skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, HN needs subreddits. I really do not care about the medium tier SV people that get bought for $50m. I know they are friends with a lot of other people here, but the only time I care about an acquisition is if it it is either over $500m or from somebody from Toronto that I might know.

Also, I'm much more interested in data science nuts and bolts or technology's impact on foreign policy than I am about CSS or Go frameworks or libraries.
One significant problem with the API Gateway / Lambda integration is that the protocol they use to communicate is JSON. JSON is a text-only encoding, i.e. anything that isn't valid UTF8 isn't valid JSON, and so if you need to pass something binary to/from the Lambda (e.g. an image), you need to base64 encode it, which I'm actually not even sure is at all possible with the API/GW templates. There are other issues, but this alone is a huge headache if you ever have to work around it.
Immigration should be mostly skills based and there is no reason to use race or ethnicity for determining who immigrates.

What I am suggesting is that this collective romanticism about immigrants is absurd. This was posted it the "latino" section of thehill to make an ideological point yet none of these people are of latin american origin.
According to their 2015 SEC filing, FB own about $3.6b in networking equipment (servers, switches, etc). This new way of using Facebook code will very likely just fit in to their existing infrastructure so they're using it a bit more efficiently. The cost in terms of hardware and connectivity is, essentially, already paid.
Finding 1031 server variables on Prezi
I fear the endgame as well. Even if you take the position that Type 2 deserves enormous wealth for his accomplishments you still have a limited resource pool from which income can be drawn. It's not a zero sum game but it might as well be if economic change happens fast enough.

We cannot turn our backs on people because their economic value has diminished to almost nothing. Type 1s are not worthless even if they have no chance at making a decent income.

If we've reached the point where there's enough automation to care for everyone's basic needs (as a threshold of human labor; not "absolute automation") then we shouldn't be insisting that everyone work for the sake of working.

I live with and care for an autistic adult with an IQ around 60. She's not family but if we didn't take care of her who the hell would? Her economic value is basically negative. If she gets a job it would only be to keep her busy. She can't even add up coins let alone keep track of a bank account.

It's easy to see how someone with an IQ of 60 has no economic value. However, as time goes on and more work gets automated the intelligence-to-economic-value ratio assimilates higher and higher levels of intelligence.

Soon--maybe even right now--the economic value of an able-bodied human of average intelligence will reach zero. When that happens the Type 2 people (and their friends, descendants, cronies, etc) will basically own everything. Civilization depends on that not happening.

If we want to live in a civilized society we need to do everything we can to ensure that doesn't happen.
Using neural nets to identify criminals and potential employees
Some have interpreted the DOJ fine to be a sort of retaliation for fines applied by EU to Apple/Google (especially the first for the Ireland tax rebates).

I have no particular authority in saying if this is actually the case or not, but my feeling is that in Europe (and especially in Germany) there will be a lot of resistance towards Facebook solutions (the recent Whatsapp decision to share data with the parent company is another thing that did not sit well here, for example).
Setting premature expectations seems orthogonal to me than gender neutrality. As in, it can be as well a product of being in a successful lawyer/engineer/politicians family than gender by itself and generally more a result of parent projections than gender determinism.

edit: see also this comment about Ada parents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12683739
Testing Front-end in isolation
How do you do it with a load balanced stateless web server? People have been doing this 10 years, most language should have some frameworks or plugins around it....

Common is to give the client a cookie with a session id (KJASDJKASDASDS) in a cookie. Then in a RDBMS you store this (session KJASDJKASDASDS = User 1234)... and the first part of each web (or lambda call), you go look up the user by session and know who it is.

(You can also store the user ID directly in an encrypted cookie, but that has a few other problems)
I wonder why libcurl even bothers with poll on macOS when there's kqueue.
Keeping Track with GNATS [pdf]
For those of us that don't: I found a Yahoo Answers page [0] which appears to suggest it is a dismissive term similar to 'whatever' and 'hot air'

[0] https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100103042837A...
The poll system call is very likely the same exact implementation for all 4 though. If it was a bug in platform specific code then you'd have a point. It's not like they are shipping 4 complete rewrites.
Google discourages websites from appearing in search but requiring registration to view. If the website detects that the user came from a Google search, they don't throw up the paywall.
If you went through a market place like Gumroad or Leanpub they have policies and you should be able to get your money back. You could always name and shame them if they are really refusing to speak to you and refusing to fulfill their obligation in the business arrangement. Obviously this option should be considered only if there is no other recourse.

You might be doing others a favor in avoiding purchasing books from this individual in the future.

Also I would say get your credit card company, PayPal or however you purchased the book as this is fraudulent behavior.
Power, secrecy and cypherpunks: how Jacob Appelbaum ripped Tor apart
Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras
What's the benefit of this over Ipython notebooks? I think Ipython notebooks can run R as well...
From Startup to Scaleup
The Right Way to Run a Technical Interview
If there are enough requests to keep your container up all the time, why are you using lambda??
While we talk about how free apps are killing the market and making life difficult for an indie developer, we want to make it difficult for WSJ reporters too? If the story is broken or first reported by WSJ, example the suspicious cases one, by all means they should be the ones linked. At least that way people are aware of the good work WSJ is doing and maybe pay for the news.
I just invoice US clients in USD, and tell them to wire the money. My bank account is in Euro, so my bank converts the USD payment to Euro. Conversion + fees are usually around 1%.
Thinking Spatial
From what I've heard Lisbon is about the same cost as Berlin. But the economy is worse, the tax system seems more complex and it's less accessible to foreigners. I guess the weather is nicer, but the location is worse. To legitimately compete with Berlin I think one really has to offer something special, otherwise Berlin wins by default in the low-medium cost category. Lisbon would still be on my shortlist for European bootstrap cities, but there are also at least half a dozen other cities that could be equivalent.
As a current Note 7 user, this is news bums me out. Not because the error rate of the manufactured phones may exceed safety requirements, but its the only device (tool) that has met my needs in a long time. Digital ink functionality is something I searched for since, those early Palm (PDA) days. The Surface Pro was a great answer to that as a laptop replacement. It never crossed my mind to get a Note until now.

I always shied away from the Samsung line of Android devices (except for the Galaxy Nexus), due to heavy handed re-skin of the UI. I have owned almost all of the Nexus phones, except for the Nexus 4. Each of the Google-blessed devices had compromises either battery, screen, camera (always), or MVP like design. The Google Pixel announcement pushed me over the edge to try a new product line. The Pixel looks just fine and is probably a good performer, but something about it feels very Gen 1. My wife has had the Note 7 since launch, and she claims its her favorite phone to date. Note 7 it was, TMobile had them in stock after the first recall.

To be honest, I have made a few changes to the Note 7 experience. After an hour or so of tweaking with the settings and installing a new launcher, I was holding a power-user Android device. It was just the right amount of stock Android and Samsung enhanced feature-set with strong hardware.

In the last week, the Note has quickly replaced the Surface Pro in more "mobile" scenarios. For example, client meetings, coffee chats, and jotting down notes in a quick huddles. I am an avid note taker, I love having the ability to archive all my notes to the cloud. OneNote does a great job of converting my notes to text, allows for searchability.

There is not a clear heir to the phablet throne. I have been keeping my eye on the Huawei Mate 9, Pixel XL, and a LG V20. They all have compromises and don't match the swiss-army knife approach of the Note 7. I love the idea of a master device with the ability for digital ink (S Pen) that also replaces media-consumption focused tablets (large sceen).

Hopefully current Note 7 users and future ones are vocal with Samsung to keep the Note series alive. It might raise awareness to other manufacturers to create similar devices. The majority of negative sentiment is coming from non-users (not to dismiss the real threat of injury). Which holds less water than positive encouragement from the users who planned to purchase or did purchase the Note. By positive encouragement, I mean asking for Samsung to fix the issue and we will be here waiting (hopefully its a fast turnaround).

I can't see myself parting with this tool. I am sure some of you here will understand when a device comes around that meets and exceeds all your niche needs, its pretty awesome! I would hate for it to disappear.
Serverless was nowhere near ready the last time I looked.

Are they still requiring sn unrestricted iam profile? That is a non starter for most orgs.

Also, I found working with serverless to be pretty unintuitive. You are relying entirely on large config files and it was very difficult and time consuming for me to test and rollback several different configs.
Is our world a simulation? Why some scientists say it's more likely than not
Or, to put it another way, "We may never truly fathom cultures that were destroyed several centuries ago and are only studied through archaeological fragments and the memoirs of late-medieval invaders."
Macau bets on startups as key to diversifying economy
Usually 15 or 20 ms hit to make a new connection even in MySQL.

Also adds a fairly big server load. I suspect if a given MySQL instance supports 1000 long lived connections.. it would only support 100-200 connections that are closing every request. (Have not benchmarked this side, would be curious to see )
> No Xorg or session management out of the box.

TrueOS Desktop is your friend. PC-BSD, now called TrueOS, has for years now been the place to go if one cannot hack getting X up and running onesself, as one has to do with FreeBSD. PC-BSD/TrueOS Desktop has X and GUI login pre-configured out of the box.

> rc.d is like Linux init from 5 years ago.

Linux init from 5 years ago was upstart in quite a few places. (Debian is not the entire world.) init is not rc. upstart is nothing at all like Mewburn rc. And Mewburn rc has significant differences to van Smoorenburg rc, from not having any notion of runlevels (which the BSD world never adopted from the AT&T System 5 world) to a different division of work between the individual scripts and the common script libraries.

Dynamic network configuration is handled through devd rules.

> You can't enable full disk encryption for UFS with the installer

... although the FreeBSD/PC-BSD/TrueOS world is rapidly heading to all-ZFS as the norm. The PC-BSD 10.2 installer creates an all-ZFS system.
Interesting to see this along with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682052

...on the front page at the same time.
I don't like getting into word definition argument but doesn't that information about Samsung fall under the daily important news rather than the breaking news ?
You're reading into this too much. If this were happening all the time and people were raising concerns left and right, then yes--it'd indicate this was caught by an automated system that makes big assumptions.

That's not the case here. They reiterated many times on that phone call that they're sure they didn't make a mistake and they have no financial interest in banning his account. They gave him an "out" by letting him post a carefully worded post without even admitting wrongdoing and he instead recorded their phone call and posted part (!) of it on his blog.

How people are seeing Apple as in the wrong here is mindblowing.
These 60 dumb passwords can hijack over 500,000 IoT devices via Mirai botnet
DDwarf Fortress Defies Materialism
Less platform specific code (kqueue is osx/bsd specific IIRC)? And it's not like libcurl needs the scalability of kqueue.

Bonus stink - http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod#OS_X_AN... - kqueue has been buggy and Apple switched poll to use kqueue in 10.5.6!
Carthage is much closer to western culture yet still earns its share of WTFs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Carthage#Child_sac...
There are many things that you are not a position to verify if you are an investor. On the top of that, there is a huge difference between misreporting your numbers versus stating that you are capable of doing something while you know it for sure that are not.
Because google will ban the page if the crawled content is not the same as the displayed content when you click their link.
Today in stalking British AI startups: The Chinese are coming
I think the title should be changed to something like "SDCC can now act as a llvm backend"
You're right those are also reasons. Unfortunately they're difficult to quantify. If there were an objective way to measure quality of management things would be vastly easier.

For example if a trusted management quality metric was reading "sucks", it would be easier to leverage change.
What really makes me sad is that the BSD license allows corporate leeches like Sony to create incredibly successful and valuable products like the PS4 without ever having to give back to the project that produced the software they rely on. It's obvious that Sony picked FreeBSD over Linux because they don't have to publish their additions to FreeBSD, and can continue to integrate new and improved code from upstream with no obligations whatsoever.

Yes, some corporate users contribute financially back to the project, and we're thankful. But why should we have to be thankful? The GPL already provides a tried and proven legal framework for requiring downstream users to publish their improvements for others to use. Free software is an ecosystem where everyone helps and everyone benefits. When the BSD license allows parasites like Sony to benefit to the tune of billions of dollars without giving a line of code (or a penny) back, that breaks the ecosystem.

I'm calling Sony out particularly because they are not included in the list of corporate sponsors in the article. The Sony games division made $3.2 billion in revenue in quarter 1 2016, this is unacceptable.
Coil whine on Dell laptops, worse battery life in Linux than on Windows and much worse than Mac OS.
That is nowhere near obvious. Why not change the main link to the google search page instead?
Online SSL Certificate Request Generator
If you come to think at it, logs are app events. You actually want to collect as many events as you can, with respect to performance, and analyze the hell out of them.

You would also get all sorts of benefits, because then you can corelate the app events with user events, and it may be easier to track bugs and unintended behaviour.
Someone spending $14,000 on a virtual item is making $100k+ a month. Lots of disposable income.
The majority of illegal immigrants are people who have overstayed their visas. A wall is expensive and won't stop them.
Cross-platform doesn't have to mean lowest common denominator.
Every chapter has exercises. One example from Ch. 14 - Kernels is this:

> Exercise 14.2 Linear separability

> (Source: Koller..) Consider fitting an SVM with C > 0 to a dataset that is linearly separable. Is the resulting
decision boundary guaranteed to separate the classes?

etc. Many exercises are proofs or derivations, and the book is full of (algorithm/optimization) defining/bounds approximation/ otherwise pragmatic information.
First off: Capitalism can't exist outside a system to help enforce that capitalism. All systems require tax to function. This is not appropriation of profits.

The tax code is complicated BECAUSE it was lobbied so that only the few have the resources to (ab)use it. If you think that a Trump in office would not act protectionist you are fooling yourself. I'm not saying Hillary in this matter would be any better.

The companies will stay as long as the US is a large market, because they need the presence.

Re: your comment that you couldn't edit in on walling off. If at first we take the literal part: [1].

On the economic part, undocumented workers have contributed 10% of the social security trust fund, while only being eligible for 1/15th of that in return, so that's a 14 to 1 net positive [2].

They (undocumented workers) also pay $11.64bn annually in state and local tax [3].

[1] http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/18/donald-trump-immigration...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/magazine/do-illegal-immigr...

[3] http://itep.org/itep_reports/2016/02/undocumented-immigrants...
> Sure you can make your post on the week end to increase your chances

If everyone did this, it would increase the impact of luck: there would be an increased rate at which posts would fall off the front page of /newest - diminishing the chances that someone would see the post and upvote it. Conversely, with the consequential lower post-rate during the week your posts would earn more eyeballs.
> What was the reason for all this carnage?

Perhaps there was no rational reason, and we are closer to understanding than we'd like to admit.

A significant portion of modern Americans regularly enjoy blood and carnage in video games and movies. There's a cruelty, a bloodlust, deep in the human psyche that even now isn't socialized away, merely supressed, to be satisfied only in fantasy.

Yet thousands are murdered every year in our society, which harshly punishes murder. How many more would be killed, merely for sport, if that were encouraged by religion?
Ahh they don't care about the dirty jobs. It's OK for men to dominate those fields.

A better example would be teachers. Female dominated, and there's some half-hearted "concern" about the gender imbalance, but get back to me when the media and the president are harping on the issue constantly.
Am Russian, can confirm. I actually had an argument about that with a friend of mine a few days ago, in his eyes (and many other Russians both home and abroad) we are the ones who have saved the world while the Allies stood by and watched. The notion is deeply engrained in the Russian cultural memory now, and seeing how WW2 is still tremendously important to the majority of the population I do not see it changing any time soon.
Easy Steps To Protect Your Smartphone Against Hackers
She is talking about the price of a room, not office space.
Oh these emacs users
Ok but I'll play the devil's advocate here: Can you really trust a closed source code?
Infineon acquires Innoluce BV to strengthen position in automated driving
The 5 second cold request thing is what GAE had 5 years ago. Eventually they gave up trying to make startup faster and allowed a paid plan to stay always hot. Which was good, but then also moving you much closer to a managed server (vs a pure pay as you use thing)
I'd be really interested in seeing informed commentary on what is gained by this.

In general, crippling hacks aren't terribly useful -- they're embarassing and harmful to the targets, especially in shaking confidence. But they're not particularly useful to a general attacker. Having insider access to a television or broadcast entity would itself be useful.

Other options might be to test (or prove) the capability to take a target down, particularly in preparation for other more advanced capabilities.

The more successful parasites don't disable hosts, but hijack them to their own ends. That is something I'd find more troubling.

Online searches don't show much at Schneier or other security-minded blogs. Am I missing something?

I did find a Friday Squid discussion: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/04/friday_squid_...
It seems sarcastic to me too. But it's hard to say.
Thanks for the reply. In which DB should I store this data, considering the option of either DynamoDB or ElastiCache?
That's not exactly true. The story that's been floating around for 14 hours is that sales have been put on hold and all units should be recalled.

This WSJ article on samsung PERMANENTLY discontinuing sales is a substantially different development.
Free DDoS protected DNS hosting
I’ve used Stripe or TransferWise with my US clients – I’m in Canada – with the former usually being less hassle for me and the client if we’re dealing with small amounts.

A few clients also wanted to send me cheques. But you can convince them that these other options are better for your working relationship. As their trusted contractor you’re expected to deliver results and not skimp on details or make compromises. You should expect the same from your client, including their accounting department, and working with cheques cross-border is a compromise in the working relationship.
The dozen or so Trump speeches I've heard don't criticize legal immigrants from Latin America. Could you provide a link to substantiate the claim that he is blanket labeling immigrants?
The main difference is the shitty interface on Linux is intentional.
Elasticsearch+Flunetd+Kibana for logs and KairosDB+Fluentd+Grafana for metrics.
Venture capital looks at Lagos disrupters
Do you have a bug reference for this OCaml issue? It works fine here for me on OSX 10.12.
This recent article explains the whole Theranos mess well:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-ther...
North American Ski Resorts Turn to Sensors to Improve Guest Experience
Why not MySQL or PostgreSQL? Any reason you can't be relational?
America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars
Native to the RStudio development toolkit. Seamless integration to R projects. I believe this is meant to improve R development output and presentation.
UAE Aims to Become a Financial Technology Powerhouse
Well property values in Berlin have risen 40+% in 7 years, so I'd expect rent to follow suit.
I'm not sure what you think that proves. A US URL works for the US and talks about the US? Surprising? Other countries are doing recalls too, and have pages talking about it.

Here is the Taiwan URL:

http://www.samsung.com/tw/news/product/galaxy-note7-announce...

Here is the Canadian URL:

http://www.samsung.com/ca/note7exchange/

Here is the Australian URL:

http://www.samsung.com/au/galaxynote7-notice/

Here is the Chinese homepage (see the pop-out note about the Note 7 to the left):

http://www.samsung.com/cn/home/

It is a global recall. You just cannot guess the URL in the way you think you should be able to.
The Killer Cats Are Winning
What HN really needs is self-organisation :) By remembering your votes and views and doing a bit of collaborative filtering the site can give you a 'filter bubble' where things you are quite likely to like float towards the top...

I prototyped and wrote a blog post about that too: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-... ;)
Super-Silk made by worms eating Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
Getting started with Webpack: Part 1