skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just curious - why so extreme? There's never been a time in my life where there was "no music" and "no movies." Back in the 1970s we had record players and 8-track tapes and the radio. We had movie theaters and they even showed movies on TV from time to time.

As a musician, the "no music" part is really disturbing to me. It sounds like a strict religious cult at that point. I mean, even before I could walk or talk my parents would sing to me sometimes (I'm told).
Capitalism is great, but if it gets out of hand, government intervention is needed. Two good examples are the breakup of Ma Bell and US v. Microsoft (2001). For a present day problem, look no further than ISPs.
+1 Logical question!
Tim Wu: The Attention Merchants – The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Stackoverflow tags most used with [r] and [python]
Any quick script to see if a given domain ultimately resolves to them? My SaaS company has a lot of custom domains from whatever DNS servers pointed at us and I'd like to be able to tell people whether it's our fault or not.
I didn't notice that House and Holmes were supposed to be unpleasant people.
One hour ago, Wikileaks twitted:

> PHOTO: Heavily armed 'police' appear outside Ecuadorian Embassy in London where Julian Assange has political asylum (photo, Tuesday morning)

Hopefully just a coincidence -- seeing as Twitter is a key communication conduit for Wikileaks.
For eShop games you can call Nintendo and they can transfer the licenses (I did it when upgrading to a New 3DS.) For me the real bummer was that your saves are also tied to your console and it's more complicated transferring those. I don't mind paying 30-40$ for another game license, but it really hurt losing 100+ hours of progress in several unfinished games.
Bait and switch?
Opinion based, yada yada: React if they want to join startups or similar cutting edge companies. Node if they want to do server work. Angular 1.x if they want to go into consulting.

While the JavaScript ecosystem does move insanely fast a lot of consulting companies need to have people with similar skill levels in a framework/etc. Which means you can't just switch frameworks every year (You can, however, create smaller teams with new technologies, so if a few of the guys learned React you can just make a React team with them as a base.

A big misconception I've seen is that a lot of JavaScript stuff disappears after a couple of years, while in reality a lot of Consulting companies are still recruiting people for jQuery positions (In my country, might be different in the US).

Sure, the new startups who are using all the newest coolness maybe won't touch jQuery and similar technologies with a 10 foot pole. That doesn't mean those technologies disappear.

It depends on your goals as a person. Personally I enjoy chasing the newest thing, learning is fun. Maybe when I become more jaded at re-learning stuff every year I'll move from that kind of ecosystem.

All in all, the advice I wish I could've told myself years ago is to invest a bit less time learning frameworks in depth and a bit more time learning JavaScript. JavaScript has a lot of pitfalls, but if you learn to navigate around those you are left with a very fun and powerful language. And most importantly, that knowledge is still gonna be relevant 3 years from now even if you are switching frameworks.
You're being way generous. It's more like 15 years.

But, anyway, moving to another company won't help. Unless it's something that is specifically prohibited by contract (and not unilaterally editable), companies will eventually do it if it makes them money. Individuals have zero leverage.

What we need is a massive corporation for all people that will negotiate contracts on our behalf. Oh, wait, that's what governments are for? Governments are so 20th century.
OpenDNS does this: https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/227987767-Dyna...

It's called SmartCache.
Project Veritas has been found to be deceptive and when officials actually have inspected the claims in their previous videos they found that “sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor.”
Could you please elaborate more on mithril vs. vue? Was it ease-of-use, performance or something else that pulled you over?
Don't know about the stats, but this has definitely been the case for me. My late 2010 MBA worked for 5 years then broke one day. Apple fixed it in under 24 hours for $304.80 (that's with 8.75% NY tax) and I'm typing on it as we speak. PS the thing is basically indestructible... I have no excuse not to buy another some time in the future. Can't wait to try the 12" MB.
I'm pretty wary of American meat and cheese though. The animal welfare conditions south of the boarder are abysmal and the cheese facility inspections are not unannounced, they are booked days in advance, and I've heard some pretty awful stuff.

Don't like the current system either, but it does have a couple of advantages.
Ask HN: Affordable way for a non-profit to send SMS surveys?
Hi HN,

I work at a non-profit whose main mission is matching up people with disabilities in quality friendships with those who do not have a disability.

We require friendship updates at the end of every month. These are 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 for knowing if our matches are hanging out, communicating, and adding joy to both participants life.

Problem: It is hard getting people to submit these! Our website isn't the most intuitive, and neither is our newly made app (unfortunately way beyond my control at the moment). And-- people are busy/lazy/forgetful or some combination of the 3.

I think an automated SMS would be a great solution. A simple 3 message text towards the end of every month: 2 quantitative answers and 1 qualitative answer. This would be going out to around 1000 people.

I've done research and all the offering seem suited to large corporations/out of my reach.

Any advice would be extremely helpful!
Quick clarification: Parody is Fair Use protected, Satire is not. There's a distinct difference. For a real-world, tech/music battle that showed how true this distinction is, research GoldiBlox vs. Beastie Boys (settled out of court).
It would've been hilarious if Google actually blocked those pages out of spite
That and the Godel one above. For first point, they could link to a presentation on high-assurance systems showing one needs a combination of specs, proofs, testing, and human review for max assurance. For the second, the alternative is showing how the prover problem is greatly reduced by using simple, proof checkers and/or logics in the process that are easy to verify by hand.
Ptrace is not needed for an exploit, you only need to be able to mmap a file. Does not even have to be writable.
Yes, but:

1) Memory and disk are cheap. My caching DNS resolver can handle some stale records.

2) I suggested above that this behavior would continue until an administrator-specified and potentially quite generous maximum TTL expires. That is, I could configure my caching DNS resolver to fully purge expired records after, for example, 2 weeks.
As an aside, why aren't symmetric last-mile Internet connections a thing? Is it a technical, physical capacity thing, is it a customer demand thing, or what? The last time I had symmetric bandwidth was back in the days of ISDN.
Is this sarcastic? I can't tell. How is it unrivalled, and why would you trust it coming from a company with an abysmal track record of security? Just Google 'Comodo Project Zero' for a taste. Or read this[1], one of the bad ones.

Also whats wrong with ufw? Github is down so I can't view that link.

> The quality of the software both good and bad doesnt' apply here.

Well I clearly does, because this post is about how their software did some crazy roundabout stuff to validate domains that didn't work.

1. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=76...
A chargeback is when you dispute the charge with your credit card company, like if you never received your items.
I'm sure this is to circumvent blacklisting rather than for this scenario.
But then why would they be doing it right now? I'm sure they already know if they can do it or not. I don't think they need to do a large scale test run that would put people on high alert. They'd keep their head down until election day.

But then, what is China or Russia going to get out of doing something like this? It isn't going to change anything. Hillary is the next president regardless. Hell, even if no votes could be counted I am sure the Supreme Court wouldn't have a problem calling it for her.

So to me the idea that China and Russia is doing this for political reasons doesn't make any sense.
A coworker bought the skylake spectre x360 13 inches. The touchpad is as good as my mac's. This is the first windows laptop I used that I've felt this way.
No direct experience here, but I know there is Vulkano[1], a Rust library that wraps around the Vulkan API. But until (and if) a SPIR-V target is available to the Rust compiler, the compute shaders will still have to be programmed in another language (typically, GLSL). This covers the GPU side of your interest.

I don’t know how things stand in the embedded Rust camp, however.

[1] https://github.com/tomaka/vulkano
And don't forget that Time Warner used to be part of AOL/Time Warner, of which the AOL part is now owned by Verizon.

However, this potential transaction would be more similar to the Comcast purchase of NBC/Universal.
It is his own money in his own company, so very different.
>> the non-developers and non-software engineers who frankly don't care about other people's privacy and only see the dollar bills.

If the developers and the software engineers cared about other people's privacy and saw anything beyond dollar bills the nons' would not have anything to sell.
[video] Explaining dirtyc0w local root exploit – CVE-2016-5195
Here's a list, which is probably incomplete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bombardier_Transporta...

They have a factory in Derby, UK, so Britain has loads of Bombardier trains.

Flicking through, other places are Shanghai, Delhi, Sweden, Kuala Lumpur, Vancouver, Detroit, Beijing, Seoul, Austraia, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Norway, Italy, France, Adelaide, ...

There isn't much branding on most trains. Sometimes a tiny plaque in the corner somewhere.
Have they never heard of the Streisand effect?
BME / sensory neurosystems guy here.

>It would be interesting to know how much biology this dude truly explored before plunking down his $100M ...

Not enough.
"A Touch Of Clot" is brilliant. It takes off where "The Naked Gun" left and adds more wordplay. It completely saturates every scene with comedy. There is nowhere to go from there.

I have never before felt exhausted by the fast pace of puns in my life.
You sound really bitter
Photos of Mars Lander from NASA Mars Orbiter
Creating useful /comparable to the end user editions of old (packaged software) products and offering them in a new way entirely is developing a new product.

People aren't simply signing up to pay by the month (though that can be desirable to some folks in itself). They're actually getting something different.
I don't think you can say that self-signed is strictly better than plaintext.

Plaintext HTTP gives no illusion that your connection has confidentially, authentication nor integrity.

HTTPS is meant to provide all of these things. With a validated, trusted certificate, you get these things. With a self-signed cert, you have none of these things.

Knowing that I don't have things is better than thinking i have these things and not.

So no, untrusted self-signed can't ever be better.

Note cant reply to reply, but all i can say is

"With a self-signed cert, I know I am talking to exactly one party and that no third party can surveil or monitor that communication. "

(This is not true, as this could easily be my MiTM Proxy that is substituting your self signed public key). Once you introduce 'trusts' you are back to CA land.
Project Veritas has waited a couple of days each time and released the whole video with no cuts. That little quote is the refrain spoken to dismiss the video, but doesn't take into account that they do release the whole run unlike major news channels as we found out with the creative editing Katie Couric did recently.
I think as a founder you would want to hire someone who is a clone of you - someone who, like you, are able to tackle most if not all areas of running a business, willing to work as hard and as long as you to get your first X users. Someone who is as passionate as you are in your business / industry / niche. Someone who can offer second opinions on things like tech, product, sales, and work with you on the roadmap.

Of course, once a startup grows to teens of employees, then you start hiring more based on your business' needs, but initially you'd want someone who can (and are willing to) do everything.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter views Schiaparelli landing site
Namecheap is also down.
Damn, I thought the guy was going to throw $100M at linux kernel developers. That would be nice.
Google has never been an engineering company, it's a search company with an engineering-focused culture and an ad-driven monetization model.

Please don't paint broad unsubstantiated strokes over all "non-developers and non-software engineers". You mention Facebook as an example that's not engineering focused but fail to mention that their equity structure is such that Mark Zuckerberg has control effectively through the votes his shares represent which means MZ, an engineer/hacker, is responsible for the decisions of the company.

Google is not a company whose mission it is to preserve people's privacy. They are out to solve search and organize information and in order to reach their goals, they have to find a way to attract the best talent in the world. This requires making tradeoffs in order to get the capital required to invest in changing the world in the way they think will be better.
There's the Internet Archive. Not a good place for your personal files, but for stuff like this GTA mod, it should work. They have "Gangnam Style" there[0].

[0]: https://archive.org/details/Psy-GangnamStyle_8
I love my 2013 MBA, but I feel like switching between its screen and my MBP's Retina Display has been a significant factor in my deteriorating eye health.
Amazon pulled it to pressure Oxford U. Press to give more $.
Swizec was talking about using a Breast pump, not breastfeeding.

I'm not sure if any woman would ever want to pump openly in the office.
> 1) Memory and disk are cheap. My caching DNS resolver can handle some stale records.

The problem is not that it would require storage but that stale records can be outright wrong. That timeout would require configuration and DNS does not provide that.

So sure, a new timeout could be introduced but that currently does not exist in DNS.
Also Github seemed down for parts of the morning.
Schiaparelli: Mars probe 'crash site identified'
> like if you never received your items.

Like paying for a SSL certificate you never received?
Also recommend that you read https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/Bo88vgre... , particularly the comments.
The war on immaturity? What is this, chitty chitty bang bang? You sound like the child catcher.

"Bending web technology to unsuitable purposes"... This could mean anything, it only depends on what specific orthodoxy you're implying.

Good vs. Bad. Immature vs. Mature.

The world is actually a colorful place if you open your mind and heart just a little bit!
You also can't binge watch a quality show like this because it really wrecks the experience.
Quite the contrary, actually. Real money markets give way too much importance to clueless gamblers. Also experience shows that the prospect of losing your rank is a sufficient deterrent to keep people from making large dubious bets.
Add revenue and increase usefulness by adding domain name checks/show only ones with available .com/.org/.any etc, and affiliate link to the domain provider
I'm really surprised by all the people here that like this show. I tried to watch it and found it to be absolutely unbearable. It seemed so trite and utterly lacking in any real insight to me. They just took the most obvious, silly things everyone predicts about the future and rendered them in the most simplistic, stylized ways.

Can anyone explain to me what they like about this show?
Vuejs starting page itself uses some if and for tag for looping. That's like learning a DSL while I could use simple js to do that in reactjs.
I would love a "contains X letter" filter
It's very similar to Outer Limits, perhaps a bit more the 90s incarnation than the original.
While that is the case for many programs, it’s absolutely not the case for modern web browsers. For example, navigating to はじめよう.みんな¹ in Safari 9² and Firefox 46³ does show the IDN as it’s supposed to look to the end user in the address bar.

(Of course, internally, it’s still represented as an ASCII string (using Punycode⁴)).

――――――

¹ — http://はじめよう.みんな/

² — http://i.imgur.com/KX5i9aW.png

³ — http://i.imgur.com/7WVeypl.png

⁴ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
This link seems to work for me to reach the github status page (requires https certificate override, of course):

https://107.22.212.99/

(Alias for https://status.github.com, via https://octostatus-9676240.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com )
Show HN: JTemplate – Template-Driven REST Services for Java
Oh I see. A 3 votes thread with "heavy commenting" and whatever was 8 years ago. It's a century on the internet.
> Otherwise you're going to have a bunch of AT&T/Sprint subscribers being unpleasantly surprised when their $700+ "unlocked" flagship phone is almost useless overseas

This was a dealbreaker in the dualband/quadband days, an issue in the early UMTS days (when there were phones without 2100), but these days even the "band restricted" models mean you're just not going to get extended range bands, far from "useless overseas".
Why can't those people use the function Facebook designed specifically for this in the first place, the function I use whenever I see some stupid, insipid, high school grade political meme?

"Hide this post"

I'll take honest answers and snarky ones as well, provided the snarky ones come with a genuine laugh because with this DDoS going on this morning I could REALLY use a chuckle right now..
It's Friday night, just on my way out of the office and I have to read this?

FUCK GOOGLE.
Did you change your clocks early?
Why Measles, Whooping Cough (And Autism) Are Expanding
> rebrand themselves as "Spectrum" in markets where they already had a presence (such as New York City)

Is that a nice way of saying they're rebranding themselves to anyone already familiar with the brand. The assumption being anyone familiar with the brand has a negative image of it :)
*for a corporation. For a single user who knows their way around a Windows machine, they are not.
That's understandable. There probably isn't much they can do in that situation, it's a textbook prisoners dilemma.

I'm not sure what your experience was like, but I'd rather be told the truth than lied to. I understand that the directors of a company are people too, and they want to be seen as good people. In the long run, I respect people who told me a difficult truth much more than I respect the people who made it seem as if they were forced in to a particular course of action by forces beyond their control.

I suspect the willingness of upper management to explain the need for layoffs as "surprising", or beyond their control, is as much about thinking of themselves as good people. I'm sure they are fully aware they are compensated for their ability to direct the strategy of a company, and the people they are laying off generally had the least ability to change the direction of the company to prevent layoffs. If they were being fully truthful, the management structure should oftentimes be reducing their compensation first and laying themselves off.

That being said, I understand how ridiculous that expectation is. I just think it's insulting to everyone involved when a company fires the people least responsible for the current predicament, and lies while doing it. I'd respect a manager more who told me it was me or them, and they made the best decision for themselves.
National pride.
Looks good to constituents (high paying, high-tech blue collar jobs).
Profit (assuming Boeing eventually pays more in taxes than the value of the subsidies)
TOFU + a standard or convention for validating keys with Face-To-Face verfication?

If I go to a bank or business, and as part of setting up a relationship they hand me a pamphlet printed with their Public Key Fingerprint, AND the browser shows me that fingerprint image at first use, ..... then that's pretty reliable verification, isn't it?
I can see Mozilla doing something like this.
This is a common theme in this thread but I'll re-state it here:

Web browsers cannot reliably distinguish between a configuration mistake and an attack.

For this reason, I think hard HPKP fails are a good thing. For those who opt-in to HPKP, this is a risk one takes in exchange for greater control over certificate validation.
This approach can only describe formal systems that are finite combinations of such provers.
I can't quite tell if you are being sarcastic?

...but yes, I am thrilled! The internet increasingly seems to have a will about it, and one that organizes around basic principles of freedom and decentralization. So that's good news.

I haven't quite picked a video delivery solution yet; I'm still largely a YouTube user. Do you have a suggestion or guide?
A Conversation with Alan Kay
Same here. I have never been a fan of touchpad and can't imagine using DAW with it.
> Government can sometimes change things by deficit spending on infrastructure, but that's a tough sell to voters somehow.

Because it is not free market economic activity governed by real demand. It is just government officials deciding to use other peoples money to create demand in certain sectors.

If people in a community pooled their own money together to build a new bridge then you'd have economic activity that is created due to real demand and there would be a real incentive to make sure they are not overpaying or that their money is wasted.

But when the government does it you end up building natural gas filling stations in Afghanistan for millions of dollars servicing a total of 3 cars running on natural gas in that country which on top of that has to be rebuilt multiple times because the Taliban bomb it again and again.
Which is essentially the role he played in the recent live action Jungle Book movie.