skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's got to be a book of these, where you can fill in your company name and other details, Mad-lib style.

"At [COMPANY] we take [THING WE SCREWED UP] very seriously. We will be launching an investigation into potential lapses of [THING WE SCREWED UP] and take steps to ensure it remains strong going forward."

"Our customers' [THING WE LOST] is extremely important to us. It is [COMPANY]'s top priority to recover this [THING WE LOST]."
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There are many programme to try to increase male elementary school teachers, you just don't hang around on elementary school related forums.
To answer your second question, this is something we knew and collectively forgot in the middle of the 20th century. Gary Taubes' theory is that if WW2 had not been so devastating, the European scientific community mighy have been healthy enough to prevent the "fat is bad" myth from taking over.
I agree resistance will develop, but i can't imagine unintended and nasty consequences. Anti-microbial peptides already exist in nature.
Verizon definitely does ask for account pin whenever I call in, usually entered via number keypad before you're routed to an actual person.
This seems like a bad idea. It seems to be solving for a problem that doesn’t exist while introducing the potential for issues. If you want to prevent latency or lookups localhost should just live in the hosts file.
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I'd been holding out hope for a good Blackberry Classic-like with Android for a while (like others in the thread, clearly). If the BB Rome/Mercury is indeed cancelled, my only other hope is that a future Fairphone[1] device gets a physical keyboard module. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of hope that it'd be anywhere near as good as a BB keyboard, nor that it'd have features like sliding over the keyboard to move the cursor/scroll a page like recent BBs have had.

[1] https://fairphone.com/
To me the title sounds like they just mean the missile was made in Russia, which was obvious from the start. (Even if the Ukranians had been responsible, their missiles were still made in Russia!)

What they actually mean is that the missile was transported in from Russia shortly before the shootdown, and the launcher and remaining missiles went back to Russia not long after. But yes, the wording of the title is way too vague.
The anti-vaxxers here in Austin are doing their best to bring it back.
what I wonder every time I hear people be very enthusiastic about how their diet improves their quality of life, is if it's just a case that eating good food and working out (which a lot of people do when starting a new diet) is the trigger to feel better as opposed to the vegan / raw food / ketogenic / paleo / high-carb specifics, not to mention the obvious placebo effect of starting something new that supposedly will help you feel better.

It does feel that we as a species, being omnivore, can do just fine on all sorts of different diets, and maybe the reason these testimonials come up for all sorts of different diets, is that it's the staying away from sugar / processed food, the working out, caloric restriction, weight loss and consequent improvement in quality of sleep that cause the improvements, as opposed to the food specifics.

Going from eating fast food, not working out and sleeping badly, to eating less caloric whole foods, working out and sleeping well would make anybody feel so much better and lose weight, regardless of what type of whole foods they pick.

If this is the case, then it opens the opportunity to pick your diet more based on say environmental impact or ethical reasons, as opposed to say feeling that your veggie diet is not as good as your friends' paleo diet because you have been veggie for 10 years and your friend just went paleo and so they are in the "omg I feel so much better" phase.

Wish it was possible to do a double blind study on diet and its effects but unfortunately for obvious reasons that's not possible. On the other hand it is quite possible to quantify your diet's environmental impact / footprint, which makes minimizing it reasonably feasible.
In the interest of discussion, would you be up for naming those companies, in your opinion?
I've given that kind of model a lot of thought too, but I did not find very satisfying solutions to these problems:

- How do you distribute the car actors on nodes, assuming the number of nodes is variable? (I think riak_core looks interesting, but it does not seem to have a way to guarantee unicity of something - it's rather built to replicate the data on multiple nodes for redundancy)

- What happens if a node fails? What mechanism is going to respawn the car actors on a different node? How do you ensure minimal downtime for the cars involved?

- What happens if there's a netsplit, e.g. how do you ensure no split brain where two nodes think they're responsible for a car?

It feels to me like the traditional erlang-process-per-request architecture coupled with a distributed store (riak or w/e) makes it possible to avoid the very difficult problem of ensuring one and only one actor per car in a distributed environment.
There are precedents: they are called world wars.
.local is used for link-local domains, for resolution by multicast DNS ('zeroconf'). See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762.

Microsoft used to suggest using it for local networks, but now advise against it.
Well, how about automatic transmissions? ABS? Traction control? Cars have had those things for decades and they're not a big deal.

A lot of newer cars have lane assist and other features. I think a half-way there approach works fine. The same way pilots have the option to use auto-land and auto-pilot.
The vast majority of software engineering work does not have the same rigor that other fields of engineering do. Standards, safety, inspection, accountability, documentation, testing, certification, etc... many other fields focus on these things, but in software it's pretty much "anything goes so long as we make money." The trick to making companies value good engineers is getting them to value good engineering.
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I'm going to go one step further. If there is any private space exploration company who ever needs a programmer/engineer for long-term in-space missions, I'll do it. I doubt that you would find any candidates but I'd like to volunteer anyway.

I don't think I can do anything as valuable to humanity here on earth as I can by even helping space missions. Even if there is a 50% chance some system fails and I'll die in space I still think its important to do so.

And on a side note I've also always wanted La Forge's cool visor so if you can throw that in too I'd be very happy.
As somebody who worked almost exclusively in Windows (with varying results for many years), predominately in semi-pro level audio work, I'm curious what you think about the capabilities of the Surface platform vs. the current Mac approach. I'm thinking an external video card would be a huge plus, if possible, but from what I've seen performance wise, I'm looking to transition to a Surface Pro in the future from an otherwise perfectly satisfactory Lenovo. Granted this is for audio but a lot of great audio equipment is USB 3 and workable in offloading a lot of the power needs (and external storage for large files). If video could eventually be served well by the same approach (modular?) that'd be interesting.
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Ask HN: How to find hackathons/tech events in your locality easily?
I am a developer looking for some challenges and open to network with people and make good connections, and I haven't found any good websites that connects people like me, or a list of hackathons/tech events I can attend to. Can someone help me or give ideas what I can do in my situation ?
I agree, I just wanted to say that during the actual launch, two major systems need to fail before you start losing lives.

That makes it different from the Shuttle for example.
I have a Q10, pretty decent phone, love their keyboards. This is too bad.
Something to watch out for - the first time I tried a ketogenic diet, I developed a terrible rash on my torso after three weeks. After a few fruitless trips to the dermatologist, I found that it was very possibly something called prurigo pigmentosa, a rash that tends to occur in people fasting or in ketosis. Someone even set up a website about it - www.theketorash.com. It's unfortunate, as I had been successfully losing weight. No one really knows how to treat it, except for, well, eating more carbs.
The article explictly makes a distinction between endemic and imported cases, which answers my initial confusion that there still are measles cases in the US.

I wish it had described what made a case endemic rather than imported. Some of the outbreaks in the US have spread rather widely, but I guess that still doesn't count as endemic?
Not all of us feel like that.

I actual care more about the product and how it's built, the standard it is built to and the processes used to build and manage it.

Any manager that's worth working for still codes. Once they code no more they care more about process and profit.
Sorry, don't think so. I went through the slides and didn't find anything really interesting.
They could just go under a whistleblower equivalent program for security concerns, but I feat that we don't have such a program in place in the US
Something similar happened to me with one of my rarely-used Gmail accounts, got prompted for the security question after it took me until my 3rd attempt to get the password correct. I had set the answer to gibberish some 8 or 9 years ago, and had zero way of recovering the account. Found lots of people with similar issues on the Google product forums, all answered (not by Google employees, of course) that it was completely unrecoverable.

I wrote off the account at that point and migrated a few accounts attached, but 2 weeks later the system let me enter a phone number to be able to log in.

Moral of the story: pay for support if you want it.
The fact that this has no discussion after 2 hours just underscores how lost and forgotten Blackberry is.

It reminds me of the demise of Palm.
A software development salary in London will absolutely not support a mortgage on a £1M flat.
> And yes, manufacturing practices may be truly causing this

How? Are you talking about pharmaceuticals used in factory farming, trans fats, what?

> coupled with more hectic but sedentary lifestyle preventing people from cooking properly (it takes time and care)

It does not take that much time or care. The choice is yours. You can either watch an episode of Seinfeld on the couch, or spend time on your feet and cook dinner and lose weight and feel healthier.

> It is highly unfair and unjust to throw it also onto a single person to invert, especially a sufferer.

Fairness and justice are two concepts the universe does not care about.

And how is it unfair and unjust? Once you accept that your suffering, in this case, is based on decisions you've made (remember 4/5 people are not obese in the west, placing you in the lowest 20 percentile.) you can start changing that.

Also, these things don't just happen to you. You still have a choice in the great majority of situations.
What do you do, if not manage day to day? This definitely sounds like the direction I'm leaning, so it'd be helpful to see what others have done. My email is in my profile if you'd prefer.
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I'm hesitant to say anything about mental effects, since I'm far from able to objectively measure such things, especially since I haven't been keeping any kind of measurements or records. But it certainly keeps me from slouching quite as much.
Out of curiosity, are there any areas with a fat rich diet, which has good access to quality health care? It seems most cultures, which aren't based around hunting and gathering, have a carb based diet, as it's simply the most feasible for supporting a large population.
Even more sanctions
Only 150,000 ?

We see upwards of 2 million unique ipv4 sources scan us on port 23 every day. These are all compromised IoT devices and routers.

In the past hour we saw 350k+ unique sources.

In just the past 3 minutes that number is 168,230

Top sources in the past 3 minutes:

848 211.201.69.50
840 180.66.99.72
838 222.121.157.61
759 95.17.97.136
639 171.248.123.112
542 189.78.49.194
511 176.109.222.124
386 60.249.84.179
378 118.161.69.18
377 61.75.42.129
252 125.142.55.218
252 183.102.221.85
245 106.186.20.183
233 112.162.191.217
203 121.143.65.181
199 115.86.134.94
190 89.163.242.12
183 91.205.123.37
181 86.90.10.151
179 91.240.140.14
177 191.103.72.251
173 185.129.2.236
169 218.201.74.122
168 116.99.113.72
164 82.119.65.190
160 118.129.105.9
158 194.88.205.101
156 77.88.202.60
156 82.79.75.5
155 112.165.227.205

We see 2000pps of this shit all day every day. No one cares.
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Facebook noticed the same thing.

http://www.darkcoding.net/software/facebooks-code-quality-pr... - "Exhibit C: Our site works when the engineers go on holiday"
You might want [PyX](http://pyx.sourceforge.net/) which takes TeX formula input and can return you SVGs. You could also combine that with Sympy for formula manipulation etc.
Nothing is keeping women from going into tech right now. In fact, there are all sorts of incentives for them to go into tech and they're STILL not going. I think it's time to accept the fact that men and women are psychologically different in some ways. That's not a good or bad thing, it's just reality.
I did it twice, the first time was 3 months long, the second time was only 4 weeks (I couldn't deal with the pain)
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That's true, but a company can only play that game so many times before it catches up to them. "Never disclose" isn't a workable policy because eventually someone will leak the data.

It's also worth noting that you're talking about a hypothetical, but there are real life examples of this sort of security working despite your claim that it won't work. I've worked for HIPAA-regulated companies. It's certainly difficult to meet their requirements, but it's not impossible, and the regulations do have a real impact on the security of the data.

I'm also not convinced that security isn't a binary. You're either secure or your not, and you're only as secure as the weakest link in your system: that seems pretty binary to me.

A more accurate statement might be that perfect security is prohibitively expensive in many cases. But in many of those cases, data is actually not needed, and is collected because business wants visibility into users, even if that means compromising user security. This divides companies into three camps:

1. Companies where security is cost-effective.

2. Companies where security is cost-prohibitive, but which don't need to collect data.

3. Companies where security is cost-prohibitive, but which need to collect data.

I'd posit that the vast majority of companies are in categories 1 and 2, and that it would be a net benefit to people if all companies in category 3 stopped existing.
Intermediate outcomes have predominated through most of human history. Why do you think it's different this time?
Melinda Gates says: "Some of the best programs, UW, Stanford, Berkeley — or what [president] Maria Klawe is doing at Harvey Mudd — are finally looking at that very first CS course. If it’s completely geared towards an 18-year-old white male, and they are not thinking about role models for women or problem sets they get for women, how do we keep [women] in the course?"

I can really see myself in this -- as a teenager I wrote a lot of code recreationally, writing scripts to automate playing text-based computer games ("go north. a monster attacks!") and writing my own games.

It was the first CS classes that drove me away from it, and led me to think:

- CS isn't for people like me

- CS problems aren't interesting

- CS doesn't do anything to make the world a better place.

It took me many years to come back around to the coding career I'm in today. I really believe that small changes to the classes could've prevented me from developing those misconceptions and being driven away from it.
> Yeah, but why use another patch on top of a patch where there are modern type-safe languages like Swift.

The JavaScript toolchain is more than good enough to build the kinds of applications that React Native targets. Most of these applications aren't stellar apps that require critical performance or rigorous type checking, they're just dumb front-ends to REST endpoints. If you're going to build an awesome app, then use better tools.

The reason I would use React over Xamarin is simple: Speed of training and development. I can hire, train and get a React developer up and running and building proof-of-concepts a lot quicker than on Xamarin.
"nobody these days rolls their own SQRT function to squeeze out a few extra CPU cycles"

Um, nobody did this 20 years ago, either.
When I was experimenting with PS a few years ago, progressive JPEGs were always larger than baseline which is why I came to that conclusion.

This isn't however the full picture.
To keep it short, baseline JPEGs are usually smaller if the file size is less than 10 KB.

Useful article about progressive JPEG sizes: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/12/05/imageopt-4/
>What they just need to do is to put Android on the Blackberry Classic or some phone with a similar form factor. That's it.

I would buy this so fast. There's slim pickins for android phones w/ keyboards.
Realtime collaborative app for designers? Neat! Also glad to see that it does more than just mobile designs. I just feel bad for the designers who are going to try to use this with their non-designer customers.

Off topic, I wish I could have scrolled through the page without it causing my anxiety to flare up with the constant scroll-stuttering. This isn't a slow computer either, 24GB RAM and 3.2 GHz quad core Mac Pro.
Have you tried meetup.com and http://lanyrd.com/ ?
I just went to see what my recovery options are for my phone provider's portal. It creates a temporary password that it's sent to your phone through SMS so you can access your account. This makes sense, since the only way to gain access to your account is either cracking your password or controlling your phone. I have no idea why Verizon would give access to the account through a voice call, instead of sending an SMS to your phone number. I really can't think of any situation where you'd forget your password and also not be able to access your phone, while urgently needing to get into your portal. If you were to find yourself in that situation, Verizon's position should be: OK, first sort out the phone thing, this is, go to a store and get a new SIM card and/or phone, and then we'll reset your account.
Automated deducted proof of the square root of a prime number is irrational
haha sure. no one is going to world war III over this! I hope you realize this.

What needs to happen is proper legal process and some heads need to roll at the Russian ministry of defense.
First it needs to be fully convertible (meaning it can be bought and sold everywhere). Interesting the article doesn't seem to mention it
You can address them with whatever domains you choose; suffixing them with .localhost is no better than suffixing them with .local, .loc, .qwyjibo, or not suffixing them at all: these are merely personal choices you made to give the domains some look and feel, but they aren't intrinsically privileged by the system.
Things to consider as you transition from NCLB to ESSA
To elaborate on what burntsushi said:

By default, Rust statically links all Rust code. However, glibc isn't usually statically linked, so Rust doesn't either. You can use musl instead of glibc to get 100% statically linked binaries.
All of the usual rumor sites agree on the Q4 timing for the redesigned Macbook Pro, I'm not sure what your source is.
Good overview.
Wondering how many designers you have working there? Are they specialists in their specific categories (like UI/UX design for mobile)?
While their current/recent behaviours that are being discussed are deplorable, I don't think the heartbleed thing is as morally corrupt as many people affected make out.

Their rules always clearly stated the cost of replacement certificates and that this would only be waived if the replacement was needed due to their fault. As heartbleed was not a problem they caused they were well within their agreements with the customers to charge for revoking and resigning certificates.

They missed a chance at earning "good faith points" but they presumably didn't value that over the income from resigned certificates. They are a commercial body afterall.

Lets not dilute the discussion of cases where they appear to have been deliberately fraudulent by mixing in a past occurrence of them simply being uncaring.
No comment on the main topic, but the "unnatural or advantageous" binary in the title is a confusion that I really dislike. "Natural" and "good" are independent axes. No relationship should be assumed. Tuberculosis is natural, but not good. Brushing your teeth is unnatural, but I'm happy to call it good.

This can seem obvious, but the error crops up all the time in serious ways. E.g. women voting and joining the workforce was seen as unnatural, therefore wrong. People market all sorts of quack remedies as natural, and therefore good.

It goes the other way, too. Slavery was seen as right, and people decided it was therefore natural. (See the various declarations of secession of the US states for examples.) Violence is seen as wrong, so people decide it must be unnatural, ignoring our long history as predators, the amount of education we give children about not hitting, and our societal structures for limiting violence.

Is and ought: two entirely separate things.
There's a couple of hints to books in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12389595
You're saying a lot of things, without stopping to check whether you're right or not.
> I think you should rather think harder, learn math possibly

Oh the irony, when stating that 1/0 = infinity. If you'd learn maths yourself, you'd know that 1/0 is undefined.
The Yahoo Paranoids chose their own name. It was designed to be light-hearted in a way that didn't make them seem stuffy so that engineering teams would be more receptive to their work. In my experience, this is incredibly important from the outset.

Anyone who has worked in information security for a month knows that the relationship between product engineering and security engineering defaults to antagonistic. It takes a lot of work to make it friendly and productive, and as a security professional I think "Paranoids" is much better for overall collaboration than something like "Defenders", which in my opinion reeks of self-importance.

The more pertinent issue here is management not fostering the culture enough.
It's a duplicate. Bigger discussion over here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597109
Apparently, the PIN is opt-in.

>With Verizon on the phone, it was a fairly simple matter to re-reset the portal password, set an account PIN to prevent attacker re-entry and un-do the phone forward.
Was posted a few months ago on HN: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-co...
Internet providers will curb it by reverse-firewalling all consumer connections, maybe with support from the copyright abuse lobby, so as to kill P2P and any other advanced internet usage for that matter.
How many tourists visit Admundsen-Scott, and what percentage of its operating costs do you think it covers?
I can't be the only one who keeps reading it as: Whitest Kids U Know.
I think I know what you're talking about, but to be clear, are you talking about his 'stern' tone about driver error? I won't disagree with that point.
Maybe both.
I feel like an idiot talking to an inanimate object, I never use text-to-speech. Besides, it's nice to be able to send a text on the bus without being That Text-to-Speech Guy that everyone hates.
What is the use case for this when Kubernetes already has things like ConfigMaps and Secrets?