skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that, I hadn't reached back to 2011 for my research. First off, reading this the way you intend, that makes him still less homophobic than hillary. When Oreilley says "they say this violates their rights" he says "this is a tough situation and we have other problems" which in Trump Speak means "yeah it violates their rights but this isn't the first thing to fix so I'm not going to make it a major part of a campaign".

That's hugely softer than Hillaries absolute denouncement of it.

He was spot on about Obama pretending to be in favor of gay marriage (though wrong in his timing- Obama didn't "learn his lesson" until after the Supreme Court ruling. Talk about leading from the rear.)

Like his comments about the court ruling, I read this as him being opposed to the issue as an issue, not the right.

This is the guy who invited Theil to speak at the republican convention-- the first openly gay speaker who in fact stated he was gay at the podium and was applauded for it.

That sure undermines the spin democrats want to spin, but it's the reality.

And basically, this is a turning point for republicans. Trump is the first non-openly homophobic candidate from either party to run for president. It sucks that he's such a doofus and doesn't give good soundbites, but there it is.
Ecuador acknowledges it has "temporarily restricted" Assange's communications
I have been using Java since 1998 and hardly seen it.
Right on the mark. Those 'scare quotes' do not indicate misogyny but lack of substance to the accusations. Would a true misogynist care about the discrepancy between Swedish justice against Assange and that against the 33yo woman on Gotland who got gang-raped?

Don't be too quick in assuming misogyny when confronted with a differing opinion in a discussion related to a rape accusation. The same goes for any of the other 'touchy' subjects like racism, (gender) discrimination and whatever-phobia. The world is not black and white so it is not sensible to claim than anyone who does not support your version of 'the truth' (between quotes because 'truth' is sometimes hard to define, what is 'true' for the one can be 'false' for the other on equally valid grounds) is wholly opposed to whatever position you hold related to that subject - gender, religion, race, etc.
I always use SkyScanner - similar UI with options for "find the cheapest flight in a month," but usually way cheaper prices. Also includes Southwest, which Google Flights is missing, if I remember correctly.

https://www.skyscanner.com/
Obscurity, Avoidance, Hardening seem to be useful ways to explore the idea of attack surface and related security concepts.

Reducing surface area refers to ways to increase the overall security of a system by restricting the set of features accessible to user groups. Every feature is an attack vector. So limiting access reduces the total number of possible attackers. Surface area is related strongly to the concepts of Obscurity and Avoidance.

The other thing to consider is the total risk and any associated costs/tradeoffs.

In terms of SSH, changing the port number changes the set of attackers from A) attackers scanning standard ports across many hosts, to B) attackers deep port scanning fewer hosts. The relative risk will decrease if group A is significantly larger than group B. If there are 1,000,000 shallow scanners (group A) and only 100,000 deep scanners (group B) the reduction in relative risk is significant.

But what is total risk? Using SSH public-key authentication creates another set of users, group C, that can actually login to the server. Group C is also very small, usually consisting of only 1 member. Whether or not attackers belong to group A or group B isn't particularly significant in total, as the likelihood that a member of A or B is also a member of C is very, very low.

This, I think, is the crux of the "security by obscurity" criticism. Such security measures seem to do little to decrease the total risk to a system. So why implement obscure/avoidance measures?

The value of changing port numbers or port knocking (and reducing attack surface in general) isn't statistical. The value is completeness, or as a type of insurance. Using alternate port numbers could buy an admin some time if a OpenSSH 0-day occurs. This event isn't very likely, so we might dismiss it. But managing the risk of unlikely events is exactly the point of insurance.
I continue to suggest to folks that with a couple of Falcon 9 payloads one could dock a module to boost it into the Earth-Moon L1 point. At which point station keeping would require minimum fuel.
Kink and other porn companies protest Prop 60, block California IP addresses
That's a flaw in democracy, not my argument. Democracy relies on the majority having good moral judgment. If you're in the minority, too bad. I'm sure there are lots of religious people that would like to impose their morals on the majority, and I think you and I both agree that's not a good idea. But now that your group might be minority (by a slight margin), suddenly it's okay to do anything it takes to impose your morals on the majority?
Skyscanner also has more airlines than google flights, if I remember correctly. I don't think google flights shows southwest flights, but skyscanner does. I have no idea why.
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/259 - Stack-Walking API. Efficient API for walking the current call stack.

Oh, nice! At any given moment in time, how many server CPUs are burning cycles to create a full StackTraceElement array, just because the logger is set up to provide the convenience of call site information with every write?
The ground zero speech[0] is why I believe that happened, while simple it stands as one of the most memorable in American history (This is coming from a kid who wore his "fuck bush" t-shirt to school). I don't think Hillary can pull something like that off.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7OCgMPX2mE
Fear vs Shipping
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1205/
You accurately describe what I've seen of primary polling, but not what little general election polling I've seen that breaks out income levels, e.g.,
http://www.people-press.org/2016/08/18/1-voters-general-elec...
> Thank you for building ITA Matrix - it is amazing tool and I don't know what I would do without it.

Honest question (I swear I'm not trying to troll): what do you actually do with it that you can't do (or do as well as) with Google Flights or Kayak or some other site like that?

I ask because I've used ITA Matrix and never managed to find a cheaper flight than I can through "normal" means... but I rarely fly multi-destination (and basically never do more complicated stuff) so I'm not sure if the use case is beyond mine or if I just don't know how to utilize it in a useful manner.
What does /ncr do? I'm having a hilariously difficult time googling for it because I usually google straight from the omni bar.
And so would the plane. That's why it's longer, so the Polar route is generally preferred.
Disclaimer: I understand this is a US focused article.

My story? Everyone drew lots and I lost: I drive a Prius Plugin Hybrid for the next 2.x years as a company car because no one wanted it.

My biggest beef: It's too expensive. The list price is around 50k EUR - and that's what the state of Germany uses to tax me for that car. For comparison: I drove an A3 Quattro Sportback with ~everything~ before that and that's the same price.

The second problem is actually very relevant to this article: There aren't any 'free' recharging stations even remotely close to my place (a 'major city' in Germany, you'd know Bochum if you'd be from this country). This crappy car has a 22km reach when fully charged. That is far too low and even if I find a charging station .. I probably end up being at 50% if I get back home.

But! The article claims that it is actually cheaper to charge your car than to refuel it. And here's another problem: The 'your company car needs fuel' problem is solved. I have two different cards that I can use to either refuel at Routex (think BP et all, big list of participants) or Shell. So, I can fuel up for free almost all the time. There's no proven way (and nothing in place for me) to pay for electricity.

Ignoring the fact that it would be a logistical nightmare to plug the car in at my flat and ignoring that the 22km are really nothing but a joke and utterly useless for .. anything I do: I'd pay for that out of my own pocket vs. 'free' fuel.

So I think this country over here needs to adjust quite a bit more before electrical vehicles become a decent option. Companies need to adjust their policies (why do they even give me a plugin hybrid?). More recharging stations are required. And honestly .. if your car cannot do at least 150-200km on a charge.. Then it's not an electric car, it's an electric bike with a roof on top (those can already do 60+km easily for the basic starter models).
I have recorded one year of imagery in a 1970 newspaper (as a start). Speaking from firsthand experience with comparisons from the last few years, media has taken a huge leap backwards and prejudice and nastiness has increased considerably. This is in spite of most people who haven't compared saying the opposite of what I have observed ("oh, you want to go back to how it was 50 years ago when men were all sexist?"). I could write a novel on that fallacious mindset alone!

This may not be what you meant about romanticising, but modern newspapers have deteriorated significantly.

Part of this deterioration is because of competition in journalism (click bait, a race to the bottom). Part of it is a perverse sense of and fundamental abuse of the term Equality. The abuse of the term equality has then lead to unprecedented gender bullying and some extreme revisionist history that largely remains unchallenged. If you pick up a reasonable paper from 1970, you will realise how sexist we have become! The issue today is that you won't find a reasonable (eg. non sexist) newspaper - there is no choice! Sexism and gender bullying ARE the norm.

Newspapers needed to compete with the Internet. In this respect, the article was fundamentally wrong. Failure to embrace the Internet would have allowed others to fill the void (even if you went online but charged money). More people are now used to digesting news electronically and the Internet makes the content dynamic and interactive.

People will pay good money for good news, but it needs to be good quality. That eliminates most of the market.

Think of games. You can still sell the occasional blockbuster (GTA 5 made a billion dollars worth of sales!!). However, most games on iTunes hover below a few $ and many end up free. Compare this to games 30 years ago where there was a small cheap-end market. Or, CDs. Sales have fallen through the floor, but, a 99c track sells well on iTunes. News isn't quite the same, but you can see that a paradigm shift was inevitable for newspapers with the advent of the Internet.

If there was one thing the papers got wrong, it was the increase in nastiness and prejudice. I believe society is much worse today than it has been in a long time. The caring element is what we've lost. We need a new generation of pioneers to undo the carnage.
You can also just freeze the whole cgroup, and then the kernel will cascade it to all tasks within said cgroup, and then you can do process management.

Most of what you complain about though is solved by duplicate pids not being assigned in short succession (which is generally true, though in reality is an implementation detail of linux which is not promised).
I think disguising a simple function call as a variable access is sensible. But yes, people can disagree on this. I think the C# and Java designers are probably all smart people who thought about this a lot more than the two of us. :)

>>Can you really justify a breaking change to a public interface because a type conversion is introduced in the implementation of property?

I just quickly re-read that page, but I don't see what you're referring to here.
Ahaha, I'm thinking about "Burn Notice" right now :D
> Am I the only one somewhat concerned over the absolutely blatant declarations that Russia is now our enemy again?

Something's definitely fishy about the resurgence of the anti-Russia propaganda in the United States.

I recently found a copy of The Soviet Achievement (1967) [1] in a library's discarded booksale. From the jacket:

"... This is a study of the deliberate creation of a new industrial society from a relatively backward, underdeveloped and basically rural country. Mr. Nettl illustrates the shifting balance between theory and practice, the attempt to apply Marxist ideology to practical problems, and the evolution of those distinctively Soviet solutions which have made the USSR one of the two dominating world powers. ..."

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=z81BAAAAIAAJ

My impression is that the Soviets were never the villains that they were portrayed to be in the West. They knew they were behind, couldn't keep up with the US, and were quite afraid of western efforts to subjugate them.

I like Scott Adams' take on 'blaming the Russians':

When Clinton’s surrogates respond to questions about
Wikileaks by saying the Russians are behind it, that’s an
acknowledgment of guilt. Guilty people almost always
question the source of the information first. Innocent
people start with a clear denial, or sometimes confusion
as to why the question is being asked.

- http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151933602961/lie-detection-and-...
Okay, so a public business shouldn't fire someone for having dissenting political views -- that is discrimination, and it is the same kind of discrimination as any other: racial, sexual, etc. We're not talking about Altman and Thiel's friendship here.

In fact, there are laws:

California

The California Labor Code prohibits any employer policy: (1) limiting workers' participation in politics; (2) barring employees from becoming candidates for public office; (3) requiring workers to adhere to any particular political action/activity; or (4) "controlling or directing ... political activities or affiliations of employees." California law also prohibits adverse action against employees because of "lawful conduct occurring during nonworking hours away from the employer's premises." Given the apparent statutory/regulatory breadth of "political activity," California employers must be particularly careful in drafting policies.

(^ note: IANAL, and this is not a legal threat against ANYONE)

So it looks like the governing body of the State of California is in majority agreement with our position.
AWS launches a new region in Ohio
Bluebird already has this, and is more efficient than native. But this is definitely a step forward.
Drag direction in 3D depends on user background and kind of application. It depends on if you expect to be moving the world or a virtual character. In the case of a panorama viewer I understand that some people might expect to move the picture (the world) as you do on a phone photo gallery or map application. For a first person interactive application it's more likely to expect that the character will turn to the direction you are dragging the mouse. You're controlling the character and not the world.
Most SUVs and pickups get a lot of use for things like commuting where a passenger car would suffice, because it's often still cheaper than buying another car for the commute. Comparing against the light duty vehicle efficiency number is probably going a little too far since many trucks do actually get significant use as trucks, but the passenger car efficiency number definitely understates how much fuel is burned for things like commuting.
> Finns have very little in common with Italians

Yup. Consider that in the last world war italians and finns didn't even fight on the same side until a certain point in time.

Europe is a melting pot of cultures and to be quite honest I like it that way.
> Unit tests were unheard of [in 1997]

Really, now.

The Unit Test wikipedia page cites as one of the external refs this:

IEEE Standard for Software Unit Testing: An American National Standard, ANSI/IEEE Std 1008-1987

The last four digits there refer to the year. I.e. Unit Testing had already crawled into a standard and died ten years before 1997.
A strong statement, to be sure, for which one would hope to see equally strong evidence. But two out of those three issues have unfulfilled requests for followup. I'm not sure quite what you mean them to show.
> They enjoy an unbelievable quality life. They seem to be on vacation all the time and their cities are incredibly pleasant.

Er... I think you accidentally dropped a bucket of green paint on the other side of the fence :-)
I don't know of a study, but if 70%+ of the country dislikes you it will be difficult to get elected.
> it is morally acceptable to choose to cease associating with someone over incommensurable views

For you? A lot of situations are morally acceptable. For you to demand others to do it, even though they clearly not inclined to? Very narrow set of situations, mostly involving heinous crimes.
> No, that's not what I am arguing. What I am arguing is demanding that people will be purged from the community and everybody cuts ties with them because they views do not agree with yours is not a good thing. You can disagree with Thiel, you can argue with Thiel, you can ignore Thiel, you can do whatever you want. But if you demand that YC severs ties with Thiel because he committed thoughtcrimes - that's where lose my goodwill completely.

Thiel voluntarily choose to strongly support Trump without thinking he owed anyone an explanation. That's his prerogative, but it doesn't afford him much favors in the form of being a part of the community. People have the right not to support Thiel or organizations he is a part of. What do you suggest they do? Is it more fair to boycott YC and the companies they have invested in rather than to ask for the resignation of Thiel?
Let's say I have an object representing a file in the file system, and I'm writing a file browser. I give the user the ability to rename the file.
I would tend to believe him when he says that the info they have isn't really interesting, considering he freely offered up the fact that they in fact did have some information on him at all.

If there was someone else out there claiming they sent wikileaks material of signifance that was not being published then that would be different.
>I'd argue that port-knocking, SPA, and changing the port are not cost-effective.

Changing ports is very effective, at least at reducing noise. This is especially true when setting up a new service with no preexisting clients. Default port 22 is an ocean of noise and constant password attempts, no reason to fill up my log servers with millions and millions of attempts per year.
Ecuador admits it cut off Assange's internet due to interfere in the US election
What went wrong with Pokemon Go?
That last bit is a false equivalence - we have no way with current science to truly introspect the "thought process" of another human, so functional judgment is the only kind we can exercise.

With AI - we built it. We can read the code that's running. We can make a distinction, in cases where output or behavior is identical, whether it's a neural network or a 12-million-line switch statement - and that value judgment means something to our determination of intelligence. There are plenty of ways other than (or in addition to) output to determine the "intelligence" of a machine that we simply can't exercise with other people.
Russia has been behaving as, if not an enemy, an actor whose interests align with our enemies (see: their partnership with Iran, their support of Assad, and their annexation of Crimea).

And while it's ironic to watch the media that could not have been more supportive of Wikileaks when the reveals focused on Bush-era scandals (at least some of which deserved the attention as abuses) now discovering that Assange is as self-interested as they come now that his dumps concern Clinton, who they're clearly much more supportive of than Trump (justifiably), but he's been known to despise Hillary for a long time now, and the recent dumps have been far less carefully redacted this time around. Wikileaks should be a whistleblowing service. Unfortunately, Assange won't let it be that simple.
> This is such absurd mental gymnastics

Gee thanks for giving me credit for daring to express an opinion in what is well known to be territory hostile to anything that isn't left of stalin. But your presumptions about me are exactly the kind of arrogance and disdain that reveals the left for how illiberal they really are.

1. I blame Hillary for her public statements. You don't get to put words in my mouth, which is effectively lying. Shame on you. Since you bring up the number of republicans who voted in favor of DOMA, you know that 3/4 of congressional democrats voted for it too, right? You're trying to desperately paint me with the brush of hypocrisy, but you're falling subject to your own bigotry. I'm not a republican, silly.

>And yes, Trump is a blatant racist.

Do you think if you repeat it enough times that will make it true? Do you care that Hillary talks about "needy latinos" and was friends with Robert Byrd? Do you realize that just constantly asserting he is racist, after 8 years of you guys saying the ONLY POSSIBLE REASON one could disagree with Obama is they are racist? You realize how arrogant asinine and anti-intellectual it is to reduce every conversation about every topic to an accusation of racism or sexism, especially when you guys engage in both constantly?

> recent examples of birtherism

A campaign tactic that Hillary started in the primaries against Obama, and yet you blame Trump for.

Talk about mental gymnastics!

3. ITs the electronic voting machines which are the source of voter fraud I'm talking about. I even mentioned the software... please try and pay attention.

You guys are too easy to trigger with your flames.

Yes, I'm gay. Yes, I am not a leftist. Get over it.

Try opening your mind to the possibilities that I might be a rational person and understand why.

After all, this government controlled, one size fits all "we know best" approach is exactly why your policies constantly fail the american people and in fact why we have not recovered from the crash of 2008.
The Panama papers were released by the US gov't to target enemies.

How many of you people are on the banking elite's payroll? :(
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Read the poll, this still shows that Clinton has a larger slice of low income voters. Also who do you think Trump's base is? The people who voted for him given a pick at any of the potential nominees for president, or the people who had additional choices eliminated and were encouraged to vote based on partisan loyalty?

Also I've included polling data that is past the primary, and includes voter sentiment for the general election, such as the gallop poll. The trend towards upper-middle craftsmen jobs remains.
Relative favorability isn't much of a guide to incumbent vs. challenger elections, though I think there is some evidence that it has some loose utility as a predictor of open-seat elections. (OTOH, the incumbent's approval -- not favorability -- seems to be a strong predictor for incumbent reelection.)
Google Analytics live-view of an e-shop while on TV show
This article literally doesn't mention Macs beyond the title, and in fact states that Belichick is going back to printed photos rather than any technology option. I realize the title is a play on the "guy hates windows so he must be a mac guy" but in this case it's just plain wrong and clickbaity BS.
"Code generation is a design smell."

What do you think Lombok is doing?
Clues: How Lithium Soothes Bipolar Brain Sheds Light on Other Mental Illnesses
Maybe I've missed it, but most of the coverage and statements from Republicans on this seem to include disclaimers about how irresponsible Assange has been (hard not to when he dumps SSNs), while still happily using whatever red meat they can find.