skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understanding the political position of Reason is important to understanding their articles. For example, elsewhere in this discussion someone mentions that poor roads are a problem. This isn't something that Reason would bring up because they see businesses as strong, self-sufficient organizations only held back by government interference, and admitting how much they depend on government-created infrastructure would damage that argument.
Palo Alto: Mark Zuckerberg ‘compound’ raises red flags for city board
I don't know that we really disagree about anything here. About the worst thing I have to say about Gellman here --- besides that I think it was strategically a bad idea to pick this factual hill to fight on --- is that he's removing the context behind the "broken leg" claim.

I know my original post reads like a list of complaints I have about Gellman's post, but it isn't: it's a list of all the claims Gellman makes, and a short take on each of them.

So, I think it's worth knowing that when Gellman says the House Report is lying because Snowden has a diagnosis of "bilateral tibial stress fractures", he's describing a common result of seeking medical attention for shin splints. That's all.

It's worth mentioning here that the Snowden movie --- I haven't seen it, but that's why all this stuff is coming up now --- appears to be false on this point in no uncertain terms. But then, the broader narrative point the movie is trying to make --- that Snowden was prevented from joining the Special Forces for medical reasons --- might not be. But then a narrower issue is whether he washed out of X-ray Special Forces Training (the "street directly to special forces training" program), or out of the military in general --- that is: did he wash out because he was only willing to serve if he could go straight to Special Forces, when he could have managed his repetitive stress injury, stayed engaged with the Army, and taken the conventional path into Special Forces? And on and on. The whole thing is a mess.

We are rapidly approaching a point where I am going to start reading reports on parachutists managing tibial stress fractures and I'd be happier if we didn't get all the way to that point.
Where did you get that "leisure" equates to "consumption"? Being productive certainly doesn't imply not consuming. I don't think I'm disagreeing with you saying that leisure time can be productive, but I think the issue of "consumption" is irrelevant here.

There is a sense in which being "productive" implies creating value, i.e., producing more value than you consume. If you restrict yourself to the realm of money, then being productive generally involves profit (e.g., producing something that gives net increase in monetary value over consumption costs). But if some person with leisure values things that other people generally don't want to pay money for (e.g., writing poetry), their leisure time can be productive (producing poetry) while they're purely an economic consumer (making no money, but spending money to live).
Well, you do have a point (people can and probably do use the term as a weapon when it's not the case), but I think it's too general a point: people can (and probably do) do the same with any term.
Massive-scale (searchable?) logging is done with elastic-search. Redis is ok for task-queueing but is in-memory. ~best in that case (most features) would be rabbitmq (based on "python celery") though it ~should be enough in your usecase

hell, you can even use your favorite (postgresql) rdbms to queue tasks
It's always a little surprising when you're talking with someone from Europe and they seem to have pretty reasonable views about the world and then somebody brings up the Roma and hoo boy the mask comes off.
Not details made twitter. The dark side of people was abused, the need of saying something short and senseless, making comments that have no meaning, that is precious to them by itself. Someone sung a song? Million tweets. Someone mistreated him? Two millions. Cat in the white house? Denial of service. Someone asks complicated questions about our life? Silence. They all want to go buy a thing, take it on and feel important. That's the main reason why twitter, instagram and other bitch-oriented services exist. Main auditory is happy with 140, that's why it is SO popular. Sorry, if I'm somewhat harsh.
> its certainly possible to have reasons to make a breaking change from an RC

Sure. After which you issue a new RC, not the final release.
Note that this attack was published about a year ago. (It's only mentioned in the footer, so might be easy to miss.)
jQuery still exists. IMO, the ecosystem has just moved towards rich-client front end applications. There was no good tool/framework for that and people started fulfilling that need. Of course you could write like you said "unoptimized (or just plain horrible) code" which in an actual application is huge price to pay. I think it all boils down to being able to use the right tool for the job. I wouldn't advise using React or Angular to show static content e.g an splash page.
The backend that provides the language services for VSC is an HTTP server contacted over localhost, and the protocol is documented here: https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol. Sounds like it should be easy or at least possible to hook it up to a frontend of your choice.
How do big companies simulate system changes?
I am currently interning at one of the bigger tech companies and have been asked to do some research on how to design a system that can be simulated. By this I mean what design choices would be necessary to make it easy to say simulate using a new pricing strategy in a system using prod data without actually pushing these changes to production? I don't have much background in this and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to where I should start my research?
I'm not one of the people to flag or downvote this, but all the post shows is that he wanted to keep some email addresses private. I'm not sure why people think this is a smoking gun? I get that people hate HRC, but how is a desire to tokenize email addresses noteworthy?

Edit: Also, the title doesn't fit the post.
I hate to say it, but if I were one of the groups that had a hard time in Europe circa the 1940's, I'd be packing my bags too. There's a reason that so many Jews got the hell out of France in the last few years. It might be paranoid, but we've all seen how far the alternative gets you.
Is Mixpanel down?
https://mixpanel.com says "Unhandled Exception: An unhandled exception was thrown by the application."

there's no sign of issues at https://status.mixpanel.com

Anyone else having problems with Mixpanel?
"2.0.0-alpha.8–2"
Debunking the Cul-de-Sac
If the OP is stating that it is possible to trivially create low-function websites then I am befuddled. Why complain that what is wanted is achievable?

Or perhaps this is one of those things where people assert that the existence of things they don't want to use is somehow offensive. Still isn't a very helpful point to make.
“There’s a lot of prejudice against Roma in almost every country in Europe,”

For example, I've seen a few of them around ticket machines in Bologna railway station, Italy - trying to extract some forgotten change from the machines or harrass it off passengers.

Can I call this not prejudice but actually a mature judice? 'cause I've never seen anybody else do it.

You get to have prejudices when you behave like that.
I in Eye Contact
>You would be wilfully throwing out ROI to promote "feelings".... Tough sell.

Hence the mention of panels that can axe non conforming ads, etc. I'm not talking about voluntary adherence to those advertising principles, rather something like regulation.
I've used React by itself for over a year before I ever reached for anything else you mentioned there. I eventually picked up many of the other things you mentioned too, and they were very useful, but they were very far from being necessary to make use of React, and I probably would've wanted them or something close if I didn't use React.
HP printers start rejecting budget ink cartridges
No worries -- I didn't find it insulting at all. Marking this ticket resolved! ;)
Whatever it is, it's not what Snowden was diagnosed with, according to his discharge papers.
Competition is always good.

PS: It just passed through my mind: some corp. should be able to compete with Google (mainly on search engine and ads), before they become "too powerful".
Air Traffic Controllers are highly skilled professionals, although at least 3 mid-air collisions [0][1][2] involving airliners have been a direct result of limitations in the radar technology. Newer technology like SSR gives the controllers better tools to use their skills.

Practically every pilot has heard of the Tenerife disaster, and is commonly discussed in flight schools. A lot of safety changes in aviation can be tied back to previous mishaps. In Naval Aviation, the flight standards program is known as NATOPS [3] (Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization), and the phrase "The NATOPS has been written in blood" is largely because it dramatically reduced the mishap rate, and changes are often as a direct result of previous mishaps.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airwest_Flight_706

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Charkhi_Dadri_mid-air_col...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Cerritos_mid-air_collisio...

[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATOPS#History.2Fraison_d.27.C...
It's certainly an interesting conundrum, and I agree that eventually without ecosystem support Alice and Bob might find things a little tough.

However, it's important to realize that the way the web is moving is to not only benefit the working professionals being paid to write it, but also the consumers who experience it.

Why do we have minifiers and transpilers and modules and font icons? Why do we aim for one script tag instead of 50?

Because for a consumer, the web sucked (and still sucks to an extent, but less so with AMP and offline APIs.) For "prosumers" like Alice and Bob, it was a buffet, but for people browing their web pages it sucked. It was slow and unresponsive and that's even before the rise of the mobile web.

And whether the ecosystem leaves them behind or not, Alice and Bob can always create a new slideshow.js file on any given platform they want.

The web is moving towards being better for professionals and consumers, and I agree that those in the middle might lose out a little, but they are very small peanuts. I'd rather optimize for the next billion users in Africa, India and beyond, most of whom are on sub-2G speeds, than for the script kiddies making an easy living pilfering jQuery widgets without learning the platform.
The UK's roads have a numbering scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_road_numbering_s...
Building a custom router
Sure.
On GPL issues, you have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobsen_v._Katzer

and all the related appeals.
This covers whether or not license violations are copyright infringement or breach of contract (something OSS lawyers felt was not settled for some reason, but has actually been well settled out in hollywood for many many years), what damages are for GPL if nobody is charging, etc.

There is also busybox v. westinghouse and some other german cases as well i will try to pull out and paste links to here when i get a chance.
It's interesting even "renewable" energy can be a problem at some scale too.

For instance, at some scale solar would need to be placed over plants, ergo CO2 problems again.

And at some scale (hugeeeee scale), even wind energy disturbs nature's air currents and would likely cause pretty big problems there too.
Pushing the Boundary of Chrome OS Security with Verified Access
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Yes, there'll be an official announcement in a little bit. Tagging is just the first step (we haven't even added the release metadata to the tag on GitHub yet).
I think if this were true TripAdvisor would already have won. In my global travels TA has easily been the best resource for mountains of decent reviews and meaningful "top lists" from people like me. It's not even close, IMO. (Although country/ city specific subreddits can be pretty good too). I also don't actually book through TA and see no need to. I just hop on Kayak, whose interface, filters, map, best prices, ease of booking is something I doubt TA could match.
It would require an international agency for enforcement, you don't need an international agency for notification.

> The most technologically advanced is a matter of opinion. How would they block Russia or Chinese lauches? Even India has frequent launches. This is far fetched as either could then do likewise.

Well, Russia, China and the US all have demonstrated ASAT capabilities, used to take down their own satellites. Using this capability against satellites owned by another state however would violate the Outer Space Treaty and likely be interpreted as an act of war.

To interrupt a launch? All 3 likely could as well. Cyber or physical sabotage would be a great way, even fighter aircraft could potentially be used against a spacecraft at the time of launch, as they have been demonstrated to be effective against ballistic missiles if they are nearby the launch site.

Space is an arena where most nations try not to make threats or militarise in the interests of international collaboration, but I'm willing to bet there are some secret contingency plans held by the 3 superpowers you mentioned. India, probably not.
oh man, I remember browsing FTP servers over email back in the early 1990s, when I had email access but not FTP access. It was incredibly slow and typos were to be avoided at all costs! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPmail
I know this is hard to believe but there are actually groups of people who are worse than other groups of people.
I know, it boggles the mind sometimes.
> For example, I've seen a few of them around ticket machines in Bologna railway station, Italy - trying to extract some forgotten change from the machines or harrass it off passengers.

I've directly witnessed lots of white Americans do lots of horrible things, in many cases horrible things I've never witnessed people of other ethnic backgrounds doing.

If I then decide that white Americans as a whole are horrible people who do those horrible things, its still prejudice -- I am prejudging individuals based not on nothing but their ethnic similarity to people I've witnessed doing bad things.
Career Satisfaction
> You might worry too much.

I don't bite my nails over it but it definitely niggles away at me.

> One of the most fascinating conspiracy theories I ever encountered postulates that the dark ages never happened.

Yeah, the Phantom Time Hypothesis, right? There might be more than one.

> That is, this vast decline of the Roman Empire and ensuing centuries of neglect and intellectual emptiness (which inspires most contemporary worrying about the decline of great civilisations) was not a real thing at all but rather an artifact of how we've dated historical events.

I have become attached to a cyclical interpretation of history. Mostly because it is not fashionable nowadays. I'll come up with a more convincing rationale later.

> But the gist of it is that as you go further and further back, history stops being a coherent timeline of events and starts being a series of snapshots with only rather weak signals used to arrange them and order them. Many of those signals are calibrated against each other, and often evidence that throws doubt on the 'consensus timeline' (as he calls it) is simply discarded, ignored, dismissed as a mistake by the original authors of the material or just written off as a mystery.

It certainly is interesting. It makes an historians job similar to that of a crime scene detective. Of course it is a bit of a rabbit hole, you have to trust history didn't begin yesterday or you might go slightly mad.

This is the great advantage of those secret surveillance satellites. Our ancestors in an ascendant civilization phase might visit one in a thousand years and discover the 'tape' has been running all the while.

> Athens is hardly mentioned in works we believe were written during the dark ages, even in books written by people who travelled in the region. On the few occasions that it merits a mention it's described as if it were a small village of no particular importance. But the history books would have us believe that at this time Athens contained the vast ruins of a once great civilisation. It seems very strange that explorers and travellers who wrote about their adventures in that part of the world somehow just systematically forgot to visit Athens, of all places.

Ah but the list of books is not very long and most were destroyed. The Irish saved the Western world with a scriptorium (or maybe we made it all up). Have you seen the TV series Civilization (the first episode entitled 'The Skin of the Teeth' or similar). It is very much in the spirit of this thing.

Now you've intrigued me though, and I shall investigate the disappearance of Athens in the Phantom Time Hypothesis.
mercurial supports rebase for a long time https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/RebaseExtension
The point is that nobody is diagnosed with "shin splints", just like they aren't diagnosed with "runny nose and sore throat".

If the only point you're making is that the House Report is dishonest in not acknowledging that nobody is diagnosed with literally the term "shin splints", OK, sure, I agree.

But it's a little crazy to me that we're discussing this to this extent, since it's the least important claim in both Gellman and the House's documents.
Am I misunderstanding or is cockroachDB in a similar class to couchDB?
C++ Intrusive lock-free multiple-producer single-consumer queue
The same is often true of any bigot; they're not usually the frothing skinheads so many seem to expect. I have a friend who's in his late 60's, extremely bright man, friendly, funny, and I would have said not racist. Then one day after I've gotten to really know him, and we're driving to a restaurant and the conversation turned to (then first term) Pres. Obama. He said something that I'll never forget, because it was said without a hint of malice, almost sad regret.

"You know those jungle-bunnies aren't like you and me."

That's what he really thought. I've seen him interact with people of all races and he's open and friendly and sociable, but at the end of the day, that's how he sees black people.

In my experience, a lot of bigotry is just that; you get to know someone to the point where they feel comfortable with you, and then you find out what they really think of people. The exception of course is that when "everyone knows" something, you don't even need to get to know that person well.

In large swathes of the world, and Europe in particular, "Everyone knows all about" the Roma. Dig a bit deeper and they "know all about" the Jews.
The first time you recognized one, maybe. And why are you certain she was Roma?
It seems to be something about how when client certificates are forced to be used, the calculation of the TLS master secret can be re-calculated by the MITMing party (who also has the private key required for part of the calculation), and can therefore decrypt the main traffic flow between the client and the server, and also because the master secret calculation works out, the client ends up believing the server has proven its identity? Also something about "fixed DH" handshakes.
This could either be brilliant or a total nightmare:

"Support for arrays with indexing starting at values different from 1. The array types are expected to be defined in packages, but now Julia provides an API for writing generic algorithms for arbitrary indexing schemes (#16260)."

Originally I thought total nightmare but now I'm not sure.
Is Java FX a thing? I just remember seeing it advertised after the Ask toolbar during a Java Runtime install.
Yes, but that doesn't scare the population or sell papers.

Although to be fair it doesn't look like the population is that scared this time around. The media seems to be making more of a deal out of this than the average person.
Self-adapting Evolutionary Algorithms
The difference is that bigots think you mean whichever "they" is on the menu, and the rest of us think you're being ironically self-referential.
What do you mean exactly? It is designed to run across multiple nodes, preferably out of multiple datacenters that don't have common points of failure (network connectivity, power).

But it is designed to run on systems that you control, as opposed to some other peer-to-peer systems.
Maybe because (a) he didn't use the language of tokenization, he asked how to "strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails", and

(b)He just plead the 5th on questions involving whether or not he complied with the investigation legally, which people normally do to avoid incriminating themselves.

At least that's how I understand the situation.
s/Europe/Hacker News/g
No, the point is that the whole discussion of "shin splints" is nothing more than a (rather crude) attempt at misdirection.

And attempted comparisons to a "runny nose", even more so.
Programming Languages Beacon (what large apps written in what languages)
Did you read the comment I'm replying to? That comment specifically associated leisure with consumption:

> There's a reason that retiring early is literally bad for your brain [0] - healthy adults are supposed to be engaged in productive activity. Whether productive activity means punching a clock, volunteering at a $nonprofit or striking out on your own, the point is that our minds and bodies need to be actively living, not just passively consuming
Calling a simple C function from D – strcmp
The research paper[1] has more details. AIUI, knowing the client certificate's private key allows the attacker to calculate the TLS master secret if the server supports a non-ephemeral (EC)DH cipher and the attacker has access to a valid certificate (with certain properties) for the site (not the private key, just the certificate, which can be obtained by visiting the site, from Certificate Transparency logs or other sources).

[1]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot15/woot15...
> Why would Amazone create a pricing structure which encourages new entrants into the field?

Because the primary entrant threats were not going to be dissuaded by low price competition. Specifically Microsoft and Google. Both are hyper cash and income rich and under no circumstances did they want to cede the cloud computing universe to Amazon. Fundamentally it's the exact same reason AWS stopped trying to compete so intensely on price cuts quite a while back now.

Put another way, if you're going up against Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle - speaking hypothetically it's better to own 1/3 of the market and print significant operating income, than to own 1/2 of the market and barely make money. That operating income is responsible for roughly doubling the value of Amazon's share price (the stock took off like a rocket after it became clear AWS was going to be a cash-cow).
If Americans start to come to other countries and behave obnoxiously, those countries definitely have rights to kick them out and prevent any more americans from coming.
> There's a reason that so many Jews got the hell out of France in the last few years.

Do tell us that reason.
Brandon Williams – Functional Programming in a Playground
This if off-topic, but what is the preferred tool for making flowcharts in ASCII like the ones used in the post?
Nothing sends a conversation down the path of, "I hate Hitler, but he did do a couple of things right", like when you bring up the Roma.

My mom and dad got harassed by some Roma in Spain and my dad, as he puts it, might have just killed one of them if they did not let go of my mother. I think that is only time in my life I have heard my dad speak of doing any harm to another human being.