skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It may not be all that bad to shun sites that refuse to display content upon detecting ad-blockers

Not sure how this is relevant; I'm talking about my ISP modifying my packets to include its own ads. The websites have no hand in this aside from the choice to use http.

While I don't like ads, I personally don't use an adblocker (just Firefox's tracking protection, which still triggers antiadblock).
While Hillary's crimes get a pass.
Does it mean Hetzner won't pull the cable off your server now if/when it's under heavy DDoS? I read horror stories about customers being attacked and Hetzner disabling their servers. Never experienced it myself, but I host my playground server with them and chose OVH for a more serious project due to DDoS policies..
I wish that Hetzner would provide me with DDoS protection from THEIR users. I've blacklisted their entire IP space for several different customers because of the relentless onslaught of malicious and aggressive attacks originating from their networks. They have never responded to a single abuse notification.
> Especially given the love for all things ARM, which tend to implement their peripherals in a very 1980's way with simple fixed MMIO ports punched into the address map, but without the standardization that form the basis of PC/AT hardware.

Isn't that a source of flexibility, though? The fact that that stuff is not standardized and is instead hidden behind a hardware abstraction layer (the OS kernel) means that ARM systems get the freedom to drop the legacy interfaces and centralize the hardware abstraction where it belongs: in the kernel.
Pretty sure Win 3.x had no concept of processes and no memory isolation of any kind. Contemporary Macs were in a similar position. Both were ludicrously unreliable by 21st century standards. And in both cases the hardware - Intel 80386s and Motorola 68000s - offered support for protected memory. The software just wasn't there yet.
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Handling large data sets at scale
He says it was covered under marine cargo insurance.
I got the cheapest motherboard available that would work with the components I was getting and it happened to have ps/2 ports.
For short strings, it basically doesn't help.
For longer strings, it's a bit faster, it depends how bad what you were doing before was.

Straight string comparison is not a great application for this in part because it's to intel's advantage to make string compare loops work fast without it.

But you can be sure it speeds some customer's serious workload up significantly.
That said, it all depends.

It's great for "figure out if there is newline in the next 16 characters".

But again, compared to basic SSE compares, it often falls down for random string comparison.

See, e.g, https://www.strchr.com/strcmp_and_strlen_using_sse_4.2 which has timings on core i5.

it's of course, likely possible to find processors where it is faster/slower.
It's a "common" attack. Well, common enough, that it's something to consider if you have wells of information out there for people to draw from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_email_hack
Your software engineer and senior software engineer listings are exactly the same, with the small exception of seniors requiring "a ton" of experience vs 2+ years.

You expect both to have led teams etc.
I wonder if this had anything to do with the jailbreak app recently going live on the App Store for a few hours. There might be some renewed emphasis on store content after that slipped through.
I think the "people" killing themselves are meant to be corporations.
Works better when you blow the direct draw and not post inhale absorption. Still, its a waste and just drives them crazy so doubles the annoyance.

I don't think the nicotine in a drag is high enough to do much. From what I remember, much higher concentrations were or are used in ant killer.
Not even close to a DSLR. It uses a small compact-style sensor (6.17 x 4.55mm), which is about 14 times smaller than an APS-C sensor (e.g. Nikon D5500 at 23.5 mm x 15.6 mm).
> Somebody should do a video startup that values free expression and adult topics of discussion, and eat their lunch.

If you can find a way to get the people either providing or consuming the media to pay, that might work (though not so much at eating YouTube's lunch as serving a different market).

If you want to monetize that with advertising, good luck: YouTube's content restrictions follow the general trend of big advertising-supported media, because its what the paying customers for that want.
I will just re-iterate that the letter of the round is not as important as the valuation, and the amount invested, in determining what "stage" the investment is.

I accept that they passed on the two different Series A rounds for two different reasons, although I am not sure what lesson I can draw from that.

In terms of your last comment, yes they absolutely cannot beat the returns of the early stage investors (whatever Series that may be), but presumably they're compensated by lower risk, which is the main point I was trying to make.
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As an example, there is one-click-to-deploy here[1] for Heroku and Azure.

[1] https://github.com/rauchg/slackin
> You have to explicitly do port forwarding

> Tunneling

Yes, that is what GP was describing.
You have quite fairly picked me up on a cheeky exaggeration.

Lots of things had to go wrong to cause the Ariane 5 failure - including bad handling of overflow, as you mention. But to my mind, the universal last line of defence against any kind of mistake is an integration test: put all of the parts of the system together, feed them real input, and verify that you get correct output. Arianespace did not do that.

Well, until they actually launched it. It was a test flight, right? It proved to be an essential and very effective test.
I've sent 4 or 5 resume's/cover letters to coinbase over the past few months and they completely ignored all of them. Its not like I'm some kind of noob either. I've built a half dozen open source applications that use the blockchain.

If anyone reading this wants a job at a blockchain company, I suggest you not bother wasting your time with coinbase.
I remember that when I was developing C++ code on Windows 3.11, the operating system would frequently crash when the program I was writing crashed. I was very happy when I installed Windows NT 3.51 and finally got a stable operating system. It was much more productive not having to reboot your machine all day.

The old Macs (before they had a Unix-based operating system) were also pretty unstable if you were doing software development on them (no memory protection).
The point of those systems was to limit damage from vibration and rocket exhaust on a normal launch, not to allow the pad to withstand an explosion. (And SpaceX does have them as well; the pad deluge system is more visible than usual in this video of the Dragon pad-abort test, which was conducted at the same launch pad they use for Falcon 9s, though without the rocket itself or any of its mobile support equipment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_FXVjf46T8 -- the large streams of water kick in a few seconds before the Dragon abort thrusters kick off.)
> That's why you always build two.

They very seldom do, at least for non-constellation projects. Cheaper just to pay the insurance premiums for loss of hardware and loss of earnings.
When asked if he hacked Hillary's email servers he replied "What, like with an axe?"
This has been so desperately needed for years, but the conventional wisdom was Apple cared more about being able to claim that they had 12 million apps (or whatever) than 2 million decent apps.

I've searched in the last few months and found apps that had screenshots that were clearly from iOS 4 or 5.

David Smith said he had been working on a piece before this was announced (1) and believed about 50% of apps never got updated.

Also the fixes to stop things from being named "Candy Soul Saga Crush Game Match Three Slots For The Win Pokemon Insurance Dating Fun Free Time" is a serious improvement too.

Random idea based on other stuff I saw app developers talking about on Twitter the other day: is this the first steps in going 64-bit only next year? If the apps haven't been updated they can be pulled before iOS 11 comes out and then OS update wouldn't get blamed.

1) https://twitter.com/_DavidSmith/status/771405838607089665
no orm .. i mean postgresql support ?
Yes :-)

I think it's definitely "programming", though I'm willing to agree that "coding" seems to imply more typing text in some 80-column format and less clicking. People certainly call doing-stuff-with-LabView "LabView Programming" and it involves a similar interface.

Two other thoughts
a) Do you think tools like this will ever actually replace all coding? My experience with graphical programming has been that it's great for simple things, but you often reach a point where it'd be way easier to write it as code, particularly if you're doing something the designers haven't anticipated.

b) I was actually interested in the contrast between ANNs, where the functional part is learnt from data--in part because we have no idea how to actually write a decent object recognizer from scratch--and something like a video game where you're necessarily designing/programming/coding up a creative idea that you have.
I think this issue of "Explainable Machine Learning" and interpretability is just going to get more and more important as ML grows. It will also be important for verifying ML-based systems - another problem area.

See [1] for a discussion of both.

[1] https://blog.foretellix.com/2016/08/31/machine-learning-veri...
The first stage for this launch was brand new. They have not launched a reused stage yet (they just announced a contract with SES about such a launch).
I did something similar with an Arduino. I managed to get an okay Star Wars out of it.

As for calculators, my school unfortunately standardized in TI: You guys had RPL, we have TI-Basic, which is worse than actual BASIC. And our calculators cost more! (Second-hand, anyways, because let's face it, nobody buys their calculators new)
I highly doubt this, since genitals only really determine if you can use urinals effectively, and non-urinal toilets are also found in the same bathroom as one that has a urinal, as they're needed for other stuff. Therefore, there is no need to legislate genital-to-bathroom mapping (regardless of your political and/or social beliefs) as the capabilities of your body will sort it out.

On the other hand I can better understand the argument that people's appearance causes us to make certain assumptions about whether they are of a particular gender, which causes us to make certain assumptions about their sex, and that presence of the opposite binary sex in bathrooms has been historically considered taboo, or unwelcome, or creepy, or [insert visceral reaction here]. This is real meat of the debate, because it pits people's self-identification against others' profiling, and one group of people's right to privacy to a different group of people's right to privacy.
what is the relevance?
> A maximum punishment “would also help address any false perception that unauthorized access of a computer is ever justified or rationalized as the cost of living in a wired society — or even worse, a crime to be celebrated,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Maya D. Song wrote.

Unless you're the FBI.
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That's not what we're learning. We're learning how not to make those mistakes. That yields: 1) Lower risk launches in the future through better process and better design 2) Possibly cheaper/better hardware redesigned due to the issues uncovered today.

Yes, it is probably lower ROI than that payload getting into space, but it does mean it's not a total loss and not simply a broken window fallacy.

It's more akin to if the window maker also tried to learn/test harder to break windows with each one she installed. Then, each broken window would be an experimental outcome instead of just a lost window.
>Demand. No one is clamoring to buy Panosonic batteries

Tesla is.
Was any of this data from the recently-revived STEREO-B?
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"Same reason they did a false flag bombing attempt on US and British targets in the 50s instead of simply asking for support?"

-> This is not the 1950's

Enough with the conspiracy theories here. Unless you have some evidence and a strong thread of logic - please leave it be.
Did you catch the part where they said the harm he caused was incalculable? That was clever wording by the judge.
To be fair, if you break into my house, I don't care if you've spent years learning how to pick complicated locks without leaving a trace, or whether you just batter the door down with a big hammer.

Although to call this a symptom of a "hacking epidemic" is ludicrous.
> Hopefully the markets continue to believe in Musk. If not I'd expect Musk to be talking to Washington about a government backed loan.

Or when it's too big to fail.

The point really should be that he's taking a risk and it's probably a calculated one. Everyone takes some risk or the other in their lives. Therefore, it follows that if the idea fails, or the execution fails, then the company must fail regardless of the emotion behind it. I don't see why taxpayers have to fund failed ideas if it comes down to it.

Having said that, I hope that Tesla succeeds and continues to change the automotive market.
I love this class of attack. I wonder if you could use a similar technique to get German Trasmission users to download fine-inducing torrents, etc..
The actual chips may have to be made again, but code that has been written once should be fine to just load on again.

Yeah it sucks, but it could have been a lot worse.
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There are 2 million apps on the App Store... they are going to review every single app?
From my experience the app review team is very inefficient and dealing with them is a very unpleasant experience.
"It's irrational to argue that you would pull out of a merger because a 3rd party's rocket failure delayed a launch."

Maybe, maybe not. A lot of things intertwined - moreover, M&A is not the most rational area of business.

Also - one side may 'cancel', huff and puff about it, then use it as a premise to come back to the table and negotiate a much better deal.
999 megs is a lot of text.
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It's shockingly good for what it is, which is why the camera was sold out for six months and still commands pretty much its original retail price nearly a year after release.

Its big weakness is autofocus speed (making it useless for birders, etc.)
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The failure of the launch changes the real world situation. It's not irrational to argue that such a change also changes the pros/cons of a merger. The fact that it was related to a 3rd party is irrelevant.
Interested in both. But more interested in X per month for SaaS billing, etc.
AFAIK that is not true as far as I know.
Haswell. Curse you, autocorrect.
One example:

www.dropboxlocalhost.com -> 127.0.0.1

I don't know if dropbox are still using that in their client though.
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Artificial intelligence shows little promise of developing any time soon but still shows promise over long term development.
In some ways, it's actually an improvement to the offerings of the App Store and less a direct improvement to the App Store itself, from the consumer's perspective.

It's a good step, but the store experience is still a bit busted, IMHO.
How many Falcon 9s have been launched using this fueling method?
Unlikely...a jailbreak app makes it to the store at least once or twice a year.
No, it was a new one.
I would love to know this too. Also, in general, could you talk a bit about other possible 'avionic' systems in the satellite?
Technically I could measure a couple of gigabytes of data in megabytes. I suppose if the media where after the biggest number (big numbers are more scary) they could use bits.
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If you read your link it explains why this sort of vertical integration is almost certainly a bad idea. Delta can't capture all the gains that the refinery creates by operating in ways that reduce its effectiveness. It's money losing overall.
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This reminds me of a similar vulnerability in webhooks [1]. I never thought of throwing a POST request at Redis to muck with keys but I tried it just now and it totally works. Geez.

[1] http://blog.fanout.io/2014/01/27/how-to-safely-invoke-webhoo...
I can't even understand why deep learning creates better predictions than regular neural nets. How does adding layers change anything?
For the 15 years you lived there, how many times did you venture into Brownsville or East New York?

I don't even remember any attraction for anybody not resident in those two places.
We're using these things and we're not even sure how they work. Love it.

At least we should have a standard for characterizing their accuracy or something like that ...