. I understand why people writing quick debug printlns could be infuriated by that, but the way it works now leads to much more subtle bugs.
That sounds like a cool idea. HN has an API [0] ... not sure if this is possible or allowed though.

[0] https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Also, there's nothing really wrong with having a blog with no recent updates. I know there's this idea that a blog needs to be regularly updated. But a blog with just 2 valuable posts made 2 years ago, is a valuable thing!

If you just want to write some stuff and put it online, without the feeling of some ongoing obligation -- here are a few options:

https://medium.com/@jason.sackey/apps-for-super-fast-web-pub...

I hope you will be encouraged to post some stuff.
Gay marriage was illegal in the US until last year. His position was not a fringe position. I am glad marriage equality comes to the US but if we start prosecuting people for their political beliefs, things are going to get ugly real quick. The tide of political direction can turn on a dime.

How about marijuana legalization? It's coming to all of the US states sooner or later. Let's start making a list of people who are against it so we can start a revenge hit later.
Economists Profit by Giving Things Away
I don't mean to defend the FBI's activites, I just mean to note that if your reason for being is "opposing X", then it's reasonable that you check your employees for X. The FBI opposes drugs big time. It doesn't care about people speeding in cars.
The original question was about what's different with sugar in a banana and refined sugar - I don't think it was in context with the article.
Not necessarily. They have a lot of "privileges" (such as being able to carry a loaded gun on an airplane) that are against the law for the rest of us. They could simply change the law and write themselves in the "privilege" of being able to toke up.
It cost as much as they charge for their service. I am pretty sure it does not cost $1.62 for lob.com to send that mail too, business need to make money, unless you are spending investors money...
KonanLink – Search a document from your PC and share it with your team in Slack
Amazon.com, kindle books.

For fields outside of computing, the best knowledge is still mostly stuck in book form.
(Comment made from a throwaway account, because I can't be bothered with the potential for future hassle from possible employers over it)

> In addition to the reasons you mentioned, some people have had surprise 6am home visits from law enforcement for running exit nodes.

As someone who has had one of those surprise 6am home visits, I can attest to it being something you Do Not Want, especially from inexperienced British police officers who don't really understand what Tor is. To their credit they were incredibly professional about the whole thing, but it still resulted in every device in my home capable of storing data being seized, and six month's of social services asserting that I couldn't be alone with my then one year old son while those devices were inspected by police investigators. (And social services really weren't at all professional about the process - their representative as good as told my wife to leave me because I was almost certainly guilty).

You then get the additional problem that "I'm being investigated by police because they think I'm a paedophile" isn't something you can easily talk to people about without conclusions being jumped to, and potentially making things even worse.

In summary, don't run a Tor exit node from your home internet connection in the UK unless you really want to see what the inside of a police cell is like, or fancy several months of intense stress in your life. You may think this is just scaremongering, and it won't happen to you, but that was precisely the attitude that resulted in me writing this.
I haven't considered that but its indeed a valid point.
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They are largely discredited, especially for pre-employment screenings. The polygraph exam is the last phase in the Special Agent hiring process, which can take up to a couple of years to complete. Several federal agencies still use it. I can't discuss what is asked, but you can walk out of the exam and know whether or not you told the truth - there is no ambiguity about the answers you give. That is why I am 100% certain it was a false positive.
This is silly. Not even this is true in many languages null == null
This is probably going to sound weird, possibly cheesy, but cottonseed got something out of that post, possibly more than I intended to convey, so I hesitate to follow up for fear of taking that away.

What I think I was getting at then, and certainly believe now, is that some people grow with the code, learn from many of their mistakes, and do the long quiet job of expunging their worst errors as they go. Their code is the best proof that they could accomplish a rewrite, because it already is a rewrite. They just didn't need to stop the world to do it, or at least not all at once. Perhaps a month here and a couple weeks there.

For the rest of the time it has been like the Ship of Theseus. All of the parts are new, and yet it is the same ship.

Meanwhile the rewrite guys are continuing with their mess and hoping they get a do-over, putting off things hoping for Some Day. And on that magical day, all of the bad habits of the entire team (management included) will correct themselves overnight.

Bad habits are too hard to break. The best of us know that you don't abstain from bad habits, you crowd them out with new, better ones. But that takes time, practice and determination.

If you want to condense it down to nothing new under the sun, that's fair, and I would offer that I wanted to believe the rewrite folks were onto something, but at the end of the day, breaking down the problems and using relentless refactoring seems to be the only thing that works, without changing the definition of success to achieve victory.
> about json and syslog structured data

I found syslog design to be well done about that, ignoring whether it was accidental or not :D

+1 for json. Format messages as JSON for logging. Update/reconfigure applications to write json logs.

The structured data headers of syslog can be used for enriching log messages with metadata (instance id, instance ip, tags, environment, etc...).

The RFC 5xxx design allows to manage the message (application's responsibility) and the metadata (relay's responsibility) separately, so it's nice.

[Note: If ALL messages were JSON logs and the tooling could manipulate json messages directly to add/remove fields, there would be no need for a different metadata channel.]
At best its got some real subpar optics, and even being charitable and assuming no ill intent, it looks bumbling and incompetent.

Okay.

But are those things criminal? The parent of this chain mentioned the FBI recommending against prosecution, implying criminal acts occurred, so I think this posit is non-ignorable.
I can't speak for any other country, obviously culture plays a role, but in Germany we just had an article in one of the top two news sites (and this is the much more reputable one of the two) [0] that says in a poll [1] 1/3rd of students said they'd like to become a "Beamter", which is a special status for life-term government employees who cannot be fired and have their own pension scheme.

Job security was the number one concern overall (63% of said so). Income was only in fifth place. There was a big difference between the sexes, the share of women who wanted to work for the government was much higher (42% vs. 23% of men).

But that's not all - most students prefer to work for very large companies, giants like Siemens, BMW etc. regularly top the ranking of places where students want to go to. Few want to go to small and medium companies, even though we have a lot of them. Even fewer want to work for a startup or even found one.

I am certainly not critical of that attitude, I doubt that throughout history there ever was a big part of humanity that preferred insecurity and excitement and (often dubious) "chances" that actually depend on quite a bit of luck quite heavily over friends, family and a solid secure basis. That is if that was available of course, often people were forced into being more adventurous by circumstances.

[0] (in German) http://www.spiegel.de/karriere/berufsstart/jeder-dritte-stud...

[1] (PDF) http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/EY-Studentenstudie-...
Global forever stamps are $1.20 at retail, so that's the upper bound on their postage expense and covers all UPU countries[1] (incl DPRK, Syria, Russia, etc). Antartica actually only requires domestic postcard rates ($0.34) as it has a domestic zip code (96598).

[1]: http://www.upu.int/en/the-upu/member-countries.html
Reverse Network Effects: Why Todays Social Networks Can Fail as They Grow Larger
Based on the replies you've received, I'd say that actually there is a very small minority list of languages which do this.
I couldn't quite understand the video. Why did they clone Maya and maintain feature parity and use the same formats?
You don't find races and bugs on emulators the same way as on real hardware. Also, if you do find a bug in your emulated environment, how much time would you spend wondering if the emulator is bad or your code?
Also, there is a real chance that the emulator would let stuff pass (like allowing code make memory or bus access on odd address or some other restraint) which really shouldn't be allowed and you would not notice it.
Ah that makes more sense. Thanks for the link!
More information: http://bitfunnel.org
Usually biological systems don't scale well. A car sized ant wouldn't work. A fire hose long synthetic snail that excretes drywall on speed would need tremendous amounts of nutrients i guess..
Exactly, this wasn't puritanical zeal from Jagex but a realistic decision based on the fact that parents are the ones who control the credit cards.
I never smoked pot, but I don't know what it would take to apply to work for FBI.

Having dealt with the government as a customer, no thank you. Endless sea of red tape, outdated tools and practices, stupid requirements, paper security (I call that security driven by a checklist on a form. A system is deemed secure if it passes all those checks. Which often make no difference or makes things even worse when it comes to actual security).
To stretch the "whatever happened to good old days things mentality" a little bit further (in the pure devil's advocate spirit): whatever happened to preparing a meal for oneself the way you see a person is doing in this video [1].

I mean, IoT will have a great potential to provide meaningful services with a great deal of convenience only if the things become as inter-operable as plug-pins and sockets.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvQttEjfYtM
Which is as terrible idea. You have some code deployed, and suddenly this code
downloads random things from internets without any control whatsoever.

Even worse if the application was deployed behind firewall and can't access
internet freely.
The point of the original claim was that modern language (like Swift or Rust) tend not to make null part of every (reference) type. That Swift has a shorthand for Optional.None doesn't change that, nil isn't a valid value for e.g. a String (as it would be in Java or Go), only for String? (which is a shorthand for Optional<String>)
An actual user typed follow up email does wonders.

Recently, Postach.io did a comeback with the service where they started out by mass-emailing inactive users what problems they are facing about the service. I emailed them expecting an automated "Thank you for your time" response.

Instead, a while later I got a custom email talking about the very specific issue I had emailed about and how they had been getting complains about the same from other users and how they are working to resolve this issue.

That made me feel they actually cared about my problems. Needless to say, I am on board!
(In the UK) "Nutritionist" is not a protected term, anyone can call themselves a nutritionist.

Look for a "dietitian" as this is a protected term.
Are they still asking you if you've ever knowingly accessed a network that you didn't have permission to? And is a 'yes' still an automatic disqualification?

Them: So we'd like your skills as a hacker, but one last thing.
Have you ever actually hacked something? (wink, wink)
You: Ye...
Them: (winking intensifies)
You: err....no. Definitely never done that. That would be illegal.
Them: Excellent. Also, you never smoked dope right?
You: Not the devil's weed! Why I'd never!
Them: Right! Welcome to the team!
LLVM is neither high-throughput nor low-latency. It does probably generate faster code, though.
> So just as long as you can identify the vessel as not being yours using an electrolytically sensors, it's permissible to sink it.

No, you have to positively identify it as your enemy's.
How do you feel about living in shell shaped houses?
The Employee Polygraph Protection Act prevents US employers from testing their employees. The government is exempt.
That's getting a ridiculous old meme. There is one data that is critical and has never been showed.

How many people can argue to have X years of experience in tech?

With X being 5, 10, 20, 30, 40...

Bonus: Repeat the question with a limit to the geography. Silicon Valley only, America only, small city in the USA, India, Spain, Specific city of [random EU country].
You posted a lot of links in your post and I've read your post multiple times yet I'm still not really sure what you're going for. Most of them are links to other articles that support the facts from the original article, but I don't dispute the veracity of the article. Actually I found the article an interesting (although one sided) look into a situation that is not well covered in the media. In your post there are a number of tax returns, but I fail to see how those are relevant to the point that theblacksea.eu is funded by a US/German-backed NGO. I couldn't find a tax return to theblacksea.eu either, which is more relevant here. If I missed that link do let me know. You also don't dispute that the GMF is funded by the German/US government, which is one of points I brought up. And the description of the GMF frankly sounds like what a NGO that promotes US interests would do. Which is what I mentioned in my post.

Furthermore, I don't dispute the journalistic integrity of the authors. As you mention, they've won awards, good for them. You bring up the word conspiracy, but I think there's none at all. Really, this article should be viewed as a clever way to promote US policy. To illustrate, take an example: let's say I set up a news agency in Poland about foreign issues, gave it a nice budget, and hired journalists (indiscriminately) from the local area. Let them to write whatever they want, but require it to be in English so foreigners can read it (key ingredient). Wait a bit and no surprise: eventually the journalists will write and share pro-NATO, anti-Russia articles. Which casually aligns with US policy. There is no need for conspiracy here with me telling journalists what to write. Simply, I am giving a voice to sentiments people already had and helping share them with English speakers around the world. That's what I see happening at theblacksea.eu.

The end product is you end up with high production-value articles that align with US interests, like the one submitted. In contrast, the Russians prefer a more direct approach to spread their interests, namely by employing people to spread rumors and disrupt online conversations. I actually think the Russian approach is more effective, mostly because most people don't have the time to read longform articles like this. Perhaps we will see the US adopt more of a Russian approach in the future.
edX hosted one with Erik Meijer as teacher/presenter.
I like this author's style. I don't think he's shown that blogging is a doomed project.

Having interest in a topic may compromise one's objectivity. But we can become aware of this, and correct for it. Other people's viewpoints can be helpful here.

And having experience in a topic doesn't necessarily mean you're bored of it. I've been web-developing for ~5 years and there's a whole bunch of stuff here I want to explore and write about.

Regarding writing for the sake of money, Schopenhauer had some commentary:

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/...
From the article: "Crucially, the scientists believe that bacteria will not become resistant to Teixobactin for at least 30 years because of its multiple methods of attack."

Can anyone tell me what would happen if we instead _only_ used this new antibiotic, or at least used it instead of others as often as possible? If it is indeed so potent that bacteria would have difficulty developing a resistance, could we essentially use that window to let resistances to all the other antibiotics die out?
Debugging and the intuition for finding the cause of a problem. Well, part intuition and part efficiency and pragmatism in following clues but not getting stuck on bad leads. Willingness to go down in the muck with gdb and to go back up again and consider workarounds and rewrites or whatever it takes to fix the problem as cleanly and quickly as possible.

Another skill is learning my way around a code base even in an unfamiliar language in a very short time, through a process of intense grepping, skimming, guessing, taking notes, and so on.

Also a polyglot attitude that frees me from worrying too much about which language is good and which is evil, and lets me work happily with all of them. That's related to how I use Emacs without language modes (except paredit in Lisp) so I never have to configure modes or colors or whatever.
Surely LLVM is high-throughput? Otherwise your dev-test cycle of edit/compile/run would suffer from long compilation/link times.
Already available for the UK, see:

http://www.crashmap.co.uk/
No, I did not mean literal jail, just as I was not referring to a literal card. I hate to disappoint you, but no one was arguing that Dawkins should go to jail; they were more interested in whether he did something wrong.

Crucially, we're not talking about the consequences Dawkins suffered or did not suffer (a descriptive question); we're both talking about prescriptive questions: whether his posting that video should be considered wrong, and if so what consequences are appropriate and proportional.

Your one word response to Dawkins' pretty troubling juxtaposition of Muslims and rape, "Parody." indicates to me that you view parody as something that either means nothing wrong occurred or could occur (ie parody should be excluded from ethical analysis), or that things in the category of parody should be immune from any societal rebuke. You're welcome to correct me if I am misreading you on that.

My counterargument is propose a world in which people were able to make any racist or homophobic (or for example antisemitic) allegation and bake it into the premise of a parody. Should they be automatically immune from societal rebuke? If so, we open up floodgates; anyone who wishes to make racist or homophobic allegations will naturally just take the path of least resistance and sandwiched these in parodies and escape rebuke; it reduces more or less to society having no power to rebuke racist or homophobic remarks in general.

Conversely, if being incorporated into a parody does not exclude an author from moral responsibility for his remarks, then your justification of "[it's a] Parody" is clearly insufficient.

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> What racist? There was no racism there

If we are talking about the video made by Sye Ten Bruggencate and published by Sargon of Akkad, then because it is a video we do not need to make any tortuous suppositions about the ethnicity of Muslims in the parody, you can watch the video and see for yourself. It fits quite squarely into a long history of racist caricatures of foreign figures or in cartoons, and even more so into a long and vicious history of presenting foreign or non-white men as a threat to white women.